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At the Nov. 17 meeting of Durham’s Inland Wetlands and Water Courses Agency, Public Works Foreman Kurt Bober re-viewed the state of the skating pond off Route 68 and proposed work for the area.

Four years ago, Bober’s de-partment cleaned out “muck” from the edges of the pond where the weeds were high. “I took that material down to the southwest corner and I stockpiled it ... waiting for it to dry out,” Bober told the commission.

Bober proposed using that

now dried out material to stop the erosion from Allyn Brook.

Recent work on the town-owned property has mostly re-stored the brook and the fields to their previous state, but the remnants of the overflowed brook and soggy field remain.

“Allyn Brook is back where Allyn Brook should be,” Bober told the commission. “There is a lot of erosion ... there’s prob-ably three- or four-feet erosion channels.”

Bober estimated the size of the material at 40 yards, and received permission from the commission to use it in the spring.

Bober also proposed replac-

ing a 12-inch pipe that maintains water levels between the skat-ing pond and the brook. “It’s rotted, it’s broken, and every-thing else,” Bober said.

Bober proposed replacing that pipe with two six-inch pipes buried in the original trench, which would allow pumping water between the skating rink and the brook as needed.

Bober also told the commis-sion and the audience that they should visit the area since it has been restored and cleaned. “Right now, it’s one of Durham’s best looking parks ... it’s beauti-ful in there.”

Inland Wetlands voted unani-mously to approve the work.

Skating pond work moving forwardBy Mark DionneTown Times

Although cold winds blow across the open space off Route 68 in Durham, the pond is not quite ready for skaters. | Mark Dionne / Town Times

The Board of Education is planning to hold a vote in the spring about how to pay for a new roof at Brewster Elementary School.

As discussed at the BOE meeting on Nov. 12, the current roof is leaking in several spots and is near the end of its utility.

The meeting took place at Brewster in the music room, which happened to contain a vi-sual indication of the roof’s condition. To catch leaking water, a five gallon bucket hung from the ceiling through a hole cut in the ceiling tiles.

Brewster Principal Nancy Heckler, who at-tended the BOE meeting, said there were nu-merous pails hanging from the school’s roof.

All sections of the roof, according to District Business Manager Ron Melnik, are older than 20 years, which puts the entire roof at the end of its expected usefulness and makes the project eligible for some state reimbursement.

“It’s leaky,” said Melnik, “and we’re spending money on spot maintenance.”

Industry estimates on a job of that size are approximately $1.2 million, a figure that can change depending on what the structure looks like or contains once the roof comes off.

The roof has been tested for asbestos and other hazardous materials, and those tests came back negative.

“We’re working on getting some designs done so we can go out to bid,” said Melnik. “It will re-quire going to referendum – a question for the public to bond or finance it – and we’re looking to do that some time in the spring.”

To minimize disruption, the summer of 2015 would be targeted as a construction time frame.

New roof in Brewster’s future?By Mark DionneTown Times

A bucket hangs from the ceiling in Brewster Elementary School’s music room to catch water from a leaky roof. A vote on funding a new roof was discussed by the Board of Education. | Mark Dionne / Town Times

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Organizers of the first Talk of the Towns event were “pretty amazed” at the filled-to-the-brink turnout for their event Nov. 14 as Connie Brown of the Coginchaug Valley Ed-ucational Foundation de-scribed it. CVEF put on the event, which was hosted by Indian Springs Golf Club in Middlefield.

Jen Huddleston, owner of Indian Springs, said she also was impressed with the turn-out, and that the event was a great way to further the CVEF mission of promoting lifelong learning by celebrating “com-munity members doing inter-

esting things.”“Should we do this again?

I’m saying yes,” Brown said with a gesture to the “enor-mous” crowd as she intro-duced the first of four speakers at the event. “We have so many interesting people in our com-munity, an event like this really makes sense,” Brown added.

Durham resident, science enthusiast and educator, and children’s book author Leslie Bulion opened by giving locals the first ever taste of her up-coming book “Random Body Parts: Gross Anatomy Riddles in Verse.”

“Poems are these great little packages of information,” just like insects are “little packages of information full of survival devices,” Bulion said, and go-ing for the “combo package” was how she started writing funny poems about science, with her first book “Hey There Stink Bug.”

Bulion showed off her “in-ner 10-year-old,” as she de-scribed it, by sharing with the group some as-yet unpub-lished poems, like a sonnet about the heart inspired by Shakespeare’s “Shall I com-pare thee to a summer’s day.” Bulion’s version begins “Shall I compare you to a clenched up first? / You are more gloppy, shaped more like a cone.”

Bulion had the audience rolling with laughter with lines like “in the cauldron mix and stew / choice ingredients for our brew.”

The next speakers arrived “looking as if they just stepped off a vintage movie set” as Brown described the get-ups of husband and wife archae-ologist team Colleen and John Darnell.

“What we want to point out is that when we write English, when we form the Latin let-ters, we draw shapes that draw from hieroglyphs that have or-igins in 4250 BCE,” John Dar-nell said.

The Darnells showed the audience drawings discov-ered along ancient Pharonic roads and explained how a symbolic language slowly de-veloped, for example, with a giraffe representing the sun and a stork with a sword in front of its beak representing victory. What we think of as a modern written language, where drawings symbolize sounds, came later, and the Darnells argued that modern characters can trace their or-igins to Egypt. For example, a jagged sign for water wrote the ancient Egyptian letter for “N,” but the word for water was “Mu.” In tracing the early development of the letter “M,” the Darnells say, you can see that it has its origins as this an-cient water sign.

Yale University Department of Emergency Medicine doc-tor Andrew Taylor gave the third talk. In an effort to spare the audience from dry re-

First ‘Talk’ event filled to capacityBy Charles KreutzkampTown Times

Indian Springs Golf Club was packed to the seams with guests eager to hear the first Talk of the Towns. | Photos by Charles Kreutzkamp / Town Times

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Solar farm left off Wetlands’ agenda

Durham residents inter-ested in the proposed solar farm showed up at the Inland Wetlands and Water Courses Agency’s Nov. 17 meeting only to find that the subject was not on the agenda.

Before the official meet-ing was called to order, Chair Richard Eriksen explained that the solar farm was not on the agenda and would not be until the town presented an application.

Eriksen did not commit to holding a public hearing but told the residents it was something the agency would do if the members decided the public interest merited one.

Only Rick Parmelee, who did not hear the initial re-marks, brought the issue up during public comment.

“The application has not been received by this com-mission,” Eriksen said. “Once we’ve received the applica-tion and a presentation by the applicant ... we will de-

termine at that point whether there will be a public hearing or not and then we will go from there.”

“It’s probably best to save all your comments ... so you don’t have to reinvent the

wheel down the road,” Erik-sen told the audience.

At the Durham Board of Selectmen meeting on Nov. 10, First Selectman Laura Francis told the residents who showed up with con-cerns and complaints about the solar farm that it would be on the Inland Wetlands’ Nov. 17 agenda.

Inland Wetlands Agency members, including Eriksen, had also expected the issue to come up at the Nov. 17 meet-ing and the date was reported in the Town Times.

The next meeting for the Inland Wetlands Agency is Dec. 8. After Inland Wet-lands, the solar farm would have to go to Planning and Zoning, also chaired by Erik-sen. P&Z can also hold a pub-lic hearing if the members decide it is warranted.

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More people than usual showed up at the Nov. 17 meeting of the Inland Wetlands Agency, only to find the reason for their attendance, the proposed solar farm, was not under discussion. | Mark Dionne / Town Times

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“Voters had their say on Nov. 4 and now we must au-dit the machine totals from the general election so we can

ensure the accuracy of our optical scanners,” said Sec-retary Merrill, Connecticut’s chief elections official. “I am so happy to involve the won-derful 2nd graders from Gil-ead Hill School in Hebron in

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Secretary Merrill added, “Our prediction of 55 percent voter turnout for the general election on Nov. 4, 2014 seems to be spot on. I am very en-couraged to see that nearly 14,000 Connecticut citizens became new voters because

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For the first year, Re-gional School District 13 is a member of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Ed-ucation, a paid membership approved in the 2014-2015

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CABE recommended orga-nizational changes based on a “Connecticut Lighthouse” framework, which, accord-ing to its website, asked the questions, “Do some school boards generate higher

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Some of those “patterns of organizational behavior” include more structured committees, better public communication, stronger rec-ognition and development of staff talent, and a school cul-ture committed to safety and the Core Ethical Values.

Some of the potential changes are simple, such as the BOE publicly commit-ting to the Core Ethical Val-ues with statements and on agendas.

Speaking of using the dis-trict’s Core Ethical Values as a goal for all members of the school community, Ve-ronesi said, “It’s something that dictates our expecta-tions throughout the district in terms of how people carry themselves.”

There are plenty of oppor-tunities to recognize staff tal-ent, according to Veronesi.

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The board was also in-structed by CABE to stick to a time line, build consensus, and find “common language” regarding the budget process, which has already begun for 2015-2016.

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On my recent trip to North Carolina to visit my son, I was struck by what a new world we’re living in now. In days of old, I was never at a loss for traveling companions. People at the airport, on the plane – they were all fair game. I would strike up a conversation with everybody, and it was such fun. It’s probably the reporter in me, but I want to hear peoples’ stories. I try not to ask so many ques-tions, but that’s a losing bat-tle. Where are you going? Where have you been? Tell me about your life. I listen for the nuances in their voice. I listen for the places in their life that they love, and the places that hurt. For that brief period of time I walk in their shoes and get to experience another slice of life other than the one I’m living. We swap stories, we sometimes talk about

deep and meaningful things and sometimes silly things, we laugh. Hearts opening and lives touching each other before retreating back to their corners. By the time I reach my son, I am filled to the brim with peoples’ stories. And the narrators of those stories all carved me a little deeper, they grew me.

Oh, but not so much any-more. On the plane that took me to Philadelphia, where I would get a con-necting flight, instead of the quiet hum of voices there was an eerie silence because nearly everyone was entranced with their electronic gadgets. I live a simple life, having never been drawn into this partic-ular world, so I really was on the outside looking in. It all seemed a bit sad to me, people sitting shoul-

The lost art of conversation

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A woman recently said to me, “This time of year must be very hard for you.” Her statement brought tears to my eyes because of the truth in accepting that our pain is worse at this time of year. That is hard to comprehend because we have learned that missing Brenna is hard on days that end with “y” and moments when there is breath in our bodies. Our re-ality is that all the moments without her hurt and if it wasn’t that way, it would be even worse.

We understand that anni-versaries are significant. But December 22nd should not be marked only as the day we lost her. We have decided as a family that we need to do something constructive to honor her. Grieving for Brenna is a constant thing in our lives, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to talk

about her. It means that to survive, we need to keep her memory alive, do things that honor the person she was in the short time she was here, and carry on with the perse-verance she taught us.

To foster Brenna’s legacy, we have partnered with the Smilow Pediatric Cancer Center to create Bean’s Craft Corner. This initiative is in addition to giving out scholarships at CRHS and supporting local organiza-tions like GO FAR GO FAST. We are creating Bean’s Craft Corner to honor her cour-age and tenacity and at the same time, help kids who are fighting cancer.

We are asking for your help to stock Bean’s Craft Corner. When kids with cancer are receiving chemo at Yale, Bean’s Craft Corner will keep them busy. It is hard to emphasize enough

how important staying busy is to a child hooked up to chemo or to parents clinging to sanity as they engage their sick child. Even though Bean was sick, she was active, bright, and strong-minded enough to assemble toy cars, make sticker mosaics into unicorns, paint anything that had a surface, and create her own masterpieces. We can’t imagine how much more painful those hours would have been without crafts and games to keep Brenna focused on something other than her cancer.

When people talk about Brenna with us, it’s a gift. It shows us that you care about her in the present tense and that you remem-ber her. Because the 2nd anniversary of her death is upon us, we are asking for your help in remembering Bean in a way that will help others. We are asking you, our friends and constant supporters, for crayons, markers, paper, crafts, puz-zles, and small games to give to the kids who are fight-ing their own battles with cancer. Kids with cancer cannot share craft supplies or games because of germs, so we need to stock up to last all year. We plan to ask you every year at this time so that we can do something to help others in memory of Brenna. Please help us keep her memory alive by helping these families do something she loved.

Brenna was here to teach us about something big-ger than ourselves. Please help us honor our brave and amazing little girl this holi-day season.

We will be at the Middle-field Tree Lighting Cere-mony at 4 p.m. on November 28th to collect donations. Memorial Middle School is also collecting items to support our cause. Lastly, we will have a box set up in our driveway in case anyone would like to drop some-thing off.

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Remember when …Remember when Durham

had a video rental store and a diner on the south end of Main Street?

Remember when Middle-field’s Peckham Park did not have a playscape?

Remember when there were two more houses and apartments behind them next to the Durham Firehouse?

Remember when Middle-fielders argued for a decade over whether to re-use or knock down Center School?

Well, things change. Now where the video store was, we have the Durham Village complex and the commercial center containing Perk on Main, Durham Liquors and Coginchaug Family Practice.

Now, Peckham Park not only has a well-used play-scape but a skateboard facil-ity also.

Now, only one house re-mains, and it has been vacant for over 15 years.

Now, the community regu-larly gathers for meetings, se-nior center activities, youth and family service activities, planning and zoning offices and police needs in the refur-bished space.

I have only been a resi-dent of Durham for about 25 years, but there are folks still here who can tell you about the Swarthell Inn that used to be on the corner of Route 147 and Main Street where Valero now stands or the winter that the Zemel brothers brought skiing to Middlefield.

These are only four of a vast array of changes that the past 25 years has brought to our towns, but it is a foretaste of the future. Our towns will change, as will the world, and those possible changes hold both peril and promise. That’s why Cogin-chaug Area Transition (CAT) will be inviting all interested townspeople to a celebra-tion gathering this spring to honor where we have been, and to think about, as a com-munity, where we would like to go.

Most assuredly, we will go somewhere. Would you like to see walking/biking trails somewhere in our towns? More sidewalks? Where? Do you think that traffic is a problem in our towns? If so, what would you do to al-leviate it? What would you like to see on the two sizable vacant pieces of land on Durham’s Main Street (north of Valero’s and the former Merriam Manufacturing cleaned-up brownfields site). How can we support our lo-cal businesses, including our remaining farms? Should we encourage denser housing? Why or why not? How can we support living with less energy or should we even try? How can we reduce our solid waste stream?

In short, what do you see looking into the future? Most people have probably seen the New York Times front page masthead statement:

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Prov-erbs 29:18. While perishing is a bit dramatic, there will certainly be changes and they will come faster than we think. CAT’s “Spring into Our Future” celebration in late March will give towns-people of all ages a chance to weigh in on what you’d like our future to hold and perhaps even to move it in that direction through citi-zen action.

CAT’s next program is a book discussion led by Kathy Weber and Joanne Nytch on the novel “Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver. Ev-eryone is welcome to attend this discussion, whether or not you have read the book. The program will be held at 7 pm on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at Perk on Main. Refresh-ments provided. Like Cogin-chaug Area Transition on Facebook for updates.

By Sue VanDerzee

Finding common elements in contemporary movies is Diagnosis Movies’ specialty. This fall, Gone Girl and St. Vincent bring villains into play. No one is all good and no one is all bad, or are they?

Anyone who has read Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl knows the head trip the novel sets off with

Who’s the villain? Gone Girl vs. St. Vincent

By Tanya Feke MD

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its dark and twisted turns told in the voice of its two lead characters, Amy and Nick Dunne. Did Nick kill his wife? Did he abuse his wife, threaten her? Was she as chaste and innocent as her journal claimed her to be? Or was she hiding her own dark secret? The page-turner delivered riveting suspense.

When the book was op-tioned for film, there was excitement but also trepida-tion. Bringing books to the screen is not always success-ful. The essence of so many intense scenes is often lost when they are condensed into two short hours. That anxiety went away when Gillian Flynn herself wrote the screenplay, and David Fincher signed on to di-rect. If that isn’t a master-ful stroke of genius, I don’t know what is. Congrats to Twentieth Century Fox and

Regency Enterprises.Simply put, Gone Girl

delivered the edginess the audience demanded with a spot on cast. Ben Affleck as Nick was stiff and awk-ward, raising our suspicions about his motives, while Rosamund Pike as Amy was deviant and devastatingly haunting. Tyler Perry as a sleazy lawyer and Neil Pat-rick Harris as one of Amy’s former lovers were equally convincing in their flawed Gone Girl personas.

After all, no one is really a saint, not even St. Vin-cent. Who better to play a cantankerous veteran with a stripper girlfriend, alcoholic tendencies, and a gambling problem than Bill Murray? Dripping with sarcasm, Vincent wears his distaste for his fellow man like the oily sushi, (a.k.a. sardines on crackers) he offers his unwanted house guests. Vin-cent is not the sort of man to do for others. His instinct is

to walk away unless there is something in it for him, but what he learns is that there are some things worth stick-ing around for.

Melissa McCarthy breaks from her comedy roots to play a mother who leaves her cheating husband to raise their child on her own. She finds herself needing help when she is forced to work late hours at work. With nowhere to turn, she looks to her neighbor Vin-cent to babysit, not expect-ing that her middle-school aged son would form a bond with a man who can only be considered a bad influ-ence. The story starts with brisk delivery and devil-ishly raw character devel-

opment, but the predictable softening of Vincent over time feels forced and breaks from the heart of the title character. Entertaining, yes, but St. Vincent follows the pattern of every adult-child buddy comedy we have seen before.

The take home message comes in our lead charac-ters. Looks can be deceiving. What looks innocent can be guilty, what looks mean can be kind, what looks obvious can be hidden. Life is never black and white, and none of us, no matter how well we present ourselves to the world, are saints. Just like none of us, no matter how misunderstood or damaged we are, are necessarily vil-

lains. Well, except for that one lead character. That one is evil. You will have to watch the movies to find out which one is the culprit.

Gone Girl: 4 stethoscopes.

St. Vincent: 3 stethoscopes.

Dr. Tanya Feke is a family physician and guest columnist for the Record-Journal and Town Times. She has been press credentialed to the LA Film Festival and continues to pursue a love of film. Her re-views are rated on a 5 stetho-scope scale. Follow her blog (www.tanyafeke.com), Face-book page (Diagnosis Life), or twitter (@tanyafeke) for more insights.

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The National Honor Society of Coginchaug Regional High School has scheduled a leaf re-moval fundraiser. A team of three or four honor society students will be sent to help residents clean up leaves. A fee is charged.

Proceeds benefit the Veteran’s Home in Rocky Hill as part of the a statewide NHS initiative.

For more information and to schedule a team, call Coginchaug High School at (860) 349-7215 or email [email protected].

NHS Leaf Clean UpDurham Recreation has

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der-to-shoulder, with nary a spoken word between them. The woman sitting next to me was engrossed with her toy, and I knew from the get-go that there would be no swapping of stories, no climbing into each other’s lives for that short bit of time. She was still a stranger to me by the time we landed. On my connecting flight it was the same scene. Everyone was plugged into something or other. I felt like I was in a futuristic movie, living in a world I hadn’t caught up with yet.

Imagine my delight when, on that flight, I found my-self sitting next to a lovely man who was gadget-free and ready to talk. He talked about his life in the mili-tary and how hard it had been to leave his family when he went to Iraq. He talked about his current job working with veterans, and how that job fills him up. He talked about his grown chil-dren, and you could almost reach out and touch the love and the pride.

And my good fortune fol-lowed me home. More talk-

ers! On the first plane I sat next to a man whose heart had been torn to shreds when his wife, the love of his life, had a cerebral hem-orrhage while riding on the back of his motorcycle. She suffered irreparable damage and is now in a long-term care facility. He’s trying to live life as best he can.

On the second plane I was next to a young man from Missouri who had an inter-view the next day at Yale for a position as a resident in the pathology depart-

ment, and we talked about how grueling life is for a medical student, and how happy he will be to spend his days in a lab, just his microscope and him. It felt good to sit next to someone with his whole life ahead of him, with his dreams firmly in place.

So please, if you ever find yourself sitting next to me on a plane, leave your elec-tronics in your carry-on. And tell me your story. For that short while let’s not be strangers.

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search and endless charts and graphs, Taylor said, he chose to focus on “Bridging the di-vide between the patient and the doctor by looking at how doctors think.”

One of the biggest way to help your doctor treat you effectively, Taylor said, is to open your mouth. Doctors need to know all of your symp-toms to help them come up with a theory as to what is ail-ing you, and it also helps with “a big movement in medicine right now called shared deci-sion making,” in which doc-tors seek to involve patients more heavily with their own

care and with understanding the risks and benefits asso-ciated with various tests and treatments.

The process of differential diagnosis, Taylor explained, mainly involves coming up with a list of possible diagno-ses and trying to “keep the bad ones at the top and the not so bad ones at the bottom.” Doc-tors often start with trying to eliminate the most severe or life-threatening possible causes of symptoms first, Tay-lor explained. “That’s a big thing for the E.R.,” Taylor said. “If you go home and I don’t know what you have but I rule out all the really bad stuff, I’m kind of happy.”

Taylor also told attendees not to be embarrassed about coming into the E.R. if they need care. “I have seen every-thing. I’ve seen the worst in people and I’ve seen the best in people. We aren’t going to make any judgments on you,” Taylor said, so don’t hesitate to come in if you have “a huge butt abscess” or some other unusual malady.

Volcano chaser Joop Va-rekamp rounded out the

presentation by sharing his globe-trotting adventures with volcanoes and some beautiful but deadly volcano lakes. Va-rekamp recounted how he stumbled upon some amaz-ing looking lakes in 1989 and took a stunning photograph of one turquoise, one reddish brown, and one black lake in Indonesia. “I thought perhaps I had made a major discov-ery,” Varekamp said, until he saw the lakes printed on the back of the 5000 rupiah bill. Though he was not the first to discover the lakes of Keli-mutu, Varekamp’s work has been cited hundreds of times by other scholars.

Volcanic lakes, Varekamp said, are “the heartbeat of the volcano,” and by study-ing them you can understand what is going on below. Some of the lakes are as acidic as battery acid, and others have enormous concentrations of toxic substances like arsenic, though some lakes are safer than others. Studying volca-noes is not without its hazards, as one may encounter white-hot gas streams or fumes of pure Hydrogen Chloride gas. “The sinuses have never felt so good,” Varekamp quipped.

CVEF was founded in 2008 with the mission of promoting excellence in education and lifelong learning in the com-munities of Middlefield and Durham. According to CVEF member Liz Conroy, the orga-nization has already awarded an impressive number of grants for various commu-nity projects. “It’s your money coming back into the commu-nity to do great things for kids and adults,” Conroy said.

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Mary Grace Fiondella sang a solo of “Simple Gifts.” The Concert Choir honors veterans by singing “God Bless America” backed by a video montage.

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Coginchaug Area Transition has sched-uled a book discussion for Wednesday, Dec. 3, 7 p.m. at Perk on Main, 6 Main St.

The book to be dis-cussed is the novel “Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver. The book can be borrowed through the state li-brary system. Local book group members and in-terested individuals are invited to participate. The program is free.

The Coginchaug Area Transition group sup-ports and works toward finding ways to be more resilient and live a more sustainable lifestyle.

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Library Programs

Levi E. Coe LibraryLibrary hours: Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.;

Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; closed Fridays.

ProgramsFriday, Nov. 28 - First Night. Levi E. Coe is scheduled to

participate in Middlefield’s second annual First Night. Story-time and craft, then attend the tree lighting. Drop-in.

Saturday, Nov. 29 - Snowflake ornaments, 11 a.m. Make an ornament. Registration is required.

Winter Celebration - Thursday, Dec. 4, 5:50 to 7 p.m. Books are on display and available to purchase for the children’s room collection at Levi E. Coe Library. Librarians choose a selection of books. Patrons browse the books to determine which they would like to donate. They purchase the dona-tions, take them home and wrap them.

Books are returned to the library on Thursday, Dec. 4 during the Winter Celebration program and presented to Santa Claus as a gift to the library.

A bookplate is placed inside each donated book in appre-ciation of the purchase. Registration is required. For more information and to register, call (860) 349-3857.

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Programs for young adultsSuper Smash Bros. Brawl league (ages 12 to 18). Every

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of Election Day registration. That is a remarkable num-ber we can all be proud of because it shows we have expanded Democracy signifi-cantly and many new voters participated in elections this year. I commend municipali-ties across the state for doing a good job accommodating the crowds of first-time vot-ers to register and cast ballots on Election Day.”

The post-election audits can begin as of Nov. 19 and must be completed by Nov. 24, 2014. In total, audits will be conducted in 60 precincts. The law requires a hand audit 10 percent of all polling places where optical scan machines were used in all elections and primaries. (Polling precincts which are already part of a recount are exempt from au-dits by statute). In addition to the 77 precincts chosen for an audit, there were also 23 alternate precincts chosen. The provisions in the law, de-veloped in close cooperation with the computer science department at the University of Connecticut, give Con-necticut one of the strictest audit statutes in the country. Connecticut is the first state in New England to require a comprehensive audit of elec-tion results.

Connecticut General Stat-ute 9-320f states that local Registrars of Voters, “… shall conduct a manual audit of the votes recorded in not less than 10 percent of the voting districts in the state, district or municipality, whichever is applicable. Such manual audit shall be noticed in advance and be open to public obser-vation.” The results of audits will be analyzed by the Uni-versity of Connecticut and then presented to the Secre-tary of the State’s Office and the State Elections Enforce-ment Commission, and ulti-mately made available to the public.

The law contains a de-tailed description of the au-dit process:

“The manual audit… shall consist of the manual tabula-tion of the paper ballots cast and counted by each voting machine subject to such au-dit. Once complete, the vote totals established pursuant to the manual tabulation shall

be compared to the results reported by the voting ma-chine on the day of the elec-tion or primary. The results of the manual tabulation shall be reported on a form pre-scribed by the Secretary of the State which shall include the total number of ballots counted, the total votes re-ceived by each candidate in question, the total votes re-ceived by each candidate in question on ballots that were properly completed by each voter and the total votes re-ceived by each candidate in question on ballots that were

not properly completed by each voter. Such report shall be filed with the Secretary of the State who shall immedi-ately forward such report to The University of Connecti-cut for analysis. The Univer-sity of Connecticut shall file a written report with the Sec-retary of the State regarding such analysis that describes any discrepancies identified. After receipt of such report, the Secretary of the State shall file such report with the State Elections Enforcement Commission.”

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St. James ChurchSt. James Church has sched-

uled its annual tag sale for Saturday, Nov. 22, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 23, 9 a.m. to noon. Items include collectibles, antiques, jew-elry, kitchenware and more. The Cafe will offer breakfast sandwiches, baked goods and beverages Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon. Proceeds benefit a health clinic in Bawa, Camer-oon, Africa.

Thanksgiving service An ecumenical Thanksgiv-

ing service is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 25, 7 p.m., at The Middlefield Federated Church. The Rev. Diana M. Rogers, from the Church of the Epiph-any, is scheduled to preach. All are welcome.

Deadline for news submissions to Town Times is Monday, by 5 p.m., for consideration for the following edition.

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Coginchaug Regional High School Project Graduation has scheduled a holiday wreath sale. Or-ders will be taken at the homecoming football game, Powder Puff foot-ball game and Thanksgiv-ing day game. For more information and to order, call Pat Fontaine@[email protected].

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Senior Happenings

The Middlefield Senior Center has scheduled holi-day desserts and entertain-ment for Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1 to 2:30 p.m. Ron Spataro, a professional keyboard player and vocalist, is scheduled to entertain.

The Middlefield Senior Center has scheduled a hol-iday dinner for Wednesday, Dec. 17, at noon. Reserva-tions are required. Seating is limited.

For more information and reservations, call (860) 349-7121 to reserve your spot.

Don’t let food borne illness ruin your holiday spiritDid you know that every

year, approximately 48 million people suffer from food-borne illness? According to the Con-necticut Department of Public Health, holiday buffets, party trays or even a poorly stored turkey can be a culprit of dis-ease. As you prepare for the holiday season with family and friends, the Central Con-necticut Health District is urging you to keep your loved ones safe through safe food handling practices.

Preventing food-borne ill-ness can be as simple as fol-lowing four basic steps: clean, separate, cook, and chill. The first step refers to practicing good hygiene, as being clean is extremely important in pre-venting food-borne illness. All surfaces, cutting boards, utensils, and dishes should be

washed often with hot, soapy water.

Personal cleanliness is also a must for food safety. Hands should be washed for at least 20 seconds in hot, soapy wa-ter before, during, and after food preparation. This is es-pecially important after pre-paring meat, poultry, eggs, or seafood; after using the bath-room or changing diapers; and after handling pets.

Stuffing should be prepared just before cooking. However, using a cold stuffing can make it more difficult for the tur-

key to reach the safe internal temperature of 165 degrees F. Stuff the turkey loosely to allow even cooking and only stuff with ¾ cup per pound of turkey.

Once the meal has been safely prepared and served, the final step in ensuring food safety is to chill. During food preparation, fresh pro-duce needs to be refrigerated within two hours of peeling or cutting. At the end of the meal be sure to wrap and store the left-over food in the refriger-ator right away. Divide cooked

foods into shallow containers to store in order to encourage rapid, even cooling. When it’s time to eat those leftovers, keep in mind that stuffing and gravy can be refriger-ated safely for two days and cooked turkey and vegetables can be stored in the refriger-ator for four days (or frozen for storage up to four to six months). Always remember to reheat meat to 165 degrees F. If food is not refrigerated within the safe time limits, it should be discarded. When in doubt, throw it out!

Finally, do not cook if you are feeling sick, especially not if you recently experi-enced vomiting or diarrhea. Many food borne illnesses can be transmitted through a food handler, even if they have washed their hands. If you are or were recently ill, rest while someone else does the cooking.

By employing safe food han-dling practices, families and friends can enjoy the holidays together without concern.

—Submitted by the Central Connecticut Health District

Government Meetings

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The Church of the Holy Trinity has scheduled its an-nual holiday fair for Saturday, Dec. 6, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 381 Main St., Middletown. The fair will be held on the first and second floors of the Parish Hall and the Church, with elevator access to the second floor.

For more information, call Taylor Duckworth at (860) 342-3800, or the Holy Trinity office at (860) 347-2591, or email [email protected].

Crafters wanted

Senior Services for Durham and Middlefield and St. Luke’s Community Services of Middletown are part-nering in recruiting volunteers who would like to help local elderly individuals remain at home and maintain a good quality of life by providing visitation, grocery shopping or transportation to out-of-town medical appointments. Volunteers can choose to help one or more individuals for just a few hours a month, as there is no minimum time requirement. To register, call Cas-sandra Aronson at (860) 999-1683 or [email protected].

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CalendarFriday, Nov. 21

Being Thankful Dinner - Vinal Technical High School, 60 Daniles St., Middletown, has scheduled a Being Thankful Dinner for Friday, Nov. 21, 5 to 7:30 p.m., in the school cafeteria. A fee, and canned good donation, is charged. Family fun, crafts, activities, and decorate a turkey. For more information, call (860) 344-7100.

Saturday, Nov. 22Cat Tales - Cat Tales has

scheduled a fundraising event for Saturday, Nov. 22, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Lady-bug Boutique, 122 College St., Middletown. A portion of proceeds benefit Cat Tales.

Christmas Fair - St. Peter Church, 30 St. Peter Lane, Higganum, has scheduled a County Christmas Fair for Saturday, Nov. 22, 9 a.m. The event features antiques, knitters nook, doll clothes, wreathes, trees and Santa’s Gift Shop. Lunch items and a bake sale will be offered. An auction is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Santa plans to arrive at noon. Call Bill Fitzpatrick at (860) 345-4910.

Craft sale, tag sale - A Christmas Craft fair and in-

door tag sale is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 22, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Victory Christian Church, 191 Meriden Road, Middlefield. Crafts, baked goods, artisan goods as well as a large tag sale.

Sunday, Nov. 23Wildlife program - Con-

necticut Forest & Park Assoc. has scheduled a free wildlife program, The Wildlife in Your Backyard, for Sunday, Nov. 23, 2 to 4 p.m. The program is free, open to the public, and appropriate for ages 10 to adult. Pre-registraiton is requested. For more informa-tion, to register and direction, visit www.ctwoodlands.org/SciSunWildlife.

Fundraiser - The Durham Historical Society has sched-uled a Thirty-One party fund-raiser for Sunday, Nov. 23, 2 p.m., at 38 Town House Road. The public is wel-come. For more information, call (860) 716-5497.

Tuesday, Nov. 25Thanksgiving service -

An ecumenical Thanksgiv-ing service is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 25, 7 p.m., at The Middlefield Federated Church. The Rev. Diana M.

Rogers, from the Church of the Epiphany, is scheduled to preach. All are welcome.

Saturday, Nov. 29Craft, bake sale - Middle-

sex YMCA has scheduled its Holiday Craft & Bake sale for Saturday, Nov. 29, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 99 Union St., Middletown. Children may visit with Santa. Proceeds benefit scholarships for camp, swim lessons, pro-grams and more.

Trunk show - Colors of the Wind Artists’ Emporium & Consignments, 360 Main St., has scheduled a dual trunk show/meet the artists event on Saturday, Nov. 29, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more infor-mation, call (860) 788-2514.

Wednesday, Dec. 3Book talk - Coginchaug

Area Transition has sched-uled a book discussion of “Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver, for Wednesday, Dec. 3, 7 p.m., at Perk on Main, Main Street. The pro-gram is free. For more infor-mation, call (860) 349-9713.

Ladies Night - Colors of the Wind Artists’ Emporium & Consignments, 360 Main St., has scheduled Ladies Night for Wednesday, Dec. 3, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Shopping, mingling and refreshments. For more information, call (860) 788-2514.

Thursday, Dec. 4Holiday shopping spree

- The Middlefield Lions Club has scheduled its annual Holiday Shopping Spree for Thursday, Dec. 4, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Powder Ridge, 99 Powder Hill Road. The pub-lic is welcome. A portion of sales is donated to the Mid-dlefield Lions Club.

Saturday, Dec. 6Holiday Fair - The

Church of the Holy Trin-ity has scheduled its annual Holiday Fair for Saturday, Dec. 6, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 381 Main St. For more informa-tion, call (860) 342-3800, (860) 347-2591 or email [email protected].

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SportsDEVILS HONOR, HONORED

Saturday proved to be a big day for Coginchaug football, as the team honored two veterans and the Blue Devils were able to recognize their seniors en route to a 36-7 Senior Day victory over the Nonnewaug Chiefs. Senior captain Jake Ober led a steady offensive attack throughout the contest, while defensive stalwarts Eric Sbona, Connor Salva, Jordan

Cowles, Kevin Crompton, Jordan Solis and Andrew Van Steenbergen all contributed to the Blue Devil success. Prior to kickoff, the football team recognized Tech Sergeant Derek Egerman and Staff Sergeant Andrew DiSilvestro for their service. The two also served as honorary captains, joining the Blue Devil captains at midfield for the coin toss. The Coginchaug Football

Club also recognized 15 senior players and two senior cheerleaders for their commitments to the Blue Devils football and cheerleading programs. Coginchaug will play its final game of the regular season on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 27 at 10 a.m. The home game against Cromwell will also serve as the second annual “Homes for the Brave Bowl”. | Submitted by Rita Van Steenbergen

The Coginchaug foot-ball team will host the sec-ond annual “Homes for the Brave Bowl” on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 27 at 10 a.m. at the Coginchaug football field. The Coginchaug and Crom-well football teams, in part-nership with the Homes for the Brave transitional hous-ing program in Bridgeport, have dedicated their tradi-tional Thanksgiving Day game to combating home-lessness among America’s military veterans.

The Homes for the Brave program provides hous-ing, vocational training, job placement, mental health and addiction services, and life skills coaching to home-less veterans from across the state. The staff at Homes for the Brave is dedicated to helping every veteran realize his or her goals for housing, employment, and indepen-dent living.

Fans are encouraged to give thanks to the most vulnera-ble of our veterans by donat-ing goods and/or money at the game. Canned goods and new clothes and toiletries for men and women are appreci-ated. A complete “wish list” of needed items can be found on the Homes for The Brave website at www.homesforth-ebrave.org.

Last year, over $600 and 100 pounds of wish list items were donated to the cause.

Donations will be accepted

from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on game day this year.

Both the Coginchaug and Cromwell football programs look forward to your support, and thank you in advance for helping to support Homes for the Brave.

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Coginchaug walked away victorious in last season’s first annual Homes for the Brave Bowl over Cromwell.

| Submitted by Rita Van Steenbergen

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Life transitions can take us by surprise, or be part of a well laid plan. Either way, change has many forms:children are born, adult children move out, in-laws move in, couples divide, families relocate and so on. Whileour needs change, we all share the desire to make a house a home. Consider your own needs as you read the

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“On a personal note, I am grateful for the invaluable talents of my coworkers at The Huscher Group.”Sherri Ahern, Realtor - Susan Volenec, Realtor - Ellen Paklos, Realtor - Sue Camolli, Realtor - Deb Dumont, Marketing Assistant - Jennifer Schulten, Photographer

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Blue Hills Rd MLS G691535 We are thankful for the nature...the birds at the feeders, the frogs by the pond, the streams in the woods, the deer in the fields. And the memories of raising our boys here...priceless. A wonderful place for fam-ily and friends.

James Rd MLS G687527 We are thankful for the house that we designed and built 35 years ago at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. We are also thankful for our recently remodeled kitchen that gave us much pleasure. We will miss our home that is surrounded by beautiful trees and gardens and the friends that we are leaving behind in Durham.

Ivy Way MLS G701108We are thankful for our quiet cul-de-sac setting, great neighbors and our nice open yard. The floor plan is very open and comfortable for our family gather-ings. Durham is a great community to have made many special memories.

Miller Rd MLS G687622When the home is a good one, it reads like a good book. As dwellers of the David Miller home over the past decade, we have had the distinct pleasure of en-joying this beautiful home. We have held its place in time and throughout, have progressed through its pag-es and written our own story. We are truly thankful.

Baileyville Rd MLS G699908 We are extremely grateful to have raised our children in the town of Middlefield. We are thankful for all the wonderful memories of the gatherings we have had around our din-ing room table. And to all the outings and picnics in our beautiful yard.

Harvey Rd MLS G699294 In this hectic world, we are thankful to have a place to retreat and renew, to sit outside and listen to na-ture. To watch our children and grandkids explore our acres of land and hike the miles of available trails. Thankful for the opportunity to savor each moment together in this special, peaceful place.

Green Lane MLS G698419 We feel eternally grateful for our beautiful home and the privacy it offers. Thankful for the 16 years of joy-filled holiday gatherings that we experienced, with warm fires, warm ovens and the warmth of friends and family all around us.

Main St MLS G679395We are very thankful to have been asked to put our house on the Candle-light Home so that we can share it with you on December 14th! We proudly support the CRHS music program.

Higganum Rd, MLS G694781 We are thankful for all the great rooms and ver-satile kitchen our house provides for entertaining family and friends. And grateful for having a large master suite to retreat afterwards. Our favorite spot being sitting on the balcony either early mornings or late at night overlooking nature and the skyline.

Haddam Quarter Rd MLSG694781 I love, and will truly miss, how our home embraces us with a kind of solid security and familiar comfort. The massive rock around the fireplaces, the uncommonly wide, thick wood beams - these materials and the way they have settled with one another over the past 200+ years give off both warmth and the feeling that the house grew out of the ground itself. Last but not least, I am truly thankful to be able to walk or hop on our bikes to visit the market, Dairy Serve or the Fair.

Middlefield Rd MLS G694647 This house has been known as a homestead for centuries and has protected families and provided well known parties for family and local Durham events. Many great family holidays have been served out of the thoughtfully designed kitchen with this motto in mind “A family that cooks and eats together is thankful in heaven.”

Austin Rd MLS G694965 I am grateful for the addition that cre-ated a large master suite, 2 car garage and a front porch for relaxing. I’m also thankful for our nice fenced in back-yard so the dogs can play freely.

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