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Volume 19, Number 31
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Plug pulled on tackle football Clinics recognized for exceptional care Wheeler has received $108,000 in federal awards for quality care, including special recognition as one of only two community health centers in Connecticut that met or exceeded goals for reducing health disparities across different racial and ethnic groups between 2018 and 2019. On Tuesday, Sept. 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced more than $117 million in Quality Im-
provement Awards to 1,318 health centers across the United States. Funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, community health centers like Wheeler use these awards to improve the quality, efficiency, and value of the health care they provide. The awards recognized centers that improved quality of care across a range of categories. See Wheeler, A6
By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
“Without DPH support, the CIAC cannot move forward with a full contact season as CHESHIRE — Traditional it would place superinten11-on-11 tackle football dents and boards of educagames will not be played this tion in the impossible posifall in Connecticut. Girls vol- tion of acting against the leyball games will, but with recommendation of a state players wearing masks. agency,” the CIAC said in a statement issued Friday The CIAC’s Board of Control morning. voted Friday morning to pull the plug on a full-contact The CIAC will look for lowfootball after the state Deer-risk alternatives for footpartment of Public Health, ball, such as combines, in a Thursday, Sept. 3 letter, which means teams can reiterated its stance against continue with conditioning higher risk sports such as and non-contact skill workfootball and indoor volleyouts, which have been unball being played this fall. der way since Aug. 29. The CIAC is hoping to come up A solution was found for vol- with those options by leyball, but not for 11-on-11 Sept. 21. That’s when the football. other fall sports are slated to
move to full-team practices. The DPH has recommended the 7-on-7, non-tackling version of football seen in summer passing leagues and being played this fall in Vermont. That option, though, has not been popular among coaches, players or the CIAC. “We don’t think that 7-v-7 football is a replacement for 11-v-11 football,” CIAC Executive Director Glenn Lungarini said Friday, noting that the National Federation of High School Associations has taken the same position. “I am hopeful that we will come up with the coaches and the athletic diSee Football, A16
Study: 37% of local households struggling financially A new study examining 2018 data found 38 percent of Connecticut households lacked enough income to afford basic necessities before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
The United Way of Connecticut’s biannual ALICE report, released last week, found that of the state’s 1.37 million households, 146,552, or 11 percent, earned below the federal poverty level in 2018.
or 27 percent, were considered “ALICE” houses, meaning they did not fall below the federal poverty line, and therefore did not qualify for public assistance, but did not earn enough income to afford basic necessities.
Another 367,175 households, The acronym stands for “As-
set Limited, Income Constrained, Employed.”
pacts brought on by the pandemic.
The 2018 data also showed that a growing number of households in Connecticut, 13 percent, are on the cusp of becoming an “ALICE household.” The report does not account for economic im-
“Despite working hard, many ALICE workers are not able to earn enough to keep pace with the high cost of living in Connecticut and the COVIDSee Study, A12
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By Matthew Zabierek Record-Journal staff