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Volume 13, Number 1
Friday, March 27, 2020
Metal supplier exempt from shutdown order By Mary Ellen Godin Record-Journal staff
Ulbrich Steel & Specialty Metals of North Haven was in talks Monday with N95 mask makers about the local supplier’s role in helping end the dangerous shortage of masks now impacting health care workers. Chief Executive Officer Chris Ulbrich quoted prices to manufacturers interested in the stamped metal product
used to make the fine particle respirator masks now in demand. “I had suppliers in the medical, power generation, aerospace (fields) calling and saying ‘Are you going to be open?’” Ulbrich said. “All plants are operating worldwide. One third of our metals go to critical infrastructure.” The state’s manufacturing sector was spared any disruption
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Monday, when the Lamont administration released a list of essential businesses exempt from shutting down at 8 p.m. to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. The executive order is part of what the governor is calling the "Stay Safe, Stay at Home" campaign to slow the virus’ spread. The order says non-essential business employees should continue to telecommute, or work from home. See Exempt, A12
Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals Chairman and CEO Chris Ulbrich. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
When bears come to visit North Haven Garden Club’s March meeting featured Master Wildlife Conservationist Ginny Apple’s presentation on black bears in Connecticut; their habitat, diet, behavior, reproduction and current research efforts.
Earlier this month, the North Haven High School épée team won a nail-biter, besting Norwich Free Academy to claim the state championship. The match was was tied 4-4 when North Haven co-captain Lakehram Singh prevailed in the final bout, 5-4. Épée is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. North Haven’s épée championship team consists of Dev Patel, Mitchel Pierpont, Elliot Rastkhane and Laekhram Singh.
There are approximately 900 bears in Connecticut and our state has the capacity to care for up to 3,000, which means you are not allowed to hunt them, and we are not overrun by black bears as the media would have you think. See Bears, A13
Master Wildlife Conservationist Ginny Apple discussed black bears in Connecticut at the North Haven Garden Club’s March meeting.