A Tribute on Four Wheels Walls, Flamingos Strewn Across Front Lawns and Calls to Action Spread Throughout Social Media
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Mailed free to requesting homes in Brooklyn, the borough of Danielson, Killingly & its villages Vol. VII, No. 43 Complimentary home delivery (860) 928-1818/email:[email protected] Friday, October 24, 2014 THIS WEEK’S QUOTE Toilet “We would worry less about what oth- fundraiser nabs ers think of us if we realized how seldom they do.” $1.1K for Ethel Barrett diabetes INSIDE research A8 — OPINION PORTS BY JASON BLEAU B1-4 — S NEWS STAFF WRITER Jason Bleau photo B3 — LEGALS Driver of the #15 15-40 Connection Modified car Todd Szegedy stands with Webster resident, WOODSTOCK — There B5 — REAL ESTATE cancer survivor and honorary crew member Rob Russo with the #15 Modified car Russo was are all kinds of creative fundraisers out there BITS represented on. B6-7— O that organizations have B8 — CLASSIFIEDS employed to raise money and awareness of their cause. Workers and teach- ers have been tapped to LOCAL A tribute on four wheels walls, flamingos strewn across front lawns and calls to action spread throughout social media. CANCER SURVIVOR However, it’s not every HONORED AT SEASON FINALE AT day you find a toilet on your property calling for a HOMPSON PEEDWAY donation to a cause. T S This is the idea that Woodstock Academy BY JASON BLEAU ber for the #15 Rob Fuller the 15-40 Connection, a senior Morgan Reynolds Jason Bleau photo NEWS STAFF WRITER Motorsports NASCAR sponsor of the #15 car employed to raise funds Morgan Reynolds stands THOMPSON — It’s Whelen Modified car dedicated to encourag- and awareness for her with the blue toilet that was not every day you get to during the series finale ing early awareness for yearly participation in passed around to local prop- Pomfret Fire see your likeness on a at Thompson Speedway. cancer in individuals the Juvenile Diabetes erties to raise money for the racecar, especially when Rob Russo, a 23-year- from age 15 to 40. Research Foundation Juvenile Diabetes Research Department open you’ve spent much of old cancer survivor Russo, who is no (JDRF) benefit walk Foundation. house well your life working around of Webster, joined the stranger to Thompson at Rentschler Field in crew of #15 driver Todd Speedway, as he worked September. similar vehicles on the was in the fourth grade. attended Szegedy at the Thompson with his father on the The 16-year-old student local circuit. While every year she has track for racing action #14 TIS Modified for sev- suffers from type 1 diabe- Page A4 That was the case for a managed to bring in sig- during the World Series eral years and returned tes herself, having been Webster man who found nificant funds to help the himself invited to be an weekend from Oct. 17-19, to the track for the first diagnosed at the age of 3, SPORTS honorary pit crewmem- as a guest representing and has been participat- Please Read TRIBUTE, page A13 ing in the walk since she Please Read NABS, page A13 Pomfret, Her mugs are worth savoring Brooklyn invest in POTTERY A LABOR OF LOVE FOR SHAW Pride running tech park BY CHARLIE LENTZ game picks up VILLAGER STAFF WRITER WOODSTOCK — against O’Brien PUTNAM CLOSES EFFORTS TO Holly Shaw is well Tech aware of the connection ATTRACT INVESTORS between handmade cof- Page B1 fee mug and sleepy-eyed sipper. There’s some- BY JASON BLEAU sentations and discus- NEWS STAFF WRITER thing special about a sions with area towns vessel that delivers a to gain investors for the XXXX PUTNAM — It’s offi- personal wakeup call cial: Putnam is moving initiative, said securing every morning. Shaw PAGE AX forward with its Regional a partnership with the has created thousands Technology Park with three towns is a big step of mugs over the years XXXX three towns dedicated to in the right direction. and admits it can be dif- supporting the project as “I think it’s a very ficult to let go. PAGE AX investors. important component “Sometimes I’ll have In addition to Scotland, of the project to have a piece and I’ll take it the first town to agree to three towns join us in out of the kiln and I’ll invest in one share of the a regional effort to not go, ‘Nope, I’ve got to park, or 10 percent, both only construct the proj- keep that one,’” Shaw Brooklyn and Pomfret ect and their investment said. have approved invest- in terms of the develop- She decided to part ing in the park, with ment but also as we go with some of her lat- Brooklyn investing in forward down the line est creations at the two shares, or 20 percent, once the infrastructure 32nd annual Roseland and Pomfret investing in and utilities are in, those Cottage Fine Arts and one share, 10 percent. towns will work with Visit our website with Crafts Festival last Each share will cost the us in a capacity to help your smart phone or tablet Charlie Lentz photo weekend, Oct. 18-19. towns $80,000 a piece. us market the park and device! Holly Shaw, from East Killingly, displayed her pottery at the She’s been making pot- Putnam Town move forward in terms of Just scan the “QR code” 32nd annual Roseland Cottage Fine Arts and Crafts Festival. Administrator Doug a true regional econom- below with your device and Please Read MUGS, page A11 Cutler, who has been a instantly be linked to our central figure in the pre- Please Read PARK, page A13 website, www.villagernews- papers.com, where you can read the PDF versions of our newspapers! It’s as easy as that! Killingly schools making strides in bullying prevention BY JASON BLEAU school district has been behavior before it gets out comes to handling a sit- “Every school district NEWS STAFF WRITER making great strides to of hand. uation where bullying is supposed to have a Safe KILLINGLY — Bullying try and tackle the issue Pete Gerardi, the may have taken place and School Climate coordi- has long been one of the head on over the past Killingly School District that responsibilities have nator that oversees the most common and per- few years by conforming School Resource Officer been set for those who responsibilities for the sistent concerns when to state standards and and District Safe School are supposed to respond district and each school looking at any school cli- applying new strategies Climate coordinator, and investigate and inci- is required to have a mate nationwide. to help promote interper- explained that Killingly dent that could be consid- Safe School Climate spe- Locally, Killingly’s sonal communication and is right in line with ered bullying within the awareness of any problem state standards when it school grounds. Please Read BULLYING, page A16 A2 • Friday, October 24, 2014 KILLINGLY VILLAGER Nathan Waldo Kennedy and other assorted tidbits I’m still reading through the in many states, including the doors of his new Hotel (WCT 3/24/1932) extracts that Marilyn Labbe Connecticut, Rhode Island, Kingswood on Monday, the I couldn’t believe my eyes made of the 1932 Windham New York, Missouri and first intimation which local when I read the next article. It County Transcripts. Since Kansas. At 17 he became KILLIngLY people had of this auspi- provided a different perspec- many older readers may assistant editor of the cious event being the light- tive on daily life in Danielson remember the Windham Naugatuck Enterprise and at 300 ed windows and signs that during the early 1930’s. County Observer or Putnam’s was billed by a New York lec- evening. Danielson residents “Merchants May Stop Fees Observer Patriot, I thought ture bureau as ‘the youngest who have taken the opportu- For Protection – Secretary you would find this first item writer, paragrapher, jour- MARGARET nity to inspect the premises Frank O. Plummer of the interesting. Did you realize nalist, political speaker and WEAVER have expressed themselves Chamber of Commerce is that Dayville was home to a platform lecturer known’. as highly pleased with the engaged in a canvass of local newspaper for a while? He was later a reporter for modern inn. Indications for merchants with respect to the “N. Waldo Kennedy Expires. the Providence Evening utor, nearly fifty years after future business are good, on fee of thirty-five cents each Former Danielsonite, Founder Telegram, telegraph editor he had founded it. During the basis of the first few days.” week that some of the busi- of Windham County Observer of the Syracuse Morning his career as a journalist (WCT Feb. 18, 1932) nessmen pay to the borough and Later Host at Gen. Lyon Standard and associate editor Mr. Kennedy was an active “The Park Inn is Enlarged. for the service of having their Inn, Dies in Florida. Nathan of the Glen Falls Republican. member of the Connecticut The Park Inn on Reynolds doors tried by the night offi- Waldo Kennedy, who started While in the latter position, Editorial Association and Street, which has been serv- cer. It is maintained by some a brilliant career as a youth in he was forced to give up active served for two terms as its ing the public in Danielson for of the merchants that this ser- Danielson and later returned journalistic work because of president. over twelve years, has added vice is due to all taxpayers in to this town to found the ill health. “Always interested in fra- new rooms and private baths the business section and that Windham County Observer, “Returning to make ternal affairs, Mr.