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COVID numbers climb locally Connecticut on Friday, Dec. 10 reported 3,280 new COVID-19 infections detected in 53,948 tests, up from 2,679 infections found in 41,361 tests the previous day. The positivity rate was slightly higher than 6 percent both days. The state's most recent COVID-19 report, which includes two weeks of data, showed 169 positive cases in Cheshire, which kept the community in the coronavirus red zone. The trigger for top-of-thechart red status — where nearly all Connecticut towns and cities now stand — starts at 15 cases per 100,000 people per day. In the previous report, Cheshire had 112 cases. Gov. Ned Lamont said Friday he has no plans to impose new mandates on wearing masks or showing evidence of vaccination, instead promoting the coming availability of a voluntary “digital health card” offering proof of vaccination. “What I want to do is get that digital health card and make it available to every single business, restaurant, store. Let them make the right decision in terms of allowing people into their facility,” Lamont said. “I don’t think we need more mandates than that.” See COVID, A2

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Volunteer Maureen Rose lends a hand in wrapping a gift picked by this boy for his parents, during the Cheshire Community Food Pantry Kids Holiday Bazaar, an event the organization offered, for the first time, over the weekend. Kerry Walsh, for The Citizen

Youngsters pick gifts for others at pantry’s Kids Holiday Bazaar By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen

Spirits were high and smiles abundant at the premier of a Kids Holiday Bazaar hosted by the Cheshire Community Food Pantry over the weekend of Dec 11. The sole purpose of the bazaar was to give children of pantry clients a chance to personally choose gifts to give to their parents and siblings.

local support of the project. “The Cheshire community has been incredibly generous in donating gifts and we would like to publicly give them thanks,” Miller said.

Outside and in front of the building, clients pulled up and were met by CCFP volunteers, including Maria Colacrai and her husband Bill, who greeted them, behind a canopied table. It held brandnew sweatshirts, pants and other clothing neatly laid out. A nearby rack was CCFP Director Kerry Walsh said this is something the children would not other- filled with knit caps and hats, scarves, and gloves. Emma Hyland, 3, grandwise be able to do. All of the gifts were offered free of charge, and children were daughter of CCFP manager Judy Collins, showed her holiday spirit with a hearty allowed to freely choose the presents “Merry Christmas,” as she accepted a they wanted. free hot cocoa, a treat that along with doughnuts, was donated from the In order to make the event happen, Cheshire Lions Club and served by volWalsh originally asked the communityat-large for items they may have received unteers Al Barkley and Luciano Della Porta. as a gift but never opened or used. “Regifted joy,” is the phrase Walsh usAwaiting the families just inside the es. Instead, and to her happy surprise, building was more holiday spirit. In the Cheshire outdid itself and really came pantry anteroom stood a dazzling silver through, she said. Christmas tree welcoming clients as they Coordinators Patricia Miller and Sue Barkley, long-time volunteers at the pantry, said they were pleased with the

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Cheshire Academy recently hired a class of 2009 alumnus, Tanasia Lea, as its new director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, to begin in January “I am ecstatic to welcome Tanasia back Lea to the Cheshire Academy campus as the new director of diversity, equity, and inclusion,” said Head of School Julie Anderson. “Tanasia’s diverse professional experiences will no doubt make positive change within the school community as we continue to ensure that all voices and perspectives are heard, respected, and appreciated. ” The academy is a college preparatory boarding and day school approximately 300 for boys and girls in grades nine through 12 and postgraduate. Lea, a consultant and professional athlete, previously has worked as a leadership, diversity, and inclusion consultant and speaker for business and academic instituation, since 2018. She also worked remotely as a college preparation counselor for Misongi, a nonprofit organization in Cameroon, Africa, that helps develop youth to take on leadership roles. See Academy, A2

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A professional athlete since 2014, Lea pursued a position as a triple jump competitor in the 2021 Summer Olympic Games, and is a two-time reigning national triple jump champion. She also worked as an assistant coach at Vanderbilt University assisting with practices and competitions.

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The governor has ordered the wearing of masks in schools. Elsewhere, masks are not required of vaccinated persons, though venues and municipalities can require them. “I think the towns are the ones that are taking the lead on enforcing it,” Lamont said. “I think the store and restaurant owners are the

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Winterfest returns to CHS By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen

After a break last year due to COVID, the 9th annual Winter Festival returned to Cheshire High School on Dec. 11 with more than 100 families in attendance.

people came to the event. Proceeds from the day's entry admission benefitted the Ryan T. Lee Memorial Foundation. Cheshire High School coach and teacher Daniel Lee, and his wife Theresa, created the non-profit foundation in honor of their son, Ryan, who died after being hit by a taxi in New York City in 2011.

This year's theme was the Polar Express taking visitors to a tour of the North Pole with Santa with the cafeteria turned into Arts & Crafts central. Students from dozens of CHS student clubs, from the Key Club and Peer Advocates to DECA and the National Honor Society, participated in hosting game and craft tables for children to enjoy.

Winterfest participants Lena and Layla Weed make sleds out of popsicle sticks at the National Honor Society table, at Cheshire High School, Dec. 11. From left, standing: Helene Lopez, Hannah Tao and Josh Koppel.

According to Winter Festival Admissions Head Brooke Stevenson, more than 200

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after table of gift items. One table held jewelry, another had candles, coffee mugs with sweets, and on to another table laden with perfume gift sets, lotions and soaps. There were gifts geared to holiday bakers, as well as cute home decorations. There was a table of perfect Dad gifts featuring tools, electric shavers, leather wallets, high-tech flashlights, cologne, and knit hats. Nearby, one table held items for sports fans. Children could also have their pick of brand-new board games.

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Small business program targets diverse communities Elmore Ligon, of Meriden, owner of L.F. Transportation LLC, sits on the back of his rental truck in a parking lot off East Main Street in Meriden after a shift transporting goods for other businesses.

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mum credit score of 600. To qualify for the credit line students can’t miss a class, can’t Jackie Phillips opened The Life have filed for bankruptcy in Changer Center in Hartford in the past five years, can’t be 2016. currently involved in litigation She enrolled in Liberty Bank’s and need to be current on all taxes. Academy for Small Business program in the spring because A business plan is encouraged she wanted to strengthen her but not required prior to takbusiness and learn skills that ing the class. would help her to better operThose who want to take the ate her mental health and life class for the learning experiempowerment center. ence and not the line of credit, She was able to accomplish don’t need to meet all of the fiher goal through the program. nancial requirements, Davis said. “Where I was last year to where I am now is like night The program teaches students and day,” she said. about taxes, organizational planning, banking services, Glenn Davis, first vice presitime management, credit redent, community developporting and more. ment/CRA officer at Liberty Bank, said the Academy for “The curriculum is structured Small Business program is a to give individuals a good base 10-week class that offers up to line on operating a business,” a $5,000 credit line for those Davis said. who successfully complete The program also offers netit. The idea is for students to use the line of credit to launch working opportunities, he said. or help advance their business. The program was held about

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Liberty Bank, headquartered in Middletown, has 62 banking offices throughout the state, including in Cheshire. The program is free but it requires students to have a mini-

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of the program was the connections she made with other business owners. Elmore Ligon, of Meriden, was also part of the program this year. He owns LF Transportation, which transports goods for other business. He has owned the business for about seven months and wanted to learn more about running a business. Understanding a business plan and structuring were some of the things he learned in the program, he said. “It was great to know that there’s more people out there willing to help you with your business,” he said.

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News Briefs Subdivision proposal discussed The Planning and Zoning Commission is considering an application for a new subdivision to be located at 791 Coleman Road. The development would be situated on the Tripodina property, which is currently an agricultural site. The proposal is to take the former farmland and an area that was used for greenhouses, and develop it into an 11lot subdivision with a culde-sac and a rear access road, according to Ryan Thompson, a representative of the applicant Pinnacle Land Development, and from RLC Engineering located in Clinton, who spoke at a recent PZC meeting. The site includes a wetland area located around two ponds that are man-made. This project has alaready gone before the Inland Wet-

lands and Watercourses Commission but has not yet received approval. Commissioners recently walked the site as part of their review. The man-made ponds were likely built for irrigation and the proposal states an intent to keep those ponds as storm water management facilities. Thompson outlined the various ways water runoff to the ponds would be handled. According to the proposal, buildings on the site would be demolished, including the original farmhouse Town Planner William Voelker then explained to the commissioners that the applicant still needs to make a few more revisions to the plan before it is finalized. A public hearing on the application was left open for further review.

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ber of women who ran for election in both parties in November.

Members of the Town Council were sworn in for the new term last week with councilors appointing the chair and vice chair for the next two years.

Students organize Stuff-a-bus food drive

Long-serving Republican Tim Slocum, who was the highest vote-getter in this past election, was nominated to take over as chair, a position he held previously. He was appointed by a 7 to 2 vote. The most recent chair of the council, Rob Oris, did not seek re-election. Republican Don Walsh was nominated as vice chair and also appointed by a 7 to 2 vote. Two Democratic members of the council, Peter Talbot and Jim Jinks cast the opposing votes. Talbot cited the need for more diversity in positions of leadership in town and suggested that Republican Councilor Sylvia Nichols be nominated in order to reflect the large num-

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service. Teachers Donna Carbone and Holly Skrzyniarz advise the NHS, while Dan Lee teaches peer health. Honor Society members Mantra Narayanan and Anna Pociu organized the food drive with peer health.

Last month, Cheshire High School students conducted the second annual Cheshire High School Food Drive, collecting food and personal care items for the Cheshire Community Food Pantry. The collected goods were placed in a school bus provided by DATTCO for delivery to the food pantry, as students wrapped up the Stuff-a-bus project. Donations were weighed and the yield was 6,700 pounds — 1,500 pounds more than the inaugural drive held last December.

Students received a list of streets from the Cheshire’s Lights of Hope Club and then they split up covering the town. A spreadsheet was created, so that people could sign up for the drive. Bags were dropped off at residences on Nov. 10. Since there are many streets in town, senior Jenna Stickney went outside the peer health class to recruit volunteers to put out bags. The boys’ basketball, boys’ soccer, boys’ lacrosse, boys’ golf, and softball teams, as well as other athletes, came out to unload cars and help fill up the school bus.

The drive was run by the NaFor the collection day, peotional Honor Society and ple also were able to make Peer Health Educators, an donations at CHS. elective class that focuses on leadership and community — Citizen staff

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Public invited to ‘Wreaths Across America’ ceremony Wreaths Across America is an annual mid-December event to honor military veterans during the holiday season by placing wreaths on graves at Arlington National Cemetery and more than 2,500 other veterans cemeteries and memorials around the nation and overseas. VFW Post 10052 of Cheshire participates annually. The post invites the public to join in a short ceremonial wreath-laying at noon on Saturday, Dec. 18, at the Veterans Memorial Plaza in front of Town Hall. The day has been proclaimed “Wreaths Across America Day” by the U.S. Senate. Wreaths Across America began in 1992 when tree farmer Morrill Worcester of Maine donated 5,000 wreaths to be laid upon graves at Arlington by him and See Wreaths, A11

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Check out the lost item list at the police station The Cheshire Police Department recently released a “Found Property” announcement. Officer Kevin Costa of the Cheshire Police Department, not to be confused

with Kevin Costner the actor, is the point person for the collection of someone’s favorite things or in this case not-so-favorite things.

lice station will get odds and ends and “bikes found on the side of the road,” probably on their way to the garbage, said Costa.

“Minimal value," is how Officer Costa refers to the overall collection. Generally, the po-

However, the recent list includes not one, but two iPhones. Are you kidding? Unless you have bundles of money, this casts serious doubt on your character. How responsible are you? For instance, would I trust you to watch my dog? I certainly wouldn’t ask you to hold my phone if I needed a free hand. Many of us have lost a phone around the house, but never outdoors or in a public place. How does that even happen? If losing an iPhone wasn’t bad enough, it appears people also tend to lose car keys. Again, I’ve lost car keys. I have lost them in my purse (remind me not to buy a purse with so many pockets and secret compartments next time). I have also lost my car keys in my house. (At least, I think I lost them in my house. I am still looking.) Anyway, how do you drive home if you have lost your car keys?

How does someone get into their garage when the thing that opens the garage is missing? Did they have extras? Or maybe they don’t mind opening the door manually. I’ve done that—and I have put my back out doing it. Someone lost a key ring with eight keys on it, which leads me to believe the person can no longer get into their front door, side and back door, their shed, their car or the front door to where they work. Fitbits are expensive and very personal. Yes, someone lost theirs. How will they ever be able to track their sleeping habits, heart rate, steps, and

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water intake without it? Vera Bradley purses are extremely coveted by her fans. I am still amazed to know whole stores have been built for the purpose of selling the quilted fabric purses. I know because I’ve been in one and am still perplexed by the phenomenon. Those purses are expensive. Some random local resident lost theirs, or perhaps someone traveling through town. They won’t have fond memories of their time here now, will they? What else is on the list? A pawn ticket receipt. That cannot be good. Do you think the person didn’t have the money to reclaim their item? Downright sad is what I would call that. And there’s a sportsman out there probably absolutely lost without his knife and fish scaler. The tool even came with a belt holster. (Yes, I am laughing.) That is not the oddest item to show up in the collection though. “On the stranger side of things that we’ve had is a large antique sickle/reaper. We took it in for safekeeping from someone who it was suspected had stolen it. No victim was found subsequent to advertising.” For the time being, it is still sitting on the shelf, said Costa, adding that there is one last item on the current list that has men’s underwear along with it. “I chose to leave that out of the description,” said Costa. Good call, Officer Costa.

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Connecticut enacts paid family and medical leave program Gov. Ned Lamont announced that applications are now being accepted for Connecticut residents who want to participate in the state’s new paid family and medical leave program. Claims are being accepted for qualifying events that are happening on or after Jan. 1, 2022. Under the program, which was enacted through legislation championed by Lamont and signed by him in 2019, workers will gain access to the necessary benefits that allow them to take time off work to care for their own health, a newborn child, or a sick family member. Eligible workers can receive up to 12 weeks of income replacement for qualifying events. Connecticut is only the eighth state in the nation to enact a paid family and medical leave program. While most other modern countries in the world have some type of paid family and medical leave program, the United States does not. Only 13% of private-sector workers in the U.S. have access to paid family and medical leave. “This is a milestone in Connecticut as we begin to accept benefit applications for one of the strongest paid family and medical leave programs in the nation,” Lamont said. “Supporting the workers of our state will strengthen our economic footing and make Connecticut a stronger place to live, work, and do business. With the launch of this program, workers who need to take time off for a new baby or to recover from an illness are not punished financially, and businesses do not risk losing good workers during those emergencies. This is long overdue, and I am proud that we’re enacting a program that will be a benefit to both workers and businesses.” The program is administered by the Connecticut Paid Leave Authority. Applications can be submitted

through its website at ctpaidleave.org or via email, fax, phone, or mail. The toll-free application hotline is 877499-8606. “Applying online is the fastest and easiest way to submit your application,” Connecticut Paid Leave Authority CEO Andrea Barton Reeves explained. “It also makes it easy for workers to check the status of a claim, review correspondence, view payments for a claim, and communicate with case managers.” Qualifying reasons to submit a claim include:

new child that has entered a person’s home through birth, adoption, or foster care. Family violence leave to address issues arising from family violence. Qualifying exigency leave to address issues arising from a parent, child, or spouse’s military deployment. Military caregiver leave to care for a family member injured during active duty in the United States Armed Forces

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The amount of income replacement varies based on a worker’s earnings and is capped at 60 times the state minimum wage. The combination of employer-provided benefits and benefits received under the paid leave program cannot exceed 100% of a worker’s normal weekly earnings.

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Work by artist Christine Ivers is featured in an exhibit at the Cheshire Public Library in December.

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and at the New Britain Museum of American Art. Ivers is currently vice president of the International Association of Pastel Associations and a former board member of the Pastel Society of America. The public is invited to see the collection of Ivers’ work in the Mary Baldwin Community Room during regular library hours.

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