Volume 12, Number 35
cheshirecitizen.com
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Traub to lead CHS girls swim program Rams once again tap into Cheshire Y coaching pipeline By Greg Lederer Record-Journal staff
Dealing with turnover is an inevitable aspect of high school athletics. Coming into this year, the Cheshire girls swim and dive team knew it would need to make up for the graduation of 13 seniors.
Then, on Monday, Aug. 23, the Rams received news they didn’t see coming. Just three days before the start of practice, CHS announced that coach Dave Traub Modzelewski had resigned to become associate head coach of the YMCA of the North Shore Swim Club in Beverly, Mass.
With time being of the essence, Cheshire wasted little time in hiring a successor. On Wednesday, Aug. 25, Matt Traub was announced as the new Rams head coach. “It's really an honor to be trusted with such an incredible program,” said Traub. While Traub is a Torrington native, there is a distinct continuity in his hiring. Traub is on the Cheshire Y/ Sea Dog Swim Club staff, just like Modzelewski (2018-20) and his
predecessor, Dan Mascolo (201217). They followed program founder Ed Aston. In coaching from 1974 to 2011, Aston developed Cheshire into one of the top girls swimming programs in the country. “We’ve found that those coaches already know a lot of our kids and understand how the (Cheshire Community) pool operates,” Cheshire
Register soon for townwide tag sale
Learning academy smart move for retirement community
By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
Overwhelming demand has led a Cheshire resident to plan a second townwide tag sale to be held this month.
Courses taught by rocket scientists, painters and musicians are on the curriculum at Elim Park University, an inhouse academy for residents of the retirement community. “At Elim Park, we are a faith-based community and we think that God wants people to be prosperous in mind, body and spirit,” said Rob Cota, administrator of independent living. “ … It’s really important to give people opportunities to be involved as the whole person.” The university was launched in May with a slate of 10 courses largely taught by residents of the retirement community joined by staff, professors at local universities and other experts. The university’s second semester starts this month.
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Residents of Elim Park Baptist Home participate in a watercolor painting course through the facility’s in-house university. Residents, staff and college professors will be teaching around a dozen courses this fall. Image courtesy of Elim Park Baptist Home
The spring semester saw 215 residents enroll in classes, over two-thirds of Elim Park’s 320 residents. One course on climate change drew so much interest it was held in the spacious music theater. The concept for the university was
prompted by the popularity of the classes residents taught on the retirement community’s internal TV network, EPTV, which was started during the pandemic as a way for residents to stay connected under pandemic restrictions. See Academy, A3
“It brings people to the area who haven't really been here and I think it's a fun thing to do with your family. I think Monroe kids love it because they set up lemonade stands or they can sell their own little toys,” said Joann Crosetti Monroe, a town resident organizing the tag sale. Dozens of residents will line their driveways with See Tag sale, A3