North Haven Citizen Oct. 18, 2019 by Record Journal

After woman learns of rare diagnosis, her cousins rally

At their Oct. 10 meeting, Board of Education members examined equity in North Haven schools, looked closely at the district’s student growth data and talked about a wage increase for teachers in North Haven High School’s Preschool Program.

When times are at their hardest, it’s good to know you’ve got family to rely on. Tara Merola and Crystal Thomas embody that statement.

“It’s going to be a long road for her because it’s difficult to manage your expectations around the prognosis because it’s so rare they don’t have a lot to benchmark against,” Merola said. “For example, Yale has only seen 10 of these cases.” According to the National Cancer Institute “for every one million people, one to two are diagnosed with synovial sarcoma per year in the U.S.”

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The women are working on organizing a benefit for their cousin, Brooke RoykaCiecierski, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer only about a month ago.

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Brooke Royka-Ciecierski pictured with her husband, Dennis Royka, and their children Evan and Karlee. Photo courtesy of Crystal Thomas

Synovial sarcoma, the cancer Royka-Ciecierski was diagnosed with, is more common among young adults and can grow for years before it’s discovered by doctors. “We do think she had it for about eight years,” Thomas said. Thomas and Merola said that Royka-Ciecierski, who is 31, struggled with ankle

problems for several years before her diagnosis. However, these problems were attributed to sports and Royka-Ciecierski’s active lifestyle. “They always thought ‘you probably tweaked it.’ They did multiple tests and didn’t really see anything,” Merola said. “It wasn’t until after she had her second See Rally, A4

In a discussion of unfinished business from the August board meeting, board member Jennifer Cecarelli broached the subject of the student equity information that had been supplied to the board by Superintendent Patrick Stirk. Cecarelli had pushed for this information at the August board meeting saying that she wanted to make sure there was “a proportional number of kids in our classes” particularly when it comes to “racial balance.”

At the Oct. 10 meeting, Cecarelli shared some of the student equity information in regards to English Language Arts classes at NHHS. “79 percent of our student body is white yet 85 percent of those students are AP,” she said. “But if we look at African American, there’s 3.84 percent … but only 2.2 percent are AP. So just sort of see if we can figure out what’s preventing equalization of that proportionality would be terrific, especially among Latinx.” Cecarelli also asked about “what sort of discussions were planned” around this equity information in order to improve racial balance in classrooms. “It’s something that we’re just venturing into as well, so meeting with the high school administration and discussing that is really in the infancy stages at this See BOE, A4

Fife & drum corps marches into Ridge Road school By Everett Bishop The Citizen

to hear a sample of the genre.

Students at Ridge Road Elementary School recently learned about the history of military music when the Lancraft Fife & Drum Corps came to their school. The corps’ Oct. 10 presentation also was an opportunity to discuss the importance of fife and drum playing during the Revolutionary War and

Corps Treasurer Danny O’Mara explained to the kids that music was used as a According to O’Mara, fifes form of communication on and drums could tell troops the battlefield. when to retreat, when to prepare for battle and could “Drums were always used in even signal danger. communication and in the 1300s the Swiss started using The Lancraft Fife & Drum piccolos and fifes in the mil- Corps included the history itary,” he said, explaining of events leading up to the that the fife makes a very

shrill sound that can be heard for two miles even over cannon fire and gun fire.

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Ridge Road students with the Lancraft Fife & Drum Corps. Photo by Everett Bishop, The Citizen

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In Brief The North Haven Democratic Town Committee will host a “Pizza and Wine Fall Fun Fundraiser” on Sunday, Oct. 20, 5 to 8 p.m., at Giulio’s Restaurant, 126 Middletown Ave., North Haven. All are welcome. Costumes are encouraged. Donations are $30 for adults and $12 for children under 12. Proceeds will support the campaigns of Democratic candidates for municipal office. To purchase tickets, call 203-8231023 or donate online at northhavendemocrats.org/ donate-now and bring your receipt.

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Members of The North Haven Garden Club will be selling handmade birdseed wreaths that would make a wonderful gift for that someone who loves birds or for that hard-to-buy-for person in your life.

The North Haven Garden Club Youth Program will, once again, participate in The National Garden Clubs Annual Poetry Contest. The contest is open to students in North Haven from kindergarten to ninth grade. This year’s contest theme is "Ad-

Entries are due on or before Jan. 10, 2020. Mail entries to: The North Haven Garden Club, Attn. Cindy Golia, 12 Stanton Road, North Haven, CT 06473.

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The wreaths measure 10 inches in diameter and come in a mesh bag with a A make-and-take bat house festive decorative bow for workshop will follow the dis- easy hanging. They are cussion for those who wish priced at $15 each. Smaller to assemble a kit prepared wreaths are $5, and ornaby Daytime Gardener Walt ment-size wreaths are $2. Brockett. Mixed wreath baskets are Guests are welcome to paravailable for $25. ticipate in the workshop. A $5 guest donation is appreci- The order deadline is Nov. 30. ated. A $10 materials fee is required from those who To place an order, contact wish to assemble their own Cindy Golia at 203-314-5807, bat house. nhgccindy@yahoo.com, or For more details and to reg- message the garden club on Facebook. ister, call 203-239-1557. p.m., at the Recreation Center, 7 Linsley Ave.

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Letters to the Editor Rodriguez for BOE True advocate Editor :

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I am writing to endorse Frederick Rodriguez for Board of Education.

Re-electing Patricia Brown for Board of Finance is an easy decision. Why? Because during her tenure she has reduced our taxes and fought back against over-development. Her extensive experience in finance throughout her career and success on the board is a win for our town.

Mr. Rodriguez is running for public office for the first time, and as an expert in technology and cybersecurity, I believe he would be a great asset to the BOE.

Final edition for political letters: Oct. 25 No political Letters to the Editor will run after the Friday, Oct. 25 edition. The election will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5. Political letters are limited to 100 words. Email letters to news@ thenorthhavencitizen.com; mail to 500 South Broad St., Meriden, CT 06450 or fax to 203639-0210. Letters must be signed and names will appear in print. Include a phone number so The Citizen can contact you for verification.

ballot for Patricia Brown and hope you will too. Theresa Ranciato-Viele North Haven

universities. Since 2007, she has served on North Haven’s Board of Finance. She has volunteered for community and national organizations that are important to her. Sometimes Pat volunteers for educational, fun func-

Frederick has an impressive work history, and with two young children, one of whom is currently attending Ridge Road, I am confident he will work hard to provide all students with the best and safest educational opportunities.

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point,” said Superintendent Patrick Stirk. “I think that’s where we’re going to begin and move from there. We were just going to act on the data as a whole.” Stirk said that the school also was planning on looking at student equity misalignment in other departments and to see if the school could figure out why there may be a misalignment in various departments and classes. Stirk and Assistant Superintendent Melinda McKenna later presented information

on the district’s Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium scores that track growth data of third to eighth grade students in regards to English Language Arts and mathematics. SBAC scores are set by the state for individual students. These scores act as “growth targets” and students need to either meet or exceed these targets in order to achieve growth on their SBAC scores. “The average percentage of target achieved accounts for the amount of growth made towards the target,” said Stirk. “So on average from grades 3 to 8, 64.6 percent of our students met 100 percent of their ELA target and

69.1 percent met it in math.”

Over the last three years, North Haven schools SBAC scores have seen steady improvement. In regards to North Haven schools’ district reference group, which ranks North Haven against surrounding school districts, North Haven public schools ranked fifth for growth rate Just before the meeting adin ELA and eighth for growth journed, Director of Finance and Operations Pam Mangirate in mathematics. ni brought forward a motion “We’re pleased with our to increase the wages of the number of students at goal preschool teachers at and above but we’re also NHHS. pleased to see that we’re

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child that the pain began to increase substantially.” Joint pain as a result of synovial sarcoma is common, as the cancer grows in muscles or soft tissue and “joints such as the wrist or ankle,” according to the National Cancer Institute. In order to stop the spread of the can-

Hearing the news of this rare form of cancer, coupled with it being left untreated for years and the thought of possible amputation, would take a hefty toll on most. But Merola and Thomas know that their cousin isn’t just anyone. “She uplifts everyone around her,” said Merola. “If she wasn’t that way, I think we would all be crying

“Based on their current enrollment, based on the income that’s projected for this year and offsetting their budget that we put together, they have a projected year end balance of about $1,780 and a 2 percent increase to the three employees would be $1,700,” said Mangini. “They were very grateful for the consideration of a 2 percent increase.” The board moved to a vote for the proposed increase and the motion passed unanimously.

more than we do. She makes us laugh, she makes jokes. She sees the light in this situation and the hope.” Thomas said that when they made a GoFundMe page for their cousin, “people would write sappy things.” “She’s like ‘I don’t want to hear it,’” Thomas said. “She’s pretty much saying she’s going to beat this.” See Rally, A9

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First, educate yourselves in the weeks ahead about the Why is the Board of Finance candidates. Learn about all so important? Well, a careful of them with an open mind. reading of our Town Charter There will be newspaper articles and NHTV programs makes it clear that the BOF is where the real action takes to assist you, including my new show, “Speaking Freely place. with Sally.” Some candidates The purpose of local govern- may come to your door. ment is to provide services Second, on Nov. 5, no matter (education, police, fire, garbage pick-up, snow-plow- what the weather, make that trip to your polling location ing, library and recreation) and exercise your precious directly to town residents. and cherished right to vote. That takes money. And if you see a candidate standing at the polls, give And the BOF recommends him or her a quick smile, or just how much money (voteven a thank you, for their ed on at referendum). And willingness to run for office, the BOF sets the mill rate for their efforts to make that determines how much each taxpayer will contribute North Haven a better place for all our citizens. to the effort. So we want the best people, Please feel free to contact me at sbuemi5@comqualified to make tough cast.net. choices between the wants and needs of our town; to Sally J. Buemi is a provide the best services at North Haven selectman. the lowest possible cost.

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Residents dress up town green for Halloween On Saturday, Oct. 12, members of the North Haven Garden Club Scarecrow Committee gathered at the town green to see the 15 scarecrows entered into the contest and their creators set up their creations. The scarecrows were all different themes, shapes and sizes and the ladies guided the entries and their crows to their designated spots. They came from nursery schools, elementary schools, the high school, young children, civic groups and families. They are tall, short, sitting and standing, all great and all very different.

It was a fun-filled couple of hours for the members of the club and the creators of the scarecrows, too. Judging took place on Monday, Oct. 14 and the winners will be announced soon. So stop by and walk through the display, which will be up until Nov. 2, and enjoy all the scarecrows and their different themes and names. Maybe next year you will create a crow too! -- Writeup by Cindy Golia; photos by Fran Notaro, Cindy Adinolfi and Rick O'Donnell.

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North Haven High School Drama presents "Almost, Maine," a romantic comedy about love, relationships and heartache: Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. and Oct. 25 and 26 at 7 p.m. Performances are at the high school. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door.

The North Haven Rotary will hold its annual 5K and pancake breakfast fundraisers on Sunday, Nov. 10. The 5K and fun run both kick off at 10 a.m. from the North Haven High School parking lot, with registration opening at 8 a.m. Proceeds benefit the Ulbrich Boys & Girls

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the first topic in the series is “Prayer” and will take place The Father James F. Donaher Thursday, Nov. 21, 7 p.m., at Council No. 3733 of the St. Frances Cabrini Church North Haven Knights of Hall, 57 Pond Hill Road, Columbus has organized a North Haven. catholic speaker series. All The talks are free and open sessions are free of charge. to the public. No reservaPaul Caiafa, Grand Knight of tions required. For more inthe local Knights of Colum- formation, contact Paul Cabus Council, announced that iafa at 203-671-2942.

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Fasano miffed about UConn president’s free tuition plan Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano has some questions about UConn President Thomas Katsouleas’ plan to offer a free tuition program for families with incomes of less than $50,000. He’s also miffed he wasn’t consulted first. Katsouleas revealed the free tuition proposal during his inauguration in Storrs on Friday, Oct. 4. The university released details about how the program would work late

Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 9.

Fasano, R-North Haven, said he found it “a little bit out of the norm for a new president” to commit to a free tuition program without reaching out to legislators. Wednesday, Fasano released a copy of the letter he sent to Katsouleas asking for details about the proposal. “Maybe he reached out to everyone but me,” Fasano said, “but not reaching out to the Senate Minority leader saying, ‘Hey, this is what I’m thinking, this is how I plan to pay for it,’ to go out

there and say it’s free. I doubt UConn professors are going to teach courses for free. “You’re a new president, you owe a certain amount of responsibility to the fiduciary not to play to the politics … of saying free, free, free.” Fasano’s letter to Katsouleas, who started his job at the university on Aug. 1, asks what the cost of the program will be and how UConn will pay for it. “While UConn’s spokesperson has indicated that these

costs are not clear yet, I cannot imagine you would announce these plans if you were not certain UConn could afford these new expenses,” Fasano wrote. “Second, I would like to know how you plan to pay for these initiatives. Will the UConn Foundation be covering these new costs? I understand that some UConn Foundation funds are already designated to be spent for specific purposes. I would like to know how much funding the UConn Foundation has in total and what all funds have been

designated for.” Fasano’s letter also asks Katsouleas whether he plans to increase tuition and other fees at the school over the next two to five years, and whether UConn will be seeking additional state funding. Fasano said he is concerned that tuition might have to continue to go up to cover the cost of the program. “Over the last six years, we’ve gone up on tuition for kids,” he said. “So, you know, is that what we’re going to See Tuition, A15

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level in those discussions,” said Michael Enright, a spokesman for the university.

funded via need-based institutional aid.

The university will also aggressively work to raise prido? Go up on [some] kids to “UConn has no plans to seek vate philanthropic dollars support other kids? additional dollars in its state that will help support the He added, “UConn just cried appropriation to fund it,” En- cost of the plan going forright said. “Rather, UConn is ward, Enright said. The inibroke. We had to give them — the Democrats did — give funding it at the outset by re- tiative will have no impact allocating money within the on the tuition paid by other them more money because universit y’s existing budget students, or their financial they couldn’t afford the aid packages, he said. fringe [benefits], so how are to our financial aid budget.” we affording free college? The program is estimated to At his recent inauguration It’s so easy to stand out cost about $1 million per Katsouleas said research there and say free, free, free, class that enrolls at the shows that a majority of but how are you going to school, the university said, Americans in some demopay for this?” adding that it expects begraphics see a top tier insti900 and 1,400 stutution as “not for them, as tween In a statement released Oct. for the elite and even a dents per class to come from 9 a spokesman for UConn scam.” said the plan was “foreshad- families with household incomes of $50,000 or less. owed” on multiple occaHe said he wants to reach sions by Katsouleas – in Of these students, about 75% out to those students who meetings with lawmakers think they can’t afford already receive awards that and in interviews with the UConn and give them a cover tuition, and in some media. cases, more than tuition. The chance to enroll. remaining 25% of students “President Katsouleas forewill receive supplemental fi- “Higher education is under shadowed the plan in a unprecedented pressure to nancial aid awards to bring number of places before it transform itself,” Katsouleas the level of commitment to was announced; he’s been said. “Although data continthe amount of tuition. meeting with members of ue to support the strong corthe General Assembly in relation between more eduWhile the UConn Foundagroups, by delegation, for cation and more opportunition raises money to pay for the past several weeks and ty, namely higher employthe program, the Connectioutlined the plan at a high ment rates, and lifetime cut Commitment will be

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earnings, increasingly this is not the narrative experienced by a large portion of middle America.”

plan and another who hadn’t any — expressed strong support for the freetuition plan.

Another key Republican lawmaker, House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, RDerby, also has concerns about how the school will pay for the program.

Rep. Gregg Haddad, DMansfield and co-chairman of the higher education committee, said he was at a meeting with Katsouleas when he mentioned he was considering making a financial commitment to a certain pool of students.

“I think the bottom-line is that we have a multi-billion dollar deficit and we have to be very cognizant of where our money is going,” Klarides said. “Certainly education is a priority to all of us, but we also have elderly and children and housing and paying off pensions and all these things. These things have got to be prioritized and money is an issue.” But at least two Democratic legislative leaders — one of whom had partial advance knowledge of Katsouleas’s

“They had mentioned a commitment to students [with family earnings] under $50,000, so it wasn’t like I was completely unaware of it it,” he said, “but when they posed it to me, it was more like they were thinking about it — not something that was imminent. They asked me to withhold any public comment on it until after they made the announcement.”

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INLAND WETLANDS COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO RESIDENTS AND TAXPAYERS OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HAVEN AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES:

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U.S. POSTAL SERVICE STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION PS Form 3526-R (Requester Publications Only) 1. PUBLICATION TITLE, THE NORTH HAVEN CITIZEN 2. PUBLICATION NO., 023-495 September 2019 3. FILING DATE, October 1, 30, 2014 4. ISSUE FREQUENCY, Weekly. 5. NO. OF ISSUES PUBLISHED ANNUALLY, 52 6. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, None 7. COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS OF KNOWN OFFICE OF PUBLICATION, 11 Street, 500Crown S. Broad St. Meriden, CT 06450-0915 (County of New Haven) Contact Person, David Pare, Telephone 203-317-2407. 8. COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS OF HEADQUARTERS OR GENERAL BUSINESS OFFICE OF PUBLISHER, 500Crown S. Broad St. Meriden, CT 06450-0915 11 Street, 9. FULL NAMES AND COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESSES OF PUBLISHER, EDITOR AND MANAGING EDITOR: PUBLISHER: Eliot C. White, 500 11 Crown Eliot Carroll, C. White, S. Broad St., St. Meriden, CT 06450. EDITOR: Nick 50011S.Crown Broad St., St. Meriden, CT 06450. MANAGING EDITOR: Olivia Lawrence, 11 Crown St., Meriden, CT 06450. 10. OWNER: The Record-Journal Publishing Co., 11 Crown Street, Meriden, CT 06450. Stockholders owning or holding onepercent percentoror 10. OWNER: The Record-Journal Publishing Co., 500 S. Broad Street, Meriden, CT 06450. Stockholders owning or holding one more: Eliot C. White, 15 Canoe Birch Court, Berlin, CT 06037, Leslie H. White, 250 East Main Street #8, Meriden, CT 06450, Susan more: Eliot 15 C. Canoe White, Birch 235 Richmond Glen,CT Cheshire, 06410, B. Susan W. White, 235Circle, Richmond Glen,CT Cheshire, 06410,Parisi, Elizabeth B. W. White, Court, Berlin, 06037,CT Elizabeth White, 70 Milici Meriden, 06450, CT Melinda 40 Runge Drive, 665 Meriden, 06451, Harkil & Webster Bank460 Street, Waterbury, CT 06702, of First White, AshleyCT Court, Cheshire, CTCo., 06410, First Trust, Baptist123 Church, Broad Street, Meriden, CTA/C 06450, SarahBaptist White Church, Rogers, A/C 2150of MidState Medical Center, Alison W. Muschinsky, 106 Olympus Parkway, Middletown, CT 06457, Bodin Muschinsky, 120 Robin Circle, Indian Creek East B321, Vero Beach 32966, H. Church, BuckSarah Hill Lane, Ridge, NYCedar 10576,Lane, YMCA, 110 FL West Main Tolland, CT Blvd 06084, Evon Muschinsky, P.O. Box Allan 476, Vernon, CT 20 06066, WhitePond Rogers, 1776 VeroInc., Beach, 32963, Allan White, 29672 Zuma Bay Way,F.Malibu, Church, 20 BuckCT06489 Hill Lane, Pond Ridge, NY 10576, YMCA, Inc., 110 Street, Meriden, CT 06450, Michael Killian,CA 56 90265, HamlinAllan BrookH.Pass, Southington, W. Main St., Meriden, CT 06450, Michael F. Killian, 56 Hamlin Brook Path, Southington, CT 06489. 11. KNOWN BONDHOLDERS, MORTGAGEES, AND OTHER SECURITY HOLDERS OWNING OR HOLDING 1 PERCENT OR MORE OF TOTAL AMOUNT OF BONDS, MORTGAGES OR OTHER SECURITIES. If none, check box ✔ ❑ None. 12. Tax Status (For completion by nonprofit organizations authorized to mail at nonprofit rates) (Check One) The purpose, function, and nonprofit status of this organization and the exempt status for federal income tax purposes ❑ HAS NOT CHANGED DURING PRECEDING 12 MONTHS ❑ HAS CHANGED DURING PRECEDING 12 MONTHS (Publisher must submit explanation of change with this statement) 13. PUBLICATION NAME, The North Haven Citizen 27, 2019 14. ISSUE DATE FOR CIRCULATION DATA, September Sept. 5, 2014

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