Volume 19, Number 24 Serving Durham, Middlefield and Rockfall www.TownTimes.com Friday, October 3, 2014

Taking advantage of the large crowds and generally positive atmosphere, multiple politicians visited the 95th annual Durham Fair held over the weekend of Sept. 26-28.

Both gubernatorial can-didates, Gov. Dannel Mal-loy and Republican nominee Tom Foley stopped by the fair.

“You’ve got a great day, and a great fair,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal in the Saturday afternoon heat and sunshine.

Other politicians at the fair over the weekend included U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, DeLauro’s opponent James Brown, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wy-man, state Comptroller Kevin Lembo, and Ted Kennedy Jr., a candidate for the State Sen-ate’s 12th district, represent-ing part of Durham.

Blumenthal, well-known for his experience at public events, said hello to every-one in his path, shook ev-ery extended hand, talked to anyone who wanted to speak with him, posed for photos whenever asked, and yet still

moved through the fair with remarkable speed.

Former Durham First Se-lectman Jim McLaughlin escorted Blumenthal, who traveled with no aides of his own.

According to McLaughlin, Blumenthal has always been loyal to local candidates. “He had a good time and got to see a lot of people he knew and some who wanted to meet him,” McLaughlin said.

Most of the fair goers who met the senator simply said

Politicians visit Durham FairBy Mark DionneTown Times

After circling the Durham Fair on Sept. 27, Senator Richard Blumenthal heads for the exit gates, accompanied by Jim McLaughlin of Durham. | Mark Dionne/Town TimesSee Politicians / Page 19

FLYING HIGH AT THE FAIR

At the Durham Fair Talent Show on Saturday, Sept. 27, Alex Woznyk danced her way to a first prize with her high-flying, tumbling routine to the Disney Creulla de Vil song “I’m Gettin’ Good at Being Bad.” See more fair photos inside. | Mark Dionne/Town Times

Many civic groups, like church and school groups, athletic booster clubs, fire departments, Exchange and Elk organizations, and town political parties, run booths at the Durham Fair to raise funds. For some, Durham Fair sales represent a large percentage of their annual fundraising.

Many of these local-ly-based organizations face a decision when planning to run their fair booths: Stock up on food items and risk being stuck with potentially costly excess inventory or go short and risk selling out early and losing sales.

Outside of planning meet-ings, Sunday afternoon at the Durham Fair is the best time to witness the dilemma. After three days of sun-shine and a Thursday that

was not entirely a washout, many volunteers were cross-ing items off their menus or even shuttering their win-dows while others were scrambling to unload stock.

Durham Fair booths - sell out or stuck?By Mark DionneTown Times

Many Durham Fair booths, like the one run by the Middlefield Lions, removed items from their offerings as they sold out on Sunday afternoon.

| Mark Dionne/Town Times

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Fair weather, over the weekend of Sept. 26, brought in “record numbers” of peo-ple at the Durham Fair, where food, fun and festivities were found in abundance.

Though exact totals hadn’t been tabulated by Sunday af-ternoon, Debbie Huscher, the fair’s marketing coordinator, said she expected attendance figures to exceed those of re-cent years.

“Last year we had roughly 200,000 people, and this year I’d say we’re beyond that,”

she said.Huscher attributed favor-

able weather to the fair’s success. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were all unsea-sonably warm for late Sep-tember, and even rain on Thursday didn’t result in a total wash.

“We got less rain than we originally thought we would,” she said. “The Dem-olition Derby was Thursday night, and there were people lined up with their umbrellas to see it.”

As the 95th iteration of the fair wound to a close Sun-day, Huscher said attendance could be measured by what was left. “A lot of nonprofit vendors are running out of food, which just goes to show how many people were buy-ing it,” she said.

This year the fair offered something new to ven-dors and patrons alike — three new buildings on the grounds.

The three barn-style build-ings replaced two that were destroyed in heavy snowfall in recent years, and this year housed the President’s Hall, and youth and personal skills

Durham Fair attendance strong By Molly CallahanSpecial to Town Times

Thousands attended the 95th annual Durham Fair on Sunday, its last day. Attendance over the four-day event likely exceeded that of last year. | Photo by Molly Callahan

Peyden DuBuc, 2, of Durham, sits on an antique tractor outside the President’s Hall at the 95th annual Durham Fair Sunday, where thousands came out to partake in the festivities. | Photos by Molly Callahan for Town Times

Scarlett Marino, 3, from Higganum, takes a spin on one of the rides at the 95th annual Durham Fair Sunday, where thousands came out to partake in the festivities. See Attendance / Page 18

Durham Recreation has started its third successful year with a growing number of peo-ple playing and or learn-ing how to play bridge at the Durham-Middle-field community cen-ter every Friday at 6:15 p.m. Classes can adapt to any persons needs or concerns.

For more information, call Jim Martinelli at (860) 346-6611.

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DURHAM, Conn. (AP) — A motorist ac-cused of drunken driving and striking a pe-destrian near the Durham Fair is headed to court.

Police say Deborah Conradi of West Ha-ven struck Julia Rorke of Guilford as she was walking south on Route 17 Saturday night, Sept. 27, in Durham.

The 53-year-old Conradi is accused of leaving the scene. Other motorists forced

her to stop.Rorke is being treated for injuries at Hart-

ford Hospital.Conradi is charged with driving under the

influence, assault, evading responsibility, and failure to maintain a lane. She’s due in court Monday.

She was held in custody on $25,000 bond.It was not known, earlier this week at

press time, if she’s represented by a lawyer.

Motorist accused of hit-and-run at Durham FairThe Internal Revenue

Service and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Ad-ministration continue to hear from taxpayers who have re-ceived unsolicited calls from individuals demanding pay-ment while fraudulently claiming to be from the IRS.

According to the IRS, warn-ing signs that taxpayers should remember are that first con-tact from the IRS will not be a phone call, but through offi-cial correspondence through the mail and that these calls are from angry, threatening people who claim they are from the IRS and demand im-mediate payment.

The IRS will never ask for credit card, debit card or pre-paid card information over the phone; never insists that tax-payers use a specific payment method to pay tax obligations; never requests immediate payment over the phone and will not take enforcement ac-tion immediately following a phone conversion. Taxpayers usually receive prior notifica-tion of IRS enforcement ac-

tion involving IRS tax liens or levies. Other characteristics of the scam include: scam-mers use fake names and IRS badge numbers. They gener-ally use common names and surnames to identify them-selves; scammers may be able to recite the last four digits of a victim’s Social Security number; scammers may send bogus IRS email to victims to support the bogus calls; vic-tims may hear background noise of other calls to mimic a call site; after threatening victims with jail time or driv-er’s license revocation, scam-mers hang up and others will call back pretending to be from the local police or DMV. Caller ID supports the claim.

Taxpayers who receive scam calls should report the incident to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration at 1-800-366-4484 or the Federal Trade Commission, “FTC Com-plaint Assistant” at FTC.gov. Add “IRS Telephone Scam” to the comments of the complaint.

IRS phone scam rampant

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A life of art for CRHS student

Cory Hassmann’s passion came for him at the tender age of three. “Instead of draw-ing, like most kids at that age would,” said his mother, Les-lie Hassmann, “he was cutting construction paper and mak-ing free form collages. We saw right away that he has a gift, and we’ve nurtured it.”

“I was always drawing with Sharpies when I was growing up,” said the Coginchaug se-nior. “In kindergarten, during free time, there would be a line of kids waiting for me to draw dinosaurs for them.”

He’s taken all the art classes offered in high school, as well as art classes at the Hartford Art School (he took ceram-ics and drawing). This past

summer he took a six-week pre-college art course at the Rhode Island School of De-sign, where he focused on graphic design.

After school he works on a Shakespeare mural that he started in his freshman year. It’s four feet by 18 feet, and is in the hall outside an English class that is taught by a teacher who loves Shakespeare.

He took Independent Study at the high school last year, and is taking it again this year. Independent Study is only for juniors and seniors; must be approved by the guidance counselor, the teacher, and the principal; and is 84 min-utes every other day. He’s in a room by himself (he’s the only one currently tak-ing this), with the art teacher

nearby, focusing on his col-lege portfolio for admissions to art school after he gradu-ates; he’ll major in graphic design. He’s currently work-ing on the required admission drawings for RISD. And he’s working on entries for two contests that, if he wins, will award him a scholarship for an art school.

His interest in graphic design took root in the sixth grade, when he taught him-self how to photo shop. This led to an interest in creat-ing art on the computer, and to the visual communica-tion-expressing an idea using art-that graphic design en-tails. “He has such great com-puter skills,” Leslie said, “and he comes up with logos and ideas so easily. He did a logo for a nearby benefit.”

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Many fair-goers had a blast despite hot weather at this year’s fair.

For fair volunteers like Di-anna Dixey, the fair is almost relaxing after weeks of hard work and preparation. Dixey was in charge of exhibited container gardens and fairy gardens. These collections of live plants judged for the creativity with which they are assembled, the health of the plants, which should be pro-portionally balanced and not overgrown, and the contain-ers they are housed in. One exhibitor chose a tiny wheel-barrow, and another, a bear-shaped pot.

Fair volunteers at the Mid-dlefield Federated Church’s food booth came up with a jingle this year, with a refrain of “get your whoopie pies right here” and a slant rhyme on “pumpkin” and “Durham,” explained booth volunteer Tammy Bart, who wore a homemade whoopie pie cos-tume and sang the jingle.

CRHS student Rowan O’Connell volunteered at the Durham Lion’s Club booth as part of the Latin club. Rowan said her favorite part of the fair was having school off

and the way the fair brings “different towns together,” like other teens from Mid-dletown High School, Xavier, and Mercy.

For Jennifer Menillo of North Haven, the best part of the fair is the animals. Me-nillo comes to the fair every year. What keeps her com-ing back? “The old fashioned feeling of an old town fair.”

Durham Resident Zach Martowski said the best part of the fair for him is the food and the live music. As for Fair food, Martowsk, stand-ing in line for a Lime Rickey from the United Churches of Durham booth, said he likes “some of everything,” and that he prefers to patronize food booths run by local com-munity organizations.

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CalendarFriday, Oct. 3

Spay-ghetti dinner - Cat Tales, Inc. has scheduled a spaghetti dinner fundraiser for Friday, Oct. 3, 7 p.m., at the Fox Parish Center, 10 Elm St., Middletown. A fee is charged. Raffle and door prizes. Donations of cat food cans and paper towels earn more raffle tickets. For more information and tickets, email info@CatTalesCT.org.

Girls soccer - CRHS vs. North Branford at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 4Hazardous Waste Col-

lection - A household haz-

ardous waste collection is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 4, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Mid-dlesex Community College, 100 Training Hill Road, Mid-dletown. For more informa-tion, call (860) 581-8554 or visit www.rivercog.org.

Farmer’s Market - The Dudley Farm Farmer’s Mar-ket is scheduled every Satur-day through October, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 2351 Durham Road, North Guilford. Local and organic fruits and veg-etables, flowers and plants, baked goods, eggs, naturally raised meats, arts and crafts, maple syrup, jams and jellies, pickles and more. Subject to cancellation due to inclement

weather. For more informa-tion, call (860) 349-3917 or www.dudleyfarm.com.

Football - CRHS vs. Lewis Mills at CRHS, 1 p.m.

Hike - A hike in the Memo-rial Town Forest is sched-uled for Sunday, Oct. 5, 1 p.m. Eagle Scout Will San-ford is scheduled to lead the hikers. Meet an the Plainville Avenue entrance. Event is free and open to the public. All ages are welcome. No pets. For more information, call (860) 674-8545 or email farmingtonland.trust@snet.net.

Monday, Oct. 6Town meeting - The town

of Durham has scheduled its annual town meeting

for Monday, Oct. 6, 8 p.m., Coginchaug Regional High School auditorium.

Boys soccer - CRHS vs. Old Saybrook at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Girls volleyball - CRHS vs. East Hampton at CRHS, 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 7Girls soccer - CRHS vs.

Old Saybrook at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Cross country - CRHS at Old Saybrook, 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 8Girls soccer - CRHS vs.

Two Rivers Magnet at Shea Park, 3:45 p.m.

Girls volleyball - CRHS vs. Hyde Leadership at CRHS, 4 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 9Garden Club - The

Durham Garden Club has scheduled a “Cacti & Succu-lents for the Home Gardener” for Thursday, Oct. 9, 11:15 a.m., at the Durham Public Library. Matthew Opel, presi-dent of the Connecticut Cac-tus and Succulent Society, is scheduled to speak.

College admissions pro-gram - A college admis-sions program is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 9, 5 to 6 p.m., at the Levi E. Coe Li-brary. Brandon Wang has scheduled a presentation on insider tips on college admissions and standard-ized testing. For more infor-mation and to register, call (860) 349-3857.

Boys soccer - CRHS vs. Portland, away, 3:45 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 10Historical Society - The

Durham Historical Society monthly meeting is sched-uled for Friday, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m., at the Center School. All are welcome.

Football - CRHS vs. Mor-gan at Peters Complex, 6:30 p.m.

Girls soccer - CRHS vs. Portland, away, 3:45 p.m.

Girls volleyball - CRHS vs. North Branford at North Branford, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 11Historical Society - The

Durham Historical Society is scheduled to be open to the public, Sunday, Oct. 11, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Artist event - Colors of the Wind Artists’ Emporium & Consignments, 360 Main St., has scheduled a trunk show/meet the artist event for Sat-urday, Oct. 11, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Artisan Joy Balsamo is scheduled to be featured. For more information, call (860) 788-2514.

Cross country - CRHS at Wickham Invitational.

Girls volleyball - CRHS vs. Morgan at CRHS, 5:30 p.m.

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Sunday, Oct. 12Community supper - The

Church of the Epiphany, 196 Main St., has scheduled a free community supper for Sunday, Oct. 12, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. All are welcome. For more information, call (860) 349-9644 or email office@epiphanydurham.org.

Tuesday, Oct. 14Coginchaug Little

League - Coginchaug Lit-tle League has scheduled its annual election meeting for Tuesday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m., at Durham Town Hall. All board positions are up for re-election. New mem-bers are welcome. For more information, visit www.cogin-chaugll.org or email Tom Wenchell at twenchell@com-cast.net.

Boys soccer - CRHS vs. Morgan at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

Girls soccer - CRHS vs. Morgan at CRHS, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 15Girls volleyball - CRHS

vs. Cromwell at CRHS, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 16Blood drive - The Amer-

ican Red Cross has sched-

uled a blood drive for Thursday, Oct. 16, 1 to 6 p.m., at the Middlefield Fed-erated Church, 402 Main St. For more information and to schedule an appointment, call 1-800-RED CROSS.

Boys soccer - CRHS vs. Valley Regional at Valley Re-gional, 3:45 p.m.

Cross country - CRHS at Old Saybrook, 2:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 17Girls soccer - CRHS vs.

Valley Regional at Valley Re-gional, 3:45 p.m.

Girls volleyball - CRHS vs. Haddam-Killingworth at Haddam-Killingworth, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 18Chili cook-off - Church of

the Epiphany, 196 Main St., has scheduled a chili cook-off contest for Saturday, Oct. 18, 5 to 8 p.m. No entry fee. The public welcome to sam-ple the chili (for a fee). For more information, call (860) 349-6533.

Create a meadow - Land-scape designer Kathy Con-nolly is scheduled to present “Meadows Large and Small” for Saturday, Oct. 18, 10 a.m. to noon at the Connecticut Forest & Park Assoc., 16 Meriden Rd, Rockfall. A fee is charged. Space is limited.

Early registration is recom-mended. For more informa-tion, visit www.ctwoodlands.org/MeadowSeminar.

Football - CRHS vs. En-field at CRHS, 1 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 19Concert - New England

Chamber Choir has sched-uled its “High Notes and High Tea” concert for Sun-day, Oct. 19, 4 p.m., at Mid-dlefield Federated Church, 402 Main St. The program features the music of Carl Maria von Weber, including selections from Der Freis-chutz and Sonata No 4 in E minor, Opus 70 on piano. Donations to the choir are accepted. For more informa-tion, call (860) 349-9881.

Monday, Oct. 20Boys soccer - CRHS vs.

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Girls volleyball - CRHS vs. Old Lyme at CRHS, 5:30 p.m.

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Visitors to the 95th annual Durham Fair enjoyed mostly good weather, and enormous quantities of food, exhibits, activities and performances. Here’s a photo gallery of some of the sights from Sept. 25 - 28.

DURHAM FAIR 2014 PHOTO GALLERY

Five year old Aiyana Donecker of Durham found herself a good seat on Saturday to watch the Durham Fair talent show. Mark Dionne/ Town Times

The Kerry Brothers band play the green stage on the Town Green. Mark Dionne/Town Times

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The CRHS Show Choir performed a set of hippie standards for audiences from Center Stage. Garrett D’Amato danced to the front of the line to take a solo. | Mark Dionne/Town Times

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Durham(Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings are held at the Durham Library. Check the town website at www.townofdurhamct.org for updates.)

Monday, Oct. 6Board of Selectmen, CRHS, 7 p.m.Fire Department Trustees, Durham Firehouse, 7 p.m.Annual Town Meeting, CRHS, 8 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 7Town Green Tree Design commit-tee, library, 5 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 8Board of Education, John Lyman Elementary School, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 9Zoning Board of Appeals, Town Hall, 7:30 p.m.

MiddlefieldWednesday, Oct. 1WPCA, 7 p.m.Monday, Oct. 6Board of Selectmen, Middlefield Community Center, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 8Board of Education, John Lyman Elementary School, 7:30 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 16Board of Finance, 7 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 21Board of Selectmen, Middlefield Community Center, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 22Board of Education, Strong School, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, Oct. 28Zoning Board of Appeals, 7 p.m.

In a bright blue sky above the midway, Simon Cordes worked on his front and back flips. | Mark Dionne/Town Times

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Opinion

Alex Taubes for 101st To the editor:Alex Taubes is running for

state representative for the 101st District that includes most Durham and all of Madison.

Alex grew up in Madison. He attended Boston Univer-sity and Yale Law School and worked in Washington, D.C. as a judge’s assistant.

We are so lucky to have such a qualified and enthusi-astic candidate. He has been going door-to-door to get a real feel for the district.Alex worked at Durham Democrats booth and met with residents, while at the fair.

While he understands he can’t accomplish everything, he wants a chance to help the towns he will represent.

Betty LongDurham

Qualified supportTo the editor:Our neighbors and we

heartily support clean energy and solar power.

However, when the Town of Durham applies for a grant that will plunk a nearly three acre solar array encircled by a wood-covered chain link fence without giving the townspeo-ple or neighboring families any chance for input or discus-sion, we have to qualify that support.

We have to qualify that support when the Town of Durham, without giving the townspeople or neighboring families any chance for input or discussion, decides to:

—Destroy a lovely forest and stream across the street from numerous homes and put in its place a facility that will look like the back lot at Home Depot.

— Threaten our environ-ment and property values.

— Plans to rip out an im-portant greenspace that serves as a buffer from its commercial district.

Clean energy? Solar energy? Of course.

Yet i t s implementa-tion should not be without town-wide notification and

discussion in advance. Its im-plementation should not be rammed down the throats of citizens by any government. Its implementation should not include the destruction of the natural character of any neigh-borhood, yours or ours.

Brad and Mary Wilkinson

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Skip the vaccineTo the editor:Winter approaches and

with it the annual recommen-dations for flu vaccine.

Here’s a better idea: don’t get the vaccine. Don’t get any vaccines.

The flu vaccine, even by the CDC’s (Center for Disease Control) own admission, has only a 7 percent protection rate.

Neurotoxic side effects alone include paralysis (stroke, Bell’s palsy, Guillain-Barre syndrome), seizures, autism

spectrum disorders and learn-ing disabilities.

A small but increasingly vo-cal group of physicians (The International Medical Coun-cil on Vaccination, www.vac-cinationcouncil.org) recognize that vaccine “adjuvants”—oils, mercury, aluminum, embalm-ing fluid, antifreeze—cre-ate systemic and neurologic inflammation.

DNA from other species increase allergies. Viral con-taminants increase respiratory and other illnesses. Multiple antigens confuse the immune system and set the stage for autoimmune disease.

Flu is best prevented by iso-lation, homeopathy, vitamins C and D3, an organic diet, and attitude (placebo effect).

Sue McIntosh M.D.Durham

Concussion lawTo the editor: Two mothers and myself

from Connecticut had the pleasure of first meeting state Sen. Bartolomeo almost two years ago.

We have sons who have had life changing concussions and we were interested in updat-ing Connecticut’s outdated youth concussion law passed in 2009.

As co-chair of the Children’s Committee, Sen. Bartolomeo agreed to champion this im-portant legislation.

By educating other leg-

islators on the issues, Sen. Bartolomeo was able to gain consensus among Repub-licans and Democrats, the House of Representatives and the Senate.

This legislation passed in May with unanimous support. Sen. Bartolomeo worked with integrity, commitment and tenacity.

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The Department of Motor Vehicles has announced the 7th annual Department of Motor Vehicles and Travelers teen safe driving video contest.

“Steer Your Friends in the Right Direction,” is open to all Connecticut public and private high school students, including home schooled. The 25-second videos must illustrate two or more of the state’s teen driving laws. Deadline for submitting a video is Jan. 14, with winners announced in April.

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Cat Tales, a nonprofit rescue, is seeking foster care volunteers to pro-vide temporary housing for cats and kittens. Vol-unteers will prepare the cats for adoption and pre-vent overcrowding in the shelter. Cat Tales will pro-vide food, supplies, and medications, and all vet care. Volunteers will be responsible for daily feed-ing, play and attention, ad-ministering medications, following special dietary plans, handling the cat into and out of a carrier, and transporting cats to veterinary appointments. For more information, call (860) 344-9043 or info@CatTalesCT.org.

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Two local cows were given top marks at this year’s fair to the delight of their own-ers and the notice of the governor.

Melynda Naples of Deer-field Farm was seen shak-ing hands with Gov. Dannel Malloy, who congratulated her on raising the winning the Grand Champion Jersey heifer. Deerfield Farm, Na-ples explained, specializes in the Jersey breed. The breed produces the most milk per pound of feed, and their milk has higher butterfat, more protein, and more calcium – all good things, Naples said.

Naples said the win felt “Wonderful. It’s great.”

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Amazing Grace, a brown Swiss heifer, brought the Open Show Breed Champion Award home to the Green-backer Farm. According to Melissa Greenbacker, judges look at a variety of criteria when judging cows. The larg-est factor is udder shape and quality, worth 40 percent of the final score, but judges also look at hooves, legs, height, strength, and how repre-sentative the cow is of their breed. The Greenbacker farm raises a large number of cows of many breeds, so they typi-cally win one or two catego-ries every year.

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Support group helps those with gluten issues

Learning to live without gluten can be challenging, but a small group in Berlin is there to help.

The Central Connecticut Celiac Support Group holds regular meetings at the Com-munity Center in Berlin to help families following a di-agnosis of celiac disease or other conditions that result in an inability to digest wheat, rye, and barley without pain-ful and often embarrassing digestive distress. The group draws attendees from across the central Connecticut area.

“Usually they are fresh off a diagnosis,” said Car-milla Kimmell, the group’s founder,.

The group began in South-ington but moved to Berlin

because it had difficulty find-ing a meeting space. Kim-mell, a nurse, said she started the group “because I had to be on a gluten free diet” af-ter she was diagnosed with a non-celiac digestive problem. There are several conditions that require a person to go gluten-free, and although the approaches vary, individuals with celiac disease, wheat allergy, and non-celiac glu-ten sensitivity all must avoid wheat. For some who have trouble digesting wheat, the exact nature of the disease is not well understood, but for individuals diagnosed with celiac disease, gluten is the culprit. Gluten is a protein contained in wheat, rye, and barley that is present in all wheat products, so avoiding gluten means avoiding wheat entirely.

Gluten is found in most bread products and pasta, but it is also known to hide in sur-prising places. The protein is useful both in baking and as a binder and can be found in candies, some processed meats, spreads, sauces, and most beers. Those who are forced to live gluten-free must become used to scrupu-lously searching food labels.

Celiac disease is an au-to-immune disorder wherein the body attacks its own di-gestive system, and often correlates with other au-to-immune disorders, Kim-mell explained to a mother and daughter who attended the workshop in response to the daughter’s diagnosis. Kimmell said that thanks to the group, she has access to experts in the field and the latest research. For example,

Kimmel said that some glu-ten intolerant people feel a “brain fog” while eating glu-ten as a result of auto-im-mune complications.

“I have been (going glu-ten-free) and I do feel more awake,” one attendee said.

A life without wheat may be daunting, but many lo-cal restaurants have re-sponded to the challenge to offer gluten-free options and the diagnosed need not feel permanently deprived. At-tendees of the group agreed, however, that living without wheat can be expensive, as most gluten free versions of products are more costly.

Kimmel said that she re-cently treated herself to a gluten-free calamari from Elizabeth’s in Rocky Hill for her birthday. De Puma’s in North Haven, which Kim-

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For those with celiac dis-ease in particular, it is im-portant to find a trusted gluten-free kitchen. It is vital that cooking vessels are com-pletely isolated, as even tiny traces of gluten can cause unpleasant symptoms for ce-liacs. Group attendees have been able to share stories about which restaurants meet the strict requirements those with celiac disease require.

The support group meets regularly in the Berlin Com-munity Center. For more in-formation call Carm at (860) 426-1980 or Nancy at (203) 634-0530.

By Charles KreutzkampTown Times

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Notre Dame Church, 280 Main St., has scheduled its monthly flea market and tag sale for the first Saturday of each month, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., through Oct. 4. The tag sale is located in the church hall, rectory garage, parking lot and lawn, rain or shine. Breakfast and lunch will be available. Vendor space is available for pur-chase. For more informa-tion, call Bob Smith at (860) 349-0356.

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The Church of the Epiph-any, 196 Main St., has scheduled Blessing of the Animals for Sunday, Oct. 5, 1 p.m., in the church park-ing lot.

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Screenings are sched-uled for Friday, Oct. 17 at 9 and 11 a.m. in the pre-school room at Brewster Elementary School. All district four-year-olds and children turning three by Aug. 30, 2015 are invited to attend.

Parental permission and involvement are requirements in the screening. However, it is important for children to separate from their par-ents during the screen-ing so that the team can get an accurate assess-ment. Parents will com-plete a questionnaire prior to the screening and have the opportunity to discuss any questions or concerns about their children with the school psychologist during the screening.

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Local attorney Jo-seph E. Fournier, Esq. will host an estate plan-ning educational semi-nar Wednesday, Oct. 15, 6 p.m., at the Middlesex YMCA, 99 Union St., Middletown.

This estate planning overview will cover some basic and essential topics for you and your family to consider.

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STORY TIME AT THE CHILDREN’S CENTERThe preschool and pre-kindergarten students at Middlefield Children’s Center were recently visited from Victoria Berry of Levi Coe Library.

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Levi E. Coe Library

Library hours: Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; closed Fridays.

College Admissions Ex-plained - Thursday, Oct. 9, 5 to 6 p.m., at the Levi E. Coe Library. Brandon Wang, a recent graduate of Yale

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Pumpkin Pizzazz - Sat-urday, Oct. 11, 11 a.m. Sup-plies included.

Henna program - Thurs-day, Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m. For teens (13 and older) and adults. Registration is re-

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Passes, ZinioLevi E. Coe Library has

museum passes. Multiple state parks and forests are available.

Zinio - The Levi E. Coe Library subscribes to Zinio. Patrons may access over a dozen different magazines online.

Durham Public Library

Library hours: Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The library is scheduled to close Thursday, Sept. 25 for the Durham Fair and will reopen Monday, Sept. 29 at 10 a.m.

Programs for Children

Weekly drop-in programs for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Visit www.durhamlibrary.org/kids/programs for a scheduled of events.

Scratch Programming (8 to 11 years). Thursdays, Oct. 2, 9, 16 at 6:30 p.m. Learn computer programming using the free Scratch pro-gramming language. Each week builds on the previ-ous week. Registration is required.

Kids in the Kitchen (8 to 11 years). Wednesdays, Oct. 15 and 22, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Regis-tration required. Register for one session only.

Saturday, Science Club (8 to 11 years). Saturday, Oat. 18, 2 p.m. Hands-n program. Reg-istration is required.

Programs for young adults

Super Smash Bros. Brawl League (ages 12 to 18). Every Thursday, 4 to 5 p.m. Drop in.

Teen LEGO Club (ages 12 to 18). Tuesday, Oct. 7, 7 p.m. Compete on a different theme each month.

Teen Knitting Club (ages 10 to 18). Wednesday, Oct. 8, 5:30 p.m. Needles and yarn available for new knitters. Drop-in.

Programs for adults

Book Lover’s Circle - Wednesday, Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m. “The News from Spain” by Joan Wickersham. All are welcome.

Movie Matinees - Thurs-days at 1:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Oct. 9 - “August: Osage County.”

Oct. 16 - “Rush.”Origami workshop - Sat-

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day, Oct. 14. Two sessions 33:30 to 5 p.m. or 6:30 to 8 p.m. Workshop is designed for adults with little or no computer experience. For more information and to register, (860) 349-9544, ext. 1.

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The Durham Garden Club is accepting orders for holiday wreaths. The wreaths, avail-able in 12 inch and 30 inch, will be available for Dec. 6 deliv-ery. Proceeds benefit the club’s many projects. Order deadline is Oct. 31. For more information, call Flo Flynn at (860) 349-0504.

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Booths

Sylvia Fazzino, a volunteer at the Notre Dame booth, said, “We’re doing very well. I think everyone is.”

Late on Sunday, Fazzino said they were running low but not out. “We go with what we think we’re going to need. If we run out, we’re supposed to run out.”

At the Middlefield Republi-cans booth, Middlefield First Selectman Jon Brayshaw said, “You never know how much to buy. It can be too much or too little.”

Brayshaw said that the Middlefield Republicans booth was down to its last tank of lime rickeys, which had never happened before. “We’ve sold a lot of lime rick-eys,” said Brayshaw. “I’m tired of hearing the name.”

Last year’s Durham Fair, the

first in years to have four days of beautiful weather, caused more sell outs and re-stock-ing runs than this year. The crowds at this year’s fair were still enough to empty some booths and cause others to scramble to restock.

According to the Middle-field Lions volunteer and for-mer president Bob Laptik at 4:15 p.m., the booth was “com-pletely” sold out. Volunteers shuttered the booth and be-gan cleaning up. According to Laptik, the Lions special or-der their sausage and can not quickly restock.

Brayshaw noted that all the groups needed a good product to compete for fair dollars. “But what’s a good product on a hot day is not the same as a good product on a cold day,” Brayshaw said.

The Middlefield Volun-teer Fire Company sold one

of those weather-influenced items. “It was a little too warm for the chowder,” said Fire Chief Peter Tyc. “Once the sun went down, we did well.” Tyc said the booth was close to a sell out but not quite on Sunday afternoon.

Cheryl Pizzo, Vice Chair of the Middlefield Demo-crats booth, said, “We were surprised because it’s hot, but people ate our potatoes.” The booth still had stock late Sunday but had run out of bacon and water. “We’re ek-ing through on butter,” Pizzo said.

The other side of the stock up or run out question could be seen in the sales. Sunday afternoon at the Durham Fair was the place to be for a good deal on hamburger buns, chocolate covered bacon, whoopie pies, french fries, and hot dogs. CRHS students ran across the fairgrounds selling bargain cookies that had not sold over the counter.

“It’s time to move the stuff out,” said Sue Cummings at the Durham’s Women’s Club booth, featuring discounted chili.

Several volunteers at dif-ferent organizations privately grumbled that the large crowds had less of an im-pact than in the past because they were divided among a larger number of vendors, both commercial and non-profit, many of them selling the same products. The num-ber of similar booths, sev-eral volunteers said, made it harder to plan and harder to increase their fund raising expectations.

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Attendance

displays.Standing outside of the

youth building, Justin Darrow and his son Cole, 6, Middle-town residents, were waiting for some family members.

“It’s been a great day so far,” Darrow said, adding that he didn’t feel too tightly packed in the crowd. Cole, with a shark painted around his right eye, said that he was looking forward to seeing the tractor pull.

Just inside the youth build-ing, sisters Pat Sullivan, of New York, and Sue McKenna, of Southbury, were admiring some blue-ribbon painted rocks — some designed by artists as young as 8 years old.

“They’re just so cute,” Sul-livan said, noting one in par-ticular that was painted to

look like a caterpillar. She added that it was McKenna who thought to check out the fair Sunday, a first time for both of them.

“Our husbands are watch-ing football all day, and we decided we didn’t want to do that,” McKenna said.

Outside, in the opposite di-rection, Lauren Wilson was taking a break from work-ing at the tent of Middle-town-based Z Face and Body Art, where she offered face painting for children.

“This is the best job in the world,” she said .”We’re bringing art to the fair.”

Wilson said that tigers in particular had been a popu-lar choice among children.

“Plus,” she said, “I’ve been coming to this fair since I was knee-high to a grasshop-per, so to be working here now is really cool.”

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Art

screen printing. He taught himself web designing, and has his own web page (www.doubtlimited.com) where people can buy tee shirts, sweatshirts, and hats from his online store.

“That somebody can do something so well-we’re in awe,” Leslie said. “What else could we do but promote his creativity and artistic skills? He lives and breathes art. I don’t think he could be happy doing anything but art.”

“I second that,” Cory said.

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Politicians

hello or thanks, sometimes specifying “Thanks for what you do,” or “Thanks for com-ing to the fair.” A few asked the senator about being on the short list to replace de-parting Attorney General Eric Holder, but most avoided specific politics.

“You looking for votes,” asked Durham volunteer fire fighter Jim Libby when in-troduced to Blumenthal by McLaughlin.

The former Connecticut attorney general, who is not up for re-election in 2014, re-plied, “Not this time.”

Blumenthal delayed lon-gest at the booth of the Durham Democrats. More fairgoers recognized him, perhaps because of the con-text, and more took pictures. Volunteers from neighboring booths even left their stations to meet the Senator.

Like McLaughlin, Mid-dlefield First Selectman Jon Brayshaw said that people are happy to see visiting politicians.

The Durham Fair Associ-ation does not endorse poli-ticians. The DFA put photos up on their Facebook page of both Malloy and Tom Fo-ley posing with Marigold the cow mascot. The post-ing, like a similar one on the Town Times’ Facebook page, drew some easy jokes as well as some criticism. One com-menter on the DFA’s page, ap-parently missing the picture of Foley, wrote, “That picture, and the ‘No firearms’ [rule] thus depriving me of my con-stitutional right to defend myself are why my money will not be there this year.”

Brayshaw explained that politicians have to follow Durham Fair Association rules that don’t allow politi-cians to hand out parapherna-lia or invade personal space. “They’ll take the governor and throw him out if he does that,” Brayshaw said.

The booths of the town political parties also follow rules regarding campaigning and keep election signs and candidate pamphlets on the interior of their buildings.

Minus the signs, the po-litical party booths do not engage in much politicking. Although not written among

their offerings, the Middle-field Democrats have a polit-ical joke on the menu. “One of our best sellers is a potato we call the George Bush; it’s got everything but broccoli,” said town party Chair Alli-son Dodge. “People come back and ask for it. It’s catch-ing on.”

The political party booths are obvious stops for the pol-iticians. “They just hang out and chit chat,” said a volun-teer at the Middlefield Re-publicans booth.

“We’ve had a lot of great visitors,” Dodge said. “Rosa bought a potato.”

DeLauro completed a tour

of the fair, complete with a visit to the lower grounds and the craft tent, while wearing high heels.

A political visit can range from quick to comprehen-sive. It would have made fis-cal sense for candidate Brown to buy a four day pass.

According to his website, Brown was scheduled to be at the Middlefield Republi-cans booth from 2 - 5 p.m. on Friday and the Durham Re-publicans booth from 12 - 4 p.m. on Saturday, while also attending the Tower of Power concert and making an unof-ficial appearance at the Red-neck Arena.

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