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Volume 10, Number 8 Southington’s Hometown Newspaper www.southingtoncitizen.com Friday, February 20, 2015

Town Engineer Keith Hayden will become pub-lic works director late next month in a major reorga-nization of several town departments.

Town Manager Garry Brumback said the loss of Highway Superintendent Steve Wlodkowski, who’ll retire in March, prompted a reorganization of the engi-neering, highway, parks and wastewater treatment depart-ments. Each of those depart-ments will become divisions in the reconstituted public works department.

The Town Council ap-proved the changes in a party-line vote on Feb. 10 with Republicans support-ing the plan and Democrats opposing.

Former Town Engineer Anthony Tranquillo oversaw the public works department until his dismissal in 2013.

By Jesse BuchananSpecial to The Citizen

Changes in store for town offices

See Changes / Page 6

The ice rink has been a popular place for skating and ice hockey this winter. Town officials said they are also pleased that the rink has not been targeted by vandals.

In January of 2014, vandals damaged the community rink on Mill Street three different times. Protective liners were torn off the side of the rink on two occasions. The rink was eventually closed after a leak in the liner was discovered.

Vandalism has not been a problem this winter.

“There hasn’t been any vandalism at the ice rink at all,” said police Sgt. Jeffrey Dobratz. “The tip line has definitely helped.”

A year ago, the town

Ice rink problems melt awayBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

Jon Nadeau helps his daughter, Ella Nadeau, 8, lace up her skates at the ice rink on Mill Street in Southington. | Justin Weekes / For The CitizenSee Problems / Page 6

Scot Siarkowski climbed over a 4-foot snow mound Feb. 11 to get the mail into the box at a business on West Center Street.

Wearing ice grippers provided by the U.S. Postal Service, Siarkowski moved quickly through the tiny paths shoveled

along the ice-crusted walkways. Cutting through yards is out of the question when the snow is nearly 3 feet deep.

“We’re an hour later on the road be-cause of the snow,” he said, looking back. “It takes longer to deliver the mail.”

Every section of the 628-home mail route is timed, but during the winter months nobody is clocking the mail

carriers, who put in seven hours on foot or by truck.

He began his day at 1 Factory Square, where he parked the mail truck, and de-livered to homes on both sides of Cen-ter Street, except one home with buried walkways and sidewalks.

“We gotta walk on the street,” Siar-

Mail routes get rough as the snow piles upBy Mary Ellen GodinSpecial to The Citizen

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kowski warned. “They’re not getting their mail. If they don’t shovel out, we can’t get to the house. We’ll just hold it for them at the post office to pick up, or we deliver when it’s cleared.”

Cross ing over snow mounds and cutting through the few paths some home-owners have cleared, the 29-year veteran talked about the Postal Service’s commitment to delivering mail every day, regardless of weather.

“Those are tough days,” he said about the past three storms. “They call us off if it gets real bad, or if the gover-nor shuts down the state, but mainly we’re supposed to de-liver the mail.”

His route climbs West Center Street, and he cov-ered about 5 miles on foot before getting into the truck and driving the rest, which is more rural. Siarkowski saw only one customer, who was ready to leave the house and was looking for her mail. He rapped lightly on the rear trunk of another customer, who was backing out of her driveway but didn’t see him and a visitor coming up the driveway.

“Watch out,” he warned.With snow blocking rou-

tine places to park the truck, Siarkowski pulled over where he could, even if it sometimes meant forcing motorists to go around. Sometimes he parks on side streets. Any down-town route with older multi-family homes close together is considered a walking route.

Siarkowski, who does five dif-ferent routes, doesn’t mind walking.

Feb. 11 was sunny but cold. The Postal Service gives the carriers the ice grippers and an allowance to purchase clothing to keep them warm. The worst days, Siarkow-ski said, are those when the blinding snow in high wind affects a carrier’s ability to read the names and addresses on the mail.

“There is only so much you can do with the way the snow has been coming in,” he said about the narrow pathways and plow mounds.

The mail trucks, many of which are 30 years old, aren’t the best for snow. They are light, have rear-wheel drive and don’t always track well. After years of driving in the winter, the drivers learn how to navigate.

Southington Postmaster James R. St. Pierre said Siar-kowski is among the most

loyal and dedicated workers in a job that doesn’t get a lot of thanks.

“This is a physically de-manding job,” St. Pierre said. “After seven hours of climb-ing snowbanks and in and out of trucks, they come back beat. I have a great crew.”

About 10 to 15 years ago, carriers spent more time in the office sorting mail for de-livery. But automation has cut the sorting time and the carriers now have longer routes. The decline in use of traditional mail due to email and texting hasn’t lightened the carriers’ loads; it just in-creases route sizes.

Every day, St. Pierre gives his carriers safety warnings before they load their trucks. Fortunately, the only acci-dents in recent years were minor slips and falls. But the snow accumulation means more trouble.

“You can’t see where you’re walking or driving be-

cause of the snow piles,” he said. “They’ve got to be very careful. Their sight lines are gone.”

He reminds homeowners to clear a path in and out. Those with mailboxes need to clear the way to the mail box and not assume the mail carrier can reach out the win-dow or get out of the truck.

“If they keep getting out of the truck they’ll be out

until 8 p.m.” St. Pierre said. “We don’t want people pull-ing muscles so we have to be careful how much reaching we’re doing. They come back beat every day.”

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Scot Siarkowski, of Southington, delivers packages to a residence on Empress Drive on Feb. 11. Snow has delayed delivery in some spots on his route. | Dave Zajac / For The Citizen

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The Board of Education presented its 2015-16 budget request Feb. 11 to the Board of Finance, arguing that an increase of 3.59 percent over the current year is driven by contractual obligations and other costs outside its control.

“It’s the same volume at a new cost,” said Brian Goral-ski, school board chairman.

The education budget to-tals more than $87 million for the current fiscal year. The request for 2015-16 is $90

million.When questioned by Board

of Finance members about wants and needs in the pro-posed budget, School Super-intendent Tim Connellan said all the funding requests received from school officials were worthy and necessities, even if they couldn’t all be funded.

“Are their needs and wants that you’re using interchange-ably?” asked James Coleman, a Board of Finance member.

“They were needs. There was nothing in there that I just automatically threw out,” Connellan said of the

requests. “There’s nothing in this budget that’s not worthy of consideration.”

In a slide presentation, Connellan and Goralski showed how school depart-ment funding requests had first been cut by Connel-lan in his budget, then cut again by the Board of Educa-tion to produce the amount presented.

Connellan had proposed a 4.41 percent increase.

He told the finance board that rising wages, special ed-ucation costs, supplies and other increasing costs would necessitate a 3.69 percent in-crease in the budget. Some savings were found to reduce that amount to the increase of 3.59 percent.

The proposed budget must be approved by the Board of Finance and the Town Coun-

cil before going into effect.No mention was made by

members of either board Feb. 11 night about a finance board plan to allow a 2 percent bud-get increase for education. The Board of Finance ap-proved an education spend-ing increase of more than 3 percent last year but told ed-ucation officials that they’d be held to a 2 percent increase for the upcoming budget.

John Leary, chairman of the finance board, has said it’s part of a multi-year planning approach.

Feb. 11, Leary said he and Goralski have different per-spectives on education spending.

“We have to look at ev-erything in the town and see what can we give here, here and here,” Leary said. “Our role is to look at the whole

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Leary said funding educa-tion is the right thing to do, but he questioned whether residents’ wages have in-creased proportionally to the proposed budget increase. Wage increases for school employees will rise in the next fiscal year by 1.75 to 2.9 percent, Leary said, all below the total budget increase.

“The average folks in the community, to have their expenses go up 3.6 percent, that’s something we have to consider,” Leary said.


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Hayden, the current engineer, at first only led the engineer-ing department but will be-come public works director as part of the reorganization.

After Tranquillo left, the four departments were sep-arated and “were operat-ing just fine,” according to Brumback. Wlodkowski’s re-tirement prompted consider-ation of a change that could save about $50,000 per year, Brumback said.

The savings are realized by not filling Wlodkowski’s posi-tion. Brumback said his work will be reassigned to others in the public works department.

Those getting more work will receive raises, which have not yet been negotiated, but Brumback said overall the changes will cost the town less. What were separate de-partments will become “mu-tually supporting” divisions under the new department.

Hayden’s salary will be around $130,000, according to estimates Brumback gave the council. Raises given to em-ployees taking on more work will be around 10 percent.

Brumback described Wlod-kowski as an “all-star” super-intendent who trained two capable subordinates to con-tinue the highway depart-ment’s functions.

Tranquil lo, who had worked for the town for more than 39 years, filed an age-dis-crimination suit against the town after his dismissal. Tranquillo’s complaint to the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities said he lost his job due to age not performance.

Brumback cited failure to meet job requirements and resistance to change as rea-sons for Tranquillo’s dis-missal. In a 2012 email to councilors, Brumback said he outlined his expectations to Tranquillo but, after coun-seling sessions, Tranquillo made no improvement.

Town Attorney Mark Sciota said the matter was “settled” but didn’t comment further.

Tranquillo now works for Kratzert Jones & Associates in Milldale. He had no com-ment on the status of his com-plaint or the public works reorganization.

“I can’t talk about that,” he said. “There’s an agreement not to discuss this.”

Democrats tried unsuc-cessfully to table the reorga-nization on Feb. 11 but were

defeated in a party-line vote.Council Minority Leader

Chris Palmieri said informa-tion he’d requested on re-vised job descriptions wasn’t available before the meeting.

He wanted to make sure functions wouldn’t slip through the cracks in the reorganization.

“I don’t understand why it needed to be rushed,” Palm-ieri said. “I like to have in-formation before voting on something.”

Democratic councilor Dawn Miceli said it was hard to judge the reorganization since they’d received no spe-cifics about job description changes.

“I don’t have details,” she said. “I’d like everything clearly spelled out.”

The reinstated position of public works director would likely be one of the high-est-paid in Town Hall, Miceli said.

“I want to know what I get for my $135,000,” she said, referring to the estimated salary.

Town Council Chairman Michael Riccio, a Republi-

can, said he didn’t under-stand Democrats’ objections to voting Feb. 11. The reorga-nization was explained in a flowchart Brumback gave to the council.

“I didn’t really understand what they were looking for,” Riccio said. He saw no reason to delay the vote.

Despite including some raises, Riccio said the over-all reorganization reduces a management position and saves the town $50,000 annually.

“It’s a great initiative on Garry’s part,” he said.

The changes also make town government more effi-cient and responsive.

“We want our customer ex-perience to be the best of the best,” Riccio said. “It gives us more eyes on the sewer plant, it gives us more eyes on engineering.”

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Problems

started work on an anti-van-dalism campaign (ACT On It), including an anonymous tip line and a website to anon-ymously report crime.

“I think the whole ACT On It program has been very helpful and I hope that the trend is permanent,” Town Manager Garry Brumback said.

Town Councilor Dawn Miceli said she also believes the campaign has helped.

“I think through our due diligence through the in-creased awareness, that we haven’t had any incidents,” she said.

Dobratz said this month there has not been any van-dalism reported through the ACT campaign and police have not had any calls or con-cerns about the ice rink.

To report a crime or to ac-cess the ACT On It tip line, call (860) 276-1234 or visit www.southington.org.

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The Town Council unani-mously approved a three-year contract with an energy con-sulting firm Feb. 10 to manage the town and school district’s energy consumption and generation.

Titan Energy New England, of Rocky Hill, was chosen from among eight compa-nies which responded to the town’s request for proposals. The company will provide a commodities manager to help the town in choosing when to buy energy, what to do with energy it may generate through solar panels or other means and create an overall energy strategy.

Navigating the regulations concerning energy, attempt-ing to predict energy markets and knowing which energy strategies the town should pursue are specialized skills, said Town Manager Garry Brumback.

“It is becoming very com-plicated managing the var-ious energy components,”

Brumback said. “We don’t have the resident skill set on staff to manage this thing anymore.”

“Titan is going to take us to the next level,” he said.

The town spends about $3 million a year on utilities.

Brumback said that money could also be saved by collab-orating with the Board of Ed-ucation on energy purchases.

The council approved a three-year contract with Ti-tan totaling $9,200. That cost will be split with the school district.

Other offers came in much higher, including one from Woodard & Curran for $4,000 a month. Brumback said that price wasn’t the only consid-eration in choosing Titan, which also consults for Farm-ington, Lebanon and other towns. He said the company received good reviews from other municipalities and had a good understanding of en-ergy issues.

“They understand both the production and the consump-tion side of this,” he said.

Democratic Town Coun-

cilor John Barry questioned whether attempting to pre-dict commodities prices could cut energy costs.

“How does this really save money?” he asked. “Isn’t it ba-sically market-driven?”

Brumback and Town Coun-cil Chairman Michael Riccio said Titan would provide a knowledge of the market that would help the town know when to buy, when to lock in prices and how to negotiate.

“There is a skill to manag-ing the market,” Brumback said.

He also said the cost of the

contract would be recouped in savings

Energy management is a new type of contracted ser-vice among municipalities,

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Quilts of Valor - A Quilts of Valor group of volunteers plan to sew quilts for veteran war heroes Saturday, Feb. 21, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Ameri-can Legion Hall, Kiltonic Post 72, Southington. The public is welcome to observe or help by sewing, ironing or by donat-ing fabric or sewing items. For more information, contact Jane Dougherty, (203) 315-0232.

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Interfaith support for Muslims grieving N.C. shooting

A Muslim woman and a Catholic woman wept to-gether and embraced Feb. 13 at the Berlin Mosque, the home of the Islamic Associa-tion of Greater Hartford.

Among those who came to-gether to mourn that day were members of Catholic, Jewish, Sikh, Protestant, and human-ist communities. The gath-ering honored the memory of 23-year-old Deah Barakat, his wife of one month, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, victims of the Chapel Hill shooting in North Carolina.

“From their activism and community service, it is clear that the Muslim com-munity in North America has lost three bright stars,” said Dr. Reza Mansoor, president

of the Islamic Association of Greater Hartford.

“I feel your pain, my brother,” said Ripi Singh, a

member of the Connecticut Council for Inter-religious Understanding and part of the Sikh community in

Southington.“All of us in the Old Lyme

community are standing with you today,” said Rev. Steve

Jungkeit, senior minister of the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme.

“We join with you in the pain and the suffering and the anguish of the loss of these three human beings,” said Rabbi Herbert Brockman of Mishkan Israel in Hamden.

Brockman pointed to a teaching common to the Qu-ran and the Torah that states God began creation with a single man and a single woman so that none may say their parent is greater than another.

“The deaths of these three young people are the deaths of my children, as they are the deaths of your children,” Brockman said.

Carole Fay, a member of CCIU and the Catholic St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church in Hartford, shared that upon hearing of the shootings. “The first thing I thought was that I can’t hurt as much as any of these families do, and frankly, I can’t hurt as any of you do. And yet, I feel… these are my folks that have been lost,” she said.

Addressing the Muslim community, Fay said, “you are known to us as a community and you are valued… you are loved by us.”

“We absolutely stand to-gether with the communities of faith… I want to extend to you my greatest sympathies,” said Daniel Blinn of the Hart-ford Area Humanists, a group that includes humanists, atheists, and agnostics.

Blinn served as founding president of the organization and currently serves as vice president.

Members of the Hartford Area Humanists share a be-lief that “every person has an obligation to do good and to benefit society,” Blinn said.

Dr. Feryal Salem, a pro-fessor at Hartford Seminary, was personally acquainted with family members of the victims as well as those who knew them. “One of our stu-dents is related to the people that were shot,” Salem said. “It didn’t hit home until I saw them on T.V… it didn’t click that these were the same peo-ple that I know.”

Salem described the Is-

By Charles KreutzkampSpecial to The Citizen

Dr. Reza Mansoor, center, speaks to members of other faith communities who came to the Berlin mosque Feb. 13 to offer support and condolences to the Muslim community after the murder of three young Muslims in North Carolina. | Charles Kreutzkamp / For The Citizen

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Opinion

Thousands of messages come into our space daily about our health. Maintain a balanced diet. Exercise regu-larly. Be physically and men-tally active. Know when to rest.

Advice on wellness seems to run like a never ending stream regarding the dangers to our health, how to avoid them and how to heal our-selves of every malady from a headache to an ingrown toenail.

“Come on, we all care about our health,” you might say — when we think about it. So is there a disconnect with

so many of us not really doing the best job we can in taking good care of ourselves?

I can’t help wondering if the brain receives so much data on the subject that it ei-ther filters or outright deletes much of it.

Still, we have the informa-

tion and resources within our reach to live healthy. So why aren’t we healthier? Among the possible answers, I would include that we often fail to integrate what we know into our daily behavior.

I do not pretend to be a psychologist, but could it be

that we don’t care about our health in this moment? Or, maybe we do we care, but are overwhelmed by what it takes to develop healthy hab-its? Conjecture aside, we now have an opportunity to take a leap of commitment to our good health.

The 6th Annual Healthy Family FunFest is coming our way Sunday, Feb. 22, at the Aqua Turf Club, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The invita-tion to this showcase event includes every member of the family from newborn to 105-plus. In an exciting setting of exhibits, vendors, profes-sional, on-topic entertain-ment, the focus is on healthy living, education and green initiatives. The promise is a highly engaging experience in learning about health. And, it’s free.

Leading the presentation are the Southington YMCA and The Hospital of Central Connecticut, Bradley Cam-pus. Main sponsors include Health New England and the Barnes Memorial Trust at Main Street Community Foundation.

The Family Health Fun-Fest gives our community access to a host of wellness tips from health experts on a variety of topics, such as: eating right, exercise; screen-ings: blood pressure, balance risk, glucose and bone den-sity checks. Features also will include a kids’ fun section, healthy minds, healthy aging, green living, food samples, free giveaways, contests and challenges.

Radio personalities Re-nee DiNino and Cory Myers, along with award-winning educator, performance con-sultant, stand-up comedian and writer Dave Caperton will provide entertainment and demonstrations. Assist-ing Y and HHF staff, more than 50 youth volunteers will be on hand from STEPS (Southington’s Town-wide Efforts to Promote Success) church and civic groups and students seeking community service opportunities. For more information, visit www.healthyfamilyfunfest.com or

call Nicole Spagnoletti, HFF coordinator, at (860) 378-1268.

More upcoming health events

Dinner with a Doc: Urolo-gist: Dr. Ryan Dorin of Hart-ford HealthCare will speak on “Urology and You: Pelvic Health” at a complimentary dinner on Wednesday, March 11, from 5 to 7 p.m., at Southington Care Cen-ter. Dorin will discuss pelvic health, incontinence and rea-sons for visiting a urologist. SCC staff will discuss new therapy options. With limited seating, RSVP is requested. Call (860) 621-9559.

Blood Screenings: Central CT Senior Health Services offers free blood pressure screenings in the month of March at the following Southington locations: Tues-day, March 3, at 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the YMCA; Thursday, March 5, from 11 a.m. to noon at Calendar House; Tues-day, March 10, from 11 a.m. to noon at ShopRite, 750 Queen St.; Tuesday, March 24, from 10 to 11 a.m., Calendar House.

Exercise Physiologist Mark Colello of Southington Care Center will be at the Southington Library March 11 from 10 to 11 a.m. for the final presentation of his se-ries: “The Path to Wellness.” To register, call the library at (860) 628-0947.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Start now, plant-ing Appleseeds for your good health.

Comments welcome at [email protected].

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lamic tenet of Sadaqa, or charity, a virtue Barakat embodied. The young man raised money to provide dental care to Syrian child refugees. After he was killed, Salem said, donations poured in and more than $350,000 has been raised.

“These people have hu-manized who Muslim Amer-icans are,” Salem said. “They

had fun, they danced, they played basketball, and they could do the Harlem Shake.”

Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Abu-Salha were “fully practicing Muslims,” partic-ipating in daily prayers and wearing the hijab, Salem said, and they were also “fully American. I found their lives to be incredibly inspiring.”

The “vicious ‘execution style’ murder by an anti-reli-gious extremist highlights the

need to educate the public on extremism in all commu-nities,” Mansoor said. “The truth is that hate, terror, and murder have no religion.”

Mansoor asked faith lead-ers to “lead the way in com-bating the fear, mistrust, and hate,” of “the alarming rise of Islamaphobia in our country.”

A neighbor of Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Abu-Salha, Craig Hicks, has been charged with three counts of murder for their deaths. CNN reported that authorities are investigating whether the murders were motivated by religion and qualify as a hate crime.

Hicks allegedly described

himself as an “anti-theist” on Facebook, making posts crit-ical of Islam and Christian-ity, according to CNN. Hicks also was alleged to have had angry confrontations with his neighbors, including the young Muslims, over loud music and parking disputes.

“I really felt that because the person that committed this horrible crime identi-fied as a secularist, that it is particularly important that leaders in the humanist and atheist community come for-ward and denounce it and express our unity with the Muslim community,” Blinn told The Citizen.

Many in attendance

thanked Blinn for his sup-port. “I felt very welcomed and embraced by this caring community,” he said.

Before the statements be-gan, Mansoor expressed hope that “as a nation that values mutual respect and diversity, we pray to almighty God that through this tragedy we are brought closer together.”

This wish was fulfilled on this day, at the Berlin Mosque, at least. As the speakers fin-ished expressing condolences and support for the Muslim community, they received thanks, handshakes, and hugs.

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Healthy Family FunfestThe Healthy Family Funfest is

scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 22, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at The Aqua Turf Club, 556 Mulberry St., Plantsville. The free event features screenings and information for seniors, Amber Alert, car seat safety, brain fitness, speakers and demonstrations and children’s games and activities.

For more information, call (860) 378-1268 or visit www.healthyfamily-funfest.com.

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The Barnes Museum is a well-known fixture in town, but many residents might not know about the love story of Bradley Barnes and his wife, Leila.

Museum curator Marie Secondo was setting up Val-entine’s Day cards on Feb. 11, all of which are to or from members of the Barnes fam-ily. The collection includes 70 handmade Valentine’s Day cards, the oldest dating back to 1855, Secondo said. The cards, which were purchased as plain cards then hand em-bellished by the person giving the card, contained messages of love and kindness, some from Barnes’ childhood.

Secondo said the real love story was between Bradley and Leila Barnes. They knew each other as children, as ev-idenced by diary entries by Bradley Barnes who wrote about going to birthday par-ties. The two were married but never had children, Sec-ondo said.

Secondo heard from a former caretaker that Leila Barnes might not have been able to have children, but that the couple loved giv-ing gifts to children in town. Leila Barnes died when she was 67-years-old, in 1952, while Bradley Barnes lived another 20 years, until he was 90. Secondo said the day Leila Barnes died, which was a sudden death from a cor-onary, Bradley Barnes shut the door to her bedroom and it was never opened again during his lifetime.

When the town acquired the house and went into the bedroom, Secondo said it was left exactly how Leila had it, with clothing scat-tered around. Bradley Barnes wrote that “my world ended, my all is gone forever.” He set up a trust account to make sure pink carnations, her fa-vorite flower, would always be placed on Leila’s grave for birthdays, holidays and anni-versaries, Secondo said.

Because Bradley Barnes was so wealthy from the fam-ily, he never had to work. As a result, he and Leila Barnes spent much of their time to-gether. Secondo showed

some of the handwritten notes from Bradley Barnes to Leila.

“The valentines only make more true the fact that there was so much love in this house,” Secondo said.

The couple would go to shows on Broadway, and over 900 playbills are in the muse-um’s collection. They would also take weekend trips to up-state New York, Secondo said. They would work together in their garden and grow plants in their home to put in the garden in the spring.

“They were two peas in a pod,” Secondo said smiling.

Museum caretaker Joanne Cyr said she loves seeing the cards come out every year, and one written to the cou-ple’s cat, Fluffy, is her favor-ite. Beyond Bradley Barnes and Leila Barnes, the entire family was one of love, Sec-ondo said. Bradley Barnes’ mother and grandmother were also great influences on his life, creating an appre-ciative and loving nature in him. In the 52 family diaries, which Secondo has worked to transcribe, she said there is never complaining or any mean-spirited remarks from any of the family members.

“They were really old-fash-ioned loving Yankees,” Sec-ondo said.

For visitors to the museum, the Valentine’s Day cards are presented around different rooms on the first floor. The ornate cards are preserved in plastic film to protect them and most still have the en-velopes they were sent in. One of the largest cards is shaped like a ship and can stand up, but is very delicate and Secondo said she has to be extremely careful when showing it.

“There is an artistry in them you don’t see anymore,” Cyr said.

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It’s bat to the basics for Southington WestThe Southington West Lit-

tle League has approved the switch from aluminum to wooden bats beginning this spring.

League president Skip Griffin cited durability im-provements in wooden bats, the abilities of today’s Little Leaguer and the omnipresent risks of using aluminum as reasons for the change, which was approved by a 10-5 vote of the general membership with voting eligibility.

Southington West is the first local league to make the move.

Griffin said the companies that produce the aluminum bats have toned them down to reduce the missile-like results of bats squaring up baseballs, but feels the risks are too great to warrant their use.

“The balls still rocket off the aluminum bats,” Griffin said. “The kids are bigger, faster, stronger and better hitters than when we played. We put those factors together and considered the element of danger on a small field.”

Those who play beyond the age of 12 in Southington

West’s Junior, Senior and Big League divisions, where the pitcher’s mound is a standard 60 feet, 6 inches from home plate, will still use aluminum bats. The distance in the Ma-jor Division — the 12-and-un-der division often linked with the Little League World Se-ries in Williamsport, Pa. — is 46 feet.

“There were some seri-ous concerns voiced by par-ents and coaches alike the last couple years that some kids really hit the ball hard,” Griffin said. “Thank goodness there have been no serious in-juries, but coaches have been hit in the side and the legs even when they’re behind screens.”

Griffin said that home runs are traveling over fences by 40 or 50 feet. Little League recommends a 200-foot dis-tance from home plate to fence, but local leagues are allowed options.

He said the change would not affect the tee-ball division.

“We discussed [the switch] in open meetings last fall,” Griffin said. “At times it was spirited, but everybody was in agreement that safety is extremely important. There was some concern that the

wooden bats are weighted differently and that weaker hitters might struggle more. It went back and forth.”

Southington West, along with the town’s other two leagues, North and South, are in District 5. The district also includes leagues in Meriden, Wallingford, Berlin, Bristol, Farmington, New Britain and Plainville.

District 5 administrator Maryellen Holden supported Southington West’s venture.

“From what I have learned, the board members had thoughtful discussions and then made their decision based on safety. Good for them,” Holden said. “Lit-tle League is a program that cares a great deal about the safety of its players, which is why they continue to test metal bats and deem certain ones unsafe for use in their program. This decision that the West has made for their league makes good sense.”

Griffin said the league thoroughly considered the durability of wood versus aluminum and the projected financial ramifications of the switch.

“Wooden bats can go any-where from $30 to $100,” said

Griffin, who sent out notices to parents to hold off buying aluminum bats.

“The high-end alumi-num bats are $300 to $400, but they last. The wooden bats don’t break like they do in Major League Baseball. We’re looking into compos-ite wooden bats.”

Composite wooden bats are made of maple, birch or bamboo cut into pie-shaped pieces and subsequently bound with resin and coated for longevity.

“The league is going to pro-vide each team with four to six bats,” Griffin said.

He doesn’t feel the change will affect the integrity of the game. He hopes it reduces run-scoring, makes games more competitive and en-courages coaches to return to the game’s fundamentals instead of hoping for home runs. He said that the number of home runs overall and the number of 10-year olds hitting them have risen dramatically.

“We hope that changing the bat changes the way coaches approach and make it more of a team game,” Griffin said. “We hope fundamentals re-turn to the game and teams manufacture runs.”

He said the league has re-viewed the true meaning be-hind Little League baseball.

“Little League is devel-opmental,” he said. “Per-haps we lose focus because ESPN makes the kids na-tional figures. Mo’ne Davis is a celebrity.”

The South Meriden Youth Baseball League, which plays in the Cal Ripken Division, went to a field with a 50-foot pitching distance and 70-foot basepaths rather than directly from the small diamond to the large one.

“A couple of our leagues in the Cal Ripken Division have gone to wood bats,” SMYBL president Bryan Mc-Carty said. “You’ve got to hit it right, but in my experience, if the kids learn how to hit the ball right, it’s still going to come off the bat pretty good. I think it’s going to make them better in the long run because they’ll figure out where that sweet spot is.

“My recommendation to them would be to try the 50/70. That’s where we went two years ago and it’s made a big difference in safety as well as the caliber of the kids being prepared for going to the big fields.”

By Ken LipshezSpecial to The Citizen

SHS girls are primed for the postseasonGirls basketball

Southington 44, Hall 40: Kaitlin Paterson canned five 3-pointers and scored a game-high 19 points to power Southington to a CCC West victory over Hall.

The Blue Knights had con-trol from the opening tip and sealed the win by shooting 7-for-10 from the line in the fourth quarter.

Southington point guard Sarah Minkiewicz added eight points for the Knights, who improved to 13-5 overall and 7-5 in the West. Natalie Wadolowski returned from a hamstring injury that cost her a game to provide important

minutes in the post.Simsbury 43, Southing

ton 35: Paterson canned three 3-pointers and scored a team-high 16 points for the Blue Knights in the CCC West loss in Simsbury.

Hartlee Meier added 11 points for Southington (13-6, 7-6 West).

Katie Martensen led the Trojans (15-4, 10-3) with 14 points.

Southington 54, New Britain 32: The Blue Knights welcomed back senior Ni-cole Fischer, who returned from her broken fibula, then put away the Golden Hurri-canes in a CCC West game in Southington.

Paterson’s 21 points, which included five 3-pointers, led Southington on offense. Pa-terson also sparked the de-fense with five steals.

Wadolowski put up a dou-ble-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds.

Fischer scored five points in her return.

The Blue Knights finished the regular season at 14-6 overall and 8-6 in the West.

Boys basketballSimsbury 55, Southington

50: A string of three victo-ries restored the sizzle to

Southington boys basketball in a magical way.

For a fleeting moment, Southington was on the verge of another mesmerizing es-cape from the jaws of defeat last Thursday night, but Hou-dini left the room.

An arduous comeback trail came to an end when a trap-ping Simsbury defense forced a turnover in the waning sec-onds to secure a 55-50 victory in a CCC West clash at the Southington gym.

Southington (5-11, 4-7) needs three wins in its last four games to qualify for the

Class LL tournament.Simsbury, which improved

to 13-4, 9-3, held a 54-44 lead midway through the fourth quarter.

A 3-pointer by Nate Blitz with 49 seconds left drew the Knights within two. Rayon Christie of Simsbury made two free throws, but Mike Pa-gano responded with a tear-drop to cut it to two again. After Christie missed a layup, Pagano tried to split a trap on the lane and turned it over.

Christie earned his seventh trip of the period to the free-throw line and made it 54-50 with 20 seconds to go. Blitz

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hurried up a trey that was off line and Christie added the fi-nal point to clinch it.

Kyle Borawski had 10 points including a late trey that kept the Knights alive.

Southington 45, West Hartford 43: Borawski scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds, both team highs, to lead Southington to a CCC West win over Hall in West Hartford.

Pagano and Blitz added 11 points apiece for Southington, which improved to 6-11 over-all and 5-7 in the West while knocking Hall to 1-16 and 0-12.

WrestlingSouthington 43, New

Britain 33: Josh Gravel and Shawn Devin scored victories in the final two bouts to give Southington a win over New Britain in a CCC West match at Chick Shea Gym.

With the score tied 33-33, Gravel registered a 10-2 major decision at 145 pounds over Tyler Ortiz, establishing the bout at 152 as decisive. There, Devin removed the drama, pinning Justin McDurma in 1:26.

Zach Murillo (106), Austin Abacherli (120) and Zach By-

lykbashi each won by first-pe-riod fall.

Logan LaRosa won a 6-0 de-cision at 160. Jason Calvi-Rog-ers (195) and Shaun Wagner (113) won by forfeit.

Swimming and divingHall 86, Southington

84: The Blue Knights were nipped by the Warriors in a CCC West meet at the Southington YMCA.

It was a tough loss for the Blue Knights, who won five individual races and one re-lay. They were looking for a signature divisional win, but instead fell to 6-2.

P.J. Ramsay was a dou-ble-winner for Southington. He won the 50-yard freestyle in 23.93 and the 100 butterfly in 1:00.10. He also swam a leg on the winning 200 medley relay with Zack Blake, Matt Dusczak and Nick Brazil, who touched in 1:50.94.

Blake went on to win the 100 backstroke in 1:02.03 and Brazil followed with a vic-tory in the 100 breaststroke in 1:08.40.

The Blue Knights also got first-place points from Kevin Corcoran in the 500 free. He won in a time of 5:25.72.

Southington 98, Sims-bury 67: The Blue Knights splashed their way to a Senior Day win at the Southington YMCA.

Before the meet against their CCC West foes , Southington seniors Flora Nardi, Jay Olan, Don Prin-gle, Tim White and captains Brazil, Corcoran, Duszak and Mack Golos were honored.

In the pool, Evan Bender was a double-winner for the Knights (7-2). He won the 200-yard IM in the 2:22.44 and the 100 backstroke (1:02.71).

Other individual winners for Southington were Golos in the 200 freestyle (1:59.07), Ramsey in the 50 freestyle (24.09), Corcoran in the 100 butterfly (1:02.65) and Bra-zil in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.75).

Southington won all three relays. Blake, Brazil and Ram-sey combined with Duszak to win the 200 medley relay (1:51.32) and with Bender on the 200 free relay (1:40.93).

The 400 free relay team of Corcoran, Austin Bull, Ben Wakefield and Golos took first in a time of 3:52.60.

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A man allegedly injured riding a mechanical bull at Cadillac Ranch Restaurant in July 2013 claims his injuries were caused by the restau-rant’s negligence, according to a lawsuit filed in Meriden Superior Court last month.

Steven Saleski, whose ad-dress isn’t specified in the lawsuit, is seeking monetary damages from the restau-rant. He filed the lawsuit on Jan. 21, according to court re-cords. On Feb. 6, Saleski filed an amended claim with minor changes.

Cadillac Ranch, at 45 Jude Lane, is owned and operated through Meadow Muffins, LLC. The company’s princi-pal, Graham Nicholson, has owned the restaurant along with three others since 1997,

according to a March 2004 Record-Journal story.

According to Saleski’s law-suit, the restaurant operates a mechanical bull known as “Old Thunder.”

The landing pad surround-ing the bull was “adjacent to and against a wall” in the restaurant when Saleski vis-ited for a business event on July 6, 2013, the lawsuit states.

At around 10 p.m., Saleski paid to ride the mechanical bull. He was thrown from the mechanical bull “causing him to violently hit his head on the landing pad,” accord-ing to the lawsuit. As a result, Saleski allegedly suffered and continues to suffer from severe neck pain, displaced fractures of two vertebrae and vertebral artery injury. Saleski is seeking monetary damages to cover medical ex-penses and loss of earnings.

The lawsuit claims that the restaurant created a danger-ous condition by placing the landing pad around the me-chanical bull against a wall. There was inadequate pad-ding to prevent injury, ac-cording to Saleski’s lawsuit, which also claims the me-chanical bull wasn’t prop-erly supervised by staff, and there weren’t proper training or safety procedures in place.

Saleski and Nicholson couldn’t immediately be reached for comment, nor could their legal represen-tation. It’s unclear if Saleski was required by the restau-rant to sign a release before riding the mechanical bull.

The restaurant has yet to respond to Saleski’s allega-tions. On Feb. 3, the law firm representing the restaurant filed for an extension of time, until April 3, to do so.

Cadillac Ranch offers live entertainment, dancing and karaoke in a 12,000-square-foot venue, according to the restaurant’s website.

Suit filed over mechanical bullBy Andrew RagaliSpecial to The Citizen

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Texting or browsing with your head bent forward over your cell phone results in a hunched posture that can lead to neck pain. With your head tilted forward and your shoulders drooped, extra stress is placed on the cervical spine. In a neutral position, the head weighs 10-12 pounds. Bending the head forward 15 degrees increases the force that the head exerts on the neck to 27 pounds, a 30-degree tilt of the head places 40 pounds, and a 60-degree tilt exerts 60 pounds. Thus, it is easy to see how a hunched texting posture could result in early wear and degeneration of the cervical (neck) portion of the spine. Chiropractors are posture experts who can help alleviate neck strain.

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Curtis D. and Sheila Robinson recently made a donation to Bread for Life in Southington, a United Way affiliate. The money will be used to feed children in Southington public schools who cannot afford a meal. From left: Lawrence Young, MPH, Health Equity Fellow, Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity; Curtis D. Robinson; Sheila Robinson; Marcus McKinney, D. Min., LPC, Vice President of Community Health Equity and Health Policy at Saint Francis; Eldon Hafford, Executive Director, Bread for Life in Southington.

The Greater Southington Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations from the public for its annual citi-zen awards to be presented at the 77th annual dinner meet-ing in April.

Each year the Chamber of Commerce recognizes out-standing businesses and vol-unteers who have enhanced the quality of life in the Southington community.

There are five categories for nominations.

Nomination forms are available at the chamber of-fice (or submit one in writ-ing) to the chamber, One Factory Square.

A chamber selection com-mittee will review the nom-inations and announce the recipients on March 14. Dead-line for submitting nomina-tion is March 12.

The annual dinner is

scheduled for Saturday, April 25 at the Aqua Turf featuring installation of Paul Armor as the new chairperson, and sev-eral new directors. The event will include dinner, open bar, dancing and raffle.

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Book storeThe Friends of Southington

Library Book Store is sched-uled to be open Monday and Thursday, 2 to 5 p.m.; Mon-day and Wednesday, 2 to 8:30 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Movie matineesThe Southington Library

has scheduled a classic movie matinée for Friday, Feb. 20, 11:30 a.m. Bring a brown bag lunch. No registration is re-quired. For more information, call (860) 628-0947, ext. 5.

Ready 2 ReadThe Southington Library

has introduced a new collec-tion of current bestsellers.

Formerly called “Fast Track,” the collection will cir-culate for 14 days instead of one week. All titles are avail-able first come, first served.

Library NewsLiteracy Volunteers of

Central Connecticut is look-ing for volunteers. Train-ing workshops for working with English for Speakers of Other Languages students are scheduled for March 5, 9, 12, and 16, 6 to 8:30 p.m., at Southington ARC and March 6, 10, 13, and 17, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Bristol Public Li-brary. Volunteers are asked to volunteer once a week for two hours for at least a year.

All prospective tutors, age 18 and over, with a mini-mum of a high school degree (or equivalent), good writ-ing skills, and good speaking skills are welcome. Obser-vations and support will be provided.

Preregistration is required by Monday, Feb. 23. To regis-ter, or for more information, call (860) 229-7323 or email Sarah Hudkins at [email protected].

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The Xavier High School Fullmetal Falcons are hard at work on their robot as they prepare for their first Recycle Rush competition, a FIRST robotics event. The team includes some 30 stu-dents from Berlin, Durham, North Haven, Southington, North Branford, Cromwell, and other area towns.

Every year, the FIRST ro-botics challenge is different. This year’s game, Recycle Rush, involves building a ro-bot that can collect bins or totes and stack them onto scoring platforms while avoiding being derailed by “litter” in the form of pool noodles thrown by the op-posing team.

The Fullmetal Falcons held

tryouts Feb. 13 with students vying for roles as Coach, Driver 1, Driver 2, and Hu-man Player.

During every 2.5-minute match, the Fullmetal Fal-cons will use their robot to join with two other teams to form an alliance on the red or blue team competing against an opposing alliance of three robots.

Each team will have a hu-man player that can throw pool noodles in attempts to derail the opposing team’s robots. The player can also hand off noodles to their al-liance’s robots, with noodles placed in trash bins worth six points and litter moved into the landfill zone worth one point per noodle.

The Fullmetal Falcon’s programming team has been hard at work preparing the ro-

bot to attempt to score points during the first 15 seconds of the match, when robots work autonomously. After that pe-riod ends, team drivers can take direct control of their robots.

The Fullmetal Falcons have programmed their robot to work using a game control-ler connected to a laptop that interfaces wirelessly with the robot.

Each year the Fullmetal Falcons create a different ro-bot, but they are permitted to cannibalize robots from pre-vious years for parts, to save money – thematically befit-ting the Recycle Rush game, team spokesman Van Augur, a North Branford resident, pointed out.

Unlike in previous years, “we don’t foresee much ro-bot to robot interaction,” said co-captain Jameson Kief of Southington. In previous years, robots would some-times cause damage to each other, Kief said. Now, robots are not required to have bum-pers as robots from previous years were.

This Fullmetal Falcons’ current robot has a unique ability the team calls “the H drive.” In addition to four wheels positioned like a car’s, the robot has two in-terior wheels that allow the robot to strafe left and right. The team hopes this will al-low the robot to center itself

in front of bins, making it eas-ier to lift and stack using the pneumatic gripping arms.

The team has been waiting on a new part, that was to ar-rive Feb. 16, that will resolve a problem with actuators. After that, the robot should become fully operational.

Members of the team are traditionally divided into en-gineers and programmers, but another important role is that of fundraising, financing, and publicity.

Kevin Iott of North Haven

focuses on raising funds and donations of equipment.

“Our major sponsor is UTC,” Iott said. United Technologies Corporation provided the majority of the funding this year, as well as providing staff who serve as mentors to the team.

This is only the third year of competition for the Full-metal Falcons, who received funding from NASA during their first two years. NASA often helps fund teams as they get started, but after the first two years, teams are ex-pected to fund themselves.

Teams are also eligible for awards based on publicity and community outreach.

According to its web-site, FIRST is a nonprofit founded in 1989 to “inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology.”

New for the Fullmetal Fal-cons this year is a 3D printer that can create plastic parts for the robot, which team members described as “sur-prisingly strong.” The team was awarded the device after a member entered an essay contest.

The team planned to start practicing operating the ro-bot this week. Their first competition will be held in Waterbury, Feb. 28, with an-other competition in Hart-ford March 28.

By Charles KreutzkampSpecial to The Citizen

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