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Volume 16, Number 3

Community foundation adds board members

BIKE PROJECT ROLLS ON

The Community Foundation of Greater New Britain elected two new board members to join the foundation’s team of volunteers. Elected to serve new multi-year board terms were Jerrell Hargraves and Pastor Thomas Mills. Established in 1941, the Community Foundation of Greater New Britain is “Where Good Begins” in Berlin, New Britain, Plainville and Southington.

Plainville High School students in Mark Chase’s Transportation Technology classes recently completed another batch of bicycles for the Plainville Community Food Pantry to distribute. Broken down and unclaimed bikes are provided to the high school classes by the Plainville Police Department and by residents. The bikes are then inspected, repaired and refurbished by students.

BOE approves $39.2M request The operational budget, which constitutes a 2.61 percent increase in spendThe Board of Education ing, now goes to the Town has approved a nearly $1 Council, which can modify million increase in school the budget to increase or funding, declining to modi- decrease funding. The final fy the $39.2 million budget budget will go before voters requested by Superintenon April 28. dent Steven LePage.

The BOE voted 6-2 in favor of the superintendent’s budget. Republican Nicole Palmieri joined council Democrats in supporting the proposal. See BOE, A7

Hargraves

Mills The new board members were officially welcomed at the Feb. 12 board meeting.

At the final board meeting of 2019, held in December, retiring members Mark Bernacki, Cori Humes and Mills is an Adult Probation Ken Malinowski were Officer for the State of Conthanked for their service. Alnecticut and is the Senior so of note, Hospital for SpePastor at Grace Christian cial Care President and CEO Methodist Episcopal Church Lynn Ricci completed her in New Britain. He serves on service as board chair. the Board of Directors for Zagorsky, of Zagorsky, the Boys & Girls Club of New Zagorsky, & Galske, will Britain and has volunteered serve a two-year term as for CCARC and the Hospital chair, and Art Schaller, presiof Central Connecticut. dent of Schaller Auto World, will serve as vice chair. “The foundation is pleased to have Jerrell Hargraves and -- Press Release Pastor Mills join our Board,”

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Hargraves serves as the Human Rights and Opportunities Officer for the City of New Britain. He has lived in the city for 30 years and serves on the Board of Directors for New Britain Public Library. In his free time, Hargraves is a youth basketball coach.

said Paul Zagorsky, community foundation board chair. “We look forward to working with them as our organization continues to be visible, relevant and impactful in the communities we serve.”

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Antique cards The Plainville Senior Center, 200 East St., is displaying a collection of more than 250 antique Valentines that

Senior Center member Joyce Goldberg inherited from her mother. The Valentines will be on display throughout the month. Visitors are welcome to view the collection 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday.

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Church to host Civil War soldier program on Feb. 22 Redeemer’s African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church will present Rev. Kevin Johnson as William Webb, an African-American

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Hall nominations The Plainville Sports Hall of Fame committee is looking for nominees to consider for induction. Nominations can be submitted via plainvillesports.com, or mailed to Plainville Sports Hall of Fame, P.O. Box 593, Plainville, CT 06062. The committee asks that newspaper articles/scrapbooks support nominations. Committee members are available to pick up, copy

Civil War soldier from Connecticut, on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall, 110 Whiting St. This is a free program.

and return the items. For more information, contact Byron Treado at 860-8363377 or Mike Bakaysa at 860573-8015.

Private Webb, a native of Hartford, was recruited in 1863 to serve in the Twenty-Ninth (Colored) Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry.

the war. He tells of his early life in Hartford, his recruitment and training, and the traumatic final battles of the Civil War. The presentation is based on extensive research in the collections of the Connecticut State Library and the Museum of Connecticut History.

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Faith Plainville United Methodist Church Plainville United Methodist Church, 56 Red Stone Hill. Sunday worship at 10 a.m., Church School at 9 a.m. Ladies Meeting, Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m.; AA, Sundays and Wednesdays - 7 p.m.; AlAnon, Mondays – 7 p.m.; Single Purpose Women’s Group, Saturdays – 9:30 a.m.; Boy Scouts, Thursdays - 7 p.m.

Church of Our Savior Church of Our Savior has scheduled the Holy Eucharist every Sunday at 10 a.m. For more information, call 860-747-3109 or email churchofoursaviourplainvillect@ gmail.com.

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Names for Democratic, GOP primaries released By Susan Haigh Associated Press

Unlike some states, including Nevada, South Carolina and Kansas, Connecticut HARTFORD — The secretary plans to hold a Republican of the state announced Friday primary even though Presiwhich candidates will appear dent Donald Trump is exon the ballot for the April 28 pected to easily win his presidential primaries. nomination for a second

term. Besides Trump, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld and California businessman Rocky De La Fuente, whose name also appeared on Connecticut’s Democratic presidential primary ballot in 2016, were selected to ap-

Lawmakers to revive aid in dying, crisis pregnancy centers legislation By Jenna Carlesso The Connecticut Mirror

Aid in dying and the regulation of faith-based pregnancy centers, two contentious issues that couldn’t gather enough support to prevail last year, will return this legislative session. But even staunch backers of the hotbutton proposals are skeptical they will succeed. Both topics won enough votes from the Public Health Committee on Friday to spur new legislation. Aid in dying, which did not make it out of committee last year, would allow doc-

tors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to terminally ill patients. In the most recent version of the bill, only patients who have six months or less to live may qualify. Those patients would be required to submit two written requests for the drug, and doctors must inform them of the risks and alternatives. Religious groups and people with disabilities have denounced the measure, citing concerns about coercion and misdiagnoses. Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, D-Westport, a cochair of the health committee, said “strongly held” religious beliefs among lawmak-

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pear on this year’s ballot, Denise Merrill announced. J.R. Romano, chairman of the state Republican Party, criticized Merrill for holding a GOP primary, accusing her on Facebook of “forcing towns to spend money for no reason!” Romano wrote “everyone in CT see this for what it is,” calling Merrill’s decision “political pettiness.” Gabe Rosenberg, Merrill’s communications director, said the secretary of the state was following the law. “What J.R. calls pettiness, we call democracy,” he said. “Our office followed both the letter and the spirit of the law, and let the voters decide.” Merrill said Connecticut law requires her to place on the ballot any presidential candidate whose candidacy for a party’s nomination “is generally and seriously advocated or recognized according to reports in the national or state news media.” Merrill said her office has been collecting news articles for the past year to decide who met that requirement.

The bill would have given the state Attorney General’s office the power to seek a court order to stop deceptive “The law is clear for us that practices at the facilities. Un- the threshold is not who can der the measure, the attorwin or viability,” she said. “The threshold is whether See Legislation, A9 they’ve been generally and

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Bill prohibits discipline for unpaid lunch bills HARTFORD (AP) — Connecticut lawmakers are considering legislation to address the issue of school lunch debt. The General Assembly’s Committee on Children scheduled a public hearing for Tuesday on a bill that would prohibit disciplinary action against public school children who have unpaid school lunch bills. The proposal would also allow any public or private entities to pay off such debt. Various school districts in the state have seen school lunch debts on the rise. For example, education officials

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ney general could have required the pregnancy centers to pay for and disseminate corrective advertising or to post a remedial notice that rectifies misleading advertisements. Critics say staff at the facilities sometimes pose as medical professionals to lure women and hand out false information about abortions. The centers have also been accused of posting misleading information on billboards, buses, brochures and websites.

in Norwalk said last year that they had noticed their schools were on track to accrue more debts than in previous years. It often happens when families who don’t qualify for free lunch can’t afford to pay for their child’s lunch. The issue has sparked controversies across the country. A Pennsylvania school district apologized last year for warning parents who were behind on their lunch bills that their children could end up in foster care and for rejecting a businessman’s offer to pay the overdue charges. Ultimately, the district agreed to accept the donation.

every single issue that legislators want because, when we raise too many bills, we don’t do things well,” said Rep. Vincent Candelora, RNorth Branford. “There are a lot of demands – whether it be tolls, our transportation infrastructure – that are going to take up a lot of time in this building. And when we take up issues like these, it will swallow up a lot of that time.”

Factory seeks the OK for cleanup By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff

SOUTHINGTON — A factory near the Quinnipiac River is looking for town approval to clean up oil that spilled onto the riverbank during an accident and fire years ago. The state requires Rex Forge, an Atwater Street manufacturer, to clean contaminated soil as part of a company ownership transfer. In 1998, fuel oil released

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tually obligated to provide staff, which add up to $972,354 before retirements are taken into account. LePage noted that the majority of the budget, nearly 85 percent, pays for the salaries and benefits of district employees. “The biggest driver of the school budget, in any district, is really people,” he

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from a valve flowed into the river. During a major fire in 2012, machine parts oil was released, some of which reached the Quinnipiac River. Paul Natoli, an environmental scientist representing the company, told town officials that when the river rises it can acquire a sheen from oil that remains in the riverbanks. Natoli presented plans to remove contaminated soil at a Conservation Commission meeting earlier this month.

said. “It’s a people business, with putting the right people in the right positions to do the best they can for children.” Personnel-wise, the budget would reinstate an English position at the Middle School of Plainville, while the director of curriculum, instruction and assessment position held by Rosa Pérez, who is retiring this year, would be split to create a new specialist for equity, climate and English language learners.

The 2012 fire heavily damaged the forging plant, which has been on Atwater Street since 1867. Natoli said most of the petroleum on the riverbank is from the 1998 spill. James Sullivan, Conservation Commission chairman, said members plan to visit the Atwater Street site before deciding whether to approve the work. “We figure it’d be easier to see the site first and understand it better,” Sullivan said.

replacing a technician in the Technology Department. Outside of the operational budget, the school board is seeking nearly $700,000 in capital funding for facility and technology upgrades and maintenance, including the annual Chromebook replacement cycle and the construction of a secure entrance at Plainville High School. Approved by the board on Dec. 16, that plan also requires the approval of the Town Council.

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PLAINVILLE, CONNECTICUT On Tuesday February 11, 2020, the Plainville Planning and Zoning Commission took the following actions: APPROVED a Special Exception for Americold for multiple attached signs at 0 Northwest Drive (MBL 08-A-34) in an RI Zone. APPROVED a Special Exception for Americold for building height at 0 Northwest Drive (MBL 08-A-34) in an RI Zone. APPROVED a Site Plan Modification for Americold for a 252,115 square foot refrigerated warehouse with associated site improvements at 0 Northwest Drive (MBL 08A-34) in an RI Zone. Respectfully submitted, Matthew Weimer, Secretary, Plainville Planning and Zoning Commission. Dated at Plainville, CT this 11th day of February 2020. R227718 Automobiles

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