Mailed free to requesting homes in Brooklyn, the borough of Danielson, Killingly & its villages Vol. VI, No. 30 Complimentary home delivery (860) 928-1818/email:[email protected] Friday, May 25, 2012 THIS WEEK’S QUOTE RRELAELAYY FORFOR LLIFEIFE “A friend is a gift you give yourself.” Robert Louis Stevenson INSIDE A8-9— OPINION A12 — SPORTS Kerensa Konesni photos B1 — HOT SPOT Those on the sidelines blew bubbles to the Relayers walking the B1 — CALENDAR Survivor Lap. B3— OBITS B4 — CLASSIFIEDS Jean Sheldon leads the Survivor Lap that opened the 2012 Relay. LOCAL Author visits KCS It was an emotional moment for many in the crowd when the Page A4 National Anthem was sung by Linda Colangelo. The 80-degree weather May 19 and 20 was welcomed by Relayers, who have in past years walked the 24-hour Relay in the rain. SPORTS WOODSTOCK — The Northeast Connecticut Relay for Life was held at the Woodstock Fairgrounds Saturday,May 19 and Sunday,May 20. After all was said and done, more than $300,000 — and counting — was raised for For more photos, turn to page A18! the American Cancer Society. Students present plans Pennink wins Modified to improve their world Page A12 BY MERYL E WILLETT VILLAGER STAFF WRITER KILLINGLY— The 9th EVERDAY ECOLOGIST Annual Quinebaug Valley PAGE A5 Community College High School Manufacturing ROUND ROBIN Expo took place at the RELAYS QVCC campus on Friday, PAGE A7 May 18, featuring six high schools from the area — Plainfield High School, Putnam High School, Woodstock Academy, Tourtellotte Memorial High School, Quinebaug Middle College, and H.H. Ellis Technical High School. Each high school team was paired with a local business sponsor that helped guide the students through the process of cre- ating and then putting into Visit our website with Meryl E. Willett photo practice a manufacturing your smart phone or tablet Kenny Rodriguez and Albert Ware from the Quinebaug Valley Middle device! College show their poster depicting overall student health. Turn To EXPO page A16 Courtesy photo Just scan the “QR code” Rite Aid Corporation teamed up with the Children’s Miracle below with your device and Network last weekend to raise money with a softball tournament instantly be linked to our at the AM Vets Post 47 field in Brooklyn. website, www.villagernews- papers.com, where you can Town begins revaluation process read the PDF versions of BY MERYL E. WILLETT revaluations, which ended up are completed, while Teaming up for children our newspapers! It’s as easy VILLAGER STAFF WRITER as that! saving every participating Plainfield and Sterling will KILLINGLY — May marks town money. be completed on Oct. 1, at BY MERYL E. WILLETT their legion’s building the beginning of the 2013 “The revaluations are which time those town’s will VILLAGER STAFF WRITER Saturday, May 19. scheduled revaluation for the required by the state, and receive an updated grand list BROOKLYN — For three Seventeen volunteers town of Killingly, who has according to the state statute and will not be subject to years, Rite Aid Corporation were on hand for the day, joined in with the it needs to be done every five another revaluation for five has sponsored a softball selling T-shirts, hamburg- Northeastern Connecticut years. Since all of the towns years, explained Bonin. tournament for the ers, and hot dogs to benefit Council of Governments decided to contract out the Revaluation is an analysis Children’s Miracle Network the Children’s Miracle Regional Revaluation pro- same firm the revaluations of current market conditions in Brooklyn. Network, and as a special ject, along with the other 10 have been staggered over a with the resulting informa- With three participating addition to the regular towns of NECCOG, who all five-year period,” said tion being applied to appraise teams taking the field, AM fundraising tournament, decided to utilize the same Assessor Melissa Bonin. all the properties in town to Vets Post 47 hosted the event three former New England company to perform the Woodstock and Ashford Turn To REVALUATION page A17 on the softball fields by Turn To RITE AID page A17 A2 • Friday, May 25, 2012 KILLINGLY VILLAGER A letter from the War VILLAGER ALMANAC Do any of you know how Cottage not refrain from shedding a few tears Street in Danielson got its name? but ‘life is uncertain and Death is QUOTATION OF THE WEEK For those of you who are new to certain.’ I have been thinking for the area or are having trouble plac- KILLINGLY sometime past that I must prepare ing it, the street intersects Franklin for this great change for ‘What shall Street at the post office and goes to AT 300 a man profit if he gain the whole Broad Street. It seems that in the world and loose his own Soul.’ We “We appreciate you more than you could early 1800’s Solomon Sikes (our same had three funerals here last week ever know, whether you are a big or little captain of the militia company dur- MARGARET two were buried out of our team; whether you’ve raised a large dollar ing the War of 1812) moved from the WEAVER Reg…Lieutenant Colonel Ely of our Westfield section of Danielson and Reg. has been Promoted to Collonel amount or a small one. It all adds up, and built a small cottage on the easterly (sic) of the fourteenth Conn. Reg. He makes this a very successful year.” side of Broad Street, which was then Killingly and Northeastern went from here to take his command a main road to Plainfield (in the Connecticut left the area and migrat- yesterday.Col. Ely was a nice man he - Paul R. Desautels, Relay for Life of NECT Publicity 1830’s Hezekiah Danielson built a ed to New York, Ohio, and points was a Gentleman in every respect. Chairman, commenting on the participation in last week’s house that is still standing on the west. Marilyn receives letters from Our Reg. or most of them miss Relay for Life. property). all over the United States from indi- him…Our company in respect and The Danielson Manufacturing viduals whose families once lived in for the love we had for Col. Ely sub- Company, which opened about 1810, Killingly or Northeastern scribed seventy dollars toward get- BOOK REVIEW was situated on the Five Mile River. Connecticut. ting Colonel Ely a sword on which What probably started as a path from The hotter weather that we are will be engraved ‘Presented by the The QC Reads Edition Sikes’ cottage to the mill then having is a sure sign that summer is Soldiers of Windham County in Co. became Cottage Street (Westfield on its way. Memorial Day should be A., sixth Reg. Conn. Vol. To Col Wm From mid-April to mid-June libraries in the Quiet Corner are Congregational Church Records at much more than the beginning of G. Ely for the respect they showed hosting a ONE BOOK program, offering discussions and pro- Killingly Historical Center). summer. Especially since our coun- him as a Soldier and a Gentleman, grams on the themes of this year’s selected book – “The Even after I finished the May 18 try is commemorating the 150th Arnold Leach, Captain, Language of Flowers,” by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. column, Marilyn Labbe and I had anniversary of the Civil War, it Commanding.’ I gave one Dollar Copies of the book, audio and download editions are avail- continued to research Solomon seems most appropriate to ponder towards the Sword. You wish to able at area libraries. Sikes, which is how we came upon the sacrifice many young men from know how I fare here now I will tell Now 18 and emancipated from the foster care system, the above fact — and some other our area made so that our country you. We live very well now. We have Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where interesting tidbits. Did you know might remain united. In 1996 I had Soft Bread every day Beef and Pork she plants a small garden of her own. Soon a local florist dis- that people sold their church pews in the privilege of corresponding with every day Beens (sic) twice a week covers her talents, and Victoria realizes that she has a gift for the early 1800’s? On November 12, Walter Powell, the Preservation Fresh meat once a week. We are helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But a 1823 Solomon Sikes sold his pew in Officer of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. going to have a Fresh Meat soup for mysterious vendor at the flower market inspires her to ques- the Westfield Congregational He had acquired letters from a Diner with Soft Bread and plenty of tion what’s been missing in her life. And when she’s forced to Church (the 1796 one) to Elisha Killingly Civil War soldier named Tea & coffee morning and night confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide Cutler of Killingly. The deed Halsey Bartlett (Sixth Reg. Co. A Water at noon in fact we live as well whether it’s worth risking everything for a second chance at describes the location of the pew and Connecticut Volunteers) and was as can be expected for Camp life. We happiness. adjacent pew holders — William seeking more information about are going to have new tents and have Some read alikes include: Carder and John Danielson him. Research provided the fact that them all florred (sic). I have nothing “Girlchild,” by Tupelo Hassman (Killingly Land Records, Vo. 22, p.