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Adoptable Pets ............... 8

Book Review .................. 2

Classifieds ...................... 7

Community Calendar ...... 2

Fire Log .......................... 3

In Brief ........................... 4

Library Happenings ......... 2

Nuggets for Life ............. 6

Parks & Recreation ................7

Region 15 School Calendar ...3

Senior Center News ........ 3

Sports Quiz .................... 6

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Annual middlebury police toy drive What: Middlebury Police collect unwrapped children’s gifts, nonperishable food and cash to benefit Middlebury residentsWhen: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Outside Dinova’s Four Corners Market at 600 Middlebury Road in Middlebury

Annual tree lighting on the green What: Annual tree lighting; entertainment by Middlebury Cub Scout and Girl Scout troops and Memorial Middle School students and carol singing followed by hot chocolate at the Middlebury Historical SocietyWhen: 4 p.m. Where: Green and Historical Society Building on Library Road adjacent to the green

Brass city Ballet performs “the nutcracker” What: Annual holiday performance of “The Nutcracker”When: Saturday at 5:30 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m. Where: Shepaug Valley High School, 159 South St., Washington, Conn.Cost: $20 for adults, $15 for seniors/children 12 and under/students with valid ID

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saturday & sunday

dec. 7 & 8

By TERRENCE S. MCAULIFFE

The Middlebury Conservation Commis-sion (CC) at its Nov. 26 meeting issued a cease-and-desist order for wetlands viola-tions on Regan Road, approved a construc-tion access change for Ridgewood and in-structed the wetlands enforcement officer (WEO) to manage rebuilding approvals for a burned Christian Road garage. It also set its 2014 meeting dates.

WEO Deborah Seavey was instructed to send a cease-and-desist order to David Johnson of 275 Porter Ave. and Joseph Ber-nardi of 450 Regan Road for tree cutting without a permit in the Skunk Hollow wet-lands between their properties. Seavey said

an application for the tree cutting already done is one way of answering the violation, but violation letters often are ignored. Chairman Thomas Proulx recommended the cease-and-desist order and a show-cause hearing where the activity leading to the violation could be explained.

A permit modification for Toll Brothers to reroute heavy construction equipment from Ridgewood’s internal streets to an old logging road and onto Bona Road was unan-imously approved. Commissioners agreed the temporary access road was a reasonable solution that could be restored after it was no longer needed.

Phyllis Thomas’s application to recon-struct a burned-out garage at 71 Christian

Road was passed to Seavey for decision making after commissioners determined a special approval meeting was not necessary. Thomas said the garage was hit by lightning in July 2012 and burned to the ground. Proulx said approvals were needed because the garage was in wetlands, but Seavey could handle those approvals administra-tively since rebuilding would be on the same footprint.

In other matters, commissioners voted to continue to meet the last Tuesday of the month with no meeting scheduled in De-cember due to holidays.

The next regular CC meeting will be Tues-day, Jan. 28, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 26 at Shepardson Community Center.

Middlebury Town Clerk Edith Salisbury, left on stage, swears in Middlebury First Selectman Edward B. St. John Monday night. Waiting to be sworn in are Selectmen Elaine Strobel, far right, and Ralph Barra, second from right. Also waiting are others elected to office in November. They were sworn in at a ceremony Salisbury said was attended by about 27 residents.

(Terrence S. McAuliffe photo)

conservation commission issues cease-and-desist order

By MARJORIE NEEDHAM

Middlebury Parks and Recre-ation Director Betty Proulx said Wednesday, “If you put your heart and soul into a project, it can be done.” She said that is what she is doing with the project to raise nearly $1 million to have a fenced artificial turf field installed at Meadowview Park in Middlebury. The field, which will be regulation soccer size at 165 feet wide and 300 feet long, will be used for soc-cer, football and lacrosse.

Parks and Recreation Commis-sioner Ray Kasidas said, “We need to have more for the kids. There’s nothing for them to do in this town.” Kasidas heads the com-mission’s subcommittee working on raising funds for the project.

Both Proulx and Kasidas stressed the project will be funded with private donations rather than by the town. However, the town will contribute some “in-kind” work as required by the grant that is partially funding the project. Kasidas said the public works department will remove sod and install drainage to pre-pare the location for artificial turf installation. “They know how to do that because they helped with Project Panther at Pomperaug High School,” Kasidas said.

Funding starts with about $196,000 from the state grant. It was intended to be used to install artificial turf at the new Mary I. Johnson park on Maple Road, but Kasidas said the land there was found unsuitable for artificial turf installation. The town has ob-tained permission from the state to use the grant funds toward installation of artificial turf at Meadowview Park instead.

Proulx said artificial turf is gen-erally guaranteed for 15 years. It does require annual “brushing,” and a company the town already deals with for softball field main-tenance has the necessary equip-ment to do that.

Proulx said artificial turf offers many advantages over natural lawn surfaces. For one thing, you can play on it at any time, whether it is raining or not, without wor-rying that football cleats, for ex-ample, will destroy the surface. With the natural surface, the fields have to dry for two days after a rain before games can be played on them. With artificial turf, games can be played while it is raining.

An artificial turf field also will be available earlier each year. Proulx said the current Meadow-view field cannot be played on until mid-April. With an artificial

turf field, play could start in Feb-ruary (assuming the field wasn’t still covered with snow).

An artificial turf field also will get a lot more use. Currently, soccer teams practice at Ledge-wood Park during the week and play games at Meadowview on weekends. With artificial turf at Meadowview, the teams could practice there instead. The arti-ficial turf will alleviate a lot of maintenance work for the town’s public works department, too, but the big bonus, Proulx said, is there would be a lot more playing time on the artificial surface.

Kasidas said the three leagues that will use the field – soccer, football and lacrosse – have all agreed to help raise funds for the surface. He said he hopes some corporate sponsors also will step forward with large donations. Company logos can be incorpo-rated into the artificial turf, he said, in recognition of major do-nors.

He said the estimate is it will take roughly $500,000 for the turf, its installation and fencing around the field and another $500,000 for amenities such as a scoreboard, lighting and bleach-ers. Proulx said four years ago the economy was so bad she wouldn’t have attempted to raise

this much money in private do-nations. Now the economy is turning around, and she thinks people will support the project.

When the project becomes reality will depend on the dona-tions it receives. “We’d love to have it in the spring,” Kasidas said. But he said that was un-likely unless a donor or two stepped forward and made siz-able donations. A more realistic date may be fall of 2014 or spring of 2015.

It helps that donations will be tax-deductible because they will made to the Parks Trust Fund, a foundation administered by the Parks and Recreation Commis-sion. To make a donation, write a check to “Middlebury Parks and Recreation Department” and put on the memo line, “Parks Trust Fund, artificial turf.” Do-nations can be dropped off at the Parks and Recreation office Mon-day through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. or mailed to the depart-ment at 1172 Whittemore Road, Middlebury, CT 06762.

After the first of the year, the department will begin actively raising funds and expects to con-duct fundraisers for the project. For more information on the project, call Proulx at 203-758-2520, ext. 701.

Donors can make artificial turf field a reality

Three “thermometer” boards like this one in front of Shepardson Community Center in Middlebury track the progress of fundrais-ing efforts for the purchase of and installation of artificial turf at Meadowview Park. The other boards are at the park and at the intersection of Route 64 and Regan/Tucker Hill Roads.

(Marjorie Needham photo)

Swearing In Ceremony

December 7, 2013 12:30 p.m.

Ceremony to take place at the

National Iwo Jima Memorial View Historical Displays before

and after the Ceremony

Special Guest Speaker:

Mr. Harry Rosenfeld, U.S. Navy Veteran USS Nevada & Iwo Jima Survivor

The Iwo Jima Memorial Historical Foundation, Inc. is an all-volunteer, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to maintain the National Iwo Jima Memorial in Connecticut, remember those American Servicemen who fought and died there and to

educate future generations about WWII and the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Annual membership is open to anyone who supports its mission.

Info: 860-291-9666 Web: www.SOSIwoJima.com

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A Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony will be held Sat-urday, Dec. 7, at 12:30 p.m. at the Iwo Jima Memorial Monument on the Newington-New Britain town line. The Japanese attacked the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941, killing or injuring more than 3,500 Americans. The attack marked America’s entrance into World War II.

The ceremony will observe the 72nd anniversary of the at-tack and pay tribute to the Amer-ican servicemen and women whose lives were lost. Founda-tion volunteers will be on hand

at the memorial from 11:30 am and after the ceremony to speak with visitors. Historical displays about the Pearl Harbor attack will be on hand for viewing.

During a ceremony at 12:30 p.m., the special guest speaker will be Harry Rosenfeld, a Navy veteran of World War II. He served aboard the USS Nevada and is an Iwo Jima survivor. Be-fore he enlisted, the USS Nevada was one of the ships damaged in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

There also will be a Wreaths Across America wreath-laying ceremony at the monument Sat-urday, Dec. 14, at noon.

Remember pearl Harbor

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2 Friday, December 6, 2013The Bee-Intelligencer

By DONNA HINE

December at the Middle-bury Public Library: snow is drifting past the

windows, but we are cozy by the fireplace watching the snow fall! Fun holiday movies are playing every Wednesday and Friday in the Larkin Room, and a holiday picture puzzle is set on the table to be finished by all. An early- month wreath workshop is in the past, but join us for caroling by the tree on the 19th! If all this sounds too busy for your already busy season, just come in and pick up a great book to relax with in your own home … we have a few.

“Bellman & Black” (SET) by master storyteller Diane Setter-field is one to look forward to reading. It seems to be a very dark “Scrooge” tale – William Bellman is a successful business man con-sumed with his trade who judges everything mathematically: This is a subtraction, while that is an addition. After he kills a rook as a child, William’s life story is somehow intertwined with the bird, and Setterfield weaves the rook into characters as well as actual birds. Some find the de-tailed business line tiresome, while others say that this method of writing enhances and explains the man himself in relation to the world around him. If you read Setterfield’s “The Thirteenth Tale,” you will be as eager as I am to read this book.

On a much lighter note, Se-bastian Faulks writes a new Jeeves and Wooster tale, “Jeeves

and the Wedding Bells: an Hom-age to P.G. Wodehouse” (FAU). Bertie acts the servant (!) at Jeeves’ insistence – but Jeeves may have an ulterior motive – and it may have something to do with the new love of Bertie’s life, Georgiana. Things never go smoothly for Bertie, but some-how the ending always works out for the best. Does it measure up to the madcap and convoluted events that always seem to befall Bertie when written by Wode-house? I hope so!

Bestselling author Wally Lamb has written another strong current-day tale about resilience after tragedy, “We are Water” (LAM). Annie Oh leaves her long-term marriage to enter into a new gay marriage, causing an emotional ripple effect within her family. Acting as a micro-cosm of today’s society, the chil-dren and husband left behind are all voices in the tale. As they deal with their own histories and issues, the change in lifestyle af-fects all and brings to light long-buried matters. Lamb has a way of writing the reader into the tale so that we are very much invested in the outcome of the characters. We are water, as is discussed by the characters at the conclusion of the story – “fluid and flexible, strong and destructive” – beautiful writing.

“King and Maxwell” (BAL) by David Baldacci brings back Sean King and Michelle Maxwell from the series of best-sellers that in-cluded “Split Second,” “Hour Game” and “The Sixth Man.” The private investigators are hired by a teenage boy to uncover the mystery surrounding his father.

Tyler is notified his father has been killed in Afghanistan, but afterwards he receives a “com-munication” from his father. The two explore and dig deeper into the clandestine governmental affairs, resulting in a climax dan-gerous to them both. Fast-paced and well-written, this book is vintage Baldacci.

I love this book. Hands down. It is inspirational, uplifting, pos-itive and diverse: It will motivate you to be your best. What is the book? “Forty Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World” (363.8 BUF) is written by philanthropist Howard G. Buffett and his son, Howard W. Buffett. It starts with a basic idea: Each person has 40 chances (40 years) in life to do the best job we can. Use that as an outline for the book: 40 sep-arate stories about Howard’s journey to ease as much suffer-ing in the world as possible. Wow – what a terrific thing if we can each accomplish only one amaz-ing, life-saving act – food for thought.

“Provence 1970” (641.5973 BAR) written by Luke Barr chron-icles the winter that six of the greatest American chefs found themselves in the South of France at the same time. M.F.K. Fisher (Barr’s great-aunt), Julia Child and James Beard joined Simone Beck, Richard Olney and Judith Jones to cook and eat and talk – oh! To have been there! Based on detailed journals and letters belonging to Fisher, the book uncovers the jealousies, rivalries and friendships that grew at this time and changed the look and feel of cooking in America. If you are a confirmed

foodie, this is your Christmas present!

David Finkel has written “Thank You for Your Service” (362.86 FIN) to answer two ques-tions: “When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? And when they return, what are we thank-ing them for?” What is life like after war for these people? Fin-kle becomes close to the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion (see “The Good Soldiers”) and fol-lows them home after their de-ployment. This is a difficult, gritty book with an intimate look at the after-effects of war.

Finally, we have Bill Bryson’s “One Summer: America 1927” (973.91 BRY). Were you aware of the many historic events that occurred that summer? Think of Babe Ruth at the start of creating his home-run record, Al Ca-pone’s illegal booze running, the first flight across the Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh and much more. Sacco and Vanzetti are executed, the model for Mount Rushmore is unveiled, and The Jazz Singer brings movies to a greater public. Bryson brings to light fascinating details of a time when culture exploded, bathtub gin was common, and the pres-ident of the United States would take a three-month vacation!

Great books for everyone on your list this year – come into the library and browse for more ideas!

Adult Services Librarian Donna Hine writes Library Lines once a month. If you have a topic you’d like her to cover, contact her at the library at 203-758-2634.

“Inside Mad”edited by John Ficarra,

foreword by Judd Apatow(Time Home Entertainment,

$29.95)

“Mad’s Greatest Artists: Dave Berg Five Decades of the Lighter

Side Of ...”foreword by Drew Friedman

(Running Press, $30)Reviewed by Larry Cox

Without a doubt, for more than 60 years, one of the most irreverent, laugh-out-loud hu-mor publications in America was Mad magazine. If you were a kid during the 1950s and ’60s, it was one of the publications your par-ents scolded you for reading. Two new books illustrate why Mad has been such must reading for more than half a century.

“Inside Mad” highlights many of the classic spoofs by such leg-endary writers and artists as Jack Davis, Drew Friedman, Dick De-Bartolo and others. Its 17 celeb-rity essays include contributions by Roseanne Barr, Whoopi Gold-berg and Ken Burns, who reveal what it was like to be lampooned in its pages. As a bonus, “Inside Mad” also serves up an all-new, specially commissioned gatefold

poster by Sergio Aragones, and a never-before-reprinted Alfred E. Neuman pop art poster.

Some favorite features include “Will Success Spoil Charley Brown,” a classic by Jack Rickard and Larry Siegel; the outrageous “Baseball at the Bat”; “A Mad Look At Other Uses for Live Lob-sters”; and “Clodumbo,” lam-pooning the TV detective. This is great stuff.

The second book, “Dave Berg,” highlights the work of one of Mad’s most popular artists. Berg spent 50 years at Mad and was responsible for one of the mag-azine’s most popular features, “The Lighter Side Of ...” In addi-tion to presenting his best work chronologically, there is a rare 1970 interview with the artist.

These two volumes illustrate zany American humor at its wackiest. Anyone who grew up with Mad should rejoice. For those who aren’t familiar with it, my advice is to grab the books, settle back and be prepared for a delightful shock.

(c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Middlebury Road (Opposite the Shell Station)Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily

Anthony Calabrese 203-758-2765

Local eggs. Fresh daily. $3.50 per dozenDeer Corn • Livestock & Poultry Feed

Bird Seed Headquarters

Kissing Balls • Pots of holiday decorated greeneryBlack Oil, Premium Mix, Sunflower Hearts, Niger Seed (thistle for finches)

Christmas Trees - Cut or PottedWreaths • Roping

PoinsettiasCemetery Boxes

middleburyHoliday movies

The library will show holi-day-themed movies on its beau-tiful, surround sound display throughout the month. Movies will be shown Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 12:30 p.m. and Friday, Dec. 13, at 1 p.m. Call the library at 203-758-2634 to find out which movies will be playing.

Mystery book discussion group

The mystery book discussion group will meet Thursday, Dec. 12, at 6 p.m. to discuss “The Christmas Thief” by Mary Hig-gins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark. New members are always welcome, and light refreshments will be provided. Call or email Joan at 203-758-2634 or [email protected] for more information.

Sleeping BeautyTuesday, Dec. 10, at 6:30 p.m.,

the Tanglewood Marionettes will perform the classic tale, “Sleep-ing Beauty,” at the library. The tale will begin in King Felix’s great hall with the celebration of Princess Aurora’s birth. The party will go awry when the wicked witch arrives and curses Princess Aurora. Will the curse come true? Join us and see the Tanglewood Marionettes’ presentation of this beauty fairy tale. Tickets are available and space is limited. Stop by the library or call 203-758-2634 to reserve your seat. This performance is brought to you free by the Friends of the Middlebury Public Library.

The Middlebury Public Li-brary is at 30 Crest Road. The telephone number is 203-758-2634, and the website is middle-burypubliclibrary.org.

naugatuckAffordable Care Act

questionsHave questions or are you

confused about the new Afford-able Care Act (aka ObamaCare)? Tuesdays from 12 to 4 p.m., Rich-ard Wood, a state-certified assis-ter with CHOICES, Connecticut’s health and information assis-tance program, will provide in-formation on Access Health CT, the state’s new health insurance marketplace. Do you need help with eligibility, signing up, or determining the best plan? Ask Wood your questions. All discus-sions will be confidential.

Library fundraiserA fundraiser for the library will

be held Sunday, Dec. 8, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Elizabeth Richard

Gifts at 951 Chase Parkway in Waterbury. If the store rings up more than $1,000 in sales that afternoon, 10 percent of the pro-ceeds will go directly to the li-brary for the purchase of new books and to support program-ming.

Enjoy a great afternoon out with hors d’oeuvres, wine, choc-olates and gifts to all who attend and help the library at the same time. Please RSVP by email to Marilyn Schiaroli at [email protected]. In case of inclement weather, call 203-754-4438. The store website is www.eliza-bethrichardgifts.com.

Snacks and shows for seniors

Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 1 p.m., the library will host its monthly snacks and shows for seniors event. Watch a 1940 Christmas film starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan in which two gift shop employees who can’t stand each other are unaware they’re falling in love through anonymous pen pal letters! Be-fore the show, participants will learn to make festive nonalco-holic punch. This program is made possible by the Friends of the Whittemore Library. It is open to patrons who are at least 50 years old and their guests. Registration is required. Visit or call the reference desk at 203-729-4591 to sign up.

MeditationThe ongoing meditation prac-

tice will meet once in December, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 6 p.m. in the reading room. It consists of periods of meditation with time

for discussion. Please arrive by 5:50 as the session starts on time.

The Howard Whittemore Me-morial Library is at 243 Church St. in Naugatuck. For informa-tion, call 203-729-4591 or visit whittemorelibrary.org.

southburyGingerbread ornaments

Monday, Dec. 9, at 4:15 p.m., children ages 8 to 12 are invited to join chef Nancy Stuart Ploch in decorating a homemade ginger-bread ornament. Nancy will demonstrate how to construct a gingerbread house, and then the children will design and decorate their own ornament. Registration is required as space is limited.

Photo exhibitPhotographer Steve Eazarsky’s

exhibit, “Changing Light, Winter Scenes,” will be on display in the Gloria Cachion Gallery until Thursday, Dec. 26.

Eazarsky said of his exhibit, “The sun gradually gets lower in the sky. Shadows grow longer; days shorter. The warmth of fall turns to a crisp, still winter cool-ness. But the low sun angles and clean air make winter an ideal time to shoot. Come brave the weather and see what I see as fall fades to winter, and winter warms to spring, and a new year.”

Eazarsky, who is based in Bethlehem, Conn., is a chemist and self-taught photographer. He has displayed statewide, been seen in numerous publications and recognized by National Geo-graphic.

For more information, call 203-262-0626 or visit www.

southburylibrary.org. The library is at 100 Poverty Road in South-bury.

WoodburyFree holiday concertEdwin Kotchian and Juan An-

dreu return to the library Sunday, Dec. 8, at 3 p.m. to perform in the Gallery. Kotchian and An-dreu are a contemporary folk/pop duo formed in August 2010 and based in Connecticut. Kot-chian plays keyboard while An-dreu plays percussion, but it is their vocal instruments that truly shine. All of their music features harmonies specifically created for the unique blend of their bar-itone and tenor voices.

Forum on American founders

Thursday, Dec. 12, from 7 to 9 p.m., David Schultz will lead an open forum, “Equality, Humility, and the American Founders: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Lu-ther King.” The public is invited to participate. Everyone will have the opportunity to review and discuss what American founders had to say about their visions of America and for America.

After an introduction by the workshop facilitator, attendees will share their experiences, interests, and concerns about the meaning of the American founding and the American dream in contemporary life. Those attending will then be encouraged to consider how we as a community might renew the American founding, enliven the “American Dream,” and apply this understanding toward a renewed hope of a better life for our chil-dren and grandchildren.

Photo exhibitPhotos by W. Scott Petersen,

a self-taught fine arts photogra-pher specializing in landscapes and seascapes, will be on exhibit in December. Petersen creates unique and distinctive photo-graphic images of all kinds. His goal is to evoke an emotional reaction in the viewer by using his camera to “paint with light.”

He has a large collection of images of the boardwalk around Little Pond at the White Memo-rial Conservation Area. Many of these images illustrate the central theme of his work, which is to create a reaction in the viewer, by painting with light. Other fa-vorite subjects are local Con-necticut scenes and images from the midcoast region of Maine.

For more information, call 203-263-3502 or visit www.woodburylibraryct.org. The li-brary is at 269 Main St. South in Woodbury.

Monday, Dec. 9, 2013Police Commission6 p.m. .................................................Town Hall Conference Room

Tuesday, Dec. 10Democratic Town Committee7:30 p.m. ....................................................... Shepardson, Room 27

Republican Town Committee7:30 p.m. ....................................................... Shepardson, Room 26

Library Board of Directors6:30 p.m. ................................................Middlebury Public Library

Wednesday, Dec. 11Board of Finance7 p.m. ............................................................ Shepardson, Room 26

Land Preservation & Open Space6 p.m. .................................................Town Hall Conference Room

Thursday, Dec. 12Retirement Plan Committee1 p.m. .................................................Town Hall Conference Room

Parks and Recreation7 p.m. .............................................................. Shepardson, Room 1

Calendar dates/times are subject to change.If your organization would like your event included in the community calendar, please email the information to [email protected].

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Friday, December 6, 2013 The Bee-Intelligencer 3

Beginning in January, the So-cial Security cost of living allow-ance (COLA) is going up 1.5 percent for its 57 million bene-ficiaries. For those who receive an average benefit of $1,272, the increase will be a whopping $19 per month.

Other changes for 2014 in-clude:

Income subject to Social Se-curity taxation will increase to $117,000 from $113,700. Above that amount, your contribution to Social Security will not go up.

For those who are less than full retirement age (age 66 for

those born between 1943 and 1954) and receive Social Security benefits, the limit on earnings will be $15,480. Income above that will see deductions of ben-efits of $1 for every $2 earned. Those who turn age 66 in 2014 will have an earned income cap of $41,400, with $1 deducted for every $3 earned over that amount

for the months until they reach full retirement age. Those who are the full retirement age for the whole year will have no benefits deducted for any income earned.

Medicare’s Part B premium, however, will stay the same as in 2013, which is $104.90 (for those with incomes of less than $85,000). If you received the email saying the premium will go up to $247 per month, don’t worry. The email was a fake and has been on the Internet for three years now.

Let’s look at what that $19 So-cial Security COLA increase will

buy: one-third of a week’s worth of groceries on the USDA Mod-erate Food Plan. You can stretch that to a half week of groceries if you stick to the Thrifty Food Plan (and eat more potatoes and less meat).

Don’t spend it all in one place.Matilda Charles regrets she

cannot personally answer reader questions, but she will incorpo-rate them into her column when-ever possible. Send email to [email protected].


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Friday, Dec. 6Professional Development Half Day .....................Early Release DayPHS Symphonic Band/Orchestra/Chorale (Snow Date 12/9) ......7 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 7RMS CMEA Auditions in Meriden .........................................8:30 a.m.

Sunday, Dec. 8No Events Scheduled

Monday, Dec. 9Board of Education ................................PHS AP Room 103, 7:30 p.m. GES Snow Date Grade 5 Band/Strings Concert .......................7 p.m.PHS Snow Date Symphonic Band/Orchestra/Chorale ..........7 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 10PTO Sewing Enrichment Class ...................................................3 p.m.MES Grade 5 Band/Strings Concert (Snow Date 12/17) ........7 p.m.PES PTO Meeting .........................................................................7 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 11MMS Grades 7 and 8 Concert (Snow Date 12/12) ...................7 p.m.RMS PTO Meeting ........................................................................7 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 12GES Holiday Fair ............................................................ 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.RMS PTO After-school Yoga ................................AP Room, 2:45 p.m.GES Holiday Fair .................................................................... 6 - 8 p.m.MES PTO Meeting ........................................................................7 p.m.GES Holiday Read Aloud .............................................................7 p.m.PES Grade 5 Band, Strings Concert (Snow Date 12/16) .........7 p.m.MMS Snow Date Grades 7 and 8 Concert ..................................7 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 13GES Holiday Fair .......................................................... 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.PTO Sewing Enrichment Class ........................................ 3 - 4:30 p.m.PHS Choir, Band Concert (Snow Date 12/16) ..........................7 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 14No Events Scheduled

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Falls Avenue Senior Center events for area adults 55 and older follow. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 860-945-5250. Please speak with a staff member when calling as the senior center does not accept voice-mail reservations. The center is at 311 Falls Ave. in Oakville, Conn.

Decorate the senior center Celebrate the season by helping to decorate

the center for the Christmas holiday Friday, Dec. 6, at 1 p.m. Reservations are not required.

Snowflake decorationsLearn how to make three-dimensional snow-

flake decorations Monday, Dec. 9, at 10 a.m. If you have the following items, please bring them to the class: scissors, staplers and tape.

Card-making classSue Reznak from Treasured Moments, a lo-

cal scrapbook store, will lead a card-making class Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 9 a.m. Participants will make two Christmas cards each. The cost is $6. Samples of this month’s cards are on dis-play at the center.

Senior programs informationWednesday, Dec. 11, at 9:30 a.m., Jim Dunn

from the Western Connecticut Area Agency on Aging will conduct one-on-one assistance with Medicare, the Medicare Savings Program, Social Security and other senior-related pro-grams. If you have questions about these or other programs for older adults, this is a perfect time to get some answers.

Remembering G. Fox & Co.Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m., Litchfield

Bancorp is sponsoring “From Hula Hoops to High Fashion: G. Fox in the 1950s.” In the 1950s, the landmark department store in Hartford was G. Fox & Co. Elizabeth Abbe of the Con-necticut Historical Society will take us back to Fox’s heyday as we go from floor to floor and recall departments ranging from accessories on the “street” floor to designer dresses on the sixth floor and end at Toyland on the 11th floor. The presentation promises to stir pleasant memories of date nut bread in the Connecticut Room, back-to-school shopping and the won-derful Christmas season at G. Fox & Co. Res-ervations are required by Dec. 10.

Low-vision talk, screenings

Thursday, Dec. 12, at 9 a.m., Raechaell Cor-bet, an occupational therapist at the Lions Low Vision Center at St. Mary’s Hospital, will speak about low vision, how to use your available vision and low-vision rehabilitation. Following her 30-minute presentation, she will conduct free low-vision screenings. Reservations are required by Dec. 11.

Choral concertThe Middletuners, a Middletown senior

center chorus, will entertain at the center on Friday, Dec. 13, at 2 p.m. For the past 15 years, this choral group has been entertaining throughout the state. Reservations are required by Dec. 12.

Bridge, anyone?There has been some interest at the center

in starting a bridge group. If you are interested, call 860-945-5250 to leave your name and phone number.

Date Time Address/Incident11-25 08:33 1321 Whittemore Road. False alarm con-

firmed by FD2.11-25 17:42 Long Meadow Road. Motor vehicle acci-

dent. Rollover. Minor injuries.11-26 14:52 Route 64. Motor vehicle accident. No inju-

ries. No fire or EMS needed.11-26 15:17 1579 Straits Turnpike. Activated fire alarm.

No problem found.11-26 18:02 Route 63. Motor vehicle accident. Two

transported on basic life support.11-28 17:03 555 Christian Road. Fire alarm activation.

Problem with battery in fire alarm.

Christmas luncheonJoin the Senior Center’s annual Christmas

party Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon will include a chef’s carving of roast beef with gravy, tossed salad, garlic mashed potatoes, vegetable medley, bread and des-sert. Entertainment will be provided by Wil-lie Ninninger. The fee is $10 per person. Make your reservation no later than Friday, Dec. 6.

TripHoliday Light Fantasia

The Middlebury Senior Center minibus will travel to Hartford Monday, Dec. 9, at 4 p.m., so passengers can see the Christmas lights at Holiday Light Fantasia in Goodwin Park. Drive through an enchanting land of spectacular, sparkling light displays during

this festive and magical holiday season. More than 60 enchanting images will delight chil-dren and adults. All proceeds go to the Chan-nel 3 Kids Camp.

The bus will stop at Friendly’s for dinner on the way. To reserve a seat, call 203-577-4166. The cost of $12 per person includes admission and transportation. The rain/snow date will be Dec. 16.


Troop 5 bottle, can drive

Boy Scout Troop 5 will hold a redeemable bottle and can drive fundraiser Saturday, Dec. 7, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Village Square Plaza at 530 Middlebury Road in Middlebury. All Con-necticut redeemable bottles (glass and plastic) and cans will be accepted. Call Michael Zinko at 203-758-8599 if you need re-deemable bottles and cans picked up before Dec. 7 .

Thank you for your continued support of Troop 5. Boy Scout Troop 5, chartered by Middle-bury Congregational Church, has been a fixture in the Middlebury community since 1978. Since then, 62 of the Boy Scouts from Troop 5 have earned the highest advancement rank in Boy Scout-ing, Eagle Scout.

Tai chi SaturdayA tai chi class is offered every

Saturday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Naugatuck Historical So-ciety Museum at 195 Water St. in Naugatuck. The cost is $2 for nonmembers and free for mem-bers.

Convalescent Home sale and raffle

The Middlebury Convalescent Home will have its annual raffle and sale of baked goods and res-ident-crafted items Saturday, Dec. 7, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The home is at 778 Middlebury Road in Middlebury.

Middlebury tree lighting

This year’s Middlebury tree lighting will be Saturday, Dec. 7, at 4 p.m. on the Middlebury

Green. The event will include Christmas caroling on the Green with entertainment provided by Middlebury Cub Scout and Girl Scout troops and Memorial Mid-dle School students. Afterward, the Middlebury Historical Soci-ety will offer hot chocolate at its building on Library Road.

Woodbury tree lightingThe Town of Woodbury’s an-

nual tree lighting at the North Green will be Saturday, Dec. 7, at 4 p.m. All are invited to greet Santa as he arrives to turn on the tree lights. Region 14 school bands and chorus will perform holiday songs and lead everyone in a sing-a-long. For information, visit www.woodburyparksan-drec.org.

St. George’s gingerbread village

St. George’s Episcopal Church will display their annual holiday gingerbread village from Dec. 7 to 14. Come view and purchase gingerbread delights. Display hours will be Saturday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 8, from 12 to 8 p.m.; Mon-day, Dec. 9, to Friday, Dec. 13, 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, Dec. 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Model train showSunday, Dec. 8, from 10 a.m.

to 3 p.m., the Naugatuck Histor-ical Society Museum at 195 Wa-ter St. in Naugatuck will host a Valley HO Track model train show. Admission will be $5.

Connecticut ChristmasThe Country Loft will sponsor

an evening of festive music and song, Sunday, Dec. 8, at 4:30 p.m. in its Christmas-decorated his-toric barn at 557 Main St. South in Woodbury. Sing Out! Con-necticut children’s choral group will perform holiday favorites with a modern twist in four-part harmony. Sopranos Marianna Vagnini, Sherry Langrock and Victoria Chiera will perform sea-sonal classics. All are encouraged to join in song.

Children under 12 are free and adult tickets are $20 each. Pro-ceeds from the event will go to the Connecticut Summer Opera Foundation, a nonprofit arts or-ganization whose focus includes bringing opera to the schools through education and intern-ships. Tickets include wine, cider, cookies and holiday treats!

For tickets and more informa-tion, call 293-266-4500; go to Abrash Galleries, Country Loft

or Canfield Pharmacy; or email [email protected].

Death CaféA Death Café will meet Tues-

day, Dec. 10, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Jewish Federation of West-ern Connecticut at 444 Main St. North in Southbury. The coordi-nator/facilitator is Rabbi Dana Z. Bogatz, the chaplain for Brownstein Jewish Family Ser-vice.

Many people seek a safe, nur-turing place and community in which to discuss their interest and concerns surrounding death. Death Café does not pro-mote any religion, value system or product. This is not a bereave-ment group, and it is free to par-ticipants. A facilitator will ensure it is a safe environment. Light refreshments will be served.

In her work, Rabbi Bogatz has discovered that people often ar-rive at death’s door without ben-efit of having considered it in life, talked about it with family, or formulated a “wish list.” The Death Café is presented as an open, respectful and confidential space free of discrimination where people can express their views and questions safely.

There is no charge for this program. It is open to all adults, but seating is very limited and participants must preregister. To make a reservation, contact Rabbi Dana Z. Bogatz at 203-267-3177, ext. 334.

Social services screening

Free social service screenings for food stamps and other pro-grams to help any Connecticut resident facing difficult times will take place Friday, Dec. 13, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Jewish Federation at 444 Main St. North in Southbury.

The Federation’s Brownstein Jewish Family Service and Stay-Well Health Center continue to offer these free monthly social service screenings by appoint-ment for a dozen work support/basic needs programs, including SNAP (the Supplemental Nutri-tion Assistance Program, formerly food stamps), HUSKY, Medicaid and Charter Oak insurance.

The screenings have helped many Connecticut residents who are having a tough time making ends meet. People who are strug-gling to put food on the table, fam-ilies where one or both parents recently lost their jobs and health insurance, and seniors in their 80s all have been assisted. During the past year, dozens of local residents

have been found eligible for food stamps during the screening.

Reservations are required for the half-hour screening, which is given by Daedly Pierre, SNAP out-reach worker at StayWell. To RSVP, call Debby Horowitz, the Brown-stein Jewish Family Service direc-tor, at 203-267-3177, ext. 310. All calls are confidential.

Luminaries on saleThe Middlebury Lions club is

selling holiday luminaries again this year as a fundraiser to support local scholarship and community assistance funds. Luminaries are customarily placed along drive-ways and walkways at dusk on Christmas Eve and also can be a fun addition to a New Year’s Eve celebration.

The white glowing bags are sim-ple to set up by placing approxi-mately 1 inch of sand in the bot-tom of the bag, centering the candle in the sand and lighting the candle at dusk.

Each $6 luminaries kit has 12 white bags and 12 10-hour can-dles. Luminaries can be purchased at Sullivan’s Jewelers, Larry’s Wine and Spirits, Vaszauskas Farm, and the Town Parks and Recreation department. The Lions also will be selling them Saturday, Dec. 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Mid-dlebury Transfer Station and around town. Please support the Lions along with our local busi-ness partners.

Cookie walk, bake saleThe Middlebury Volunteer Fire

Department (MVFD) Ladies Aux-iliary annual cookie walk and bake sale will be Saturday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m. to noon at MVFD head-quarters on Tucker Hill Road in Middlebury. Cookies will cost $6 a pound. Come shop for some wonderful homemade cookies to share with friends and family dur-ing the holidays.

Marble Dale holiday bake sale

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Marble Dale will have a holiday bake sale Saturday, Dec. 14, from 9 a.m. to noon. It will be a great chance to stock up on homemade baked goods – cookies and breads – plus handcrafted decorations just in time for Christmas gift giv-ing. Products will be attractively wrapped so you can give them as gifts.

St. Andrew’s is at 247 New Mil-ford Turnpike (Route 202) in Mar-ble Dale, Conn. Turn onto Wheaton Road at the blinking light for convenient parking.

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Middlebury Acting Chief of Police Richard Wildman reports the Connecticut Probation De-partment and Middlebury Police conducted five home inspections Tuesday evening of people on probation and parole to make sure they were in compliance with their conditions of release. People at the five homes were found to be in compliance and following the rules. Wildman said, “These types of inspections tend to keep people on their toes and in compliance.”

When the task force then served an arrest warrant for vio-lation of probation (CGS 53a-32) on Kenneth H. Cleary, 32, of North Farms Road in Middlebury, they found him in possession of approximately 8.4 grams of co-caine, about 2.9 grams of mari-juana and suboxone medication and lidoderm lidocaine 5-percent patches, for which he had no pre-scriptions. Additional drug par-aphernalia also was found.

The discovery of the drugs led to the additional charges of pos-

session of cocaine, possession of marijuana, possession of narcot-ics (two counts), possession of drug paraphernalia and operat-ing a drug factory.

Cleary was held on bonds to-taling $175,000 ($125,000 for violating probation and $50,000 for the narcotics charges). He was arraigned in Waterbury Su-perior Court Wednesday morn-ing. Sgt. John Desmarais and Officer Al Cronin were the inves-tigating officers.

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smith at helm frightens writerTo the Editor:

If Captain Smith of the ill-fated Titanic had survived his encounter with a stray iceberg, what are the odds he would have been given command of the next luxury liner sailing from Liverpool, England? Not very likely. Here in Middle-bury, however, the captain, or chair, of one of the most notable land-use fiascoes in the history of the town has fared much better in securing his post.

Terry Smith has been tapped to chair the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z), a committee that puts together the comprehen-sive 10-year plan of conservation and general land use in Middle-bury. You will recall that, back in approximately 2004, this same Mr. Smith chaired the P&Z that OK’d building 332 units of condos on 58 acres at Straw Pond.

He and his commission ap-proved the plan even though the State of Connecticut agency, the Southwest Conservation District, walked the site and stated that only

about 25 percent of the land, or approximately 14 acres, was suit-able for development. The Plan-ning and Zoning Commission, led by Mr. Smith, however, evidently felt that uprooting acres of virgin forest, impacting unique and valu-able vernal pools and clear-cutting hundreds of trees in order to cram 332 condos on approximately 14 state agency-recommended acres was a wonderful use of town land.

For years following Smith and his P&Z’s approval of this land-use debacle, local citizens pushed back, spending thousands of dol-lars of their own money and count-less hours in courts and meetings, pointing out the destructive nature of a land-use project that con-tained not an iota of worthiness.

This same Mr. Terry Smith that approved the original plans for the Straw Pond debacle is now charged with chairing the same committee that will set the parameters for land use in this town for the next 10 years. If you are a resident and that fact doesn’t frighten you, I don’t know what will.

Pat de AngelisMiddlebury


This holiday season, the Bir-mingham, Ala., FBI office re-minds shoppers to beware of cyber criminals and their aggres-sive and creative ways to steal money and personal informa-tion. Scammers use many tech-niques to fool potential victims, including fraudulent auction sales, reshipping merchandise purchased with a stolen credit card, sale of fraudulent or stolen gift cards through auction sites at discounted prices, and phish-ing emails advertising brand-name merchandise for bargain prices or emails promoting the sale of merchandise that ends up being a counterfeit product.

Fraudulent classified ads or auction sales

Internet criminals post classi-fied ads or auctions for products they do not have. If you receive an auction product from a mer-chant or retail store rather than directly from the auction seller, the item may have been pur-chased with someone else’s sto-len credit card number. Contact the merchant to verify the ac-count used to pay for the item actually belongs to you.

Shoppers should be cautious and not provide credit card num-bers, bank account numbers, or other financial information di-rectly to the seller. Fraudulent sellers will use this information to purchase items for their scheme from the provided finan-cial account. Always use a legit-imate payment service to protect purchases.

Diligently check each seller’s rating and feedback along with

their number of sales and the dates on which feedback was posted. Be wary of a seller with 100-percent-positive feedback if they have a low total number of feedback postings and all feed-back was posted around the same date and time.

Gift card scamThe safest way to purchase gift

cards is directly from the mer-chant or authorized retail mer-chant. If the merchant discovers the card you received from an-other source or auction was ini-tially obtained fraudulently, the merchant will deactivate the gift card number and it will not be honored to make purchases.

Phishing and social networking

Be leery of emails or text mes-sages you receive indicating a problem or question regarding your financial accounts. In this scam, you are directed to follow a link or call the number pro-vided in the message to update your account or correct the prob-lem. The link actually directs the individual to a fraudulent web-site or message that appears le-gitimate; however, any personal information you provide, such as account number and personal identification number (PIN), will be stolen.

Another scam involves victims receiving an email message di-recting the recipient to a spoofed website. A spoofed website is a fake site or copy of a real website that is designed to mislead the recipient into providing personal information.

Consumers are encouraged to beware of bargain emails adver-tising one-day-only promotions for recognized brands or web-sites. Fraudsters often use the hot items of the season to lure bargain hunters into providing credit card information. The old adage, “If it seems too good to be true, it probably is,” is a good barometer to use to legitimize emails. Consumers should be on the watch for too-good-to-be-true emails from unrecognized websites.

Along with online shopping comes the growth of consumers using social networking sites and mobile phones to satisfy their shopping needs more easily. Again, consumers are encour-aged to beware of emails, text messages, or postings that may lead to fraudulent sites offering bargains on brand name prod-ucts.

Here are some tips you can use to avoid becoming a victim of cyber fraud:

Do not respond to unsolicited (spam) email.

Do not click on links con-tained in an unsolicited email.

Be cautious of emails claiming to contain pictures in attached files, as the files may contain vi-ruses. Only open attachments from known senders. Always run a virus scan on an attachment before opening it.

Avoid filling out forms con-tained in email messages that ask for personal information.

Always compare the link in the email to the web address link you are directed to and determine if they match.

Log on directly to the official website for the business identi-fied in the email, instead of “link-ing” to it from an unsolicited email. If the email appears to be from your bank, credit card is-suer or other company you deal with frequently, your statements or official correspondence from the business will provide the proper contact information.

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The end of the calendar year might be one of the best times to get a deal on a vehicle purchase, when everyone else is out holi-day shopping.

It’s not only the price you need to be concerned with. How the car feels is important, especially if you plan to keep it for a number of years.

Assuming you’ve done your homework about whether a par-ticular vehicle meets your needs and price, the test drive is where you’ll find the answers about a small, but crucial detail: Is the car comfortable? Edmunds.com, the car experts, has a list of tips for getting the most out of your test drive.• Sit in the vehicle. Sounds sim-

plistic, but getting in and out of the car and sitting in it will tell a lot. Is there enough leg-room? (If you’ll have multiple drivers in your family using the car, take them along.) Can all of you reach the pedals easily? Did you hit your head getting in or out? Is the steering wheel too far away to be comfortable? Does the seat tilt? Try out the backseat, especially if you’ll likely be carrying passengers. Move the side-view and rearview mirrors: Are there any blind spots?

• Drive the car. If the salesperson wants you to take a specific route (likely all right-hand turns that lead back to the lot), describe a different route you’d like to try. If possible, try to take

a route that is similar to one you usually drive: highway, hills, city traffic, etc.

• Once on your test drive, give the car a bit of a workout. How does it accelerate for passing? How does the engine sound when you do? Can you hear a lot of road or tire noise? Are the brakes smooth or grabby? Is the steering responsive? Is the car comfortable to ride in?

• After the test drive, check other aspects of the car. Do the doors open enough to load groceries or reach in to strap in a child? How is the trunk room? Does the backseat fold down for ex-tra trunk space?

• Use your camera or phone to snap a picture of the sticker and options, as well as the car, especially if you’re going to be visiting other dealerships.Before you buy, be sure to re-

view the Edmunds article, “Test-Drive Your Car Salesperson.” For much more information on cars, see Edmunds.com.

David Uffington regrets he can-not personally answer reader questions, but he will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to [email protected].


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Friends of Pomperaug Music Inc. (FoPM) is selling the pewter ornaments shown in the photo, right, in an effort to raise funds for the D’Angelo Music Scholar-ship. This year FoPM is offering a custom ornament created by Woodbury Pewterers that depicts the Pomperaug High School mascot and a G-clef to promote the music department. Other musically themed designs in-clude a French horn, G clef, gui-tar, piano, saxophone, violin and drum. The Christmas-themed ornaments include a stocking, Celtic knot, candy canes and Santa. All ornaments come with a ribbon and measure 1-½ to 2-½ inches depending on the design. The cost for an ornament is $10 or $16 plus shipping.

To guarantee holiday delivery, order early as quantities are lim-ited. You can purchase orna-ments by calling 203-577-2377, or through PayPal on the Region 15 website at www.region15.org. Ornaments also will be sold Fri-day, Dec. 6, and Friday, Dec. 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the win-

ter concerts at Pomperaug High School.

Friends of Pomperaug Music Inc. is a Connecticut nonprofit formed in 1999 by concerned parents of Region 15 (Southbury/Middlebury) music students with the simple purpose of providing opportunities for students to succeed through continuous ex-cellence in music education. The

$2,000 D’Angelo music scholar-ship is awarded annually to a musically outstanding Pomper-aug High School graduating se-nior who chooses music as their college major. Since 1999, FoPM has granted more than $26,000 in scholarships.

Beginning in 1999 with the presentation of Beatlemania, FoPM has educated and inspired

students and the general public with entertainment of all kinds. Past concerts included the Bill Mays Trio, Riders on the Storm (a Doors tribute band), chil-dren’s entertainer and NPR com-mentator Bill Harley, and even a swing dance featuring the Bales and Gitlin band, with dance les-sons by Brian Gillies.

Along with sponsoring con-certs and supporting the D’An-gelo Music Scholarship, another goal of FoPM is to aid the music department at PHS by volunteer-ing as chaperones for the annual college music trip; accompany-ing the PHS Band when they perform in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York City, supply-ing hot chocolate to the band members during football games, supplying water to the band members during Memorial Day Parades and being called on wherever the music department requires.

For more information on FoPM or placing your ornament order, contact Sandra Barolli at 203-577-2377.

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: After shampooing my hair, I looked in the mirror and found a large bald patch near my ear. I screamed. I can comb my hair to hide it. Does this mean I am about to lose all my hair? Is there a treatment for it? – A.A.ANSWER: With a fair degree of confidence, I can say you have alopecia areata, bald patches that vary in size and number. Close to 4.5 million American adults and children suffer from this condition every year. Like so many other illnesses, it’s the re-sult of an immune system gone berserk. The immune system attacks hair follicles, the skin pores that are homes for each hair. What turns on the immune system to do this is something that waits to be discovered.

As heartbreaking as alopecia areata is in the short run, there is high hope of complete restora-tion of hair in time. Around 50 percent will have hair regrowth within a year even if no treatment is given.

Treatments exist to speed the healing process. One is injection of a high-potency cortisone drug, like triamcinolone, into the bald patch. Another treatment con-sists of applying an allergen di-rectly to the bald spots. The re-action it produces leads to hair regrowth. The allergen often chosen is DPCP, diphenylcyclo-propenone. These are only two

of the options open to alopecia areata patients.

Hair follicles retain the capac-ity to regenerate.

Complicated alopecia areata can affect the entire scalp and body hair. These are not com-mon instances, when you con-sider the entire population of sufferers of this malady.

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How common is this? – S.ANSWER: Colorblindness affects 8 percent of men, but only 0.4 percent of women. It is, there-fore, 20 times more common in men than women. It’s surprising that two of your sisters have it.

Less surprising is the number of grandsons and great-grandsons with it.

Most colorblind people get along in life without much trou-ble. And most have some degree of color perception. A very few see the world only in grays, black and whites.DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I love avocados. I’m trying to lose some weight, but I hear that avocados have a lot of fat. How can a fruit have fat? – R.D.ANSWER: Fruits can have fat, as well as protein and carbohy-drates. They have no cholesterol. No member of the plant kingdom does.

A medium avocado has around 320 calories. Most of those calories are due to the fat content of this fruit. But the fat is good fat, not the kind of fat that prods the liver to make choles-terol. It also has three B vitamins, vitamin A and vitamin C.

You can continue to eat avo-cados, but you have to get rid of something else in your diet that has this many calories.

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3. Which NFL team has the lon-gest current streak of not mak-ing the NFL playoffs?

4. When was the last time before 2012-13 that the University of Michigan basketball team started a season 16-0?

5. What team set the NHL record for most losses in a season?

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This week’s nuggets for life offer five ways to alleviate stress.1. Make sure you are getting

enough sleep, because it’s a major contributor to feeling good. Go to bed an hour ear-lier. This is easy because it gets dark early, and you can choose to flow with nature’s winter intelligence. Nap if you can during the day. Restore, replenish and refresh in this way.

2. Stay connected to your breath of life. When stress creeps through feelings of being overwhelmed, stop. For one short minute do left-nostril breathing to calm your ner-vous system and balance your brain. Close your eyes and block your right nostril with your right thumb. Simply in-hale and exhale long, slow, quiet, smooth breaths through your left nostril and feel se-rene. Let the cool air you in-hale cool your thoughts.

3. Exercise every day. It’s a proven stress-buster, helps the complexion to glow and burns away more than calo-ries. It burns up emotions that aren’t beneficial to you and replaces them with emotions of feel-good stuff like happi-ness and joy. Get great results in just 12 minutes of a focused mix between cardio, flexing, stretching and strengthening with your own body weight. Do a little Web surfing and YouTube research to find what works for you. Who doesn’t have 12 minutes to

feel the burn, sweat and en-hanced goodness of whole-body health that lasts all day? Try it for a week without miss-ing one day and see how you feel!

4. Just do it. I don’t believe in trying to do something be-cause it doesn’t mean any-thing. You either do it or you do not. Rather than procras-tinate, mull over what needs to be done and talk about your exhaustion and commitments with people, places and things, stay quiet and just do it. You’ll feel success, a sense of accomplishment and sur-prise yourself with what you’re capable of in a day. Inspire yourself!

5. Keep your digestive system happy. Start the day with a glass of warm lemon water. Munch on fruits and veggies for fiber to keep things mov-ing. Have little packs of wal-nuts, almonds or trail mix handy for pangs of hunger when you’re out and about. Drink a glass of water before you eat. Go easy on sweets, dairy and meats. Drink veggie juice. Indulge in little ways versus overdoing things.These ideas and suggestions

create an inner space of tranquil-ity and self empowerment so the hustle, bustle and natural pull of stress around the holidays are felt as opportunities to practice being unruffled, playful and con-fident. You can breeze through your days like a child does – happy, healthy and excited for the joys and gifts of this fun, beautiful, dreamy season.

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The Thanksgiving Eve football game between Pomperaug and Oxford had to be moved up to Tuesday, Nov. 26, due to the storm that struck the East Coast last Wednesday. The game marked the end of a six-year rivalry as Oxford will move to the Naugatuck Valley League next season, leaving Pom-peraug to start a new Thanksgiving rivalry.

The Panthers closed a deficit in the third quarter only to see the Wolverines put a fourth quarter touchdown on the board to pull away with a 27-12 win over Pom-peraug.

Steve Persson, who led Oxford to its first win over Pomperaug in last year’s Thanksgiving Eve battle, was the key factor again this year as he rushed for 205 yards and scored two touchdowns to lead the Wolverines to victory.

“After playing just about every day since the middle of August, teams at this point in the season are a little banged up,” said Pom-peraug head coach Dave Roach.

“We lost one of our team cap-tains midway through the season when Nico Rosa injured his knee. In our last game, one of our other captains, Jack Yule, injured his ankle.

“We were not at 100 percent, but neither was Oxford. I’ve talked to the team all season about finishing games, and sometimes we did a good job at it and other times we didn’t.”

Oxford got on the board first when Persson plowed his way into the end zone on a 6-yard touch-down as the Wolverines went on top 7-0 on the extra point kick from Chris VanKamerik.

Pomperaug aired it out with quarterback Wade Prajer (14 of 29 passing for 200 yards) firing a 60-yard touchdown strike to senior captain Sam Rubinstein (six catches for 123 yards). Dan Car-bonaro blocked the extra point attempt to give Oxford a slim 7-6 lead going into the second quarter.

“It comes down to mental toughness and capitalizing on your opportunities,” said Roach. “This was a good game for some of the younger guys to step up. But as far as leading the way, Rubinstein did just that with a tremendous game for us.”

The Wolverines took a lot of time off the clock on their second drive in the second quarter. Pers-son carried 10 times for 68 yards on the drive that culminated when he scored on a 5-yard run to open up a 14-6 advantage.

The damage would have been worse if not for the interception in the end zone by Rubinstein that

kept Oxford from padding the lead. The Panthers were still very much in the game, trailing 14-6 at the half.

Oxford came out in the third quarter and went ahead by two scores when Marcus Esteves ran on four consecutive plays, picking up most of his 77 yards rushing and culminating with a 4-yard touchdown plunge to open up a 21-6 lead.

At the end of the third quarter, Nick Harper went in for a touch-down from 9 yards out on a fake field goal attempt to close the gap at 21-12 and put the Panthers back in the game.

Prajer threw completions to Steve Croce (three for 47 yards), Mike Curcio (one for 10 yards) and Mike Buntin (one for 24 yards) along with completions to Bobby Tzepos and Seamus Conway, but the drive stalled on a deflection that was intercepted by Matt Dob-son.

Oxford closed out the game, scoring on a flea-flicker pass on fourth down from Kyle Chudoba to VanKamerik covering 22 yards for the 27-12 final margin.

“All in all it was a good season,” said Roach. “The kids made prog-ress every week, and we got better as a football team.

“We had some games that got away from us down the stretch, and that’s where finishing games comes into play. We just didn’t close enough of them.

“Football comes down to block-ing and tackling. We come back next season with some players who gained a lot of experience. We take a lot of pride in our running game, and that will allow us to control the clock. But when the game is on the line, we are going to need guys who will step up and take the game in their hands.”

Pomperaug will look to build off its 4-7 season next year with a solid passing game led by Prajer and receivers Steve Croce and Ryan Johannes. Mike Curcio and Mike Foschi could be that spark in the running game as the Panthers look to get back to their winning ways.

No. 89 Mike Buntin and No. 7 Sam Rubinstein close in on a tackle during the Thanksgiving Eve Pom-peraug-Oxford football game. (Natalie Baker photo)

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Carol Skog, an area author of Swedish descent, will give a pre-sentation on and sign copies of her new book, “Enchantment Ädventyr, H.C.A. and I Under-stand,” Saturday, Dec. 14, at 1 p.m. in the Wykeham Room of the Gunn Memorial Library and Museum in Washington, Conn. In her presentation, Skog will focus on Swedish Christmas cus-toms and conclude with a mini Lucia. The holiday program is free and appropriate for all ages, but please register by calling 860-868-7756.

Lorraine Bergstrom of Cov-enant Village in Cromwell, a cousin to Leroy Anderson, the renowned composer of “Sleigh-ride,” will perform Swedish Christmas music beginning at 12:30 p.m. An accomplished pi-anist and violinist, she will en-tertain on both instruments be-fore and during the book event.

Concluding Skog’s book pre-sentation, the fantasy journey will continue for attendees who will view a miniature procession of Sankta Lucia. Skog’s grand-daughter, Lily Widemann of Woodbury, will portray Lucia, joined by her friends Ella Viau and Fiona Pedro as attendants, Wylden Abraham and Isaac Brenneman as Starboys, and Connor Viau as a young Tomte. Lucia will invite all to enjoy the Swedish refreshments, including Lucia buns and Pepparkakor.

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menus with select recipes en-joyed by the book’s characters and Skog’s tips on researching your heritage with resource ref-erences. The Hickory Stick Book-shop will be selling books, and Skog will be available after the event to sign them.

The exhibit, “Coming to Amer-ica: Washington’s Swedish Im-

migrants,” also will be open for viewing in the museum before and after the event. The snow date is Sunday, Dec. 15, at 1pm. The Gunn Memorial Library and Museum is at 5 Wykeham Road on Washington Green. Call 860-868-7756 or view www.gunnli-brary.org for more information.


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