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Volume 14, Number 32
Berlin’s Only Hometown Newspaper
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Great playground program may be better next season By Olivia L. Lawrence The Berlin Citizen The playgrounds director reports that 2010 has proven to be a great summer season — and he’d like next year to be even better. While the summer program comes to an end this week, playground Director Jack Rudy already is looking towards next summer. “Next
year there will hopefully be a lot of changes that will benefit the children and parents of Berlin,” said Rudy, who is completing his first year in the job. The summer program has helped families balance summer schedules for more than 40 years and many parents once were en-
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See Playground, page 13
Primary Day Citizen photo by Olivia L. Lawrence
Jenna Chirico, 11, gets a push from playground Director Jack Rudy during the summer session at Percival Field.
9/11 memorial for Berlin gets underway Berlin fire fighters planned to travel to New York City early in the morning, Aug. 10, to collect steel from the World Trade Towers. The materials will be used to create a 9/11 memorial for Berlin in a small park now under design in front of the Kensington Fire Rescue facility on Farmington Avenue. The steel from Ground Zero is housed in hangers at JFK Airport and Kensington Fire Chief Mark Lewandowski will lead the local contingent of emergency workers who will be retrieving the materials. Manafort Brothers Inc., of Plainville, has donated its services to haul the steel. Berlin fire trucks will meet the transport at the state line and escort the artifacts back to town. The Sept. 11 Families Association is granting artifacts to communities that want to create memorials and Lewandowski applied for a grant and met with the group earlier this year to select the pieces to be used at the Berlin site. At this time, the plan is to dedicate the local memorial on the 10 year anniversary of the attack in September 2011. For continuing coverage of this story, check our website and the Aug. 19 edition.
For results from the Aug. 10 primary, visit our website at berlincitizen.com.
‘Homelessness is for the Birds’ takes flight at Berlin Free Library By Pam Fuschino Special to The Citizen Books aren’t the only thing the Berlin Free Library has to offer these days — a bird house that is a perfect replica of the library is also on display. Assistant Librarian Jean Munson, who has worked at the Worthington Ridge library for over 10 years, explained that this birdhouse, will be auctioned off at the Friendship Service Center of New Britain to benefit the homeless. The replica was designed and created by Carol Yorker. The auction will be held Sept. 23 at the Friendship Service Center of New Britain, Trinity-on -Main in New Britain, and will include birdhouses of all sizes and
descriptions. The project is called “Homelessness Is for the Birds” and was created by The Friendship Center of New Britain to raise funds for its residents. Anyone can get involved by designing a birdhouse that will be displayed over the summer at the center and auctioned off in the fall. The library’s fans are taking up a collection with the aim to win the bid on the birdhouse and keep it at the See Project, page 16
Photo by Pam Fuschino
The Berlin Free Library displays its “mini me” — a bird house replica — on Worthington Ridge.