Volume 13, Number 12
cheshirecitizen.com
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Repair Café aims to reduce waste
Veterans sought for military memorial Residents who have served in the armed services, or have a family member who has, are encouraged to notify the town in order that those individuals can have their names added to the rolls at Memorial Plaza at Town Hall. Cheshire Economic Development Coordinator Andrew Martelli is the point of contact for the effort. While the call for veterans to be listed has been sent out previously, this is a renewed effort to make sure that all eligible veterans are included from any war. The intent is to get all the names in and added to the plaques, in time for an unveiling on Memorial Day.
By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
Memorial Plaza at Town Hall.
Michael Herrick, Historical Monument Database, hmdb.org
Applications are available on the town’s website, cheshirect.org. Anyone with questions may inquire at Town Hall, and help with the application is available as well.
The requirements for submittal to be on the wall are: an individual who served and who can provide proof of See Memorial, A6
Community of gardeners share tips, tales online By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
Gardener and farmer Ken Lloyd.
Gardeners with questions about when to plant peas, where to buy heirloom tomato seeds, how to top dress vegetables or what to do if your chickens start losing their feathers, might find Wallingford Community Farmers Facebook page a valuable resource. The Facebook page was started three years ago by recreational gardener Ken Lloyd
when he noticed more people getting interested in gardening and other small farm activities. There was a void for this type of information, said Lloyd, adding that “I wanted to connect people, help others, and have people learn from one another.” The Facebook page Lloyd started now has 2,000 followers. The private page is See Gardeners, A8
If you have jacket zippers that won’t zip, computers bogged down with malware, or bike tires as flat as pancakes, make sure you don’t miss Cheshire’s Repair Café, a first-time event for the town. More than a dozen volunteer “fixers” will be on hand at the Cheshire Parks and Rec. building, Saturday, April 9, from 10 a.m.to 3 p.m., to help fix whatever it is you have broken. “It’s a great way to keep perfectly good items out of the waste stream and out of already overburdened landfills,” said Pamela Roach, Repair Café organizer. “We want to reuse, repurpose and recycle.” Roach is a board member for the Coalition for a Sustainable Cheshire, the non-profit group sponsoring the event. Other Connecticut towns that have held Repair Café include Middletown, Old Saybrook, and Willimantic. Roach and her group have lined up volunteers who will attend to, among other things, small engine repair, computer diagnostics, bike repair and blade sharpening. See Repair Café, A7