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According to a service plan re-leased recently, The Connecticut Department of Transportation is changing very little to the local bus routes feeding into the CT Fastrak system in the towns surrounding New Britain.

DOT hopes to have Fastrak, the busway that will shuttle riders from New Britain and Hartford, opera-tional in 15 months, in February 2015. It has opened a comment period on bus routes that service the region.

Local towns hope DOT will add

more bus routes or more times when buses travel through their towns, as a way to help residents connect to and from the Fastrak system.

Under the current plan, DOT will keep about the same number of buses running the same routes through Berlin and Plainville. Express buses will continue to stop once in Southington before swooping up to Hartford.

Michael Sanders, transit adminis-trator for the state’s DOT who will oversee the busway once it is opera-tional, said the CT Transit busway is about linking places together.

Regional towns looking for Fastrak connection By Daniel JacksonSpecial to The Citizen

The CT Fastrak bus station in New Britain undergoes construction. Connecticut Department of Transportation expects the project to be finished in 15 months. | (Dan Jackson/The Citizen)See Fastrak / 0

On the evening of Nov. 28, Jews celebrating Hanukkah will gather around and light the sec-ond candle in the Jewish Festival of Lights. For many Jews living in the United States, they will be stuffed from a meal of turkey and pumpkin pie, the traditional Thanksgiving meal.

Thanksgiving and Hanukkah fall on the same date this year, an extremely rare occur-rence. So rare an occurrence that the next time Thanksgiving and Hanukkah are predicted to coincide is 79,811 A.D.

For many local Jews, this year presents an opportunity to combine and celebrate the hol-

Thanksgiving, Hanukkah intersection a rare occurrence

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A turkey-themed menorah, designed for Hanukkah 2013 is being marketed as a “menurkey” this year. | (menurkey.com)

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For more years than most members of the Southington Interfaith Clergy Association can remember, it has been a local tradition for clergy and members of congre-gations and parishes of di-verse faiths to gather on the Tuesday evening before Thanksgiving in an inter-faith observance of the hol-iday. That event includes worship, sharing diverse traditions, scriptural read-ings and music along with reflections on the meaning of Thanksgiving.

This year, the interfaith service will be hosted by the First Congregational Church of Southington, 37 Main St., across from the Town Green at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, Nov. 26. Co-hosting the service will be the Gishrei Shalom Je w i s h C o n g r e ga t i o n . Participants in the service will include a representa-tion of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Sikh faiths.

All are welcome to at-tend and a community reception will follow in the FCC Memorial Hall. Congregations have been asked to bring finger foods to share, such as cook-

Faith community to gather By E. Richard FortunatoSpecial to The Citizen

ies, cheese, crackers, fruit. Those who attend are asked to bring non-per-ishable canned and boxed food items. There will be an offering at the service to benefit Bread for Life and Southington Community Services food distribution program.

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! On Sunday, Nov. 24, at 10 a.m. the First Congregational Church, located at 37 Main St.; across from the Town Green will be celebrating nearly 300 years of worship and thanksgiving; offering a special “Service of Publick Thanksgiving” for all who wish to attend.

The congregational church is perhaps the most direct descendant of the original Puritan “Protestants” from the co-lonial time period. This service will be offered in the Pilgrim-Puritan style of 300-years-ago, complete with Calling Drummer, Magistrate, and “Beadle” (the one with a large pole, who ensured the children were well behaved during the service) and a high pulpit (podium). Cloaks and clothing will also reflect the time period. All visitors and worshipers are invited, and encouraged to wear their best “pilgrim attire.”

The sermon will be provided by the resident Sr. Minister, The Rev. Dr. Ronald B. Brown. Also officiat-ing the service will be Southington Town Manager, Gary Brumback, Allan Camp, radio host from WRCH, and members of the congregation.

The First Congregational church was originally con-structed in 1728 where Oak Hill Cemetery stands today. The second church was completed in 1757, on the town green, just up the road from the current meetinghouse. The cornerstone of the third meeting house was laid on Dec. 15, 1828. The third Meetinghouse is still in use, and is a landmark on Southington’s town green, as well as a part of the “town seal”, and can be seen on the badge on all town vehicles and town materials.

Take a step back in time, and be a part of a real-life history lesson. Come and participate in the Service of Publick Thanksgiving at the First Congregational Church, and prepare for your festive Thanksgiving as our forefathers did.

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The holiday light display on Southington Town Green will be turned on at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, to kick off the annual “Hospitality Night” event in downtown. The Southington Parks & Recreation Department would like to invite a resident youth to flip the ceremonial switch and light up the night!

Southington residents 3 to 10 years of age are eligible to enter online for a chance to be chosen as the official “switch flipper.” Immediate family members of the se-lected child are welcome to assist. One entry per child will be accepted. Entries will only be accepted via the electronic form on the Parks & Recreation Department’s website. Visit www.southing-ton.org/holidaylightscontest by Sunday, Dec. 1, to enter. A winner will be chosen at ran-dom on Monday, Dec. 2.

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The Southington Parks & Recreation Department has announced that Santa Claus will be visiting Recreation Park, Maxwell Noble Drive, Plantsville, on Sunday, Dec. 1, from 2 to 4 p.m.

Children in Kindergarten through Grade 3 only can meet Santa in his Workshop and share their Christmas wishes. In the event of in-clement weather, Santa will greet children in the cafete-ria of South End School, lo-cated in the park. There will be horse-drawn carriage rides, treat bags for the chil-dren, music of the season and light refreshments provided by the American Legion Auxiliary and American Legion Auxiliary Junior Girls Unit 72. This event is free of charge. For information, call the Parks & Recreation office at (860) 276-6219.

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(This is one of a series of interviews with town of-ficials. Today’s focus is on challenges and the process of managing the town’s financial resources based on discus-sions with Board of Finance Chairman John Leary and Vice-Chairman Joe Labieniec. As background, Leary spoke of the converging challenges, since 2009, when the town began assessing its aging in-frastructure: school build-ings, town hall, Beecher Street Building, sewer system, park

needs and failing roads which collectively represented sub-stantial reconstruction costs.)

Leary: “The global fi-nancial crisis of 2007-2009 spawned a global recession which is still modestly re-covering with unemploy-ment at 7.2 percent. The BOF task became to collaborate with other town entities to identify and prioritize needs while causing the least pos-sible hardship on taxpayers, some facing the threat of mortgage default and/or un-employment,” Leary said.

Labieniec: “The situation was exacerbated by an exis-

tent culture of over-leveraged lifestyles hanging on false as-sumptions that the economy would remain strong. With the impact of the weakened economy, a more tempered financial culture emerged. Taxes are a way of life to many. But financial stress deepens concerns about wasteful spending and lazy budgeting.”

Leary: “(Board member) Wayne Stanford long insisted on a comprehensive long range capital plan for the schools and town govern-

Finance board works to meet needs, contain costsBy E. Richard FortunatoSpecial to The Citizen

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The Zoning Board of Appeals approved beer and wine licenses for two restau-rants and said a local au-tomotive shop may begin emissions repair work.

Applicant Leon Lopez won approval to serve beer and

ZBA OKs beer, wine licenses By Jeff GebeauSpecial to The Citizen

wine at Salsa’s, the south-west-style restaurant he plans to open in late November or early December at 1143 Meriden-Waterbury Road.

Chairman Robert Salka said outdoor dining was not included in Lopez’s applica-tion so he will have to come before the board again if he wants to add it.

The board also granted a beer and wine license, with conditions, to Dong Qi Qai, owner and operator of Thai

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Edwin G. Vickerman, owner of Midas Southington on Queen Street, was granted permission to change his Department of Motor Vehicles license from “lim-ited” to “general repair,” so he cas do emissions repair work.

Fourth annual “Stuff my mom’s SUV for Connecticut Children’s Medical Center ” is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 30, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 2223 Meriden-Waterbury Road – Marion section of Southington.

Reilley Walden, a seventh grade student at Kennedy Middle School, is hosting her fourth annual toy drive. Reilly organized the toy drive for the children at CCMC to do her something nice for children who are sick in the hospital. Reilley was diagnosed with polyarticular juve-nile rheumatoid arthritis in when she was eight-years-old. Last year Reilley collected over 300 new toys. CCMC can only accept new, unwrapped toys.

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Layoffs, voluntary resigna-tions and unfilled positions in the Hartford HealthCare net-

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New Britain. Among the de-partures was that of Clarence Silvia, president and CEO.

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Hospital network eliminates managersBy Jesse BuchananSpecial to The Citizen

Hospital of Central Connecti-cut as president of the net-work’s central region.

Job reductions were part of consolidation within Hartford HealthCare aimed at elimi-nating redundancies among hospitals that are no longer in competition, according to offi-cials. The changes won’t hurt patient care, they said.

“There’s a dramatic amount of change in health care,” said Rebecca Stewart, Hartford Healthcare spokeswoman. The new system “is agile and more productive.”

At MidState and the Hos-pital of Central Connecticut, 22 managers were laid off, 18 took voluntary resignations or retirements, and 10 positions will be left unfilled.

Throughout Connecticut, Hartford HealthCare elimi-nated 179 positions through

layoffs, resignations and un-filled vacancies.

Stewart declined to com-ment on what types of jobs were being eliminated other than mentioning that Silvia was no longer with the system but will remain as a consultant for six months.

She also didn’t provide a breakdown of how the re-ductions in the central region were distributed between MidState and the Hospital of Central Connecticut.

Recent consolidations within Hartford HealthCare have included uniform logos and marketing imagery, as well as centralized services, such as the psychiatric ward that was removed from MidState in fa-vor of a larger unit at the Hos-pital of Central Connecticut.

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For many high school girls the annual powder puff games are the highlights of their senior year, giving them a chance to play the best they can against Cheshire and New Britain high schools.

“I saw seniors last year have a lot of fun with it,” said senior Lily Herman. “Also, it’s not really a girly sport, so when given the opportu-nity to play football I really wanted to jump at it because I’ve always played sports, but it’s the opportunity to learn something new and have fun.”

The team consists of 63 senior players, Head Coach Charles Kemp, Kim Palmer, the general manger, and nine assistant coaches.

Kemp has coached the team for the past 12 years. Because it’s difficult to get field time during the week while other teams are practicing, it can be a challenge to get all the girls to weekend practices, he said.

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Senior player Rachel Dube said the team is excited.

“I mean, why not go out with a bang?” Dube said. “It’s a great group of girls and ev-eryone is athletic and wants to work hard.”

Kemp said the team is looking forward to the ri-valry between Southington and Cheshire, where nearly

every game has been close. Last year Southington beat Cheshire. This year’s game is on Nov. 26 at 6:30 p.m. at Fontana Field.

“Cheshire is a rivalry and the kids look forward to the game every year, as do the coaches,” Kemp said. “We’ve been lucky enough to be suc-cessful right at the end of the last two games and we hope that luck continues.”

SHS seniors ready for upcoming tusslesBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

Lilian Herman takes a snap from Jessica Bocek during Southingtons powder puff practice at Southington High School earlier this month. | Justin Weekes / For the Record-Journal

Last year Dube watched the game against Cheshire. She hopes this year’s team can pull off another win.

“We want to win, but whatever happens, happens. We’re family and we’re a team,” Dube said.

As the girls continue to practice, Herman said she’s noticed everyone bonding and many players becoming friends.

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“The more connections we can build in the better,” he said.

Sanders said DOT has al-ready talked about adding more feeder routes that carry passengers to CT Fastrak.

However, the routes on the map presently are the routes DOT is committing to open-ing day of the busway, Sanders said.

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sibility DOT will send more buses to the Berlin Train Station in the future. Today, the BK bus travels from New Britain and passes by the train station nine times on a weekday.

After the infrastructure is built, Sanders said, it is easy to expand service.

“It’s easy enough to do,” he said. “You just throw buses out there. You can always add.”

Throughout the plan-ning process, the Central Connect icut Reg iona l

Planning Agency has taken comments from the public and passed them onto DOT, as well as adding their own, such as the suggestion to add a new bus route that would run to Pymouth and Thomaston.

CCRPA is an organization that plans and promotes re-gional economic, land use and transportation polices. They also plan disaster response. Berlin, Plainville, Southington, New Britain, Bristol, Terryville and Burlington work with CCRPA.

Jason Zheng, an associate planner with the transporta-tion program at CCRPA, said DOT released the revised ser-vice plan only a few weeks ago, and CCRPA is still ana-lyzing the plan. However, in the document, DOT denied CCRPA’s request to service Plymouth and Thomaston.

After DOT ran their rider-ship models, Zheng said, it de-cided it could not support the proposed route.

During this comment pe-riod, Zheng said CCRPA will

propose additional bus lines to service Southington, especially along the Route 10 and Route 229 corridors.

ESPN and many industrial parks are located along those routes.

“It seems logical that they would have a bus route for these big corridors,” Zheng said, adding CCRPA will look into the accessibility of bus stops by cyclists and pedestri-ans. “Some routes don’t even have signs,” while others don’t have sidewalks.

While CCRPA solicits funds to distribute around the re-gion, Zheng said CT Fastrak is funded by DOT.

Jim Mahoney, Berlin’s eco-nomic development director, said DOT is creating the ini-tial bus way, and the next step is to talk about improving the region’s local service.

And while improved bus service between Berlin’s train station and the beginning of CT Fastrak is not on the plan at this point, Berlin has suggested it to DOT.

Mark DeVoe, Plainville’s director of planning and eco-nomic development, said “We’re not going to bene-fit directly from the Fastrak,” but local residents in regional towns such as Planville, Berlin and Southington could use the Fastrak by driving to the near-est station, or “hop on one of the local lines.”

Whether or not local ser-vice will improve, “it’s a little difficult to predict at this time,” DeVoe said.

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Brian McKernan was hit by a car near his home in Long Island on Sept. 13. A blood clot was removed from his brain after the accident, which shattered a vertebra, fractured another near his head and injured his leg. Due to his injuries McKernan has to wear a halo to restrict the movement of his head until his body can heal.

“It didn’t sound like he was going to make it,” said class-mate and close friend Trevor Grayson, who went to the hospital after getting a call about the accident. “They were concerned he wasn’t go-ing to make it. He’s a trooper and he definitely pulled through.”

“It took a long time for everything to set in,” said Michael Collin, another friend and classmate. “It’s shocking he’s alive though and that’s what matters.”

Friends rally around former classmate from SouthingtonBy Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

For years McKernan has been an avid runner and was a member of the track team in high school. Grayson, who has known McKernan since first grade at Thalberg School, said he was training for some races coming up. Collin, Grayson and a hand-ful of other friends are rais-ing money to help McKernan with his medical expenses.

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ready raised $16,800. Because there has been such an out-pouring of support, espe-cially from the Southington community, Collin said they decided to put together a fundraiser near Thanksgiving as well since many friends and family will be home. The event will be held at the Polish Falcons Nest 307 in Plantsville on Friday, Nov. 29, and will feature raffles, food and drinks.

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Town Council Vice Chair-woman Cheryl Lounsbury said she was sad to see Silvia leave and described him as an excel-lent president.

Reimbursement rates from the federal government and in-surance companies to hospitals have declined and Lounsbury said she wasn’t surprised that hospitals were cutting costs.

“Just like businesses, they’ve got to cut overhead,” she said. “It’s nothing that you like to see but it’s necessary if the sys-tem is to stay alive and well.”

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Janatka earned $756,556 while Silvia received total compensation of about $2.6 million.

MidState ended that fis-cal year with a surplus of $8,120,050 to maintain more than a decade of yearly surpluses.

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This year, Thanksgiving-themed menorahs are being used by some practicing Jews, for example, a turkey-shaped menorah with the candles placed in Tom turkey’s fan.

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“I think it’s a really great opportunity to think about the message of both,” Ratner said, “and how we can com-bine the two to highlight the meaning behind the holidays as we head into the new cal-ender year.”

Hanukkah, in the Hebrew, means “re-dedicat ion,” Ratner said. The Jewish hol-iday is to commemorate the re-dedication of the temple in Jerusalem after the Jews revolted from the Greeks around 165 B.C.

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More than 50 people snacked on appetizers, min-gled, and admired the trees, gift baskets, wreathes and other Christmas items being raffled Nov. 13. All proceeds from the live and silent auc-tions and raffle tickets go to the United Way for distribu-tion to local non-profits.

“People are so incredibly generous with their dona-tions,” said Kaye Davis, exec-utive director of the United Way of Southington.

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Tracey Bentz, left, and Rosemary Champagne admire a tree created by the Arc of Southington called “It’s a doggie world,” filled with dog treats and toys, during the Festival of Trees and Traditions fundraiser for the United Way of Southington at the Elks Club on Wednesday night.| Farrah

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Three parents spoke during a public com-ment session of the Board of Education’s meeting, Nov. 14, highlighting some reasons why they felt the survey was inappropriate. Many said they were frustrated they didn’t know the content of the survey before it was given to their children. They said questions involved topics of sexual orientation, drugs and alcohol, violence, and suicide.

Tom O’Reilly, a parent, said he felt betrayed because he was unaware of the contents of the survey and felt it could be harmful to students and exposes them to “sensitive issues.”

“We were not educated on the survey … to me that’s greatly disappointing,” he said.

Brian Goralski, the school board chairman, said the data that STEPS has gathered through the years show that some of these topics are “areas of concern,” and that students are ex-posed to the content in the survey during primetime television and everyday life. He did say that the board could have communi-cated better with the parents.

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Town officials are pon-dering options for repairing equipment at the wastewater treatment plant that could cost between $165,000 to $6.4 million.

W a t e r P o l l u t i o n Superintendent John DeGioia said the town’s wastewater treatment plant can not de-compose sludge after it is removed from water passing through it due to a breakdown of equipment designed to per-form that function. Instead, sludge has been pumped into trucks and taken to the Hartford-based Metropolitan District Commission plant for the past 18 months, since the machinery failed, he said.

Officials mull wastewater plant repairsBy Jeff GebeauSpecial to The Citizen

The devices, called digest-ers, extract sludge from water and break it down, DeGioia said. A digester functions as “a very large stomach” within the wastewater treatment system, he said.

DeGioia said the plant has four digesters, all of which are currently unused and sit-ting in storage.

Each of the four stages of the digestion process re-moves additional sludge from water passing through the system, making the wa-ter progressively cleaner, he said.

DeGioia broke down the basic options concerning the broken digesters. They will either be “rehabilitated or eliminated,” he said.

Town Engineer Keith Hayden said officials would consider factors such as equipment condition and re-pair cost as they determine the best course of action.

DeGioia said the equip-ment is aging. Two of the di-gesters were installed in 1959, he said, while a third was put in place in 1970 and the fourth in 1980.

At an October sewer com-

mittee meeting, Assistant Town Engineer James Grappone said engineering firm Tighe & Bond, which was hired to perform an anal-ysis of the digesters, has pre-sented three repair plans to officials.

The $165,000 option would provide for only those re-

pairs necessary to make the digesters operational again. The limited fixes would pro-long the equipment’s life by two to five years.

Grappone termed the sec-ond plan a “refurbishment” of the digesters, saying the

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Grace United Methodist Church, 121 Pleasant St., is hosting a community Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, Nov. 28, at 11 a.m. There is no charge for this meal. Reservations are required and are limited to 100 people.

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The Southington Festival Chorale will present its annual holiday concert on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 3 p.m. at the Plantsville Congregational Church, 109 Church St. Admission is free, but free-will donations are gratefully accepted. A reception will follow. For information, call Sally at (860) 426-9822.

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1. American Baptists be-lieve that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, and that the Bible is the divinely inspired word of God that serves as the fi-nal written authority for liv-ing out the Christian faith.

2. For American Baptists, the local church is the funda-mental unit of mission in de-nominational life.

3. American Baptists par-take of two ordinances: be-lievers’ baptism and The Lord’s Supper.

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lieve that the com-mitted individual Christian can and should approach God directly, and that individual gifts of ministry should be shared.

5. American Baptists take seriously the call to evangelize and mis-sionary work.

6. American Baptists sup-port religious freedom and respect the expressions of faith of others.

7. American Baptists acknowl-edge that God’s family extends beyond our lo-cal churches, and that God calls us to cooperative ministries.

8. American Baptists have been called to be Christ’s wit-nesses for justice and whole-ness within a broken society.

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Ten facts about American Baptistslogical diversity witnessed within its membership.

10. American Baptists heed the biblical call to re-newal and the need for a vital witness to a new millennium.

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The fundraiser is scheduled

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moderate repairs would cost $860,000 to extend the digest-ers’ exteriors by ten years and their internal components by twenty.

The $6.4 million plan

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would involve replacement of the digesters’ major mechani-cal systems. The comprehen-sive overhaul would extend the entire units for more than 20 years.

If the town opts not to fix the digesters, sludge will con-tinue to be sent to Hartford, De Gioia said, the only dif-ference being that it would

Survey

“I believe our board’s re-sponsibility is to be able to communicate,” Goralski said. “Communication does need to improve.”

The survey was given to Southington students in grades seven, nine, and 11 for the past three years and School Superintendent Joseph V. Erardi Jr. said this was the first time parents came to the school board with concerns. The school board looked at the survey

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in 2009 and 2010 and en-dorsed it, he said. Parents could have opted out, but none did. Erardi said it could have been from the lack of communication.

“The survey is being dis-cussed and is adminis-tered in 48 communities in Connecticut,” Erardi said.

To solve the problem in the future, Erardi pledged to run a “better information chain” to give parents an opportu-nity to understand the ques-tions in the survey.

Sue Saucier, the director of Youth Services in town, ex-plained to some of the par-

ents that research has been done with the survey that shows there is no correlation between a student reading a question and then acting on it.

Victoria Triano, a town councilor and member of the STEPS Advisory Board, thanked the parents for bringing their concerns to the board.

“As we listen, we see there are areas that we can im-prove,” Triano said. “I think this is a real positive step.”

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The service will feature readings, music, and the op-portunity for individual names to be read and family members and friends invited to remember their loved one in a special way. Information on coping during the holiday season will also be distributed. Light refresh-ments will follow. Some people consider not celebrating the holidays as a sign of respect; others want to celebrate the season as a way of honoring the memory of the loved one who has died. Deciding the best way to celebrate is very individual. The Eve of Remembrance is a way for the community to take a brief amount of time during a busy holiday season to remember those who have been lost.

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Dedicated To the Editor:Thank you to all of the Southington residents that put

their trust in me by voting for me this past Election Day. I would also like to congratulate all of the candidates

who ran for public office as we all share the same goal of serving the citizens and the community.

I am honored and privileged to serve on the Town Council and look forward to years of dedicating myself for the betterment of this great Town.

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the Board of Education. I vow to continue to work hard, giving my all, for all children and our schools. Please know that discussion on any issues, big and small, facing our district is always welcome and appreciated.

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Letters to the Editor

I love fall. I love the colors, I love the smells, and I love that I can wear my favorite boots again. I love that I can be outside without freezing or sweating, and fall is the ideal time to hike the trails at Sleeping Giant State Park.

Our family has taken ad-vantage of the tower path, a mile and a half climb that boast a nice wide trail, a lovely view, and a good in-cline for kids and adults alike, a few times this season. We leash up our black lab, pack some water and snacks, and head for the hills, sometimes with friends, sometimes just the five of us.

Sleeping Giant, as all lo-cals know, is named for its shape, because the hills re-semble a giant lying down, asleep. Right around where the giant’s left hip would be is a stone tower that offers an amazing panoramic view of New Haven County and Long Island Sound, and is a great place for kids to pre-tend they are knights and princesses. Since it takes us over an hour to get to the top, due to the vast amount of time spent exploring and rock collecting, my kids are usually starving at the tower, and ready for a bite to eat.

After our little break, and our little snack, we begin

the much quicker trip down the hill. We still stop to ex-plore spider webs, “Look at this big one!” or to balance across fallen trees, “Just one more time! Pleeeease?” My four-year-old collects every interesting rock she sees, and places them, gently at first, and eventually cramming them, into my overflowing pockets. When we arrive home she will lovingly wash them, and carry them around for days in a plastic zippered bag, finally forgetting about them so I can return them to

the wild.We stop to chat with other

dog owners, allowing our pets to say hello by sniff-ing each other, which never stops being funny to our children. The main trail is family-friendly, and is eas-ily the most populated trail in the park. For a more iso-lated or difficult trail, see the trail maps and entrances at the Sleeping Giant Parks Association website (SGPA.org).

The Giant offers ideal fall frolic By Amy Flory Special to The Citizen

Aubrey Mayer, 8, on a recent visit to Sleeping Giant State Park. | (Submitted photo.)

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I’ve been raking leaves this afternoon. I used to love raking leaves. I loved the crisp, cool fall weather and beautifully multi-col-ored leaves. That was about 15 or so years ago, when most of my body parts still functioned cor-rectly. My shoulders and back aren’t too thrilled with the whole raking thing now.

Back when I actually liked to rake, I would even call it fun. The house was new … make that new to us. We liked the responsibility of caring for our property … and our leaves. Not so much now.

Even our daughter, al-beit just a toddler way back then, would help to rake. Granted she wasn’t too good at that part, be-ing her arms were so short and everything. One thing she was good at though,

was stuffing the leaf bags. My husband and I would hoist her up, which made her giggle before we even started, then we’d use her to tamp down each bag of leaves to get even more leaves into them. Over and over, up and into the bag she’d go with her lit-tle purple, light-up sneak-ers, one bag after another and another until the bags ultimately lined the whole driveway waiting for the town to come and take it all away.

We would also try other leaf collection systems (if nothing more than to give our daughter and her sneakers a break). We had the blower/mulcher combi-nation. That worked great, but the zipper on the bag kept breaking. We gave up and gave it to the neighbor. He sewed a new zipper on the bag and is still us-ing it today. We don’t talk

Leaf lament leads to enlightened solution By Joy VanderLekSpecial to The Citizen

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There are tired legs, and always some tears from my preschooler who would for-ever be carried or pushed in stroller if we allowed it, but it is always fun, and it feels great to be outside, enjoy-ing the fall weather with my family and our friends.

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Leaf

to those neighbors anymore. We also hired a friend’s son who in a fit of crazed inven-tiveness, created a monster leaf-sucking, leaf-mulching machine out of old lawn-mower parts. Since none of us had a truck to transport the contraption, Jacob walked the thing all the way to our house, about five blocks, and went to work. It was impres-sive, really impressive—un-til it broke, about 10 minutes into it.

What really gets me about leaf season, though, is our neighbor with the forest. He doesn’t have just one or two

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trees. No, he has them in the dozens. These are oak trees, about 100-years-old and 100-feet-high. Did you real-ize oak trees are the last to lose their leaves? So, when every single last leaf of our dogwoods and maples and birches are raked and stuffed into bags, those oaks are just waiting for us —because as you know, each and every leaf will blow into our yard, year after year.

To be honest, I have since moved on to a new way to take care of the annual leaf collection. One day, I simply announced that I would rake no more. It’s now my hus-band’s job.

Come to think of it, I don’t shovel snow anymore either.

When many of us think of Thanksgiving, we think of Norman Rockwell’s painting of a happy family gathered around a table fea-turing an enormous roasted turkey and over-flowing dishes of other seasonal foods. It is the idealized rendering of Thanksgiving.

Not all of us attain it and some Thanksgiving Days don’t even come close.

It’s ages since I thought about my first attempt at making the holiday meal. At the time we lived in a house with a small kitchen. There was an inlaid brown indus-trial-grade linoleum on the floor. Wanting to brighten up the kitchen, I naively pro-posed that Art and I paint the linoleum. I had read in a magazine that it could be done. So the evening before Thanksgiving Day we painted the linoleum a lovely blue.

Next morning, surprise! The paint was as wet as it had been when we dipped our brushes into the paint cans the night be-fore. What to do? I had promised to cook the dinner. My resourceful husband found some planks which he laid on the floor. From these, I maneuvered from cupboard, refrigerator and stove to dining room table to sink back and forth, bearing dishes and food, both hot and cold. It was a nightmare. Over the next several days we painstakingly removed all of the paint, cleaned off all of the wax embedded in the linoleum and suc-cessfully applied the paint.

Another year we had planned to gather at my mother and step-father Ken’s house to celebrate the holiday. Ken loved being the host and always enjoyed roasting the tur-key. My sister-in-law Grace had come from New York on Wednesday afternoon in an-ticipation of our getting an early start the next day for the drive to Dummerston. We

often drove the 100 miles up, spent the day with my family and drove back late the same day. But when we rose on Thanksgiving morning we discovered that it had snowed hard during the night and was still snow-ing. There was no chance of getting out of the driveway, much less of driving north. I called with our regrets. Then I pulled a small roast from the freezer and cooked din-ner at home.

In more recent years I have found other ways of celebrating the holiday. Sometimes the invitation has come from my niece Diane and husband Alan in northern Vermont. That means being away from home two or three days. It is 250 miles to their place, too far for me to drive to and return the same day. There are other differences. The guests are mostly her in-laws, farm chores have to be done before we can sit down to eat and her dog sits by the table eagerly waiting for any tidbit. Diane is very proud of the fact that, except for the turkey and the desserts that guests bring, the food on the table has come from their own farm.

Other times I have participated in the holi-day feast created by Nancy Frieberg and held at the Congregational Church in Wallingford on Thanksgiving Day. Volunteers do all the work, roasting turkeys, cutting them up, peeling and cooking vegetables, setting tables and serving food. There has even been entertainment. Everyone is welcome. Sometimes I have delivered dinners to shut-ins and spent a few minutes chatting with the recipients. It has been a rewarding expe-rience. It reminds me of an old hymn.

Now thank we all our God; With heart and hands and voices; Who wondrous things has done; In whom the world rejoices; Who from our mothers’ arms; Has blessed us on our way; With countless gifts of love; And still is ours today.

A little blue at Thanksgiving isn’t so bad

By Laura ClementsenSpecial to The Citizen

Editor’s Note: Weeklies staff writer Daniel Jackson is trying to write a novel, or 50,000 words of fiction,

during the month of November. H e i s n ’ t doing this feat alone, b u t p a r-ticipating with now 230,000 other writ-

ers locally and around the world in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short.

When the clock struck 12 at midnight Nov. 1, I fin-ished going over my notes, opened a word document, took a breath and started typing away. Title. Byline. The first few words.

Turning a semi-co-herent novel in a month takes some kind of strat-egy. Reading through NaNoWriMo’s website — nanowrimo.org — there are two general strate-gies writers take during November: planning and pantsing. The planners have reams of notes. They may create spreadsheets of scenes in their novels. They know exactly what comes next in their story and why. The pantsers go by the seat of their pants, making their stories up as they go through the month.

When I started this proj-ect, I would have consid-ered myself a planner. Today, I’m not so sure.

I started my novel, it’s working title “The Black Dog of The Hanging Hills,” back in the middle of

August. I bought a knock-off, moleskine-like note-book from Walmart: black leather cover, cream-col-ored pages with nar-row rule l ines . In that book, I w r o t e down everything that could have worked in a novel. Over the last few weeks, I worked the bits of information into some-thing of a plot. The result-ing outline is a page and a half long. I also have a few character sketches that I created.

These are a few scraps of paper compared to how long I want my story to eventually run. To be honest, it’s intimidat-ing. Usually, I have pages and pages of notes for one news story that gets printed in the paper.

But non-fiction and fic-tion writing are two dif-ferent things, I’ve come to learn.

In news writing, you try to make your writ-ing reflect the real world. Journa l i s t s a re l i ke map-makers, giving direc-tions to one place or the other. Novelists, on the other hand, are forming a whole world of their own.

In the words of Ariadne from the 2010 movie “Inception,” “It’s just... pure creation.”

Do you have any ques-tions about the creative process? Perhaps you, too, are trying to write a novel this month. I’d love to talk. Email me at [email protected].

On reaching 50,000 words

By Daniel Jackson Special to The Citizen

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of a municipality the size of Southington. “Town Manager Garry Brumback has greatly enhanced our Information Technology, paving Southington’s path into the 21st century with a platform for effectively man-aging increasing IT needs.”

Leary: “With the weak economy and limited capital dollars, priorities and col-laborative review became the key. In quickly express-ing its intention to re-build two aging middle schools, at a cost of nearly $90 million, Southington locked in a huge savings by anticipating that (the state) might be forced to reduce or end its near 50 percent reimbursement pro-gram for school renovation.”

Labieniec: “Beyond large capital dollar needs vying for attention, another major bud-get item, health care costs, began rising rapidly and sig-nificantly. Our Self Insurance Committee implemented the Wellness Strategy to reduce costs and the risk of more in-creases, projected at 10 per-cent higher, or more.”

Leary: “Proud of our changes in the culture of fi-nancial management. We’ve become partners in shaping

town policy, providing finan-cial skills and advice to the Town Council. Frankly, past boards have been adversar-ial, using intimidating ‘got ya’ approaches with depart-ment heads who dreaded going before the board. The town manager and finance board now listen respect-fully to all and offer prudent, sound judgment. Still, we do not have the resources to ad-dress all infrastructure issues at once. We continue to as-sess the level of service resi-dents and taxpayers want in terms of road maintenance, town landscaping, response time in snow removal, et cet-era. That’s not easy when de-sired levels of service can be evasive with citizens found on opposite ends of every issue and every point in be-tween. But, the town has been successful over the past four years, not because every citizen has agreed with every decision but because the ad-ministration is transparent in why and how each deci-sion is made. The extent to which we can control suc-cess largely on the decision making process. The capi-tal needs we financed suc-cessfully were the result

of the process of identify-ing issues, review and col-laboration with the people involved whose approach was highly functional, infor-mation-driven and results oriented.

“Communication and col-laboration are vital in my professional career job. My time is occupied with as much of that as my work on financial systems and tech-nical accounting. Our ap-proach to town government today is a high performance organization with trust and respect at its foundation.”

Labieniec: “Reluctant to rate progress of the town because a proper measur-ing scale does not yet exist, I can wholeheartedly say the Town deserves a mark of ‘significantly improved’. This is not a time for laurels but to continue advancing on all levels.”

Leary: “As commonly known, the federal govern-ment depends on borrowing, (issue bonds), to pay for op-erations and debt service. In Southington, we pay for op-erations and debt service ex-penses solely from operating

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“From setting the table, to creating a scrumptious des-sert station, you can better impress your guests if you are prepared,” says Jessica Joyce, spokeswoman for Bed Bath & Beyond.

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After the open space committee adopted the plan, Worthley conducted a demonstration at Crescent Lake in early October in which he felled several ash trees with a chainsaw. The trees were located in an area of the forest designated for thinning, one of the plan’s components, Worthley said.

A portable band saw mill was then used to convert some of the timber into lum-ber, which was donated to the high school technical education program. As the management plan gets fully underway, lumber from the site may be sold.

C h r i s to p h e r M a r t i n , Director of Forestry for the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, saw media coverage of the event and was impressed by Southington’s responsible approach to forest manage-ment. The town “has shown great leadership” by adopting a comprehensive strategy in this area, he said.

The state concurs. In his statement, Reviczsky said the town’s “commitment to good agricultural prac-tices and sustainability is a model for other Connecticut communities.”

Martin said many people mistakenly equate tree cut-

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ting with “destroying the forest.” Due to this false as-sociation, some open space areas are neglected because well-intentioned individuals do not want to remove any trees, he said.

M a r t i n c o n t a c t e d Worthley, with whom he is acquainted because DEEP and UConn frequently part-ner on forestry projects, and recommended the town seek the Connecticut Grown des-ignation for wood products harvested from Crescent Lake. Worthley conveyed this information to town of-ficials, who submitted the application.

Town counci lor and open space commissioner Stephanie Urillo called the distinction “absolutely won-derful recognition for our town.”

Fellow councilor and commissioner Dawn Miceli agreed. “It’s another feather in our cap,” she said.

Miceli cited direct and in-direct economic benefits to Southington from the dis-tinction. The CT-Grown la-bel will boost lumber and firewood sales, she said, because many residents are inclined to support lo-cally grown or made items, along with local business in general.

Miceli said other local businesses, including re-altors, will also benefit as more people are drawn to Southington by this “unique and distinctive feature” of the town.

The town plans to assess all of its open space prop-erties to determine proper management plans for each, others of which may also be eligible for the program, she added.

Miceli said the town also benefits from the distinction aesthetically. “It adds to the overall beauty and charm of Southington,” she said.

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During the holidays, it can be all too easy to overeat. But there’s more at play when it comes to packing on pounds this time of year. Another holiday tradition that can af-fect your weight is stress.

Here are some important things to know about your body’s response to stress:

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-Diversify: Experts rec-ommend balancing different types of assets, such as cash, stocks, bonds and commodi-ties. Having different types of investments means you might be better shielded from eco-nomic crises, because some assets might fall while others might rise.

-Don’t rely on your home: If the recession taught people anything, it’s not to rely too much on home eq-uity for retirement. Many think their homes are more valuable than they really are or will be when it’s time to retire.

-Be philanthropic: “Those concerned about the future should be the first to grow effective local organizations providing real safety nets for

the destitute,” says Richards, who believes philanthropy is a moral responsibility best left to communities.

-Think of the future: When a consumer borrows, she or he alone bears the debt. However, when the government over-spends for short term goals, future gen-erations are expected to foot some, or all, of the bill. “This is immoral and no fancy eco-nomic theory can change that,” asserts Richards.

- Be civic: Your vote mat-ters to politicians. Call, write and visit them to express con-cerns over economic regula-tions you don’t support.

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“And when you don’t burn the sugar, it gets stored as

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body fat,” says Dr. Smith. “This is just one of the met-abolic imbalances caused by too much cortisol. There are many other problems caused by chronic stress that can pack on the fat.”

For example, too much cortisol, which results in a drop in serotonin, can drive sugar cravings and signifi-cantly increase appetite.

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It’s hugging, kissing and handshaking season.

It is a time of the year when friends and family get together for celebrations. There is lots of hugging, kiss-ing and handshaking, as peo-ple greet one another in the spirit of festivities. These ac-tions convey the love and af-fection between people, but these actions also provide the opportunity for the exchange of an unwanted gift: cold and flu germs.

There is a single personal action that all people can take to reduce their chance of getting sick or spreading germs. As simple as it may seem, this action is hand-washing. Not only does this help to prevent the spread of colds and the flu, it also helps

An ounce of prevention needed this time of yearPress Release

to protect against food borne illness, which affects millions of people each year and re-sults in about 5,000 prevent-able deaths.

Around the turn of the century, it was recognized that fewer persons died from medical procedures if the doctors washed their hands in between patients. This seems like common sense to us today, but prior to that recognition, this was not rou-tinely done. Throughout the years, multiple studies have continued to document the importance of handwashing and its relationship to certain illnesses.

To be effective, handwash-ing should include the use of soap and water, friction for at least 20 seconds (rubbing to-gether), and a thorough rins-ing and drying. Most soap is effective for reducing bacte-ria on the hands.

Washing hands with soap

and water is still the first choice for cleaning hands but hand sanitizers have become very popular. Kids carry them to school; you see them as you walk into the doctor’s office or the grocery store. Many people have asked, are they effective? The answer is in the absence of soap and water, these products are ef-fective in reducing the num-ber of microorganisms on your hands (but do not elim-inate them all). They are not an acceptable alternative when hands are visibly soiled (appear dirty) as they do not

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-Be sure to cover all the surfaces of your hands and fingers.

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alcohol-based.In addition to frequent

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Stephen Barmore surveyed the room at the Southington Knights Travel Football banquet Nov. 13 at the Aqua Turf Club with the same calm and confidence with which he surveys opposing de-fenses on Friday nights at Fontana Field.

The recognition was just as keen, if not better.For one thing, Barmore was as equally prepared

for his speaking performance as he is for every foot-ball game, with equal latitude to deviate from script and improvise.

For another, he had to see himself out in the crowd. After all, Barmore was sitting around those circular tables just five years ago, still aching from the state championship that had eluded him and his eighth-grade teammates.

Time can fly like a fade ball, even when you play varsity quarterback for four years.

Back when he was a baby-faced freshman and starting at varsity QB due to an injury to the senior first-stringer, Barmore was asked what he had been doing the year before.

“Playing Southington Knights Travel Football,” he answered with more than a hint of pride.

Nov. 13, the current president of that league, Mike Goralski, introduced Barmore, who will at-tending Yale on a football scholarship come next fall (and now sporting a beard as part of a men’s health awareness initiative, by the by) as “someone we should look up to.”

And Barmore’s message to the up-and-coming batch of Blue Knights? “Play football as if a college scout were watching, do schoolwork as if the prin-cipal were watching and do community service as if the Town Council were watching.”

At one point or another over the past four years, representatives from each group have watched Barmore lead the Blue Knights. If the course con-tinues as it has this season, the opportunity to continue watching will spill into December, when Barmore and his fellow seniors hope to land the state championship that got away in eighth grade.

Nov. 15, though, could prove to be the last time that this ballyhooed senior class plays on Fontana

Field. The playoffs are likely, but Southington might not get a home quarterfinal as it did last year. Nov. 15, with South Windsor in town for Senior Night, could be the last show on the home stage for a se-nior class and senior quarterback who rank with the best Southington has ever had.

“It’s definitely going to be very emotional for me and my senior teammates,” Barmore said after prac-tice Nov. 14 as the Blue Knights came up out of the darkness of their back-lot practice field. “We’re kind of relying on the underclassmen to send us off right and really come out here (tonight) and execute and get us a nice solid win to give us a fond memory of what happened on Fontana Field.”

Here’s the quantifiable analysis of what happened with Barmore and the Blue Knights in the 31 games in which he has started at QB, with at least three and perhaps as many as five still to go:

*26-5 record*2 division championships*997 points scored*5,696 yards passing (395-for-651)*61 TD passes, 23 interceptions*1,160 yards rushing, 272 carries

Those numbers were amassed with Southington running a different offense in each of Barmore’s four seasons. No major changes — the Blue Knights, original pioneers of the air attack in Connecticut — have more or less remained a base spread team,

In word, deed, Barmore deliversBy Bryant CarpenterSpecial to The Citizen

Stephen Barmore (12) is leading the Southington Blue Knights this season.| Justin Weekes / Special to The Citizen

See Barmore / Page 38

Usually 13 is an unlucky number. Not for Southington on Friday night.

After the first 13 offensive snaps the score was 42-0 and the Blue Knights were on their way to an-other big win.

In maybe its most dominating per-formance to date, in a season filled with lopsided victories, Southington (8-1) blanked South Windsor (0-10) on senior night at Fontana Field, 45-0.

“It was definitely nice to go out on a high note because of all the work we’ve put in and the dedication that we’ve had to this program,” said senior co-captain and QB Stephen Barmore.

After losing the coin toss,

Southington made a quick stop on defense, then scored and scored and scored and, well, you know the rest.

“We were able to run the ball, throw the ball, Steve did a great job and all the guys did a great job get-ting the offense going,” head coach Mike Drury said.

Alex Jamele caught three more Barmore touchdown passes, put-ting him at 22 for the year, just two shy of tying the Southington record. Senior co-captains Tyler Hyde and Zach Maxwell accounted for rush-ing scores and the Blue Knights even got a 37-yard field goal from senior kicker Kyle Smick, the only sec-ond-half points.

“We’re really clicking on all cyl-inders right now,” Barmore said simply.

After the game, the talk was about

this possibly being the last game under the lights of Fontana Field for the senior class, unless they re-turn for a home playoff contest. Southington is currently fifth in the Class LL rankings. It would need to be in the top four to play at home in the quarterfinals.

“Bittersweet,” said senior corner-back Michael Lange. “More sweet than bitter, but definitely going to miss this place. Hopefully we’ll be back here for the playoffs.”

While a small group – there are only 16 seniors on the 75-man roster – Drury said they’ve meant a lot to the program.

“These kids have been all-in for four years,” said the coach. “They’re all great character kids, solid class-room kids and very hard, hard workers.”

But enough with the nostalgia. There’s still one regular season game left – the annual Thanksgiving Day battle with Cheshire, where re-cords don’t matter. The Rams come in with a deceptive record floating around .500, in large part a result of a grueling schedule. Drury knows this and expects his team to be ready.

“We’ve been really mentally pre-pared for the last several weeks,” he explained. “They know definitely not to take Cheshire lightly.”

And for Barmore and the 15 other seniors, this is a long time coming.

“The senior class has been waiting for this season since eighth grade and obviously Cheshire, we view it as the biggest game of the year,” he said. “Come Thanksgiving, we’re go-ing to be probably the most excited we’ve been all season.”

Blue Knights keep it rollingBy Michael GuerreraSpecial to The Citizen


Barmore

but there was enough tweak-ing and tinkering to warrant learning new plays and block-ing schemes and receiver routes every year.

Here’s the coaching analy-sis of why Barmore has made it work:

“First of all, he’s a leader. Second of all, he has skill. Third of all, he’s willing to prepare,” said Chuck Drury, the long-time veteran head coach at Pomperaug who is now offensive coordinator on his son Mike’s Southington staff. “He prepares year-round to be a starting quarterback. He’s coachable, he under-stands the offense, he makes good decisions.”

As Drury notes, Barmore works on his game year-round. And yet he is not an athlete who specializes. Barmore plays basketball for the Blue Knights in winter

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and runs track as an All-State sprinter in the spring.

Through it all, though, Barmore works on his foot-ball. Since sixth grade he’s had a private quarter-back coach, Travis Meyer (UConn’s Casey Cochran, Florida’s Tyler Murphy and Washington Redskin Jordan Reed are among his other clients). Even before that, Barmore had a speed and agility coach in Gino Caro of Bloomfield, owner of Fast Lane Sports Performance, with whom he continues to work with to this day.

Then there are all the camps and clinics that Barmore’s parents, Mike and Linda, drove him around to. By the time he got to the high school, it was really no sur-prise that he became the first freshman ever to start at QB for Southington when senior starter Connor Butkiewicz underwent an appendectomy and missed four games.

“Steve coming in, right

away he lit our eyes up as coaches because not only do you have a kid who seemed so mature for his age — and he was, socially — and he was big in stature (he was a little thinner back then), but still a strong kid, still a kid with good speed. And the intel-ligence factor was just big,” said Mike Drury, who was an assistant on D.J. Hernandez’s staff in that 2010 season be-fore becoming head man the next.

“Steve was really the only true quarterback. We had a couple guys who could do Wildcat, but we thought to give ourselves the best option to run and throw we needed Steve in there, so it was a pretty easy decision.”

Talk about a pressure cooker, though. Barmore was not just starting as a fresh-man, he was starting against rival New Britain and, with the game at Rentschler Field, in a college stadium to boot.

“I was definitely nervous.

How can you not be in that situation?” Barmore said. “But I trust the preparation in practice. The coaches get us ready, we prepare very well. We always have good weeks of practice, so it’s hard not to feel good going into a game when I know that I have prac-ticed hard the entire week and the entire team has prac-ticed hard. We just have to go out and execute.”

Barmore threw just eight passes that first game. He completed all but one for 95 yards and three TDs.

“I can still remember my first varsity start like it was yesterday, out on Rentschler Field. I can still remember all the emotions going through my body, going through my head that night,” Barmore said. “It’s very surreal that it’s all happened so fast and we’re already at this point.”

It proved to be the first and last time he had pre-game jitters. Preparation is all. Barmore won three more games, then gave way when Butkiewicz was cleared to return.

The next year, he and the Blue Knights slumped. Part of it was just bad luck. In midseason, while scor-ing a touchdown at Conard, Barmore suffered a shoul-der injury that ultimately re-quired offseason surgery. In the meantime, he returned after missing two games, but the Blue Knights were on their way to a 6-4 season.

A year later, everything came together. Blessed with an experienced line, some possession receivers and other guys who could stretch the field, Barmore went over 2,000 yards passing as the Blue Knights ran the reg-ular-season table. He was named All-State Class LL and was high on the college radar.

Barmore likes to joke that being a third-string NFL quarterback has to be the ideal job (good pay and all the pro perks with low risk of on-the-job injury), but he was always level-headed in weighing his college options. He’s president of the school’s National Honor Society. He was up past one in the morn-ing earlier this week get-ting homework done. In his mind, strong academics come first, strong football second. College must prepare him for a career, not for the NFL, which is what led him to set-tle on Yale in April.

He wanted to make the de-cision early in order to be uncluttered during his senior season, a move he does not regret.

“I’ve been able to focus completely on the season, on my teammates, on my team,” he said. “Just not having that looming over my head has been a huge relief. It’s just been nice not to have to worry about it.”

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Esteemed Cheshire High volleyball coach Sue Bavone was considerably steamed when she found that her Class LL semifinal volleyball game against Fairfield Ludlowe was to be held at Trumbull High School.

Bavone’s multiple concerns had plenty of validity.

Ludlowe and Trumbull both play in the FCIAC, so the Falcons have a degree of familiarity with the facil-ity. Ludlowe is 13 miles from Trumbull High, a 17-minute ride. Cheshire is 30 miles away, a 40-minute ride.

On the surface, it seemed inequitable. The Rams were the undefeated top seed. Ludlowe was fifth.

Wouldn’t Cheshire get some kind of consider-ation in such a matter? Why couldn’t the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference select a site more strategically located – perhaps Derby or Amity Regional, Bunnell-Stratford or Jonathan Law-Milford?

“The excuses often given preclude a number of schools,” said Bob Lehr, the former Southington High athletic director who is now a member of the CIAC’s ex-ecutive staff. “Many athletic directors have put their vol-leyball stuff away. Some have teams in the field hockey or soccer tournaments, have football games going on and don’t want the added burden.”

Bavone has been coaching at Cheshire for 20 years and at Watertown before that, so she is well-acquainted with the workings of the CIAC and the volleyball committee. She says the topic ventures from what’s equitable for her play-ers to what’s right for stu-dent-athletes, their families and the program’s support-ers in town.

“It ’s a doubleheader (Staples met Greenwich at 5 p.m. with Cheshire-Ludlowe following). The kids won’t get home until close to 11. It’s a bone of contention for me and I’m very frus-trated,” Bavone said prior to the match. “We need to look at this as a state. If we truly

The search for neutral groundBy Ken LipshezSpecial to The Citizen

can’t find neutral sites, then don’t make it neutral.”

The issue at hand is that not all neutral sites are avail-able for one reason or an-other. In some cases, athletic directors do not wish to load extra work on themselves and their staffs.

In other cases, the facil-ities may have been previ-ously allocated for use for basketball practice or town recreational use.

Bavone’s response to that dilemma is to stage the semi-finals at the home court of the higher seed. Certainly Cheshire earned that right by capturing the top seed, but the CIAC but the volley-ball semifinals have always been at neutral sites and pro-curing them is a task fraught with pitfalls.

“[Tournament director Jeanne Cooper] has done the best job she possibly can,” Lehr said. “Tournament di-

rectors are trying to tie it down several days ahead and she worked at it for weeks. You have to find sites ahead of time so they can get ticket takers, etc. To find someone to host it with adequate light-ing and adequate parking, you minimize a lot of sites.”

Trumbull has become a de-pendable postseason site.

“[Trumbull AD Michael Herbst] is terrific,” Lehr said. “He runs it professionally. He also does wrestling. And it’s easy to get to.”

I fully understand the con-cerns voiced by Bavone. So much is at stake. She and her team have put so much time into making a deep tour-nament run. Emotions are high and nerves are frayed. For the Cheshire players and fans, I wish there had been a better way.

But the CIAC’s position must be taken into consider-ation. Tournament directors,

with the help of the CIAC’s administrative leaders and the committees in the var-ious sports, have equal re-spect for all teams and show no favoritism when they make their choices.

Few folks take the time to consider the vast require-ments and extensive planning necessitated by postseason tournaments. But win or lose, the memories from them last a lifetime, particularly for the student-athletes, who are at the core of why such compe-titions have evolved.

What everybody should keep in mind is that those who advance to the far reaches of the tournament benefit from the full extent of what high school sports have to offer.

This isn’t the domain of

professional sports nor the NCAA we’re talking about here. We shouldn’t trans-pose our opinions shaped by today’s 24/7 sports me-dia onto what’s suitable for teenagers. These games are part of a curriculum to pre-pare them for what the un-certain future holds, and I’m thinking that interscholastic sports are as vital in prepar-ing them as their time spent in the classroom.

Somebody has to make the tough decisions and, as far as I can see, the administra-tors the CIAC has assembled have done a workmanlike job under considerable pressure.

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Drury. “Last year, you just saw he was head and shoul-ders above where he was sophomore year. This year, he’s got really great control of our offensive scheme. A lot of this stuff is new. Steve bought right into it and he was extremely patient in learning it. He knew he was going to make a few mistakes along the way, but right now, he and the coaches are on the same wavelength.”

So is the whole unit. They feed off his confidence and poise.

“He knows everything that’s going on at all times,” said Zach Maxwell, the All-State defensive end who ro-tates in at running back. “He knows what he’s going to do. He’s calm when he gets the ball and he’s real good under pressure. That’s real key.”

Maxwell and Barmore go way back. They were first teammates on that travel team in eighth grade. That Barmore would develop into a star varsity quarterback, Maxwell said, was readily ap-parent even then.

“We all knew once we got up to high school one day he would be special. Even from his freshman year when he first started against New Britain and threw (three) touchdowns, we knew,” Maxwell said.

And now it’s come to this: Senior Night, the last home hurrah, a playoff road, one last bid for a state championship.

Four years come and gone like a fade ball. It seems to float up there forever, then comes down so fast. Barmore has completed the majority that he’s thrown. It’s led him to Yale, but he still plays as if the college scouts are watch-ing. All that remains is for he and his fellow seniors to hit that last one.

“After that eighth grade year we looked at each other and said, ‘We have a shot to do this in high school.’ This is the year. This is the year we’ve been waiting for. I think it’s been going pretty well so far. We’re just hoping to carry it out all the way and get this thing finished, get this thing done.”

yards, 27 TDs and just four interceptions.

He truly is in charge out there. He calls out the block-ing assignments to the line-men. Chuck Drury and the offensive assistants call the plays, but Barmore has li-cense to check out if he sees

something better. Some au-dibles have produced touch-downs. At the worst, they’ve produced fewer yards than Barmore expected. Nothing, however, has blown up on him.

“Steve really has devel-oped even more,” said Mike

In a replay of the Class L meet, Darien got the bet-ter of FCIAC rival New Canaan to win the team championship Saturday at the girls swimming State Open at Yale’s Kiputh Pool.

Cheshire finished an area-best 10th, led by ju-nior Lindsay Smalec’s sec-ond-place performance in the 100-yard butterfly.

Smalec, the Class L champ, swam a 57.61. She was also seventh in the 200-yard individual medley (2:10.70) and swam on two relays with senior Laura Mongillo and junior Ellie Senft. The trio was joined by senior Denise Costello on the fourth-place 400 freestyle (3:38.02) and by freshman Lily Kurtz on the fifth-place 200 medley (1:50.53).

Mongillo went on to fin-ish eighth in the 100 back-stroke (1:00.15), while Kurtz was ninth in the 100 breast-

stroke (1:08.44). Senft was 21st in the 50 freestyle (25.35).

Among other area qual-ifiers for the State Open, Sheehan junior Brianna Buehler was fifth in 1-me-ter diving. She compiled 344.50 points.

In the same event, Meriden’s Rebekah Hall, a senior, was 14th with 304.90 points. Lyman Hall sopho-more Kiersty Neeman was 18th (289.55) and Cheshire freshman Emily Glatt 24th (270.10).

Lyman Hall junior Holly Driscoll and Southington senior Laurel Dean both qualified in the breast-stroke. Driscoll was 14th (1:09.87) and Dean 20th (1:10.37).

Dean also teamed with senior Aly Baribault, junior Bailey Potter and fresh-man Marisa Matthews on Southington’s 200 free-style relay (24th, 1:46.21). Matthews was 22nd in the 50 free (25.42).

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Yes, winter is upon us and some great skiing is in your future. There are 64 resorts open in North America – 10 in New England – with more opening this week. Now is the hour to get ready for some great slope time this winter.

Are you ready?It’s time to get your equip-

ment checked out, your body into shape and -. the fun part of late Fall – your travel planned. Are you going to spend Christmas at Cannon, Kwanzaa at Killington, holi-day break at Bretton Woods, or President’s Week at Park City?

Start with your equipment. Get it out, clean it, and check it over. Those old boards may need a good tune up. Are your old skis or boots getting a lit-tle tired and sad? It could be time to treat your self to some new gear.

If you’ve been like a stone all summer, and just sat around the yard, you’d bet-ter get to working out. If not, those first few runs on a mountain will be pain-ful. Anything you do now will help. Walk around the neighborhood or jog a little. At work, take the stairs in-stead of the elevator. Bicycle around town.

To plan the travel for the season, hit the web. There are some great deals available now that won’t be there next week. To get some ideas, hit a ski show. The annual Ski, Sun, and Travel Expo is this week-end in Cromwell. You could get some good information there.

Don’t skip the smaller re-sorts. They offer some great family fun and you won’t lose the little ones on a gi-ant mountain. The mega re-sorts will have more miles of trails covered with ma-

Snow Views: tuning up for the seasonBy Dave MongilloSpecial to The Citizen

chine made flakes, but there are five ski hills right here in Connecticut. A stay-cat-ion could save some money and leave some great family memories.

Here at home there is a new kid on the block. After almost seven seasons in the weeds, Powder Ridge is set to come back to life. The people that run Brownstone

Discovery Park in Portland have resurrected the 50-year-old resort and plan to offer skiing adventure in time for Christmas. Check it out, but check the conditions before you travel.

Mount Southington is in its 50th season and ready to crank up the guns when the weather cooperates. They have eight new Alpine Tec

fan jet snow guns and the wiring to make them run.

“The investment will al-low us to make snow on both sides of the hill at the same time,” Ed Beckley, general manager at Mount Southington, said. “That will give us more runs open when we start up the lifts and bet-ter conditions on the whole mountain every day. As soon

as it gets cold, we’ll be ready to run”.

Mount Southington also has 1,000 new skis in the rental shop and new furni-ture in the Alpine Eatery.

M o h aw k M o u n t a i n , Woodbury Ski Hill, and Ski Sundown are also ready to open for the season as soon as Mother Nature gives us some winter weather.

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A tree made by the Arc of Southington caught the attention of Tracey Bentz and Rosemary Champagne. Called “It’s a doggie world”, the tree was filled with dog treats and toys.

“I think they’re absolutely beautiful and so creative,” said Champagne who works at Hair Expo salon on Main Street.

Years ago Champagne re-membered donating a tree with a theme having to do with the salon. It was filled with rollers, hair colors, brushes, and more.

Since July, Davis said the United Way has been work-ing with the Elks Lodge and other businesses to organize the event. This is the third time the United Way put on this fundraiser, but Davis said it’s been a number of years since the last one was held. In 2006 more than $7,500 was raised and the highest price paid for a tree was $350.

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