Volume 16, Number 4
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Friday, January 22, 2021
Chamber awards recognize local women By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
The Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce’s annual Women’s Achievement Awards ceremony will recognize the accomplishments of seven women who have improved the North Haven and Wallingford communities.
“We want to recognize outstanding achievers so others can look to them as examples that they can achieve the same,” said Gary Ciarleglio, the chamber’s senior director of sales and marketing. “And it’s important for us to connect the community with these leaders.” A virtual awards ceremony is sched-
uled for Jan. 28 at noon and will feature guest speaker Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, as well as remarks from each of the seven recipients. Each of the winners will receive an engraved trophy from the chamber. Nanette Pastore, president of Pearce Real Estate, was named the woman of the year by the chamber. Mem-
The excellence in business award went to Sherri Helget, human resources director of C. Cowles & See Chamber, A2
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS
In this 2015 file photo, Bryan Jeffries, marketing director for Cinemark, explains the cafe-style concessions area in the main lobby at Cinemark Theaters in North Haven. With COVID-19 hospitalization rates stabilizing in the state, Connecticut movie theaters are now allowed to reopen their concession stands.
‘Game on’ for most By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
CHESHIRE — A Connecticut high school winter sports season is officially a go.
Movie theaters permitted to reopen concession stands By Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
bers of the chamber are eligible to name nominees for the awards and a committee weighs each of the contenders to determine the recipient.
change was made because of more stable rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations and to bring Connecticut in line with neighboring states, which allow concession sales.
Movie goers will again be able to enjoy popcorn with their films following a tweak of the pandemic restrictions to allow theaters to reopen con- “You have seen a stabilization certainly of our hospitalizations over the cession stands. past month and a half,” he said. “SecDavid Lehman, commissioner of the ondly we’ve looked at many other state Department of Economic and states ... and I think Connecticut was Community Development, said the unique in this restriction, so I want
While games will start a week later than expected and there will be no state tournaments and some teams won’t compete at all, last week a modified winter season was approved by the CIAC Board of Control for basketball, ice hockey, gymnastics and boys swimming. The board determined that practices could start Tuesday, Jan. 19. That’s the start date the CIAC had been eyeing since suspending the winter season in mid-November.
to make sure we’re mindful of the limitations we’re putting on businesses.”
Games can start as early as Feb. 8. That’s a one-week delay on the projected start of Feb. 1.
Under the phase 2.1 reopening guidelines put into place in November, movie theaters were specifically prohibited from resuming food sales, while bowling alleys and other indoor recreation businesses were per-
The postseason, slated for March 15-28, will be staged by individual conferences. It replaces the traditional state tournaments the CIAC had hoped to run March 8-21.
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