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Volume 23, Number 31
Wellness coalition holds training on overdose issues
Decades-old holiday fair returns Nov. 9
By Everett Bishop Town Times
The Durham Middlefield Local Wellness Coalition hosted a Narcan training event that taught how to administer different forms of naloxone, the signs and symptoms of an overdose and about Connecticut’s Good Samaritan Law. The event, held Saturday, Oct. 26, took place at the Middlefield Community Center. Anna Gasinski from the Alliance for Prevention & Wellness led the class. Naloxone, commonly known by brand name Narcan, is used to treat an opioid overdose in an emergency situation and is often associated with fentanyl overdoses.
Friday, November 1, 2019
By Everett Bishop Town Times
The vial on the right is used mainly by EMT's and is an intramuscular injection, as is the one on the left. Narcan, in the center, is most commonly used by friends, families and neighbors of overdose victims. Photo by Everett Bishop, Town Times
“It’s being pressed into pills,” said Gasinski, of fentanyl. “We’re seeing it being cut into cocaine now and it takes a lot shorter of a time to make.”
Synthetic marijuana is even being laced with the opioid, with more than 70 people overdosing in New Haven from fentanyl laced marijuana just last year. See Wellness, A5
“Back then it was all these adorable little handmade ornaments, and they had such imagination. I still hang them on my tree to this day,” she said. “They made soldiers out of clothespins. Just the cutest things.”
For more than 60 years, the Middlefield Federated Church has hosted a holiday fair to raise money for the church’s general fund and for several community chariAlso, Smith remembers ties. shopping the handmade, For the church community, crocheted Barbie clothes. the fair has become more Women’s Christian Fellowthan just a fundraiser, however. It’s a holiday tradition. ship Chair Sydney Mintz said, “Seeing the stuff picked Church member Beverly up and loved and purSmith was baptized and chased, that’s the best part married at Middlefield Fed- about the fair.” erated Church, and recalls attending the holiday fair as See Fair, A21 a child.
Fire chief talks system upgrades By Everett Bishop Town Times
At last week’s Middlefield Board of Selectmen meeting, the panel saw a presentation from the Middlefield Volunteer Fire Company about the projected upgrades to its radio systems.
During the Tuesday, Oct. 22 meeting, fire company personnel said they will be transitioning from a low frequency radio band to a high frequency 800 MHz band for their portable and mobile radios. This will allow Middlefield to “be open to new internal communication opportunities
that we have never had before” according to a fire company report. Fire Chief Peter Tyc also talked about an “opportunity that has come about rapidly” for the fire company and surrounding departments. See Upgrades, A4
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