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Adoptable Pets ............... 8Classifieds ...................... 7Community Calendar ...... 2Fire Log .......................... 2In Brief ........................... 4Library Happenings ......... 2

Nuggets for Life ............. 6Obituaries ...................... 5Puzzles........................... 7Region 15 Calendar ....... 3Senior Center News ........ 3Sports Quiz .................... 6

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church of st. Leo the great Indoor Flea market & tag saleWhen: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. What: 24 vendors, refreshments; to benefit church scholarship fund.Where: 14 Bentwood Drive in Waterbury (off Pierpoint Road). For directions, call 203-574-9761.

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Boy scout troop 444 Annual Flower saleWhen: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. What: Assorted potted flowers on saleWhere: Shepardson Community Center, 1172 Whittemore Road, Middlebury

friday & SaturdayMarch 29 & 30

By MARJORIE NEEDHAM

Earth Hour rolls around Saturday, March 23, at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Stan-dard Time. The event, with a motto of “Uniting People to Protect the Planet,” asks participants to turn off their lights for one hour. The website, earth-hour.org, explains the event be-gan in 2007 – in Sydney, Austra-lia – with 2.2 million residents and 2,100 businesses participat-ing. The event, a global environ-mental initiative in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund, invites individuals, businesses, governments and communities to turn out their lights for one hour Saturday March 23, 2013, at 8:30 p.m. to show their support for environmentally sustainable action.

In addition, Earth Hour’s “I Will If You Will” concept invites individuals and organizations to challenge others to an ongoing environmental commitment be-yond the hour. Earth Hour began in one city in one country and by 2012 involved hundreds of mil-lions of people in 152 countries across every continent in what some call “the world’s largest campaign for the planet.”

At least one local business will participate. Middlebury’s Pies & Pints will turn off the lights for the hour. It also will offer acous-tic music. Co-owner Theo Anas-tasiadis said he was aware of the event and thought it was worth participating. “I think people will enjoy having dinner by candle-light and listening to acoustic music,” he said. He noted this is another effort by the business to give something back to the com-munity and, in this case, give something back to the Earth.

This reporter has participated in the past and will participate again this year. Turning lights back on after an hour of candle-light was a jarring experience for us, and others may feel the same.

In 2012, when the event had grown to include 6,950 cities and towns in 152 countries, organiz-ers launched the “I Will If You Will” (IWIYW) campaign, with more than 200,000 individuals accepting a challenge at You-Tube.com/EarthHour. IWIYW asks everyone around the globe to share what they are willing to do to save the planet and what they’d expect done in return.

The action could be big or small; it might be a simple life-style change or something that leads to political change. It might require 10 people to do some-thing, or 10,000. The point is that “I Will If You Will” allows anybody – from a kid in a classroom to a president of a nation – to become the inspiration to their friends, family, colleagues and commu-nities by sharing what they’re willing to do to protect the planet.

Examples of this year’s chal-lenges are one person will stop

celebrate Earth Hour saturday

eating chocolates for a week if 50 people green their balconies, another will go paperless for the rest of the school year if 1,000 people will plant a tree and a third, two DJs, will do aerobic exercises in a park in Bangkok if 1,000 people will turn off their unused electrical appliances each day.

Earth Hour CEO and co-founder Andy Ridley, speaking in February at the media launch of this year’s environmental campaign said, “Earth Hour has always been more than a lights off campaign, and we are now seeing some extraordinary en-vironmental outcomes on the way to achieving our long-term vision.”

An achievement he men-tioned was the Russian parlia-ment passing a law to protect the country’s seas from oil pollution after a petition signed by 120,000 Russians was presented to the government during the “I Will If You Will” campaign last year. Another achievement, this one in Africa, is an effort to plant an Earth Hour Forest to replace trees on deforested land in Uganda. In Botswana, the pres-ident has committed to plant a million trees.

In the U.S., nearly 35,000 Girls Scouts took part in Earth Hour last year through the Save Energy Project and installed 132,141 energy-efficient light bulbs across the country. The impact is a staggering 75,392,654 pounds of CO2 emissions eliminated, equivalent to the CO2 sequestra-tion from planting 7,286 acres of trees per year.

“These outcomes both evi-dence the power of our collective action and the potential for fu-ture outcomes for the environ-ment, generated by hundreds of millions of people coming to-gether as part of the Earth Hour movement,” Ridley said.

Ridley believes that in the face of the threat of an unsustainable future, the grassroots nature of the Earth Hour movement and the can-do attitude of its partic-ipants to mobilize action, are the tipping points helping to deliver real environmental outcomes, both big and small.

“People from all walks of life, from all nations around the world, are the lifeblood of the Earth Hour interconnected global community. They have proven time and time again that if you believe in something strongly enough, you can achieve amazing things. These stories aren’t unique, this is happening all over the world,” he said.

A fresh coat of snow and sleet covers the Middlebury Greenway Tuesday. With the first day of Spring Wednesday, one might have expected snow to stop falling, but weather forecasters at press time were saying we may get even more snow before the weather warms up. (Marjorie Needham photo)

Easter won’t arrive until Sunday, March 31, but the Easter Bunny will visit Middle-bury Saturday, March 23, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., when the Middlebury Junior Women’s Club holds its annual Pancake Breakfast with the Easter Bunny at Shepardson Com-munity Center. Families are invited to in-dulge in freshly cooked pancakes, bacon or sausage, coffee, tea and juice and assorted pastries. Be sure to bring a camera to take pictures of your children with the Easter Bunny!

For this year’s Pancake Breakfast, the MJWC is adding a little something extra: Treats for Troops. This project offers com-munity members an opportunity to give back to troops serving in Afghanistan. Bring donations of troop-requested items, and the MJWC will box and send them overseas. Troop requests include black knee-high socks, toiletries, gum, protein and snack bars, powdered drink mixes, snacks, mag-azines and more. No aerosols please. For more ideas, check out the MJWCs website, www.middleburywomen.com

People also can “sponsor” a box. A do-nation of $50 will cover the cost of filling the box and mailing it. You also can sponsor a half box for $25 and a quarter box for $12.50. While at the breakfast, the children can write letters, color Easter photos and make thank-you cards to include in the box.

Prices are $7 each for 6 and older and $5 each for 2- to 5-year-olds. Children under 2 eat free. There’s a $25 household maxi-mum. The MJWC cannot guarantee a pea-nut-free environment, but they do their best to label anything with nuts. All proceeds from the event support the activities of the Middlebury Junior Women’s club including scholarships for Region 15 students.

The MJWC is planning its Flag Day 5K race for Friday, June 14, at 6:30 p.m. It’s open to both serious racers and pleasure walkers. Race time is 6:30 p.m., but registration opens at 5 p.m. at the Middlebury Volunteer Fire

Department at 65 Tucker Hill Road in Mid-dlebury. The course starts uphill with a gently rolling climb on the Greenway to the town green and then downhill back to the Fire Department. Get an application on the website or contact Elaine Romano at [email protected].

The Middlebury Junior Women’s Club is a group of local women who work to support their community through fundraising ac-tivities such as the Pancake Breakfast, the Flag Day 5K and networking. Profits from

club activities go toward scholarships for Region 15 students, local organizations and nonprofits.

The MJWC always welcomes new mem-bers. The only requirement is a desire to support the community. The next meeting will be Wednesday, April 3, at 7 p.m. at Shep-ardson Community Center. The MJWC meets monthly on the first Wednesday ex-cept during July and August. Follow their activities on Facebook or at www.middle-burywomen.com

Visiting with the Easter Bunny at last year’s Breakfast with the Easter Bunny are, left to right, Sam Crespo, the Easter Bunny and Natalie and Gunnar Miranda.

(Submitted photo)

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Middlebury Community Calendar

Book review“Etiquette & Espionage”

by Gail Carriger

(Little, Brown, $17.99)Reviewed by Ealish Waddell

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is bold, adventurous and, in her mother’s own words, a “cracking great bother.” It’s not really much of a surprise she’d find herself sent to finishing school. It’s the school itself that defies expecta-tion.

To begin with, Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality is an airship suspended under giant balloons above the foggy moors. Its staff includes a vampire and werewolf. The schedule includes classes on not just dancing and deportment, but also deception, poison-making and knife-throw-ing. It turns out the students won’t be the only ones being finished around here.

Sophronia loves it. She makes friends all over the ship, includ-ing a resourceful sootie from the engine room called Soap, and Vieve, a junior mechanical ge-nius. But she makes enemies as well, like the vicious and cagey Monique, who seems to know something about the mysterious missing “prototype” that teach-

ers, pirates and shadowy govern-ment agents alike are after. A semester of schemes and secrets culminates in a covert battle at Sophronia’s first fancy ball, in which all her newfound skills of fan-waving, eyelash-fluttering and villain-vanquishing will be put to the test.

“Etiquette & Espionage” shares the same setting as Car-riger’s earlier “Parasol Protector-ate” series: a pseudo-Victorian steampunky England where the supernatural coexists with the mundane. It’s an inventive and whimsical place populated by people with names like Mrs. Bar-naclegoose and Lord Din-gleproops and peppered with marvels like clockwork butlers, tiny steam-powered pet dachs-hunds and exploding wicker chickens.

With relatable characters, dar-ing escapades and a hint of young romance, this is the first book of a new series that prom-ises to be a lot of fun.

(c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Date Time Address/Incident3/11/13 14:43 161 Algin Drive. Fire alarm activation. Work-

ers on the scene.3/12/13 05:05 78 Dorothy Drive. Smoke in the basement.

Furnace problem.3/12/13 12:13 95 Colonial Ave. Fire alarm activation.

Workers on scene.3/12/13 21:00 49 Birchwood Terrace. Water in the base-

ment caused by sump pump.3/16/13 07:18 11 Nutmeg Road, Apt. B. Fire alarm activa-

tion. False alarm.

middleburyHospice Care Talk

Hospice care nurse Laurie Bar-rett will present an informational seminar about hospice Tuesday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m. Learn a brief history of hospice, who is eligible, who pays, bereavement services and more. Come with your questions! For more infor-mation, call 203-758-2634.

DancemakersThis program will meet Thurs-

day, March 28, at 5:45 p.m. Are you curious about dance? The Brass City Ballet, in partnership with the library, presents “Dancemakers,” a series of FREE multigenerational, inter-ability dance composition workshops.

The workshops are open to the general public ages 5 and up, no dance experience is neces-sary, families are invited to at-tend and canes, walkers and wheelchairs are welcome! Please call the library to sign up.

Non-fiction Book Discussion Group

The non-fiction book to be discussed by the book group Tuesday, April 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the library will be “The Zookeep-er’s Wife” by Diane Ackerman. Please ask for a copy of the book at the circulation desk.

The Middlebury Public Library is temporarily at the Middlebury Timex Building at 199 Park Road Extension, Suite D, in Middle-bury. Call 203-758-2634 or visit www.middleburypubliclibrary.org for more information.

naugatuck Meditation PracticeThe next ongoing meditation

practice will meet Tuesday, March 26, from 6 to 6:45 p.m. in the Reading Room. The group meets every second and fourth Tuesday

It consists of periods of med-itation with time for discussion. Please arrive by 5:50 p.m. as the group starts on time. For more information, call 203-729-4591.

Final Friday MovieThe final Friday at the movies

on March 29 will feature a film requested by you, the audience. Please call the Reference Desk at 203-729-4591 to find out this month’s selection.

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

southburyWednesday Film

The Wednesday afternoon movie March 27 at 1:30 p.m. in the Kingsley Meeting Room fo-

cuses on a literary “steal.” It’s a story about a writer at the peak of his success who discovers the steep price he must pay for ap-propriating another’s work. Three authors, played by Dennis Quaid, Bradley Cooper and Jer-emy Irons, figure in the twisty plot.

The room’s surround sound theater has an infrared listening system available. For more in-formation, call 203-262-0626.

Connecticut, Slavery and the Civil War

As part of the library’s program-ming commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Dr. Matthew Warshauer will discuss the impact slavery and the Civil War had on Connecticut Wednes-day, April 3, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Kingsley Room. Warshauer is a professor of history at Central Connecticut State University.

The author of three books, Warshauer is a specialist on 19th century political and constitu-tional history. His most recent book, “Connecticut in the Amer-ican Civil War: Slavery, Sacrifice, and Survival” (2011), is a riveting account of the state’s remarkably often turbulent Civil War history. His forthcoming book, “Inside Connecticut in the Civil War,” is an edited collection that offers additional insights into how Connecticut struggled through the war period and its aftermath.

This free program is open to the public. Register at the li-brary’s reference desk or by call-ing the library.

Special DisplayThis month, a memorial dis-

play for the Sandy Hook victims created by a Newtown resident

knitter is on display in the Brinker Fireplace Room glass cabinet in the library. The 26 miniature yarn dogs and cats were knitted in memory of the 20 children and six educators.

PHS Art Work on Exhibit

Region 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 until Wednesday, March 27. The ma-jority of the art will be two-di-mensional paintings and draw-ings, but there also will be se-lected three-dimensional pieces, sculpture and photography. Region 15 has collaborated with the library for more than 25 years, displaying 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).

WoodburyBeatrix Farrand

Rediscovered Colleen Plimpton will give a

dramatic, 45-minute first-person presentation of the life, times and work of the distinguished “land-scape gardener” Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959) Saturday, March 23, at 2 p.m. Farrand was America’s first female landscape architect and a founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Though overlooked for decades, her work is being rediscovered. Many of her gar-dens, such as Bellefield in Hyde Park, N.Y.; Hill-Stead in Farming-ton, Conn.; and Garland Farm in

Bar Harbor, Maine, have been restored.

Plimpton spent 30 years in her first career as a clinical social worker with the chronically men-tally ill. Her second career is that of professional garden commu-nicator. Trained at the New York Botanical Garden, she has tended her sloping Connecticut acre for 20 years. She has been on TV and radio, writes a news-paper column for Hearst Media Group, coaches gardening, lec-tures widely and writes for vari-ous publications. Her garden memoir, “Mentors in the Garden of Life” was a finalist for the 2011 Connecticut Book of the Year in its category.

Learn about PenguinsThursday evening, March 28,

at 7 p.m., travel to Antarctica with Paul and Betsy McIlvaine. Brook-field residents, the McIlvaines like to go to the extremes of the earth. Twice they have been to Antarctica within the past three years.

They will give a talk based on their visits to the white continent. Besides the stunning mix of light and ice and mountain peaks, they will show life among the seven species of penguins that inhabit Antarctica, the Island of South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. Also included will be a visit to some of the sites associ-ated with the ill-fated Shackelton Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1916. The talk will be in the Gal-lery.

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

Penguins will be featured in a Paul and Betsy McIlvaine talk Thursday, March 28, at the Woodbury Public Library. The McIlvaines traveled to Antarctica twice in the past three years. (Submitted photo)

Tuesday, March 26Passover Begins

Economic and Industrial Development Commission6:30 p.m. ...........................................Town Hall Conference Room

Conservation Commission7:30 p.m. ........................................................ Shepardson Room 26

Friday, March 29Good Friday ............ Town offices, library, transfer station closed

Calendar dates/times are subject to changeIf your organization would like your event included in the community

calendar, please e-mail the information to [email protected]

Anita Schorr, a Holocaust sur-vivor, will share the powerful story of her World War II concen-tration camp experiences Tues-day, March 26, at 7 p.m. in West-over School’s Chapel in Middle-bury. The event is open to the public free of charge.

Schorr is a survivor of the Terezin, Auschwitz and Ber-gen-Belsen concentration camps. Among the inmates of Theresien-stadt were some 15,000 children, most of whom were eventually

deported to Auschwitz. Of those 15,000 children, 100 survived and Schorr is one who survived and thrived. Her story is one of cour-age, strength and hope.

Now 81 years old, Schorr still has the number “71569” stamped on her forearm, a reminder of the seven years she spent as a pris-oner of the Nazi regime. Her de-tainment began in 1939 when, at age 9, she and her family were taken from their home by the German Army to the first of three

Nazi concentration camps.Schorr believes it is very im-

portant to keep the story of the Holocaust alive and feels that visiting people in person is much more effective than any history book can be. She has told audi-ences, “Why do I tell you this? Because of the 11 million people who were sent to concentration camps, six million were mur-dered. All lost voices. I am the voice of those innocent people who were killed, murdered. I

would like you to remember what I told you here today, I want you to tell your children; tell your children to tell their children and their grandchildren.”

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The Woodbury Parks and Rec-reation Department will host its 2013 Egg Hunt for children up to the age of 10 Saturday, March 23, at 10 a.m. SHARP at Hollow Park! Rain or Shine! Wear your prettiest or funniest spring bonnet, bring your basket and join the Easter Bunny at The Hollow!

Take your child’s photo before the race to fill their basket with chocolate eggs hidden in the fields. The Easter Bunny arrives at 9:30 a.m.

This is a free event, but optional monetary or non-perishable food donations for the Woodbury Food Bank will be collected.

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The Easter Bunny, shown here at last year’s egg hunt, will attend Woodbury’s egg hunt Saturday. Children can have their picture taken with the Easter Bunny. (Submitted photo)

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calcium, vitamin D3 benefits in dispute

Did you see the headlines? Researchers now conclude that taking calcium and vitamin D3 supplements are ineffective for preventing fractures. It was only recently they were claiming just the opposite.

This research came from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. It now says there is “insuf-ficient evidence” to keep sup-porting calcium and vitamin D3 supplements as a way to avoid fractures in pre- and post-meno-pausal women and in men. The same goes for using supplements greater than 400 IU of vitamin D3 and greater than 1,000 mg of calcium.

While the task force says the supplements don’t prevent frac-tures, it does think doctors should start screening for vita-min D deficiency. It also con-cedes that there appears to be “minimal harm” in taking cal-cium and vitamin D in low doses, and they are necessary for good bone health.

The National Institutes of Health webpage for vitamin D, for example, says it helps the body absorb calcium, carries messages between the brain and the rest of the body and helps the

immune system fight off bacteria and viruses. Calcium works hand in hand with vitamin D and ad-ditionally helps the body manage hormones and enzymes.

Where does that leave us when it comes to deciding about vita-min D and calcium supple-ments? Right back at square one, as far as I can tell. We need to get these nutrients from our food before we rely on supplements, and we need to consult our doc-tor before increasing the amount we already take. We need to get out in the sunlight. And to keep our bones strong, we need weight-bearing exercise.

Matilda Charles regrets she cannot personally answer reader questions, but she will incorpo-rate them into her column when-ever possible. Write to her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].


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Saturday, March 23No Events Scheduled

Sunday, March 24No Events Scheduled

Monday, March 25Snow Date String Festival Concert Grades 6-12 ............ PHS, 7 p.m.Board of Education ......................... PHS AP Room No. 103/7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 26PHS PLC-Advisory Day........................................... Delayed Schedule

Wednesday, March 27PES Incoming Kindergarten Parent Coffee .............................7 p.m.MES Kindergarten New Parent Orientation ............................7 p.m.GES Kindergarten New Parent Orientation .............................7 p.m.LMES Kindergarten New Parent Orientation ..........................7 p.m.

Thursday, March 28GES Women In History Celebration

Friday, March 29Good Friday ................................................ Schools are not in session

Saturday, March 30No Events Scheduled

Region 15 website: www.region15.org

Good Friday ClosingThe Middlebury Senior Center

will be closed Friday, March 29, for Good Friday.

Free Blood Pressure Screening

The Visiting Nurse Association offers a free blood pressure screening every Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 12 pm. No appointment is necessary.

AARP CT Tax AideFree income tax assistance is

provided at the Middlebury Se-nior Center at 1172 Whittemore Road in Middlebury by the AARP Tax Aide program for low- to mod-erate-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.

TripsPainted Pony LunchThe Middlebury senior bus

will go to the Painted Pony Restaurant in Bethlehem, Conn., Thursday, March 28, for a Senior

Dine lunch. You must have a “Se-nior Dine Card” to participate. If you do not have a card you can get one at the Middlebury Senior Center office. To attend the lunch, call 203-577-4166 to re-serve a seat.

Falls Avenue Senior Center events for area adults 55 and older follow. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 860-945-5250. Please speak with a staff member when calling as the senior center does not accept voice-mail reserva-tions. The center is at 311 Falls Ave. in Oakville, Conn.

Book ClubThe senior center is establish-

ing a book club for adults 55 years of age and older. Joanne Pannone is coordinating the group. Please call 860-945-5250 to register. Dates and times will be scheduled based on the level of interest.

American Liver Foundation ProgramThe American Liver Founda-

tion is sponsoring a program Wednesday, March 27, at 2 p.m. at the center to educate adults about the actions to take to max-imize liver health and prevent liver disease. The program is open to area adults 55 years of age and older. Please register by March 26 by calling 860-945-5250.

Strength Training ClassCertified Personal Trainer Kim

Stewart will lead a strength train-ing class Thursday, March 28, at 9:30 a.m. Participants may stand or sit. Please register by March 27. The cost is $2 per class.

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Deadlines for the following scholarships are approaching. Woodbury’s deadline is April 1, and the Jewish Federation Founda-tion’s deadline is April 30.

Woodbury Scholarship FundThe deadline for student applications for

the Woodbury Scholarship Fund is April 1, 2013. The Woodbury Scholarship Fund (WSF) is a non-profit organization run by volunteers and dedicated to providing schol-arships to Woodbury residents to help sup-port their post-secondary education. Schol-arships are available to high school seniors entering college in the fall and current col-lege students who received WSF awards during their high school senior year and will continue their college studies next year as sophomores, juniors or seniors.

The application can be downloaded at www.wsfund.org or obtained at the Non-newaug High School guidance office. Only one application is required for all WSF schol-arships; a list of all scholarships and endow-ments is available on the WSF website. Some endowed scholarships are available to Beth-lehem students.

The application requires applicant data, an applicant appraisal, transcript informa-tion, student resume and essay and the FAFSA Student Aid Report (SAR). WSF bases its awards on a student’s scholarship, moti-vation and need. Most awards are based on a combination of these factors with some endowments and grants taking additional factors into consideration.

Scholarships are presented at Nonnewaug High School Scholarship night. Last year more than $87,000 was awarded to 67 Wood-bury students. The newly established Dawn Hochsprung Memorial Scholarship, man-aged by the WSF, will award its first recipient at this years’ ceremony.

The Woodbury Scholarship Fund schol-arships are made possible through dona-tions, fundraising and from established endowments. The generosity of many indi-viduals, businesses and other organizations, has provided a source of valuable recogni-tion and encouragement for academic achievement and community service to talented Woodbury students.

For more information, visit www.wsfund.org or Facebook at www.facebook.com/WoodburyScholarshipFundCT. Donations

can be sent to the Woodbury Scholarship Fund Inc., P.O. Box 716, Woodbury, CT 06798. As a volunteer organization, the fund is able to return almost all raised funds in scholarship awards.

Jewish Federation Foundation Scholarships

The Foundation, Jewish Communities of Western CT, Inc. has announced applications are being accepted for college scholarships. Awards are between $500 and $3,000.

Foundation scholarships are made pos-sible by The William Finkelstein College Scholarship Fund, The Alan and Janet Hertz-mark Scholarship Fund, The Shobhna Shukla and Roger Ginsburg College Schol-arship Fund and the Ruth Kravitz Fund for Higher Education. Each scholarship has its own set of criteria (e.g., financial need, grades, residency requirements and/or in-volvement within the Jewish community).

To obtain an application, visit www.jfed.net and continue to the Foundation page. For more information, contact Donna Al-bertario, foundation administrator at 203-267-3177, ext. 309, or [email protected]. The application deadline is April 30.

scholarship deadlines approach

Each year, Sacred Heart Acad-emy honors incoming freshmen with outstanding academic records who achieved the highest entrance exam scores by award-ing them The Sister Antonine Signorelli ASCJ Memorial Schol-arship. Claire Niesobecki of Mid-dlebury was one of the 10 Sister Antonine scholars this year. The others are Jeanne Marie Cassidy of Bethany, Abigail Kelly of Shel-ton, Elizabeth Lamont of Ham-den, Hannah Levesque of Wall-ingford, Jordan Meares-Garcia of New Haven, Sophie Park of Essex, Alicia Pekar of Branford, Toella Pliakas of Hamden and Corinne Wilklow of Fairfield. The scholars and their families recently at-tended a reception in their honor hosted by the admissions office and current Antonine Scholars.

Established in 1993, the schol-arship honors the life, philosophy and achievements of the acade-my’s foundress and first princi-pal. Sister Antonine Scholars form a distinct group of young women who display strong aca-demic success with promise for future accomplishment. They truly affirm the Academy’s motto, “Excelsior.”

“Past recipients of the Sister Antonine Signorelli ASCJ Memo-rial Scholarship have gone on to further their education at some of the finest colleges and univer-

sities in the United States and abroad,” said President Sr. Sheila O’Neill ASCJ, Ph.D., ’71. “Many of these graduates consider Sa-cred Heart to be an impetus for their success. Recent alumnae who are Sister Antonine Scholars currently study at the University of Leicester in Great Britain, Princeton University, University

of Notre Dame, Brown University, Tufts University, Yale University, MIT, U.S Naval Academy, Dart-mouth College and Cornell Uni-versity, among others. Several were National Merit finalists and Stage of Connecticut Governor’s Scholars.”

Sacred Heart Academy, an in-dependent Catholic college pre-

paratory school founded in 1946 by the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, successfully pre-pares young women in grades 9 to 12 for learning, service and achievement in a global society. Its current enrollment of 500 stu-dents hail from New Haven, Fair-field, Middlesex, Hartford and New London counties.

Middlebury resident Claire Niesobecki, center, with Sacred Heart Academy Principal Sr. Maureen Flynn ASCJ, left, and President Sr. Sheila O’Neill ASCJ, Ph.D., right, at a reception for the Academy’s newly named Sr. Antonine Signorelli ASCJ Scholars. Niesobecki, a Memorial Middle School student, will be a member of the Sacred Heart Academy Class of 2017 this fall. (Dr. Elizabeth Christophy photo)

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Holy Thursday, March 28Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7 p.m.

Good Friday, March 29Liturgy at 3 p.m.

Holy Saturday, March 30Blessing of the Food at 10 a.m.Great Vigil of Easter at 8 p.m.

Easter Sunday, March 318 a.m. Mass 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Masses upstairs/downstairs

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church 247 New Milford Turnpike (Route 202) in Marble Dale

Palm Sunday, March 24Blessing and Distribution of Palms at 9:30 a.m. Eucharist

Monday, March 25Fr. Max Myers joins Connecticut bishops and other clergy at the Holy Week Witness for Peace and Non-Violence at St. John’s Epis-copal Church in Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, March 27Morning Prayer at 9:30 a.m.

Thursday, March 28Maundy Thursday traditional Biblical Dinner at 6 p.m.Holy Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar will follow.

Friday, March 29Fr. Myers joins other clergy and laity for a 3-hour service of scrip-ture, hymns and prayer at St. John’s Church in Washington. The Great Easter Vigil also will be at St. John’s in Washington.

Easter Sunday, March 31Festal Eucharist for the Resurrection of our Lord at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome to join the congregation of St. Andrew’s at any of the services during Holy Week.

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March 28, from 6:15 to 7:45 p.m., Hillside Covenant Church at 100 Hillside Avenue on the west side of Naugatuck will host Lenten soup suppers and a special Len-ten program. For more informa-tion, call 203-729-2444.

Young Professionals Event

Young Professionals of Water-bury Region (YPOWR) will host a networking social Wednesday, March 27, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Post University at 800 Country Club Road in Waterbury. “Give Back While Building Your Own Experience” will be the theme. The cost will be $25 for not-yet YPOWR members and $15 for members. To register, visit www.ypowr.org, or contact Courtney Ligi at [email protected] or 203-757-0701.

Music Program for KidsSoulshine Arts classes’ Music

Together®, a parent/child music and movement program devel-oped by the Center for Music and Young Children in Princeton, N.J., will start Friday, April 5, at Tula Family Enrichment Center in Middlebury. Call Leslie Pratt at 857-998-0780 for more infor-mation or visit www.soul- shineartsct.com.

Indoor Flea Market & Tag Sale

The Scholarship Committee of the Church of St. Leo the Great in Waterbury will have an indoor flea market and tag sale featuring 24 vendors Saturday, March 23, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free. Refreshments will be available. Proceeds will benefit the Scholarship Fund.

The church is at 14 Bentwood Drive in Waterbury (off Pierpoint Road). For directions, call 203-574-9761.

Rickert to Speak on Emergency

PreparednessBarry Rickert, fire marshal/

emergency management direc-tor for Southbury and a deputy fire marshal for Goshen, will speak to members of the Tribury Rotary Club about “Emergency Preparedness” at the club meet-ing Thursday, March 28, at 12:15 p.m. at Junipers Restaurant in Middlebury.

Rickert has served more than 40 years in the fire service. Start-ing in 1970 as a volunteer fire-fighter in the Citizen Hose Com-pany No. 6 in Danbury, he went on to become a career firefighter in the Danbury Fire Department three years later. He retired from Danbury in 2008 as their fire

marshal. He then went on to be-come a deputy state fire marshal for Connecticut.

For more information, see www.triburyrotary,com or call John Monteleone at 203-565-6100.

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 includes a race tee-shirt. The 3.1-mile course will begin and end at PHS. All participants will be entered in a raffle. Should cancellation be necessary, it will be posted on the PHS website.

For more information, contact Maegan Bollin at [email protected] or Marlanea Elsdon at [email protected]. For a sign-up form or a sponsorship form, go to www.region15.org and then to the PHS page.

Yarn Egg SurpriseParticipants in The Naugatuck

Historical Society’s Colette’s Crafts program, Saturday, March 30, at 11 a.m., will make their own Easter eggs with a candy surprise in the middle. Registra-tion is recommended, but not required. All are welcome.

The fee is $2 a person or $5 a family. For more information, call 203-729-9039, email [email protected] or visit www.naugatuckhistory.com. The society is at 195 Water St. in Naugatuck.

Parent UniversityParent University 2013, spon-

sored by Southbury and Middle-bury Acting Responsibly To-gether, Newtown Parent Connec-tion, Inc. and the Brookfield Substance Abuse Coalition, will be Saturday, April 6, at Pomper-aug High School. It will offer eight workshops, from which participants may choose to at-tend two.

The workshops will be pre-sented by experts who will speak

on topics of interest and appli-cable to parents of elementa-ry-age children to grandparents parenting grandchildren! The event will include a free Kid Uni-versity to care for children while their parents attend the work-shops.

Details and registration infor-mation are at www.smartinc.org. Those with questions may call 203-788-5199.

Easter Seals Walk in May

Saturday, May 11, hundreds of supporters will participate in the Easter Seals Family Fun Walk at Quassy Amusement Park in Middlebury. Walkers will help raise money to support Easter Seals programs and services that change the lives of children and adults in the community who are living with disabilities and other special needs.

Don’t miss out on this day of music, rides and entertainment to benefit Easter Seals. Win Quassy ride passes and other great prizes. Registration is re-quired. Call Mary Reid, events administrator at 203-754-5141, ext. 251, to sign up. Visit www.waterburyct.easterseals.com for more details.

Call for ArtistsThe Tribury Rotary Club seeks

artists for its 9th Annual Art Show, Sale & Silent Auction, which will be held from Saturday, June 15, to Saturday, June 29, at the Southbury Public Library. Funds raised from the event will be used to support philanthropic efforts including scholarships, literacy and youth leadership.

Individuals interested in dis-playing their framed art at this event should contact Art Show Chairman William Dreska at 203-510-5727 or Vice Chairman John Monteleone at 203-565-6100 to obtain an entry form. Space is limited, so interested parties should indicate their interest by April 15. Artists who have dis-played their art in prior years will be contacted.

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from $10,859 five years ago to $13,546 today, per the state Depart-ment of Education. The resulting 25-percent cost increase over five years suggests a letter grade of no more than a “D” on the report card for the Region 15 Board of Education.

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The importance of supporting local businesses cannot be over-stated. If we fail to spend our money at local businesses, they will close one by one. And then we will be forced to drive to the nearest big box store and spend our money in other communi-ties. Our small, local mom-and-pop businesses, currently an endangered species, will be ex-tinct.

Think of how many small local businesses have disappeared over the past 10 years. In Mid-dlebury alone, a partial list in-cludes a dress shop, a pharmacy, a coffee shop, a woman’s spa and a nail and tanning salon, along with a restaurant or two.

So what, you might say. It’s not my fault the businesses failed. Or is it?

If you supported those busi-nesses, if you made sure you went to them and spent your money there instead of in a larger business in another community, we have to agree it’s not your fault. But if you chose to spend your money elsewhere, aren’t you at least partially to blame for those businesses closing their doors?

To use the pharmacy as an example, it is tempting to forego spending money at a local phar-macy when they may be unable to sell you three months of a ge-neric drug for $10 as a big box

store such as a large chain phar-macy or a large grocery store, or even a discount store these days, can do. But many of the small, locally owned pharmacies can match or come close to the prices offered by the big box stores de-spite the fact they don’t have the same buying power. If they even come close to the big box store price, it’s a waste of gas money at $4 or so a gallon to drive 10 miles one way and back to get the discount.

When you spend your money at local businesses, you help them, but you also help yourself by helping the local economy. The business owner may well be your neighbor. And he or she may in turn spend their money at local businesses, thus keeping the money circulating in your community.

Here at the newspaper, we make a point of purchasing from those who advertise with us. Their money is helping us stay in business, so the least we can do is help them in turn. We hope you support our advertisers, too. Without them we could not bring you this free weekly paper.

The next time you go to make a purchase, whether it will cost hundreds of dollars or just a buck or two, we hope you will support our local economy by spending your money at a local business.

Keep local businesses alive State Sen. Rob Kane (R-32)

and Middlebury’s Acting Police Chief Richard Wildman testified before the state legislature’s Public Safety Committee March 14 on behalf of a proposal that would require the State Police to use the Connecticut Statewide Police Emergency Radio Network (CSPERN) to notify all local police departments of any ongoing shooting incident at a school, shopping mall or another heavily populated location.

“We want to make sure that all local police agencies are notified when there is an active shooter anywhere in the state,” Kane said. “It’s a common-sense idea, and it was very well received by both Republicans and Democrats on the committee.”

The bill came at the request of Chief Wildman, who noted the proposal would enable local departments to send resources to the affected town and also increase security at heavily populated locations in their own communities. The proposed legislation should not come at an extra cost to taxpayers since all local police departments already have CSPERN.

“Chief Wildman did an excellent job in his testimony, and we appreciate him coming to Hartford to do so,” Kane said. “His idea may lead to a new state law which will better protect the public.”

Kane’s website is www.senatorkane.com.

Middlebury’s Acting Police Chief Richard Wildman (left) and State Sen. Rob Kane (right) testify before the state legislature’s Public Safety Committee March 14. They spoke on behalf of a proposal to require State Police to use the Connecticut Statewide Police Emergency Radio Network to notify all local police departments of ongoing shooting incidents at schools, shopping malls or other heavily populated locations.

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The Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden, a Wood-bury nonprofit educational in-stitution, is looking for a few new volunteers. As it begins its 88th season, it seeks volunteers who are excited about engaging peo-ple of all ages and backgrounds in exploring and experiencing the history of the community at the 18th-century house and gar-den.

The museum provides the community with many innova-tive and lively programs and events for children and adults and attributes its success to the volunteers who contribute time, effort and spirit to it and make it a pleasant place to work and visit. This year there are openings for docents, shopkeepers and gar-deners.

Volunteers assist in a variety of capacities at the Glebe House. The most visible jobs are at the information desk, working in the museum gift shop, taking visitors on guided tours and helping in the world-renowned Jekyll Gar-den. Other volunteers help at summer day programs for chil-dren or with special events such as All Hollow’s Eve, Colonial Fair, Christmas Holiday Festival, His-tory Day for fourth-grade Wood-bury children and special events in the garden.

Volunteers have opportunities to visit other museums and his-toric sites and attend volun-teer-only lectures, workshops and events. Monthly meetings of the “Friends of the Glebe House” pro-vide volunteers the chance to get acquainted with one another and share ideas for making their vol-unteer experience satisfying. This is an opportunity to try something different, to share the skills you have or to learn new ones and have some fun along the way.

Glebe House was built around 1750 by the Hurd family, who settled in the Hollow in the 1670s. Offering a glimpse of life in Revolutionary War-era Con-necticut, the house is furnished to represent the life of the Mar-shall family in the 1770s and 1780s, when they lived there, and reflects Woodbury as a prosper-ous hub of agricultural and com-mercial activity. Later, it became the home and place of work for silversmith Gideon Botsford, who lived there for the 64 years. The old-fashioned garden was designed by famed English hor-ticulturalist and writer Gertrude Jekyll.

The museum is open for tours May through November, Wednes-day through Sunday. Educational

programs, lectures and work-shops for school-age children and adults are available through-out the year. Family events are held on the grounds during the season. The volunteers are am-bassadors for the museum and for Woodbury, who make history come alive and inspire visitors to become stewards in preserving their history.

If you are interested in learn-ing more about local history and the life of 18th-century people, or love gardening and have an interest in historic gardens and you are interested in being part of the museum’s future by be-coming a volunteer, call 203-263-2855 or email [email protected] to register for training.

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• Each item on a credit report has a different value in deter-mining your credit score. Note especially any information that isn’t about you, inaccurate credit limits and any negative information that should have scrolled off your report at the end of the allowed period. If negative information is true, it won’t be removed immedi-ately. For example, informa-tion about an unpaid judgment can stay for seven years, a bankruptcy for 10 years. After that, it must be removed.

• Don’t pay someone to fix your credit. You can do it for free, and will likely do a better job because of your own interest in making your credit report cor-rect. If you do hire a credit-re-pair company, it is not allowed to ask for a fee in advance. Es-pecially avoid companies that promise a quick fix. They’re in no position to promise a fix of any kind, much less a quick one.

• Take advantage of the State-ment of Dispute, your 100 words of explanation that gets attached to your credit file. That statement will be shown to anyone who pulls your credit report, or who has done so recently, if you request it.David Uffington regrets he

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On March 14, the Association of Catholic Admissions and Ad-vancement Professionals of New England (ACAAP) presented Holy Cross High School President Tim McDonald the William A. MacNeill Award at their annual conference at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

The William A. MacNeill Award is presented to a current ACAAP member whose contri-bution to a member organization and/or to the profession encom-passed by the membership re-flect honor on ACAAP, its mis-sion and its purpose. The recip-ient will have served in the ad-vancement or admissions pro-fession for a reasonable length of time and be honored for a pattern of service and perfor-mance rather than for unusual success in a single event.

The award honors William MacNeill, the first president of the organization, formerly known as New England Association of Catholic Development Officers (NEACDO), for his 30-plus year commitment to Catholic school advancement and for the inspi-rational example of leadership and knowledge he has embodied to all in the profession.

The award was presented to McDonald by David Erwin, pres-ident of ACAAP and director of development at Cambridge Montessori School, who said, “Our recipient has served the students, faculty, staff and fam-ilies of Holy Cross High School for more than 40 years. Known throughout the 40-year history of Holy Cross by many titles and capacities, our recipient leads Holy Cross today as their presi-dent, more importantly, as the fiber that connects the people and programs of Holy Cross. He provides the living example, in-spiration and spirit of the school’s mission to all who are

served and touched by Holy Cross.”

McDonald has served as pres-ident of Holy Cross since July 2007. After he began his teaching career at Waterbury Catholic High School in 1968, McDonald joined the Holy Cross High School community in 1971, serv-ing as a member of the faculty, coaching staff, dean of students, principal and vice president for advancement.

In addition to ACAAP, McDon-ald holds a variety of member-

ships with local, state, regional and national organizations, in-cluding the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the National Catholic Education Association, the Connecticut As-sociation of Schools, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum De-velopment, the National Associ-ation of School Boards of Educa-tion and the Connecticut State Board of Education.

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Holy Cross High School President Tim McDonald, left, receives an award from ACAAP President David Erwin. (Submitted photo)

Eugene “Gigi” Edmund Nowacki

Timex Retiree

It is with great sorrow we announce the passing of our be-loved Eugene “Gigi” Edmund Nowacki, 89, of Wolcott, who passed away Mon-day, March 18, 2013,

at Waterbury Hospital. Loving hus-band of Barbara for more than 62 years, he was born in Waterbury, Conn., Dec. 13, 1923, to Stanislaus (Steve) and Constance (Goliem-beska) Nowacki.

Eugene graduated in 1941 from Leavenworth High School in Water-bury. Accepted to Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Eugene instead chose to serve his country during World War II and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He served for three years in the Pacific Theater on a sub-marine chaser as a gunner’s mate second class, participating in the invasion of Okinawa and earning several ribbons, including the Asiatic Pacific Ribbon One Star and the Phil-ippine Liberation Ribbon One Star.

Graduating from the Porter School of Machine and Tool Design in 1951, Eugene worked as a tool designer at Colt Fire Arms in Hartford and at Pratt and Whitney in Southington before becoming employed with Timex Cor-poration in Middlebury as a tool de-signer and tool design department

supervisor, where he worked for 28 years until his retirement in 1983. Sought after for his technical skill in retirement, Eugene worked on vari-ous short-term projects for Duracell of Waterbury and for Perkin-Elmer of Danbury with one project involv-ing the Hubble Space Telescope.

Eugene was a talented athlete, and he excelled in a variety of sports throughout his lifetime, from his po-sition as center on the Leavenworth High School (LHS) varsity basketball team to being honored by the U.S. Bowling Congress for bowling a near-perfect 299 game in a men’s sanctioned bowling league. Eugene additionally played varsity baseball all four years at LHS as first baseman and continued to enjoy this sport over the years, playing on a variety of rec-reational baseball teams. He enjoyed golf and earned a hole-in-one at Is-land Green Country Club in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where he and his wife enjoyed many pleasant stays over the years at their retirement home. Travel was another great pleasure, and Eu-gene and Barbara enjoyed extensive sojourns throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Eugene was a 4th Degree Knight of Columbus formerly affiliated with both the Santa Fe and Pius X Councils and a member of the Wolcott Amer-ican Legion and the U.S. Navy Me-morial Foundation.

Eugene will be remembered for his kind and caring nature, his deep generosity, his robust sense of humor, his love of music, his rich singing

voice, his swanky jitterbug and his uncanny ability to repair almost any-thing. He was completely and totally dedicated to his family, always there to assist and support at a moment’s notice. He will be missed well beyond our capacity to express in mere words.

In addition to his wife, Barbara, he is survived by two daughters: Deb-orah Lemieux and her husband, Da-vid, of Glastonbury and Christine Knight of South Glastonbury; his three grandchildren: Cristin Lemieux Pullis and her husband, David, of New Britain; David Lemieux Jr. of Windsor and Kathleen Knight of South Glastonbury; and his two great granddaughters, Celeste and Natalie Pullis; as well as several nephews, nieces and great nieces and nephew. Eugene was predeceased by six older siblings, his sisters Ann Nowacki Pigut, Frances Nowacki Brym and Pauline Nowacki May and his broth-ers Raymond, Vincent and John Now-acki, all of the Waterbury area.

A Mass of Christian Burial Wednesday at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Waterbury was followed by burial in Calvary Cemetery in Wa-terbury with full military honors. Donations may be made in Eugene’s name to the Waterbury Police Activ-ity League (PAL), 64 Division St, Wa-terbury, CT 06704. Arrangements were by the Naugatuck Valley Memo-rial/Fitzgerald Zembruski Funeral Home in Naugatuck. To send an on-line condolence, visit www.nauga-tuckvalleymemorial.com.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have had sciatica for two and a half months. Even though I am better than I was at first, I am taking forever to fully recover. I have had chiropractic treatments and physiotherapy.

My doctor tells me it will go away on its own. Books I have read say most recover in six weeks. It’s going on three months for me.

I also had vasculitis (Henoch-Schonlein purpura). I haven’t experienced any symptoms for a couple of years. I have been feeling nauseated and have had loose BMs and the odd stomach-ache. A red spot appeared on my leg a few days ago. Do you think the vasculitis is playing a role in my delay in recovery? – J.B.ANSWER: I’ll describe the typi-cal pain of sciatica, and you see if the description fits your pain. The sciatic nerve is the body’s largest and longest nerve. It trav-els from the lower back down the leg to the ankle or foot. Pressure on the nerve from a protruding back disk, a bone spur or any-thing that compresses the nerve brings on sharp or burning pain running down the side and back of the leg to the foot.

Pulling the knees to the chest and holding that position for 20 seconds produces sciatica pain.

The pain of sciatica often less-ens and disappears in one or two months.

The X-ray report you included doesn’t rule in or rule out sciat-ica. If the pain persists, an MRI or CT scan provides additional information. You are improving, so I think eventually you should be pain-free.

Vasculitis is an inflammation of blood vessels, and Henoch-Schonlein (HE-knock SURN-line) purpura is one kind of vas-culitis. Children get this illness more than adults do. Red blotches that turn into bruises (purpura) pop up on the but-tocks and legs. Joint pain, ab-dominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea (or constipation) also arise. In the first year after recovery, relapses are common.

If your current stomach trou-bles worsen or you see more red blotches, get back to the doctor who took care of you before. I don’t believe that HS, if it is re-turning, is interfering with your recovery from sciatica.

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slow and careful living brings joyIt is said that how we do any-

thing is how we do everything. Our society is fast-paced, asking us to multitask and fill our days to the brim with a thousand things, then flop into bed ex-hausted with a “to do” list that’s not quite done. Busy, busy, busy are the ways of the day.

However, there’s a movement taking place around the world that has to do with the slow and steady embrace of the less hur-ried, more joy-provoking, more passion-filled way of doing the same things that actually saves time, builds health and provokes passion. I’m talking about getting more done than you can imagine by simply shifting your perspec-tive.

Make a conscious decision to put your full attention on each thing you do in order to embrace a mindful way of experiencing your life. Become time rich by focusing on the one thing in front of you that you have to do; go on to the next thing and the next thing all day long. You’ll begin to

notice how quickly and effi-ciently things get done as well as how much extra time there is by being in less of a hurry.

Sharpening your focus in this way actually frees you to accom-plish more in less time. Now you have space to build feelings of satisfaction and emotional con-nection by hanging out with friends, associates and family. Slowing down to accomplish tasks, responsibilities and ac-tions in the day keeps you closely attuned to your true hunger sig-nals, exercise needs and feelings. You can live in a more wise and wonderful way.

This week’s nugget for life is to let go of the loud and busy in favor of downshifting to an atti-tude of slow ease. Take deep, full

breaths throughout the day as you commit to doing one thing at a time fully aware of what you are doing. Think of ways that help you remember to take care and slow down through con-scious intention.

Make a meal in the slow cooker. Create a practice of stop-ping yourself if you realize you’re checking texts while in a conver-sation with someone on the phone or in front of you, and choose which thing you want to be doing. Finish it; then go on to the next. Be encouraged to prac-tice active relaxation for 10 min-utes at the end of your day, re-connecting fully with your body, mind and spirit to prepare for restful sleep. Join the many who know this ancient secret of slow, to keep you in the positive, calm loop of life.

Cynthia De Pecol is a Yoga in-structor, Reiki Master and life coach who lives in Washington, Conn. See lifecoachingllc.com or email [email protected].

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1. Who holds the major-league record for most Gold Gloves awarded to a catcher?

2. The 1933 New York Yankees had nine future Hall of Famers on the roster. Name six of them.

3. Who threw the longest pass in Notre Dame football his-tory?

4. Name the last Milwaukee Bucks player before Ersan Ilyasova in 2012 to have at least 25 points and 25 re-bounds in a game.

5. When was the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs won a series in the NHL playoffs?

6. In 2012, Gabby Douglas be-came the third consecutive U.S. athlete to win the wom-en’s Olympic all-around gym-nastics title. Who were the previous two?

7. Which golfer has made the most appearances in the Ry-der Cup?

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1. Ivan Rodriguez, with 13.2. Earle Combs, Bill Dickey, Lou

Gehrig, Lefty Gomez, Tony Lazzeri, Herb Pennock, Red Ruffing, Babe Ruth and Joe Sewell.

3. Blair Kiel completed a pass for 96 yards in 1981.

4. Swen Nater had 30 points and 33 rebounds against Atlanta in 1976.

5. It was 2004.6. Carly Patterson (2004) and

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In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) mandated a nationwide system of telecom-munications relay services, mak-ing the telephone network ac-cessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Until then, the deaf community was de-prived of modern technologies, which heavily relied on hearing abilities. Before the days of TTYs (typing devices that allow people separated by distance to com-municate with each other) and text messaging, the hearing im-paired could communicate only via letters or in person. This not only hindered communication, it was frustrating as well. Given the latest advances in smart-phones that allow for video chat and sign language, more doors have opened for this community, including wearable technology that offers a rich communication

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The hearing impaired can use smartphones as a form of com-munication, but they still can miss calls or other notifications. Wearable technologies such as the Pebble Watch and EM-BRACE+ smart bracelet fill that gap and allow users to receive mobile notifications, either via a watch screen or flashing bracelet when their phones are out of sight. Wearers of the Pebble Watch are able to customize their device with apps, notifications and coding. The EMBRACE+ smart notification bracelet al-lows users to customize notifi-cations for incoming calls, texts, social media apps or even differ-ent contacts with flashing colors and vibrations.

Instead of continually check-ing mobile phones so they don’t miss important calls and mes-sages, users of these new wear-able technologies now are able to focus their attention on other, more important things. Focusing on homework or running er-rands has become easier because users will be notified of a mobile notification by lights flashing on their wrists instead of searching for and checking a phone that may not even have a notification.

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“Once we came up with the idea for EMBRACE+, we began focusing on creating a notifica-tion device which would appeal to a wide audience,” said Beijnen. “And that’s just what we did. From tech savvy people to those living busy lives to the deaf com-munity, EMBRACE+ fits every-one’s needs just perfectly.”

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Use landscape plantings to keep homes warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. Homes will have a more comfortable temperature throughout the sea-sons, and energy costs will be reduced.

Plant trees on the east and west side of a house to shade windows in the summer and let the sun shine in and warm it up through the south-facing win-dows in winter.

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Incorporate these changes into gardening routines and hab-its over time. Soon these and many more strategies that help save time and money while being kind to the environment will be-come a habit for you.

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