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Mailed free to requesting homes in Brooklyn, the borough of Danielson, Killingly & its villages Vol. III, No. 51 Complimentary home delivery (860) 928-1818/email:[email protected] ‘Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.’ Friday, October 9, 2009 Rec building meeting set BY MATT SANDERSON Prince Hill Road April 2008 because its for- an option instead of tear- VILLAGER STAFF WRITER Wednesday, Oct. 28, dur- mer headquarters on ing it down. The one bid BROOKLYN — A town ing a town meeting. The Prince Hill Road, conve- that was discussed, com- meeting was set and bids selectmen voted in niently located next to ing from Stone Brook were awarded on two September 2008 to raze the Donald Francis Builders, was for $56,100 town projects at the the building and again Recreation Park, was to replace the sheetrock, Board of Selectmen’s last February, and have infested with rodents and insulation, floors, base- meeting last Wednesday, set aside $10,000 in the termites and had water ment and roof. However, Sept. 30. budget to do just that. damage and a sagging the costs increased to Taxpayers will have The department had to structure. $77,000 when tacking on their say on the future of move to the Clifford B. Last week the select- the work needed to the the Parks and Recreation Green Memorial Center men reviewed bids to Department building on at 69 South Main St. in renovate the building as Turn To REC, page A11 Dodd tours Day Kimball Hospital BY OLIVIA BRAATEN VILLAGER CORRESPONDENT PUTNAM — Nearly a dozen administrators, physicians and nurses trailed behind U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) during his Saturday, Oct. 3, visit to Day Kimball Hospital (DKH). The senator toured the hospital’s maternal child health center and intensive care unit, concluding his two-hour visit with a private dis- Matt Sanderson photo cussion on health care reform with Spiro Haveles, owner of Classic Pizza in Brooklyn, is approaching his ninth local elected officials and hospital year with the business. In those years, he has greatly expanded the personnel. restaurant’s menu from the days when his parents owned it as Pizza- Dodd said he is trying to visit all Rama, while keeping prices reasonable and traditions, well, classic. 31 hospital systems in Connecticut in an effort to “get our arms around this.” Courtesy photo Dodd is a senior member of the Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) talks with Day Kimball Hospital CEO and President Robert Committee on Health, Education, Nine years of a Smanik (right) after a tour of the hospital’s maternal child health center and inten- sive care unit. A panel of nearly a dozen physicians and administrators discussed Turn To DODD, page A11 “Classic” choice health care reform efforts with the senator during his Saturday, Oct. 3 visit. Town receives fire prevention grant BROOKLYN PIZZERIA, BY MATT SANDERSON RESTAURANT A TOWN STAPLE VILLAGER STAFF WRITER KILLINGLY — A $2,500 fire prevention grant was awarded to the Killingly fire marshal’s BY MATT SANDERSON been growing and growing,” office Tuesday, Sept. 29 from one of the area’s VILLAGER STAFF WRITER Spiro Haveles, owner of commercial and industrial property insurers. BROOKLYN — Apparently, Classic Pizza, said regarding Representatives from FM Global, based in the “classic” choice in Route 6 in Brooklyn. “We’re Johnston, R.I., presented the grant to Fire Brooklyn has resonated with one of the oldest businesses Marshal Ray Allen and Assistant Town area residents over the last 30 here on Route 6. Our business Manager Kimberly Darigan-Newman. The years. is still very strong.” funds will be used in assisting fire investiga- Classic Pizza, located at the Haveles, who came tors more efficiently in determining the cause corner of Route 6 and Day Danielson from Peloponnesia, of a fire. Street, has been a staple dining Greece, with his parents, “At FM Global, we believe the majority of establishment in Brooklyn for Christos and Tasia, in 1969, property damage is preventable, not inevitable, decades and continues to grow became the owner of the and we are pleased to make funding available to alongside the thoroughfare restaurant in 2000, but was that has been an ongoing involved with the business Turn To FIRE, page A11 attraction in the town’s eco- years prior to that. As far back nomic development. as 1965, the original pizza Photo courtesy of Judy LaRoche “The amount of traffic has Fire Marshal Ray Allen receives a check for $2,500 Turn To CLASSIC, page A7 from Michael Spaziani, manager of FM Global’s Fire Prevention Grant program, on Tuesday, Sept. 29. Ride for the Cure raises $95K BY OLIVIA BRAATEN have to do it. in 2010. VILLAGER CORRESPONDENT “Hopefully there will be no “We never thought it would POMFRET — Rebecca need for the ride someday, and be as big as it is,” Townshend Wentworth’s husband brought we’ll have to find another rea- said. “Every year, Amy and I home a brochure about a horse son to get together,” she said. look at each other and say, ‘Go ride at Tyrone Farm. Now in its ninth year, the figure.’” “It looked like it would be a Komen Connecticut Ride for But common passions unite, lot of fun,” the Union woman the Cure raises support for riders say. Any event that com- said. breast cancer research. This bines the powerful, compelling Six weeks later, doctors diag- year, 101 riders participated in case of breast cancer with the nosed her with breast cancer. the Oct. 4 event, raising an esti- fact that recreational horse rid- Just 45 years old at the time — mated $95,000. It is the first ing tends to be done primarily in 2005 — the mother of five fund-raiser of its kind. by women is bound to succeed. managed to start and finish The founders and organizers “It’s a perfect match,” chemotherapy just in time to of the event, pharmaceutical Townshend said. join in the Ride for the Cure scientist Amy Jakowski and Every person rode for them- event. midwife Pam Townshend, have selves or for someone close to Ever since, she and her 27- since inspired affiliates in them who either survived can- year-old horse, Copar,have kept Massachusetts, Virginia and cer or was not so lucky, she on coming to the ride. Texas to host similar rides. Ten explained. The truth is, though, more events are expected to be Olivia Braaten photo Turn To RIDE, page A12 Wentworth doesn’t want to offered throughout the nation Amy Jakowski (right) helps a Ride for the Cure participant check-in during the Oct. 4 event. A8-9 — OPINION LEARNING SPORTS VILLAGER TRIVIA! A10 — SPORTS B1 — HOT SPOT Who was the oldest Major LIFE LEARNING BREAST CANCER League player to hit a home B5 — OBITUARIES run as a designated hitter, and EXPERIENCES FUND RAISER B6 — RELIGION what age was he? PAGE A6 PAGE A10 Answer on page 2. INSIDE B7 — CALENDAR A2 • Friday, October 9, 2009 KILLINGLY VILLAGER Much history behind ‘Boots ‘n’ Boats’ trail VILLAGER ALMANAC On Oct. 11, the Killingly Danielson was used primarily for Conservation Commission will farmland and woodland. The con- sponsor a walk and, river condi- ILLINGLY struction of numerous small textile tions permitting, a boating opportu- K mills at sites in Killingly beginning QUOTATION OF THE WEEK nity on the river trail along the AT 300 about 1810 and the opening of the banks of the Quinebaug River railroad from Norwich to Worcester south of Danielson. The following in 1840 sparked interest in the area. “I enjoy seeing my customers. information on the history of the MARGARET In 1851, Elisha Dyer Jr. (governor of trail was provided by Killingly Rhode Island from 1857-’59) My old-time customers are my Town Planner Linda Walden and WEAVER acquired land along the Quinebaug Eric Rumsey, also of the Planning and the privilege to erect a dam. By best critics. They respect the Department. 1866, he had completed plans for a The trail was designed as a multi- Camp & Weir Archaeological proposed factory estate titled food that you put out there.” purpose trail for bicyclists, walkers, Preserve”). When one keeps in Nashawaug Water Power Estate. joggers, etc., and eventually will mind that the Great Pyramid of The factory was never built. Dyer’s — Spiro Haveles, owner of Classic Pizza in Brooklyn connect with Putnam on the north Giza was finished about 2560 B.C. health deteriorated, and in July and Plainfield to the south. Phase 1, (more than 4,500 years ago), it bog- 1874, he conveyed the property to including the pocket park near the gles the mind to ponder such an Wauregan Mills of Plainfield for mill and the trail from the ancient Native American presence $10,000. The potential of the area Brooklyn–Killingly Bridge on here in Killingly. was finally utilized several decades Route 6 down to the junction with Perhaps some of you are familiar later. FRONT-PAGE QUOTE Route 6 and Wauregan Road, was with a Native American legend The People’s Tramway Company, finished in 1993 and was included in associated with the area near created by a resolution of the and funded through a state DOT Killingly’s sewer treatment plant Connecticut General Assembly in This week’s page one quote is attributed to: project, which eliminated the for- near the beginning of the walk — 1893, acquired land and water Chinese proverb mer rotary at the intersection of the battle of the Nipmucks and rights in the Nashawaug area. Route 12 (Main Street). Phase 2 runs Narragansetts.