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It was a full room as area residents, patients at The Summit at Plantsville and family members came out for an inspirational talk Monday night, Sept. 9, by Ronan Tynan, the original Irish tenor and Paralympic gold medalist.

Tynan, probably best known for singing at Yankee Stadium, talked about living life honestly, peacefully and pursu-ing dreams. He started by singing a song written by Jimmy McCarthy, an Irish singer song writer.

“Some of you have your own special challenge,” he said. “And some might be struggling at this point in time. But it’s important to develop a positive attitude and live life to the absolute fullest.”

Cheshire residents Art and Pat Wallinger said when they read Tynan was appearing at The Summit in honor of September 11 they bought tickets right away.

“We couldn’t believe he was coming,” Pat Wallinger said.

Tynan was born with phocomelia, causing both of his lower legs to be un-derdeveloped. At 20, he had his legs amputated be-low the knee after a car ac-cident made it impossible for him to continue using prosthetic legs without the

amputation.“We all need someone,”

he said. “I started to believe what others saw and then I believed in me.”

Barbara Blau, director of therapeutic recreation at

Full house at Summit as Tynan sings, talks

By Savannah Mul Special to The Citizen

Dr. Ronan Tynan sung to the crowd at The Summit in Plantsville Monday night, Sept. 9. Tynan visited The Summit for a motivational speech and song to honor and remember 9/11. He shared his journey and the obstacles he overcame in life as a double amputee. | (Savannah Mul/

Special to The Citizen)

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Southington High School student Tia Jones performed in a dance at Lincoln Center in New York for a Sept. 11 memorial event. | (Christopher Zajac / Special to The Citizen)

Tia Jones was in first grade when the World Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. She came home from school and saw her mother in tears but was confused about what was happening. Now a 16-year-old high school se-nior, Jones honored victims of the tragedy by dancing in a memorial service at Lincoln Center in New York City.

“I’m glad that my dance

allows me to do things like this,” said Jones, before head-ing off to the city. “I go to competitions and have re-citals, but this is more and something meaningful thing to me.”

The dance, titled “The Table of Silence Project 9/11,” was to begin at 8:15 a.m. and conclude at 8:46 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, marking the time when the American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into

SHS student performs at NYC 9/11 memorial


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Parents 4 A Change will have a meeting, open to the public, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 6:30 p.m., at Derynoski Elementary School, 240 Main St. The meeting will be a support-only meeting, with a special guest sharing his story of addiction/recov-ery. For parents with an opi-ate addicted child, this is an opportunity to spend quality time talking and sharing with other parents, giving and get-ting support.

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A gravestone found in a Meriden man’s basement has received a home at YMCA Camp Sloper in Southington.

On a cool, breezy morning, four men lifted the headstone of Cornelia Bristol Sloper

and her daughter Cornelia, who both died in 1837, out of a basement of a Reservoir Avenue home.

City resident Shawn Hard found the headstone about four years ago. He wasn’t sure what to do with it, so he reached out to mayor’s office constituent caseworker Eddie

Siebert, who got in touch with administration from the Southington-Cheshire YMCA and Camp Sloper in Southington.

The men were at Hard’s house in July to view the headstone and moved it Friday, Sept. 6.

“It’s very unique,” said John

‘It’s time for the girls to go home’By Kimberly PrimicerioSpecial to The Citizen

Left to right, Paul Bissonnette, Southington-Cheshire YMCAs facility manager, Tony Palmieri, director of operations of Southington-Cheshire Community YMCAs, John Myers, executive director of Southington-Cheshire Community YMCAs and Mark Pooler, director of Camp Sloper, lay the headstone of Cornelia Bristol Sloper and daughter Cornelia, who both died in 1837, in the memorial garden of Camp Sloper in Southington. The stone will be set upright in the near future. | (Dave Zajac / Special to The Citizen)

Headstone of Cornelia Bristol Sloper, found in a Meriden home, is moved to Camp SloperMyers, executive director of the Southington-Cheshire YMCA. “It’s something that doesn’t happen every day.”

Myers, YMCA director of operations Tony Palmieri and YMCA director of fa-cilities management Paul Bissonnette were at Hard’s home with Siebert to get

the headstone out of the basement.

The limestone grave reads, “Cornelia, wife of David R. Sloper died Feb. 24 1837.” Under that inscription it says that Cornelia, their daughter, died on May 26, 1837.

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The Hospital of Central C o n n e c t i c u t B r a d l e y Memorial campus Auxiliary has scheduled its annual Fashion Gala for Monday, Sept. 30 at the Aqua Turf Club, 556 Mulberry St., Plantsville.

Festivities begin at 6 p.m. with dinner, followed by the show. The event includes a si-lent auction.

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Educators and Bread for Life board members are al-ready thinking of the vol-unteer opportunities for hundreds of students after a building for the non-profit was proposed on Main Street next to Derynoski School and the town’s alternative high school.

Director of Alta at the Pyne Center, Jess Levin, said the building’s location would be a “win-win” for the students and Bread for Life, which provides thousands of meals

to low-income and elderly residents. Alta is the alter-native high school in town lo-cated at 242 Main St. behind Derynoski School. There are between 50 and 60 students at Alta and nearly 700 stu-dents at Derynoski School.

“With the close proxim-ity, I’m hoping that we will be able to have a partnership to have students go over and volunteer and earn commu-nity service hours and un-derstand civic service,” Levin said. “I also know that some of my students and their fam-

Nonprofit near schools presents volunteer opportunityBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

Bread for Life would like to build its new kitchen and pantry on the vacant lot at 296 Main St., next to Derynoski School. | (Christopher Zajac / Special to The Citizen)

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This summer brought its fair share of weather games to farmers in the area from heavy rain to even heavier heat.

Jim Zarella of Zarella Farms in Plainville said the heavy rain and cold nights resulted in a pretty bad yield. Particularly, he said tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and pickles “took it on the chin.” The tomatoes couldn’t even be used for canning because they split so badly.

Zarella didn’t get any relief during the extreme heat. He said bees didn’t really work when it got too hot, so a lot of the food didn’t set.

“Bees don’t work when it’s hot like that. They stay in the shade and nothing sets,” Zarella said. “You get very poor yields that way.”

Interestingly enough, re-sults were quite different

just across the town border in Southington, where Diane Karabin of Karabin Farms said the year was quite fruit-ful for her crops.

Karabin did say her farm was rather lucky considering some of the harsh weather conditions this season.

“We were at the mercy of Mother Nature,” Karabin said. “But that being said, we’re having a wonderful har-vest, we’re very fortunate.

“We had the heavy rains, and then we had the extreme heat and so those are both ends of the spectrum that no farmer wants to deal with,” she added.

Flooding wasn’t an issue with the farm, and with the heat. She said it was just a matter of waiting it out.

Even tomatoes survived an early frost after Karabin said they took the risk of planting them early.

“There was some early frost and we were basically unaffected by it,” Karabin said. “We won that round.”

With summer being a suc-cess, Karabin said the outlook for the fall harvest is looking pretty good as well.

Ellie Tessmer, a member of the North Haven Garden Club, said the summer started cold, wet and then grew hot. As a result, diseases spread in her garden and she had to battle “critters,” a.k.a. pests.

The Wallingford resident said her squash, cucumbers and tomatoes grew okay in her six raised beds, but the peppers didn’t fare well. In late summer, they are just be-ginning to flower.

She rarely gets powdery mildew on her squash, but this year, she was out in her garden spraying her plants with a mixture of baking soda, water and soap.

“You have to go with the weather. You can’t fight it,” she said.

Insects were also a problem at Bartlem Park’s Community Garden with zucchini, kale, and cabbage, said gardener Jim Mertz. Aside from that,

Summer weather brings variable results to local farmersBy Julie Sopchak, Dan Jackson, and Joy VanderLekRecord-Journal weeklies staff

plots did “quite well,” accord-ing to Mertz and Rajeevan Nallakkandi. Tomatoes came in later than normal; how-ever, the tomatoes did come in before the adjacent gar-dens produced, Mertz said.

Zinnias and beans were also a success, according to Mertz and he had a “terrific early lettuce crop until the hot weather caused them to bolt.”

Mertz has since replanted the lettuce and it is now ready for harvest as a fall crop.

Mertz expects the fall kale to give him a good yield. Raised beds helped him against the heavier rains of the season which did affect low-lying plots in the garden. One gardener “actually had frogs in the ditches.” That’s how wet it was at times.

“Overall the year was a success and my garden is still producing,” he said.

Larry Rosenfield, “master gardener” at Temple Beth David of Cheshire, called this

year’s Mitzvah Garden at the Temple “spectacular.” The only issue this year was the excessive rain, he said.

“Overall, our yields were substantial with minimal in-sect damage,” he said.

This season the Cheshire Community Food Pantry broke ground and created its inaugural garden.

“With the help of the com-munity, we were able to cre-ate and tend to a wonderful garden that helped provide fresh produce for our cli-ents,” said CCFP Director Patty Hartmann. “Even though we started late in the season, we had a bumper crop of eggplant and basil and several varieties of late season tomatoes.”

Herbs such as rosemary and sage did equally well. String beans were not as pro-ductive as hoped, perhaps due to the late start, she said. A team of volunteers watered during the July heat wave, to help ensure success of the first-year garden.

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Resident Norman Erickson said he took his grandson to go fishing last week and was stunned with the amount of trash he saw.

“It’s such a beautiful place,” Erickson said, “but it just looked really bad. I found a lot of trash on the path-

Trash ruining views at Crescent LakeBy Savannah Mul Special to The Citizen

A couple fishes off the dock at Crescent Lake, Wednesday, Sept. 4. A trash barrel in the park is painted with the words “Help Keep Your Parks Clean.”

way you walk to go jogging on, there were a lot of glass bottles.”

Erickson said when he was younger he was a boy scout and was always told “what you bring in, you carry out.”

When he was there with his grandson he said he cleaned up a portion of the pathway in bad shape and hasn’t been back since.

“I talked to a lot of people who were fishing and they thought it was bad too. It used to be a clean reservoir,” he said, “not anymore.”

A sign above trash barrels near the entrance asks visi-tors to throw away their trash.

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When the school district formed a partnership with a local veterans committee two years ago, it started as a way to increase education on Veterans Day and Flag Day. After the partnership’s con-tinued success during the 2012-13 school year, members on the veterans committee said they were pleased with the program and hoped this year would be as rewarding as the last.

What manifested from raising awareness about Veterans Day was a bond between local veterans, teachers and school admin-istrators. Since the partner-ship was formed, district school staff and local veter-ans have met as a committee to arrange school visits and other activities.

Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joseph Erardi said this started as a way to, “reach

a consensus of how to ap-preciate Veterans Day appropriately.”

“One of the things we’re proud of is this partner-ship,” Army veteran Steve Pintarich said, during a Veterans’ Partnership meet-ing Wednesday evening, Sept. 4.

Beginning the middle of October, until Veterans Day, Pintarich said, “We want to do a seminar on what we as veterans can do more of in the classrooms, show the vets what we need to do.”

He said the object of this seminar would be for school officials and the commu-nity to talk to the veter-ans visiting the classrooms about what they should in-clude during classroom dis-cussions. Veterans visit the schools within the district, where Pintarich said they are able to teach history to the students from a perspec-tive of someone who has ex-perienced it firsthand. He

said they will usually spend 45 minutes talking in a class-room. In the past, topics have included Veterans Day and Flag Day.

“Whenever we can come in, we’ll be there,” Pintarich said.

Another goal Pintarich has for the 2013-14 school year is for visits to extend to all schools in the district on Veterans Day and Flag Day. Previously, veterans only made visits to half of the dis-trict, but with enough volun-teers, it’s something they’ll change this year, he said.

Veteran Len Marcheselle said that veterans shouldn’t be limited to talking in class-rooms only during events for Veterans Day and Flag Day.

“There are other days during the year that are important to Veterans,” Marcheselle said, such as D-Day or the Battle of the Bulge of World War II.

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the nursing and rehabilita-tion facility, said Tynan was a good choice to honor and remember September 11.

“He sang to the first re-sponders and he continues to work with families of 9/11 to show support,” Blau said.

John Kelly, a patient at The Summit, sat next to his wife, Debbie. Kelly is of Irish de-scent and a double amputee.

“I thought it would be good for him to come,” she said.

Tynan encouraged those

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with disabilities to take chances.

“I believe the biggest risk is life is not taking a risk it-self,” he said. “We are not all equal in ability, but if we con-centrate on a task at hand and work to our best ability, we truly are giving 100 percent.”

J o y c e L u e a k e o f Southington said she came out to honor her mother-in-law who passed away on Monday.

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Southington resident Collin Uryase spent part of Wednesday, Sept. 4, fishing at the lake. He visits the area frequently to fish.

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“I didn’t really notice a dif-ference this year, but you do see empty beer cans from time to time,” Uryase said.

Uryase said the small amount of trash is nothing that would stop him from at-tending the park.

Robert Berkmoes, Open Space and Land Acquisition Committee Chairman, said as a recreational park, trash cans are located outside the entrance of trails. He said it would be difficult to place more inside the hiking trails.

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Myers, who is aware of the Sloper history, said Cornelia Bristol Sloper is probably the first wife of David R. Sloper. Cornelia Bristol Sloper re-portedly died at the age of 25 as a result of childbirth. The couple’s daughter, listed on the headstone, died at 5 months old. David Sloper then married a woman named Augusta. They had a daughter named Cornelia, or Nellie. Nellie donated the Sloper property on East Street to the YMCA in 1948. The first YMCA day camp began in 1950.

“It’s just a sign of the times,” Myers said. “There were three Cornelias. It was a different way of life.”

In the basement, Siebert led the team. They walked through the bulkhead or base-ment entry doors into the dusty room. Siebert placed a ladder on the bulkhead’s staircase. The men, wearing gloves, then proceeded to wrap the fragile gravestone in a blanket. They gently walked it over to the ladder. They slid the stone across the ladder.

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“It was a task,” Siebert said about lifting the tombstone. He guessed it was about 400 pounds and Myers thought it was even more.

“It’s actually lighter than I thought,” Bissonnette said.

Once it got to the top of the stairs, the group carefully car-ried it to a pickup truck.

“We’re pallbearers of the tombstone,” Palmieri said.

As the men prepared to lift the heavy stone into the truck, Hard took out his harmonica and began playing “Amazing Grace.”

“I just want to send it home where it belongs,” Hard said. “It’s time for the girls to go home. It belongs where it came from.”

The tombstone will be set up in Camp Sloper’s memo-rial garden. The garden is on the right of the Sloper prop-erty when visitors pull into the camp. Myers said the area is a place to remember those who have passed.

“It’s a tranquil place,” he said. “We’ll get it up there.”

In the meantime, YMCA staff is going to do some re-search on how to preserve the old gravestone. It was in a basement for years, but now it will experience the elements.

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A Naugatuck man was sen-tenced in Waterbury Superior Court to jail time in connec-tion with a collision with a fuel tanker in December 2011.

Brian Miele, 45, was ar-rested on Dec. 27, 2011, and charged with first-degree larceny, interfering with an officer, driving under the in-fluence and reckless driving. He pleaded guilty to substi-tuted charges on Sept. 5 in Waterbury Superior Court, consisting of two counts of using a motor vehicle with-out permission, engaging po-lice in pursuit, possession of narcotics, failure to appear, and operating a motor vehi-cle with a suspended license, according to court records.

Miele was sentenced Thursday, Sept. 5, to seven years in prison for one of the charges of using a motor ve-hicle without permission, one year for engaging police in pursuit, one year for posses-sion of narcotics, one year for failure to appear, and 30 days

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Miele will also be credited with time already served, dat-ing to Dec. 27, 2011.

Sentencing information for the second charge of us-ing a motor vehicle without permission was not available Friday, Sept. 6.

The accident occurred around 3:30 p.m. at the inter-section of Old Turnpike Road and Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike. State police were in pursuit of Miele, who they said had stolen a SUV, when Miele crashed into a fuel tanker. The trooper jumped out of his cruiser and chased Miele, who tried to run away from the scene, police said. As the trooper was strug-gling with Miele, as seen on the troopers dash camera footage, a fire broke out un-der the SUV and the side of the fuel tanker. The trooper is seen running back to his cruiser and backing it up, cre-

ating distance between him-self and the fire. The video cut to a few minutes later and flames are above the trees and multiple police and fire crews are seen blocking the streets and working to extin-guish the fire.

According to Southington Assistant Fire Chief Thomas Wisner, Miele was in custody when fire crews arrived, and extra units were called in from Waterbury and Hartford fire departments to assist.

“Thankfully the tanker didn’t go fully up,” Wisner said last week, recalling the incident. “It was a potentially catastrophic incident, but luck was on our side.”

Wisner said the tanker truck was able to vent the heat, and fire crews worked to cool off the tanker while the fire burned through some of the fuel. At the time of the crash, the tanker had 8,600 gallons of fuel in it, Wisner said. The fuel was in five dif-ferent compartments, and the fire didn’t spread from one compartment to another, therefore not causing the

Man gets jail time for tanker accidentBy Lauren SievertSpecial to The Citizen

tanker to explode, Wisner said. If the worst scenario had happened, the houses and several businesses close

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This Veterans Day in November falls on a Monday and the schools are not in session. The committee de-cided last week that the re-

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Further discussion was put off until school board mem-bers could talk to high school principal Dr. Martin Semmel about hosting discussions on current events.

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This marks the third year Buglisi Dance Theatre per-formed the commemorative dance. Ross said there was to be about 125 dancers, mostly from New York, but also some, such as Jones, from neighboring states.

To prepare for the dance, Jones attended rehearsals in New York City through-out August. She first found out about the opportunity through one of her friends at Evjen Dance Academy in Farmington, where Jones dances.

“I sent in my resume along with a picture and had an au-dition,” said Jones, who has been a dancer for 14 years. “I found out the next day that I was picked.”

Auditions were held in the middle of August and Jones attended four rehearsals. The fourth was held Saturday, Sept. 7, at Lincoln Center.

Jones described the per-formance as a modern dance, which is different from what she’s used to doing.

“I’m used to jazz and lyrical ballet,” she said.

Dancers wearing white with flowing shawls to resem-ble peace and compassion circled the Revson Fountain at Lincoln Center. The dance was choreographed by artis-tic director at Buglisi Dance Theater Jacqulyn Buglisi and Italian visual artist Rossella Vasta, Ross said.

“There are a lot of hand gestures and the dance is

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there to give respect to the people,” Jones said.

For the past seven years, Jones has been dancing at the Evjen Academy of Performing Arts under the instruction of the owner Diana Evjen, who is glad Jones was able to take part in such an important event.

“I don’t think she expected to be chosen,” Evjen said.

When Jones found out, she was worried that she wouldn’t have enough time to attend rehearsals while doing school work, being on the swim team and attending her dance lessons, which take up about 10 hours throughout the week. However, after con-sulting with her mother and dance instructor, she knew she couldn’t turn down the opportunity, she said. She balances everything as best as she can.

“She’s a talented dancer,” Evjen said, “and I’m glad there’s an experience like this she is able to pursue.”

After graduation, Jones is looking to pursue a dance ma-jor in college.

“I’m not nervous,” she said last week. “It’s just really powerful and it’s crazy to be part of something so big.”

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Two proposed businesses on West Street will not have to conform to the new West Street business zone regu-lations passed last month, but at least one town offi-cial hopes they will consider the Planning and Zoning Commission’s vision for the area.

Applications were re-cently filed with the town for a 3,065-square-foot build-ing that would house a liquor store at 1700 West Street and a 4,980-square-foot office building at 1829 West Street. Both fall within the new zone,

which is designed to attract unique businesses to town and give the area a colonial look and feel somewhere be-tween Queen Street and the Central Business Zone on Center Street. The new regu-lations primarily affect busi-nesses between Spring and West Queen streets.

Acting Town Planner David Lavallee said both ap-plications were filed before the PZC approved the plans for the West Street business zone development on Aug. 20. They would be consid-ered non-conforming and don’t have to meet the new zoning regulations if they are approved.

“We’re supportive of bus inesses coming to Southington,” said Paul Chaplinsky, vice chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission. “But ideally we would like to see the busi-nesses in that area do what they can to conform. We want respect what came before the West Street business zone, but we ask that they consider the long term vision for West Street.

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My earliest memory from childhood involved the death of our maternal Grandpa Corliss. He was a retired farmer when he lived with us and had been ‘laid out’ in our parlor. The house was filled with peo-ple, and I dimly recall how Mom gently shushed my younger sister and me. I was four and Erma was two, and apparently our behavior was inappropriate to the somber occasion.

Grandma Corliss had died when Mom was 13. The only grandparent I really knew was Grandma Roy, born in Canada in 1864, one of 10 children. While her maiden surname was Lord, the fam-ily language was French. Soon after she had married Grandpa Roy they moved a

few miles south to Swanton, VT, just across the Quebec border, where we were raised. Grandpa worked on a farm - not his - then on the railroad. He died at age 42.

They were French-Canadian Protestants, a rare breed, who would have joined the Baptists had they a church in town. They first attended the local Congregational Church until they discovered that the pas-tor smoked a pipe. In their view tobacco and alcohol were especially dangerous temptations to avoid. They then became Methodists, though Baptist influence persisted. My four siblings and I were not baptized until age 12 - believers’ baptism.

Sunday worship was at 11 o‘clock, followed by Sunday School for all ages at noon. Swanton was in dairy country, and this schedule allowed farmers time for morning chores before put-ting on their Sunday best.

Dad left to pick up his mother at about 10 o’clock, then drove back home - and we’d better be ready. There was a busy railroad crossing

Grandma’s effort to keep the Sabbath Day holyBy Ralph Lord RoySpecial to The Citizen

between us and our church, which was located across the river alongside the vil-lage green. Every Sunday morning a long freight train would slowly pass through, which could seriously de-lay us if we hadn’t already crossed those tracks. If that happened, as it occasion-ally did, Dad could become irritated. He was a peren-nial usher and wanted to ar-rive well before the service began.

After church Grandma Roy would join us for our big Sunday dinner, then re-main through the afternoon. She spoke with a slight French accent, a sprightly, petite and devout woman, who emphasized the Biblical commandment that the Sabbath be kept holy. To her this meant no mowing the lawn or weeding in the garden, but also no playing cards or dominos, no tossing baseballs or footballs, no ice skating on the pond nearby, and certainly no movies. In fact, Grandma frowned on cards and movies altogether. Mom confided in us that this had been a problem when she and Dad first married. Mom enjoyed a regular

afternoon of bridge with other women of the local Shakespeare Club.

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As the new school year un-folds, kindergarten teachers in Southington are already raving about the new opportunities and, most heavily noted, the more time they have to work with kids.

This is Jeanne Petracca’s second year teaching kinder-garten at Thalberg Elementary School, but her overall experi-ence with kids spans 35 years. The new all-day program, she said, is new to her.

“It’s given me more time to already get to learn the chil-

dren and know what their needs are,” Petracca said. “It’s allowed me to have them have the time for social play and to get to know each other and to have some fun.”

Gretchen Yatzook is teach-ing full-day kindergarten at Flanders Elementary School. This is her first year teaching kindergarten after teaching it from 2002-04. She said her students are excited and anx-ious to experience all of the planned activities.

“It’s a lot easier to get in ev-erything that you want to do with the students,” Yatzook said. “Because when you had a half day, you just felt crunched

to put in everything not only academically, but you do want to have the social development time, and with a half day pro-gram it was just so hard to get everything in that you possibly could.”

Kathy Magnoli has been teaching overall for about 20 years. She has prior experience teaching full day kindergarten in a different district, but has been teaching the half day pro-gram at Hatton Elementary School for the past four years. Magnoli said she was very ex-cited when Southington de-cided to go to the full day program based on her positive experiences with it previously.

So far, all-day K is all goodBy Julie Sopchak The Southington Citizen

She said the two most import-ant things the full day program provides is the opportunity to really get to know the students and their families and also the time to really get into the curriculum.

“You have the extra time to build that rapport with the family which I think is really important at this young age,” Magnoli said.

With the extra time, Magnoli said now if she does a reading or science lesson, she can integrate it into other lessons.

“You can incorporate all your teaching in all of the ar-eas,” she said.

At South End Elementary School, kindergarten teachers Paula Gorham and Michelle Daigle are just as excited as anyone about the program. Drawbacks amongst any of the teachers were sparse to find, but if anything, Daigle and Gorham said the only tricky part is organizing the lunches – something they didn’t have to handle when students were there for only a half-day.

“A lot of the concerns with the parents were about the lunch situation than them be-ing here all day,” Gorham said.

There was some ner-vousness before the start of the school year, Daigle and Gorham said, but the year so far has run so smoothly. Some

relief was offered as a com-mittee including Assistant Superintendent Karen Smith put together a curriculum guideline for teachers so not to elicit an overwhelming amount of pressure as the new program began.

“We worried all summer pretty much for nothing be-cause it really has just flowed and worked out,” Daigle said.

Yatzook said the students get to interact with the rest of the school, something she considered an added benefit. Before, she said, the kindergar-ten program seemed isolated from the rest of the school.

“Being here through lunch and recess, everyone’s getting to know these students as part of the school, not just part of the kindergarten program,” she said. “I feel like now the kindergarten has become more part of the entire school than it was before.”

Yatzook said she’s able to go more in-depth with her lessons. Now, after reading a book, she can do enrichment activities with the students that supplement the story in-stead of having to move on to something else because of time constraints.

“In a half day program you wouldn’t be able to get to ev-erything like that,” Yatzook

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sing around our player piano where we belted out “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”, “In the Gloaming” and other old-time favorites. After a sandwich supper, Dad would drive Grandma home. Then we gathered in the living room around our large Philco radio, laugh-ing loudly as we listened to Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly and other favorite programs. When we heard Walter Winchell’s staccato delivery of “Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America…” - that meant it was 9 o’clock and bedtime.

We all grieved when Grandma died following a brief illness in 1946. She was 81. A couple years later,

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when I was at college in Pennsylvania, I went to New York City to spend a weekend with Dad. By then he had become deeply engrossed in several small town enterprises, and now and then he and Mom en-joyed escaping for a few days to Manhattan, which included a Broadway show or two. That Sunday morn-ing, as was their habit when in New York, we went to the Bible Breakfast at the old Sloane House YMCA, then to Marble Collegiate Church to hear Norman Vincent Peale, the famed author and preacher. We hurried to join the line out-side the church, hoping to get into the main sanctuary rather than the overflow chapel.

At lunch that day my father shocked me. “How about going to Radio City

for a stage show and a movie?” he asked. “Dad,” I said in amazement, “all these years we couldn’t do that sort of thing on a Sunday.” “I know, I know,” he replied. “But two things are different now. First, we’re not in Swanton, and who will know or care? And, second, your Grandma is gone. We went along with her emphasis on one com-mandment to follow that other commandment about honoring your mother and father.” Then he added with emotion in his voice: “I had another reason, too. Sunday was when I would spend the whole day with the fam-ily, and everybody was there together. All week I looked forward to Sunday.”

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Murphy voted against President Obama’s plan to take military action against Syria and warned that such an attack could involve the U.S. in the civil war ”in a way that will be difficult to untangle.”

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10-7 Wednesday, Sept. 4, in favor of a resolution authorizing Obama to or-der a ”limited and tailored” military at-tack ”against legitimate military targets in Syria.”

Murphy, D-Conn., was one of two Democrats who joined with f ive Republicans to vote against the resolution; seven Democrats and three Republicans supported the measure. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., voted present.

The resolution set a 90-day time limit for presidential action and specifically barred ground troops for combat. Those restric-tions were pushed by committee members concerned that the original White House proposal was too open-ended.

Another amendment sponsored by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tilted in the oppo-site direction and stated that one goal of a military strike was to bring ”decisive changes to the present military balance of power on the ground in Syria” in favor of the insurgents.

The Senate committee vote was the first congressional test of Obama’s military au-thorization request. The full Senate is ex-pected to take up the resolution after the lawmakers return next week from summer recess.

Later, Murphy issued a statement declar-ing that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against the people of Syria was ”a human rights atrocity and a blatant violation of international law.”

“It’s impossible to see the horrific images of death and suffering in Syria and not feel compelled to act in some way.”

But, Murphy continued, ”There is not always an American solution to every in-

Murphy votes against attack on Syria

By Charles J. LewisHearst Newspapers

Rep. Christopher Murphy, D-Conn., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, before the House Rules Committee. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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State Rep. David Zoni (D-Southington) earned a 100 percent grade on votes taken in the state House of Representative during the 2013 General Assembly session.

According to the Clerk of the House, the 2013 individ-ual records reflect 423 votes or 100 percent cast by Zoni.

“I was pleased to learn that I was present and voted on the votes taken in the house,” Zoni said. “While I strive to be on hand for all debates and votes, sometimes there are circumstances beyond any legislator’s control that prevents a vote, like an ill-

ness or a seri-ous family matter.

“ I w i l l continue to work to vote on all issues a n d h o p e no unfore-seen events

prevent me from doing just that. I consider representing Southington an honor and be-ing present to vote a respon-sibility that I take seriously.”

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button. We can even explore and diagnose our own symp-toms with the pioneer web-site WebMD.com.

I have health insurance, but why waste my time when I can simply look up my ailments online and pre-scribe my own treatment? We live in the technology age, so I’m going to take full advantage of that.

I’ve had these itchy spots on my elbows for a few days now. Seems like a rash, but

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ternational crisis. For me, to-day’s vote was a close call, but in the end, I voted no be-cause I believe that the down-side risks of military action, both for U.S. interests and the Syrian people, outweigh the potential benefits.”

There is ”little chance” that targeted air strikes would de-stroy Syria’s chemical weap-ons stockpiles, he said, and may ”simply prompt another deadly reaction from Assad as well as the countries that fi-nance his murderous regime.”

The insertion of U.S. mili-tary power has the potential ”to further destabilize the nation and propel its descent into chaos,” he said.

Murphy expressed concern that the resolution ”will in-volve us in the Syrian conflict in a way that will be difficult to untangle. We are naive to believe that our support for the opposition, or opposition to Assad, will end in a mat-ter of months. Taking sides in this conflict will likely com-mit our country to an open-ended engagement, at an untold cost to both our rep-utation in the world and to American taxpayers.”

He urged increased human-itarian aid to Syrians affected by the civil war and more dip-lomatic and economic pres-sure on the Assad regime.

Committee approval came after Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told the panel that U.S. credibility was on the line following Obama’s warning last year that any use

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of chemical weapons by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the on-going civil war there would cross ”a red line” that would merit a penalty in the form of military action.

Kerry and Hagel said fail-ure of the U.S. to act would embolden Iran, North Korea and terrorist groups to con-clude that U.S. threats were mere empty rhetoric.

Kerry said Assad’s forces used chemical weapons on Aug. 21 against insurgents, re-sulting in a death toll exceed-ing 1,400.

Kerry made the same case Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Obama said last weekend that he would seek congres-sional approval of such a step, though he maintained that he could order military action even if Congress voted against authorization.

Voting yes on the Foreign Relations Committee were Sens. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. , Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Ben Cardin, D-Md., Jean Shaheen, D-N.H., Chris Coons, D-Del. , Richard Durbin, D-Ill., Tim Kaine, D-Va., Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and McCain.

Murphy and Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., were the only Democrats opposing the measure; other ”no” votes came from Sens. James Risch, R-Idaho, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., did not respond to requests for comment about the committee’s action.

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Malocclusion? Sounds pretty big league. Sleep apnea? Sunburn…that’s an interesting one. Oh no, meningitis, WebMD says I could have meningitis. I’m probably going to die now. Fibromyalgia? That’s like torture! Maybe I’m having a

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brain aneurysm? Goodness, I should start writing my will, shouldn’t I? Oh no, it’s lupus, I know it is. This mild, dull, virtually non-ex-istent headache is like the cardinal symptom of lupus. I’m doomed, doomed I tell you!

Now what’s this I’m expe-riencing? Breathing a little heavier, and this room feels like it’s 100 degrees now. Boy, are my palms sweaty. Well, I’m no doctor, but if I had to guess I’d say I’m hav-ing a pretty textbook panic/anxiety attack – a mild one at best. Let me just confirm with WebMD so I can pro-ceed on the proper track to restore my mental health.

I’m not sure where to point on the body diagram for an anxiety attack, so

I’ll check a list of overall symptoms, which includes “craving to eat ice, dirt, or paper.” I take back what I said earlier about not being thorough – WebMD clearly seems to have covered all the bases here.

Ah, here we go, “anxiety.” I’ll just click on that and see what it says to do.

Oh no, it only came up with one possibly condition: fibromyalgia! It’s come back from my earlier minor head-ache ailment and is now the cause of my anxiety as well! Oh man, this doesn’t look good for me. But what about my breathing? Just as I sus-pected, a pulmonary embo-lism. May as well just dig a hole and jump in. I mean, I had a good run, right?

Thanks, WebMD!


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said. “But in a full day you can go deeper into each little thing you want to, not just touch on it briefly.”

Though the summer com-mittee’s planning was a helpful boost, teachers have still had to do more planning for their days. At the same time, kids are now given more choices on what they want to learn through activity centers like painting, blocks, and Play-Doh, among other things.

“What we’re hoping to do is personalize learning in terms of what do [they] want to learn

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about,” Petracca said.Being a full day now, kids

might be expected to get a bit exhausted, but on the contrary, teachers report that tiredness isn’t really a problem. Gorham and Daigle said the kids are given a 20 minute rest period, which shows to be enough to recharge their batteries.

“Those concerns I think are gone even for the kids who’ve napped over the summer,” Daigle said. “They’re not nap-ping here, they’re having great days here.”

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In years’ past Levin said students have gone to Bread for Life to volunteer and en-joyed it. With the recent news of the building, he also mentioned the possibility of having students participate for a few hours during the school day as part of a po-tential partnership.

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CalendarFriday Sept. 13

Berlin Football: 7 - 10 p.m. Bristol Eastern High School, 632 King St. BHS vs. Bristol Eastern High School

Saturday Sept. 14

Cheshire Boys and Girls Cross Country: 9 a.m. - Noon; Windham High School, 355 High St., Willimantic. Cheshire at Windham Invitational

Southington annual Country Fair: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Grace United

Methodist Church, 121 Pleasant St. will take place, rain or shine. There will be a silent auction, jewelry, clothes, crafts, books, baked goods, harvest booth, clam chowder, hamburgers and hot dogs.

Southington Computer Fair: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Southington High School, 720 Pleasant St. A Cogan Computer Fair is being sponsored by SHS Band Backers.Cogan There will be a variety of computer dealers with items for sale. Free electronics recycling is being offered with paid admission. Food will be available for purchase. There is an admission fee,

but students and parents are free with valid student ID. For information visit http://www.shsbands.com/bandbackers/fundraisers/coganfairs.htm .

Sunday Sept. 15

New Britain Harvest Festival: 1 - 6 p.m. Pope John Paul II School, 221 Farmington Ave. Event includes food, beverages, homemade items, crafts, jewelry, raffles, children’s activities and a DJ.

Plainville Pet Meet and Greet: 1 - 4 p.m. PetSmart, 278 New Britain Ave. sponsored by the Friends of Berlin Animals Control, is scheduled. Meet the friendly, beautiful cats and kittens in need of loving, permanent homes. View all adoptable pets and find an online application at www.fobac.org. For information, call (860) 828-5287.

Monday Sept. 16

Berlin Girls Soccer: 3:30

- 5:30 p.m. Bristol Eastern High School, 632 King St. BHS vs. Bristol Eastern High School

Plainville Rotary Club Meeting: Noon - 2:30 p.m. J. Timothy’s Taverne, 143 New Britain Ave. meets Mondays. For information, call Guy Doyon, (860) 793-4113.

Plainville MS Support Group: 7 - 9 p.m. Wheeler Clinic, 91 Northwest Drive. The group on the third Monday of each month. For information, contact June at (860) 747-0564, visit www.ctfightsMS.org or call the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Connecticut Chapter at (800) 344-4867.

Tuesday Sept. 17

Cheshire Boys Cross Country: 4 - 7 p.m. Cheshire Park, 20 Highland Ave. Cheshire vs. Hamden, Xavier, Lyman Hall

Cheshire Boys Soccer: 3:30 - 7:30 p.m. Oakwood Soccer Club, 40 Oakwood

Drive, Glastonbury. Cheshire vs. Xavier

Cheshire Girls Cross Country: 4 - 7 p.m. Cheshire Park, 559 S. Main St. Cheshire vs. Mercy, Hamden, Lyman Hall.

Cheshire potluck supper: 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Senior Center, 240 Maple Ave. League of Women Voters has scheduled a potluck supper. Speaker is Alison Rivard, who will discuss public issues for the League of Women Voters of the State of Connecticut. For information, call Pat at (203) 272-3963.

Wednesday Sept. 18

Cheshire Girls Volleyball: 6:30 - 9 p.m. Cheshire High School, 525 S. Main St. Cheshire vs. North Haven

Plainville Food for Friends: 5 - 6:30 p.m. Church of Our Saviour, 115 W. Main St. The Food for Friends free meal is served every Wednesday of the month.

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Repairs to the leaky roof on the Memorial Park bathhouse went smoothly, said Town Manager Garry Brumback, and the goal is to renovate the area.

Repairs were needed to fix leaks that worsened during the heavy snow of last win-ter. Through the years there

have been multiple repairs done to keep the bathhouse safe and functioning, but the town’s ultimate goal is to ren-ovate the restroom area and the bathhouse.

“We’re aware of other re-pairs that need to be done in the parks and this was a small piece of some other repairs,” said Chris Palmieri, a town councilor and member of the Public Works Committee.

Repairs were complete in the beginning of July and only took a few days to fin-ish, Palmieri said, at a cost of $7,200. The committee heard an update on the repairs last week.

One of the biggest concerns was safety. Brumback said the town wanted to keep the pool open during construction, but if it appeared to be unsafe for workers and patrons then it

would be closed.“We finished it and we

were able to do it without closing the pool,” Brumback said.

Brumback has said the cost of the larger renovations still has to be determined. The town will complete a cost-benefit analysis for the next fiscal year’s capital im-provement plan. The Town Council has previously talked

about renovating the building but the high cost of including toilets compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act prevented plans from moving forward.

“We don’t have a budget for anything set up yet so we want to do it responsi-bly and prioritize everything and see what’s needed first versus what can be delayed,” Palmieri said.

Roof repairs done at Memorial ParkBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

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said. “Homes and lives could

have been lost,” Wisner said. Southington fire Lt. Glenn

Dube was also on the scene that night, and said the fire reached above the tree line, melting power lines and other wires. Dube said the fuses at the top of the utility poles might have gone out, and when that happens there

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is a very loud noise that can sound like a blast, which is why some residents reported hearing explosions and said transformers exploded. Dube said the situation involved a lot of luck, but also a lot of hard work.

Nearby homes and busi-nesses were evacuated, and Dube said for the most part, people were cooperative.

“When you see a burning gas tanker, you don’t hang around,” Dube said. “They didn’t need a lot of convinc-

ing to head the other way.”Dube said the situation had

the potential to be a massive environmental hazard, as well, if the fuel had gotten into the river that was right near the scene of the crash. Wisner said a small amount of fuel made it into the river, but the fire crews were able to use absorbent booms to

soak it up. The damage to the road,

the electrical wires, the tanker truck and the sto-len SUV was estimated to be around $170,000, Wisner said. Fire and police crews were on the scene for an ex-tended time and fire depart-ments from other towns sent crews, so the total cost of

the incident was most likely more than $200,000, Wisner said.

Hunger

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Hasemann also recom-mends combination snacks with two or three compo-nents. Offering a variety seems like more food and gives kids the freedom to eat creatively. A handful of crackers, some grapes, and a few cheese slices are full of opportunities—smooshed grape sandwiches and cheese towers look like playtime to them, and a balanced snack to you.

Forget perfectionEvery day isn’t perfect—

some days, snack time will be more balanced and peace-ful than others. Food jags, fear of new foods, and fluc-tuating hunger levels are all normal. The best thing to do is pull back, not react, and keep offering healthy, bal-anced choices. Kids are born with innate senses of fullness and hunger; if you give them scheduled meals and snacks as well as healthy food op-tions, they will take care of

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At Tyler Caron’s recent birthday party, guests brought food for the Southington community services food pantry. Thanks to Tyler and his friends, more than 80 pounds of food was collected.

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Southington Holy Trinity Church: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Holy Trinity Church, 200 Summer St. will be hosting a chicken parm/stuffed shell dinner in the church hall. For information or tickets call (860) 628-0736. Tickets will be sold at the door.

Thursday Sept. 19

Southington Cheshire open house: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. YMCA Camp Sloper, 1000 East St. has been scheduled. Learn about games, crafts, camp-outs, hikes and more for children aged three to 12. For information, call (860) 621-8194 or email [email protected].

Plainville Open Bingo: 6:30 - 10 p.m. Veterans

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Post Home, 7 Northwest Drive. Veterans of Foreign Wars Madeley-Roberts Post 574 men will host an open bingo every Thursday. For information, call Earl Carey, (860) 747-5400.

Friday Sept. 20

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Sports

After a four-year absence, Southington football re-turned to the state playoff stage last season.

With the leading men the Blue Knights have com-ing back, it’s unlikely they’ll prove a one-hit wonder. They might even linger longer in the spotlight.

That’s the aim, at any rate, as the curtain opened for the 2013 Blue Knights Thursday night, Sept. 12, in Glastonbury against the team that ended their 2012 season.

Quick synopsis: After running the regular-season table at 10-0, including a 28-21 win over Glastonbury, Southington fell to the Tomahawks at home in the Class LL quarterfinals, 23-14.

That final act of 2012 in-forms the 2013 sequel with multiple themes. Ending a season with a loss always leaves a team, no matter how good, feeling it has something to prove.

Ending a season with a loss and starting the next year against the very same team bubbles the cauldron of revenge.

And playing what will arguably be your tough-est game of the regular sea-son right out of the gate also keeps the story from getting ahead of itself.

Virtually every football team goes into a campaign claiming not to be looking beyond Week 1. Some are just blowing smoke. Not the Blue Knights.

“We have a very tough schedule. We have teams

Aspiring to Knights on BroadwayBy Bryant CarpenterSpecial to The Citizen

Zach Maxwell runs his route during football practice at Southington High School Aug. 27.

Southington head football coach Mike Drury drives the practice. | (Photos by Christopher Zajac/ Special to The Citizen)

that you can’t look ahead on. Look ahead, that’s when you get bit,” said Mike Drury, in his third year as Southington head coach.

“Our focus is getting better each day. We’re not looking ahead to anything. We’re not looking ahead to the postsea-son, to Week 4, Week 5. We’re looking ahead to today’s prac-tice, keeping it in the back of our heads what’s to come.”

Here’s what is in the back of Southington’s collective head: Snaring a state cham-pionship that has proven elusive for a talented and bal-lyhooed cast of seniors that, as eighth-graders, played and lost a state youth final in 2009.

Some of those players cracked Southington’s var-sity lineup as sophomores. The quarterback, Stephen Barmore, started multiple games as a freshman.

Barmore has already com-mitted to Yale. Teammates such as fellow senior cap-tains Zach Maxwell and Tyler Hyde aren’t too far behind in sifting through offers. Their future is remarkably bright. For now, the present play is the thing.

“The difference between last year and this year is not only do we have high expec-tations of ourselves, but the community and, I think, the state, all have high expecta-

tions of what we’re going to do,” said Barmore. “Honestly, as a team, we have everything to prove to the state and any-one who still doubts us.”

The Blue Knights know they’ll be playing before packed houses. Cynics and certainly all opponents will want to see them sweat in the footlights.

“Pressure’s always a good thing,” remarked senior Tyler Hyde, a running back and out-side linebacker. “It’s good to prove people who doubt us wrong, especially after last year with a huge 10-0 season. Hopefully, we live up to our expectations for the season.”

Bear in mind Southington did suffer deep losses from

a year ago. A dozen senior starters graduated, led by lineman Travis Clark (WPI) and linebackers Nick Spitz (Salve Regina) and Justin Rose (Avon Old Farms).

There’s more. Running back Jarrid Grimmett, who led the team in rushing last year as a junior, left the team. Slot receiver Connor John, who established himself as a starter last season as a sopho-more, moved out of state.

But at a school as large as Southington, in a program as established and time-hon-ored as Southington football, the Blue Knights never lack for understudies ready to move up the playbill.

“We have a lot of good sophomores coming up that are going to be juniors this year — probably half of our defense is the upcom-ing sophomores and they’re really solid players. I can’t wait to play with them,” said Maxwell, a returning All-State defensive end. “We suffered a lot (of graduation losses), but I’m really con-fident in the guys we have coming up.”

OFFENSEWith Barmore, All-State a

year ago, the O is in proven hands. Last season, he threw for 2,010 yards and 18 touch-downs, ran for 424 and scored 13.

He did lose all but one of

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his four starting receivers. Anthony Bonefant (46-678) and Corbin Garry (37-647) weren’t big, but they could stretch the field. Connor John (28-326) was a big target out of the slot.

The Blue Knight simply reload. Maxwell, his younger brother Matt Maxwell, a ju-nior, and sophomore Jasen Rose join returning starter Alex Jamele (18-223) in the slot. Senior Joe Daigle and junior Kyle Borawski lead the wide-outs.

“In passing leagues we’ve done as good, if not better, than last year,” Barmore said

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of this year’s receiving corps.In the backfield, the Blue

Knights lose 860 yards and 12 touchdowns with Grimmett’s departure, but have a solid back in Hyde, who averaged better than six yards a carry in gaining 342 yards last year.

The big key will be up front, where the Blue Knights graduated three starters — Clark and fellow captains Travis Daly and Josh Irizzary. Jim Nardi, a junior center last year, is now a senior captain and left tackle.

Senior Carlos Gil, who moved into the starting lineup midway through last season, is at right tackle.

Between them are first-year starters. Seniors John Rauch and Joe D’Agostino will rotate

at right guard. Junior Norm MacDonald is the left guard. Senior Sal Conti centers.

“These kids, they worked harder than any line I’ve ever seen,” Drury said. “They know. We told them they have a big responsibility in being an offensive lineman.”

Indeed. Like any good stage show, it all starts with good lines and blocking.

DEFENSESouthington lost the major-

ity of its starting unit. It will retool around Zach Maxwell at defensive end, senior Zack Jamele at inside line-

Offensive lineman Jim Nardi, right, throws a block.

backer and Hyde at outside linebacker.

Juniors Zach Spooner, the nose guard, and Dan Williams, the other end, will join Maxwell on Southington’s three-man front.

Jamele will also be teamed with juniors at inside backer Steve Hamel and Matt Thomson, son of former Blue Knights/Syracuse star Rob Thomson, who is now an as-sistant on Drury’s staff.

Hyde and Matt Maxwell man the outside lineback-ing spots, with senior Chris Kelly and junior Jake Thayer expected to be part of the rotation.

The Blue Knights will have more experienced hands at free safety, where Barmore

and Alex Jamele will split time. (Barmore saw some part-time work in the second-ary last year.)

The corners are all rookies: senior Mike Lang and juniors Zach Bylykbashi and Peter Majchrzak. Some intercep-tions from those guys, par-ticularly the latter two, will certainly be a challenge for headline writers.

Such is the challenge of try-ing to craft a perfect script. The Blue Knights did it last year. Then came the play-offs. Now the story resumes where it left off, only the page is blank.

“Like I told the kids, we haven’t done anything yet,” Drury said. “This class, they were a really strong support-ing cast to a strong senior class that had a great season. I told them, ‘This is their year; they’re going to leave their stamp at Southington High School for the 2013 season.’

“But we’re 0-0. We hav-en’t won a game; we haven’t done anything. We have put in all the preparation, though. These kids have worked hard and they have specific team goals that they want to accomplish.”

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Recent products of the Southington volleyball pro-gram are proving their met-tle on the college courts.

Corinne Horanzy, only a freshman, has earned a role in the starting lineup at the University of Hartford, while junior Elsie Bernaiche is the defensive specialist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

Horanzy, an outside hit-ter, had a match-high 16 kills in Hartford’s 3-0 win

over UMass-Lowel l a t Volley in the Valley, a tour-nament hosted by Marist College this past weekend in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Horanzy has 65 kills and 59 digs for the season. The Hawks were 2-6 at press

time.Up in Waltham, Bernaiche

and Brandeis stand at 3-4. Bernaiche had double-digit digs in each match of the in-vitational Brandeis hosted this past weekend. She has 132 digs for the season, an average of nearly 19 a match.

FOOTBALLSacred Heart is off to a

2-0 start following a dra-matic 26-24 win Saturday, Sept. 7, at Lafayette. Down by one point, the Pioneers engineered an 11-play, 54-yard drive to set up fresh-man Alec Finney for a

42-yard field goal as time expired.

Junior wide receiver Tyler Dube of Southington caught three passes on that game-winning drive, which was kept alive when a rough-ing-the-passer call erased a Lafayette interception.

For the game, Dube had seven receptions for 88 yards, including a 40-yarder.

Big win in Week 2 as well for Fordham, which knocked off Villanova 27-24 in the Bronx. Villanova was ranked No. 8 in the FCS.

Wallingford native Brett

Biestek, a senior defensive lineman out of Sheehan, forced a fumble on a quar-terback sack to end the first quarter, a turnover that led to a Fordham touchdown and 14-7 lead.

Later, in the fourth quarter, junior defensive back Jordan Chapman of Southington recovered a Villanova fumble on a kickoff.

Biestek f inished with seven tackles, Chapman with three. The 2-0 Rams, who also feature Southington’s Jake Rodrigues.

Spike, rattle & roll: Former Knights rock at next levelRecord-Journal staff

Horanzy Bernaiche

With major graduation losses and quality in the CCC West on the rise, Southington will be tested to maintain the upper hand. But that’s the way coach Rich Heitz likes it. Teams tested throughout the regular season usually com-pete more effectively in the postseason.

First-team All-Staters Cor inne Horanzy and Danielle Kaminsky have moved on. Horanzy, an out-side hitter, is playing at the University of Hartford. Kaminsky, whom Heitz said is the best setter he’s had in his 12 years with the Lady Knights, is an impact player at Western Connecticut.

Filling their sneakers will prove challenging, but Heitz has encountered reconstruc-

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tion before.“We’re a very young team,

the youngest I’ve had,” he said. “I don’t like to say we’re rebuilding; we’re going to try and reload. We’ll have a lot of new faces, but we’ll bring the brand of volleyball we’ve de-veloped and compete.”

Morgan McCarthy looms as Kaminsky’s successor. Caroline Barry and Maryssa Romano are expected to emerge as leaders in the front row. Allison McCormick has to overcome injuries that vir-tually cost her last season to bolster the defense.

“She suffered a significant

ankle injury early in the sea-son. She tried to come back toward the end but blew out the other ankle in the tourna-ment,” Heitz said.

The Knights have won or shared CCC division titles for nine straight years. This year’s path to the penthouse is fraught with potential potholes.

“I think i t wi l l be Farmington, Simbury and us with Northwest Catholic chomping at the bit to get into that upper tier,” Heitz said.

Farmington, which tied for the division title last

year, has been Southington’s prime rival since the two were grouped in the West four years ago. Simsbury has potential All-Stater Caroline Hendershot, sister of Olympic rowing star Sara. High tryout numbers signal a possible revival in New Britain.

“It’s turned out to be a very good division,” Heitz said. “It’s worked out well.”

The Knights are on the in-vitation list for the VolleyHall Classic Columbus Day week-end in Holyoke, Mass. The

tournament, featuring 24 of New England’s top scholas-tic teams, is held in conjunc-tion with the Hall of Fame induction in the city where the sport was invented.

The schedule also fea-tures a regular-season fi-nale against perennial small-school powerhouse Coventry. The rivalry has raged for five seasons, with Southington managing to win just once: a 2009 clash that ended Coventry’s 84-match win streak.

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A first glance makes it easy to char-acterize the last two seasons as two of the worst in the long, proud his-tory of Southington soccer.

Consecutive years failing to qualify for the Class LL tournament may be a reflection on the Blue Knights’ basic shortcomings to a certain extent, but the shifting winds in the CCC divi-sional structure have taken their toll. The days of playing Platt, Maloney and Bulkeley every year like they did in the old CCC South are gone.

The Knights went to the large-school CCC North in 2006, but three years later were regrouped in a re-modeled CCC West with the likes of Farmington, Simsbury, Hall and Conard. They’ve discovered it will take a more determined effort to reach even modest goals.

An injury to the starting goal-keeper didn’t help. Coach Dave Yanosy was forced to bring in a ju-nior varsity player.

“That put us in a tough spot. Brian Topper did a nice job, but in our con-ference and division, it was a lot to ask,” Yanosy said.

“The league was very good and we definitely took our lumps. It made for a difficult year, but we’re looking forward.”

Yanosy began by fortifying his central midfield by moving in his most physical players from the front and back. Dan Connolly was moved from defense and Jared DeFeo from forward.

“(DeFeo and Connolly are) gifted in the air,” Yanosy said. “They will be looked upon to provide leadership.”

The scoring responsibility falls to capable senior Sean Conway.

“He has many colleges interested,”

Yanosy said. “He’s a speedy, strong forward who has the ability to put up some big numbers this year.”

Alex Queen, number one is his class academically, anchors the defense.

“He’s an intelligent, technical player who will make the important decisions in the back,” Yanosy said.

All the usual suspects stand in the way as the Knights formulate their quest for postseason qualification.

“The league as a whole is strong from top to bottom,” Yanosy said. “You have to run the gauntlet.”

--Ken Lipshez

Knights not looking in the rearviewBoys soccer preview

The excitement around the field hockey program is pal-pable with the new turf field.

“This is going to be our first full year on turf and we’re just thrilled being able to practice on it and know-ing our games will be there,” coach Erin Luddy said. “The girls are excited about the season, and we start off with a heavy hitter – Glastonbury.

They’re always a formidable opponent, so it will definitely be a test. The girls are rising to that test.”

Luddy said there are holes to fill in goal and the midfield. Valerie Szmurlo and Natalie Liquindolfi are vying for time in the net. Returning starters Lauren Zazzaro and Jessica Lee are being counted on to control the midfield.

“To have Lauren and Jess returning as midfielders to direct traffic and keep us or-ganized is a huge deal and I’m

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looking for great things from them,” Luddy said.

They’ll be joined by co-cap-tain Alexa Mitchell. Two se-niors have joined the varsity fold giving Southington some added maturity.

Gabriel le Baker and Alexandria Abacherli return up front. Lauren Mitchell didn’t play last year due to a concussion and the hope is she’ll be ready to go. Returning starter Meagan Asklar anchors the defense.

Luddy said the Lady Knights will have to train hard to adjust to the changes brought about by turf.

“The ball stays flat and moves much faster, so con-ditioning is a key because they’ll be running a lot more than in the past,” she said. “The flow of the game is different.”

Tournament qualification eluded the Knights last year by just a game and Luddy feels they can make it up.

“That’s our goal,” she said. “We had one or two games we could have won and to have them turn over and possibly host a first-round game is definitely a goal.”

Luddy welcomed 26 fresh-men, some of whom she ex-pects to advance to the junior varsity quickly, which bodes well for Southington’s future.

--Ken Lipshez

Southington is coming off of a winning season at 6-5-1.

“Last year, the Lady Knights continued to ex-pand as a program and did so with a tremendous amount of success, both as a team and individu-ally,” Southington coach Evan Tuttle remarked. “We witnessed incredible

gains from our rookies as well as from our veterans. Ultimately, we sent 11 per-formances into the LL state meet last year that culmi-nated in yet another school record.”

Southington graduated a strong 2012 class, but has plenty of reinforcements.

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reported. “We currently have 45 athletes on the roster, and nearly half are new to the pro-gram. The upperclassmen are strong, experienced and mo-tivated. Last year’s state per-formers — Laurel Dean, Aly Baribualt, and Joy Blanchet — return this year as seniors. Our lead diver, Tia Jones, is returning for her senior year as well. State performers from last year returning as juniors include Bailey Potter and, as sophomores, Ally Schroeder.”

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A business specializing in senior housing is looking to have text amendments made to the Housing Opportunity District’s zoning regulations to provide more elderly and affordable housing in town,

Developer looks to increase senior, low-cost housingBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

according to acting Town Planner Dave Lavallee.

Changes would help to “provide more housing op-portunities to people 62 and older,” Lavallee said.

Sev Bovino, a planner with Kratzert Jones & Associates in Milldale, represented Lancaster Land LP at a re-

cent Planning and Zoning Commission meeting and re-layed the proposed additions to the zoning regulations. Bovino has not released what area of town the company is targeting for the homes.

Proposed amendments include allowing a project within 1,500 feet of Interstate

84. The lot would have to be 10 acres or greater and must be “between a residential and non-residentially zoned parcel not less than one mile from the town line,” Lavallee said. Thirty percent of the homes would have to be designated as affordable.

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taken before this change can be made,” Bovino said during the meeting.

Southington is 7 percent be-low the state goal for afford-able housing. The state asks that 10 percent of housing in town is classified as afford-

More than 30 people filled the Municipal Center’s pub-lic assembly room during the Conservation Commission meeting Thursday night, Sept. 5, for another public hearing on an application to disturb 3,185-square-feet of wetlands on Wonx Spring Road. The application is to build a stormwater manage-ment system and road.

Five residents of Wonx Spring Road spoke against the application and were worried about the impact the project would have on their property values, health, and everyday life. No one spoke in favor.

Stephen Giudice of the Harry E. Cole & Son engi-neering firm representing the application, was not in attendance.

Wonx Spring Road resi-dent Kathy Laforest asked commission members what it would be like to have a fac-tory built right behind their

Wonx Spring residents speak against developmentBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

house and said the only rea-son for the project is due to “greed and money.”

“The last time I spoke here I was quite emotional and it’s hard for me not to be,” said Laforest who has lived in her home on 160 Wonx Spring Road for the past 33 years. “What can happen to us is

not for the better.”Kristen Keska, of 149 Wonx

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Dozens of residents have continued to show up for the

past few months for multiple public hearings to voice their opinions.

On June 21, the public hearing was continued until July 11. On July 11, the public hearing was postponed again until Aug. 2. On Aug. 2 it was continued again.

The Commission unan-

imously voted to keep the public hearing open once again, and for the last time, until they pick a date for a special meeting on or before Sept. 28. The commission is still waiting on reports from experts that address the con-

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able. Town officials had said the growing senior population and the state’s high cost of liv-ing are the reason the town is under the average.

During a public hearing on the proposal at a commission meeting on June 18 some res-idents were concerned about the number of text amend-ments proposed because the company has yet to say where in town the development would be located. There were also concerns about a lack of parking for future tenants. Others said they were in favor of additional senior housing in general.

These kinds of requests are not unusual, said com-missioner James Sinclair, and happen several times a year. Usually when applicants come

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Wonx

cerns the project might have on the wetlands.

“There’s been no informa-tion received,” said Theresa Albanese, chairwoman of the commission.

Frank Punzo, of 170 Wonx Spring Road, told the com-mission that residents will be fighting the project for “as long as it takes” and is con-cerned what kind of impact the project will have on the neighborhood.

“We appear emotionally charged and probably argu-mentative at times,” Punzo said. “In our defense when it comes to your home for most people it’s the second most important thing in your life…”

“I don’t plan on moving anywhere else,” Laforest said. “So I’m pleading with ev-eryone to give thought with what’s going on.”

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with a text amendment, “they have a plan in mind,” Sinclair said.

“What he’s doing is a text amendment so he can apply to more than one parcel,” Sinclair said. “He’s looking to change the regulations themselves to allow for senior housing with an affordable element.”

Commission Vice Chairman Paul Chaplinsky said it’s an opportunity from the appli-cant’s perspective to improve the town’s regulations so that more lots the company is inter-ested in can be “conformed to their regulations.”

“They’re following a stan-dard process,” he said.

A public hearing on the mat-ter is still open and will be con-tinued at the next meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 17. Because the hearing is still open, commis-sioners declined to voice their opinions on the proposed amendments.

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MERIDEN1023 Old Colony Rd.

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