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Outpouring of support
Family and friends make Jehnings benefit a success By BRIAN M. JOHNSON STAFF WRITER
More than 150 friends and family members along with local police, firefighters, EMS workers and state officials showed up Saturday at a benefit for James R. Jehnings, who is battling an aggressive bladder cancer. Jehnings, 68, an active board member of the Newington Volunteer Ambulance Corps, was diagnosed last August with bladder cancer, which is now in its third stage. At Saturday’s event at Volume 53, No. 53
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VFW Post 9929 In West Hartford, state Rep. Tony Guerrera, D-29th District, presented Jehnings with a state citation for his service to Newington and wished him a speedy recovery. His son, Jamie F. Jehnings, who co-chaired the event with his girlfriend, Joyce Lozinski, said he was pleased with the turnout. “We wanted people to give their best wishes and be with him for a while after he spent several days at St. Francis hospital for rehab,” Jamie Jehnings said. “We have 90 raffle prizes all donated by local businesses and organizations who showed their support.” Lozinski, a Newington resident, thanked the businesses See JEHNINGS, Page 8
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Bill Reynolds, still a Newington resident, revisits the ’60s when he served as Newington’s first mayor.
First mayor new namesake of town hall lobby By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER
In the near future, Newington residents and out-of-towners who step into Town Hall to go to a meeting, see a performance in the auditorium, use the food
bank, pay their taxes or conduct any other important business, may notice a name denoting the lobby area. William J. Reynolds served as Newington’s mayor from 1966 to 1969 — the first under the town’s
current Town Manager/Council/ Mayor form of government, which he led in instituting. Prior to that, the town was governed by a Board of Selectmen. To recognize this and the many
See LOBBY, Page 10