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Volume 9, Number 49 Southington’s Hometown Newspaper www.southingtoncitizen.com Friday, November 28, 2014

The Community Founda-tion of Greater New Britain and the Southington Educa-tion Foundation are teaming to provide an art lesson for every third-grader.

All 475 students from the eight elementary schools will visit the New Britain Mu-seum of American Art in the spring and have an in-school, hands-on art lessons by an artist in residence from the museum. Students will cre-ate Connecticut landscapes, which ties into the third-grade curriculum.

“New Britain Museum of

Art is just a gem in our back yard,” said Jan Galati, chair-man of the Southington Ed-ucation Foundation. “Our mission is to expand learning experiences for students with things that are exciting, cre-ative, and hands on.”

About $9,000 of the $24,875 in grant funding for the program came from the Southington Education Foun-dation and the rest from the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain. The ed-ucation foundation is a non-profit dedicated to raising funds for school programs. The community founda-tion works with Berlin, New Britain, Plainville, and

Southington to raise funds and develop partnerships.

The art program has been in the works since 2012.

“We really can’t wait,” said Linda Mare, director of edu-cation at the New Britain Mu-seum of American Art.

Teachers visited the mu-seum Nov. 18 for professional development and to learn about the program. Plans for the student visits and art les-sons are still being worked out for the spring.

“It’s an undertaking, but it’s something that we do,” said Mare. A survey conducted by the museum found that only

Foundations fund art program By Farrah DuffanySpecial to The Citizen

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The Steeple Players at First Congregational Church recently concluded a five-show run of “Les Miserables.” The cast and crew pulled the production, directed by Crystal Sullivan, together in less than eight weeks. See more photos page 21. | Photos by Chris and Sue Aulbach

The town could acquire more than 40 acres of land through purchase and do-nation if the Town Council grants approval at its meet-ing that was to occur Nov. 24, after press time.

A property on the Cheshire town line off Marion Avenue is for sale to the town and a property on Burritt Street is offered for donation.

Sisters Maxine Upson Woolsey and Elizabeth Up-son Stanley offered 31.6 acres to the town on Marion Ave-nue. One property includes a house on the corner of Mar-ion Avenue and Upson Place and the other is more than 30 acres of woods between the west side of Marion Avenue, the Cheshire town line and Roger’s Orchard.

Both properties were of-fered to the town to preserve as open space for $253,000.

“We think it’s a nice piece of property. It’s a good oppor-tunity for us to expand our

open space,” said Town Man-ager Garry Brumback.

Stephanie Urillo, a Re-publican Town Councilor and chairwoman of the open space committee, said the ac-quisition would be a benefit to the town.

Neither Woolsey, a Mis-sissippi resident, nor Up-son could be reached for comment.

Another property was do-nated to the town but has to be accepted by the Town Council. David Florian, a Southington resident, pro-posed donating 10 acres of land on Burritt Street near

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Anne Road. The donation will require $2,000 to replace plants lost in clear-cutting, according to Urillo.

The town and Florian will split the remediation cost, Urillo said. She was pleased that Florian had offered the land.

“It’s a great thing that he did. It’s a nice property,” she said.

Plans for trails or parking areas hadn’t yet been dis-cussed by the open space committee, according to Urillo. The Stanley property extends into Cheshire and that portion of the property is near 300 acres of town-owned open space.

Dawn Miceli, a member of the open space committee, said Southington councilors had proposed to Cheshire councilors that the two towns

apply for state open space money and create a large area of open space that spanned both municipalities.

“I was pretty surprised when they turned us down but they had some other open space projects in the works,” she said.

Cheshire Town Council Chairman Tim Slocum said there were discussions about the Stanley property but no formal offers from the family.

“There was some discus-sion about that property but none at the council level,” he said. “We have other priori-ties sometimes and you have to pick your priorities.”

Slocum said nothing pre-vented Southington from buying land in Cheshire as open space. Miceli said that wasn’t under consideration by Southington officials.

David Schrumm, Cheshire

Town Council vice chair-man, said the town should purchase the land to create a large open space area and to increase access to the 300 acres owned by Cheshire west of Interstate 84.

“The Town Council has so far missed an excellent op-portunity,” he said. “It would have opened up that parcel to more activity which is the whole point of open space.”

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The Planning and Zoning Commission during its meet-ing Nov. 18 tabled an applica-tion for a medical office on 462 Queen St., citing poten-tial traffic issues.

The site plan application was proposed by Queen Street Medical Associates LLC.

“This proposal does not include an emergency room or emergency department,”

said Chris Smith, a land use attorney with Shipman & Goodman LLC of Hartford, representing the site plan. “Hopefully that will address some of the concerns we’ve heard from the citizens in town.”

The plan is to demolish three existing buildings, total-ing about 66,000 square feet, to make room for the medi-cal office, said Phil Doyle of Landscape Architectural De-sign Associates of Simsbury, also representing the LLC.

“What we would be look-ing to do would be to build a new, three-story medical of-fice building,” Doyle said.

Th property, off Interstate 84, is 3.2 acres. The new fam-ily health center would of-fer urgent care, primary care and other non-emergency services. The new medical center is being planned by Hartford HealthCare Corp.

Hartford HealthCare had planned to close the emer-gency room at Bradley Me-morial, the Southington campus of the Hospital of Central Connecticut, and open one on Queen Street, pending state approval. But after local backlash that in-cluded petitions to the state,

officials kept the emergency and inpatient departments.

Planning board Vice Chair-man Paul Chaplinsky said he liked the plan, but thought if other businesses were being required to have a “right turn only” on Queen Street, then it should be no different for the medical office.

“It’s really difficult for me to hold different standards,” he said.

Commission members Jen-nifer Clock and Susan Locks both agreed with Chaplinsky, adding turning left on Queen Street is dangerous.

Officials said that in the morning and evening peak hours, more than 120 cars would be entering and exiting the building. If the commis-sion were to decide to make it a right-hand turn only, repre-sentatives said it would cause “significant damage” to the ability of the application to move forward.

“I would prefer we table it and let them come back with an alternate proposal,” commission member Steve Kalkowski said.

The representatives will work with town staff be-fore coming back before the commission.

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Promoting parks, planning improvements

Middle and high school students will help develop a logo to promote town parks.

At a recent Board of Park Commissioners meeting, members discussed ways to promote parks. Commission member Bryan Meccariello

suggested an art contest for students.

“The first idea was to reach out to the schools and see if we could enlist the art de-partments to have the kids come up with some kind of logo for us to use,” said Mike Fasulo, chairman of the park board.

Details for the promotion

haven’t been finalized yet, Fasulo said.

Dave Lapreay, director of recreation, said the plan is to have students submit posters depicting what they believe represents the parks system and parks department.

The issue will be discussed again at the commission’s De-cember meeting.

“Hopefully it’s a step in the right direction and will turn into something fun for every-one,” Fasulo said.

The move comes as offi-cials also hope to remodel and renovate three parks over the next few years, start-ing with Memorial Park next year.

The park board is review-ing plans by TO Design LLC of New Britain for Memo-rial Park, Panthorn Park, and Recreation Park. Work would be done in phases over five years. Nearly $1 million is in the current budget for work at Memorial Park, which is off Woodruff Street.

Before any work can begin, the designs have to be ap-

proved by the Town Council.“It’s been 30 or 40 years

since we’ve touched a lot of these parks,” Town Manager Garry Brumback said re-cently. “The real question is not how important it is to get started, because we can do stuff now, the real question is: ‘Is this the direction the pub-lic and council wants to go?’ “ The priorities at Memorial Park include the bathhouse. Any work would have to be complete before the pool opens in June, said Lapreay.

Last year, repairs to fix leaks in the bathhouse roof cost $7,200.

“I know renewing the parks or refurbishing (the parks), has been part of our mas-ter plan as we whittle down on projects,” said Town Council Vice Chair Cheryl Lounsbury said last month. “A lot of things in town are long overdue.”

The town and the YMCA also continue to discuss a new location for a skateboard park, focusing on Memorial Park.

The town-funded skate park has been located at the YMCA’s Camp Sloper on East Street since 2000. Because the camp is a private organi-zation, there are liability and insurance concerns and staff-ing problems, Camp Sloper Director Mark Pooler said last month.

“We need to have a staff member on site on duty at all times when the park is open,” Pooler said.

In past years, the town has contributed between $10,000 and $12,000 to help operate the park.

“Funding has been cut out and because of that we had to reduce our hours and it hasn’t been the best,” Pooler said.

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With fewer services offered at Bradley hospital, Calendar House officials say they’ve seen an increase in the num-ber of out-of-town medical rides requested by seniors in recent years.

The increased travel ties up more buses, according to Senior Citizens Commission Chairman C. Mark White, and has increased costs.

In 2011, the Calendar House dial-a-ride bus service com-pleted 6,505 rides for medical purposes. About 14 percent of those were for out-of-town doctor’s visits.

This year, the bus service completed 4,473 medical rides by the end of Septem-ber. More than 21 percent of those rides were to out-of-town destinations.

In 2013 the out-of-town per-centage of medical rides was 18 and 14 in 2012.

Hartford HealthCare Corp. owns the Hospital of Cen-tral Connecticut and its two campuses in New Britain

and Southington. Hartford HealthCare also owns a net-work of hospitals and health care centers throughout the state.

In recent years, services have left Bradley for other locations such as Bristol and New Britain.

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care center at Bradley was moved to an urgent care cen-ter in Bristol, according to Robert Verderame, Calendar House director.

While doctor’s hours had been reduced at Bradley, Verderame said some offices have been reopened in re-cent months making it eas-ier for residents to make appointments.

“Bradley’s bringing things back into town,” Verderame said, “which has really helped. They’re trying at least.”

He said the most common destinations are New Britain, the other campus of the Hos-pital of Central Connecticut, and MidState Medical Center in Meriden. Hartford Health-Care also owns MidsState.

White agreed that recent out-of-town rides were fewer due to hospital efforts.

“They have brought stuff back and that’s brought the numbers down,” he said.

Out-of-town rides take lon-ger, White said, causing a bus to be out of service for longer. There’s also more mileage to pay with longer trips and it’s less likely that more than one person will be going to the same out-of-town destination.


Viola Martin leads fellow seniors to the bus to go out for lunch in Southington. The Calendar House said that the number of seniors seeking out-of-town medical rides has increased in recent years as the Bradley hospital has undergone several changes in services if offers. | Justin Weekes / For The Citizen

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Although the rescue group works with feral cats in Cheshire, many requests for help were received and re-sponded to this year from the surrounding towns of Ham-den, Wallingford, Meriden and Southington. This fundraising opportunity allows FFCC to continue to humanely reduce the feral cat population and to help abandoned cats and kit-tens in the community.

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“It does make it cost more,” White said.

There are usually two buses in use, but when there are multiple calls for a ride a third or fourth bus is brought into service he said.

At a meeting with seniors and Trish Walden, president of Central Connecticut Se-nior Health Services, White said Hartford HealthCare had moved services and shifted part of the ensuing transpor-tation burden on taxpayers.

Central Connecticut Senior Health Services is owned by Hartford HealthCare.

Walden told seniors that the changing nature of health care and the rise of ambula-tory surgery meant less time in hospitals and more travel for patients.

“It used to be that you went to one hospital,” she said. “It’s

no longer one location – it’s multiple, multiple solutions.”

On Nov. 19, Walden said transportation for Southington seniors was an issue that the hospital could help address but that the answer wasn’t for Hartford HealthCare alone to solve.

“Our goal is to expand ser-

vices and expand access to health care,” she said. “We recognize the need for more senior-based health services that are close to home.”

Walden said physicians were making more referrals to Bradley and that the focus on the hospital probably has led to more people using its

services.Earlier this year, Hartford

HealthCare officials reduced Bradley’s inpatient beds from 26 to 15 and proposed remov-ing the remainder as well. They also planned to move the hospital’s emergency room to Queen Street.

Public backlash caused of-

ficials to put those plans on indefinite hold, although the inpatient bed total will re-main at 15. Hospital officials also moved Bradley’s oper-ating room to the New Brit-ain campus. In its place, the hospital opened an ambula-tory orthopedic center in the rooms formerly occupied by the operating department.

Town Councilor Cheryl Lounsbury, a Republican and critic of hospital plans to move services out of town, said nearly 40 percent of Southington residents were seniors.

“That’s a big group of people who need access to health care,” she said. “More and more people have to go to New Britain for more and more services.”

Lounsbury said she hopes to work with the hospital so that decisions to move ser-vices consider health and business factors rather than just business.

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Santa in the Park - The Southington Parks and Rec-reation Department has scheduled Santa in the Park for Sunday, Nov. 30, 2 to 4 p.m., at Recreation Park, Maxwell Noble Drive, Plants-ville. Children up to 10 years old can visit with Santa Claus. The free event also features, horse-drawn wagon rides, music and treats. In the case of inclement weather, Santa will greet children at South End School. For more infor-mation, call (860) 276-6219.

Wednesday, Dec. 3

The Season’s Boutique - The Summit At Plantsville, 261 Summit St., has scheduled its first annual Season’s Boutique for Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1 to 8 p.m. The event features a va-riety of vendors for shopping, music and refreshments. For more information, call Colleen or Barb at (860) 628-0364.

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scheduled a winter craft fair for Saturday, Dec. 6, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., 9 Riverside Drive, East Hartford. Free admission and parking. Proceeds benefit the scholars of CTRA.

Sunday, Dec. 7

Holiday concert - The Southington Festival Chorale has scheduled its annual Hol-iday Concert for Sunday, Dec. 7, 3 p.m., at the Plantsville Congregational Church, 109 Church St. The public is wel-come. A fee is charged. For more information, call (860) 628-4120.

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Heavens Grocery StoreAs I was walking down life’s highway many years ago.I came upon a sign that read Heavens Grocery Store.When I got a little closer the door swung open wide.And when I came to myself I was standing inside.

I saw a host of angels.They were standing everywhere.

One handed me a basket and said “My child shop with care.”Everything a human could needed was in that grocery store.And what you could not carry you could come back for more.

First I got some patience.Love was in the next row.

Further down was Understanding, you need that everywhere you go.I got a box or two of Wisdom and Faith a bag or two.And Charity of course I would need some of that too.

I couldn’t miss the Holy Ghost it was all over the place.And then some Strength and Courage to help me run this race.My basket was getting full but I remembered I needed Grace,

And then I chose Salvation for Salvation was for free.I tried to get enough of that to do for you and me.

Then I started to the counter to pay my grocery bill, forI thought I had everything to do the Masters will.

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An alert young girl pre-vented a fire on the front porch of her neighbors’ house on Lombardo Court from becoming much worse Nov. 21.

Just before 2 p.m., Av-ery McWaters, 8, spotted flames outside the home at 31 Lombardo, said Fire Capt. Alan Zygmunt. McWaters then informed her mother, Liz McWaters, who called 911, he said.

“Because of that, it en-abled us to get en route quicker and stop the fire

before it caused any major damage,” he said.

The fire damaged the part of the porch, includ-ing the gutters and lattice work.

It also burned brush and mulch in front of the house, he said.

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Southington Library

Food for FinesThe Southington Library

has scheduled “Food for Fines” to help Southington Community Service to stock their shelves.

The “Food for Fines” collection, scheduled for Monday, Nov. 24 through Wednesday, Dec. 31, is a time when Southington patrons may offset their overdue fines with non-perishable food items. All donations go to help Southington Community Services restock their shelves during the holiday season.

Lost or damaged materi-als, fees for losses that are in billing or collection stages, and lost card fees are not in-cluded in the food drive.

According to the South-ington Community Services Department, the items espe-cially needed include: cereal,

tuna fish, peanut butter, jelly, pasta sauce, canned fruit, canned vegetables, juice boxes, macaroni and cheese, soups, snacks, household pa-per goods, toiletries (soap, shampoo, toothpaste).

The library “Mitten Tree” will also be ready for decorat-ing. Patrons may bring new mittens, hats, gloves, scarves and socks. Handmade items are always appreciated.

For more information, call the Reference Department at (860) 628-0947, ext. 5.

Book storeThe Friends of Southington

Library Book Store is sched-uled to be open Monday and Thursday, 2 to 5 p.m.; Mon-day and Wednesday, 2 to 8:30 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Movie matinéesThe Southington Library

has scheduled classic movie matinées for Friday, Dec. 19, Jan. 9 and Feb. 20, 11:30 a.m. Bring a brown bag lunch. No registration is required. For more information, call (860) 628-0947, ext. 5.

Ready 2 ReadThe Southington Library

has introduced a new collec-tion of current bestsellers. Formerly called “Fast Track,” the collection will circulate for 14 days instead of one week. All titles are available first come, first serve.

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35 percent of Southington third-graders have visited an art museum and 10 per-cent have visited New Brit-ain’s museum. Galati said it was a “startling” and “alarm-ing” statistic. Students should have more exposure to the arts, she said. The education foundation has supported many programs on science

and technology.“This is an example where

we want to support the arts as well,” said Alan DeBisschop, treasurer of the Southington Education Foundation.

Students will come to the museum for a few hours, one bus at a time, and study some of the different landscapes in the museum. They will be shown a variety of other genres as well.

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Immersion Spanish for kindergartners

For an entire half hour Tina Riccio spoke nothing but Spanish to a group of kin-dergarten students at South End School during a recent class. Not a word of English came from her mouth and, surprisingly, the students followed her every direction.

“Como se dice?” Ricco said to kindergartener Chloe Nivison.

Riccio was asking Chloe how to say her name.

When Chloe didn’t answer right away Riccio smiled and asked again.

“Me llamo, Chloe,” she said, bashfully.

In March, the school board unanimously voted to en-dorse a foreign language pro-gram at South End School, something Riccio and other staff have been working on for more than a year. The program officially kicked off at the start of the school year for first grade and kindergar-ten students.

Riccio is a world lan-guage teacher at Southing-ton High School and splits her time between teaching classes there and teaching five Spanish classes at South End School twice a week. Two classes are first grade on Wednesdays and three are kindergarten on Thursdays.

On Nov. 20, she taught Spanish in Paula Gorham’s kindergarten classroom.

“There’s total immersion into the language, (Riccio) speaks no English to these children at all,” said Terri Carmody, vice chair of the

school board and member of the school board’s cur-riculum committee. “When you see how these kids re-spond to all of her direction in Spanish… it is just awe-some. She does an awesome job. The children respond unbelievably.”

Students in first and sec-ond grade have been learn-ing colors and numbers in Spanish since the beginning of the school year. Riccio en-forces some of the learning by using songs, games, and books during class.

“They need a variety of activities, but they all have to be in Spanish,” she said. “They follow it.”

Nov. 20, she introduced farm animals to the stu-dents, which is the next area of study for the children. Stu-dents will then learn about holidays and traditions in Spanish, then family, and then food.

The topics Riccio teaches in Spanish correlate with the language arts and social studies curriculum.

Riccio brought an assort-ment of stuffed animals to the class as visual aids to help teach the children.

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asked the students, “Es un gato?”

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if the animal she was holding was a cat.

“No,” the students shouted in unison.

“Es un mono,” Riccio said, explaining to the children that it is a monkey.

Then she held up a parrot for students. Even when stu-dents would ask questions or make comments in English, Riccio responded in Spanish.

“We saw him on a colorful song,” shouted Kyle Bradley, a kindergarten student, when he saw the parrot.

“Si, muy bien,” Riccio said. A few parents were in the

classroom Nov. 20 to see what their children have been learning since the be-ginning of the school year.

“I think it’s amazing,” said Sharon Nivison, Chloe’s mother. “She’ll come home and she knows her numbers. It’s amazing.”

Later in the class Riccio played the Spanish version of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” but in Spanish for the


Tina Riccio, world language teacher, gives instructions in Spanish to prompt children to start dancing in one of two kindergarten classes at South End School in Southington. In March, the school board voted unanimously to endorse a foreign language pilot program at South End. | Dave Zajac / For The Citizen

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On my recent trip to North Carolina to visit my son, I was struck by what a new world we’re living in now. In days of old, I was never at a loss for traveling compan-ions. People at the airport, on the plane – they were all fair game. I would strike up a conversation with every-body, and it was such fun. It’s probably the reporter in me, but I want to hear peoples’ stories. I try not to ask so many questions, but that’s a losing battle. Where are you going? Where have you been? Tell me about your life. I listen for the nuances in their voice. I listen for the places in their life that they love, and the places that hurt. For that brief period of time I walk in their shoes and get to experience another slice of life other than the one I’m living. We swap stories, we sometimes talk about deep and meaningful things and sometimes silly things, we laugh. Hearts opening and lives touching each other be-fore retreating back to their corners. By the time I reach my son, I am filled to the brim with peoples’ stories. And the narrators of those stories all carved me a little deeper, they grew me.

Oh, but not so much any-more. On the plane that took me to Philadelphia, where I would get a connecting flight, instead of the quiet hum of voices there was an eerie silence because nearly everyone was entranced with their electronic gadgets. I live a simple life, having never been drawn into this particular world, so I really was on the outside looking in. It all seemed a bit sad to me, people sitting shoul-der-to-shoulder, with nary a spoken word between them. The woman sitting next to me was engrossed with her

toy, and I knew from the get-go that there would be no swapping of stories, no climbing into each other’s lives for that short bit of time. She was still a stranger to me by the time we landed. On my connecting flight it was the same scene. Every-one was plugged into some-thing or other. I felt like I was in a futuristic movie, liv-ing in a world I hadn’t caught up with yet.

Imagine my delight when, on that flight, I found my-self sitting next to a lovely man who was gadget-free and ready to talk. He talked about his life in the military and how hard it had been to leave his family when he went to Iraq. He talked about his current job working with veterans, and how that job fills him up. He talked about his grown children, and you could almost reach out and touch the love and the pride.

And my good fortune fol-lowed me home. More talk-ers! On the first plane I sat next to a man whose heart had been torn to shreds when his wife, the love of his life, had a cerebral hemor-rhage while riding on the back of his motorcycle. She suffered irreparable damage and is now in a long-term care facility. He’s trying to live life as best he can.

On the second plane I was next to a young man from Missouri who had an inter-view the next day at Yale for a position as a resident in the pathology department, and we talked about how grueling life is for a medical student, and how happy he will be to spend his days in a lab, just his microscope and him. It felt good to sit next to someone with his whole life ahead of him, with his

The lost art of conversation

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As of the time of this writ-ing, we anticipate the gather-ing of members of our family and close friends for our an-nual celebration of Thanks-giving. One of my personal favorite traditions, its roots go back to colonial times in America. Coming together, gratefully sharing a meal that often becomes a feast as abundant as the blessings we enjoy… it is quintessentially a celebration that defines who we are.

Images cross my mind of the roasted turkey accom-panied by splendid table decorations and delecta-ble trimmings like stuffing, cranberries, gravy, sweet potatoes, an array of vege-tables such as creamed spin-ach, broccoli, glazed carrots, corn pudding, dinner rolls, apple cider, pumpkin pie and other tempting desserts. At times, the sumptuous event can become a belt-loosening, sleep-inducing experience which we may top off with a football game.

In a more significant spir-itual sense, Thanksgiving is a day that opens our minds to spiritual reflection, a day when we collectively give thanks to our Creator, each according to our faith tradi-tions. On Tuesday, Nov. 25, the Southington Interfaith Clergy Association will have held its traditional annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Ser-vice, this year at First Evan-gelical Lutheran Church. Clergy and members of all faith congregations in South-ington have been invited to attend and participate. This has been an awe-inspiring celebration to me as we wor-ship together as one commu-nity at least once a year. The experience raises the emo-tions of people of all faiths to a special sense of the unity of mankind. That’s what is so American about it, reminding us of the gifts of the freedoms of speech, religion, assembly and thought for which our forefathers and many who followed them have labored

and fought to defend and pre-serve. We are blessed to live in a free democratic republic of the people.

The specialness of our gratitude is sharply honed by the fact that some in our very own midst do not enjoy such abundance. The hardship of economic challenges, pov-erty, illness, homelessness, loneliness and hopelessness are real. Hunger, an empty stomach, is a painful depri-vation of a basic human need.

We cannot legislate com-passion but we certainly can say, “There, but for the Grace of God, go I.” Can a self-re-specting society sustain itself without the core prin-ciples of unselfishly giving to help others? As a community, Southington stands head and shoulders above many for its widely-known generosity.

On Tuesday. Nov. 25, you may have heard the ringing bells of the Salvation Army at Stop & Shop and TOPS Mar-

Give thanks by helping others

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All-American Thanksgiving historyThe Citizen wishes you,

your family and community a Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy these words of thanksgiving from notable figures in our na-tion’’s history.

The First Thanksgiving Nov. 29, 1623 — William Bradford, Ye Governor of Ye Colony

Inasmuch as the great Fa-ther has given us this year an abundant harvest of In-dian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegeta-bles, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and …has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God ac-cording to the dictates of our own conscience.

Now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on Thursday, November 29th, of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and

twenty-three and the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to ye pastor and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings.

President George Washington Nov. 26, 1789 (excerpted)

Now, therefore, I do recom-mend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to

be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be...rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the sig-nal and manifold mercies and

the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and ratio-nal manner in which we have been enable to establish con-stitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one

now lately instituted’ for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed...

P re s i d e n t A b ra h a m Lincoln Nov. 28, 1863 (excerpted)

The year that is drawing to-wards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come ... the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and se-verity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, or-der has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has pre-vailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the ad-

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ket. The people out there in the cold ringing the bells, like the STEPS Youth and adults and the Southington Knights of Columbus Council 15 are your neighbors, friends, fam-ily members and fellow cit-izens. They hear the cry of hungry children and adults who cannot make ends meet.

And, Southington’s peo-ple respond. In the coming weeks, you will have so many opportunities to help non-profit organizations such as Southington Community Services and Food Pantry, Bread for Life, the United Way of Southington, your own house of worship, the Food Pantry, the Giving Back Girls, the American Legion

and other veterans’ organiza-tions, the Arc of Southington, the YMCA, the Elks Lodge, Southington Education Foun-dation and too many others to name who work year-round to help make South-ington a better community.

You can contact these giv-ing groups so easily with a quick Internet search. The need is great. Please, take the initiative to help with a gift from your heart, a monetary gift, a gift in kind, or your personal time as a volunteer.

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Worship Services

Southington• Central Baptist Church, 1505 West

St., Sunday – 10:30 a.m., and 6 p.m. services; Sunday school - 9:30 a.m.; Wednesday – 7 p.m. service. (860) 621-6701.

• Faith Baptist Church, 243 Laning St., Sunday worship – 11 a.m.; Sunday school up to the sixth grade - 11 a.m.; adult Bible school - 9:45 a.m. (860) 628-8147.

• First Baptist Church, 581 Meriden Ave., Sunday – 10 a.m. service.

• First Congregational Church, 37 Main St., Sunday – 8 a.m. chapel communion; 9:30 a.m. service; Monday, Nov. 24, - 6 p.m. contemporary worship service. (860) 628-6958.

• First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 232 Bristol St., Sunday – 9:30 a.m. service; Sunday school, 9:15 a.m. (860) 628-9001.

• Grace United Methodist Church, 121 Pleasant St., Sunday – 8:30 a.m., and 10 a.m. worship service. (860) 628-6996.

• Immaculate Conception Church, 130 Summer St., Saturday – 5 p.m.; Sunday – 7:30 and 10:30 a.m., English Mass; 9 a.m., Polish Mass; (860) 628-2181.

• Plantsville Congregational Church, 109 Church St., Sunday – 10 a.m. service. (860) 628-5595.

• St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 145 Main St., Sunday – 8 and 10:15 a.m. service; Christian foundation for all ages, 9 a.m. (860) 628-8486.

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students. Through the next few classes she will reinforce the animal names and the song so students will learn it.

The goal for next year is to extend the program with the same first grade students into second grade so they

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“We were so impressed as a curriculum commit-tee,” said Carmody who vis-

ited a class a few weeks ago. “We’re hoping towards the end of the year to bring them to a board meeting so entire board can see.”

From Page 13

Tina Riccio, world language teacher, uses plush animals to help students learn Spanish in one of two kindergarten classes at South End School in Southington, Thursday, Nov. 20. In March, the school board unanimously voted to endorse a foreign language pilot program at South End. | Dave Zajac / For The Citizen

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vancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the bor-ders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.

Population has steadily in-creased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the bat-tle-field; and the country, re-joicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continu-ance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mor-tal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God ... (that)

should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.

President John Kennedy Nov. 23, 1961 (excerpted)

This year, as the harvest draws near its close and the year ap-proaches its end, awesome perils again remain to be faced. Yet we have, as in the past, ample rea-son to be thankful for the abun-dance of our blessings. We are grateful for the blessings of faith and health and strength and for the imperishable spiritual gifts of love and hope. We give thanks, too, for our freedom as a nation; for the strength of our arms and the faith of our friends; for the beliefs and confidence we share; for our determination to stand firmly for what we believe to be right and to resist mightily what we believe to be base; and for the heritage of liberty bequeathed by our ancestors which we are privi-leged to preserve for our children and our children’s children.

It is right that we should be grateful for the plenty amidst which we live; the productivity of our farms, the output of our facto-ries, the skill of our artisans, and the ingenuity of our investors. But in the midst of our thanks-giving, let us not be unmindful of the plight of those in many parts of the world to whom hun-ger is no stranger and the plight of those millions more who live without the blessings of liberty and freedom...

I urge all citizens to make this Thanksgiving not merely a holi-day from their labors, but rather a day of contemplation. I ask the head of each family to recount to his children the story of the first New England Thanksgiving, thus to impress upon future genera-tions the heritage of this nation born in toil, in danger, in pur-pose, and in the conviction that right and justice and freedom can through man’s efforts persevere and come to fruition with the blessing of God.

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The Southington Police Department announced the Town Ordinances applicable to the winter months.

Sec. 12-72. Parking During Winter Restricted at Night.($10 fine)

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For more information and to register, call Sarah at (860) 229-7323.

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Pet PartnerSouthington Care Center,

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Participants must first com-plete the Pet Partners course at www.petpartners.org.

A fee is charged for the course.

The certificate of comple-tion and rabies certificate must be brought to the on-site evaluation testing, sched-uled for Sunday, Jan. 25, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the South-ington Care Center.

Evaluations are by ap-pointment only. Evaluations are free but a donation is re-quested to the SCC Jane Haze Memorial Pet Therapy Fund.

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With the holidays ap-proaching, area libraries are helping to collect food for the needy.

The Wallingford Public Li-brary holds a year-round food drive in memory of librarian Joan Lewis. Donations in-crease during the holiday sea-son, said community services librarian Beth Devlin.

“During Thanksgiving peo-ple are thankful for what they have and they share that grat-itude by donating,” Devlin said.

The Southington Library food drive yields one of the largest donations Southing-ton Community Services re-ceives, said Janet Mellon, community services director.

The drive begins in Sep-tember and runs until the end of December. Last year, 4,649 pounds of food was donated. As part of the drive, patrons can give a food item in stead of paying a fine for an over-due item.

“Over 4,000 pounds for one food drive?” Mellon said. “The average food drive is 400 or 500 pounds...It’s in-credible. We depend on it.”

Southington Library Exec-utive Director Sue Smayda said volunteers pick up dona-tions a couple times a week.

Meriden Public Library’s Food for Fines drive starts on Nov. 28 and runs until Dec. 31.

“We get a lot of people,” said reference librarian Susan O’Brien. “In fact, people ask about it starting this month because it’s a tradition. Peo-ple look forward to it.”

Donations go to Meriden’s food bank.

Mellon said Southington Community Services distrib-uted Thanksgiving baskets with turkeys at the Southing-ton Drive-In on Nov. 24.

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The Economic Develop-ment Strike Committee on Nov. 20 unanimously rec-ommended a company, with offices in Cheshire, to com-plete engineering and con-ceptual design work for a proposed sports complex on West Street.

Woodard & Curran was chosen to complete the approval process for a 200,000-square-foot place-holder building. Town of-ficials will then market the approved plan on a 34-acre property to a developer who will buy the privately-held land and build the complex.

Town Council Chairman Michael Riccio, a Republican, said Woodard & Curran was recommended because they understood the town’s vision and would present a market-ing package to the town after completion of the work.

“They knew what the end game was,” Riccio said.

Riccio said it’s part of an economic development strat-egy to make Southington into a multi-day destination and build off the existing at-tractions such as Lake Com-pounce and Mt. Southington.

In September, the Eco-nomic Development Strike Committee voted unani-mously in favor of a plan to market the property, owned by the Sepko family, for the sports complex. The town will fund engineering work on the property, get Planning and Zoning Commission ap-proval for the project, and then turn it over to a private developer to revise the plan and build a facility.

Woodard & Curran is charging $38,000 for the en-gineering work. That money will be refunded to the town if the property is sold through the town’s efforts, accord-ing to the contract with the Sepko family.

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Lou Perillo, economic de-velopment coordinator, said the conceptual plan includes three to four outdoor fields and the building. While that plan will be submitted to the Planning and Zoning Com-mission, the developer may modify the plan or reduce it in size. Perillo said the largest possible development will be submitted for approval, since reducing a proposal is easier than expanding it.

“If anyone wanted 200,000, if the site can handle that, the property” would be approved for it, he said.

The economic strike com-mittee is comprised of town councilors and town officials.

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Tuesday, Dec. 2, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., at Southington YMCA, 29 High St.

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 11 a.m. to noon, at Calendar House, 388 Pleasant St.

Tuesday, Dec. 16, 11 a.m. to noon, at ShopRite, 750 Queen St.

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A man robbed a Southing-ton gas station the morning of Nov. 23, but was taken into custody hours later after New Haven police spotted the vehicle he was driving, according to South-ington police.

Travis Gornto was ar-rested Sunday after robbing the Sunoco gas station at 957 West St., police spokes-man Sgt. Jeffrey Dobratz said in a statement. Gornto has yet to be charged, as po-lice are awaiting a medical evaluation.

The robbery was reported about 11:40 a.m. Nov. 23. Just minutes before, Dobratz said, Bristol’s police depart-ment issued a notification to local police departments that a hit-and-run was re-ported in their town. Bristol police identified Gornto as a suspect and identified his red Ford F150 as the vehicle involved in the crash.

No injuries were reported at the gas station robbery. Gornto was able to flee the scene with an undetermined amount of money, Dobratz said. A weapon was not dis-played, but Dobratz said it was implied the suspect had one.

The clerk at the gas sta-tion was able to identify Gornto’s vehicle and license plate, which Dobratz said matched the description Bristol police gave.

Southington police broad-cast the description of Gornto’s vehicle to other de-partments around the state. New Haven police spot-ted the vehicle later on, but were unable to apprehend him. Derby police eventu-ally tracked him down and made an arrest, Dobratz said. Gornto is currently at a local hospital for a medical evaluation.

No information about the pending charges was avail-able Nov. 24 and the arrest warrant is sealed.

Gas station robbery leads police across stateBy Lauren SievertSpecial to The Citizen

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The meaning of ‘84’ is revealed

On Nov. 21, fellow students Bella Feest had never met came up to her during lunch to read the back of her T-shirt. One even moved her hair out of the way to get a look.

Her teal shirt had the num-ber “84” on the front. The back read “it’s not what you think, 84% don’t drink.”

Members of Southington’s Townwide Effort to Promote Success, known as STEPS, and its Youth Council is behind “Project 84.”

For the past two weeks, stu-dents, teachers, and the rest of the community have had to wait to learn what “84” meant. Posters, pins, pictures, and

T-shirts with “84” have been displayed around town since Nov. 10.

On Friday, Nov. 21, STEPS re-vealed the meaning.

The “84” stands for the per-centage of Southington sev-enth, ninth, and 11th grade students that don’t drink based on a STEPS survey that 1,326 students took in the 2012-13 school year. The survey cov-ered areas of family support, school engagement, and peer influence. The results of the survey were released in March.

“It smashed the stereotype that everyone in Southington drinks,” Feest said.

Students like Feest who are on the Youth Council have been wearing teal T-shirts that read “84” on the back with the slogan “it’s not what you think” each day since Nov. 10. On Fri-day, the T-Shirts were changed to reveal the meaning of “84.”

Thirty-one students on the Youth Council wore the T-shirts. The council has stu-


DePaolo Middle School students, clockwise from bottom, left, Bella Feest, 13, Sarah Meade, 12, Anthony Matarazzo, 12, Alexis Izzo, 12, and Caitlin Mulligan, 14, don T-shirts stating “It’s not what you think, 84% don’t drink” which reveals the mystery behind “Project 84.” All are members of Southington’s Townwide Effort to Promote Success, known as STEPS. | Photos by Dave Zajac / For The Citizen

Survey shows it’s the percentage of 7th, 9th and 11th-graders who said they don’t drink

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Southington Property Transfers

SOUTHINGTON- Property transfers reported from Nov.13 to Nov. 17:

• TD Bank to Heritage Builders of Waterbury, 222 W. Main St., Unit 1B, $120,100.

• Rita Lulis to Karen Drost, trustee, 139 Diana Road, $156,000.

• Rachel M. and Jon D. Mahoney to James R. Jr. and Alyssa Anderson, $474,500.

• Southington Farms, LLC to Deborah Muzio, Lot 3, 31 Curtiss Farm Court, $515,150.

• Redo Farm Homes, LLC to Suzanne M. and Daniel C. Sisson, 274 Marion Ave., $271,000.

• Daniel A. Bruetsch to Nicole M. Lewol and Steven Silva, 178 Lawncrest Drive, $165,000.

• Magnoli Enterprises, Inc. to Matthew J. and Elizabeth S. Bub, 341 W. Pines Drive, $524,900.

• Dorothy A. Mikolajcik to Melissa Lapent, 131 Pleasant Run Road, $163,000.

• Baldwin Estates, LLC to Ranjit Kuppili and Chandana Dabbiru, 30 Cortland Way, $242,000.

• MaryAnn Imuchowski to Evan L. Morel, 179 Jubilee Drive, $280,000.

• Daniel and Leslie Soper to Nicole Bethany Pellerin, 15 Cortland Way, $293,000.

• Estate of Joseph C. Cermola to Julio and Erika Pazos, 77 Knollwood Road, $240,000.

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dents at DePaolo and Kennedy middle schools and the high school.

“Students were thinking it was negative,” said Sarah Me-ade, a seventh-grader at De-Paolo and member of the STEPS Youth Council.

“Some people I would say are a little shocked by the statistic, but that’s why we did this,” said Kelly Leppard, STEPS coordinator. “‘Cause people make generalizations that everyone drinks and we found out it’s not true, not ev-eryone drinks.”

“I think it created a lot of hype and I think that was the intent,” said Chris Palmieri, DePaolo assistant principal and STEPS board member. “Ev-eryone wanted to know what it was.”

“Everyone kept trying to guess, everyone thought it was about drugs but were inter-ested to find out it was about drinking,” said Caitlin Mulli-gan, an eighth-grade student

at DePaolo and member of the Youth Council. “A lot of people thought it was a high number.”

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One of several signs posted around the interior of DePaolo Middle School, Friday, Nov. 21. Members of Southington’s Townwide Effort to Promote Success, known as STEPS recently revealed that the mysterious “84” (posted throughout the school) stands for the percentage of Southington seventh, ninth, and 11th grade students that don’t drink based off of a STEPS survey that 1,326 students took in the 2012-13 school year. | Dave Zajac / For The Citizen

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DiMauro is also a former president of the Southing-ton Historical Society and worked to establish the small

museum in the Milldale Train Depot on Canal Street.

Three trolley companies once operated in Southington.


Above, this old black and white photo shows a scene looking north on Main Street, with St. Paul Church to the right, in Southington, circa 1900 . | File photo

A view of Main Street in Southington looking East Wednesday, Nov. 19| Justin Weekes / For The Citizen

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SportsRams look to upset the Apple cart

Autumn is nearly over in Apple Valley.

The fruits of the harvest have been turned into pies on the pantry counter, the fireplace is crackling day and night, and there’s frost on the football.

But before the woolens come out of the mothballs and the turkey emerges from the oven, there are some se-rious gridiron implications that were to be decided Tuesday on the turf at Joseph Fontana Field. The game was originally slated for Thanks-giving morning.

Cheshire, with an 8-2 re-cord after running the SCC gauntlet, needed to find a way to derail Southington’s unde-feated juggernaut in the 19th annual Apple Classic to qual-ify for the Class LL playoffs.

Southington (9-0, CCC Di-vision I West champion) is among three teams that have earned an invitation, albeit unofficial, to a ‘LL’ postseason party that’s been reformatted for this season’s proceedings by a CIAC football committee relentlessly searching for the best solution to an enigma that probably doesn’t have one.

The playoffs have been re-duced from three tiers to two (semifinals during the day at the home of the higher seed on Dec. 6, final the follow-ing week at a neutral site). Two ‘LL’ champions will be crowned and never the twain shall meet.

As it were, the Rams were among 11 teams playing mu-sical chairs for five presti-gious seats. By the time the first morsel of Thanksgiving delight is digested, eight ‘LL’ teams will be divided into two brackets according to the schools’ male populations. They will then be re-seeded based on points accumulated through the regular season.

“[Southington presents] a huge challenge,” Cheshire coach Don Drust said. “You go all the way back to last year when they beat a very

good Fairfield Prep team [for the ‘LL’ champion-ship]. You see what they’ve done this year and nobody’s even been close, maybe one game (Glastonbury, Week 1, 41-38). You don’t do that unless you’re a very good football team top to bottom, you have players and you’re well-coached.”

KNIGHTS NO. 1: South-ington, judged to be the best team in the state in both the media and coaches’ polls, has run up 411 points and allowed 94, but only two touchdowns over its last five games.

Southington coach Mike Drury has assembled a committee of experienced coaches on his staff and for the Knights’ defensive prow-ess, he cites one-time Syr-acuse Honorable Mention All-American and his high school coach at Bristol Cen-tral, Rob Thomson.

“When I came in, I was ini-tially coordinating [the de-fense],” Drury said. “I’d been trying to get Rob since my first year. He helped out be-hind the scenes initially. My second year he really got in-volved and we worked it to-gether. The last two years he’s been the primary guy and has done an awesome job. I’ve decided to go on the offensive side of the ball now.

“His defensive staff does a great job working for him. He’s really got a great football mind, one of the best in the state, hands down.”

While the Blue Knights tra-ditionally prefer to travel by air, they have also unleashed a powerful ground game led by junior Alessio Diana (113 carries, 922 yards, 9 TDs) and sophomore Vance Upham (79-658-7).

JAMELE CLOSES IN: Junior quarterback Jasen Rose, a converted 6-foot-3, 225-pound tight end, has completed 149 passes in 215 attempts for 2,234 yards and 36 touchdowns. Among his targets is senior wide re-ceiver Alex Jamele (57 re-ceptions, 743 yds., 14 TDs).

By Ken LipshezSpecial to The Citizen

Southington’s head coach Mike Drury review a play with special teams during practice at Southington High School Nov 21. | Photos by Justin Weekes / For The Citizen

Jasen Rose during practice at Southington High School Nov. 21.

Alex Jamele, Friday, during practice at Southington High School in Southington Nov. 21. See Football / Page 32


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Jamele is one TD catch short of the state career record of 47 established by Aaron Her-nandez. It couldn’t be any further from his mind.

“It’s definitely not done independently,” Jamele said. “It’s definitely a team effort. Yeah, it’s pretty cool, but I’m just trying to focus on Thanksgiving Day.”

Rose’s other options are

Kyle Borawski (34-548-13), tight end Matt Maxwell (29-544-6) and Austin Morin (24-365-4). He rarely targets his backs, which have a com-bined seven receptions, none for scores.

Cheshire conversely only throws when its feet are held to the fire, but why put the ball up for grabs when you can hand it to Andrew Yamin, the state’s most prolific ball-carrier (185 carries, 2,339 yds,,

31 TDs) and destined for the top 15 in state history.

“We can’t picture a better high school situation nearing the end of our careers,” said Yamin, who is likely headed to Amherst next year. “We’re the only team left in ‘LL’ (among those who haven’t clinched a spot) that con-trols our fate — if we win, we’re in — and we see that as a huge opportunity. It’ll be on their field but I know we’ll still have a lot of support and, hopefully, we can snap their perfect season.”

Why wouldn’t Drust put the emphasis on a running back of Yamin’s caliber?

“We go to what we’re good at,” Drust said. “This year we’ve been better at running the ball and carrying some of the load for the team. It’s been pretty effective for us.

“In our losses, we moved the ball pretty well. It’s not

like we were scoring six points in the games we lost. We put up four touchdowns against Prep and we could have put up more. Against Notre Dame we ran pretty well, too. I think it’s not a

matter of us saying we’re go-ing to try to run the ball on every play. It’s what’s suc-cessful for us, so we keep turning to it.”

CUNNINGHAM AT QB: But the Rams have thrown just 87 passes all year, only four by senior Jack Cunning-ham, a first-time starter at quarterback. Cunningham, whose senior season ap-peared to be lost to a knee in-jury sustained last spring in a lacrosse match, has rushed for 427 yards and two TDs on 74 carries.

“Jack does a little bit of ev-erything,” Drust said. “I’m a big believer you’ve got to get your best players on the field and I’d be doing a dis-service to this group, to ev-erybody, if I didn’t have him on the field. He’s a phenome-nal athlete top to bottom. You look at the mix, too, with him and Andrew in the backfield together. We think right now certain things in certain sit-uations will give us a good opportunity.”

Cunningham, who rushed for 941 yards and 10 TDs as a junior, is confident in both his

From Page 31

Vance Upham during practice at Southington High School Nov 21.

| Justin Weekes / For The Citizen

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“It’s something new that we’ve been trying out, but I definitely feel more com-fortable this week at quar-terback,” he said. “I’ve been playing quarterback for the last couple of weeks. It was something I had to get used to the first week, but getting reps the last couple of games really helped me a lot and I feel like I could be really ef-fective now.

“We’ve been relying on our run game a lot. I think we have the best offensive line in the state, so if we get off to a good start running the ball, it’s tough to catch us, too.”

Josh MacNiven (31-for-61, 404 yds., 5 TDs), the starting quarterback for the better part of the last two seasons, will get some snaps. Colin Thorne, primarily a runner in Cheshire’s double-wing set (20 carries, 156 yds., 2 TDs) may also see time.

The senior-laden offensive line features 6-1, 280-pound co-captain Cullen Clairmont, 6-4, 245-pound Will Eddy, Connor Fountain and Ray Al-banese. Junior center/guard Peter Purcell is the lone un-derclassman. Co-captain Ty-ler D’Errico, a linebacker who

sees time at fullback, also logs time in the line.

IN THE TRENCHES: The Southington offensive line, all but decimated by graduation last year, has re-built around lone returning starter, 6-0, 245-pound left tackle Noah McDonald. Se-nior Matt Steeves, 6-4 and 310 pounds, is the center. Tyler DiTunno is the right guard. Trevor Godston (6-4, 257 pounds) is at right tackle. Dylan Kulas lines up at left guard.

“These guys committed themselves in the offseason and have really come to-gether as a cohesive unit,” Drury said. “They’ve done a great job in pass protection and the run game for us. They know they’re going to be up against a very good Cheshire defense.”

Cheshire features a tra-ditional four-man front with Clairmont (13 tackles for loss), Eddy, Brandon Caterino and Chris Hillburn. D’Errico (team-high 83 tackles), Nick Sansone and Yamin are the linebackers. Colin Thorne and Michael Jeffery are the safeties. The corners are R.J. Oris and Brian Weyrauch.

“Obviously, they’re hav-ing a real successful season and [containing the passing attack] is going to be a big task for us,” Yamin said. “Our DBs and linebackers are re-

ally going to have to focus on our pass drops and executing defensively.”

The Knights’ veteran de-fensive unit features Matt Koczera (28 tackles for loss, 7 sacks) and Dan Williams (25, 6) at the ends and Zack Spooner on the nose. Matt Thomson (team-high 74 tackles), Steve Hamel, Logan LaRosa and Maxwell man the linebacker slots. Jamele is the strong safety, Jake Thayer is the free safety, and the cor-nerbacks are Peter Majchrzak and Drew Barmore.

Dan Parzych does the placekicking for Southing-ton and Matt D’Andrea for Cheshire. The Rams call on Gabe Vega for punting chores. The Knights’ punter is Julian Cordozo.

The Apple Classic series, which established the rivalry as an annual event, was insti-tuted in 1996. Each team has won nine games. The first game played between the schools was in 1960. Cheshire has a 19-17 edge in the overall series, which endured gaps between 1966-73 and again 1984-93.

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High honors - John Gu-zauckas, Emma Guzauckas, Rylee Malone, Jagvi Patel of Southington.

Honors - Mackenzie Jones, Kyle Partyka, Jared Campbell, benjamin Caron, Sajal Raja of Southington.

Cheshire AcademyLocal students named to

the first honors, first quar-ter honor roll at Cheshire Academy.

Class of ‘18 - Julia Rafferty of Plantsville; Class of ‘16 - Derek Drozd of Southington; Class of ‘15 - Caroline Rodman, Luke Wang of Southington.

Mercy High SchoolLocal students named to

the first marking period honor roll at Mercy High School.

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The first of those three, the Southington and Plantsville Tramway Co., was chartered by the state in April 1887 and was the first electric railway in Connecticut, said Phil Wooding, a former vice pres-ident of the Southington His-torical Society. Wooding also worked on the history of the Milldale Train Depot with DiMauro.

“That line was rather short,” Wooding said. “It went from the north end of the Town Green and went down to Plantsville, to the railroad station and that was the extent of the line.”

A few years later that tram-way went out of business, but the company later provided electrical power for the town.

A Record-Journal photo from the early 1900s looks north on Main Street. Wood-ing and DiMauro believe the trolley in the photo was from the Meriden, Southington and Compounce Tramway Co., which came in after the Southington and Plantsville line around 1904.

That tramway ran along Queen Street, cut through what is now the police sta-tion property on Lazy Lane, and through some fields to Lake Compounce, DiMauro

explained.In the center of the picture,

a trolley moves past a hand-ful of houses on a track in the middle of a dirt road.

The landscape is com-pletely different from that area of Main Street now. Most of the trees and houses in the photo are gone.

On the north side of St. Paul’s is a group of offices es-tablished on 133 Main St. in what looks like a refurbished home from the picture in the 1900s.

Across the street from St. Paul’s is now a small building that houses a pizza place and a laundromat. Other houses in the old photo have been replaced by parking lots or businesses.

The third Southington trol-ley company was the Water-bury and Milldale Tramway Co. established along Mer-iden-Waterbury Turnpike in 1914 and closed in 1927. That line ran over Southington mountain into Waterbury, Di-Mauro said.

“We’re coming to the point where people recognize the importance of mass transit,” said Carl Sokolowski, town historian. “The state is im-proving the railway system…now people recognize that. The trolleys were efficient.”

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High honors - Alyssa Mor-rissey, Ava Coleman, Emily Penta, Haley Gagnon, Jennifer Magnoli, Jillian Pernerewski, Megan Miller, Victoria Fiore of Southington.

Second honors - Kaitlyn Smith, Stephanie Nazzaro of Southington.

Scholastic achievements

Thomas J. Philips of Southington has received a Master of Science in ac-counting degree from West-ern New England University, Massachusetts.

Scholarships Elks National Foundation

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place, two $30,000 Jack Lon-don scholarships ($7,500 per year); 14 $20,000 scholarships ($5,000 per year) and 480 $4,000 scholarships ($1,000 per year). For eligibility and application, visit www.elks.org/enf/scholars/mvs.cfm or visit the high school guid-ance department. Deadline to apply is Dec. 5 to Southing-ton Elks Lodge, 114 Main St., Southington, CT 06489. The selection of winners begins at the local Lodge level and con-tinues through district, state and national judging. Call

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