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Volume 16, Number 23
Friday, June 4, 2021
WOODS ‘N’ WATER
Down the river, with a paddle, and strong at 40 By Mike Roberts
Artist Ryan “ARCY” Christenson, of North Haven, stands in front of a mural he painted featuring portraits of Albert Einstein, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King Jr., Elon Musk and Serena Williams at Sheehan High School in Wallingford, Friday, May 28. Christenson is a Sheehan alumnus. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
Local artist contributes mural
By Jessica Simms Special to the Record-Journal
create a mural for the school as a part of her capstone class.
did that and he got back to us and now we’re here.”
WALLINGFORD — For three days Ryan “ARCY” Christenson, wellknown graffiti and mural artist, was back at his alma mater Sheehan High School painting a mural that describes what it means to be a Titan.
“My project was to renovate the aesthetics of Sheehan, to make it a more stimulating environment and through that I reached out to my art teacher for some help and some inspiration and she told me about ARCY and told me that I should reach out to him because she thought it would be a good idea to see if he could donate something to the school,” Aminawung said. “So I
Aminawung said ARCY’s idea for the mural was to include significant figures that students could look up to. She met with faculty to come up with a list of different figures and then created surveys to get student input.
Senior Clarisse Aminawung contacted ARCY, a North Haven resident, last year and asked him to
“Each person represents a certain academic field,” Aminawung said.
The QRWA Downriver Classic is now the longest continuous running canoe and kayak race going. Forty years is a long stretch and we won’t count the cancellation last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, when just about everything was shut down. The QRWA Downriver Classic has a storied history thanks to the hard work by a few volunteers. For a number of years now, the race has been chaired by Dan Pelletier, a champion canoe racer in his own right.
See Mural, A2
The state’s most recent COVID-19 report, representing two weeks of data, showed 22 positive cases in North Haven, a marked improvement on the previous report (32 cases).
was 347,341. One hundred ten patients were hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. There had been 8,238 COVID19-associated deaths in the state.
By comparison, looking back several weeks, North Haven logged 74 positive cases in the April 29 report and 131 in the findings released April 6.
Vaccination numbers About 50% of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, according to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. See COVID, A2
See Roberts, A4
THE BEES ARE BACK!
COVID cases continue to decline
As of May 27, the total of laboratory-confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases reported among Connecticut residents
The 40th Annual Quinnipiac River Watershed Association Downriver Classic went off without a hitch.
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