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Volume 14, Number 42
Thursday, October 19, 2023
New Humiston greenhouse offers students handson experience By Peter Prohaska Herald Staff
Music in Motion was held on Sunday, Oct. 8, at Cheshire High School. Delayed one day due to weather, the event featured the Cheshire High School Marching Ram Band and other such bands from around the region. Al Valerio, Cheshire Herald
Rain can’t stop Music in Motion The weather could only delay Music in Motion earlier this month. But the rain wasn’t going to stop Cheshire High School’s Marching Ram Band and other local marching bands from competing this year.
day, Oct. 8, due to inclement weather that drenched the area Saturday night. But when the clouds parted, the bands were ready to perform. This was the first Music in Motion for new Director Andrea Conrad, who explained prior to the event what attendees could expect.
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The annual event had been scheduled for Oct. 7, but had “Cheshire's field show this to be postponed until Sunyear is called ‘Confined,’ and
it depicts a journey from being trapped, through finding hope of escaping, to finally breaking free. The marching band and color guard have been working on perfecting their performance since Aug. 14, and will keep working until Open Class Nationals at MetLife Stadium on Nov. 4.” Aimee Teator, co-president See Music, A9
The official opening of the greenhouse took place as part of the state-wide “CT Grown For CT Kids Week” as well as the nation-wide Farm-to-School Month. In Connecticut, the farm-toschool initiative is a project conducted by various Cheshire has tens of thou- state entities, including sands of square feet of in- the University of Condustrial greenhouse necticut, the Department space, but the small-scale of Agriculture’s “CT structure now behind Hu- Grown” marketing arm, miston offers other kinds the Department of Educaof benefits, according to tion, and others. The logErica Biagetti, the Disic, as articulated in a 2006 trict’s director of Food Public Act, is to help conand Nutrition Services. nect the state’s farmers “The greenhouse will help with its schools. educate kids about agriIt’s meant not only to sell culture in Connecticut locally-grown products, and its role in the food but also to encourage stuchain, while also teaching dents to understand a bit skills like patience, which more about where their can be hard to find these food comes from, officials days,” Biagetti remarked, say. during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Oct. 4. “It’s
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Citizen Staff
Cheshire School District has officially opened a new greenhouse behind Humiston School, where administrators hope to use the addition to tie the property to Cheshire’s agricultural past while offering insights for a healthier future.
a unique way to cultivate more than vegetables but also skills in our students.”