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By SHAW ISRAEL IZIKSON

WINSTED — After being namedthe interim town manager on Nov. 21,Barkhamsted resident Robert Geigerstarted his term with the town onWednesday, Dec. 2.

In an interview last week with TheWinsted Journal, Mayor Candy Perezsaid that Geiger will serve as townmanager until a permanent one isnamed in February or March.

Perez added that Geiger is beingpaid a per diem salary with no benefits.Geiger is taking over for former

Town Manager Dale Martin, who re-signed in September and served his lastday with the town in mid-November.

Geiger is currently the vice presi-dent of the Board of Directors of theBeardsley and Memorial Library and isalso a member of Barkhamsted’s Eco-nomic Development Commission.

He is also the president of theWinchester Housing DevelopmentCorporation.

In an interview this week with The

WINSTED — The following is acomplete list of town managers asprovided by former Selectman GeorgeClosson.

According to this list, there havebeen 25 town managers over the spanof 51 years. Since 2000 there have been10 town managers.

The longest-serving town manager


NORFOLK — The Norfolk Libraryheld its annual community Christmascarol singalong on Saturday, Nov. 28.

The event was organized by theNorfolk Library Associates and was

attended by more than 100 residents.The residents, young and old, filled

the hallways of the library and sangChristmas classics, including “12 Days


WINSTED — While the organiza-tion is still raising funds in order toobtain a matching grant from the state,plans for the American Mural Project(AMP) are moving forward.

Geiger talksinterim

position

History oftown managers

Norfolk Library celebrates the season

Mural Project moves forward with permits

of Christmas” and “Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer.”

Co-organizer Hope Childs saidthat nobody knew how many yearsthe event has been held for.

“It’s been here much longer thanwe’ve been around,” Childs said. “For

at least 30 years.”“The Norfolk Library Associates

is a fantastic group that was foundedin 1974,” library director Ann Have-

meyer said. “It’s an important arm ofthe library that does art exhibits andprovides money through fundraisingprograms.”

After the singalong, residentswalked across the street to the townGreen where members of the Norfolk

Volunteer Fire Department turnedon the lights on the town’s Christ-mas tree.

Santa Claus was swarmed by a

large group of children, and he gaveout candy canes as he tried to makehis way to the tree.

“We always had a communityChristmas tree and we were possiblythe first in the country to have oneHavemeyer said. “I think this event

started when people gathered aroundthe tree and they came into the libraryfor refreshments because it was coldoutside.”

PHOTO BY SHAW ISRAEL IZIKSON

Carolers sang at the Norfolk Library’s annual community Christmas singalong on Saturday, Nov. 28.

fields depicted in the art itself.When assembled and completed

the mural will be 120 feet long, fivestories high and 10 feet deep.

In previous interviews, she said thatfor the project to be completed $2.4million needs to be raised in order

deadline to the end of December.On Nov. 13, Griesedieck applied

for a building permit with the town’sbuilding department, paying $36,175.

According to the permit applica-tion, the permit is for phase onerenovations and a vertical addition

will also include new mechanical, elec-trical, plumbing and fire protection(MEP/FP) systems and code-requiredfire alarm systems.

She lists the cost of constructionwork at $2,182,050, mechanical workat$101 300 electricalworkat$48 500

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A2 THE WINSTED JOURNAL, Friday, December 4, 2015

Area News

By ERICA TAYLOR

WINSTED — From Friday,Nov. 20, through Sunday, Nov.22, students of the NorthwesternRegional High School’s DramaClub performed two back-to-back comedies — “Black Com-edy” by Peter Shaffer and “Zap”by Paul Fleischman.

The two one-act plays, whichwere performed in the school’stheater, featured a collective castof 35 students and was directedby alumni.

Kalyn Zwart, Skylar Zygmont,

Guy Hayes and Keith Winegarwere artistic and associate direc-tors for the productions.

Students perform black comedy The shows featured ambitious

scripts and were zealously tackledby student actors on the openingnight.

During the performanceon Nov. 20, laughter spreadacross the packed auditorium,composed of a mix of fellowstudents, family members andstaff.

The reverse lighting schemein “Black Comedy” had castmembers tripping and breakingprops as they “felt” their wayaround in the dark.

Programs included paper

remote control “zappers,” asthe actors of Zap were subjectto the ever-changing whim of

an imaginary audience.An air of passion and cama-

raderie was apparent among theactors, who had been workingon their performances for overa month.

All but one of the evening’sactors were of high school ageand the majority of which havebeen involved in many othertheatrical productions at thehigh school.

“They did auditions back inthe end of September and thenstarted rehearsals,” Karin Taylorof the Theater Arts Parents said.

“They rehearsed a couple nightsa week, and on Saturdays workedon the set and the costumes.”

By KATERI KOSEK

COLEBROOK — The town’sfood pantry, sponsored by theColebrook CongregationalChurch at 471 Smith Road, islooking for nonperishable itemsto feed local families.

Pastor Geoffrey Smith said afood drive that started severalweeks ago is a success so far, andColebrook Consolidated Schoolhelped by running a food drivefor them, collecting over 400

items. “We’re going to be ableto be a lot more generous,” saidSmith.

The items are distributed atthe church in Colebrook everyMonday, and they supportbetween four and six families,including some senior citizenswho are on their own.

On Monday, Nov. 30, thepantry also had squash and otherthings left over from the HarvestTable held every Thanksgiving.Smith said the produce will go to

the Open Door soup kitchen inWinsted if it wasn’t taken by theColebrook families that evening.

Smith hopes to incorporatefresh food into the Monday dis-tribution as well. The church justgot a grant from the Northwest

Food pantry seeks donations

PHOTO BY KATERI KOSEK

Colebrook Congregational Church’s Pastor Geoffrey Smithat the church’s food bank.

TORRINGTON — Char-lotte Hungerford Hospital’sCenter For Youth and Familieshas received a $50,000 grantfrom The Foundation for Com-munity Health Inc.,that helpedcreate their new multi-function-al space for group sessions andplay therapy.

“The foundation’s generosity

has allowed us to create an amaz-ing new space at our facility.The new area provides us witha place to be creative, engageand interact with others, anddo cooperative games. It allowsa place for our kids to play andexperience joy; ultimately itbuilds relationships that leadto enhanced communication,and understanding, as well asthe opportunity to practice newskills,” said Joan M. Neveski,clinical manager of the center.

“When the hospital decided toconsolidate its child behavioralhealth services at one location,we envisioned a space we coulduse for multiple purposes, andthis is it. It provides a safe envi-ronment for developing a child’scognitive, social, emotional andphysical well-being, and servesas a place where kids of all agescan just be kids.”

The renovated area was for-mally a community room for theprevious tenets, and is located

in the basement of the Center’snew location at 50 Litchfield St.,Torrington. The space featuresa large area and stage that isused for game-based and teambuilding activities, art and relax-ation therapy, and movement,role play and drama exercises.The area is primarily used toserve children and parents inthe Center’s Bridges ExtendedDay program; however all of theprograms and staff use the spacefor activities and gathering.

The new activity room allowsstaff to further embrace the

Foundation gives

$50,000 in grantschildren, families, and caregiv-ers in a supportive therapeuticenvironment. Studies showthat the characteristics of thephysical environment in whichcare is delivered affect outcomes,the satisfaction of those beingserved, and the satisfaction ofthose providing the service.

Funding for this project

was provided in whole by theFoundation for CommunityHealth Inc. The Foundation forCommunity Health invests inpeople, programs and strategiesthat work to improve the healthof the residents of the northernLitchfield Hills and the greaterHarlem Valley. The Foundationmakes grants, conducts research,provides technical assistance,and supports collaborationsand advocacy. Since inception,the Foundation has awarded

almost $9 million dollars ingrants that have helped manyin our community. In additionto its direct funding of healthprojects, FCH initiates forums,conferences, workshops, andother educational programsaimed at improving access tohealthcare for people living inthe FCH community.

The Center for Youth andFamilies is a professional men-tal health service that assistschildren, adolescents and their

families with emotional, behav-ioral, developmental and familydifficulties. The center’s inter-disciplinary team of licensedtherapists, child and adolescentpsychiatrists, psychiatric nursesand master-level prepared in-terns offers diagnostic evalua-tions, community services andeducation and psychotherapytreatment.

For more information aboutthe CHH Center for Youth andFamilies or to make a referral,call 860-489-3391 or visit www.charlottehungerford.org.

Connecticut Foundation to buyfood. Smith said they would beable to get gift cards and usethat money to buy fresh fruitand vegetables, which couldbe distributed the same day.“Obviously we have no storagecapacity for fresh food,” he said.

However, the pantry is trying

to increase their storage capacityfor nonperishable food. Anothergrant, from Colebrook Associ-ates, will allow them to redo theirshelving and store more food.

Donations for the ColebrookFood Pantry can be dropped

off 24/7 in a bin in the church’slower parking lot, or at a bin atColebrook Store during businesshours.

Items needed includenon-perishables such as cereal,pasta, rice, soup, peanut butter,canned vegetables and fruits,mac and cheese, condiments, as

well as ziploc bags. “Soups arealways good because they haveall the food groups in them,”said Smith.

For more information callColebrook CongregationalChurch at 860-379-6775.

Christmas carolsing in Colebrook

COLEBROOK — A specialChristmas carol sing will be heldat the historic Church in theWildwood Sunday, Dec. 6, at 2p.m. in North Colebrook.

This observance will beginwith the singing of Christmascarols and will include a briefAdvent message.

The historic, recently updatedsanctuary will be decorated as itmight have been in the late 1800s.

The church is located seven

miles north of Winsted on scenicRoute 183, on the left. For moreinformation, call Susan Caufieldat 860-379-0610.

Train show for a good cause

TORRINGTON – The freeholiday model train show andcanned food drive at the Tor-rington Armory returns Satur-

day and Sunday, Dec. 12 to 13.The annual event is hosted by theCity of Torrington and a localmodel railroad club. The armoryis at 153 S. Main St.

The show features layouts inHO and N scales and trains runall day, each day. The show is open9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday. Ad-mission is free, although visitorsare asked to consider bringingnonperishable food items forthe Friendly Hands Food Bank.

The Torrington Area ModelRailroaders will present a largeHO scale layout. Valley N-Trak,a group whose members comefrom throughout the region, will

join with Torrington members toassemble a large N scale layoutfor display. The layouts thatwill be on display are modular,meaning they can be disassem-bled into sections that are easilytransported.

Trains of all sorts will berunning the entire weekend.

Features this year will include a100-car coal train and a 40-cartrain hauling 70 Army tanks.


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By JESSE WILLIAMS

WINSTED — The Econom-ic Development Commission(EDC) held an abbreviatedmeeting on Tuesday, Dec. 1,at Town Hall centered mostlyaround the discussion of a fewtown initiatives.

Present at the meeting wereChairman Frank Berg, ViceChairman Anna Norland, Eco-nomic Development ConsultantCraig Stevenson, Secretary SusieCollier, members Dick Labich,

Heather Rodriguez and StaceyLitke. Absent was Board of Se-lectman Liaison Melissa Bird.

There was some confusionat the beginning of the meetingwhen, after commission mem-bers had already voted on someminor resolutions and made oneor two procedural motions, Ste-venson arrived late and informedthe commission there could beno official action taken at themeeting.

The meeting had not been

publicly posted, Stevenson said,and due to state Freedom of In-formation laws the commissionwas prohibited from passingany measures or exercising itsauthority in an official capacity.

“You can have the meeting, you can discuss as much as youwant,” Stevenson said. “You justcan’t take any action.”

After a short debate, Berg andthe other commission membersdetermined to go over the sameplanned docket as an “agenda for

discussion.”Rodriguez began the repur-

posed meeting by informingcommission members of a newWinsted Revitalization Com-mittee, a grassroots communityorganization which was working

with the mayor’s office and askedfor the participation of commis-sion members.

“Just to be knowledgeableon what the group is, if we needanybody,” said Rodriguez.

Stevenson also presented areport on upcoming and ongoingtown business, including mostimmediately the possibility ofWinsted applying for a SmallTown Economic AssistanceProgram (STEAP) grant.

According to Stevenson, thegrant is awarded to a small Con-

necticut town that has a need andcan show it has a project that is“shovel-ready” and already hassome “skin in the game” fromlocal money. He said the townwould most likely present a planto revamp the streets aroundWhiting Mills.

“It’s extremely poli tical,” saidStevenson. “Anything that theycan do to make it more difficultfor the town, that’s what they do.”

The grant application is notdue until Jan. 16, Stevenson said,

and the award will not be madeuntil the following autumn.

Manufacturing and ways tobring business into the townwere also discussed briefly. Bergsaid that large manufacturingcompanies might be enticed intothe area with “logistical savings,and possible reciprocal savings.”The commission was unable todraw up a comprehensive wayto do this, although Stevensonsuggested using a survey andpossibly creating a list of local

businesses and their assets theycould be used to advertise theopportunities of the town.

Other discussion included thecreation of the EDC’s websiteand future collaboration withthe interim town manager.

EDC cuts meeting short

PHOTO BY ALICIA KIRSCH

The Laurel City Singers performed their last 2015 concert at the First Church of Winsted on Sunday, Nov. 22.

Laurel City Singers perform rockin’ songsBy ALICIA KIRSCH

WINSTED — On Sunday,Nov. 22, the Laurel City Singerspresented their final concert ofthe year, “LCS Rocks!”

The concert, which tookplace at the First Church ofWinsted, included classic hitsby The Beatles, The Beach Boys

and The Mamas and The Papas.It also showcased the mu-

sical duo Silk and Steel, singerand songwriter Eric Paradineand bagpipe musician KenStorrs.

The performance includedsolos and trios by members ofthe choir. Director Adam At-kins, who also teaches music at

The Gilbert School, encouragedthe audience to sing along asthey enjoyed the concert.

According to group treasur-er and member Debbie Storrs,the money raised from the

concert tickets goes toward theperformance of the next event.Members of the group range

in age from high school stu-

dents to 81 years old.The group meets every

Thursday at the First Churchof Winsted from 7 to 9 p.m.

The group’s next concert willbe at the Boar’s Head Festival

on Jan. 9 and 10. For moreinformation about the group,visit www.firstchurchofwinst-ed.org/LCS.html.

Selectmen approve strategic plan scheduleBy SHAW ISRAEL IZIKSON

WINSTED — The Board ofSelectmen approved a schedulefor developing a strategic planfor the town during a specialmeeting on Thursday, Nov. 19.

According to a handout givento both selectmen and local me-dia, the plan will be a systematicprocess that will identify “whyour local government exists,whom it serves, what benefitswill be derived from the servicesit provides and the vision ouradministration has regardinghow citizens’ needs can be bestserved. The Strategic Plan will bethe deliverable as the result of thisprocess and serves as a blueprint

for how the Board of Selectmenwill achieve their vision.”According to Mayor Candy

Perez, local resident Stacy Litke

has volunteered to be the facilita-tor for the development sessions.

Litke is currently a consul-tant for Northeastern BankingServices and is a member of thetown’s Economic DevelopmentCommission.

The meetings, all scheduled tobe held at Town Hall, will be heldon three Saturdays, each meetinglasting four hours. Times have

not yet been set.The first meeting is scheduled

for Saturday, Dec. 19, at TownHall. It will include a Strengths,Weaknesses, Opportunities andThreats (SWOT) analysis, peeranalysis and brainstorming

session.The second meeting, sched-

uled for Jan. 9, will include areview of the town’s current

mission statement and potentialrevision.

The third meeting, scheduledfor Jan. 30, will include a discus-sion of strategies, action plansand monitoring the progress ofwhat has been developed at the

meetings.The finalized strategic plan is

scheduled to be presented twoweeks after the Jan. 30 meeting.Christmas on Main Street

WINSTED — Christmas on Main Street takes place Saturday,Dec. 5, from 12:30 to 4 p.m., sponsored by Winchester RecreationDepartment. There will be photos with Santa, hayrides, hot cocoa,marshmallow roasting, special offers up and down Main Street andmore. The day culminates with the tree lighting in East End Parkat 4:45 p.m.

Holiday open studiosWINSTED — The ninth annual holiday open studios at Whiting

Mills, 100 Whiting St., will be Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 5 and 6,from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. More than 50 artists, artisans, guest artistsand specialty shops will be on hand.

Visit www.whitingmills.com/events/annual-holiday-open-stu-dios/ to learn more.

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WINSTED — The following is a list of award winnersat the Northwestern Regional High School’s sports awards,which was held on Monday, Nov. 23. This list was providedto The Winsted Journal by Athletic Director Fred Williams.

Cross-country Most improved: Sam Schiffer and Morgan HallSportsmanship: Molly Lukiwsky and Gavin WoodwardTop runners: Peter Bakker and Christina Gubetta

Girls soccerOffensive and newcomer award: Emma PropfeDefensive: Addison HallCoaches Award: Christina KovacsSportsmanship: Marissa Swartley

Boys soccerCappabiance award: Garrett Healey Puchalski award: Sam HesterVibert award: Ben MoultonSportsmanship award: Connor Campbell

VolleyballRookie of the year: Caroline CroneSportsmanship: Molly ClarkeCoach’s awards: Megan McGrath and Gina Pedrolini

Field Hockey Dirt dog award: Sydney Shaffer

Rookie of the year: Abby HarwoodComeback player of the year: Cecelia PetriconeSportsmanship: Alex Robotham

Northwestern sports

awards winners

By KATERI KOSEK

BARKHAMSTED — “Thisis probably the vegetable cel lar,and the mess hall would havebeen here,” Paul Hart said toa couple of dozen people whocame out on Sunday, Nov. 22,to explore the remains of CampWhite in American Legion StateForest. The camp, built in 1933,was one of 21 Civilian Con-servation Corps (CCC) campsthroughout the state, housingupwards of 160 young men whowent to work building roads,bridges, trails and the stonemuseum at People’s State Forest.

Camp White was named forAlain White, Hart said.

“He had big plans for Peo-ple’s Forest, but was lackingstate money and labor,” Hart

said. “Therefore, he lobbied toget the CCC camp here.”Attendees gathered around a

huge stone chimney that standsin the woods off West RiverRoad, all that is left of the camp’sinfirmary.

Residents followed alongon their maps, and noted the

chimney, clearly visible in anold photo of the barracks.

“None of the other buildingshad anything like it, but theywanted to keep the patient’swarm, I guess,” Hart said.

Hart is vice president of theBarkhamsted Historical Societyand on the board of the recent-ly formed FALPS: Friends ofAmerican Legion and People’sState Forests.

FALPS had their initialmeeting in May of this year, andhave had a number of programsinvolving trails and invasivespecies work, said Ralph Scarpi-no, president of the board. Thegroup is still getting organizedand writing bylaws. “We’rethinking what we want to do,”Scarpino said, noting that mostfriends group are associated

with bigger state parks. Thefocus of FALPS will not be juston recreation in the park butalso on the forestry, fisheriesand wildlife, said Scarpino. “Aslightly different slant on what afriends groups does,” he added.

Prior to the tour of the campsite, FALPS hosted CCC his-

PHOTO BY KATERI KOSEK

Residents took part in a hike on Sunday, Nov. 22, where Camp White once stood in American Legion State forest.

Hike through forest reveals part of state’s history torian Martin Podskoch, whogave a talk to over 30 peopleat the Barkhamsted SeniorCenter, discussing the CCCand sharing numerous slidesof CCC activities throughoutthe state. Over 30,000 youngmen from Connecticut joinedthe CCC, dispersing aroundthe country to wherever theywere told. They received $30 amonth, which had to go hometo their families except for $5in spending money.

Podskoch emphasized thebond that these young menformed at the camps, where theynot only gained weight, but lifeexperiences. All camp memberscame from poor families strug-gling through the Depression.

The camps, which were

mixed race, operated on regi-mented schedules.

In the evenings the men tookclasses, played sports, and inter-acted with local communities.They put out camp newspapers,which Podschoch said were themost valuable resources forlearning about the camps.

Those exploring the remainsstood in what used to be thecenter of the barracks. A ringof stones, visible in the photo,still remained.

“Thursday nights they hadprogramming,” Hart said. “Peo-ple from the community wouldcome to watch or sometimesparticipate. It must have been abright spot in the middle of theDepression for a town to haveone of these camps.”

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B A R K H A M S T E D —Barkhamsted Historical Societyrevisits a century-old murderFriday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. at theSquire’s Tavern, 100 East RiverRoad. The former first selectmanof Barkhamsted, Michael Fox,

will present his newly publishedbooklet concerning the 1914murder of store owner HubertCase in Barkhamsted Hollow.

Fox will discuss his manyhours of research and the writingof the booklet, which tells thestory of the murder and trial,which many believe ended in a

miscarriage of justice. His newbooklet will be available to pur-chase for $10, with all proceedsbenefitting the Barkhamsted His-torical Society. Admission is freeand refreshments will be served.

Barkhamsted Historical So-

ciety’s old-fashioned Christmasopen house will be Sunday, Dec.13. Visit Squire’s Tavern, deco-rated for Christmas, from 1 to4 p.m. Sample hot, mulled ciderand cookies. Admission is free.

For more information oneither event call Noreen Watson860-738-1152.

Historical Society events

WINSTED — The MusicCommittee of the Second Con-gregational Church of Winsted,800 Main St., will present a concertby the Harmonious Brass Choir,Sunday, Dec. 6, at 3 p.m. The brasschoir, led by Willard Minton, isan ensemble of trumpets, Frenchhorns, trombones, euphoniumsand tubas. The members comefrom throughout Connecticut.

The first portion of the pro-

gram will include, among otherworks, several arrangements thatwere written by members of the

ensemble. The second half of theprogram will feature music of theseason, with a number of interest-ing arrangements of many familiarChristmas carols. The programwill end with an audience-partic-ipation sing-a-long of carols.

There will be no admissioncharge for this concert, but afree-will offering will be taken.Nonperishable food items willbe accepted and donated to the

Open Door Soup Kitchen andthe Salvation Army Food Bank. Areception will follow the concert.

Harmonious Brass Choir concert


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Sports

Pink’sNFL Picks

C. “Pink” Bunel

Last week, 10-6; for the season,100-76. Pick of the Week, 1-0; forthe season, 7-5.

Not a great week, butcertainly better thanthe previous two weeks.

Honestly, I’m just happy to beback on the winning side ofpicking games. In all the years

that I’ve been doing this I hadnever experienced two consec-utive losing weeks. If I were abetting man I’d be broke andhomeless.

I got off to a good start onThanksgiving Day — two out ofthree of my picks were winners.However, the biggest accom-plishment of the day came whenmy 37th attempt at roasting aturkey was a complete success.Honestly, after all these years ofsub-par results, this year’s “bird”

featured something I didn’tthink was possible — truly moistbreast meat.

I must admit my bonuspick of Gilbert/Northwesternto win their matchup againstCoginchaug on T-Day was offthe mark. However, the visitorskind of hoodwinked the Jacketsby switching to a passing attackafter a full season of featuring atop-shelf running game. To theircredit, the Jackets stopped theirrunning game but weren’t fully

prepared for their passing game.It doesn’t seem possible but

we are now in December with just five weeks left in the regularseason. There will be no shortageof big games, so let’s get on withit. And as always, good luck with

your picks.Thursday, Dec. 3

Green Bay at DetroitThe Packers cannot afford

a loss when you consider theyhave a games against the Raiders

and Cards on the road and theVikings at home to close outthe season. It won’t be easy, butI think that Aaron Rodgers willget out of his funk and lead thePackers to a 34-27 win.

Sunday, Dec. 6 Arizona at St. Louis

This game won’t necessarilybe easy, but the Cards are headedfor a division crown and theywin in this one, 29-19.

Atlanta at Tampa Bay At this point in time I don’t

see the Falcons winning on theroad. The Bucs continue to im-prove and win this one, 20-17.

Baltimore at Miamil k h

stadium. Tennessee wins, 20-17.NY Jets at NY Giants

The Jets looked sharp againstthe Dolphins, while the Giantsstunk up the field against theRedskins. I kind of hope I’mwrong, but I’ll take the Jets,30-27.

San Francisco at ChicagoThe 49ers played the Cards

tough at home but have hadno success on the road (0-5).The Bears are unpredictablebut should be able to handlethe Niners, 23-17.

Seattle at MinnesotaI would love to see the Sea-

hawks win, but in this one I’mnot sure they are capable ofroughing up the Vikings defenselike they did the Steelers. Thisshould be a great game, and I’m

sticking with Seattle and RussellWilson one more time, 27-24.

Denver at San DiegoThe Manning-less Broncos

looked solid in beating thePatriots, and they should farewell even on the road. Denverwins, 24-19, and this is my Pickof the Week.

Kansas City at OaklandThis is a great rivalry game

going all the way back to the AFL.Both teams are on the rise andI like them both, but someonehas to win. I think the Chiefsare hot and win this one, 27-23.Philadelphia at New England

As long as Tom Brady is notinjured the Pats will find a way tobeat the faltering Eagles. Patriotswin, 33-23.

Indianapolis at PittsburghWith or without Big Ben

the Steelers are tough at home.The Colts are playing with MattHasselbeck at QB, but I still likemy Steelers in this one, 34-29.

Monday, Dec. 7 Dallas at WashingtonNo Romo, maybe they can

trade for Johnny Football. Dallasill l h Ski h b i

No shortage

of big games


WINSTED — On their finalgame of the season, Thanksgiv-ing day, The Gilbert School andNorthwestern Regional HighSchool’s combined footballteam, The Yellowjackets, lostto Coginchaug High School onThursday, Nov. 26, at Van WhyField.

The final score was 49-21,giving the team an even seasonof five wins and five losses.

“It’s always great playing

Thanksgiving morning,” headcoach Scott Salius said in aninterview before the game. “It’sa tradition unlike any othersport. High school football isthe only sport that plays on amajor holiday. To see the homecrowd, including the fans andthe alumni, it’s always a greatfeeling.”

Before the game started, Sa-

lius said he was not exactly surehow the Yellowjackets would do.

“It all depends on a lot of fac-tors,” Salius said. “Coginchaug

had a controversy over the lastweek and they now have a newcoaching staff in place. Theyprobably know more about usthan we know about them. Soit should be interesting. We’veplayed good in the last couple ofweeks and our defense has beenplaying good. So as long as wecan contain their main players,we should be alright.”

Salius said that the team didas well as he expected them to do.

“We had a lot of young playerswith our team this year,” Salius

said. “A lot of these young kidsstepped up and played well.We’re pretty much right on trackof where we thought we wouldbe. We lost a few close and heart-breaking games. But as long as weend this season with a winningrecord it will be a turnaroundfrom the last season, which wasour goal going into the season.”

Sophomore Billy Komos

juniors Gabe Schwa rtz andJake Roth, along with senior JoeColombie, all made touchdownsfor the team during the game.

Yellowjackets finish season with even record


The Yellowjackets went up against Coginchaug High School on Thursday, Nov. 26, at Van Why Field.

By JESSE WILLIAMS

NEW HARTFORD — Formost people, the mild andtemperate beginning of the

winter season has been a pleas-ant surprise. Heavy coats arestill mothballed away in closets,and 50-degree afternoons allowfor outdoor activities withoutfear of frostbite or of slidingsuddenly down the sidewalk ona patch of ice.

For others, though, the coldcannot come soon enough.

“We have people every daycalling us up,” said Lori Shield,marketing director of Ski Sun-down in New Hartford. “They’reasking, ‘When can you get thosesnow machines on? When are

you gonna be open?’“I tell you, we’re getting a little

antsy ourselves,” she laughed.With the above-freezing tem-

peratures and drizzling rain ofthe past few weeks, Ski Sundownhas been unable to kick off thewinter sports season.

“Because we’re in Connecti-cut, we have to depend onMother Nature to deliver good

temperatures,” said Shield. “Fornow, we just wait.”Ski Sundown usually aims for

a Thanksgiving opening, Shieldid hi hi i i f h fi

Ski Sundown resort in holding patternuncommon at all,” and that onaverage, the resort is not fully op-erational until mid-December.

“Christmas break is the bigone,” she said.

This year’s uncooperativetemperatures are poorly timed,however, as during the offseasonSki Sundown acquired 20 morehigh-efficiency snow guns andlaid 3000 feet of pipe, whichwill allow the resort to get up tofull capacity and pave all 16 oftheir trails more quickly, as wellas maintain the slopes throughmid-winter rain or thaws.

The resort still needs five toseven days of below-freezingtemperatures, Shield said, before

they can turn on the guns for thefirst time.

“We try to get a decent base,edge to edge,” said Shield. “That’swhat our customers expect.”

The most eager demographic,she said, are families, specificallythe 4- to 8-year-old children.According to Shield, in pastseasons the resort has run outof room in its “Puffin” classes,which serve that age group. Shesaid in particular, after-schoolprograms and kindergartenaged children are ready for theseason to start.

“I think families are seeing thevalue of our lessons, kids havingfun in a safe environment, and

learning good habits from thebeginning,” she said.

Another addition that isgenerating excitement this year,Shield said, is a new race course,

which will provide a little morechallenge for experienced skiersand snowboarders. Anotherupcoming event is a New Year’sEve “torchlight parade,” whereski instructors form a nighttimebrigade down the mountain,which stays open until midnight.

As far as what anyone can doto hasten the beginning of theseason, Shield offered only onepiece of advice.

“Think cold thoughts,” shelaughed.


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EDITORIAL PAGE A6 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2015

The Winsted Journal

OPINION

Over the past few weeks The Winsted Journal has pro-filed residents and organizations making a differencein the community in dealing with homeless residents

and those in need. Those organizations include The OpenDoor Soup Kitchen and the Northwest YMCA.

Since the beginning of November, we have written aboutresidents and groups who held fundraisers and food drives

for these organizations.While it is great to see so many concerned residents

during the holiday season, it would be great to see fundrais-ers and food drives all year round.

According to organizers with The Open Door Soup Kitch-en, which is located behind St. James Episcopal Church on160 Main St., the soup kitchen serves hot meals to approxi-mately 11,500 people a year — up to 70 residents a day.

In September, during a meeting at the Northwest YMCAwith State Department of Housing Commissioner EvonneKlein, State Rep. Jay Case (R-63) said that there are 150chronically homeless residents living in Litchfield County.

Shelter manager Bruce Mochan said that the Northwest

YMCA’s emergency shelter has been continually filled to ca-pacity for several years and the organization has turned away86 percent of shelter applicants.

According to data from the U.S. Census, using last sam-pled data from 2013, approximately 7 percent of the popula-tion in Winsted lives in poverty.

The rising number of students from year to year in theWinchester school district who are in the reduced or freelunch program is a sign in itself that town families and resi-dents are struggling.

Again, we applaud residents for stepping up to the plate tohelp out these organizations. However, it would be great tosee year-round support, not just during the holidays.

For more information on the Open Door Soup Kitchencall 860-738-2449. For more information on the NorthwestYMCA call 860-379-0708.

The need isalways great

Congresswoman ElizabethEsty is an endangeredDemocrat, targeted and

besieged by the Tea Party, theBrothers Koch and others onthe radical right. I know thisbecause she tells me so severaltimes a week in emails from her,her associates, her daughter andsometimes her famous friendslike Nancy Pelosi.

The correspondence occa-sionally mentions issues, butmostly it’s about money —mine going to her. Accordingto the emails, I’m one of herenthusiastic contributors, whichrepresents a very good return onan investment of nothing.

I believe giving to a candidateisn’t a good idea as long as I’minvolved in journalism, evenwriting opinion. Therefore, I’venever contributed to a candi-date. I did vote for Esty once

and against her once and haveregistered with both parties inorder to exercise the right deniedto the unaffiliated majority in

Esty raises lots of money,

not much oppositionConnecticut primary elections.This time, I’m waiting to see

what develops, including theidentity of her real opponent, butEsty certainly helped her causeby not joining the other two al-legedly endangered Democrats,Jim Himes and Joe Courtney,and voting for the demagogicanti-Syrian refugee bill.

How this sometime supporter

got on her mailing list of habitualdonors is something of a mystery,but someone thinks I’m a giver.

“You’ve always stepped upwhen I needed you, Dick,” wroteElizabeth on Sept. 30, as sheasked for $3, $10, $25 or anotheramount as a Federal ElectionCommission reporting deadlineneared. In another email, mycongresswoman explained sheneeded “the resources to fightback against the Tea Party,” whichshe often mentions. In October,

it was a plea to help as the Kochbrothers were closing in.She is apparently done well,

even without my $3 or $8. The CT

Mirror reported Esty leads all fiveof the incumbent DemocraticHouse members in fundraising,having received a comfortable

$709,000 as of the Sept. 30 re-porting deadline. Only Himes,who frequently has respectableopposition, is close.

So far, all that money is avail-able to combat one announcedopponent, a mysterious figurenamed John Pistone, who hasraised nothing or maybe just notenough to require reporting it.

Also said to be “making calls”about a possible run againstEsty is one Clay Cope, the firstselectman of Fairfield County’s

smallest town, Sherman. Copewould also be the first openly gaycandidate for Congress from thestate and would, in fact, double

of Brookfield, Conn., a proudparent and happily married forthe past 26 years.”

In October I emailed him formore biographical details, like hisoccupation and education, buthe hasn’t replied. Maybe he feltit was a gotcha question.

Pistone does confide on hiswebsite that he is “ready andwilling to Buck the Barriers andfight for Fiscal Responsibility,Limited Government, ReligiousFreedom, Individual Libertyand Our Constitution.” And,in addition to a fondness forcapitalization, he offers a verycatchy slogan: “You are not alone— when you vote Pistone.”

We assume the Koch Brothersand the rest will help the con-gresswoman justify her maniacalfundraising and come up withsomeone even more formidablethan Pistone or Sherman’s first

selectman.But if past history can guideus, the party will not beginherding its sacrificial lambs until

h l

For 23 years, lawmakers inHartford had to co-existwith the state’s spending

cap, which was intended to putreasonable limits on spendinggrowth. Lawmakers played nicewith the cap, at least pretendingto abide by its letter while rarelyrespecting its spirit. Last weekwe learned the lengthy charadeis over when Attorney GeneralGeorge Jepsen offered a formalopinion that “the constitutional

spending cap has no legal effect.”The lawmakers who voted toinstitute the income tax offeredtaxpayers the spending cap as a

l i i Th l f

It’s official:The spending capdoes not matter

terms within the amendmentwithout requiring that they bed fi d ff i d f lt

In other words, legis-

latures are free to do

most things, but they

cannot bind future

legislatures.

If You Ask Me Dick Ahles

The Foundry Zachary Janowski

Cartoon by 11-year-old William Dietz of Winsted

Editorial Cartoon by Gay Schempp


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Blaze David RiveraTORRINGTON — A son, Blaze David Rivera, was born Nov. 8,

2015, at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital to Lynsey Marie Seelye andAnibal David Rivera of Torrington.

Grandparents are David Seelye of Winsted; Jackie LaCasse ofOwasso, Mich.; Ronald Rivera and Rhonda Monahan of Terryville;Sherry Pabon and Manuel Huertes of Waterbury.

Great-grandparents are John and Tara LaCasse of Winsted; Rickyand Debby Chase of Richmond, Maine; Jose and Patricia Rivera ofCromwell.

Mary Generosa BascettaMary Generosa Bascetta, 87, of Winsted, died Nov. 28, 2015. A

Mass was celebrated Dec. 3 at St. Joseph Church. Burial followedat St. Joseph Cemetery. Montano-Shea Funeral Home has care ofarrangements.

Edith J. PasquarielloEdith J. Pasquariello, 93, of West Hartland, died Nov. 17, 2015.

Calling hours followed by a funeral Mass at St. Joseph Church wereheld Nov. 20. Burial followed in St. Joseph New Cemetery. MaloneyFuneral Home has care of arrangements.

Arthur L. ShermanArthur L. Sherman, of New Hartford, died Nov. 23, 2015. Calling

hours were held Nov. 28 at Montano-Shea Funeral Home, NewHartford.

Jerome Torche Jerome Torche, of Florida and formerly Winsted, died Nov. 17,

2015. Graveside services was held Nov. 30 at Winchester CenterCemetery at 10:30 a.m. Montano-Shea Funeral Home has care ofarrangements.

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Death Notices

Obituary

New Arrival

State Police

WINSTED — Frederick R.“Fred” Milton, 63, of GilbertAvenue died at his home on Nov.25, 2015, after a long illness.

He was born Aug. 22, 1952,in Sharon, the son of the lateEleanor (Morey) and FrederickR. Milton.

Fred was a self-employedpainter. He was known for his tal-ent and expertise with windows.

He was raised in Salisburyand attended Sunday School atthe Salisbury Congregational

Church.He was an avid fisherman andenjoyed camping.

Fred’s true passion was hisHarley-Davidson motorcycle.

He lived to be cruising on theopen road.

Fred is survived by his daugh-ter, Sabrina Wilson of Sheffield,Mass.; his loving sister, TerryMilton and her husband, EddieHumes of Salisbury; his niece,Tina Humes of Ancram, N.Y.;and his nephew, Eddie HumesIII of Salisbury.

Graveside services will be heldDec. 7 at 10 a.m. at the SalisburyCemetery.

Arrangements are under the

care of the Newkirk-PalmerFuneral Home in North Canaan.Memorial donations may be

sent to a charity of the donor’schoice in Fred’s memory.

Frederick R. ‘Fred’ MiltonBy SHAW ISRAEL IZIKSON

WINSTED — Four GilbertSchool students were honoredby the Litchfield County Su-perintendents Association at itsstudent recognition dinner onWednesday, Nov. 18, at Cornu-copia Banquet Hall.

The four were awarded Su-perintendent Leadership Awardsat the event.

The awards recognize stu-dents from throughout Litch-field County schools, two ineighth grade and two in 12thgrade, for their commitment

to their schools and their com-munities.“The students that are award-

ed are the ones that the faculty,staff and administration feel arethe most exemplary models inacademics and character,” school

Four Gilbert students awarded


The four Gilbert School students given Student Leadershipawards by the Litchfield County Superintendents Association.

From left: Kyle Matthews, Molly Jackson, Cassius “Cash” Pacand Isabelle Rein.

is a leader of several school clubs,including the National HonorSociety.

Cassius, also known as Cash,

it the president of the school’sNational Honor Society and isthe vice president of the classof 2016.

WINSTED — The GilbertSchool has named the followingstudents to the honor roll for the

first marking period:High honors

Grade 7Miranda Brennan, Shaun

Clark, Rebecca Dowling, CatilinIvain, Madison Perry, DevinRoss, McKenzie Starr, DylanZawisza

Grade 8Emilienne Bouchard, Faith

Fredriksson, Kendra Funk, Ba- jram Gutic, Amirah Hussein,Molly Jackson, Noah Johansson,Rahul Kumar, Annalee Mar-

vin, Devin Matthews, AdreonaMrowka, Erik O’Meara, FrancisPiliero, Myera Prevuznak, EmilyRussell, Cassiel Sarrach-Sydell,Sean Smith, Ben Stetson

Grade 9Julia Andrews-Richerson,

Conor Bailey, Justin Bourgoin,Abby Corso, Hannah Crowley,

Byron Deily, Angelina DeLa-Cruz, Leon Hartley, Aislinn Ja-mieson, Azra Karic, Anna King,Zachary Kirsch, Gregory Knapp,Robert Madsen, Jacob March-and, Augustus Pac, Karley Padin,Jhonnyanny Pimentel, PenelopeRein, Joshua Richards, DevonScherer, Alex Smith, SkyeshaySmith, Ashley Tran, Tyler Tucker,Jillian Wexler

Grade 10Waleed Ansari, Alexandra

Artruc, Krystal Bagnaschi, Am-ber Basso, Jordan Brugmann,Ava Christensen, Tianyang NickGao, Lei James Huang, WilliamHubbard, Alexis Kacmarcik,

Haley Kacmarcik, TimothyO’Meara, Tucker Shaw, MariahShivers, Devante Smith, LiamSmith, Victoria Starzyk, ParkerTh i D l Th F ith

The Gilbert School honor roll Chen, Courtney Clough, DeannaDelacruz, Annalicia Fischer, Bri-ana Flaherty, Vanessa Gagnon,

Bozhu Roy Huang, James Ivain,Fiona Jamieson, Shibo Simon Jia,Huaiqian Casper Jiang, YuanboTony Jiang, Kai Landy, Neil Lang,Jihui Muller Liu, Sanrui SamLiu, Brian Louis, Zhaojun AbelLu, Laurence Madsen, AndresMcAvoy, Avery Elyse Moon,Krisha Patel, Anhthy Pham,Marissa Severson, Ryan Sholtis,Noah Sobol, Colby Stone-kopp,Ao Oliver Sun, Lena-Marie Teix-eira, Jacob Tran, Grace Valickis,Meixi Eliza Wang, Tianyu Jim

Wang, Hongyi Emily Wu, JinduoTaurus Wu, Yuan Serena Yuan

Grade 12Damurenjiafu Aoerqilong,

Jaden Arcelaschi, Jacob Battista,Dominique Biraga, Riley Bren-nan, Andrew Christensen, AlexisDeLacruz, Cody Esberg, AlyssaGagnon, Cameron Goulet, Bri-ana Hall, Joanne Harrington,Jiaxi Jesse Jiang, Jordan Johnson,Stephen Kalpin, Yanyu Lexi Lin,Megan Mallette, Bailey Merritt,Faith Middlebrook, Sixing Alan

Mo, Jordan Moon, Xinyi NaomiNiu, John Oakes Rogers, Cassius

Pac, Qiyi Vivian Qian, IsabelleRein, Mercedes Sanders, IanSeverson, Nicholas Tabak, Mel-

anie Teardo, Ryan Weiss, JacobWendelHonorsGrade 7

Adam Abdou, Nicholas An-dujar, Ethan Berg, Evan Blass,Leonard Bosco, Eliana Bouch-ard, Cierra Church, DylanCrowley, Maxwell Cruz, LeslieDeSanti, Hannah Fenn, Bran-don Gonzalez, Caleb Goodell,Victoria Johnson, Dante Julia-no, Siddharth Kumar, GavinLangston, Avalon Laracuente,

Logan McBurney, Isabela Mil-lord, Emily Mrowka, NathanielNorthup, Dylan Patterson, JesseSchmidt, MacKenzie Shelbrack,Ryan VanDyke, Keenan Wade,Riley Webb, Troy Welch, VictoriaZhovkly

Grade 8Jade Exum, Patrick Fallon,

Skyah Frye, Courtney Hamm,Isabella Herskowitz, AlexisHubbard, Connor Jeroski, DylanKeith, Heather King, CheyanneLaFountain, Alexis LaMere,

Abigail Lang, Justin Maillet, KyleMatthews, Gregory O’Dowd,

Skylar Romero, Olivia Ross,Viktoriya Seyna, Christian Shel-brack, Kayla Sherrod, Charles

Spear, Brianna Stacy, AlexanderStarzyk, Taylor Vogt, KaitlynWeatherwax, Mark Zavatkay

Grade 9Nicholas Barber, Laurel Co-

labella, Sky Johnson, Ella Landy,Danielle Negron, Noah Yasmer,Jia Lily You, Alexis Zavatkay

Grade 10Victoria Cser, Adrian DeLa-

cruz, Zacary Gaylord, Alex Lund-gren, Kaysie Palmer, KristenSurdam, Zhijian Connor Wang,Brady Warner, Haishan Steven

Xu, Zile Ethan ZouGrade 11

Michael Barden, Erin Borg-man, Ali Brochu, Minzhe RogerJiang, Alexis Johnson-Blue,Zeling Lily Li, Steven Marshall,Sydney Marshall, Yaoqing Mi-chael Shu, Haihang Peter Tang,Lindsey Winn

Grade 12Luke Corbran, Chen Sally

Meng, Serena Mrowka, ShuyiSara Qi, Victoria Richards, IanRyan, Timothy Smith, Yi Victoria

Song, Tianhua Oliver Wang, QisiDoris Yang, Qianyin Rachel Zhu

Principal Alan Strauss said. “Andthey’re all characters, let me tell

you. It’s a big-time award, andwe are all proud of them. Tous, these four exemplify whatGilbert is all about.”

The award winners includedeighth grade students MollyJackson and Kyle Matthews, both13 years old.

Molly has received high hon-ors in every quarter since she hasbeen at Gilbert and is enrolled inthe school’s honors Latin class.

Kyle is involved with the ju-nior varsity football, basketball,baseball and wrestling teams and

is a social studies honors student.The 12th grade students whoreceived awards are IsabelleRein and Cassius Pac, both 17

years old.Isabelle is enrolled in several

advanced placement classes and


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EARTHTALK Editors of E/The Environmental

Magazine


» GEIGER

Winsted Journal, Geiger said hehas lived for the past 33 years in

Barkhamsted.According to his resume,

Geiger served in the U.S. Navyfrom 1968 to 1971 as a Span-ish language communicationsspecialist.

He earned his bachelor’sdegree from Wright State Uni-versity in Dayton, Ohio, in1972, earned his master’s degreefrom Antioch College in YellowSprings, Ohio, in 1974 and hisProgram for Management De-velopment Degree from Harvard

Business School in 1983.From 1971 to 1974 he served

as the general manager of Sin-clair & Valentine Printing Inkin Dayton, Ohio.

He moved on to vice presidentof operations and manufactur-ing at Pitney Bowes Corporationin Stamford from 1974 to 1982.

After serving at Pitney Bowes,he became CEO of Royal Busi-ness Forms from 1983 to 1987,a corporate vice president anddivision president the NashuaCorporation in Nashua, N.H.,from 1987 to 1997, then the oper-ating general partner of Stolberg,Meehan & Scano in New YorkCity from 1997 to 2000.

Starting in 2001 and until2004 he was the independentadvisor to several private eq-uity sponsors, including Goldner,Hawn, Johnson & Morrison inMinneapolis, Minn., ColonnadeCapital in Richmond, Va., andCM Capital and EOS Credit Op-

portunities Fund, both in NewYork City.From 2004 until recently he

served on the board of severalGerman companies on behalf ofseveral creditors, including Treo-fan for Goldman Sachs, Kunertfor Credit Suisse and Italian com-pany Jallette for Monarch Capital.

Geiger said that he has neverserved as a town manager beforefor any municipality.

“I’m just trying to help out,”Geiger said on why he applied for

the position. “I’ve had conversa-tions with several of the selectmen

who asked if I would be interestedas a potential candidate. They saidthey would really like to have thehelp. I felt like someone had tostep up to the plate because thetown is struggling with a lot ofissues.”

Geiger said that, even thoughhe lives in Barkhamsted, he con-siders Winsted as “the central partof the metro area.”

“I tell people that I live inBarkhamsted but I go to Winstedfrequently enough for the grocery

store and its library,” he said. “Imight as well say I live there. Ithink it’s important to try to stepup when someone needs help.”

Geiger said that his primarygoal is to create interim stabilityfor the town.

“I want to help maintain somesort of continuity with what[Martin] had been trying to ac-complish along with the goalsand needs of the people electedto serve the town. While I havenot served as a town manager, Ihave operated a lot of differentsized companies in many citiesand overseas. I think I can bringsome of my management, leader-ship and administrative skills tothe town.”

Geiger said that one of his bigchallenges will be dealing with thetown’s budget.

“I have to look at the reconcili-ation of the town’s budget and itsissues along with the finances ofthe troubled school system, which

the state has been attemptingto resolve,” Geiger said. “I thinkthat there needs to be institu-tional support for civic services,in particular the NorthwesternConnecticut Community Collegecommunity.”

Geiger added that he does notplan to apply for the permanenttown manager position.

“It is not my intention at all,”Geiger said. “My intention is toserve as the interim town man-ager to maintain continuity.”

» TOWN MANAGERS

13. Paul Vayer — Jan. 7, 1992to June 26, 1992

14. David A. Maynard — June22, 1992 to May 25, 1994

15. Paul Vayer — April 19,1994 to September 1997

16. Margaret Johnson —September 1997 to August 2003

17. Steve Angelo — December

2003 to November 200518. Owen Quinn — April

2006 to December 200719 BruceGresczyk—January

2008 to March 200820. Keith Robbins — April

2008 to November 200921. Wayne W. Dove — No-

vember 2009 to October 201022. Paul Vayer — November

2010 to April 201123. Dale Martin — March

2011 to November 2015

24. Laurie Bessette — Novem-ber 2015 (two weeks interim)

25. Robert Geiger — Dec. 3,2015 to present (interim)

going? This is part of the permitprocess. It should go to it’s per-manent home so we don’t needto go through this process again.DPW is not interested in payingfor the permits or the truckingcompany hired to haul. DPWwould be willing to assist whoever

is contracted to move the gazebo,but it needs to be quick. We arestill not ready for winter. Oftenthe company that built it could behired to move it again, but theyare no longer in business. NCCCcalled another company but theyonly move their buildings anddeclined to do the job.”

Rollins wrote that the collegeexpected the gazebo off of itsproperty by Tuesday, Dec. 1.

“I suspect that disassembly ofthe wall sections would not be too

big a deal,” Rollins wrote. “Butdealing with the roof would not beeasy without equipment. I don’tseemuchlikelihoodanythinglike

» GAZEBO

that the college move it to anotherlocation on campus where the stu-dents, faculty and community willbe able to enjoy it,” Bunnell wrote.

In response, Frazier wrote thatthe college will not be using the

gazebo, but instead will be storingit for a limited time.

While the fate of the gazeboremains unclear, Delaney said hehad some ideas for it.

“We could put it either in West

End Park or East End Park,” he said.“The roof is in need in repair. Thelast time I was in it there needed tobe some cosmetic repairs, includ-ing painting. It still has structuralintegrity.”

Dear Earthtalk: The holidayscan be so wasteful. What are someways we can green our celebra-

tions this year?Belinda McHugh

Los Angeles, Calif.

Sipping eggnog, listening tocarols by the fire and enjoying thebeauty of colorfully decoratedhomes are all warm memoriesthe holiday season conjures. Yetwith the rising popularity ofBlack Friday and Cyber Mon-day, millions of people are nowincreasingly absorbed in theseason’s commercialism. The

National Retail Federation esti-mates that holiday sales this yearwill add up to $630.5 billion. Allof this shopping generates a lot oftrash. According to the U.S. En-vironmental Protection Agency(EPA), Americans throw awayapproximately one million extratons of trash between Thanksgiv-ing and New Year’s Day.

“Simplify the Holidays,” ane-booklet from the Center for aNew American Dream (CNAD),reports that nine in 10 Americansbelieve holidays should be moreabout family and caring for oth-ers, not giving and receiving gifts,

yet the average U.S. consumerplans to spend more this year— about $805 — on holidayshopping than last year. To helpprovide meaningful ways to havefun with less stuff this season,“Simplify the Holidays” includesideas for simple gifts, low-wastewrapping, ways to connect with

your children during the holi-

days, and more. Readers are asked

to “consider creating holidaysthat instill more meaning intothe season and encourage moresharing, laughter, creativity andpersonal renewal.”

“It’s not about depriving yourself of things during theholiday season,” Wen Lee, direc-tor of online media and engage-

ment with CNAD, emphasizes.“It’s about refocusing on thingsthat really matter, and reducingstress.”

Additional easy, stress-freeways to respect the environmentduring the holidays include car-rying reusable totes when shop-ping for gifts, and using LEDlights, which last 20-30 years andrequire 1/50th the electricity ofconventional lights for decorating

your tree or home. According toCalRecycle, the 2.6 billion holidaycards sold each year could fill afootball field 10 stories high—fortunately, the multitude of e-cards available on the web todayprovide a no-waste alternative.

Further, the 33 million Christ-mas trees the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) esti-mates are sold in North Americaeach year don’t have to end upin landfills — some areas haverecycling programs that turnChristmas trees into wood chips

and mulch, and some companies

PHOTO BY PAUL BARROWS, FLICKRCC.

LED lights use 1/50th the electricity of conventional holidaylights and can last for decades.

Solar cells and green holiday celebrations

will home-deliver full-size, pottedlive trees and pick them up afterNew Year’s and re-plant them.And with nearly 60 percent ofAmericans admitting they re-ceive unwanted gifts during theholidays, asking friends and fam-ily what gifts they really need orwant is an easy way to save wasteand minimize time-consumingreturns.

Greening your holiday seasoncertainly helps the environment,but research shows it is also goodfor personal and family well-being. The 2002 study, “WhatMakes for a Merry Christmas?”by psychologists Tim Kasser andKennon Sheldon concluded that“family and religion provided thegreatest benefit to holiday well-

being.” Kasser recently told the

American Psychological Associa-tion (APA): “[Our study] foundthat to the extent people focusedtheir holiday season around ma-terialistic aims like spending andreceiving, the less they were fo-cused on spiritual aims…we alsofound people reported ‘merrier’Christmases when spiritualitywas a large part of their holiday,but reported lower Christmaswell-being to the extent that theholiday was dominated by mate-rialistic aspects.”

EarthTalk is produced by Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer and isa registered trademark of Earth

Action Network Inc. View pastcolumns at www.earthtalk.organd email questions to earthtalk@

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Get Back to Being You. Feel Better.

Winsted/Area

By SHAW ISRAELIZIKSON

WINSTED — Members ofThe Gilbert School commu-nity packaged and deliveredfood to needy Gilbert familiesin the community on Mon-day, Nov. 23.

According to school com-munity liaison Craig Schro-

eder, students, faculty andstaff members all collectedthe food over the course ofNovember.

Teachers and staff mem-bers gathered at the backparking lot of SupersaverIGA on Nov. 23 to packagethe food and deliver them to48 Gilbert families in need.

“We just want to makeThanksgiving a little more

By ALICIA KIRSCH

WINSTED — Several localorganizations help those in needand the homeless all year round,not just during the holiday season.

The Northwest YMCA, at 480Main St., provides shelter andcase management for individualsand families who have nowhereelse to go.

Housing manager Bruce Mo-chan said the most importantthing they do is provide “a friendlyenvironment” and treat everyonewith “a great deal of respect.

“The shelter can sleep 15 to 17people per night,” Mochan said.“Last year we served 75 people,including many families. Gener-

ally the families or individuals areresidents for three to six months,until they can get back on theirfeet and into homes of their own.”

Mochan said the state recentlychanged the process of gettinginto a shelter.

It starts with the potential res-ident dialing 211 and answering aseries of questions. If a shelter isthe appropriate option for them,they are then referred to the Gath-ering Place in Torrington for aninterview, and eventually eitherplaced in a shelter or put onto await list. This process has relievedthe shelters from having to keeptrack of the wait lists and makessure that people are able to get aplace at the shelters in the order

in which they applied.Among other things, Mochan

said donations of bedding fortwin beds and toiletries are alwayswelcomed.

For more information call860-379-0708.

Another establishment inWinsted that is there for thehomeless community is the OpenDoor Soup Kitchen, at 160 MainSt. behind St. James’ EpiscopalChurch.

Resident Deirdre Hubbard isone of the many volunteers at thesoup kitchen.

“We generally see between 45to 60 people every day,” Hubbardsaid. “Most are regulars but allare welcome to just walk in for

a meal.”The kitchen is run entirely by

volunteers and is open Mondaythrough Friday from 8:30 a.m. to1:30 p.m., with lunch served from11:30 a.m. to noon.

While they do special dinnersfor the holidays, they had 87residents come for Thanksgivingthis year, the kitchen has a steadystream of people all year long.

During the summer, they alsohave many more children comethrough as they are not in schoolfor their meals. Hubbard says thatalong with food donations, thekitchen will accept donations ofany kind, including clothing.

For more information call860-738-2449.


WINSTED — The WinstedElks Lodge held its first Christ-mas vendor fair on Sunday,Nov. 29.

Sixteen vendors fromthroughout the area were atthe event selling handmadegoods and items.

Co-organizer Melissa Ka-

puscinski said that this was thefirst year the lodge has held aChristmas vendor fair.

“We have a few members thatdo crafty things and we cameup with the idea to try to geteveryone together to sell their

holiday stuff,” Kapuscinski said.“The money is all going backto the lodge. We’re a charitableorganization. We try to raisemoney for other local chari-ties, and we’re a good groupof friends who all hang out atthe lodge.”

The Lodge provided freeChristmas wrapping of all itemspurchased at the event.

Lodge member Amy Wilt,who said she has been a memberfor three years, helped to wrappurchases for customers.

“It’s a wonderful club andwe do a lot for the communit y,”Wilt said.

Gilbert School donates foodto community members


Members of The Gilbert School community at the back of the Supersaver IGA on Main Streetduring the school’s sixth annual Thanksgiving meal food deliveries on Monday, Nov. 23.

Local organizations help those in need

Holiday spirit at Elks

Lodge’s vendor fair


New Hartford natives John Sipper and Bec Sa ntos sold theircosmetic items at the Winsted Elks Lodge’s first Christmas vendor fair on Sunday, Nov. 29.

The Community Founda-tion of Northwest Connecticutthrough the Draper FoundationFund, the Marion Wm. andAlice Edwards Fund, and theRobert V. Carr Fund, has madeawards to 52 charitable orga-nizations serving some of thearea’s most economically dis-tressed residents. The $41,400in critical-needs grants fromthe Community Foundationof Northwest Connecticut willbe used by local nonprofits toprovide the most basic of ne-

cessities — food, warm clothingand shelter.Charities that received year-

end critical needs grants:

Neighbor Fund (Social Ser-

vices), Visiting Nurse Services ofConnecticut, VNA Northwest,Inc., Washington CommunityFund, Inc., Winchester CenterCongregational Church, Win-sted Area Child Care Center,

Inc., Winsted United Methodist

Church Food Pantry and Wom-en’s Support Services.Established in 1969, The

Community Foundation ofNorthwest Connecticut Inc.serves 20 towns in Northwest

Connecticut. Its total endow-

ment, comprised of more than250 funds, has grown frominitial assets of $15,000 to morethan $80 million. Last year, com-bined grants and scholarshipstotaled more than $3.5 million.

Community Foundation provides $41,400 for critical needs

special for these families,”Schroeder said. “We’ve got 42members of the staff, facultyand administration delivering.

This is the sixth year and this year we’ve had the biggest need.We were able to make the calland we’re excited by this. It

makes it possible for people whomay not have an opportunityto have a traditional for theholidays.”

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SALISBURY — Roads werewashed out, bridges destroyed,and parental influence was greatlydiminished during the Flood of1955.

Lou Bucceri, for the SalisburyAssociation Historical Society, leda discussion and lecture about theflood at Town Hall on Saturday,Nov 21.

The talk (co-sponsored by theScoville Memorial Library) reliedon material from the Historical

Society’s oral history project, thelibrary’s archives and memoriesshared by residents who werearound for the flood.

The rain kept coming Bucceri started with two

National Weather Service maps,showing the rainfall from twohurricanes that came in quicksuccession.

The first, Hurricane Connie,ran from Aug. 11 to 14, anddumped between 8 and 9 inchesin the Northwest Corner.

Bucceri said, “This was bad,but not catastrophic.”

There was enough water,though, that “it saturated theground.”

Hurricane Diane, which ragedfrom Aug. 17 to 20, was a differentstory. “Our neck of the woodsabsolutely got hammered,” withrainfall of 16 to 20 inches.

And with the ground alreadysodden, “the rain had nowhere togo but down.”

Bucceri had a copy of the

1956 town report, which hasan account of the flood by FirstSelectman Bill Barnett.

This included a photo ofHamzy’s service station (nowLakeville Automotive on MainStreet) in the middle of the night,with flood waters rising againstthe garage door.

Stranded for daysIt was mayhem everywhere in

town. Bucceri told of reports ofthree feet of water over the BurtonBrook bridge; that Lake Wonon-scopomuc was six inches awayfrom flooding over into Factory

The wild, famous Flood of 1955 in Salisbury Pond; that Nancy (Smith) Bush-nell, whose father had just startedas the doctor at The HotchkissSchool, recalled being unable toget off the hill for several days.

The bridge at Selleck Hill wasdamaged. Seventy-five feet ofLincoln City Road was taken outby Pettee Brook.

On the Housatonic River, thewater came within inches of theAmesville bridge and took outpart of the deck. (The bridge wasclosed for six months.)

On Falls Mountain Road, 400

feet of the road washed out, asdid Between the Lakes Road fromTwin Lakes to Smith Hill.

Landslides along the Housa-tonic and at Twin Lakes, somecarrying six feet of mud, tookout roadways and houses — evenlaunching sleeping people, still intheir beds, out into the elements.

Amazingly, nobody was killed.Bucceri, working from oral

history records, quoted AgathaDakin of Amesville, who re-membered a retired naval offi-

cer turned dairy farmer in thatsection of town, which is on theshores of the Housatonic. Cutoff in either direction, and withcows that needed milking, thefarmer delivered milk to similarlystranded residents.

The late Bill Binzen, living onBrinton Hill, had recalled thatwater came about 150 feet upBrinton Hill Road.

“We were absolutely on ourown mountaintop world for threeor four days.”

Lime Rock was a mess, with300 feet of Lime Rock Road(including the bridge over theSalmon Kill) gone, and the oldBarnum-Richardson mill de-stroyed.

Bucceri said the town had beentrying to sell the abandoned mill.“Not after this.”

Evelyn Bellini remembered aMr. Shaw in Lime Rock, who hadmade a diorama of the iron forge.

Her children swam over to theShaw house — over the hedges —and rescued the diorama, puttingit in a rowboat.

“Then they fetched Mr. andMrs. Shaw.”

Damages: over $2 millionBarnett’s figures for dam-

ages: $253,578 ($149,370 pub-lic; $104,208 private) whichis $2,228,956 in 2015 dollars.Bucceri said the figure, whichis simply adjusted for inflationand considers no other factors, isprobably an underestimate.

People in the audience had theirown stories to tell. Ed Dorset saidhe was 13 at the time and lived onthe relatively high ground nearTrinity Lime Rock church. Hisfamily was returning from a tripto Pennsylvania and did not realizethe extent of the damage until theygot to the Northwest Corner.

The bridge over the SalmonKill was gone. Somehow hismother and sisters were broughtacross, but he couldn’t remember

what he and his father did.Carol Kastendieck’s family had

just bought the old Selleck millon the Wachocastinook Brook,coming off Mount Riga. Thebuilding had “no running water,no electricity, and about 200 yearsof dirt.”

A dam went in the middle ofthe night, and for a week the family“lugged buckets” up to the housefor flushing toilets.

And some nice memories

Across the street at the Selleck’shouse, “everybody had a stewpotgoing” on Selleck’s eight-burner

PHOTO COURTESY LOU BUCCERI

Rowboats came out of storage as one of the only reliable forms of navigation during the November 1955 downpour thatflooded the region.

wood stove, she said.Jim Dresser was at his family’s

camp on Mount Riga during theflood. He was also 13 years old.

“It was the best three weeks ofmy life as all parental disciplinebroke down,” he said.

The water was three or fourfeet over the South Pond spil lway.By comparison, “today we thinkit remarkable to get three or fourinches.”

The adults decided the teen-agers would go to town for provi-sions. Dresser’s mother requesteda loaf of bread and a bottle of ryewhiskey.

The youths made it to town andDresser convinced Bud Trotta atthe liquor store to sell him the rye.

By this time the adults hadthought things through a littlebetter and were worried the dammight give out as the teens made

their way back.So they gathered on one side

of the raging brook and waited.Dresser encountered some

difficulty getting across. “I hit apot hole and down I went.”

He emerged with the loaf ofbread intact, but just the neck ofthe whiskey bottle.

Frank Collin (this reporter’sgrandfather) “immediately randownstream and started drink-ing.”

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dancers not onstage lined thesides of the studio, and whena partnership would pull off a

particularly demanding lift inthe Grand Pas de Deux, they would applaud their fellows.

At the break I met someof the young men who camefrom places like West Virginia,Tennessee, Colorado andIllinois as well as Torringtonto study at the Nutmeg Con-servatory. ey said dancingis hard work and they had

“good days” and “off days,” butthey kept their focus on theirgoals, their overall develop-ment. ey don't get too downif things do not go right oneday, knowing that there is atomorrow. ey support eachother; and they are there foreach other through the upsand downs of dance training.

As for performance nerves,

music helps, they said, andthey rely on their training.

When the time comes, theyget out there, and “let it hap-

pen.”Since these dancers work

very hard and have a demand-ing schedule, I asked them

what they do to decompress,to relax. Anything, they said,that allows them to get com-

pletely away from dance for ashort time. One plays piano,another reads, some like

video games. ey get awaycompletely, but briefly.I also met two ballerinas,

Reilly McGregor, and AlmaEvertz, who say they areencouraged to work out themoves with their partners.Having good male dancers in-spires them to be at their best,to be fully prepared. eyechoed the men in saying they

felt a lot of support from allthe other dancers.

As Melady says, Nutmegtraining is “not just growingdancers; it’s growing humans,”

Nutmeg’s “Nutcracker 2015”will be performed three times

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Simone Muhammad at the barre. Alma Evertz rehearses a pas de deux fromthe Nutmeg Ballet with Nick Keeperman.

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