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Volume 24, Number 1
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Unique Eagle Scout project benefits church Berlin High School junior Mitchell R. Rivers was awarded his Eagle Scout Badge at a special ceremony held recently at Kensington Congregational Church. Rivers’ Eagle Scout project consisted of planting four large Bartlett pear trees at
Water Aerobics instructor Luis Diaz leads a morning class at the Meriden-New Britain-Berlin YMCA on Dec. 29. Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
Experts give tips for a healthy new year By Karla Santos Record-Journal staff
MERIDEN — One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions is weight loss, but people tend to quickly fall off track. We spoke with experts in the nutrition and fitness industry to help you set realistic lifestyle goals for 2022.
Carrie Marquardt, health & wellness director for the Meriden-New BritainBerlin YMCA, said “the best way to be successful is to set small goals.” She explained that people start the year wanting to do it all at once cutting calories, exercising and giving up cigarettes See Healthy, A12
the church, near the new addition. Rivers planned the project, raised the funds to purchase the trees and arranged to have them delivered to the site. Also, he hand-dug the See Eagle Scout, A2
230 new COVID cases in Berlin The state’s most recent COVID-19 report, which includes two weeks of data, showed 230 positive cases in Berlin, which kept the community in the coronavirus red zone. The trigger for topof-the-chart red status starts at 15 cases per 100,000 people per day. In the previous report, Berlin had 164 cases. Connecticut’s daily COVID positivity rate reached 21.5 percent Monday, setting another record, as the highly
contagious omicron variant continued its spread throughout the state. “I know people are scared and are concerned with hearing about a new variant yet again,” Dr. Manisha Juthani, the state’s public health commissioner, said at a press conference in Stamford Monday morning. “The good news is, if you’re vaccinated and particularly if See COVID, A2
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