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Volume 19, Number 25 Serving Durham, Middlefield and Rockfall www.TownTimes.com Friday, September 28, 2012

By Stephanie WilcoxTown Times

Flooding at White’s Farmwas so bad over recent yearsthat the town was unable touse the farm in the way it wasmeant — primarily for pas-sive recreation.

“Unfortunately, too manyyears of neglect caused flood-ing that is prohibiting anymeaningful use of the proper-ty as well as encroaching onprivate property,” First Se-lectman Laura Francis wrotein an April 2012 Town Timescolumn. “As property owners,we have an obligation to miti-gate the damage.”

This statement came aftercontentious selectmen meet-ings and public forums in2011, where residents were ir-ritated by the town’s neglectof the property that was deed-

ed to it from the White familyin 1966 as part of open spaceinventory. The land, damagedby flooding of Allyn Brook,which runs through the prop-erty, where dead trees andsediment filled the bank, be-came a marshy, muddy field.Last year, disappointed in thetown’s handling, the Whitefamily proposed legally trans-ferring the open space fromthe town back to the family,but that proposal flopped.Since then, the town workedout a plan to restore theMaple Avenue property, andthe restoration has finally be-gun.

The eight-week project torestore the wetlands involvesexcavating the channel backto the way it was originally.

“We’re putting it back ex-actly where it was, followingthe meanders of the stream,”

said Town Engineer BrianCurtis. “We’re telling {the De-partment of Energy and En-vironmental Protection},where to dig and how far todig.”

The process began in earlySeptember, after protectiveareas and the streambed werestaked out, the area wasbrushed out to be excavatedto determine the grade, andtrees in danger of falling intothe brook were removed. Nowthe heftier work is underway— dredging and rechannelingAllyn Brook, from MapleAvenue to Route 68, to pre-vent future flooding at theproperty.

According to Don Har-graves, a wetland restorationspecialist with DEEP and aMiddlefield resident, about

Rehabilitation ofWhite’s Farm underway

Sediment removed from Allyn Brook is stockpiled on site. Photos by Stephanie Wilcox

See Rehabilitation, next page

Committee works onbathroom plans at

athletic facilityBy Stephanie Wilcox

Town Times

It’s been close to a yearsince the dedication ceremo-ny of the new athletic com-plex at Coginchaug HighSchool, and the football teamhas just taken to the artifi-cial turf field for its secondseason.

But the facility is notquite complete. In fact, theunfinished bathrooms havemade a lot of folks unhappy.

After a lawsuit filed by

Durham resident KarenCheyney in 2009 to stop theathletic complex from beingbuilt, the settlement re-quired, among other things,that the work be finished nolater than 18 months afterthe settlement date. ButRSD13 had not completedthe permanent restroom fa-cilities within the 18months, and Board of Edu-cation members and districtofficials found themselves at

By Stephanie WilcoxTown Times

Durham resident NoahVentola thinks bats are “pret-ty neat animals.”

“I’ve done a lot of research

Durham receivesbat house donation

See Bat, page 15

See Athletic, page 10

The bat house on TownHall.

Photo courtesy of Ultimate-Kids.com

Residents invited on site to watch progress

on their nesting habits, mi-gration — they are really in-teresting,” he said.

Unfortunately, Ventolaknows most people aren’t asfond of these flying mam-mals as he is.

“When people hear theword bats, they get the hee-bie-jeebies,” he said.

And Ventola wants that im-pression of bats to change.

In the last four to fiveyears, Ventola said, 80 to 90percent of all bats in theState of Connecticut havebeen killed by a fungus calledthe white-nose syndrome.

“Bats have come under atremendous amount of pres-sure from white nose syn-drome that is killing them offat an extraordinary rate,” hesaid. “Now more than everthey need clean, safe homes.”

And this is where Ventolacan help — and has — by do-nating a bat house (essential-

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available each week, but if you see something in TownTimes that is incorrect, give us a call at (203) 317-2448,and we’ll do our best to make things right. Town Timesinadvertently left off girls volleyball from the fall sportsschedule last issue. See their game schedule page 18. Inthe last issue, the photo of the Durham Fair souvenirbooth being renovated incorrectly stated that fair main-tenance workers were completing the work. In fact, thehours of labor were donated by V.M.B. Custom Builders.

800 to 900 feet of ditch hasbeen dug in the channel so far.Five crew members fromDEEP, who are performingthe work and using DEEPequipment, are in the processof hauling out the material,which Hargraves describedas a “sandy top soil mix.”

The material is beingstockpiled on site but will betrucked away to an area nearthe access road.

“We anticipate some of thematerial being quite attrac-tive to farmers, landscapersor for some municipal pur-poses,” Francis said. “Someof the material might be moregravel-y and might not be asuseful. We believe that mightaffect the cost, but not sure.”

While the cost of truckingthe material is still unknown,Francis said right now sheknows for certain what theDEEP is going to charge forthe project itself — approxi-mately $80,000. Funding iscoming 100 percent from theTown of Durham, as nogrants were able to be ob-

Rehabilitation(Continued from page 1)

Trees suffered from flooding at White’s Farm. Photos by Stephanie Wilcox

tained. In her April 2012 column,

Francis reported that “al-most 40 percent of the in-crease this year (in the 2012-13 budget) is to fund the Al-lyn Brook rehabilitationproject at White’s Farm.”

Francis said, “Once again, Iam grateful to the residents forfunding this project. It allowsus to take care of the propertythat is under our care.”

Curtis said he thinks “it’sgreat” the town is willing torestore the property on itsown.

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Photos by Stephanie Wilcox

Town of Durham Engineer Brian Curtis examines theprogress at White’s Farm.

“It’s a really interestingproject,” he said. “It will belike a newfound resource forthe town.”

Since the area has beencleared, Curtis noted “peopleare down here all the timechecking it out because nowthey have access to it.” Andthat, Francis said, is actuallyencouraged. State and localofficials agreed it was OK forthe public to go on site towatch the progress over thecoming weeks. The windowof opportunity to watch theproject is down to about onemore month.

“We made good progress,said Hargraves. “It’s been go-ing really well. Once we getthe stuff out of here, it willgo a little quicker.”

The next step will be totackle the second part of theditch, which heads towardMaple Avenue, he said.

Once 90 percent of theditch is dug, Brian Murphy,from the Inland Fisheries of-fice of DEEP, will determinewhere the best place is to puttrees and rocks to restore nat-ural habitats for fish.

Francis said this restora-tion of the natural habitats isexciting, and thinks the proj-ect itself will restore a lot of

the areas that people remem-ber using for passive recre-ation.

But most importantly, itwill need to stay that way.

“We’re going to make itmuch more defined so that wecan all very clearly see whatour responsibilities are goingforward in terms of regularmaintenance,” she said. “Itwill all be for nothing 20 yearsfrom now if it’s not main-tained.”

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DEEP workers are recreating the original channel of Allyn Brook.

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Sept.28 Friday

Tot Time - The MOMSClub of Durham-Middle-field meets every Friday atPeckham Park at 10 a.m. Ba-bies, toddler and children ofDurham and Middlefieldare welcome. For more in-formation, email [email protected].

Durham Fair Hike - Ahalf mile hike up Mt. Pis-gah is scheduled for Friday,Sept. 28, at 5:30 p.m. Thehike includes a picnic din-ner and the chance to viewthe sunset and lights of theDurham Fair. Registrationis required. For more infor-mation, contact Lucy [email protected] (860) 395-7771 or visitwww.EveryoneOutside.org.

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We have all seen those gar-den statues of St. Francis,hand outstretched, feedingthe birds. Indeed, St. Francis,who lived from 1182 to 1226,may have had a special rela-tionship with birds. He is saidto have preached so convinc-ingly and beautifully thatthey listened reverently as hetraveled along the roads ofAssisi, in Italy. But he lovedall animals, so much so that,almost 1,000 years later, he ishonored as the Patron Saint ofAnimals. His love of animalsextended to nature in all its di-versity and beauty. He isrevered for living a life ofdeep faith, and for startingThe Franciscan Order ofPriests and Brothers, knownto most of us as The Francis-

cans. The lifestyle of St. Francis

of Assisi exemplified what hepreached; he lived a life ofbrotherly love and peace,lived simply and in close con-nection with nature. Especial-ly when it came to animals, hebelieved and lived accordingto the Scripture he studied:

Proverbs 12:10, “The right-eous man regards the life ofhis beast.”

Job 12: 7-10, “Ask the birds,ask the beasts and they willteach you.”

In the Roman Catholic tra-dition, Oct. 4 is the Feast of St.Francis of Assisi. It is alsoWorld Day for Animals, estab-lished by the World League forProtection of Animals in 1928to commemorate the greatlove and humane work of St.Francis. This day is recog-nized universally by animal

societies all over the world. During Christmas 1223, St.

Francis conceived the idea ofreproducing the scene ofChrist’s birth in Bethleheminside a church at Greccio,Italy. Legend says when hecreated this first nativity

scene, using live animals, thehay from the manger wasgathered afterwards. Later, itwas fed to sick animals, andthose animals were madewell. This was the beginning,it would seem, of the traditionof blessing animals and pets.

Kevin Mackin, Order ofFriars Minor, said in a recentarticle in American Catholic,“At Franciscan churches, afriar with brown robe andwhite cord often welcomeseach animal with a specialprayer. As the prayer is of-fered, the pet is gently sprin-kled with holy water. Believeit or not, most pets receivethis sacramental spritz withdignity, though I must admit Ihave seen some cats flattentheir ears a bit.

“Usually the Blessing ofPets is held outdoors. But I re-

member it rained one year,and all were invited inside St.Stephen’s Church in Manhat-tan. It was quite a sight to seepairs of creature — one hu-man, one animal — sitting inthe pews. The pastor joinedright in with his beagle.Noah’s Ark was never likethis!

“The love we give to a pet,and receive from a pet, candraw us more deeply into thelarger circle of life, into thewonder of our common rela-tionship to our Creator.”

A Blessing of the Animalswill be held Sunday, Oct. 7, atnoon, at the Church of theEpiphany, Episcopal, inDurham. All animals are wel-come to join their owners atthis special celebration of

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When asked to summarizethe goal of Take Off PoundsSensibly, local TOPS leaderand Middlefield residentNaomi Klotsko said, “it’s al-

ways support.”TOPS is a worldwide non-

profit weight loss support or-ganization with branches allover the United States, in-cluding branch CT-199 righthere in Durham that meetsevery Wednesday at 6 p.m. on

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Branch treasurer andDurham resident Bonnie Ole-sen said, “Anybody with aweight problem is welcome tojoin the group at any time. Allyou have to do is just come toa meeting and see if you likeit.”

The nearly 20 memberswho meet in Durham includemen and women of all agesand children of a certain agefrom Durham, Middlefieldand Middletown.

Olesen said some peopleeven come from elsewhere inthe state because “they likeour group, they want to cometo Durham.”

She added, “The Town ofDurham has been very gra-cious allowing us to meetthere.”

The group originated inDurham as CT-89 in the late1970s. It moved a few timesbefore ending up in Middle-town. About four years ago, ahandful of members brokeoff from that branch to comeback to Durham, forming CT-

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The meetings work likethis: Members weigh in from6 to 6:30 p.m., at which timethe meeting begins. Fromthen until 7:30, informationis passed out, guest speakersmight be present, but mostly“regular” people are there tosupport one another.

“It’s a great group, a sup-port group,” said Olesen. “Weadvocate whatever is ahealthy choice or what theirdoctor recommends.”

And it’s fun, she said.There are weighing and exer-cise contests and different“diet” foods to experimentwith to encourage people tostick with a healthy lifestyle.

Klotsko said post cards aresent out and phone calls aremade during the week to en-courage members.

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TownOpinion8

Town TimesFriday, September 28, 2012

Letters to the Editor

Government MeetingsDurham Government

Calendar(Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings areheld in the Durham Library. Check the townwebsite at www.townofdurhamct.org for up-

dates.)Monday, Oct. 1

Annual Town Meeting, 8 p.m. at CRHS auditorium

Fire Department Trustees, 7 p.m. at DurhamVolunteer Firehouse

Tuesday, Oct. 2Historic District Commission, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 3Planning & Zoning, 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall

Thursday, Oct. 4Public Safety Renovations Planning Com-

mittee, 7 p.m. at the DurhamVolunteer Firehouse

Tuesday, Oct. 9DMIAAB Task Force, 7 p.m. at Town Hall

Clean Energy Task Force, 7:30 p.m.Volunteer Fire Company Drill, 8 p.m. at the

Durham Volunteer FirehouseWednesday, Oct. 10

Board of Education, 7:30 p.m. at John Ly-man Elementary School

Thursday, Oct. 11Zoning Board of Appeals, 7:30 p.m.

at Town HallMonday, Oct. 15

Inland/Wetlands, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 16

Board of Finance, 6 p.m. at Town HallAgriculture Commission, 7 p.m.

at Town HallWednesday, Oct. 17

Recreation Committee, 7 p.m. at DACPlanning & Zoning, 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall

MiddlefieldGovernment Calendar

(Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings areheld in the Community Center.)

Monday, Oct. 1Board of Selectmen, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 4Economic Development Commission, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 10Planning & Zoning, 6:30 p.m.

WPCA, 7 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 16

Conservation Commission, 6:30 p.m.Board of Selectmen, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 17Inlands/Wetlands Commission, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 18Board of Finance, 7 p.m.

Letters policyThe Town Times intends to present a forum for the live-

ly exchange of ideas and issues. To facilitate the publica-tion of your contributions, several guidelines should befollowed. Letters to the editor must be signed, with aphone number included, and be no more than 300 words.The writer will be called to confirm authorship. No anony-mous letters will be printed. Contributions by any indi-vidual or group will not be published more frequentlythan once a month. Every effort will be made to print allletters received. However, the selection and date of publi-cation will be at the discretion of the editor. Finally, theopinions expressed by our letter writers are not necessar-ily those of this newspaper. Deadline: Monday noon forFriday publication.

No time forconstituents

To the editor:While Danté Bartolomeo

is ready to debate Len Suzioin Meriden, it seems Suziohas better things to do thangive the voters the opportu-nity to hear the candidatesdiscuss the issues. Al-though the date hasn’t beenfinalized, his campaign sayshe already has a conflict.What’s more importantthan giving time to yourconstituents?

Any politician who’s do-ing a good job would wel-come this opportunity. Whyis Suzio so reluctant? Wemay not be able to ask him,but we can send him a mes-sage.

Make sure your calendarincludes time to vote forDanté Bartolomeo on Nov. 6.

Charles AugurMiddlefield

Change neededTo the editor:I am pleased to introduce

to my fellow Durhamites,Cindy Cartier, Republicancandidate challenging EdMeyer for State Senate.Cindy, currently a sittingmember of Guilford’s Boardof Selectmen, is dedicatedand diligent, a civil servantwho will help return two-party government to Con-necticut. An attorney, moth-er, small business owner,(with her husband, she ownstwo car washes) and formermember of Guilford’s Boardof Education, Cindy is a newface, a conscientious, enthu-siastic candidate who prom-ises to dedicate herself tocutting into the 140 percentspending increases incurredsince Ed Meyer took office.We need leadership andchange. Join me and vote forCindy Cartier Nov. 6.

Norman JasonDurham

Refreshing voice To the editor:Misguided economic poli-

cies have put Connecticut on aperilous fiscal course for sometime now. Connecticut rankslow among states in providinga good business climate to en-sure economic expansion andcreate a vibrant economy. It istime for new ideas and realleadership in the state legisla-ture. We can make a start toturn things around by send-ing Cindy Cartier to the StateSenate. Cindy in an experi-enced business professionalwho will be a refreshing voicein Hartford. She will be part ofa team that reduces the regu-latory burdens and excessivefees imposed upon businessesand curb higher taxation byreducing wasteful spending.Send a message to our rubberstamp legislature — vote forCindy Cartier for State Sen-ate.

Ray KalinowskiDurham

Integrity notedTo the editor:State Senate candidate

Danté Bartolomeo has al-ways demonstrated thehighest level of transparen-cy and integrity while serv-ing on the Meriden CityCouncil. She says what shemeans and means what shesays. Danté deals with thepublic honestly and openly,and is dedicated to fightingevery day for Meriden, andfor the entire 13th District atthe State Capitol.

Donna M. GolubMiddlefield

Lost motorcyclebag

To the editor:I lost a black waterproof

Twisted Throttle motorcyclebag off my motorcycle around5:30 p.m. on Sept. 21. The bagopens on both ends and hadthe following items: blackNorth Face Gore-Tex pants,black Mountain Hardwear Pa-clite Gore-Tex jacket, blueMountain Hardwear pullover¼ zip fleece, black MountainHardwear gloves, sunglasscase and REI/Nalgene tall wa-ter bottle.

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TownScoutsTown TimesFriday, September 28, 2012

Gold award Catherine Kannam,

of Durham, was recent-ly awarded the GirlScout Gold Award, thehighest honor in girlscouting. The awardrepresents an individ-ual’s time, leadership,commitment, creativityand effort contributedto making her commu-nity a better place tolive. It involves a mini-mum of 30 hours in aleadership role, 40hours of career explo-ration and a minimumof 65 hours of work on amajor project that willhave a long-term impacton the girl’s community.

Kannam’s projectaddressed the need forongoing arts educationin public schools. Shetargeted an extracurric-ular theatre program atJohn Lyman School andled a team which ad-dressed an expensive el-ement of its theatrebudget: set design andconstruction. She builta collection of set piecesand ramps which wereused in the June 2012productions of “Aristo-cats”.

Kannam, a student atMercy High School, isthe daughter of Thomasand Heather Kannam.

Troop 27 goes on white water tripCommentary

By Shane and StephenPhenicie

Special to the Town Times

Troop 27 of Durham wentto seek high adventure onthe water in New York atWild Waters over the sum-mer. The trip was six hourstotal down the Hudson River.The troop was split into tworafts. One was led by JimChan or, as we called him,Tony Stark because of hisresemblance to RobertDowney Jr.’s character in“Ironman”. Guide JoshSmith led the second raft.The rapids ranged fromclass one to class four plus.Both rafts were a blast to goon. During the entire trip,we were cracking jokes andtelling stories, when weweren’t getting wet or“falling in.”

Our trip started on the In-dian River, and while on thatwe went through two classthree rapids known as “Indi-an Head” and “GooleySteps”. Once through thoserapids, the Indian Riverpurged into the Hudson Riv-er. While on the Hudson, wetrekked through a series ofclass three to class fourrapids, each with its ownunique scenery and naviga-tion. Those rapids go by thenames of “Cedar Ledges”,“Blue Ledges”, “The Nar-rows”, “Osprey Nest”,“Carters Landing”, “WrapRapid”, “and Giveny’s Rift”,“The Gun sights”, “HarrisRift”, “Fox Den”, “Bobcat”and the “Bus Stop”. A greatand wet time was had by all.

Troop 27 meets on Thurs-days at 7 p.m. in the hall ofthe United Churches ofDurham. If you are a boy, es-pecially in fifth and sixthgrade, looking for an oppor-tunity to learn skills, go on anadventure at least once amonth, have leadership op-portunities and, most impor-tantly, have fun, come for avisit.

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a Durham Planning & Zoningmeeting last April requestinga 24-month extension to com-plete the utility structure forthe restrooms.

At the public hearing, At-torney Tim Hollister, repre-senting the school district,clarified that the bond broughtbefore the townspeople for avote only included a slab withutilities, not a building, ac-cording to April 18 hearingminutes. He said monies leftover from the end of the con-struction project were not suf-ficient to complete the bath-rooms, and therefore the delaywas financial.

BOE member Jeremy Ren-ninghoff said in a phone calllast week the district was ini-tially counting on fundingfrom volunteers, but that alsodid not happen.

Board of Education mem-ber Kerrie Flanagan, who hassince become chair of the

board, said at the hearing theBOE was concerned with theability to meet an obligation atthe end of the 24-month periodproposed given there is nofunding in place.

While Flanagan was con-cerned, P&Z and members ofthe public were outraged — forthe district “having no finan-cial plan” and “not requestingan extension sooner.”

This hearing was postponeduntil the school board couldcome up with a plan for con-struction, estimated costs andfunding. When they recon-vened May 2, P&Z granted theschool district the 24-monthextension.

A Fieldhouse Committeehas been formed to investigateconstruction and cost esti-

mates, and currently it haspresented three options “thatare not set in stone,” said Ren-ninghoff, chair of the Field-house Committee.

The first option involvesbuilding just the bathroomsand putting on a roof.

The second option is toerect the walls of the footprintof the entire slab, includingteam rooms, storage area, etc.,and the roof, but only finishthe bathrooms. This optionleaves the balance of the build-ing unoccupied.

The third option is to do theentire thing, including bath-rooms, locker rooms and stor-age area.

“It could be something dif-ferent or a combination of thetwo or three options,” Ren-ninghoff said. “It comes downto funding; it’s where it’s allat.”

Preliminary figures for thefirst, second and third optionare $256,000, $537,000 and$794,000, respectively. Butthose do not include the state’s

prevailing wage law.“This project is a little rare

compared to most,” Renning-hoff said. “It’s not cut and drywhether it’s prevailing wage.In this case, there is a questionof whether this qualifies asnew construction or addition-al alterations to an existing fa-cility.”

The Fieldhouse Committeesaid Attorney Eliezer Strass-feld from Shipman & Good-win, short of talking to theState Labor Department,thinks the work on the bath-rooms could be considerednew construction. If so, Ren-ninghoff said the sunk cost ofthe slab for the bathrooms —$167,000 — which has to be in-cluded either way, gets thecommittee within the $400,000threshold of prevailing wagefor new construction.

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in the Philadelphia SchoolSystem and how tough itwas.

Few people know that hehas a college degree in histo-ry and at one point consid-

as his lecture went on, all Icould think of was how hap-py I was to finally have theopportunity to see him inperson and see a side of himthat is not usually for publicview.

While standing in lineduring book signing, my ex-citement was mounting, andI struggled vainly to come upwith something original tosay. In seconds, it was myturn to meet Danza and Iknew this was the chance ofmy lifetime — the one I hadalways dreamed of. Hesmiled at me and said “Hi”and told me that I had been agreat audience. (How couldhe miss my antics in thefront row, clapping, cheering,whistling, just feet fromhim?) This was my chance todazzle him with a memo-rable response, and horror ofhorrors, my mind went

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Each voting district has a different ballot with differentcandidates, so knowing your state voting district will helpyou know which candidates you will be voting for. In No-vember, a greeter will help you determine your voting dis-trict.

Durham primary audit completeThe Secretary of State randomly chooses 10 percent of

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I left Coginchaug HighSchool/Strong Middle Schooland headed onto Route 17south. I took a right ontoParmelee Hill Road, bared leftonto Tri Mountain Road andwent strait onto Whirl WindHill Road to E. Center St. to I-91 entrance. Here, I realizedthe bag was missing and re-traced my steps, but the bagwas gone.

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Test scoresconcerning

I wonder what I’m gettingfor my investment in RSD13?We can’t even compete with-in our District ReferenceGroup as our student scorescontinue to decline againstthis group. I was elated to seeour director of curriculumcomment that she was happyto see more students takingthe SAT’s and that AP cours-es should be expanded. Whatconcerned me most from thisrecent Town Times story,“BOE examines test scores”,was that we are failing with-in our own DRG, Group C,which is comprised of the fol-lowing districts: Andover;Cornwall; New Hartford;Suffield; RSD12; Barkhamst-ed; Ellington; Oxford; Tol-land; RSD13; Bethany; Essex;Pomfret; RSD4; RSD14;Bolton; Hebron; Salem;RSD7; RSD17; Canton; Mans-

field; Sherman; RSD8; RSD18;Columbia; Marlborough;Somers; RSD10 and RSD19.

I could understand thatsome of our students mightstruggle with test scoreswhen compared with muchwealthier districts, but thatdoes not appear to be the casefor our DRG. This also doesnot appear to be the first timeI am reading an article in theTown Times on declining testscores for RSD13 within thisDRG. What I would like toknow is what is our board go-ing to do about these results?How are we going to improvestudent performance in lightof these poor test results andrecent changes within Con-necticut tying teacher evalu-ations to this metric or othermetrics? Something has tobe done as a result of thesepoor results and I hope it isdone quickly for our stu-dents’ sake.

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Sprucing up the fairgroundsThe Beautification Committee of the Durham Fair planted, weeded andcleaned up the flower beds and landscaped the fairgrounds. Pictured areRobin C., Cathy G. and Sue Sawka.

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On Oct. 3, The DurhamPlanning & Zoning Commis-sion will continue a discus-sion from its Sept. 19 meetingregarding whether long-timeTown Planner and ZoningEnforcement Officer GeoffColegrove will be re-appoint-ed to these positions.

At the last regular meet-ing, issues arose concerninghis status as an independentrepresentative for Durham asthe ZEO and town planner af-ter the consolidation of theMidstate Regional PlanningAgency next month, of whichhe is executive director, P&ZChair Richard Eriksen said.

Next month, Midstate willcease as its own entity andwill combine with the Con-

necticut River Estuary Re-gional Planning Agency tobecome the Lower Connecti-cut River Valley Council ofGovernments serving 17towns, including Durham.Colegrove, who was not pres-ent at the Sept. 19 meetingdue to illness, has said hewould stay on as town plan-ner and ZEO until that transi-tion happens.

But at the meeting, somecommission membersweren’t comfortable reap-pointing Colegrove to the un-determined term.

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commemoration of the Feastof St. Francis of Assisi. All ofGod’s creatures, big andsmall, will be blessed by theRev’d Anthony Dinoto, inter-im rector.

will go up.”Renninghoff said the next

step is to get a definitive an-swer on the prevailing wage is-sue and then determine whatkind of money the board iswilling to appropriate, subjectto voter approval. The schoolboard will have to appropriatemoney in the current fiscalyear to have the architect redothe drawings to be put out tobid in the near future, there-fore work could not commenceuntil the next fiscal year —July 1, 2013 at the earliest.

“It will be up to the BOE todetermine how they want tohandle it,” Renninghoff said.“The final decision will be inthe hands of the voters.”

(Additional reporting fromminutes.)

Athletic(Continued from page 10)

Youth TheatreCT auditions

Youth Theatre CT hasscheduled open audi-tions for Sunday, Sept.30, for its Christmas Mu-sical. Call (203) 634-0474for an audition kit and toschedule an auditiontime. A fee is charged forthe kit.

Rehearsals are sched-uled for every Sundayfrom 1 to 4 p.m. at SacredHeart Church Hall, 66Cottage St., East Berlinbeginning in October.The Christmas Musicalis scheduled for Dec. 15,16 and 19.

Danza(Continued from page 11)

blank! Precious secondswere ticking away while hesigned my books when themanager from R.J. Julia toldour line (as in me) to move italong to give everyone else achance. Everyone else? Hey,what about me? This was mychance (of a lifetime) and Iwanted to start it all overagain.

As I walked away, I keptlooking back and thinkingwhat a great night it had beenand how much fun it was tolet loose, be 16 again and havea blast. I met someone whomI have admired so much.

Crushes aside, the part ofthe evening that resonateswith me is something Danzasaid. Even with all of his ac-colades from his acting ca-reer, now after turning 60, hedoesn’t think a lot about whatwas. He contemplates, as heput it, his “roads less trav-eled.” He does not believe inregrets, and at this stage oflife, having left some thingsbehind, it may be the time topick them up again and seewhat could have been. Havingturned 60 (gasp) myself thisyear, I, too, have been givingthat a lot of thought, and hisremark has forced me to re-think my “roads less trav-eled.”

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ly a bird house for bats) to theTown of Durham for bats tohave a clean, safe home.

Ventola, who has beenwoodworking for about 10years as a hobby, started abusiness in Durham, Ulti-mate Kids, in May.

Before you ask what kidshave to do with bats, youfirst need to understand thepurpose of Ultimate Kids.

“The guiding principal be-hind the whole business isgetting kids active,” saidVentola, whose business ispart building furniture andplay tables for kids to work

at, and part building a vari-ety of feeders and houses fornative species. “I want kidsto be engaged in wildlife bybringing wildlife into thebackyards for kids to be partof.”

In his woodwork cre-ations, Ventola is focused oncrafting sustainably pro-duced feeders and houses fornative species, primarilybird houses, bird feedersand bat houses, that arebuilt out of hyper-localproducts. The wood is grownin Connecticut and eachitem is built individually byhand.

“When possible,” he said,“I try to incorporate stuffwe throw out into the prod-ucts.” For instance, a bird

feeder lid has a bicycle tirehinge where it is opened tofill with seed.

“I use bicycle inner tube— a bike shop was going tothrow it away,” he said. “I’mtrying to put this stuff backinto service.”

And the base of the feederis an old window screen.

“It was headed to thedump and I took it,” he ex-plained. “It forms the tray inwhich the bird seed sits. Itallows water and such todrain through the bird-seed.”

“People know I’m lookingfor these things,” he saidabout the repurposed mate-rial.

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free pest control,” Ventolasaid. “If you can get a colonyof 20 to 30 bats (to live in it),a single bat will eat 3,000mosquitoes in a night.”

Last week, the bat housewas erected to the backsideof Town Hall. Ventola hopesit will not only help the bats,but help change how mostpeople feel about them.

“I want people, kids espe-cially, to be exposed to these

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The Mighty Mites (DSquad) took on the SimsburyRaiders Sept. 23 for the sec-ond week of a long four-gamestretch of road games. Thisweek, captains Dante Salva-tore, Peter DeRita, MichaelPitruzzello and BenPitruzzello led the Falconson the field.

The game got off to a slowstart as both teams tradedpossession on the first twoseries. On the second series,the Raiders offense struckfirst and scored a touchdownto make it 6-0 with 3:27 in thefirst quarter. Undaunted bythe early Raider lead, the Fal-cons came back and scoredon a 50-yard touchdown runby Dalton Sisk. GraysenEgana converted the extrapoint for a 7-6 Falcon lead.The offense was led by JohnPalo, Jeremy Mangiameli,Sal Monarca and ZacharyRaffles.

The defense, led by DrueFleck, Kevin Lee, AnthonyToth and Hayden Stojak,came in blazing on the nextseries and stopped theRaiders offense on fourstraight plays. The offense,feeding off of the big defen-sive stand scored on the firstplay when running backMangiameli followed hisblockers and then burst to a41-yard touchdown run tomake the score 13-7. The Fal-cons came back, stopped theRaiders and forced a fumblejust before the half, but ranout of time to add morepoints.

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Flu clinicA flu clinic is scheduled for

Tuesday, Oct. 30, from noon to8 p.m. at the Durham ActivityCenter, 350 Main Street. Formore information and otherpossible dates, call AntoinetteAstle at (860) 349-7121.

Fraud programAn Identify Fraud and

Schemes program is sched-uled for Wednesday, Oct. 24,at 1 p.m. at the Middlefield Se-nior Center. The programwill be presented by an agent

From left: SharonCriscuolo, MaryEllenDontigney, Pam Fox,

Nancy Charlebois,Cheryl Siegel and

Amanda Pedersenwere recognized asvolunteers and pa-

trons of the DurhamSenior Center who

celebrated birthdaysin September.

Submitted by Amanda Pedersen

from the FBI and will discussschemes that target the elder-ly and healthcare fraud. Thepublic is welcome.

For more information, callAntoinette Astle at (860) 349-7121 to reserve a seat.

EventsThe Middlefield Senior

Center has scheduled the fol-lowing events:

Bingo is scheduled for thethird Monday of each monthat 1 p.m. All are welcome.

Foot Care is scheduled forthe third Wednesday of eachmonth. The Masonicare pro-vides this monthly service.The nurse soaks, assesses,massages and clips the toe-nails. A fee is charged. Callthe senior center to schedulean appointment. Bring twohand towels to the appoint-ment.

The Middlefield Senior

Center is located in the Mid-dlefield Community Center at405 Main Street. If you haveany questions or would like to

sign up for any programs orfor lunch (monthly menuscan be picked up at the seniorcenter or Town Hall) in the

Senior Café (serving on Mon-day, Wednesday and Friday),contact Antoinette Astle at(860) 349-7121.

Obituary feeTown Times charges a

$50 processing fee for obitu-aries. For more informa-tion, call (203) 317-2256.

Submissionreminder

Town Times welcomessubmissions regarding up-coming events happening inthe community.

We do our best to run asubmission at least onetime. However, due to spaceconstraints, we cannotguarantee a submission willbe published on a specificdate. To ensure your sub-mission runs exactly as youwould like it to, contact oursales representative JoyBoone at (203) 317-2313.

Letters policy- E-mail letters to

[email protected]; mailto P.O. Box 265, Middlefield,or fax to (203) 639-0210.

-The Citizen will printonly one letter per personeach month.

- Letters should be approx-imately 300 words. We re-serve the right to edit let-ters.

- Letters must be signedand names will appear inprint.

- Include a phone numberso Town Times can contactyou for verification.

- Letters must be submit-ted by noon on Monday to beconsidered for publicationfor that Friday publication.

We receive the right to editletters for grammar andcontent

Six celebrate in September

TownSchools20 Town TimesFriday, September 28, 2012

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Residential Wiring SpecialistLandscape Lighting

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Specializing in Custom InstallationsRepair & Maintenance

Ceramic • Natural Stone • Glass

Quality Workmanship Done With Pride

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In DurhamCall Charlie

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• Lot Clearing • Tree & Stump Removal • Concrete

• Quality Driveways• Water Problems & Drainage Work

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Classroom shareStudents in Julie Abbott’s first and second grade class shared classcheer, games and graphs at John Lyman School’s weekly assembly.

Geln Miarecki,Tatum Hultgren,

Nicholas Casserino

Violette Northup, Tatum Hultgren,Amanda Kowalczyk, Emma SamperiAmanda Kowalczyk, Melana O’Sullivan, Gabriel Bonessi

Submitted by Elizabeth Hadlock

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BusinessmanagerleavingRSD13

Regional School Dis-trict 13 Business Manag-er Pam Mangini will beleaving the district nextmonth. According to Su-perintendent Sue Vic-caro, Mangini’s last daywill be Oct. 19, at whichtime she will move to Re-gional School District 16— the towns of Prospectand Beacon Falls — to beits new business manag-er.

“She is going to bemissed,” Viccaro said.

-Stephanie Wilcox

Geln Miarecki,atum Hultgren,

Nicholas Casserino

SharingsummerstoriesAngela Polan-sky’s third/fourthgrade classshared summermemories by per-forming anoriginal poem atlast week’s as-sembly at JohnLyman School.

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DurhamLibrarySCHOOL AGE

Series-ous Fun:(grades 1 to 3) Book dis-cussion that focuses onchapter book series. Sat-urdays, Oct. 6, Nov. 3 andDec. 1, from 2 to 2:45 p.m.Refreshments served.

Lunch Bunch:(grades 4 to 6) Book dis-cussion; bring yourlunch, the library pro-vides dessert. Saturdays,Oct. 13, Nov. 10 and Dec.8, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

LEGO Club: (ages 6 to12) LEGOs provided —just bring your creativi-ty. Thursdays, Oct. 11,Nov. 8 and Dec. 13, from6:30 to 7:30 p.m. (LEGOdonations are neededand always welcome).For more information,call Christine Michaudat (860) 349-9544.

All children’s pro-grams require registra-tion. Call (860) 349-9544

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Ready, set, Go FarGo Far, the popular running program in RSD13, began Sept.17 at John Lyman School. Dozens of students participatedduring recesses. Children have passports to track theirmiles.

Submitted by

Elizabeth Hadlock

DurhamLibraryPRE-SCHOOL

Mother Goose: (18 to30 months) Mondays at10:15 a.m.

Time for Tots: (2 1/2to 3 1/2) Wednesdaysat 10:15 a.m.

Preschool Story-time: (3 1/2 to 5) Tues-days at 10:15 a.m. and1:30 p.m.

Bedtime Storytime:(2 to 4) Mondays at 7 p.m.(wear your pj’s)

Special Event: AmyBloom will read her newpicture book “LittleSweet Potato,” Tuesday,Oct. 16; crafts andsnacks available. Formore information, call(860) 349-9544.

To advertise yourbusiness, call the

Town Times(203) 317-2313

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Allan’s Tree Service~ professional care at its best ~

• Pruning • Cabling• Tree & Stump Removal

• Spraying & Disease Control• Bucket Truck

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Town Hallclosed

Durham Town Hall isscheduled to be closedFriday, Sept. 28, for theDurham Fair. Regularhours resume Monday,Oct. 1.

Middlefield receives federalreimbursement for storm

The Town of Middlefield will receive $64,951.22 from the Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency for the October 2012 severe storm.

This federal reimbursement comes after the town submitted a grant application, andcovers 75 percent of eligible costs incurred for emergency relief and recovery assis-tants as a direct result of the storm. The remaining 25 percent share — $21,650.40 — willbe paid by the town.

“This is the result of keeping good records,” First Selectman Jon Brayshaw said inan email.

-Stephanie Wilcox

this week. “Now the question iswho are we dealing with? It’s aquestion of, for some membersof Planning & Zoning, howcomfortable we are with thatcontinuation of contractingwith Mr. Colegrove.

“A lot of things still need tobe worked out,” Eriksen said.“We are going to take thewhole issue up again.”

The Oct. 3 meeting is at 7:30p.m. at the Durham Public Li-brary.

P&Z (From page 13)

Registrar ofVoters

The Middlefield Reg-istrars of Voters will bein their office at theCommunity Center, 405Main Street, on Tuesday,Oct. 2, from 9 a.m. untilcompletion of the Pre-liminary Registry Listfor the Nov. 6 election.Immediately followingcompletion of the Pre-liminary List, the Regis-trars will post thenames and addresses ofelectors removed fromthe Registry List. Thislist will be posted out-side the Registrars’ of-fice in the CommunityCenter and in the Mid-dlefield Town Hall.

Levi E. CoeLibrary

Pumpkin Pizzazz:Saturday, Oct. 13, from10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Regis-tration required. Bring afavorite pumpkin orpumpkins to the libraryand turn it into a pump-kin masterpiece. The li-brary will supply thenecessary arts andcrafts. All ages welcome.

Ghost Talk by CTGhost Hunters: Satur-day, Oct. 20, from 1 to 2p.m. Registration recom-mended. Sydney Sher-man, founder, lead inves-tigator and author, willdiscuss ghost hunting inConnecticut, paranor-mal investigation andfact vs. fiction. The pro-gram will be held at theCommunity Center.

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