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A fire gutted a building addition at the Perma Treat Corp. on Airline Road in Durham Tuesday afternoon. No one was injured in the blaze.

About 3:15 p.m., employees were trying to use a torch to defrost a frozen pipe and ig-nited a pile of sawdust in the process, Durham Fire Chief Robert Chadd said.

After employees unsuc-cessfully tried to put out the flames with fire extinguish-ers, they called the fire de-partment, he said.

Chadd said the fire was un-der control by about 5 p.m., although firefighters battled lingering pockets of flames into the evening.

Durham units were joined by fire companies from Wall-ingford, North Haven, Mid-dlefield, Middletown and Killingsworth. Cromwell fire-fighters covered the Durham station while the other de-partments responded to the fire.

The fire was contained to the destroyed building. Perma Treat will be able to continue to conduct oper-ations in other parts of the plant, Chadd said.

Fire destroys factory buildingBy Jeff GebeauSpecial to Town Times

Firefighters spray down a portion of the Perma Treat company on Airline Road in Durham on Tuesday afternoon. | Jeff Gebeau / For Town Times

Best-selling author and ESPN commentator Mike Lupica visited Memorial Middle School in Middlefield on Feb. 20, telling an enthusiastic audience of fifth and sixth graders about the life of an author, sports fan, and parent.

Lupica is the author of numerous books, many of them novels for young audiences, and also a frequent presence on ESPN, particularly the Sunday morning show, “The Sports Reporters.”

Author Mike Lupica visits MemorialBy Mark DionneTown Times

See Powder / Page 4

Although he claimed it was a coincidence, author and Boston College graduate Mike Lupica pulled two New England Patriot fans, including Cadence Hurlbert (pictured with Lupica), from the audience for the final questions of his Feb. 20 talk. | Mark Dionne / Town Times

See Author / Page 6

“We want Powder Ridge Mountain Resort to be a fam-ily fun, outdoor winter ad-venture destination for our patrons,” General Manager Sean Hayes said some three years ago when asked about the future of the venerable – but long-closed – ski area.

Fast-forward to February 2015, and the job is done. Pow-der Ridge is back.

“Almost everything here has been repaired, rebuilt or replaced,” Hayes said. “This is a new resort built on the foundations of the long dead ski hill.

“When we, Brownstone Ex-ploration & Discovery Park, started this project we envi-sioned creating a safe, fami-ly-oriented, winter experience close to our potential custom-ers. There were some bumps along the way, but we are con-

Powder Ridge rebornBy Dave MongilloSpecial to Town Times

The Hayes brothers. from left, Sean and Ed, at Powder Ridge. | Dave Mongillo / For Town Times

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Friday, Feb. 27Tot Time - MOMS Club

of Durham/Middlefield has scheduled Tot Times for Fridays, 10 a.m., at the Mid-dlefield Community Center, 405 Main St. Durham and Middlefield babies, toddlers and children are welcome. No registration required. For more information, email [email protected].

Saturday, Feb. 28Ukulele Club - The Mid-

dlefield Ukulele Club is scheduled to meet Saturday, Feb. 28, 9 a.m., at the Mid-dlefield Community Center, 405 Main St. All ukulele en-thusiasts are welcome. Bring you uke or just come to sing along. For more information, call Cindy at (860) 349-5656 or [email protected].

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Theater - Mercy and Xavier high schools have scheduled a production of

“Fiddler on the Roof” for Friday, March 6, 7 p.m., at Mercy High School, 1740 Randolph Road, Middle-town. For more information and tickets, visit www.mer-cyhigh.com.

Saturday, March 7Dinner - Third Congre-

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Theater - Mercy and Xavier high schools have scheduled a production of “Fiddler on the Roof” for Saturday, March 7, 7 p.m., at Mercy High School, 1740 Randolph Road, Middle-town. For more information and tickets, visit www.mer-cyhigh.com.

Sunday, March 8Community supper -

A free community supper is scheduled for Sunday, March 8, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., at Church of the Epiphany, 196 Main St. Meal is pre-pared by Town of Durham employees; desserts pro-vided by parishioners of Notre Dame Church and Church of the Epiphany. All are welcome. For more

information, call (860) 349-9644.

Theater - Mercy and Xavier high schools have scheduled a production of “Fiddler on the Roof” for Sunday, March 8, 2 p.m., at Mercy High School, 1740 Randolph Road, Middle-town. For more information and tickets, visit www.mer-cyhigh.com.

Saturday, March 14Discover Mercy - Dis-

cover Mercy is for fifth, sixth and seventh grade girls and their parents to visit Mercy High School and learn about the pro-grams and activities offered. The program is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Regis-tration is required online at www.mercyhigh.com.

Saturday, March 28Opera - A production of

the opera “The Barber of Seville” is scheduled for Sat-urday, March 28, 7:30 p.m., at Middletown’s Perform-ing Arts center, 200 LaRosa Lane. For more information and tickets, call (860) 347-4887, (860) 346-3369 or visit www.GreaterMiddletown-Concerts.org.

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After the Storm bowling tournament returns

After the Storm, Inc. will hold its annual “Spare the Tatas” bowling tournament Sunday, March 15 at the Wall-ingford Bowl bowling alley.

Founded by Middlefield’s Christine Willet, After the

Storm helps cancer patients and survivors gain access to integrated medical services.

After the Storm is known for its annual “Art Bra” auc-tion, where artistic creations in bra form are modeled and sold.

The “Spare the Tatas” event has the same fun atmosphere,

with teams encouraged to wear costumes. Willet, a breast cancer survivor, said, “The teams all come up with wacky ideas and we give prizes for that.” Prizes will be given for best team costume and best spirit.

Teams are welcome to take the bowling part seriously, or

not.The afternoon event is kid-

friendly, Willet said, and fam-ilies are encouraged to form teams. Some of the raffle baskets will be kid-oriented. More than 20 teams have participated in each of the past “Spare the Tatas” tour-naments. Registration has already begun for the 2015 ver-sion, and Willet expects to see more Durham and Middlefield teams. “I feel like there’s more from the towns than in the past,” she said.

Although the event is no-where near as taxing to run as Art Bra, Willet said she will not be bowling because she

has to keep track of registra-tion and check on things.

The event also features raf-fles, unlimited bowling, soda, raffles, chips, and “sammies,” subs donated by Subway.

Teams of four to six mem-bers can register by contact-ing [email protected]. Early registration is en-couraged so organizers can re-serve lanes and food.

The funds help cancer pa-tients at three area hospitals – Middlesex Cancer Center, Midstate Medical Center and Griffin Hospital. According to Willet, this year, $40,000 will be donated to the hospitals by After the Storm.

By Mark DionneTown Times

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Thanks to the return of a traditional New England win-ter, with great snow-mak-ing temperatures and ample snowfall, ski conditions are fantastic at Powder Ridge. Last week, every trail, from “Lower 747” over to “Shredwood For-est” and “The Chute” were covered with deep, groomed powder.

More good news: Powder Ridge employees about 200 people

“The most difficult part of rebuilding the resort was to-day’s regulatory climate,” Hayes said. “For every nail you drive and hole you dig, you have to get a permit from several layers of government. Sometimes the paper work

held up the project.”Today’s Powder Ridge is

new, but very much the same as its predecessor. The wide rolling trails are still there, as are some of the original lifts. Visitors won’t find any quad, detachable high-speed lifts at the new Powder Ridge.

“For the last 20 years, ski re-sorts have been in a lift race,” Hayes said. “They have been building bigger, faster, higher and stronger lifts, but the num-ber of skiers has gone down. A new lift is a tremendous capital outlay. It can cost mil-lions of dollars. Then, to keep the accountants and bankers happy, they raise ticket prices. We don’t want to do that. We want to increase the fun value for our visitors, not the cost.”

At Powder Ridge, new lifts are not in the plans just yet.

“Not right now,” Hayes said. “If we feel that adding or re-placing a lift will enhance the fun value of our winter outdoor experience and not greatly increase the cost. We may look into it. But not right away.”

The base lodge was prob-ably the biggest challenge in the rebirth of Powder Ridge. Three years ago it was a wreck – unusable, and nearly falling down. The lodge was on the cusp of being condemned and ripped down.

Now, the lodge is alive with activity, and an empty table is not always easy to find.

Powder Ridge management has adopted a terrain-based learning program, or ski school, to build a good base for new snow sliders. Also, Powder Ridge has introduced snow biking to draw new peo-ple to the mountain, and has a fledgling racing program which it hopes to develop into a viable race team for young skiers and boarders.

The old Powder Hill was among the first snowsport re-sorts in the east to embrace and encourage snowboard-ing. Long before board cross was an Olympic event, Pow-

der Hill snowboarders were among the leaders at the U.S. High School Snowboarding Championships and the Strat-ton Open.

While on the topic of his-tory, Hayes explained that he and his brother grew up on a farm, and often roamed the forest there. He feels children today are too controlled and guarded. “We hope to create an environment where par-ents will feel comfortable let-ting there 9- and 10-year-olds just roam free and enjoy our 225-acres of forest,” Hayes said.

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Local legislators serving Middlefield and Durham said they support the creation of a task force to combat corrup-tion in Connecticut.

The Connecticut Public Cor-ruption Task Force was formed earlier this month and con-sists of representatives from the FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Internal Revenue Ser-vice Criminal Investigation Di-vision, as well as the Inspector General’s Offices of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly said in a statement that the task force’s responsibilities include investigating and “rooting out” elected officials, federal, state and municipal employees who use their position for personal gain at the expense of the pub-lic good.

“Connecticut’s unfortunate recent history with corruption is well known, but so is this office’s history of combating corrupt activity,” Daly said in a statement. “Our efforts have been aided by a dogged media and courageous, conscientious citizens, business owners and public officials who have pro-vided information about cor-rupt activity in their midst.”

The task force has already spent months at work and was

involved in the arrest of a for-mer finance director in Plym-outh accused of embezzling more than $800,000 from the town, according to a statement.

To raise awareness of the task force’s mission, the New Haven division of the FBI in-stalled billboards in Hartford, Bridgeport and Waterbury.

The billboards ask motorists to “Report corruption now!” by contacting the task force at 1-800-CALL-FBI.

Mayors in the three cities were convicted within the past decade or more on corruption and other charges. Convictions against Hartford Mayor Eddie

Perez were overturned and the case is before the state Su-preme Court.

But Marybeth Miklos, FBI New Haven media coordi-nator, said there was “pretty much no” significance behind the locations.

“We just asked for space,” she said Wednesday.

The FBI has a partnership with Lamar Advertising, a company that sells advertis-ing on billboards, Miklos said. The company was contacted, she said, and offered to give the

federal agency space on digital billboards in the state as part of a “public service.”

The ad was displayed on a fourth billboard in Meriden along Interstate 91 South. The FBI has offices in Meriden at 500 Preston Ave., according to the agency’s website.

The display was no longer in the cycle of advertisements Wednesday, however.

State Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano said he be-lieved the formation of the task force was “perfectly reason-

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Many of Lupica’s books take place in the world of youth sports.

The author described the origin of his best-selling book, “Travel Team.” After his 12-year-old son was cut from a travel basketball team in real life, Lupica decided to hire a coach and form a team out of all the kids who didn’t make the travel team.

The team struggled both to schedule games and to com-pete, getting creamed on a regular basis. Lupica said he complained to his wife, “You know that heart-warming Disney movie I thought we were making? When does it start?”

When the team beat a team that had previously beaten them and the players cele-brated like they had won a championship, Lupica fic-tionalized the story into a novel. “That book came out in 2004, it was called ‘Travel Team,’ and it changed my life,” Lupica told the Memo-rial students.

“Travel Team,” an imme-

diate success, gave Lupica a new vocation, young adult author. “That was the begin-ning of me finding out ... how much children still want to read books.”

The enormous change that can come from one moment, such as cutting a player from a team, was a theme of Lupi-ca’s talk, and it is also the ba-sis of his affection for sports.

We watch sports because “the next moment could be the one that changes everything.”

Illustrating this point, Lu-pica referenced the 1980 Miracle on Ice hockey game between the United States and the Soviet Union, where a bouncing puck on center ice and a quick substitution 10 seconds before the end of the period changed the game.

As a more recent example, Lupica cited Malcolm But-ler’s goal line interception that sealed a Super Bowl vic-tory for the New England Pa-triots, calling it a play people will be talking about for 40 years.

Memorial students and staff dressed in sports jerseys for the visit, with the Patriots as the most represented team.

Lupica told the students that it was okay to want to win and to keep score, be-cause the other teams al-ways want to win. But he also stressed the positive values of

sports. “If you’re not a good friend and a good teammate, you’re not going to do well in my books.”

Quick with a few age jokes at his own expense, Lupica told the students to value their time playing sports and to appreciate that any adult in the crowd at a youth game would gladly trade places with a player.

During the Q & A that

ended the 45-minute talk, students asked questions about the writing life, such as “Where do you get your ideas?”, “What are your favor-ite books?”, and “How do you make up characters?”

Lupica left the audience with several recommenda-tions, such as the William Goldman book “The Prin-cess Bride,” the 2004 movie “Miracle,” and one they will

probably have to save for a few years, the great Amer-ican crime novelist Elmore Leonard.

“There’s no greater magic than chapter one, page one,” Lupica said. “To be a great writer, you have to be a great reader.”

He added, on a practi-cal note, “To be a great writer, you have to be a great re-writer.”

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Many of the Memorial students were familiar with Lupica’s work. Some brought copies of his books and others asked specific questions. | Mark Dionne / Town Times

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“Based on the number of in-stances we’ve had at the town level and legislative level, I perfectly understand why they’re doing what they’re do-ing,” said Fasano, a Republican who represents the 34th Senate District consisting of Walling-

ford, North Haven, East Haven and Durham. “As an elected official who understands and appreciates the public trust, it’s embarrassing ... because it’s one of the few and not the norm.”

State Sen. Danté Bar-tolomeo, a Democrat repre-senting Meriden, Cheshire, Middlefield and Durham, said she believed the task force’s

creation is a “great idea” and those who are involved with corruption should be investi-gated and pursued.

While Fasano said there ha-ven’t been that many instances of corruption in Connecticut, he added that it still “taints” other elected officials.

“People put their faith in you as a public official, we should be held to a stricter standard,” he said. “I feel (the task force is) appropriate. It’s embarrass-ing that it happened and that it’s gotten to a point where there was a need for this task force.”

Bartolomeo agreed, add-ing that the small percentage of corrupt politicians give all elected officials a bad name.

“It’s kind of like one bad apple can ruin the bunch,” she said. “Any public official or elected official involved in corrupt ac-tivities taints the rest of us.”

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Alex Infeld, a sixth grade student at Memorial Middle School, won the school com-petition of the National Geo-graphic Bee on Jan. 14 and a chance at a $50,000 college scholarship.

The school bee was the first round in the 27th annual National Geographic Bee. Thousands of schools around the country are participating in the bee, which tests stu-dents’ geographic knowledge.

The school champions, in-cluding Alex, will take a writ-ten test; up to 100 of the top scorers on that test in each state will move on to the state bee March 27.

State winners will receive an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C., courtesy

of The National Geographic Society, to participate in the national championship May 11-13. The first place national champion will receive a $50,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the society including a subscrip-tion to National Geographic magazine, and a trip to the Galápagos Islands, courtesy of Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic.

Award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien will mod-erate at the national finals. The program will air on television.

Alex was one of eight classroom Geo-Bee win-ners at Memorial. The oth-ers were Cady Hurlbert, Alec Sklutovsky, Patrick Finnerty, Sebastion Manning, Greg Le-noce, Michael Malek and P.J. Casey-Leonard.

Local Geo-Bee winner crowned

By Mark DionneTown Times

Memorial Middle School sixth grader Alex Infled won the school’s National Geographic Bee in January.

Over the last few years our community has suffered more loss than any community should have to endure. From young to old, cancer does not discriminate. According to the American Cancer So-ciety, one in every four deaths in the United States is the re-sult of cancer.

“That statistic hit home when I sat eating dinner with my family … of four,” stated Emily Sokol, chairperson of Relay for Life. “In the last two years I have personally lost two family members and a family friend. In addition, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in December of 2013. She just finished her treatments and is currently cancer-free.”

Perhaps that was the rea-son Sokol chose to formulate a committee of 11 volunteers, all active in our community, and persuade them to help or-ganize a mini Relay for Life.

“It didn’t take a great deal of persuasion. We’ve all been affected by this disease and we all want to do what we can to help find a cure,” Durham first selectman and commit-tee member Laura Francis said.

The American Cancer So-ciety, which sponsors these relay events, has been im-pressed by the overwhelm-

ing support and spirit they have seen from our small community.

“It’s unprecedented,” Ju-lie Kessler, from ACS, said. “I’ve never seen a committee get so much accomplished, and so much participation in such a short period of time. You’ve really got an amazing community here.”

The Relay for Life in Durham is being held June 20 from 4 to 10 p.m. at the Durham Fairgrounds.

“We were so pleased to be able to donate the facilities to this worthwhile cause,” stated Debbie Huscher, marketing coordinator for the Durham Fair.

“We will be creating a makeshift track in the mid-way area to keep things on level ground and encour-age participants of all ages. The idea of the relay is that a member of your team must be on the track walking for the entire six-hour event. We’ll have food trucks, bands, and entertainment for adults and kids of all ages throughout the event,” explained Sokol.

Team members are en-couraged to raise a minimum of $100, all of which goes di-rectly to the American Can-cer Society. This allows team members to receive a free shirt with the event sponsors

listed on it along with our slo-gan for the event, which will be revealed at the kick-off party on March 21 at Indian Springs Golf course, from 7 to 9 p.m. Anyone interested in learning more is invited to attend.

Relay for Life is quite sim-ply a celebration of life. It celebrates the lives of those who have been taken from us, and celebrates survivors and caregivers alike.

Forming a team and fund-raising for the event is just a small portion of the day. The food, entertainment, friend-ship and comradery are what the event is all about.

The evening luminary cele-bration is always the highlight of relays. As darkness falls, luminaries are lit along the

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Opinion

I am not cut out for to-day’s living. I’m really not. I think of myself as an 1800s kind of girl, and of course my kids believe that that’s when I came of age. They think I moseyed up to ye olde schoolhouse in my buckboard. I don’t kid my-self, though. I know there were challenges. Plagues don’t sound like much of a hoot to me. I’m not so sure I would have reveled in heading out to the river with my scrub board and the week’s dirty clothes – I like turning a knob and let-ting the clothes magically wash themselves. I don’t know if they wore corsets back then, but it’s a definite pass on that one. Being able to breathe has always been a favorite pastime of mine.

Oh, but the simplicity of it all. That’s what I yearn for. Modern life feels so complicated to me. There are so many gadgets, and

most of them give me a hard time. I can’t even be-gin to tell you how frus-trated I sometimes get when I try to turn on my TV. It often takes three remote controls, none of which want to cooperate with the others. It can take a fair amount of time for my magic box to light up, and it is not wasted on me that my favorite show is rolling along without me while I wage this epic battle with the remotes.

My phone is jangling all day with telemarketers who want my money. And though Caller ID means I never have to pick up for them again, the interrup-tion of my day with their incessant ringing-well, it just sets my nerves on edge (My apologies to any of you telemarketers out there that I may have offended; I’m

Bucking trends

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Letters to the Editor

Praise from P.A.L.STo the editor:P.A.L.S. thanks the many friends of the

Durham Library who contributed to the success of our fundraiser – the restaurants, caterers and businesses; our volunteers – especially P.A.L.S. members and the volun-teers who set up, decorated, cleaned up and served during the event, and to everyone who attended.

With this support, P.A.L.S. provides funding for programs, museum passes and startup collections for the entire community at the Durham Library.

Pat MurawskiP.A.L.S. president

Support “Right To Try”To the editor:One year ago my friend, a fellow Durham-

ite, was moving a box when her left arm mysteriously stopped working. A visit to her primary care physician and two specialists later, she got about the worst diagnosis I can imagine: She has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclero-sis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spi-nal cord. There is no cure for ALS, but the FDA-approved drug riluzole may slow the disease’s progression. Several other drugs in clinical trials hold promise.

Which brings me to Right To Try legisla-tion, which would allow people diagnosed with incurable conditions to receive exper-imental drugs that have not completed the Food and Drug Administration’s approval pro-cess. A lawsuit attempting to force the FDA to expand the availability of investigational drugs failed; a federal judge disagreed that terminally ill people have a right to access to investigational medicine and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal.

Our own state representatives Vincent Can-delora and Noreen Kokoruda have introduced Right To Try legislation which is now under consideration by the Committee on Public Health. And – more luck – our state senator representing the 12th District, Ted Kennedy, Jr., is on that committee (so is Mr. Candelora)! But this is not a done deal. Critics argue that patients will avoid clinical trials and that some will die from taking medications that have not been fully vetted. Insurance companies are not obligated to pay for non-FDA approved drugs and may cancel or suspend coverage while such drugs are being used. Certainly a “proceed with caution” approach is called for, but for people like my friend, time is of the essence.

Please contact your legislators and urge them to support Right To Try. You never know when you or a person you care for may want this opportunity.

Suzy MongeonDurham

Left out in the coldTo the editor:Being a long time resident of Durham,

snow has never been a surprise. From as long as I can remember, school closings and town closings were listed on the TV for ev-eryone to anticipate. Until now.

Recently, my family and I had planned an event at the United Churches of Durham for Feb. 15. Much to our surprise we showed up at the time appointed to us only to find a locked door that was promised to be open. We were not aware of the closing since it was not listed on the local news stations. We questioned a man who worked there as to why the church was closed, and much to our surprise received an extremely rude response. Not only was our integrity ques-tioned, but our plans were ruined and left us no notice to reschedule at such a short notice.

Next time there is a threat of two, three inches all cancellations should be listed on the local news stations instead of a se-lect few so that anyone who has events planned may have a chance to reschedule with enough notice. Not only was my fam-ily left with no venue to host our event, but we were also left with a bad experience. I believe this should be a high priority to ad-dress in the future so that no one will have to experience a situation like this in the future.

Kimberly McCarterDurham

Lawmaker is wrongTo the editor:In response to the state news brief “Law-

maker seeks study of vaccine exemption laws, policies” (Town Times, Feb. 13), I am wondering when Rep. Matt Ritter decided that he would attempt to redefine what constitutes religion. I am also wondering on what basis he is doubting the integrity of parents who use religious exemptions in opting out of vaccination.

Notable figures such as Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry have referred to the Bi-ble in their writings, as well as the author of Common Sense, Thomas Payne. John Win-throp, once governor of Connecticut, was no less familiar with many passages in the Bible. He, in fact, wrote of it when captured by natives and foreign Europeans, who tried to force him to worship their religion. As he wrote of this experience and his refusal, un-der threat of torture, he spoke about his reli-gion as a personal one, never once speaking of any particular church nor denomination. All of these men portrayed having deep faiths connective with their lives’ pursuits,

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Letters

never once mentioning ad-herence to an organization, but to ideals that permuted into the secular work that led to the formation of the country in which we now live.

According to the defini-tion of religion, it is a per-sonal belief. If parents are personally opposed to vac-cinations, who is to say that personal opposition is not a religious one? Who is to call into question the personal religious beliefs of individu-als, and to interpret reli-gious observance as being only that which is, or can be done, with the sanction of a community or institution, as opposed to the individual or the family?

Just as Jefferson, Henry, or Winthrop held personal religious convictions, so do individuals today.

When did legislators such as Rep. Matt Ritter begin to devise they could sit in judgment of what anyone’s religion is?

Carolyn SalzanoMiddlefield

“Ruff” journey has happy ending

To the editor:After their long, three-day

journey surviving freezing temperatures, snow storms, dehydration and starva-tion, Carl and Lincoln are peacefully resting at home. So many days of agonizing searches coming up empty and phone calls of how they were seen traveling from Durham to Guilford and back towards Northford and Branford. Their journey was quite vast and, I am sure, very painful.

They somehow managed to make their way home in the midst of the storm, shak-ing from the cold and clearly hurting from what they had endured. They collapsed with exhaustion right inside the doorway.

It may be a long road to recovery, however, they are now surrounded with love and so many nurturing hands. Most importantly, they are home!

My sincere gratitude goes out to all who have helped me through this ordeal; through prayers, guidance, advice and kind words.

Too many times the news can wear us out with nega-tivity and make us question the intention of human-ity. But I have experienced first hand the beauty of this world and all those with in it. These are the moments that need to be shared: when a complete stranger takes their precious time out to help you hang signs and guide you, or someone pulls over to let you know that they may have seen them, or a random call comes just to tell you they are praying for you and the safe return of your dogs.

So this is my story, with a happy ending and a grateful heart, as a reminder to all to never be afraid to ask for

help, never question your in-ner strength, and never, ever doubt the power of prayer.

Love is a beautiful gift that we can always give. Lets keep giving it!

Kerri, Scott, Justin, Josh, Jessi, Jenni

Carl and Lincoln KingDurham

Community doesn’t disappoint

To the editor:Thanks to our friends and

neighbors as well as many civic organizations, the Mid-dlefield Community Services Council has been busy this winter keeping lights on, homes warm and food avail-able to those in need. Thank you to the many individuals, families, and organizations who have (and are) support-ing us. The list includes or-ganizations who financially support us, many individuals who donate financially and many others who donate to the Food Bank through Com-munity Round Up, etc.

With all the bad news in the world, it’s nice to be able to share some of the “good stuff” that goes on every day in our community.

Joan LombardoMiddlefield Senior Cen-

ter and Social Services

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Deadline for news sub-missions to Town Times is Monday, by 5 p.m., for con-sideration for the following edition.Email submissions to [email protected] or by mail to: Town Times, 11 Crown St., Meriden, CT 06450. For more informa-tion, call (203) 317-2256.

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The Executive Board of the Middlesex Hospital Vocal Chords is requesting applications for its annual grants to be awarded to students pursuing a career in nursing or music who have been accepted at an accredited college or university. The Re-view Committee will consider academic record, extracurricular and community service activities, the student’s ability to artic-ulate his/her career goals and the recommendations of the ref-erences. The grants will be a minimum of $1,000 each and will be paid directly to the recipient at the Spring Concert at Port-land High School Saturday, May 16. Applications are available at the guidance offices or at www.vocalchords20.org/. Deadline is Monday, March 30. For more information, call (860) 277-3913.

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Middletown mezzo highlights opera cast

Rossini’s romp “The Barber of Seville” opened at New Britain’s Trini-ty-on-Main Feb. 13 and will be ending its statewide run March 28 at MHS Perform-ing Arts Center in Mid-dletown, with Middletown mezzo Allison Lindsay headlining the cast.

Spectators braved near-Arctic temperatures in New Britain to enjoy this latest production from the CT Lyric Opera and CT Virtuosi Chamber Orches-tra. Artistic director Adrian Sylveen conducted his spir-ited orchestra, and CLO’s resident soprano Jurate Svedaite (who sang this op-era a decade ago) made her

official debut as stage di-rector. The evening, for the most part, was a resound-ing success, as this opera has endured in the standard repertoire for 199 years.

The part of Rosina is shared equally by sopra-nos and mezzos alike due to the bravura nature of her music. Because of the abundance of lower-voiced male roles here, this re-viewer prefers sopranos a la Beverly Sills and Roberta Peters who shot off big spectacular high D’s and E’s all over the place to stun the audience. But the role was originally conceived for a mezzo.

Lindsay was a lovely, de-lightful Rosina who seemed to really enjoy her role. Be-cause she is young, this was

her first go at the role, and this was opening night. Ob-viously, nobody expected the dazzling coloratura fire-works of a Cecilia Bartoli or Marilyn Horne out of her in “Una voce poco fa.” She, thankfully, was charm-ing, musically correct and conservative instead of the annoying soubrette one often sees. Tenor Spencer Hamlin, looking like a thin, young Pavarotti, sang Al-maviva with the sweetness and agility required of this genre.

Nonetheless, it was clearly a baritone fest on that stage that night. Luke Scott, a favorite with this company, can never go wrong – lyric or bass-bari-tone, Rossini or Puccini, evil character or sexy one –

he always delivers, and his Basilio was no exception.

Debuting Jimi James was an animated Bartolo with a gigantic Scarpia-sized voice and excellent comic timing.

However, the revelation of the evening was the very young Figaro of Dean Mur-phy. With a crystal-clear masculine voice inside of boyish good looks, his movements were as fluid, relaxed, natural and confi-dent as someone who has been singing for years.

When they were onstage together, it was like com-paring them to a three-tiered chocolate cake – the light, airy mousse frosting on top (Murphy), the deep, dark, rich fudge at the bot-tom (James), and the vel-vety smooth filling in the middle (Scott), all nicely contrasted.

The opera will also ap-pear in Waterbury, New London, and Hartford’s new Infinity Hall (but with alter-nate casts) before the Mid-dletown performance with the above singers. Sylveen will conduct and Svedaite will direct all performances.

Not one to be missed!For more information, visit

ctlyricopera.org or thevirtu-osi.org.

By Larry KellumSpecial to Town Times

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The Levi E. Coe Library sub-scribes to Zinio. Patrons may access over a dozen different magazines online.

Durham Public LibraryPrograms for children

Leslie Bulion Book Birth-day Party (all ages). Monday, March 2, 2 p.m. Celebrate the launch of Durham author Les-lie Bulion’s science poetry book “Random Body Parts: Gross Anatomy Riddles in Verse!”

Nutmeg at Night Gameshow - Thursday, March 12. Grades 4 to 6, from 6 to 7 p.m.; grades 7 and up from 7 to 8 p.m. A trivia program about all 10 Nutmeg books. Registration is required.

Programs for teensSAT Practice Test (ages 14 to

18). Saturday, March 7, noon to 3 p.m. Registration is required.

Teen Advisory Group (ages 12 to 18). Saturday, March 7, 3 to 4 p.m. Meet to discuss how to improve the library for young adults.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl League (ages 12 to 18). Every Thursday, 4 to 5 p.m., on the Nintendo Wii U. A tournament is planned in April. Drop in.

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Wednesday, March 18Board of Education, Strong School, 7:30 p.m.Planning & Zoning, Library, 7:30 p.m.Monday, March 23Public Safety Facility Reno-vations Planning Committee, Durham Volunteer Firehouse, 7 p.m.Board of Selectmen, Town Hall, 7 p.m.Wednesday, March 25Senior Citizen Board, Durham Activity center, 1 p.m.Board of Education, Strong School, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, March 31Ethic’s Commission, Library, 7 p.m.

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And don’t even get me started on my computer. Many are the times I have been tempted to walk out my back door and smash it on the steps, it vexes me so. It seems to have a life all its own – one of which I do not approve. I won’t even have my fingers on the keys, and things will mysteriously disappear, and other things will just as mysteriously appear. The text will, for no apparent reason, become microscopically small and will refuse to go back to its grown-up size. Some-times the darn thing finds it great fun to crash and stop working altogether. All in all, this contraption behaves very badly, and we are often not on the best of terms. The sad thing is, in this day and age, I need it, and it knows it has the up-

per hand.And who among us has

not been put on hold on the phone for what I am sure has now totaled countless hours? What really chaps my hide, though, are the times – and that’s almost al-ways – I must jump through hoops before I can con-nect with a voice in “real time.” I listen to that end-less “menu,” and I dutifully push the buttons required of me, only to go around and around in a loop, until I end up right back where I started. There have been occasions when I could never find a person to talk to and I just hung up in ut-ter frustration.

Another spur in my sad-dle: it seems that face-to-face communications are taking somewhat of a nose dive. The order of the day appears to be the social media and texting. I want to sit across from someone at lunch and not have them

check their text messages, but rather to give me their undivided attention. And while we’re on the subject, I hear tell that people often break up with someone via a text. And ain’t that a kick in the head!

For future reference, if someone wants to get up with me, I would love it if they call me, because when they e-mail me, I often don’t see the message until after the window of oppor-tunity for our meeting has closed. I always feel like I’m a day late (actually, that’s true) and a dollar short (that’s often true, too).

I’m out of step with just about everyone. I don’t have a Smart Phone. My cell phone is of very ordi-nary intelligence. I never even use it. I just throw it in my purse when I’m driving in case of an emergency, be-cause I have had cars in the past that always delighted in emergencies. People say

they’ll text me, and I will say, no, you won’t. I have never texted and feel no de-sire to do so. They tell me about apps, as though they really expect me to know what they’re talking about. No apps, either.

So back in my century – the 1800s – the scrub board may have been a daily part of my life, but it would have been worth it to have the peace that I fancy filtered through my days. Less noise, far fewer distrac-tions, the space to hear my own spirit. And although it may have taken two days by horseback in order to drop in on a friend, when I got there she would have given me her undivided atten-tion. I’m fairly certain she wouldn’t have been texting.

I miss my buckboard.Diana Carr, a resident of

Durham, is a certified life coach who was trained by Martha Beck. Contact her at [email protected].

From Page 8Government

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Durham(Check the town website at www.town-ofdurhamct.org for updates.)Tuesday, March 3Clean Energy & Sustainability Task Force, Library, 7 p.m.Wednesday, March 4Board of Education, Strong School, 7:30 p.m.Planning & Zoning, library, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, March 8Durham Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 205 Main St., 7 p.m.Monday, March 9Board of Education, Town Hall, 7 p.m.Inland Wetlands, Library, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, March 10Conservation Commission, Li-brary, 7 p.m.Library Board of Trustees, Li-brary, 7:30 p.m.Durham Volunteer Company, Durham Volunteer Firehouse, 8 p.m.Wednesday, March 11Board of Education, Strong School, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, March 12Board of Assessment Appeals, Town Hall, 6:30 p.m.Zoning Board of Appeals, Town Hall, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, March 14Board of Assessment Appeals, Town Hall, 9 a.m.Tuesday, March 17Board of Finance, Town Hall, 6:30 p.m.

MiddlefieldMonday, March 2Board of Selectmen, Middlefield Community Center, 7 p.m.Wednesday, March 4Economic Development, 7 p.m.WPCA, 7 p.m.Board of Education, Strong School, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, March 5Park & Rec, 6:30 p.m.Wednesday, March 11Planning & Zoning, 7 p.m.Board of Education, Strong School, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, March 12Board of Finance, Middlefield Community Center, 7 p.m.Tuesday, March 17Conservation Commission, 6:30 p.m.Board of Selectmen, 7 p.m.Wednesday, March 18Inland/Wetlands and Water-courses, 7 p.m.Board of Education, Strong School, 7:30 p.m.

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The Independent Day School was one of three teams to reach the quarter round at the 2015 Connecticut Chapter Civics First Moot Court Competition. The IDS Debate Team consists of 15 students and is coached by faculty member Andrew Watt. The group includes sixth graders: William Allocco, Elias Bachner, Ethan Bardoe, Ethan Ciak, Frankie Blu Kincy, Jackson Meisner and Jona Ruser; seventh graders: P.J. Cavalleri, Laura Herscovici and Priscilla Pascucci; and eighth graders: Meredith Diamond, Charlotte Meigs, Shraya Poetii, Avery Schmitz and Elise Gendrich.

Energize Connecticut, in partnership with Eversource Energy and the United Illu-minating Company, is accept-ing entries for its 11th annual eesmarts Student Contest for all Connecticut students in grades K-12. Deadline for en-tries is April 24, 2015.

The eesmarts Student Con-test invites students to create projects about energy effi-ciency, renewable energy, and sustainability. Finalists for each grade level will be hon-ored at a special awards cer-emony on June 5 at the State Capitol in Hartford.

Students in grades K-8 are assigned grade-specific top-ics and asked to submit their entries in the form of a poster (grades K-2), narrative (grade 3), news article (grade 4), book review (grade 5), essay (grade 6), speech (grade 7), or public service announce-ment (grade 8).

Students in Grades 9-12 compete in the “Power of Change” award category, which asks students to pro-pose a community-based project to address an ener-gy-related issue. Students may work in groups in this category, and winners’ schools will receive funding to make their proposed proj-ect a reality. The eesmarts program provides grants of $1,000 for first place, $1,000 for second place and $500 for third place.

Prizes are awarded for all grade levels. For more infor-mation, visit www.eesmarts.com/contest.

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Adult Education offers free high school completion programs and English as a second language classes to area residents.

Three high school op-tions are offered, including the GED and the National External Diploma Pro-grams, a self-paced pro-gram with no classroom instruction.

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For more information, call (860) 343-6044.

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D u r h a m Re c r e a t i o n has scheduled an exer-cise class for adults focus-ing on strength, fitness and flexibility.

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The Durham 60+ Club celebrated Valentine’s Day with a luncheon at the Durham Activity Center. Pictured: Sue Giuffrida, Mary and Karl Rubendunst, Peter Dontigney, Bob Hall, Jean Stierle and Ellen Cassady.

The Children’s Nutrition Program is a confidential supplemental nutrition pro-gram for children in Region 13 schools. Sponsored by Durham Middlefield Youth and Family Services and Re-gion 13, through food dona-tion and volunteer efforts, the program provides a backpack filled with non-perishable food items for eligible school aged children.

Durham Middlefield Youth and Family Services and CRHS Helping Hands Club work together to collect food items, organize, and de-liver backpacks filled with non-perishable food items to

participating students. The backpacks are sent home each Thursday, Novem-ber through June, with ex-tra items sent home during school vacations. A donation of $160 supports the Back-pack Nutrition program for a child for the school year.

Items in need include ce-real, easy macaroni and cheese, pancake mix with syrup, pasta, canned ravioli, applesauce cups .

Donations can be dropped off at Durham Middlefield Youth and Family Services, 405 Main St., Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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The Durham Public Li-brary will celebrate science, poetry, gross things, and a local author with a book launch party for Leslie Bu-lion’s “Random Body Parts: Gross Anatomy Riddles in Verse.”

Bulion, a Durham resident, has two previous collections of poems – “Hey There, Stink Bug!” about insects and “At the Sea Floor Cafe,” about odd ocean life. Bulion also has young adult novels to her credit, including “The Trouble with Rules” and “The Universe of Fair.” The later TK book is based on the Durham Fair and was the in-spiration for a Durham Fair scavenger hunt at the time of

its publication.The book launch party

takes place Monday, March 2 at 7 p.m. with snacks, crafts, and activities. No registra-tion required.

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The Middlefield Parks and Recreation Department has scheduled the following win-ter programs.

Basic crochet class - Wednesdays, March 4, 11, 18, 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Mid-dlefield Fire Department. A fee is charged. The beginner class will teach basic stitches and make a scarf.

Soap making - Saturday, March 21, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Community Center. A fee is charged. Learn to make cas-tile soap.

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track in honor of those who have lost their battle, won their battle or are currently battling cancer.

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Cat Tales, a nonprofit res-cue, is seeking foster care vol-unteers to provide temporary housing for cats and kittens. Volunteers will prepare the cats for adoption and prevent overcrowding in the shelter. Cat Tales will provide food, supplies, and medications, and all vet care. Volunteers will be responsible for daily feeding, play and attention, adminis-tering medications, following special dietary plans, handling the cat into and out of a carrier, and transporting cats to veteri-nary appointments.

Cat Tales is also in need of feral housing for managed feral colonies. Anyone willing to do-nate or construct feral housing should contact Cat Tales.

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Senior Happenings

Durham SeniorsSoup and salad lunch

The Durham Senior Board has scheduled a soup and salad luncheon for Friday, March 6, at noon, at the Durham Public Library. Lunch is free to se-niors although donations are accepted.

Sean Hayes, owner of the Powder Ridge Ski resort, is scheduled to speak.

For more information and reservations, call (860) 349-3153.

Middlefield Senior CenterChair exercise

Chair exercise is sched-uled for Monday, Wednesday and Fridays, 11 a.m., at the Se-nior Center. The program is designed for those who have not exercised recently and aims to improve strength and flexibility. Registration will be completed at the first meeting.

Museum program

The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History has sched-uled a program for Wednes-day, March 11, 12:30 p.m. The presentation includes the museum’s past and present along with a selection of ob-jects and specimens. No reg-istration required.

Bingo BrunchThe Durham Women’s

Club has scheduled a free Bingo Brunch for Saturday, March 14, 11 a.m. Registration is requested at (860) 349-7121.

March birthdays

Celebrate March birthdays on Wednesday, March 18, 12:30 p.m.

Not Your Average Salad

Water Edge has scheduled a presentation “Not Your Av-erage Salad” for Wednesday, March 25, 12:45 p.m.

AARP safe driving The Middlefield Senior

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A fee is charged. Pre-registra-tion and payment is required. For more information and to register, call (860) 349-7121 or come by the Senior Cen-ter, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Space is limited.

Tax Aide canceledThe AARP Tax preparation

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sachusetts - Michael Bon-giorno of Middlefield.

Western New England

University, Massachu-setts - Mark Vvanman of Middlefield.

Wheaton College, Mas-sachusetts - Rachel Kowal-ski of Durham.

Mercy High SchoolLocal students named to

the second semester honor roll at Mercy High School.

High honors - Olivia Mar-ran, Ashley Mason, Olivia Pereira, Mackenzie Scotto of Durham; Amy Boyle, Vic-toria Conroy, Carol D’Agos-tino, Tiffany Mangiameli, Stephanie Mangiameli of Middlefield.

First honors - Alexis Gi-acco, Kendra Landy, Abigail Marran, Isabella Santoro of Durham; Cecelia Giuffrida, Brittany Hall, Taylor Termini of Middlefield; Mikayla Maz-zotta of Rockfall.

Second honors - Erin Houchin, Hannah Pakech of Durham; Megan Yale of Middlefield.

ScholarshipDunkin’ Donuts plans

to award 50 scholarships to qualified high school seniors in Connecticut, as part of a Community Partnership pro-gram. For more information, criteria and an application, visit www.dunkindonuts.com/scholarship. Deadline is Sunday, March 18.

Book driveMemorial School is col-

lecting gently used children’s books, from picture books to chapter books, to donate to New Haven Reads. Donations will be accepted through Tuesday, March 31.

Karen Rose Corley MIDDLEFIELD — Karen

Rose Corley (Conklin), 57, of Middlefield, passed

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She was born in New Britain, on J u n e 1 5 , 1 9 5 7 , t o Charles and

Faith Conklin. She married David W. Corley on June 22, 1976.

She is survived by her husband, David; children, Charles, William, Lori, and Thomas; grandchildren, Faith, Thomas, Juliette, and Liliana; sister, Andrea; brothers, Jim and Roger; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was pre-deceased by her father,

Charles; mother, Faith; and younger brother, David. Karen was raised in New-ington and graduated from Newington High School. A longtime resident of Mid-dlefield, Karen remained an active member of the community through or-ganizations such as the Durham Fair and Tops. Her love of silly hats was rivaled only by her love for her children and grand-children, an affection that she carried into her profes-sional life by tending to the needs of others.

Funeral services were held on Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Coughlin-Lastrina Funeral Home, 491 High St., Middletown. Burial will be at a later date in the Middlefield Cemetery, Middlefield.

Obituaries Faith Briefs

Lenten seriesThe United Churches of

Durham has scheduled Sun-day morning Lenten Series of discussions on prayer, chant and stress reduction.

Participants need not be a member of any church, just interested in the topic and able to respect others whose views may differ from their own.

Sessions are scheduled for 9 to 9:30 a.m. on the six Sundays of Lent, in Fairchild House at the United Churches, 228 Main St.

Sessions are as follows: Meeting One: Taking Time For Oneself; Meeting Two: Silencing The Internal Critic; Meeting Three: Worry And Rumination vs. Awareness; Meeting Four: Illness & Well-ness - Spirit & The Body; Meeting Five: Sustaining Healthy Relationships And Meeting Six: Letting Go – Let-ting God.

Sessions will be led by Dr. Clara Chapman, a Deacon of the United Churches and psychologist, and the Rev. Stephen Washburn, Interim Senior Pastor at the United Churches.

For more information and to reserve a seat, call the church at (860) 349-3683 or e-mail the.united.churches@

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Corned beef dinnerSt. James Episcopal Church,

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Families with a household income of $53,000 or less are eligible for free tax preparation assistance now through April 11 at two sites Middletown.

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program is an official IRS program, and all tax preparers are trained and certified to ensure that low- to moderate-income families receive the refunds and credits that they have earned, in-cluding the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credits and the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit.

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Lyman Orchards, 32 Reeds Gap Road, has rescheduled its 43rd annual WinterFest for Saturday, Feb. 28 and Sunday, March 1, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The “Frozen” themed event plans sing-a-long, meet-and-greet and photo op with Elsa, Anna and Olaf from “Frozen” at 11 a.m. and

1:15 p.m., ice-carving demon-strat ions , horse-drawn sleigh rides, contests and games, visit with Siberian Husky dogs, face painting, food sampling, author visit with Janet Lawler and Jes-sica Robinson, and food.

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Lyman Orchards WinterFest rescheduled

The 44th annual Cogin-chaug Regional High School Scholarship Fund Social and Silent Auction is scheduled for Friday, March 27, 7 p.m. to midnight, at The Crystal Ballroom, 44 Maynard St., Middletown.

The event includes dinner buffet, entertainment and si-lent auction. A fee is charged.

Music provided by Jock in the Box Entertainment. WFSB anchor Kevin Hogan is sched-uled to appear.

Auction proceeds benefit college- and trade school-bound senior students.

For more information, con-tact Anne Koba at (860) 995-0532 or email [email protected].

Social, silent auction fundraiser planned

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Mail carriers battle tough conditions in winter

An inscription on the James Farley Post Office in New York City reads, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

While the United States Postal Service has no offi-cial motto, and deliveries are sometimes canceled in unsafe weather conditions, postal workers do contend with dif-ficult challenges in the winter.

Conditions are likely to be especially difficult in Durham

and Middlefield, according to Meriden resident Henry He-naire, who worked for USPS for 33 years, starting in 1973. Carriers in these commu-nities have to contend with winding country roads and long driveways when deliver-ing packages.

“This time of year there’s always a lack of consider-ation,” Henaire said, recalling the challenges of making de-liveries in bad weather.

Henaire, who now works in the mailroom at The Re-cord-Journal in Meriden, was once put out of work for three months with a broken ankle,

though he doesn’t think resi-dents were at fault at the time, as the snow had just started coming down. “There are lots of slips and falls when people don’t shovel their sidewalks and stairs.”

New Britain Postmaster Raymond Hearn asked in a press release for residents to “clear their mailboxes and walkways of snow and ice,” because some carriers have suffered injuries from slip-ping on ice.

“The best way to avoid in-juries is prevention,” Hearn said. “Please help our let-ter carriers provide the best

service they can as safely as possible.”

When the snow piles up, “Those are tough days,” said Scot Siarkowski, a mail car-rier in Southington. “We gotta walk on the street. They’re not getting their mail if they don’t shovel out, (or) we can’t get to the house. We’ll just hold it for them at the post of-fice to pick up, or we deliver when it’s cleared.”

Current carriers such as Siarkowski are given ice grip-pers to help avoid injuries, but snow piled high on both sides of the street often carries with it challenges in finding a place to park safely.

At times, Siarkowski parks on side streets and does some additional walking.

As The Record-Journal re-ported, the mail trucks, many of which are 30 years old, ar-en’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 a loyal and dedi-cated worker in a job where folks don’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.

Hearn requested custom-ers clear enough snow from curbside boxes to allow mail trucks to approach and de-liver safely. For packages, walkways and stairs should be cleared, in good repair, and al-low for traction. Sand and salt can help keep these areas safe not only for carriers but for “other visitors,” Hearn said.

Snow carries with it special challenges, but mail carriers also face other hurdles, one of the most well-known be-ing aggressive dogs. Henaire was never bit in his 33 years of service, but some of his col-leagues were.

All mail carriers are re-quired to carry dog spray for defense, but Henaire also took to carrying dog biscuits. The treats could go far in befriend-ing canines. Being introduced to dogs by their owners could also make a huge difference, Henaire recalled.

– Record-Journal staff con-tributed to this report.

By Charles KreutzkampTown Times

The Pupil Services Office of Regional School District 13 is scheduled to destroy the confidential special educa-tion records of students from the class of 2008.

This action is allowed by State Regulations per author-ity of the State of Connecti-cut Office of Public Records Administration and Federal Regulations 34 CFR 300.573.

Copies of these special ed-ucation confidential records of all former students are available following submis-sion of a written request by the student before June 12. Letters should be written to Mrs. Amy Emory, Director of Pupil Personnel Services, re-gional School District 13, P.O. Box 190, 135A Pickett Lane, Durham, CT 06442.

School records to be destroyed

The Middlefield Board of Finance will hold a special meeting and public hearing Thursday, March 5 at 7 p.m. in the Middlefield Community Center, 405 Main St., Room 2 to present the first select-

man’s budget proposal for fis-cal year 2015-2016.

Firs t Se lectman Jon Brayshaw will present the budget proposal. Public com-ment, questions and clarifica-tion will follow.

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