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Residents speak
against gun
control at hearing
e majority of the approximately
100 people in attendance
at a public hearing at Canton
High School Monday, March 25
indicated their disapproval with
the idea of gun control. Speakers
insisted not only that gun control
was contrary to the Second
Amendment, but also that it
would not stop gun violence.
Many suggested looking to ways
to deal with mental health problems.
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principal
Lewis Mills Assistant Principal Dr.
William Silva will become the new
Farmington High School principal
next school year. PAGE 17.
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Hundreds of children hunted for eggs at the 17th annual Easter Egg Hunt at Farmington Miniature Golf & Ice Cream Parlor last Saturday, March 30. The
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through the mini golf course collecting 15,000 plastic Easter eggs filled with candy. Young Marines from Danielson stuffed the eggs over the last few
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Retiring after 32 years
Granby Police Sgt. Robert Castle retired Sunday after 32 years of dedicated service to the Town of Granby.
Castle is a longtime Granby resident, having graduated from Granby High School. He is a Vietnam era veteran
of the United States Air Force. Castle was hired in April of 1981 by Granby’s first police chief. He has
had an exemplary career with many commendations. A ceremony honoring his service was held at the
police department last Thursday, March 28. He looks forward to spending more time with his wife, Jessica,
and daughter, Annabelle. Pictured left to right are: Town Manager William Smith, Police Chief Carl
Rosensweig, Castle and First Selectman John Adams.
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Tips from local experts to spruce up for spring
By Alison Jalbert
Editorial Assistant
e coming of spring and the
regrowth of plant life often inspires
people to shed their tired winter
looks and make some changes that
match the newly colorful world
outside.
While spring cleaning
is a common task taken
on at the changing of the
seasons, the warmer
weather can also be the
perfect time to get organized
and freshen up
home décor and fashion.
Cool colors create a warm,
inviting room
Sue Cesana, design consultant
for Maher’s Paint in Avon, said that
many people are choosing to put
bright accent colors in their rooms,
but not necessarily on their walls.
“Gray is a hugely popular [wall
color], but a lot more people who are
gravitating toward gray want to put
bright pops of color with it,” she said.
“People will do a gray room with a
coral or turquoise ceiling.”
Gray may have gained its popularity
by being touted as a trendy
color, but Cesana said people have
discovered its versatility. “I’ve had
people discover over the years that
in order to have a warm, inviting
room, you don’t have to pick a color
from that warm side of the color
wheel. You can use what are very
cool colors and have a very cozy
room using patterns, accent art and
fabrics.”
Cesana said pairing gray and
yellow is a popular option, which coincides
with Benjamin Moore’s 2013
color of the year, lemon sorbet.
While companies like Benjamin
Moore, Behr and Pantone
offer trendy colors for the season,
Cesana urges people to pick colors
that make them comfortable.
If changing wall or ceiling color
seems too drastic a step to take, another
way to punch up the color inside
is to consider slipcovering
existing furniture, said Joseph
Gallinoto, owner of Imperial Decorating
& Upholstering in West Hartford.
Gallinoto said another easy
way to freshen up a room’s look is to
add new throw pillows. Experimenting
with patterns, solids and
unique trims on pillows can help
change the feel of a room, especially
for homeowners on a budget.
Many of Gallinoto’s customers
at this time of the year are coming
in to freshen up the looks of their
sunroom or screened-in porch, picking
fabrics that have dual indoor/outdoor
use. “ey like a
splash of spring colors that are more
of the Florida colors – fuschias,
viridian pool colors, bright bluebell
colors,” Gallinoto explained. Jungle
prints, geometric patterns and ikat
fabrics are also popular.
Bring spring flowers’ colors
to your wardrobe
Much like the weather, people
tend to wear a lot of
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from winter
wear into spring
fashion is to pull out all the colored
items of clothing you own.
“Even if you don’t want to go
out and buy anything, [pulling out
the colorful items] will help you
brighten up,” she said.
Another budget-friendly tip to
help freshen up a spring wardrobe is
accessorizing with color, whether it
be shoes, a scarf or jewelry. “It’s a
way to splash come color into your
wardrobe without spending a fortune,”
Polgar said.
Sorting through your wardrobe
might be part of some people’s
spring cleaning. e mantra, “If you
haven’t worn it in a year, get rid of it,”
is common, but Polgar said to be
hesitant to get rid of everything. “If
it fits you well, hold on to it. It doesn’t
matter whether you’ve worn it in
the last year. … Go through and keep
the classics – stuff that’s not too
trendy and can follow you through
the seasons from trend to trend.”
Staples for a spring wardrobe
are a good pair of sandals, floral fabrics
and free-flowing fabrics, Polgar
said. Sandals are good transitional
shoes for the often unpredictable
spring temperatures and can be
paired with jeans and a cardigan as
well as a dress.
Color isn’t limited to just
clothes; Polgar said it’s “always fun”
to use colors with makeup, but she
advised to be careful of your own
coloring. “You don’t want anything
that washes you out or stands out
too much.”
With all of the choices available
in makeup, people often get overwhelmed,
so Polgar suggested going
to a makeup counter at a department
store and have them do a color
match.
“You can splash a little more of
a vibrant color in the spring. Put on
a little bit of blush and lipstick, but
make sure they complement each
other,” she said.
Take time to organize your
memories
Photo organization may not fall
on the traditional list of spring
cleaning activities, but spring pro-
vides the perfect time in between
the holiday season and the summer
months to get organized, whether
it’s on the computer or in a photo
album.
Cathi Nelson, founder of the
Association of Personal Photo Organizers,
said she uses the ABCS of
photo organizing to help her clients,
both digitally and in print. When
sorting through photos, the “A’s” are
the ones to be put in an album,
framed or used as a photo gift. e
“B” photos are the ones to be put in
a box or backed up. Nelson said to
back up photos in three ways: by
printing them, storing them on an
external hard drive and by putting
them on the cloud.
Photos designated as a “C” are
to be thrown away or deleted. “Yes,
you can throw photos away,” Nelson
said. In a digital age, where people
are not limited by rolls of film, they
often get into the habit of taking
multiple pictures of one thing, like a
sunset. “You don’t need a thousand
photos of a sunset. Get in the habit
of picking one photo and deleting or
throwing away the others.”
e final letter in the acronym,
“S,” stands for “story.” Nelson said
that if a picture tells a story, even if
it’s not a perfectly composed photo,
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Local woman helps establish Girl Scout museum
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
An Avon woman donated
$25,000 toward a museum for the
Connecticut Girl Scouts, but it
wasn’t about the money.
“It was my baby. I spent a lot
of time down there [in North
Haven],” said Cheryl McGuff.
ough McGuff has been a
Girl Scout since she was a girl herself,
it wasn’t until adulthood that
she really began to love the organization,
she said.
“When I was a girl, Girl Scouting,
I was good, [but] it wasn’t really
my main thing. I kind of grew
into Girl Scouts,” McGuff said. “It
was a very familiar place for me. …
It was just a place for me to go
when my kids were little. I could
just go out and be with adults.”
Her relationship with the organization
grew and, in 1993,
McGuff became a part of its historical
committee, where she met
other former Girl Scouts, including
a group of women who had been
on the committee since 1988.
“ey’ve always had this
dream of having a museum, but
they just never had the money,”
McGuff said. “I said, ‘It’s time to do
it.’”
So, with her $25,000 and
$5,000 each from Phyllis Palm and
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Pictured are old Girl Scout uniforms that were on display as part of a Girl Scout project at the Unionville Museum
last year. Similar memorabilia is now on display at the recently opened Girl Scouts of Connecticut Museum that
Avon resident Cheryl McGuff helped put together and to which she donated $25,000. File photo
memorabilia including old uniforms,
Girl Scout books and pictures
of troops, explained Tiffany
Ventura, Girls Scouts of Connecticut
communications and public
relations manager.
“It’s a lot of eclectic things in
the collection that just encompass
the history of Girl Scouts in the
state,” Ventura said.
McGuff put together many of
the displays. She found old pieces
and scrapbooks in the basement of
the Girl Scout Service Center in
North Haven, “neat historical
items that hit a cord,” she said.
She wanted these special
items to be accessible to more
people, so she gathered them up
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for me. I love looking at uniforms
and the pins.”
One display at the museum is
of Alice Pattison Merritt, a Girl
Scout in the 1900s who in 1925 became
the first female state senator
in Connecticut.
“She was a very accomplished
woman in her time,” said McGuff.
Approximately 70 people attended
the ribbon-cutting ceremony
that officially opened the
Girl Scouts of Connecticut Museum
to the public Sunday, March
10, which was Girl Scout Sunday
and the beginning of Girl Scout
Week.
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public and programs will be held
there for Girl Scouts to earn
badges and learn about the history
of Scouting in the state, Ventura
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“It’s a wonderful little spac. I’d
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Arts Exclusive Gallery closing after nearly four decades
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
After 38 years, a Simsbury art
gallery is closing its doors.
Arts Exclusive Gallery on Hopmeadow
Street has lost its lease
and the building is in the process
of being sold, explained Dick
Bahre, the gallery’s financial adviser
and gallery owner Phillip
Janes’ good friend. Janes is not at
this time planning to move, but instead
will close the gallery at the
end of April.
“Basically, the economy,” Bahre
said as to why the decision was
made. “Art, especially fine art, is
somewhat of a luxury item and it’s
one of the first things that people
cut back on when times get tough.”
Janes, who is currently in the
hospital, sent his farewells via a
press release.
“Difficult economic times
have made it a challenge to sell
quality artwork,” he said. “I’ve had
a good run with loyal gallery
friends and clients. ank you to
everyone who has supported me
over the years.”
Bahre, who is running the
gallery in Janes’ absence, told e
Valley Press some history.
Back in the 1960s, Janes was in
the Peace Corps. After that, he
worked for CARE, an international
relief organization, Bahre said.
While working for the organization,
he was sent to various countries
including India, Vietnam and
Nigeria.
“While he was stationed there,
he would pick up various pieces of
folk art, things you and I might not
consider art, but Phillip did. He got
quite an eclectic collection,” Bahre
said. “He had no formal training in
art, just a natural talent that he
came upon.”
When he returned home, he
opened a gallery near Abigail’s
Grille & Wine Bar, which at the
time was e Chart House. In 1986,
he moved to a location on Route 44
in Avon.
“When the bust came, he actually
lost that building and moved
up here,” Bahre said.
at was in 1990.
e space where he moved is
nestled in the back of the historical
building on the corner of Hopmeadow
Street and Drake Hill
Road. Before the gallery went there,
the space was unfinished and had
the appearance of a warehouse,
Bahre said.
John Eckel of Pinnacle Investment
Management Inc. witnessed
the transformation Janes brought
to the part of the building the
gallery occupies.
“It was really a decrepit space,”
he said.
After Janes was finished with
it, however, it became a beautiful
location where Pinnacle has held
parties and educational events.
“It was just a wonderful, wonderful
space,” Eckel said. “It was
great for the community to have
the art as well as the gallery. ... It’s
just been a really, really important
part of the community, as far as I’m
concerned.”
Bahre concurs.
“I love coming here, spending
time here. Phillip always has a bottle
of wine that he opens up when
people come here,” Bahre said. “It’s
just a wonderful feeling to walk
around and see all the works.”
Over the years, Eckel has purchased
many pieces of art from the
gallery.
e gallery displays art from
30 artists from around the country,
and Janes has held openings for
artists on a monthly basis, Bahre
said. He has also held a director’s
choice event twice a year, during
which artists have come and
worked in the gallery.
Janes also maintained close
friendships with all the artists
whose work he displayed.
“Phillip describes his relationship
with each of the artists like a
marriage, with each and every one
of them,” Bahre said.
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Pictured are works inside the Arts Exclusive Gallery, currently located on
Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury, which is closing at the end of the month
after 38 years. Photo by Sloan Brewster
Caughtry, of Ashford, who works in
watercolors, has exhibited pieces
at the gallery – in its various locations
– for 37 years and is a personal
friend of Janes.
“Very sad,” he said of the
gallery’s upcoming closure. “is is
not good, but it’s a sign of our
times, isn’t it? I’m afraid our communities
and our society are losing
a lot of good things.”
Over the past 3 1/2 decades,
Janes has sold thousands of Mc-
Caughtry’s paintings and, currently,
60 more are on exhibit at the
gallery.
“He has insisted on having a
large inventory of my work,” Mc-
Caughtry said. “I’ve exhibited in
galleries from Virginia north and
Colorado east, Chicago, Washington,
D.C., Pittsburgh, Maine and
everywhere in between. I can tell
you, Arts Exclusive was one of the
finest galleries in the country, no
question about it.”
As the gallery prepares to
close, more than 500 paintings and
sculptures are being offered at 50
percent off their original price
through Tuesday, April 30.
e selection includes oil and
watercolor paintings, pastels, photographs,
collagraphs, and bronze,
terra cotta and marble sculptures
in a variety of traditional and eclectic
styles.
Artists whose work will be
sold include: Adams, Bentley-
Scheck, Brangaccio, Bumbeck,
Camp, Compton, Coon, Dwight,
Gray, Geier, Heminway, Highsmith,
Laliberte, Lewis, Longley, Ludwig,
Martin, McCaughtry, Milici,
Palmer, Pokrasso, Schnabel, Smith,
Wass, Wensberg and Winship.
Nearly the entire art collection
can be viewed on the Arts Exclusive
website at www.arts-exclusive.com
For more information, call
860-651-5824.

Simsbury artists to open their studios for tour
By Jennifer Senofonte
Staff Writer
Twelve local artists will open
their studio doors and invite the
public in to watch and learn about
their crafts firsthand.
e fourth annual Simsbury
Open Studios will take curious onlookers
of all ages on a tour
through personal art studios April
13 and 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A map will guide participants
around the town of Simsbury and
onto the properties of these
painters, potters and others to see
their talent in action.
“Our studios will be open so
you can see us work,” Simsbury
Open Studios President Anne
Melvin said. “We love to talk to
people about what inspired us and
why we do what we do.”
Melvin encourages parents to
bring their children for the tour so
the young people can witness how
art is made. “ey get it in school,
but they can see the professionals
do it,” she said.
She is a potter and explained
that chemistry and physics are at
the forefront of her process and
she likes to teach studiogoers
about that.
Children love to see her on the
pottery wheel and touch the clay
as it forms in the spinning motion,
she explained.
“It’s an activity where it’s OK
for them to get dirty,” she said.
e artists will have their
work for sale at their studios the
weekend of Simsbury Open Studios
as well.
Many different mediums and
styles will be represented through
the different artists including watercolor,
pastel and oil paintings,
pottery and sculpture.
Melvin’s niche and inspiration
in pottery was learning how to
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make crystals on her pieces. Her
biography on simsburyopenstudios.org
says, “I found the wonder
of crystals that form on my porcelain,
like frost on a windowpane.”
e event is in its fourth year
and it has evolved to what it is
today because the group of artists
works well together, she said. “is
is our way of being able to support
other charities,” she said.
Community support through
this event circles back to other organizations
by allowing the artists
to participate in local craft fairs
such as the annual Simsbury
Woman’s Club arts and crafts fair
each September, Melvin said.
e Simsbury artists also frequent
the schools and give demonstrations
to art classes.
Melvin explained that Simsbury
Open Studios gives people a
chance to see the artists in their
own element adding a personal
and intimate experience instead of
seeing them out in the community.
Simsbury Open Studios is
made up of artists who strive to
create art and make art more accessible
to the public.
One member, Vicente Garcia,
is the local sculptor responsible for
the bike sculpture installment on
Hopmeadow Street along the Rail
Trail.
Open studios weekend is free
to the public. Directional signs
with yellow and blue brushes will
be located throughout the town
during the event.
For the map and further information
go to page 8 of this edition
of e Valley Press. For further
information about the artists, visit
simsburyopenstudios.org.
roughout the month of
April, Simsbury Open Studios
artists will have artwork on display
at the Simsbury Public Library to
show samples of styles and art
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Pictured right: Julia Parker Post
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
10 am-4 pm
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Vicente Garcia Catherine Elliott Grace Epstein Ruth Jacobson
Diana Lemcoff
Anne Melvin
Lori Racicot-Burrous
Claudia Ludovici
Rita Bond
Jacie Jakubowski
Deborah Leonard Julia Parker Post
Please visit www.simsburyopenstudios.org for more information

This project is supported, in part, by the
contributors to the United Arts
Campaign and the United Way
Community Campaign.
What is
Simsbury
Open
Studios?
Simsbury Open Studios Locations
Please bring this map with you.
2013 SOS Patrons
Avon Arts Association
Metro Bis, Simsbury
Peoples United Bank
Claudia Ludovici, Simsbury
Don Cristo, Merrill Lynch
Financial Advisors, West Hartford
Group Four Inc., Avon
Jacqueline M Jakubowski, Simsbury
Jerry's Artarama, West Hartford
Little City Pizza, Simsbury
Simsbury Bank, Simsbury
Steven Bond, MD, Farmington Valley
Orthopedics Assoc., Avon
HOSKINS RD
Simsbury Open Studios is a
group of diverse artists whose
goals are to inspire and educate,
and who strive to make
art and the creative process
more accessible to the public.
Jacie Jakubowski
14 Michael Road
202
10
Julie Parker-Post
12 Barry Lane
GREAT POND ROAD
Our members promote arts in
the community in a variety of
ways: we act as guests within
the public school system and
other schools; we participate in
library art programs with children;
and we are involved in
events in town throughout the
year. Many members are participating
in ARTWALK 2013.
SEMINARY ROAD
O W E N S B R O O K B L V D
BROOK DRIVE
HOPBROOK
PLANK HILL RD.
WESTLEDGE ROAD
Ellsworth Center
Simsbury Historical
Society,
800 Hopmeadow St.
IRON HORSE BOULEVARD
FIRETOWN ROAD
SHINGLE MILL RD.
Rita Bond
Simsbury Historial Society
800 Hopmeadow St.
FARMS VILLAGE ROAD
Anne Melvin
33 Fawnbrook
STRATTON BROOK
Vicente Garcia
10 Crescent Way
EAST WEATOGUE ST.
HOPMEADOW STREETHOPMEADOW STREET
OLD FARMS
Catherine Elliott
4 Brook Drive
Deborah Leonard
34 Shingle Mill
2013 SOS Donors
Anne Melvin, Simsbury
Anthony Brea, DC-Nutricom, Bloomfield
Bidwell's Garden Center. Simsbury
Design Forum, Farmington
Donna Crump, Electrolysis, Avon
Ethel Walker School, Simsbury
Frederick J Prior, CPA, Simsbury
Garden of Light, Avon
Harvest Café and Bakery, Simsbury
Holloways Appliance Center, Simsbury
Karen Rieger, KR Styles Salon, Simsbury
Marcy Cain, Cain Communication
Meadow Restaurant, Simsbury
P. J. Gronski, The Bicycle Cellar, Simsbury
Sarah Brynes Goldsmith, Simsbury
Stop and Shop, Avon
The Asylum Hair Salon, Canton
Vicente Garcia, Simsbury
This year twelve artists will
open their studios to the community
and invite you, your
family and friends to visit, see
their studios first hand and
share in the creative experience.
202
10
Lori Racicot-Burrous
43 Farmstead Lane
BUSHY HILL ROAD
FAWN BROOK LANE
STRATTON BROOK
SAND HILL RD.
Ruth Jacobson
17 Merrywood
WEST MOUNTAIN ROAD
Our information center will be
located at the Simsbury Historical
Society Ellsworth Center at
800 Hopmeadow St.
185
DEER PARK RD.
MERRYWOOD
Diana Lemcoff
14 Merrywood
Grace Epstein
8 Butternut Lane
LATIMER LANE
PINE GLEN ROAD
OVERLOOK TER.
This is a free event; partially
funded by a Greater Hartford
Arts Council Grant and many
generous donors.
BUTTERNUT
LANE
Claudia Ludovici
58 Hildurcrest Dr.
202
OLD MEADOW PLAIN ROAD
10
N
167
Farmington River
HOPMEADOW ST.
DAVID DRIVE
BLUE RIDGE DRIVE
10
44
CLIMAX ROAD
10
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202
ALCIMA DR.
BUSHY HILL ROAD
WEST MOUNTAIN ROAD
Please visit simsburyopenstudios.org for more information
“SOS is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Avon Arts Association”
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The Baseball Music Project in performance
Courtesy photo
‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’
Just in time for MLB Opening
Day, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
will perform “Take Me Out
to the Ball Game” Saturday, April 6
at 7:30 p.m. at Mortensen Hall at
e Bushnell Center for the Performing
Arts in Hartford.
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ompson, this baseball musical
match-up will recount the history of
America’s national pastime through
more than 2,000 archival photos
and videos from the National Baseball
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“Slide, Kelly, Slide” and “Let’s
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music from “e Natural” and “Field
of Dreams”; a baseball sing-along; a
special performance of “Casey at
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and former ESPN anchor J.W. Stewart,
and more.
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Rev Tor Band, Music in Common join forces to re-create ‘e Last Waltz’
Music in Common and the Rev
Tor Band announce a special live
performance of the band’s classic
1978 concert film, “e Last Waltz,”
Sunday, April 7 at 7 p.m. at Bridge
Street Live in Collinsville. e concert
features renditions of all the hits
by the band featured in the film such
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Creek” and “e Night ey Drove
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Janine Cote, Dennis Fancher,
Amy Fazzano-Goodusky, Scott Guberman,
Jeff Howard, Jen Mc-
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Last Fair Deal, Todd Mack, John
Mayock, Glen Nelson, Eric Paradine,
Mark Paradis, John Rider, Mike Sherman,
Brandt Taylor, Heather Wilcox
and Matt Zeiner.
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Hill-Stead Museum presents
play by local playwright
On Saturday, April 6 at 6:30
p.m., Hill-Stead Museum, 35
Mountain Road, Farmington, presents
“e Waltz,” a play based on
the life and times of French sculptor
Camille Claudel (1864-1943).
is original work – conceived,
written and directed by
local playwright Carolyn Kirsch –
explores Claudel’s tempestuous
relationship with sculptor Auguste
Rodin (1840-1917), her ongoing
struggle to be recognized in
20th-century Parisian art circles
and the question of her descent
into madness.
e five-person reading, underscored
by the music of Claude
Debussy, will be held in Hill-
Stead’s Drawing Room at 35
Mountain Road, Farmington, surrounded
by Impressionist masterpieces
by Monet and Degas.
Admission is $15 for museum
members, $20 for members-to-be.
Playwright Kirsch has performed
in 15 Broadway shows.
She was a member of the Original
Company of “A Chorus Line,” and
Margaret Wise Brown's
beloved children's book "Goodnight
Moon" is coming to life and
in musical form. Beginning Saturday,
April 6 and running
through April 14, professional actors
at Playhouse on Park, 244
Park Road, West Hartford, will
bring a musical adaptation of this
classic bedtime story to the stage.
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appeared in “CoCo” with
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opportunity to meet the cast in
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By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
e first ever Himalayan Salt
Cave in the state is in a West Hartford
spa.
Sarah Howes, owner of Elements,
a spa on Farmington Avenue
that opened in February,
wanted to bring something new
and different to Connecticut. With
that in mind, she had a cave constructed,
not just a standard manmade
cave, however. is one is
made of pink salt imported from
the Himalayas.
e pink salt is not just pretty.
It has health benefits, according to
Howes and multiple online
sources.
Himalayan salt, according to
a pamphlet provided by the spa, is
the purest form of salt found on
the earth and is the source of 82
necessary minerals.
Inhaling the salt by sitting in a
salt cave is called halotherapy and
is a treatment used by monks in
the Himalayas, where salt caves
are naturally occurring, according
to the pamphlet. e monks would
meditate in the caves regularly to
receive both physical and esoteric
benefits.
Howes studied with a massage
instructor in Massachusetts
and learned about the wellness effects
of sitting in a climate-controlled,
salt-enriched environment.
Howes’ instructor was originally
from Poland, where salt cave
treatments are commonly incorporated
into spas. She was the first
to build a salt cave in the United
States, Howes said. at instructor
also built the salt cave at Elements
Spa.
“It’s only been in the past 10
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me to build it.”
So far, her cave has been extremely
well received, Howes said,
adding that in the five weeks since
the spa opened, there have been
days when the cave was booked
hour to hour.
“People are enjoying it a lot,”
Howes said. “e biggest thing is
that people are rebooking.”
Sessions in the cave last for 45
minutes. Clients enter – wearing
socks supplied by the spa – and sit
in gravity-free chairs, settling down
and getting comfortable as the
door is quietly closed and gentle
relaxing music imbued with the
sounds of ocean waves begins to
play. For the first few minutes, a
man’s voice accompanies the
music as he explains some of the
health benefits of salt, including to
the upper respiratory system for
such ailments as asthma, allergies,
chronic bronchitis, and coughs
and colds.
According to a pamphlet provided
by the spa, it can even be a
help to more serious conditions including
cystic fibrosis and chronic
respiratory disease.
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Davis, who learned about it
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“It was really good. It was refreshing,
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sons. For her, it was sinus and respiratory
issues. “Very nice,” she
said afterward.
Both women said they would
be back.
e healing benefits of salt
caves are “really fascinating,”
Howes said. While some of her
clients have said they feel tired
after spending time in the salt
cave, for her, a session is clarifying
and invigorating, and she will take
a session to prepare for a long
drive.
“When I come out of there, I
feel just really clear. I actually get
energized from the salt cave,” she
said.
Howes has two children, a 2year-old
daughter and a 7-year-old
son, who sometimes spend time in
the salt cave.
“My children, they feel very intensely
in there, too,” she said. “We
had a sleepover in there. We built
tents.”
Other therapies at the spa include
massages, facials, microcurrent
therapy facials – or natural
face lifts.
“It’s really phenomenal,”
Howes said of the microcurrent
therapy, which is not commonly
offered in the area.
Another therapy she offers
that is new to this part of the state
is the Vichy shower, which is a
pipe with multiple shower heads
attached. It is designed for a client
to experience while lying on a
massage table and hits the
chakras, Howes said.
e seven chakras are centers
of force or energy aligned with vital
points on the physical body.
All products used at the spa
are 100 percent natural, organic
products, made in the Hamptons.
“It’s as local as I could get,”
Howes said. “We’re very excited to
be the first spa in this area that features
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Elements is located at 945
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PRESSDINING
By Julie-Ann Poll
Correspondent
Just when you thought the
booming burger business was leveling
off, another one pops up
claiming a “better burger.” A new
restaurant called BurgerFi is the
latest spot making a buzz in the
Farmington Valley.
BurgerFi is a franchise that
started in Florida. Mike and Paul
Cassetta learned about the chain
while vacationing in the sunshine
state. Two weeks ago, the father
and son owners opened the Avon
location – the first in the Northeast.
For many years, the burger
segment has been one of the most
powerful categories in the restaurant
industry.
According to the Technomic,
Inc. Top 150 Fast-Casual Chain
Restaurants and Consumer
Restaurant Brand Metrics reports,
fast-casual burger chains had the
strongest growth out of all the
menu category clusters among the
top 150 fast-casual chain restaurants
in 2011.
Fifty-four percent of consumers
frequent fast-casual burger
chains at least occasionally making
this the only fast-casual restaurant
category visited occasionally
by the bulk of consumers.
BurgerFi focuses on an “all-
.
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BurgerFi
natural tastes better and it’s better
for you” philosophy.
According to its owners, the
restaurant uses grass-fed Angus
beef from cattle that are humanely
raised 100 percent antibiotic and
hormone-free. e burgers are
never frozen and never cooked in a
microwave.
BurgerFi also uses high-quality
ingredients with handmade,
fresh preparation.
It shows its social consciousness
through an earth-friendly
décor, including chairs made from
recycled Coke bottles, strict recycling
habits and energy-efficient
operations.
e franchise believes that
the combination of these elements
will change the way we eat burgers
Greenhouse Cafe offers a
fresh, innovative menu
featuring locally sourced,
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Address: Avon Marketplace
plaza, 530R Bushy Hill Road,
Avon
Phone: 860-217-1403
Cuisine type: American
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burger joint – a “BurgerFication”
revolution.
is philosophy must be
working. e first time we visited
the new restaurant, we couldn’t
get in. ere was a line of customers
back to the entry and every
table was filled.
We left and had success the
next day at an off time.
We reviewed the menu board.
It includes burgers – both pre-set
and build your own – hot dogs,
“accessories,” such as fries and
onion rings, and desserts including
frozen custards, frozen concretes
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and cupcakes.
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ere is also a “secret” menu
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the secret menu. but patrons
are “in the know” through word of
mouth, social media or the restaurant’s
website.
e millennial generation especially
tends to like the secret
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menu concept because it generates
online excitement. ese customers
tend to feel like they have
a special bond with the restaurant
and staff since they are “in the
know.”
We chose the VegeFi Burger,
Chicago-style dog, fries with
Parmesan cheese and herbs, and a
chocolate shake.
e shake was thick, rich and
very chocolaty.
e veggie burger was served
on a multi-grain roll and had a rich
earthy flavor with a nutty crunchiness
provided by quinoa.
e hand-cut fries were crispy
and came in a generous size portion
– plenty for two. e Chicagostyle
dog had good zest from the
combination of spicy and sweet
toppings.
Another cool feature of the
restaurant is the “table tracker”
food delivery system.
You order your food at the
counter, but the staff does not
serve you your food directly at the
counter or by searching for table
tents or numbers given to guests
when ordering.
Instead, the staff gives you a
flat square device that transmits
the table number for your order.
Once your order is ready, the staff
delivers your food to the proper
table through the radio frequency
identification tracking device.
e Avon BurgerFi is the first
of two planned Connecticut locations.
e next Connecticut location
will be in Manchester,
opening this summer. Currently,
the franchise has 16 locations nationwide
and anticipates having 40
restaurants by year end.

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Solar tour in Canton April 13
e CELEBRATE SOLARIZE
solar tour in Canton April 13 from
1 to 4 p.m. will feature an electric/gas
hybrid plug-in car and
solar electric panels. Experts in
solar technology and electric/gas
hybrid vehicles will be part of two
seminars at 1 and 3 p.m.
e tour will also include the
knowledgeable owners, geothermal
and insulation experts and information
on LED lighting.
Representatives from the Connecticut
Clean Energy Finance
and Investment Authority as well
as the Canton Energy Task Force
will describe the new SOLARIZE
option. e program is designed to
encourage the adoption of residential
photovoltaic installations
that provide increased savings to
homeowners as more people in
SOLARIZE communities install
solar.
e new tour home has a di-
Alastair ‘Al’ Bell wins
Exchange Club award
Al Bell is this year’s recipient of
the Farmington Exchange Club’s
Book of Golden Deeds Award, an acknowledgment
of outstanding service
to the community. e award
recognizes dedicated volunteers who
give endless hours of their time and
talent toward making their community
a better place to live. Over 40
years ago, Bell brought soccer to the
Farmington community. His passion
for the game of soccer began in his
native Scotland and led him to start
the very first soccer program in
Farmington in 1973. Over the next 40
years, Bell devoted countless hours of
time and energy, developing Farmington’s
soccer program and making
it into one that is a true model for
other programs across the state and
nation. Bell will be honored at the Exchange
Club’s meeting at the Farmington
Country Club ursday, April
18 at 6 p.m. Dinner is $35. For reservations
call Carole King at 860-916-
1144 before April 12.
rect exchange DX geothermal
closed loop system, which supplies
all the heat and hot water.
irty-six monocrystalline Sun-
Power panels comprise the 8.1 kW
system, partially funded through
CEFIA’s Residential Solar Investment
Program. e solar system
supplies over one-third of the
home’s electricity. e tour will
also include information about
statewide new energy rebates.
e tour seminar is sponsored
by People’s Action for Clean
Energy (PACE). It is co-sponsored
by the Connecticut Clean Energy
Finance and Investment Authority.
Tickets are $15 per person and
can be purchased at New England
Appliance in the Canton Village
shopping center. To order tickets
online go to www.pace-cleanenergy.org.
For ticket information call
860-796-4543. For tour information
call 860-693-4813.
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Receiving an award for 30
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7,484 callouts.
Fifteen year awards went to
Assistant Chief Patrick Tourville,
AVFD members
recognized for
Sandy response
In preparation foro and in the
wake ofo Hurrican Sandy, the
statewide Fire-Rescue Disaster Plan
was activated last October into November.
e response from the fire
service during the storm was the
largest intrastatet mobilization of
fire equipment and manpower in the
statewide Fire-Rescue Disaster Plan’s
history. e Avon Volunteer Fire Department
was part of that effort, and
select members have been commended
for their efforts.
Capt. Tom Kline and Firefighter
David Costill received a citation for
tanker coverage to Fairfield. Capt.
Tim O’Neill, and Firefighters Jesseca
Wernikoff, Aaron Gelber and Tom
Longworth received a citation for
their contributions.
“I am always proud of our incredible
team at the Avon Volunteer
Fire Department,” says AVFD Chief
Michael Trick. “But to see them go
above and beyond like this, supporting
those outside our Avon community,
simply validates for me that we
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Students’ drawings published in School Arts
By Jennifer Senofonte
Staff Writer
Katie Ransom’s fifth-grade art
students used their artistic talent
to enhance a social studies lesson
about the Colonial era.
e young artists did narrative
drawings that were later published
in a national art magazine
along with an article written by
Ransom explaining the process.
Ransom has been an art
teacher at Kelly Lane Intermediate
School in Granby since 2006 and,
three years ago, a social studies
field trip to Sturbridge Village
sparked an idea to carry the subject
of Colonial times across disciplines.
“I wanted to come up with a
project that incorporated Colonial
culture and Colonial art,” she explained.
She used local Colonial architecture
like the Abijah Rowe
House, c. 1732, to teach the students
about different features of
the architecture of Colonial times.
e students also discussed Native
American architecture like wigwams
and how the features were
a product of the culture of the time
period.
e process, which took
about three months to create the
HJMS team takes second place at Mathcounts
By Jennifer Senofonte
Staff Writer
Two local middle school mathletes
teams prevailed at this year’s
MATHCOUNTS state competition.
Henry James Memorial
School of Simsbury won second
place overall for the team competition
and King Philip Middle
School of West Hartford came in
third place.
Twenty-six teams from
around the state competed at the
MATHCOUNTS state competition
March 9 at the University of Hartford
in three different rounds.
e first round was a spring
round where individual students
competed without using calculators.
e next round was the target
round, also an individual competition
but with calculators. e last
round was the team round where
teams of four students worked together.
e results from the three
rounds contributed to the overall
rankings.
“en there’s a countdown
round with the top 16 individuals,”
explained Henry James coach and
math teacher Paul Smith. “We had
two that made the top 16 and one
of them came in fourth place in the
countdown round, which is like a
head-to-head bracket like March
Madness.” A total of 176 individuals
competed.
One of the student’s drawings that was featured in School Arts, a national
art magazine. This drawing is by Lindsay Browning. Courtesy photo
ending product, included choosing
a house on which the young
artists would focus.
ey then made two Styrofoam
block prints, which were
added to a bigger landscape scene,
incorporating colonial landscape
design elements.
“It really helped them to
process what they learned in social
studies and at Sturbridge Village,”
Ransom said.
She wrote the article and sent
in 10 photos of different students’
From left to right are Coach Paul Smith, Hali Cai, William Shaw, Carson Drew,
Akash Kaza, Thomas Vasko MATHCOUNTS representive. Courtesy photo
Henry James has been competing
since the start of MATH-
COUNTS in Connecticut in the
mid-1980s and Smith has been the
coach of the team since 1997.
He said five of the 18 students
who practice after school participated
in the state competition this
year. e group as a whole practices
once a week after school
using the MATHCOUNTS problems,
which develop problem-solving
skills that go beyond the
middle school grade level math
curriculum.
“We worked really hard after
the chapter [qualifying competition
in February] and it was great
for the kids to be able to finish sec-
projects to School Arts, a nationally
published magazine for art
teachers. “It’s the best of the art education
publications,” she said.
e magazine chose work
from three students: Anna Wilson,
Abby Phillips and Lindsay Browning,
and it was published two years
later. Anna and Abby, now in
eighth grade, attended a recent
Board of Education meeting with
Ransom to discuss and share the
Colonial villages project and the
magazine.
ond in the state, especially competing
against both public and private
schools,” Smith said.
e Henry James MATH-
COUNTS team included the following
students: Hali Cai, grade
seven; William Shaw, grade eight;
Carson Drew, grade eight;
AkashKaza, grade eight; and Ryan
Chen, grade eight.
e competition is organized
by the Connecticut Society of Professional
Engineers, hosted by the
University of Hartford and sponsored
by engineering firms, businesses,
educational institutions
and individuals throughout the
state, as stated in a press release
from the university.

By Jennifer Senofonte
Staff Writer
Don’t be fooled by the name
“Just Two Guys 5K” because it is
about much more than the two
guys who organized it.
At age 15, both Cooper Smelski
and Jackson Morrow wanted to organize
a community 5K race to raise
money for a military charity. e
Just Two Guys 5K will be held Saturday,
April 6 at Winding Trails to
benefit the Wounded Warrior Project,
a national organization that
provides continued support and
services to wounded men and
women of the U.S. military as they
return home.
When e Valley Press asked
Smelski, a Lewis Mills sophomore,
why he and his friend organized this
event he replied, “Because we can. I
thought if I can do something to
benefit someone else, why not? Especially
because they’ve given so
much for us. ey’re wounded.
ey’ve given up as close as it can
get to the ultimate sacrifice for our
country.”
Henry James Memorial School
presents the popular musical “e
Little Mermaid Jr” from April 4-6 in
the Simsbury High School auditorium.
e musical will delight both
adults and young children alike.
“e Little Mermaid Jr” will be
performed ursday, April 4, at 7:30
p.m.; Friday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m.; and
Saturday, April 6, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $5 and are only available
at the door before each show.
Directed by David Addis, more
than 80 Henry James students, both
onstage and behind the scenes, will
bring to life the magical kingdom
fathoms below the ocean surface
including the young mermaid, Ariel,
her father King Triton, a singing
crab named Sebastian, Ariel’s ocean
companion Flounder and the evil
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e military is important to
him because both of his grandfathers
served the country – one in
the Navy and the other in the Army
– and it seemed natural for Smelski
to want to raise money to benefit it.
After sorting through different military
charities in an online search, he
chose the Wounded Warrior Project
because it directly benefits men and
women returning from war.
He sought the help of fellow
Mills student Morrow for his road
race expertise. “He knew that I ran a
lot of road races, and it kind of went
sea witch Ursula. Together, they join
with the other beloved land-based
characters including Prince Eric
and a loud-mouth seagull called
Scuttle.
Under the choreography of
Melissa Feder and the musical direction
of Jason Stammen, the seventhand
eighth-graders will sing and
dance to songs familiar to us all.
Adapted from the 2008 Broadway
production and the classic 1989
Disney film, the musical features the
hit songs “Part of Your World,” “She’s
in Love” and the Oscar-winning
“Under the Sea.”
All of the lead roles are double
cast, with each cast assigned to two
performances. e first cast will perform
on ursday evening and the
Saturday matinee and playing lead
off from there. We stayed after
school every single day and worked
on it after we got the idea in mid-
December,” Morrow explained.
ey set up the race spot at
Winding Trails. ere are two
courses to choose from, but both
are based on trails that run partly
through the forest. Depending on
the weather on Sunday, the boys
will pick one for the runners to take.
“We’re making yellow ribbons
and wrapping them around the
trees to mark the course. It’s a symbol
to represent the warriors across
roles are Adrianna Farrell (Ariel),
Tim Amarell (Prince Eric), Sean Sinacori
(King Triton), Mallory ompson
(Sebastian), David Black
(Flounder), Brian Hanshaw (Scuttle),
Anna Cowley (Ursula), Luke Gilmore
(Grimsby), Isabel Braverman (Flotsam),
Cameron Delo (Jetsam) and
Emily Pricone (Carlotta).
e second cast will perform
Friday and Saturday evenings, and
playing lead roles are Haley Latorre
(Ariel), Cameron Rosenthal (Prince
Eric), Brendan Barnard (King Triton),
Grace Sullivan (Sebastian), Emily
Knapp (Flounder), Chris Wildman
(Scuttle), Naomi Garcia (Ursula),
Damian Mackay-Morgan (Grimsby),
Christine Schiller (Flotsam), Seanan
Ellis (Jetsam) and Zoe Eisenhaure
(Carlotta).
seas, bringing a strong connection,”
Smelski said.
us far, 71 people have registered
online for the 5K. He expects
more, however, including representatives
from the five military
branches. Additionally, the Mills outdoor
track team will be participating.
To register on the day of the race is
$30, online in advance is $28 and registration
handed to the boys is $25.
“My goal is to really make an
impact on the women or men that
served for the military,” Smelski said,
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‘Just two guys’ organize race to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project
Cooper Smelski
and Jackson
Morrow wanted to
organize a
community 5K race
to raise money for
a military charity.
The Just Two Guys
5K will be held
April 6 at Winding
Trails to benefit the
Wounded Warrior
Project.
Courtesy photo
Come ‘Under the Sea’ with Henry James
Middle school students perform musical this weekend at Simsbury High School
noting he isn’t stating a specific
fundraising goal or limit, “to really
show them how much I want them
to have a better life.”
e event begins at 9 a.m. at
Winding Trails April 6. After the
race, there will be an after-party
with refreshments sold and the proceeds
of that will go to the Mills
class of 2015. e boys said they
hope to hold the 5K again next year.
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principal
By Jennifer Senofonte
Staff Writer
FARMINGTON – Lewis Mills
Assistant Principal Dr. William
Silva will become the new Farmington
High School principal next
school year.
Silva has been the assistant
principal at Mills in the Region 10
school district in Burlington for
three years and said the opportunity
to be the principal of FHS is an
exciting part of his career.
“It’s an excellent school, and
I’m excited to have the opportunity
to be part of a system that has
such coherent and high expectations
for its students,” he said in a
phone interview with e Valley
Press. He added that he’ll be “at the
helm of a premiere high school in a
premiere district” and can’t wait to
work to make the great school
even better.
Silva was previously a social
studies teacher, department chair
and instructional resource in
Berlin. He was named Berlin’s
Teacher of the Year in 1996 and received
the Milken Family Foundation
National Educator Award in
1997.
Superintendent Kathy Greider
stated in a press release that,
throughout the interview process,
Silva exhibited the qualities they
were looking for in a new high
school principal including a commitment
to the success of all students.
e press release states that
in his current role, he established
a student advisory program called
See PRINCIPAL on page 24
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Based on a call Town Planner Fran Armentano received, he took a look at how much land the state owns within the area where the compost piles
were left by local farmer Arlow Case. The manure piles were left within a foot or so of the pavement, Armentano said, and the state of Connecticut
owns approximately 27 feet between the pavement edge and the property line. “So, the manure piles were clearly dumped on state property,” he
explained. Case is contesting the fine he received for what was deemed illegal dumping based on the Right to Farm Act. Courtesy image
Farmer contesting fine for manure piles deemed illegal dumping
By Jennifer Senofonte
Staff Writer
GRANBY – A local farmer
was recently fined for illegal
dumping after he left a pile of manure
on the side of North Granby
Road, a state highway, before
spreading it out around the maple
trees he regularly harvests for sap.
Arlow Case, 52, has been
farming in Granby since he was a
child. Today, he owns Sweet Wind
Farm in East Hartland, but has an
agreement with farmers and
property owners in Granby to
harvest maple trees for his maple
syrup business.
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See DUMPING on page 22
Residents speak against gun control at public hearing in Canton
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
CANTON – Gun control is
not the answer for residents who
spoke at a recent meeting.
e majority of the approximately
100 people in attendance
at a public hearing on gun control
at Canton High School Monday,
March 25 indicated their disapproval
with the idea of gun control.
As more and more audience
members trickled into the auditorium,
individuals who had already
arrived and signed in took their
chance to sit at the table set up
below the stage and talk directly
to state Sen. Kevin Witkos. e
8th District senator hosted the
public forum to give residents of
the district an opportunity to
share their views about legislative
proposals in response to the
shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary
School.
A table outside the auditorium,
where people interested in
speaking signed in, contained an
informational pamphlet that included
an introductory letter, a
list of several legislative gun proposals
and two lists of consensus
items that were submitted to legislative
leadership by the Gun Violence
Prevention Working
Group. It also included a
See GUN CONTROL on page 22
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Selectmen refer EDA involvement in proposed
highway garage project to ethics board
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
CANTON – Canton’s selectmen
have some ethical concerns
about a town commission.
At the March 27 Board of Selectmen
meeting, Chief Administrative
Officer Robert Skinner, at
the request of First Selectman
Richard Barlow, handed board
members copies of a memo Skinner
had drafted and forwarded to
several town officials. In the memo,
Skinner advised the officials that
the Economic Development
Agency was conducting a study of
the financials of the proposed town
highway garage and the proposed
location for it on Commerce Drive.
EDA member Glen Arnold
met with Skinner for two hours
earlier in the week to discuss the
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
BURLINGTON – e town of
Burlington is applying for another
year of funding for Dial-A-Ride.
At the March 26 Board of Selectmen
meeting, the board signed
off on Burlington’s Director of Senior
Services JoAnn McBrien’s application
for the Elderly and Disabled
Demand Response Transportation
Grant.
e town has applied for the recurring
matching grant for many
years and has offered transportation
services since 1985, before the grant
was available, McBrien said.
“e funding is available to provide
newer or expanded transportation
services to seniors or disabled
[individuals], or [people with] special
needs,” McBrien said. “You don’t
necessarily have to be a senior. If you
are disabled or in a wheelchair, we
can transport you.”
In 2014, the state will offer a
maximum of approximately $21,000,
proposal and issued him a Freedom
of Information request for
certain information, Skinner said.
“I guess there are a couple of
concerns. At the last EDA meeting,
there was a vote to do a study of
the highway garage,” Skinner said.
“[Arnold] had some hypothesis of
how things could be done differently.”
Skinner listed a few of those
possibilities such as putting the
garage in a different location on a
smaller property. Arnold’s questions
also centered around a study
of the proposed garage that the
town completed in 2007.
Skinner, initially, had typed up
detailed answers to Arnold’s questions
and put them in the memo,
but because he had questions of
his own, he opted to send the
memo to staff and elected officials,
but based on the town’s square
mileage and population, Burlington
will get about $15,000, said McBrien.
McBrien estimates the town
will spend more than $30,000 on
transportation services in 2014, she
said.
e town will pay the difference
between the actual cost and
the amount of the grant.
Burlington has two handicapped
accessible vehicles and one
car for transporting residents to and
from doctors appointments, on errands
and to certain locally sponsored
social events. e vans were
paid for with state and local funding,
with the state supplying 80 percent
of the costs and the town covering
the 20 percent balance.
e state officially owns the
vans until they reach the end of their
useful life, meaning when they reach
a certain mileage, McBrien explained.
At that point, the town
takes over ownership.
Currently, the town owns one
of the vans and the state owns the
including Barlow.
“One concern is the role of
EDA,” Skinner said.
e board also had questions
about the EDA’s role and followed
Skinner’s remarks with a lengthy
discussion.
Selectman David Gilchrist insisted
that the EDA does not have
a cost analysis role, but when Skinner
read the local statute that indicates
what the agency’s purview
is, he said, it can conduct research.
“In my mind, that relates to
the overall economic condition of
the town, not on specific projects,”
Gilchrist retorted.
Other selectmen had deeper
concerns with the agency.
“I don’t understand why the
EDA continues to work against us,”
See ETHICS on page 21
Burlington will apply for continued Dial-A-Ride funding
other, McBrien said.
e town’s Highway Department
provides much of the maintenance
for the vehicles including
basic fluid changes, but for bigger
mechanical issues, they are sent to
a mechanic.
“Our van is in excellent working
condition, but we are using our new
van more so,” McBrien said.
e newer van is equipped
with a wheelchair ramp, which is
one reason the town tends to use it
a little more frequently than the
other one, she said.
e car is used on a case by
case basis and is based on the needs
of the individuals receiving the ride.
Last year, Burlington gave 1,763
one-way transports, McBrien said.
“If they want to go to a hairdresser,
we take them there,”
McBrien said. “e goal and objective
is to maintain independence in
the home.”
Canton selectmen also signed
off on the grant application for that
town.

Town applies for HeartSafe designation
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
SIMSBURY – e town of
Simsbury is applying for Heart-
Safe designation.
“[e designation] allows
the town to really be a champion
for initiatives,” First Selectman
Mary Glassman said at the
March 11 Board of Selectmen
meeting.
Karin Stewart of the Simsbury
Volunteer Ambulance
Service researched the program
and submitted the town’s application.
e designation is given
by the Connecticut Department
of Public Health in collaboration
with the American Heart
Association.
Among other things, the designation
means there are automatic
external defibrillators – AEDs – and
folks trained to use them at every
school and athletic field in town.
ey are also on police cruisers and
fire engines.
e nearby town of Burlington
was named a HeartSafe community
in June of 2009, after two bystanders
successfully resuscitated a cardiac
arrest victim who had collapsed in
his driveway.
In addition to having AEDs and
people trained to use them, qualifi-
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
SIMSBURY – One public voice
on a new housing zone for working
people in Simsbury was not sufficient.
At the April 1 public hearing on
the proposed Workforce Housing
Overlay Zone, Jim Gallager was the
only resident who spoke.
“I’m not sure why you’re looking
at this zone,” was one of his comments.
“Personally, I don’t think you
need the zone.”
While the commission listened
to his opposition to the proposal
and answered his questions, it opted
not to close the hearing in the hope
that word would get out and more
people would show up at the next
meeting to share their views on the
proposal.
Hiram Peck, director of Community
Planning & Development,
presented the proposal for the zone,
which would not be in any one area
or property in town but could be allowed
anywhere, with approval
based on individual applications.
According to the draft regulation
for the zone, it “is intended to
create additional housing opportunities
within Simsbury while promoting
the appropriate
development of Simsbury’s historic
town center and other areas of the
community.”
In addition to having automatic external defibrillators
and people trained to use them, qualifications for being
a HeartSafe Community include having life support
teams able to reach emergencies quickly and having
members of the public trained and ready to perform
CPR. File photo
cations for being a HeartSafe Community
include having life support
teams able to reach emergencies
quickly and having members of the
public trained and ready to perform
CPR.
“If we can get lay people to
begin the CPR process, we have a
better chance to save lives,” Stewart
said at the meeting, adding that she
had been training residents in CPR.
e week of the meeting, Stewart
had completed the training with
12 local Girl Scout leaders, she said.
Some of the AEDs on hand can
also be used by the public and come
with directions.
In Burlington, just after the
Peck, in his presentation, referred
to the town’s Plan of Conservation
and Development, which
indicates that “Simsbury lacks housing
diversity.”
Most housing developments
are restricted to residential areas,
and 85 percent of housing in town
consists of single family housing, he
said.
According to the POCD, mixed
use developments are desirable in
town, as is more affordable housing
for residents with limited means
and first-time homebuyers, Peck
continued. e proposed zone contains
all those.
According to the draft regulation,
there would be six subdistricts
in different parts of town.
In the center of town and “other
areas” would be mixed use development,
meaning residential and commercial
or retail.
Other districts would be mixed
housing, or “a development including
a combination of housing types.”
Multi-family housing would be in
“existing mill buildings and other
areas with potential for development
with multi-use housing.” ere
would also be districts for duplexes
and single-family homes.
Gallager asked about the affordable
housing aspect and what
qualifying incomes would be.
Zoning Chairman Robert
Pomeroy and commission member
town received the designation,
Jeff Bond, a
volunteer firefighter,
showed the diagrams
and instructions that
are on the devices, reiterating
that lay people
can use them. Next
to the smaller, simpler
AED, he displayed a
more expensive cardiac
monitor, which is
carried in ambulances
and used only by
trained emergency
medical technicians.
Once Simsbury
receives the designation,
it will get 10 HeartSafe signs to
put around town.
e Volunteer Ambulance Association
will be present at Septemberfest
to discuss the designation
and sign up residents for CPR
classes, Stewart said. She is hoping
to schedule a class at least once a
month.
Selectmen agreed to allow
Stewart to apply for the designation.
“Minutes save lives,” said Selectman
Lisa Heavner just before
the vote, meaning that having AEDs
available for lay people to use while
they are waiting for emergency personnel
to arrive could mean life or
death.
Small turnout for hearing on proposed
Workforce Housing Overlay Zone
William Fiske explained that applicants
making 80 percent or less of
Hartford County’s median income
of $87,700 and who qualified for
mortgages would qualify.
“Is it affordable housing? What
is it for?” Gallager asked.
“e answer really is the trade
off for low market rates, with increased
density for the developer,”
Pomeroy replied.
Gallager also wanted to know
why the income qualification would
be based on the median income of
Greater Hartford, rather than Simsbury’s
higher median income of approximately
$120,000.
“at’s where we all live,” he
said.
Fiske explained that, according
to state law, towns are required to
have 10 percent of local housing be
affordable and to be given credit toward
that, income qualifications
must meet the Greater Hartford
standard.
Right now, 3 percent of housing
in Simsbury is affordable, Peck said.
Vaughan Marecki said he
hoped the zone would make the
town more appealing to college
graduates.
“is gives young adults the opportunity
to stay in town and, hopefully,
raise a family,” he said.
e public hearing will be resumed
at the commission’s April 15
meeting.
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Taxpayers Association hosts
budget talk with superintendent
By Alison Jalbert
Editorial Assistant
AVON – e Avon Taxpayers
Association hosted a public conversation
March 28 with members
of the school district’s central leadership
team to discuss the proposed
2013-14 education budget.
Before Superintendent Gary
Mala presented his budget plan,
ATA President Florence Stahl answered
some common questions
asked of the association. People
often ask why they focus on Board
of Education spending, to which
Stahl said, “We are an advocacy
group. Our message, our mission is
one of fiscal restraint when it
comes to spending other people’s
money.”
Stahl said that even though
she and Mala often do not see eye
to eye on budgetary issues, she
praised him for his “transparency”
in making information available.
Mala then outlined the $47.87
million proposed budget, discussing
its foundation, challenges
and funded proposals. e budget
marks a net increase of 2.78 percent
from the current school year,
or $1.294.201. e gross budget request
for 2013-14 is $50,366,085,
but Mala projects $2,495,822 in
non-tax revenues, bringing the net
request to $47,870,263.
“We did not create the funding
system in which we operate as
public education, but we are responsible
in how we operate
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within it,” he said.
Mala, Assistant Superintendent
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Superintendent for Finance &
Operations John Spang welcomed
questions and comments from the
assembled crowd.
Many residents were concerned
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salaries. Mala said during his presentation
that 81 percent of the
proposed budget is associated
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One resident wondered why
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salaries compare to neighboring
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Avon. Many senior citizens in attendance
felt that the education
was substandard, while parents
spoke highly of the teachers and
administration.
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she felt that, as the taxes increase,
the quality of education seems to
decrease. “I say this with having
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Glassman presents 1.71% town budget increase
By Jennifer Senofonte
Staff Writer
SIMSBURY – First Selectman
Mary Glassman presented the
Board of Selectmen’s proposed
2013-14 town budget to the
Board of Finance at a 1.71 percent
increase over the current year.
It totals $18.3 million and includes
increases like $190,885 for
pension interest assumption,
funds for a part-time building official,
$16,000 for the Farmington
Valley Health District, general liability
insurance increases and
funds to cover wage increases per
settled union contracts.
“We asked our department
heads to examine their departments
and come up with some
goals and their needs,” Glassman
said of this year’s budget
process.
Department requests
amounted to a 5.59 percent increase
if all requests were approved.
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“While we’re assured of the
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District seeks to create welcoming schools
By Sloan Brewster
Senior Staff Writer
BURLINGTON – Region 10 is
trying to make schools more welcoming
for families and students.
“Studies have shown that
when schools create a welcoming
school environment, they become
inviting places where students feel
safe and become more eager to
learn, the staff is more engaged, and
families become more involved,”
said First Selectman Ted Shafer.
Shafer was in a group of local
officials, educators, parents and
business owners who, in February,
participated in what is called “Welcoming
Walkthroughs” at Lake
Garda Elementary School, Har Bur
Middle School and Lewis S. Mills
High School. e intent of the walkthroughs,
according to Har-Bur
Principal Kenneth Smith, was for
By Alison Jalbert
Editorial Assistant
A disturbing video that has
been on the Internet since 2005 has
made local appearances on Facebook,
causing concern among
Farmington Valley communities.
Farmington Police Department
Lt. Marshall Porter said that a
Farmington resident saw the video,
which is pornographic in nature
and involves a young child, on a
friend’s Facebook account. e
friend lived in Hartford, so the
Farmington Police Department
contacted the Hartford Police Department,
who were aware of the
video.
“We’re not investigating anything,”
Porter said. “We’ve had no
other complaints and just received
that one call.”
Despite this, officials in Avon,
Simsbury and Farmington sent out
precautionary messages to parents.
Avon Superintendent Gary Mala
sent a letter March 25 alerting parents,
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on how to make the schools’
environments more welcoming.
“e walkthrough is kind of
what it sounds like. You’re literally
walking through the school and
checking out all the components,”
said State Education Resource Center
spokesman Jeremy Bond, “the
welcoming-ness of the school.”
Group members ask questions
such as is the school’s website userfriendly,
are notices sent out in multiple
languages if necessary, are
there signs throughout the building,
are the main office and nurse’s office
identified, and are there maps
of the building in case parents are
ever there, Smith said.
Adding other languages was
one of the recommendations the
group had, an idea which “is not
very applicable here,” Smith said,
since 96 percent of residents of the
izens of the video’s presence, as did
Farmington Superintendent Kathy
Grieder in a March 23 e-mail. e
Simsbury Chamber of Commerce
released a public service announcement
March 25 from the Simsbury
public schools and Simsbury Police
Department.
All three communications refer
to the video as a virus, but Porter
said Facebook indicated it is not.
e video, when clicked on, is
shared with all of a user’s Facebook
friends.
“e video is quite graphic and
very disturbing,” Mala cautioned in
his message.
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George Jepsen released a statement
March 26 regarding the video, stating
that his office has been in contact
with Facebook, who is working
directly with the FBI.
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report on its efforts to remove the
video and have been told that it has
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towns in the district “are white English-speaking
people.”
Putting up signs in different
languages is all part of creating a
more welcoming environment and
is relevant for every demographic,
Bond said.
e walkthroughs are part of
Phase I of a School Personnel Development
Grant from SERC, Smith said.
e grant included a small
amount of funding for professional
development workshops for teachers
and allowed SERC staff to be involved
in the walkthroughs.
Region 10 is involved with the
process to fulfill state legislation
calling for Scientific Research Based
Interventions.
“All schools must have a plan
on how they intervene with students
in need,” Smith said. “is
grant gives us feedback on our current
process.”
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said Selectman Stephen Roberto.
“ose were not issues until now,
when we’re proposing to put a
garage in their neighborhood.”
In attendance at the March 13
Board of Selectmen meeting were
about 35 residents of Griswold
Farms, a 90-lot subdivision atop a
hill near the proposed site for the
garage on Commerce Drive.
One after another residents
from the neighborhood – in which
homes range from $800,000 to $1.2
million in price –rose and gave a
long list of objections to putting the
garage on the 4.75-acre lot.
It is too close to the densely
populated neighborhood, the residents
protested. Children run and
play, riding bicycles and skateboards
down the long windy road
and on the adjoining rail trail.
Adding trucks to the mix is a dangerous
proposition, or, as David
Daniel called it, “a recipe for disaster.”
Among those residents were
Arnold and EDA Chairman Kevin
Jackson.
“ey’re supposed to be an objective
commission,” Roberto said.
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“As far as I’m concerned, there’s a
huge ethical conflict.”
In a phone call Monday, April
1, Arnold spoke to the question of
ethics. “I do not feel that there is any
ethical issue, I live almost a mile
away from the proposed site,” he
said.
Barlow said he had concerns;
that selectmen had assigned the
task of studying the garage to the
Permanent Municipal Building
Committee and now another town
agency is stepping into the role and
inserting itself into the process.
“Why is it not as simple as just
asking them not to involve themselves
in the process?” Roberto
asked. “Why is it not as simple as
saying we have the PMBC on that?”
Selectman Lowell Humphrey
asked if anyone had asked the town
attorney if there’s a conflict of interest
because two of the agency
members lived in the neighborhood
that opposed the garage’s potential
location.
Selectman omas Sevigny
also wondered if there was a conflict.
In the end, the board agreed to
forward its concerns to the town’s
Board of Ethics.
April 4, 2013 The Valley Press 21

GUN CONTROL from page 17
summary of the landmark Heller v.
D.C. Supreme Court case.
According to a press release
on the forum, more than 60 people
signed up to speak, including residents
of Avon, Barkhamsted, Canton,
Colebrook, Granby, Hartland,
New Hartford, Simsbury and Torrington.
A heated debate
Like they had done at a similar
hearing in February in Simsbury,
hosted by Rep. John
Hampton, speaker after speaker
rose to the podium bemoaning the
idea of tightening the reins on gun
owners.
Speakers insisted not only that
gun control was contrary to the
Second Amendment, but also that
it would not stop gun violence.
Many suggested looking at ways to
deal with mental health problems.
“We have to do something
about the broken mental health
program,” said a speaker whose
first name was Steve. “ere’s a
win, win here if we go after gun violence
and mental health and not
gun control.”
More than one speaker said it
was criminals who committed violence,
not law-abiding citizens who
happen to own guns and that it
was those law abiders who would
be most adversely affected by more
laws. e criminals, they repeatedly
pointed out, would get guns
whether they were legal or not.
“We can’t legislate away evil,”
said one speaker.
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no truth to theories that the silent
majority favor gun control.
“Any open meeting that I’ve
gone to has been 90 percent in
favor of no gun control and 10 percent
want gun control,” he said. “I
think that this silent majority that
we keep hearing about is a vocal
minority.”
Another speaker spoke to the
idea that high-powered guns belong
only in the hands of cops.
Everyday folks face the same perils
that police do, he said, explaining
that in facing such danger, people
may call police, but they are also
forced to deal with the issue while
they wait for those reinforcements
to arrive.
“It’s the same threats. ey
don’t encounter different bad guys
than we do,” he said. “If somebody
[threatening] comes in [my house],
I’m going to be shooting as much
as I can in the direction of that
threat.”
Jane Miller from Simsbury, a
single mother of two boys, said she
got her pistol permit after the winter
storm in 2011. e continued
attempts toward the demise of the
constitutional right to bear arms
needs to stop, she said.
“I’m here for my children. I
want to keep them from immediate
harm,” she said. “e Second
Amendment says the right of the
people to bear arms shall not be
encroached.”
Searching for middle
ground
Mark Warren of Simsbury was
the only speaker who spoke in favor
of stricter gun control while this re-
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porter was at the hearing. Warren
said he agreed with proposals to
ban high-powered assault weapons
and that he was in favor of background
checks. He also spoke at
the hearing in February in Simsbury,
saying he had once been held
hostage during an armed robbery.
“I don’t think that an outright
ban on firearms is necessary or the
right thing to do,” he said in Simsbury.
“ere has to be some middle
ground.”
Witkos, for his part, quietly listened
to the comments, answering
questions and clarifying information
as needed.
On occasion, he asked speakers
questions. He asked Miller if she
would support measures to restrict
people with mental health issues
from getting guns for a certain period
of time.
“Define mental health issues,”
was Miller’s curt response, to which
the senator replied people who
have been involuntarily committed
for reasons that they may harm
themselves or others.
It was unclear if Miller responded
directly to the question.
“I feel like I can’t even say the
word gun without getting arrested,”
she said, and reminded the audience
about a child who was recently
suspended for biting a pop
tart in the shape of a gun.
“Children can’t play cops and
robbers anymore,” Miller said.
“What’s happening to this country?”
“roughout the evening, I
was impressed by the remarkable
turnout of concerned citizens to
discuss this important topic,”
Witkos said at the end of the hearing.
“I would like to thank everyone
who traveled near or far to attend
the forum and those who shared
your valuable thoughts about the
current legislative gun proposals.”
On Feb. 28, Town Manager
Bill Smith notified the police of the
complaints and stated that “he,
personally, doesn’t like seeing the
piles,” the report reads.
Case said in the report and
told e Valley Press that the February
blizzard set him back and
that he spread the piles on March
1 at 9 p.m. when he was able to get
the necessary equipment to the
site. He was issued a fine for $219,
which he said he is contesting.
“e reason for this violation
was because of the manure being
dumped on the highway right of
way,” the report explains. “Case
stated he had permission from the
landowner to place the manure
there to fertilize the maple trees.”
Town Planner Fran Armentano
explained that the state owns
approximately 27 feet between the
pavement edge and the property
line, “so, the manure piles were
clearly dumped on state property,”
he said, noting the piles were
within a foot of the road.
Case argued this justification
is confusing and said that based on
his research of the Farm Bureau
and Connecticut farming laws, he
does not think he has done anything
wrong.
“e people who put the complaint
in have absolutely no concept
as to what I was doing and
why I was doing it,” he said. “As a
farmer, you do things when the
weather is right. e weather was
right to put the manure there. It
was cold and it was open winter.
en, the day after is when we got
the 30 inches of snow. [e police]
told me if I didn’t spread the manure
in a week, I was going to get a
ticket.”
e report states, “Case stated
he felt it was a waste of time for the
police to involve themselves in
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DUMPING from page 17 “e people who put the
complaint in have
absolutely no concept as
to what I was doing and
why I was doing it. As a
farmer, you do things
when the weather is
right. e weather was
right to put the manure
there. ... en, the day
after is when we got the
30 inches of snow. [e
police] told me if I didn’t
spread the manure in a
week, I was going to get
a ticket.”
-Arlow Case
what he felt was an agricultural
process. Case felt the police did
not understand what manure was
being used for.”
Armentano told e Valley
Press that Granby has a strong reputation
for being pro-farming,
partly due to the appointment of
an Agricultural Commission,
which was set up in support of the
farms in town.
“We have very open zoning
regulations that support farming,”
he said. “ose regulations have
been copied by many communities
because they encourage farming
and support farming.”
Case was charged with a 22a-
250(a), which states “no person
shall throw, scatter, spill or place or
cause to be blown, scattered,
spilled, thrown or placed, or otherwise
dispose of any litter upon
any public property in the state,
upon any public land in the state
… highway, road, street.”
Case is contesting the fine
using the Right to Farm Act, which
states that farming and agricultural
operation is not deemed a
nuisance.
“is is something that’s kind
of bothered me all throughout my
life,” he said, citing instances where
new people who move to town
complain about farming operations.
“But, I kind of let it go. I just
want to live and be left alone and
try to come up with new and creative
ways to improve my way of
living so I can currently function
with the cost of fuel, cost of taxes
and cost of living.”
He said the one nice thing to
come out of the situation for him
is that he has had some great conversations
with really good people
who he would not have otherwise
met.
After Sweet Wind Farm expressed
its concern through its
blog and Facebook page in March,
e Valley Press received e-mails
from residents expressing concerns.
One resident, Heather Monty,
said she wonders “exactly what direction
this small farm town is taking.”

PRESSBUSINESS
Financial considerations for women who’ve been widowed
Most women will
at some time or another
be the sole financial
decision-maker for
themselves or for their
families and, because it
is estimated that over
80 percent of wives will
outlive their spouses,
for many this will happen upon the
death of their husbands.
For those who had not taken
an active role in financial matters
before, the fears and uncertainties
that follow can be especially paralyzing.
And yet, the days and weeks
to come are a time when some
crucial actions must be taken.
While listening carefully to client
concerns is always an essential
part of a successful client-financial
planner relationship, it is critical
now. “How can I be of help?” is a
much more productive way to
begin a difficult conversation than
“here’s what you need to do” –
what needs to be done will become
clear soon enough.
Financial planning normally
takes into account both shortterm
and long-term objectives, but
a woman who has just been widowed
feels that what she is going
through now is anything but her
Nancy Fellinger
version of normal. Life is happening
a day at a time, even
at times in slow motion, and
looking much beyond what
she can see right in front of
her can be overwhelming.
Profound disruptions in
the rhythms of a familiar
daily life are often accompanied
by moments of forgetfulness,
and the physical and mental
stresses that are so universally experienced
can temporarily affect
her capacity to think clearly – especially
in matters less familiar or
emotionally charged.
Widowhood often creates a
state of vulnerability that, sadly,
can open the door to a form of financial
victimization by product
providers who look upon her as
more of a sales opportunity than a
long-term client, taking advantage
of that vulnerability.
Bear in mind that there are
plenty of advisers out there calling
themselves “financial planners,”
but that is only a description, not a
credential. True financial planning
takes expertise, time and careful
review of all aspects of a client’s
circumstances well before the sale
of any products. Over the years,
I’ve witnessed the consequences of
products bought without the ben-
efit of planning and, more often
than not, they’re not good.
While not exclusive to widows,
one development I’ve witnessed
over the past few years and
with growing concern as I talk
with individuals and meet with
prospective clients seems to be annuity
products – whether fixed,
variable or equity-indexed – in dollar
amounts or designs that are out
of proportion to the client’s needs,
assets and family situation.
While these can be enormously
valuable financial tools,
without careful consideration of
the bigger picture they can be potentially
disastrous at worst or just
not the most financially rewarding
choice ( for the client at least) at
best.
Especially at a vulnerable
time, words like “safety,” “security,”
and “guarantee” are enormously
appealing, but unfortunately, it
may be difficult at the same time
to grasp the product’s down-sides
or limitations and how those
might play out over time. ere is
rarely a cause for urgency in the
purchase of a financial product,
particularly those that are often far
more complicated than they appear
on the surface.
A widow who has had limited
Sev Shack leaves Avon for West Hartford
By Alison Jalbert
Editorial Assistant
Fashion boutique Sev Shak has
relocated to West Hartford Center.
Sev Shak, owned by Sevanne
Ngamariju, opened in 2011 on East
Main Street in Avon. Ngamariju said
that the move from Avon to West
Hartford is for visibility reasons.
“Exposure is key for us as a very
new business,” she said.
Sev Shak’s new location is at
981 Farmington Ave., near Grants
Restaurant.
Sev Shak carries fashion apparel
and accessories for women
and juniors, delivering the latest
fashion trends at affordable prices,
according to the store’s website.
Ngamariju said that the change in
location will not affect the variety of
clothes and accessories that she offers.
“We’re always evolving, but it’s
pretty much going to be the same
quality styles,” she said. “We’re just
focusing more on women, but we do
still have juniors. We’re focusing on
quality, the same great styles and
personal service.”
Ngamariju said she opened Sev
Shak because of her passions – for
retail, for the fashion business and
for design.
She has no background in fashion,
but has always been fascinated
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“I’ve been sketching and drawing
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“Fashion is something that was always
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Prior to 2011, Ngamariju
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said she felt very drawn to the idea
of opening a boutique. “It felt like it
was something I had to do,” she said
of opening Sev Shak. “I took the
plunge. I’m here, still plugging away.”
Ngamariju has no regrets about
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experience with managing her financial
assets might consider creating
a “buffer zone” around her of
experienced, trusted advisers who
can help actively discourage the
commitment of dollars before a
careful and thorough review of her
circumstances has been done and
a financial plan with a path forward
developed.
And a woman who has been
widowed who finds that she is not
entirely satisfied with the relationship
she has with the financial adviser
she and her husband might
have once shared should listen
carefully to that inner voice and
take heart.
A number of recent studies
have suggested that upwards of
more than half of all clients who
leave an adviser do so because of
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taken for granted, or generally not
feeling understood.
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PRINCIPAL from page 17
PRIDE, which highlights respect,
rights and responsibility. Greider
said he was selected from a strong
pool of candidates in the national
search because of his leadership
qualities and “deep sense of purpose.”
She said of Silva, “He consistently
exhibited an unwavering
commitment to the success of all
students, and an understanding of
the importance of building strong
relationships with students, parents,
faculty and staff as well as the
community.”
Silva said he looks forward to
building those relationships and
collaborating with the teachers,
faculty, students and administrators
on initiatives they are currently
exploring. Additionally, he
said the appointment as principal
is the pinnacle of his professional
career and he is honored and
grateful he was selected by the
Board of Education and superintendent
of schools.
“For me, it really represents
the peak experience in my professional
career,” he said.
Dr. Silva earned his Ph.D. and
master’s degree from Yale University
and his bachelor’s degree in
American studies from Amherst
College. He attended the University
of Hartford to acquire his educational
leadership certification.
Silva will begin as the principal
of FHS July 1, 2013, the day
after current Principal Tim Breslin’s
scheduled retirement.
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PRESSOPINION
EDITORIAL
Internet safety should be an ongoing lesson
Recent reactions to a disturbing video circulating
on Facebook shed light on the flaws
with the way we handle the negative and often
frightening aspects of life in the Internet age.
Last week, local officials immediately sent
out districtwide notifications warning all of a
distressing video making its way around the
major social networking site, when, in fact, the
video is nothing new and had very little local
connection at all.
According to Farmington Police Department
Lt. Marshall Porter, a Farmington resident
saw the video on a friend’s Facebook
account and alerted the police. e friend is a
Hartford resident and therefore the Farmington
PD passed the case off to that department.
ey are launching no local investigation and
received no other complaints.
Beyond that, the video has been on the Internet
since 2005 and has long been the subject
of an FBI investigation.
Representatives of Avon, Farmington and
Simsbury schools all released announcements
after the police were notified, warning parents
and all other citizens of the graphic video’s
presence on Facebook and instructing them to
delete it immediately should it appear on one’s
account.
While it is certainly understandable to be
outraged by such a video – which is pornographic
in nature and involves a young child –
the response of local officials was either an
overreaction, or, more likely, evidence of a daily
under-reaction to the seedy side of the Internet.
e video made no local appearances –
save its visibility to one local resident that the
police are aware of – therefore, looking at it
one way, it was no more alarming than the
thousands of other graphic, disturbing videos
that can be found on the Internet or the spam,
and often scams, that could at any point slip
into ones e-mail box or onto one’s social networking
site of choice.
However, in reality, those things are
alarming and should be cause for concern
every day. While it is good to warn parents of
such a video’s presence, given the amount of
information swirling online today, a warning
should be constant.
An alert should not only be issued when a
report is made of a suspicious or graphic video.
Everyone – parents, children and all other citizens
alike – should be diligent each day.
Children today have never lived in a world
without the Internet. While it may be common
knowledge to them as they grow up that they
should delete unknown links, report them to
the website and never view them, they may
also become desensitized to it.
e Internet is a wonderful thing – one
that offers amazing advancements in communication
and all other areas of life including
travel, banking, shopping and so much more –
but it can also be a dangerous one.
We should not wait to send out an alert
when such a disturbing video surfaces geographically
close to home. If it’s on the Internet,
it’s already here.
e video in question has been online for
eight years. e threat existed before and will
continue to long after the media blitz followed
by the recent report has subsided.
e message needs to be a daily one
about Internet safety education and diligence
in this day and age.
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TALK from page 20
contact with the young people
out in town. ey speak in incorrect
English. … When are we
going to have good education
coming out of our schools? I’m
not getting a good bang for my
buck.”
Mala assured Hall that Avon’s
teachers work “diligently” on a
daily basis to teach students
proper English and that the high
SAT scores and college acceptances
indicate a high level of
achievement.
“What [students] say and do
doesn’t indicate how they perform,”
he said.
CLUES ACROSS
1. Fishing hook end
5. A jump forward
9. Girl entering society
12. Largest toad species
13. Measure = 198 liters
15. Jeff Bridges' brother
16. Past participle of be
17. SE Iraq seaport
18. Paddles
19. Biotechnology: ___onomics
20. Perfectly
22. Japanese sash
25. Flower stalk
26. Bosnian ethnic group
28. Longest division of geological
time
29. Hoover's organization
32. Thigh of a hog
33. Fabric woven from flax
35. Upper limb
36. Basics
37. Satisfies to excess
39. The cry made by sheep
40. Go quickly
41. Allied headquarters in WWII
43. Paradoxical sleep
44. Point midway between N
and NE
Parent Adam Lazinsk
praised the school system, telling
Hall that all of his eighth-grade
son’s classes next year will be at
the honors level, something directly
indicative of the education
he has received from Avon’s
school system.
Other issues of cost and
spending were brought up during
the conversation, but Mala
stressed the importance of educational
spending.
“Public education needs to
be viewed as an investment.
When it’s viewed as an expenditure,
it’s problematic,” he said.
To close out the conversation,
Stahl asked Mala, “If you
45. Refers to a female
46. Tears down (archaic sp.)
48. Increases motor speed
49. Nocturnal winged mammal
50. Integrated courses of studies
54. Goat and camel hair fabric
57. Papuan monetary unit
58. Extreme or immoderate
62. Free from danger
64. Musician Clapton
65. French young women
66. Auricles
67. Foot (Latin)
68. Prefix for external
69. Allegheny plum
CLUES DOWN
1. Founder of Babism
2. "A Death in the Family" author
3. One who feels regret
4. Maine's Queen City
5. Research workplace
6. A division of geological time
7. Paid media promos
8. Abdominal cavity linings
9. Apportion cards
10. Ranking above a viscount
11. Not idle
SEE ANSWERS ON PAGE 35
could wave a magic wand, what
would you do to change the way
education is funded and presented?”
Mala said that public education
is the “single greatest investment
a community can make.”
He said that collective bargaining
laws need to be visited as
well as looking to reform the
methodology used to fund public
schools on a state level.
e introduction of skillsbased
compensation for teachers,
incentivizing the collaborative efforts
between communities and
considering multi-year budgets at
the local level were also among
Mala’s educational wishes.
14. Former SW German state
15. Constrictor snake
21. Pica printing unit
23. Where wine ferments (abbr.)
24. Egyptian goddess
25. Boils vigorously
26. Oral polio vaccine developer
27. Master of ceremonies
29. Fr. entomologist Jean Henri
30. Scottish hillsides
31. Islamic leader
32. Bakker's downfall Jessica
34. TV show and state capital
38. A citizen of Belgrade
42. Supervises flying
45. Sebaceous gland secretion
47. Conditions of balance
48. Ancient Egyptian sun god
50. Part of a stairway
51. Time long past
52. Hawaiian wreaths
53. Resin-like shellac ingredient
55. Semitic fertility god
56. 60's hairstyle
59. Honey Boo Boo's network
60. Soak flax
61. Volcanic mountain in Japan
63. Point midway between E and
SE
BUDGET from page 20
town is also in a revaluation year,
which was considered when devising
next year’s budget.
e latest reval revealed the
median net taxable assessment is
$193,000, down from $231,000. “So
you can see quite clearly how
homes have declined with this recent
revaluation,” she said.
For the first time, Glassman
presented a breakdown of tax dollars
and where they are specifically
spent, by department – “so the taxpayers
have a better idea of where
their dollars go.”
She explained that the median
tax bill in Simsbury is approximately
$7,484. Of that, $5,225 go the
fund the Board of Education, $1,479
go to the Board of Selectmen, $499
for debt retirement, $238 for fire,
and $43 to non-public schools.
“One significant change is the
number of full time employees,” she
said. At 141, “at’s the lowest it’s
been in our recent history.”
is is partly due to technology,
such as in the tax collection office.
Because many residents pay
their tax bills online, personnel
were eliminated.
Other cost savings efforts are
through grants, the use of volunteer
positions, a retiree health plan
switch that saves $240,000 per year
and an energy savings award totaling
$400,000.
Canton
March 24
Kimberly Rogoz, 42, of 73 Cinnamon
Spring, South Windsor, was arrested for operation
while under the influence and risk
of injury to a child.
March 26
Jessica Gordon, 27, of 6 North Canton
Road, Barkhamsted, was arrested for operation
while under the influence, use or possession
with intent to use drug
paraphernalia with connection with less
than half an ounce of marijuana and illegal
possession of narcotics.
Farmington
March 16
Elizabeth Ramos, 22, of 365 Garden St.,
Apt. 2, Hartford, was arrested for third degree
assault and second degree breach of
peace. In the same incident, Liza Ramos, 27,
of 25 Natick St., Apt. 3, Hartford, was arrested
for third degree assault and second
degree breach of peace.
David Granville, 21, of 82 Harold St.,
Providence, R.I., was arrested for possession
of a shoplifting device.
Bradley Bempong, 19, of 17 Canfield
Way, Avon, was arrested for operation while
under the influence under the age of 21, operation
while under the influence, possession
of more than half an ounce of
marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia
with more than half an ounce of
marijuana.
Kyle-Patrick Brady, 20, of 50 Daventry
Hill Road, Avon, was arrested for operation
under the influence under the age of 21 and
operation while under the influence.
March 17
Noelle Gibilisco, 43, of 11 Littlebrook
Crossing was arrested for second degree
breach of peace. In the same incident, Stacy
Taylor, 42, of 11 Littlebrook Crossing was ar-
PRESSNEWS
“I think coming in on a 1.71
budget is admirable,” Board of Finance
Chair Paul Henault said.
Glassman said there is a significant
need for tree work on some open
space trails in town that was not included
in the budget.
“We wrestled with that because
it is not an annual [expense],”
she said. “ere are trails not open
… that really would require us to go
out and do a one-time clearing of
the trails.”
Finance board member Barbara
Petitjean said there are some
bad roads in town that were identified
and can’t be repaired with
preventative maintenance anymore,
but they are not included in
this budget. “I think that roads are
something that taxpayers expect
their money to be used on,” she
said.
e Board of Education’s proposed
budget is for $64.9 million, an
increase of $1.2 million or 1.8 percent.
When added with the town
budget and $6.2 million in debt
service, the total budget proposed
to the finance board for 2013-14 is
$89.8 million.
e finance board will hold a
public hearing on the budget Tuesday,
April 9 at Simsbury High
School and a final public hearing
April 24. It will approve the budget
April 30, and the referendum is
scheduled for May 14 at Henry
James.
PRESSPOLICE NEWS
rested for third degree assault and second
degree breach of peace.
Kandace Alderman, 26, of 2443 Main
St., Apt. 6, Hartford, was arrested for third
degree assault, conspiracy to commit sixth
degree larceny, conspiracy to commit second
degree robbery and criminal impersonation.
March 18
Christopher Cantley, 29, of 79 Highland
Ave., Apt. 3, Waterbury, was arrested for
risk of injury to a minor and fourth degree
sexual assault.
Jonathan Goodman, 53, of 13
Lakeshore Drive, Apt. A2, was arrested for
evading responsibility and operation while
under the influence.
March 19
Kimberly Kraszewski, 42, of 67 Connecticut
Ave., New Britain, was arrested for
two counts of first degree criminal trespassing.
In a separate incident, Kraszewski was
arrested for first degree criminal trespassing
and third degree larceny.
Simsbury
March 8
Christopher Mudano, 18, of 10 Robin
Road was arrested for fourth degree larceny.
March 28
David Kirychuk, 27, of 19 Whitlock
Ave., Plantsville, was arrested for possession
of drug paraphernalia, possession of narcotics,
weapons in a motor vehicle and first
degree criminal trespassing.
Hannah Boulden, 18, of 32 Woodland
Place was arrested for weapons in a motor
vehicle, second degree breach of peace and
possession of weapons on school grounds.
In the same incident, Tanner Nascimbeni,
18, of 6 Hamilton Lane, Weatogue, was arrested
for weapons in a motor vehicle, second
degree breach of peace and possession
of weapons on school grounds.
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Avon Education Foundation’s No-Show
Gala thru Sunday, April 7 at 9 p.m., auction
items for bid on eBay, link to auction available
at www.avonedfoundation.org, contact Beth
Zweibel at 860-673-1011 or
bethzweibel@gmail.com for information
Avon Junior Women’s Club’s Whale of a
Sale Friday, April 5, 5-8 p.m., admission $5, and
Saturday, April 6, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., free admission,
at the Avon Senior Center, 635 West Avon
Road, infant and children’s consignment sale
(860-693-8495)
Progressive Animal Wellness’ Mini Pet
Expo Saturday, April 6, 2-5 p.m., Fairways
Plaza, Rt. 44, to support Connecticut Canine
Search and Rescue – canine massage, behavioral
consultations, grooming guidance,
puppy kissing booth, photo sessions, reptile
demo, and more
Mothers of Pre-Schoolers-MOPS meeting
Monday, April 8, 9:15-11:30 a.m., in Room 206
of Valley Community Baptist Church, 590
West Avon Road (avonmops@gmail.com)
e Avon Senior Center, 635 West Avon
Road, 860-675-4355:
• Living with an Irregular Heart Rate Tuesday,
April 9, 12:30 p.m., sign up
• Lunch & Learn – Asian Cultures Wednesday,
April 10, noon, sign up
• Taking Charge ursday, April 11, 12:30 p.m.,
sign up
Avon Congregational Church Rummage
Sale April 12 and 13, donations appreciated;
drop off items in good condition Sunday,
April 7, noon-3 p.m., Monday-Wednesday,
April 8-10, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and 6-8 p.m., or call
the church at 860-678-0488 for pick up
Senior Citizens Organization of Avon, 635
West Avon Road, Monday, April 8, board
meeting at 10:30 a.m., lunch pizza at noon followed
by bingo
Avon Historical Society annual meeting
Tuesday, April 9 – nominations open and
new members elected for its board of
trustees, ahs.mail.1830@sbcglobal.net or 860-
678-7621
McLean Home Care’s free Happy Heart Support
Group for seniors living in any town
Wednesday, April 10, 10-11 a.m., at the Avon
Senior Center, registration required, 860-658-
3950 or 3954
“Microcosm/Macrocosm?” an exhibit of
paintings by Gregory Wright in the Drezner
Visitors’ Gallery at the Farmington Valley Arts
Center, 25 Arts Center Lane, Avon Park North,
thru April 13, with an artists reception Friday,
April 12, 6-7 p.m.; encaustic painting weekend
workshop instructed by Wright April 13 and
14, 99 a.m.-4 p.m., call 860-678-1867 to register
UCC Churches Historians’ Workshop Sunday,
April 13, 10:15 a.m.-2 p.m. at Avon Free
at the library
Avon Public Library
281 Country Club Road, 860-673-9712,
www.avonctlibrary.info
• Game of rones ursday, April 11 at 7 p.m.,
discussion series, register
• ursday movies at 1:30 p.m.: April 11, “Citizen
Kane”
• Introducing 3D Mammography and Understanding
Your Breast Friday, April 5, 10-11 a.m.
• Real Estate Lunch and Learn Saturday, April 6,
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., panel discussion, registration
recommended
• Teen Nutmeg Book Discussion Tuesday, April
9, 3-4:30 p.m., sign up, “Bruiser” by Neal Shusterman
Burlington Public Library
1 Library Lane, 860-673-3331,
26 The Valley Press April 4, 2013
Public Library, register by April 6, 860-233-5564,
ext. 105, walk-ins welcome - topics: Civil War
and Celebrating Church Anniversaries
Burlington calendar
Congregational Church of Burlington
fundraisers:
• Clothing and Linen Drive Saturday, April 6,
8:30 a.m.-noon in the church parking lot,
Route 4 – bring cans, bottles and clean wearable
clothing (all seasons), etc., for pickup call
Maryann at 860-673-6949
• Night out at KC Dubliner, Route 4, Burlington
Commons, Saturday, April 6, 5 p.m.-close,
raffles, music by e Substitutes at 8 p.m. –
the church supports a local soup kitchen,
Covenant to Care for Children, Hurricane
Sandy mission trips and more
Parks & Rec spring programs: Kickbox
Combo Session II, thru June 12, walk-in fees
donated to Project Graduation
Canton calendar
East Hill Writers’ Workshop new poetry
writing workshop beginning Sunday, April
7 for six weeks from 7-9 p.m. with SChivas
Sandage, 860-559-8051 to register
“Days Of Our Lives” interview program
with CIS Talented & Gifted Students Monday,
April 8, 2-2:30 p.m., Senior Room in Canton
Community Center, 55+ residents who are interested
can sign up at 860-693-5811
Cherry Brook Garden Club meeting Tuesday,
April 9, 11 a.m., at the Canton Community
Center, 40 Dyer Ave., Lisabeth Billingsley
of Clinton teaching how to press flowers and
make pressed flower pictures/cards, guests
welcome
Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day at e
Shoppes at Farmington Valley Tuesday, April
9, noon-8 p.m., to raise money and awareness
in support of the Canton Volunteer Fire &
EMS Department
Canton League of Women Voters
fundraiser and gift basket raffle Tuesday,
April 9, 5-9 p.m., at Flatbread pizza in e
Shoppes at Farmington Valley
New Wednesday program, Wild Child,
April 10, 24, May 1, 8, 3:45-5:15 p.m., at Roaring
Brook Nature Center, 70 Gracey Road, for
grades 2-5, daily rate: $10 members, $15 nonmembers
and five week rate: $45/$65, preregistration
required at 860-693-0263
April Vacation Week at Roaring Brook Nature
Center Monday-Friday, April 15-19, 9
a.m.-noon, daily or weekly rates, call 860-693-
0263 for info
Farmington calendar
At the UConn Health Center, 263 Farmington
Ave.:
• UConn Health Center Auxiliary Book Sale
Friday, April 5, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Cornucopia Gift
• “Play Again” screening/community dialogue
Saturday, April 6, 2 p.m., registration required
• TAC meeting ursday, April 11, 6:30 p.m.
Canton Public Library
40 Dyer Ave., 860-693-5800, www.cantonpubliclibrary.org
• Edible and Medicinal Plants All Around Us:
Weed Walk with Lisl Heubner Saturday, April 6,
11 a.m., registration requested
• Monday Evening Book Club April 8, 7 p.m.,
“Northwest Corner: A Novel” by John Burnham
Schwartz
Farmington Library
6 Monteith Drive, 860-673-6791, www.farmingtonlibraries.org
• Afternoon at the Bijou ursdays, 2-4 p.m.:
April 11, “Passage to Marseille”
• Friends of the Farmington Libraries Spring
Shop
• Childbirth Preparation Class Saturday, April
6, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Onyiuke Dining Room, limited
space, fee, call 869-679-7692 to register
• Bladder Cancer Support Group Saturday,
April 6, 3-4 p.m., Onyiuke Dining Room, for
patients, family members and caregivers
• Free Hospital Maternity Tours Saturday,
April 6, 3:30 p.m., main lobby, call 1-800-535-
6232 to register
• Celiac Disease Nutrition Class Wednesday,
April 10, 9-10 a.m., Dowling North Medical
Building, 3rd floor, fee, 860-679-7692 to register
• Free lecture: “Gun Violence in Connecticut:
A Public Health Issue” Wednesday, April 10,
noon-1 p.m., Onyiuke Dining Room, register
at hsecfs1.uchc.net/eventregistration
At Village Gate, 88 Scott Swamp Road,
R.S.V.P. 860-676-8626:
• Meet & Greet Farmington Police Super Dog
Drak Friday, April 5, 2 p.m.
• Children’s Book drive with Daisy the Pig Saturday,
April 6, 2 p.m.
Spring Clothing Sale by Women’s Association
of First Church Congregational, 1652, 75 Main
St., Friday, April 5, 5-8 p.m. admission $5 and Saturday,
April 6, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. admission $2, boutique
items half price and all other $3 bag
Tunxis Community College offering “Mindfulness
for Education Professionals” Saturday,
April 6, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., offered thru
Tunxis Workforce Development and Continuing
Education’s Business & Industry Services,
fee, call Marcy Cain at 860-314-4700
At the Hill-Stead Museum, 35 Mountain
Road, 860-677-4787:
• Nature Walk: Spring Ephemerals Sunday,
April 7, noon-1 p.m., $5/$8
• First Sunday Gallery Talk: Souvenirs from
Abroad Sunday, April 7, 1-2 p.m. – find out
where the Popes went abroad and what they
brought back
• Wake Up the Sunken Garden Friday, April
12 and Saturday, April 13, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. – prepare
Sunken Garden for growing season,
bring tools and work gloves, contact Kate
Ebner at 860-677-4787 ext. 150 or ebnerk@hillstead.org
to volunteer
Monthly meeting of the Tunxis Senior Citizens
Association Monday, April 8, 1 p.m.,
Farmington Community and Senior Center,
Patsy Cline tribute from Janice Dompke, contact
Sandy O’Dell (860-673-4474) or Peg
Preato (860-673-5797) for info
“Doing the Truth in Love” program Wednesday,
April 10, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. or 7-9 p.m. at Our
Lady of Calvary Retreat Center, 31 Colton St.,
$25 offering for day program and lunch, $15
for evening, call 860-677-8519 for info
FVGLA hosting illustrated talk by William
Hosley “More an Books: Libraries, Community
& Historic Preservation,” ursday,
April 11, 7-8 p.m., at e Stanley-Whitman
House, 37 High St., R.S.V.P. to Melinda McKeown
at 860-677-9222
Book Sale ursday-Saturday, April 4-6, special
preview ursday from noon-3 p.m. with admission
$10 and 3-9 p.m. admission $5; Friday
hours 9 a.m.-8 p.m. (free) with sale specials on
adult fiction from 6-8 p.m.; Saturday hours 9
a.m.-2 p.m. (free) with a bag sale from 3-5 p.m.
at $6 per bag
• Accepting passport applications on behalf of
U.S. Dept. of State by appt. only
Simsbury Library
725 Hopmeadow St., 860-658-7663, www.simsburylibrary.info
• Free full-length practice SAT exam Saturday,
April 6, 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m., pre-register
• Mystery Book Group Monday, April 8, 11:30
a.m.-1:30 p.m., “e Second Opinion” by
Michael Palmer
• Ukulele lessons free for ages 6+ and adults
Monday, April 8, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Granby calendar
Good Company eater’s “Oliver!” ursday
and Friday, April 4 and 5 at 7 p.m., Saturday,
April 6 at 2 and 7 p.m., and Sunday, April
7 at 2 p.m. at South Congregational Church
Fellowship Hall, 242 Salmon Brook St., tickets,
$81/$15/$20, available at Granby Pharmacy, 9
Hartford Ave. or online at www.goodcompanytheaterct.org
At the Granby Senior Center, 15 North
Granby Road, 860-844-5352
• Family Tree Workshop Fridays, April 5-May
3, 10 a.m., using scrapbooking techniques, $10
materials fee, sign up
• Italian Night Tuesday, April 16, 5 p.m., Italian-inspired
evening with dinner, $10, reservations
due by April 9
• AARP Tax Assistance by appointment Tuesdays
and Wednesdays through April 9,
• Trip to Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
Art Wednesday, April 17, 9:30 a.m., cost $10
due April 10
Tag and Bake Sale at Copper Hill United
Methodist Church, 27 Copper Hill Road,
East Granby, April 13, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; drop off
donations Saturday, April 6, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
(860-668-1031)
Simsbury calendar
Henry James Memorial School’s “e Little
Mermaid Jr.” ursday and Friday, April
4 and 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 6 at 2
and 7:30 p.m., in the Simsbury High School
auditorium, Farms Village Road, tickets $5
only available at the door before each performance
Senior Center at Eno Memorial Hall, 860-
658-3273:
• Friday Lunch Café April 5, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.,
$2 per sandwich, $2 per soup, (can call order
ahead)
• Wednesday Lunch at Eno, April 10, noon,
roast pork, R.S.V.P. by noon on Friday the
week before
Simsbury Junior Woman’s club’s annual
Ladybug Bash Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m.noon,
at Henry James School, tickets $5 per
child (under 1 admitted free) online at
www.simsburyjuniors.org, for preschool and
lower elementary aged kids
Tariffville Village Association annual
meeting and potluck supper Saturday, April
6, 5:30 p.m., Trinity Church Parish Hall, R.S.V.P.
to Jennie Winiarski at 860-651-7474 or Wanda
at 860-214-0100
Ghosts in Simsbury? A Journey into the
Paranormal Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m. at the
Masonic Lodge, 991 Hopmeadow St., with
Adam Shefts, director of Northeast Paranormal
Investigation society, presentation on recent
investigation at the Phelps House, fee at
the door, R.S.V.P. 860-658-2500 (rescheduled
from February)
• Business/computer classes, pre-register:
Download to Kindle Tuesday-ursday, April 9-
11, 1-2 p.m. and 2-3 p.m.; Leveraging LinkedIn –
Beyond the Basics Wednesday, April 10, 6-8
p.m.
• Free business assistance and mentoring with a
SCORE counselor Wednesday April 10, 10 a.m.-
2 p.m., register in advance
• Living with an Irregular Heart Rate Wednesday,
April 10, 6:30-8 p.m.
• Adult Book Discussion ursday, April 11, 7-
8:30 p.m., “e Optimist’s Daughter” by Eudora
Welty
Children’s/teen programs
• Lego Mania Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.,
ages 5 and up, drop in
• Chess and Go Club Tuesday, April 9, 3:45-4:45
p.m., grades 2-6, drop in
• Crafty Kids: Pigs ursday, April 11, 1:30 p.m.,
ages 3 and up, register
check it out
Drop-in Book Club at Simsbury Free Library,
749 Hopmeadow St., Tuesday, April 9,
11:15 a.m., “Magician of the Modern” by Eugene
Gaddis
Simsbury Chamber of Commerce Chamber
Business Expo with a Twist! Tuesday,
April 9, 5-8 p.m., at Tower Ridge Country
Club, $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Simsbury Community Gardens for rent on
Sand Hill Road, 600 sq. ft. $25, 1,350 sq. ft. $50,
info at www.simsburyrec.com or call 860-658-
3836
Caregiver lecture presented by e Atwater
at McLean, 75 Great Pond Road, Wednesday,
April 10, 5 p.m., R.S.V.P. 860-658-3786
Town of Simsbury seeking nominations for
Hometown Hero awards, submitted by
April 22, forms available at town hall and on
town website at www.simsbury-ct.gov
e Valley and beyond
Farmington Valley Trails Council’s 4th annual
Trail-wide Clean-up Day Sunday, April 7, 10
a.m.-2 p.m., rain date April 14, staging areas:
Brickyard Trail Shelter on Brickyard Road in
Farmington; Iron Horse Boulevard in Simsbury;
the River Trail Pavilion at Route 4 in
Unionville and Copper Hill Road in Granby;
bring brooms, rake and clippers, volunteer
barbecue at Flamig Farm from 1-3 p.m., sign
up at www.fvgreenway.org
Coming
Attractions
At Bridge Street Live, 41 Bridge St.,
Collinsville, 860-693-9763: April 5, 9 p.m.,
e Dave Keller Band & e Mighty Soul
Drivers; April 6, 8 p.m., e Spampinato
Brothers w/Ray Mason; April 7, 7 p.m.,
e Last Waltz; April 11, 9 p.m., Bill Frisell
At Infinity Hall, Rte. 44, Norfolk, toll
free 1-866-666-6306: April 5, 8 p.m., Jane
Monheit; April 6, 8 p.m., Paula Poundstone;
April 7, 2 p.m., Eric Andersen;
April 7, 7:30 p.m., Chris omas King;
April 10, 8 p.m., An Evening w/Renaissance;
April 11, 8 p.m., Rickie Lee Jones
At Maple Tree Cafe, 781 Hopmeadow
St., Simsbury, 860-651-1297, 8:30 p.m.:
April 5, Steppin’ Out; April 6, Soul Sensations;
April 7, Musician’s Benefit
Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
Harvey Reid Saturday, April 6,
7:30 p.m. at Roaring Brook Nature Center,
70 Gracey Road, Canton, $18/$20,
860-693-0263
Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra
Woodwinds! Concert, NSO Woodwind
Quartet with Neely Bruce, pianist,
Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., at
Trinity Episcopal Church, 220 Prospect
St., Torrington, tickets at www.NutmegSymphony.org
Farmington Valley Band performance
Sunday, April 7, 3 p.m., at the
North Congregational Church, 17
Church St. North, New Hartford
Baroque and Beyond Sunday Serenades
Chamber Music Series Sunday,
April 7, 2 p.m., at the Wadsworth
Atheneum, 600 Main St., Hartford
(860-244-2999)
Historic Schoolhouse Bus Tour in
Farmington Valley Saturday, April 27,
9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., reservations required,
call FVVA at 860-676-8878

PRESSSports
Granby senior Dawson Tefft will be back on the mound for the Bears this spring after playing on the school’s basketball team that won
the Class S state championship last month.
Photo by David Heuschkel
Baseball previews: Bears hoping to hoop it up
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
As winter turned to
spring, new coach Todd Shufelt
had noticed a buzz surrounding
the athletic programs at
Granby Memorial High School.
Winning a state title can do
that.
Shufelt hopes the success
of the Class S champion basketball
team translates to the
diamond, where Granby’s only
state title was in 1982.
Senior pitchers Dawson
Tefft and Curt Field, two basketball
players, have swapped
their sneakers for spikes. When
not throwing fastballs or
breaking balls, they’ll be pursuing
fly balls in the outfield.
e Bears, who play in
Class M, will be strong up the
middle with catcher Steve
Blake, Jake Narvesen at short
and Tefft in center. Matt
Holmes, a junior infielder, is
also among the returning players
with varsity experience.
Shufelt, the former coach
at East Granby, said the roster
is deep with players who can
be used in multiple spots. e
biggest question is the pitching
staff.
“We have a number of
good arms, but none that have
Play ball!
had any real varsity experience,”
Shufelt said. “If the pitching
staff is able to step in and
be fairly successful, I feel that
we can have an excellent season.”
Granby went 9-9 last season
and lost to Wolcott, 8-0, in
the first round of the Class M
tournament. e Bears were
scheduled to open the season
April 4 at Avon and play their
home opener April 9 against
Ellington.
“ere seems to be a new
energy around here, which
hopefully becomes contagious,”
Shufelt said. “We all understand
how difficult the
[NCCC] schedule will be but at
the same time are all embracing
the challenge ahead of us.”
Marty ball
Marty deLivron wasn’t the
baseball coach at Avon when
the Falcons won their last state
title in 1968. He took over 10
years later and remains the
face of baseball in town.
Beginning his 35th year in
the dugout, deLivron, who has
446 coaching wins as the Falcons’
baseball coach to go
along with 330 in soccer, said
See BASEBALL on page 31
Softball preview: Granby poised for another title run
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Brian McDermott, who replaces
Vicki Malone as coach at
Granby Memorial, takes over a
team that won the NCCC championship
last season and came
one win away from a state title.
With several returning
starters, including All-State
shortstop Ellie Bourque, Granby
appears to have the bats and
gloves to repeat as conference
champion and make another
deep run in the Class M tourna-
ment.
e question is, do the
Bears have the arms? All-State
pitcher Neve Stearns graduated,
leaving McDermott without any
pitchers who have varsity innings.
He has tabbed sophomore
Jennifer Szilagyi and junior
Courtney Ahrens. Erin Walsh,
the starting right fielder, could
also pitch.
“Right now we don’t have a
true No. 1, but we have plenty of
talent in the circle,” McDermott
said last week.
Granby will also have new
starters on the right side of the
infield. First baseman Haley
Makuch graduated and second
baseman Morgan Malone transferred
to a private school. e
left side is strong with Bourque
and senior third baseman
Megan Nilson. Amy Bilodeau
and Emily Martel join Walsh in
the outfield. Designated player
Leanna Bellmund and catcher
Samantha Groskritz are also
back.
“ese kids want to learn,”
McDermott said. “ey’re already
playing at an above-aver-
age level, but they want to learn.
Come June, the sky’s the limit.”
McDermott has spent the
past decade on softball fields as
a coach, starting in Little
League. He coached All-Star
teams to three straight district
titles (2006-08) and he’s currently
the director of the Northern
Connecticut Girls Softball
League (NCGSL) for Simsbury.
He’s gotten to know a lot of the
players on Granby by coaching
against them.
See SOFTBALL on page 29
Matters
By Scott Gray
e cycle of life begins
anew. Another baseball season is
upon us. As each baseball season
dawns, I am reminded of a team
that, more than any other, represents
my own cycle of life: the
1959 Columbia Rec Council Cardinals.
e Cardinals were one of four Little League
teams sponsored by the rec council in Columbia
(Ct.), then a tiny farm town with a grammar school
that had just eight classrooms for eight grades. e
Cardinals were coached by Jerry Dunnack, who
was best known as the man who built the
stonewall-lined hockey pond in his front yard that
was a winter weekend haven for nighttime skating
parties, complete with a warming fire, and weekend
afternoon hockey games that frequently featured
lineups from young teenagers to adults in
their mid-30s. Jerry, who became a legendary youth
hockey coach in eastern Connecticut, maintained
an inventory of castoff skates that he kept sharpened
and usable for his "skate exchange" program
to insure any kid who wanted to skate had the
chance.
It was with that same feeling that every kid
deserved a chance that Jerry drafted his Little
League players from the annual spring tryouts. e
kids who failed to make one of the Little League
teams would remain on the "farm team" for the
season. Playing Little League baseball was the
dream of every kid who tried out. Jerry made those
dreams come true.
Jerry drafted the kid who, as the result of a
farm machinery accident, had one usable hand.
Jerry drafted the kid with special needs who just
wanted a chance to play baseball, the kid who
couldn't play because his alcoholic father wouldn't
provide transportation to practices and games,
and the kid from the financially struggling family
who so badly wanted to play, but whose lack of
confidence made him feel inferior to the other kids
at the tryout. Jerry had a great second baseman, by
birth. His son, Scott, was the best player on the
team, the player around whom everyone else rallied.
It was with this team of rag-tags none of the
other coaches in the Columbia Rec Little League
wanted that Jerry won the league championship
in 1959, winning 15 of 18 games, losing to each of
the other three teams just once.
ere wasn't one of those kids who wouldn't
run through a brick wall for Jerry, who always encouraged,
never criticized. e farm kid with one
good hand became one of the league's best hitters.
e kid with the alcoholic father, who Jerry drove
to games and practices himself, became one of the
league's best pitchers. e kid with special needs
became a competent shortstop, getting to the ball
and getting the ball to Scott. e kid from the
struggling family with little confidence became an
all-star catcher.
Every year brought a new group of kids who
just wanted a chance to play baseball, and every
See GRAY MATTERS on page 30
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Boys tennis
preview:
Canton
on the rise
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Canton is coming off its best
season under coach Dante Boffi.
e Warriors figure to be even better
this spring with a group of experienced
players who earned
All-NCCC honors in 2012.
Senior Peter Jutras has quietly
emerged as one of the top tennis
players in the conference. He has
been overshadowed by Class S singles
champion Chandler Libby of
Granby Memorial and Avon’s Sam
Aronson, the Class M runner-up
last season.
Like the team, Jutras has improved
each of the last two seasons.
He made it to the third round
of the S tournament as a sophomore
two years ago and reached
the quarterfinals last spring.
Boffi expects seniors Alex
boon von Ostade and Ben Corbett,
and junior Eric Scott to be consistent
winners as well.
Last year, Canton went 9-5 in
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conference matches and beat
Bolton for the first time since Boffi
took over in 2010. e Warriors
won six matches in each of his first
two seasons.
“Canton has built itself up to
an excellent tennis program,” Boffi
said.
At Farmington, Andreas
Singer moves up to No. 1 singles for
coach Chris Loomis. He was No. 2
behind Cory Wang last season and
No. 4 as a sophomore.
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four All-NCCC players on the Warriors. Photo by David Heuschkel
will be looking to move up in the
CCC West after finishing fifth (3-4)
last season. e team finished 9-7
overall, 6-3 in non-conference
matches.
Pat Lau, Andrew Ham, Will
Meng and Kevin Mathieu are other
key players. …Libby, a junior at
Granby, looks to defend his state
title in Class S and contend for the
championship in the State Open
along with two-time champion
Bradley Orban of Foran, Glastonbury
senior Reid Risinger and
Hand junior Scott Rubinstein.
Libby lost to Risinger in the quarterfinals
(6-2, 6-1) last June. …With
three strong singles players, Lewis
Mills could repeat as the Berkshire
League champion. e Robinson
brothers – senior Trevor and sophomore
Holden – both went 17-0
and Bill Bentley was 13-4.
Danielle Neagle of Avon, a junior team. In his first two relief ap-
midfield/attack on
pearances, he did not
the Roger Williams
give up a hit and struck
women’s lacrosse
out five in three innings.
team, scored six
Freshman pitcher Josh
goals in back-to-
Holihan of Simsbury is
back wins over the
also playing baseball at
University of New
ECSU this spring. …Bent-
England and
ley senior Amy Varsell
Nichols College last
(Lewis Mills ‘09), who
week. She had 21
missed the cross country
goals and two as-
and indoor track seasons
sists in the first Josh Holihan with an injury, finished
eight games this
fourth in the 1500-meter race
season. …Michael Pendergast of Farm- (4:53.47) at the Bridgewater State (Mass.)
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are healthy and hungry
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Sam Aronson and Sam Flaxman,
Avon’s top two singles players,
were no match for Bradley
Orban, the best high school tennis
player in the state last season.
Orban’s team, Foran of Milford,
could not match Avon’s depth
and overall talent in the Class M
tournament as the Falcons captured
the team state championship
for the second straight year.
Aronson and Flaxman are
among the tournament-tested
players back for Avon this spring.
Orban, the Class M and State Open
singles champion, returns as well.
e Falcons will be aiming for another
state title, as well as a fourth
consecutive NCCC championship.
“ose are the goals,” coach
Ben Lukowicz said.
Also returning for the Falcons
is junior John Burdick, a state
champion himself. Paired with
Jason Sittambalam, the two captured
the Class M doubles title
with a straight sets march through
the field, capped with a 6-4, 6-0 win
over Tolland’s twosome of Dylan
Roman and Andrew Schadt.
e Selzer brothers, Evan and
Eric, return for the Falcons. ey
played No. 2 doubles last spring
and lost in the semifinals to the
Roman/Schadt tandem.
When last week ended,
Lukowicz was still tinkering with
different combinations. He wasn’t
sure if he would keep the Selzers
College Corner
together or pair one of them with
Burdick. He was thinking about
playing Burdick in singles along
with Aronson, Flaxman and junior
Riley Van Dusen. He didn’t know if
Alex Saslow, who played No. 3 doubles
last season, would play No. 2
or 1 this spring.
“ere’s a lot of different possibilities,”
Lukowicz said. “ey’ve
all been playing for the offseason,
all getting better. ey’re competing
for those top spots and we’ll let
it play out. e nice thing is we
have a strong team and the practices
are very competitive. at’s
going to help us prepare for the
season.”
With the singles, Lukowicz
was planning to begin the season
the same as last season ended –
Aronson will play No. 1 singles and
Flaxman will be 2. Lukowicz said
Flaxman, who missed the majority
of last season with a back issue, is
healthy.
“He’s ready to come back and
contribute for the whole season,”
he said.
Flaxman, who is planning to
play in college, would love to get
another shot at Orban in June.
ey have met each of the last two
years and Orban has won both
times in straight sets, in the semifinals
in 2011 and quarterfinals last
year. Orban went on to beat Aronson
in the final, 6-3 and 6-1.
“I’m sure that they look forward
to the challenge again,”
Lukowicz said. “Hopefully they can
change the outcome this time.
since the 2012 NCAA Division II outdoor
track championships last May. …Avon’s
John Drago, a senior at Bentley, was recently
named the
Northeast-10 Conference
Sport Excellence
Award
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cross country. A
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and accounting
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three times
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Senior Walker Lohrey shot the second lowest score (78) by a Simsbury golfer in the Division I state
championship last June, helping the Trojans to a sixth-place finish. Photo by David Heuschkel
Boys golf preview: Avon could be a contender
By David Heuschkel
Sports Editor
Avon hasn’t won a state
title since 1985, but Joshua
Glick’s team has come close in
recent years.
All-State senior Ryan Karbowicz,
a four-year starter,
leads a group of returning
golfers for the Falcons. His average
nine-hole score was 38.8
and he shot a 75 to finish tied
for fourth in the Division II state
tournament last season.
Karbowicz is joined by
seniors Alex Stekler (40 avg.)
and Justin Hufsmith (42), and
sophomore Matt Bergman (44).
Stekler shot a 74 in the 18-hole
NCCC tournament, leading the
Falcons to a first-place finish at
Twin Hills CC in Coventry.
“We’re going to be pretty
good this year,” Glick said. “We
SOFTBALL from page 27
“It’s going to be an awesome
year. It’s going to be a ton
of fun,” he said.
Charley’s Warriors
Charley Batan is hoping his
second season as coach at Canton
is as good as his first. e
Warriors went 14-5 in the regular
season and advanced to the
Class S semifinals.
Morgan Scafuri takes over
for Christian Cardwell as the
team’s top pitcher. Also returning
are first baseman Brittany
King and shortstop Katherine
Winsor. Amber Batan moves
from second base to center field,
replacing Stephanie Gauthier.
“If we stay focused, we
could go deep into the state
tournament,” Charley Batan
said.
Hayley’s back
at Farmington
Hayley Hovhanessian, a
former pitcher at Farmington
pretty much are returning our
top four or five kids, plus we got
a freshman who will probably
start.”
Freshman Marcus Husted
shot a 39 and 37 in the first two
practices, good enough to make
Avon’s lineup. Jordan Levine, a
junior who averaged 45 in JV
and varsity matches last season,
also hopes to crack the
lineup.
“If this team can play up to
its abilities, we can have a very
good year and possibly contend
for a state title,” Glick said.
Two years ago, Avon finished
third in the Division II
state tournament after finishing
second the previous year.
Last spring, the Falcons tied for
13th with a 338 at Timberlin
Golf Club in Kensington.
Canton has another
young team, but sophomores
(Class of 2007) who played at
Endicott College, returns to the
Indians as an assistant for coach
Granby shortstop Ellie Bourque,
named to the Class M All-State
team last spring, will contribute
as the Bears look to return to
the state championship game.
Photo by David Heuschkel
Betsy Harvey, starting her third
season. e two were teammates
at Farmington in ’04-05.
Harvey said finishing .500
in the CCC West would be a successful
season. It would also
Riley Hollis, Vinnie Uccello, Jack
Sullivan, and junior John
Minichiello were all in the regular
lineup last year.
Coach Bill Phelps said the
additions of sophomore Logan
Anderson and junior Parker
Lyons, two transfer students,
could give the team a lift.
“[We’re] still a very young
team but they all have had a
year of experience and have
played all summer,” Phelps said.
…Junior Connor Brown is the
top returning golfer at Granby,
which went 13-4 last year.
Coach John Bikowski has a relatively
inexperienced squad.
Jason Abate, Matt Behrens,
Nate Sidland and Pete Brodeur
will look to fill spots vacated by
All-NCCC golfers Scott Addley
and Andrew Ricci.
See BOYS GOLF on page 31
qualify the Indians for the state
tournament for the first time
since 2009.
Harvey must replace six
starters who graduated from a
team that was 6-14. Stephanie
Chace, Aly McTague and Tess
Brown are the team captains.
Other key returning players include
Kara Gardne, Lauren
Coats and Tessa Tuttle. …Lewis
Mills has an All-Berkshire
League battery with junior
pitcher Amy Powers and senior
catcher C.C. Murphy. Coach
David Bohmer isn’t sure who
will replace Mariah McCann’s
bat in the lineup. Lexi Beaulieu,
a junior, will take McCann’s spot
in center field. e left side of
the infield is solid with All-BL
third baseman Gina Daniele and
shortstop Alyssa Halpin. …Kat
Hannah, the new coach at
Simsbury, has a strong group of
seniors and an impressive freshman
class. e Trojans lost
pitcher Carly Williams, who is
playing at St. John’s. Laura
Yablecki, Kelly Knisel, Sarah
Tully and Jamie Kalogoros are
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Farmington coach George De-
Vita must replace the Whaleys, Connecticut’s
best sister golf act the past
decade.
Canton’s John Manners is looking
for someone to fill the void left by
Nikki Liucci, who is playing No. 1 at
Division I St. Francis College in
Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.
Avon’s Pat Welkley and Simsbury’s
Mark Melingonis are feeling
no such loss. Both coaches are delighted
to have their All-State golfer
back this spring.
Marissa Grillo, a junior and twotime
All-State selection, resumes her
role as the top player at Avon.
Mikayla Sheary does the same at
Simsbury following an All-State
freshman season.
But Grillo and Sheary aren’t the
only players with varsity experience
in the lineup of their respective
teams.
Grillo, Alana Pulling, Catherine
Ponziani, Leezy Laurova led the Falcons
to a 23-2 record in match play
last year. Avon’s only losses were to
state champion Berlin by eight
strokes and Greenwich, which finished
third in states, by one stroke.
e Falcons also qualified for
the state tournament for the seventh
year in a row. eir seventh-place
finish was the highest by the team
since finishing sixth in 2007.
Welkley expects Avon to contend
for the Southern Connecticut
Girls’ Golf League title. In the league
tournament, Grillo shot a low-score
of 76.
ere is also a tournament –
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will be a varsity
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joins seniors Maddie
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and Kelsey Moon.
Sheary, the
cousin of pro
golfer Natalie
Sheary, was the
medalist in 10 of
Simsbury’s matches as a freshman
and earned All-CCC West.
Farmington ‘stronger’
When he took over as Farmington
coach last year, DeVita inherited
one of best teams in the state with
unquestionably the best female high
school golfer.
e Indians were runner-up to
state champion Berlin and Kelly
Whaley, Farmington’s freshman phenom,
enrolled in the Hank Haney International
Junior Golf Academy for
her sophomore year.
Jenn Whaley, Kelly’s sister and
Farmington’s No. 2 golfer, is a freshman
at Quinnipiac playing alongside
Avon’s Alexa Gentile.
Despite losing his top two
golfers, DeVita believe he has a team
GRAY MATTERS from page 27
year Jerry gave that chance to as many of
them as he could. To me, that 1959 team
will always be special. I was the catcher. A
picture of that team, taken next to Jerry's
pond at our annual team picnic, adorns
the wall of my den today, a constant reminder
that, given the chance and someone
who believes in us as much as we
believe in ourselves, we can make our
dreams come true.
e cycle of life. At the National Association
of Sportscasters and Sportswriters
annual meeting in Salisbury, N.C., in
1986 a national program was unveiled, the
Sporting Goods Manufacturers of America
"Sports Hero" award for people who
give of themselves to make sports a rewarding
experience for young people.
"You know who they're talking about,” I
said to my wife as the criteria were listed.
"ey're talking about Jerry Dunnack."
I nominated Jerry for the Connecticut
Sports Hero award. He won, and went
on to become one of the three national
winners who were brought to the Sporting
Goods Manufacturers convention in
Atlanta and presented with crystal trophies
complete with carvings of their own
busts. A few years later in Salisbury, as another
search for "sports heroes" nation-
With the snow still on the ground, Michelle Sangelotty
and the Farmington girls golf team worked on swings
and other mechanics at the Canton Indoor Golf Center.
Photo by David Heuschkel
that is stronger than it was a year
ago. Team captains Haley Campbell
and Michelle Sangelotty are back.
Other players in the lineup are Kate
Fagan, Larkin Meehan and Annie
Harris.
DeVita, the head pro at Farmington
Woods, stresses teamwork
over individual play. He said the players
are committed to playing as a
team.
“If golfers have expectations
they won’t ever succeed. We have a
team goal,” he said.
Farmington meets Berlin on
May 6 at Tunxis Plantation, but De-
Vita said he doesn’t need to see how
his team matches up with the defending
state champion to determine
how good it is.
“I already know how good they
are,” he said.
wide was initiated, the presenter, to my
surprise, announced, "e first year of the
award, Scott Gray from Connecticut
nominated a man named Jerry Dunnack."
He then went on to tell the story of Jerry,
his pond, his skate exchange program and
the 1959 Columbia Cardinals. "Every year
at this time, when we begin our search, we
are looking for the next Jerry Dunnack."
e cycle of life. at was my
chance to repay Jerry for the little things
he did for me and so many other kids. I
had the honor of speaking at his funeral, in
front of the largest crowd ever to pack Columbia
Congregational Church on that little
town green. His son Scott and I remain
close friends to this day, Scott a great
youth hockey coach in his own right, and
Scott's son, Eric, is one of Abby's closest
friends – they even share first cousins – all
of this just coincides of the cycle of life,
which will forever connect me to Jerry
Dunnack, who, when we first met, was
just the guy with the hockey pond who
believed that every kid deserved a chance.
e cycle of life. It enters my life
every spring when baseball season begins
and the world renews itself, a chance to
remember the 1959 Columbia Cardinals
and the man who meant, and still means,
so much to all of us.

Canton senior righthander Patrick Sullivan, left, and junior lefty Chris Enns, right, will look to pitch the Warriors
back into the state tournament after missing it the last two years. Photos by David Heuschkel
BASEBALL from page 27
he has no plans to stop “as long as
it’s fun.”
With several returning players,
deLivron expects his team will
be competitive in the NCCC. ird
baseman Will Distefano, shortstop
Noah Hahn and catcher Ben Lombard
are the team captains. Dan
Sheiker and Mitch Cappello will
start in the outfield.
Hahn, Distefano and Cappello
will also pitch. Others could see
BOYS GOLF from page 29
Defending champ
Lewis Mills figures to win at
least one championship this
spring. e Spartans are the consensus
favorite to finish first in the
Berkshire League for the fifth
straight season.
Returning for Mills are a trio
“e strong senior class
has finished as state
champs and state
runner-up the past two
years. ey will be
looking to finish their
high school careers with
another run at a state
title.”
-Lewis Mills coach Jay Pelchar
of All-Berkshire League seniors
who led the team to first state title
last spring. ere is enough talent
to give the Spartans a legitimate
chance to compete for a second
one, coach Jay Pelchar said.
Andrew Boucher, Colby
Prestash and Chris Greatorex
action on the mound, said deLivron,
who envisions using three or
four in a game. “We may end up
splitting games,” he said.
Avon went 9-11 last year, the
fewest wins by the team since 2006
when the Falcons were 7-12 and
missed the state tournament, the
last time that occurred. …After
winning the NCCC championship
in 2010, Canton has missed the
state tournament the last two
years. e way last season ended
was tough, especially for the sen-
recorded three of the team’s four
scores toward the Division III
championship. Boucher shot a
team-low 77 on the par-71 course
at Crestbrook Park in Watertown.
He earned All-State honors, as well
as all-conference for the third
straight year.
According to Pelchar, the key
to repeating will be finding solid
No. 4 and 5 golfers. Jordan Gilbert,
a junior, may fill one of those spots.
“e strong senior class has
finished as state champs and state
runner-up the past two years,”
Pelchar said. “ey will be looking
to finish their high school careers
with another run at a state title.”
…Simsbury’s top returning golfers
are all seniors, led by Walker
Lohrey, a multiple medalist last
spring. Cal omas, David Dell and
Andrew Several are also expected
to be in Ed Lynch’s lineup.
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• Maintenance-Free Decks • Finish Carpentry
• Complete Painting Service • Custom Countertops
Jim Barrett, Owner
CT. LIC. #602130 • Office (860) 796-0131
LANDSCAPE
CONTRACTORS
HYDROSEEDING
EROSION CONTROL
Based In & Serving The Farmington Valley
For Over 18 Years
Fully Licensed & Insured
cell: 860-250-2908
• Pool Patios
• Poolscapes
• Lawn Installation
• Tree & Shrub
Planting
• Pruning
• Walkways
& Patios
• Walls & Steps
• Yard Drains
• Excavating
• Grading
• Snowplowing
• Bucket Loading
Office: (860) 426-1578 Fax: (860) 426-1676
Email: chassebuild@aol.com
Bathrooms • Kitchens • Additions
Basements • Doors • Windows • Decks
Fire & Water Damage Restoration
Fully Insured. CT License #0621224
860-250-1715
djzshrake@cox.net
DESIGN AND REMODEL YOUR HOME
FREE
ESTIMATES
No Job Too
Small
Offering Harvey Doors and Windows
with seasonal promotions
860-307-4221
Old Fashioned
Carpentry &
Professional Service
• Installation and Repair
of doors, windows,
decks, stairs, siding
and trim
• Grab Bars & Handrails
• Crown Molding
• Interior Trim &
Cabinetry
hhi.mengual@yahoo.com
Serving the Farmington Valley since 2004
Insured and ct licensed # HIC.0605076
BERKSHIRE
WOODSMITHS, LLC
berkshirewoodsmiths@yahoo.com
COMPLETE MAINTENANCE & REPAIR
• Siding
• Decks
• Kitchens
A+ Rating
SMALL OR LARGE • WE DO IT ALL!
www.berkshirewoodsmiths.com
Licensed & Insured
Lic. # HIC0625936
• Bathrooms
• Remodeling
• Improvements
860.738.4931 or 203.232.9114
HOME IMPROVEMENT HOME IMPROVEMENT HOME IMPROVEMENT LANDSCAPING
DELEO
BUILDERS LLC
• ADDITIONS • REMODELING • GARAGES
• COMPOSITE DECKS • PORCHES
Don DeLeo
Home (860) 232-6917 • Cell (860) 883-6703
Ct. Lic. #0626103
NICK
CONSTRUCTION
Serving the Farmington Valley
for over 10 years
* Concrete * Stone Walls * Patios
* Bricks * BelgiumBlocks * Chimneys
* Wood Fencing
203-206-2839
Email: adaleta99@hotmail.com
CT License #HIC0616677
LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING
WEST HARTFORD
LANDSCAPING, INC.
WestHartfordLandscaping.com
Spring Cleanups
Lawn Care/Mowing
Shrubs, Ornamentals, Tree Pruning & Trimming
Planting/Mulching • Stump Grinding
Landscape Renovations & more.
Arborist S-5402 • Ornamental & Turf Lic. #B-2432
860-231-8262
info@westhartfordlandscaping.com
We’re Local.
Trained.
Experienced.
GOT
MULCH?
DOUBLE GROUND
LANDSCAPE MULCH
CALL FOR PRICES
860-658-4420
GRIMSHAW TREE SERVICE
LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING
JR’S LAWN CARE
&
Residential Commercial
Spring Cleanups
WWeeekly Mowing •• MMulchingg
• Poowerwashinng
•• Stump GGrindinng
•• Complete Landsscapingg Seervicees
Hard to beat prices.
Reliable Services
860-680-5440
EQUIPMENT SERVICE & REPAIR
SPRING TUNE-UPS!
155 Brickyard Road, Farmington
860-269-3103
POWERWASHING
Ashmore & Son
Landscaping
• Lawnmowing
• Spring Cleanups
• Hedge Trimming/Pruning
• Mulching
• Patios, Retaining Walls,
Walkways
Call Ryan at 860-797-4046
Serving The Community For Over 23 Years
Landscape &
Masonry
Masonry: New Work and Repairs
Brick/Block, Natural Stone Veneer, Bluestone,
Cultured Stone, Stone Retaining Walls, Fireplaces, Patio Pavers
Landscaping: New and Maintenance
Flower Beds, Islands, Tree/Shrub Plantings,
Lawns New/Existing, Mulching/Stone, Retaining Walls, Pavers,
Sidewalks, Patios, Pool Decks, Driveways, Drainage
Licensed Arborist - Tree Cutting
Fully Insured. Call Don Lee
860-620-4377
April 4, 2013 The Valley Press 33

Who Does It?
$ 29-1 week $ 150-6 weeks $ 300-13weeks
LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING MASONRY MASONRY
PAINTING PAINTING PAINTING PAVING
ANDY’S PAINTING &
REMODELING SERVICE
Commercial - Residential
Interior - Exterior Painting
Water & Fire Damage
Venetian Plaster & Faux Finish
Wallpaper and Renovations
Floor Epoxy • Powerwashing
Free Estimates • Insured • Lic# 0619619
860-306-5539 (cell)
860-612-0509 (home)
P PETS ROOFING ROOFING ROOFING
dogs are fun.
dog poop is not.
Weekly service
starts at $14.95
We Scoop Dog Poop
Visit www.POOP911.com or call
1.877.POOP.911 for more information.
POOP 911 provides pet waste removal services
for homeowners and communities in your area.
We offer service weekly, bi-weekly, monthy,
or a customized schedule just for you.
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JP Carroll
Roofing is our only business!
Call us for a Free Estimate at
860.586.8857
jpcarrollroofing.com
We specialize in:
Architectural Asphalt shingles • EPDM Rubber
Slate • Cedar • Copper fabrications • Gutters
Established Leak Response Team!
We have served Central CT for over 20 years
Fully Licensed and Insured; CT Reg # 544304
- No Dumpsters on-site -
Join us in our efforts to go green...we recycle all tear-off materials.
SIDING TREES WINDOWS WINDOW WASHING
VINYL SIDING SPECIAL
SAVE 30% OFF regular prices.
Ranches/Capes, $7000.
Colonials, $8000.
Free estimates. Absolute lowest prices possible!
Deal direct with owner.
REPAIRS/ROOFING
AVAILABLE FOR STORM REPAIRS AND GARAGES.
Ct Lic. #547581. Fully licensed & Insured.
Hann’s On Home Improvement
860-563-2001
Spring
Clean-ups
Mulching
& Mulch
Deliveries
Accepting new lawn mowing accounts for
the upcoming season. Schedule now!
• Brush Clearing • Plantings
• Tree Removal • Shrub Removal
• Lawn Maintenance and New Lawn Installations
CT Lic# 0630444
Fully Insured 860-906-6736
Free
Estimates
BRECHUN PAINTING
Interior & Exterior Painting
Power Washing,
Deck Staining, Light Carpentry
25 years of experience
in Farmington Valley
Lic #:HIC0607969
Small renovations,
home repair, carpentry
& painting.
Complete prep.
T.C. Home Improvement
Cell 860-916-6287
Home 860-523-4151
Reg #0562179
EPA
CEERTIIFIED
860-673-7280
KC MASONRY
Stonewalls • Brick Walls
Bluestone • Steps
Fireplaces • Chimneys
Patios • Sidewalks
We can also do all
Masonry Repairs!
Quality Workmanship
Free Estimates • Lic#0604514
Ken (203) 558-4951
PAINTING PAINTING PAINTING PAINTING
Mark Ramponi Painting
Beautify Your Home
PAINTING &
CEILING REPAIR
Interior & Exterior Painting
& Light Restoration
Highest quality work
& superior customer service.
No Shortcuts ~ Best Quality Materials
24 years in business - 30+ years experience
CT HIC 576-746 860-673-5507
Painting and
Wallpapering
by Len Morneau
High quality, exceptional work.
Courteous service and
concern for your satisfaction.
Since 1980
860-658-1411
lenmorneaupainting.com
ROOFING • SIDING
• WINDOWS •& more...
HARMONY
Home Improvement (860) 645-8899
Creating HARMONY
between customer,
contractor & community
Call now.
Roofing
& Siding
Sale!
Fully Insured
FREE Estimates
Lic. #604200
AD MASONRY
All type of Masonry Work
FREE ESTIMATES
CT Lic# 602717
• Patios
• Walls
• Driveways
• Pools in Stone
• Brick, Bluestones
& Pavers
• Stairs and Walkways
Top Quality
Serving the Farmington
Valley for over 14 years!
860-368-9486
VINYL WINDOWS
$ starting at 199* installed
with the purchase of 5 or more
Fully Welded • Half Screen • Virgin Vinyl
Double Locks • Up to 101 U.I.
ALSO
• Entry & Storm Doors
• Bays, Bows & Garden Windows • Vinyl Siding
• We also Service Vinyl Windows - ALL MAKES!
Caron’s Connecticut
Home Improvement LLC
CT Reg 626375 860-738-1222
A directory of
professional home
improvement contractors
Add W est Hartford Press
for 1/2 Price!
PAINTING
PROFESSIONAL HOME
IMPROVEMENT-REMODELING
ZIBBY DRZAZGOWSKI
(860) 675-4025
Farmington
KITCHENS - BATHROOMS - WALLPAPER
TILES- BASEMENTS - ATTICS
ALUMINUM SIDING
drzazgowski@sbcglobal.net
CONN. LICENSE NO. 536406 COMPLETE INSURANCE
Since 1958
BREWER PAVING
COMMERCIAL &
RESIDENTIAL
✔ Driveways
✔ Parking Lots
✔ Excavating
Call For Free Estimates
860-521-6942
CPA REG. #593039
Senior Citizen Discounts • Insured & Guaranteed
Jonathan’s
Window Washing
Invest in a bright future,
have Jonathan clean
your windows!
Commercial & Residential
Glass Restoration Specialists
860-693-6898
www.jwwct.com
Serving the Valley since 1990
Free Estimates • Insured

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Serving buyers and sellers
CUSTOM
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Family Practice & Internal Medicine
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Send CVs to
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Send CVs to MGonzalez@firstchc.org;
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Housecleaning. Make your own consistent
hours. Must be independent
with transportation. Call Sandy at
860-651-4601
PUBLIC NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICES
Deadlines for legal notices is Friday
at noon. Notices may be faxed to
860-606-9599
For questions about rates or
placing a notice please call
860-651-4700
MORAWSKI CLEANING LLC
A Super Service Award Winner
Bonded • Insured • Since 1995
Call Sandy at
860-651-4601
MORAWSKICLEANING.COM
Finally, fine custom cabinets and
counter tops at an affordable price.
We feature Conestoga woodworking
and dependable Rev-A-Shelf products.
Our state of the art equipment
and low overhead allow us to offer
prices 10% to 15% lower than our
competitors. All 3/4 inch thick furniture
veneer shells and quality hardwood
doors. 30 years of experience and
free estimates. For door and panel
options you can visit conestogawood.com.
Just ask for Norm.
860-919-5204.
GUITAR LESSONS
GUITAR LESSONS
in your home. I am a Hartt School of
Music graduate with thirty years of
teaching and recording experience.
I have helped many students prepare
for Jazz Band music auditions, improvise,
and learn to play their
favorite songs. All styles, levels, and
ages with references available.
Tom Tribuzio, 860-673-1210.
6he5ct@sbcglobal.net
HOUSE CLEANING
HOUSE CLEANING
AVAILABLE
Insured & Bonded Since 1995
Give the Gift of Time
$15 off First Time Clients.
Call Sandy at 860-651-4601
HOUSE CLEANING
POLISH /ENGLISH SPEAKING
WOMAN CAN
CLEAN YOUR HOME.
3RD CLEANING - 50% OFF.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Insured. Bonded.
Call 860-538-4885
HOME SAFETY EVALUATIONS
Home Safety
Evaluations are
now available.
Falls are one the leading
causes of injury among
seniors. We can help you
prevent falls
and enhance the safety of
your loved ones.
Call Lisa today at
Accessible Home
in West Hartford at
860 726 9600 for more
information or to book
an appointment .
Mark DiChiara
Licensed Realtor and valley resident
HOUSE CLEANING
HOME & OFFICE CLEANING
serving the Valley for 15 years
Second Cleaning 1/2 Price
Quality work at affordable prices
For free estimates call
860-676-2729
www.theglobalcleaning.com
36 LaSalle Rd,
West Hartford, CT 06107
Phone (860) 989-8556
email: mark.dichiara@cbmoves.com
www.markdichiara.net
At Your Service At Your Service
TAX PREPARATION &
PLANNING
Rick H. Miller, EA
Over 25 years experience.
Personal, Estate, Multi-state, Rental
Properties/Multiple Properties, Self-
Employed Schedule C, Amended returns
and Extensions. Annual and
quarterly payroll filings, annual information
and payroll processing. Located
in Weatogue. By appointment
only (860) 707-4356 or info@rmacctax.com.
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