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January 8, 2021 US. POSTAGE PAID GLASTONBURY CITIZEN, INC. P.O. BOX 373, GLASTONBURY, CT, 06033 POSTAL CUSTOMER PRESORTED STANDARD LOCAL RIVEREAST ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ NewsServing Amston, Andover, Cobalt, Colchester, EastBulletin Hampton, Hebron, Marlborough, Middle Haddam and Portland Volume 45, Number 4 Published by The Glastonbury Citizen January 8, 2021 Helping Lives With Clear Masks by Karla Santos The pandemic has touched the lives of every- After doing some research, Dean determined body, from all walks of life – but there’s one clear masks could be a simple solution to help group in particular that a Colchester mother and with communication barriers. She thought of daughter have teamed up to help. ways to get the masks to the community – and Tricia Dean and her daughter Lexi, a senior also made a plan to help get them to businesses at Bacon Academy, have launched a project that so that they could have their employees wear would help the hearing-impaired – who often them. rely on reading lips but can’t do it when people “I asked my daughter Lexi if she could do it have facemasks on. with me because she was looking for a commu- Dean and her daughter are distributing clear nity service project to do,” Dean said. “So after masks across the community in an effort to im- we came up with the idea, she took the plan and prove communication during the pandemic. she ran with it.” “Since the start of the pandemic and having The mother-and-daughter team started a Go- to wear masks, I never realized myself how FundMe page to raise money for the masks. much we understand what people are saying Lexi Dean sent a letter to businesses explain- by actually reading their lips when they talk,” ing the project and to see if they were interested Dean said. “I can hear pretty well, so just imag- in having their employees wear clear masks. ine how devastating it is to someone who can’t Lexi Dean, right, and Melanie Goggin from Mel’s Downtown Creamery show off their In addition, a fundraiser was coordinated with hear and relies on reading lips.” Mel’s Downtown Creamery where a portion of clear facemasks – which they wear in an effort to improve communication during Dean noted that her parents are deaf, and the proceeds went to the mask project. The goal the pandemic. said, “With the pandemic it’s very frustrating; of the fundraiser was to get $500, but between they can’t communicate.” the two funding sources they have raised $700. She explained that simple things such as going About 300 masks have been purchased with to the pharmacy and talking about a prescription the money they raised. can be difficult for her parents as they are not The masks have been distributed across the able to read lips when people have masks on. town to restaurants, the schools, the senior cen- While Dean was thinking about the pandemic’s ter, town hall and home health care aides. Mel’s impact on her parents, she also came across a was one of the businesses that received masks. Facebook post in which someone was asking Lexi Dean, right, and Melanie Goggin from Mel’s Downtown Creamery show off Dean said they will be purchasing more for help as they needed ideas on how to better masks to distribute. their clear facemasks – which they wear in an effort to improve communication dur- communicate with businesses. ing the pandemic. See Helping Lives, page 26 Miracle Recovery Leads to Holiday Homecoming by Sloan Brewster with COVID-19. Richard Walling’s family didn’t think it was With Richard’s preconditions his family as- possible for him to recover from COVID-19 so sumed the worst, anticipating the positive test when they learned he was improving and would was a death sentence. be coming back to Hebron, they planned a big “My husband got the text message from my welcome. mother-in-law that Papa had gotten COVID and Richard and his wife Donna are snowbirds he just broke down,” Sara said. – they spend half the year in Port Saint Luc- When he was discharged from the hospital, ie, Fla., and the other half in the in-law apart- Richard was sent to a rehab facility – and ended ment in their son and daughter in-law’s Amston up in septic shock. home. “We were told that his organs were failing Steven Walling and his wife Sara actually one by one,” Sara said. purchased the home so his parents could move The family filmed a video of Sara, Steven and in, he said. their 5-year-old daughter Fiona Walling saying Early last year, Richard and Donna went to goodbye, telling him he was a good dad and Florida as they do each year, but, according to grandpa. Sara, they did not make the usual return trip in In the meantime, Steven went to Florida for May or June, opting instead to hunker down a conference and visited his mother, though, in Port Saint Lucie to avoid contracting CO- because she had also contracted COVID-19, VID-19. he remained at a social distance. While he was While they were gone, Sara gave birth to her visiting, the two began making plans to bring second child, a baby girl she named Rosalie. Richard home for hospice care. Late in the summer, Richard, who is bed- “It was hard because I couldn’t hug her, I ridden and suffers from COPD and diabetes, couldn’t see my dad,” Steven said. His mother tripped over his oxygen cord and fell, breaking was also having a tough time missing the man his arm, Steven and Sara said. While in the hos- to whom she has been married 50 years – and he pital things got worse, as he retained water in missed her as well. Richard Walling, who recently recovered from COVID-19 and returned home from his lungs and had congestive heart failure. But according to Sara, a hospital visit in But his heath improved and he was able to which Steven was able to wave at Richard a long stay in Florida, met his granddaughter Rosalie Walling for the first time over return to his Florida home. Then, a week later, through a window brought upon a miracle. Christmas. Here Richard holds the baby, with his five-year old granddaughter Fiona he was back in the hospital, this time stricken See Miracle, page 26 Walling beside him. I PORTLAND COLchESTER N BOE Rejects Reopening Plan .................. Page 5 Woman Killed in Crash ...........................Page 12 PORTLAND ANDOVER D Bransfield Drafts Gunfire Ordinance ..... Page 6 Drive-Thru Vote Tomorrow ...................Page 15 E HEBRON REGIONAL X COVID-19 Relief Coming to Town .......... Page 8 Obituaries ........................................Pages 23-26 Page 2 NEWS BULLETIN • January 8, 2021 From the Editor’s Desk Observations & Ruminations By Mike Thompson Happy New Year to all! I hope all of you them rot in prison. For the rest of their life – had a restful, peaceful and joyful holiday sea- no parole. They still suffer greatly, and never son – or as joyful as it can be under the current get to experience freedom again. I understand conditions. the temptation to execute them – I certainly I typically visit with my family every understand the temptation. But, like I said, Christmas, and, as they are spread through- even one innocent person being executed is out the country, that wasn’t possible this year. one too many. Still, thanks to the wonder that is Zoom, we It’s time to retire the death penalty. were still all able to celebrate together via * * * video. I’ve thought many times over the past Now here’s something I didn’t expect to nine and a half months how much more dif- read in the year 2021: The widow of a Civil ficult enduring this pandemic would’ve been War veteran died recently. were it not for Zoom. Being able to not just No, this isn’t a very generous definition of talk to but see family and friends during this “recently.” The death came just a few weeks time has just been fantastic. ago, Dec. 16, when Missouri resident Helen Speaking of the pandemic: I don’t know Viola Jackson passed away at the age of 101. about you, but I typically spend the first How did she manage being the widow of a month or so of each new year absentmindedly soldier from a war that ended more than 150 writing the previous year when filling out years ago? It’s a very interesting, and sweet, checks or other forms that request the day’s story. date. I quickly notice my error and amend it, According to the Huffington Post, Jackson and feel a little silly. was 17 years old when her father had volun- However, I’ve – so far anyway – had no teered her to stop by the house of 93-year-old such problems this year. I guess even my sub- widower James Bolin on her way home from conscious was ready to be done with 2020 school each day, to help Bolin with chores. when the ball dropped last week. Bolin had served in the 14th Missouri Cavalry Santa Comes to Town… Santa (Jalyn Collins), his elf (Arya Gast) and his reindeer * * * during the Civil War. (Buckshot and Blue) recently visited residents at Harrington Court in Colchester, Interesting news out of Florida on Monday. The Post reports that Bolin did not want Departing Orange-Osceola State Attorney to accept charity and, after a period of time, to spread some holiday cheer.
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