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The newest member of the Plainville police force is Kyle Jones, a 22-year-old town na-tive who graduated from Pla-inville High school in 2010 and attended three commu-nity colleges before joining the force.

A commitment to public service spurred Jones to pur-sue police work. “Growing up in Plainville I looked up to police officers in town,” he

said. “I want to give back to the community and the peo-ple who can’t defend them-selves. I want to be the person people can lean on and de-pend on. I take a lot of pride in that.”

Jones spent six months at the police training academy in Meriden. “The hiring pro-cess is tough,” he said, “but I made a lot of friends in other departments.”

He then spent four months receiving field training from members of the Plainville de-

partment, including officers Patrick Hundley, Eric Jiudice, Jamie Fenn and Steve Chase.

“Training starts with ob-serving and then he’s added into the action,” said Lt. Eric Peterson, who assisted in Jones’ training. “In the end, he’s involved in the book-ing process, stopping motor vehicles, handling domestic situations and other calls for service.”

Jones is on a probationary

PHS alum is town’s newest police officerBy Ken LiebeskindThe Plainville Citizen

Kyle Jones, center, joins the Plainville Police Department. | PlainvilleCT.com

State Sen. Jason Welch who represents Plainville in the 31st district did not seek reelection in November and will leave office at the end of the year. Welch has served two terms.

A large crowd of happy families filled the council chambers at the Town Council meeting Monday eve-ning for a presentation by fire marshal Larry Sutherland of the winners of the fire prevention poster contest.

Welch looks back on two terms in office

Fire prevention poster contest winners lauded

By Ken LiebeskindThe Plainville Citizen

By Ken LiebeskindThe Plainville Citizen

See Police / Page 5

See Welch / Page 5

See Poster / Page 6

Outgoing State Sen. Jason Welch is proud of his work representing the 31st district.

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William Ball, a 52-year-old man who has lived in Plainville his entire life, suf-fers from kidney failure and other ailments and needs hip surgery. He is attempting to raise money at GoFundMe, a site that provides personal fundraising campaigns.

Ball has raised $350 so

far and seeks to raise at least $3,000 for an electric wheelchair.

“I can’t raise enough for a handicap van so I’ll try to get an electric wheelchair to help me get around. An EZ chair folds up so you can put it in the car,” he said.

Ball said, “I want hip sur-gery and I still want a high quality of life. I don’t want to be limited.”

He said he contracted pneumonia and experienced kidney failure and has been disabled since 2008 when he stopped working as a hairdresser and part owner of ArtXscapes, which was located in Plainville and Forestville.

Ball lives in a Plainville Housing Authority commu-nity on Stillwell Drive with a friend, Jim Bigelow, who also

is disabled.Visit Bigelow’s page at go-

fundme.com/h0u5tc to make a donation and post a per-sonal message. The page pro-vides details of Ball’s plight with messages from other donors.

Local man fundraising for wheelchairBy Ken Liebeskind The Plainville Citizen

William Ball

Tips for spending wisely this holiday seasonWhen holiday music is

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3. Avoid overspending on a credit card. Natu-rally, credit cards offer the convenience of buying now and paying later. The “pay later” scenario only works in your favor if you’re able to zero out your balance before the next billing cy-cle. If you don’t pay down your charges for months on end, interest accrues and suddenly that $30 gift has snowballed into an unwieldy sum. If you need to rely on credit to spread the cost of holiday purchases over a few months, factor in estimated interest charges when you make your budget. Or better yet, avoid the credit trap al-together by spending within

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5. Give sentimental gifts that don’t cost much. When you’re in stores, it’s easy to get distracted and start to ignore your budget. Don’t buy into the notion that the price tag of a gift indicates its ultimate value. The best gifts are not nec-essarily the most expensive. In many cases, a thoughtful, sentimental gift can mean as much or more than an expen-sive object.

6. Remember to put people first. In our consum-er-centric society, it’s easy to get carried away with mate-rial things. It’s important to stay focused on what truly matters about the season — spending time with the peo-ple who mean the most to you. It doesn’t cost anything to take some time away from the hustle and bustle and sa-vor the special moments that

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“I’m a part time legislator and from the outset I made clear I’m not interested in be-ing a career politician. Term limits are healthy for govern-ment and growth within both parties. It’s a little sooner than some would like but it’s con-sistent with those principles,” he said. “There are also the de-mands of a full time job and a large growing family.” Welch works as an attorney for a Lloyd’s of London syndicate in Farmington. He lives in Bris-tol with his wife Elizabeth and their seven children.

Welch said local residents and small business owners have benefited from his ser-vice. “I make sure to com-municate regularly with the people of Plainville and be ac-cessible so their concerns are taken to Hartford. I make sure small businesses are receiv-ing attention. There’s been a lot of economic development and Plainville businesses have taken advantage of it,” he said.

Welch said he was instru-mental in the establishment of the Narcan access law in 2012. Narcan is an overdose reversal drug that is used to treat her-oin and cocaine abuse. “The state has faced an epidemic of prescription drug and heroin abuse and I’ve spent a lot of time working on bills that al-low for distribution of Narcan to save lives,” he said. Welch is a member of the Senate’s pub-lic health committee.

Welch has been vocal on the state budget crisis. “The finan-cial crisis is a slow pot brew-ing. There’s a problem with state spending and benefits borrowing to pay for future expenses. The only solution the other side has presented is to make tax payers pay for it. Over the last four years, I’ve worked with Republicans to present alternative budgets that take money from social services and give it to not for profits. I support alternative models of spending and distri-bution of government goods I’m very proud of, but the cur-rent administration hasn’t sub-scribed to them,” he said.

Welch says fundamental changes need to take place in operating the state budget in regard to employee bene-fits that offer 401k plans and health care. The state should avoid the type of plans that de-

stroyed municipalities, he said. “What we’re doing is leading Connecticut down the same path.”

Welch intends to stay active in state politics after his terms ends. “I fully intend to stay in-volved with district politics,” he said. “I may join commit-tees and boards and look to be a voice for change necessary to make the state the great state it was where we could af-ford to work and live and raise families.”

Jill Fitzerald, accounting manager at the Central Con-necticut Chamber of Com-merce who served as Welch’s legislative aide, said Welch was very supportive of Pla-inville businesses and also brought a new level of acces-sibility to the office. “He kept his constituents well informed and established an email list that we used to provide infor-mation. Plainville was hit hard by the hurricane and October snow storm and Welch went to speak with residents and connect them to FEMA for assistance.”

Henri Martin, the newly elected state senator who will take Welch’s post, said, “Jason Welch was well liked and very personable. He represented the district quite well and I hope to follow in his footsteps.”

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field training you still have a way to go and there’s still a learning curve, but he’s ahead of schedule.”

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Sixteen fourth and fifth graders from the Wheeler, Toffolon and Linden schools were recognized for their colorful posters, which the students held up for the ad-miring crowd.

This year’s 31st annual fire prevention poster con-test, sponsored by the CT Fair Plan, the State Board of Education and the State Fire Marshall’s Office drew 30,000 entries statewide and 366 from Plainville.

The students compete for cash prizes, with $150 awarded to county winners and $750 for the state winner with $500 granted to the win-ner’s school.

The program is intended to develop fire safety aware-

ness in children so they can contribute to promoting fire safety prevention for their families.

Matt Kuczynko, a fourth grader at Toffolon, and Re-becca Eyres, a Linden fifth grader, won first prizes.

Rebecca’s father, Graham Eyres, a fire fighter in Farm-ington, said Rebecca “grew up around the firehouse and is passionate about drawing and coloring.”

Jamie Malone, whose daughter Kleo Malone is a fourth grader at Wheeler, said, “We’re so proud. She’s a smart girl and I’m glad she’s learning about fire prevention.”

Sutherland thanked the principals, teachers and school staffs for making the annual event possible.

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sion of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps and United States Navy League Cadet Corps has scheduled drills for Saturday, Dec. 20, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Naval Operational Support Center, 1 Linsley Drive. The cadets will also be assisting the local United States Marine Corps with the annual Toys for Tots project, providing Christ-mas toys to disadvantaged children in Connecticut, on Saturday, Dec. 20.

The USNSCC is open to young men and women, ages 13 to 17, and the US-NLCC is open to girls and boys ages 11 to 13. The Ca-det Corps offers the op-portunity to learn basic seamanship and military history, provides physical fitness and military preci-sion training, encourages cadets to develop their leadership skills and gives its cadets a preview of what a military career would be

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NEW BRITAIN (AP) — Two U.S. lawmakers from Connecticut helped launch a week long remembrance of the 20 children and six adults fatally shot at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Rep. Elizabeth Esty and Sen. Richard Blumenthal are joining Newtown Action Alliance Monday in launch-ing (hash)HonorWithAction Week to remember those who were killed on Dec. 14, 2012.

Immediately following a press conference at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at the YWCA in New Britain, Esty and Blumenthal volunteered with children and partici-pated in classroom activities. Throughout the week, Esty, Blumenthal, and their staff volunteered in Connecticut and Washington, D.C.

Newtown Action Alli-ance has coordinated more than 180 vigils and events across the country to com-memorate the anniversary and honor victims of gun violence. A national vigil in Washington, D.C. was held Thursday, Dec. 11.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A new play about the massa-cre at the Sandy Hook El-ementary School held a benefit reading in Decem-ber in New York City to commemorate the second anniversary of the tragedy. Eric Ulloa’s “26 Pebbles,” which was adapted from transcripts of interviews with people touched by the shootings, held a staged reading Dec. 15 at the Cul-ture Project’s The Lynn Redgrave Theater under the direction of Igor Goldin,

Proceeds from the event will benefit a collection of charities chosen by res-idents of Newtown. The shooting, which left 20 first graders and six educators dead, occurred there on Dec. 14, 2012.

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Saxophonist Jimmy Green recently released his first al-bum since his six-year-old daughter Ana was murdered at Sandy Hook Elemen-tary School two years ago. “Beautiful Life” is a tribute to his child with composi-tions such as “Ana’s Way” and “Ana’s Grace.” Her voice can be heard singing on “Come Thou Almighty King”.

Green and his wife, Nelba Márquez-Greene, also have a son, Isaiah.

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Sandy Hook remembered

In 2013, Erin Furniss and Lisa Wrubleski, stood in front of the Southington Board of Education to pitch an idea to have a town-wide event to promote kindness in light of the shootings at Sandy Hook School in Newtown where 26 people died.

When the event called “Be-cause of 26” finally took place after six months of planning, nearly 1,500 people were in attendance.

But the women aren’t done yet. Starting this year, for the next five years, a $1,000 schol-arship will be given out to a Southington High School se-nior that exemplifies kind-ness and goes “above and beyond” in their life for oth-ers, Wrubleski said.

The scholarship is in mem-ory of lives lost in Newtown and called the Because of 26 Kindness Award Scholarship

Fund. There was more than $5,000 leftover from the Be-cause of 26 event.

At first Wrubleski and Fur-niss were going to use the funds to commemorate the day with an engraved stone or bench. After some think-ing, Wrubleski and Furniss realized that wasn’t the route they wanted to go in.

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The scholarship was set up through the Main Street Community Foundation out of Bristol. The foundation works with donors in Burl-

‘Because of 26’ honors lives lost

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CalendarThursday, Dec. 18Girls basketball - Plainville

at Rocky Hill, 7 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 19Boys basketball - Plain-

ville vs. Brookfield, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 20Wrestling - Plainville Invi-

tational, 8 a.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 23Boys basketball - Plain-

ville vs. Maloney, 7 p.m.Girls basketball - Plainville

at Maloney, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 27Boys basketball - Plain-

ville vs. Bristol Central, 6:45 p.m.

Girls basketball - Plainville at Trinity Catholic, 5:15 p.m.

Wrestling - Plainville at Conard/Avon/Shelton, 10 a.m.

Monday, Dec. 29Boys basketball - Ryb-

czyk Tournament.Girls basketball - Rybczyk

Tournament.

Tuesday, Dec. 30Wrestling - Plainville at

Windsor, 6 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 2Boys basketball - Plain-

ville vs. Fermi, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 3Wrestling - Branford Du-

als, 10 a.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 6Boys basketball - Plain-

ville at Middletown, 7 p.m.Girls basketball - Plainville

at Middletown, 7 p.m.Boys swimming - Plain-

ville at Simsbury, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 7Wrestling - Plainville vs.

Maloney, 6 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 9Boys basketball - Pla-

inville vs. Bristol Eastern, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball - Plainville at Bristol Eastern, 7 p.m.

Boys swimming - Plain-ville vs. Newington, 4 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 10Wrestling - Greater Hart-

ford Invitational, 10 a.m.


ville at Platt, 7 p.m.

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

Boys swimming - Plain-ville vs. Windsor, 4 p.m.


Middletown, 6 p.m.


ville at Bristol Central, 7 p.m.Girls basketball - Plainville

vs. Bristol Central, 7 p.m.Boys swimming - Plain-

ville at E.O. Smith/Tolland, 4 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 17Wrestling - New Milford

Invitational, 10 a.m.


ville at Bulkeley, 7 p.m.Girls basketball - Plainville

vs. Bulkeley, 7 p.m.


Bristol Eastern, 6 p.m.


ville vs. Berlin, 7 p.m.Girls basketball - Plainville

at Berlin, 7 p.m.Boys swimming - Plain-

ville at Southington, 4 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 24Wrestling - Rockville Du-

als, 10 a.m.

Monday, Jan. 26Boys basketball - Plain-

ville vs. Conard, 7 p.m.Girls basketball - Plainville

at Southington, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 27Boys swimming - Plain-

ville at Middletown, 3:45 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 28Wrestling - Plainville at

Bristol Central, 6 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 29Boys basketball - Plain-

ville at Maloney, 7 p.m.Girls basketball - Plainville

vs. Maloney, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 31Wrestling - Groundhog

Duals, 10 a.m.

PETS OF THE WEEK

Timmy is a handsome, buff and white, Maine Coon mix. He is quiet, gentle, loving and affectionate. He would make a wonderful addition to your family and his good manners make it especially easy this time of year. Hi-Jack is ready for his forever home! He spent three days at a training academy and received excellent marks from his trainer. Jack is a happy, pit bull terrier and would fit in best with an active family that could provide him with lots of exercise. He is good with other dogs and travels well. He is always well behaved at adoption events and deserves a home for the holidays! View all the adoptable pets and find an online application at www.fobac.org. For more information, call (860) 828-5287 or email [email protected].


Newtown

ington, Plainville, Plymouth, Southington, Wolcott, and Bristol. Since its inception in 1995 more than $10.6 mil-lion in grants and scholar-ships has been awarded to communities.

The two women both had elementary-aged children and the tragedy at Newtown hit close to home for them. That’s what sparked the idea to involve the community in the Because of 26 event that was held in June 2013 and in-volved town and state offi-cials, students, parents, and more. There were also a vari-ety of activities that day.

Although there isn’t a plan to put on the event for a second year despite many requests, Furniss said the scholarship was a way to carry on the memory.

“That’s something we’ve always wanted, to be nice to the person next to you or three feet behind you, that kind of behavior and then to keep that going,” said Furniss. “Sometimes it’s overwhelm-ing just to know that some-thing that we didn’t think would turn into big event and big scholarship really did. And it feels good.”

Furniss and Wrubleski will be looking for students that “go above and beyond the call of duty” Wrubleski said, and not because they have to but because they want to.

“This is for students who, this is a way of life for them,” she added.

To donate to the schol-arship visit the Main Street Community Foundation’s website at www.mainstreet-foundation.org or call the foundation at (860) 583-6363.

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Deadline for news submissions to The Plainville Citi-zen is Friday, by 5 p.m., for consideration for the following edition. Email submissions to [email protected] or by mail to: The Plainville Citizen, 11 Crown St., Me-riden, CT 06450. For more information, call (203) 317-2256.

News deadline reminder

Reah M. (Doucette) Abramczyk

PLAINVILLE — Reah M. (Doucette) Abramczyk, 91, of Plainville, widow of

Stanley W. Abramczyk, Sr., passed away peace-fully on Fri-day, Dec. 12, 2014, at Bris-tol Hospital.

Bor n on Nov. 26, 1923, in New Brit-ain, she moved to Canada with her family at the age of three, and returned to Pla-inville when she was 12, where she has resided ever since. In her younger years, she was an employee of Fafnir Bearing Company. She left work to raise her family, and later was an employee of the Plainville School District food service from where she retired.

She is survived by her children, Stanley W. Abramczyk, Jr., and his wife, Linda, of Bristol, and Di-ane Ortiz and her husband, William, of Bloomfield; her three grandchildren, Bailey Francis and her husband,

Kurt, Joel Ortiz and Stanley Abramczyk, III; and her sis-ter, Marie-Anne Bouchard, of Bristol. Reah embraced the simple pleasures in life. She loved her “little fam-ily”, her town and bingo buddies, and greatly ap-preciated her caring neigh-bors. A sports enthusiast, she enjoyed watching the N.Y. Yankees and UConn Huskies.

Her family would like to thank the staff of Always Best Care of Greater Bristol and the ICU staff at Bristol Hospital for their care and compassion.

A Mass of Christian Burial in celebration of Reah’s life will be held on Friday, Dec. 19, at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Mercy Church, 94 Broad St., Plainville. Burial will be held privately in the pres-ence of her immediate fam-ily. In lieu of flowers, Reah may be remembered with contributions to Hospice of Bristol Hospital, P.O. Box 977, Bristol, CT 06011-0977. For online expres-sions of sympathy, please visit www.Bailey-Funeral-Home.com.

Linda Bauman (Bronson)

PLAINVILLE — Linda Bauman (Bronson), 73, of Plainville, passed peace-

fu l l y f rom th is Ear th and was re-united with her grand-sons, Tony and Chrissy Bauman on Monday,

Dec. 8, 2014.She was born on Aug.

3, 1941, in Lewis, N.Y. She graduated from Elizabeth-town Lewis Central School in 1960. Linda moved to Connecticut and married George Bauman and to-gether they raised their family. Linda was a de-voted mother and grand-mother, who enjoyed playing her lottery num-bers and scratch tickets each day. She also enjoyed watching Law and Order and NCIS. Linda was em-ployed by Wasley Products in Plainville for 27 years un-til she retired in 2003. She then worked at Metallics in Bristol, where she enjoyed the antics of her coworkers for 10 years retiring in Au-gust 2014.

Linda is survived by her

children, Kenneth Bau-man, of Bristol, Karl Bau-man and his wife, Lisa, of Bristol, Kris Spence and her husband, Rusty, of South-ington, Kami Bauman, of Plainville; and daughter-in-law, Charlotte Hughes, of Bristol. She also leaves her grandchildren, Randy Bau-man, Niki Spence, Adam Willis, Kevin Spence, Grace Bauman, Mary Bauman, Emily Bauman, Kaitlin Bau-man; and great-grandsons, Anthony and Christopher Bauman. She also leaves sisters, Shirley Wescott, of New York, Wanda Mer-ring, of Louisana and Jan-ice Bronson, of Bristol. She was predeceased by her parents, Roland and Belle (Smith) Bronson; and sib-lings, Raymond Bronson, Joyce Drake, Sue McLean, Winola Carnahan, Bea Goff; and three sisters who died in infancy.

A memorial service for Linda was celebrated on Friday, Dec. 12. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Cystic Fi-brosis Foundation, 101 Centerpoint Drive, Suite 107, Middletown, CT. For additional information or to leave words of condolence please visit Bailey-Funeral-Home.com.

Obituaries Faith Briefs

Our Lady of MercyOur Lady of Mercy

Church, 19 South Canal St., welcomes Richard Wm. Donohue and the New En-gland Chamber Choir Sun-day, Dec. 28 at 4 p.m. For 40 years, Donohue has led the members of the New England Chamber Choir in Music for Christmas. This annual program explores the extraordinary repertoire of music inspired by the tra-ditions of Christmas. Music for Christmas XL will fea-ture the New England Cham-ber Choir, Treble Choir and Chamber Ensemble.

A reception will follow the concert. Admission to the concert is free; donations to benefit the work of the New England Chamber Choir are appreciated.

To learn more about this concert or the New England Chamber Choir, visit Ne-wenglandchamberchoir.org.

United MethodistWeekly events Sunday worship at 10 a.m.

Church school at 9 a.m.Tuesday Ladies Meeting

- Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.; Boy Scouts - Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; AA - Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Al-Anon- Mondays, 7 p.m.

Special eventsChoir rehearsal Sundays,

following worship; Christ-mas pageant, Sunday, Dec. 21, 10 a.m.; Christmas Eve worship, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 7 p.m.; Worship with Holy Communion, Sunday, Jan. 4, 10 a.m.; United Meth-odist Women, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2 to 4 p.m.; Choir re-hearsal, Sunday, Jan. 11, 18, 25 following worship.

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Plainville, CT 06062

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Chain store boldly stops selling tobacco

The decision by the na-tion’s second-largest phar-macy chain to stop selling tobacco products is a bold move that will cost it money in the short term, but in the long run may succeed in re-branding CVS (now known as CVS Health) as the go-to place for health-care and wellness needs.

Several factors speak in favor of this change. For one thing, the smoking rate among U.S. adults has been declining by about five per-centage points per decade, and is now below 18 percent. Then there are the millions of people who are expected to gain some kind of health insurance through the Af-fordable Care Act; even if their policies don’t include prescription coverage, a heightened level of health awareness might steer them toward CVS, with its 850 in-store MinuteClinics, its flu-shot programs and its smoking-cessation plan.

And there are millions of baby boomers with some kind of prescription coverage who have already quit smoking, or who will sooner or later see the wisdom of doing so. They, too, might be attracted by the smoke-free ethos at CVS.

On the other hand, the modern pharmacy has long since become more like a general store, growing in size in order to carry everything from Cheetos to Clorox, from toys to talcum powder and from medicine to motor oil. It’s hard to imagine that ded-icated smokers will quit sim-ply because CVS no longer offers them one-stop shop-ping; after all, every gas sta-tion and convenience store will still be selling cigarettes.

So will the other chain drugstores, as far as we know (Walgreens is the biggest by number of stores, although CVS says it does the greatest

dollar volume of prescrip-tions), along with whatever independents have managed to survive the onslaught of Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid and the in-store pharmacies at supermarkets and big-box retailers. While this move by CVS — which started out in 1963 in Lowell, Mass., as Con-sumer Value Stores — may or may not inspire many people to give up the evil weed to-bacco, every little bit helps. And no doubt this action will go down in the marketing textbooks of the future.

— A Record-Journal editorial

CVS’s move to stop selling tobacco should have future benefits. | AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File

Letters to the Editor

Our money is flying away

To the editor:Five years after its acquisi-

tion by the taxpayers of Plain-ville, it is time to answer the question: Has the purchase of Robertson Airport had any benefit for the Town of Plainville?

Recently a private pilot who took off from Robertson made an emergency landing on the new bus way in West Hartford. He was flying from Robertson to Brainard in Hartford. A flight from Plain-ville to Hartford? Why are the taxpayers subsidizing that? Is that necessary?

Most of the flights that take off and land from Robertson are of this nature. They are recreational and not neces-sary. A large percentage of the flights are conducted as “flight training” and do not leave the area at all. One fly-

ing school is located at Rob-ertson, and there is another from Brainard that uses the strip as well. They choose Robertson because there is no flight tower and can take off and land at will, charging students for the use of the fa-cility. Each take off, landing, and low level flight over the residences poses a danger to residents.

It is hard to find any data on the town’s website about the financial arrangement be-tween the Town of Plainville, and Interstate Aviation, a pri-vate company.

The bottom line is that it was and is a failing business that has received and contin-ues to receive a bailout. The taxpayers would be better served with an industrial park or private housing.

A third-party audit would be the way to go here.

Kirk StankiewiczPlainville

Library Briefs

KinderMusik The Plainville Public Li-

brary has scheduled a free interactive KinderMusik pro-gram for Thursday, Dec. 18, 10:30 a.m., for children up to 5 years old with caregiver. For more information and to reg-ister, call (860) 793-1450.

Vacation week programs

Tuesday, Dec. 23 - Music Together with Miss Felice, 10:30 a.m. for ages up to 5 with caregiver.

Tuesday, Dec. 23 - Build an igloo, 2:30 p.m. for ages 4 and older. Help build an igloo with empty plastic gallon con-tainers. Donations of contain-ers welcome before Dec. 23 to the children’s department.

Tuesday, Dec. 23 - Family dinner theater - “The Polar Express,” 6 p.m., for all ages. Rated G. Families are wel-come to bring dinner.

Friday, Dec. 26 - Fam-ily movie matinée - “Fro-zen Sing-A-Long,” 2 p.m., all

ages. Rated PG. Costumes are welcome.

Friday, Dec. 26 - Knit and crochet circle, 4 p.m., grades 6 and up. Beginners welcome.

Saturday, Dec. 27 - Drop-in craft: Make your own ac-cordion book, 1 to 3 p.m., ages 5 and up. Materials are supplied.

Monday, Dec. 29 - Splash Party at Plainville High School pool, noon to 1:30 p.m., all ages.

Monday, Dec. 29 - Winter Tree Silhouettes, 10:30 a.m., ages 6 and up. Register at (860) 793-1450.

Monday, Dec. 29 - Teen Ad-visors meeting, 1 p.m., grades 7 to 12. Middle and high school students welcome to be part of teen programming and volunteer in the library.

Monday, Dec. 29 - Teen movie “Guardians of the Gal-axy,” 2 p.m. Recommended for ages 13 and up. Rated PG.

Tuesday, Dec. 30 - Mother Goose Rhymes, 10:30 a.m., for ages up to 2 with caregiver.

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Library

Siblings welcome. Tuesday, Dec. 30 - Dancin’ With

Hoops, 1 p.m., for all ages. Tuesday, Dec. 30 - Splash Party at

the Plainville High School pool, noon to 1:30 p.m., all ages.

Wednesday, Dec. 31 - Splash Party at the Plainville High School pool, noon to 1:30 p.m., all ages.

Friday, Jan. 2 - Family Lunch The-

ater “Dolphin Tale 2,” all ages. Rated PG. Families are welcome to bring lunch.

Friday, Jan. 2 - Knit and crochet cir-cle, 4 p.m., grades 6 and up. Beginners welcome.

For more information, call (860) 747-6022.

HoursThe Plainville Public Library,

56 East Main St., is open Monday

through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. (children’s room closes at 8 p.m.); Fri-day and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call (860) 793-1446.

Chess clubA chess club for adults is forming

at the Plainville Public Library. The club, for players of all levels, plans to meet monthly.

For more information, call the li-brary at (860) 793-1446.

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Plainville Police Blotter

Plainville — The following people were charged by police.

Oct. 11:• Diane S. Hebert, 62, last known

address 19 Jacob St., Bristol, first-degree robbery, conspiracy to commit second-degree assault, third-degree assault, second-degree threatening, possession of a shoplifting device, sixth-degree larceny, second-degree breach of peace, 4:21 p.m.

• Jennifer L. Grzeszczak, 37, 33 Loomis Ave., second-degree failure to appear, 9:27 p.m.

Oct. 12:• Cecelio Casado, 39, 85 Dwight

St., Apt. 2WF, New Britain, three counts of third-degree burglary, three counts of conspiracy to commit third-degree burglary, two counts of third-degree criminal mischief, two counts of sixth-degree larceny, two counts of conspiracy to commit sixth-degree larceny, 10:56 a.m.

Oct. 13:• Christopher M. Norton, 30, 127

Windham Road, Bristol, illegal possession of oxycodone, 9:45 p.m.

• Steve D. Davis, 50, 124 New Britain Ave., second-degree failure to appear, 10:18 p.m.

• Erik R. Kristopik, 28, 18 Atwood St., second-degree failure to appear, 11:09 p.m.

• Erik R. Kristopik, 28, 18 Atwood St., second-degree failure to appear, 11:31 p.m.

• Erik R. Kristopik, 28, 18 Atwood St., first-degree failure to appear, 11:36 p.m.

Oct. 14:• Barbara C. Kellems, 29, 101

Melrose St., Bristol, driving under the influence of alcohol/drugs, unsafe backing, 1:25 a.m.

Oct. 23:• Thomas J. Frac, 62, 3 Prior Ave.,

third-degree assault, second-degree breach of peace, 11:31 a.m.

• Jolene Mavis, 23, 822 Norton Road, Berlin, possession of narcotics, operating under suspension, 12:15 p.m.

• Michael J. Skempris, 24, 46 Forestville Ave., second-degree reckless endangerment, possession of fireworks, interfering with an officer, second-degree breach of peace, 5:42 p.m.

• Thomas M. Dellavecchia, 30, 60 Diamond Ave., possession of narcotics with intent to sell, possession of narcotics, possession of drug paraphernalia, interfering with an officer, 6:30 p.m.

Oct. 24:• Jarrod Ashe, 37, 180 White Oak

Ave., creating public disturbance, 10:18 a.m.

Oct. 25:• Dale Quereux, 43, 97 New

Britain Ave., possession of a shoplifting device, sixth-degree larceny, possession of drug paraphernalia, 9:51 p.m.

Oct. 26:• Joshua J. Kazimierczak, 35,

18 Homestead Ave., criminal violation of protective order, second-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree criminal mischief, second-degree breach of peace, driving under the influence of drugs/alcohol, 12:41 a.m.

• George M. Granger, 26, 30 Kenney St., Bristol, third-degree criminal mischief, second-degree threatening, disorderly conduct, 4:59 a.m.

• Christian M. Bedard, 38, 43 Hunting Hill Road, Southington,

second-degree harassment, second-degree breach of peace, 10:08 p.m.

Oct. 27:• Eric Outlaw, 18, 184 Julia

Terrace, Middletown, two counts of third-degree assault, disorderly conduct, 11:19 a.m.

Oct. 28:• Kimberly A. Santillo, 36, 71

Nancy Lane, second-degree identity theft, three counts of second-degree forgery, third-degree larceny, 9:17 a.m.

• Kenneth D. O’Mahony, 21, 11 Claremont St., East Hartford, sixth-degree larceny, 5:17 p.m.

• Thomas Provenzano, 48, 54 Sigourney St., Bristol, second-degree failure to appear, 9:31 p.m.

Oct. 29:• Timothy Albert, 24, 2028

Matthews St., Bristol, third-degree burglary, 1:09 p.m.

• Gregory J. Newcity, 19, 226 E. Main St., Apt. 7, Bristol, public indecency, second-degree breach of peace, 5:20 p.m.

• Jonathan Doyle, 19, 267 George Washington Turnpike, Unionville, weapons in vehicle, 10:41 p.m.

• Thomas E. Weber, 21, 2 Whiting St., second-degree criminal damage to landlord’s property, disorderly conduct, 9:27 p.m.

Oct. 30:• Jennifer R. Groff, 35, 15 Hale

Court, driving under the influence of drugs/alcohol, 2:40 a.m.

Oct. 31:• Meredith R. Jones, 42, 25

Wheeler Lane, disorderly conduct, 10:19 p.m.

Nov. 1:• Kyle E. Lajoie, 26, 8 Hough St.,

third-degree criminal mischief,

disorderly conduct, 3:26 a.m.

• Joshua Cunningham-Ganavage, 138 Bayberry Drive, possession of marijuana, 6:11 a.m.

• Jesse Boucher, 24, 185 S. Washington St., disorderly conduct, 2:03 p.m.

Nov. 2:• Daniel Z. Doyle, 21, 267 George

Washington Turnpike, Burlington, driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, 1:38 a.m.

• Shardae A. Botelho, 29, 315 Woodbury Circle, second-degree breach of peace, 4:02 a.m.

• Tamisha J. Brathwaite, 25, 447 Broad St., Apt. A4, Meriden, interfering with an officer, second-degree breach of peace, 4:21 a.m.

Nov. 3:• Nathan M. King, 37, 514

Southwick Road, Westfield, Mass., home improvement without current registration, sale of home improvement without registration, failure to refund payment within 10 days, failure to provide complete documentation, failure to provide notice of cancellation, failure to complete notice of cancellation, failure to orally inform buyer of right to cancel, third-degree larceny, 12:55 p.m.

• Chase M. Soucie, 18, 24 Wayne Drive, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, 8:01 p.m.

• Jeffrey W. Ziegenhagen, 18, 66 Atwood St., disorderly conduct, third-degree criminal mischief, 9:23 p.m.

Nov. 4:• Andre J. Watson, 34, 19 Maple

St., theft of plates, misuse of plates, operating under suspension, operating without insurance, operating unregistered motor vehicle, traveling fast, 4:17

a.m.

• John J. Perreault, 29, 65 Welch St., second-degree breach of peace, sixth-degree larceny, 6:24 p.m.

Nov. 6:• Gary A. Seamon, 48, 234 East

St., three counts of first-degree failure to appear, 7:03 a.m.

• William J. Decker, 21, 86 Columbia St., New Britain, sixth-degree larceny, 9:54 p.m.

Nov. 7:• Joseph R. Saluski, 39, 20

Edgewood St., Bristol, illegal possession of a narcotic, sixth-degree larceny, third-degree criminal mischief, 6:43 p.m.

• Jesse L. Roy, 35, 224 W. Main St., evading responsibility, operating unregistered motor vehicle, 11:37 p.m.

Nov. 9:• Trevor A. Saucier, 21, 851

Torringford Road, Torrington, driving under the influence of drugs/alcohol, traveling unreasonably fast, 2:44 a.m.

Nov. 10:• Karol Polkowski, 33, 7

Weatherstone Ridge, third-degree assault, disorderly conduct, 9:57 p.m.

Nov. 11:• Carlos R. Martinez, 19, 64

Monroe St., New Britain, operating without insurance, operating under suspension, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, 9:48 a.m.

Nov. 12:• Alicia C. Barger, 26, 14 Grant

Ave., Apt. A, disorderly conduct, third-degree assault, 8:08 a.m.

• Brian D. Needham, 57, 23 Pinnacle Road, violation of probation, 6:08 p.m.

Faith Bible Church, 168 Union-ville Ave., has scheduled its fifth annual Christmas tree sale Mon-days through Fridays, 4 to 9 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 6 p.m. Trees range from four to 10 feet.

For more information, call (860) 747-5209 or email [email protected].

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During the holiday sea-son, it seems that all we do is shop, shop, shop. While not paying attention when you purchase holiday gifts places your wallet at risk, not paying attention when you purchase groceries can place your health at risk.

If you don’t take certain safety steps while grocery shopping, you can risk food poisoning. Grocery shopping is where safe food handling should start, by following these recommendations you can make sure the food you bring home is safe.

1. Keep raw meat, poultry, and seafood separate from other foods in your grocery cart. This will keep the meat juices that may contain bac-teria away from other items

in your shopping cart. By wrapping these raw items in an additional plastic bag, usually provided near where meat is displayed, you can further prevent drippings from contaminating other items.

2. Buy cold foods last. If cold grocery items are al-lowed to stay at room tem-perature for longer than 2 hours, they can start grow-ing bacteria that cause food poisoning. Often when we’re holiday grocery shopping we’re purchasing unusual foods or items in bulk. The extra time it takes to find these items means we move through the store slower. More people in the store shopping also means check-out may take longer than

usual.These delays can quickly

add up and your perishable items may be out of refrig-eration too long. By pur-chasing your cold food items last, you don’t have to worry about the time it took you to track down the nutmeg.

3. Ask the cashier to place your raw meat, poultry and seafood items in a separate bag. This way you won’t have to worry about raw meat juices leaking on ready-to-eat items, like bread or pies.

4. Purchase a meat ther-mometer. If you do not already own a meat ther-mometer, make sure to pick up this cooking essential during next trip to the gro-cery store. A thermome-ter will help you ensure all your holiday dishes are fully cooked. The color or texture

of food does not accurately indicate that it reached a high enough temperature to incapacitate bacteria.

Just as you have a proce-dure for storing your holi-day gifts when you get home, you should have a system for storing your food. It is im-portant to immediately place your cold items in the refrig-erator or freezer to avoid them getting warm enough for bacteria to grow.

When you place items in the fridge, you should be able to place your raw meat, poultry and seafood on the bottom shelf of the refriger-ator where it will not drip on ready-to-eat items. To fur-ther avoid cross-contamina-tion from raw juices, place your raw meat on a plate or similar container that will prevent dripping.

The other holiday shopping feat — groceries

Health Briefs

Literacy volunteersLiteracy Volunteers of Cen-

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Training sessions are sched-uled as follows: Jan. 13, 16, 20 and 23, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Bristol Public Library and Jan. 12, 15, 22, 26 and 29, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the New Brit-

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In a typical case, an email will say that the company made one or more unsuccessful at-tempts to deliver a pack-age, and will contain a link to what is sup-posed to be an invoice or shipping document. By clicking the link, you will download a vi-rus that can sniff around your computer for per-sonal and f inancial information.

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The Plainville High School pool is open to Plainville residents, free of charge, as follows:Mondays, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. family swim; 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. adult swim.Tuesdays, 8 to 8:45 p.m. adult swim.Wednesdays, 7 to 8 p.m. family swim; 8 to 8:45 p.m. adult swim.Thursdays, 7 to 8 p.m. open swim; 8 to 8:45 p.m. adult swim.For more information, visit www.plainvillect.com.

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WINTER SPORTS HEAT UP

Winter is here and young Plainville athletes have moved their activities indoors. Pictured are scenes from a recent Plainville Dolphins swim meet against New Milford and the first PAL basketball practice of the season. | Photos by Patrick Matthews

T’is almost the season to be happy.

For skiers and boarders, that will be when they can slide down newly fallen snow on local hills.

So far this season, win-ter has not arrived here in southern New England. Snow sport resorts are still doing the on-again off-again dance with their snow mak-ing systems. Fear not, how-ever; there will be skiing here at home this weekend.

All Nutmeg resorts ex-pect to be open on Saturday morning. They will have spring-like conditions and not all trails and lifts will be open, but limited skiing is better than none at all.

Recently, someone asked me why X resort didn’t make snow last night; “the low temperature was 28 de-grees.” The simple answer is: yes, they could have. The real question is: what quality and at what cost?

Most modern snow mak-ing systems can make white covering at 31 degrees. At that temperature the prod-uct is heavy, wet and doesn’t groom very well. There is also the cost of power and labor. The magic of machine made snow does not come cheap.

When the forecast calls for a low of 28, many resorts just don’t take the chance.

Look at it this way.If they call in a crew of

six to eight people when the temperature falls to 32, they can start the process; water pumps, compressors, mov-able guns in place, and so on and so forth. At 30 degrees, they start the water flowing. At 28, things begin to look good.

As soon as the tempera-ture starts to rise they have

Snow Views: The magic of making snowBy Dave MongilloSpecial to The Citizen

See Snow / Page 18

Sometimes sport is more than a game. So it was Sat-urday when I saw two high school championship foot-ball games that were truly games for the ages.

Saturday morning I was witness to Valley Regional’s stunning 21-20 comeback win over Ansonia. It was as good a game as I had seen in years. But that served as merely a warm-up for Xavi-er’s 28-27 overtime win over Shelton, a game that deserved the description “unbelievable.”

Oh, I know, eight state champions in this tiny state is goofy and we end up with state champions that would have no chance had there been the traditional four classes. Think Xavier would have beaten Southington? Of course not.

Think Brookfield would have been a match for St. Joseph? Nonsense. Would Capital Prep have had any chance against Valley Re-gional? Not much.

Only in Class L would there have been much in-trigue, but aside from South-ington, I can’t image anyone beating Windsor, which was the best team I saw all year.

But again, let’s put all that aside because in any sport, it’s the game that’s the thing. And the Valley vs. Ansonia game and the Xavier vs. Shelton game were extraor-dinary. By now you have to know what happened, but if not, here’s the Cliff Notes version.

Valley Regional did noth-ing against Ansonia for three and a half quarters. The Warriors trailed 8-0, then 14-0, then after finally getting on the scoreboard midway through the fourth quarter, immediately gave up a 93-

Championship Saturday makes for legendary

talesBy Jim BransfieldSpecial to The Citizen

See Championship / Page 18

Plainville was well rep-resented on the Central Connecticut Conference’s All-Conference teams, as 20 Blue Devils received the honor of being named to re-spective squads for their per-formances this fall.

Girls swimming and div-ing and football received the most adoration, with six rep-resentatives each.

Plainville’s gridiron gang, which ended its season on

a five-game winning streak, was represented by seniors Dante Correa, Jaeden Ferr-ara, Bryan Wojcik, Nick Ro-driguez, and Chris Agustin, and junior Jon Lindgren.

The girls swimming and diving crew was represented by its 200 meter medley re-lay team of junior Sydney McGough, sophomore Cait-lin Erb, senior Nicole Basile, and senior Megan Dalena, as well as sophomore An-gelina Calderoni (butterfly) and sophomore Audrey Ge-diman (500 freestyle). Mc-

Gough also made the team for the backstroke.

The boys soccer team was represented by sophomore Alex Autunno, senior Nick D’Amico, senior Quentin Lux, and junior Alex Zelasko.

In girls soccer, the Blue Devil girls were represented by senior Meagan Cam-eron and junior Stephanie Martino.

Seniors Omar Abdelsame and Ryan Sifuentes rep-resented Plainville on the all-conference boys cross country team.

Twenty named to All-CCC teamsBy Nate BrownThe Plainville Citizen


Snow

to start shutting the opera-tion down. This is New En-gland and that up and down and back up again change can take place in less than an hour.

I’m told by experts in the field that they can make the best snow at 20 degrees or lower. The answer to great conditions in New England,

if Mother Nature is not co-operating, is to pray for cold.

I like to think of snowmak-ing as magic; mix eye-of-spi-ders with water, add some white stuff, say the proper incantation, and “poof!”

Snow covered trails.After spending a night on

a cold mountain side with those ice covered gnomes called snowmakers, I under-stand it is truly a science. Everything: temperature, hu-midity, wind and water has to be put together just right to make it happen. The only incantations I heard were particular four-letter words when equipment didn’t work as expected.

The next time you make a first run on a freshly groomed trail, and it hasn’t snowed in five days, take a moment to thank the men and women that toiled all night to create that white carpet.

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Championship

yard TD and with five min-utes left trailed 20-7.

Looking dead in the wa-ter, Valley instantly scored. Then it got a fumble.

The stuff of dreams.The Warriors drove to

the 4-yard line. Fourth and goal, 26 seconds on the clock. Quarterback Chris Jean-Pierre ran left. But he ran right into history as he scored and with the extra point by Jared Roche – made possible by a quick save on a bad snap by holder Matt Sa-pere – Valley stamped itself as a big-time team.

Could Valley play with the big teams? Yes. Could play with North Haven, could play with Shelton, could play with Middletown, could play with Wethersfield, could play with Notre Dame, could play with Xavier. What a game, what a statement game for the school from Deep River.

Amazing.But the next one was more

amazing. I’m driving to West Haven f iguring nothing could top what I just saw. Silly me.

Xavier was 7-3 and nothing special in the regular sea-son. The Falcons were lucky to be in the playoffs. Teams that had to lose on Thanks-giving for Xavier to make it, couldn’t wait to lose. Brien

McMahon, Fairfield Prep, Greenwich all lost. Voila, Xavier lives.

For its reward, Xavier got Newtown. Now I’ll be bru-tally honest. The South West Conference – in terms of the elite teams in the state – is suspect. Newtown each year turns out terrific regular seasons. And each year the Nighthawks get bounced in the playoffs. It’s an LL team that plays an L and M sched-ule. Not the way to succeed.

This is the best Newtown team, said its coach. This year will be different came the slogan out of Newtown. Uhhh, nope. Xavier won, 13-7.

In the regular season the Falcons lost to Notre Dame 27-24. Xavier lost to Shel-ton 28-20 and fact is, it was worse than that in that the Falcons trailed 21-0. Some-how they managed to lose to a not-very-good Hand of Madison team.

But all that became irrele-vant in the postseason.

After Newtown, Xavier got a match with undefeated Shelton.

Xavier didn’t run the ball very well all year. Ran it down Shelton’s throats in the first half. Go figure. Led 14-6 at the break. The worm turned in the second half. Shelton got two long TDs to take a 21-14 lead.

Then Shelton got sloppy. Twice on a Xavier fourth quarter drive – the only Fal-cons’ drive of the second half – the Gaels committed pen-alties on fourth down. One a grabbing the face mask on fourth-and-12 at the 24-yard line. First down at the 12.

Thanks you very much, sa id the Falcons and promptly scored. 21-21.

No matter. Mark Picirillo, Shelton’s dual threat star quarterback, guided the Gaels to a first and goal in-side the 1-yard line. Warm up the bus Xavier, nice run, but see ya next year. Xavier coach Sean Marinan thought about letting Shelton score so there would be some time on the clock for his team to do something. He opted not to.

On the next play – with the Xavier student section pray-ing the Hail Mary in unison, honest – Picirillo fumbled. At the 1-yard line. With less than 30 seconds to play.

Overtime. Shelton scored. Xavier sent in 6-5 Kaleb Lut-ton and defensive coordina-tor Andy Guyon said: “Block the kick”.

Lutton said: “Yes, sir.”The kid blocked the kick.On its possession Xavier

scored. I knew, you knew, everyone in Strong Stadium knew, folks driving by on the Connecticut Turnpike knew,

that Andrew Verre would not miss the kick. He didn’t. Xavier won 28-27.

Can’t make it up.The night before I wit-

nessed the Berlin vs. Brook-field game. The kids tried very hard, played very hard, but it wasn’t a particularly artistic game. The Redcoats couldn’t move the ball and, heck, neither could Brook-field. An interception of a Berlin pass – they threw 29 times; don’t the Redcoats usually run the ball? – was a pick six.

A sack late led to a short punt and another Brookfield touchdown. At 14-0, the line of red tail lights heading out of Veterans Stadium and hanging a right back to Ber-lin began early.

My top 15 teams in the state? In a year of parity, of unbelievable parity, it actu-ally turned out to be a fairly easy top 15 for me.

1. Southington, of course. 2. Windsor, again of course. In its last four games, Wind-sor dispatched Glastonbury, Middletown, North Haven and Notre Dame and not one of them was close. 3. New Canaan (which beat Darien 21-20 in the L-Large final) 4. Darien (only loss was to New Canaan) 5. St. Joseph (which

lost to Darien and New Ca-naan) 6. Xavier 7. Shelton 8. Valley Regional 9. Wethers-field (gave New Canaan very tough game in semifinals)10. Newtown 11. Notre Dame 12. Middletown 13. Ledyard 14. North Haven 15. Ansonia.

The undefeated big boys, Southington and Windsor, should be 1 and 2. But by the time this is printed, you will know how the polls came out. I can tell you that there is a continuing pro-SCC and FCIAC bias which, this year for sure, is silly. The CCC has taken its rightful place – at least the Class LL and L CCC teams – among the state’s elite.

But however it all comes out, I saw three state title games and two were mag-nificent. Next year, common sense prevails and the CIAC goes back to four classes and four state champions in LL, L, M and S. Like it oughta be.

It says here, however, that none of those games in 2015 will match the two beauties I saw on Saturday. All the kids in those games should take pride in what they did. That might be hard for Ansonia and Shelton kids, but guys, you were great. Terrific high school football, just terrific.

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The Plainville girls basket-ball team ended the first week of the new season with a .500 record thanks in part to some stout defensive play.

In the team’s season opener, the Blue Devils fell at the hands of Hall, 59-42. The PHS girls struggled in only scoring 12 first half points and never recovered. Plain-ville was led by senior Deja Nolan’s 16 points and soph-omore Taleah McCrorey’s 11. However, no other local player scored more than four.

The PHS girls rebounded from their opening loss with their first win of the season over the Bulkeley Bulldogs,

39-26. Plainville outscored its opponents in every quarter, building upon a 19-8 halftime lead to come away with the victory. Five players – Nolan, sophomore Jessica Masco,

junior Stephanie Martino, se-nior Megan Dalena, and Mc-Crorey – scored five or more points for the Blue Devils, led by Masco and McCrorey’s eight apiece.

Lady Devils start 1-1By Nate BrownThe Plainville Citizen

Plainville’s Taleah McCrorey drives for a basket against Hall. | Matt Leidemer / For The Citizen

Plainville High School Principal Steven LePage has been sharing his office with donated food items, thanks to the ef-forts of the school’s National Honor Society.

According to Shaylene Krupinski, Plainville High School faculty member and National Honor Society advisor, the group completes one chapter community service event each semester. This year for the fall community service project they organized a “Can the Principal” food drive to coincide with the Plainville Community Food Pantry’s annual “filling of the truck.”

The National Honor Society group began collecting canned foods and other non-perishable items in November. The drop-off location was LePage’s office. The goal of the food drive was to collect as much food as possible by motivating students to make the principal (a self-proclaimed neat fanatic) “uncom-fortable” for a few weeks as he shared his office space with the donated items. At the close of the event, the student group was able to donate four cars full of canned goods and other nonperishable items to the food pantry.

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LEGAL NOTICETOWN OF PLAINVILLE

ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE AMENDMENTNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following actions were taken by the Town Council of the Town of Plainville at meeting duly assembled on December 15, 20141. Adoption of the following ordinance amend-

ment:ORDINANCE REGARDING SNOW

AND ICE REMOVALSECTION 3. MUNICIPAL LIABILITY FOR ICE AND SNOW REMOVAL.

A. The provisions of Section 7-163a of the Connecticut General Statutes are here-by adopted and are set forth in Subsec-tions B, C, and D hereof.

B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Sec-tion 13a-149 of the Connecticut General Statutes or any other general or special act, the municipality shall not be liable to any person for injury to person or property due to the presence of ice or snow on a public sidewalk unless the municipality is the owner or person in possession and control of land abutting such sidewalk, other than land used as a highway or street, provided that the mu-nicipality shall be liable for its affirmative acts with respect to any such sidewalk under its possession and control.

C. The owner or person in possession and control of land abutting a public side-walk shall have the same duty of care with respect to the presence of ice or snow on such sidewalk toward the por-tion of the sidewalk abutting his prop-erty as the municipality had prior to the effective date of this chapter and shall be liable to persons injured in person or property where a breach of said duty is the proximate cause of said injury.

D. No action to recover damages for inju-ry to person or property caused by the presence of ice or snow on a public side-walk against a person who owns or is in possession and control of land abutting a public sidewalk shall be brought but within two (2) years from the date when the injury is first sustained.

Dated at Plainville, Connecticut this 18th day of December, 2014.Carol A. Skultety, Plainville Town Clerk& Clerk of the Town Council 5368

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WLFD- Renovated 2 BRin center of town.$950/mo + sec. Call203-314-4848

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