Aug. 26 event will celebrate completion of renewal project
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The Durham Public Library is hosting an Open House event Saturday, Aug. 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to celebrate the completion of the Library Renewal Project. This is a great opportunity for community members to visit the updated library spaces and to learn more about the resources and services the Durham library has to offer.
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Gov. Ned Lamont and state Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker announced last week that Connecticut will offer free breakfast to all schoolchildren in Connecticut and make lunch free for students who previously qualified for reduced-price lunches.
With this announcement, Connecticut became the seventh state to institute free school meals, with Massachusetts joining the ranks as number eight on Aug. 10.
To make the program possible, Connecticut allocated $16 million from funding the state received under the
America Rescue Plan Act. During the pandemic, both breakfast and lunch were free for students in Connecticut thanks to federal funding, but this ended when the pandemic program expired.
“There is no curriculum brilliant enough to compensate for a hungry stomach or a distracted mind,” Russell-Tucker said at a press conference. “Our students’ physical, mental, social and emotional health and wellness are foundational to learning. Therefore, providing healthy meals without financial stigmas is a strategic investment in fueling students’ growth and educational outcomes. ”
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I love Lila. Absolutely love her.
Lila is my 2008 Honda Civic. Even though she is getting on in years, she has never let me down. Not once. We have an understanding. I will be good about the oil changes, and she will be happy to take me wherever I want to go. We have both been true to our word.
She’s a forgiving soul, I’m happy to say. She looks the other way when I make that inevitable faux pas. Like taking a corner too sharp and poor Lila has to hike over a rather sizeable curb. I am always appalled when I do this, since the “thump” was pretty big and I am left wondering if I have any wheels left on that side. I always do. She takes good care of me. “No worries,” she tells me. “I’ve got you.”
She also doesn’t seem to mind all the scratches that have come her way over the years. Well, she hasn’t said
The Project Graduation Committee provides an allnight, fun, safe, substancefree, adult-supervised graduation party for Coginchaug’s graduating class. For over 20 years, dedicated parents, teachers and other community members have run the event. Support and volun-
anything about them anyway. These have come from me backing into bushes when I am turning my car around in my driveway.
Backing up is not my forte. Not at all. I would hate to count the times I have backed into the big metal “thingy” that says “Your well is here.” I am always in disbelief that I did this yet again, and I am always afraid that this time I have done away with my taillights and/or my fender. But nope, all is still intact. Thank you, Lila, for being such a sturdy girl. I’ll try to do better the next time.
I wonder if she ever gets nostalgic about the good old days, when she was spanking new and I kept her spotless. I wouldn’t eat in her, I polished her, I parked out in the boonies when I went to Walmart lest someone would open their door onto my precious girl.
Well, those days are long
teers are always appreciated. Donations can be mailed to: Project Graduation, P.O. Box 81, Durham, CT 06422. For more information, find the group on Facebook.
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gone. She is far from pristine. The crumbs tell their own story. There is sand on the floor from trips to the beach; it looks like I brought the entire beach home with me. Notes on the passenger seat are strewn about, advising me as to where I need to be throughout the day. I still park far away from other cars, but that’s only because close range might see me backing into them. Never a good thing.
The mice seem to have a penchant for Lila, too. They like to crawl up into her vents, where they meet with an early demise. Which serves to emanate a horrific odor if I ever want to turn on the air. It could be 200 degrees in the shade, and I will have to make-do with just sticking my head out the window. That’s okay. I’ma head-out-the-window kind of girl anyway.
So Lila, you will be 15 on Aug. 18, you have 101,000 plus miles under your belt, and you are still going strong. Here’s to another 100,000 miles. Thanks for all the good years we’ve had together. I look forward to many more.
And I will try to stop backing up into things. No promises, though.
teers age 18-plus. No experience is required; the department provides the necessary training.
To learn more, visit middlefieldfirect.org, email info@ middlefieldfirect.org or stop by the firehouse Mondays before 7 p.m. The department has an Explorer program for youth, 14 to 18.
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I was taken aback by one of the discussions at a recent Durham Board of Selectmen meeting. First Selectman George Eames reported on filling some of the vacant Town Hall positions. Selectman Andrew Taylor asked him about the hiring process. Who vetted the candidates and conducted the interviews?
It seems Mr. Eames did it all himself, with some advice from outside businesspeople. It’s disturbing that these very notable positions were filled
without any input from stakeholders in town, or, at the very least, the other selectmen. Apparently, the town has no hiring process or human resources department.
Mr. Eames has stated that running a town is like running a business. That’s his opinion. But he needs to remember that the Town of Durham is not a sole proprietorship.
The Zoom recording for that July 25 meeting, and all other Board of Selectmen meetings, is available at TownofDurhamCT.org. I encourage all concerned citizens to watch and learn.
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The Durham Lions Club’s recently-refurbished drop box is ready for your eyeglass donations at the Durham Pharmacy. Lions have recognized the urgent need for corrective lenses and collect usable glasses in their communities to support the Lions Recycle For Sight Program.
Join a wonderful group of people a few hours a week to help care for homeless cats at Cat Tales’ main shelter. The volunteer application can be found at cattalesct.org.
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Cats in the Castle is the premier, annual fundraising event for Cat Tales. Taking place on Saturday, Sept. 16, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Aqua Turf in Plantsville, proceeds from this event directly benefit the abused, homeless and abandoned cats/kittens under Cat Tales’ care and help pay for food, shelter and veterinary care, which, over a year’s time, amounts to over $150,000.
Cats in the Castle tickets include appetizers, dinner,
The Middlefield Food Bank is in need of the following: peanut butter, jelly, jam, sandwich/ freezer bags, coffee, tea, crackers, snacks, laundry detergent, dish soap, cleaning supplies, toothpaste, tooth brushes, pasta, pasta sauce, tuna, and grocery store gift cards.
beer & wine, desserts, and more. Tickets are available at cattalesct.org/citc/.
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“Where are the monarchs?”
It’s been a hot topic of discussion for gardeners and others this summer.
Ron Gagliardi, CT Butterfly Association’s Outreach Educator, saw a monarch in West Haven on Aug. 3, but had not noticed any in Cheshire, where he lives, as of the first week in August.
“That was my first one this season, ” he said.
Monarch populations have been hard hit on both coasts. Myriad sources are responsible, including pesticide use, said Gagliardi. Fragmentation and the resulting lack of host plants and nectar sites normally found in open areas and meadows are also contributing factors.
Gagliardi recalls Xerces Society’s Executive Director Scott Black’s comment on the monarch population’s decline, as “death by a thousand cuts.”
“From what I’ve seen, we ’ re seeing a decline in all butterfly populations,” said
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Gagliardi. He also points to annual studies done by Connecticut lepidopterist Victor Masi in his hometown of Redding. Gagliardi said there was a year when Masi did not record a single monarch.
“They’re being seen – not in big numbers, but both caterpillars and adults are being reported,” said CT Butterfly Association founder John Himmelman. That was back on July 10.
Is it possible that not seeing monarchs locally at this time
is just a misperception on the part of the public?
Checking in with CT Agricultural Experiment Station entomologist Dr. Kelsey Fischer, it’s interesting to note that the question of “where are the monarchs?” comes up every year. Fischer has worked with the Eastern subpopulation of monarchs, those east of the Rocky Mountains, since 2016. Their lowest population point was in 2013, she said.
When working in Iowa, and when she was getting her
master’s degree in Delaware, Fischer was asked by friends, family and colleagues about monarchs every year. “Now, in Connecticut, the story is no different,” she said. “Every year, without a doubt, I get the question ‘where are all the monarchs?’”
Fischer said she never judges how the monarch butterfly population size is doing based on summer observations. “Because the monarch migrates, the monarchs we see in CT are a direct result of earlier generations of monarchs in different parts of the country,” she said. “Monarchs could be anywhere. Check out the Journey North website. It looks like they’re distributing well.”
According to Fischer, if you study the migration patterns and the time needed to go from egg to adult, “the monarchs arrived in CT right when I expected to see them – in the middle of July – and I’ve been seeing adults, eggs, and larvae ever since.” In her opinion, “everything appears to be on track.”
And the focus, according to Fischer, should be how well the monarchs are doing
overwintering in Mexico. The population is all together there, she said, and is measured consistently each year. “At this time, they are all in the same place huddled together and we can get a real, strong estimate of population size,” Fischer pointed out.
Overall, she said it’s hard to answer the question, “where are all the monarchs?”
“Insect populations fluctuate and what we see in CT may be completely different than what our friends in Iowa, Georgia, Florida, or Ohio, just a few examples, are seeing,” said Fischer. If we are doing what we can do to help monarchs – most importantly, establishing habitat with milkweed and nectar resources from spring to fall – we are doing everything we can, she said.
For a source of real-time summer observations, Fischer advises checking out Chip Taylor’s blog (monarchwatch.org/blog/). Founder of The Monarch Watch program, Taylor is a scientist/researcher who has been working with monarchs the entirety of his career.
Remarks from Connecticut State Librarian Deborah Schander and Library Board Chair Robert Booz will open the event, followed by refreshments and a chance to tour the space. Snacks, children’s crafts, and activities will be available all day.
The Library Renewal Project improved accessibility, computer access, and improved study spaces and community gathering spaces. The Durham Public Library was awarded a grant for the renewal project in the amount of $146,957 by the Connecticut State Library Board. Additional funding was provided by the Town of Durham, The Peach Pit Foundation, and the generous contributions of library supporters.
This expansion means the participation of approximately 114 districts and the eligibility of an estimated 177,243 students for free breakfast. For lunches, the state estimates that 128 districts are eligible for funding to serve 13,197 qualifying students who will now receive free rather than reduced-fee meals.
“We have to make sure kids are ready to learn, and that starts first thing in the day, a good meal, a good breakfast, no stigma,” Lamont said at the press conference.
In Connecticut, nearly 400,000 people are food insecure. This number includes 90,000 children, according to Connecticut Foodshare, a food bank which works to feed individuals and families across the state. “People often think there’s no problem with hunger in Connecticut,” President and CEO of Connecticut Foodshare Jason
Jakubowski said. “That’s 100% not true. We serve the whole state, all 169 towns. There is at least one food insecure family in each one, no matter whether it’s an urban city, the wealthy suburbs, or a rural town.”
Making free meals accessible for all students helps level the playing field, and Southington’s School Nutrition Director Nya Welinsky has seen firsthand the impact this can have on students.
“There’s a feeling of equity that the students have mentioned to me,” Welinsky said.
“It’s more equitable, and it’s a wonderful way to start the day well-nourished.”
For families experiencing financial strain, Welinsky emphasized the importance of the free and reduced-price meal application.
“It’s more than a meal application in many ways,” Welinsky said. “We really encourage families to fill it out. With the information they provide, families can end up receiving fee waivers for different things in schools.”
None of this would be possible without the support of the legislature to help get kids the food they need, Jason Jakubowski explained. “We’re lucky here in Connecticut that our delegate to the legislature is very supportive of programs that help kids get the food they need,” Jakubowski said. “It’s a big leap in the right direction. We’re hopeful that in the next year or two we will see universal free lunches in Connecticut.”
Jakubowski added that he hopes future federal action will help other states make this goal possible as well.
“The U.S. Congress absolutely should have free school breakfasts and free school breakfasts for every child no
matter where in the country they live,” Jakubowski said.
To access the free and reduced-price meal application for your town, visit your school district’s food services website.
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The Durham Farm Market & more is held Thursdays, 3 to 6:30 p.m., rain or shine, at 144 Pickett Lane. If the weather is a concern, the market is held indoors.
The market will be closed for the Durham Fair Sept. 14 and 21, and will wrap up for the season on Oct. 12.
The Middlesex Hospital Vocal Chords singing group is looking to expand its tenor and bass sections. No auditions, no experience necessary, just a love of singing and a willingness to make a commitment to the Vocal Chords family.
Rehearsals begin Tuesday, Aug. 29, 6:45 to 9 p.m., at Msgr. Fox Parish Hall, St. Francis Church, 10 Elm St., Middletown. For more information, visit vocalchords20.org or call 860-3423120.
Connecticut’s Summer at the Museum program enables children to receive free admission at dozens of museums across the state. The full list of participating museums is available at ctvisit.com. Summer at the Museum concludes Sept. 4.
The Benhaven Walk for Autism will take place Sunday, Sept. 24 at North Haven High School. The event features a 2-mile walk, live music, games, food and refreshments, Touch-a-Truck, a raffle, and more. Nearly 500 walkers are expected to raise well over $60,000 for Benhaven, a private, not-forprofit agency serving people of all ages and with diverse needs.
To learn more about the walk, visit jbsports.com. To learn about donating or fundraising, email jody@jbsports.com or call 203-4815933.
The 2023 sunflower maze at Lyman Orchards is open daily, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., through Sunday, Aug. 27.
The approximately 3-acre maze is made up of 350,000 yellow, red and orange flowers crafted into a design featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog. $1 of every admission goes to support Connecticut Children’s Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders.
The Durham-Middlefield Giving Garden is located behind the Middlefield Community Center and the Middlefield Firehouse. Everyone is welcome to come to the twice-weekly workdays at the garden Wednesdays and Saturdays from 9 to 11 a.m. All ages welcome, for any amount of time.
Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. The group’s mission Remember, Honor, Teach is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as at thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.
For more information on how to volunteer locally or sponsor a wreath, visit wreathsacrossamerica.org.
State law provides a reimbursement program for Connecticut renters who are elderly or totally disabled, and whose incomes do not exceed certain limits. Persons renting an apartment or room or living in cooperative housing, or a mobile home may be eligible for this program. Applications are accepted through Oct. 1. Visit portal.ct.gov/OPM.
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