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Friday, November 29, 2019
Towns and business need to partner, local experts say
SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY
By Everett Bishop Town Times
Healthy towns are boosted by healthy businesses, said local experts at a recent workshop focused on how mutual cooperation can improve success for businesses and help the community, too. Assistant Library Director Kim McNally, left, sits with Durham EDC Chair Janet Morganti as they take a look at the Small Business Saturday passport. Photo by Everett Bishop, Town Times
Effort promotes shopping locally By Everett Bishop Town Times
The days after Thanksgiving are made for shoppers. Friday is for the big box stores, Saturday is for local businesses, and Monday is for online sales. Small Business Saturday is on Nov. 30 this year and the Durham Economic Development Commission, in partnership with the Durham Public Library, want to make sure residents go out and do their part to support local shops.
“This is the second year that we’ve partnered with the library to do something like this,” said EDC Chair Janet Morganti. The library and economic development commission will be bringing back the small business passports from last year, giving residents a chance to stop at as many local businesses as they can in order to collect stamps. The passports will then be entered into a drawing for the grand prize: a $100 American Express gift card.
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The library has put together a passport for kids to take part in, as well. Youngsters will be charged with finding specific books that have been hidden in stores across town. See Shopping, A16
During a discussion at the end of the event, business owners talked with Courtney Hendricson, vice president of municipal services at the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, about economic development in Durham. One concern centered on a statistic that Hendricson had provided during her presentation. “Young people are leaving and so are people over 50,” she said, describing a trend seen across the state. Hendricson explained that retaining young couples is
In order to help counter that exodus, Hendricson said towns can start promoting good news on social media, particularly community pages that showcase local life in a positive light. Janet Morganti, chair of the economic development commission, also pointed out the importance of expansion of local business in town. “Hobson & Motzer are growing by leaps and bounds, they even have another facility in Wallingford, but they’ve also chosen to invest more money in Durham and they also want to add on to their business,” she said of the company, a manufacturer of precision metal components.
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“Last year we got a lot of responses that kids also wanted a passport,” said Kim McNally, assistant library director. “So this year we decided that we would take over the scavenger hunt piece so that economic development didn’t have to.”
On Wednesday, Nov. 13, the Durham Economic Development Commission hosted a workshop for business owners in the community.
important to economic health because, not only is this demographic working and paying taxes, but also “because they have young children and that brings vitality to our communities.”
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Turkey Day is over and Santa’s workshop is ramping up Dear Diana, Mrs. Claus here. (My first name is Ethel, by the way.)
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in the kitchen, baking to my heart’s content. (My macaroons, if I may be so bold as to say, are exceptional this year.) I may have packed on a few pounds myself. In my defense, though, I feel it is my duty to sample everything. Everything! So to get back to my hubby, perhaps you could leave out carrot sticks for our Jolly Elf on Christmas Eve. Cookies we’ve got!
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DURHAM- Anita Dolores Pagano passed away on the morning of November 23, 2019. She was born on February 9, 1925 the daughter of Francis Paulo and Anna Rose Barbera and grew up in New York City. She graduated from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School. Anita met Dominick Gerald Pagano after his military service and they were married on June 30, 1945. They started their life together residing in Long Island, NY, later moving to Wallingford and eventually settling in Durham, Connecticut, where besides being a mom, Anita operated the family manufacturing business, which employed numerous local residents. Additionally, during her career, Anita taught sewing in the New Haven School system. Anita and Dominick were married for 43 years before his passing in 1988. Her parents, two brothers, Frank and Vincent Barbera and her sister, Marie Nannariello, also predeceased her. Anita is survived by a loving family, her son, Stefan Pagano of New Haven; her son, Gerald Pagano and his wife, Karen of Delray Beach, Florida; her daughter, Francine Loveland and her husband Bill of Durham. She is also survived by eleven grandchildren; Michael, Jill, Stefanie, William, Malisa, Michele, Jessica, Sabin, Joseph, Angela, and Chad. In addition, twenty-nine
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It was one of the talking points casually employed earlier this month by Patrick Sasser, a leader of the No Tolls CT movement: Why should anyone believe a suggestion by Gov. Ned Lamont that the tolls he was seeking could be temporary, when that was how the income tax was sold in 1991? Carol Platt Liebau, the president of the conservative Yankee Institute, made the same argument in a statement published on Nov. 7: “No sensible person can believe the claim that these tolls would be temporary, given Connecticut’s long
history of ‘temporary’ taxes that have turned out to be permanent — including the state income tax.” The income-tax-as-temporary complaint has taken root among Republicans in recent years and blossomed on Twitter and Facebook. It was repeated by two Republican gubernatorial candidates in 2018 — Bob Stefanowski and Timothy Herbst — and casually mentioned in an interview this year by the House Republican leader, Themis Klarides.
told a joint session of the General Assembly of his intention to make sweeping and permanent changes to Connecticut’s tax system — sharply cutting the sales, corporations and investment income taxes and imposing a tax on wages. Six months later, after three budget vetoes, the legislature acceded to Weicker’s wishes by adopting a tax package different from the original proposal, but still a top-to-bottom overhaul of the tax code.
In fact, an element of the final debate in the House was that there would be no going back once the new revenue source was on the books. “It lets the genie out of the bottle,” said Rep. J. Peter Fusscas, a Republican from Marlborough. “Once it’s out, it ain’t never going back in.”
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As he prepared to sign the budget, Weicker spoke of it as the foundation for the future, not a stopgap: “When I sign this budget Connecticut will be closing the book on its past, and it’ll be facing toward the future.”
There is only one problem. It There was no sunset provision striking it from the books Temporary? Hardly. is a myth. after five years, as Rep. Mike The public record is unamFrance, R-Ledyard, recently biguous. On Feb. 13, 1991, said he once believed. See Tax, A12 Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr.
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“With policy perceptions, it’s not about what a candidate did or didn’t do,” Thorson said. “Misconceptions about a particular policy, these are pretty common.”
So, how did the narrative change? “This is a really interesting question,” said Emily Thorson, a Syracuse University political scientist who has written articles about misinformation in politics and is currently writing a book on the subject. Thorson said falsehoods about policies, as opposed to people, have their own dynamic. They can slip into public consciousness over time, especially when they take root outside political campaigns, where candidates are challenged by op-
Thorson said examples include the perception that U.S. foreign aid consumes a significant piece of the federal budget. (One poll found a belief it constitutes 25%, not the actual one percent.) Or that benefits under a federal welfare program, TANF, can be collected indefinitely. (TANF, an acronym for temporary assistant for needy families, limits how long recipients can get aid.)
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Connecticut does have a history of taxes proposed as temporary, but that never quite go away. A surcharge on the corporations tax was imposed in 1989 with the expectation it would disappear in two years. It is still around.
lieutenant governor in 2018. “The most temporary thing about the income tax were the low rates.”
Republicans say the myth of a temporary income tax took root because it reflects something real: a mistrust in government, particularly on issues of taxes and finance.
The version adopted by the General Assembly on Aug. 21, 1991 imposed a 4.5% income tax and cut the sales tax to 6%. The 13.8% corporate tax was lowered to 10.5% over two years.
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Sasser, the tolls opponent, said he could not recall how he came to believe the income tax was meant to be temporary and was surprised to learn the story was false. Liebau, of the Yankee Institute, did not return a call for comment.
Markley said he sometimes corrects people on Facebook when they repeat the falsehood. Not everyone is easily persuaded. France, the state representative from Ledyard who once believed the income tax was passed with a sunset provision, reacted angrily in May 2018 when this reporter corrected him. “I was taken aback,” he said this week. But he checked the legislation, found no sunset provision and now accepts it never was intended to be temporary. France said he cannot recall who first suggested otherwise; it was just part
Rep. Bob Godfrey, D-Danbury, who was in his second term when he voted for the income tax, said the persistence of the rumor is a sign of the times. “It’s the age of Trump. It’s the age of ‘fake news.’ People make up narratives that are total fiction,” Godfrey said. “This crap gets out there all over the place, and no one bothers to do their own fact checking.” Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New
Haven, who voted for the income tax as a House member, said he is stunned every time someone tells him that the income tax was meant to be temporary. “I keep hearing that all the time,” Looney said. “It’s completely fictitious. Who would work that hard and bleed that much for something that was temporary?” In 1971, Connecticut adopted an income tax, but repealed it before it ever took effect, one potential source of the confusion today. But Looney is among those more inclined to think that Republican John G. Rowland’s promise in 1994 to eliminate the income tax once he was elected governor muddied memories. “Maybe some people transformed that into a representation it was supposed to be
temporary,” Looney said. Rowland never submitted a budget that would have eliminated the income tax during his nearly 10 years as governor. The income tax was revived as an issue in 2018 by Stefanowski, the GOP gubernatorial nominee. The centerpiece of his campaign was the one that helped Rowland 24 years earlier: A claim he could eventually eliminate the tax on wages, now the single largest source of tax revenue in Connecticut.
the reference in his speeches. Trueman said Scott, who was an adviser to the campaign, was among those who told Stefanowski the tax was meant to be temporary. “Tom Scott, who was there and quite frankly ought to know better, repeated it again and again and again,” Trueman said.
Scott said Trueman is mistaken. Scott said he never told anyone the tax was proposed as temporary, only that he heard a vague rumor during the long tax fight in Stefanowski used to describe 1991 that proponents might the tax as temporary in try to pick up support by stump speeches until it was changing it to a temporary reported as inaccurate by CT tax — something that never Mirror. His campaign manhappened ager, Patrick Trueman, said he then looked for news sto- “We never tracked down the ries supporting Stefanowssource,” Scott said. “It was ki’s claim and found none, part of the noise.” and Stefanowski dropped
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The Unitarian Universalist Church, 328 Paddock Ave., will host its annual Holiday Fair from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6 and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7. Santa will be on hand to welcome children and pets for photos from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
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Wallingford First Congregational Church, 23 S. Main St., has scheduled its Spirit of Christmas Fair; 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7.
A Christmas Bazaar is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at St.
Morganti said the business will be going before planning & zoning to announce a 2,500 square foot addition to its building, and that people need to come out and support the plant’s expansion in town.
Make a fresh cut to remove about a 1/2-inch thick disk of wood from the base of the trunk before putting the tree in the stand. Make the cut perpendicular to the stem axis. Don’t cut the trunk at an angle, or into a v-shape, which makes it far more difficult to hold the tree in the stand and also reduces the amount of water available to the tree.
The Highland/Fritz elementary schools PTO’s Annual Craft Fair Saturday, Dec. 7, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., 200 Highland Ave. For more information: dhajjar@wallingfordschools.org, or adenya@ wallingfordschools.org.
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Hendricson said the best thing towns can do is simply try their hardest to connect with local businesses. “You’re not going to help every business every year, and that’s okay,” she said. “But the more you know them, the more you visit them one on one … that’s the kind of example of how you’ll know best how to serve them.”
To display the trees indoors, use a stand with an adequate water holding capacity for the tree. As a general rule, stands should provide one quart of water per inch of stem diameter. Devices are available that help maintain a constant water level in the stand.
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Displaying trees in water in a traditional reservoir type stand is the most effective way of maintaining their freshness and minimizing needle loss problems.
Once home, place the tree in water as soon as possible. Most species can go six to eight hours after cutting the trunk and still take up water. Don’t bruise the cut surface or get it dirty. If needed, trees can be temporarily stored for several days in a cool location. Place the freshly cut trunk in a bucket that is kept full of water.
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“I think this is something that people are really starting to look forward to,” said Morganti.
Come September, Santa gets serious about the upcoming holidays. He checks out all the toys, making sure they are up to code. He starts getting Rudolph and the gang in shape for the long night that awaits them. After all, they are not getting any younger, and that sleigh is not getting any lighter. He makes sure his Santa suit fits. (I usually have to let it out.) He trims his beard because he will be making a lot of appearances at department stores and he wants to look his best. He practices his jolly, bellyshaking laugh. He tries on his fur-lined boots to make sure they still fit. (I have to special order them for him because of his bunions.)
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Measure the height and width of the space you have available in the room where the tree will be placed. There is nothing worse than bringing a tree indoors only to find it’s too tall. Take a tape measure with you to measure your chosen tree and bring a cord to tie your tree to the car.
The use of evergreens as a symbol and celebration of life during Winter Solstice celebrations started in ancient Roman and Egyptian times. This practice evolved over the centuries to be incorporated in the celebration of Christmas in the Germanic areas of Europe. The first recorded display of a decorated Christmas tree was in
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The popularity of the Christmas tree then proliferated. In 1856, Franklin Pierce brought the Christmas tree tradition to The White House.
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