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Friday, December 7, 2018

Residents reject plan to convert Korn into community center By Bailey Wright Town Times

Residents Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected bonding $7 million to acquire the former Korn Elementary School and convert it into a community center. “I’m disappointed, but we are going to regroup, we’re going to refocus … and we’re going to reimagine,” First Selectman Laura Francis said. “It’s gratifying that we brought it to the people and they voted.”

Jennifer Schulten, founder of Go Far, looks at trophies in various stages in the workshop where she and a fellow race coordinator put together unique homemade trophies for the fastest and most festive runners at their annual Go Far Jingle All the Way 5K. Photos by Bailey Wright, Town Times

Residents voted 987-609 against the project, and the 1,596 voters represents a turnout of roughly 30 percent, according to unofficial results from the registrar of voters. Francis said the town is still committed to meeting residents’ programming needs by using the Durham Activity Center and other existing resources. She said it seemed like people were concerned the most about taxes, but noted that the town does have the means to make decisions like this one.

Jingle All the Way 5K is coming to town By Bailey Wright Town Times

The annual Go Far Jingle All the Way 5K, which is on Dec. 16, will features almost 100 homemade and completely unique trophies, made by the founder of Go Far.

Middlefield resident Jennifer Schulten stands at a work bench in her garage, hot glue gun in one hand and fake berries in the other. She glues the finishing touches on a homemade trophy that started as a simple stocking hook. Schulten spends a month each year creating one-of-a-kind homemade

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School district exploring exchange program with China By Bailey Wright Town Times

A handful of Regional School District 13 administrators and a teacher left last Friday for a weeklong trip to Ningbo, China, to visit a school where students may be able to participate in an exchange program as

early as next fall. “We want our students to understand that the world is actually a small place and that there's a potential for them to make connections in all parts of the world and to have a positive impact that comes from working with others,” School Super-

intendent Kathryn Veronesi said. “I believe regardless of the involvement or exposure to this partnership, that the experience will have a lifelong impact on our students and our community.” Coginchaug Regional High School Principal Brian Falcone was joined

by high school world language teacher Kate Germond, Veronesi and Board of Education members Bob Moore and Norm Hicks. The administrators planned to spend three days in the Ningbo See China, A2

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They expect to come home with a memorandum of agreement with Ningbo

“We will meet with local officials and school officials and we’ll work out an agreement on how the program will work with students coming here and our students going there,” Moore said. The partnership might also chose a framework of STEM or another topic on which to build, with the goal of making the program not just fun, but a significant global and educational experience.

She said the board has heard from students who want opportunities to be part of “the world community” and would be excited not only for the potential to travel, but also to have international students with them in school.

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Veronesi said they chose a school in China because they wanted to be sure the partnership is sustained over time and needed to collaboThe school board has been rate with a school and counworking with Jason Hiruo, try with the financial means who manages ACES Interna- necessary to maintain the tional, and has helped sever- partnership. al other districts start exAdministrators from the change programs. He is school in China are expected guiding the group through to visit the district this this week’s trip. spring for a similar exploHiruo presented the board ration period. with five schools as potential partners, and Ningbo Tongji Moore said if all goes well, the exchange portion of the High School was chopartnership could be up and sen based on its similarities running as soon as fall of to Coginchaug Regional 2019. High School.

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Tongji High School, formerly Yinxian Wangchun High School, getting to know as much as they can about the school as possible. The remaining time was to be spent sightseeing and learning about Chinese culture. Ningbo is situated south of Shanghai.

way, they also have a focus on core ethical values and having students be kind of citizens of the world and a focus on STEAM ... and also art and music, which are obviously super important to our high school,” Veronesi said.

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Veronesi said she sees the partnership expanding to other ages in the future, not necessarily as traditional travel exchanges, but maybe by using technology to connect. “I think that our middle school students could absolutely have the chance to have the same type of partnership,” Veronesi said. She said elementary school students could be involved, too, in different ways. “I think it's a very different opportunity for our kids and our kids to get a sense of (other cultures),” Moore said.

The trip is paid for through school district funds, which were specifically set aside in the last budget for this purpose, Veronesi said. Hicks’ travel expenses will be paid for by ACES, as he is a member of the group’s board of directors.

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COMMENTARY

Santa, I know you’re busy, but I have some questions Dear Santa, Well, here we are again. My annual letter to you.

Now, I know you are swamped with requests and petitions this time of year, but has anyone bothered to ask how you are doing? I didn’t think so. Well, I’m asking. How are you doing? Do you feel overwhelmed with all that you have to do? I mean, there are so many

kids in the world who are counting on you. Are you pulling all-nighters making those toys, because you did not budget your time wisely and make them, bit by bit, throughout the year? I know how that goes, Santa. When I was in college … well, let’s just say I did not budget my time wisely, regarding the opening of the books, so there was a plethora of allnighters and panic before an exam. It’s not a good way to go, and I hope you have not

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taken this route. Actually, I’m hoping the elves take a lot of the load off your shoulders.

self. I’m not going to worry about whether or not you are getting enough to eat. I think it is self-evident that you are. I have it on good authority that the Mrs. had to let your pants out this year. Again. Whoa there, Mr. Claus. You might want to give the pastries a pass every now and then.

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As I’m sure you know, I’m all grown up now, and not quite so concerned about whether or not I made it to the “nice” list. I am no longer angling for presents. I want to be nice for niceness’ sake.

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meals? Are you eating enough veggies? Veggies are very important, my dear. A salad every now and then wouldn’t hurt. I’m just saying. Okay, let’s talk about Christmas Eve. Do you get tuckered out, or does the excitement of making so many kids happy put the giddy-up in your step? The adrenaline rush may be all that you need to power through. But just in case, it wouldn’t hurt to bring a Thermos of coffee along for the ride. It’s going to be a long night. Coffee, Santa. Not a hot toddy to, as you say, warm your bones. We do not need a tipsy Santa flying all around the skies. I know you won’t be hungry, though, what with all those cookies that will be laid out in almost every house. I myself remember feeding you quite well when I was just a pup. Remember though, easy does

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trophies for the winners of two annual 5Ks, organized by Go Far, a program she founded 12 years ago. “Every year we make our own trophies and we try to bring a new tradition to you by creating these trophies that are either donated or found … and we try to recreate them or reimagine them,” Schulten said. This time of year she’s working on a holiday-themed batch for the Go Far Jingle All the Way 5K, which will be held on Sunday, Dec. 16. The course starts and finishes at Powder Ridge Park in Middlefield. Trophies go to the top three finishers overall, to the top three runners in each age group and about 10 are reserved for the most “festive” runners. The trophies are laid out on a large table and

it. I am a little worried about your cholesterol levels. And I will make the same offer that I make every year. If you are in need of a little respite, you are welcome to crash on my couch for a spell. Just in case the coffee does not kick in soon enough. Don’t fall asleep, though. No child wants to wake up on Christmas to a tree that is not hugging a multitude of presents. This should only be a quick catnap Let me know if you are definitely coming. I do not want to get up in the middle of the night, paddle into the kitchen for a glass of water, and be startled nearly half to death by the sight of a bearded man in my living room. You can watch a little TV, but keep it low. I’m a light sleeper. I’m a vegan, so you will not, by your standards, find anything remotely interesting to snack on. But you can hang in there, I’m sure, until you get to your next house and your next plate of cookies.

Santa, I have always wondered. What do you do the rest of the year? Are you working on new designs for the upcoming toys? Are you doing charity work? Do you have a part-time job at Lowe’s? Do you idle the hours and the days away on some tropical island? That last one sounds mighty good to me. Although I have personally never been to the North Pole, I hear it’s a tad nippy. And on that island you can thaw out your bones with all the hot toddies you want. You will not be drinking and driving, so it will be okay. Well, dear boy, take good care of yourself. We all need you, probably for several more centuries, although I don’t plan to be here then. Please give all the reindeer a pat for me. And thank you for being so good to me when I was growing up. You’re one of my favorite people in the whole world.

winners get to pick which one they want. “It gives it a unique feeling and unique experience,” Schulten said. “Everything's so commercialized now, this takes the commercialized feeling totally out of the picture and that's our goal, to keep it organic and keep it homegrown.” Schulten created the Go Far program as a way to engage youngsters in an activity that teaches them goal-setting and gives them a productive use of their energy. Over the years, the program has evolved and welcomed adults and seniors into the mix. The group has two big annual 5Ks, one in the summer and one just before the holidays.

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pate too. The holiday one was started about four years ago in an effort to appeal to more adults and families of all ages, and to give people something to do during the holiday other than running around shopping, Schulten said. While the event can be a great thing for families to do together, Schulten encourages people without families to come too and enjoy the holidays with fellow community members. “You build a community by communicating, and people just don't do that these days,” Schulten said. “We have a great community here in Durham and Middlefield and we like to bring people together.” Schulten estimates about two solid weeks of 8-hour work days go into making about 80 trophies.

The summer one is more geared toward the kids, buddying up the youngest with the oldest students to run to- She and fellow Go Far organizer Mary Beth Gosgether, but also has dissart start by cutting, sandtances for adults to partici-

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ing and painting wooden bases and build from there. The most time-consuming parts happen to be building the bases and looking for items to use on them. “It's a process, and it's kind of a long process. It's not an immediate gratification, which is the whole theme around Go Far,” Schulten said. “We try to teach kids to try to make long-term goals and make them happen and learn to love the process … and being proud of the work that you do.” The trophies have gotten more elaborate over the years. The first ones were just Popsicle sticks the kids collected every lap, that they glittered and put into votive candle holders. Now the trophies are made from a variety of materials largely collected from Goodwill, Home Depot, tag sales and much that have been donated. Gossart, who started a Go

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Far program at the former Korn Elementary School, said all the effort and work is worthwhile. “When we hand somebody one of our handmade trophies, the smile on their face is just amazing,” Gossart said. Some trophies are weird. Others are very traditional. Some are elegant or classic. But at the end of the day, runners take home the trophy that speaks to them the most. “There's something about when they get something that makes them feel special, it really does make you feel whole, and that really is a big part of Go Far,” Schulten said. “We really need to get back to making people feel whole again.” bwright@record-journal.com 203-317-2316 Twitter: @baileyfaywright

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‘Help Willy’s Friends’ collection planned Mini Mustangs 4-H Club has scheduled a community service project to benefit “Help Willy’s Friends” for Saturday, Dec. 15, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the Durham Town Green. Donations of dry and canned pet food, pet supplies, toys or treats, used blankets or towels and cash donations will be accepted. For more information, call 860-777-5685 or email pbandzes@ gmail.com.

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Congregational and Methodist religious traditions. Sunday worship service at 10 a.m. Sunday School offered with activities.

Our Lady of Mercy Parish Notre Dame Church, 272 Main St., Durham, and St. Colman Church, 170 Hubbard St., Middlefield, 860349-3058, Mass schedule: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 8 a.m. at Notre Dame, Saturday 4 p.m. and Sunday 9:30 a.m. at St. Colman, Sunday 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. at Notre Dame.

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

The United Churches of Durham 228 Main St., 860-349-3683, schedules Sunday worship for

10 a.m. The church is a combined UCC and Methodist congregation with Sunday School for children and an active weekly Bible study group.

Victory Christian Church 191 Meriden Road, Middlefield, 860-346-6771. Sunday services, 8:45 and 10:45 a.m.; Thursday 7 p.m.

St. Ambrose Parish St. Ambrose Parish, 30 Caputo Road, North Branford, schedules evening prayer services (Vespers) each Sunday in Advent at 5:30 p.m. at

St. Monica, 1321 Middletown Ave., Northford. Christmas Eve Mass is scheduled for 4 p.m at both St. Augustine Church, 30 Caputo Road, North Branford and St. Monica Church, 1321 Middletown Ave., Northford. Christmas Day Mass is scheduled for 10 a.m. at St. Augustine Church, 30 Caputo Road, North Branford. FACEBOOK.COM/ RECORDJOURNAL NEWSPAPER TWITTER.COM/ RECORD_JOURNAL INSTAGRAM.COM/ RECORDJOURNAL

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Residents work on a puzzle at the Durham Activity Center, 350 Main St., on Wednesday, Nov. 28. Residents voted down a referendum Tuesday that would have converted the former Korn Elementary School into a new community center.

can Registrar, said turnout was above average for a referendum, which is usually in the range of 650 to 1,200 voters.

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He said the vote will likely put the community center issue “to bed” for the foreseeable future. Aside from seeming content with the current community center, Muzio agreed with Francis that the price tag on the project appeared to be the most significant factor for voters.

“It was a very decisive vote. There’s certainly no question which way the residents … wanted to go,” said Phil Muzio, a member of the Korn School Feasibility Assessment Committee.

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“I know that the Board of Finance and Board of Selectmen, our staff, we prepared our budget for this and we had room in our budget for this … clearly we didn’t communicate that well enough,” Francis said.

Sherry Hill, Durham recreation director, said the Durham Activity Center will continue offering programs as long as the town continues its lease for the facility. “We’re gonna be using the space as much as possible and carry on business as usual,” Hill said. “We don’t have a ‘Plan B’ at this time.”

She said there are currently no other options for a community center outside the current facility. Louis Battipaglia, Republi-

Board of Education, meanwhile, now needs to decide what happens to the Korn School building. Board members discussed in October options that included demolishing the building at a cost of roughly $1 million between the two towns. Selling the building in an option as well, but board members expressed concerns about selling it to a private owner. Superintendent of Schools Kathryn Veronesi said the building could still be repurposed somehow, perhaps as a K-5 school for the district if all three other schools were then closed. This plan would leave three buildings vacant and a building project costing about $32 million, which couldn’t happen until 2021. The building currently has an outstanding debt service of about $300,000, and the school district spends roughly $30,000 annually to maintain it. bwright@record-journal.com 203-317-2316 Twitter: @baileyfaywright

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Kathy Bottini, co-chairperson of the event and social worker with the school district, said the hope is that students understand the food they collect goes to helping people in their own community, sometimes their

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This year 13,464 food items were collected, equaling close to 15,000 pounds. The cash and gift card total was $3,534.

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Ethel Higgins, executive director of St. Vincent de Paul in Middletown, which runs Amazing Grace Food Pantry and is one of the organizations donated to, reminded volunteers to keep in mind where the food goes.

The kids started calling their new tradition “trick or treating for a cause.”

Ruby’s mom, Katie Wiseman, said the town is great at providing opportunities for youngsters to give back and embrace the district’s core ethical values.

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Some volunteers stayed behind to sort, organize and pack donations as they came in. Teams would arrive back at the school and load shopping carts with the non-perishables, which would be counted and then brought into the gym, where people would separate items by kind and destination.

The group’s nine kids could be seen sprinting in various groups or alone from house to house, sometimes down long driveways or through mud, and almost always bringing back food or cash donations.

With their moms’ supervising from the road, the elementary- to middle schoolaged youngsters spent almost two hours on their route, replenishing their energy with water and the occasional lollipop.

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“It's such an amazing display of our district's core ethical values and the work and collaboration,” said Strong Middle School principal Scott Sadinsky.

Four years ago, three local families came together to start their own team for the community roundup.

This year the group of 11 donned elf hats and asked for a longer route, since the kids wanted to spend more time helping with the door-to-door collection.

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