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CHESHIRE — A winter sports season is still a possibility for high school athletes in Connecticut. It just won’t be starting on time.
In an email sent Thursday, Nov. 5 to its member superintendents, principals and athletic directors, the CIAC announced it is delaying the start of winter sports, which had been scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 21, in order to have time to review upcoming recommendations from the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Also, teams in those sports won’t be able to travel or host teams from out of state. Lamont also pulled the plug on high-risk sports for the rest of 2020. Those sports include wrestling and 11-on11 tackle football. The CIAC announcement came as COVID-19 case numbers are on the rise.
“We’re doing everything we can to allow our sports and schools to go as best as we can, doing everything we can to keep you safe because we’re not out of the woods yet,” Lamont said Nov. 5, Regarding the winter season, several days after rolling Lamont decreed that athletes back some elements of his who play moderate-risk Phase 3 re-opening plan. sports, such as basketball, hockey and gymnastics, will “We’ve got some work to do, and that’s true of our state, have to wear masks while competing. While the CIAC is still waiting on the DPH report, some of the likely elements can be gleaned from some major announcements made by Gov. Ned Lamont.
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Petit, Martin are reelected In the Connecticut House of Representatives, Democrats and Republicans traded two prominent seats: the ones held by Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin, and House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby. Neither leader sought re-election, and both flipped. Aresimowicz, a union official retiring after four years as speaker and 16 in the House, barely won re-election two years ago against a last-minute challenger, evidence of the 30th District becoming more favorable to Republicans.
The race this year was not close: Republican Donna Veach prevailed by about 2,000 votes.
Democrat Mary Welander of Orange, the winner of Klarides’ seat in the 114th, was running for the second time in a district deemed competitive once Klarides retired. In the Senate, Democrats flipped two Republican seats, defeating Sen. Gennaro Bizzarro, R-New Britain, in the 6th District and Sen. George Logan, RAnsonia, in the 17th.
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Trump tops Biden in Plainville As Election Day ground on into “election week,” it became increasingly clear that Democrat Joe Biden would oust President Donald Trump from the White House. Late-counted ballots in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia continued to keep Biden in the lead and offered him multiple paths to victory. The questions, rather, were these — where he would win, when it would hap-
pen and by how much. On Saturday, Biden captured the presidency when The Associated Press declared him the victor in his native Pennsylvania at 11:25 a.m. EST. That got Biden the state’s 20 electoral votes, which pushed him over the 270 electoral-vote threshold needed to prevail. See Trump, A11 R233461
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Dems sweep U.S. House races John Larson, Jim Himes, Joe Courtney and Jahana Hayes, who represents the 5th District, which includes Plainville. Hayes, a former national Teacher of the Year, won a second term by defeating Republican David X. Sullivan, a former federal prosecutor in the northwestern Connecticut district.
In the 3rd District, U.S. Rep. Rosa Delauro, the longestserving member of Connecticut’s delegation to Washington, fended off an aggressive challenge by political newcomer Margaret Streicker, a Republican real estate executive from Milford.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters to mount virtual gala Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters announced that, for the first time in its 54-year history, it will host its annual gala virtually on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. Called the 2020 Challenge, the night will feature appearances by “The Voice” winner Javier Colon, Fox 61 anchor Tim Lammers and Gov. Ned Lamont.
A native of Stratford and the winner of the first season of NBC’s “The Voice,” Colon will entertain the virtual audience with his rendition of a song that has topped the charts in multiple decades.
Plainville is one of 68 communities across the state to enter the coronavirus red zone. The color coded status for cities and towns is updated each Thursday and represents two weeks of cases. The trigger for red status starts at a rate of 15 cases per 100,000 people per day. Plainville averaged 17.8 daily cases Oct. 18 to 31. Meriden, Wallingford, Southington, Bristol, New Britain, Newington and Berlin are among the other “red” municipalities.
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It’s time to prepare your home for winter weather By Joy VanderLek Special to The Citizen
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Wind ensemble, Marines to host toy drive Sunday By Shawn Rychling Special to The Citizen
Shutdowns and social distancing due to the pandemic have had a big impact on almost everyone and arts groups are no exception. But there are ways to work around the obstacles COVID-19 presents. Take the Plainville Wind Ensemble, for example. The 80member symphonic concert The Plainville Wind Ensemble’s annual Veterans Day band hasn't rehearsed or Concert has been cancelled, but the group’s yearly toy performed since March. Re- drive collection carries on. hearsals were cancelled because those were held at The result was a re"After we had to cancel the Plainville High School and, concert, I was sitting around worked collection event for now, outside groups can’t feeling sorry for myself and to be held Sunday, Nov. use school buildings. Al15, from 1 to 3 p.m. at then thought 'what about so cancelled was the ensem- Toys for Tots?'" said KathPlainville High ble's annual Veterans Day leen Marsan, flutist, treasur- School, 47 Robert HolConcert at Welte Hall on the er, and event coordinator for comb Way. Volunteers campus of Central Connecti- the Plainville Wind Ensemwill accept donations of cut State University. The unwrapped toys so they ble. band's concerts are free to can "Stuff the Truck" the public and serve to ben- Marsan got on the phone to with Christmas gifts for Maj. Derek Shivers at the efit a nonprofit group. Since local children. 2005, the Veterans Day Con- Naval and Marine Corps ReThe Plainville Wind Enserve Center in cert has been a collection semble’s music will be Plainville. He runs the Toys event for the U.S. Marine for Tots program in the area played over a public adCorps' Toys for Tots prodress system during the and has coordinated donagram, with donations of beevent. The band, now in tween 600 to 800 unwrapped tions for past Veterans Day its 33rd year, has memconcerts toys generated each year. bers ages 18 to 82 from all over Connecticut.
Pumpkins earn prizes Plainville High School Culinary Arts classes, under the direction of Jonathan Dunlap, participated in a pumpkin carving competition, and members of the PHS community voted for their favorites. First place went to Penley Giola’s Autumn Oak Tree, Haylee Rodriguez earned second place for the Oogie Boogie pumpkin and Kyle Voisine’s Jack o Lantern was the third-place selection. The top three vote-getters received a gift card to Gnazzo’s Food Center, which sponsored the competition and donated the pumpkins. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the high school’s upcoming PJ Day for Kids fundraiser.
"They were very receptive to the idea," Marsan said referring to Shivers as well as Commandant James Morris of the Hardware City Marine Detachment based in New Britain who also is a coordinator for the event.
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Sunday’s event at Plainville High School will follow COVID-19 precautions as well.
Arrests reported by the Plainville Police:
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Hector M. Lopez, Jr., 44, 239 Glens St., New Britain, two counts possession of controlled substance, two counts sale of narcotic, possession of drug paraphernalia, 1:02 p.m.
Last Christmas, the Reserve Center's Toys for Tots program distributed 41,499 toys to more than 31,000 children.
Jeremy Diaz, 32, 492 East St., operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol, 8:52 p.m.
For those concerned about safety, Marsan said the Marines have a strict protocol in place for toy distribution.
Julio E. Gonzalez, 31, 110 Highland Ave., Waterbury, second-degree larceny, 5 p.m. Oct. 31 Christopher J. Warzecho, 34, 179 Morris Ave., operating under the influence of drugs, 7:59 p.m. Nov. 1 Luis A. Ligo, 492 East St., third-degree assault, disorderly conduct, second-degree threatening, 7:35 p.m.
Nov. 4 Scott E. Kindelan, 52, 52 May St., New Britain, violation of a protective order, 1:30 p.m.
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Senate District of New Britain, Berlin and Farmington. While the representation in many communities will change come January, in Plainville, it will stay the same. Based on unofficial results, in the race for the 31st District senate seat, incumbent Henri Martin captured 58 percent of the vote, defeating his Democratic challenger Mary Fortier.
During his campaign, Martin said he aims to improve
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She said donors are asked to wear masks and volunteers will wear masks and gloves. For more information, go to plainvillewindensemble.com or plainville-ct.toysfortots.org.
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"When people come to donate, they can just reach out of their cars with toys in hand and volunteers will take them and put them in a truck," Marsan said.
“The toys will be quarantined before they go out,” she said. “Also, if people don't feel safe donating toys, they can make a monetary donation instead.”
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and games on Monday, Dec. 7. Instead, with that DPH report not yet in hand, a new timeframe will be formulated at a CIAC Board of ConThe CIAC is waiting to retrol meeting scheduled for ceive a full set of recommen- Tuesday, Nov. 17. dations from the Department of Public Health on the Also at that Board of Control meeting, the CIAC will reupcoming winter sealease its winter sports plan. son. The CIAC had planned to begin practices on Nov. 21 Prior to the 17th, the CIAC, which has already heard from the committees of its CROSSWORD various winter sports on ANSWER COVID-19 plans, will meet with its Sports Medicine Committee to review the advice from the Department of Public Health. where there’s an infection rate of 30 and 40 percent. So let’s err on the side of caution a little bit longer.”
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which is still eighth-lowest in infection rate in the country, but I take no solace in that at all,” the Governor added. “There is risk and I’ve seen what’s going on in some of those other states,
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The CIAC and DPH went through this exercise leading into the fall season, which was also delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. By and large, the two agencies were in agreement over the fall plan devised by the CIAC.
The minor exception was girls volleyball. The DPH recommended the girls either play outdoors or play indoors wearing masks. The CIAC surveyed its volleyball programs, indoors with masks was deemed the better option and the season proceeded accordingly. The major exception was football. With the state’s COVID-19 numbers low at the time, the CIAC wanted to stage a traditional 11-on11 season. The DPH, deeming the tackle game high risk for spreading COVID-19, recommended the season be pushed to the spring and that less risky alternatives, such as non-tackle 7-on-7, be substituted for the fall. Considerable back and forth followed. Football players staged a rally at the State Capitol in hopes of saving their season and the CIAC
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At least that’s how it was mapped out in the original CIAC plan for winter. Bear in mind, while the CIAC did sanction a fall season for soccer, field hockey, cross country, girls swimming and volleyball, the fall season does not include state tournaments.
The CIAC has already prohibited its winter teams from traveling out of state or hosting out-of-state teams this winter.
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That season is still scheduled to run late February through mid-April. It would come right on the heels of the winter campaign, which will culminate with a CIAC state postseason in midFebruary.
On top of that, regional youth hockey tournaments staged in late summer and early fall in various New England states were traced to COVID-19 outbreaks, including in Connecticut, and prompted some rinks in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to shut down.
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