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Fair woven into community’s fabric By Mark Dionne Town Times

Most visitors to the 98th annual Durham Fair, which opened on Thursday, Sept. 21 and ran through Sunday, Sept. 24, start planning their trip to the fair shortly before the event. Dan Miramant, president of the Durham Fair Association, says that for his group planning for the next fair begins as soon as one fair ends. In some cases it is even earlier. For several years, the Durham Fair Association has had a committee in place to celebrate the 100th Durham Fair, scheduled for Sept. 2629, 2019. Residents of Durham and Middlefield who participate in the fair also plan ahead.

Serge Roussel helps Hunter Taylor, 3, of Meriden, fish for sharks with Timothy Matera, 6, of Auburn, Mass., on Sept. 23 during the 98th Durham Fair.

cial that our town does every year. I always find it weird that we’re here off on a Friday from school but for other towns it’s a field trip.”

Bob Bosco takes a dip in the log roll in the Indian River Olde Time Lumber Jack Show.

booster club. According to Benchwarmers’ President Rick Quirk, who runs the Henry Bugai Jr., the organizaCoginchaug Little League tion has tried many fundraisbooth at the fair, said, “About ers in its 52 years, including the second week of August I circuses, dodgeball tournaget the extended forecast and ments, and donkey basketstart putting it all together.” ball. “We’ve done all kinds of crazy stuff,” said Bugai, “but The Durham Fair booth is the Durham Fair is easily an important component of the biggest fund raiser of the Coginchaug Little League, year.” which is one of the 35 local non-profits running booths While residents can enjoy as fund raisers. Quirk estithe entertainment, exhibits, mates that the profits from rides, and food that draws the hot dogs, hamburgers, as many as 200,000 visitors and other items sold at the to the town of about 8,000, Durham Fair make up about locally the fair also means 25 percent of Coginchaug volunteer shifts. Little League’s budget. Over the course of the “This is one of our biggest four-day fair, Quirk’s Little fund raisers,” Quirk said. “It’s League booth uses 91 slots been here forever. It’s helped over 13 shifts. At the larger us through the years with Benchwarmers booth, 32 raising money for the kids.” student athletes work each day of the fair and the orgaProfits from the fair are nization’s 52 members each equally important to the work three shifts. Benchwarmers, Regional School District 13’s athletic For the 98th Durham Fair,

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Durham Fair Friday is a school holiday in RSD13, which includes Middlefield. Illustrator and tattoo artist Cindy Satton, who lives in Durham and works at Propaganda Ink in Southington, has contributed paintings and murals to the Durham Fair over the years and, on Friday, conducted a demonstration about turning custom illustration into tattoos in the Art Building. After chatting with a group of high school students, Satton said she enjoys all of the visitors but especially likes the local connections.

Trevor Stringer, 11, left and Ayden Bousquet, 11, both of Waterford, take a ride on the Scrambler.

the Benchwarmers put out a plea on social media for alumni of the Durham Cooperative Nursery School, which closed recently after 59 years, to stop by their booth and sign Orson the Whale, the school’s mascot. “The co-op was an institution in this town,” said Bugai.

“They didn’t get the send-off they deserve.” For those children growing up around the fair, its rhythm is part of their lives. Exploring the food options just off the midway, Coginchaug Regional High School senior Reid Rodrigue of Middlefield said, “It’s something spe-

“I like getting the college students and the young crowd but I really like getting people from town to see what I can do,” she said. Kerri King of Durham, who attends all four days of the fair every year, summed up the practical and the community aspects of the fair. “I think it brings a lot of people together and we’re a small farm town so we depend on the money.”

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Local man killed in crash on Route 68 in Cheshire By Bryan Lipiner Record-Journal staff

CHESHIRE — Police have identified a Durham man

who was killed and a Cheshire man who was injured in a crash on Route 68 Tuesday morning. Devon Schmitt, 20, of Durham, and Matthew Gilmore, 27, of Cheshire, were

taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury. Schmitt died of his injuries at the hospital and Gilmore suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police Lt. Jeffrey Sutherland said in a statement.

Police responded to Route 68, in the area of Talmadge Road, for a report of a head-on crash about 7 a.m., Sutherland said. The road was closed for several hours while authorities

investigated the accident. Route 68 reopened about 1:30 p.m. Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call Officer Kevin Zaksewicz at 203-271-5541.

In Brief Durham Registrars to prep preliminary voter list this week

Tuesday, Oct. 3, to compile a Preliminary Registry list of voters in preparation for the Nov. 7 Municipal Election.

The Durham Registrars are scheduled to be in office

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The American Cancer Society’s Road To Recovery program is in need of volunteers to donate their time and passenger seat to help get cancer patients to their lifesaving appointments and treatment. Road To Recovery is a free program that provides transportation to and from treatment to cancer patients who do not have a ride or are unable to drive themselves. Volunteers must have a valid driver’s license, a safe and reliable vehicle, and proof of automobile insurance. Volunteers arrange their own schedules and there is no

time commitment. Call 1-800-227-2345 or visit cancer.org. Drivers must be at least 18 years old and have a good driving history. The American Cancer Society provides free training to drivers and conducts criminal background and driving record checks.

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Middlesex Hospital Vocal Chords The Middlesex Hospital Vocal Chords rehearses weekly on Tuesdays, 6:45 to 9 p.m., at St. Francis Church, Msgr. Fox Parish Hall, 10 Elm St., Middletown. New members are welcome to join until Tuesday, Sept. 19. No auditions are necessary but basic choral capabilities are required. For more information, call 860-342-3120 or visit Middlesex Hospital Vocal Chords.

Harmony Society, is seeking male singers. Participants can experience fun and fellowship of singing four-part harmony. For more information, call Rich Dziura, at 860-747-5451.

Silk’n Sounds seeks new members Silk’n Sounds chorus, a women’s four-part a cappella chorus, is looking for new members. Women of all ages and musical backgrounds are welcome. For information, call Lynn at 203-623-1276.

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Mother-son karate team return from World Cup competition By Mark Dionne Town Times

Carolyn and Tim Rinaldi, a mother and son from Durham, returned home after competing for the United States in the Japan Karate Association’s World Cup in August. Though they did not medal, Carolyn described the experience as rewarding for them and the entire team. “Tim and I are both so happy that we got to be part of this remarkable, international event,” she said. “We are both so thankful for all the support that we got.” The Karate World Cup drew 1,350 competitors from 58 countries to Limerick, Ireland. Events were held in both sparring and kata, which is a series of movements done to demonstrate control and technique, for teams and individuals in junior and adult divisions.

Carolyn Rinadli during one of her sparring matches in Ireland. | Submitted photo

and team kata. After men’s and women’s junior and adult, there are no divisions for age or weight. Before leaving for Ireland, Carolyn said, “I don’t know how big they’re going to be or how fast they’re going to be. I’ll be 47 and I could be up against some 25-year-old phenom.”

happened in her individual match, when she faced a 22-year-old from Japan, which fielded a powerhouse team. “Of the four fighters each country enters, it’s me who gets matched with Japan,” Carolyn said. “It was a fun fight, but she did win, and I came out of that match with

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What to do about history? ues and other monuments. What brings all this to mind is the recent unpleasantness in Charlottesville, Virginia, where demonstrations for and against removing statues of Confederate generals led to violence.

fewer Americans — but do we have statues of those two? By Glenn Richter And Christopher ColumRecord-Journal staff bus, that great forefather of European colonialism, is “We hold these truths to be now under attack wherever self-evident, that all men are his statue stands, in places created equal …” Well, not such as Columbus Circle in quite. Everybody knows they Manhattan and opposite the In the South, there have been Capitol in Hartford. didn’t mean all men (most struggles over the removal of black people were enslaved In the North, we now quesin the America of 1776), and the Confederate battle flag and statues of secessiontion the propriety of honthey certainly didn’t mean oring Columbus, whose women. But today we’re a lot ist leaders — men who, let’s not forget, made war against “discovery” of America led to closer to that high-minded great suffering for the people ideal, and we’re questioning the United States and were soundly defeated, at a cost who were already here. Yale the rectitude of honoring the of some 620,000 lives on University plans to remove a colonizers and slave holdboth sides. King George III sculpture that shows a Puriers of our past with statand Hitler, combined, killed tan settler pointing a musket at the head of an American Indian. In fact, Yale now has a committee that decides what to do about such things. One Yale college was named presents for Vice President John C. Calhoun, who was not only a slave holder, but argued Sept. 30th and Oct. 1st that slavery was “a positive 9 am - 4 pm good.” The name of scientist

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Grace Murray Hopper will be added to the building, henceforth to be known as Hopper College. This is a good example of turning an old monument into a teaching tool, but it took Yale forever to wake up about Calhoun; only after an African American employee damaged one of the windows there — a stained-glass depiction of happy slaves picking cotton — did it “get” that there was a problem. Nowadays, Yale’s approach is to turn such “reminders of unpleasant history” into opportunities to teach, which is certainly better than erasing history altogether. That new mindset will be handy, because Elihu Yale himself, the school’s founding donor, made a great fortune in the slave trade. Not much lux in that veritas. And even Dixie should rec-

ognize, at long last, that the Civil War is over. As for those who insist that taking down or moving some statues amounts to “cultural genocide” — puh-LEEZE. The Civil War, they’ll tell you, was fought over “states’ rights,” not slavery. Really? Then how is it that the only states that felt strongly enough about states’ rights to start a war were slave states? What are the odds? Closer to home, Lyman Hall, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (although he signed for Georgia, not Connecticut), was a slave owner. Should Wallingford change the name of Lyman Hall High School? Oliver Wolcott, a signer for Connecticut, also owned slaves. Shall his namesake town change its name? And what about George Washington, a slave owner whose middle school is in Meriden? Maybe we can find approaches that lead to less tearing-down or name-changing, and more learning.

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Coginchaug Little League has scheduled its annual general meeting and elections for 2018 Board of Directors for Tuesday, Oct. 10, 7 p.m., at Durham Town Hall, 3rd floor meeting room. This meeting is open to all parents, players, volunteers and board

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the rest of the U.S. team represented themselves well across all competitions.

Her opponent went on to win the bronze medal. “So at least I can say I got to fight truly the best in the world.”

The U.S. team finished seventh in the medal count and Carolyn’s team kata finished 11th, just missing the finals.

Tim Rinaldi, a sophomore at Xavier High School, had a similar match up with a difficult opponent from Canada. Tim put up a good fight, but did not advance.

Carolyn said the experience was very moving, with all the teams staying at the University of Limerick campus and creating an environment like an Olympic village and holding an opening ceremony.

“We could see groups practicing every day ... inside, outside the dorms, on the campus quad, on sporting fields ... wherever we could find empty space,’ she said. “While all the athletes were very focused in the days before the competition, everyone was enthusiastic to be there, very friendly with other countries and excited to meet athletes from around the world.”

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The Town of Middlefield and its existing government department, Middlefield Park and Recreation, is accepting proposals to replace the roof of the Peckham Park Pavilion. The current cedar shake roof will need to be removed and a standing seam metal roof will need to be installed in its place. Each bidder must submit

their proposal to the Office of the First Selectman, 393 Jackson Hill Road, Middlefield, CT 06455 by Monday, Oct. 9, 4 p.m. All bids will be open at that time. For the specific scope of the project, email Park and Recreation director Hannah Malcolm, parkrec@middlefieldct.org.

Tree dedication in Durham on Oct. 14 A tree dedication ceremony, in honor of Nancy Johnson, is planned for Saturday, Oct. 14, 10 a.m. on the Durham Town Green. All are welcome. Anyone wishing to say

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“Little Bubba” mans the grill during the 98th Durham Fair. | Photoa by Justin Weekes, For the Record-Journal

Dezalee Mena, 9, of Middletown, braves the giant slide.

Kim Maylio of Bristol steals a bite of husbands Joe’s roast beef sandwich.

Tim Fisher directs the Coginchaug Regional High School Jazz Band during the 98th Durham Fair.

Ameera Burch, 6, of Meriden, tries the water gun game.

Molly Stoetzle, 11, right, tries to jump a swinging arm with friend Sophia Stephan, 11, both of Durham.

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Members of the Coginchaug Regional High School soccer team work at the Benchwarmers booth, which adopted the Durham Co-operative Nursery Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mascot Orson the Whale for the weekend.

Stacey Allen enjoys a ride on the Scrambler with her daughter Ashley.

Chelsea Connelly carries a giant panda up the hill from the midway, where it was won by popping balloons with darts.

Above, Navy veterans Harold Edman and Russell Schondorf, who both served on submarines in the Vietnam era, hand out poppies in front of the Durham Fairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Veterans of Foreign Wars booth.

Volunteers, from left, Brittany Mangiameli, Carolyn Cumello and Molly Marteka spend the first night of the Durham Fair working in the Durham Lions booth. | Photos by Mark Dionne, Town Times

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There’s a “changing of the guard.” Summer is receding, taking with it all manner of delights. But not to worry. Fall can be equally delightful, albeit in a different way. This time of the year touts celebrations worldwide, usually to give thanks for life’s bounty, and to implore the gods to continue to smile favorably upon us.

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Football - CRHS vs. Windsor Locks/Suffield/East Granby at Windsor Locks, 1 p.m.

Boys soccer - CRHS vs. Old Saybrook, away, 3:45 p.m.

Boys soccer - CRHS vs. Lyman Hall at CRHS Stadium, 10:30 a.m.

Girls volleyball - CRHS vs. Valley Regional at CRHS, 5:30 p.m.

Carnival - The Westfield Community Carnival is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 6, 5 to 10 p.m., 94 Miner St., Middletown. Free admission. For more information, visit www. westfieldcarnival.com.

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Thursday, Oct. 5

Tag sale - Notre Dame Church, 272 Main St., has scheduled a tag sale for Saturday, Oct. 7, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine. Over 40 vendors in the parking lot offering antiques, tools, plants, pictures, produce, furniture, crafts, records, jewelry, yarn, greeting cards, handmade items. Inside the church hall offers clothing, toys, Christmas and holiday items, jewelry, china, a variety of linens, brass, kitchen supplies, craft supplies and more. Refreshments available for pur-

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Boys soccer - CRHS vs. Portland at CRHS, 3:45 p.m.

CRHS vs. Old Saybrook, away, 3:45 a.m.

Boys soccer - CRHS vs. Aerospace, away, 4 p.m.

Girls volleyball - CRHS vs. Morgan at CRHS, 5:30 p.m.

CRHS vs. Portland at CRHS, 3:45 a.m.

Girls soccer - CRHS vs. MLC, away, 3:45 a.m. Girls volleyball - CRHS vs. Cromwell at CRHS, 5:30 p.m.

chase. For more information, call 860 349-3397. Carnival - The Westfield Community Carnival is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 7, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. , 94 Miner St., Middletown. Free admission. For more information, visit www.westfieldcarnival.com. Football - CRHS vs. Cromwell/Portland at CRHS, 1 p.m.

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about inequity challenges specific to the boys basketball tournament,” Karissa Niehoff, the executive director of CAS-CIAC, said in a released statement.

Before taking its vote, the CIAC Board of Control shared the Boys Basketball Committee proposal with every league and conference in the state as well as with the Connecticut Association of Athletic Directors and the Connecticut High School Coaches Association. Schools had until Friday, Sept. 29 to appeal their placement. They can ask to be moved down, though by no more than one division. Schools can also request to move up to Division I.

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