Volume 18, Number 41
Berlin’s Only Hometown Newspaper
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
Coats thrash Beavers, reach title game By Nate Brown The Berlin Citizen
Based off the atmosphere, you would’ve thought this one didn’t go quite as planned for Berlin. The crowd had quieted from a noisy and rambunctious group to a mellow mass simply looking for the exits. Even players and
coaches alike were stoic in their post game mannerisms and interviews. Despite demolishing the Cheney Tech Beavers 49-3 in the two teams’ Class M Large Division semifinal matchup, the Berlin Redcoats realize that while they’re ever closer to the mecca of high school footSee Game / Page 20
Lt. Chris Ciuci with Berlin High School student bikers on Farmington Avenue, including 9th grade student Erika Gilleran, front. | B.P.D. Facebook
Cops help kids put bicycles to good use etiquette and rules of the to thank the bike shop Cenroad, and when ready, are al- tral Wheel of Farmington, lowed to ride bicycles to a lo- which donated the vast maBerlin police Lt. Chris Ci- cal businesses for donuts or jority of bikes used at BHS. Arnold is a former employee uci recently encountered a ice cream. Arnold said he also wanted of Central Wheel. biker gang on Farmington Avenue – made up of Berlin High School students on bicycles who are part of teacher Jim Arnold’s Lifetime Activities class. Arnold explained that local We knock out the Competition LLC police have helped to support the biking program at BHS by donating unclaimed bicycles. MEMBER “Instead of those bikes being destroyed they come back With Full Safety Inspection into use for students,” ArNEW CONSTRUCTION • REPAIRS • REPOINTING nold said. CAPS • LINERS • RESTORATION • STUCCO (All Types) As many of the donated bikes are in poor condition, Arnold said it often takes as many as three derelict bikes FREE ESTIMATES / HIGH QUALITY WORK to build into one working biGREAT PRICES cycle. Once built, however, the bicycles support the BHS CALL TODAY: 860-594-8607 bike program as well as stuCHECK OUT WWW.CHIMNEYCHAMPS.COM FOR SUMMER SAVINGS! dents in some gym classes. Fully Licensed & Insured # 628054 Students are taught proper By Charles Kreutzkamp The Berlin Citizen
Students take $1.50 per day challenge By Charles Kreutzkamp The Berlin Citizen
Could you purchase a decent meal for $1.50? Try an entire day’s worth of food – nine local teens and their teacher are doing exactly that as part of a fundraiser for the “Live
Below the Line Challenge.” This anti-poverty campaign, which began in Australia in 2010, was created by The Global Poverty Project. The teens say they hope to raise $1,500 for global poverty See Challenge / Page 23
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Members of Ryan Ott’s global poverty class pose for a photo for their fundraising webpage.