The Berlin Citizen March 11, 2021 by Record Journal

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Volume 23, Number 10

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Veach talks taxes, legislative priorities

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After serving as a Berlin town councilor for two years, Donna Veach realized there were “limitations on what she could do at a local level.” Seeking to bring bigger changes, Veach ran for a legislative position and in January, was elected to represent the 30th District, which encompasses parts of Berlin and Southington.

James and Regina Green, of Berlin, share their thoughts after receiving the COVID19 vaccine during a clinic at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, Friday, March 5. With vaccination surging, the virus that has killed 7,693 Connecticut residents and 521,000 nationwide is finally starting to get beaten back. See story on Page 21. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal

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Mayor Mark Kaczynski attended the salon’s ribbon-cutting ceremony and indicated he hopes to be at many more such One of Berlin's newest businesses offers events. “COVID-19 seems to be slowing a variety of hair and nail services. down, vaccines are rolling out, warmer Mia Bella Salon is run by friends Jennifer weather is coming, I think it’s a good time for businesses to start opening,” the Gendron, Wendy Gervais and Stefanie Gagnon, all of whom have over 25 years mayor said. of professional hairstyling experience. See Salon, A13

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Veach is a strong advocate against new taxes and for cutting spending. “With a Republican majority in Berlin, we were able to freeze property taxes here. But on the state level, I feel that the current mindset of raising taxes and adding one new tax after another is detrimental to all of Connecticut,” she said. A small business owner, Veach wants to help boost the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, especially manufacturing. Also, she strongly opposes the Police Accountability Bill, believing it was “not appropriately evaluated as to how

Donna Veach was sworn into office in January, beginning her first term as state representative of the 30th District. Photo courtesy of Donna Veach

it would affect citizens.” “A key way for state officials to address the recent surge in crime is to re-evaluate and modify the Accountability Bill, which was pushed through in haste,” she said. In February, Veach co-sponsored a bill that addresses an uptick in juvenile car thefts across the state. The bill proposes to transfer larceny or attempted larceny cases that involve a juvenile to the regular criminal docket as well as expand the circumstances that allow a juvenile to be deSee Veach, A13

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Youth organizations, CIAC, YMCA herald easing of sport restrictions By Sean Krofssik Record-Journal staff

There was excitement Friday among the CIAC, area YMCAs and area youth sports organizations following the news that Gov. Ned Lamont was lifting restrictions on sports starting March 19. In Wallingford, the Wallingford Hawks youth hockey organization was pleased to hear the news. League president David Fritz said he will reach out to his coaches in hopes of setting up a postseason tournament in the coming weeks. “Tournaments were banned until yesterday,” Fritz noted. “Usually, he have our tournaments laid out by now. The Hawks would like to host a tournament to give our kids some closure at the end of the year.”

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Fritz said the league has maintained safe protocols, and a 20-year tradition of taking six Hawks teams to Lake Placid, N.Y. was broken.

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“We are happy to be able to hold a season-ending tournament,” Fritz said. “We are trying to create a sense of normalcy in this chaotic time.”

“We will be doing it in a smart and safe way,” Benigni said. “We are still practicing social distancing and mask wearing. We are still doing proper hand washing, but we are going to be offering more programs and more participants when the governor’s new regulations go into effect on March 19.”

John Benigni, the CEO of the Meriden-New BritainBerlin YMCA, said participation at his organization has been up across the board in recent weeks, but has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.

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Local Catholic school has thrived amid pandemic Saint Paul School re-opened during the COVID pandemic last August, and students were excited to return fulltime with in-person instruction. Classrooms in K-5 have desk shields, and student bathrooms were renovated providing touchless sinks, toilets, paper towel dispensers and water bottle fountains.

we have safely broken into two groups so students are social distancing during these special classes. We have even continued to hold lunches in our cafeteria, now providing four lunch waves, which allows us to space our students out when they are eating. When we re-opened, we welcomed over 60 new students and are excited to share we have close to that many new students registered already for the 20212022 academic year.

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program grants, general operating support and seed grants for new programs. The next grant application deadline is Thursday, April 15. Questions regarding the application process should be directed to Candice Tabone: 860-2296018 ext. 300, ctabone@ cfgnb.org. For more information, visit ccnbb.org.

Connecticut State Treasurer and Trustee of the Connecticut Higher Education Trust, Shawn T. Wooden, has relaunched the state’s 529 college savings plan under new program manager, Fidelity Investments. Existing CHET Direct Plan account owners should visit Fidelity.com/ CHETactivate to activate their accounts. The CHET Advisor Plan will be effective on Monday, March 22. New enhancements to the CHET plan include no minimum amount to open a CHET Direct 529 account, no annual account fees, and free planning and guidance for families. For more information, visit AboutChet.com.

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Berlin nearly out of coronavirus red zone While the town’s numbers continue to move in the right direction, Berlin remains in the coronavirus red zone; just barely. The color coded status for cities and towns represents two weeks of cases. The trigger for red status starts at a rate of 15 cases per 100,000 people per day.

The state’s most recent report, issued March 4, showed 44 positive cases in Berlin, which works out to an average of 15.4 daily cases. This leaves the town just outside “orange” status, which is 10 to 14 cases per 100,000 people. According to the March 4 report, the total of laboratory-

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The Berlin Veterans Commission is looking for military families with at least one family member who lives or has lived in Berlin, to be immortalized on the Berlin Veterans Digital Wall of Honor. Family members are grouped together, from the earliest to most current time of service.

As of March 1, Connecticut residents age 55 to 64 can get a COVID-19 vaccine. That group will be followed by people 45-54 on March 22; 35-44 years on April 12; and everyone else 34 years and younger on May 3.

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will be allowed to watch programs and games at the Y. Right now, only one parent per child is allowed. The Meriden YMCA basketball program currently has 180 athletes. As far as high school sports, CIAC Executive Director Glenn Lungarini said the CIAC would meet this week to discuss the news. “The announcement was encouraging,” Lungarini said Friday. “All spring sports were previously an-

nounced, with state tournaments, and yesterday’s announcement supports us moving forward with that plan.” As part of the March 19 green light, sports tournaments are now permissible. Is there any chance that winter state tournaments, which are not part of the current season, will be staged after all? Not likely.

off the mat this season. It was considered high-risk for the spread of COVID-19 and the Connecticut Department of Public Health recommended it not be staged. Come March 19, wrestling, like all sports, is a go. Will the CIAC make anything available for those athletes?

“We just received the guidance from the DPH today and we will review the “Our board will meet ... and guidance with the Board will review Thursday’s news, [this week] to determines but I don’t anticipate any what that means,” Lungarichanges as far as tournani said. “I don’t want to ments,” Lungarini said. comment on that without reviewing the material with Then there’s wrestling, a the Board and committee.” winter sport that never got

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Gendron said the salon’s name was inspired by her 12-year-old daughter, Bella. “My poor son David was left out, but I don’t think he wanted to be a part of the salon,” Gendron quipped. At Mia Bella, chairs and equipment are sanitized after each use, and towels are washed and disinfected.

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At the state capitol, Veach replaced longtime legislator Joe Aresimowicz, who became Speaker of the House in 2017 and opted not to run for re-election in 2020.

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and Gendron said the facility received an overwhelmingly positive review from the public. To keep up with a growing customer base, she plans to hire a nail technician and an additional hairdresser.

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Veach runs Copperpott Farm and serves as a Development and Marketing Director at the New Britain Youth Museum and Hungerford Nature Center.

“We don’t do our own laundry because with COVID-19 still present, we felt it would be safer to have our towels professionally sanitized,” Gendron said.

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WALLINGFORD — Standing in the sprawling lobby of the Toyota Oakdale Theater on Friday, Kelly Toth could smile and feel that she and the rest of the health-care industry were finally beating back the deadly virus. Since opening on Monday, March 1 the Hartford Healthcare mass vaccination site — one of four new centers statewide — had seen 100 to 200 patients a day, with 502 expected by the end of a very long day on Friday. Three hundred and two patients were expected in during the day, with 200 educators coming in to a teachers-only clinic that night, said Toth, a nurse practitioner who manages Oakdale and another megavaccine site at Liberty Square in New Britain for Hartford Healthcare.

Connecticut residents and 521,000 nationwide is finally starting to get beaten back, Toth said.

er that they actually did have an appointment — no walkins allowed — to get a coronavirus vaccine.

“And for me, it's very meaningful, because I feel like I'm finally on the other side of the pandemic, and I'm able to see it through,” Toth said. “And, you know, it's hope for me. It's hope for the public.”

Between the outer door and snaking through a good portion of the right side of lobby, almost to the grand redcarpeted staircases that lead to the auditorium, was an array of retractable belt barriers, aisles for patients to stand in, and a much more formidable steel barricade bifurcating the room. To the left were small groups of two chairs each, much more than socially-distanced in the vast space, and beyond them all, closest to the staircase, was a row of five stations where the vaccines

Lots of lines but little waiting The conversion from entertainment venue to mass vaccination site didn’t change the Oakdale much. Between the long sets of outer and inner doors outside the lobby stood a woman acting as receptionist and a security man dressed in what looked like Army fatigues, stern but polite.

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were administered. The atmosphere was sedate, and, excepting for the 15 minutes the recently vaccinated had to sit before being allowed to leave, timely. That placidity was not as present earlier in the week, when “a couple of incidences with the public” occurred, forcing increased security measures. Several people appeared without appointments and got emotional but not violent when they were told the vaccine wouldn’t be available for them until they made appointments, Toth said. “I understand that there's a large group of people out

there that are eligible and it's very challenging to get appointments. So folks coming in that don't have appointments are emotional about it. They’re stressed out,” Toth said. “So now, the only people allowed in the building are appointmentonly.”

Pandemic stress begins to ebb Sitting together after their first vaccinations, James and Regina Green of Berlin said the experience was pleasant enough, or at least untroubling, unlike the time leading up to it. See Oakdale, A23

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that fell hard atop her pain at self-imposed travel restrictions that kept her from visiting her family in Florida, she said.

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They felt no side effects immediately after getting their shots, they said, although the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, which Oakdale is distributing, carries soreness at the site of the injection, mild fever, chills, headaches, fatigue and muscle aches with some patients, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Her husband said he didn’t worry that much. “I’m an outdoors person,” said James Green, an avid golfer and retired heavy equipment operator for the state Department of Transportation.“I figure if I can get outdoors, I can do what I need to do and I will be all right.”

The symptoms can last several days, and are more likely on the second dose administered, according to the FDA .

Nobody should worry about taking the vaccine, he said. “If you can get up in the morning and take an aspirin,” Green said, “go for it.”

Vaccination day, and an end to much of the stress of the pandemic, is welcomed, the Greens said.

Mrs. Green rolled her eyes.

Looking forward to more vaccine Toth manages about 55 people day-to-day at the Wallingford and New Britain vaccination sites. Administering vaccinations, she said, has been a stress reliever for her and the other medical per-

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