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Volume 12, Number 50 Plainville’s Only Weekly Newspaper www.plainvillecitizen.com Thursday, December 25, 2014

On Dec. 19, military fami-lies enjoyed a party at Wil-liam A. O’Neill Armory in

Hartford where they re-ceived holiday gifts from a Connecticut National Guard toy drive, including hundreds of toys that were donated by Crowley Auto Group, which operates two

dealerships in Plainville.The company also owns

four dealerships in Bristol. “Every store was a drop off point,” said Stacey Gray, social media manager at Crowley. “Residents, em-

ployees and customers dropped off toys and we also donated $2,055 in gift cards.”

Crowley participates in the Operation E.L.F. (Em-bracing Lonely Families)

toy drive every year. Opera-tion E.L.F. supports military families who are dealing with stress and hardship during the holiday season. “We’ve been doing it for al-most 10 years,” Gray said.

Crowley Auto donates toys to military families

By Ken Liebeskind The Plainville Citizen

A group of Crowley Auto employees and National Guard workers with toys Crowley has donated.

The case of an Enfield woman who slipped in the snow and sued the town prompted Plainville to amend its snow and ice removal or-dinance, which was approved at the Town Council meeting Dec. 15.

The move was in response to a state Supreme Court de-cision on Nov. 25 that ruled

the woman could sue the town in addition to the owner of the property where she fell because the town’s ordi-nance didn’t explicitly state that property owners are lia-ble for accidents if they don’t clear the snow.

Plainville’s ordinance di-rected owners and tenants of premises adjacent to a side-walk to remove any ice or

Police impersonators, fake door-to-door sales-men, and threatening calls from ‘IRS agents.’ Those are just a few of the scams and frauds the Pla-inville Police Department is warning residents to be on the lookout for.

According to Plainville police Sgt. Nicholas Mul-lins, there were more than 100 cases of fraud, forgery

and identity theft in town this past year.

In an effort to combat these crimes, Plainville po-lice gave two public sem-inars at the town library recently to educate resi-dents about online dan-gers, fraudulent phone calls and in-person thiev-ery. Several more seminars are planned for 2015.

Mullins points out that the top cons members of his department encoun-ter are fraudulent secret

shopper jobs, package re-shippers, fake profiles on dating websites asking for money, home improve-ment scams, utility worker impersonators, and crimi-nals pretending to be from the IRS demanding imme-diate payment.

Online, the most com-mon scams are email claims of fake inheritances or notifications of winning a non-existent lottery. Of-

Town approves new snow removal ordinance

Beware of real-life Grinches

By Ken LiebeskindThe Plainville Citizen

By Terry SuttonSpecial to The Citizen

See Snow / Page 4 See Scams / Page 6

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Though the Cold War era is over, relics from the past still slumber in the area around Plainville.

The remains of the Nike missile base lookout on Pin-nacle Rock in Plainville can still be seen, as can other remnants. “There’s not much left and it’s been 50 years, but you can see the bases and the foundations,” said history buff John Ramsey. The secret of nuclear missiles “right in our back yards (was) one of

the best kept secrets of the Cold War,” according to Ram-sey. Ramsey said he has been fascinated by the Cold War era since growing up as part of the “duck and cover gener-ation, meaning I was probably

7-years-old when the Cuban Missile Crisis took place.” Ramsey is the webmaster of Coldwar-CT.com, a site that seeks to share some surpris-ing facts about the Cold War in Connecticut. Some of the

most surprising? Hartford was considered a strategic target for nuclear attack, with nearby missile sites under 24-hour alert to shoot down in-coming Russian bombers.

Although little remains of the Nike base in Plainville, in Cromwell, many of the orig-inal Nike missile base build-ings still stand, though they are substantially overgrown

and some have been vandal-ized. The Nike missile bases housed Nike Hercules mis-siles armed with nuclear warheads intended to be able to shoot entire squadrons of Russian bombers out of the sky before they could attack America’s shores.

Underground communica-

Cold War relics continue to fascinateBy Charles KreutzkampSpecial to The Citizen

Although abandoned for more than four decades, and extensively vandalized, many of the Cromwell Nike Missile site buildings are still standing. | coldwar-ct.com

This site on the Durham/Higganum line utilized two large microwave towers, one about 240-feet tall and the other about 365-feet tall. The towers were serviced by a surprisingly large concrete building which was semi-hardened against a distant nuclear detonation. | coldwar-ct.com

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CalendarSaturday, Dec. 27Boys basketball - Plain-

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

Girls basketball - Plain-ville 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 - Ryb-

czyk 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.

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

ville 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 - Pla-inville 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 - Plain-

ville vs. Platt, 7 p.m.

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


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ville vs. Berlin, 7 p.m.

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Boys swimming - Plain-ville at Southington, 4 p.m.

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cover it with sand within 24 hours of a snowfall, with vi-olations punishable by a $25 fine.

The new ordinance main-tains that rule but adds a section called Municipality Liability for Ice and Snow Removal that states, “the mu-nicipality 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 and the owner shall be liable to any persons injured.”

Town Manager Robert E. Lee said, “The ordinance has been in place for many years and it was always understood that the liability was on the resident, but after the Su-preme Court decision stated that Enfield didn’t transfer li-ability we want to protect the town from liability. If some-one trips on a sidewalk be-cause of a crack in it, we’re responsible for maintaining the property, but with this new ordinance the property owner has the responsibility to shovel the sidewalk.”

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Plainville Town Council voted to amend the town’s snow and ice removal ordinance.

State Rep. Betty Boukus (D- Plainville, New Britain) announced additional funds for the overhaul of the Plainville High School athletic field. In addition to the $950,000 state grant recently announced by Boukus, the Tinty Family Foundation has pledged an additional $500,000 for the project.

The football field will be replaced with a modern syn-thetic turf field similar to the fields in New Britain and Southington. The additional funding would allow the town to upgrade the softball field as well.

Additional funds for field

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.

High school pool open to public

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program provides low-to-moder-ate-income workers and families, disabled and el-derly with free tax prepa-ration and filing. The program serves residents of Plainville, Bristol, Bur-lington, and Plymouth/Terryville.

Tax-preparers assist in completing federal and state tax returns using on-line software. Tax prepar-ers receive free training and are certified by the IRS. No tax experience is needed. Volunteers must be available Tuesdays, 4 to 8 p.m., and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., during tax season and must be comfortable with diverse populations. All training is provided, bilingual vol-unteers are needed.

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StateReport: Employers adding more jobs

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

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

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

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

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

Len Fasano, the incoming

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

DMV won’t allow three-wheeled vehicle

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

Polaris was seeking the designation to allow own-ers to register the vehicles and use them on Connecticut roads.

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

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Inauguration to be open to public

HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut residents are being welcomed to attend Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s sec-ond inaugural ceremonies, in-cluding a planned parade in downtown Hartford.

The Democrat and his run-ning mate, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, are scheduled to be sworn into office on Wednes-day, Jan. 7, at the William A. O’Neill State Armory. The 1:30 p.m. event is free and open to the public. Seats will be first come, first served. Doors will open at 11:30 a.m.

Also at 11:30 a.m., the tra-ditional inaugural parade will step off near the intersection of Jewell Street and Trinity Street. It will proceed under the Soldiers and Sailors Me-morial Arch, turning right onto Capitol Avenue and past the State Capitol.

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

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tentimes such scams origi-nate overseas in countries such as Nigeria or Ghana. These scammers often de-mand that a potential vic-tim pay a finders fee and ask them to cash a counterfeit check and send part of the money to the scammer. Once the criminal gets the money, they disappear.

In the case of fake bank checks, the victim is on the hook to pay the bank the

money that was withdrawn. Often times, bank employees can spot these counterfeit checks and alert custom-ers. As a result, scammers are attempting to get money in other ways. For instance, they may try to steal account numbers of pre-paid cards from a potential victim. Also, they may maneuver to get a person to send money through a currency trans-fer service such as Western Union.

Mullins indicates the best

way to combat Internet scams is to simply ignore these emails.

Phone scams are also a problem for many people in Connecticut, said Mullins. One such phone scam that has become popular in the last few years involves crim-inals posing as computer technicians from Microsoft. These scammers, who are often from South Asia, use publicly available phone di-rectories and call people claiming there is a virus or malware on their computer and that the scammer can fix it. What the crooks are at-tempting to do is gain access to a person’s computer in or-der to steal financial infor-mation such as bank account numbers and credit card ac-counts. Also, scammers may hold a person’s information hostage and delete computer files unless the victim gives up their credit card number.

The Microsoft Company states on its website that its technicians never call people unsolicited.

Other phone scams consist of criminals telling a poten-tial victim that a loved one of theirs is in jail and requires bail, or that they have been mugged in a foreign coun-try and need money. Mul-

lins insists that if a person gets such a call they should always attempt to contact their relatives, or someone else close to the family, to find out the truth.

When dealing with IRS or utility scammers on the phone, Mullins said, “The longer a [potential victim] stays on the phone, the more likely he/she will slip up and offer something that they shouldn’t. I would never provide personal or financial information from an unsolic-ited phone call, email, or text message. Legitimate compa-nies and organizations do not operate that way. When in doubt, a person can always contact a legitimate repre-sentative from that organi-zation and ask.”

Identity theft is another common crime the Plainville police deal with. Thankfully, Mullins said his department has had much success in ar-resting people involved in these crimes.

“One that comes to mind fairly recently is a man from New Jersey that we were able to arrest after he stole the identity of a local female,” Mullins said.

In that case, a 20-year-old Plainville woman had her modeling photos stolen and

superimposed on a web site promoting pornography. The site falsely claimed that the victim was involved in that industry.

Dean Fragola, who made money while using the young woman’s image and defam-ing her character, was ar-rested on third-degree theft, second-degree harassment and second-degree stalking charges, and pleaded guilty.

“We do make arrests for identity theft, frequently,” Mullins said. “If the crime is committed on the other side of the country, we transfer the case to that respective agency and hope they pick up the investigation we’ve started. Unfortunately, we’re pretty much out of luck when we learn the crime origi-nates outside of the coun-try. Federal agencies will sometimes work with law enforcement agencies out-side of the country when the scams are on a bigger scale and involve larger criminal organizations.”

Mullins had this to say to folks who are approached with what they think could be a scam: “Call your local police department and ask a police officer for guidance. We’re more than happy to help.”

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Faith Briefs

Our Lady of MercyOur Lady of Mercy Church, 19 South Canal St., welcomes

Richard Wm. Donohue and the New England Chamber Choir Sunday, 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 ex-traordinary repertoire of music inspired by the traditions of Christmas. Music for Christmas XL will feature the New En-gland Chamber Choir, Treble Choir and Chamber Ensemble.

A reception will follow the concert. Admission to the con-cert is free; donations to benefit the work of the New En-gland Chamber Choir are appreciated.

To learn more about this concert or the New England Chamber Choir, visit Newenglandchamberchoir.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; Worship

with Holy Communion, Sunday, Jan. 4, 10 a.m.; United Methodist Women, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2 to 4 p.m.; Choir re-hearsal, Sunday, Jan. 11, 18, 25 following worship.

Senior Happenings

Health careFlu shots - Flu shots are

available for Senior Cen-ter members. To schedule an appointment, call (860) 747-5728.

Foot care - The Senior Center offers appointments for regular and diabetic foot care for Senior Center mem-bers only. A fee is charged. Call the Senior Center at

(860) 747-5728 to schedule an appointment.

Ear wax removal - The Senior Center offers ear wax removal, by appointment, for Senior Center members only. A fee is charged. For more information and to schedule an appointment, call (860) 747-5728.

Cholesterol testing - The Senior Center offers cholesterol testing, by ap-

pointment, for Senior Cen-ter members only. A fee is charged. For more infor-mation and to schedule an appointment, call (860) 747-5728.

TripsSunday, Feb. 15 - “Dirty

Rotten Scoundrels” musical at the Warner Theater.

Call (860) 747-5728.

Health Briefs

Literacy volunteersLiteracy Volunteers of Cen-

tral Connecticut is looking for volunteers. All prospective tu-tors must be 18 and over with a minimum of a high school de-gree, good writing and speak-ing skills. Observations and support is provided.

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-ain Public Library. Pre-regis-tration is required.

For more information and to register, call (860) 229-7323 or email [email protected].

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tion sites for the now-defunct U.S. AUTOVON network re-main in Cheshire, Durham, and Meriden. The AUTO-VON Network sites were op-erated by AT&T and existed to keep communications on-line in the event of a domestic attack. “Sites like the Durham site were placed where they were because Hartford and Bridgeport were targets, and in the event of an attack on (one of those towns) com-munication would continue,” Ramsey said.

In Cheshire, an enormous underground complex was manned 24 hours per day with a staff of four supervi-sors and 18 technicians. The site managed communica-tions between Hartford and New Haven and was part of a junction for underground co-axial cables connecting Bos-ton to Miami.

The Nike missile sites were eventually rendered obsolete, and the local missile bases now stand abandoned. “They were outmoded when we saw we can’t have missiles shoot down other missiles,” Ram-sey said, adding that “even 50 years later, it’s hard (to do)… like shooting a bullet with a bullet.”

Ramsey said he recalls that, as a 7-year-old, the Cu-ban Missile Crisis was the first time he had ever really thought about the president or the war. “I saw the reac-tion my parents had and it was pretty profound,” Ram-sey said. When his parents started to set aside food stor-age for an emergency and when he learned that those who lived farther than 15 min-utes from school were to re-main in the building during an emergency, it left an im-pression. “Being 7-years-old and being told you’re going to be stuck in school for the end of the world was pretty sobering,” Ramsey said. “I dealt with it by learning as much as I could.”

Ramsey later went on to become an engineer, and amassed a collection of sto-ries and photographs that he shares with the world through his websites, includ-ing another site for Massa-chusetts, coldwar-ma.com.

“I also wanted to try to commemorate the veterans of the Cold War,” Ramsey said, “…There’s a lot of men and women who served in very unusual duties or un-usual locations during the Cold War that are really un-sung heroes.”

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A two-story underground facility underneath this communication tower in Cheshire reportedly held an AUTOVON 4-wire switch for military communications during the Cold War. | coldwar-ct.com

Plainville Community Schools has been named a national Campus Champion for operational excellence by SchoolDude, the mar-ket leader in education en-terprise asset management. Campus Champions exem-plify excellence in the stew-ardship of school resources.

Individuals and institu-tions are selected annually to recognize top performers among their peers. By adopt-ing industry best practices and leading teams, Campus Champions generate savings in both time and money for their schools through efficient and effective management of facilities and operations.

Lucy Keegan, office pro-fessional in the Plainville Community Schools’ Facil-ities Department, is a Cam-pus Champion for excellence in preventive maintenance. “Using SchoolDude helps ev-eryone get work completed faster and more efficiently, eliminating unnecessary costs and increasing produc-tivity,” Keegan said.

Facilities Department di-rector Steve Busel noted, “Lucy’s enthusiasm and orga-nizational skills helped us get SchoolDude off the ground and she has been an integral part of its success. I’m hon-

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DECA POWER TRIP

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Among the 50 states in America, Con-necticut has a somewhat unique structure when it comes to funding public educa-tion. Connecticut ranks 49th (only Illinois is worse) when it comes to the percentage

of funding for education that must come from lo-cal taxpayer dollars. Our state government helps most towns offset the cost of operating schools by contributing about 42 percent of the funding required, and the federal government adds about 5 percent toward that cost. The state’s Education Cost

Sharing (ECS) formula is part of legisla-tion that is designed to balance the scale and equalize the ability of towns to pay for public education. Unfortunately, the ECS grant has never been fully funded by the state government, so each town only receives a percentage of the promised dollars.

Once Connecticut towns and cities set a total budgeted amount for spend-ing on public schools in their community, our state statutes give complete author-ity over how that money is expended to the local board of education (CT Statute 10-222). It is the responsibility of the ap-proximately 166 school boards in Con-necticut to work collaboratively with their superintendents to develop and sustain the highest possible quality in educational programing for their schools, while stay-ing within the community’s allocation for education spending.

A review of the efforts by Plainville’s Board and administration over the last five years clearly shows how seriously we take this charge.

The cost of providing public education in Connecticut and across our country has continuously risen over this time at an average of nearly 4 percent each year. However, here in Plainville over that same period of time, the administration and board of education have continuously im-proved our schools, while working with budget increases well below that national trend. Plainville’s budget for educational spending has increased by less than 1 per-cent in all but one of the last five years. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a cal-culation that demonstrates the percent-age increases in the cost of certain goods and services in America, in this case the costs associated with providing public education.

I am extremely proud of what we have accomplished in our schools over the last five years and the results in student achievement our work has produced. Our students have benefited from numerous initiatives, program upgrades and curric-ulum improvements. But it is important to understand that within the board of education budget, approximately 93 per-cent of our spending is attributed to just five areas: 1) salaries; 2) employee health benefits; 3) student transportation; 4) out-of-district special education tuition; and 5) utilities. All things we have little or no control over, but none of the progress we

Financing public education and the BOE budget

Jeffrey Kitching

See Budget / Page 9

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

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

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

There’s a hardy mixed flock in my neighborhood and like most avid birders, one of the joys is anthropomorphizing visitors to the feeder. You know the gang, the cheerful chickadee, the greedy jay, the entitled cardinal. I don’t give them cute names like Harry the Woodpecker – at least not yet. But it is a thrill to look out the window and see who has arrived on any particular day.

Junco, titmouse, grosbeak, a variety of wrens and spar-rows can all be relied upon to make an appearance even during the gloomiest of days. The purple finch and the nuthatch are two entertain-ing species that are always welcome and bird watchers never tire of seeing a pair of cardinal pull up for snack.

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

An excellent online re-source on what to feed the birds, their habitat and how to recognize their songs can be found at wvu.edu/~agex-ten/wildlife/winterbrd.PDF. While this West Virginia cooperative extension may seem a far afield, most of the bird species covered also are found in our local towns. This excellent, simple fact sheet advises on banquets for birds and how to stock and main-tain your feeders to cater to the needs of the various species.

The Connecticut Ornitho-logical Association at ct-birding.org maintains lists of

Bird watching makes winter days fly

By Olivia L. LawrenceSpecial to The Citizen

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

See Birds / Page 9


A five-year comparison of the increases to the national CPI for education cost and the Plainville education budget:

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 5-Year Average

Percentage increase in CPI for education 3.8 5.2 3.7 3.7 2.9 3.8

Percentage increase to Plainville BOE Budget 0.75 0.00 1.15 0.99 0.67 0.71

Budget

have made would have been possible without the attention and effort placed on containing costs in these areas. We have worked hard to negotiate fair contracts with our employee unions, while also reducing our expenses for health insurance. Our energy consumption has been reduced by over 25 per-cent in the last three years, sav-ing nearly $250,000. The Food Service Department serves over 250,000 breakfasts and lunches to students each year and is

completely self-supported, not requiring a single dollar of funding in our budget.

In the coming months I will be working with our Board to develop a budget for next year. We will once again look at all aspects of our budget to Repri-oritize, Reallocate and Reinvest, (the 3-Rs). We have established a transparent process for devel-oping our budget and monitor-ing our expenditures. Our board of education has a commitment to sustaining the progress we have made by reinvesting the funding we save in other areas

in our high-priority initiative. Working together, the adminis-tration and board of education will focus on developing a bud-get that will sustain the quality our students and parents de-serve, and in doing so, maintain the value our schools bring to the entire community.

I encourage everyone to fol-low our budget process closely. I am confident that if you do, you will see the quality and value I am so proud of.

(Jeffrey Kitching is superinten-dent of Plainville schools.)

From Page 8

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sightings and is another interest-ing read. It advises that “More and more, Connecticut birders record their sightings on eBird and there are many benefits for you and the birding community. After signing up for eBird you can have alerts of unusual sight-ings in CT and other regions de-livered to your email inbox.”

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

However, feeding stations do have to be maintained and it’s

not my favorite part, either (Es-pecially handling suet. That’s a special challenge.) Feeders should be set up in an area wel-coming to avian life and safe from squirrels and cats.

Every year about this time Green Earth Media Group sends press releases hawking (yes, pun intended) bird food and related accessories for their clients in the bird supply business. Two good tips from Coles Wild Bird Products were passed along. First, there is no research that shows wild birds will become lazy if you feed them or that they will forgo migrating in or-der to hang out in your backyard. So relax, you won’t contribute to slothfulness in birds.

Coles also reminds bird en-

thusiasts to help birds with their fresh water needs over the cold months. “Finding fresh, unfro-zen water can be more challeng-ing for birds than finding food in the winter.” Heated birdbaths are one option, but most folks I know just set out a shallow pan of wa-ter by the feeder each day, per-haps not a perfect solution but it helps.

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

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

From Page 8

If you’re anything like me, your inner Scrooge has been staring grumpily at the overfull post-holiday trash. Every year, most folks fill trash bags with shiny wrap-ping paper that is seldom admired and im-mediately discarded seconds after gifts are opened. There are some weirdos, of course, who force every member of their family to carefully slide their fingernails underneath scotch tape to surgically extract presents from the same wrappings that have been carefully used and re-used since the Great Depression, but that route removes the plea-sure of some good paper-tearing.

I’m certain many families keep every copy of The Citizen that has ever been delivered to their home in acid-free glass cases, so of course having a practical use for old news-papers is a huge disadvantage to newspa-per-wrapping. For those few who don’t save every copy of our illustrious paper, newspa-per is readily available, often colorful, and a great choice for wrapping up presents. If you don’t want to allow your precious copies of The Citizen to be torn apart, use one of the advertising inserts. What better way to embrace the over-commercialization of the season than wrapping presents in ads? Plus, I’m sure our advertisers would appreciate the exposure.

I haven’t spent a dime on wrapping paper for years. It may cause my younger sister to roll her eyes, but cost is just one of many perks to the practice. Newspaper wrapping is a great way for parents of disaffected col-lege students to show how hip and environ-mentally conscious they are, for example.

Though some families practice free-for-all gift opening – also known as “the pira-nha method” – newspaper wrappings have great advantages for families who open gifts round-robin style. Now, if the attention span of your family is anything like mine, open-ing even a modest number of gifts can take

Have a merry, frugal holidayBy Charles KreutzkampSpecial to The Citizen

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

See Frugal / Page 11

Library Briefs

Vacation week programsFriday, Dec. 26 - Family movie

matinée - “Frozen Sing-A-Long,” 2 p.m., all ages. Rated PG. Costumes are welcome.

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

Saturday, Dec. 27 - Drop-in craft: Make your own accordion 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 Advi-sors meeting, 1 p.m., grades 7 to 12. Middle and high school students welcome to be part of teen pro-gramming and volunteer in the library.

Monday, Dec. 29 - Teen movie “Guardians of the Galaxy,” 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. Sib-lings 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 Theater “Dolphin Tale 2,” all ages. Rated PG. Families are welcome to bring lunch.

Friday, Jan. 2 - Knit and crochet circle, 4 p.m., grades 6 and up. Be-ginners welcome.

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


SportsWrestlers look dangerous; Girls hoops struggling

WrestlingThe Plainville boys started

their season in impressive fashion, finishing off Rocky Hill 48-6.

The Blue Devils ran away with the victory thanks in part to pins from senior Tim Lister, sophomore Grant Sarra, and junior Nick Cyr. Jesus Jimenez and senior Andrew Marsh also had im-pressive afternoons, finishing with 8-6 and 12-5 decisions, respectively, for the locals.

Plainville followed up its opening match of the sea-son with a fifth place fin-ish at the 13-team Plainville Invitational.

Lister, Cyr, and senior Sam Lindgren were finalists at the invitational, while senior Jon Oliveira placed third and Sarra landed in fourth.

“I thought we handled

things very well. They work hard together, they all prac-tice very hard … they pre-pared themselves for this tournament,” Plainville coach Rusty Spence said.

The Blue Devils are hoping

to regain the talents of Dylan Fusco in the first week of Jan-uary. The senior has been out due to an injury.

Girls basketballThe Plainville girls basket-

ball team prides itself on the

ability to play defense, yet its inability to put the ball in the hoop dropped the team to 1-3 on the season after an 0-2 week.

Following a 44-28 loss at the hands of East Catholic

to start the stretch, the lo-cal girls fared no better in a matchup with Rocky Hill that saw them fall 36-17.

Despite a 12-11 lead at half-time after a strong defen-sive effort through the first 16 minutes, the game unrav-eled for the PHS girls in the third quarter as they were outscored 16-2.

Against Rocky Hill, senior guard Rachel Lancaster led the Lady Blue Devil effort with seven points, while ju-nior guard Stephanie Mar-tino and sophomore Jessica Masco added three points apiece.

Although the team has struggled to score, the Lady Blue Devils have done a good job keeping its foes from ex-ploding offensively. Plainville has limited foes to 41.3 points per game; however, the girls have only averaged 31.5 points themselves.

By Nate BrownThe Plainville Citizen

Local wrestler Sam Lindgren wraps up his opponent en route to finishing as a finalist in the 2014 Plainville Invitational. | Matt Leidemer / For The Citizen

PHS boys fall short in home opener

Despite a hard fought bat-tle, the Plainville boys bas-ketball team fell 43-36 to the visiting Brookfield Bobcats in the team’s 2014-’15 home opener. The loss dropped the locals to 0-2 on the young season.

Tim Dixon (13 points) scored the first bucket of the game to give the Blue Devils an early 2-0 advantage. Plain-ville would lead for much of the first frame but Brookfield (1-0) closed the quarter on a 6-0 run to lead 7-4 after one.

The locals never led again.An Austin Butler (9 points)

3-pointer opened the scoring in the second quarter and tied the score at seven. With the game tied later in the frame, this time at 11, the Bobcats would once again do what be-came the theme of the night: close quarters strong.

The Blue Devils had multi-ple empty possessions in the

final minutes of the first half, which allowed their foes to take advantage. Brock Bouil-lana (6 points) scored to make it 13-11 Brookfield.

“I thought the kids played hard for a good portion of the time,” first-year Plain-ville coach Jim DiNello said. “I thought defensively we played okay. With that said, we aren’t at a stage with this program where we can have seven or eight wasted possessions.”

The Bobcats extended the lead to five on a three-point play from Muhammand Sakhi (14 points) and Brookfield led 20-15 going into the break.

Following halftime, the locals did everything they could to stay within an arms reach of the visitors. Dixon started the third-quarter with a 3-pointer and, just like that, Plainville was back within two, 20-18.

The Blue Devils, again, got to within two, on a running lay up from John Lindgren, to

make it a 22-20 game. How-ever, this proved to be the last time the game remained a one-possession contest.

Brookfield closed the quar-ter strong, finishing on a 7-2 run to take a 29-22 lead into the fourth.

There, Plainville scored the first three points to creep within striking distance at 29-25, but would get no closer.

The Bobcats methodically built their lead throughout the final frame thanks in large part to repeated trips to the foul line. In the fourth quarter alone, Brookfield attempted 18 free throws, making eight.

For the game, Brookfield was 20-of-34 from the line, while Plainville was just 3-of-6.

The Bobcats led by as many as 13 in the final quarter.

Despite Plainville battling until the final horn – with Dixon hitting a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to seven with

By Sam DostalerSpecial to The Citizen

Plainville’s Austin Butler takes it to the basket against Brookfield. | Matt Leidemer / For The Citizen See Basketball / Page 11


Frugal

well over an hour with all the distractions, the calls to fam-ily members, and the insis-tence some gift-givers always have on taking pictures so we never forget these precious moments. When all else fails, newspaper wrappings pro-vide crucial reading material while your father opens his fourth pair of new socks and explains to all who will lis-ten (see also “nobody”) how much he loves argyle.

One complication when dealing with newspaper

wrapping is that the sizes of the sheets are too small for some gifts. A truly deter-mined news-wrapper, how-ever, can utilize multiple sheets to accomplish virtually any wrapping task.

Just one word of caution be-fore you embrace news-wrap-ping, though – make sure you take a glance at both sides of the page you’re using, and avoid accidentally giving your mother a thoughtful gift wrapped in a tragic obituary – seriously, learn from my mistake.

Happy holidays!

From Page 9

Basketball

9.7 seconds remaining – it was too little, too late.

Although it was his team’s second consecutive loss to start the season, DiNello senses the atmosphere sur-rounding Plainville basket-

ball is changing for the better.“We’re making some prog-

ress, but it is going to be a long road,” the coach said. “There aren’t going to be any great shakes immediately; there isn’t going to be any in-stant gratification. It is going to take a lot of hard work. I

think the biggest thing is to play for each other and as soon as they have that hap-pening, then we have a chance to be halfway decent. Until that happens, then nothing is going to come great, and the timetable on that is when they decide.”

From Page 10

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

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

So far this season Odin does not favor the east.

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

While the snow hasn’t fallen hard here in Connecti-cut, there is good, deep, ma-chine-made cover on Eastern ski mountains.

“We have a very talented group of freshmen joining last season’s very successful team and are looking forward to another championship run,” UConn coach Larry Gi-anatti said.

Joining Cheshire’s Kelsie Carlette, now in her second season at UConn, and co-cap-tain Macenzie Ingenito, a se-nior, are freshmen Samantha Feinberg from Greenwich, Rachael Lafebvre (Gunstock, New Hampshire), Danielle Sinkowicz, who was on the New Jersey State Ski Team, and Sabina Spofford (West-borough, Mass.)

The UConn men’s team has two newcomers joining the group. Luke Gatti and

Roger Hueglin, from Wil-ton, are joining last season’s fourth place finishers in the National Championships.

“Both the men’s and wom-en’s teams are young, but ex-perienced racers,” Gianatti said. “The new athletes have all been racing for several seasons, and were members of their high school ski teams last season. They are train-ing well and are encouraging each other to go faster.”

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

“Our goal for the season is to qualify for the Nationals,” said Carlette, speaking on behalf of the women’s team. “We missed making the cut

by less than one second last season, and we won’t let that happen again.”

Carlette was injured in the last race of the regular season in 2014, and has spent the en-tire off-season rehabbing and trying to get stronger before the snow falls. “I’m ready to go,” she said, “and I want to win the opening slalom to show the other teams we are stronger than last year.”

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

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

The calm before the collegiate stormBy Dave MongilloSpecial to The Citizen

Members of the UConn ski team practiced at Okemo Mountain in Vermont recently to ready themselves for what’s sure to be an eventful season.

| Dave Mongillo / For The Citizen

Seventh gradePlainville 43, Bethel 27:

Alec Couture, Fabi La Oz and Nate Johnson led the victors with 10 points each. Tyler Mandeville chipped in with seven points. Peter Diaz and La Oz controlled the boards with 10 and eight rebounds, respectively.

Eighth gradeGranby 64, Plainville 45:

Plainville played strong bas-ketball for three quarters, but Granby proved to be too strong in the end.

Plainville was led by Ben

Doughtery’s 13 points, Ty-ler Davis’ 10, and Brady Cal-lihan’s nine. Sam Lestini turned in a great defensive game for the hometown crew.

South Windsor 56, Pla-inville 37: The eighth grade travel team fell to South Windsor as their foes used a strong second half to pull away.

Plainville was led by Brady Callihan (12 points) and Ben Doughtery (9). Alec Karal added five points while grab-bing six rebounds in the loss.

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