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Friday, July 26, 2019

‘CASH MOB’ IS COMING

Effort aims to boost local business By Everett Bishop Town Times

The town of Durham is preparing to double down on community spirit with the help of cash mobs.

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Town clerk receives international accreditation By Everett Bishop Town Times

Kimberly Garvis, Durham’s town clerk received international recognition as a Master Municipal Clerk on Monday, July 15. This was awarded to her by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks after she completed a year of studying, learning and applying. Garvis was one of the first in the state to

Town clerks undertake many administrative duties at town “IIMC grants the MMC des- hall such as issuing licenses ignation only to those muand permits, keeping and nicipal clerks who complete maintaining town records demanding education reand overseeing town elecquirements; and who have a tions. By becoming an record of significant contriMMC, part of the application butions to their local govern- requires the applicant to ment, their community and agree to continue with edustate,” said Stephanie cation as new laws and techCarouthers Kelly, IIMC pres- nologies are introduced. ident, in an email. receive this accreditation.

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A cash mob is an organized group of people who are sent to a particular business in order to spend as much as they can to boost the business’ revenue. It’s similar to a flash mob, except instead of dance moves, people are offering cold hard cash. “I think it’s really important. If we don’t support (our businesses) they’re not going to be here anymore,” said Janet Morganti, of the Economic Development Commission. “We’ve had a couple places closing, a couple places for sale. It’s not just us who are having those issues, the big box stores are closing, the malls are going to start closing. So these people are important.” Durham’s cash mob has become more than a oneoff project. The EDC has dubbed the cash mob as

the Local Weekend Warrior initiative and it will run every other Saturday beginning Aug. 3 to Sept. 14, with the exception of a cash mob on Thursday, Sept. 5. “We are hoping that it will be a catalyst for positive action in the community,” said Christine Michaud, director of the Durham Public Library. Michaud found inspiration for the project back in January after reading “This Is Where You Belong” by Melody Warnick. The book is based on research Warnick did as to how to create a sense of community where you live. Michaud passed the book along to Morganti and to First Selectwoman Laura Francis. “Building community and building your local economy … this book addressed many things I heard percolating in different areas in the community,” Michaud said. Michaud also made this book part of the library’s See Business, A10

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In Brief Concert series Durham Summer Concerts are held Thursdays, 6 to 8 p.m., at the Durham Fairgrounds. Dani Atkison will perform Aug. 1. Food trucks and children’s games are part of the fun.

Farmers Market talks The Farmers Market takes place Thursdays from 3 to 6:30 p.m. on the Durham Town Green.

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Upcoming talk topics: July 31 – Stress Management 101; Aug. 7 – Stick To Kindness.

Craft workshop Join the Durham Fair Crafts & Collections department for its first Personal Skills spotlight workshop on Saturday, July 27, 5 to 7 p.m., at the Durham Fairgrounds Public Safety Building. Attendees will learn to make DIY felt flowers and fashion them into a festive wreath. Finished crafts may then be entered into one of several exhibitor categories at the Durham Fair.

tools, plants, pictures, produce, furniture, crafts, records, jewelry, yarn, greeting cards, handmade items, and more. Vendor space is $15. Vendors need not register prior to the event. Refreshments will be served in the Church Hall: breakfast sandwiches, pastry, hot dogs, hamburgers, coffee, soda and water. For more information, call Bill Shumway at 860-3493397.

Coginchaug Area Transition As the Coginchaug Area Transition Giving Garden working group moves forward with the Durham-Middlefield Giving Garden at the Middlefield Community Center, all are invited to come to every-other-month open meetings to chart the way forward into more exciting programs leading to sustainability in our communities. The group will next meet on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 6:30 p.m., at the Middlefield Community Center.

For more information, contact Carol Bufithis at 860-2098497, Joanne Nytch at 860682-5375 or Nancy Winship Poole at 860-539-1466.

Giving Garden programs The Durham-Middlefield Giving Garden is bursting with produce and pollinatorfriendly flowers. What we would like to encourage more of, however, is community visitors and volunteers. See Briefs, A3

Tickets for the workshop are $10 and must be purchased in advance at DurhamFairCraftsWorkshop.eventbrite.com. Contact Kristy King at DFCraftsAndCo@gmail.com with questions.

Tag sale Notre Dame Church, 272 Main St., will host a Gigantic Tag Sale on Saturday, Aug. 3, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine. There will be more than 40 vendors in the parking lot selling antiques,

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On Aug. 10, massage therapist and movement teacher Katy Forline will talk about healthy moving in the garden. This will include strategies for performing garden chores with the least strain for more ease and enjoyment.

Canvas and Cupcakes The Durham Middlefield Youth and Family Services presents Canvas and Cupcakes, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 9 to 11 a.m., at the Middlefield Community Center, 405 Main St.

On Aug. 17, naturalist and To encourage visitors, we are un-gardener Aubree KeuraNo painting experience nechosting speakers at the garjian will talk about native essary. Youth ages 8 – 12 are den the first four Saturdays plants and why they are so of August, at noon. The gar- important to our health and invited to bake cupcakes and paint a simple image on den working group will sup- well-being and the health ply drinks, and everyone is and well-being of the places canvas with step by step guidance. The fee is $15 per welcome to bring a sandwe call home. child. No painting experiwich and listen to local Our speaker on Aug. 24 is ence necessary. Participants speakers. These programs still to be determined. will learn basic brush are free, open to all and strokes, texture, color blendshould last about an hour. Call Sue VanDerzee at 860ing and also basic baking All programs will take 349-0777 for more informaskills. place in the garden if it’s not tion. raining and in the adjacent Middlefield Community Center if it is. LEGAL NOTICE On Aug. 3, chef and culinary teacher Jamie Roraback will talk about cooking from the garden with a demonstration, maybe some tasting and some recipes to take home. He will work with produce from the garden itself.

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Kindness Rocks The Henry Whitfield State Museum in Guilford invites the public to get creative and bring someone a bit of happiness at its Kindness Rocks event on Sunday, Aug. 11, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The museum, located at 248 Old Whitfield St., will supply assorted small rocks, acrylic paints, and brushes for visitors to craft painted rocks. Once dry, they can spread kindness by placing their rocks somewhere on the museum grounds (or any place that’s special to them) for a stranger to find. See Briefs, A4

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Editor : Because the Town Times believes in free speech, as long as it is progressive free speech, I seriously doubt this letter in response to Alma Elder's will ever see the light of day. Nevertheless, I will try. She wants me to watch the Democratic debates? Well, I did watch the first one. I watched 20 candidates all agree that the future of our country depends on a big

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They are all the same, Alma. They are Progressive Socialists, a modern word for old fashioned fascists, and they will destroy the country, not save it. It's never worked anywhere in human history, and it won't work here either. I watched the Democratic debates and laughed. It was either that or cry. You vote for any of those head cases it means you are a head case too. Go ahead, you cowards, print it! Mark J. Czaja Middletown

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Drafts and debates Editor : At the end of July, candidates for President of the United States will broadcast their viewpoints to the nation.

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For me one of the biggest attractions to political life was the opportunity for vigorous and honest debate. I was badly disappointed. During my campaigns for state Senate in the last 8 years there was not a single forum for an in-depth discussion and debate about the most important public issues.

At the same time, the Middlefield public is invited by the Democratic Town Committee to discuss the ideas, personalities and power of the debaters. The televised programs, featuring one-half of the candidates each night, will be shown at the Indian Springs Golf Club from 8 to 10 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 30 and 31.

there were only two debate forums for the 13th Senate District seat. The format of Suzio both forums limited responses to no more than 90 seconds and counter responses to only

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stood “shoe people.” There is not a flirty little shoe on the planet that could ever catch my eye. (I don’t know what a flirty shoe is, but I have heard commercials talk about them. I don’t think my shoes have ever flirted with me. Or maybe I just missed the signals.) I am unshod from March until November, and loving every minute of it. And yes, these hoofers have attracted their fair share of attention. I have been questioned by the police several times while on my barefoot walks. Strangers have pulled their cars over to the side and asked me if I am okay. People ask if I am afraid of stepping on something. I am not. These feet are like a horse’s hooves. At this point. I simply need a blacksmith. See Carr, A9

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1 minute. There was not a single forum in Cheshire or Middlefield, two of the four towns in the district. The superficiality of campaigns at the state Senate level sadly is mimicked at the highest office levels. It’s bad enough that this superficiality permeates the political environment, but even science has been affected and tainted by politics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the “Global Warming” or “Climate Change” (proponents and opponents use the terms interchangeably) debate.

I, for one, would welcome a more thoughtful presentation of the science of climate change and the understanding of the impact of CO2 levels on climate and global temperatures. I’ve read articles and watched debates about the issue. I’ve learned a lot, but I have many unanswered questions. Here are a few questions I have about this important issue.

2. If we are living in a relatively cold period of earth history, isn’t global warming inevitable and consistent with earth history? Aren’t we fighting a losing battle even if we successfully cap our CO2 emissions?

4. The earth’s climate is af5. The Vostok ice cores indifected by multiple complex and chaotic systems. For ex- cate a close correlation between global temperatures ample, we know that Milankovitch Cycles are domi- and CO2 levels, but the cores show that CO2 levels nant factors in long-term global temperatures and cli- increase after temperatures mate. How sure can we be increase. If some factors oththat a gas that accounts for er than CO2 precipitated 3. Carbon dioxide levels about 0.04% of the atmoand contributed to global have been as much as 6,000 sphere has a dramatic effect warming in previous times ppm or more during earth’s on global temperatures? how do we know how much history. The ideal concentra- How sensitive is the earth’s CO2 magnified those other tion of CO2 in the environclimate to different levels of factors? ment for plants is between CO2 and how can we be 1,500 ppm and 2,000 ppm — sure about CO2’s impact almost 4 or 5 times greater given the interplay of comSee Suzio, A9 than the latest level of CO2. Are there benefits to food production and other effects of higher CO2 concentrations that counter the negative aspects of more CO2 in the atmosphere? Noted Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson has said that the benefits from increased CO2 are real, measurable and immeWilliam J. Witkowski, D.M.D. 360 Main Street diate compared to the unP.O. Box 177 certain, far off and theoretiAllan A. Witkowski, John Zyzo, D.M.D. D.M.D. Durham, CT cal destructive conseWe will submit claims to all insurances quences of increased CO2. 860-349-1123 Studies documented by satellite imagery have pointed out the “greening” of the

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Susan (Ruede) Heuberger MIDDLEFIELDSusan Kay (Ruede) Heuberger entered eternal life on July 20, 2019. A lifelong resident of Middlefield, she was born in Middletown on August 24, 1950 to the late Roland Roy Ruede and Mary Ives Miller. Susan was a 1968 graduate of Middletown High School, and a member of the National Honor Society. After graduation from the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing, she enjoyed a long and fulfilling career as a nurse, continuing to work for Hartford Healthcare after retiring from the State of Connecticut. For most of her life, Fife & Drum Corps was a passion. She was a member of the Coginchaug Jr Fife & Drum Corps, and was the first member to win in competition. As an adult she played for many years with the Deep River Fife & Drum Corps. She was a member of the Middlefield Democratic Town Committee, Susan Carrington Clarke NSDAR, Ft Saybrook Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, Women Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co, Associated Daughters of Early American Witches, and Descendants of Cape Cod & the Islands. Susan leaves her daughters, Barbara Pedro (George), and Angela Mallia. Sisters, Mary Johnson (Timothy Gable), Rosemarie Ruede, a

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grandson, Tyler Joseph, and, granddaughter, Ella Pedro. Along with her parents, she is predeceased by her sister, Barbara Ann Plourde, brother Timothy John Hooper, and daughter Melanie Anne Heuberger. The family wished to thank the staff of Smilow Cancer Hospital MICU for their care. Funeral services were held on Thursday, July 25 at 11:00 am at Middlefield Federated Church, 402 Main Street, Middlefield. Burial will follow in Middlefield Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations in Susan’s memory may be made to Smilow Cancer Center, 35 Park Street, New Haven, CT 06511. To share memories or send condolences to the family, please visit www. doolittlefuneralser vice. com.

Grief study The Stepping Forward in Grief Study tests two evidence-based online/app programs created by scientists and clinicians to address grief-related challenges. These programs were developed in response to research suggesting that grief-related challenges can occur among bereaved military survivors, even many years following a loss, and that many surviving loved ones desire additional support. The study is open to friends and family members of those who died serving in the military or as a result of their service. Contact info@steppingforwardstudy.org or visit steppingforwardstudy.org.

HARTFORD — Connecticut lawmakers decided Monday to come up with compromise legislation this summer that addresses concerns raised by restaurant owners over wage and hour rules, forgoing a plan to override Gov. Ned Lamont’s veto of a bill that would have required the state Department of Labor to clarify its standards. Democratic House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz of Berlin said meetings will be held in the coming days to try and reach an agreement. An informational meeting for the public will then be held on a new bill before the General Assembly returns for a vote. “We really tried all weekend, shopping ideas back and forth,” said Aresimowicz, who had announced Friday the House of Representatives planned to override the veto. “But to come up with a bill that would have taken into consideration all of the concerns would have been very difficult.” The Connecticut Restaurant Association and its members want the state’s rules clarified, considering there are inconsistencies that have become the subject of litigation. Some restaurant owners are facing the possibility of paying costly fines and back wages, after being told for years it’s legal not to count every minute their servers and bartenders perform a task other than serving, so long as it’s less than 20 percent of their shift. “Something like this could be devastating,” warned Barry Jessurun last week.

CEO of a group that owns several restaurants in northeastern Connecticut, he predicted there could be restaurant closures if this issue is not addressed.

amount lawfully required.” Lamont also said the legislation made significant policy changes to a complex area of the law without sufficient study, debate or input from stakeholders.

But in his veto message, Lamont raised concerns about how the bill would have repealed the state’s current regulations retroactively in order to address any pending lawsuits. He noted that could “extinguish a worker’s right in an

On Monday, a spokesman said, “the governor remains open to compromise.” House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, a Republican from Derby, had hoped lawmakers could pass a fix on Monday. See Restaurant, A9

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HARTFORD — Revenue generated by slot machines at Connecticut’s two casinos continued a steady decline in June, down for the 12th consecutive month amid new regional competition.

million by 2020, as regional casinos such as the MGM Springfield, which opened last August and the Encore Boston Harbor, which opened last month, become more established.

“The declining slot revenues are a reflection of increased competition in the region,” David BedFoxwoods Resort Casino narz, a spokesman for Gov. reports it made $35.3 mil- Ned Lamont, said Wedneslion in slot machine revday, July 17. “The adminisenue last month, almost tration remains committed 12% less than the $40.1 to exploring realistic opmillion it kept the previous portunities to increase June. gaming revenue for the Mohegan Sun made $46.9 state while at the same time leveraging potential million last month, down from $49.4 million in June gaming expansion in ways 2018. The casinos give 25% that will foster and comof that win to the state un- plement a broader and more comprehensive ecoder Connecticut’s gamnomic development stratebling compact. gy.” In the 2019 fiscal year that The Mohegan and ended June 30, the state’s Mashantucket tribes are share was $255.2 million, hoping that means reachdown more than 6% from ing a deal that would allow the previous fiscal year. It sports and online betting has been dropped steadily since 2007, when the state in Connecticut and would let them open a third jointtook in $430.5 million. ly-run casino planned for State budget officials antic- East Windsor. ipate it will fall to $221

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Suffice it to say that when I’ve had to wear them, shoes have not been kind to my appendages.

6. Fossil fuels have generated relatively cheap energy that has raised the standard of living for the developed nations and offers the prospect of better standard of living for the developing nations. Initiatives like a carbon tax will make it particularly difficult to afford a modern standard of living for the poor and those living on the margins. Almost all goods produced including food are affected by energy prices. Everything will be more ex-

They have caused them to sprout bunions the size of a door knob. Seriously, I could hang my hat on them. They have smushed (I believe I made that word up, but I think it’s a good one) those little piggies so much, that it would not be too much of an exaggeration to say that most of them tend to not even face in the same direction. A toe spacer is now a part of my daily apparel, lest a couple of them see fit to wrap around each other. (You know who you are!) I do not expect to be making a foot commercial any time soon. Pretty these feet are not. Happy they are. So go ahead, my friends, kick off those shoes (even the flirty ones). You just might wonder what took you so long. Happy barefootin’!

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7. What is the ideal atmospheric concentration of CO2 and what is the ideal global temperature from the perspective of those concerned about global warming? It would be great to have an informed and respectful dialogue about this controversy in the Meriden RecordJournal. Maybe the MRJ could have series of point and counterpoint op-eds written by scientists from our great universities.

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“This needs to be done soon,” Klarides said, adding how Connecticut’s restaurant owners have been given the wrong information for years. “So now what do you do? This needs to be clarified yesterday.” Lawmakers on Monday declined to override two

other bills that Lamont vetoed. They include one that would have made the theft of cooking oils a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison. In his veto message, Lamont questioned the severity of the penalty. The second vetoed bill would have weakened a requirement that real estate brokers tell prospective buyers when they’re representing the interests of the seller.

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to gift shops or boutiques in town. Another week, they will be encouraged to go out to a local restaurant. “This is going to, hopefully, segue into Small Business Saturday in November,” Morganti said. “We did that last year in Durham and had 25 participating businesses and it was fabulous.” If the Local Weekend Warrior initiative becomes a success, Morganti said that they would look into doing it again next summer.

“$68 stays in the community out of every $100 spent locally,” said Kim McNally, assistant director of Durham Public Library. Starting this initiative in the summer also was important to the EDC because, as Morganti said, “retail is slow in the summer.” “I think our hope is that this is an opportunity for people to engage with their community if they haven’t been,” McNally said. “They can get out there and see what

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“Every year, legislators make laws and sometimes those laws affect us. Every time election laws change, our job changes a little bit,” Garvis said. “And I never got my bachelor’s degree so I felt that to get a master’s shows that I’m interested in my job and always want to improve.” In order to complete her application, Garvis needed to complete dozens of hours worth of classes. These included everything from freedom of information laws, to mental health first aid and disaster recovery. In one webinar class from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Garvis even got the chance to help pilot a plane. “I think it’s always good to be up-to-date,” she said. Garvis first became a certified municipal clerk back in 2001 and became recertified in 2009.“Since then I’ve had to take a lot of courses and also participate in the Connecticut Town Clerk Association by being on some of their boards,” she said. “Then also personally being involved in the community.” Aside from her education, Garvis also needed to prove “personal development” by actively participating in her community. She became a member of the Exchange Club, the Cemetery Company and the Aethenian Leadership Society. “They want you to continue your education, they don’t want you to stop once you get this designation,” said Garvis. “‘Lifelong learning’ is what it’s called. The job is always changing.”

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Rock of Refuge Church 350 Main St., Durham, 2nd floor, 860-704-0477. A nondenominational Christian/ Pentecostal Church. Sunday service at 11 a.m., Tuesday prayer meeting at 7 p.m. Women’s Bible study meets the first and third Wednesday at 7 p.m., Men’s Bible study meets the second and fourth Wednesday at 9 a.m.

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