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Volume 9, Number 53 Southington’s Hometown Newspaper www.southingtoncitizen.com Friday, December 26, 2014

Local residents received Christmas gifts a week early, Dec. 18, from town firefighters.

Through a Southington Community Services pro-gram, firefighters spent the morning delivering about 180 gifts to homebound senior citizens.

The program involves se-niors registering with Com-munity Services and being “adopted” by families that bought presents.

Fire Lt. Glenn Dube said the event has been coordi-nated with the fire depart-ment for four years.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Dube said about delivering the presents to those who can’t get out to go shopping. “We’re the elves, or Santa.”

Seniors write their names, ages and wish lists, Commu-nity Services volunteer Linda Mendelsohn said. The adop-tive family or individual buys the gifts, wraps them and

Firefighters deliver Christmas gifts to seniorsBy Lauren SievertSpecial to The Citizen

See Presents / Page 2

When Santa asked Valerie Sprague what she wanted for Christmas a few weeks ago, she said “nothing.”

The 9-year-old then said she wanted Santa to bring all the children at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center a teddy bear for Christmas.

“I saw a commercial for

Girl’s wish: presents for othersBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

Valerie Sprague, 9, of Southington, was surprised

by Santa with a collection of more than 600 bears at the Southington Fire

Department’s Company 5. Valerie’s Christmas wish

was to hand out bears to patients at Connecticut

Children’s Medical Center, which she did on Dec. 16.

| Al Urso Jr. / Southington Fire

Department

See Wish / Page 4

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, AGAINThe Southington High School football team collected its second consecutive state championship Dec. 13 with a win over Norwich Free Academy at Veterans Memorial Stadium in New Britain. See more photos on page 19.

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Presents

drops them off with Commu-nity Services. The packages are sorted and delivered. The fire crew visited six different locations Thursday.

Although the group in-cludes mostly on-duty fire-fighters, retired Southington firefighters Nelson DiAngelo and Al Urso Sr. were also on hand for the deliveries, us-ing their personal trucks to help out. Fire crews deliver-ing at Flanders West apart-

ments divided up the gifts by floor, and each firefighter took a load of presents out to deliver. Dube took presents to the fourth floor and was greeted by many smiles and “thank yous.” Linda Piccolo said she is thankful for the firefighters.

“We are so blessed to have this fire department in town,’ Piccolo said. “I am so grateful.”

A few of the residents gave Dube Christmas cards thank-ing him for his efforts, and

others gave him hugs. One woman said she forgot the delivery of presents was hap-pening Thursday and was pleasantly surprised when Dube showed up at her door with the bag of gifts.

“It makes for a great morn-ing,” Dube said. “It’s a great part of the job.”

Mendelsohn said 626 fam-ilies, a total of 1,471 people, signed up to receive either a holiday meal or gifts from Southington Community Ser-vices this year.

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Southington Fire crews load presents onto an engine to distribute to seniors on Dec.18. | Lauren Sievert / For The Citizen

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Dog obedienceThe Southington Parks &

Recreation Department has scheduled Dog Obedience

classes at The Summit at Plantsville, 261 Summit St., Plantsville. Classes are sched-uled for Tuesdays, Jan. 6 to Feb. 17, at 6:15 p.m. for begin-ners and. 7:15 p.m. for inter-mediate level training. Dogs must be at least 3 months of age by the first class in or-der to register. All dogs must have up-to-date vaccinations in order to participate. A fee is charged. Pre-registration, signed waiver and payment are required. For more in-formation and to reserve a place in the class, call (860) 276-6219. Program details and a mail-in registration form are also available on the department’s webpage

at www.southington.org/DogObedience.

Little League Regis t rat ion for a l l

Southington Little Leagues and girls softball is sched-uled for Saturday, Jan. 24 and Saturday, Feb. 7, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Southington High School cafeteria, 720 Pleas-ant St. This is for Southington residents only. The minimum age to participate is 5 years old as of April 30, 2015. Fees vary by league; cash or check only. Parents must bring the child’s birth certificate (cer-tified copy with raised seal) and three different forms of proof of residency.

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Mr. and Mrs.Semmelrock

The wedding of Kathryn Caseres, of New City, N.Y., and Matthew Semmelrock, of New York, N.Y. took place Saturday, June 14, 2014, at 3 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi, in West Nyack, N.Y.

The bride is the daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jose Caseres, of New City, N.Y. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Semmel-rock, of Southington.

The bride was given in marriage by her father and attended by Marlene Pena, as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Tracy Severe, Beth Deford, Lindsey Zavadil, Kristin Podsiadlik, Elizabeth Conran, Sarah DiPaolo, Taylor Caseres, Ashley Corral, and Renee Constrastano. The flower girl was Emily Sherman. Serving as best man Paul Kurtz. Ushering guests were Dan Gerber, Todd Goldman, Nicholas Pellicano, Andrew Mancini, Steven Caseres, Michael Murphy, Ken Linde, and Michael Fenimore. Ringer bearer was Timothy Sherman.

Following the ceremony a reception took place at The Estate at Floren-tine Gardens, in River Vale, N.J.

The bride is a graduate of Immaculate Heart Academy and Seton Hall University, in New Jersey. She is employed at White Plains Hospital. The groom is a graduate of Kingswood Oxford, in W. Hartford and Seton Hall, in New Jersey. He is employed with Bloomberg L.P., in New York.

The couple honeymooned in Hawaii-Kauai, Maui.

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the children’s hospital,” said Valerie, a fourth-grader at St. Dominic School. “Some (kids) had toys on their bed and some didn’t, so I wanted to make sure all of them had toys.”

“Santa comes by for the (fire department) food drive for the past 20 years,” said Kim Sprague, Valerie’s mom. The firefighter dressed as Santa told fellow firefighters about the girl’s Christmas wish.

After Kim Sprague shared the email about Valerie’s wish with her sister, Kelly Dunn, the effort to collect teddy bears began. The email chain was shared with Dunn’s fam-ily, friends and coworkers. Be-fore she knew it, Sprague had 150 teddy bears in her home. Sprague also let her friends and co-workers at iHeart-

Media know about the effort. Soon she had more than 230 bears. Avon, a beauty shop magazine, ran an advertise-ment for people to purchase a bear to be donated to the hospital. On Dec. 14, the Fire Department brought more than 600 bears in the back of a pickup truck to Valerie.

“I was expecting 10 or 20,” Valerie said. “I was so surprised.”

Al Urso Jr., a Fire Depart-ment volunteer, was im-pressed with Valerie’s wish, saying it is “the true mean-ing of what the holiday is all about.”

More than 800 bears were boxed, bagged and put into cars and trucks for transport to the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, in Hartford.

“Toys and stuffed animals are such an important part of the healing process for our patients. We use toys

every single day to help our patients cope with their ill-nesses and diagnosis and also to remind them they are still kids no matter what hap-pens,” Christine Tatem, child life specialist at CCMC, said in a statement. “We can’t even begin to thank Valerie enough

for her selfless donation ... She’s helped to make so many kids happy and we are truly grateful for her kindness.”

Valerie said she was ex-cited to hand out bears to a few patients that greeted her when she delivered them.

“It was just a really nice ex-

perience,” said Kim Sprague. “It was life changing to see the effect you have on people.”

When asked if her Christ-mas wish came true, Valerie squeezed her plush brown teddy bear, nodded, and kissed the bear on top of his head.

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Valerie Sprague, 9, of Southington, hands out bears to patients at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center on Dec. 16. With the help of Southington Fire Engine Company 5 and Santa, Valerie helped collect more than 600 bears. Watch video online at www.southingtoncitizen.com. | Photo courtesy of Connecticut Children’s Medical Center

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Girls basketball - Southington vs. Bristol Cen-tral, 7 p.m.

Ice hockey - Southington at E.O. Smith/Tolland at UConn arena, 8 p.m.

Wrestling - Southington at Lowell Tournament.

Monday, Dec. 29Ice hockey - Southington

vs. Tri-Town, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 30Boys basketball -

Southington at Immaculate, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball - Southington vs. Suffield, 7 p.m.

Wrestling - Southington vs, Hall, 2 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 2Boys basketball -

Southington vs. Weaver, 7 p.m.

Ice hockey - Southington at Rockville/Bolton/Coventry/

RHAM at Bolton Ice Palace, 8:10 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 3Bottle, can drive - Boy

Scout Troop 32 has sched-uled a bottle and can drive for Saturday, Jan. 3, 8 a.m. to noon, at Recreation Park. Proceeds benefit Troop 32.

Girls basketball - Southington at Manchester, 1 p.m.

Ice hockey - Southington at Woodstock Academy (Promfret School rink), 2:30 p.m.

Wrestling - Southington High School Duels, 7 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 6Boys basketball -

Southington at Northwest Catholic, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball - Southington at Northwest Catholic, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 7Boys swimming -

Southington vs. Platt/Maloney, 3:45 p.m.

Wrestling - Southington vs. Simsbury, 6 p.m.


Southington at Farmington, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball - Southington vs. Farmington, 7 p.m.

Boys swimming - Southington vs. Manchester, 3:45 p.m.

Wrestling - Southington at Eastern States Tournament.

Saturday, Jan. 10Ice hockey - Southington

at Tri-Town (Enfield Twin Rinks), 5:50 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 11Open house - The Plants-

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Southington at Rocky Hill, 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 14Ice hockey - Southington

at Lyman Hall/H-K/Cogin-chaug, 7:30 p.m.

Wrestling - Southington at Newington, 5:30 p.m.


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Girls basketball - Southington vs. Simsbury, 7 p.m.

Boys swimming - Southington vs. Berlin at PHS, 3:45 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 17Ice hockey - Southington

at Newington/Berlin/Man-chester (Newington Ice Arena), 8 p.m.

Wrestling - Southington at Eagle Classic.


Southington vs. Newington, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball - Southington at Newington, 5:30 p.m.

Boys swimming - Southington at East Hartford, 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 21Ice hockey - Southington

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Wrestling - Southington at Ellis Tech, 6 p.m.


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Girls basketball - Southington at New Britain, 7 p.m.

Boys swimming - Southington at Plainville, 4 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 26Boys basketball -

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Girls basketball - Southington vs. Plainville, 7 p.m.

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A Southington High School teacher removed from a morning class while drunk last month has resigned, a school official said Dec. 17.

The resignation letter from John Hansen Jr., 47, cited “personal reasons as well as a serious health issue.” He re-signed Nov. 14 after his class-room removal on Nov. 6.

“I should like to think that I have had a positive impact in some way on the many students with whom I have worked,” Hansen wrote.

Hansen was placed on paid suspension following the in-cident. He also entered a month-long rehabilitation program.

According to an incident report released by the school following a Freedom of In-formation request, Hansen became increasingly bellig-erent and erratic the morn-ing of Nov. 6.

Surveillance video shows him bumping into lockers while walking down school hallways, according to the report.

Halfway through his first period class, Hansen began slurring his words accord-ing to students interviewed by school officials. Students in his second period class told officials that Hansen’s face was red and that he was talking nonsense. Hansen also swore at students while giving directions and had trouble putting on his glasses

which ended up crooked on his face, the report states.

The incident report is re-dacted and doesn’t include the name of the person who reported Hansen’s behavior to school officials.

“We need your help up-stairs now. Hansen is either drunk or high. Half the class is really freaked out and the girls are scared,” the person reported.

Officials who walked Han-sen to the main office said his speech was slurred and that he had trouble walking down stairs. They later drove him to a medical office where he failed a Breathalyzer test.

The report contains a sec-tion on two students who had physical contact with Han-sen but the school system redacted their names. The students were sent to the nurse’s office and had no ail-ments or physical marks.

The report also said the school resource officer was notified of the incident. Southington police made no arrests at the school on Nov. 6.

Hansen made $82,600 a year. He began work in Southington on Aug. 25 with about two decades of teach-ing experience that included Daniel Hand High School in

Madison and Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven.

Hansen lives in New Haven.

His resume showed a gap of more than a year between when he left Madison on Feb. 15, 2013 and when he was hired in Southington.

Hansen said he left for per-sonal and medical reasons.

A letter went out to some high school parents last month addressing the inci-dent, saying a teacher had been removed from a sec-ond-period class for acting in an unprofessional manner. Other school officials refused to comment about whether students were endangered during the incident or what the unprofessional behavior entailed.

By Jesse BuchananSpecial to The Citizen

Read a copy of the incident report online at southingtoncitizen.com

PZC member explains strongly worded email

Disagreement over a Plan-ning and Zoning Commission decision led to a commission member sending an email earlier this month to a resi-dent asking her “who the hell do you think you are?”

Steve Kalkowski, a Republi-can PZC member, said he was responding to an attack on PZC chairman Michael Del-Santo, a fellow Republican. He said an email from Bonnie Sica, a founder of the Com-munity Committee to Save Bradley, was a “personal at-tack” on DelSanto.

“I’m going to defend our chairman and our commis-sion and town staff,” Kalkow-ski said.

Ed Rosenblatt, Demo-cratic Town Committee chairman, sent a letter to the Record-Journal, parent news-paper of The Citizen, Dec. 18 asking that Kalkowski apolo-

gize for his words. Rosenblatt also included Kalkowski’s email in his letter. The letter did not include Sica’s email and she refused to release it.

DelSanto also refused to re-lease the emails without ap-proval from Town Attorney Mark Sciota, who was not available Dec. 19.

The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a med-ical office building for 462 Queen St. earlier this week. Hartford HealthCare, which also owns the Bradley cam-pus of the Hospital of Central Connecticut, will operate the facility.

Sica is concerned about services being offered at the

office building possibly taking away business from Bradley. Included in the commission’s approval was a letter from Hartford HealthCare that the new building wouldn’t offer emergency services, but Sica also wanted a promise that urgent care as well wouldn’t

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Planning and Zoning Commission members on Dec. 3.

“Bonnie,

I am appalled at the contents of your e-mail. Who the hell do you think you are? You have just significantly damaged any relationship you might have had with the P&Z Commission and more importantly, our Chairman. We are required to look at all applications based on conformance to our zoning regulations. This application was approved by us unanimously. If you had so much passion around this particular application, then where the hell were you during the public hearing? I am considering putting the contents of your e-mails on Southington Talks so the 8,000 members in our community can see the real you! You owe Mike a personal apology as well as the entire P&Z Commission. Anything less is totally unacceptable.”

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be offered.Urgent care or emergency

care could draw patients from Bradley hospital, she said.

The commission granted approval without a public hearing. Sica said it should have sought public input. DelSanto said a public hear-ing wasn’t required by statute.

In his email to Sica, Kalkowski defends the com-mission’s unanimous vote in favor of the medical building.

“We are required to look at all applications based on con-formance to our zoning regu-lations,” he wrote.

On Dec. 19, Kalkowski said the commission did its due diligence on the application.

“I stand behind my vote,” he said.

His email to Sica is strongly worded.

“I am appalled at the con-tents of your email. Who the hell do you think you are?” Kalkowski wrote. “You have just significantly damaged any relationship you might have had with the P&Z Com-mission and more impor-tantly, our Chairman.”

Kalkowski also questions “where the hell were you during the public meeting?”

His email ends with a call

for Sica to apologize to Del-Santo and the rest of the commission.

Sica said her focus is on saving Bradley.

“Does it bother me that I was spoken to in this way? Absolutely,” she said Dec. 19. “They didn’t treat me or my group respectfully.”

Kalkowski said his words were justified.

“I don’t think I would have treated her any different than I would want to be treated,” he said. “I would never send an email like (the one she sent DelSanto).”

Sica said she didn’t use profanity or single out any-one by name in her email to commissioners.

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A fire truck may have pre-vented a more serious situ-ation early Dec. 21 morning after state police said a man driving under the influence crashed into the vehicle as it was parked on Interstate 84 to block the scene of a medi-cal emergency.

Emergency crews were responding to the medical scene on Interstate 84 West near exit 32 at about 3 a.m. Southington firefighters re-mained on scene to assist and so a firetruck could be used to

block a lane of traffic and pre-vent a vehicle from veering too close to the emergency crews.

While they were on scene, Scott Przygocki, a Newing-ton resident, smashed his vehicle into the rear of the firetruck, state police said in a statement.

Pryzgocki, 27, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, follow-ing too close and failure to move over for an emergency vehicle.

Fire Chief Harold Clark said the fire truck suffered some damage to the steel

frame at the rear of the vehicle.

It was only taken out of ser-vice for less than 24 hours. The truck still needs some re-pairs, but Clark said the truck thankfully served its purpose.

“Who knows what could have happened if it wasn’t there,” Clark said.

Przygocki was driving a Honda Civic at the time of the crash. He was brought to New Britain Hospital for evalua-tion and treatment of lacera-tions, the statement said.

Przygocki posted $500 bond and is due in Bristol Su-perior Court Jan. 5.

Man faces charges after slamming into fire truckBy Lauren SievertSpecial to The Citizen

The Southington Land Conservation Trust has scheduled a curbside Christ-mas tree disposal fundraiser for Saturdays, Jan. 3, 10 and 17, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A fee is charged.

Proceeds benefit the SLCT for the purpose of conserv-ing land and wildlife habitat

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An elaborate Christmas light display at 14 Lovley Drive in Southington Dec. 17. During the month of December Howard Burke’s house is known as the Christmas attraction “Lights on Lovley” which displays more than 50,000 lights. The show is now canceled. Watch a video of the display online at www.southingtoncitizen.com. | Dave Zajac / For The CitizenSee Lovley / Page 11

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Dec. 22 was the final show,

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Without a new venue, Burke said he won’t continue the show next year.

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The Southington Police Department announced the Town Ordinances applicable to the winter months.

Sec. 12-72. Parking During Winter Restricted at Night ($10 fine).

It shall be unlawful from Nov. 15 to April 15 for the owner or operator of a vehi-cle to allow such vehicle to stand or park on any street in Southington for more than (1) hour between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. on any given day.

Emergency Parking BanSec 12-73 Termination of

all parking authorized ($10 fine).

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The illegal parking could lead to the vehicle being ticketed and towed at the owner’s expense.

Sec. 17-2 Maintenance of sidewalks ( $75 + $20 fee= $95 fine).

(c) Whenever any side-walk adjoining and fronting any land or premises shall be wholly or partially cov-ered with snow, the owner, tenant or occupant of such adjoining premises shall cause such sidewalk to be made safe and convenient by removing such snow there from within twen-ty-four (24) hours after the accumulation of the same thereon, and, should ice be accumulated on any side-walk so that the same can-not be removed, such ice shall be covered with sand or other substance within three (3) hours after the ac-cumulation of such ice.

Sec. 17-3 (b) Snow Re-moval ($25 fine) - Snow Throwing

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AROUND THE TOWN

The Southington High School Drama Club presented “Father of the Bride” Dec. 12 and 13. At top is a cast photo at a rehearsal night. Kennedy Middle School held its Winter Concert on Dec. 10. Above left, sixth grade orchestra violinist Jasmine Hallett. Above right, in the sixth grade chorus, Michael Mariani, Christopher Goncalves, Franklin Hall and Joshua Chevalier sing “One Candle, One Flame.” Right, the Southington Library held a Children’s Craft Fair on Dec. 6. In this photo, fifth-graders Amelia Webster and Alexa Lombardo make holiday decorations and greeting cards. | Photos by Stephen Cieslewski


Obituaries

PROSPECT, Pa.-Elsa Victoria Berry, 87, Pros-pect, Pa., formerly of Southington, Conn., went to be with the Lord Mon-day, Dec. 15, 2014, at Sun-ny View Nursing Home in Butler, Pa.

Born Oct. 13, 1927, in Springfield, Mass., the daughter of the late Simon and Viva (Eagle) Carlbert. Also preceded in death by sisters, Vera Hilma Casey and Betty Warner; broth-ers, Henry and David Carl-bert.

She is survived by her husband of 55 years Rich-ard Berry; sons, Rick Ber-ry and Ronald and wife, Laura (Heming) Berry; grandsons, Nathaniel and Joshua Berry, all of Pros-pect; brother, Carl Carlbert, Southington; and many nieces and nephews. Elsa

was a captain with the Salvation Army and spent her life ministering to oth-ers both in Connecticut and when they moved to Pennsylvania to be closer to their grandchildren. She was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

Funeral services were held on Thursday, Dec. 18, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 2251 Prospect Road, Pros-pect, Pa. with Pastor Ben Oesterling officiating. In-ternment was followed at Mount Zion Baptist Church Cemetery. In lieu of flowers the family request that me-morial donations be made to the Salvation Army, But-ler Corps, 313 W. Cunning-ham St., Butler, PA 16001. Online condolences may be left at thestuartfuneral-homes.com.

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The Parks and Recre-ation Department is ready to set up the ice skating rink, but are waiting for colder temperatures.

Mike Manware, assistant superintendent of parks, said employees were prepared to assemble the rink off Mill Street near the linear trail, but the weather has not been cold enough.

“We’re at the mercy of the weather,” Manware said.

Manware said department officials believe the rink will be a target for vandalism if it is put up before it can be used for skating. He said he hoped the rink will be set up in time for the school holiday break.

Jane Earnest, administra-tive facilities coordinator for the Meriden Parks and Rec-reation Department, said that the skating rink in City Park has been filled.

“We’re just waiting for it

to get cold enough to freeze over,” she said.

The rink has yet to be used after being installed last win-ter. The rink is a permanent structure made of cement.

The rink will be available to anyone who would like to use it, but the city won’t be renting ice skates. It’s “unreg-ulated” by the city as Earnest described it. There’s a street light right next to the rink, so it can be used at night, she said.

Ice rinks to open when cold weather arrives By Lauren Sievert and Molly Callahan Special to The Citizen

The skating rink off of Mill Street near the Linear Trail in Southington, Dec. 19. The Parks and Recreation Department is ready to set up the rink, but is waiting for the cold to set in first. | Dave Zajac / For The Citizen

The Calendar House is scheduled to close Wednes-day, Dec. 31 at noon. Calen-dar House will be closed New Year’s Day.

Calendar House Mem-bership Association meet-ing is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 8, 1 p.m. The meeting will include the installation of of-ficers. RSVP by calling (860) 621-3014

Senior Citizen Commis-sion/Advisory Board is scheduled to meet Tuesday, Jan. 13, 4:30 p.m. in the Main Hall. Calendar House mem-bers and the public are en-couraged to attend.

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When Dec. 26 is a Friday, it provides a long weekend to reflect on and recuperate from a festive week of pre-paring and celebrating.

We think of today as the day after Christmas. But Christmas isn’t just one day. It’s a season that starts on Dec. 25. British tradi-tion recognizes Dec. 26 as Boxing Day, a national hol-iday, heralding back to the Twelve Days of Christmas. Boxing Day goes back to a time when lords would place gifts in a box each day lead-ing up to Christmas when gifts would be given to the poor, the under privileged or household help. This may have ties to later practices of bonuses by employers. Today, Boxing Day is cele-brated not only in the U.K., but in countries such as Aus-tralia and New Zealand with super sports events harken-ing back to the centuries-old days of mounted fox hunts with hunting hounds. (Ani-mal rights folks: it’s history.) The Internet offers much more about Boxing Day.

Turning to another cul-ture, Dec. 26 also is the first day of Kwanzaa, a week-long holiday through Jan. 1 to honor African culture and traditions. An African-Amer-ican leader, Maulana Karenga, proposed this idea which was first celebrated in

1966-67. Candles are lit and libations are ritually poured in a wooden unity cup as an offering to a god. The richly colorful lore of Kwanzaa ends with a feast and the ex-change of gifts.

Back to the inevitable rushing out to stores on Dec. 26, retailers are prepared to handle exchanges, returns and another opportunity to promote additional con-sumer buying.

Meanwhile, our kids have time for leisurely fun, en-joying family time and gifts. Some teens have a part-time holiday job while Santa and his elves do some R & R along their return trip to the North Pole with Rudolph lighting the way for the other eight reindeer.

As Christmas comes just a week before the New Year, it inspires me to do a personal assessment of how my life is going, from a spiritual, moral, physical and worldly perspective. It helps me re-direct my priorities. It’s a good time to think, plan, resolve and re-set our nav-igation system. I also do a mid-year assessment around my June birthday. This helps me stay on track. Another option is to allow time and tide to take you to its des-tination. But, I think that’s drifting. More important, what do you think?

A good time to take stock

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If you’re anything like me, your inner Scrooge has been staring grumpily at the overfull post-holiday trash. Every year, most folks fill trash bags with shiny wrap-ping paper that is seldom admired and immediately

discarded seconds after gifts are opened. There are some weir-dos, of course, who force every member of their family to carefully

slide their fingernails under-neath scotch tape to surgi-cally extract presents from the same wrappings that have been carefully used and re-used since the Great De-pression, but that route re-moves the pleasure of some good paper-tearing.

I’m certain many fami-lies keep every copy of The Citizen that has ever been delivered to their home in acid-free glass cases, so of course having a practical use for old newspapers is a huge disadvantage to newspa-per-wrapping. For those few who don’t save every copy of our illustrious paper, news-paper is readily available,

often colorful, and a great choice for wrapping up pres-ents. If you don’t want to al-low your precious copies of The Citizen to be torn apart, use one of the advertising inserts. What better way to embrace the over-commer-cialization of the season than wrapping presents in ads? Plus, I’m sure our ad-vertisers would appreciate the exposure.

I haven’t spent a dime on wrapping paper for years. It may cause my younger sister to roll her eyes, but cost is just one of many perks to the practice. Newspaper wrap-ping is a great way for par-ents of disaffected college

students to show how hip and environmentally con-scious they are, for example.

Though some families practice free-for-all gift opening – also known as “the piranha method” – newspaper wrappings have great advantages for families who open gifts round-robin style. Now, if the atten-tion span of your family is anything like mine, open-ing even a modest number of gifts can take well over an hour with all the dis-tractions, the calls to family members, and the insistence some gift-givers always have

Have a merry, frugal holidayBy Charles KreutzkampSpecial to The Citizen

Kreutzkamp

Wrapping presents in advertisements is a great way to embrace the over-commercialization of the season. | Charles Kreutzkamp / Special to The Citizen

See Kreutzkamp / Page 15


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on taking pictures so we never forget these precious moments. When all else fails, newspaper wrappings provide crucial reading material while your father opens his fourth pair of new socks and explains to all who will listen (see also “no-body”) how much he loves argyle.

One complication when dealing with newspaper wrapping is that the sizes of the sheets are too small

for some gifts. A truly de-termined news-wrapper, however, can utilize multiple sheets to accomplish virtu-ally any wrapping task.

Just one word of cau-tion before you embrace news-wrapping, though – make sure you take a glance at both sides of the page you’re using, and avoid acci-dentally giving your mother a thoughtful gift wrapped in a tragic obituary – seriously, learn from my mistake.

Happy holidays!

From Page 14

It started with a conver-sation among friends about taking care of those less for-tunate. We always did things to help, but now it was time to take a step further, really dig in and take care of what was right under our noses — those within our own community. So we worked together and as time passed interest grew stronger and more came forward to help in any way they could.

We thought it would be easy and we would just do this, but it turned out that it was not so easy after all. How do we get the word out? Where do the people live? How does one talk to them to let them know we want to help? These people are very private and protec-tive and why not, after what some people have said about them in the past. They are human beings and should be treated as such.

Things we take for granted, lights, heat, food, a warm bed to sleep in ev-ery night, a hot shower and a bathroom to take it in, a car and so much more…you could lose those in a heart-beat. So think about that when you put your head on your pillow to call it a night.

We decided to work with Bread for Life and try to put something together for a dinner. They helped us to contact the less fortunate

in the community and ex-tend our dinner invitation to them. It was a slow go at first but then people started to reconsider, and before you knew it, we had dinner guests and had made new friends.

The American Le-gion Family Post 72 in Southington worked to-gether and it went from a holiday dinner to even more. We turned our hall into a restaurant with linens, china and silverware, dec-orated for Christmas with wreaths and Christmas trees and went from there. They were served a complete hot home cooked meal from an appetizer to desserts and it was served family style by our members. After dinner they were entertained with a movie, popcorn and we even conversation and laughed together.

As the night came to a close they were grateful and gracious and we were show-ered with a thank you, hand shakes and even hugs. What they did not know is that there was more. They were given a gift bag filled with things to help to keep them warm on cold nights and a shopping bag filled with a complete holiday dinner for two.

We were all very excited while we were putting this together, but for me, my

Legion dinner provides warmth for all involvedBy Barbara Pasha

See Pasha / Page 16

Winter bird watching is a favorite activity at my house and will ramp up over the next couple of months. Sure, you can watch birds any season, but this time of year the birds are highly visible and with gardening and yard work behind me, I’m more inclined to while away a cold Saturday morning or stormy Sunday afternoon looking out the window.

Bird gazing is a beau-tiful thing. No computer screen, no 387 TV channels to navigate. It’s just a bird, the sky and a momentary interlude over a sunflower seed that I get to observe.

Some refer to bird watching as a hobby and I supposed it is especially if one learns the names and calls, the preferences and habits. To me, it’s a form of dreaming with a bit of meditation thrown in.

There’s a hardy mixed flock in my neighborhood and like most avid birders, one of the joys is anthropo-morphizing visitors to the feeder. You know the gang, the cheerful chickadee,

the greedy jay, the entitled cardinal. I don’t give them cute names like Harry the Woodpecker — at least not yet. But it is a thrill to look out the window and see who has arrived on any particular day. Junco, tit-mouse, grosbeak, a variety of wrens and sparrows can all be relied upon to make an appearance even during the gloomiest of days. The purple finch and the nut-hatch are two entertain-ing species that are always welcome and bird watch-ers never tire of seeing a pair of cardinal pull up for snack.

The Connecticut Audu-bon Society reports that large flocks of pine siskins have recently been seen moving through the area. I must have missed them or misidentified them — no matter how much I study the field guides, it can be difficult to tune into subtle, distinguishing features.

An excellent online re-source on what to feed the birds, their habitat and how to recognize their songs can be found at wvu.edu/~agexten/wildlife/winterbrd.PDF. While this West Virginia coopera-

tive extension may seem far afield, most of the bird species covered also are found in our local towns. This excellent, simple fact sheet advises on banquets for birds and how to stock and maintain your feeders to cater to the needs of the various species.

The Connecticut Or-nithological Association at ctbirding.org maintains lists of sightings and is another interesting read. It advises that “More and more, Connecticut birders record their sightings on eBird and there are many benefits for you and the birding community. After signing up for eBird you can have alerts of unusual sightings in CT and other regions delivered to your email inbox.”

A friend of mine once told me that she’d given her new in-laws a bird feeder and that they had spurned her gift claiming that feeding the birds was a dirty business and they wanted no part of it. Well, I don’t have to tell you how that relationship turned out.

Bird watching makes winter days fly By Olivia L. LawrenceThe Southington Citizen

Cardinal at feeder. | Olivia L. Lawrence / For The Citizen

See Lawrence / Page 16


Pasha

heart melted and my eyes began to tear when one of our guests cried and asked that God bless us for what we did.

So when you see someone in need, please open your hearts and reach out to help, and it doesn’t have to be just during the holidays, they eat year round just like we do. So for those of you who have not tried it yet, I highly rec-ommend it and I guarantee you will feel something very special inside your heart that will stay with you for a long time.

I would like to thank Bread for Life, along with the local businesses and others in the community that donated to this won-derful cause. But most of all I would like to thank my American Legion Family, Post 72, for all their hard work and donations and for making a conversation be-come a reality.

— Barbara Pasha is with American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 72

From Page 15

Lawrence

However, feeding stations do have to be maintained and it’s not my favorite part, either. (Especially handling suet. That’s a special chal-lenge.) Feeders should be set up in an area welcoming to avian life and safe from squirrels and cats.

Every year about this time Green Earth Media Group sends press releases hawk-ing (yes, pun intended) bird food and related accesso-ries for their clients in the bird supply business. Two good tips from Coles Wild Bird Products were passed along. First, there is no re-

search that shows wild birds will become lazy if you feed them or that they will forgo migrating in order to hang out in your backyard. So re-lax, you won’t contribute to slothfulness in birds.

Coles also reminds bird enthusiasts to help birds with their fresh water needs over the cold months. “Find-ing fresh, unfrozen water can be more challenging for birds than finding food in the winter.” Heated bird-baths are one option, but most folks I know just set out a shallow pan of water by the feeder each day, per-haps not a perfect solution but it helps.

With many bleak and chal-lenging days ahead, I shiver at the thought of even ven-turing outside. Meanwhile, birds with those tiny bodies somehow endure with nary a feather out of place.

The bulk of winter is ahead of us, so let fill up the feeder, pull up chair, grab the binoculars and enjoy these amazing creatures.

From Page 15

North Ridge Golf Club on Welch Road will remain a full 18-hole course for next year’s season despite development on unused land around it.

Local developer Mark Lov-ley bought the 140-acre prop-erty earlier this year and was approved by the town’s Plan-ning and Zoning Commission to build 94 houses on the site. Those houses are being built on land that doesn’t interfere with the golf course, he said.

Lovley closed on the for-mer Pine Valley Golf Course earlier this year. He said the former owners expected him to develop the entire 140-acre property, but Lovley wanted to maintain at least a portion of the course. It’s a feature that those looking to move into Southington appreciate, he said, and golf is a popular sport.

“I looked at the way golf is

going,” Lovley said.The golf course will remain

at 18 holes until 2016 when Lovley said the course will transition to nine holes to al-low development on the front nine holes. He also wants to build a new clubhouse and hopes to expand back to 18 holes at some point with land he hopes to buy on Welch Road. Lovley is also planning to build a pool to expand what’s offered at the club.

About half of the approved 94 houses have been sold, Lovley said, and 14 are still under construction.

Gary Mancino, a real es-tate agent working with Lov-ley Development, said the open land of the golf course is a major selling point. Many of the home buyers are from outside Connecticut and are used to living in open ar-eas not usually found in the densely developed Northeast.

North Ridge Golf Club to remain 18 holesBy Jesse BuchananSpecial to The Citizen

See Golf / Page 18

A former Bridgeport po-lice officer and Southington resident, who appeared in court Dec. 15 on drunken driving charges from a July incident, was arrested three more times in less than 12 hours after police say he drove under the influence twice and attempted to steal items from a Wallingford Walmart.

John Biehn, 39, of Southington, was charged Monday, Dec. 15, with driv-ing under the influence and failure to drive in the proper lane by the Vernon Police Department. Hours later he was arrested again by Wallingford police and charged with driving un-der the influence. Shortly after midnight on Tuesday he was taken into custody again by Wallingford police and charged with sixth de-

gree larceny.Biehn was in Rockville

Superior Court Dec. 15 on a DUI charge stemming from a July 26 incident, according to the judicial branch web-site. He was released on $500 bond.

Vernon police watched Biehn “driving all over the roadway,” about 1:30 p.m. Monday, according to police reports. The arresting offi-

Ex-cop is arrested 3 times in 12 hoursBy Leigh TaussSpecial to The Citizen

See Biehn / Page 17

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cer said Biehn was found to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs and placed him under arrest.

He was released from the Vernon Police Department on $2,500 bond and is sched-uled to appear Dec. 22 at Rockville Supe-rior Court.

According to the Connecticut Post, Biehn was arrested again at 8:20 p.m. in Wallingford after police said he was al-legedly driving drunk.

For the DUI arrest in Wallingford, Biehn was released on bond. His court date could not be immediately available because the arresting officer had not yet completed the paperwork, according to Wallingford police.

Shortly before 2 a.m. on Dec. 16, he was arrested at the Walmart at 844 North Colony Road in Wallingford on charges stemming from a theft, according to the AP.

He was released on $5,000 bond from the Wallingford Police Department for the lar-ceny charge and is scheduled to appear at the Meriden Superior Court Dec. 31.

Biehn is a former Bridgeport police offi-cer who was accused of going on a drunken shooting rampage in a public housing com-plex in 2004, according to the Associated Press. He was acquitted of attempted mur-der and assault and received a suspended sentence, according to the AP.

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Golf

Some of those moving to Southington come to work at ESPN, Mancino said.

“It’s wide open, you’ve got beautiful mountains there,” he said. “It is a selling point.”

The houses in the develop-ment are selling at between

$500,000 and $700,000, Man-cino said.

Uncertainty about the golf course’s future has led to some leagues and groups go-ing to other courses in town. Lance Heil, golf course su-pervisor at Hawk’s Landing Country Club, said his course has been a destination for for-mer Pine Valley golfers.

“We did pick up a few leagues from there,” he said.

If the North Ridge course ends up with only nine holes, Heil expects to get even bus-ier as those looking for a full course go elsewhere.

Lovley said a nine-hole course is attractive to busy working people.

“A lot of people with kids’ sports, and whatnot don’t have time to play 18 holes,” he said.

From Page 16

St. Paul’s Church in Southington is prepar-ing for a community-wide event called “The Bible Challenge.” Beginning Jan. 5, the church will coordi-nate the Bible Challenge event for families and the community to read the Bi-ble in one year. The church

believes this effort can strengthen the ties in the community while provid-ing a fun way to meet new people through weekly dis-cussion groups and fellow-ship sessions.

For more information, call the church at (860) 628-8486.

Bible ChallengeAs winter officially arrives

Dec. 21, it’s a good time for drivers to take inventory of how prepared they and their vehicle are for cold, weath-er-filled winter months.

The American Red Cross reminds people to take pre-cautions when driving in inclement weather. Accord-ing to the National Weather Service, about 70 percent of winter deaths related to ice and snow occur in automobiles.

The ARC suggests driv-ers adjust their schedules if they know they will be trav-eling in a snow-affected area to avoid being on the road at peak travel times or during the height of the storm.

“Give road crews the op-portunity to do their job,” said Paul Shipman, of the American Red Cross. “Allow for extra travel time. And take it slow on the roads, leaving plenty of room between you and the car ahead of you.”

Other travel tips:• Keep up with news and

weather for the latest road conditions

• Drive with your head-lights on

• Keep all your windows and all lights clear of snow

for visibility• Clear all surfaces of the

car. Snow and ice blowing off the hood of your car can blind you or damage your wind-shield. Snow and ice blow-ing off your roof or trunk can blind drivers behind you or damage their vehicle.

• Slow down when visi-bility is reduced; don’t drive faster than your ability to see ahead on the road

• Leave extra space be-tween your automobile and others on the road. All-wheel drive vehicles do not stop any better or more quickly than conventional vehicles.

• Remember bridges and overpasses usually freeze before other roads. Use caution.

• Travel with a full tank of gas in the event you are stuck in traffic or stranded due to road conditions.

• Be sure your mobile phone is fully charged when you leave home; carry a charging device in your vehicle.

• Make sure you and all passengers are wearing your safety belts.

The National Weather Service reports that many people die each year when they attempt to leave their vehicle during a storm to walk to safety. Stranded

drivers should stay with their car, tie a bright piece of cloth to the car’s antenna or door handle and try to contact emergency person-nel by mobile phone.

If stranded, drivers should start and run their car for 10 minutes every hour, using the heater. Be sure that your ex-haust pipe and radiator are clear of packed snow before running your engine.

While the engine is run-ning, partially open a down-wind window to avoid carbon monoxide poison-ing and to get fresh air into the vehicle. Keep the ve-hicle’s interior lights on while the engine is running. Avoid hypothermia by con-stantly moving your arms and legs; clapping hands will help keep you warm as well. Warning signs of hy-pothermia are memory loss, disorientation, incoherence, slurred speech, drowsiness, exhaustion and uncontrolla-ble shivering.

“You should have some basics on hand — such as a flashlight, extra batteries and bottled water — in case you do get stuck somewhere,” Shipman said.

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Sports

The Southington High School football team took a second consecutive state championship Dec. 13 with a 49-0 win over Norwich Free Academy in the Class LL-Large division game at Veterans Memorial Stadium in New Britain. Southington (12-0) has now won three state titles. | Photos by Matt Leidemer/ For The Citizen

BLUE KNIGHTS WIN SECOND STRAIGHT STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Walter Camp lauds Knights as No. 1The Walter Camp Football Foun-

dation will bestow its Joseph W. Kelly Award on the Southington football team at next month’s Wal-ter Camp national awards banquet.

The Kelly Award is give annually to Connecticut’s top high school football team. It is the first time Southington will receive it and the first time it’s gone to a Central Con-necticut Conference team since

New Britain in 2003.The 12-0 Blue Knights blanked

Norwich Free Academy 49-0 on Saturday night to win the Class LL-Large state championship, repeat as state champions and earn their first No. 1 ranking in the state polls.

“With its potent offensive at-tack along with a stingy defense, Southington was outstanding on its way to winning its second straight

Class LL state title,” said Walter Camp president James Monico. “We salute coach Mike Drury, his staff and players on a phenomenal season.”

Drury and the Blue Knights will attend the annual Walter Camp na-tional awards banquet on Saturday, Jan. 17 at Yale University Commons. Also in attendance will be members of the 2014 Walter Camp All-Amer-

ica team and Player of the Year Mar-cus Mariota of Oregon.

Earlier in the day, Southington and the seven other state champs will be recognized at the Walter Camp Breakfast of Champions at Antho-ny’s Ocean View. That morning, the Walter Camp All-Connecticut Team, High School Player and Coach of the Year will also be announced.

-Record-Journal staff

First-year coaches fall in their debutsShawon Moncrief and John

Cessario put in their first nights as head coaches of the Platt and Southington boys basketball teams last week. Both came away looking for their first victories with their

new teams.Moncrief and the Panthers

suffered 74-49 CCC interdi-visional loss to Wethersfield at Sport & Medical Sciences Academy in Hartford. Ces-sario and the Blue Knights also dropped a CCC interdi-visional decision on the road,

falling 55-50 to Rocky Hill.Wethersfield got out to

an 18-6 lead after one quar-ter and Platt could not make inroads into the deficit. In Rocky Hill, the Blue Knights

led 20-15 at the break, but the Terriers opened the second half with a 17-0 run.

Mike Pagano scored 23 points for the Blue Knights, who hurt their chances by go-ing 14-for-29 at the foul line.

Jason Sullivan had a good night for the Panthers. He

chalked up a double-dou-ble with 12 points and 11 rebounds.

“We have some work to do,” Moncrief said. “Jason Sullivan had a double-dou-ble, so we’re going to build

Record-Journal staff

See Basketball / Page 21

Boys Basketball


The SSC would like to congratu-late its fall teams for winning their respective divisions. The club would also like to congratulate its U12 girls team for winning its division, as well

as the State Cup championship. The girls will have the opportunity to play in the Northeast Regional Tour-nament in Pennsylvania in May.

Not pictured is the Club’s U14

girls team “Splash” that finished with a record of 8-0-2. The team was comprised of Celia B., Katherine C., Carolyn D., Bianca F., Gabby F., Em-ily G., Izabella P., Taylor R., Olivia S., Ashley S., Natalie V., Cassidy V.,

Jewell S., Autumn S., Logan F., and Taylor S. The squad was coached by Mendo Bajrami and Carrie Olore.

— Submitted by the Southington Soccer Club

CONGRATULATIONS IN ORDER

U11 boys team - Hawks (Record: 8-1-1) (Front, from left) Grayson B., Matthew W., Alex R., Ryan S., William S. (Back, from left) coach Kevin Hubert, Christopher G., Matthew M., Shane S., Adam S., Ryan D., Kevin H., Anthony P., and coach V.J. Penisse.

U12 girls team - Swarm (Record: 11-1-0) (Front, from left) Jennifer V., Romi B., Alexis V., Abby D., Faith K., Katie C. (Back, from left) coach Anthony Kosior, Callie K., Mary M., Jordan B., Audrey C., Mikayla M., and Kira H.

U12 boys team - Sounders (Record: 16-0-1) (Front, from left) Brendan K., Timothy G., Ben F., Andrew B., Evan S., Michael B., Josh B., Nolan N. (Back, from left) coach Scott Messina, Erik E., Cole M., Michael D., Mitchell M., Ryan M., Jaden V., Trevor F., and coach David Ferreira.

U12 girls team - Strikers (Record: 8-0, and State Cup champions) (Front, from left) Lily S., Mikayla P., Shannon L., Heather L., Lauren V. (Middle, from left) Marissa I., Abby S., Savanna K., Livy P., Jordan B., Morgan H. (Back, from left) coach Paul Sowa, Sydney C., and coach Jim Imme.

The Zachs take home grappling championships

The first tournament of the season for the Southington High wrestling team can be termed a Zak-cess.

Returning State Open place-win-

ners Zach Murillo (106 pounds) and Zach Bylykbashi (132) took home championships Saturday at the Lancer Tournament hosted by Wa-

terford High.Jason Calvi-Rogers (195) settled for

a third-place tie in adherence to the CIAC rule that limits a wrestler to five bouts a day.

Shawn Wagner (113) earned fourth place in the 113-pound bracket and

Austin Abacherli was third at 120. Meanwhile, Southington hosted

the Pete Sepko Junior Varsity Tour-nament where budding Blue Knights Richie Zayas, Tim Budnick, Nick Kel-ley and Alex Kuhr finished first.

By Ken LipshezSpecial to The Citizen Wrestling


Basketball

on that with him. Hopefully, we get the other guys to work hard in practice starting to-morrow morning.”

Rickie Sanders added 10 points for the Panthers. He hit a pair of 3-pointers. Tylon Papallo and Xavier Rivera also drained two treys for the West Siders.

From Page 19

The calm before the collegiate storm

I hope Santa is good to you this holiday, but I guess the old elf isn’t in charge of New England weather.

While we received rain this past weekend, Minne-sota picked up two feet of new powder.

So far this season Odin does not favor the east.

I was in Vermont last week to spend some time with the UConn ski team at Okemo Mountain. The racers were training hard and getting in a lot of gates on good firm snow under a gray sky.

While the snow hasn’t fallen hard here in Con-necticut, there is good, deep, machine-made cover on Eastern ski mountains.

“We have a very talented group of freshmen joining last season’s very success-ful team and are looking

forward to another champi-onship run,” UConn coach Larry Gianatti said.

Joining Cheshire’s Kelsie Carlette, now in her sec-ond season at UConn, and co-captain Macenzie In-genito, a senior, are fresh-men Samantha Feinberg from Greenwich, Rachael Lafebvre (Gunstock, New Hampshire), Danielle Sinko-wicz, who was on the New Jersey State Ski Team, and Sabina Spofford (Westbor-ough, Mass.)

The UConn men’s team has two newcomers joining the group. Luke Gatti and Roger Hueglin, from Wil-ton, are joining last season’s fourth place finishers in the National Championships.

“Both the men’s and wom-en’s teams are young, but experienced racers,” Gia-natti said. “The new athletes

have all been racing for sev-eral seasons, and were mem-bers of their high school ski teams last season. They are training well and are en-couraging each other to go faster.”

“We’ll be training at Okemo until we go home for the holidays,” said Gianatti. “Then we’ll be back here for the opening race on Jan. 8.”

“Our goal for the season is to qualify for the Nationals,”

said Carlette, speaking on behalf of the women’s team. “We missed making the cut by less than one second last season, and we won’t let that happen again.”

Carlette was injured in the last race of the regu-lar season in 2014, and has spent the entire off-season rehabbing and trying to get stronger before the snow falls. “I’m ready to go,” she said, “and I want to win the

opening slalom to show the other teams we are stronger than last year.”

Gianatti expects good things from his racers in 2015, but we’ll have to wait until the end of February to see if the UConn ski team will end the season as the big dogs on the mountain.

Enjoy the rest of the hol-iday season, get in some good runs, be careful, safe and happy.

Members of the UConn ski team practiced at Okemo Mountain in Vermont recently to ready themselves for what’s sure to be an eventful season. | Dave Mongillo / For The Citizen

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WETHERSFIELD (AP) — A new state Department of Labor report shows Con-necticut employers added 4,600 jobs last month, mark-ing a new employment recov-ery high-point.

The state’s unemployment rate, however, increased by one-tenth of a percentage point in November to 6.5 percent. That’s still a full per-centage point lower than the November 2013 unemploy-ment rate of 7.5 percent.

The number of non-farm jobs increased by 25,700 po-sitions since November 2013, to nearly 1.7 million jobs.

The Connecticut Depart-ment of Labor released its monthly labor situation re-port Dec. 18.

Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy called the report another positive sign that the state is making prog-ress in creating good-paying jobs with good benefits for residents.

Len Fasano, the incoming Senate Republican leader, said Connecticut “continues to seriously lag behind the rest of the nation.”

DMV won’t allow three-wheeled vehicle

HARTFORD (AP) — The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles has rejected an attempt to vehicle maker Polaris to have its three-wheeled Slingshot classified as a motorcycle.

Polaris was seeking the designation to allow own-

ers to register the vehicles and use them on Connecticut roads.

The Waterbury Republi-can-American reports the DMV sent a letter to Polaris this month saying the Sling-shot more closely resembles an automobile, a designa-tion that would require it to meet more stringent safety standards.

The DMV has suggested Polaris go to the state Legis-lature to create a new classi-fication for the vehicle.

The state definition of a motorcycle excludes vehicles that have an enclosed driver’s seat and an enclosed motor, and the Slingshot has both.

Inauguration to be open to public

HARTFORD (AP) — Con-necticut residents are be-ing welcomed to attend Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s second inaugural ceremonies, in-cluding a planned parade in downtown Hartford.

The Democrat and his run-ning mate, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, are scheduled to be sworn into office on Wednes-day, Jan. 7, at the William A. O’Neill State Armory. The 1:30 p.m. event is free and open to the public. Seats will be first come, first served.

Doors will open at 11:30 a.m.Also at 11:30 a.m., the tra-

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Following the ceremonies, Malloy will deliver his State of the State address to the full General Assembly.

Insurance exchange hopes to exceed sign-up goal

HARTFORD (AP) — Of-ficials from Connecticut’s health insurance exchange say roughly 20,000 individu-als have signed up for private health insurance over the past month.

Meanwhile, more than 46,000 have enrolled in gov-ernment-funded Medicaid through Access Health CT, during the second, annual open enrollment period un-der the Affordable Care Act. The figures, which account for enrollments at the close of business Dec. 15, were re-leased Dec. 17.

Those who signed up by Dec. 15 will be insured as of Jan. 1.

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change’s acting chief exec-utive officer, said it appears Access Health CT will exceed its goal of signing up 72,000 during this latest open en-rollment, which runs through Feb. 15. The health insurance exchange signed up more than 280,000 residents for private insurance or Med-icaid during the first open enrollment.

Senators tout defense spending in Connecticut

EAST HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut’s two U.S. senators say investments in-cluded in a congressional de-fense spending will boost the state’s military contractors.

U.S. Sens. Richard Blumen-thal and Chris Murphy touted the commitments to local companies in a visit Dec. 18 to Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford.

The Connecticut compa-nies benefitting from the Na-tional Defense Authorization Act include Groton’s Electric Boat, which is building attack submarines and developing plans for a new class of bal-listic-missile submarines.

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