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Volume 12, Number 3
Thursday, January 21, 2021
SUBURBAN GARDEN CLUB OF CHESHIRE
Mask sales raise funds for food aid
And new styles are on the way
The Suburban Garden Club of Cheshire continues with its mask sales and some new options for looking good, as you cover up, are coming soon.
According to club members, 100% of sales are donated to local food banks and food pantries. The club has raised just over $25,000 to date.
“We are about to launch an all new line of face masks for adults made with beautiful fabrics not previously avail-
able,” said SGC’s Susan Dillman. The masks will be priced at $5 each.
The supply is somewhat limited, said Dillman, as there are only four masks for most designs. Special features for the masks include using 100%
cotton fabric, with a pocket where a coffee filter, paper towel, or other material can be inserted to provide additional protection. The masks also feature the same type of metal nose strip used in surgical masks to provide a snug fit and help prevent glasses from fogging. “Super-
soft ” elastic goes behind the head rather than around the ears. In this way, the mask can be comfortably worn around the neck when not in use and helps prevent it from being dropped or lost. If desired, masks can easily See Masks, A2
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
‘Game on’ for most Practices launched Jan. 19, contests pushed to Feb. 8, no state tourneys, alternative football season canceled
By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
CHESHIRE — A Connecticut high school winter sports season is officially a go.
Miguel Cardona, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Education, speaks after being introduced at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, on Dec. 23, 2020. Carolyn Kaster, Associated Press
Cardona praised by education experts as he joins the Biden administration By Michael Gagne Record-Journal staff
But it is highly deserved and not all that surprising, say area educators and experts.
Miguel Cardona’s rise from a classroom teacher in the Meriden Public Schools, to building principal and central office administrator, state education commissioner and now nominee for U.S. Secretary of Education may seem meteoric.
Robert Villanova, director of the Executive Leadership Program for the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education where Cardona studied for his administrative credentials, said the nominee possesses “exceptional interpersonal skills.” See Cardona, A10
While games will start a week later than expected and there will be no state tournaments and some teams won’t compete at all, last week a modified winter season was approved by the CIAC Board of Control for basketball, ice hockey, gymnastics and boys swimming. The board determined that practices could start Tuesday, Jan. 19. That’s the start date the CIAC had been eyeing since suspending the winter season in midNovember.
by individual conferences. It replaces the traditional state tournaments the CIAC had hoped to run March 8-21. There is a casualty in the new dateline for winter, and that’s football. The alternative season that had been set up when the CIAC canceled football in the fall, expected to run Feb. 22 through midApril, has been eliminated. With the winter season now extending through March 28 and the spring season slated to start March 29, CIAC Excecutive Director Glenn Lungarini said the window for the alternative season grew too small.
Another factor: Sports deemed high risk for the spread of COVID-19 have Games can start as early as been postponed through Feb. 8. That’s a one-week de- March. That high-risk group lay on the projected start of includes football as well as Feb. 1. wrestling. The postseason, slated for March 15-28, will be staged
See CIAC, A2