Thursday, February 27, 2020
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Volume 16, Number 4
Choral society set to hit the stage By Julie Rancourt Special to The Citizen
Greg Gardner, general manager of J Timothy's Taverne, and Executive Chef Erik Wichert stand in the restaurant's atrium. The establishment is celebrating 40 years of ownership under Tim Adams and Jim Welch, who purchased it on Feb. 26, 1980. Devin Leith-Yessian, The Citizen
The Plainville Choral Society will perform a program on Friday to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the group. Entitled, “Past, Present and Future,” the evening will feature past members who have returned to join this special event, as well as “future” members associated with the group. Co-producer Sandy Butler had the idea for celebrating the past, present and
future of the group and took it to co-producer Debi Wishart Parker. “Few musical organizations have not only survived, but thrived, for 50 years and I thought it would be good to not only look back at our past, but also look to the future,” said Butler. A big part of that future is 31-year-old musical director Greg Wilfrid. An elementary school teacher, Wilfrid is bringing some of See Choral, A7
J Timothy’s marks 40 years The tavern that opened the year of Washington’s inauguration and witnessed the town’s break from Farmington is celebrating 40 years of operation under the owners who transformed it into the nationally-renowned eatery, “J Timothy’s Taverne.”
purchased Cooke’s Tavern on Feb. 26, 1980, the restaurant hosted a celebration of its evolution from a “white table cloth type of restaurant” into a casual dining establishment known for its chicken wings.
The anniversary celebration included food, champagne, live music and beers specially brewed in a partnership with New England Brewing Four decades to the day after Company. Tim Adams and Jim Welch
Proceeds from the celebration and $1 from every sale of the restaurant’s buffalo wing sauce will go to the newly created John Huwe Memorial Scholarship, dedicated to the restaurant’s first executive chef and kitchen manager, who died in 2017. The scholarship is available for Plainville High School students planning a future in business. See J Timothy’s, A8
The Plainville Choral Society has been hard at work preparing for its Friday, Feb. 27 performance “Past, Present and Future.” Photo by Julie Rancourt
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By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen