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Adoptable Pets ............... 8

Book Review .................. 2

Classifieds ...................... 7

Community Calendar ...... 2

Fire Log .......................... 2

In Brief ........................... 4

Legal Notices ................. 7

Library Happenings ......... 2

Nuggets for Life ............. 6

Puzzles........................... 7

Region 15 School Calendar ...3

Senior Center News ........ 3

Sports Quiz .................... 6

Varsity Sports Calendar ... 6

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Felicity sheehy poetry Reading What: 2010 Westover graduate, Yale student and award-winning poet reads her poetryWhen: 7:30 p.m. Where: Westover School, Adams Library

Free concert with Edwin and Juan (and Anthony)snow date will be sunday, Feb. 2.What: Piano virtuoso Anthony Asmar joins Edwin Kotchian and Juan Andreu as they perform pop and folk tunes. When: 2:30 p.m. Where: Whittemore Public Library at 243 Church St. in Naugatuck

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The Region 15 Board of Educa-tion (BoE) on Jan. 13, 2014, ap-proved a new contract with the Pomperaug Administrators Asso-ciation (PAA) for the next three years: 2014-2015, 2015-2016, and 2016-2017. Contract agreement was reached during the mediation portion of the negotiations pro-cess.

The BoE gave the PAA salary increases of 2.2 percent in each year of the contract. They also gave a wellness program, and they increased professional dues to $350 from $200 per year.

The PAA accepted an increase in prescription co-pays to

$0/$25/$40 from $0/$15/$30, an increase in HSA premium cost share to 13, 14 and 15 percent from 12 percent in each succes-sive year of the contract, and elim-ination of longevity for new hires.

The BoE said it values the pos-itive working relationship exhib-ited by both sides, which allowed a fair and responsible settlement to be reached in a timely manner.

BoE chairperson Patricia Perry said, “I would like to thank Paul Babarik, in particular, who served as the board negotiations com-mittee chair, and Dr. John Sieller, who served as the PAA negotia-tions committee chair.”

BoE approves administrators’ contract

A mostly decorated tree

People driving by Shepardson Community Center in Middlebury may have wondered why the decorations on the tree out front don’t go all the way to the top of the tree. The upper quarter has lights, but no decorations. We asked Parks and Recreation Director Betty Proulx why the upper part of the tree has no decorations. She said the tree is now taller than the town’s 12-foot stepladder the staff has to stand on to hook decorations on the tree limbs. (Marjorie Needham photos)

By MARJORIE NEEDHAM

At its Tuesday night caucus, the Middle-bury Democratic Town Committee (MDTC) voted to endorse 25 candidates. There were no other nominations. Before the voting, member Stephen Ferrucci questioned the legality of holding a caucus.

Chairman Curtis Bosco said he was hold-ing the caucus as instructed by “state central.” Ferrucci, a former MDTC chairman, said holding a caucus violated the MDTC bylaws and constitution,. He said they supersede the state party rules, and he had informed state central of that in the past. While he was chairman, the MDTC followed its bylaws and constitution rather than the state party rules.

Bosco said he was following instructions from state central. Ferrucci said, “For the record, state central is not always right.” Bo-sco said the caucus would continue as planned.

Twenty-three of the current members were chosen to serve another two-year

term. The two new members are Ann Mer-riam Feinberg and Christian Yantorno. The addition of Feinberg brings the number of women on the MDTC to seven.

Feinberg did not attend the caucus, but a written biography states she is vice pres-ident of the Connecticut Community Foun-dation and has worked in development for more than 20 years. She also chairs the board of Simply Smiles, a nonprofit that helps impoverished children. Feinberg has lived in Middlebury since 1997.

Yantorno attended the meeting. He said he has been a registered Democrat since he was 18. He said he works for Mercer Health and Benefits as a health and welfare consultant to business firms, and he and his wife moved to Middlebury six years ago.

Members endorsed for another two years are Selectman Ralph Barra, Francis Barton Jr., Patrick Bona, Punyada Bhaduri, Curtis Bosco, Sharon Bosco, Brenda Carter, Mi-chael Culhane, Joseph Drauss, Robert Des-marais Sr., Patricia Fahey, Bryan Ferrucci,

Stephen Ferrucci III, Linda Herrmann, Thomas McCormack, Michael McVerry, James A. Petrauskas, Mark Petrucci, Ray-mond Petrucci, Thomas Proulx, Stephen Ruccio, Noa Miller and Anastasia Persico.

While more women serve on the Demo-cratic Town Committee than on the Repub-lican Town Committee, composition of the 25-member MDTC does not represent the town’s demographics. The town’s popula-tion is 48.5 percent male and 51.5 percent female (according to city-data.com) while the MDTC membership is 72 percent male and 28 percent female. This compares to the Republican percentages of 90.5 percent male and 9.5 percent female.

The newly endorsed MDTC candidates will become members in March, as will those endorsed last week by the MRTC. This newspaper incorrectly stated in last week’s issue that the MRTC would choose its offi-cers and appoint alternates for the next two years at its Jan. 14 meeting. They will do that at their March meeting.

By TERRENCE S. MCAULIFFE

The Middlebury Economic and Industrial Development Commission (EIDC) Monday night clarified objectives for its long-promised “Development Guidebook” and discussed architectural standards with Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Chairman Terry Smith. It also set 2014 meeting dates.

EIDC Co-chairman Michael Kenausis said he wanted the guidebook completed in the next three months. When it initially was proposed in May 2009, it was conceived as a “road map” for commercial develop-ment permits. The guidebook project went on the back burner when commissioners launched the tax incentive package and application forms in 2010 and began pro-cessing tax incentive applications and im-proving those procedures.

Kenausis said the guidebook will focus strictly on commercial development and helping those interested in starting or im-

proving businesses. He distributed a skel-etal Microsoft Word document to members and asked them to meet with the relevant town employees to flesh out the sections for which they are responsible based on assignments made in September 2012.

Commissioner Ted Manello said the 39 pages in the initial draft derived from Georgetown, Mass., were too lengthy and Kenausis agreed the Middlebury guidelines could be fewer pages if kept to the forms, procedures, timetables and fees of its reg-ulating departments. He asked members to have updates ready for the February meeting.

Discussing architectural standards, P&Z Chairman Terry Smith walked EIDC mem-bers through the Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD) sections concerning the Middlebury Center area along Route 64 between Bristol Park and Ledgewood Park. He asked members to review the document and provide feedback in the form of a letter

of general requirements. Smith said he wanted this to lead to a joint meeting with POCD author and town planner Brian Miller prior to the next and final public hearing so very specific and agreed-upon standards would emerge. Smith also ac-knowledged areas of Middlebury with dif-ferent architectural standards, such as Straits Turnpike and the Southford Road Gateway Industrial Design District. Manello and Commissioner Armando Paolino agreed to produce a draft letter for the Feb-ruary meeting.

In procedural matters, members unan-imously voted to continue holding regular EIDC meetings every fourth Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Shepardson Community Center. Kenausis said the room number had not been determined and might vary. There will be no Jan. 28 meeting because of mem-ber scheduling conflicts, so the next regular meeting will be Feb. 25.

caucus questioned, two members added to mDtc

EIcD addresses guidebook, architectural standards

By MARJORIE NEEDHAM

For many years, the Middlebury Public Library has been a member of Bibliomation, a consortium of Connecticut libraries that share centralized cataloging and a com-puter network. That was one of two relationships between the library and Bibliomation. The sec-ond was that Bibliomation was a tenant in rental space in the lower level of the library building.

The dual relationship began to unravel last year when Biblioma-tion chose not to renew its lease with the town and instead moved out of the library space. Now the library is cutting its ties to Biblio-mation; it has chosen not to con-tinue as a member of the consor-tium.

Instead, with approval from the Board of Selectmen, the library has entered a five-year agreement with a California company to pro-vide cataloging and computer software for the library. Library Director JoAnn LoRusso said the switch will provide a substantial cost savings for Middlebury tax-payers.

She said she has been research-ing the available integrated library automation systems over the past year-and-a-half to see which one would provide the best value for taxpayers’ dollars. She said the services are comparable, if not better, than those offered by Bib-liomation, and the savings with Auto-Graphics are substantial.

The first-year cost for Auto-Graphics is an estimated $8,015. The cost per year for years two through five is $3,515, for a total cost of $22,075 for five years.

A cost comparison chart sub-mitted to the Board of Selectmen listed Bibliomation, Auto-Graph-ics and a third company, Bywater Solutions. The total cost for each company for a five-year period was $44,064 for Bibliomation, $19,441 for Auto-Graphics, and $35,926 for Bywater. Bywater was eliminated from contention due largely to its cost.

The Auto-Graphics software, Verso, is listed as being state li-brary supported, which Bibliom-ation is not. Among the negatives listed for Bibliomation are fre-quent service downtimes, cost, consistent slowness, poor func-tionality of the open-source Ever-green software and the library having to pay Bibliomation for services it doesn’t need or use.

LoRusso said Auto-Graphics is a stable, family-owned com-pany. The software they offer is proprietary software compared to the open-source software of-fered by Bibliomation. “This means they are the only one pro-viding the product, so it is more stable and higher quality,” Lo-Russo said.

She said 43 Connecticut librar-ies are using Auto-Graphics’ Verso software compared to 60 Connecticut libraries using Bib-liomation and the open-source software, Evergreen.

Bibliomation requires a 180-day advance notice of termina-tion. LoRusso said she notified Bibliomation of the intended change Oct. 28, 2013, so the con-tract could end by June 30, 2014.

The new Verso software is ex-pected to be up and running no later than July 1, 2014. Asked how she thinks the switch to the new software, which is called a migra-tion, will go, LoRusso said, “We’ve experienced three migrations already (with Bibliomation). We will be up and running with Bib-liomation while Verso is getting up and running. It will be ready but won’t go live until Biblioma-tion ends. If we are up and run-ning and comfortable June 15, we might switch then, but Bib-liomation isn’t up until June 30.”

LoRusso said the switch will not impact library patrons, who still will be able to borrow books from other Connecticut libraries. She said she is working on a time frame for training library staff to work with the new software. She said she will work backwards from the anticipated switch date to create a time line. Auto-Graphics has a Connecticut rep-resentative who will train the Middlebury library staff.

The summary at the end of the packet the library provided to the Board of Selectmen says the li-brary decided on Auto-Graphics due to the overall cost savings, the fact it is an established, fam-ily-owned business that has been in operation for more than 50 years (compared to Bywater, which is a recent start-up) and the fact that Auto-Graphics is linked into ReQuest, the state-wide library catalog, thus allow-ing the library to remain inte-grated with other Connecticut libraries as it moves away from the consortium to an indepen-dent, non-consortium model.

Bye, bye, Bibliomation

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middleburyMovie screenings

The library is showing a movie with a life-changing theme every Wednesday at 1 p.m. this month. Every Friday at 1 p.m. (except Jan. 24), the library is showing a new movie recently released to DVD.

Please call the library at 203-758-2634 for specific movie titles to be shown. To suggest a movie for the film showings, please see Donna or Mike.

Story time drop-in Everyone is invited to stop in

and enjoy stories and music when children 3 and older meet Friday mornings at 10:30 a.m. Children age 2 may join if accom-panied by an adult. Registration is not required.

Library OlympicsThe library’s mini Olympics

for children 3 - 5 years old will be held Tuesday, Jan. 21, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., and the first library Olympics for children in grades kindergarten to four will be held Tuesday, Jan. 21, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Skating (in our indoor rink), building mini igloos, and a pen-guin toss are some of the sched-uled events. The library will supply all materials needed for this event. To reserve your space, please stop by the Children’s Desk or call the library at 203-758-2634.

3-D printer demoThe library will demonstrate

its MakerBot Replicator 3-D printer Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m. Michael Murphy, the library’s technology services librarian, will show how the printer oper-ates and explain how the library plans to use the device. No sign-up is required; just drop in.

Middle school masterminds

Middle schoolers in grades five to eight will create a board game for the library in two ses-sions that will meet Wednesdays, Jan. 22 and 29, at 3:30 p.m. They will plan and develop the board game and use the 3-D printer to make pieces for it.

Please plan on attending both sessions. When the game is com-pleted, library users will be able to check it out! For more infor-mation or to sign up, call 203-758-2634 or stop by the Chil-dren’s Desk.

Nonfiction book discussion

As part of its Library Life Long Learners program, the library will host a discussion of “Madame Curie: A Biography” by Eve Curie, led by Ron Clark, Thursday, Jan. 23, at 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room. The discussion will be fol-lowed by a showing of the movie, “Madame Curie,” in the Larkin Room Friday, Jan. 24, at 1 p.m.

Books are available at the li-brary. To register for this event, call 203-758-2634 or stop at the Information Desk.

The Middlebury Public Library is at 30 Crest Road. The telephone number is 203-758-2634, and the website is middleburypublicli-brary.org.

naugatuckMagic Carpet ReadersTuesday, Jan. 21, at 4 p.m.,

Magic Carpet Readers (grades one to three) will meet for the first time to discuss “Snowflake Bent-ley” by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. The book tells the story of a Ver-mont farm boy who grew up to become a scientist who discov-ered no two snowflakes are alike. Books are available from the li-brary. Readers will take part in a wintry craft, enjoy refreshments and take away the book for the next monthly meeting.

Whittemore book clubThe Whittemore Book Club will

meet Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Main Reading Room to dis-cuss “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore” by Robin Sloan.

Affordable Care Act information

Do you have questions or are you confused about the new Af-fordable Care Act? Meet with Richard Wood, a state-certified assister with CHOICES, Connecti-cut’s health and information as-sistance program, Tuesdays be-tween 12 and 4 p.m. to get infor-mation on Access Health CT, the state’s new health insurance mar-ketplace. All discussions are free and confidential.

Music with Edwin and Juan

Sunday, Jan. 26 (snow date Sunday, Feb. 2), at 2:30 p.m., Ed-win and Juan return to the library, this time joined by Western Con-necticut State University sopho-more and piano virtuoso, Anthony Asmar. This pop/folk trio of bar-itone and tenor voices will share

their dulcet harmonies on songs both original and covered!

MeditationThe ongoing meditation prac-

tice will meet Tuesday, Jan. 28, from 6 to 6:45 p.m. in the Reading Room. It consists of periods of meditation with time for discus-sion. Please arrive by 5:50 p.m. as they start on time.

The Howard Whittemore Me-morial Library is at 243 Church St. in Naugatuck. For information, call 203-729-4591 or visit whitte-morelibrary.org.

southburyWednesday movie

The Wednesday afternoon movie showing Jan. 22 at 1 p.m. in the Kingsley Meeting Room is based on a novel by Jack Schaefer. It is set in the Wyoming Territory of 1892, where railroads and other marks of civilization are putting an end to the Wild West. The focus is on two aging cowboys (Tom Selleck and Keith Carradine) as their free life-style and work options are disap-pearing and they are being forced to move on. Isabella Rossellini plays the love interest.

Due to licensing and copyright agreements, film titles cannot be listed. The room has surround-sound theater with a listening system available. This program is free and open to the public.

Free Kaplan practice exams

The library will host free prac-tice exams presented by Kaplan in January, March and May. An SAT practice exam will be offered Saturday, Jan. 18, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Participants are asked to bring a calculator and pencil. Snacks and drinks are allowed. Kaplan will notify each partici-pant of their results within a month via phone or email pro-vided the day of the exam.

Register at the Reference Desk or call 203-262-0626, ext. 130.

Drawpaintings exhibitA selection of Ron Crowcroft

drawpaintings is on display in the Gloria Cachion Gallery until Thursday, Feb. 27. Drawpainting is the process of using acrylic and oil-based paint markers on can-vas. The paintings are biomorphic abstractions in which faces, fig-ures, animals, birds, fish, eyes, internal organs and organic shapes may be seen embedded within the abstracted glyph-like forms. The Woodbury resident moved to the U.S. from England in 1982. He attended Leeds Poly-technic from 1973 to 1976, at that time the most radical art school in Europe.

For more information, call 203-262-0626 or visit www.south-burylibrary.org. The library is at 100 Poverty Road in Southbury.

WoodburyFounders and

economics discussion The next discussion of Ameri-

can founders and the principles of free market economics will be Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 7 p.m. in the

Gallery. Topics of discussion will be the soaring $17 trillion dollar national debt and $100 trillion of unfunded federal, state and mu-nicipal pension liabilities; the ris-ing cost of food and energy while the government says the rate of inflation remains low; and eco-nomic recovery and unemploy-ment. Health care also will be dis-cussed.

Each meeting presents a specific topic introduced by a video pre-sentation by either Larry Ann, pres-ident of Hillsdale College, or Gary Wolfram, professor of economics at Hillsdale College, who will pro-vide a brief review of each topic beginning with the founding prin-ciples of the American republic and an overview of how the economy works. A brief question-and-an-swer session facilitated by David Schultz will follow.

For more information, call Schultz at 203-233-0384, where you may leave a voice-mail message.

Teen book discussionThursday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m.,

teens are invited to enjoy a book discussion and cocoa in the teen department. Imagine being trapped in your high school during a bliz-zard. You can’t reach home, the power goes out and most of the school is locked up. That’s what the book “Trapped” by Michael Northrop is about. Copies are avail-able to check out at the library’s front desk.

Art tile talkPotter Linda Boston of Boston

Pot and Tile will discuss art tiles and the creative process of cre-ating three-dimensional tiles from clay on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. She will talk about the art of hand-building tiles, includ-ing her current work such as “The Central Park Series,” a collection of tiles recreated from stone carv-ings found throughout Central Park in New York City.

Her work has been published in “500 Tiles” and “Ceramic Art Tile for the Home,” and she has pieces in many prominent col-lections. In her pottery studio, Boston Pot and Tile in Woodbury, she creates custom-sculpted work for site-specific installations and also represents some of the best tile artists working today.

She works in stoneware and porcelain, and creates garden items in terra cotta. Examples of her work will be on display at the library talk. Boston teaches classes in tile making, pottery and hand-building techniques at her studio. Visit www.boston-potandtile.com.

Art exhibitJanuary’s exhibit in the gallery

features Molly Tate’s “An Illus-trated Life,” an art exhibit in wa-tercolor and oil. Tate has long facilitated journal workshops and several years ago began pub-lishing a magazine – Through the Window at Molly’s. The exhibit portrays her daily life in Wood-bury and in Storm Lake, Iowa, and her imagination.

For more information, call 203-263-3502 or visit www.woodburylibraryct.org. The li-brary is at 269 Main St. South in Woodbury.

Library Happenings

“Eleanor & Park”by Rainbow Rowell

(St. Martin’s Griffin, $18.99)Reviewed by Cindy Elavsky

“Eleanor & Park” tells the story of a school year (1986-87) in the life of the titular characters. The reader gets a bird’s-eye view (or should I say bus-eye view) from their first encounter and getting to know one another to their fall-ing in love. Don’t worry: It’s not a teen-angsty, cutesy book. Row-ell delves deep into the charac-ters of both Eleanor and Park, so much so they practically jump out of the page, sit next to you and read the book along with you (like Eleanor and Park do on their bus ride to school sharing a “Watchmen” comic).

Rowell perfectly captures the tentative awkwardness one feels as a teenager who isn’t quite used to her body, her hormones or the opposite sex. From the electricity of that first touch from someone you have feelings for – hoping upon hope he feels the same way – to the insecurity with one’s body and the topsy-turvy butterfly stomach of your first

kiss, Rowell expertly plumbs those adolescent depths.

Of course, it’s not all unicorns and butterflies. Eleanor has to deal with some major issues at home, as well as being the target of bullies at school. And Park’s issues stem from not feeling fully accepted by his macho father, or the town in general, since he doesn’t fit the All-American Boy standard.

I also have to mention the main characters’ (and Rowell’s) great taste in music. This book’s soundtrack will have you rushing to your iTunes account to buy some of these songs that you had only on cassette or vinyl 25 years ago and really want to hear again.

Rowell’s sophomore effort (her first novel is the superb “At-tachments”) is a dandy, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a wonderful story to lose themselves in.

(c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Monday, Jan. 20Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday .........All town offices closed

Tuesday, Jan. 21Commission on Aging9:30 a.m. ........................................................ Shepardson Room 26

Elderly Tax Relief Committee5:30 p.m. ........................................................ Shepardson Room 26

Board of Selectmen6 p.m. .................................................Town Hall Conference Room

Public Works Commission7 p.m. ............................................................... Shepardson Room 4

Water Pollution Control Authority7:30 p.m. ........................................................ Shepardson Room 26

Wednesday, Jan. 22Mental Health Support Group NAMI Waterbury7 - 8:30 p.m. ............................. Room 3D, 969 W. Main, Waterbury

Calendar dates/times are subject to change.If your organization would like your event included in the community calendar, please email the information to [email protected].

Date Time Address/Incident01-05 12:18 496 Charcoal Ave. FD called to fire alarm. On

arrival nothing showing. No one was home. Alarm company called two key holders, and both said they would not respond. FD did visual check of the outside of the residence. Nothing found.

01-07 17:25 Route 188. Motor vehicle accident with inju-ries. One vehicle into utility pole. One patient transported on advanced life support by Cam-pion.

01-07 19:17 North Street. Motor vehicle accident. FD only. No injuries.

01-08 11:12 390 Middlebury Road. Broken pipe due to the cold weather. Owner took care of issue.

01-08 16:33 530 Middlebury Road, Village Square. Water leak. Broken head on dry system. Stopped wa-ter leak and removed excess water from floor.

01-10 09:40 2132 Middlebury Road, Quassy. Confirmed false alarm. Dust in smoke detector from restaurant construction.

The Rev. Cheryl P. Anderson and Anne-Marie Davenport will lead an uplifting and in-depth book discussion series, “Feed Your Spirit,” at Gunn Memorial Library in Washington, Conn., starting Monday, Feb. 10, at 1:30 p.m. in the library’s Wykeham Room. The five-part series will focus on per-sonal and spiritual enlightenment. First in the series of books to be discussed is “Es-sential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind” by Roger Walsh, M.D., Ph.D. (foreword by his Holiness the Dalai Lama).

Based on more than 20 years of research and spiritual practice, this is a groundbreak-ing and life-changing book. In his decades of study, the author has discovered that each of the great spiritual traditions has both a common goal and seven common practices to reach that goal: recognizing the sacred and divine that exist both within and around us.

Filled with stories, exercises, meditations, myths, prayers and practical advice, “Essen-tial Spirituality” shows how you can integrate these seven principles into one truly reward-ing way of life in which kindness, love, joy, peace, vision, wisdom and generosity be-come an ever-growing part of everything you do.

Rev. Cheryl P. Anderson is pastor of the First Congregational Church of Washington, Conn. Her own eclectic spiritual journey ultimately led to a master’s degree in divin-ity from Andover-Newton Theological

School and ordination in the United Church of Christ. She has led the church in Wash-ington for 17 years.

Anderson has led adult studies in the his-tory of Christianity and the Bible as well as studies of other faiths, including Buddhism, Islam and Judaism. She is certified to lead contemplative prayer groups and retreats and regularly leads spiritual practice groups at the church. She has had training in tran-scendental meditation, vipassana, zazen

and centering prayer, and her own 40-year meditation practice utilizes what she has learned from all of them to keep her spirit well fed.

Davenport is a spiritual and bereavement care coordinator for hospice and a minister at the First Congregational Church in Wash-ington, Conn. She holds a master’s degree in divinity from Yale Divinity School and a graduate certificate in women’s leadership from Hartford Seminary.

She has facilitated spirituality, bereave-ment and book groups in both church and institutional settings. Davenport likes to describe herself as “a spiritual mutt” and a Catholic-Evangelical-Congregational yogi. Her spirituality is formed from many faith traditions – Kundalini yoga, life experiences, the 12 steps and her work as a minister. She is interested in and open to everyone’s jour-ney. She lives in Washington with her hus-band Jim and their four children.

Copies of the books will be provided by the library and will be available at the cir-culation desk prior to each discussion. Dates for subsequent discussions are Monday, March 10; Monday, April 14; Monday, May 12; and Monday, June 9, all at 1:30 p.m.

This program is free and open to the pub-lic. Registration is requested. Please call the library at 860-868-7586 for more information or visit www.gunnlibrary.org. The Gunn Memorial Library and Museum is at 5 Wyke-ham Road at Route 47 on the Green, in Wash-ington, Conn.

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Commission on AgingThe next Commission on

Aging meeting will be Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 9:30 a.m. All are wel-come to attend.

Free education for seniors

Naugatuck Valley Community College (NVCC) invites seniors to further their education at no cost. Tuition, general fees and the application fee are waived for Connecticut residents 62 and older on a space-available basis. Students are responsible for costs associated with supplies for spe-cific courses. Credit classes begin Wednesday, Jan. 22.

Senior citizens may register for credit courses between Wednes-day, Jan. 22, and Wednesday, Jan. 29, and have their general fund tuition and fees waived.

Those who have never been a credit student at NVCC will need

to fill out a college application in the admissions office located in room K500.

Cooking demonstrationElizabeth Petruccione, creator

of “Losing Weight with Eliza-beth,” will demonstrate how to cook and enjoy a low-calorie meal Monday, Jan. 27, at 11 a.m. The menu will be chicken thighs with lemon and rosemary, red potatoes, string beans, and apple tart for dessert, for a total calorie count of 450.

Watch Petruccione prepare this meal and stay to sample the results. Please call 203-577-4166 to reserve your seat.

Computer classesThe senior center offers four-

week and eight-week computer courses on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Call the senior center at 203-577-4166 to find

out when sessions will begin. One-on-one lessons also are available, subject to availability of time, Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. by appointment only. The fee is $15 per hour.

A course also will be offered for those interested in learning basic fundamentals on the Apple Mac subject to availability of time. The fee is $15 per hour.

For more information, call the senior center at 203-577-4166 between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Mon-day through Friday.

Trips

Painted Pony Restaurant

As part of the Senior Dine lunch program, the senior center mini-bus will go to the Painted Pony Restaurant in Bethlehem Friday, Jan. 24. You must have a Senior Dine card to participate.

If you do not have a card, stop by the senior center office to get one. If you want to go to the Painted Pony, call 203-577-4166 to reserve a seat.

Middlebury senior Center news

The Medicare Hospital Com-pare website now provides infor-mation about hospital safety in two areas especially important to seniors: prevention of Clostridium difficile infections and methicillin-resistant Staph-ylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood-stream infections. It gathered this information through the Na-tional Healthcare Safety Network at the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention.

C. diff, as it’s called, can be life-threatening, as it causes se-vere diarrhea, which causes de-hydration. It can develop after taking a course of antibiotics or being in a hospital. The spores that cause the illness can stay on surfaces – bed railings, counters, telephones – for months. Accord-ing to the Mayo Clinic, more than a half million people get C. diff every year, and it’s very difficult to treat. Seniors age 65 and older are 10 times more susceptible to C. diff.

MRSA isn’t a walk in the park either. It’s a staph infection that resists the antibiotics usually used to treat it. The infection can spread all over the body. It’s usu-ally seen in people who have been in hospitals or other health-care settings, or who have had

invasive procedures.In other words, both of these

illnesses are serious and poten-tially life-threatening.

If you have your choice of hos-pitals for a procedure, don’t you want the one that’s more likely to keep you safe from infections?

Go to the Hospital Compare site (www.medicare.gov/hospi-talcompare) and enter your ZIP code. You can click up to three hospitals to compare. Click Com-pare Now and then click Read-missions, Complications and Death. Click Healthcare Associ-ated Infections.

The information that’s posted now covers only the first three months of 2013, but check back in April 2014 for updates on the next six months.

Matilda Charles regrets she cannot personally answer reader questions, but she will incorpo-rate them into her column when-ever possible. Send email to [email protected].


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Friday, Jan. 17Exams - Day 4 ....................................................................7 - 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, Jan. 18No Events Scheduled

Sunday, Jan. 19No Events Scheduled

Monday, Jan. 20Martin Luther King Jr. Day ........................ Schools are not in session

Tuesday, Jan. 21Teacher In-Service Full Day ...........................No school for studentsMES PTO Family Day at Coco Key Resort

Wednesday, Jan. 22No Events Scheduled

Thursday, Jan. 23ELA CCSS ............................................................................ 7 - 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 24First Day of Semester 2RMS Art Enrichment Trip to Wadsworth Athenaeum .......8:30 a.m.

Saturday, Jan. 25No Events Scheduled

Region 15 website: www.region15.org

Falls Avenue Senior Center events for area adults 55 and older follow. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 860-945-5250. Please speak with a staff member when calling as the senior center does not accept voice-mail reserva-tions. The center is at 311 Falls Ave. in Oakville, Conn.

Exercise classThe center’s strength, sculpt

and tone exercise class is meeting each Monday in January at 9:30 a.m. While sculpting and improv-ing strength and balance, partici-pants work muscles to tone them and get some cardiovascular train-ing at the same time. Please regis-ter by the Friday before each class. For information about sponsoring the class, contact Catherine Dins-more at 860-945-5250.

Bible studyNew Hope Anglican Church

offers a nondenominational Bible study every Friday at 10 a.m. at the center. Join other seniors for the study and discussion. Reservations are not required.

Social services assistance

Social services assistance for adults 55 years old and older is available at the center Wednesday, Jan. 22, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Jim Dunn from the Western CT Area Agency on Aging will provide one-on-one assistance with social ser-vices questions and needs. Reser-vations are not required.

Cooking classChef and wedding planner

Corky Plourde will lead her next cooking class Thursday, Jan. 23, at 9:30 a.m. The class is a favorite monthly event for many. Her rec-ipes are healthy, easy to prepare and affordable. Reservations are needed by Jan. 21.

Magic workshopJoe Lantiere returns for a second

Very Tricky Magic Workshop Fri-day, Jan. 24, at 2 p.m. Learn a few magic tricks to amaze your friends and family. Reservations are needed by Jan. 23.

Reflexology sessionMonday, Jan. 27, beginning at

8:30 a.m., certified reflexologist Kim Stewart will offer 20-minute reflexology sessions for your hands or feet. The cost is $15. Reserva-tions are needed by Jan. 24.

HorseshoesWhy wait for summer to play

horseshoes? Join others at the cen-ter for a few games of indoor horse-shoes Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 2 p.m.

Meet town council members

Meet with members of the town council Thursday, Jan. 30, at 9:30 a.m. This is an opportunity to ask questions and voice opinions. Res-ervations are needed by Jan. 29.

Callers neededThe center is in need of volun-

teers to call bingo and Po-Ke-No. If you are interested in helping, please contact Catherine Dinsmore at 860-945-5250. Pokeno is played each Monday from 1 to 3 p.m., and bingo is played each Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m.

Training to improve cognitive abilities in older people lasted to some degree 10 years after the training program was completed, according to results of a random-ized clinical trial supported by the National Institutes of Health. The findings showed training gains for aspects of cognition involved in the ability to think and learn, but researchers said memory training did not have an effect after 10 years.

The report, from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Indepen-dent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study, appears in the January 2014 issue of the Journal of the Amer-ican Geriatrics Society.

“Previous data from this clin-ical trial demonstrated that the effects of the training lasted for five years,” said National Institute on Aging Director Richard J. Hodes, M.D. “Now, these longer- term results indicate that partic-ular types of cognitive training can provide a lasting benefit a decade later. They suggest that we should continue to pursue cognitive training as an interven-tion that might help maintain the mental abilities of older people

so that they may remain indepen-dent and in the community.”

“ACTIVE is an important exam-ple of intervention research aimed at enabling older people to main-tain their cognitive abilities as they age,” said National Institute of Nursing Research Director Patricia Grady, Ph.D. “The aver-age age of the individuals who have been followed over the last 10 years is now 82. Given our na-tion’s aging population, this type of research is an increasingly high priority.”

The original 2,832 volunteers for the ACTIVE study were divided into three training groups – mem-ory, reasoning and speed-of-pro-cessing – and a control group. The training groups participated in 10 60- to 70-minute sessions over five to six weeks, with some ran-domly selected for later booster sessions. The study measured effects for each specific cognitive ability trained immediately fol-lowing the sessions and at one, two, three, five and 10 years after the training.

The investigators were also in-terested in whether the training had an effect on the participants’

abilities to undertake some every-day and complex tasks of daily living. They assessed these using standardized measures of time and efficiency in performing daily activities, as well as asking the participants to report on their ability to carry out everyday tasks ranging from preparing meals, housework, finances, health care, using the telephone, shopping, travel, and needing assistance in dressing, personal hygiene and bathing.

At the end of the trial, all groups showed declines from their base-line tests in memory, reasoning and speed of processing. How-ever, the participants who had training in reasoning and speed of processing experienced less decline than those in the memory and control groups. Results of the cognitive tests after 10 years show that 73.6 percent of reason-ing-trained participants were still performing reasoning tasks above their pre-trial baseline level com-pared to 61.7 percent of control participants, who received no training and were only benefiting from practice on the test. This same pattern was seen in speed

training: 70.7 percent of speed-trained participants were per-forming at or above their baseline level compared to 48.8 percent of controls. There was no difference in memory performance between the memory group and the control group after 10 years.

Participants in all training groups said they had less difficulty performing the everyday tasks compared with those in the con-trol group. However, standard tests of function conducted by the researchers showed no difference in functional abilities among the groups.

The ACTIVE study followed healthy, community-dwelling older adults from six cities — Bal-timore; Birmingham, Ala.; Boston; Detroit; State College, Pa.; and Indianapolis. The participants averaged 74 years of age at the beginning of the study and 14 years of education, 76 percent were female, 74 percent were white, and 26 percent were Afri-can-American. The 10-year fol-low-up was conducted with 44 percent of the original sample between April 1998 and October 2010.

cognitive ability training benefits linger

Phylis Schaar of Oakville, far right, presents the National Youth Award from the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) to members of the Charles Merriman Society, Children of the American Revolution (CAR), back, left to right, Lauren Burger of Naugatuck, Alec Marshall and Liza Marshall of Watertown, and Caileigh Murray of New Caanan and front, left to right, Londyn Burger of Naugatuck and Anna Nichols and Molly Nichols of Prospect. The award, which was a surprise, was sent to the CAR members by Armithea “Sissy” Boral, national president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW, for the members’ ongoing support of the military and their families over the years. (Submitted photo)


Sheehy poetry readingFelicity Sheehy, an award-win-

ning poet attending Yale Univer-sity, will read her poetry at West-over School’s Adams Library Friday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. Sheehy is a member of Westover’s Class of 2010. The reading is open to the public.

Sheehy was the first-place re-cipient of the 2013 Williams-Mys-tic Joseph Conrad Essay Prize, was a national semifinalist in poetry for the 2013 Norman Mailer College Writing Awards, and received the 2013 Tristan Perlroth Prize for summer foreign travel. In 2012, she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and received the Kingsley Trust Prize for Sum-mer Foreign Travel. In 2011, she received the Bloch Prize for the Best Freshman Essay at Yale.

As a recipient of the Maynard Mack Fellow in the Humanities, Sheehy was one of six Yale soph-omores awarded $6,000 grants for self-directed projects. Through her grant, she traveled to Scotland to research the poet George Mackay Brown and wrote a poetry chapbook in the Orkney Islands off the Scottish coast. In 2012, she was one of five students named a Connecticut Student Poet, taking part in a college tour to read their work at six venues. Her poetry has been published in Third Wednesday, Connecticut Review, The Kenyon Review, Bro-ken Bridge Review, and Long River Run, and will be published this year in The New Republic and The Innisfree Poetry Journal.

Sunday knitting sessions

Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust will hold a series of Sunday afternoon knitting work-shops starting Sunday, Jan. 19, from 2 to 4 p.m. at The Studio at 5 Church Hill Road in Woodbury. All levels of knitters are invited and are welcome to bring a proj-ect, enjoy each other’s company, and share ideas and experiences.

For those new to knitting, in-formation and instruction will be offered to get them started on this rewarding and creative hobby. Future knitting gather-ings will be held at the same time the third Sunday of each month through April. Dates are Feb. 16, March 16 and April 20. Tea and cookies will be served. A dona-tion to Flanders of $5 a person for each session would be wel-come. To reserve a place in the Jan. 19 group, call 203-263-3711, ext. 10.

Quilts That CareQuilts that Care, an organiza-

tion that makes quilts for people who undergo cancer treatment, will meet Monday, Jan. 20, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Harold Leever Regional Cancer Center at 1075 Chase Parkway in Water-bury. Donations of fabric shop gift cards, 100-percent cotton fabric, quilting materials and gallon Ziploc bags are being ac-cepted. Volunteers are welcome. For information, call Deb at 860-945-0184 or email [email protected].

Health care enrollment assistance

The Jewish Federation of Western Connecticut will host an enrollment assistance day for the public for the Affordable Care

Act Wednesday, Jan. 22, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. at 444 Main St. North in Southbury. Chelley Pi-erre, a licensed assister with StayWell Health Center, will help clients, by appointment only, navigate the ACA qualification and enrollment process. All cli-ent information remains confi-dential, and enrollment data are entered using a state-issued, authorized computer. All insur-ance options, available subsidies and resources available to HUSKY and Medicaid-eligible clients will be presented.

The Affordable Care Act does not impact seniors enrolled in Medicare. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please contact Pierre, the out-reach and enrollment specialist, at 203-756-8021, ext. 3550.

Visit Sacred Heart Academy

Sacred Heart Academy in Hamden, an independent Cath-olic college preparatory school for young women in grades nine to 12, invites prospective stu-dents and their parents to its “Visit Sacred Heart and Enjoy Coffee with the President” event Monday, Jan. 27, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Academy at 265 Ben-ham St. in Hamden. The event is part of “Welcome Week” – an initiative of the Archdiocese of Hartford when Catholic schools across the state will open their doors and create opportunities for prospective families to visit.

All are welcome to attend. It is not necessary to call in ad-vance. Tours of the school will be offered by Sacred Heart stu-dents. For more information or to learn about the admissions process, contact Elaine Lambo-ley, director of admission, at 203-288-2309, ext. 307, or visit www.sacredhearthamden.org.

Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic college preparatory school founded in 1946 by the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, successfully prepares young women in grades nine to 12 for learning, service and achievement in a global society.

Seed starting classSunday, Feb. 2, from 1 to 3

p.m., Cynthia Rabinowitz will teach seed starting at The Center for Sustainable Living at 90 Cab-bage Lane in Bethlehem, Conn. Time will be split between the classroom and the greenhouse.

Learn about the correct type of seed-starting medium (soil) to use, both purchased and home-made ones; suitable containers; the temperatures, light, watering and fertilizing needs for germi-nating and growing seeds; and how to provide these necessities. Hardening off and transplanting also will be discussed.

The class fee is $25. Some time will be spent outside, so please dress accordingly. Hot and cold beverages and snacks will be provided. For more information, contact Rabinowitz at [email protected] or 203-266-5595.

To register for the class and see a list of all 2014 classes, visit www.connsoil.com.

Free understanding mental illness courseThe National Alliance on

Mental Illness of Connecticut (NAMI-Connecticut) will spon-sor a free 12-week educational course on mental illness for fam-ily members and loved ones of people who have a mental ill-ness. To date, more than 300,000 family members across the coun-try have completed the 12-week course.

Topics covered in the class include the latest brain research, problem solving, communica-tion skills, medication review, empathy workshop, diagnosis and dealing with critical periods, rehabilitation services, advo-cacy, and fighting stigma. The classes are intended to help par-ticipants understand and sup-port their loved one’s illness while they learn how to maintain their own well-being.

Classes will be in Naugatuck beginning Thursday, Feb. 6, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. There is no charge for the classes, but preregistra-tion is required. Please call Ter-rilynn at 203-881-2707 for more information and to register.

Easter Seals volleyball benefit

A single-day indoor volleyball tournament for all skill levels will be held Saturday, March 1, at the Connecticut Sports Center in Woodbridge, Conn., to benefit Easter Seals. The entry fee is $250 per team. Save $50 with paid reg-istration by Feb. 11. For informa-tion or to register, contact Car-olee Kalita at 203-754-5141, ext. 243, or Mike Shirling at 203-385-7306.

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Republicans encourage women to applyTo the Editor:

Last week this newspaper re-ported the election of our local Republican Party town commit-tee members for the two-year term starting in March. While we, as a committee, were pleased with the outcome, the article headlined the composition of the committee as being dispropor-tionately male and pointed out how it didn’t even come close to representing Middlebury’s 51.5 percent female demographic.

I could not agree more with the article and hope female read-ers are motivated to consider such public service as a way of getting involved and helping to shape our government. In the last municipal election in No-vember, four of the 15 candidates for local office were female, a percentage of 26.6 percent.

In the 258 positions in current Middlebury government, 177 are men and 81 are women, for a female percentage of 31. This is comparable to the 29 percent women in the Connecticut leg-islature and better than the 18.5 percent women in U.S. Congress, but far from the 50 percent that it could be for balanced repre-sentation.

Without question there is more to be done, but the respon-sibility is shared between our committee asking and your will-ingness to volunteer. Our Repub-lican town committee has sub-

mitted several notices asking for volunteers as well as a letter to the editor and paid advertise-ment in the May 2013 Bee-Intel-ligencer that included my per-sonal phone number in addition to email and regular mail ad-dresses. Sadly, I did not receive a single call or email as a result of this outreach.

I know it is difficult in today’s society to find volunteers be-cause both parents work, and the work is often out of town with long hours. Our political com-mittee, and most other Middle-bury committees, does not re-quire a huge commitment of time but only the promise to attend meetings and contribute your experience.

Our meetings are once a month on the second Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Shepardson Com-munity Center, and they gener-ally last an hour. Most other town committees have similar sched-ules and commitments. I believe a good way for you to get started is to attend meetings as an ob-server and listen to how your government works. Once you’re comfortable, I think you’ll want to volunteer. Public service is a great way to increase your polit-ical knowledge, and it will be a good life influence on your chil-dren as well.

Please visit middleburygop.com and email me at [email protected] if you wish to get involved.

Sincerely, Tom King

Vice-Chairman, Middlebury Republican Town Committee



Spend your money locally

We are old enough to remem-ber the days before the now-ubiq-uitous big box stores and chain stores. In the town where we grew up, we didn’t have a CVS or a Walgreen’s or a Rite-Aid. We had Snow’s Pharmacy, owned by Mr. Snow. And we had Richardson’s Drugs, owned by Mr. Richardson. We bought our clothes at Nourse’s, a store owned by a local family, and businessmen bought their suits, shirts and ties at the

Men’s Store, also owned by a res-ident. When we spent our money at these stores, it went into the pockets of local folks who turned around and spent that money in the community.

Then the big box stores came on the scene. We remember Globe and Bradlees, although both are gone now. In their place we have Wal-Mart, Kmart, TJ Maxx, Marshall’s, Kohl’s and more. At first they seemed too good to be true. Their prices were lower than what we had been paying at our small, locally owned stores, so we flocked to them and we spent our money

there. Part of that money re-turned to our community through local folks employed at the stores, but most of it went out of our community and into cor-porate coffers in some distant state.

Now the small, locally owned businesses we knew growing up are gone. They are gone because people chose to spend their money elsewhere. If we want to preserve our small, locally owned businesses, we must support them financially.

That’s why we ask you to sup-port the businesses that advertise with us. They are mostly small

businesses owned by local folks. They will continue to exist only as long as you spend your money on their products or services.

This newspaper is a small business, too. Our advertisers support us by spending their money with us instead of spend-ing it elsewhere. We depend on you to support them and us by choosing to spend your dollars locally. If you choose to do oth-erwise, you risk losing your local small businesses one by one. Then you won’t have a choice about where to spend your money. Your only option will be a big-box chain store.

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Felicity Sheehy


Prepare before your resolution begins

Putting thought into your reso-lutions before you spring into ac-tion can put you on the path to change. Starting early with a few small changes can also improve your odds of staying the course to achieve your goals.

For example, if you’re looking to improve your financial health, begin by imagining a debt-free life. Visualizing how things may change can provide additional motivation you may need to move forward. Think about having more money available each month and how it would change your stress levels. Imagine what it would be like to not worry about meeting your pay-ments, or saving more for retire-ment, education or emergencies. Thirty percent of survey respon-dents said they identify their New Year’s resolutions early as a way to stick with them throughout the year.

Develop an action planIt’s fine to make a resolution,

but the odds of sticking with it im-prove dramatically if you create an action plan of smaller steps to sup-port your goals. If your number one resolution is to lose weight, your plan might include budgeting money for a gym membership and cleaning out any junk food from your pantry. Creating a budget? Start by tracking your spending to see where the money is going. Then create a budget that’s tight but workable, to give you more flexibility to pay down debt, in-crease savings or invest for retire-ment. If you have to carry a bal-ance, but want to responsibly manage your credit card, consider a card that helps build positive habits. For example, Bank of Amer-ica’s Better Balance Rewards card pays you to manage your credit card use. Every quarter that you pay more than your minimum bal-ance on time, you earn $25 cash back. If you have at least one other

qualifying account with Bank of America, you can receive another $5 bonus, totaling up to $30 a quar-ter. You’ll be eligible for up to $120 a year toward your balance, and you’ll feel better knowing how much you can spend each month.

Write it downForty percent of survey respon-

dents say they use written remind-ers to help stay on track with their resolutions. Try writing your res-olutions on Post-it notes, in Ever-note, in calendar reminders or on notes stuck to the refrigerator – whatever you’ll look at regularly – to keep yourself committed and on track. Research shows that a written goal is more likely to be achieved. If your goal is managing your finances better, write a re-minder on your daily calendar to check your credit card statements as they come in – it’s the best way to spot transactions you don’t rec-ognize.

Get a little help from your friends

Sometimes a gentle reminder from a family member or friend can work wonders. Share your res-olutions with a trusted person and ask for occasional reminders. Some 23 percent of survey respon-dents plan to enlist help this way. A friend may be able to coax you into going to the gym, or even talk you out of buying that handbag you’ve been eying that’s out of your budget. The key to cutting debt is to stop adding to it. If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

Partner upFind a friend or loved one with

the same resolution, and agree to motivate and support one another to stick to your goals. It’s easier to manage a diet, exercise plan or budget if you have support. Twenty percent of respondents plan to partner up to keep to their resolu-tions.

Start your New Year’s resolu-tions thinking today, and keep the big goals in mind every day, whether they aim for better health, sounder finances or better rela-tionships. With the right attitude and commitment, 2014 could be a very good year.

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Obituaries

How are you doing so far on your financial New Year’s resolu-tions to lower your expenses? It’s the little things that will add up to big money over the course of a year. Grab a calculator and do the math.

Are you still buying a trenta mocha frappuccino on the way to work? Coffee purchased five days a week at 52 weeks comes to $1,300 if the coffee costs $5. Tack on another $900 if you add a breakfast sandwich to go. (How many mortgage or car payments is that $2,200?)

Vending-machine snacks at $2 a day comes to more than $500.

A $7 lunch special adds some $1,800 to your yearly expenses.

A $25 bestseller purchased ev-ery month comes to $300; you could save if you get your books from the library instead.

Here are everyday tactics to find extra money:• To pay off credit-card debt a bit

faster, forgo one movie and din-ner out, rent a flick, fix snacks

at home and put that extra money on the card payment at the end of the month. (This is especially helpful if you’re in shock when you look at the hol-iday credit-card statements that have come in.)

• Don’t buy the sweater or pair of jeans that catches your eye, even if on sale; instead, send the extra money with your mort-gage check as a principal pay-ment.

• At the grocery store, ask when the hot foods at the deli counter are discounted to half price. Chances are it’s 30 minutes be-fore the deli closes.

• Try house brands of food. You might be surprised.

• Go online and use this as your

search parameter: save money. Browse the millions of hits and pick a few ideas that sound like things you’d actually try.

• Drop all your change into a jar and let it add up for a year. Run it through a coin counter at your bank where they won’t charge you a percentage.

• See something at a store that you just have to have? Wait. Think about it for a whole day.

• Plan ahead. Keep track of birth-days and other gift-giving occa-sions and buy when you see something priced well. You’ll save rushing around at the last minute and paying more than you really want to.

• If a yearlong savings plan is too big to contemplate, break it into monthly or even weekly goals.David Uffington regrets he can-

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Julio H. DaSilva Jr.Owner of DaSilva Auto

Mr. Julio H. DaSilva Jr., 64, of N a u g a t u c k , passed away surrounded by his children at Yale-New Haven

Hospital on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014. He was the husband of Dolores G. (Moco) DaSilva.

Mr. DaSilva was born in Mur-tosa, Portugal, July 5, 1949, a son of Maria DaSilva and the late Julio DaSilva. He was a longtime Naugatuck resident and the owner of DaSilva Auto in Naug-atuck. He was an avid soccer fan and enjoyed hunting. He was a car enthusiast, especially Mini Coopers. He enjoyed spending time by the ocean and observing his koi pond. He was a member of the Portuguese Club of Naug-atuck and a communicant of Our Lady of Fatima Church.

Besides his wife of 42 years and his mother of Naugatuck, he leaves his son, John C. DaSilva and his wife, Sabrina, of Water-bury; daughter, Anamarie Barrett and her husband, Richard, of Southbury; three brothers, Joa-quim DaSilva and Jamie DaSilva, both of Naugatuck, and Carlos DaSilva of New Jersey; two sis-ters, Carolina Coelho of Nauga-tuck and Maria Julia Mariano of New Jersey; his grandchildren, Haeley, Brayden, and Sadey Bar-rett and Nellina and John Julio DaSilva; and several nieces and nephews.

The family would like to thank everyone involved in caring for Julio.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday, Jan. 18, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Fatima Church at 2071 Baldwin Street in Waterbury. Friends are asked to meet directly there at 9:45 a.m. Calling hours will be today, Fri-day, from 5-8 p.m. at the Naug-atuck Valley Memorial/Fitzger-ald Zembruski Funeral Home at 240 North Main Street in Naug-atuck.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter, 2075 Silas Deane Hwy, Suite 100, Rocky Hill, CT 06067. To send an online condolence, please visit www.naugatuckvalleymemorial.com.

Theresa A. (Rykowski) Hoppe

Sister of Helen DiStasio

Theresa A.(Ryk-owski) Hoppe, 84, of Naugatuck passed away Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, at Saint Mary’s Hospital.

Theresa was born in New Jer-sey Oct. 18, 1929, a daughter of the late Anthony and Helen (Kwasniewski) Rykowski. She was a longtime Naugatuck resi-dent and had worked at Seth Thomas Clock Company, Heminway Bartlett Company, as well as various other companies. She enjoyed her family and friends, polka dancing, bowling and traveling throughout New England. Mrs. Hoppe was a com-municant of St. Vincent Ferrer Church and a member of the Ladies Guild.

She leaves her son, Gary E. Hoppe and his wife, Cathleen, of Hopkinton, Mass.; her two sis-ters, Helen DiStasio of Middle-

bury and Clara Cote of Southing-ton; her close friend, Dan Vanotti; her former husband, Howard E. Hoppe; her two grand-daugh-ters, Kristen and Kathleen Hoppe; and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her daughter, Lynda Hoppe Cavagnaro, and several brothers and sisters.

A Mass of Christian Burial is being held today, Friday, Jan. 17, at 11a.m. at St. Vincent Ferrer Church at 1006 New Haven Road in Naugatuck. Please meet at the church at 10:45a.m. Burial will follow in St. James Cemetery on Cross Street in Naugatuck.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Naugatuck Valley Memo-rial/Fitzgerald Zembruski Fu-neral Home in Naugatuck. In lieu of flowers, memorial contribu-tions can be made to VNA Hos-pice, 50 Brookside Road, Water-bury, CT 06708. To send an online condolence, visit www.naugatuckvalleymemorial.com.

Enes M. RackiLoving mother, grandmother

and great-grandmother

Mrs. Enes (Du-rante) Racki, 96, of Middlebury, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, at the Mid-dlebury Conva-

lescent Home surrounded by her loving family. She was the be-loved wife of the late Eugene “Teddy” Racki.

Enes was born in Waterbury Nov. 7, 1917, a daughter of the late John and Elsie (Violante) Durante and was a sales clerk at Worth’s Department Store for many years until her retirement. She was a parishioner of Blessed Sacrament Church and was in-volved in many of the church’s activities.

She leaves her children, Jean O’Connor of Palm Beach Gar-dens, Fla.; John Racki and his wife, Raffaele, of Prospect; Terry Racki and his wife, Dana, of Mid-dlebury; grandchildren: Jillian Fernandez and her husband, Lee; Adriana Racki; Raffaele Ban-ner and her husband, Chris; and Nicholas Moffo and his wife, Mary; great-grandchildren: Nicholas, Richard, Jackson and Makenzie; her sister, Lillian “Lily” Zarella of Plantation, Fla.; and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brothers, Armand and Guido Durante.

The funeral was Jan. 13 from the Chase Parkway Memorial Funeral Home/The Albini Fam-ily Funeral Home in Waterbury to Blessed Sacrament Church for a Mass. Burial followed at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Watertown. For more info or to send e-con-dolences, visit www.chasepark-waymemorial.com.

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(Family Features) With the new year underway, there is a heavy focus around resolutions. Whether you are making a resolution to celebrate a fresh start or looking to make a change no matter the time of year, maintaining resolutions can be difficult. In fact, a recent Bank of America survey found that 49 percent of respondents don’t make New Year’s resolutions because they prefer to set goals throughout the year.

Goals tied to the new year, and those set at various points in the year, all are aimed at making significant life changes. According to the survey, 81 percent of resolutions involve health and fitness, 45 percent involve personal finances and 30 percent are targeted toward making changes in social life and relationships. With the large number of people planning to make changes in their finances, it is helpful to determine how to best ensure you achieve your goal.

“I’ll be the first to admit keeping to a financial resolution takes a lot of hard work. It takes good behavior and good habits,” said Farnoosh Torabi, a consumer finance expert. “With life being so complicated, stressful and complex, we often abandon them. Get the systems in place – the small steps you need to take now – to help you get on the right track.”

Research shows consumers who understand their behaviors and motivations are more likely to build and keep positive habits for the long term. That’s why it’s so important to have strategies to keep those financial resolutions throughout the year. A few pointers to stick with your financial resolutions include:

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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Will you please do a column on shingles? I have gone through 12 weeks of the nastiest, worst illness possi-ble. I never hear anything on TV about it. – J.C.ANSWER: I’ll have another go at shingles. Others probably think I overdo it. But it’s such a com-mon problem of older people that it deserves repetition.

Shingles is the work of the re-awakened chickenpox virus that has been asleep in nerve cells ever since a person was infected, usually in childhood. It’s a safe bet to say you were infected even if you don’t recall it; more than 95 percent of adults were.

The rash of shingles usually disappears in two to four weeks. Pain, however, can stay with you. The pain is now called posther-petic neuralgia. In making the trip to the skin, the virus dam-aged the nerve roots it crawled down to reach the skin. Pain is a consequence of the nerve injury.

Many treatments exist for this aftermath of shingles. One is am-itriptyline, whose primary use is relief of depression. It also has pain-relieving properties in doses lower than what’s given for depression. Neurontin (gabap-

entin), a seizure-control medi-cine, often is successful in sup-pressing pain. The extended- release form of this drug, called Gralise, is given only once a day. Lyrica (pregabalin) has had a good record in quieting posth-erpetic neuralgia

Lidocaine skin patches, placed on the skin where pain is felt, are another way to ease pain without taking an oral medicine. Lido-caine is a numbing agent. The latest innovation for shingles treatment is Qutenza, another skin-patch medicine. The doctor has to apply this patch and let it stay on the skin for an hour. Then the doctor removes the patch, and the effect of the medicine lasts for three months. It is ex-pensive.

In cases where no treatment brings relief, opioids – pain re-lievers of the morphine family – have a place in treatment, so long as they are supervised care-fully by the doctor.

The booklet on shingles ex-plains this problem in depth. Readers can order a copy by writ-ing: Dr. Donohue – No. 1201W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for de-livery.DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I suf-fered from an enlarged prostate, so I was sent to a urologist. He checked for cancer, but I don’t have it. He put me on Flomax and Avodart. After three years, the doctor said the medicines were no longer working and that I had to have surgery or my bladder would be damaged and I would have to carry a bag for the rest of my life. I am 57. I had a transurethral resection of the prostate, TURP. It’s been two months, and I still am passing blood clots. Is this normal. – J.G.ANSWER: It’s normal to bleed after a TURP, but it’s not normal to be bleeding two months after the procedure. Give the urologist a call. Let him examine you again and determine why the bleeding is lasting this long.

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This new year started out here in New England with fluctuating temperatures creating bitter cold and then quickly rising temper-atures, sometimes within the same day. This is strange and unusual, to be sure. As January continues to surprise us with unpredictable patterns, keep yourself healthy and strong by adapting to your environment.

Add plants to your home and office to absorb toxins as well as purify the air. Plants such as En-glish ivy, aloe vera, spider, dra-caenas and succulents do the trick. If you’re not already using natural products to clean, try switching to alternatives like Sun and Earth, Mrs. Meyers or Sev-enth Generation, keeping toxins and chemicals to a minimum.

Stay hydrated by drinking lots of room-temperature water, re-

membering as you age your thirst mechanism isn’t as sharp as it used to be, so sip away all through the day. Dress comfort-ably in layers to accommodate shifts in weather. Eat warming soups chock-full of veggies. Go to sleep an hour earlier to take advantage of the dark nights, giving your body a longer chance to help the brain relax, form new pathways to remember informa-tion, and prep for the next day so you enjoy better moods.

Maintain a healthy perspec-tive. Accept the weather – rather than complain, be happy you have a toasty car, home, office and nuggets to support you.

This week’s nuggets for life suggest optimizing healthy rou-tines to breeze through the rest of the month in tip-top shape. Good deep sleep helps the im-mune system function optimally and allows you to perform well during the day. Raise your vita-min D levels naturally by putting your face up to the sun just 15 minutes a day and losing a few pounds. Eat flaxseed oil, chia seeds and walnuts for omega 3 fatty acids, which are anti-in-flammatory and protect the skin.

Decrease stress levels by qui-eting your mind twice a day. Close your eyes, focus on breath-ing in a long, slow, smooth fash-

ion for 10 minutes. Have regular full-body or reflexology massage to simulate the body’s own heal-ing capacity and feel great. Add a pop of color to your wardrobe like a tie, scarf, pair of gloves or hat to bring a healthy dose of cheer to each day. As the temps fluctuate, bend, flow, relax and enjoy true health with today’s nuggets.

De Pecol is a yoga instructor, Reiki master and life coach who lives in Washington, Conn. See lifecoachingllc.com or email [email protected]

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1. Rickey Henderson has recorded the most career ma-jor-league leadoff home runs (81), and Alfonso Soriano (54) is second. Who is third?

2. Seven New York Yankee man-agers have won at least 500 games. Name four of them.

3. Who was the last quarterback before Atlanta’s Matt Ryan in 2012 to throw five intercep-tions and no TD passes in a game and have his team still win?

4. In the past 15 seasons enter-ing 2013-14, how many times was Michigan State’s men’s basketball team in the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four?

5. Who was the last player before Phoenix’s Radim Vrbata to end one NHL season and be-gin the next with hat tricks?

6. When was the last time a Ford driver won NASCAR’s Cup season championship?

7. In 2013, tennis player Gilles Simon tied for the second-most-successful Frenchman in the ATP Tour’s Open era, with 11 titles. Who also is No. 2, and who is No. 1?

Answers

1. Craig Biggio, with 53.2. Ralph Houk, Miller Huggins,

Billy Martin, Joe McCarthy, Casey Stengel, Joe Torre and current Yankees manager Joe Girardi.

3. Bart Starr, with Green Bay in 1967.

4. Six times (1999, 2000, ’01, ’05, ’09, ’10).

5. Luc Robitaille of the Los An-geles Kings, in 1988.

6. Kurt Busch, in 2004.7. Guy Forget had 11, while Yan-

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By KEN MORSE

The Pomperaug girls’ basket-ball team went into lockdown mode right from the start last Friday and stole a 52-30 decision away from the Oxford Wolver-ines. The Lady Panthers, like many teams that rely on defense as their strength, built up an early lead and never looked back, im-proving to 6-2 on the season.

Most teams that use a defen-sive presence to spark their of-fensive attack will utilize a man-to-man, in-your-face approach. Some teams will pack the lane and not allow the slightest pen-etration. The Pomperaug girls, on the other hand, have become masters of the pick-pocket tech-nique.

Oxford turned the ball over on its first four possessions as the quick-handed Panthers came away with four steals. That was just a preview of coming attrac-tions as Pomperaug opened up the victory bag early and tossed another one into the win column by coming away with nine steals in the opening period that re-sulted in 11 Wolverine turnovers.

For the game, the Panthers had 30 steals, and Oxford turned the ball over 34 times. When the topsy-turvy first period came to a close, the Wolverines had just one basket to show for their ef-forts and Pomperaug was well on its way, holding a command-ing 15-3 advantage.

“That’s just our style of play,” said Pomperaug head coach Joe Fortier. “Hannah (Metcalf ) is without a doubt the best in the league, if not the state, in coming up with steals.

“The rest of the team follows suit, and it’s that kind of defen-sive approach that fuels our of-fense. It provides the energy to get our fast break going, and the girls crash the boards to get sec-ond-chance baskets.”

Katelyn Perrotti led Pomper-aug with a double-double, scor-ing 15 points and pulling down 16 rebounds while adding six steals in the process. Oxford held a 10-7 advantage in the rebound-ing department in the first period and closed the gap at the 5:16 mark when Sarah Woolfrey knocked down a three-pointer to make it a 4-3 game.

The Panthers closed out the period on the strength of an 11-0 run to take control of the game. Metcalf (five points, eight steals) buried a three out on the wing and Rachel Bonnanzio (five points, six rebounds) floated in a turnaround jumper in the lane to give Pomperaug a 15-3 lead heading into the second period.

The Panthers addressed the rebounding disparity as they won the battle on the boards by a 23-7 margin over the next two periods. Jennifer Catuccio (eight points, four rebounds) threw down a put-back in the lane, and Sydney Malaspina scored on back-to-back possessions, in-creasing the lead at 21-7.

With 2:07 remaining in the half, Metcalf charged in for a re-bound, and an Oxford player came down on her foot. Metcalf limped to the sidelines and didn’t return for the remainder of the game.

Caly Farina put down a shot on the baseline on an assist from Lauren Rubinstein (seven points,

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Pomperaug High School No. 23, Katelyn Perrotti, battles for a rebound during the Lady Panthers game against Oxford last Friday. The Panthers walked away with a 52-30 win over the Wolverines. (Ken Morse photos)

five assists, eight steals), and Gabriela Penzetta (six points, seven rebounds) hit a shot in the lane to give the Panthers a com-manding 27-12 advantage at the break.

“We’re not sure the condition of the injury to Metcalf,” said For-tier. “Hopefully we can get her

back soon. I thought we did a good job attacking the boards. Gabi (Penzetta) is a solid con-tributor for us and Katelyn (Per-rotti) did a great job for us under the boards.”

The entire team crashed the boards and held an 11-4 edge in rebounds in the third period.

That led to a 17-point outburst with Catuccio, Bonnanzio and Perrotti coming away with put-backs as the Panthers’ lead grew to 44-24 going into the final pe-riod.

Allison Ostar, Dina Harrington and Nicole Onze came on in the fourth period to help Pomperaug

close the deal, with Penzetta con-trolling the action in the paint, adding another pair of put-backs to account for the 52-30 final margin.

Pomperaug will be back home tonight, Friday, Jan. 17, when they take on the Bunnell Bull-dogs from Stratford at 7 p.m.


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Years ago I laid down a brick walkway in my backyard using old

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bricks back into alignment, but that might not work without un-dertaking more time-consuming or costly repairs.

The depressed bricks can be lifted back into place by repairing the base underneath them. Use a pry bar or other lever to carefully lift up a sunken brick. Then, using one end of a sturdy piece of wood, such as a two-by-four, tamp the existing sand down into place.

Put the brick back into the tamped-down section, tapping with a mallet if it doesn’t go in. Measure the difference in height between the sunken brick and the surrounding bricks. Remove

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Town of MiddleburyParty-Endorsed Candidates

for Town Committee At-Large(including Notice of “Underendorsement”, if any)

A certified list of 21 Republican party-endorsed candidates for the Town of Middlebury for election as Members of the Town Committee At-Large is on file in my office at 1212 Whittemore Road, Middlebury, Connecticut 06762 and copies are available for public distribution. The number of Town Committee Members to be elected, under party rules, is twenty-one (21).

A Primary will be held March 4, 2014, if six (6) candidacies (which is at least 25% of the number of town committee mem-bers to be elected by such party in the municipality) are filed in accordance with State Statute 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, of the General Statutes, by persons other than party-endorsed candi-dates, not later than 4:00 p.m. of January 29, 2014 , provided the number of such candidacies plus the number of endorsed candidates, exceeds the number of town committee members to be elected. (If the number of opposing candidacies filed is reduced to less than such 25%, no primary will be held.). Petition forms, instructions and information concerning the procedure for filing opposing candidacies, may be obtained from Nancy S. Robison, Republican Registrar of Voters, 1212 Whittemore Road, Middlebury, Connecticut 06762.

Dated at Middlebury, Connecticut this 15th day of January, 2014Edith Salisbury, CMC

Middlebury Town Clerk

Town of MiddleburyParty-Endorsed Candidates

for Town Committee At-Large(including Notice of “Underendorsement”, if any)

A certified list of 25 Democratic party-endorsed candidates for the Town of Middlebury for election as Members of the Town Committee At-Large is on file in my office at 1212 Whittemore Road, Middlebury, Connecticut 06762 and copies are available for public distribution. The number of Town Committee Members to be elected, under party rules, is twenty-five (25).

A Primary will be held March 4, 2014, if seven (7) candidacies (which is at least 25% of the number of town committee mem-bers to be elected by such party in the municipality) are filed in accordance with State Statute 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, of the General Statutes, by persons other than party-endorsed candi-dates, not later than 4:00 p.m. of January 29, 2014, provided the number of such candidacies plus the number of endorsed can-didates, exceeds the number of town committee members to be elected. (If the number of opposing candidacies filed is reduced to less than such 25%, no primary will be held.). Petition forms, instructions and information concerning the procedure for filing opposing candidacies, may be obtained from Thomas McCor-mack, Democratic Registrar of Voters, 1212 Whittemore Road, Middlebury, Connecticut 06762.

Dated at Middlebury, Connecticut this 15th day of January 2014.Edith Salisbury, CMC

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ZumbaShelagh Greatorex will teach Zumba to those

14 and older Tuesdays and Thursdays, Jan. 21 to April 10, from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. in Shepardson Center. Zumba is a fun and effective form of car-diovascular exercise moving and dancing to Latin music. The fee for 12 weeks is $55 for residents; $65 for nonresidents.

Making FriendsInstructors Bobbi Hanisek and Lisa Conroy will

lead this eight-week session for 3- and 4-year-olds that will meet Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Jan. 27 to March 21, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Shepardson Center, Room 2. There will be no class Feb. 12, 14 and 17. Children must be 3 years old and completely potty trained. The fee is $155 for residents; $165 for nonresidents.

Infant/toddler play groupThis play group for newborns to 3-year-olds

will meet Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Jan. 22 to May 9, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in Shepardson Center, Room 5. There will be no class Feb. 12, 14, and 17 and April 14 to 18.

This program is for parents and their pre-school-age children to meet and socialize. Parents choose up to two days a week to attend. There is

no online registration for this program. The fee is $20 for residents; $30 for nonresidents.

Winter WarningsThe Middlebury Greenway extends from Route

63 at Woodside Avenue to Route 64 in front of the Little League Field. Please be aware there is NO winter maintenance. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Sledding - Weather permitting, the hill between Town Hall and Shepardson Community Center is available for sledding. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. No supervision is provided. Adults MUST accom-pany all children younger than 12. SLEDDERS ARE NOT TO PARK IN THE UPPER PARKING LOT.

Ice Skating - Weather and temperature per-mitting, ice skating is permitted on the pond at Meadowview Park. Parents should contact the Recreation Department at 758-2520 for daily up-dates on ice conditions.

Here are some safety guidelines:• NEVER skate alone.• Ice thickness is not consistent. Water currents,

particularly around narrow spots, bridges, inlets and outlets, are always suspect for thin ice.

• Beware of ice around partially submerged ob-jects, such as trees, logs, brush embankments or dam structures.

• USE AT YOUR OWN RISK• No supervision is provided on the pond.

Middlebury Parks & recreation

Join the Mattatuck Museum and the City of Waterbury’s BRASS program for a Chinese New Year celebration Wednes-day, Jan. 22, from 10 a.m. to noon. It will include a dance performance by the Asian Per-forming Arts group, playing of traditional Chinese and Asian musical instruments and hands-on art-making projects. Asian Performing Arts promotes and preserves Chinese cultural arts through a variety of programs in dances, martial arts, instrumen-tal music, songs and other cul-tural activities.

Chinese New Year is cele-brated on the first day of the year of the Chinese calendar, and celebrations traditionally run

middlebury tax collector reminderThe second half of real estate taxes and motor vehicle supplemental bills are due now. The

last day to pay without incurring interest is Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Payments may be made by mail (if you need a receipt, enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope) or at the tax office lo-cated on the first floor of the Middlebury Town Hall weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. If you have any questions, please call 203 758-1373.

celebrate chinese new Year

from Chinese New Year’s Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. Admission

is free to the public. The Mat-tatuck Museum is at 144 West Main Street in Waterbury, Conn.


DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My friend adopted a little mixed ter-rier that he named Jessie. She must have come from an abusive situation, because she trembles terribly, barks and sometimes pees whenever anyone but my friend tries to interact with her. I always thought I could get along with any dog, but Jessie is terri-

fied of me. What can I do to make friends? – Casey in Sioux City, Iowa

DEAR CASEY: Sometimes it can be extremely difficult to make friends with other people’s pets. Temperament and the pet’s early environment can play big roles in how they interact with others outside their perceived family unit.

Jessie might not have come from an abusive situation; it could be she wasn’t socialized correctly. And if she was just dumped at the shelter (or who knows where else), she could have been traumatized by being abandoned. It’s a sad and tough situation, but it sounds like your friend is giving her great care, and they have bonded.

Don’t get frustrated if Jessie doesn’t take to you immediately. Always give her a friendly “hello” when you come in. If she backs away or gets nervous when you reach out to pat her, pull back calmly.

She eventually may come to you to sniff your hand or your ankle – stay calm and say nice, soothing words. If she sniffs your hand without backing away, try gently running your hand along her jawline to her ear, and scratch her ear gently. Don’t try to pat the top of her head, and don’t press your face into hers – many dogs react negatively to these motions.

It could be weeks or months before Jessie allows you to pet her, or maybe never. But give her time and space to feel confident and safe enough to let you in as well.

Send your questions or com-ments to [email protected].


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BANDITBandit is approximately 2 years old and is neu-

tered and up to date on vaccinations. He loves to go for long walks and is very playful. He knows his commands and will need someone to keep up with his training. He would do best in a home with older children as he sometimes does not know his own strength. Bandit gets along with other dogs and has no toy or food aggression. He does, however, prefer that no one touches his food bowl while he’s eating. If you would like to meet Bandit, please email [email protected] for an application.

MAGGIEMeet Maggie: She is a black Lab mix approxi-

mately 4 years old. She is spayed and up to date on her vaccinations. This adorable girl just wants to have you all to herself. It is not that she hates other dogs; she just would rather be your one and only in the home. She is calm, lovable and just so darn cute! She would love to go hiking and playing about with you. For more information on this girl, please email us at [email protected].

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For more information on these animals, as well as others at Meriden Humane Society (MHS), email [email protected]. MHS is open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., and volun-teers can be available to meet with you through an appointment. MHS is at 311 Murdock Ave. in Meriden.

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