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Friday, October 18, 2019

SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP

HOLISTIC ESTHETICIAN

New friends say so long, for now By Everett Bishop Town Times

Host families, friends, faculty and classmates were mistyeyed at a farewell reception for Tongji students last week. The Coginchaug community gathered to say goodbye to their new friends from Ningbo, China. Lisa Catherine is the newest addition to the Red Barn in Durham. Catherine offers holistic skincare services as well as energy work. Photo by Everett Bishop, Town Times

Fresh face at The Red Barn By Everett Bishop Town Times

The Red Barn in Durham welcomed a new face at its open house last weekend. Lisa Catherine, a certified holistic esthetician, is launching her “holistic organic skincare services” under the name Facets Skincare. According to Catherine, this venture “is a realization of a 30-year vision” that began around the time she was pregnant with her daughter, Lindsay Suprenant. “When I was pregnant with her was when I became fascinated with nutrition and went to college for nutrition for two years,” Catherine said. “When she was two, I went to college for nutrition and when I was done with that, I knew I didn’t want to be a registered dietician.”

Instead, Catherine sought to become a naturopathic physician, a doctor who looks to holistic methods of healing, with pharmaceuticals being a last resort. However, Catherine quickly realized that all the naturopathic schools were located on the west coast. “I was a single mom, so nutrition sounded like the best thing, but I wasn’t feeling the registered dietician program,” she said. “So I found esthetics, which was really special to me because I had very bad skin.” Catherine said that she felt that she had “come out of the womb with acne.” “I figured why not go into a line of work where I could benefit personally and then I could also integrate all of my nutrition because I really believe that what was going on with my skin had

something to do with what was going on inside,” she said. What resulted became the building blocks for Facets Skincare. Research into CBD and a commitment to a holistic lifestyle even led Catherine to launch her own line of skincare products. “I cherry pick, but I’m very strict that there’s no toxic ingredients, and when possible, they’re all organic,” she said when talking about the various products she uses in her facials and treatments. However, Catherine added that there are some products that she “loves” that aren’t organic. For those who might have blemishes or other skin See Face, A19

“It was a great two weeks. I think it changed the lives of many of these kids, changed their perspectives,” said Board of Education Chair Robert Moore. “I think the school recognizes that this world is very small and these kids are kids just like us.” Twenty-two students and two educators traveled from China to the U.S. to participate in a school partnership program between Tongji and Coginchaug high schools. The foreigners stayed with host families in Durham and Middlefield and shadowed Coginchaug students in order to experience American culture.

for the Tongji students. Regional School District 13 School Superintendent Kathryn Veronesi, Moore, Board of Education Secretary Norm Hicks, Coginchaug Principal Brain Falcone, and World Language Teacher Kate Germond visited Ningbo last December with a consultant from ACES International to facilitate this partnership. Upon the group’s return, Veronesi wrote in Town Times: “While there, we learned about Chinese history, culture and the educational system … At our partner school we met school leaders, teachers, food service staff and students. We toured school buildings and grounds, observed classes, discussed lessons, and finalized and signed a ‘Friendship and Partnership’ memorandum of agreement.”

Last week, Falcone said, “When we went to China last year, I couldn’t have hoped for such an amazing experience. To know that we One Tongji student, Wang Jing, spoke before her peers have friends on the other side of the world that we about her experience at Coginchaug. “We’re glad and communicated, talked to thankful that we are blessed and had in our homes is absolutely unbelievable.” with parents and families and shadow students that Vice Principal of Tongji High trust us and love us,” said School, Zhu Wei, said the Jing. “It’s you who gave us a partnership was “a very home in U.S.A. Thanks for good beginning” to the “fuyour hope, care and love.” ture connection” of the two schools. For some Coginchaug students, the farewell was clos- “We hope the connection er to a: See you later. In the and all this friendship will spring of 2020, Coginchaug last a long long time,” he students and faculty will said. travel to China for two weeks ebishop@record-journal.com to see what life is like

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Pantry in need of donations By Everett Bishop Town Times

The Durham pantry, located at 350 Main St., accepts all non-perishable food donations, toiletries and paper items. It also accepts monetary donations.

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“For many residents, the pantry is used because they are in immediate need or it will help to get them through until other services can kick-in,” said Lehet. “The town accepts all Durham residents and gives them the chance to meet with the social services coordinator who will screen them for other town or state resources they may be eligible for.” The USDA reported that last year, 13.9 percent of households with children experienced hunger. That number went up for single parent households and black and Hispanic households.

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Letters to the Editor Skelps for BOF

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Mike Skelps knows finances.

I strongly support Laura Francis for First Selectman.

When I was president of the Middlefield Lions, Mike served as treasurer. He greatly improved our budgeting, forecasting, kept our expenses to a minimum and maximized our revenues. This is exactly the type of person we need on the Middlefield Board of Finance. Mike will work to ensure that town expenditures are held to a minimum while maintaining the services we receive from our hardearned dollars.

Laura is a member of many state-levels boards. This helps to bring Durham’s issues to the state level and has included our town in extra programs and grant opportunities. Laura is willing to listen to all members of our community.

I have attended meetings where I felt that speakers were so angry that they neglected to remain respectful. When I asked how she could remain respectful to them, she replied, “Everyone has the right to have their voices heard.” Please support this compassionate and strong leader. Tina Gossner Durham

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With her intimate knowledge of the workings of each department in town, Laura knows what is essential and how to find efficiencies. She has reduced staff hours by more than 120 per-week,

Laura Francis has served the Town of Durham as First Selectman with integrity, openness and dedication. She has brought over $5 million in grant monies to the town and is effectively taking

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and restructured the town’s retirement plan and health care services, saving taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars over time.

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I support Robert Pazera for Support Board of Finance. Robert has spent a career in finance and for Hennick will bring a fresh, new voice Editor : to this board. I support Tom Hennick for In conversations with second selectman in Robert, he has proven to be Durham’s upcoming elecengaged, enthusiastic and tion.

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Letters

Final edition for political letters: Oct. 25

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No political Letters to the Editor will run after the Friday, Oct. 25 edition. The election will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5. Political letters are limited to 100 words. Email letters to news@ towntimes.com; mail to 500 South Broad St., Meriden, CT 06450 or fax to 203-639-0210. Letters must be signed and names will appear in print. Include a phone number so The Citizen can contact you for verification. Letters must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Monday to be considered for publication the following Friday.

Worthy of re-election Editor : With the upcoming election for first selectperson, I wanted to voice my support for a candidate I have been working closely with on the portrait of a graduate/citizen. Through this work I have witnessed the passion and love they have for our town and its members. This person listens to community ideas, advocates for projects that benefit everyone, from seniors to preschoolers; while always being mindful of the financial impact for each and every town resident. Please support the re-election of Laura Francis so she can continue working for the

good of our town and schools.

A 10-year member of the Board of Education, five years as chairman, Tom is a proven leader who has served us well.

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Open, honest Editor : I support Tom Hennick for the Durham Board of Selectmen and urge local voters to cast your vote to re-elect him. Durham needs Tom for his experience in government, his open and honest approach and his steady hand in making decisions for our town.

Keep true two-party government alive in Durham, vote for Tom Hennick for a second term on the Board of Selectmen.

level. For this role, we need a lioness, not a kitten. Laura Francis is that lioness!

Laura has successfully ensured that Durham has not been left out of important funding streams and programs at the state level, which has benefited all residents of Durham. As a registered Democrat, I am voting for Laura Francis for First Selectman. I also encourage fellow Democrats, and those unafSee Letters, A6

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A Politically Balanced Board of Finance is a Fair Board The Board of Finance has worked in a Bipartisan manner for many years. With equal representation of political parties, the BOF is a politically balanced board. With a balance of power, no opportunity for partisan politics exists. Three Democratic seats are available in this election. The Board is an integral part of the equation to maintain financial stability of the community. The Board reduced the mill rate of the 1st Selectman’s initial proposed budget for the past 5 years. The good work must continue.

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Durham Healthmart Pharmacy is Blue Ribbon recipient The Durham Economic Development Commission has announced the recipient of the Blue Ribbon Business Award for the third quarter of 2019. The Durham Healthmart Pharmacy, a fixture in the community for 30 years, is the latest recipient. Those who nominated The Durham Healthmart Pharmacy for the Blue Ribbon Business Award noted that owners Walter and Carol Douglass consistently go above and beyond for their customers, answering calls after hours, delivering medical supplies and opening during bad weather to make sure their customers’ needs are taken care of. Another who submitted a nomination stated that Walter, owner and pharmacist, knows more than the doctors! Personal service and a store stocked with not only medical supplies, but gifts, books (many by local authors), school sup-

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plies, household items and more makes the Durham Healthmart Pharmacy a one-stop shop. Walter and Carol have given of their time and talent to the Durham community as participants and supporters of the Durham Fair, Project Graduation, Economic Development, the Exchange Club and Parents of Performers. They currently run Durham’s Closet out of the pharmacy, where, for a small fee of $1, people can borrow used medical equipment.

Through the years, the Durham Healthmart Pharmacy has employed well over 100 high school students, and they annually participate in the Coginchaug Transition Work Study Program and the Youth Summer Jobs programs through Coginchaug Regional High School. The pharmacy has definitely earned the Blue Ribbon Business Award for excellence in customer service, products and community outreach.

George Eames’ recent mailers left me wondering if he really has a plan to back up his promises of reducing spending, taxes and the mill rate while also saving money to plan for undefined future projects. The first selectman’s office is not an autocracy, where the BOS makes all decisions final. The Board of Finance plays a major role in shaping the town's fiscal planning, which is over 80 perent tied up in the BOE budget. Eames makes claims regarding town debt, taxes and spending without any context or clear plan for how he will support what he says he can do. Matt Thompson Durham

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So I put it in the trunk of my car. I certainly would not hear it from the house. Peace at last! Well, unless I was driving. It was always chirping and yelling, “Fire, fire, fire.” I thought it would

Friends walking by my car would tell me, “Did you know that your car is chirping?” Believe me, I knew. I finally gave it to my neighbor, who beat it with a hammer until it was lifeless. A hard way to go, I’m sure, but it would just not “go gentle into the night.” And you’ve all heard about my surly GPS, Sadie (yes, I

named her), who delights in having me drive around in circles and getting lost. I think she’s in cahoots with the smoke alarm. I can just see them sending messages to each other, telepathically I imagine, saying, “Let’s have a bit of fun. I’ll get her lost, and you keep her nerves all jangled by constantly telling her there’s a fire.” They are both very naughty. Some of these talking things are fun, though. On one of

my visits to Sweden, my son and I were taking great delight in asking his Siri some ridiculous questions. That girl did have us laughing. At one point Ryan asked, “Siri, do you love me?” To which she replied, “I don’t love you but I respect you.” That’s right, girlfriend, play hard to get. In truth, I get a big kick out of all these “talkies.” Although some of them, I believe, could use an attitude adjustment.

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Everyone knows that the state legislature passed a law increasing the minimum wage in Connecticut to $15 per hour to be phased in between October 2019 and 2023. The rate will increase by about 9% from $10.10 to $11 per hour effective October 1, 2019. Republican legislators had warned that the increase in minimum wage would make Connecticut even more unappealing to businesses and could backfire by reducing jobs and increasing prices. The first proof of the negative impact is now evident in the announced closing of a ShopRite grocery store in West Hartford. According to a story on WeHa, an online site covering West Hartford, a Connecticut supermarket will be closing in late November amid a “challenging business climate.”

vice provided by our dedicated associates, we have struggled to make the store profitable. A challenging Suzio business climate impacted by rising costs, regulations and the new minimum wage increase led to the difficult decision to close our doors on November 26.” How will the store closing impact the community? First, 134 jobs will be lost, i.e., the increase in the minimum wage won’t benefit a single employee at this store. They’ll have to find another job working for someone else, if they can.

Second, the store provided competitively priced highquality goods and was conveniently located so the community will be losing convenience, quality and “After nearly a decade of competitively priced groserving the West Hartford ceries. A local resident, Petra community, ShopRite has Clark-Dufner was quoted as decided it will close its doors,” said a Wakefern Food saying, “It’s a tremendous Corp. spokesman, quoted in loss, especially to the community here, where you look the story. “In spite of our at access to quality food for competitive pricing, large assortment of foods and products and excellent serSee Suzio, A18

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Fasano miffed about UConn president’s free tuition plan Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano has some questions about UConn President Thomas Katsouleas’ plan to offer a free tuition program for families with incomes of less than $50,000. He’s also miffed he wasn’t consulted first. Katsouleas revealed the free tuition proposal during his inauguration in Storrs on Friday, Oct. 4. The university released details about how the program would work late

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Fasano, R-North Haven, said he found it “a little bit out of the norm for a new president” to commit to a free tuition program without reaching out to legislators. Wednesday, Fasano released a copy of the letter he sent to Katsouleas asking for details about the proposal. “Maybe he reached out to everyone but me,” Fasano said, “but not reaching out to the Senate Minority leader saying, ‘Hey, this is what I’m thinking, this is how I

plan to pay for it,’ to go out there and say it’s free. I doubt UConn professors are going to teach courses for free. “You’re a new president, you owe a certain amount of responsibility to the fiduciary not to play to the politics … of saying free, free, free.” Fasano’s letter to Katsouleas, who started his job at the university on Aug. 1, asks what the cost of the program will be and how UConn will pay for it. “While UConn’s spokesper-

son has indicated that these costs are not clear yet, I cannot imagine you would announce these plans if you were not certain UConn could afford these new expenses,” Fasano wrote. “Second, I would like to know how you plan to pay for these initiatives. Will the UConn Foundation be covering these new costs? I understand that some UConn Foundation funds are already designated to be spent for specific purposes. I would like to know how much funding the UConn Foundation has in total and

what all funds have been designated for.” Fasano’s letter also asks Katsouleas whether he plans to increase tuition and other fees at the school over the next two to five years, and whether UConn will be seeking additional state funding. Fasano said he is concerned that tuition might have to continue to go up to cover the cost of the program. “Over the last six years, we’ve gone up on tuition for See Tuition, A16

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“President Katsouleas foreshadowed the plan in a number of places before it From A14 was announced; he’s been meeting with members of kids,” he said. “So, you the General Assembly in know, is that what we’re gogroups, by delegation, for ing to do? Go up on [some] the past several weeks and kids to support other kids? outlined the plan at a high He added, “UConn just cried level in those discussions,” said Michael Enright, a broke. We had to give them — the Democrats did — give spokesman for the university. them more money because they couldn’t afford the fringe [benefits], so how are “UConn has no plans to seek additional dollars in its state we affording free college? appropriation to fund it,” It’s so easy to stand out there and say free, free, free, Enright said. “Rather, UConn is funding it at the but how are you going to outset by reallocating money pay for this?” within the university’s existIn a statement released Oct. ing budget to our financial aid budget.” 9 a spokesman for UConn said the plan was “foreshadowed” on multiple occasions The program is estimated to by Katsouleas – in meetings cost about $1 million per with lawmakers and in inter- class that enrolls at the school, the university said, views with the media. adding that it expects between 900 and 1,400 stu-

dents per class to come from families with household incomes of $50,000 or less.

students, or their financial aid packages, he said.

At his recent inauguration Of these students, about 75% Katsouleas said research shows that a majority of already receive awards that Americans in some democover tuition, and in some graphics see a top tier insticases, more than tuition. tution as “not for them, as The remaining 25% of stufor the elite and even a dents will receive supplescam.” mental financial aid awards to bring the level of commitHe said he wants to reach ment to the amount of tuout to those students who ition. think they can’t afford UConn and give them a While the UConn Foundation raises money to pay for chance to enroll. the program, the Connecti“Higher education is under cut Commitment will be unprecedented pressure to funded via need-based institransform itself,” Katsouleas tutional aid. said. “Although data continue to support the strong corThe university will also agrelation between more edugressively work to raise prication and more opportunivate philanthropic dollars ty, namely higher employthat will help support the ment rates, and lifetime cost of the plan going forearnings, increasingly this is ward, Enright said. The ininot the narrative experitiative will have no impact enced by a large portion of on the tuition paid by other

middle America.” Another key Republican lawmaker, House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, RDerby, also has concerns about how the school will pay for the program. “I think the bottom-line is that we have a multi-billion dollar deficit and we have to be very cognizant of where our money is going,” Klarides said. “Certainly education is a priority to all of us, but we also have elderly and children and housing and paying off pensions and all these things. These things have got to be prioritized and money is an issue.” But at least two Democratic legislative leaders — one of whom had partial advance knowledge of Katsouleas’s plan and another who See Tuition, A19

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The study notes the highpriced restaurants can pass the increase on to customers but the lower priced fast food restaurants frequently can’t pass on the cost increase so they must find efficiencies or go out of business. So, the wealthy are barely affected but the poor suffer lost jobs, more expensive food and fewer options.

The study also pointed out another impact that is often overlooked. The study states, “higher minimum wages deter entry”. Restaurants that might have been opened will never be opened because the higher costs make businesses less profitable and investment in them more risky. Finally, the study observed, “higher minimum wages can help larger or more productive firms, and lead to fewer small or less productive firms” – in other words, the “mom-and-pop” establishments are more likely to suffer while big corporate-run operations are less affected by the impact of minimum wage increases.

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Dr. Christy Jackson, a psychologist and holistic psychotherapist, said Catherine “is a great part” of the Red Barn community.

Haddad said he thinks the program “is a real step forward” in the university’s financial aid effort. “I think we have heard anecdotally that there are a lot of folks who gain admission to UConn but can’t figure out ways to afford the tuition there,” Haddad said. “And I’ve heard from constituents that their sons and daughters have gotten better financial aid packages at other private universities.”

“We have so many facets of wellness,” Jackson said. “We have to take care of the physical body as well. We don’t really see a difference between mind, body and spirit. Everything is interconnected.”

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“They had mentioned a commitment to students [with family earnings] under $50,000, so it wasn’t like I was completely unaware of it it,” he said, “but when they posed it to me, it was more like they were thinking about it — not something that was imminent. They asked me to withhold any public comment on it until after they made the announcement.”

“There’s that piece of me that’s all about holistic health,” she said. “So when you come into me for skincare, we talk about your skin, but I also want to be able to offer energy work and help with your diet.”

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Programs for Teens: Teen Mythos: Urban Legends. Tuesday, Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m. Grades 6 & up. Please register. Teen Books & Buzz. Wednesday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m. “Sheets” by Brenna Thummler.

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