By Marjorie NeedhaM

Heather Roy of Middlebury is seeking host families from Mid-dlebury, Southbury and Wood-bury to become part of the Fresh Air Fund’s Friendly Town pro-gram this summer. Roy, who first hosted a Fresh Air Fund child in 2011, is now the Fresh Air Fund chair for the Litchfield County/Tribury area.

“When the program works the way it is supposed to, it’s like magic. It’s like gaining a new family member,” Roy said.

The first year Roy participated, three Tribury families served as host families; the second year the number grew to 10. She hopes to have at least 17 Tribury family hosts this year, but her long-term goal is to have 50 host families involved. She said that’s how many families in Weston, Conn., host children every sum-mer.

“There are always more kids than hosts,” Roy said. “They al-ways have to turn kids away.”

Roy will hold two open houses for those interested in becoming host families. The first will be Thursday, March 7, from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Middlebury Public Library’s temporary location at 199 Park Road Extension in Mid-dlebury. The second will be Wednesday, March 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. in Room 26 at Shepardson Community Center at 1172 Whit-temore Road in Middlebury.

Those unable to attend an open house still can participate in the program. As area chair, Roy travels to people’s homes to ex-plain the program and enroll participants. As part of the en-rollment process, all family members are interviewed, as are any childcare providers who might care for Fresh Air Fund

children while they visit. Back-ground checks are run on all participants.

The Fresh Air Fund started in 1877 when a Pennsylvania min-ister asked members of his con-gregation to provide country vacations for children living in New York City (NYC) tenements. Today, more than 4,000 NYC children from low-income com-munities get on busses to travel to 13 states, going as far south as Virginia and as far north as Can-ada to visit a host family for a

week or more during the sum-mer. “Some children are on a bus for nine hours,” Roy said. “Those kids tend to stay a month.”

The Roy family has hosted their Fresh Air Fund sister for two summers. Nico, 9, a fourth-grader at Middlebury Elemen-tary School (MES) and Annabel, 10, a fifth-grader at MES, will be joined again this summer by Catherine Pagan, 9. They’ll meet her bus at the McDonald’s on

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While Monday night’s Region 15 Board of Education (BoE) meeting served as the first of three workshops in response to Superintendent Dr. Frank Sippy’s proposed 4.5-percent budget in-crease, discussion culminated in whether students were worth the price of the 2013 monetary climb – including a new $250 parking fee and $150 Pay to Play athletics cost.

During public comments, Pomperaug High School (PHS) swim coach Fran Pentino ex-pressed concern over the board members’ majority disagreement with the budgetary increase. “You can’t possibly have ze-ro-percent increase for two straight years and then not expect to have an increase down the road,” he said.

“I can’t run my household on a zero-percent increase. It’s im-possible. The price of milk goes up, the price of gas goes up. This is the community I chose to live in because I never thought we would be at a zero-percent in-

crease,” Pentino said. When polled, six of the 10

board members, including Chair-man Janet Butkus, John Buc-ciarelli, Joseph Rock, John Cook-son, Paul Babarik and Fran Bren-nan, felt differently.

“I’d like to see some give and take,” Bucciarelli said. “If we want to increase somewhere, then we need to decrease somewhere else.”

“Right now we offer a very ro-bust course selection, especially at the high school,” he said. “So, and I’m making these numbers up, instead of offering 20 English classes, maybe we can offer 15.”

Brennan also questioned whether the region may be over-loaded on options or auxiliaries, suggesting a budget increase be-tween 2.5 and 3 percent would be more appropriate.

“I’m still with zero-percent in-crease,” Babarik said. “I think 4.54 is out of the question. I don’t see that 4.54 giving our children any greater education. I see it being absorbed in a lot of other places.”

BoE discusses proposed 4.54% budget increase

Fresh Air Fund needs host families

Heather Roy, center, son Nico, 9, and daughter Annabel, 10, hold the greeting sign for their Fresh Air sister, Catherine Pagan of New York City. They created the sign two years ago, but have kept it so they can hold it up each year when the bus carrying Pagan arrives.

(Marjorie Needham photo)

Fresh Air fund child Catherine Pagan, left, shares a fun moment at March Farm over Columbus Day weekend with, left to right, Annabel Roy, Jackson Hitchcock, Hannah Hitchcock and Nico Roy. The Roy family hosted Pagan last summer and invited her back Columbus Day weekend.

(Heather Roy photo)

By TerreNCe S. MCaULiFFe

The Middlebury Economic and Industrial Development Commission (EIDC) at its Feb 26 meeting agreed to send comments on Pilot Seasoning’s architectural plans to the Planning and Zoning (P&Z) commission without voting on them. It also voted to ask Corey Shaker to rescind the Shaker Auto-motive Group tax incentive application and resubmit it after supplying missing infor-mation.

Land Surveyor Curt Smith of Smith & Company used drawings by Bennett Sulli-van Associates of Southbury to illustrate the external design, landscaping and building footprint of a proposed 15,600-square-foot metal building for Waterbury’s Pilot Sea-soning Company on LI-200-zoned property on North Benson Road.

Production will consist of mixing season-ings rather than manufacturing them, Smith said, and two 1,200-square-foot floors will contain offices and a place for sales to the public. Fifteen parking spaces will provide more than enough parking for seven em-ployees and visitors.

The plans showed two loading docks in back where only one is currently required and up to 6,600-square-feet available for expansion. The building will be across from Long Meadow School between MD Services

and the Edgewood Bath and Tennis Club and will have vertical 12-inch steel siding and a white standing seam steel roof. He said the building color had not yet been determined.

Commissioner Armando Paolino asked how the architectural “skin” and height of the building conformed to other nearby buildings visited frequently by the public. Smith said the 28-foot height was lower than the 35 feet allowed in the regulations and would appear lower when viewed from the road due to the topography of the land.

Co-chairman Gerry Matthews said the building would be the only building in that area conforming to LI-200 zone regulations since MD Services and Long Meadow School were preexisting non-conforming buildings, and both Edgewood and nearby Benson Woods were special exceptions to the regu-lations. He acknowledged the commission might not have jurisdiction on appearance, but noted Watertown and other nearby towns did not allow plain metal buildings, saying he would prefer a split-faced block front façade or something similar.

Other commissioners agreed on wanting a better exterior for a building in a high-vis-ibility area. Co-chairman Michael Kenausis asked Smith to reconsider the appearance of the highly reflective white roof. Smith said he was happy to hear the suggestions and

remarked that First Selectman Edward B. St. John had made similar aesthetic com-ments. Kenausis told Smith he would write a letter to P&Z for its March 7 meeting in-dicating EIDC support of the rough design, along with comments and suggestions.

In a follow-up to the Feb. 6 special meet-ing to review the tax incentive program ap-plication by Shaker Automotive Group, owner Corey Shaker presented a timeline of the reconstruction of Shaker Family Ford-Lincoln. At the February meeting, Matthews asked the board to consider whether the tax incentives caused Shaker to do something he already intended to do, Commissioner Ted Manello said Shaker’s project might not qualify because he thought it started before the program was imple-mented and Paolino asked whether the application needed to have been submitted before any work was done.

Shaker said he had personally filled out the tax incentive application. He said Ford Motor Company had been attempting to consolidate and update antiquated dealer-ships for many years and said his plans to acquire Family Ford of Waterbury and Wa-tertown Crestwood Ford into his Mercu-ry-Lincoln business were highly supported by regional management.

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Middlebury Community CalendarMonday, March 4

Board of Selectmen6 p.m. ................................................Town Hall Conference Room

Greenway Committee7 p.m. ............................................................. Shepardson Room 26

Wednesday, March 6Land Preservation & Open Space6 p.m. .................................................Town Hall Conference Room

Zoning Board of Appeals7:30 p.m. ........................................................ Shepardson Room 26

Thursday, March 7Planning and Zoning7:30 p.m. ....................................................Shepardson Auditorium

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new library books to read in march

Mary’s Book review“Thomas Jefferson: The

Art of Power”by jon Meacham

(Random House $35)

Reviewed by Mary Conseur

In recent years, Thomas Jef-ferson’s reputation has been sullied by DNA testing that proved he fathered several chil-dren with his concubine slave, Sally Hemings. However, author Jon Meacham aims “neither to lionize nor indict him, but in-stead restore him to his full and rich role as an American states-man.” (p. 507)

As the subtitle of this biogra-phy suggests, Meacham postu-lates that Jefferson’s main con-tribution to his country was to expand and solidify the powers of the presidency, the better to be able to make important deci-sions, such as the Louisiana Pur-chase (1803) or the embargo against England (1807). Mea-cham writes, “Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jef-ferson’s genius was that he could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.” (p.xx)

The one huge problem Jeffer-son was not able to solve was that of slavery. Jefferson lamented, “Nothing is more certainly writ-ten in the book of fate than that these people (black slaves) are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same govern-ment.” (p. 476) and, “The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading sub-missions on the other. Our chil-dren see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. Thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, the child cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities,” (p. 10) Also, “Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.” (p. 475)

Jefferson promised Sally, his slave concubine, he would free the four children he fathered by her when they reached the age of 21. He kept his promise, but did not free Sally herself or any of his other 600 slaves.

In the matter of slavery, Jeffer-son has been charged with hy-pocrisy. Yet to some extent, each of us is the product of the society in which we live. In Jefferson’s time, slaves were considered an economic necessity, and that trumped the moral issue. Also, Jefferson was a politician who knew he would lose the support of half the nation’s voters if he dared to espouse abolition. He advocated deporting the slaves back to Africa as a solution, but most did not want to go.

Ultimately, he deferred the slavery problem to future gener-ations, writing, “The march of events has not been such as to render its (the slavery question’s) completion practicable within the limits of the time allotted me; and I leave its accomplishments the work of another generation.” (p. 478)

Meacham concluded, “Ren-dering moral judgments in ret-rospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. “ (p. 477) Finally, Jefferson cannot be blamed for failing to resolve the slavery issue; many plantation owners, including George Wash-ington, also felt conflicted. And, nearly 200 years after Jefferson’s death, the U.S. is still coping with racial prejudice and inequality.

Neither has history been kind to Jefferson on the issue of reli-gion. Summarily criticized as an atheist, he embraced Jesus’ teachings without accepting his divinity. Jefferson wrote, “We are to be saved by our good works, which are within our power, and not by our faith, which is not within our power.” Jefferson pre-dicted that, “There is not a young man now living in the U.S. who will not die a Unitarian. (p. 471)

Meacham applauds Jefferson for his “thirst for knowledge, the capacity to create, the love of family and friends, the hunger for accomplishment, the ap-plause of the world, the marshal-ing of power, and the bending of others to one’s own vision.” (p. 499).

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Nothing like an old-fash-ioned winter to bring people into the library!

Looking for books and DVDs to pass the time, people have been braving the longer trek to our temporary location and been pleasantly surprised to find we have settled into our smaller quarters with very few problems. It is cozy and comfortable – and almost the entire collection is here for you to peruse. All fines are still being waived – first be-cause of the move, then the bliz-zard, now because we can’t put out the book drop until the snow melts a little! Spring, when are you? March 20 can’t come soon enough!

Beginning with the birth of Michael to Daisy Scudamore, “The Redgraves: A Family Epic” (791.43 SPO) by Donald Spoto explores this richly artistic fam-ily of actors. Based on numerous interviews and close relation-ships with family and friends, this is an in-depth account of a fascinating and uniquely indi-vidual family. Peek behind the scenes, and read of their rela-tionships with giants in the movie industry, as well as famil-ial relationships. Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave are revealed to have a typical sisterly bond, and the next generation (the late Na-tasha Richardson, Jemma Red-grave and Joely Richardson) carry on the family acting tradi-tion.

Who can resist the heavenly scent and taste of simple vanilla?

It would be like resisting choco-late! “Pure Vanilla: Irresistible Recipes and Essential Tech-niques” (641.5 SEV) by Shauna Sever would tempt anyone to try cooking with real vanilla beans instead of the vanilla extract we all have in our spice cupboards. Think recipes like Vanilla Bean Honey Butter (spread on vanilla wafers, of course!), Vanilla Cream Pie, or oooh! How about Vanilla Bean Marshmallows in your co-coa? I’ve copied the recipe for Frosted Vanilla Almonds and can’t wait to try them – and pos-sibly share them! Even the his-tory of vanilla is rich and inter-esting as the book traces its ap-peal from 1519 to present day. Yum!

“My Beloved World” (B SO-TOMAYOR SOT) by the first His-panic appointed to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, is as easily readable as it is an absorb-ing book about her struggle and triumph in the world of law. She writes simply and clearly about her difficult childhood with an alcoholic father, her education, how she copes daily with type 1 diabetes, and naturally, being a lawyer. Writing simply but elo-quently, she is an inspiration to any person – man or woman- who is following a childhood dream.

Room to Read has created more than 10,000 libraries (and distributed more than 12.1 mil-lion books!) in parts of the world where books are a great luxury and cherished beyond imagin-ing. The organization was started by former Microsoft exec John

Wood and continues to flourish today. His current book, “Creat-ing Room to Read” (374.01 WOO) is an inspiring tale of this amaz-ing accomplishment – personal and thought-provoking, his story proves that one person really can change the world.

Maeve Binchy enfolds us in her lovely imaginary world so effortlessly with her many novels – with “A Week in Winter” (BIN) she promises to continue this custom. This is a dangerous book; it’s impossible to put down, and the characters engage you from page one. Open to any page, and you will be sucked into another story about another sit-uation that you absolutely need to read to its resolution! The characters could be your neigh-bors and family – and by the end of the book, they will be your friends. Put in your request for this book quickly – it will not be back on the shelf for a while.

We still have such a fascina-tion with the Lindberghs! It may be because Charles was a daring and adventurous figure – or is it because of the horrific kidnap-ping and murder of their child? Anne Morrow Lindbergh also was a well-known writer and amazing woman in her own right – at any rate, we love any books written about them. “The Avia-tor’s Wife” (BEN) by Melanie Benjamin is historical fiction written in Anne’s voice. We see an intimate portrait of their meeting, marriage and life through the eyes of someone not prepared for public life. A diffi-cult life – a challenging life filled with excitement and, ultimately, loneliness.

It must be the month for his-torical fiction books to be eye-catching, because we have an-other one from Jennifer Chiaver-ini, “Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker” (CHI). Better known for her “quilting” fiction, Chiaverini ex-plores the relationship between Mary Todd Lincoln and Eliza-beth Keckley – her seamstress chosen from among many for

her talent in creating beautiful gowns for the elite of the day. Gradually, a friendship develops between the first lady and the former slave – until Elizabeth writes a memoir about their years together ...

Timothy Hallinan is on a roll: Last fall he published “Crashed,” “Little Elvises” (HAL) was just released and this summer the third of the series will come out, “The Fame Thief.” All follow the antics of Junior Bender, a bur-glar/private investigator who has developed a reputation for find-ing stolen goods, a thief’s thief. It seems everywhere I looked for new books, this one especially was reviewed as an outstanding mystery. “Little Elvises” is a comedic mystery written in a style similar to Westlake or Law-rence Block’s Bernie Rhoden-barr. Looks like a light and fun read – it’s always a treat to see a new mystery series begin!

A debut novel by Tara Conklin also is garnering a lot of attention in literary circles. “The House Girl”(CON) alternates between modern-day New York and slav-ery–wracked Virginia. Is the art of Lu Anne Bell during pre-Civil War times really the work of her slave? A junior law partner hun-gry for recognition follows the trail left long ago to its conclu-sion in this historical mystery. No peeking! The writing is excel-lent, so you wouldn’t want to miss a word!

As a final note, we realize it is a little more difficult to find us, but we do appreciate you all making the effort to do so. It is a cozy location, and we are more than happy to help you find the items you need to help the win-ter pass more quickly. Spring really is just around the corner, and soon those crocuses (croci?) will be peeking through the snow!

Adult Services Librarian Donna Hine is writing Library Lines for the newspaper once a month while the library is at its temporary location.

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middleburyTuesday BookwormsThe Tuesday Bookworms

group will meet March 5 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle. Books are available at the library. Please call the library to sign up.

Brown bag book discussion

The group will meet Wednes-day, March 6, at 1 p.m. to discuss “Moloka’i” by Alan Brennert.

The Middlebury Public Li-brary is temporarily at the Mid-dlebury Timex Building at 199 Park Road Extension, Suite D, in Middlebury. Call 203-758-2634 or visit www.middleburypubli-clibrary.org for more informa-tion.

naugatuckLessen your stress

Brian Vaugh will teach “The Balanced Life: The Way to Live with Less Stress” Tuesdays, March 5 and 12, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The class will teach how to manage and lessen stress to achieve a more balanced life-style. Come for one class or come for both classes. Call 203- 729-4591 to register.

Snacks & shows for seniors

Tuesday, March 12, at 1 p.m., the library’s monthly Snacks & Shows for Seniors will feature the 1947 Academy-Award winner for Best Picture, the romantic drama, “The Best Years of Our Lives” starring Fredric March, Dana Andrews and Myrna Loy. Before the film, participants will make Peanut Butter Dream Dip. This free program is open to patrons who are at least 50 years old and their guests. Registration is re-quired. To sign up, call the refer-ence desk at 203-729-4591.

Bangles and Bags fundraiser in April

Save the date for the second annual Bangles and Bags Social Fundraiser Saturday, April 27. Please donate your costume jew-

elry and new or gently used bags. The library thanks you in ad-vance for your generosity.

The Howard Whittemore Me-morial Library is at 243 Church St. in Naugatuck. For informa-tion, call 203-729-4591 or visit whittemorelibrary.org.

southburySpring Story Times

Registration to StartThe Children’s Department

will begin registration for its six- week Spring Story Time sessions Friday, March 1, at 9:30 a.m. The story time schedule is as follows:• Babies & Books will begin

Tuesday, March 19, at 10:30 a.m.

• Stories&Craftsfor3to5-year-olds will begin Wednesday, March 20, at 10:30 a.m.

• Stories&Morefor2-year-oldswill begin Friday, March 22, at 10:30 a.m. All story times include stories,

songs and crafts. Registration is not needed for Drop In Story Time and Crafts every Monday at 10:30 a.m. or PJ Stories and Crafts every Thursday at 6 p.m. Register by stopping in the Chil-dren’s Department or calling 203-262-0626, ext. 3.

Social Media for businesses, nonprofits

The library will host two in-formational sessions for small businesses and nonprofits on how to generate more business and growth through social media marketing. Sessions will be Fri-day, March 1, from 12 to 2 p.m. or Tuesday, April 2, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Kingsley Room. Re-freshments will be served, and attendees are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch March 1.

This free program is open to the public. Register at the Refer-ence Desk or call 203-262-0626, ext. 130. Or register online at conta.cc/RWJwIe for the March 1 program or conta.cc/RWJP5W for the April 2 program.

GMO movie March 7A special evening movie about

the serious threats genetically modified foods (GMO) pose to

our health will be screened Thursday, March 7, at 6:30 p.m. in the Kingsley Room. A short discussion led by local naturo-pathic physicians Alice Bell and Carolyn Graham will follow.

The website geneticroulette.com/ says this seminal docu-mentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the de-teriorating health of Americans, especially children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future. The film is nar-rated by Lisa Oz and is 85 min-utes long.

Registration is not needed for this event. If you have questions, call the Reference Desk at 203-262-0626, ext. 130.

PHS art work on exhibitRegion 15 is observing Youth

Art Month again this year by dis-playing local student art work in the Gloria Cachion Gallery in the Southbury Public Library from Wednesday, March 6, to Wednes-day, March 27. The majority of the art will be two-dimensional paintings and drawings, but there also will be selected three-dimensional pieces, sculp-ture and photography. Region 15 has collaborated with the library for more than 25 years, display-ing creative art work during Youth Art Month.

Check www.southburylibrary.org for more information. The library is at 100 Poverty Road in Southbury (203-262-0626).

WoodburyTake an armchair trip to

Southeast AsiaThursday, March 14, at 7 p.m.,

Dr. Ira Mickenberg will bring li-brary visitors to the ancient Khmer empire, now known as Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Two years ago, Mick-enberg and his wife visited this area that has been of critical po-litical and economic importance to the U.S. from the 1960s to the present. Current U.S. foreign policy is emphasizing a closer relationship with these Asian countries.

Photos taken on their trip will facilitate a discussion of the cul-tural, political and economic aspects of this region. Micken-berg is a retired physician who was a founding partner and prac-ticed with Southbury Medical Associates since 1971.

For more information, call 203-263-3502 or visit www.woodburylibraryct.org. The li-brary is at 269 Main St. South in Woodbury.

This photo of people traveling through the jungle by elephant is among the images Dr. Ira Mickenberg will share with armchair travelers at the Woodbury Public Library March 14. He will discuss the trip to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam he and his wife took two years ago. (Submitted photo)

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Reidville Drive in Waterbury, and they’ll be holding up the wel-come sign they made for her first visit in 2011.

The Roy family hasn’t limited Pagan’s visits to the summer weeks. They invited her back for a Columbus Day Weekend visit. They drove into NYC to pick her up and then took her with them as they went apple-picking and pumpkin-picking that weekend. Included in the return trip to NYC was a visit to the Bronx Zoo before they delivered her back home.

Participation in the program is not limited to families with children or to families with one stay-at-home parent. Emp-ty-nesters, for example, often enjoy hosting children. Since their children are grown and no

longer living at home, Roy said the Fresh Air Fund will send two girls or two boys to these homes.

The program also is not lim-ited to those who have guest bedrooms. “Think about what you would do if your nephew was coming for a visit,” Roy said. She said you might provide a sleeping bag or an air mattress for him. “Think of it as a sleepover,” she said.

In families where both parents work outside the home, a child-care giver is usually in place. As long as the childcare giver agrees with the plan to host a Fresh Air Fund child and is willing to un-dergo a background check, those families can host, too.

Both Maria and Derrick Du-moulin of Middlebury work out-side the home, but last year for the first time they hosted a boy from the Fresh Air Fund. “I grew up in Wilton (Connecticut, which is a Fresh Air Fund host town),

so I’ve known of the program, but my family never hosted a child. Last year, our lifestyle for our children lent itself to hosting a child,” Maria said.

She said they discussed the idea with their babysitter, who cares for their sons Marcus and Terrence (then 7 and 9) while they are at work, and she really liked the idea as well.

“It’s easy to add one more kid into the mix,” Maria said. “And it’s such a great experience for our kids.” She said her most memorable event during the visit was July 4, when the family was headed to an evening event. The Fresh Air Fund child opened the door from the house just as a deer walked onto the driveway. “There is a giraffe in the drive-way!” he exclaimed. As a city child, he had never seen wildlife except in a zoo.

This year, families can choose to host the week of July 8 to 15 or

the week of July 29 to Aug. 5. They can host either week or two dif-ferent kids each week. Children on first-time visits range in age from 6 to 12 and stay for one or two weeks. Host families often re-invite children year after year, and re-invited children may visit through age 18 and stay the en-tire summer. Roy said some fam-ilies host teenagers who work summer jobs during their stay.

See videos of Fresh Air Fund children at www.youtube.com/user/thefreshairfund.

The Friendly Town hosting program is one of three programs offered by the Fresh Air Fund. An additional 3,000 children attend five Fresh Air camps in Fishkill, N.Y., and close to 2,000 children participate in year-round edu-cation programs at the camp and in New York City.

For more information on the program or to volunteer to host a child, call Heather Roy at 203-758-1351 or email her at heath-erroy74@gmail.com.

If you have a computer with Internet access, you can have your own account at Social Se-curity, even if you’re not yet col-lecting benefits.

You’ll be able to do a number of things with your account, in-cluding check your payment his-tory, look at your earnings record, get your benefit verification letter and make changes to your di-rect-deposit information. The benefit letter can come in handy if you need to apply for other benefits or loans. There’s no wait-ing for the letter to be mailed.

If you don’t receive benefits yet (but are age 18 or older), you can get information and esti-mates of benefits you’ll receive in the future, your earnings record and estimates of the Social Security and Medicare taxes you’ve paid in.

Why would you want to do this? There’s the convenience, of course. But it also will save Social Security some money. Instead of having people send out the ben-efit verification letters, you’ll be able to print it immediately.

To open an online account, click on the My Social Security tab at www.socialsecurity.gov. Be prepared to answer questions to which only you would know the answer. You’ll set up a user name and password. The re-quirements are that you have an email address, a Social Security number, a mailing address in the

U.S. and be at least 18 years old.First, though, make sure your

computer’s virus program is up to date, including your firewall and WiFi settings, if you have a router.

If you’ve had a My Social Se-curity Account in the past and you already get benefits, your password will no longer work. They’ve revamped the website and you’ll need to create a new account.

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Saturday, March 2CMEAConnecticut Debate Association Tournament at PHS

Sunday, March 3No Events Scheduled

Monday, March 4PHS CAPT Week March 4-8

Tuesday, March 5PHS CAPT Week March 4-8CMT WritingCAPT Writing March 5-7RMS PTO ........................................................................................7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 6PHS CAPT Week March 4-8CAPT Writing March 5-7

Thursday, March 7PHS CAPT Week March 4-8CAPT Writing March 5-7PTO Advisory Council .................................................... CO/9:30 a.m.MMS Faculty vs. Students Dodgeball ............................. 2:45 - 4 p.m.

Friday, March 8PHS CAPT Week March 4-8RMS March Madness at PHS

Saturday, March 9No Events Scheduled

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AARP Driver Safety Program The next AARP Driver Safety course will be

Monday, March 4, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Senior Center. The nation’s first and largest driver refresher course uses new materials and new vid-eos to present new defensive driving techniques, a refresher in laws and regulations, new laws and regulations, how to deal with aggressive drivers and how aging affects reaction time, vision and hearing.

Drivers who complete this class get a certificate that may entitle them to a discount on automobile insurance (contact your insurance company for details).

AARP membership is not required, and drivers of all ages are invited to attend. The fee is $12 for AARP members and $14 for nonmembers. Make checks out to “AARP.” You must register before the class begins by calling 203-577-4166 or going to the Senior Center Office in the Shepardson Com-munity Center at 1172 Whittemore Road in Mid-dlebury.

Don’s Computer ClassesBasic Digital Photography – Tuesday, March

5, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., learn the basics of how to take, manage, print and attach your photos to emails. The fee for this one-session class is $15.

Basic Computer Security – Wednesday, March 6, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., learn how to avoid computer bugs and attacks and protect your data while on-line. The fee for this one-session class is $15.

Basic emailing – Thursday, March 7, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., learn simple tips and tricks for attaching photos, files and data. Learn email protocol and etiquette. Set up contact, event and birthday re-minders easily. Find email providers that suit you. The fee for this one-session class is $15.

Annual St. Patrick’s Day DinnerThe Middlebury Knights of Columbus will hold

its annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Wednesday, March 13, at 5 p.m. Traditional corned beef and cabbage with side dish, beverage, coffee or tea and dessert included. Ticket prices are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $8 for youth, and children 8 and under are free. A family dinner ticket for a maximum of five is $40. Tickets are available at the door.

St. Patrick’s Day LuncheonMonday, March 18, at 11:30 a.m., the senior

center will serve a St. Patrick’s day luncheon in the main dining room at Shepardson Community Cen-ter. On the menu are corned beef and cabbage and the works in the authentic Irish tradition. The cost is $10 per person. The deadline for reservations is is Wednesday, March 13. Call 203-577-4166 to re-serve your seat.

AARP CT Tax AideFree income tax assistance is provided at the

Middlebury Senior Center at 1172 Whittemore Road in Middlebury by the AARP Tax Aide program for low- to moderate-income taxpayers of all ages, with special attention to those 60 and older. Call 203-577-4166 for more information or to schedule an appointment with a certified AARP Tax Aide counselor.

Daffodil Days FundraiserDaffodil Days the week of March 18 is one of the

American Cancer Society’s oldest and most beloved fundraising programs. To the Society, the daffodil represents the hope for a future in which cancer is no longer a life-threatening disease. Buy some daffodils, and help fund American Cancer Society research. Call 203-577-4166 to place your order.

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Attending Christopher F. Azar-Brandes' Eagle Scout award ceremony are, left to right, As-sistant Scoutmaster Michael Zinko, Eagle Scout Azar-Brandes and Scoutmaster David Redline. Troop 5's Azar-Brandes earned his Eagle Award last September and had his Eagle Ceremony Jan. 27, 2013, at the Middlebury Congregational Church.

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garden club program on Boxwood BlightThe Southbury Garden Club

will launch its 2013 season Fri-day, March 8, at 1:30 p.m. with a presentation by Dr. Sharon M. Douglas from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) in New Haven, who will describe a serious blight that is attacking boxwoods and pach-ysandra. Douglas will describe the symptoms and latest man-agement and reporting mea-sures gardeners can take to help limit the spread of this disease. The blight was confirmed in Connecticut last year and was especially prolific in Fairfield County.

Douglas is a plant pathologist and head of the Department of Plant Pathology & Ecology at CAES. She has diagnosed plant health problems for arborists, growers, green professionals and homeowners for more 30 years. The CAES, garden clubs and en-vironmental groups are working to control this latest garden threat, in part by educating res-idents about the danger.

A business meeting in the Kingsley II Room at the South-bury Public Library at noon will be followed by light refresh-ments and then Douglas’ hour-long program. Space is limited, and reservations are suggested. For more information, call Pro-gram Chairman Ingrid Ferenczy

at 203-262-8982. The Southbury Garden Club

meets at the library the first Fri-

day of the month from March through December. Prospective members are welcome. Mem-

bership information is available at www.southburygardenclub.org.

Boxwood plant infected with C. pseudonaviculatom, a fungus that can infect both boxwood and pachysandra plants in Connecticut gardens. (CAES photo)

Donate a Prom DressSupport “Princess and the

Prom” by dropping off a prom dress at Defining Moments Salon and Barbershop at 344 Middle-bury Road March 1 to 15. In April, the “Princess and the Prom” non-profit organization will provide prom dresses and accessories to any area high school girl who might not otherwise be able to afford one.

Those who donate a dress will receive a salon voucher for $10 off a special occasion updo or $15 off a wash, cut and style. For more information, call 203-758-8899 or visit www.definingmomentsct.com.

Boy Scout Bottle DriveMiddlebury Boy Scout Troop

5 will hold a bottle drive Saturday, March 9, in the parking lot at Vil-lage Square (530 Middlebury Road) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. All Connecticut deposit bottles, cans and plastics will be accepted. If you need bottles and cans picked up, please call Michael Zinko at 203-758-8599 before March 9. The Boy Scouts thank you for your donations. 

Program about Studying Cemetery “Residents” The Naugatuck Valley Gene-

alogy Club will meet Saturday, March 9, at 1 p.m. at the Nauga-tuck Historical Society at 195 Water St. in Naugatuck. After a brief business meeting, Jolene Mullen, a member of the Con-necticut Professional Genealo-gists Council, will present “A Prosopography of a Cemetery,” regarding how to do a study of the “residents” of a cemetery.

Mullen is a frequent genealog-ical research speaker and has done extensive research and writing about Connecticut town

meetings during the American Revolution. The public is invited, and admission is free.

Check radio WTIC-AM, TV WFSB and internet www.wfsb.com for storm cancellations. For more information, visit the club website, www.naugatuckvalley-genealogyclub.org or call Dick Kreitner at 203-881-8181.

Oxford High MusicalThe Oxford High School Wol-

verine Players will present the musical, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” Thursday and Friday, March 14 and 15, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 16, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors/students at www.showtix4u.com. They also are available at the high school and will be available at Will Call one hour before the be-ginning of the show. For details, call the high school at 203-888-2468.

Music Program for KidsSoulshine Arts invites parents

or other caregivers and their in-fant, toddler and preschool chil-dren to an open house Saturday, March 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Tula Family Enrichment Cen-ter at 489 Middlebury Road in Middlebury. See demonstration classes of Music Together®, a par-ent/child music and movement program developed by the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, N.J.

Call 857-998-0780 to schedule a demonstration class time. Enjoy refreshments, door prizes and enter the grand prize drawing for $100 off tuition.

The registration deadline for the spring semester of Music To-gether classes is April 5, when classes begin. Classes will be held at Tula Family Enrichment Cen-

ter. Call Leslie Pratt at 857-998-0780 for more information or visit www.soulshineartsct.com.

“Take-A-Peek” Tuesdays at Wooster School

Want to learn more about Wooster School? Wooster School is an independent, college-pre-paratory day school in Danbury, Conn., that serves boys and girls from early childhood through grade 12 in small classes averag-ing 12 students.

Take a peek any Tuesday to see if Wooster is right for you. “Take-A-Peek” tours Tuesday mornings include individual time with a member of the admissions staff. Call the Admissions Office at 203-830-3916 for more information, or visit www.woosterschool.org/.

PHS 5K RunThe Pomperaug High School

(PHS) Class of 2015 is sponsoring the first “Run with the Panthers” 5K race Saturday, March 30, at PHS. Registration will be from 9 to 9:45 a.m., and the race will start at 10 a.m. The $25 entry fee in-cludes a race tee-shirt. The 3.1-mile course will begin and end at PHS. All participants will be entered in a raffle. Should can-cellation be necessary, it will be posted on the PHS website.

For more information, contact Maegan Bollin at mbollin@re-gion15.org or Marlanea Elsdon at melsdon@region15.org. For a sign-up form or a sponsorship form, go to www.region15.org and then to the PHS page.

Pet-Assisted Therapy with Kitties

Is your kitty calm and confi-dent? Does your kitty love peo-ple? Maybe your kitty has what it takes to become a member of Jerome Home’s Pet-Assisted

Therapy Program. The home is offering complementary sessions Thursdays at 6:15 p.m. beginning April 25 to help prepare feline lovers to become part of its feline pet therapy team. The sessions will enhance a handler’s under-standing of basic feline behaviors as well as provide simple, gentle training techniques to prepare for registration through “Love On A Leash” – The Foundation For Pet-Provided Therapy.

Sessions will be facilitated by Terri Jennings, certified cat trainer, and will run for five weeks. Space is limited, so please RSVP to Rita Nadeau-Breive at 860-356-8236 or breiver@jer-omehome.org.

Vote for Middlebury Senior Center

The Middlebury Senior Center received funds from the Nauga-tuck Savings Bank Foundation last year based on votes cast for it. This year, it is again asking people who have accounts with Naugatuck Savings Bank to cast a vote for the Middlebury Senior Center.

Pick up a ballot at the Middle-bury Senior Center or any Nau-gatuck Savings Bank location, or vote online at naugatucksavings-bank.com. Ballots can be re-turned to the bank or to the se-nior center or mailed to Nauga-tuck Savings Bank Foundation, 251 Church St., Naugatuck, CT 06770 by March 31, 2013.

Woodbury has Zoning Commission opening

The Town of Woodbury is seeking a full member for the Zoning Commission. Due to a resigna-tion, the vacancy must be filled by a Republican candidate. For more information, contact Ed Decortin at 860-417-9005.

EAST HARTFORD, Conn. – The American Lung Association in Connecticut has released the priorities of its 2013 “Healthy Air Agenda,” a plan of action for the administration and Congress that will ensure the Clean Air Act is implemented and the U.S. En-vironmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains its authority to ensure all Americans can have air that is safe and healthy to breathe.

Despite ongoing interference from big polluters and some members of Congress, the Lung Association and its allies have made progress on cleaning up the air and will work to continue to do so throughout the coming year, using the agenda as a road-map. The agenda is organized into four key areas of focus. These are:

Smokestacks – Clean up coal-fired power plants (both existing and new). Power plants, in par-ticular those fired by coal, are a major source of hazardous pol-lutants and also are the biggest source of carbon pollution, which is linked to climate change.

Tailpipes – Clean up gasoline and vehicles. The EPA needs to update standards to prevent smog from forming and control particle pollution from passen-ger vehicles by reducing the amount of sulfur in gasoline and setting tighter tailpipe pollution limits on new vehicles.

Funding Research & En-forcement – Preventing addi-tional cuts to the EPA will enable the agency to effectively monitor air quality, implement critical air quality programs to protect pub-lic health and meet national clean air goals.

Implementation without weakening or delays – To truly improve the health of millions of people across the nation and

save thousands of lives every year, full implementation of all Clean Air Act updates, rules and standards is needed, without threats to these life-saving pro-tections.

The Healthy Air Agenda is in-tended to serve as a tool to edu-cate partners and supporters as to what needs to be done in 2013 in order to continue to success-fully clean up our air and save lives. The American Lung Asso-ciation is calling on Senators Blumenthal and Murphy, as well as the state’s entire congressional delegation, to start taking imme-diate action to limit the danger-ous air pollutants that cross state lines and drift into Connecticut.

“In the coming year, it is im-portant that polluted air con-tinue to be viewed and under-stood as a pervasive threat af-fecting our most vulnerable populations here in Connecti-cut,” said Michelle Marichal, acting director of health educa-tion and public policy at the American Lung Association in Connecticut. “It’s time to end the attacks on the Clean Air Act and start advancing a Healthy Air Agenda.”

More than 159 million Amer-icans live in areas where the level of air pollution threatens their health. Some of the most vulner-able are children; seniors; those with lung disease, heart disease and diabetes; people with low incomes; and those who work and exercise outdoors.

By identifying these four crit-ical areas of focus and key solu-tions for addressing each, the American Lung Association be-lieves it will be able to better di-rect efforts to the life-saving work that protects the Clean Air Act and the health of millions of peo-ple across the country and here in Connecticut.

2013 healthy Air Agenda

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By dr. roBerT L. raFFord

Even before the 19th Amend-ment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920 provided for more equal treatment for American women, there were great personal strides among individual women in the fields of education and medicine as exemplified by the Cowan family of Middlebury. The Wil-liam and Jane (English) Cowan family was one of the most dis-tinguished families ever to settle in Middlebury.

William Cowan (1832-1889) and his wife, Jane English (1838-1931), emigrated from Ireland about 1864. The family originally settled in Irvington, Westchester County, N.Y., and moved to Mid-dlebury about 1877.

Unfortunately, William was struck and killed at a grade cross-ing in Naugatuck in 1889 while delivering milk, necessitating that the family leave their Mid-dlebury home and move to Wa-terbury, which they did about 1892. They settled into a large house (still standing) at 134 Highland Avenue.

The Cowans had 10 children – the first two were boys, Stuart and Samuel. They were followed by eight girls in a row: Rebecca, Isabella, Elizabeth, Jane Mary, Margaret Anna, Clarissa Achley, Lena Laight and Martha Lucinda. All the girls became distin-guished teachers.

William and Jane’s first eight children were born in New York, but the last two, Lena Laight (1878-1949) and Martha Lucinda (1881-1958), were born in Mid-dlebury. Son Stuart (1859-1933) became a lawyer, and his son, Stuart Jr., was a founder and for-mer head of the advertising firm, Cowan & Dengler. Their other son, Samuel, died at 16.

Lena Cowan became a Latin teacher at Crosby High School. Her sister Martha became prin-cipal of the Bunker Hill School, after which she served as super-visor of the practice teachers’ course at Danbury State Teach-ers College, where her husband, John Russell Perkins, was prin-cipal. Margaret Cowan (1872-1961) taught at Duncan School.

A sister, Isabella Cowan (1865-1951), became a physician and surgeon in Waterbury after be-coming principal of Long Hill

School. Elizabeth Blackwell be-came the first woman in America to be graduated from a medical school, in 1849, so Isabella was not among the first. However, it still was difficult for women to gain entrance to medical schools throughout the 19th century, and they were routinely turned away.

A number of medical schools for women were founded in the latter half of the 1800s to provide quality medical education for them. Isabella graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary in 1895, after which she spent a year at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and entered active service in 1896. Her practice was in the Castle block on North Main Street in Waterbury, and she was a member of the Amer-ican Medical Association (Wil-liam J. Pape, “History of Water-bury and the Naugatuck Valley,” 1918).

Another sister, Elizabeth “Liz-zie” Sturgis Cowan (1868-1945), began as a teacher in Middle-bury. In 1890 Lizzie was brutally attacked by a Middleburian, Daniel S. Webster, uncle of Bes-sie Webster Wakefield (there will be more about her in a later ar-

ticle). But she survived and was a teacher for more than 50 years and principal of several schools, including Columbia (later Kings-bury) School. All the family members belonged to the Meth-odist-Episcopal Church in Mid-dlebury and later Waterbury.

This remarkable family shows

there is no shortage of prominent women from Middlebury.

Bob Rafford is the Middlebury Historical Society president and Middlebury’s municipal histo-rian. To join the society, visit Mid-dleburyHistoricalSociety.org or call Bob at 203-206-4717.

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If ever there was a reason not to use credit cards, we now have another one: Merchants in most states are now permitted to tack fees onto your purchase if you pay with a credit card. A class-ac-tion lawsuit filed in 2005 and settled last summer permits mer-chants to charge varying per-centages for your use of plastic. The allowed fees will range from 1.5 percent to a maximum 4 per-cent of your total purchase.

Warnings, however, are re-quired. Merchants will need to give before and after warnings about the fees. There must be a notice at the store entrance, at the checkout and on your re-ceipt.

Shopping on the Internet won’t necessarily relieve you of the surcharge. You’ll need to be warned there in advance, too,

but you likely won’t get that warning until you select which credit card you’ll use while in the shopping cart.

There are 10 states, however, that have chosen to use the power of their own legislation to ban the extra fees. Those states are California, Colorado Con-necticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Okla-homa and Texas.

If you’re in a state that allows the fees, you’ll need to do your homework even more when con-sidering whether to use a credit

card, especially for big-ticket items such as online travel ar-rangements, furniture and car rentals.

There are two solid reasons to reconsider your use of credit cards:1. The prices merchants charge

for goods and services already include the fees (known as “swipe fees”) they must pay to the credit-card processors, as they’ve had to pay that for many years. By paying an ad-ditional fee for using a credit card, you’re paying that amount twice.

2. Credit-card use comes with interest charges. With the addition of the sur-

charge just for using the card, consumers need to consider whether purchases are worth it. Check whether a particular mer-

chant is adding on the fees (they’re not required to) and make a point of avoiding that establishment. Let the manager or owner know why you won’t be shopping there. If enough customers do that, they’ll notice.

If you plan to use your credit card to take advantage of a sale, inquire about a fee to use your card and reconsider whether you’re actually going to save any money once you add that fee to your credit card interest.

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The Cowan family headstone is in the Middlebury Cemetery. The eight girls from this family of 10 children born to William and Jane Cowan became distinguished teachers.

The gravestone of Rebecca Cowan Smith (1863-1945) is in the Mid-dlebury Cemetery. Smith was one of eight sisters who all became distinguished teachers. (Submitted photos)

Pentino disagreed, saying the academics and programs avail-able in the region encouraged families, including his, to settle in Region 15. And, although Sippy and Director of Finance Keith McLiverty could not supply him with exact figures reflecting the proposal’s impact on each local family, he felt whatever the effect, he was willing to make the nec-essary sacrifice.

He went on to say after-school programs like the region’s athletic offerings are an outlet for stu-dents – a way to keep kids busy and out of trouble. He said cau-tiously that throughout his career he had coached boys like Adam Lanza, the young man associated with the December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.

“I’m not sure how to bring this up, but I’ve coached that kid. I’ve coached 50 of that kid,” he said. “And if [swimming] made a dif-ference in their lives, what’s the cost then if we don’t have athlet-ics or band and we don’t have a place to send these kids after

school? Factor that into a budget, and that’s nothing.”

Board members Sharon Guck and Jennifer Connelly expressed similar sentiments in support of the proposal. “I don’t support any cuts in curriculum,” Guck said. “I don’t think that should even be a part of the discussion.”

Connelly agreed saying, “I sup-port something close to the pro-posed increase … and I don’t agree with any sort of substantial programming reduction.” She felt the roughly $300,000 cost for 1,400 students to play a wide va-riety of sports was impressive. “With kids to be competing at the level they’re competing, in the programs they are competing, I think it’s amazing. I think the ath-letic department deserves a con-gratulations,” Connelly said.

The BoE will continue its dis-cussion at the next budget work-shop, Thursday, March 7, 2013, at 7 p.m. in Pomperaug High School All-Purpose Room No. 113. The meeting will be open to the public.

The next regular BoE meeting will be Monday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Pomperaug High School All-Purpose Room No. 113.

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He admitted he would have gone forward with moderniza-tion without the incentive, but also said Middlebury was where he grew up, citing his roots on Yale Avenue, and Middlebury is a friendlier economic environ-ment, leading to his reconstruc-tion of the facilities from being 97 percent in Watertown to being almost evenly divided on the town line. He said he needed to follow building plans and time-tables promised to Ford in early 2010 with specific targets for completion.

Paolino and Kenausis both thanked Shaker for his honesty, saying it was refreshing to have such candor. Responding to questions on why he hadn’t ap-plied earlier, Shaker said he had heard early concepts of the tax incentive from former EIDC commissioner Joe Rock and planned to apply, but had gotten involved with consolidating the

businesses, managing cash flow and protecting employee jobs.

He told commissioners he was particularly distracted by the unnecessary requirement for permits and engineering studies for taking over Crestwood Ford and the temporary use of the old Straits Turnpike Dodge Dealer-ship by Watertown P&Z Chair-man David Minnich. Minnich was removed from office July 2, 2012, by vote of the Watertown Town Council, which found he had engaged in misconduct det-rimental to the town in his deal-ings with Shaker.

Kenausis said there were fac-tors that weighed for and against recommendation of the incen-tive, citing timing and retroactive approvals as the major concerns. He then said there were gray ar-eas in the process and noted the incentive was designed to help businesses get through cash flow crunches.

Paolino said it was most im-portant to gather as much infor-mation as possible before mak-ing a decision, and Shaker ad-

vised Kenausis to get the blessing of town counsel if they decide to approve his application. After some discussion on whether to try to meet a pending 15-day de-cision deadline, commissioners voted to ask Shaker to rescind the application and reapply after providing some missing infor-

mation on acquisition and con-struction dates and permits, thus resetting the decision time to 30 days.

The next regular EIDC meet-ing is Tuesday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the Town Hall conference room.

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Land Surveyor Curt Smith presents the Pilot Seasoning Company’s building plans to Middlebury’s Economic and Industrial Develop-ment Commission Tuesday night. The building will be on North Benson Road in Middlebury. (Terrence S. McAuliffe photo)

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My hus-band and I are in our 50s. Both of us had an exam this year from different doctors. Blood tests showed we both have hepatitis C. Neither of us feels sick, and neither of us ever remembers ac-quiring this infection. Our doctors say we don’t need any treatment. What is the treatment if we ever do? Are we infectious to others? – K.K.ANSWER: In North America, hepatitis B and C are the two most common kinds of viral hepatitis. In the U.S., about 1.25 million are infected with hepatitis B virus. Five percent of infected people go on to develop a chronic infec-tion, one in which the virus re-mains in the liver, and these peo-ple face the possibility of coming down with liver cirrhosis or liver cancer. A vaccine for the preven-tion of hepatitis B is available.

Hepatitis C infects around 3 million Americans. In contrast with hepatitis B, around 70 per-cent to 80 percent will have a chronic infection. A sizable num-ber will come down with liver cirrhosis or cancer, but that doesn’t happen right away. It takes 20 or more years before those complications arise.

When treatment of hepatitis C is advised, two medicines have been given simultaneously for many years. Those drugs are peginterferon and ribavirin. About 50 percent of chronic hep-atitis C patients respond well to

this regimen. However, blacks have a poorer response, with only 25 percent achieving viral sup-pression.

A true breakthrough has ar-rived in the treatment of hepatitis C. Two new drugs, telaprevir (In-civek) and boceprevir (Victrelis) have had a huge impact in im-proving treatment success. Either of these drugs, given in conjunc-tion with the standard treatment of ribavirin and peginterferon, greatly increases the cure rates for blacks and whites.

An initial sickness after acquir-ing hepatitis C virus is rare, and, that’s why you and your husband didn’t realize you were infected. The virus can be transmitted through blood transfusions (no longer a threat), sharing needles for drug injections, rarely through sexual relations and household contact, but more possibly through promiscuous sex and in ways yet to be determined. You’re not a threat to others.

The booklet on hepatitis de-scribes these infections and their

treatment, not including the latest treatments. Readers can obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue – No 503W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and ad-dress. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My brother cracks his knuckles. It gives me the shivers, and I know he does it to annoy me. Can you give me any information that will scare him, like coming down with arthritis? – L.C.

ANSWER: I’d love to give you some information that would stop your brother from cracking his knuckles. It bothers me, too. I can’t come up with any. It doesn’t cause arthritis.

To produce the cracking sound, a person pulls his finger in such a way that it creates a bub-ble in the joint fluid. Then the bubble bursts and makes a crack-ing noise when it does.

I can’t understand why people do this.

Dr. Donohue regrets he is un-able to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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strive to be present nowI talk of this a lot, I know. Being

in the moment. Staying open, clear and aware of the gifts in each present moment. Being in the now is so important to living well because this moment con-tains all you need to be happy, healthy and peaceful.

You are full of healing ener-gies. The body is in many in-stances able to heal itself if al-lowed to rest deeply and com-pletely; be fed the right combi-nations, amounts and variety of foods and pure water, along with herbs and spices; and offered loving tender care through con-sistent exercise and seasonal cleanses.

The mind creates your reality. What you believe to be true is true for you. How you perceive

what you can do creates your achievements when action is added to the mix. Your mind can free you or imprison you de-pending on what you feed it, how you still it and where you take it.

Allowing your spirit to guide the way by being in touch with your essential nature through a short simple daily meditative practice can keep your heart open and allow gut instinct to inform your life. Life is filled with pairs of opposites, and our ways

of living tend to be electronic in nature, fast-paced and some-times exhausting. Take a deep breath, quiet down and indulge in living in the moments of your day to enhance life and build positive vibes all around you.

This week’s nugget for life is to be as calmly present to the now as you can, as often as you can, each day for the next week. It’s the beginning of March, and there’s so much to notice. I hear the first bird of spring – do you? Are you noticing how the light in the sky welcomes you in the morning hours? How about the extra time before darkness settles in when you can take advantage of a brisk after-supper walk to digest, notice your breathing and connect with nature? Maybe you

begin to notice changes in your appetite or desire for certain foods as we round the corner of deep winter? What are some of the ways you keep yourself pres-ent to the now? I’d love to hear from you!

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1. Who was the last pitcher be-fore the New York Mets’ Johan Santana in 2012 to toss a no-hitter against the defend-ing World Series champs?

2. Which two major-league teams have had the overall No. 1 pick the most times in baseball’s amateur draft?

3. Name the first black player to win an NFL Most Valuable Player Award?

4. How many times has Coach Jim Boeheim led Syracuse’s men’s basketball team to the Final Four?

5. When was the last time before 2012 that the Los Angeles Kings reached an NHL con-ference final?

6. Who was the last American swimmer before Nathan Adrian in 2012 to win an Olympic gold medal in the men’s 100-meter freestyle?

7. Name the three golfers who won six PGA Tour events by the age of 23.

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Memorial Middle School basketball players, left to right front, Managers Kyle Calitri, Jack Messina, Kyle Moser, and Alex Hum-mel; middle, Besart Hoxha, Chris DeRienzo, Chris Shortell, Chris McFarland and Emmett Lytle; and back, Will McDonald, Chase Belden, Matt Wynne, Jake Mendicino, Andrew Minchella, Marty Perrotti, Danny McNamara and Coach Jim Percival, finished an undefeated season with a final record of 15 wins and 0 losses. (Karen Kirk photo)

Pomperaug High School (PHS) sophomore Meg Moore inspired many who witnessed the SouthWest Conference Invi-tational Indoor Track and Field meet at Wesleyan University in January. Moore ran the 55-meter dash, where she achieved her personal best time of the year.

She also ran the anchor leg of the 4x200 meter team relay with Allison Meyer, Samantha Granja and Catherine Calandro. Team-mates Erin Gibbons and Kelly Gaffney ran alongside Moore as she competed in her events.

Moore is a second-year mem-ber of the track team, training under PHS Indoor Track Coach Steve Prajer and Assistant Coach Jeffrey Craig.

“I am impressed by the team-work everyone displayed, not

only at this meet but throughout the entire season,” said Prajer.

Jeffrey Craig, a physical edu-cation teacher at Rochambeau Middle School, reflected upon Moore’s success this season. “Meg worked very hard and im-proved her time in the 55-meter race by an entire second; most runners are happy to see im-provements of only a few tenths of a second each season. By the end of the season, she chal-lenged herself and increased the distance she could run enough to move up to a leg on the 4x200 meter relay. She was a great in-spiration to not just our athletes, but to the SWC conference as a whole. Meg brought the whole field house to their feet during her anchor leg of the relay,” Craig said.

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Meg Moore, center, ran alongside track teammates Erin Gibbons, left, and Kelly Gaffney, right, to complete two races at the SWC Invitational track meet at Wesleyan University in January. Many spectators in attendance said Moore’s performance was the high-light of the meet. (Karen Kirk photo)

Middlebury Girls Travel Basketball

The Middlebury Girls Seventh- and Eighth-Grade Travel Team won its two games in week 13 of the Western Connecti-cut Girls Basketball League season. Saturday, Feb. 23, the team defeated Town Plot Travel 41–40 at Duggan Elementary School in Wa-terbury. Down by as many as 13 points in the final quarter, Middlebury switched to a pressure man-to-man defense that produced several turnovers that led to transition bas-kets and shut down the Town Plot perimeter game. With less than a minute remaining, Middlebury took the lead on a Lauren Stango jump shot and, with 3.8 seconds remaining, got a final defense stop to win by one point. 

 Stango led Middlebury’s scoring with 12 followed by Lauren Pelosi with 7, Ciara Con-

nelly and Allie Orsini with 6 and Abby Mc-Casland with 4 points.

 Monday night, the girls defeated Plainville Travel at the Middle School of Plainville by a score of 28–24. Although the game re-mained close throughout, Middlebury had an early 14–6 lead with Connelly, Orsini and Stango each scoring 4 points in the first quar-ter. Plainville kept it close, due in large part to Emmendorfer, who was 9 for 10 from the foul line.

 With these two wins, Middlebury im-proved to 8 and 3 in league play with two games remaining in the regular season.

Middlebury Boys Travel Basketball

The Middlebury Boys Seventh- and Eighth-Grade Travel Team went 1-1 over the

weekend, which brought their record to 16-4. In the first game, a victory over Bristol, the boys played great defense by continuously putting pressure on their opponent. Michael Kowalasky did an outstanding job defen-sively down low and chipped in with 4 points. Matt Wynne scored 10 points while Danny McNamara and Will McDonald scored 4 points each.

In their second game, the boys were de-feated by Harwington 66-64. Middlebury got off to a rough start and trailed the entire game. They kept fighting back while never giving up, but just came up short at the buzzer. Chase Belden scored 40 points in the losing effort, and McDonald added 10 points.

The team has two games remaining before the playoffs start in a few weeks.

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For first-timers, cutting ceramic tile to fit takes a bit of practice. At the

home-improvement store, grab a few extra tiles of the same type as your replacement tiles, along with a tile cutter and a scoring tool. Practice cutting tiles in half, then in quarters, working to get a smooth break by first scoring

along the cutting line (drawn with a pencil) across the top of the tile, then making the final cuts with the tile cutter. Next, practice cutting tiles to shape. For an arc, you may need to score deeper – repeating along the cut-ting line a few times – and then score down the middle of the arc before cutting.

Working from a template can make things a bit easier. If the chipped tiles haven’t been re-moved, place as many of them back in place as possible. Trace the outline of the tile on a piece of paper, and use that trace as the template. If the tiles are too badly damaged to use as a tem-plate, trace the contours of the toilet pedestal base on a sheet of paper.

Now let’s look at fixing the damage. Keep in mind this repair works best if just a few tiles are damaged. If the damage is ex-tensive, consider redoing the entire floor.

If you pick the “redo” option, use the opportunity to look at how the toilet is set. In newer buildings, flooring is placed all the way up to the flange (the mouth of the wide drain pipe the toilet base is set on) rather than cutting it to fit around the toilet base. If it’s practical, you may want your replacement floor to do the same thing. This would require removing the toilet and perhaps adding an extension to the flange so the toilet base fits securely on the newly raised floor, but it may be worth the ex-tra effort.

To replace the damaged tiles, tap a chisel gently along the edges to loosen the grout, and then try to lift the tile. If it’s stuck, place the chisel edge in the cen-ter of the tile and tap it with a hammer until the tile cracks. Then pry out the pieces, being careful not to mar the surround-ing undamaged tiles.

Once the damaged tiles are up, brush away the debris. This is a good time to inspect the un-derlayment (the flooring under-neath the tile, often a plywood sheet) for water stains, swelling or other damage. Contact a floor-ing professional if you detect a problem.

Replace the damaged tiles with new ones that closely match the old ones. (Take one of the removed tiles to the home-im-provement store to match them.) Make sure to buy a few extra in case your initial cutting efforts don’t work. Score and cut the new tiles to fit the spaces left by the old tiles.

Working one tile at a time, coat the bottom with a thin layer of grout or tile adhesive. Press the tile into place as close to the toi-let base as possible. Once they’re set, apply grout generously to the spaces between each tile (about a 1/8-inch gap) using a wide putty knife to work in the tight area. Wipe away excess grout with a damp (not wet) cloth, and let the tiles set for at least 24 hours.

To finish, scrub tiles with a lint-free cloth, soap and water to remove the hazy layer of excess grout. Dry completely; then ap-ply a thin bead of silicone caulk between the toilet base and the edges of the tiles.

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The Planning and Zoning Commission of the Town of Middle-bury will hold a public hearing on March 7, 2013, 7:30 p.m. at the Auditorium, Shepardson Community Center, 1172 Whittemore Road, Middlebury, Connecticut regarding two applications sub-mitted by Pilot Seasoning Company/Stacey J. Drubner /68 North Benson Rd. for a Certificate of Zoning Compliance and an Excavation & Grading Permit. The public is invited to attend and be heard. Written comments may be sent and will be read into the record. They should be addressed to the Zoning Office at 1212 Whittemore Road, Middlebury, CT 06762. A copy of the application is on file for public inspection during normal working hours of that office.

Dated this 19th day of February, 2013

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All real estate or personal property owners in the Town of Mid-dlebury who have submitted an appeal to the Board of Assessment Appeals of the Town of Middlebury will be informed by the Board of the appeal hearings schedule (letters will be issued no later than March 1, 2013). These appeals will be heard and decided on: Monday, March 11, 2013, Friday, March 15, 2013, Monday, March 18, 2013, Saturday, March 23, 2013 and Saturday, March 30, 2013. Weeknight meetings will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 10:00 p.m., Saturday meetings will be from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The meetings will be held in the Assessor’s Office in the Town Hall.

These appointments are for the sole purpose of hearing ap-peals related to the assessments of real estate or personal property; and only for those property owners who have already submitted an appeal to the Board of Assessment Appeals by February 20, 2013.

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chance at a new life! She has been here and faring well for the last three years of her life, but you can see she would love to have more. She was one of those cats that were continuously overlooked. She was once a tad skittish and not very well socialized, but now you should see her! She is an adorable girl who is great here in her comfort zone. She will need to become adjusted to a new home and will need the correct people to help her along!

LAURELMeet Laurel. This absolutely gorgeous girl may

not be the most social and huggable cat, but just to watch her lie about and play; she is stunning to behold indeed! She will definitely need another feline friend in her life and a person to give her space so she may acclimate to a new home! Could this person be you? Stop by the shelter and check out Laurel in person. All she needs is a chance.

By Marjorie NeedhaM

Pies & Pints will kick off the month of March Friday night with a “Drink Pink” party that starts a month of fundraising for breast cancer survivors. Wood-chuck Cidery in Middlebury, Vt., brewers of Private Reserve Pink hard cider, will use a portion of the proceeds from sales of the brew during the month of March to donate $50,000 to Dragon-hearts NOW, an organization that supports breast cancer sur-vivors. Dragonhearts says its mission is to empower breast cancer survivors to live life to the fullest through vigorous exercise, education, camaraderie and community service.

The “Drink Pink” party Friday night starts at 7 p.m. and includes live music by “Changes” from 8 to 11 p.m. In Pies & Pints first event since it increased the num-ber of draft taps to 26 from 12, Pink cider will be among the brews on draft that night.

Another fundraiser at Pies & Pints, one for the Leary Firefight-ers Foundation in conjunction with Guinness, is collecting do-nations for the Middlebury Vol-unteer Fire Department. Pro-ceeds from this fundraiser will go to the Firefighter’s Annual Ball. Donors put their names on a card in the shape of a firefighter’s hat, and the cards are posted in the bar area. Pies & Pints co-owner Theo Anastasiadis said his goal is to get 150 donations.

A “Dine to Donate Benefit” fundraiser Wednesday, March 13, will help support “Autism Speaks.” From 5 to 8 p.m. that day, Pies & Pints will donate a portion of the proceeds from all food or-ders, dine in or take out, to the organization.

Then St. Patrick’s Day rolls around Sunday, March 17, which means Irish food will be served Friday, Saturday and Sunday; Irish beers will be on draft; Irish music will fill the air Saturday night; and on Sunday Middle-bury resident and bagpiper Terry

Manning will pipe for folks at 4 and 6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 20, the first day of spring will be celebrated with a beer and food pairing din-ner for 25 people featuring draft brews from Sixpoint Brewery in New York. Reservations are re-quired for this event.

Saturday, March 23, the focus will be on helping the environ-ment as Pies & Pints participates in Earth Hour (see earthhour.org) by switching to acoustic music, turning off all the lights and re-placing them with candles during the 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. earth hour intended to encourage partici-pants to help preserve our planet.

Saturday, March 30, at 10 a.m. Pies & Pints hopes to have a team running in the Pomperaug High School Class of 2015 5K Run with the Panthers. Team or not, Pies & Pints will supply post-run piz-zas to participants.

Anastasiadis said of all the fundraising activities, “They are just another thing we can do to help the community.”

Pies & Pints co-owner Theo Anastasiadis holds the handle that will used to dispense draft Wood-chuck Private Reserve Pink hard cider starting Friday. He sits next to a poster announcing the month-long effort to raise money to support breast cancer survivors. (Marjorie Needham photo)

pies & pints plans busy month