Town Times April 23, 2021 by Record Journal

Volume 27, Number 17

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Finance board proposes budget increase, but lowers mill rate

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By Nadya Korytnikova Town Times

The Durham Board of Finance recently presented its fiscal year 2021-22 preliminary budget that, if approved, would reduce the mill rate for the fourth year in a row.

Michael Quinn wears several hats any given day: attorney, state representative, fire photographer. “He can pick up stuff in pictures that we don’t typically get to see,” Meriden Fire Chief Ken Morgan said. See story on Page 10. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal

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The town’s preliminary net budget for FY 2021-22 is estimated at $5.77 million, which represents a 3.43 percent increase over the current fiscal year. The proposed mill rate for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins July 1, would drop to 35.63, a reduction of 0.15 mills. The overall proposed mill rate is set due to a reduction in state and local revenue, increases in profes-

information on the prescription label of your empty pill bottle or empty medication packaging to make it unreadable, then dispose of the container. By taking these medication disposal steps you are helping unused and expired medication from getting to the hands of people they were not prescribed to.

The town’s total expenditures are predicted to go up by 4.09 percent, or $289,650, while local and state revenue will decrease by 9.13 percent, or $78,118. As part of its long-term capital plan, the Board of Finance has appropriated $574,251 in reserve funds, an 11.10 percent increase compared to the current year. Major contributors to the budget include building maintenance, fire apparatus, public works vehicle and equipment replacement, as well as major culvert repairs. Nevertheless, the board will be able to decrease next year’s debt burden by 1.9 percent, from $147,105 to $144,289, according to Donahue. See Budget, A24

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The DEA National Drug Take Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 Back Day is Saturday, April p.m., prescription drugs can 24. be disposed of at the Middlefield Resident Troopers This effort addresses a cruOffice, 405 Main St., or at the cial public safety and public Durham Resident Troopers health issue. According to Office, 24 Townhouse Road. the 2019 National Survey on A no-contact drop-off proceDrug Use and Health, 9.7 dure will be followed. Masks million people misused pre- are required. scription pain relievers, 4.9 million people misused pre- If you can't attend an April scription stimulants and 5.9 24 take-back, prescription million people misused pre- drugs can be disposed of safely at home. scription tranquilizers or sedatives. The survey also Unused and expired medishowed that a majority of cations should be mixed misused prescription drugs with an unpalatable subwere obtained from family stance such as dirt, cat litter and friends, often from the or used coffee grounds. home medicine cabinet. Place the mixture into a The DEA’s Take Back Day container such as a sealed events provide an opportuplastic bag and throw the nity for Americans to precontainer away with your household trash. Remember vent drug addiction and to scratch out all personal overdose deaths.

BOF Chairman Bob Donahue, who presented the municipal budget via Zoom on April 12, noted that 2020 was a year “quite unlike any other that has ever been seen for over 100 years.”

sional and general expenses, and the town’s “continued commitment” to longterm capital planning, according to Donahue.

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THURSDAYS, TOWN GREEN The Durham Farmers Market takes place on the Town Green Thursdays, 3 to 6:30 p.m., through the end of November. Pictured, left: Jane Sibley from Auntie Arwen's Spices said the Durham market is her favorite place to sell her goods. Photos by Nadya Korytnikova, Town Times

Cool it with the negativity

But I when I pay attention, I realize there are a lot of little blessings in my life, too. Here are just a few: When the temperature of the water in my shower is just right, which rarely happens. It is either so hot that I am being scalded, or so cold that I am turning blue. The window for “just right” is very small, and I appreciate it when it shows up. In the winter when we are barraged with dire weather reports of a huge “snowstorm of the century” that promises to take us all out, and it never shows up. ActualIy, I think I’ll put this one in the “big category.” When the power goes out and it comes back on before the “estimated time.”

When kitty Dakota snuggles with me every morning in bed. When someone tells me how

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When my favorite shows come back for another season. When I get the right mixture of coconut oil and Himalayan salt on my popcorn. The checkerberry soda I have on my birthday. When the washing machine is making a funky noise and I think, “Oh, what will I do if it dies? Slam my clothes up against a rock by the stream?” And then the noise is gone and all is well again. Along the same lines, when my TV is doing something weird and I am afraid the dear is just going to go bellyup, but then the weird thing is over and my Samsung is picture-perfect again. When I concoct something in the kitchen and it actually turns out good. A rare occasion When my Swedish grandson See Carr, A24 Executive VP & Publisher — Liz White Notarangelo News Editor — Nick Carroll Assistant News Editor — Olivia Lawrence News reporter — Nadya Korytnikova Senior VP and Editor — Ralph Tomaselli Vice President of Advertising — Jim Mizener

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20 MILES, 1 DAY Middlefield Troop 33 Scouts Wyeth DaSilva and Elliot Villwock recently completed a 20-mile hike; the longest trek required to earn the Hiking Merit badge. The 20-mile hike, one of the most difficult merit badges to earn, must be done in one day with only a few short breaks. DaSilva and Villwock began their journey at 7 a.m. at the Westwoods trailhead off of Rt. 146 in Guilford. The Strong School seventh graders then traveled into Branford and back. Along the way, the Scouts passed Lost Lake, train tracks, bridges, waterfalls and streams, traversed swamp boardwalks, climbed rocks and went through caves. It was a strenuous and exhausting day, but DaSilva and Villwock persevered. The Scouts finished their hike at around 5 p.m., 10 hours after they set off, and celebrated with pizza and cheesesteak.

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Mid-Lea Garden Club will host a plant sale at the Middlefield Community Center, in front of the police station, Saturday, May 1, from 9 a.m. to noon. Proceeds will benefit the scholarship fund.

Women of the Woods (or WoW), a program of Everyone Outside, offers monthly hikes in the Durham/Middlefield area. In addition to hiking, participants will take time to admire the beauty around us, learn a bit about the flora and fauna, do some CVEF grants exercises to connect with the Each spring, the Coginchaug natural world (mostly sitting Valley Education Foundation quietly) and enjoy each othfunds new and creative ideas er's company. Durham resibenefiting people of all ages. dent Lucy Meigs is offering two socially-distanced hikes If you have a great idea, apper month. The next WoW ply for a 2021 grant now. Ap- hikes are Saturday, April 24 plications are due Saturday, and Monday, April 26 at the May 1. Download the form Tyler Mills Preserve in Wallat coginchaugvef.org. For ingford. For additional informore information, mation, and to register, visemail cvefgrants@ it EveryoneOutside.org or gmail.com. email Lucy at Lucy@EveryoneOutside.org.

Work the land The Gastler Farm at 159 Middlefield Road, Durham, invites locals to take part in “working the land” on scenic acres of the horticultural farm by volunteering one 3to-4 hour shift weekly throughout the growing season. Committed volunteers reap the benefits at harvest times, carrying home fresh produce for their own tables. All surplus crops are delivered to Saint Vincent dePaul’s soup kitchen and Amazing Grace food pantry in Middletown. Anyone interested in becoming a parttime vegetable/flower gardener for enjoyment and education should call or text Leah Gastler at 860-3013068.

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Library Durham Public Library Hours. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Wednesday, 2 to 8 p.m. Curbside pickup available. Film discussion (Zoom). Scene at the Library: Connecting Through Film. Tuesday, April 27 at 7 p.m. “An American in Paris” (1951). Visit durhamlibrary.org to register. Dungeons & Dragons (Zoom). Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Grades 7 & up. Visit durhamlibrary.org to register. Spanish Conversation (Zoom). Fridays at 4 p.m. All levels welcome. Email kmcnally@durhamlibrary.org for the weekly meeting link. French Conversation (Zoom). The first Thursday of the month at 4:30 p.m. All levels welcome. Email kmcnally@ durhamlibrary.org for the weekly meeting link.

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Six students from the Independent Day School in Middlefield were selected to join the Southern Region Middle School Music Festival. Auditions were held via video submissions. Students had to prepare a piece and scales for the audition and were graded on tone, intonation, rhythm accuracy, tempo, dynamics, articulation, ornamentation and phrasing. In previous years, students selected to join the Southern Region Middle School Music Festival would go to a weekend event where they would rehearse and perform. This year, they will participate in an online event.

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Fire photographer loves getting close to the scene By Nick Sambides Jr. Record-Journal staff

MERIDEN — Michael Quinn is an attorney, a state representative and the city’s former corporation counsel, but what he loves to do, as much as anything else, is take pictures of fires. Every night, the 53-year-old city resident goes to bed with his camera, a Nikon D750, by the back door or in his car, with his favorite lens, a 28-300 mm zoom. It is at the ready in case an alarm sounds and he has to rush out to shoot photos of city firefighters handling emergencies. He listens to Meriden Fire Department dispatchers on the scanner all the time and feels his adrenaline climb every time the multi-toned signal indicating a fire goes off. “We call ourselves fire photographers,” Quinn said. “There are some that only take pictures of apparatus. There are some that only take pictures of fires and I am in the middle. I do both.” As a representative of the 82nd District — which includes Meriden, Middlefield and Rockfall — and a partner at Mahon, Quinn and Mahon of Meriden, Quinn manages to stay busy shooting pictures without compromising his other responsibilities, he said.

“There is no set hours to it. If it is a fire that occurs at night, I can get to it,” Quinn said. “Weekday fires are nearly impossible because I have some work commitment going on and I can’t just drop it and go.” Quinn got into the hobby partly because, as a child, he loved the old 1970s TV show “Emergency” starring Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe, whom he met years ago. As a fire photographer, Quinn helps city firefighters document their procedures at fire scenes. His photographs are valuable parts of the department’s postmortem analysis, act as evidence in civil or criminal proceedings, helps the department publicize its work and train firefighters, and assists Fire Chief Ken Morgan in explaining to city leaders how firefighters handle given events. “He can pick up stuff in pictures that we don’t typically get to see,” Morgan said. “A good thing that is inherent to Mike is that as a lawyer, he knows that what he does could eventually become part of a court case.” Perhaps most important, Quinn knows how to get good pictures without interfering with firefighters, Morgan said. Quinn does this by doing frequent ride-alongs

capturing the orange and red hues of fires and the blue or red flashing strobe lights on vehicles. His zoom lens helps him get close pictures without getting too close himself. Photography has constant frustrations, too. The first look at a good photo feels like Christmas morning. The first sight of a bad one, or a near-miss, is a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking. Some fires are more personal to Michael Quinn than others. This three-alarm fatal house fire on Nov. 23, 2017 on Carpenter Avenue in Meriden occurred at a house built by Quinn’s great-grandparents in the late 1930s. Photo courtesy of Michael Quinn

with firefighters and studying their procedures. “His biggest challenge is knowing that line that he can’t cross. We have had numerous other photographers that we have had to talk to about this, but he usually manages to find a way to get good pictures without getting in our way. You don’t want to do anything that would slow us down,” Morgan said. Situational awareness is a big part of Quinn’s work as a photographer, said Morgan and Glenn Duda, president of the 120-member Connecticut Fire Photographers Association. Quinn joined the group in 2009 and was elected to be its vice president in 2011. “Mike is the type of guy who taught himself photography and he joined the organization to do just that. He has come a long way in a lot of people’s eyes. He has become a very respected photographer in the city of Meriden,” Duda said. “It is his technique. He is not your conventional photographer. He has a good eye. He looks for the action and he captures it pretty well.”

This plane crashed on Jan. 27, 2018 behind the VFW club on Hanover Avenue in Meriden when it ran out of fuel shy of Meriden-Markham Airport, Quinn said. Photo courtesy of Michael Quinn

fighters deployed? How can he get close enough to them to get a good picture, but not so close as to hazard his safety? “We are able to be an extra set of eyes and ears on a scene in addition to the firefighters and commanders,” Duda said. “We gain the trust of the firefighters.” Good fire photographs have constant elements. Lots of visible flames, strong facial expressions of firefighters, a sense of scale sharp enough to illustrate the size of a building or fire scene, and a minimum of smoke are all things that make for good photos, Quinn said. A professional-grade camera, such as his Nikon, helps in low light conditions at night. The camera does an exceptionally good job of

“You don’t always get the cooperation of the fire to get enough flames to make a good picture,” Quinn said. “If there is too much smoke in the picture, it can really obscure what you are taking a picture of.” There is also a certain etiquette among fire photographers, Quinn said. He generally avoids pictures of the victims of fires, feeling that capturing them as they suffer the loss of home or loved ones is an invasion of privacy. Fire photographers also sometimes put down their cameras to help firefighters, Duda said. Many fire photographers sell their pictures to firefighters, but not Quinn. He typically emails the best of his pictures to Morgan, who distributes them as needed, Morgan said. Quinn said he does the work as a hobby, not to make money. nsambides@record-journal.com 203-317-2279 Twitter: @JrSambides

Quinn approaches fires with an eye toward several things. Where are the hose lines? Where are the overhead util- Michael Quinn’s fire helmet and hat he had custom printed. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal ity wires? Are all the fire-

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In the aftermath of the pandemic, the unemployment rate in Connecticut reached a high of 12 percent while over 220,000 state residents lost their jobs, according to Donahue. But all Town of Durham employees retained their jobs throughout the pandemic while ensuring that all necessary support and services were “seamlessly available” to the public, Donahue said.

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