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Maria Horn meets Mark Hirko,
offers update on state session
By Cynthia Hochswender
AMENIA — After a long and
fully caffeinated day in Hartford
at the General Assembly, an ener-
getic state Rep. Maria Horn (D-
64) swung by Monte’s restaurant
in Amenia on Thursday, Feb. 13,
to meet the new head of Sharon
Hospital, Dr. Mark Hirko.
Parent company Nuvance had
scheduled the evening reception
to give community members in
New York and Connecticut a
chance to meet the new hospital
president, who was appointed to
the position in December.
Hirko seemed at ease as he
made his way through a large
crowd of community leaders that
included everyone from medical
professionals such as Dr. Randall
Dwenger, Dr. Jared Zelman and
Sawyer Thornton (the new head
of Sharon Health Care Center) to
town officials such as Jean Speck,
the new first selectman in Kent,
and Karen Dignacco, from the
Sharon finance board, and Bill
Willis from the Salisbury finance
board (and accompanying his
Falls Village weighs selling its
water company to Aquarion
By Cynthia Hochswender
FALLS VILLAGE — Falls
Village taxpayers will decide on
Thursday, Feb. 20, whether they
should sell the town-owned
water system to Aquarion, the
state’s largest privately held water
utility.
The possibility of the sale
was presented at a well-attended
town meeting last November.
First Selectman Henry Todd
explained at the meeting that
the town-owned water system
serves 124 customers. There were
four main reasons he gave for
the decision to talk to Aquarion.
One is that state regulations
are becoming more complex, and
it has become challenging for
Meetings to come on future
of St. Martin of Tours parish
By Leila Hawken
NORTH CANAAN — In
the light of continued sensitivity
about the 2018 reorganization of
local Catholic parish churches,
a recent rumor circulated that
further changes might be afoot,
including further mergers, clos-
ings or sales of church buildings.
Asked for clarification in a
phone call on Monday, Feb. 10,
the Rev. M. David Dawson of St.
Martin of Tours parish said that
he has no idea what the future
might bring. There are no current
plans or even proposals under
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After a full day (and week) of budget presentations in Hart-
ford, state Rep. Maria Horn (D-64) stopped at Monte’s in
Amenia on Thursday, Feb. 13, to meet Sharon Hospital’s new
president, Dr. Mark Hirko.
wife, former state Rep. Roberta
Willis).
Richard Cantele, president
and CEO of Salisbury Bank
and Trust as well as the Sharon
Hospital Board chairman, intro-
the water company volunteers
to keep up.
The second is that the Falls
Village customers pay much
higher rates for their water than
do water users in other areas.
Over time, under Aquarion man-
agement, the rates are expected
to decrease.
The third reason is that
the town doesn’t have enough
reserve capacity and to make
upgrades would require a 7 to
10% rate increase.
Fourth, if anyone were to get
sick or die from the town-pro-
vided water, the plaintiffs in a
lawsuit “could end up owning
this town.”
Aquarion largest in state
Mike Crawford is the project
The St. Martin parish includes
St. Mary in Lakeville, St. Joseph
in North Canaan and Immaculate
Conception in Norfolk. There are
rumors that either St. Mary or
St. Joseph will be closed and the
property sold.
Diocesan administrators are
expected to hold meetings with
local parishes, as is customary, and
during those meetings the status
of each parish will be measured.
While he had no informa-
tion on the timeline or possible
outcome of those meetings, Rev.
Dawson pointed out the three
area churches have 11 buildings
and a declining population to
support them.
Dawson came to St. Martin of
Tours in 2018, replacing The Rev.
Ian Highet. His former parish
had been in Collinsville, Conn.
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duced Hirko.
The new president spoke of
his commitment to strength-
ening the hospital and, perhaps
See HORN, Page A7
engineer from Aquarion who
would be in charge of the Falls
Village water company, if voters
agree to the sale.
Crawford took part in a phone
interview earlier this month with
The Lakeville Journal. Also in
the conversation were Aquarion
President Don Morrissey and
John Herlihy, who is director of
Water Quality and Environment.
Morrissey gave an overview
of water companies in the state,
noting that in Connecticut about
43 percent of the water utilities
are privately owned. Aquarion
(which is owned by power com-
pany Eversource) is the largest
in the state, and also serves
See WATER, Page A7
A defense of
the wolves
By Patrick L. Sullivan
FALLS VILLAGE — Nat-
uralist Susan Morse told a
packed house at Housatonic
Valley Regional High School
that wild animals need wild
habitat. She urged people to
get involved with local land
conservation groups.
Morse made these re-
marks at the end of her pre-
sentation on wolves, coyotes
and foxes on Friday, Feb. 14.
She entertained the audi-
ence with her own wolf calls
and coyote yips, a skill she has
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Kelly Pfaefflin read “Wake Up, Color Pup” by Taia Morley to the pre-kindergarten class
at North Canaan Elementary School. See more photos on town pages.
Tell me a story
By Cynthia Hochswender
Reading a book is about more than absorbing
words on a page. Books tell stories, stories help
us understand who we are, as individuals and
societies and a world. Literacy still matters, even
in an age when many people get their stories
through audio formats or on electronic screens.
The national Read Aloud Day activities
celebrate not just the importance of learning to
read words on a page; they teach the importance
of sharing stories.
Volunteers in five of the six Region One
School District towns came to their towns’
elementary schools on Wednesday morning,
Feb. 12, to read stories aloud. Kent Center
School will hold its own Read Aloud event on
Friday, March 6.
ABC group delays decision on
regional middle school sports plan
By Patrick L. Sullivan
FALLS VILLAGE — The All
Boards Chair (ABC) committee
of the Region One Board of Ed-
ucation held a special meeting
on Thursday, Feb. 13, to discuss
the regional middle school sports
proposal that was rejected last
month by the Region One School
District board.
The regional board is made
up of representatives from the
six towns of Salisbury, Sharon,
Cornwall, Kent, Canaan/Falls
Village and North Canaan plus
one regional representative.
The All Boards Chair Com-
Trash disposal is in a state of crisis
By Patrick L. Sullivan
GOSHEN — Speaking to
the Northwest Hills Council
of Governments on Thursday,
Feb. 13, Thomas Kirk, president
of the Materials Recycling and
Innovation Authority (MIRA),
said that MIRA’s waste-to-energy
plant in Hartford is in “horrible
condition.”
“We should be at 93%” of
capacity, he added. “We’re in the
mid-70s at best.”
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The Northwest Corner Read Aloud Day has
been sponsored for 29 years by the Northwest
Connecticut Chamber of Commerce, which
works with area library and reading special-
ists to choose books that will be read aloud to
students at area elementary schools. The books
are purchased with money from the chamber’s
Draper Fund.
Each school finds volunteer readers from
the community. Some are parents, some work
at businesses in town, some are school board
members. This year for the first time, the
chamber partnered with Y Literacy Volunteers.
This year, the chamber supported Read
Aloud Day in 28 schools, in Barkhamsted,
Colebrook, Cornwall, Falls Village, Goshen,
See READ ALOUD, Page A7
mittee is made up of the chair- One budget; that proposal was
men of the seven regional boards defeated.)
of education (including Region As expected, the representa-
One). tives of four towns — Salisbury,
The only action taken during Sharon, Cornwall and North
the meeting was a formal with- Canaan — raised their hands.
drawal of the middle school Pat Mechare, who is chairman
sports recommendation. of both the Falls Village Board of
The ABC chairman, David
Valcin of Salisbury, asked for a
Education and the Region One
board, said she wanted to make
show of hands on which of the sure whatever decision was made
towns was interested in estab- was done properly. She said she
lishing a regional middle school
sports plan, and paying for it
didn’t think the sports discussion
had anything to do with the
with their own town education ABC committee in light of the
budgets. (The original proposal committee’s recommendation
made to the regional board
put the program in the Region See SPORTS, Page A7
As it stands, “we are now
first selectmen contemplating
unsustainable in the long term.”
the proposal is that $145 per ton
The plant needs $330 million
is unacceptable.
to get up to speed. MIRA has sent
Falls Village First Selectman
a request to the 51 municipalities
Henry Todd, for example, whose
that are currently under contract
board authorized him to sign the
through 2027 to sign a non-bind-
letter last week, noted on the let-
ing letter of interest in continuing
ter that $145/ton was too much,
with MIRA, post-construction,
but $95/ton was acceptable.
for a 30-year period.
Kirk said the good news of
The catch is that the tipping
the proposal is that MIRA can
fee in the letter is $145 per ton,
guarantee operations to stay at
which is a significant increase.
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Police Blotter: Troop B
The following information was
provided by the Connecticut State
Police at Troop B. All suspects are
considered innocent until proven
guilty in a court of law.
Assault
On Feb. 7 at approximately
10:30 a.m. Marquise Williams,
32, of Salisbury was charged
with breach of peace in the sec-
ond degree and assault in the
third degree based on a warrant
stemming from an incident that
occurred in the area of Veterans
Field in Sharon. He was sched-
uled to appear in Torrington
Superior Court on Feb. 10.
Traveling too fast
On Feb. 7 at approximately
2:30 p.m. on Main Street in Salis-
bury a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado
driven by Haunna Marie Sniffen,
21, of Millerton lost control
and struck an Eversource utility
pole. No injuries were report-
ed. Sniffen was given a verbal
warning for traveling too fast
for the conditions and failure to
maintain the lane.
Failure to maintain lane
On Feb. 8 at approximately
9:30 a.m. on Taconic Road in
Salisbury a 2012 Audi Q5 driven
by Abby Ecker, 29, of Lakeville
lost control and slid into the met-
al beam guardrails on the road.
Ecker refused medical treatment.
She was issued a written warning
for failure to maintain the lane.
Failure to maintain lane
On Feb. 8 at approximately
10:30 a.m. on Sand Road in
Falls Village a 2008 Chevrolet
Silverado driven by Donald
Cahill, 16, of North Canaan lost
control on the wet roadway and
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skidded into the front yard of
84 Sand Road, striking a sign, a
fence and some trees. No injuries
were reported. Cahill was issued
a written warning for failure to
maintain the lane.
Assault
On Feb. 10 at approximately
12:30 a.m. Troop B responded to
a report of a domestic incident
at a residence on Miner Road
in Falls Village. Deanna Rich-
ardson, 35, of Falls Village was
charged with disorderly conduct
and assault in the third degree.
She was scheduled to appear in
Torrington Superior Court on
Feb. 10.
Traveling too fast
On Feb. 7 at approximately
4:40 p.m. on Route 126 in Falls
Village a 2004 Volvo Xc70 driven
by Hunter Thomas Riley, 21, of
Falls Village ran off the roadway
and struck a tree. The passenger,
Lucas McMillan, 15, of Cornwall,
reported suspected minor inju-
ries. Riley was issued a verbal
warning for traveling too fast for
the condition.
The Lakeville Journal will
publish the outcome of police
charges. Contact us by mail at P.O.
Box 1688, Lakeville, CT 06039,
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The 2020 Girl Scout cookies
are here, with sales beginning
this month. For more than 100
years, the Girl Scouts have been
learning and polishing their
entrepreneurial skills by selling
cookies in their communities.
The money is used to fund
adventure programs, science
projects and community en-
hancements.
The Girl Scout cookie sale is
the largest business in the coun-
try that is run entirely by girls
and women, according to the
Girl Scout website, with annual
revenues of over $800 million.
This spring the Girl Scouts are
adding a lemon-flavored choice
to the traditional favorites such
as Thin Mints, Do-Si-Does and
Student recital will be on Feb. 23
SALISBURY — The 39th
annual Open Student Recital is
on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 3 p.m. at
the Salisbury Congregational
Church Meeting House.
The recital, sponsored by the
Special Music Fund of the Salis-
bury Congregational Church,
is free and open to the public.
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Shortbread Trefoils. The new
cookies (called Lemonades) are
shortbread topped with lemon
icing.
Over the years the Girl Scout
bakeries have consolidated across
the country, from dozens to
today’s two sources. If you feel
your cookies are slightly different
from the ones you recall from
years gone by, or from ones you
ate in other regions of the U.S.,
it’s possible you’re eating cookies
baked by different vendors. Both
New York state and Connecticut
get their cookies from ABC Bak-
ers in Virginia.
The sale usually lasts between
six to eight weeks, roughly
through early April.
Locally there will be tables of
Girl Scout entrepreneurs at the
Davis IGA in Kent on March
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Correction
An article in the Feb. 13
Lakeville Journal said that the
Rotary Club has distributed
Deterra bags to the pharmacies
in Kent and Sharon. The two
pharmacies are in Salisbury and
Sharon, not Kent.
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CANAAN FIRE DISTRICT
WARNING
All persons eligible to vote
in meetings of the Canaan Fire
District are hereby warned that
the Annual Meeting of the said
District will be held at the North
Canaan Town Hall on Tuesday,
March 3rd, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.
to consider and act upon the
following items:
1. To name the legal
depositories for the funds of
the Canaan Fire District for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, 2020
and ending June 30, 2021.
2. To name an auditor
to inspect the accounts of the
Canaan Fire District for such
fiscal year.
3. To elect three members
of the Executive Committee to
serve for three-year terms.
4. To transact any other
business proper to come before
such meeting.
Dated at North Canaan,
Connecticut this 20th day of
February, 2020.
Anthony J. Nania
Warden
02-20-20
INVITATION TO BID
The Cornwall Board of
Education located in West
Cornwall, CT invites bids on
lawn services at Cornwall
Consolidated School.
Signed and sealed bids
will be received at the Main
Office, 5 Cream Hill Road,
West Cornwall, CT 06796. All
bids must be submitted in a
sealed envelope bearing the full
name and address of the bidder,
plainly marked INVITATION
TO BID — LAWN SERVICES
- CCS. Bids must be submitted
prior to 9:00 A.M., Thursday,
March 12, 2020 at which time
bids received will be opened
publicly and read aloud. Bid
terms & conditions and the
“Official Bid Form” may be
obtained on request from the
Main Office — Phone (860)
672-6617. The Cornwall Board
of Education reserves the full
and unqualified right to award
the bid, waive any and all bid
conditions or formalities, award
the bid to other than the lowest
bidder, award the bid to other
than the bidders, reject any and
all bids received, or divide the
award, should they deem any of
the foregoing to be in the best
interest of the school district.
March 1.
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Dated at West Cornwall, CT,
this fifth day of February, 2020.
02-20-20
INVITATION TO BID
The Cornwall Board of
Education located in West
Cornwall, CT invites bids for
snow removal and sanding for
the school years 2020-2021,
2021-2022, and 2022-2023 for
the Cornwall Consolidated
School.
Signed and sealed bids
will be received at the Main
Office, Cornwall Consolidated
School, 5 Cream Hill Road,
West Cornwall, CT 06796. All
bids must be submitted in a
sealed envelope bearing the full
name and address of the bidder,
plainly marked BID — SNOW
REMOVAL — CORNWALL
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL.
Bids must be submitted prior to
9:15 A.M., Thursday, March 12,
2020 at which time bids received
will be opened publicly and read
aloud. Bid terms & conditions
and the “Official Bid Form” may
be obtained on request from
the Cornwall Consolidated
School Main Office — Phone
(860) 672-6617 or on-line at
www.cornwallschool.org. The
Cornwall Board of Education
reserves the full and unqualified
right to award the bid, waive
any and all bid conditions or
formalities, award the bid to
other than the lowest bidder,
award the bid to other than
the bidders, reject any and all
bids received, or divide the
award, should they deem any of
the foregoing to be in the best
interest of the school district.
Dated at West Cornwall, CT this
sixth day of February 5, 2020.
02-20-20
ZONING BOARD OF
APPEALS
TOWN OF SALISBURY, CT
On Tuesday, February 11,
2020, the Salisbury Zoning
Board of Appeals granted a
variance to Section 207.15
of the Zoning Regulations
for a property owned by The
Hotchkiss School, located at 11
Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT
and is located in RR1 zoning
district. Dated February 14,
2020.
Stacey Weiner
Secretary, ZBA
02-20-20
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Falling in love with advertising genius Nina DiSesa

By Cynthia Hochswender
SALISBURY — If you’ve
already met Nina DiSesa, then
you’ve already fallen in love with
her. It’s impossible not to.
You might not have met her
yet, but perhaps you will in the
future. So far, DiSesa and her
husband, Brian Goodall, have re-
mained fairly quiet in Lakeville,
where they bought a house in
2010.
Many will know them as the
owners of the house whose fence
famously was taken down by au-
tomobiles at least once a year.
Goodall, a sensible practical
guy, worked hard to get the state
to change the road surface out-
side their Route 44/41 home. The
fence crashes have stopped.
It was also Goodall who con-
tacted us at The Lakeville Jour-
nal to let us know his wife, Nina,
whom he adores, has been named
to the 2020 Advertising Hall of
Fame, which is an enormous ac-
complishment; and that she was
invited to ring the closing bell at
the New York Stock Exchange on
Friday, Jan. 24.
DiSesa is in exalted compa-
ny on this year’s Hall of Fame
roster. In addition to business
titans including Richard Edel-
man from Edelman, the world’s
largest public relations and
marketing company, this year’s
list also includes iconic portrait
photographer Annie Leibovitz
(who will be honored with the
President’s Award for Lifetime
Contributions to Advertising).
DiSesa has held top posts at
many of the world’s most famous
advertising agencies, including
Young and Rubicam, J. Walter
Thompson and McCann Erick-
son. She has been included in
Fortune magazine’s list of the 50
Most Powerful Women in Amer-
ican Business. She has created
memorable ad campaigns that
have made you laugh and made
you cry and, most important,
made you buy products from
her clients.
And she’s done all this in the
male-dominated advertising
business, which she refers to as
the Boys Club. While DiSesa’s
successes in the advertising in-
dustry are notable and extraor-
dinary, what is perhaps most no-
table and most exceptional is the
lessons she learned — and that
she readily and happily shares —
about how a woman can succeed
in a male-dominated world.
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tips are distilled in her 2008
book, “Seducing the Boys Club,”
which is hilarious and instruc-
tive, as one might expect from a
woman who is expert at writing
advertising copy.
She stresses in her book that
she is not speaking to wom-
en who work with truly abu-
sive men. This book is for the
woman professional who finds
herself working in an environ-
ment where, for example, she
is surrounded by brash young
men who think it’s appropriate
to drink beer, play pool and try
to break the ceiling light fixtures
in their offices during the normal
PHOTO BY PATRICK L. SULLIVAN
work day.
Reading aloud at Salisbury Central School Her book is a sort of Men
Are from Mars, Women Are
Elyse (Harney) Morris read “AdoraBull” by Alison Donald to kindergarten students from Venus for the office. Men
at Salisbury Central School on Wednesday, Feb. 12, for Read Aloud Day. are different from women, and
Advertising powerhouse Nina DiSesa, far left, who was named
to the Advertising Hall of Fame this year, was invited to ring
the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange in January.
here’s how you can work around The message works as well
those differences and even take with women as it does with men;
advantage of them. many of the stories in DiSesa’s
The seduction she describes book are about tips she’s given
isn’t sexual; in fact, she warns to other women to help them be
against relationships with co- heard and respected.
workers. It all comes down to love. And
The seduction is mental and though DiSesa has won buckets
emotional and it boils down to full of advertising awards, what
knowing when an ego needs to be she’s really won is the love of,
stroked, when boundaries need well, probably nearly everyone
to be set, when a funny line can who’s ever met her.
break the tension, when clear and DiSesa and Goodall have re-
confident communication can cently sold their New York City
stop an abusive pattern from de- apartment and will be more fully
veloping. The underlying message
is “Make your co-workers fall in
in residence here in Lakeville.
Perhaps you’ll finally get to meet
love with you. Take care of them, her. If you do, you’re gonna love
and they will take care of you.” her.

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Kent
Delicious delights that support scholarships
By Lans Christensen

KENT — The always popular

Chocolate Fest at Kent Center
School was held on Wednesday,
Feb. 12, just in time for Valen-
tine’s Day.
Lines snaked out the door
of the cafeteria and down the
front hall and then again out the
front of the building, as support-
ers of the sweet sale waited to
fill plates full of chocolates and
baked goods. Funds raised go to
the school’s scholarship fund for
Kent Center graduates.
A new attraction this year was
a long table set up with art sup-
plies and colorful paper, where
students could make Valentine’s
Day-themed crafts.
PHOTO BY LANS CHRISTENSEN
Right and below, students
Most of the work done at the Kent Memorial Library isn’t
at Kent Center School lined
visible to patrons — except the new carpeting.
up to select their treats and
gathered in groups to enjoy
plates full of chocolate. Back in the stacks for
Kent Memorial Library
PHOTOS BY LANS CHRISTENSEN

By Lans Christensen fectly suits the library atmo-

KENT — The Kent Memorial
Library reopened on Saturday,
Feb. 1, after a brief period of ren-
ovations and asbestos remedia-
tion (which entailed removal or
encapsulation, and elimination
of any hazards to personnel).
The most obvious, and appre-
ciated, renovation is the attrac-
tive new carpeting throughout.
The understated gray color per-
sphere.
Considering the amount of
work involved, remarkably, the
library was only closed for 16
days. Day-to-day library busi-
ness and services continued
across Main Street at the Kent
Green, thanks to John Casey
who donated two empty spaces
at numbers 19 and 23. The town
of Kent provided grant money
for the move and repairs.

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December 2020.
For four Saturdays in March,
the Kent Memorial Library will
offer an intensive study of the
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Tony, the music and lyrics of
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen
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of Jerome Robbins.
Anyone who attends three out
of four programs in this series
will be entered to win two tickets
to the Broadway production of
“West Side Story” on Tuesday,
April 7, at 7 p.m.
The sessions will be held
March 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 2:30
p.m. at Kent Town Hall.
On March 28 author Tom
Santopietro will interview Kent
resident and noted choreogra-
pher Bob Avian as they discuss
their new book, “Dancing Man:
A Broadway Choreographer’s
Journey.” Avian began his ca-
reer on Broadway as a dancer in
“West Side Story” and other clas-
sic musicals. He also served as
an original producer of “Dream-
girls” in 1981 and directed the
Broadway and London revivals
of  “A Chorus Line” in 2006 and
2013.
To register, go to www.kent-
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Farm market will replace artist at Town Hall
By Patrick L. Sullivan
FALLS VILLAGE — The
Board of Selectmen decided at
the regular meeting of Monday,
Feb. 10, to allow a group head-
ed by Kyle Wilkinson to use
the town-owned first floor of
107 Main St. to establish a farm
market.
The current tenant, artist
Harper Blanchet, will have to
leave.
Wilkinson made a lengthy
pitch to the Board of Finance
(which met directly before the
selectmen) and stayed for the
selectmen’s meeting.
He described the farm market
as a “gathering place” featuring
produce from local farms. He
said he had interest from 25
farms in the area, and is working
with Dale McDonald of Plantin’
Seeds (McDonald is chairman of
The Lakeville Journal Co. and is
a Falls Village resident).
A written description of the
project that Wilkinson sent to
First Selectman Henry Todd de-
scribes the farm market as “a so-
cial enterprise, run and manned
at the outset by local volunteers,
with a goal to begin paying mod-
est wages within six months.”
“The mission of the establish-
ment will clearly not be to make
any sizable profit but rather to be
mission-driven and break-even,
sharing any humble returns with
the town to fund community
projects; in short the mission
Students search for history on
their 100th day of school
By Janna Siller
FALLS VILLAGE — Lee H.
Kellogg School students and
faculty collaborated on a scav-
enger hunt in celebration of the
100th day of school on Tuesday,
Feb. 11.
In keeping with their current
“immigration stories” social
studies theme, children in kin-
dergarten and first and second
grades traveled down the hall
Contractors seek a share of
Sharon’s town road work
By Leila Hawken
SHARON —Following a
contentious discussion among
landscaping contractors who
attended the regular meeting of
the Sharon Board of Selectmen
on Tuesday, Feb. 11, agreement
was reached that a plan for the
awarding of the town’s road-
work jobs would be reviewed at
a round table meeting.
Aware of the contractors’ con-
cerns in advance of the meeting,
First Selectman Brent Colley had
prepared a letter to be sent to
all contractors in the town who
might have interest in any town
jobs, inviting them to join a
round table discussion to hash
out a policy that would be fair
and transparent for them and
meet the town’s needs as well.
The letter was to be mailed on
Friday, Feb. 14.
The issue was added to the
selectmen’s meeting agenda
by Selectman Casey Flanagan,
who asked for a review of the
process by which the town hires
sub-contractors and of how the
decision to hire out is made in
the first place.
Flanagan agreed that it is de-
sirable to use Sharon contractors
for jobs as they arise, but he said
that transparency is essential.
“How do you decide whom to
reach out to for different jobs?”
he asked Colley.
“It comes down to skill set
and availability,” Colley replied,
adding that such jobs often
involve emergency drainage
or road work. The town has a
small road crew to cover ex-
tensive miles of roads, paved
and unpaved. Sub-contractors
are used to stay ahead of snow
plowing needs, for example, he
said. They do drainage work and
pipe replacement as those emer-
gencies arise.
To Flanagan’s question about
how Colley can know if the con-
tractor has given a good price on
the job, Colley said that his eight
years in office have trained him
will be to cultivate, sustain and
nurture community.”
He said an online petition
drive had gathered hundreds of
signatures. Discounting people
from out of the region, he said
there were more than 200 local
people who signed.
Steve Dean of the finance
board noted the existence of
several open-air farm markets
nearby, and asked why the proj-
ect needs a building.
Wilkinson replied that he
envisioned the farm market as a
Reading aloud at Lee H. Kellogg School
Kindergarten, first and second graders were curious and asked questions about life in
a Malaysian village when Joanna Geiger of the Salisbury Visiting Nurse Association
read “Mommy Sayang” by Rosana Sullivan on Read Aloud Day on Wednesday, Feb. 12.
to the upper grade classrooms
in search of 100 pictures of the
Statue of Liberty hidden by the
older students. They successfully
found all but one.
Back in their classroom, the
younger students counted trail
mix ingredients by 10s and
learned about early 20th century
immigrants to Ellis Island, creat-
ing a collage of 100 hand-drawn
pictures from their imaginations
of those historical figures.
in knowing a fair price.
Selectman Dale Jones indi-
cated that 70% of town work-
ers’ time goes into road work.
He said that Colley has tried to
spread the work around among
contractors fairly.
Jones said that getting emer-
gency work done promptly is
important to residents when
they see flooding or a wash-out
situation.
Arguments erupted among
the contractors in the audience
when Adam Brammer of AB
Landscaping produced a study
he had done of town records,
documenting totals paid to var-
ious roadwork contractors.
He argued that his totals
showed that Sharon Lawn and
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year-round enterprise with more
than produce to offer.
Todd chimed in, saying the
project will need variety to sur-
vive. He said that LaBonne’s
Market in Salisbury was inter-
ested in stocking a cooler and
a shelf with basics, and that an
outdoor outfitter was also inter-
ested.
“I think it would be a much
more productive use of the
space,” he said. “I think it’s a risk
we should take.”
When the selectmen took up
Jillian Turner and Piper Peterson worked on a history project
that celebrated their 100th day of school this year.
Landscaping (formerly Upcoun-
try) had earned many times
more than others in the town.
Colley said that he would need
to see Brammer’s data and could
review that at the round table
meeting.
Some spoke of wanting to
initiate a bidding process for
the awarding of jobs, but Colley
said that bidding is not practical
during an emergency.
When there is an emergency,
Colley said the concept is “All
hands on deck.”
Once responses to the letter
are received from contractors,
Colley said that the round table
will be scheduled to discuss the
job awarding process and any
changes that need to be made.
Wendy
Schiller
Chair and Professor
of Political Science
at Brown University
THE LAKEVILLE JOURNAL, Thursday, February 20, 2020 A5
the matter in their meeting, Todd
and Selectman Greg Marlowe
(Selectman Dave Barger was out
of town) decided to ask Blanchet
to vacate by June 1. (On Feb. 18
Todd said the town is negotiating
with Blanchet on a date to leave
the building.)
Wilkinson said he would
prepare a business plan for the
selectmen. He also asked for a
line item in the town budget as
a sign of commitment from the
town that he can then use for
fundraising.
PHOTO BY LEILA HAWKEN
Reading aloud at SCS
Region One School District Assistant Superintendent
Lisa Carter read “Papa Put a Man on the Moon” by Kristy
Dempsey to students in grade three at Sharon Center
School on Read Aloud Day on Wednesday, Feb. 12.
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Brain Teasers
CLUES ACROSS
1. Expression of disgust
4. A place to unwind
7. A type of cooking range
8. Grasp tightly
10. Sea eagles
12. Carb dish
13. Late-night host
14. Revolutions per minute
16. Indicates odd or erroneous
17. FDR’s military chief of staff
19. Swiss river
20. Norwegian district and river
21. A form of motivation
25. Car mechanics group
26. Once a must-have home
theater accessory
27. Broken branch
29. Apple and pumpkin are two
30. Skeletal muscle
31. Small Eurasian deer
32. Tight-lipped fellow
39. Comes after a cut
41. A place one lives
42. Cognizant of
43. Albanian monetary unit
44. Carrot’s partner
45. Famed garden 34. Northwestern state
46. Chilean seaport Look for the
35. Was obligated to repay
48. Days (Spanish) 36. Diverging in lines from a solution in next
49. Sudden anxiety common center week’s issue.
50. 100 square meters 37. Bleak
51. A type of beer 38. We all have them
52. French/Belgian river 39. Hit with the palm of one’s
hand Feb. 13 Solution
CLUES DOWN 40. Sea that’s part of the western
1. Spanish dish Pacific
2. Concurs 44. Political action committee
3. __and her sisters
4. Patti Hearst’s captors
47. Famed Spanish soldier El __
5. Used to refer to cited works
6. A state of excited movement
8. Advertising term (abbr.)
9. Nocturnal S. American rodent
11. New York art district
14. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
15. Pre-release viewing Sudoku
18. Northwestern Canadian
territory (abbr.)
19. Consumed
20. Falters
22. Radioactive form of an
element
23. Catch a wrongdoer
Feb. 13 Solution
24. Breeze through
27. Thick piece of something
28. Yellowish-brown color
29. “The Raven” poet
31. Rural free delivery (abbr.)
32. Creating
33. Supervises flying
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OBITUARIES
Gregory Andrew Polanski
NORTH CANAAN —
Gregory Andrew Polanski, 58,
of North Canaan died Feb. 13,
2020, at Berkshire Medical Cen-
ter in Pittsfield, Mass.
Gregory was born in Easton
Pa., on May 21, 1961, the son of
Louis Polanski and the late Mary
(Smith) Polanski. He went on to
receive his Master’s Degree in
Mechanical Engineering.
Gregory worked as a mainte-
nance and engineering manager
for Specialty Minerals in North
Canaan from 1994 to 2017 and
then as a project manager for
Zayachek Mechanical LTD from
2017 to 2019.
He enjoyed golf, gardening,
his lawn and his tractor; he took
pride in his lawn.
He was a member of the Ca-
naan VFW 6851 Auxiliary and
previously served as a member of
the North Canaan Conservation
Commission.
Gregory’s wife, Kathleen
(Madsen) Polanski, predeceased
him on Feb. 7, 2010.
Gregory is survived by his fa-
Gloryann Webb
AMENIA — Smithfield Val-
ley mourns the loss of Gloryann
Webb, 87, a resident for 50 years,
whose sweet spirit passed from
us on Feb. 1, 2020, at Geer Vil-
lage.
Born in Ozone Park, Queens,
N.Y., to Rose and Jo-
seph (Jay) Gall, Hun-
garian immigrants,
Gloryann enjoyed a
New York upbringing
with her sister, Ethel,
and cousins from the
Varga family.
In her early 20s,
she met the love of her
life, JC Webb, when he
migrated north from Texas for
an engineering job opportuni-
ty. They married in 1954, and
eventually settled in Westchester
County, where JC built a house
for Gloryann in Armonk.
There, they followed a subur-
ban life, starting a family of three
children, until JC decided to set
out for green pastures. In 1966,
they purchased an old dairy farm
in the Smithfield Valley of Ame-
nia, and with a lot of hard work,
renovated the farmhouse to be
suitable for raising a family. Over
the next 50 years, they both be-
came vital and beloved members
of the community.
Gloryann taught at the Ame-
nia Day Nursery in the 1970s,
and then worked for the Astor
Head Start program in Dover for
several years. She gave selflessly
to the Smithfield Presbyterian
Church, taking on various tasks
over four decades: Hospitality
Committee, superintendent of
Send obituaries
to cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com
Property
Transfers
NORTH CANAAN — The
following property transfers were
recorded at Town Hall in 2019.
June 5, property at 116 Main
St. from Donald T. Martin and
Lynne Martin to Agnes Ann San-
tarsiero for $70,000.
June 13, property at 15 Mari-
lyn Drive from Maribeth Weav-
er to Gina Young for $290,000;
and property at 61 Old Turnpike
Road from Marjorie E. Gandolfo
to Brian Salvatore for $300,000.
June 18, property at 7 Law-
rence Ave. from Lee K. Baldwin
and Stephanie H. Baldwin to
Sarah E. Devine for $168,000;
and property at 2 Segalla Court
from Phyllis G. Robinson to Kel-
ly Cortsen for $138,000.
June 20, property at 143 Low-
er Road from Aaron L. Keith
to Charles Edward Race for
$180,000.
June 21, property at 52 East
Main St. from Federal National
Mortgage Association to Dustin
Briggs for $88,350.
June 24, property at 76 North
Elm St. from Deborah S. Pitcher
ther, Louis Polanski of Nazareth,
Pa.; his long-time partner, Ani-
ta Sinico of North Canaan and
her daughter, Celina Kegresse, of
Pittsfield; two brothers, Thomas
Polanski and Daniel Polanski,
both of Nazareth; and one sister,
Bridget Breyfogle of Northbor-
ough, Mass.
Gregory was predeceased by
his brother, Christopher Polans-
ki.
A funeral Mass for Gregory
was held on Feb. 18 at 10 a.m.
with a Liturgy of Christian Burial
at Saint Peter’s Church with the
Rev. William P. Murphy offici-
ating. Burial will follow in Saint
Peter’s Cemetery.
Arrangements are under the
care of the Birches-Roy Funeral
Home in Great Barrington. In
lieu of flowers, expressions of
sympathy may be made to the
American Cancer Society or the
charity of the donor’s choice in
care of the funeral home. Con-
dolences may be made through
www.birchesroyfuneralservices.
com.
Sunday School, helping to or-
ganize and cook for the annual
suppers, as well as being president
of the Helpers Society. She was
a member of the Nine Partners
Garden Club of Millbrook from
1994 to 2013, a member of the
Health Care Auxiliary
serving Sharon Hospital
and a volunteer at the
Bargain Barn. She was
a Literacy Volunteer of
America, and opened
her home to a young
person in need through
the Big Sisters program.
Gloryann will al-
ways hold a place in the
hearts of those who knew her, for
her kind and quiet spirit. Many
people benefited from the grace
and tolerance she extended to all
who entered her life.
Most of all, she was devoted
to her husband of 65 1/2 years,
with whom she shared a stead-
fast and abiding love up to her
very last days.
She will be missed by her
surviving family: her beloved
husband, JC; her dear sister,
Ethel “Tee” Baenisch of South
Setauket, N.Y.; her three chil-
dren, Cindy Sieger, Dale Webb
and his wife, Phyllis, and Sharon
Webb; and her grandchildren,
Tessa Sieger, Adam Sieger and
his wife, Shawna, and Joshua,
Benjamin and Samuel Webb.
The sparkle in Gloryann’s eyes
and her infectious smile will be
missed by all.
A date for a memorial service
to be held at Smithfield Presbyte-
rian Church has not yet been set.
to Yeli Y. Arango for $168,000.
June 25, property at 70
Church St. from Ann Beizer to
Marsha M. Wilson for $99,000.
July 11, property at 98 Or-
chard St. from Rose Mary Pic-
chioni to Silvana Marchitto for
$154,000.
July 19, property at 107 East
Canaan Road from Elsie Rose
Ghi to Joseph A. Levesque for
$230,000.
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Boarding house decision delayed again
By Leila Hawken
NORTH CANAAN — Fol-
lowing a well-attended pub-
lic hearing on Monday, Feb.
10, the North Canaan Plan-
ning and Zoning Commission
(P&Z) voted unanimously to
postpone reaching a decision
on a proposed moratorium on
multi-renter homes, known as
“boarding houses.”
The moratorium, if ap-
proved, would then allow time
for the P&Z members to draft
a recommended regulation to
govern such residences in the
town.
By tabling the moratorium
decision until their next meet-
ing, the P&Z said that the delay
Reading aloud at NCES
Lorraine Oler was escorted to a classroom by two
North Canaan Elementary School kindergarten
students for Read Aloud day on Wednesday, Feb. 12.
Transfer station stickers
issue date will be June 1
By Leila Hawken
NORTH CANAAN — Trans-
fer station stickers will be sold
beginning on June 1 this year, a
change that was approved at the
regular meeting of the Board of
Selectmen on Monday, Feb. 3.
The change marks a shift to
a fiscal year pattern rather than
a calendar year, according to
First Selectman Charles Perotti
in explaining the new policy. The
fiscal year begins on July 1.
Residents can expect an “un-
avoidable” increase in sticker
cost in the face of an expected
rise in trash disposal rates in the
region, Perotti said.
Selectman Christian Allyn
suggested that recycling could be
encouraged in the town, to lower
the tonnage that needs to be dis-
posed of. Recycled goods for the
most part can be sold; towns must
pay to dispose of general garbage.
“We have to push for more re-
cycling,” Perotti agreed. “We’re
not the only town facing the fact
of trash.”
There is a statewide struggle
to dispose of trash at the mo-
ment, as problems arise at the
state’s aging facility, which is in
need of millions of dollars in re-
pairs. It has also become more
challenging to find purchasers
for recyclable goods.
would allow time for absorbing
the many public comments from
the hearing and to do more re-
search into the issue. Discussion
and decision are now slated to
occur at the next P&Z meeting,
to be held on Monday, March 9,
at Town Hall, beginning at 7 p.m.
The public hearing was held
in response to a petition re-
ceived by the P&Z on Nov. 12,
when the commission created
the moratorium for a period of
six months.
Public concerns have been
raised over the past two years
as residents feared that apparent
multi-family homes were renting
at high rates to individuals who
had recently completed stays at
addiction recovery facilities in
PHOTO BY ALEXANDER WILBURN
In other transfer station news,
Perotti reported that he and Allyn
attended a recent meeting to re-
ceive an update on the solar power
installation at the transfer station.
The solar panels will be able
to produce up to 2 megawatts of
power; the town’s usage would
only be 25% of that. The select-
men considered ways to increase
that percentage.
Allyn noted that the program
only allows municipal entities to
buy in to the lower power rates
afforded by the new solar system.
The selectmen plan to approach
other municipal groups for possi-
ble participation in the program.
Happy 94th Birthday
in Heaven
Lois G. Shaffer
02/19/1926 - 4/28/2007
Dear Mom,
We love and
miss you so much.
Not a day goes by
that we don’t
think of you.
All our love.
Bubbles, Tammi,
Kathy & Timmy
the area.
At the start of the public hear-
ing, P&Z Chair Steve Allyn an-
nounced that the commission’s
role would be to listen to public
comments, but not comment or
advise in return.
While some residents voiced
concerns about insurance, prop-
erty values and the risks of hous-
ing recovering addicts in the
town, others spoke of the value
of kindness and empathy.
One homeowner who now
rents to such individuals spoke of
the value of providing housing to
people who are finding employ-
ment in the service industry and
need to live close to their work.
Many speakers were seeking
clarification of definitions and
Worship Services
Week of February 23, 2020
The Congregational
Church of Salisbury, U.C.C.
30 Main Street, Salisbury, CT
Serving the Lord with Gladness
We bid you warm welcome to come
worship with us Sundays at 10 am.
All are welcome!
Moving music,and Christian fellowship
in a historic 19th C. Meeting House.
Sunday School & Nursery Care
The Rev. Dr. John A. Nelson
(860) 435-2442
www.salisburycongregational.org
St. John's Episcopal Church
12 Main Street, Salisbury, CT
Rev. Marilyn Anderson
Rev. Paul Christopherson
SUNDAY SERVICES
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Rite I) Said
10:00 a.m. Eucharist with music (Rite II)
WEDNESDAY HEALING SERVICE
At Noon – with Eucharis
www.stjohnssalisbury.org
860-435-9290
North Canaan
Congregational Church, UCC
Joyfully opening our hearts
and doors to all God's people
Pastor Savage Frieze
172 Lower Rd/Rt. 44, East Canaan CT
Worship services Sundays at 10 am
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30 GRANITE AVE, CANAAN:
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North East Baptist Church
Historic Meeting House,
Main & Maple Millerton, NY
God's word is always relevant!
A Warm Welcome Awaits You
SUNDAY SERVICES
Family Bible School - 9:30 AM
Morning Worship - 11:00
Evening Service - 6:00 PM
WEEKDAY MEETINGS
Weds. Prayer Meeting 7:00 PM
at Parsonage 33 S. Maple Ave.
Sat. Bible Studies
for Men & Women 3:00 PM
FELLOWSHIP LUNCHEON
First Sunday of each month
after AM services
Pastor Henry A. Prause
518-789-4840
The Sharon United
Methodist Church
112 Upper Main Steet,
North End of Sharon Green
Touching Lives - Lifting Spirits
10:45 a.m. Worship Service, Nursery Care
No Sunday School in Summer
The Rev. Margaret Laemmel
860-364-5634
sharonumc5634@att.net
Canaan United
Methodist Church
2 Church St., Rte 44, Canaan, CT
11 a.m. Worship Service
“Open Hearts – Open Minds – Open Doors”
Rev. Lee Gangaware
860-824-5534
canaanct-umc.com
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Promised Land
Baptist Church
29 Granite Ave., Canaan, CT
Where you will find: A Warm Welcome!
Helpful Bible Messages, A Place to Grow!
Sunday School - 10am
Sunday Worship - 11am
Wednesday Bible Study
and Prayer Meeting — 7PM
(860) 824-5685
VISITORS WELCOME!
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The Chapel of All Saints,
Cornwall
An intimate Episcopal service every
Sunday
9:00am Holy Eucharist and sermon
Chapel at Trinity Conference Center
West Cornwall, CT
WELCOMING ALL
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TEKAKWITHA PARISH
860-927-3003
The Churches of
Sacred Heart, Kent
St. Bernard, Sharon
St. Bridget, Cornwall Bridge
MASS SCHEDULE
9 AM – Sacred Heart
Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday & First Friday
SATURDAY VIGIL
4 PM - St. Bridget
SUNDAY MASSES
8 AM - St. Bernard
10 AM - Sacred Heart
The Smithfield
Presbyterian Church
656 Smithfield Valley Rd.
Route 83, Amenia, NY
Services every Sunday 10 a.m.
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in an Historic Building
possible regulation provisions,
but were reminded that the P&Z
would provide no responses at
the hearing. Residents were
urged to re-read the public hear-
ing notice as published in local
newspapers, or to self-research
in town records, on the town’s
website, and read other towns’
regulations.
One recovering addict who
is living in an existing boarding
house, praised the community
and spoke of the value of re-
demption. He called for empa-
thy.
“I understand the fear,” he
said, adding that addiction cuts
a wide swath.
“There is no one face of ad-
diction,” he added.
All Saints of America
Orthodox Christian Church
313 Twin Lakes Rd., Salisbury, CT
Sat. Vespers at 5:00 p.m.
Sun. Liturgy at 9:30 a.m.
Rev. Fr. John J. Kreta
860-824-1340
www.allsaintsofamerica.us
Falls Village
Congregational Church
16 Beebe Hill Road, Falls Village
10:00 a.m. Family Worship
11:00 a.m. Coffee Hour
A Friendly Church with
a warm welcome to all!!
860-824-0194
Christ Church Episcopal
in Sharon
9 South Main, Sharon CT
Sunday Holy Eucharist at 9:00 AM
Rev. Dr. Martha Tucker
All welcome to join us
860-364-5260
www.christchurchsharon.org
Greenwoods
Community Church
355 Clayton Road, Ashley Falls, MA
Sunday Service 10:30 AM
Kidz Konnection
K-6th grade (during Sun. Service)
Nursery Care All Services
Pastor Trip Weiler
413-229-8560
www.greenwoodschurch.com
St. Thomas
Episcopal Church
40 Leedsville Road
Amenia Union, NY
SUNDAY WORSHIP 10:30
followed by refreshments
All ages welcome!
Rev. Dr. Robert D. Flanagan
www.stthomasamenia.com
845-373-9161
Trinity Episcopal Church
484 Lime Rock Rd., Lime Rock
Sun. 8 & 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Nursery Care/Sunday School 10:20 a.m.
“Offering companionship along the way”
Rev. Heidi Truax
(860) 435-2627
trinity@trinitylimerock.org
www.trinitylimerock.org
Unitarian Fellowship
of NW CT
Cobble Living Room
Noble Horizons
The next meeting will be
Sunday, March 8 at 10:30 a.m.
CHOICE
All are Welcome
For information call 860-435-2319
The Lakeville United
Methodist Church
319 Main St., Lakeville, CT 06039
9:30 a.m. Worship Service
Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
“Open Hearts - Open Minds - Open Doors”
The Rev. Margaret Laemmel
860-435-9496
Lakevillemethodist@snet.net
ST. MARTIN OF TOURS
PARISH
Immaculate Conception,
4 North Street, Norfolk
St. Joseph, 4 Main Street, Canaan
St. Mary, 76 Sharon Road, Lakeville
MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday Vigil 5 pm, St. Joseph Church
Sunday 9 am, Church of St. Mary
Sunday 11 am,
Immaculate Conception Church
DAILY MASS SCHEDULE
Wednesday 6pm
St. Joseph Chapel or Church
Thursday 8am
Immaculate Conception Church
Friday 8am
Church of St. Mary
ALL ARE WELCOME!
For information,
please call 860-824-7078
UCC in CORNWALL
Congregational
Worship Sunday, 10 am
Cornwall Village Meeting House
8 Bolton Hill Rd, Cornwall
Outstanding Church School (10 am)
Mission Opportunities
Warm Fellowship following Worship
860-672-6840
FB - UCC in Cornwall
Rev. Micki Nunn-Miller, Minister
Welcoming all - including the
LGBTQ Community
Sharon Congregational
Church
25 Main Street, Sharon, CT
Sunday Worship Service
and Sunday School at 10:30 a.m.
Bible Study (incl. a light supper)
every Thurs. 6-7:30 p.m.
860-364-5002
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parts of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire. The second largest
provider is Connecticut Water.
In the Northwest Corner,
Aquarion provides water to Salis-
bury, North Canaan, Cornwall,
Kent, Goshen and Norfolk.
He said the first important
thing to know about water in
Connecticut is that the state owns
it all. All the utilities do is move
it from one place to another and
eventually return it to the earth.
“The state is allowing diver-
sion of the water and it’s very
carefully regulated so that basins
will not run dry.”
In Falls Village, Crawford
said, most of the water comes
from four or five bedrock wells.
“They’re fairly small, relative-
ly,” he said, adding that, “The
water quality in Falls Village is
very good.”
Untreated well water
The water is pumped from
the wells into two storage tanks,
“which provide a pressurized
flow throughout the collection
system.”
At this point, he said, the water
is not treated at all because it is
from bedrock wells. If it were
from surface water, there would
be more concerns that something
might contaminate the water.
Some Falls Village residents
Read Aloud
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Hartland, Harwinton, Kent, Li-
tchfield, Morris, New Hartford,
Norfolk, North Canaan, Salis-
bury, Sharon, Torrington, Tho-
maston, Warren and Winsted.
Studies have shown that
reading books aloud to young
children is essential to helping
them develop essential literacy
skills.
The books chosen this year
were:
Pre-kindergarten: “Wake Up,
Color Pup,” by Taia Morley
Kindergarten: “AdoraBull,” by
Alison Donald
Grade one: “Mommy Sayang,”
by Rosana Sullivan
Wolves
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acquired over decades of tracking
and photographing wildlife.
On one occasion, she said, she
was hidden in a camera blind but
there were no wolves around.
So she hiked about five miles
until she heard wolf calls in the
distance.
She called back.
And sure enough, a wolf
appeared.
“He came to investigate the
intruder.”
She explained, with photos,
the differences between red, gray,
black and Arctic wolves.
Wolves have an undeserved
reputation for being dangerous
to livestock or caribou, Morse
said. This inspires what she called
“persecution.”
She said wild wolves that
have not been persecuted are
curious about humans and not
aggressive.
They are still wild animals,
though. “Wolves kill to live,” she
said. “So do we.”
She showed a photo of a
billboard in North Carolina
decrying the efforts of federal
agencies to preserve or restore
red wolf habitat.
“I’m amazed by the hatred.”
Wolves and other apex pred-
ators are all part of a healthy
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have wondered if their water
will be chemically treated if
Aquarion takes over the system.
One thing that will not be
added is fluoride, Crawford said.
“There is no fluoride require-
ment in Connecticut unless you
are serving a population of more
than 20,000 people.”
However, Morrissey said,
Aquarion has recently been
adding chlorination to all its
water systems, following a con-
tamination incident in Danbury.
“As a result of that, we’ve
rethought the point at which we
administer disinfection to our
systems,” he said. “Some people
would rather not have a chlorine
taste in the water but we feel it’s a
prudent decision, from a public
health perspective, to be sure any
E. coli or any bacteria are killed
before they enter the system.”
System upgrades needed
The federal government is
also in the process of tough-
ening regulations for lead and
copper in water, Herlihy said.
“Connecticut has already taken
steps to make their own regu-
lations more stringent. They’re
not waiting on the final federal
regulations to come out later
this year.”
Once the federal regulations
are finalized, he said, “It’s likely
there will be new treatment
requirements that systems will
have to comply with. That will
Grade two: “Madeline Finn
and the Shelter Dog,” by Lisa
Papp
Grade Three:“Papa Put A
Man on the Moon,” by Kristy
Dempsey
Grade four: “Nya’s Long
Walk,” by Linda Sue Park
Grade five and older: “The
Girl Who Rode a Shark & Other
Stories of Daring Women,” by
Ailsa Ross
The library at Sharon Center
School also received a copy of,
“Her Fearless Run: Katherine
Switzer’s Historic Boston Mar-
athon” by Kim Chaffee.
Look for more photos from
Read Aloud Day in the Region
One School District on the town
pages.
ecosystem, Morse said. By killing
and eating herbivores, for exam-
ple, predators help keep those
populations within the carrying
capacity of a given area.
“Caribou are very important
to wolves,” she said. And wolf
predation keeps the caribou herd
“fleet and healthy.”
Wolves don’t restrict them-
selves to large animals like car-
ibou, deer or elk. Their diet is
heavy on smaller animals, such as
rabbits or the Arctic hare, “with
or without Maalox.”
Morse described what she
called the “ecology of fear.” When
wolves were reintroduced to Yel-
lowstone National Park, the park
had an excessive elk population.
“The elk get it now,” she said,
showing a photo of an elk looking
particularly alert.
In response to the wolves,
the elk changed their routine
and started using their habitat
differently.
In particular, the elk stopped
hanging around exposed areas
such as springs and wetlands —
and ruining those habitats for
other species.
Coyotes are relative newcom-
ers to the northeastern United
States. They were spotted in 1948
in Vermont.
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require new capital investments
and higher operating expenses
and may require the removal
of lead service lines. There will
definitely be a need for increased
monitoring, sampling and test-
ing.”
For a small, town-owned
system the upgrade costs could
be crippling. For Aquarion, the
upgrades are part of business
as usual.
“I think one of the primary
reasons Falls Village is thinking
about selling is they’re concerned
an unplanned emergency could
happen. A $50,000 fix could be
needed and their annual budget
is $80,000. For us, we deal with
water and emergencies every
day. We have a $120 million
capital expenditure budget every
year. A $50,000 emergency is not
a good thing but for us, it’s not
a big deal.”
State must sign off on deal
Falls Village is not the only
town that is talking to Aquari-
on at this time about selling its
water system (the sale price for
the system would be $345,000).
Aquarion is in the middle of
negotiations with the town of
New Hartford now. Two sales (in
Marlborough and New Fairfield)
are being considered now by the
state’s Public Utilities Regulato-
ry Authority (PURA) and the
Department of Public Health
Trash
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least at 85% of capacity for the
30-year period.
The bad news is the $145/ton
tipping fee.
Kirk said part of the problem
is that electricity prices are pro-
jected to remain historically low
for the 30-year period. He said
that is good for consumers but
not for producers. MIRA used
to sell electricity for 12 cents per
kilowatt, but the price is now 3.5
cents, he said.
Kirk acknowledged the prob-
lem with the $145/ton fee. “It’s
above market. You could call up
a hauler and get $90. We pre-
sume that’s unacceptable to our
municipal customers.”
He listed some legislative
Coyotes have bred with tim-
ber wolves, producing a bigger
coyote with wolfish teeth.
As forests in the Northeast
mature, there are too many deer,
too many invasive plants and not
enough predators, she said.
Hence the opening for the
coyotes.
Morse showed a photo of a
coyote rolling around on what
turned out to be a dead fish.
Coyotes eat a lot of fruit, as
evidenced by their droppings. As
do foxes, who also enjoy insects
and small rodents.
The droppings help spread
seeds around. “Biodiversity
depends on them,” said Morse.
“This is how nature gets around.”
Morse closed with an appeal
to see the big picture. “The work
we do in our communities mat-
ters — on a world-wide scale.”
“Animals need us more than
ever to do the right thing. Be-
cause if we don’t, we’re all gone.”
Morse’s presentation was
sponsored by the Salisbury As-
sociation Land Trust and other
conservation groups. On Satur-
day, Feb. 15, she led a workshop
in tracking animals in the wild;
look for an article about that in
a future issue of The Lakeville
Journal.
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(DPH).
If taxpayers in Falls Village
vote to sell their water company,
PURA and the DPH will also
have to sign off, although largely
they are in favor of there not be-
ing a lot of small, volunteer-run
water systems in the state.
The two state agencies would
keep an eye on water quality as
well as on rates, to ensure “we
don’t go out and raise our rates
willy-nilly,” Morrissey said.
“In Falls Village, the system is
so small, and I believe it’s even
part of the agreement we have
with the town, we don’t want
to touch their rates for several
years.”
The next rate filing for Aquar-
ion would be in 2023 or 2024,
he said, so the water customers
would probably not see any
changes before then.
Morrissey noted that of
course he’s biased but he’d like to
see Aquarion take over the Falls
Village system.
“Falls Village has been oper-
ating their water system as best
they can and they’ve done a pretty
good job,” Crawford said. “But
it’s all done by volunteers and
they’re working with a shoestring
budget.”
“Our goal will be to ensure the
longterm provision of high-qual-
ity water in sufficient supply,”
Morrissey said.
options. The first has the state
bonding for the $330 million.
The second would be a power
purchase agreement at 11 cents
per kilowatt.
The third is making the MIRA
plant eligible for renewable en-
ergy credits.
“All would help,” said Kirk.
A fourth option is to pass a
law mandating trash-to-energy
disposal at $145/ton.
Kirk said the worst option is
to delay making a decision. “An-
other study or analysis would be
silly. We need a decision.”
The Northwest Hills Council
of Governments is an orga-
nization made up of the first
selectmen of 21 area towns.
The council meets monthly in
Goshen.
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most important, to improving
communications with the com-
munity at large. Transparency, he
vowed, will be the goal.
As she listened, Horn com-
mented that she’s already met
with Cantele about the hospital,
with Nuvance COO Kerry Eaton
(who was also at the reception)
and with John Murphy, the
Nuvance CEO. She was looking
forward to getting a few minutes
with Hirko that evening.
“They all have a really con-
structive attitude toward com-
munity engagement and com-
munication,” she said.
Things got a little “thorny”
between the community and the
hospital in the past year, especial-
ly as citizens raised concerns that
the maternity unit might shut
down, Horn said.
“Now we have an opportunity
to rebuild that trust. Sharon Hos-
pital needs partners. Nuvance
is one partner; the community
needs to be the other partner.
“It’s hard to be a rural hospi-
tal,” she observed.
Horn then gave a quick re-
cap of recent events at the state
capital, noting “the messy hu-
man-ness”of government work.
It’s all going smoothly nonethe-
less, although at a fast pace.
This year, 2020, is a “short
session” of the Legislature, in
session only from February until
May, and it is largely dedicated
Sports
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to the Region One board having
been rejected.
Marty Lindenmayer of Kent
said his town is willing to partic-
ipate in a middle school sports
program for what he called
“non-residential” sports and
activities, such as cross-country
and robotics.
But Kent wants to have its
own teams in soccer, basketball
and baseball.
Mechare said the Falls Village
board is meeting Monday, Feb.
24, to discuss what role, if any,
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to creating and passing a budget.
“We created a balanced bud-
get without raising taxes last
year,” Horn said, “but this year
we have a small deficit.”
Part of the reason for that defi-
cit is the settlement this year of a
multi-year funding problem with
the state’s hospitals, in which they
received funds from the federal
government and that funding
was then rescinded.
A resolution to the problem
was found, a multi-year con-
tract between the state and the
hospitals has been signed, “And
everyone is happy,” Horn said.
As for other budget items,
“This year, we got the budget on
the first day of the session, unlike
last year, during the longer ses-
sion,” which lasts from January
to June.
The legislators have been
hearing from various parties in
and out of government testifying
as to why funds are being added
or cut, and why they should
or should not be. Horn is on
five of the 13 appropriations
subcommittees and is therefore
hearing a lot of presentations.
For anyone who’s keeping score,
those subcommittees are: Regu-
lation and Protection; Conserva-
tion and Development; Judicial
and Corrections; Health; and
Collective Bargaining.
“It’s been crazy,” she said. “I’m
drinking a lot of coffee.”
To get regular updates from
the capital, email Horn at maria.
horn@cga.ct.gov.
to take in middle school sports.
The ABC committee’s next
regular meeting is Wednesday,
Feb. 26. Mechare suggested the
six elementary school board
chairs meet before the ABC
meeting to decide what to do
with a town-financed sports
program.
The others agreed.
So the middle school sports
meeting will be at 6 p.m. on
Wednesday, Feb. 26, with the
regular ABC meeting following
at 7 p.m.
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A8
What a dreadful way to
pick a president
‘I
belong to no organized
political party. I’m a Dem-
ocrat.”
Will Rogers wasn’t talking
about today’s Democrats, it just
sounds that way. He made the
observation a century ago in a
newspaper column about the
Democrats of the 1920s, who
couldn’t win an election against
the corrupt Republicans of the
Warren G. Harding era. But after
the 2020 caucus chaos and New
Hampshire primary, his obser-
vation has a neat, contemporary
ring to it.
Iowa’s clueless caucus and
the nation’s first state primary
have brought forth a 78-year-
old semi-socialist with a heart
condition and the 38-year-old
mayor of the fourth largest city
in the 17th largest state as the
Democrats’ leading contenders
for president.
After intense media coverage
of the Iowa caucus for more than
a year and the New Hampshire
primary for more than a week,
Pete Buttigieg has amassed 22
delegates to Bernie Sanders’ 21,
If You Ask Me
Dick Ahles
the race, Elizabeth Warren, once
considered a major contender.
“Once” being the week before
last.
So who else has “won” so far
in addition to the two highly
unlikely next presidents of the
United States, Sanders and
Buttigieg? (I write these words
in the full knowledge I awarded
a Republican candidate named
Trump this same distinction
around this time four years ago.)
If, as I’m told, the main Dem-
ocratic mission continues to be
defeating the aforementioned
Trump, the only true winner
coming out of the two contests
is the late blooming Amy Klo-
buchar. The centrist Minnesota
senator, with a true record of ac-
complishment in elective office,
Viewpoint
has become a strong campaigner,
one Trump might find it hard
to run against. He may be even
finding it difficult to come up
with one of his nasty high school
nicknames for her. It would be
easy to vote for her.
But Klobuchar will have to
contend with the man who wasn’t
there in Iowa and New Hamp-
shire, Michael Bloomberg. The
self-made billionaire, successful
mayor of New York and spender
of the most money is in danger of
quickly becoming the dominant
Democrat.
Sanders and others in the
party are feigning rage about
Bloomberg’s ability to buy the
election with his own money,
a practice I find sometimes
superior to using other people’s
money, notably the dark money
of special interests.
So for now, “I like Mike” looks
like a winning slogan.
Simsbury resident Dick Ahles
is a retired journalist. Email him
at rahles1@outlook.com.

The vengeful, lawless Donald Trump explodes

out of the 1,990 needed to be
nominated for president. An
estimated 98 to 99 percent of
the Democrats in this disor-

ganized political party haven’t
voted yet. Let us hope that the
caucus system will not survive
this election year and the parties
will find a way to replace the first
primary state.
These historical non-events
in two insignificant states did
produce a bevy of losers, the
most prominent being Don-
ald J. Trump, who got himself
impeached for trying to get a
foreign government to come up
with dirt on an opponent who
came in fourth in Iowa and fifth
in New Hampshire. It’s possible
that the opponent, Joe Biden,
will bounce back, but not high
enough to become the nominee.
So this may explain why
our president quickly became
shocked, yes shocked, that Mi-
chael Bloomberg had been an
advocate of a vigorous stop and
frisk program in New York’s
minority neighborhoods, a
practice also advocated by citizen
Trump. I wonder which nations
are in the running to look for
Bloomberg dirt.
The object of Trump’s im-
peachable quest, the obviously
aging former vice president, now
leads the list of losers by virtue
of doing poorly in the 32nd and
42nd largest states. And, as Gail
Collins noted in The New York
Times, Biden has now run for
president three times without
winning a primary. Or coming
in second. Or third.
Also on the loser list is New
Hampshire’s other neighbor in
T
he day after his acquittal
on two charges of im-
peachment by the Repub-
lican Party in a trial that banned
witnesses, the unhinged Presi-
dent Donald Trump gloated for
over an hour on all the television
networks. Trump flattered his
courtiers, one by one, and fulmi-
nated against his congressional
adversaries, Hillary Clinton and
ex-FBI chief James Comey.
Donald Trump’s speech de-
graded his office for the ages.
Trump lied about himself and
others and received applause
from the assembled sycophants.
The morning of his speech,
Trump attended a prayer break-
fast. Trump never goes to church
to atone for his habitual, ca-
reer-long violations of seven of
the Ten Commandments. His
hypocrisy has no bounds.
Tightening his dictatorial grip
on the U.S. government, Trump
pledged to destroy his opponents
— from House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi to Sen. Adam Schiff to the
“radical, socialist Democrats.”
These shameful threats cannot
be taken lightly. Never forget
Trump saying “I have an Article
II, where I have the right to do
whatever I want as President.”
The egomaniacal Trump is
inebriated with his disgraceful
acquittal, convinced of his own
innocence, despite the clear ev-
idence of his guilt. No apologies,
no remorse, since he never does
“anything wrong.” Trump’s petu-
lant actions could make him an
object of abject pity were he not in
a position to start wars, shred the
Constitution, repeal life-saving
regulations, and turn the U.S.
government over to avaricious
giant corporations.
In politics, the tactical ques-
tion between the contestants
is who is on the offensive and
who is on the defensive. Trump
knows this in his gut. How do
the Democrats regroup? Nancy
Pelosi did not send a broad array
of impeachable offenses to the
Senate — some with clear kitchen
table appeal. Sending just the ar-
ticles dealing with abuse of power
and obstruction of Congress
stemming from the Ukraine
extortion assured a Republican
kangaroo court acquittal. Early
polls don’t indicate the imper-
fect trial diminishing his public
support. What Democrats have
going for them is the certainty
that Trump will continue to com-
mit daily impeachable offenses,
including defying congressional
subpoenas. Despite these daily
offenses, Trump continues to
mock the Democrats. He is prac-
tically begging them to pursue a
second round of impeachment
charges. They should do so just
to defend the critical checks
and balances required by the
Constitution.
Trump’s actions are a depar-
ture from those of Bill Clinton.
After his Senate acquittal, Clin-
ton spoke for only two minutes
on television and he used his time
to express regret and apologize.
In The Public
Interest
Ralph Nader
Trump exploded with rage,
vindictiveness, and plans for
revenge. His unseemly outburst
at the annual National Prayer
Breakfast smashed all precedent.
After acquittal, Washington
Post columnist Dana Milbank
wrote: “He described his political
opponents as ‘bad,’ ‘dirty,’ ‘horri-
ble,’ ‘evil,’ ‘sick,’ ‘corrupt,’ ‘scum,’
‘leakers,’ ‘liars,’ ‘vicious,’ ‘mean,’
‘lowlife,’ ‘non-people,’ ‘stone-
cold crazy,’ and ‘The crookedest,
most dishonest, dirtiest people
I’ve ever seen.’” Mostly, the exact
description of the person he sees
in the mirror. Conservative col-
umnist Michael Gerson warned
further: “…we are reaching a
very dangerous moment in our
national life. The president is
seized by rage and resentment…
for all to see and hear. He now
feels unchecked and uncheck-
able. And he has a position of
tremendous power. That is what
happens when a sociopath gets
away with something.”
Another columnist, Cather-
ine Rampell, lists past vengeful
uses of his power to twist pro-
curement contracts and antitrust
enforcement decisions against
his enemies. She calls it “weap-
After his Senate acquittal, Clinton spoke for only two
minutes on television and he used his time to express
regret and apologize.
onizing the presidency.”
For example, Trump doesn’t
like CNN so he ordered the Jus-
tice Department to challenge the
AT&T merger with Time Warner
in court (unsuccessfully).
The White House has refused
to give Congress documents that
could reveal whether Trump
intervened for personal political
advantage. Congress is the only
institution that has the authority
given to it by the Founders to
thwart a fast-emerging monarch.
Defying congressional sub-
poenas is a slam dunk impeach-
able offense. No resort to the
courts is required. Congress
has plenary power to enforce
its subpoenas. When Trump
ignores Congress’s constitutional
authority, all other powers of
Congress are debilitated. These
include the powers to spend, tax,
declare war, confirm nominees
and, of course, to check a run-
away executive branch under a
dictatorial, seriously unstable,
chronically lying president.
Under “Moscow Mitch,” Sen.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate
has been shut down. The only
time the Senate takes any action
is when it acts like Trump’s lap-
dog. Sen. McConnell is sitting
on over 300 bills passed by the
House, including legislation
for defying one subpoena. Trump
holds the presidential record for
tearing up subpoenas for both
witnesses and documents.
He has raised the stakes as
to whether the Congress as
the central institution of our
government will survive his
executive branch shredding of
the Constitution.
Given what they said, wrote,
and placed into the Constitution,
the number one concern of
Thomas Jefferson, James Mad-
ison, George Mason, Benjamin
Franklin and George Wash-
ington was to prevent another
King George III — a monarch
in practice if not in name. They
implemented this priority by
placing the most powerful au-
thorities by far in the Congress.
Trump is daring the House
of Representatives to challenge
his outlawry and abdicate the
constitutional obligation to im-
pose “checks and balances” on
the executive branch. An article
of impeachment regarding mass
subpoena defiance needs no
witnesses, is clear-cut, and can
be approved in less than a day
and sent to the Senate. Then the
people can see whether McCon-
nell will say that the people need
volumes of information about
Trump corruptly destroying

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their health, safety and economic
protections and turning our
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ditchmitchfund.com/). Kitchen table issues are every-
That leaves the House of where behind those subpoenas
Representatives, which Trump by ongoing House Committee
promises to punish. What Speak- investigations. The spreading

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imple relevance remains a
big challenge in politics and
activism in Connecticut.
State government is as insolvent
as ever, facing big projected
annual deficits and unfunded
pension obligations beyond
$100 billion. But the state Senate
Democratic majority’s agenda
for the new session of the General
Assembly includes little about
saving money or improving
efficiency but lots of trivia.
The Senate Democratic agen-
da would appropriate more mon-
ey for abortion-provider Planned
Parenthood to reimburse money
the federal government will no
longer give the organization be-
cause of its abortion business. It’s
as if Planned Parenthood doesn’t
have a huge endowment and isn’t
in far better financial shape than
state government itself.
Also on the Senate Dem-
ocratic agenda is requiring
men’s bathrooms in new gov-
ernment buildings to include
diaper-changing stations. A
thoughtful touch, to be sure, but
an odd one for taking precedence
over state government’s many
bigger but unaddressed failings,
from pensions to poverty.
Over in the House, which also
has a big Democratic majority,
But if state legislators
can’t get relevant,
how can mere college
students be expected
to?
Speaker Joe Aresimowicz wants
to outlaw the use of Indian mas-
cots by high school sports teams.
Politically correct, yes, but Indian
mascots are not as offensive as
the awarding of diplomas to
thousands of illiterate students
graduating from Connecticut
high schools every year, an of-
fense that never makes anyone’s
agenda at the state Capitol.
Recently at the Waterbury
branch of the University of
Connecticut, students protested
a lunch table serving sandwiches
from Chick-fil-A, whose charita-
ble foundation used to support
supposedly hateful organiza-
tions, like the Salvation Army,
which did not endorse same-sex
marriage, just as Barack Obama,
now a darling of the political left,
did not always support it. A few
months ago Chick-fil-A’s foun-
dation abjectly surrendered in
the culture war, but, fuming with
outrage, the UConn students
The Chris
Powell
Column
seemed to have missed the story.
Indeed, the students also
seem to have missed the endless
imperial war in Afghanistan, the
Federal Reserve’s subsidies to
Wall Street investment banks,
and the daily shootings in Con-
necticut’s cities, among other
issues more compelling than
chicken sandwiches.
But if state legislators can’t get
relevant, how can mere college
students be expected to?
u u u County, this is a significant change. In
Nothing is more important
than seeing that children have
good parents, and no job is
harder than dealing with negli-
gent parents. But that’s what the
state Department of Children
and Families (DCF) does, and as
reported recently by the Journal
Inquirer’s Will Healey, the indus-
triousness of a DCF social work-
er, Tanya Cruz of Manchester,
recently achieved a miraculous
outcome for a bad situation.
For reasons DCF cannot ex-
plain because of privacy rules, the
department had taken custody of
a young boy from his mother and
placed him in foster care. No one
in authority knew who the boy’s
father might be or where he was.
But Cruz’s diligent research pro-
vided a clue, and more research
led her to a man in Belgium.
The man, married with three
sons, had no idea he might have
a fourth one. But he honorably
acknowledged the possibility
and volunteered for a paternity
test. Confirmed as the father, he
wanted the boy to join his family,
as did his wife and other sons.
Arranging an international
adoption brought more challeng-
es, but DCF overcame them and
the boy is now doing well in his
new home, well loved with blood
relatives and with a brighter fu-
ture than more foster care might
have provided.
Maybe someday the boy will
reflect on how that DCF social
worker saved him. Connecticut
should reflect on it now.
Chris Powell is a columnist
for the Journal Inquirer in Man-
chester.
er Nancy Pelosi must now do is to “Ditch Mitch” movement in
assemble her more than willing
Committee Chairs and collect all
Kentucky will be watching Sen.
McConnell.
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Positive change at
ington as Connecticut food ad- Ray Cowan, is on the Dean’s List
ministrator. at Bob Jones University, S.C.,
where she is a junior in the art
LAKEVILLE — Miss Mar- program.

Sharon Hospital
garet Garrity is once more on
duty at the switchboard of the The first edition of the KCS
telephone exchange after being Scope, a digest of news from
absent several weeks on account

W
Kent Center School, came off the
of illness. presses this week to wide acclaim
hat is it, exactly, that can convince a com-
from parents, teachers and stu-
munity that a critical resource that has had The use of autos in this sec- dents. The three-page newspa-
challenges in the past is ready to make a tion is now impossible owing per is edited by teacher Robert
turnaround? Certainly not simple lip service. It takes to highway conditions, and the Pratt, who instigated the pop-
action that comes as a result of listening to those who horse is now temporarily mon- ular WKCS school broadcasts
care about this resource, directly focusing on areas in arch of the roads. last year. He is assisted by other
need of improvement like a laser. staff members and students, and
PHOTO BY DEBRA A. ALEKSINAS The entire roof of the barn at plans to publish about four times
This is just the message that the new president at
Sharon Hospital is putting out for all who will listen. Snowfall on pavilion the old Milmine place near the
Connecticut School has caved in
a year.
Dr. Mark Hirko (see an interview with him in the Feb. owing to the weight of the snow For Rent: BEAUTIFUL 4
6 Lakeville Journal and the Jan. 30 Millerton News, by on its roof. rooms, heat, hot water, garage
Cynthia Hochswender) acknowledges that the chang-
es in ownership over the past years at the facility have
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR While most of the roads are
space. Adults only. Lease. $175.
Tel. 435-2923.
made continuity difficult at best. In that interview with now broken out the traveling is
still very bad and the footing for

Thanks to Pam, our

Hochswender, Hirko said, “We have to get the word out 25 years ago — February
horses very uncertain and to a 1995
to our administrators, staff and physicians that we all certain limit rather dangerous.
need to work together.” He also emphasized that, “Pa- CORNWALL — Tuesday’s

school crossing guard

meeting of the Housatonic Riv-
tients come first. We are here to help the community.” 50 years ago — February er Commission drew a larger
The hospital is looking into oncology on site, and 1970 than usual crowd for a promised
finding the right ways to keep maternity services in Two Sharon students have airing of commission concerns
Sharon. And Hirko said that the Emergency Depart- As we settle into 2020, the eye, saying, “big storm tonight,” made the Dean’s List this past about the Housatonic Railroad
ment ratings have “massively improved.” Other services topic of new beginnings has been your freedom the next day was semester. Donald Meuten, son and that firm’s response. First Se-
on my mind. Not only does the close to guaranteed. of Mr. and Mrs. John Meuten, lectmen from Canaan, Kent and
are being evaluated now, so it is a good time to let made the list at the University of
new year encourage us to make When looking back on my Cornwall were present as well
Hirko and board members, including Chairman Rich- resolutions — to eat healthier, childhood, Pam emerges as a fig- Connecticut where he is a senior
ard Cantele of Salisbury, what new and old services are as State Rep. Andrew Roraback.
to spend more time with family, ure of vast importance. When I
most important to you and your loved ones, and what to teach our grandparents how was 8 years old, I profiled her for
your experiences have been at the hospital.
Hirko will be making the rounds at public events,
having begun on Feb. 13 at a welcome reception in
to FaceTime (finally!) — but it
offers the clean slate of an en-
tire decade to shape our lives.
a “community figures” school as-
signment. Even in fourth grade,
I could perceive the importance
SWSA grateful for
all the support
Amenia at Monte’s Local Kitchen, speaking with and For Pam Sands, 2020 brings a she held in our community. She
much-deserved respite from a kept my friends and me safe, and
listening to community members about their experi-
career in the service of our com- truly loved doing it.
ences at Sharon Hospital. At last Thursday’s event (see munity. The community, in turn, In my interview, I asked Pam
a story on it by Hochswender this week on page A1), will miss her dearly. how she got her job. The answer, On behalf of the directors of Volunteer Ambulance Squad,
Hirko heard individually from more than one area Pam has been the Salisbury it turns out, was that she always Salisbury Winter Sports Associa- The White Hart Inn and Lakeville
resident in the large crowd about how they and many of Central School crossing guard dreamed of being a crossing tion, I would like to thank all our Hose Ladies Auxiliary for their
their family members had been born at Sharon Hos- for 17 years. Every day, rain or guard. She lived just down the sponsors and those who came partnerships and help through-
pital, and had a special relationship with the facility shine, she has stood on the cor- street from the crosswalk, in a and supported our 94th year out the event.
ner of Prospect and Main, usher- yellow house on Main Street, and of jumping this past weekend. We look forward to seeing
because of that. He listened sympathetically and took Great crowds and exceptional everyone again next year!
ing students across the street and would see her friend’s husband
it all in. He surely heard the message that when small wishing them a nice day. Her late stopping traffic every day. She weather helped in making it a Ken Barker
communities have a medical facility that has been the dog Jackson would peer out the loved the kids, and loved the great success. President
focal point of life, illness and death for generations, the window of her maroon Toyota, town of Salisbury. She waited Special thanks to Lakeville Salisbury Winter Sports
emotional ties to it are strong. and became something of a local patiently until the job opened up. Hose Company, Sunday In the Association
There is something different about a smaller hospital, celebrity himself. To say that Pam excelled at Country Food Drive, Salisbury Salisbury
a more personal connection to the staff, as compared Pam knew the name of every her job is an understatement. To
to the often excellent care at large urban centers. But local student. She could identify say that the community loved
it is to the credit of that Sharon Hospital staff that the the troublemakers, the ones that and appreciated her would be an
were always late to school, and understatement as well. Simply
facility, as revealed in press releases recently, has earned the ones who raced down the put, she is a pillar in our commu-
a 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Med- hill every day. If someone stayed nity, and the families of Prospect,
icaid Services for quality patient care. The hospital has home with a cold, she knew, and Lakeview, Bostwick, East, and
also earned a grade A hospital rating in The Leapfrog would ask them how they were beyond will be forever in her
Group’s spring and fall 2019 safety grades. feeling the next morning. She debt. On behalf of all the walkers,
Congratulations to the staff for the honors they’ve also had an uncanny knack for I wish Pam a happy retirement.
earned for the hospital. Here’s hoping Dr. Hirko will predicting snow days. If Pam Hannah Pouler
looked at you with a glint in her Lakeville
stick around for a while and offer the kind of leadership
that will keep them on a positive path for providing
high quality health care to their communities.

Pelosi leads her troops on a tear American flag: Lakeville barn

PHOTO BY DEBRA A. ALEKSINAS

W
ith the acquittal of
President Trump by
the Republican-con-
trolled Senate, Democrats and
the press are more convinced
than ever of their own virtue and
character, even as they redouble
their efforts to charge Trump and
the Republicans with tearing the
country apart.
But to believe that the country
is imploding because of Trump
and the political right, you have
to accept all the left’s lies and
distortions.
First, you have to buy the me-
dia and Democratic party’s claim
that Trump wanted Ukraine to
investigate the Bidens just to help
Trump win the next election.
The left doesn’t know if that was
Trump’s real motivation or not.
They just insist it was in order
to make their “abuse of power”
claim.
Trump’s main motivation
might have been just what he
said it was — to fight corruption
in Ukraine before releasing $400
million in U.S. funds. After all,
that was exactly what Joe Biden
claimed he was doing when he
held up $1 billion to Ukraine. The
left had no trouble believing him.
Or Trump may have simply
wanted to get back at Biden and
the Obama administration for
his belief they were investigat-
ing him in 2016. Trump may not
have been thinking ahead to 2020
Off the
Record
Mark Godburn
at all. It wouldn’t have been the
first time he focused on revenge
over everything else.
Second, you have to swallow
the left’s fiction that there was ab-
solutely no evidence the Bidens
did anything wrong in Ukraine,
which, if true, would have made
Trump’s rationale for wanting
them investigated unfounded.
In reality, everything the Bidens
did in Ukraine was corrupt and
an investigation was entirely jus-
tified. But the Democrats and
press didn’t want Republicans
to “change the subject.” They
wanted to bring Trump down,
not Joe Biden.
Third, you have to accept
the left’s phony “obstruction of
Congress” charge. Trump didn’t
obstruct anything. He was fully
justified in claiming executive
privilege.
As Professor Jonathan Turley
of Georgetown University ex-
plained, the House Democrats
needed to take Trump’s privilege
claims to court. Had the courts
ruled against Trump, and had
Trump still refused at that point
to let his people testify, then and
only then would Trump have
been guilty of obstruction.
There actually was a court
decision on executive privilege
pending last fall regarding the
testimony of Trump’s Deputy Na-
tional Security Advisor Charles
Kupperman. But Democrats,
fearing that a favorable ruling for
Trump would have killed their
obstruction charge, withdrew
their subpoena for Kupperman’s
testimony and asked the judge to
moot the case. So much for the
virtuous, truth-seeking left.
Fourth, to side with the Dem-
ocrats and press, you have to buy
their sanitized story that they
only pursued Trump when he
did terrible things that demand-
ed investigation. Wrong again.
They targeted Trump every day
for three years over everything.
In doing so, I believe they lied
and distorted more than Trump
himself.
Thus, when Trump snubbed
Nancy Pelosi by refusing to
shake her hand at the State of
the Union, she was only getting
what she and the left deserved.
She had authorized a fraudulent
impeachment inquiry. Her team
conducted a shoddy, incomplete
investigation. She demanded the
Senate complete the job for her.
She pronounced Trump guilty
before a verdict was rendered.
The fawning press supported it
all.
Pelosi showed her true lack of
class when she tore up Trump’s
State of the Union speech be-
hind his back. Though the press
defended the shredding, some
commentators called it “catty.”
Had the genders been reversed,
male bullying would have been
charged.
Nor was this Pelosi’s first
classless stunt. Remember those
ludicrous commemorative pens
with her name on them that
she used to sign the Articles of
Impeachment? Not the somber
occasion she claimed it was. Get
one today while supplies last.
Those plastic pens were a fit-
ting prop for a politician who
does a tremendous disservice to
all seniors by constantly trying
to look 40 at 80. (When I men-
tioned this in a letter to The New
York Times, the editor private-
ly agreed with me, though she
didn’t want to make that point
in print. The bias at the Times
wouldn’t allow it.)
Impeachment and acquittal
haven’t torn the country apart.
The real crisis for the left is that
Trump has enacted Republican
policies, installed hundreds of
traditional judges and tried to
bring order to the border.
Mark Godburn is a booksell-
er in Norfolk and the author of
“Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jack-
ets” (2016).
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A10 THE LAKEVILLE JOURNAL, Thursday, February 20, 2020
COMPASS
Your Guide to Tri-State Events
ART: TILLY STRAUSS
Quilts Made of Matchbooks
That Ignite Ideas, at Wassaic
I
n the cool crisp air of the
cavernous Wassaic Proj-
ect grain elevator stand
or drape seven large quilts
in a show titled, “Heirloom:
Quilts from Another Country
Quilt Cycle.”
Walking through, at first
glance they can seem silent
and even severe. It takes
further reading, and peeking
closely, to decipher the con-
ceptual layers and emotional
heat behind the works. The
labels only inform the viewer
of title, ingredients, dimen-
sion and date completed;
there is so much more to
share.
Quilts are the quintessen-
tial heirlooms, passed down
through generations. They
map our stories and stitch
together family and commu-
nity.
Quilts have warmed us,
aided with healing, and
silently comforted us in our
beliefs. Historical lore has
quilts serving most famously
as poetic signposts pointing
black slaves to promises of
freedom along the Under-
ground Railroad.
This show does not point
to freedom.
These DARNstudio quilts
have a more sinister air.
The patterns and colors are
comprised of units made
out of souvenir matchbooks
lashed together and backed
Annual Dance Performance ~ Hotchkiss Dance Company
February 28 & 29, 7:30 p.m. Walker Auditorium
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TRUPPE FLEDERMAUS & THE CARNIVAL AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Ron Norsworthy, standing at left in photo, and David
Anthone turn tradition on its head with “quilts” made
of matchboxes that commemorate incidences of
violence and social injustice. A show of their work is
at the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, N.Y., this month.
with thick gray felt. The
places commemorated on
the books of matches are of
mundane sites: a train sta-
tion platform, a convenience
store, a sheriff ’s jail cell, a
traffic-stop intersection.
Put together by the collab-
orative duo of DARNStudio,
based in Roxbury, Conn.,
these quilts are part of a larg-
er series-in-process, making
a statement about the killing
Feb. 20 - Feb. 26, 2020
PHOTO SUBMITTED
of unarmed black American
men.
David Anthone and Ron
Norsworthy, the DARNstu-
dio artists, design logos for
each new place where such
a killing has occurred and
they then print thousands
of custom-designed match-
books.
Flipped back to front
for the sake of variety and
rhythm, the matchbook
Mia Goth and Anya Taylor-Joy in “Emma.”
fronts bear letters and num-
MOVIES: JENNY HANSELL
bers, codifying the names
and most recent dates of a
death of a victim at the hands
Anticipating a
of police, stand-your-ground
incidents and other traumat- Delicious New
‘Emma.’ Film
ic events.
Vaguely resembling the
patterns of coded quilt sig-
I
nage, these are contemporary t is a truth univer- Alan Rickman as Col.
pictographs where crows in sally acknowledged Brandon says, “Give me
the sky replace flying geese. that the best adap- an occupation, Miss
In the quilt titled “Amplify,” tation of Jane Austen’s Dashwood, or I shall
the volume symbol of our “Emma” is the 1996 run mad.”
cell phones is replicated over film “Clueless,” in which But I digress.
and over. Pattern titles such Alicia Silverstone played Although, may I just
as “Snake in the Garden,” “Go the main character as a put in a word for the
High” and “Double Cross” are Beverly Hills princess. 1999 “Mansfield Park”
an update for a vehicle that But there has been — controversial in its
explores inherited trauma no shortage of more departures from the
and policy bias. traditional adaptations text but right in line
This is the new story quilt in the last couple of de- with this year’s “Lit-
that we, as a culture, are cades — most famously, tle Women” in how it
creating as heirlooms to pass the Gwyneth Paltrow/ blends the character of
down through generations. Jeremy Northam version the author herself with
Each quilt of 2,800 match- from 1995, but also her lead character.
books appears colorful and the excellent televi- OK, back to “Emma.”
comforting, but in actuality sion movie a year later A new film adap-
each has flashpoints. Each starring Kate Beckinsale tation of “Emma” hits
matchbook is a spark and and Mark Strong, and theaters next week, and
a part of an overall blaze of my personal favorite, it promises to sizzle
conversation that needs to be the 2009 mini-series a bit more than those
shared. starting Romola Garai older versions. (Hope-
“Heirloom: Quilts from and Jonny Lee Miller fully not as much as
Another Country Quilt (swoon). the sexed-up and truly
Cycle” is at the Wassaic The mid-1990s were dreadful “Sanditon,”
Project in Wassaic, N.Y., until a great time for Aus- concluding this week
March 28. The Maxon Mills ten adaptations — of on PBS.)
Gallery is open from noon course, the much-loved This “Emma.” (the
to 5 p.m. every Saturday BBC “Pride and Preju- period is included in
and Sunday; admission is dice” featuring Jennifer the title) features Anya
free. To learn more, go to Ehle and Colin Firth Taylor-Joy as Emma
www.wassaicproject.org/ (emerging shirtless and Johnny Flynn as
events/2020-heirlooms. from the lake), and Mr. Knightley. Neither
the superb “Sense and is familiar to me: Tay-
Tilly Strauss lives, writes Sensibility,” written by lor-Joy is probably best
and paints on a family farm in and starring Emma known from the show
North East, N.Y. She returned Thompson, which has “Peaky Blinders,” and
recently from years spent my single favorite line of the very hunky Flynn is
teaching in Miami, Fla., and is Austen-movie dialogue: a singer-songwriter. It
now searching for art and an- When Marianne is sick, also features the divine
ecdotes to keep her inspired. Bill Nighy as Emma’s
frail and nervous fa-
ther, Mr. Woodhouse —
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story of a comfortably
wealthy young woman;
unlike most Austen
heroines, she has no
need to find herself a
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… ‘Emma.’ Continued from previous page
houses and misty hills that
any period piece ought
completist, I am eager to
find out.
to, along with the stylish
flourishes of its director,
“Emma.” opens widely on
Feb. 21 and will be at The
Autumn de Wilde, who is Moviehouse in Millerton;
amounts, small and large,
best known for her music check www.themoviehouse.
that they can muster.
videos and photography. net for exact date and
As for the film, it suffers
Will it have the nuanced wit times.
greatly from what drive-in
(“Emma” is truly the funni-
movie critic Joe Bob Briggs
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calls “too much plot getting
deeply observed battles for nado of all things dance,
in the way of the story.”
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It’s one of those “Can’t
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they all lose?” deals.
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Which doesn’t mean it’s
As an Austen-adaptation Northampton, Mass.
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