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Board of Ed. leadership remains the same Citizen staff
year term as vice chair.
The Cheshire Board of Education unanimously voted to reinstate Chair Tony Perugini and Vice Chair Adam Grippo in those leadership positions at its Dec. 9 meeting.
The board also unanimously approved the appointment of member Anne Harrigan to the position of secretary.
Perugini is beginning his 12th term. He was recently appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Connecticut Association for Boards of Education. This will be Grippo’s second four-
Previously, Kathryn Hallen, who chose not to seek reelection in 2021, had served in that role. Perugini welcomed the newest school board member, Samantha Rosenberg, an educator, who will be serving her first term.
The following committee assignments also were approved at the Dec. 9 meeting: Faith Ham will chair the Curriculum Committee again; Grippo will chair the Finance and Policy committees; Tim White will chair the Legislative, Transportation, and Personnel committees; Harrigan will chair the Liaison and School Modernization committees; and Andrew Martelli will chair the Planning and Public Information committees.
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Church goes green, encourages ‘environmental justice’ By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
The First Congregational Church of Cheshire was recently recognized as a Level I Green church by the Southern New England UCC. The goal was accomplished by a group of church members in less than a year.
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Take a night time drive around Cheshire and see the many houses and yards covered in dazzling light displays and holiday scenes. Many of these decorated sites are entered in Cheshire Parks and Recreation’s annual Nights of Lights & Sights contest. A link to a map noting the location of households entered in the contest can be found on Cheshire’s municipal website. Joy VanderLek, The Cheshire Citizen
The First Congregational Church of Cheshire team undertook a variety of actions to attain Level I. Along with regularly scheduled environmental and sustainability communications to the church body, the group established a pollinator garden, began a composting program, and partnered with the Coalition for a Sustainable Cheshire to hold litter clean-ups, First Church Eco-Justice Co-Chair Anne McNulty explained. In an effort to increase native plantings, which are beneficial to See Church, A2
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Certification demonstrates to church members, and to the community, that the church is making a concerted effort to become more sustainable and to share with others its knowledge about how to love and care for the earth, said McNulty.
The UCC encourages all member churches to be green and is committed to environmental justice, McNulty said. The Southern New England Conference of the UCC has a multi-step, four-level process to attain goal levels. In order to become a Level I Green congregation, First Church completed steps which include organizing, educating, connecting and advocating.
The Environmental Justice Team is open to all First Church members. The group is highly engaged, McNulty said, as it has served as a resource to church ministry groups and individuals, helped with children’s projects, and participated in last
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One church member voicing his appreciation and support for this effort is Mark Hall. While not directly involved in the group, “knowing that the steps we are taking to minimize the impact to the planet is important. It falls in line with our mission,” Hall said. “Being green did not always resonate with me. But taking steps to protect people, the planet and our future are good things, and this team is helping to make a difference.”
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year’s Earth Day worship service. The group offers a weekly environmental message to the congregation; sharing tips on recycling and waste reduction, suggesting ways to help local bird and pollinator populations, and providing information to nurture an increased appreciation for nature. And the Environmental Justice Team has a full agenda for the year ahead. “We hope to continue and expand all of those activities along with more education about invasive flora and its eradication, clean energy, and Long Island Sound ecology, by hosting additional talks and meetings,” said McNulty. “We’ll continue to explore the spiritual connection of humanity to the rest of the natural world through suggested readings and discussion. We’ll further the engagement of children and youth — for whom the world’s preservation is so vitally important — with various hands-on and advocacy projects.”
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On Thursday, Dec. 2, the Cheshire Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting ceremony and Business After Hours event for two new chamber members: 122 Elm Street Tavern and Business Seller Center. Both businesses are located in the Watch Factory Shoppes. The event was hosted by 122 Elm Street Tavern.
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The following is a joint statement from Cheshire Democratic Town Committee Chair Courtney Cullinan and Vice Chair Matt Hall.
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The CDTC is dismayed to learn of the Town Council majority's initiative to merge the Public Safety Commission with the Prison Advisory Council, which appears on the council's agenda for Tuesday, Dec. 14. This proposal speaks to a larger issue of disengagement that afflicts many of our boards and commissions. Unfilled vacancies, inconsistent attendance, inability to attain a voting quorum and the uncertainty of the importance of their work plague many of our volunteer commissions. As a result, many of our boards and commissions are dormant, meeting much less frequently than contemplated by our town government's charter.
About the Job The Record-Journal seeks a versatile, bilingual editor to oversee our growing Latino Communities Reporting Lab. We launched the lab in March 2021 after conducting a 5-month listening tour in our community. We’re looking for someone with a passion for the lab’s mission - To amplify the voices of our local Latino communities, including to provide empowering, fact-based news, information and resources for our Latino communities; to shine a light on injustices and inequities to promote greater understanding and a more inclusive community for everyone; to showcase the successes and contributions of Latinos as a way of inspiring young people to expand what they consider possible. Community listening provided the foundation of the lab. In the coming year, the editor will take the lead in an innovative listening project collaborating with journalists, data experts, a network of community leaders, and technology partners to understand the needs of our local Latino communities and build trust through deeper community listening, engagement and data gathering. The editor will oversee content creation with an emphasis on aligning news strategies to best serve the community using what we learned during the project.
Rather than eliminating boards and volunteers, we believe in a twofold approach. First, the council should expand opportunities to make it easier for concerned and informed Cheshire residents to serve as volunteers; not take away those opportunities. Our town charter vests in the majority party the authority to fill a preponderance of seats on the various boards and commissions, and further vests in the council chair the ability to fill vacancies unilaterally after 60 days. However, the
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charter does not mandate that the appointees be members of the same majority party. There are a vast number of unaffiliated and registered Democrats who are willing to serve, not for partisan purposes, but for the purpose of putting Cheshire first. Candidates campaign on “putting Cheshire first.” As elected officials, those same candidates should fulfill that pledge and appoint willing and able members, no matter their party affiliation. Second, the boards and commissions have to feel their work has value. Whether through stronger liaison relationships with the council members, or through more specific taskoriented efforts requested by the council, the boards and commissions must feel that their work has import or value. Otherwise, no one should be surprised that they are not finding committed – or any – volunteers to fill vacancies or attend meetings regularly. We hope the council majority very carefully reconsiders the idea to merge these two boards. Creating more engagement, rather than reducing opportunities, is an idea that should enjoy broad bipartisan support. Our council members, Peter Talbot and Jim Jinks, stand ready to add their leadership toward this goal.
Letter to the Editor Don’t merge panels Editor : The Town Council is looking at eliminating or merging several appointed, volunteer commissions and boards; the Public Safety
Commission and the Prison Advisory Board, as well as the Environment Commission and the Energy Commission. One argument being made is that these commissions and boards don’t meet often or lack an agenSee Letter, A11
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son, for example, that the Public Building Commission should currently be From A10 having trouble or be at risk of not having timely meetda. Therefore they can be ings. There’s no reason the merged to achieve “greater Town Beautification Comefficiency.” But this is a mittee should still be down false framing. Less isn’t two members after more more in this case. than two years. There’s no Effective commissions and reason the Environment Commission has failed to boards need active, engaged members. Active, en- meet or had an agenda for gaged members find a pur- more than two years. pose and have a meaningThere’s no reason, except ful agenda, when given a that in all these cases, the chance. But our process for open seats must be filled by finding and appointing volthe majority party. And this unteers has proven to be hasn’t happened. insufficient. It has contributed to malfunctioning I’m not unsympathetic to and failing commissions the challenge of finding and boards. There’s no rea-
By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
My family, like just about every other in town, typically takes a tour of the neighborhoods to see the Christmas lights. The decorations seem to get grander each year. That’s the case with a family I know up on Cook Hill Road. Harmony and her family have always gone nuts with their displays for as long as I have known her. This year, however, she put up even more of a holiday show in her yard. Who thought that possible? How does anyone manage to get into the house? Where is the dog going to play fetch or do his business? Seriously though, there are a huge number of holiday-
decorated houses to peek at this year. Cheshire Parks and Rec has an online map to show some of those homes, featuring those participating in the Nights of Lights and Sights contest. Among the categories are Youth, and Winter Wonderland, and for neighborhood collaborators a Most Spirited Group award. My street would not win that one, we’re too disorganized. But, even here, where festive adornments have never been too showy, some families have stepped up their game this year. There are lights in trees, on entrance columns and more. As for me, I’m not a lights and lawn ornaments person. I lean into nature. So, my decorating tends to be creations of greenery on See Joy, A12
volunteers. But the fix isn’t to collapse or eliminate volunteer commissions and boards. The fix is to openup these opportunities to more volunteers and, ideally, to people with a strong interest in serving, regardless of political affiliation. In my opinion, the Town Council’s focus should be to have effective commissions and boards that serve the needs of our community. We should seek to unleash the value of these commissions and boards rather than eliminate them altogether. Jim Jinks Town Councilor 2nd District
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sleds, swags on the shutters and roping on the outdoor railings. I’m lucky in that most of everything I use to decorate is found right in my yard. I have blue rug juniper with berries, golden evergreen boughs, blue spruce and white pine. Most of the time, I just have to dig around in the basement for gold and silver bells and red bows (you can’t grow those). Speaking of red ribbons,
they are everywhere on my street. They are on garage doors, outdoor lights, mailboxes, railings and doors. Some of the red bows are small and grouped with assorted greenery. Others are oversized, set alone on a garage or door, like an exclamation point. One house up the street caught my attention, not by what it had, but by what it didn’t. The place featured a gigantic wreath on top of the garage, which looked beautiful and probably cost close to what I make for a car pay-
ment. The roofline was also decorated, aglow in lights, only not all the way. It appears that the homeowners started at one end of the garage, went over to the main roof of the house, made the turn to the portion of the house that faces the street, and just about made the midpoint, whereby they ran out of string lights. Night after night, I would pass by and I didn’t see the big picture and how beautiful the whole house looks. No, I am a jerk. My eyes went right to that little piece
where there were no lights. I wondered (out loud and to the hubby) if they would leave the gap. He knows I would say the heck with it, being worn out from decorating most of the house already. Well, tonight I walked by the house and saw that the one dark space finally fell in line with its fellow lights, shining in unison with the rest of them. The situation must have bothered the homeowners, too. So they went and got more and finished the decorating. I don’t know
why, but this finishing touch made me smile. Who knows, maybe I'll get our neighborhood together for next year's contest. Contact me at jvanderlek@ record-journal.com.
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Christmas tree safety and disposal ideas By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
The non-profit American Christmas Tree Association estimates 75 percent of households have a Christmas tree; whether it’s a live tree, cut tree or artificial one. In Connecticut, roughly 100,000 households have trees each year. And Christmas trees come with some responsibilities. The National Fire Protection Association says the longer you have the tree up, the more you will want to make
sure the needles do not dry out. So, it will be necessary to water the tree daily. The NFPA encourages families not to wait too long after Christmas to take down the tree. Once the decorations are off and the tree is out of the stand, if the tree is dry, do not leave it in the house or garage. And it should not be placed against the house when taken outside. While Christmas tree fires are uncommon, the NFPA states they are more likely to be serious. It is also a good
idea to disconnect and take in any outdoor electrical lights or decorations, so as to “prevent hazards and make them last longer.” More tree decisions await once the holiday is over. Will you repurpose your tree as a bird habitat in your yard? Or, you can help the Cheshire Ram Band’s annual fundraiser, its Christmas tree-pick-up. The group averages 700 trees pick-ups around town each year. The group has been doing the Christmas tree pick-up for at least 15 years, said Steve Greenwood, Cheshire
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