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BOE: North Haven Nighthawks is the new mascot By Nicole Zappone Special to The Citizen

The Board of Education unanimously approved a new mascot for the school district at a special meeting Dec. 13. Teams will now be known as the North Haven Nighthawks.

Nighthawks are expert hunters found along the rivers and open fields of North Haven and are known for their persistence and stamina. The former Indian mascot was retired at a BOE meeting in July. “I am looking forward to an awe-

some new logo that we can all be proud to wear,” said Amanda Gabriele, board member and Mascot Committee member. “I also think that this will make all the people who pushed for this change feel welcome in our great town.” Mascot Committee meetings began in September and suggestions

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for a new mascot were taken in November, after which the committee culled through submissions to identify finalists. Through the first week of December, there was online voting for students as well as voting opportunities for See Mascot, A2

Small business program targets diverse communities By Karla Santos Record-Journal staff

Jackie Phillips opened The Life Changer Center in Hartford in 2016. She enrolled in Liberty Bank’s Academy for Small Business program in the spring because she wanted to strengthen her business and learn skills that would help her to better operate her mental health and life empowerment center. She was able to accomplish her goal through the program.

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“Where I was last year to where I am now is like night and day,” she said. Glenn Davis, first vice president, community development/CRA officer at Liberty Bank, said the Academy for Small Business program is a 10-week class that offers up to a $5,000 credit line for those who successfully complete it. The idea is for students to use the line of credit to launch or help advance their business. Liberty Bank, headquartered in Middletown, has 62 banking offices throughout the state, including in North Haven. The program is free but it requires students to have a minimum credit score of 600. To qualify for the credit line students See Program, A2

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The program was held about six times in 2021. Each group had about 20 students. Davis said they typically like to have classes that are racially and ethnically diverse and include low to moderate income participants.

and it was hard for her to get loans. Nazario’s favorite part of the program was the connections she made with other business owners. Elmore Ligon, of Meriden, was also part of the program this year. He owns LF Transportation, which transports goods for other business. He has owned the business for about seven months and wanted to learn more about running a business. Understanding a business plan and structuring were some of the things he learned in the program, he said.

“Liberty Bank is committed to the small business community, especially those diverse communities — African American, Latino, Latina entrepreneurs — and this academy is just one way Elmore Ligon, of Meriden, owner of L.F. Transportation to facilitate that and to really LLC, sits on the back of his rental truck in a parking lot off East Main Street in Meriden after a shift transporting goods reach the community to help “It was great to know that support these enfor other businesses. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal trepreneurs,” Davis said.

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Those who want to take the class for the learning experience and not the line of

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residents online and with paper ballots at Town Hall, the library, and senior center. Other mascot names given consideration were: Fisher Cats, Phoenix, Ravens, Storm, and Wolfpack.

tive American mascots in public schools. In April, it was reported that North Haven had received a letter from the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe Nation at Foxwoods calling on them to change the mascot.

At a February board meetOfficials will work on the loing, members discussed a proposed legislative bill that go and branding for the would prevent the use of Na- North Haven Nighthawks with North Haven Athletics.

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Liberty Bank partners with local organizations such as the Community Economic Development Fund on the instruction of the classes.

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The program teaches students about taxes, organizational planning, banking ser- Pamella Nazario, owner of vices, time management, D&A Express Transportacredit reporting and more. tion, a trucking business out of West Hartford, was in the “The curriculum is strucprogram in the spring. “This tured to give individuals a was such a great opportunity good base line on operating for me,” she said. “It was so a business,” Davis said. helpful.” The program also offers netOne of the reasons she parworking opportunities, he ticipated was because her said. credit was “not too good,” During a PowerPoint presentation, regarding the mascot, it was noted that the committee had exceeded eight times the amount needed for a statistically significant sample of a town the size of North Haven.

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Miguel Castro, a former MidState Chamber of Commerce Board member, said the Academy for Small Business program provides small business owners with opportunity for economic growth and access to resources.

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Upcoming drives: Sunday, Dec. 19, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at M.A. Wakeley Recreation Center, 7 Linsley St.; Tuesday, Dec. 28, 12:45 to 6 p.m., at Scarletts Fine Events North Haven, 201 Washington Ave.

The North Haven Garden Club in conjunction with the Federated Garden Club's of Connecticut and National Garden Club are sponsoring a sculpture contest. The contest is open to students in grades 4 to 8. For more information, contact Cindy Golia at nhgccindy@yahoo.com.

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Poetry contest The North Haven Garden Club in conjunction with Federated Garden Club's of Connecticut and National Garden Club's announced the theme for their 2021-2022 poetry contest, "Sing with the Songbirds – Exploring the Glory of Nature." The contest is open to students in kindergarten through grade nine. For more information, contact Cindy Golia at nhgccindy@yahoo.com.

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Community foundation The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the U.S. and was established in 1928 as the permanent charitable endowment for New Haven and its surrounding communities of: Ansonia, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, Milford, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Oxford, Seymour, Shelton, Wallingford, West Haven, and Woodbridge. For more information, visit cfgnh.org or follow @cfgnh.

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The Milton Fisher Scholarship for Innovation and Creativity was established in 2003 at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven by the Reneé B. Fisher Foundation. This is not a traditional scholarship focused on rewarding academic achievement. Its goal is to reward and encourage innovative and creative problemsolving. Find the scholarship guidelines and a link to the application at rbffoundation.org and cfgnh.org/ scholarships. For more information, email info@mfscholarship.org. The application deadline is May 3, 2022.

The Office of Community Services welcomes residents to schedule an appointment to apply for the Connecticut Energy Assistance Program. Phone appointments will be conducted Tuesdays and Wednesdays 9 a.m. to noon. To see if you qualify, or to schedule your phone appointment, call 203-2392566 Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Counseling services Whether it is depression, anxiety, loss/grief, increased alcohol or substance use, relational difficulties, LGBTQ+ challenges, or other issues, North Haven Counseling Services is there to help. If you feel that you could benefit from counseling support, contact Community Services at 203-239-5321, ext. 500 to make a referral.

Rotary Club The North Haven Rotary Foundation has awarded over $100,000 in scholarships to North Haven high school and college students. If interested in helping the Rotary continue its work, contact Erik Scaranuzzo at 203-988-3884.

Lions Club The North Haven Lions have served the community since 1952. To be part of something meaningful, email northhavenctlions@ gmail.com.

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COVID numbers climb locally Connecticut on Friday, Dec. 10 reported 3,280 new COVID-19 infections detected in 53,948 tests, up from 2,679 infections found in 41,361 tests the previous day. The positivity rate was slightly higher than 6 percent both days. The state's most recent COVID-19 report, which includes two weeks of data, showed 126 positive cases in North Haven, which kept the community in the coronavirus red zone. The trigger for top-of-thechart red status — where nearly all Connecticut towns and cities now stand — starts at 15 cases per 100,000 people per day. In the previous report, North Haven had 81 cases. Data collected two weeks prior to that showed 36 cases in town. Gov. Ned Lamont said last week he has no plans to impose new mandates on

wearing masks or showing evidence of vaccination, instead promoting the coming availability of a voluntary “digital health card” offering proof of vaccination. “What I want to do is get that digital health card and make it available to every single business, restaurant, store. Let them make the right decision in terms of allowing people into their facility,” Lamont said. “I don’t think we need more mandates than that.” The governor has ordered the wearing of masks in schools. Elsewhere, masks are not required of vaccinated persons, though venues and municipalities can require them. “I think the towns are the ones that are taking the lead on enforcing it,” Lamont said. “I think the store and restaurant owners are the ones who know … how to enforce it, the best way to do it. I’m getting them all the

tools they need, once we get the digital card available.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 symptoms may appear 2 to 14 days after exposure to the virus. Symptoms may include fever or chills, coughing, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea.

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Health officials encourage people to wear masks indoors and social distance if among unfamiliar people. They are also encouraging people to get their first vaccine and boosters if their second shot was more than six months ago. Information from The Connecticut Mirror was used in this report.

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DePino Memorial Blood Drive set for Dec. 19 By Nicole Zappone Special to The Citizen

A blood drive will be held Dec. 19 in memory of Amelia DePino who died at age 19, of acute lymphoma leukemia, in 2019. A North Haven High School graduate, class of 2017, DePino was diagnosed with the disease during the last six months of her senior year. DePino had planned to become a pediatric nurse and was enrolled as a nursing student at Sacred Heart University, making the dean’s list in her first year.

“All she ever wanted to do was to help people,” said Annetta DePino, Amerlia’s mother. “I remember one time we were in the hospital, and she was talking to the children about what was going on. She spoke to them in such a way.”

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The DePino blood drives have been well attended. “All of our drives have been maxed out with the support of friends, family, and the community,” said Annetta DePino.

Since 2019, a memorial blood drive for Amelia DePino has been held First Selectman Michael Freda reeach year at North Haven’s Rec Cen- called Amelia DePino’s involvement ter. in school activities and blood drives. During a cancer patient’s treatment, “I knew Amelia since she was 11 years old and she was such a special there is a major need for blood and person,” he said. platelets. Amelia DePino’s received numerous transfusions and at times these were delayed due to short-

Recently, the DePino family was honored with a memorial sign, near

“Having the community alongside of us during her illness and passing has been tremendous support to our entire family,” Annetta Depino said. The blood drive is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 19, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the M.A. Wakeley Community & Rec Center, 7 Linsley St. To schedule an appointment for this drive, contact the American Red Cross at 1-800-Red Cross or 1-800733-2767. Or go to redcrossblood.org and use sponsor code: Amelia.

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The 2021 Liberty Bank/Rotary Thanksgiving Dinner Drive raised a record-breaking $1,431,376, ensuring there would be enough food

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North Haven Police Blotter Arrests reported by the North Haven Police: Oct. 25 Justin L. Abbotts, 40, 183 Pool Road, disorderly conduct, 8:57 p.m. Oct. 26 Maurice A. McAlpine, 19, 866 Congress Ave., 2, New Haven, sixth-degree larceny, 6:334 p.m. Kyre K. Culbreath, 28, 141 Shefield Ave., Apt. 8B, New Haven, disorderly conduct, 10:26 a.m. Oct. 28 Yenesis Jones, 33, 180 Albright Ave., Stratford, disorderly conduct, 4:30 p.m. Anthony E. Paduano, 62, 114 Maple Ave., illegal discharge of a firearm, disorderly conduct/annoying interfering person, firstdegree reckless endangerment, 9:30 a.m. Oct. 29 Terrance Mallory, 23, 535 Norton Parkway, New Haven, sixthdegree larceny, 5 p.m. Oct. 30 Andrew L. Poulin, 60, 100 State St., Apt. 160, second-degree failure to appear, 11:45 p.m. Oct. 31 Linda Alford, 39, 166 Charter Oak Ave., East Haven, operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol, 5:10 a.m. Nov. 9

Alicia Brodzik, 44, 144 Pool Road, disorderly conduct, thirddegree assault, 8:45 a.m. Nov. 10 Jordon L. Cushon, 32, 78 Wall St., Waterbury, reckless driving, 9:35 p.m. Randall Fleming, 48, 225 Newhall St., New Haven, four counts second-degree failure to appear, sixth-degree larceny, 11:50 a.m. Nov. 12 Shameka Frederick, 32, 40 Blake St., New Haven, operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol, 11:45 a.m. Nov. 15 William Souza, 28, 100 State St., Apt. 170, interfering with an officer, second-degree breach of peace, 10:30 a.m. Nov. 16 Evelyn C. Manigault, 35, 33 Rockview Circle, Apt. B, New Haven, second-degree failure to appear, 7:23 a.m. Nov. 17 Coran P. Mazyck, 21, 19G Stonegate Circle, Branford,

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Connecticut’s awkward congressional map, a legacy of losing one of its six seats 20 years ago, is unlikely to get a major overhaul by the state legislature’s bipartisan Reap- “Generally speaking, less change is better for the portionment Commission. Democrats. They’ve held the The rules of reapportionseats for a decade and would ment are heavily stacked in like to continue to,” said

House Minority Leader Vincent J. Candelora, R-North Branford. House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, DNorwalk, said they see no reason for anything but the tweaks necessary to equalize the population of the five districts based on the 2020 Census.

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Connecticut enacts paid family and medical leave program Governor Ned Lamont announced that applications are now being accepted for Connecticut residents who want to participate in the state’s new paid family and medical leave program. Claims are being accepted for qualifying events that are happening on or after Jan. 1, 2022. Under the program, which was enacted through legislation championed by Lamont and signed by him in 2019, workers will gain access to

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torted to serve them survives, nearly impossible to change. The difficulty lies in politics and process, not math or mapmaking. With a bipartisan commission, no party can dictate a result. Deadlocks essentially are broken by the Supreme Court, which made only the minimal changes required 10 years ago to equalize the populations of the districts. “I think the court is not interested in being in the business of redistricting,” said Sen. Paul Formica, R-East Lyme, the Senate GOP deputy leader and a Reapportionment Commission member. The commission is composed of four Democrats and four Republicans: the Senate president pro tem and the House speaker, who are Democrats, and the House and Senate majority and minority leaders, plus two deputy minority leaders. The eight appointed a neutral ninth member, ostensibly a tie-breaker. But following precedent, the neutral member, John McKinney, has agreed not to play that role, meaning that no map will be adopted without either a bipartisan deal or court intervention.

The missed deadline means the congressional map will be subject to oversight by the Supreme Court, as was the case in 2001 and 2011. The commission is technically on hiatus until the court approves a deadline extension. Thanks to the availability of web tools preloaded with maps, block-by-block census data and election results, the actual work of mapmaking is not difficult. At Trinity College, the students in Professor Kyle Evans’ “Mathematics and Redistricting” class used one of the web sites, DavesRedistricting.org, to quickly produce maps that are geographically compact and respect the districts’ current regional bases. “We did this in the class period, more or less an hour,” Evans said. Evans’ class followed basic guidelines: Each district must have 721,189 people, one-fifth of the state’s population of 3.6 million; and municipal borders should be respected to the greatest extent possible. Connecticut grew by not quite 32,000 people in the past decade, mostly in Fairfield County. Hartford, as well as rural communities in eastern Connecticut lost population. The sprawling 2nd District of

“This is a milestone in Connecticut as we begin to accept benefit applications for one of the strongest paid family and medical leave programs in the nation,” Lamont said. “Supporting the workers of our state will strengthen our economic footing

eastern Connecticut needs to get bigger and pick up another 21,288 residents, while the compact 4th District of lower Fairfield County needs to get more geographically compact and shed 25,627 people.

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ney general, the 4th District now rivals the 1st and 3rd as a safe Democratic base. Democrats won 60.4% of those votes in the 1st, 60% in the 4th and 58.7% in the 3rd.

The other two districts only lean Democratic, with the party winning 52.1% of the The population deviations composite vote in the 2nd are smaller in the other districts: the 1st and 3rd are un- and 51.9% in the 5th. As a result, small changes could der by 3,535 and 5,829, remake them more competispectively, while the 5th is tive — if not next year, then over by 5,024. Since the when the seats are open. overpopulated 4th and underpopulated 2nd share no This map, produced by the border, changes will have to “Dave’s Redistricting” webripple across the map. site, shows the current partiUnlike the Reapportionment san tilt. The darkest, the 1st and 4th, and the slightly Commission, Evans’s class lighter 3rd, are solidly ignored the political gains and losses attendant to shift- Democratic. The 5th and 2nd, on the west and east, ing borders. lean Democratic. Evans did a map in 30 minTen years ago, the Republiutes. cans proposed a map that “That was with no political would have made the 4th consideration, no incumbent and 5th friendlier to GOP consideration whatsoever,” candidates. They proposed he said. shifting Democratic Bridgeport from the 4th to the 3rd Republicans won three of and Democratic New Britain the five seats in 2002 and 2004, losing only the 1st and from the 4th to the 1st. 3rd, the districts centered around Hartford and New Haven. But political trends have not favored the GOP.

Democrats have won every congressional election since 2008, when Democrat Jim Himes unseated Republican Chris Shays in the 4th District, which had been held for 40 years by a succession of GOP moderates: Lowell P. Weicker Jr., Stewart B. McKinney and, finally, Shays. Based on composite votes cast since 2016 for president, governor, senator and attor-

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“So that becomes to me the legal starting point,” Ritter said. The Democrats and Republicans have yet to exchange congressional maps. “If I saw a map that moves the entire city of New Britain to the 1st or Bridgeport to the 3rd, I’m not voting for that,” Ritter said. “The population trends don’t necessitate being more aggressive.” Candelora said the commission could adopt a map that doesn’t dramatically shift the balance of power but makes more sense geographically. If they’d like, Professor Evans of Trinity has some models — and several were submitted to the commission. Common Cause of Connecticut also has a gallery of maps produced by the Trinity students and others. This story originally appeared on the website of The Connecticut Mirror, www.ctmirror.org.

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a widely-shared video, of a group stealing $1,600 worth of items like detergent and paper towels. Three arrests have been made in that case, and police have said all of those involved had participated in similar thefts across the state. According to a study for the Retail Industry Leaders Association, as much as $68.9 billion worth of products were stolen from retailers in 2019 or about 1.5% of total retail sales. Tong said in Connecticut, the problem is

estimated to cost about 8,000 jobs and more than $169 million in lost tax revenue each year. The Connecticut task force will include representatives from Tong’s office, the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, local law enforcement, consumer protection officials and officials from large retailers such as CVS. Thomas Moriarty, general counsel for CVS, said his company has seen an over 300% increase in such thefts since the onset of the pan-

number, finding the information we need to track “This is a two-headed mon- down who is doing this, so ster,” Moriarty said. “It is the we can deal with this on the organized retail crime elesupply side and and demand ment of this, but it is also the side,” the governor said. online retailers and the ease Both eBay and Facebook with which these criminals can resell their stolen wares.” Marketplace’s parent, Meta, said they have has no tolerLamont said he’s working ance for criminal activity on with governors in other their platforms. states and also reaching out “We have programs and to online retailers such as policies in place to monitor Facebook Marketplace and our marketplace for stolen eBay, asking them to do items,” eBay said in a statemore to keep stolen goods ment. ”We also collaborate off of their sites. with government agencies “No more selling anonyand law enforcement to help mously, getting the tax ID demic.

prevent the sale of stolen goods on eBay.” Meta said the problem requires ongoing collaboration between retailers, law enforcement and online marketplaces. “We encourage people to report suspicious listings to us via our on-platform tools and to contact their local law enforcement to report the sale of any goods that they believe were stolen,” the company said in a statement.

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