Mailed free to requesting homes in Brooklyn, the borough of Danielson, Killingly & its villages Vol. VI, No. 34 Complimentary home delivery (860) 928-1818/email:[email protected] Friday, June 22, 2012 THIS WEEK’S Kerensa Konesni photos QUOTE MOVING ON “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” George Burns INSIDE A8— OPINION A14 — SPORTS B1 — HOT SPOT Graduates of the masonry program all wore their work boots beneath their gowns. B5 — CALENDAR B3— OBITS B3 — RELIGION Tiara Hoffman received flowers and a hug following the commencement ceremony. LOCAL Female graduates donned Ellis’s signature gold, while the Last Green Valley young men were dressed in blue. festival to be held in September KILLINGLY — Under partly cloudy skies Page A2 Tuesday, June 19, 125 LEARNING Harvard H. Ellis Technical High School For more photos, students received diplo- turn to page A9! For mas at a ceremony held photos from Woodstock Graduates waved to family mem- at the Quinebaug Valley Academy’s graduation Caps flew after Dr. Mignault announced the Class of 2012 as gradu- bers after moving the tassels on Community College ceremony on Sunday, ates. their caps from right to left. Amphitheater. turn to page A6! County ‘Bike & Build’ team makes first stop in region Quinebaug Middle closer to STUDENTS BIKE Kerensa Konesni photos College graduates 37 CROSS COUNTRY at ceremony - Rachel Debaun, Sam ‘HEARTsafe’ Wood and Maggie Page A3 FOR AFFORDABLE Lange of Bike & Build arrive at their first SPORTS status HOUSING stop at the First BY KERENSA KONESNI Congregational VILLAGER STAFF WRITER Church of Pomfret. BY KERENSA KONESNI Windham County is on its way to VILLAGER STAFF WRITER becoming the first in the state to POMFRET — Thirty young have all of its municipalities des- adults slept in the pews of the First ignated as “HEARTSafe” commu- Congregational Church of Pomfret, nities, under the Connecticut Saturday June 16. Department of Health’s “By the end of the day, we’re so HEARTSafe tired we’d sleep on concrete,” program. laughed Dan Halpert. “We’re talk- The Fairfield native is just one of ing 50 more the 30 young people who are riding people, and the cross-country with Bike & Build Cyclists Jane Rocco goes from last to entire county Inc. this summer. A non-profit orga- Pozydaev, Dan Halpert first in exciting Sunoco would be certi- nization, Bike & Build sends out and Annie LaVigne fied,” said Modified feature eight groups of young people, most- rest after making the Killingly town ly college students and recent grad- trek from Providence Page A14 councilor and uates, who bicycle across the coun- to Pomfret. registered try, stopping to volunteer at Habitat nurse Tammy for Humanity sites. Along the way, OUR COMMUNITY Wakefield, who has volunteered participants sometime camp, but her time over the last several years primarily rely on the kindness of PLANNING Turn To HEART, page A4 Turn To BIKE, page A5 PAGE A5 OPINION GET YOUR Statewide emergency preparedness exercise announced POINT ACROSS PAGE A8 BY KERENSA KONESNI ishable food, flashlight, batteries planning – like reaching for the “You need to replenish what you VILLAGER STAFF WRITER and a first aid kit – as well as a bat- flashlight that you thought you had used. Look back on what you didn’t WHAT TO DO The 2012 Atlantic hurricane sea- tery powered or hand cranked but found out it had no batteries or have — did you not have a radio — A CALENDAR son began June 1, and with Tropical radio, something of particular a radio you thought you would use, things like that, review the event.” OF AREA EVENTS Storm Irene still fresh in the memo- value in northeastern Connecticut but then you remember that it plugs The same goes for planning, when electricity went down for in,” May said. according to May. PAGE B5 ry of Connecticut residents, Department of Emergency Services more than a week last August. While having an emergency kit is “Did you have problems with and Public Protection Northeast District Department of a necessity, May says that residents communicating with family – what- Commissioner Reuben F. Bradford Health Emergency Management need to assess the state that kit is ever gaps there were, they were has released a new list of Hurricane Coordinator Derek May said that currently in. very obvious and recent, so go over preparedness tips. Tropical Storm Irene was an incon- He stresses the NDDH mantra of them,” he said. The Atlantic Hurricane season venient, but real way for area resi- “Replenish, Review, Improve” — Communication factors largely in runs through Nov. 30. Bradford is dents to learn what is really neces- with Tropical Storm Irene still a well developed emergency man- urging residents to create emer- sary to have on hand, in the event of fresh in the memory the communi- agement plan, which can make the gency kits with one gallon of water a major disaster. ty, it is vital that people consider difference in the days after a natur- per person per day for at least three “People felt that they were well what worked and what didn’t, for Turn To PREPARE, A16 days, a three day supply of non-per- prepared and then found gaps in the next weather-related disaster. page A2 • Friday, June 22, 2012 KILLINGLY VILLAGER Assawaga Mill FD, KHS VILLAGER ALMANAC QUOTATION OF THE WEEK 1939 soccer, and more “It was a weeklong inconvenience, and sort of a wake up call. It should be a warning to be Dave Doiron sent a response to my located on Main Street adjacent to prepared.” recent column that mentioned the the New Alliance Bank and currently Assawaga Mill Fire Department. houses Gerardi Insurance. It is an ILLINGLY - Northeast District Department of Health Emergency “As usual, your column made my K excellent example of the Greek Management Coordinator Derek May, commenting on Friday! Here’s a little piece about the Revival style of architecture that was AT 300 Tropical Storm Irene and how it helps us prepare for future Assawaga Mill’s Fire Department prevalent at that time. (Other smaller emergencies. from my mother’s memories of examples are located on Furnace Dayville. This would have occurred Street). According to Marilyn in the late 1920’s. ‘The Assawaga Co. MARGARET Labbe’s Downtown Danielson Tour, TTHE UDUBON also supplied the so-called fire WEAVER “Ezra Stiles was a dentist in A A department. It consisted of four man- Danielson from the mid-1840’s to BIRD SIGHTINGS powered reels of canvas hose. There 1853.” Some of you may remember were only two fire hydrants in the vil- Harry Hewko, Frank Liguz, when that building was home to Bird sightings at CT Audubon in Pomfret and Wyndham lage, one in front of the mill and one Christopher Mosteferis, and assis- CL&P or the law offices of Basil Land Trust properties for the week of June 11: Acadian near the school. If there was a fire too tant manager Eugene Ennis. Tsakonis. Flycatcher, Hooded Warbler, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, far from the hydrant, water was On June 7 Lynn LaBerge and I vis- A second business “block” from the Scarlet Tanager, Yellow Warbler, Indigo Buntings, Bluebird, pumped from a pond or the river, if ited Bob Brennan’s class at the early days of the Borough is the one Kingfisher, Wood Duck, Osprey, Cedar Waxwing, Hairy close enough. If not, the structure Killingly High School to talk a little that houses the Trinket Shoppe and Woodpecker and Chestnut-sided Warbler. just burned. Most of the time, water about our town’s history.It was quite the offices of The Last Green Valley. or not, buildings burned to the nice to be able to help the students It is now comprised of two buildings. ground. I remember a fire in an old learn a little more about the sections Marilyn noted that the building adja- building near the railroad tracks. of town where they lived. When I was cent to Union Street was originally The volunteer firemen got there with talking about Killingly around the known as the Day Building since it the reels, turned on the water and time of the Revolution and showed a was built by Luther Day as a business sprayed everything but the fire! The shot of the training field on Killingly block, and accommodated at various NEWS BRIEFS old canvas hose was riddled with Hill/now the Putnam Heights com- times a newspaper office, furniture holes. Dad, who was manning one of mon to the east of Route 21, one store, harness shop, the A&P grocery the hoses, just stood there and roared young man said that he didn’t live far store and a clothing store. The two of with laughter.The surprised looks on away from that landmark. Likewise, us looked through the old photos of East Killingly Fire District sets tax rate the spectators when they got doused one young woman who lived in the that section trying to come up with set him off, although he was soaked former Killingly Center area was names for the businesses. In its early EAST KILLINGLY — The East Killingly Fire District held it himself ’”(e-mail 6/8/12). quite excited to see the picture of the days J.E. Short & Co. sold boots, Annual Meeting on Thursday May 31, at the East Killingly Fire How many of you realize that Killingly Center Mill. Don’t forget to shoes, hats, caps, trunks, etc.; Amasa Station. Killingly High School had a soccer tell your children and your grand- Dowe occupied a space on the first Elected to serve on the Board for the upcoming year are: Pamela squad in 1939? children stories about what this area floor on the right and sold watches, Shaw, President; Kathy Shekleton, Vice President; Cheryl West, I had no idea that they were play- was like when you were young.