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Volume 18, Number 47
VETERANS DAY CEREMONY
Friday, November 19, 2021
Furniture shops adapt in pandemic By Jessica Simms Special to the Record-Journal
Area furniture shops have needed to adapt throughout the pandemic to meet an increased demand for new furniture.
quickly as we can.” DePaolo said the wait times are different for each manufacturer, but can be as long as five months or more.
“There’s a global shortage of foams and fibers and fabric,” DePaolo said. “Then you have your supply chain. The trucking “It is taking a long time to companies are having order furniture so our cus- trouble finding full time tomers are very patient and drivers so that’s a major they understand that it’s problem. Some of the connot going to be a short pe- tainers that are coming off riod of time waiting for fur- shore, the cost has gone niture anymore,” said way up and the demand is Pamela DePaolo, one of very high.” the owners of DePaolo Furniture in Southington. “So we try to get things in as See Furniture, A3 That demand has sometimes meant longer wait times for customers.
Hank Lucas, American Legion Post 72 chaplain, in front, and Air Force Veteran Mike Pelletier, of Southington, lay flags at the Veterans Memorial during the Veterans Day Ceremony at American Legion Post 72 in Southington on Thursday, Nov. 11. See more photos on Page A2. Photos by Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
Couple to be honored at YMCA fundraiser By Faith Williams Record-Journal staff
Bill and Pege DellaVecchia will be honored for over 50 years of contributions to the local community at an event this month. “It is nice to know we haven’t been forgotten,” Bill DellaVecchia said in a press release. “We are a little older now and many of
Members of the Color Guard march during the end of the ceremony. Steve Pintarich, past Commander of Post 72, gives a salute while Taps are played.
our years of service are some ways back, but it is nice to know the Y still remembers.” DellaVecchia said he is happy his wife is also being honored because she has always been by his side in everything he did. The couple is being honored with the Compass See YMCA, A4
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Jason Cap, commander of Post 72, gives a salute while Taps are played during the Veterans Day Ceremony at American Legion Post 72 in Southington on Thursday. Nov. 11.
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