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Volume 13, Number 33
Friday, August 16, 2019
Visitors enjoy annual ‘Taste’ Camp Sloper honors supporters By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
YMCA Camp Sloper held its Member Appreciation Picnic at the camp on July 25. The honorees were: Most Frequent Y’er for attendance in 2018 Nicholas Leadbeater; Volunteer of the Year, for his work in 2018, Paul Sirois; Hall of Fame 2019 honorees, Terri Connellan, Barbara Glaude, Pat and Bethany Rosin. The event also celebrated the life and generosity of YMCA donor George Moore. See more photos, pages 55-56.
Visitors to the Taste of Southington were able to enjoy food, history and music under clear skies Thursday, Aug. 8. The celebration, held annually at the Barnes Museum downtown, was originally planned for Wednesday, Aug. 7, but postponed as organizers saw thunderstorms in the forecast. Marie Secondo, museum curator, said all but two of the food vendors made the new date. Previous years have been hampered by rain. Paula Fontana was glad for the weather and a chance to try pizza from Craft Kitchen, one of nearly a dozen food vendors who had tents along the walkway on the Barnes Museum lawn. She got macaroni and cheese
Ralph Secondo, owner of Catering by Chef Ralph, stirs up a variety of pasta during the annual Taste of Southington at the Barnes Museum, Thursday, Aug. 8. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
pizza and was impressed. “I wanted to come and try the food,” she said. Among the food vendors was Sherman’s Taphouse, a Center Street restaurant
that opened in May. General manager James Welch said the restaurant brought wings, a customer favorite, and a dessert to the tasting. See Taste, A10
Spin Doctors to play festival By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
The ‘90s rock band Spin Doctors will perform at this year’s Apple Harvest Festival, the second national band to take the stage in as many years at the town’s signature celebration. Last year, Bowling For Soup performed. At a July 25 Member Appreciation Picnic, Rose Moore accepts an award on behalf of her late husband George Moore, who was acknowledged as the donor of the year, from Mark Pooler, CEO of the Southington YMCA. Photos by Patrick Matthews
Chris Palmieri, Apple Harvest Festival committee and Town Council chairman, announced the band during Monday’s council meeting.
“Last year’s band was 2000s, now it’s ‘90s,” Palmieri said. “It’s a little different demographic. I think it’s going to be great and we’re going to welcome a lot of people to the festival.” Spin Doctors’ hits include “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” from the early 1990s. The band broke up in the late 1990s but re-formed in 2001. It has toured and released albums since. John Barry, a Town Council
member, said the response was great to the presence of a widely known band at last year’s festival and that the crowds were packed to hear Bowling for Soup. “People loved it, it was so well attended,” Barry said. Festival leaders chose a nationally recognized band for last year’s festival, which was the 50th. Palmieri said he was looking forward to another popular band playing in October. See Spin Doctors, A10