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Annual spectacle scares up donations for food pantry By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
Courtney Hewett is Plainville's new recreation director. Her predecessor, Colin Regan, retired on Sept. 13 after 40 years with the department. Devin Leith-Yessian, The Citizen
New recreation director has a passion for her work By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
Working with children has been a life-long passion for Courtney Hewett, the town’s new recreation director. "I've worked in recreation my entire life. I started out as a lifeguard when I was 15years-old and it just grew into a passion and a career," said Hewett, whose first day on the job was Oct. 22.
She comes to Plainville after running Canton’s recreation department for the last two years. Before that, she served as a department supervisor. On her first tour around Plainville, Hewett quickly found that her predecessor, Colin Regan, had left a strong foundation upon which to build. Hewett was so impressed by the parks – Norton in partic-
Forming thick clouds before being swept away by the howling Halloween wind, the whirling fog revealed a horde of shuffling ghouls rising from a graveyard and creeping towards trick-or-treaters — until they were compelled to dance.
ing costumes and makeup, the 15 zombies were actually middle and high school students with the YWCA New Britain School of Dance.
This annual show is organized by the Bucci family at their home at 62 Metacomet Road each Halloween, and attracts an estimated 1,000 spectators for the dancing and The enchanting music was macabre decorations. Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and despite the convincSee Halloween, A4
ular – that she called her coworkers in Canton, telling them to come see what Plainville has. Regan retired on Sept. 13 after 40 years with the town. "The pool at Norton, the Elizabeth Berner Pool, I've never seen another town with a pool like that. So cool and unique,” said Hewett. “And I'm so excited for sum-
Dancers with the YWCA New Britain School of Dance perform at the Plainville home of the Bucci family on Halloween night.
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In Brief Celebrate Chief Catania To celebrate Plainville Police Chief Matt Catania’s being named Chief of the Year at the Community Law Enforcement Awards and Recognition Dinner earlier this year, the Senior Center invites residents for cake and coffee on Thursday, Nov. 7, 1 p.m. Catania will
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Snowflake Fair The Congregational Church of Plainville, 130 West Main St., will host its Annual Snowflake Fair on Friday, Nov. 8, 6 to 8 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 9, 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Vendors, baked goods, candy, silent auction. Free admission. For more information, call 860-7471901 or email churchoffice@ uccplainville.org.
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“I come back every year, it’s amazing,” said Kristin Boyles, of Plainville, who watched the show with her two children and sister, who checked out the spectacle for the first time.
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Coaxing her kids to get closer to the motionless dancers — who retire to the edges of the Buccis’ driveway between shows and freeze to
blend in with the skeletons and reapers — Boyles said the most impressive part of the show is how well the performers stay in character. “It’s interesting to see the kids’ faces where they try to see if they’re a lawn decoration,” said Christine Kuzia, the dance school’s director. She said the cast begins practicing the complex moves in September. The show begins with four hooded figures escorting
one female dancer down the driveway to the tolling of bells. After she twists and contorts to chanting before the song begins, the fog rolled in and the rest of the dancers rose to Jackson’s voice. Aside for a few breaks to wait out the rain, the group performed just about every 20 minutes, and was preceded by a duet singing the Monster Mash. See Halloween, A5
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While he gave credit for the show’s success to the dancers, Daniel Bucci said he was proud of this year’s display, which featured new additions like groups standing around faux fires grilling a rat or a head. He estimated there were around 100 skeletons, accumulated over 20 years of creating ever-grow-
“A lot of it is junk from the side of the road that people were throwing out,” he said. His son, Dylan Bucci, 15, said his favorite creation was the towering grim reaper near the front door, where his mother, Jennifer Bucci, handed out candy between Thriller shows. “Ever since I was a kid, I loved that guy. I thought he was the king of the yard,” he said.
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In all it takes two weeks to set everything up. “It takes a lot of work, but in the end we do it for a good cause,” the younger Bucci said.
Food pantry volunteer Donna Lentini said the event launches the pantry’s season of holiday donations to provide meals for families on
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Attendees are asked to bring a donation for the Plainville Food Pantry. Over the previous five years they’ve collaborated with the YWCA, the Bucci family’s Halloween event has generated an estimated 2,000 pounds of food.
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PARC bowling classic to held Nov. 23 Town manager announces ‘open office hours’ Town Manager Robert Lee invites Plainville residents to meet with him for “open office hours” at the Plainville Public Library from 6 to 8 p.m. on the following dates: Nov. 14, Dec. 4 and Jan. 16. On Nov. 14, the town manager will be joined by Superintendent of Schools LePage, and on Dec. 4, by Police Chief Catania. “I look forward to meeting with community members in a relaxed, welcoming at-
mosphere,” said Lee. “I’m available to discuss the proposed budget for next year, as well as any other item of interest as it pertains to the town.” The library fireplaces will be lit for everyone’s enjoyment during these sessions, and light refreshments will be offered. Hours will be a drop-in format on a first-come, first-served basis. No appointments are required. The library is located at 56 East Main St.
Registration has begun for PARC’s 17th annual Frank Robinson Sr. Thanksgiving Bowling Classic set for Saturday, Nov. 23, from 4 (registration) to 7 p.m. Participants can choose bowling or mini golf at the fundraiser to be held at Lessard Lanes, 136 New Britain Ave. The $25 registration fee includes open bowling or mini golf, shoe rental (for bowling), a hot dog and soda, T-shirt and one door prize ticket. Music will be provided by DJ BBPro. Turkeys
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PARC, a Plainville-based nonprofit, has been providing family centered services for people with developmental disabilities for more than 60 years. The program is open to In 2016, the event was reindividuals who live in named to recognize Robinson, Plainville and contiguous a long-time PARC board mem- towns. ber, parent and supporter. All proceeds directly impact For more information, visit Healthy Living Activities for parcdisabilitiesct.org or call people with developmental the office at 860-747-0316. disabilities, according to PARC -- Press Release
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Reservations are recommended. Tickets are $35 (plus handling fee). The Connecticut Cabaret Theatre is Central Connecticut premiere cabaret-style theatre, patrons are welcome to bring whatever they like to eat or drink.
Wind ensemble The Plainville Wind Ensemble and the CCSU Veterans Affairs Department are honored to present their annual Veterans Concert “Summon
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mer to start — which is crazy, because summer's absolutely insane in recreation — and I'm so excited for summer to start and really get in there and build up programs.” With the Recreation Department recently adding online registration, Tom Warnat, chairperson of the Recreation and Park Advisory Board, said he’d like the see Hewett upgrade the department to 2020 standards. That includes evaluating the ordinances and procedures the department operates under to see if any are outdated and could be rewritten or done away with. “We’re looking for her new ideas. (We’re) not looking to
Having checked in with Hewett a few times over her first couple of weeks as director, Warnat said she appears to be settling in and has shown herself to be a diligent worker; important in a job that requires careful collaboration with the many departments vying for limited space at parks, fields and facilities. “I have all kinds of confidence in her,” Warnat said. “ … she’s just got a personality I think can work with everybody.” Town Manager Robert Lee agrees that Hewett appears to be the right fit for the town. After a search committee interviewed a handful of candidates, Lee hired Hewett on its recommendation. “By far she was the top candidate,” he said. “ … she has a very outgoing personality, she has good work experience.”
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The town manager said he’d like to see the new recreation director expand participation in summer camp and get more people at Berner pool to make the department more financially self-reliant. While her passion lies in aquatics, Hewett said she’s excited to work on the summer camp, saying that camp can have a big impact on the life of a child. "I always loved working with our day camps too, because you can really make the camp any way that you want it to based on the town,” she said. “So if a town's really sporty, you can run a sports camp. If they like a little bit more enrichment, you can do more enrichment programs. So I like the flexibility that comes with day camps.” Hewett said finding opportunities to incorporate more enrichment programs for youngsters is a goal. The existing sports teams and leagues are doing a great job, she said, so she’d like to focus on ways to expose children to art, music, drama and language. "Everyone's like, 'Oh, recreation, that's just for fun,’” Hewett said. “And, yes, it should be fun. But it's so much more than that.”
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‘Nation’s report card’ shows mixed results for Connecticut By Kathleen Megan CT Mirror
Connecticut students had mixed results this year on the test known as “the nation’s report card,” with a decline in fourth-grade reading scores, improvement in fourth-grade math, and scores that stayed about the same statistically for eighth graders. While acknowledging that the fourth-grade reading test score showed a statistically significant decline since it was last administered in 2017, Ajit Gopalkrishnan, the state’s chief performance officer, noted that the Connecticut’s scores exceeded the national averages on all of the tests. “We continue to have strong achievement in both grades four and eight in both read-
ing and math,” Gopalkrishnan said. “Very few states exceed Connecticut in terms of their achievement.”
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As has been the case for decades in Connecticut on The National Assessment of the NAEP test and on the Educational Progress state’s own standardized (NAEP) test, which is admin- tests, the scores showed a istered every two years by significant gap between the the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, is of widespread interest because it is the only test that compares performance state to By Mark Pazniokas state. © The Connecticut Mirror
scores of white students and those of black and Latino students, as well as between middle class and economically disadvantaged students. However, the scores did show some improvement in math for fourthgrade Latino students.
“While we are pleased to see that overall our students in Connecticut performed better than most of their peers across the country, we still have much more work to do to close the disparity gaps See Results, A12
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It is administered to fourth and eighth graders in reading and math. In Connecticut, about 2,200 students were tested by the national agency in each grade and for each subject. The students, who took the test on tablets, came from more than 100 Connecticut schools and tests were ad-
WATERBURY — Gov. Ned Lamont engaged in two of his favorite pastimes recently: Drawing boldface corporate CEOs, academics and philanthropists into publicprivate partnerships, and tilting at the silos he believes prevent government agencies from working efficiently in common cause.
Lamont signed an executive order creating the Governor’s Workforce Council, an effort to deliver on a campaign promise to bring new methods and energy to workforce development, a buzzword that suggests a holistic approach to what once was called job training. It is tasked with expanding the workforce, then matching supply with significant demand.
Surprisingly, for a state desperate for robust job growth, there are thousands of jobs going unfilled. Some are in advanced manufacturing, but others are deemed to be mediumskilled, suggesting a potentially quick path to employment — if the workforce can be expanded. And that requires synergies not always See Council, A13
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that exist around the state,” said Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona. “To address this, we are bringing all stakeholders into the fold by partnering with families, educators, community partners, higher education and business to prepare all students to succeed in school and after graduation.” This year, nationally, math scores went up for fourth graders, but declined for eighth graders, while scores dipped for reading in both grades. Peggy G. Carr, associate commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said there has been no progress nationally in either mathematics or reading over the past decade and that the lowest performing students are doing worse. “In fact, over the long term in reading, the lowest performing students — those readers who struggle the most — have made no progress from the first NAEP administration almost 30 years ago,” Carr said. Noting the declines in eighth grade performance in both reading and math, Carr said, “Eighth grade is a transitional point in preparing students for success in high school, so it is critical that researchers further explore the declines we are seeing here, especially the larger, more widespread declines that we are seeing in reading.”
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Connecticut’s scores were stronger than the national results, noting that on three of the four tests, “We’re actually either going up or holding steady.” On the 500-point scale used by NAEP, Connecticut fourth graders scored 243 on the math test this year, up from 239 two years ago — a statistically significant increase. That is three points higher than the fourth grade national average of 240 in math this year. Forty-five percent of Connecticut’s fourth graders scored at what is considered the proficient level in math, 249. Gopalkrishnan said the increase in math scores was fueled by the improvement in scores for Latino students, which had fallen below the national average for Latino students two years ago and is now at about the same level, 228. In reading, the fourth grade scores dropped from 228 in 2017 to 224 this year, compared to a national average of 219. Forty percent of Connecticut’s fourth graders hit the proficient mark of 238 in reading.
Eighth graders saw a small increase in math, from 284 to 286, that was not considered statistically significant, with 39% of these students hitting the proficient mark of 299. The national average for this category was 281. In reading, eighth graders declined slightly from 273 to 270 — a drop that also was not considered statistically significant– with 41% reaching the proficient level of 281. The national average in reading for eighth graders was 262 this year. For each test in each grade, black, Latino, and low-income students scored about 20 to 30 points lower than white students, evidence of Connecticut’s persistent achievement gap. Since the 1990s, when the tests were first administered, Connecticut students have shown marked improvement in math while reading scores have stayed fairly flat. See Results, A13
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The chair of the new council is Garrett Moran, a onetime investment banker with the Blackstone Group and former president of Year Up, a non-profit that prepares disadvantaged youth for careers. He is a friend of Lamont’s and helped lead the governor’s transition team.
In a ceremony at Naugatuck Valley Community College, which quickly places most graduates of its manufacturing and health programs in jobs, Lamont said he sees roles for all aspects of public post-secondary education and departments of Labor, Economic and Community Development, Social Services, Transportation, and Correction, among others.
The council’s members include the CEOs or other top executives from Electric Boat, Stanley Black + Decker, NBC Sports, Bigelow Tea, Sound Manufacturing, Synchrony, AQR, Yale New Haven Hospital, Infosys, The Hartford, Indeed, Aventri and ReNetx.
the council, as well as Sen. Tony Hwang, R-Fairfield, and Rep. Toni Walker, DNew Haven. Last month, Lamont named Colin Cooper, an entrepreneur and former aerospace design engineer as the state’s chief manufacturing officer, bringing a private-sector perspective to the task of filling advanced manufacturing jobs available due to modest growth and a coming “silver tsunami” of retirements.
Lamont has worked to establish relationships with most, if not all of the council members. Before his election, Lamont played a role in helping the Malloy administration convince From the philanthropic Infosys, a global tech comand non-profit sectors are pany, to open a regional the executive director of office in downtown HartABCD, a community action ford. Indeed, one of the agency in Bridgeport, and world’s largest online emthe presidents of the Hart- ployment companies, has ford Foundation for Public its own workforce of more Giving, Yale University, than 700 in Stamford. and Quinnipiac University. Two labor leaders are on
For instance, fourth graders scored 227 in math in 1992, 16 points lower than this year’s score of 243. In the past decade, however, fourth graders’ math scores have stayed fairly flat, with a score of 244.7 in 2009. In reading, fourth graders’ scores fluctuated slightly over the years since 1992 when they scored 221.6 — three points lower than this year.
Gopalkrishnan noted that the population has changed greatly in Connecticut in the last 20 years, with the percentage of students considered “high needs” passing 50% in the past few years. He explained that a high needs student is someone who is learning English, comes from a low-income family, or has a disability. “We are a majority high needs state,” he said. “We are a little different from some of our New England friends.”
“There is no magic bullet here,” he said, “but we are working on improving language acquisition for our English learners, who are a substantially bigger proportion of our population than even five years ago.” Gopalkrishnan said he didn’t bring up the change in Connecticut’s student population as an “excuse.” “I’m actually trying to say that in spite of population changes … I think it’s good that we didn’t have declines like the nation as a whole,” he said. “I don’t want to claim victory in that, but at least we held our own. We have a lot more work to do, no question.”
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