The Southington Citizen Nov. 27, 2020 by Record Journal

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Volume 17, Number 48

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Schools offer help to students amid pandemic By Jessica Simms Special to the Record-Journal

With the COVID-19 pandemic surging again and in some cases moving students to full-time remote learning, students of all ages are feeling a variety of emotions as they cope with how the virus has impacted education.

By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff

A new internet service provider said overwhelming interest from local residents caused the company to double the miles of fiber optic cable it is stringing in town. GoNetspeed, a Pennsylvaniabased company, had planned 52 miles of fiber optic lines for its first step in Southington. Earlier this month, the company announced it will build more than 100 miles of fiber See Internet, A18

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“When I talk to parents and they’re of course calling very emotionally charged — their child is not coping well and they’re distraught about what’s going on and what’s being taken away from their child’s normal routine,” said Joanne Etter, coowner of Apple Valley Behavioral Health in Southington.

Dan Denmark, an employee of Rocky Mountain Fiber Plus, strings fiber optic support wire on Maplewood Road on Friday, Nov. 13. Internet service provider GoNetspeed is expanding into Southington. The direct fiber optic connection to homes delivers higher speeds, he said. Eric Cotton, Record-Journal

Each student grapples differently with the impact of the virus on their schooling. Etter said that parents and caregivers need to take into account “where they are at in their developmental stage and maturation level.” See Students, A2

The election is over, but not the fighting On the morning of the Nov. 3 election, the United States Postal Service disclosed that more than 300,000 mail-in ballots nationwide had not been scanned.

Many on social media were rightfully alarmed by this news, believing it meant the ballots had gone missing. But did they? “The assumption that there are unaccounted ballots within the Postal Service network is inaccurate,” the

USPS said in a press release. “These ballots were delivered in advance of the election deadlines. We employed extraordinary measures to deliver ballots directly to local boards of elections. When this occurs, by design, these ballots bypass certain

processing operations and do not receive a final scan. Instead, they are expedited directly to the boards of elections.” Rumors regarding mail-in ballots See Election, A17 R233461

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“Our Bilingual department works closely with all schools to reach out to families of students that are not fully engaged,” Robles-Rivas said. “In-person teachers as well as distance learning teachers and support staff offer parents tools and strategies to help their children, including strategies to support their emotional well-being.” Teachers and professors can play a huge role in supporting students at this time said Sandra Chafouleas, distinguished professor in the Neag School of Education at UConn. Just checking in can be very impactful. “Use a few minutes at the beginning of each class to build social connections, talk about what’s going on, share thoughts and feelings,” Chafouleas said. “Make sure to tell students that you understand things can be tough right now and you care about their success in your class … Follow-up with those students who seem disconnected and send some extra messages, announcements, emails, to all that reaffirm connection.”

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For college students who are learning remotely, families need to remember that “school is their full-time job,” Reder said. “Being supportive and giving them the space and the time to attend the classes and do the work that they need to do,” Reder said. “... Having the opportunity to talk about expectations and what home life could and should be like. That can take away some of the stressors.”

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“We really don’t know what people are doing with their time,” Gunter said. “... It could be a number of things and just trying to manage the technology of online “For teenagers ... They’re learning … At this point begrieving the loss of not cause it is all so new ... If hanging out with friends, not you’re not on campus, it having the clubs, the sports, may not even enter your the parties, the things that mind that these services are they can’t do right now,” she available.” added. Sheehan High School in College students also have Wallingford has implementbeen impacted and may be ed ways to support students, more anxious about the fuincluding a daily advisory ture. class. “For the college population, “This is a time for students there has been a lot of unto make a good connection knowns and as a result, a lot with an adult and with their of anxiety,” said Ariela Reder, peers in their advisory to director of counseling sertalk informally about what is vices at Quinnipiac Universion their minds and ask for ty. “They had their school support that they may need,” interrupted in the beginning Principal Enzo Zocco said. of the pandemic, not know“Teachers support their ading if they will be returning visory students and often to campus or not and having point them to the right reto transition to having to source or person for any furtake their classes online.” ther support.” Jennifer D’Andrea, director Counselors and other supof counseling and psychoport staff are available online logical services at Wesleyan and in person, Zocco University, said the college is added. offering tips and services. The Wallingford Public “We try to find and support School district is conducting students in finding safe ways a mental health screening that they can connect with of all students by the end of people and we can do that the calendar year. At the eleboth within the context of mentary level, it will be adtherapy, but we also try to ministered by a professional offer lots of different kinds of and for middle and high tips,” D’Andrea said. “... school students, the students We’ve offered YouTube will perform a screening on videos and webinars, and we themselves. are using social media pages. We’re really trying to “It’s going to enable us to stretch ourselves in terms of better reach out to and prohow we can connect with vide interventions for stustudents and offer them sup- dents that may be strugport as they figure out how gling,” said Anthony Loomis, to navigate this really diffiWallingford district wellness cult time.” curriculum coordinator. “It’s going to give us a clue as far Ree Le Blanc Gunter, direcas the mental health of our tor of counseling services at students.” Western Connecticut State University, feels not Evelyn Robles-Rivas, super-

visor of languages and community partnerships for Meriden Public Schools, said the district is working to help all students, especially those who are in need of extra support.

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“Caregivers, parents, need to, of course, validate their feelings without judgment or correction,” Etter said. “... How you talk to a six-yearold versus a 10-year-old versus a 16-year-old is going to be very different.

enough students at the university are utilizing mental health services, such as a mindfulness group called Creating Calm and a biweekly drop in group called Coping Through COVID.

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In Brief Ways to connect for the holidays As it looks like holidays will be socially distanced this year instead of in-person, a virtual class presented by Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging will provide ideas to create a memorable season. “Ways to Connect with Loved Ones during the Holidays” will include creative activities to bring meaningful moments, communication tips, making moments matter, and a question and answer period. The virtual event on Wednesday, Dec. 16, from 6 to 7 p.m., will be presented by Patty O’Brian, dementia specialist.

services and information related to attaining optimal quality of life for seniors and their caregivers. For more information about Hartford HealthCare Center for Healthy Aging, visit http:// hhccenterforhealthyaging.org or call 1-877-4244641.

Santa program Due to the Recreation Department’s annual “Santa in the Park” event on the Southington Drive-In property being cancelled this year, the department decid-

ed to try a new non-contact activity to keep the holiday spirit alive for our town’s youth. A “Letters to Santa” program is available through Friday, Dec. 11. Children can send their letters to the Recreation Department and

(provided they are in by the deadline) they will receive a personalized response letter from Santa in return. There is no cost, but the program is open to Southington resident youth only. Full details See Briefs, A5

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Lamont shuts down youth & recreational sports Record-Journal staff

HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont announced last week that he is prohibiting all youth and recreational sports from being played in Connecticut until at least Jan. 19 due to the increasing rise in COVID-19 cases. The move comes two days after the CIAC announced it was delaying the start of the 2020-21 high school winter season, also until Jan. 19 at the earliest. The CIAC also cited rising numbers in COVID-19 cases and schools falling back to distance learning in making its decision.

Lamont’s decree went into effect on Monday, Nov. 23. It does not apply to pro or college sports. Earlier this month, Lamont had prohibited high-risk sports, such as wrestling and 11-on-11 tackle football, from being played for the rest of the year. He allowed moderaterisk youth sports — basketball and ice hockey among them — to be played so long as athletes wore masks, though hockey teams were barred from playing opponents from out of state, a move Lamont made in conjunction with governors in the region. Thursday’s announcement shuts down everything this side of pro and

college sports for eight weeks, and it’s being done, Lamont said, in an effort to keep schools open as long as possible.

to families, I know what you’re looking forward to, but we’ve just seen too many infections in and around those winter sports.”

Lamont noted that 17 school closings in the state and the quarantining of 235 teachers had been contact traced to coronavirus outbreaks among sports teams. The governor reported that 29 total outbreaks had been linked to sports teams.

Overall, Connecticut’s number of total COVID-19 cases is approaching 100,000 (99,381). There have been 4,805 deaths linked to the virus.

“How can we try and limit the spread due to sports teams? Here, we’re going to be strict,” Lamont said. “I salute the (CIAC) saying we’re going to postpone all high school winter sports, not starting to Jan. 19. I know how tough that is

On the Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 Alert Map, 145 towns are now in “red” zone. That red zone, the highest of the four colored zones on the map, signifies an average daily COVID-19 case rate over the last two weeks of greater than 15 people per 100,000.

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Garden center holds sale to benefit soup kitchen By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff

Owners of Winterberry garden center reopened for an end-of-season sale that benefits local soup kitchen Bread for Life. Winterberry will be giving half of the profits from the

sale to the group, which provides meals for needy residents. “Hopefully in addition to raising some money, it’ll raise awareness of all the great work they’re doing,” said Bryan Stolz, Winterberry CEO.

The garden center at 2070 West St. is usually closed by November. This year, Stolz reopened the retail store from Wednesday until Friday. They’ll be selling endof-season items, some of which, such as kale and decorative pumpkins, will be marked down 20 percent. Stolz said it’s not too late for

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Bread for Life recently received a check in the amount of $6,745 from the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal through its Vicariate Outreach Program. The funding will help Bread for Life ensure that no one goes hungry in Southington. The Rev. Ronald P. May, at right, presented the check to the staff and volunteers of Bread for Life.

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Despite many cancellations due to the pandemic, there are holiday events being held in the Meriden, Wallingford and Southington communities. To ensure protection and help to prevent the spread of the virus, town officials have put off some events such as the annual YuleFest festival that was supposed to take place in Meriden Saturday, Dec. 5. “There's not going to be any kind of celebration or lighting ceremony or anything like that because we can’t have people gathering and we can’t pass out food, we can’t have children singing...” says Pamela Fuschino, administrative facilities coordinator of Meriden. However, people are still planning and hosting their events independently as long as it doesn’t violate city and state guidelines, and as long as cases don’t rise. “Everything that has been planned is still on the schedule. Nothing hasn’t been canceled at this time and hopefully cases don’t increase but I wouldn’t bet my house on that” said Meriden City Manager Timothy Coon.

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2020 South Silver: division champions The Southington South Silver baseball team finished the season on Oct. 24, with an impressive 20-2 win. The team was lead by aces Luke Martinelli (five wins) and Thomas Carbone (four wins, one save.) Spot starter, Isabella Carbone (1 win,) anchored the bullpen with eight games saved. Other bullpen standouts Chase Malsheske, Ben Forcarile, and Nick Bradigo helped leaded them to outscore their opponents 136-57. See Baseball, A19

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Her husband, Mark Anderson, echoed that. “The faith in the election system has been completely lost,” he said. “The election outcome cannot be decided by the media, it has to be decided by the legal electoral process.” Durham resident Matthew Pepe believes that different states having different voter identification laws also undercut trust in the election results. While some states require that voters show a photo ID, others don’t. “I personally feel that in order to have zero questions about results, voter ID is an absolute must,” Pepe said. Raul Fernandes, for one, has faith in the electoral process.

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Working and playing from home Erik Grudzien took photos of the GoNetspeed trucks putting up lines in front of his house this week. He’s scheduled for an installation in December. While switching to GoNetspeed won’t save him much money, he said the 1 gigabit upload and download speed is better than what he has now. Grudzien’s current

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plan has 940 megabit download and only 35 megabit upload. “Having the faster upload speed is a big improvement. Being both a system administrator for work, and also doing gaming/streaming, upload is key,” he said. Cable lines, what Grudzien and other Southington residents have currently, can’t reach higher upload speeds and are more susceptible to power outages. Fiber optic is faster and more reliable, Grudzien said. “There’s three of us in the house that play games and constantly rely on internet since we’re all working for

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SOUTHINGTONCarmen S. Rametta Jr. “Junie,” 83, of Southington, passed away on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 after a battle with cancer. Carmen was the loving husband of Gail (Pilkonis) Rametta for 27 years. Born on May 2, 1937 in Meriden to the late Carmen S. Rametta Sr. and Rose (DiBaise) Rametta, he had been a longtime Southington resident. Carmen worked as a barber for many years alongside his father at Rametta’s Barber Shop in Wallingford. He retired from the DOT in 1992 where he worked as a crew leader. After his retirement, he especially enjoyed trips to Mohegan Sun with his wife Gail. In addition to his wife Gail, he is survived by his daughter, Deborah Pepe and her husband Fran of Plantsville, his son Randy Rametta and his fiancé Barbara Kinzie of Southington, his step-son, Kenneth Barron and his wife Cynthia of Newington and step-daughter, Susan Bernaiche and her husband Tim of Bristol and 5 grandchildren, Matthew, Daniel and Elizabeth

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The enduring coronavirus trauma now, about the influence of smartphones and social meBy Jeffery Kurz dia, two highly influential Record-Journal staff developments that came along at the same time, on Years ago I interviewed a few the lives of a generation that people who had served, or is now coming of age. But it were serving, multiple tours would be a challenge to find of duty in Afghanistan and anything to compare to what Iraq. It surprised me to learn we are experiencing at this that the motivating factor for moment, in the clutches of them had been the terrorist the coronavirus pandemic. attacks of 9/11. I hadn’t fully appreciated the impact of so It’s not just that young people are missing the things we traumatic an experience of long have taken for granted: childhood. celebrating graduations with The traumatic experience of your peers and loved ones, my childhood was the going to the prom, playing Kennedy assassination. As an important football game horrifying as that was, it nev- on Thanksgiving. It’s more er appeared that the wheels than that. of the world were about to come off. We returned to our I saw it on the faces of chilclassrooms in a sadder, per- dren in photographs of those teacher parades in the haps devastated state, but spring — the way they were it’s fair to say that the roulooking as their teachers tine of our lives had not been foundationally shaken. passed by. It spoke to one of the many things we have I have wondered, for years learned since the onset of

the pandemic, which is that there is no making up for the absence of in-person learning. This may now seem obvious, but we’ve had to learn how obvious it is during the many challenges of 2020. It stems from a broader point that has now also become obvious: People feel the need to be together. It’s social gathering that has been identified as the culprit in the recent upswing of virus cases. People want to feel normal again, and who can blame them? After Hunter golf course opened in the spring it had to close again, almost immediately, because players gathered together in the parking lot. The urge to socialize comes so naturally that the risk when it comes to infection has to be constantly driven home. I’m sure there are cases when it

comes down to defiance, but I’m willing to bet that wasn’t what was going on at Meriden’s “muni” golf site that day, or in hundreds of other cases when people simply let slip the warning that they’re not supposed to be hanging out together. It was feared that schools, once reopened, might become hotbeds of infection spread, but if schools are closing today it’s more likely because of staffing issues than infection rates. In fact, Meriden schools have experienced a one percent infection rate at a time when cases in the Silver City are surging. Other municipalities have similar experiences. “We are not seeing sustained person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 in schools or outbreaks of COVID-19 in schools, despite increasing levels of COVID-19 in the

community,” said Wallingford School Superintendent Salvatore Menzo recently. This relative safety of students stems from an understanding of how the virus spreads. Students are kept in cohorts, which, I think, simply means they’re kept with the same group of people. It’s a simple equation: If you’re not infected and you hang with others who are not infected chances are you won’t get infected. We should probably not be surprised that schools know what they’re doing. When the pandemic hit and schools closed, educators had to turn on a dime and figure out how to provide remote learning. This was not comparable to amending one’s lesson plan; this was more like changing careers. It hasn’t, obviously, been a See Kurz, A21

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We can sum up the 2020-21 ski season in a word – COVID. The pandemic has changed the ski industry in ways we never imagined. In the past we were ruled by the weather and the economy, but now it’s a virus.

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“The COVID 19 Pandemic has presented a myriad of challenges for the winter resort industry here in ConJust as winter was about to necticut,” said Mount Southstart states began stricter test ington General Manager Jay requirements and quaranDougherty at a recent meettine for visitors and the ski ing. Industry is going to feel the “Paramount is the safety and pain. health of our employees and Everyone connected to the guests. We have been workindustry, from a mom and ing hard to create a winter pop ski shop to the largest operating plan that will meet mountain resorts in North all the local and state reAmerica will need to change quirements,” said Dougherthe way they have operated ty.

Skiing and snowboarding are activities where face masks, helmets, gloves and goggles are normal dress. It is also an activity where individuals distance themselves while making their own way down the mountain. The base lodge has been the natural gathering spot for groups to take a break, warm up and grab a bite, and this is where you are going to see changes at most resorts this season.

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HHC announces vaccine distribution plans By Mary Ellen Godin Record-Journal staff

Hartford HealthCare rolled out its vaccination distribution plan after securing an ultra-cold freezer that can hold up to 280,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

spective,” said Dr. Ajay Kumar, chief clinical officer at Hartford HealthCare, which operates MidState Medical Center in Meriden. “I believe the vaccine might come sometime in December and if that is the time we have a month.”

“We are prepared from a Hartford HealthCare per-

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count to two factors: fewer infections among the elderly and better strategies and treatments.

mar said. “We have prepared. We have a month to plan this out. We should be ready by then.”

“We are doing a better job at protecting our elderly,” Kumar said. “The number of people older than 65 is less.”

Kumar told reporters that although COVID-19 hospitalizations are three times higher than they were in September, the climb is not as steep as it was in March and April. There are currently 28 hospitalizations at MidState.

Health care workers also are relying less on ventilators and using other treatments, he said.

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There are also fewer deaths caused by complications from the virus. Kumar attributed the lower death

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