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Church members rally for ailing 2-year-old boy By Everett Bishop The Citizen

Members of the New Life Church in Wallingford have rallied to help one of their own.

The North Haven Fair Association loaded toys and food items into a large red carriage, which greeted guests at the North Haven Winter Festival. Photos by Everett Bishop, The Citizen

Festival attendees come through for those in need

Two-year-old Namaan Johnson was diagnosed with leukemia in 2018, and when New Life parishoner Gina Queiroga saw the toddler in church with a feeding tube, she was compelled to learn more about him. “I was told about how he had leukemia, and my

heart just broke, being a mom,” Queiroga said. “So we talked about possibly doing something for (the family) for the holidays to try to raise money for them.” Queiroga, whose parents owns Bagelicious in North Haven, decided that the eatery would serve as a perfect venue for a fundraiser. “We figured photos with Santa would be perfect,” Queiroga said. “So what See Church, A8

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Friday, December 6, 2019

In Brief Kids for Kids, Dancing for Life, Inc., will present its annual Makin It Special Christmas Show Saturday, Dec. 7, 3 p.m., at North Haven High School. Admission is a new unwrapped toy. Toys will be distributed to New Haven area children in need.

Pasta dinner will be served at the church, in Carroll Hall, at 5:30 p.m. Dinner with a reservation is $12 (children 12 and under, $5). Dinner without a reservation is $14. To make a reservation, call 203-2395691.

Ski club The North Haven Ski Club offers Saturday and Sunday bus trips throughout New England at affordable prices. The bus leaves from the Stop & Shop parking lot in North Haven at 5:30 a.m. (Killington trips depart at 5 a.m.)

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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 "Adventures In The Garden."

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Tickets are $10 (children 12 and under, free) and are available at the door.

The historical society reminds residents that several publications and greeting card sets are available for purchase.

The North Haven food bank has a constant need for: mayo, ketchup, mustard, coffee, tea, tuna, soup, Chef Boyardee products, instant mashed potatoes, cookies, crackers, macaroni and cheese, protein bars, granola bars, trail mix, nuts, jerky, peanut butter crackers, graham crackers, dried fruit, Fruit Roll-Ups, fruit snacks, fruit cups, applesauce, pudding cups, peanut butter, jelly, Pop Tarts, cereal, oatmeal, pancake mix, syrup, juice boxes and canned fruit.

These items can be dropped off to the Department of Community Services office at the Town Hall Annex Building.

Established in 1970, the North Haven Ski Club consists of over 230 members In addition to showcasing the talents of local youth, the The main floor of the Cultur- hailing from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and event features a raffle. For al Center, which houses the more information, visit kfkNorth Haven Historical Soci- New York. The club encourages people interested in dancingforlife.org. ety’s archives, research skiing, snowboarding, cross room and meeting space, country skiing, tubing and will be painted and rePierpont concert, snowshoeing to join. floored. Due to the renovadinner tions, the historical society For more information, conwill be closed until early tact Annette Murphy: 203Brass is scheduled to per2020. 927-3071, dapdmurph@ form Saturday, Dec. 7, aol.com. 7 p.m., at North Haven Con- During renovations, apgregational Church, 28 pointments can be made to Church St. access the archives. Call 203Business Owner / Service Provider? 239-7722 and leave a mesBrass is a quintet of profesLIST YOUR SERVICE sage. Or, email research sional musicians brought toIn Our Business / Service Directory questions to nhhistsoc@ gether by a love of virtuoso 203-238-1953 playing and the camaraderie gmail.com, and volunteers will do the work. generated by live perfor-

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Youngsters were given tickets to select items from Santa’s Workshop; a table overseen by longtime fair association member Dotty Kennedy.

Held Saturday, Nov. 30, the North Haven Winter Festival is expected to become an annual event. “We have a lot of things for the kids to do. We have free games, crafts and shopping. We had a puppet show, Spotlight Stage Company is singing carols, Mrs. Claus will be reading stories for the kids and Santa Claus is

Many more items, including small decorated Christmas trees, train sets, a piano mat and toys and treats for pets were donated to the fair association to be used for raffle baskets.

“I think this is really great,” said fair association mem“All of these are donated ber Mike Kennedy. “It’s all items,” Kennedy pointed about the kids and it beneout. “The children get tickets fits the community.” and can pick out anything ebishop@record-journal.com they want. Most of them 203-317-2444 pick out things for their Twitter: @everett_bishop mothers for Christmas.”

Dotty Kennedy ran Santa's Workshop, where youngsters could shop for free.

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Advocates push for ban on flavored vaping products By Jenna Carlesso The Connecticut Mirror

Frustrated by the Trump administration’s retreat from a pledge to ban flavored vaping products at the federal level, anti-tobacco advocates are doubling down on a push to enact a statewide prohibition in Connecticut.

Two months ago, as hundreds of people across the country contracted a mysterious lung disease linked to vaping, President Trump announced from the Oval Office that he would pursue a ban on most flavored ecigarettes.

The plan would have pulled flavored vaping products, in“Everybody had high hopes cluding mint and menthol, in September when the pres- from the market. The flavors ident announced a plan to would not have been aleliminate the sale of all flalowed back without specific vored e-cigarettes, but clear- approval from the Food and ly that plan has been in the Drug Administration. Offiprocess of being watered cials at the time said the poldown almost since the day icy was being finalized and he first introduced it,” said that it probably would go inKevin O’Flaherty, an advoca- to effect a month later. cy director with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. “We can’t allow people to “We are actively encouraging get sick. And we can’t have our youth be so affected,” both the governor and the legislature in Connecticut to Trump said in September. He added that the first lady consider addressing this isfelt “very, very strongly” sue.”

about the issue because of their 13-year-old son, Barron. But last month, the president backed off his proposal, saying he didn’t want to move forward because he feared the prohibition would lead to job losses. He also warned that a flavor ban could spawn more counterfeit vaping products. White House and campaign officials have said that Trump balked because he worried that angering Vape Shop owners and their customers might cost him at the polls next year. Supporters of a ban on flavored vaping and tobacco products are now pinning their hopes for swift action on state leaders. In November, the General Assembly in Massachusetts

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Top Dems unite behind Lamont on truck tolls By Mark Pazniokas and Keith M. Phaneuf © The Connecicut Mirror

Gov. Ned Lamont and Democratic legislative leaders united last week behind a transportation financing concept that would rely on trucks-only tolls, a breakthrough for a governor whose own party had repeatedly frustrated his major first-year objective of modernizing Connecticut’s aging highways and commuter rail system.

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passed a sweeping prohibition on flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco goods, including menthol cigarettes, which, if signed into law, would make Massachusetts the first state in the nation to bar all flavored vaping and tobacco products. The New York City Council also recently voted to outlaw all flavored e-cigarettes and e-liquid vaping products, including menthol.

Senate Democratic leaders, who had summarily dismissed Lamont’s two earlier proposals for tolls on all motor vehicles as politically unpalatable and rejected his characterization of transportation infrastructure as a crisis, endorsed the new approach and insisted it should be refined and passed in special session, most likely in January. “It is absolutely essential that we get this done,” said Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven. “There is a real crisis in our state that we cannot just delay any longer in

terms of the needed reconstruction of our roads and bridges. We need to get this done now. We don’t want the issue to drag into the 2020 session. We think we have momentum on that issue, and the time to move is now.” With the Democratic governor and leaders of the Democratic legislative majorities agreeing on a transportation financing approach for the first time since Lamont made his initial proposal in February, their challenge is to fully develop what is now a detailed outline and convince their caucuses it is financially sound and politically defensible.

Lamont and the legislators spoke to reporters after a meeting at the Executive Residence that marked the end of the administration’s efforts to find a bipartisan approach to financing CT2030, the governor’s $21 billion list of transportation projects that he says can remake commuting life and spark economic growth over the next 10 years. See Lamont, A11

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Knights team up with Renegade Pigs The North Haven Knights of Columbus delivered 50 turkeys to the North Haven Community Services Food Bank, North Haven Congregational Church Food Bank and St. Peter’s & Grace Church in Hamden. The turkeys are part of a donation from the Renegade Pigs Motorcycle Club) of Meriden. RPMC membership is comprised of local law enforcement and fire service personnel who share the common love of riding their American-made motorcycles, and who believe that

loyalty and camaraderie are core values for public safety personnel. The 50 turkeys represent a small part of the 459 turkeys the RPMC gifted to other non-profit groups in the area to donate to the less fortunate. Previously, the North Haven Knights donated more than 2,000 pounds of nonperishable food and over $1,000 to the North Haven Community Services Food Bank. -- Press Release

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House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin, said Re“This plan works, and the numbers add up,” La- publicans are stoking fears about what could come next, mont said. rather than debate what Rhode Island impleDemocrats are actually mented the nation’s first proposing. trucks-only tolls last year, drawing a legal challenge He warned the GOP alternafrom the trucking indus- tive would leave Connecticut try that is pending. Lam- without the financial cushion ont proposed trucks-only to weather a recession, jeoptolls during the 2018 ses- ardizing residents who rely on state services and potension, only to push for a broader plan once elect- tially exposing them to tax increases. ed. House Democrats resurrected the idea after the Senate balked at automobile tolls.

“My question to them is why are they picking truck drivers over our middle class?” Aresimowicz said.

“I think that the House has really shown us the way by coming out with the truck-only plan, which is in effect a return to a version of what the governor had proposed in the election last year and is in fact the only plan that is voter approved, given the virtue of the fact he was elected running on that proposal,” Looney said.

Each side accused the other of intransigence, and the exchange continued in an exchange of emailed statements.

islative leaders from both sides of the aisle to come together and discuss for nearly two hours how to grow the state’s economy and fix its broken transportation system. For the last several months, the governor’s administration has invested considerably in collaboratively working towards a bipartisan solution – one that included Senator Fasano.” With some creative financing, the Democrats say they could come within $1 billion of the $21 billion spending goal of CT2030, even though truck tolls would produce an estimated $180 million, slightly more than half the $320 million projected in the plan Lamont released on Nov. 7. Lamont needs a dedicated revenue stream to obtain low-cost federal financing.

That tolling revenue gap is “The comments made by leg- significant. Democrats did islative Democrats and Gov. not disclose all the details Lamont following today’s for making up the difference, meeting were nothing but but they highlighted two sopolitical talking points delutions. fending their insatiable desire Low-interest federal loans to tax people more,” Fasano the state is seeking for said. “They want tolls, they bridge and rail improvewant to borrow more, they ments would be financed want more tax revenue from Taking turns standing over 35 years, rather than Connecticut residents — on before a fireplace in a the 27 years anticipated in formal living room at the top of their new taxes on Lamont’s earlier plan. Acgovernor’s residence, the plastic bags and groceries. cording to the administralegislative leaders quickly They do not want to work tion, this would save an avwith Republicans to do what delivered a preview of erage of about $16.3 million how the plan will be pro- is truly best for our state and moted by Democrats and its residents. They want tolls. per year in debt costs between 2020 and 2030, a total Period.” panned by Republicans of about $180 million. in special session and The Lamont administration during the 2020 camAnother element is a more responded in kind. paign for control of the modest version of the GOP General Assembly. “Senator Fasano must be alternative: Using some of talking about a completely the budget reserves to pay Senate Minority Leader different meeting and a total- down pension debt, which Len Fasano, R-North ly different plan,” said Max would lessen the annual Haven, whose caucus ofReiss, the governor’s commu- contributions now required. fered an alternative to nications director. “Today, tolls that would have reGovernor Lamont asked legquired spending $1.5 bilSee Lamont, A12 lion of the $2.5 billion budget reserves, said no Economical and Affordable Burial & Cremation Economical & Affordable Burial Services one believes that state Proudly Serving Our Community for Four Generations government can be trusted to stick with truck-onWashington Memorial Funeral Home ly tolls. Owner & Director John Iacobucci “The confidence it’s going to remain a truck toll is very low,” Fasano said. Democrats say they would be open to any legislative language, including a constitutional amendment, clarifying

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and Prevention’s annual National Youth Tobacco Survey show. Fruit, menthol and mint were the most popular flavors, with more than 60% of teens who vaped saying they used them. “There’s no need for flavoring. We shouldn’t be making these products enticing,” said Bryte Johnson, director of government relations for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network. “We’re looking at the culprit, the No. 1 reason, why people are trying these products, especially kids. To me, a ban is an easy choice.” This fall, guided by grim statistics on youth vaping and a surge of lung illness cases in Connecticut, several lawmakers here vowed to explore barring flavored vaping products during the 2020 session, which begins in February. They renewed that promise as news of Trump’s reversal surfaced.

Vape shop and other business owners across Connecticut have expressed concern about the idea. Lawmakers included a prohibition on flavors in their Tobacco 21 bill last year, but stripped it out before the measure passed the General Assembly. State Rep. Sean Scanlon, DGuilford, suggested legislators take aim at disposable e-cigarettes, so store owners and people who rely on vaping liquids to quit smoking aren’t unfairly penalized. “Kids are not walking into a vape shop and buying a $100 vaping device. They’re buying a quick-hit device,” he said. “Those are the ones you get at a bodega or a gas station, like Juul or Blu. That’s what kids are buying.” Some longtime smokers trying to kick the habit rely on vaping products that would be outlawed under a widespread ban, Scanlon said. “I smoked for 15 years and my father died of lung cancer, so I’m pretty familiar with this. Guys like me or my dad who are smoking cigarettes, who may use ecigarettes to quit – we shouldn’t stop them from doing that.”

“Clearly, this is something we should do if there is not going to be federal action on it,” Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney said. “I think Legislative leaders said there there’s broad-based support was no consensus yet on for it. It should pass.” “Flavored vaping is the thing that’s particularly geared toward the young. It’s really a cynical manipulation to try to attract teenagers to use vaping devices,” he added. “It would make sense for us to do a ban at the state level since the federal government has once again failed on a significant issue of public health.”

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what might be included in a bill banning flavored vaping and tobacco products. Discussions will take place in the coming weeks. “All of those who were involved in the [Tobacco 21] legislation are planning to get together again to talk about what we want to do next year,” said Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, a cochair of the Public Health Committee. “Certainly, I would say there’s impetus to ban flavors. But I want to make sure that we’re really looking at the problems and addressing them directly.”

proach to regulating ecigarettes. The governor said he would look into what he could do by executive order, or press for the issue to be raised in a special session or during the regular session in 2020. Max Reiss, a spokesman for Lamont, said recently: “We think the best path, that’s the safest path, is through the General Assembly” in February. The governor is

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trying to avoid the kind of litigation that has happened in other states, he said. New York and Michigan, whose leaders used executive authority to impose flavor bans this year, have been sued by vape shop owners and e-cigarette manufacturers, undercutting those efforts. “The governor remains comSee Vaping, A16

Lawmakers and Gov. Ned Lamont pledged earlier this fall to take strong action as the number of Connecticut residents with lung illnesses climbed. To date, 39 cases of the disease have been reported to the state’s health department. One person has died. The CDC, which has logged 2,290 cases and 47 deaths nationally, has warned people against using THC-containing vaping products and against purchasing ecigarettes from friends, family or online dealers. In September, Lamont said he would consider a ban on flavored vaping products as part of a multi-state ap-

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The effort appears to have some bipartisan support. Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano, R-North Haven, said he would back a flavor ban.

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The North Haven Citizen | northhavencitizen.com

Friday, December 6, 2019

Names, donations sought for town holiday programs The North Haven Community Services and Recreation Department would like to announce that residents are now welcome to reserve their names for the 2019 Holiday Food Distribution Program and Toy Selection Program.

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p.m. Additionally, there is a need for the following food items: instant mashed potatoes, stuffing, turkey gravy, cornbread, canned cranberries and canned yams. Monetary donations are gladly accepted.

The Holiday Food Distribution will take place Friday, Dec. 20, 12 to 2 p.m., at the Town Hall Annex Building, 5 Linsley St. Requests for food must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 16.

The Food Distribution ProThe Holiday Toy Selection gram is intended for income eligible families. Program is intended for Families must present a families experiencing fidriver’s license or photo ID nancial hardship, with children age 18 and under. and complete a one-page Appointments are available application upon arrival. Dec. 9 through 13. Note to those interested in donating turkeys or hams: Parents/guardians must Due to storage limitations, present a driver’s license, the department asks that birth certificates for each child in the household and turkey or ham donations be delivered on Dec. 20 beproof of hardship. tween 8:30 a.m. and 12:30

said. “To that end, he will work collaboratively with the General Assembly this session to ensure the public health and safety of all Connecticut consumers who use these products.

Items can be dropped off to the Town Hall Annex Building, Monday through Friday, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., through Thursday, Dec. 12.

mitted to protecting the health of our children by better regulating vape and ecigarette products. Gov. Lamont also wants any solution to be effective, and not be held up in court,” Reiss

“If the federal government won’t act in the interests of public health, then it is up to states to fill that void.”

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The department welcomes donations of new, unwrapped toys, and there is an ongoing need for tween- and teen-friendly items. -- Press Release

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