Volume 11, Number 37
Thursday, June 25, 2020
cheshirecitizen.com
CHS valedictorian: ‘A beautifully eventful four years’ By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
Cheshire High School’s 2020 valedictorian, Andrew Lou, says his classmates, friends, classes and teachers all contributed to the wonderful experience he enjoyed at CHS.
Members of the Cheshire Garden Club gathered on the Town Green on June 17, at exactly 10 a.m., the time when the club was formed a century ago. At left, four former club presidents stand with a “10-decades” poster created by Inge Venus for the celebration. From left: Inge Venus; Marvin Carley, holding up the stained glass cement art prepared by him; Ann O’Hara, current scholarship chair; Nettie Polito, current membership chair. On the right, with the Beauty Spot sign are treasurer and Bird Report chair Carol Goertz; assistant treasurer and corresponding secretary Pat Pavelkops; and hospitality chair Francine Shannon. The poster in the center features the club’s annual group pictures taken over a 25-year-period, starting in 1994. Members briefly removed their face masks for the photo.
While COVID-19 disrupted many senior class plans, Lou’s farewell words to his class strike an optimistic note. In a preview of the re-
Photo courtesy of Diane Calabro
Cheshire Garden Club: 100 years of beautification Could anyone have known 100 years ago, when the fledging Cheshire Garden Club was formed on June 17, 1920, that it would survive into the 21st century? Not only that, but also that it would continue 100 years? A huge bash had been planned in celebration of the club’s 100th Anniversary but that plan fell by the wayside due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Who calls themselves a scout? Meet a few local kids who do: Brooke Donovan, Layla Kenkare, Becca Miller, Anna and Daniela Tippner
See Garden, A3
See Valedictorian, A6
Girls join in as scouts forge a new path By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
Instead, a smaller gathering of club members took place instead around the blue Town of Cheshire history sign, at 10 a.m., exactly one hundred years later in celebration of this momentous occasion. One of the members in attendance was South Meriden resident Pat Pavelkops who has distinguished herself over the years by exhibiting floral designs at membership meetings and garnering the coveted trav-
marks he’ll make at the August graduation ceremony the school has planned, Lou summed up his high Lou school years this way: “I leave with no regrets. Even though I've had some doubts and disappointment,
These Cheshire pre-teens and teens represent a larger percentage of girls who are joining the Scouts BSA as the Boy Scouts of America
left behind the former branding to welcome inclusivity and catch-up with the changing times. Layla Kenkare,12, started with the newly configured scouts in August 2018. Before that time, she had been in the Girl Scouts for a few years. See Scouts, A2
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