Volume 20, Number 14
Serving Durham, Middlefield and Rockfall
www.TownTimes.com
Friday, July 25, 2014
Kidney disease diagnosis rallies community By Charles Kreutzkamp
tie Dumas Nadeau, ran the GoFundMe campaign on behalf of her brother-in-law, In just three months, 20 Dan Turek, the father of a people have raised more two-year-old son. Turek, previously diagthan $2,400 to help a family that is struggling in the nosed with kidney probwake of a diagnosis of Stage lems, knew that one day he’d need a replacement 5 kidney disease. Middlef ield resident Joann Dumas’ daughter, KaSee Diagnosis / Page 16 Town Times
A long stretch of grass and weeds separate the docks, at left, from the water of Lake Beseck. | Mark Dionne/Town Times
Lake Beseck refill depends on rain By Mark Dionne
rainfall. According to Ted Rybak, project manager for the The repair of the Lake Connecticut Department of Beseck dam is projected to Energy & Environmental Profinish by Labor Day, but the tection, the water level went return of the water that will down between 13 and 15 feet make Lake Beseck itself look for the project. The valve on a 48-inch drain like a lake again depends on
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pipe was opened in October 2013, lowering the water level. The draw down permitted the repair of weaknesses in the dam at the lake’s southern end. At the time, the repair was scheduled to take 300 calendar See Rain / Page 17
Nine businesses fail alcohol sale to minors test By Charles Kreutzkamp
attempted to buy alcohol from 14 businesses in Middlefield and Durham as part Nine out of 14 businesses of the compliance check. “To be honest, we were a allegedly failed alcohol sale compliance checks, accord- bit disappointed,” Durham ing to a report from the Resident State Trooper Pete Department of Consumer DiGioia said. According to Protection. Underage volun- DiGioia, this is the first comteers trained by The Gover- pliance check since 2008. nor’s Prevention Partnership “We’re definitely going to
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come back and do it again,” DiGioia said. DCP Commissioner William M. Rubenstein said in a statement that compliance checks are not intended to hurt local businesses. “We don’t try to trick or entice establishments to sell alSee Alcohol / Page 5
Hunter Turek, 2, playing doctor with his father, Dan Turek, at Hartford Hospital. | Submitted / Jennifer Turek
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