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Volume XXVII, No. 35
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24 Pages
Thursday September 1, 2011
Irene thrashes Stratford

Town
mops up
By John Kovach
Editor
Stratford continues to
assess the damage inflicted by
Hurricane Irene Sunday, which
left landmarks damaged, residents without power and students with unexpected days
off. School was scheduled to
open Aug. 30, but will now
resume Sept. 6. [See related
story.]
Mayor John A. Harkins
Wednesday ventured out on
the police marine unit to assess
coastal damage from Sundays
storm, which had decreased
from a hurricane to tropical
storm strength.
Although weaker than
worst-case forecasts, Irene
pushed water over the shores
of Stratford, and wind toppled
trees that in turn tore down
poles and power lines.
United
Illuminating
(UI)`reported that at the peak,
9,025 of the 23,053 homes
The street near Marnicks was shattered by Hurricane Irene.
- see Town on page 12A
(Photo by Mario Recupido)
Weather service on Irene:
Could have been worse

By David DesRoches
Staff
Emergency and municipal
personnel continue to assess
the damage of Tropical Storm
Irene, the downgraded hurricane that flooded properties,
knocked out power to more
than 700,000 Connecticut
homes and caused the death
of more than 20 people on the
East Coast.
We knew early last week
about the (hurricanes) potential, what we didnt know
was the intensity, said David
Stark, a meteorologist with
the National Weather Service.
The intensity is so difficult
to forecast because of so
many variables.
United Illuminating had
more than 200 crews work-
ing to restore power, which

could remain out for days in
some areas.
Although flooding is still
a problem to many coastal
areas, waters are beginning
to recede, Stark said. The
Stevenson Dam, between
Monroe and Oxford, is an indication of receding waterways
and Stark said its high point
has passed and was expected
to drop below moderate stage
by Wednesday.
Irenes eye crossed 10
miles west of Danbury at 11
a.m. Sunday, Stark said, but
it dropped rain in sporadic
chunks, leaving 2.92 inches
in Stamford but 6 inches in
Greenwich.
That happens often, Stark
- see Weather on page 12A
A sailboat was tossed into a handicapped parking spot near Outriggers by

Hurricane Irene Sunday.
(Submitted photo by the Rev. Mary Canavan)
School opening
delayed till Sept. 6
Hurricane Irene has given Stratford students
an extra week of summer vacation.
The 2011-12 school year will begin the day
after Labor Day, Tuesday, Sept. 6.
After consultation with Mayor Harkins and
Board Chair Gavin Forrester, I have decided
to delay the opening of school for all students
except kindergarten until Tuesday, Sept. 6,
Superintendent Irene Cornish said.
Kindergarten orientation will be on Tuesday,
Sept. 6.`Kindergartners will report for the normal school day Wednesday, Sept. 7.
The Stratford YMCA and Stratford Library
both added childrens programming once school
was delayed. Information can be found online.
Hurricane Irene pushed water up to houses on Washington Parkway Sunday.
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Obituaries ........................... 8A
Opinion .............................. 4A
Police News ........................ 3A
Sports ............................... 18A
Spotlight ........................... 14A
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Dan Paolini swinging

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THE STRATFORD STAR, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
PAGE 2A
Man in hard hat

robs Carvel store
A suspect remains at large after robbing the Carvel ice cream

store, 1575 Barnum Ave., late Friday afternoon.
Around 5:30 p.m. Aug. 26 a white man, described as being in
his mid-20s, entered the store and asked for an application.
He then handed over a note that read, Give me all the money
in the cash box or die. Just live.
The man left with money in the register.
A surveillance photo provided by store management shows
a white man with a short beard, wearing a construction helmet,
dark hoodie, plaid board shorts and sandals.
Stratford police are investigating.
Pet of the Week
Obedience
classes
scheduled
Puppy Socialization
Puppy Socialization and
Obedience classes will be
held at Birdseye Municipal
Complex on Tuesdays from
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. beginning
Sept. 13. Fee is $85 for 7
weeks. Register through Sept.
9 at the Recreation Center
office or at townofstratford.
com/recreation.
Do not take dog to the first
class.
Maury is a handsome, medium-haired tabby that

has been neutered and is up-to-date on shots. He
was taken to the Stratford Cat Project from an
overcrowded home where he could not get the
attention that he needs. Maury is a high-energy
kitty that loves to explore and get into everything. He is definitely a morning kitty, is full of
personality and has quickly become a favorite
among our volunteers. The ideal home for him will
be one with another cat or maybe a cat-friendly
dog. Information on adopting Maury is available
from the Stratford Cat Project, 203-375-7009.
(Submitted photo)
Basic Dog Obedience

Basic Dog Obedience classes will be held at Birdseye
Municipal Complex on
Tuesdays from 7:45 to 8:45
p.m., or Wednesdays from
6:30-7:30 p.m. beginning
Sept. 13 or 14. Fee is $85 for 7
weeks. Register through Sept.
12 at the Recreation Center
office or at www.townofstratford.com/recreation.
class.
Intermediate Obedience
Intermediate Dog Obedience
classes will be held at
Birdseye Municipal Complex
on Wednesdays from 7:45
to 8:45 p.m. beginning Sept.
14. Fee is $85 for 7 weeks.
Register through Sept. 9 at the
Recreation Center office or
at www.townofstratford.com/
recreation.
class.
SARAH Rescue
tag sale Sunday
SARAH Rescue, a Stratfordbased non-profit organization that rescues handicapped

animals, will hold a tag sale
Sunday, Sept. 4, from 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. at 473 Woodlawn Ave.
The sale was postponed
from Sunday, Aug. 28, by
Hurricane Irene.
More information is available 203-377-0826.
Volunteer orientation at animal shelter
The Stratford Animal Rescue Society will conduct new

volunteer orientation Saturday, Sept. 24, from 9 to 10 a.m.
at the new Stratford Animal Control Facility, 225 Beacon
Point Road.
Volunteer opportunities include animal care and socialization, events, fundraising, advocacy and groundskeeping.
All volunteers must be 18 years of age, have access to
the Internet and complete 12 hours of training within four
months. Volunteers are required to purchase a STARS Tshirt and hoodie.
People seeking to serve court-mandated community service cannot be accommodated.
Those who wish to attend must register by sending an
e-mail to stfdanimalrescue@yahoo.com.
Dog Walk Oct. 8
The Stratford Animal Rescue Society will hold a a onemile Dog Walk on Main Street Saturday, Oct. 8, at 11
a.m.
The cost is $15 in advance, $20 on the day of the event.
Participants are allowed two dogs per person, and owners
must provide valid rabies vaccine certificate.
Check-in and same-day registration begin at 10 a.m. on
Paradise Green.
Proceeds benefit homeless animals.
Guidelines and registration information can be found at
starsfest.com.
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Garbage Museum left at curb
Labor Day schedules
Monday, Sept. 5, is Labor Day.

Federal, state and municipal offices will be closed.
Stratford schools will be closed.
The Stratford Library will be closed.
The Stratford Star will be closed. The editorial deadline
will be noon Friday, Sept. 2, for the issue of Thursday,
Sept. 8.
There will be no refuse, recycling or yard waste collection on Monday, Step. 5. All routes will be picked up one
day late, with Fridays route to be collected on Saturday.
The Transfer Station on Watson Boulevard will be
closed Sept. 5.
Residents are reminded to only use 32-gallon containers,
and that 45-gallon containers will not be collected.
By John Kovach
Staff
Local business groups
offered to help raise funds to
keep the Garbage Museum
open, but the offer was met
with silence.
The Connecticut Resources
Recovery Authority voted
with one dissension to shutter
the museum during its meeting Thursday, Aug. 25, in Old
Saybrook.
The closure is announced
in red text on the CRRA Web
site, concluding, Thank you
for your 16 years of support
for the Garbage Museum and
its educational programs.
` Officials said they were
disappointed. Stratfords
Economic
Development
Commission offered its assistance, as did the Stratford
Chamber of Commerce, in
approaching the business
community for support of the
museum.`We got no response
from the CRRA Board,
Economic
Development
Commission Chairman Neil
Sherman said Thursday.
Thats disappointing as well.
Boards are responsible for
supporting their assets. The
CRRA Board seemed to dump
the issue of the health of the
Garbage Museum into our
laps at the last minute. They
offered few resources to support local efforts to raise funds
to keep this important local
educational resource alive.
Where was the boards effort?
We heard of none.`Dont they
have responsibility here? The
closing is a disappointment
and the individual and collective actions of the Board
members added to that disappointment.
Stratford Briefs
Boating classes scheduled
The CRRA has let the clock run out on the Garbage Museum, closing the facility last
week citing lack of funding.
(Photo by Ralph Petitti)
Paul Nonnenmacher, director of public affairs for the
CRRA, said the museum
fell about a third short of the
threshold set by the board.
The last instruction we
had gotten [from the board]
was to come to them with
$100,000 in commitments,
Nonnenmacher said. We only
had $68 [thousand]. There are
a lot of things were working
on, but nothing is promised.
Weve had some people
come forward in the last couple weeks to try to help us,
Nonnenmacher said. It just
wasnt enough to get them to
change their minds.
The museum was in the race
for a $50,000 grant in the online
Pepsi Refresh Everything program. Voting ended last night.

An announcement could come
today.
While the museum had not
been scheduling tours of late,
Nonnenmacher said 60% of
the slots for school visits for
the coming school year had
already been booked.
The
Economic
Development Commission is
disappointed by the vote of the
CRRA Board of Directors,
Sherman said. The Garbage
Museum is an important educational resource for Fairfield
and New Haven Counties
and we are proud to have the
museum in Stratford. The
CRRA Board has a serious
responsibility to teach the next

generations the importance of
recycling.
The lone vote against closing the museum came from
Steve Edwards, director of
Public Works in Westport and
president of the Southwest
Connecticut
Regional
Recycling
Operations
Committee [SWEROC].
SWEROC, Nonnenmacher
said, owns the exhibits in the
museum. He said Edwards
told the CRRA board that
SWEROC is inclined to leave
the exhibits and contents at
the museum for six to eight
months in case a miracle
occurs.
United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 24-2 will

teach two boating classes during September.
There are two sessions of About Boating Safety. A
two-day course meets Tuesday, Sept. 6, and Thursday,
Sept. 8, from 6 to 10 p.m.
About Boating Safety can also be taken in one day,
Saturday, Sept. 10, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The fee for the
Saturday class includes lunch.
Charts and Navigation will meet Saturday, Sept. 11,
from 8 a.m. to noon.
All classes meet at the Bisson Base at the Birdseye boat
ramp.
Information is available from Donna Bisson at 203-9245702 or Flotilla24-2@comcast.net.
Democrats reschedule picnic
The Stratford Democratic Town Committee has rescheduled its annual Family Picnic to Sunday Sept. 18, from 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. at the main pavilion at Short Beach.
The event was slated for Sunday, Aug. 28, but was
moved before the arrival of Hurricane Irene.
The menu will include hamburgers, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, and liver and onion on rye, in addition to macaroni and potato salads, baked beans, dessert, soda and beer.
The picnic is open to the public. Tickets are $10, with
children younger than 7 admitted free of charge.
Information is available from Joan Pruzinsky at 203610-3480.
Crime Watch meets Sept. 7
Stratford Crime Watch will meet Wednesday, Sept. 7,

at 7 p.m. at Police Headquarters, 900 Longbrook Ave.
Anyone with concerns about crime or an interest in joining
may attend.
Information is available at 203-381-2098 or crimewatchofstratford.org.
Car tax appeals to be heard Sept. 10
Fire damages house on Wooster Street Friday

Fire damaged a duplex
at 11 Wooster Street Friday
afternoon.
One person was taken
to the hospital. No updates
on her condition were
available.
Both floors of the residence appear damaged.
Interim Fire Chief Brian
Lampart said at the scene
that an occupant smelled
smoke, then saw flames.
He said at that time that
the cause had not yet been
determined.
Shortly before being
dispatched to Wooster
Street, firefighters also
had to extricate a person
from an overturned vehicle on the Merritt Parkway
southbound.
While still at the scene,
firefighters were sent to a
crash on I-95.
The
Milford
Fire
Department assisted at
the fire while Bridgeport
Fire Department assisted
monitoring the town.
The Board of Assessment Appeals will hear appears of

motor vehicle assessments Saturday, Sept. 10, at 11 a.m. in
the garage at Town Hall, 2725 Main St.
Appeals will be held on a first-come, first-served basis.
Numbers will be issued and applications distributed beginning at 10:30 a.m.
The sole purpose of the meeting is to hear appeals
related to the assessment of motor vehicles on the Oct. 1,
2010, grand list.
Additional information is available at 203-385-4025.
Three war vets sought for new group
Veterans who served in World War II, Korea and

Vietnam may join the Three War Veterans, a new group
being formed by Hank Riccio of Stratford.
Those interested in joining must send DD214 forms
to Hank Riccio, 490 Sherwood Place A-20, Stratford CT
06615.
Questions can be directed to Riccio at 203-296-9014 or
hank490@aol.com.
The meeting place will be determined upon based on
where most responses are from.
Yoga on Shakespeare Theatre grounds
Yoga will be offered on the grounds of the Shakespeare

Theatre Satudays, Sept. 3, 10, 17 and 24, at 8:30 a.m.
Admision is a $5 donation or non-perishable food for the
South End Food Pantry.
Firefighters at the scene of Fridays Wooster Street fire.
(Photo by John Kovach)
www.StratfordStar.com
Police Reports
Domestic warrant
A 60-year-old man who formerly lived on Klondike Street

was arrested on charges stemming from a domestic assault
alleged to have taken place on
Aug. 13, 2010.
A woman approached police
Aug. 2 of this year, saying the
man had shoved her against a
wall, then`punched her jaw in
a dispute over keeping a door
open.
The woman took a photo
of her injuries with her cell
phone that night.
On Aug. 16 she went to
St. Vincents Medical Center.
According to police reports,
she was diagnosed with a concussion and a swollen jaw. She
reportedly told hospital staff
she was injured breaking up a
fight, then told them she had
been assaulted. Police indicated in their report they were
not notified by the hospital.
Police obtained a warrant,
and the man surrendered Aug.
25 to face charges of disorderly conduct and third-degree
assault. He was released on
a promise to appear in court
Aug. 26.
Marijuana charges
Shaun Baldwin, 22, of

Sherwood Place, was issued
an infraction after police said
they saw him holding an open
beer and a marijuana blunt in
the Gregory Circle area Aug.
25 around 4 p.m.
Police said Baldwin attempted to dispose of the marijuana
cigar, but they found it on the
hood of the vehicle.

They said they were monitoring the area due to complaints about drug use, drug
sales and underage alcohol
consumption. They noted that
No Loitering signs are posted in the area.
Baldwin was issued a ticket
for simple trespass and possession of less than one-half
ounce of marijuana.
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Editorial
On the lines
ts been a trying week for most of Southwestern

Connecticut. Some lost houses as Hurricane
Irene ripped ashore Sunday. Some were moved to
shelter.
Houses suffered wind and water damage. Some
were destroyed.
More have been without power, and could still be
in the dark for days.
Its not easy.
But it could be worse.
Irene, at last count, took the lives of 40 people on
the East Coast, two of whom lived in Connecticut.
None were in this immediate area.
Most of the cleanup involves removing trees and
power lines, and restoring electrical service.
Its not an easy task. Power must be turned off to
safely remove trees and debris. Poles and lines must
be rebuilt and reinstalled. The system then needs to
be turned back on safely.
But impatience takes hold. The minute the rain
stopped Sunday, some took to the street on foot or
in car, driving under and over wires that likely were
still energized, searching for a utility truck, any utility truck, working to restore power to their neighborhood, their house.
Complaints start within minutes. Why arent the
roads open? Where are the power company crews?
I dont see anyone out there.
Never mind that winds remained 70 miles per
hour, and hazards lurked around every corner. Those
who would not work outside, especially in rain and
wind, want to know why others are not doing it for
their benet.
Crews are doing the best they can as quickly
as they can. Linemen and others are working long
hours in potentially hazardous situations, away
from their families, homes and beds as long until all
power is restored.
Give the crews on the lines time to get the job
done safe. No one needs to die so you can check
Facebook.
In the dark
s Hurricane Irene approached, a gag posting

made the rounds on Facebook. It offered,
tongue-in-cheek, tips for facing the prospect
of actually having to speak face-to-face with people
if Internet and text message access were to be lost
due to the storm.
The posting got more than a few chuckles, yet
like any good joke struck a chord. We have become
masters at communicating from the safe haven behind the screen, atop a keyboard. Some of us rarely
have conversations, even with those with whom we
make a home.
Days of darkness in the storms aftermath have
forced us to nd pastimes that dont require electricity, games that dont involve trading with online
friends, and maybe taking a new look at things we
take for granted.
Feeling more free to wander in darkened neighborhoods, deer and other wildlife cross streets and
graze in yards under the moonlight.
Absent articial light, humans can gaze skyward
and see stars in a new brightness, as layer upon layer
of the vastness in which we live come into focus.
Its not enjoyable to be without electricity, and the
convenience it brings, for days. But it can afford an
opportunity to do and see things in a new light, or
lack thereof.
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Letters to the Editor
St. James School helps the show go on

To the Editor:
Shakesperience Productions Inc. would
like to thank Principal James Gieryng
and everyone at St. James School in
Stratford for their part in the success of
the Festival! Stratford Acting Camp
held last week on the grounds of the
American Shakespeare Theatre.
Mr. Gieryng and his staff stepped in
Monday and Tuesday and opened their
arms and doors to the students and staff

of Shakesperience when the camp was
threatened with bad weather. Then on
Sunday, when the students were scheduled to perform Henry V outside, Mr.
Gieryng and company once again stepped
in at a moments notice and agreed to let
the performance take place in their gym,
if necessary.
Fortunately it all worked out for the
students to perform on the big Festival!

stage, and they did and outstanding job!
We applaud Mr. Gieryng and everyone at
St. James for their support and commitment to their community, to youth and
education, and to Festival! Stratford.
Emily Mattina
Artistic Director/CEO
Shakesperience Productions Inc.
Community helps build a place where all can play

To the Editor:
On behalf of Stratford SEPTA and
the children in Stratford who will benefit from the new ADA-accessible early
childhood playground just completed at
Second Hill Lane Elementary School, we
would like to thank the many members
of our community who helped turn what
started out as a hope into a reality.
Planning for the HOPE Playground
Project (HOPE for Have Opportunities,
Play Early) began less than a year ago,
and because of the generosity and support of this community, we were able
to have the groundbreaking in June and
students will be using it for the new
school year.
Second Hill Lane is home to Stratfords
Early Learning Services program, attended by preschool-aged children with physical disabilities and other special needs
from across town, as well as five kindergarten classes. The bulk of the funding
was provided by an American Recovery

and Reinvestment Act grant, obtained
through the assistance of Stratford Public
Schools.
We would like to thank several others
for helping to bring an ADA-accessible
playground to our town.
Mayor John Harkins and the elected
officials of the Town of Stratford,
the Department of Public Works,
Supt. Irene Cornish and the Board of
Education.
The administration, faculty, and staff of
Second Hill Lane Elementary School.
Local businesses, including NinetyNine Restaurant and Jakes Wayback
Burgers, which hosted fundraising
events, and Mutual Security, Sikorsky
Credit Union, Hampford Research,
Party Party, Dominos Pizza, Ash Creek
Enterprises, Church Hill Partners, and
Bishop, Jackson, & Kelly LLC.
The Stratford Rotary Club, which host-
ed a pancake breakfast fundraiser.

Friends and community members who
came out to support the project at
Ninety-Nine, Jakes, and the Trike-AThon fundraising events.
Randy Vidal and countless other individuals and families who made direct
donations.
For more information or to connect
with Stratford SEPTA, which brings
together parents, families, teachers,
school administrators, students, and
friends who are interested in special education and care for children with special
needs, e-mail info@stratfordsepta.org, or
visit our Web site at www.stratfordsepta.
org or Facebook page, Stratford Septa.
Stacy Barnaby, President
Sarah Calzone, Vice President
Sandy Grise, Treasurer
Melissa Ezarik, Secretary
Stratford SEPTA
Mulligan endorses in 7th District primary

To the Editor:
I implore District 7 Republicans to
vote for Diane Budas intelligence and
integrity, in Republican Town Council
District 7 Sept. 13th primary.
Elect Diane Buda to Stratfords Town
Council!
Diane Buda and Eleanor Burke created Stratfords 1991 Public Initiative
referendums:
1. 2% Budget Cap; 2. Term Limits;
3. Prohibition against financial self
interest.
I believe Stratfords public voted
overwhelmingly, ratifying publicly
created referendums reforms, reacting to Town Council Chairman Richard
Burturla-led mini-budget tax increase,
aided by Republican Aldridge-led save

Stratford.
I believe Nominal Republicans and
Burturlas/Berchems, Willingers, and others control Stratfords Town Council,
Board of Education and AVCO most of
26 years!
Diane Buda is a True Republican of
great integrity and ethics, who worked
for U.S. Attorneys Office. (I wish honest F.B.I./U.S. Attorneys would investigate Stratford, Milford, Fairfield
and Bridgeport DTC and RTC and
Connecticuts DSC and RSC, to cleanse
Corrupt-icut.)
I endorse Matt Catalano District 3
(why I didnt run) as another plain spoken champion for Stratford residents and
businesses.
I would have endorsed (moving) Kim
Meuse (D-7th). I endorse David Fuller
(D-6th) and Robin Greenspan (D-9th)
against Esq. Joseph Kubic (R-9th), who
I believe is bad for Stratford!
Fix Lordship flood gates!
Praise to Hurricane Irene emergency
workers: Electric, communications, energy, water, police, fire, EMS and National
Guard.
9/11/2001: Military, police, fire, EMS
ran toward danger and personify real
average Americans!
Earthquake? Hurricane? Next? I pray
against potential 9/11 NFL and MLB.
George Mulligan
Stratford
Message gets out: Hands are not for Hitting

To the Editor:
The saying goes Nothing ventured,
nothing gained. And so, The Center for
Women & Families of Eastern Fairfield
County dove headlong into the online
Pepsi Refresh competition for a $50,000
grant.
We want to publicly thank the Stratford
Star and its dedicated readers for taking
the time to vote online for our Hands
are not for Hitting program. Although
we didnt win the grant, we won new
supporters and recognition of the critical
crisis work we do from rescue to rehabilitation.
Through the experience a new task has
been highlighted. Most will acknowledge
the truth in the saying You reap what

you sow. Still, too many fail to apply it
to children. Unfortunately, children who
do not learn hands are not for hitting
early in life, will be likely, later in life, to
use hands to hurt.
Our preschool and kindergarten program teaches children how to build
healthy relationships. It breaks the chain
of violent behavior. As a community, we
can do it!
Thank you to all who understand that
and voted for us.
And to those already, tragically caught
up relationships of domestic violence
and emotional abuse, call our hotline
203-384-9559 for help. Dont wait to
become a statistic. Our services are free.

Help for residents of Bridgeport,
Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Stratford and
Trumbull is available at our main office
on the corner of Park and Fairfield avenues (753 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport),
our Fairfield office in the Fairfield
Senior Center (100 Mona Terrace), or our
Monroe office in Monroe Town Hall (7
Fan Hill Road.) Residents can call 203334-6154 for a confidential appointment.
Again, our services are free.
Debra A. Greenwood, CEO
The Center for Women & Families
of Eastern Faireld County
Selfishness vs. heroic virtue
hat has always

frightened me about
disasters, beyond the
magnitude of destruction and
the loss of life and property, is
that while they can bring out
the best in us, they often bring
out the worst.
They can open the tiny
portals into our souls, and
in microscopic moral detail,
reveal us to be either selfless people or selfish people.
Sometimes I shudder when I
see what Im really all about.
Instead of courage, theres
cowardice. Instead of caring for
others, Im caring for me.
A crisis can magnify our
character so much that acts of
compassion and kindness are
elevated to what saint-watchers
call heroic virtue, while acts
of greed and self-interest are
shown for what they truly are,
classical evil.
The examples are many.
A store owner price-gouges
because people are rushing to
buy water and food. After all,
he reasons, everyone has to
make a buck.
An old man struggles down
the stairs to escape an office
building during an earthquake,
and scores of people rush by
him while one or two pause to
help, but then even they aban-
good reasons to keep walking.

However, when youre the one
lying by the side of the road,
Did I Say That? watching the parade of passBy Joe Pisani
ersby look the other way, it can
lead you to despair.
There were examples like
don him to save themselves.
that during Hurricane Irene, in
Amid the hysteria and turmoil, maybe one person makes the supermarket aisles, at the
the sacrifice and stays with him gas station lines, and in the
flooded areas where people
to her own peril. Meanwhile,
were stranded.
the rest of us with shaky conAnd yet, sometimes goodsciences breathe a sigh of relief
because someone is doing what ness still shines through, and it
we know we should have done can be an inspiration for all of
us most especially 10 years
but were too afraid to do.
As the hurricane approaches, ago on 9/11, when terrorists
hijacked four jet airliners and
a car with a mother and chilslammed them into the Twin
dren is stranded on the side of
Towers, the Pentagon and a
the highway, and she waves
for help, but motorists pass by field in Pennsylvania.
That day, there were many
because they have their own
heroes
who acted with exceplives to worry about.
tional grace. Some thwarted the
On the occasions that Ive
terrorists who intended to slam
been the one to pass by somea jet plane into the Capitol,
one in need, Ive thought in a
and many more rushed into
moment of self-deception that
the World Trade Center while
it didnt necessarily make me
everyone else was rushing out.
a bad person, even though I
They were ordinary men and
couldnt deny that it illumiwomen
who found that thing
nated my selfishness in a very
called heroic virtue inside
painful way.
themselves when the world
Im reminded of that parneeded it most.
able of the Good Samaritan,
where two people walk by the
Joe Pisani can be reached at
traveler who had been beaten
joefpisani@yahoo.com.
and robbed and left for dead.
To their thinking, they had
A sailboat came to rest amid marsh grass during Hurricane Irene.

(Submitted photo by Jamie Rock)
Remembering the Hurricane of 1938
ith all the angst over

and media coverage
of Hurricane Irene
this past weekend, it got me
to thinking about the Great
Hurricane of 1938 as it came
to be known as it was long
before hurricanes were known
by alphabetical names.
My memories of Sept. 21,
1938, are vivid to this day.
I was in a class at Stratford
High School that fateful
afternoon. A lasting image is
of looking out the window
and seeing leaves and debris
blowing horizontally. What
was going on? I wondered.
I have never seen a sight like
that before.
Getting home was a problem. There were several of us
who lived in relative proximity, and one of the fathers
came to the school to bring
us home. But at every turn
there were trees blown down
that obstructed one street after
another.
I finally arrived home to
find my mother in a state of
high anxiety. The three other
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spared, but at a price. In the

end, the owners had it reinforced with a heavy wire in a
Reections triangular formation that conBy Ellen Beveridge nected the affected branches.
This preserved it for many
years, but it was never the
members of our family were
same healthy tree it had been
out and about, and she knew
before it was so viciously
not where; she was beside
attacked.
herself with worry.
Dad made it home successEventually, my older sister
fully the day after the storm.
made it home, but dad was
He had had his camera with
the real concern. He was a
him and took several storm
food salesman, and, as luck
would have it, he was seeing photos; one, I remember,
his customers in the Hartford showed a demolished autoarea and did not make it home mobile with a large tree that
had crashed into its roof. In
until the following day.
the following days, dad went
The wind was fierce,
about town (Stratford) takand the rain pelted down in
ing photos of the devastation.
all directions. I especially
Several captured the many
remember watching a large
stately elm trees that lay like
maple tree in front of the
house next door. It had a large match sticks across Main
Street.
trunk that branched off into
A few months prior to the
three large sections. As the
storm
my parents had purwinds increased without let
up, the sections began to split chased an electric stove, a
relatively rare appliance in
open, wider with every gust.
those days. My mother was
Unlike so many trees that
so proud of her gleaming
were felled, this maple was
white stove, and it was a great
Is it time to re Metro-North?
s it time to find another

operating agency for our
commuter trains?
Consider the last year:
Winter service reductions,
summer strandings in sweltering heat, the M8 cars almost
two years late in delivery,
abusive and incompetent conductors, arrogant and unresponsive management.
You may not realize that
Metro-North is hired by the
state of Connecticut to operate our trains. They work for
us. Yet they never seem to
be held accountable for their
mistakes.
Last week there was a
very loud listening session
for Metro-North President
Howard Permut, to hear from
passengers stranded on July
22, in potentially life-threatening conditions on the hottest day of the year.
Mr. Permut said he came
to listen and learn. Yet, he
squirmed in his seat, his body
language screaming discomfort, and hardly took a single
note as dozens of good ideas
were presented.
He apologized for what
happened. But in a 20-page
Open Letter to Commuters,
he acknowledged no fault,
assessing the blame for what
happened on old cars and
power-lines.
How does Metro-North
keep this job, except for negligence in oversight by the
CDOT?
The contract between
CDOT and Metro-North
self-renews every five years.
Neither side has ever renegotiated the terms. There are
neither penalties for bad service nor incentives for good.
There is no accountability.
The income Metro-North
passengers? And when the

train did start moving, why
did conductors curse at each
other over the PA system for
By Jim Cameron
all to hear?
jim@camcomm.com
What consequences did
those conductors face? Were
they disciplined? Re-trained?
makes from running New
Demoted? Fired? Nobody
Haven line trains is more than knows, or at least the railroad
they make from the Hudson
wont tell us.
and Harlem lines combined.
Maybe its time to tell
We in Connecticut are Metro- Metro-North it can be
Norths main source of revreplaced. Other commuter rail
enue. Yet, they hold all the
lines have changed operatpower and tell us what to do. ing agencies the MBTA,
The M8 project was of their Virginia Railway Express
design, not Connecticuts.
and passengers found better
The new car contracts had
service at lower cost.
set-asides for minority and
Yes, Connecticut can fire
women-owned businesses in
Metro-North and find someN.Y., not CT. Through their
one else to run our trains. Just
parent agency, the MTA,
because Metro-North has had
Metro-North determines
a monopoly on our commuter
capital expenditures with no
lines since 1983 doesnt mean
yea or nay votes from
theyre the only game in
Connecticut, and then bills us town.
for our share.
But first, our governor and
Yes, Metro-North has an
the legislature should ask the
admirable on-time record.
CDOT what kind of oversight
And certainly many of the
they conduct on Metro-North.
issues they struggle with
Why not an annual report
regarding aging equipment,
card? The CT Rail Commuter
insufficient repair facilities
Council issues an annual
and century-old power lines, report. I wonder if anyone in
are not their fault.
Hartford reads it. If they did,
But Julys stranding of
theyd know these problems
hundreds of passengers near
are not new.
Greens Farms on the hottest
day of the year shows an area
Jim Cameron has been a
easily improved upon: staff
Darien resident for 20 years.
training.
He is chairman of the CT
Why did conductors on that Metro-North/Shore Line East
train not communicate with
Rail Commuter Council, and
passengers, leaving them so
a member of the Coastal
desperate they called 911 to
Corridor TIA and the Darien
be rescued? Why did it take
RTM. The opinions expressed
passengers, not conductors, to in this column are only his
open windows and doors to
own. You can reach him at
cope with the 100-plus degree CTRailCommuterCouncil@g
heat? Why did a conductor
mail.com or trainweb.org/ct.
take off his uniform so as to
not to be bothered by anxious
Talking
Transportation
Visit us on the Web www.StratfordStar.com
advancement from the wood,

coal or gas stoves she had
cooked on all her life.
But the storm, which came
to be known as the Great
September Gale because the
word hurricane was not common in American vernacular
at the time, had brought down
so many trees that electric
power was out for days.
So my mothers pride and
joy was rendered useless. I
remember her trotting next
door to cook some of our
meals on the gas stove of our
neighboring family.
Yes, it was a terrible storm,
but little did anyone realize
we (but not everyone) had
survived what today would
be classified as a category 3
hurricane, down from what
today would be a monstrous
category 5 as it churned its
way up the Atlantic.
An unwanted notoriety
came to Connecticut when
landfall was near New Haven
at about 2:30 p.m. But the
greatest destruction actually
occurred eastward where the
storm ferociously impacted
the towns along the coast.
And perhaps Rhode Island
was hardest hit of all with its
endless ocean coastline and
the water surge that plowed
into Narragansett Bay.
To this day, it is the most
powerful, costliest and deadliest storm ever to hit New
England, exacerbated by the
lack of communication at the
time. Think of life without
todays minute-to-minute television coverage of Irene, for
example. No one had any idea
such a monstrous storm was
coming. Wed had our share
of devastating noreasters,
but hurricanes happened in
Florida or the Caribbean,

unheard of in this area.
All told, between 682 and
800 people lost their lives; the
storm damaged or destroyed
approximately 57,000 homes,
and property losses were
estimated at $306 million
(equivalent to $4.77 billion in
2011).
It would be months, sometimes years, before things
would get back to normal,
and in some areas, like parts
of Long Island where the
configurations of the land
were changed forever, normal
never returned.
The storm of 1938 is still
known as the worst natural
disaster in Connecticuts 350year history.
Reach Ellen Beveridge at
ellenfb@sbcglobal.net.
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Square One Theatre Company

holds annual auditions Sept. 6
The Square One Theatre Company will
hold open auditions for its 2011-12 season
Tuesday, Sept. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. In the
Lovell Room at the Stratford Library, 2203
Main St.
The company will begin its 22nd season
in November with Donald Margulies latest
comedy/drama, Time Stands Still.
Other scheduled productions include Mark
St. Germaines off-Broadway hit Freuds
Last Session and Nora and Delia Ephrons
look at womens fashion through the years,
Love, Loss and What I Wore.
The season continues through May 2012.
Play titles are subject to change.
Square One also casts for its annual Readers

Theatre Showcase series at this time.
Actors are requested to prepare a 1- to
2-minute (strictly enforced) monologue of
their choice for the Sept. 6 audition, and to
provide a current resume and photo.
Performers will be heard on a first-come,
first-served basis. No appointments will be
taken.
The company said it is in particular need
of African-American actresses this year.
This will be the only general call the
Square One will hold this season.
Further information is available at 203375-8778 or squareonetheatre.com.
Dr. Joseph Tiano checks on the progress of Glenn Myers of Stratford in the
Electrophysiology Lab at St. Vincents, where his A-fib ablation procedure was performed in April.
(Submitted photo)
St. Vincents uses new treatment

for atrial brillation on local man
The Value of Names
Will Tait, a Stratford High School student, Square One actor Danielle Sultini of
Milford, SHS student Lindsay Carroll, actor Joseph Mallon of Stratford, and SHS
student Gretchen Pancak are part of Square One Theatres ongoing education
program to Stratford schools. Late each school year, group performs The Value
of Names by playwright Jeffrey Sweet to students in classes of social studies,
English and the American Experience at Bunnell and Stratford high schools.
The Value of Names concerns the period of American history when members
of the House of Representatives worked to purge the country of communist
influences. While numerous industries and educational institutions were investigated, Hollywood became a target of the investigating committee. In addition
to the production, the educational program provided the teachers with The
Value of Names Study Guides for in-class preparation before and after Square
Ones visits.
(Submitted photo)
St. Vincents Medical

Center is the only hospital in
the tri-state area to offer a
comprehensive program with
both medical and surgical
treatments to treat atrial fibrillation, also known as rapid or
irregular heartbeat, thanks to
the newly added technique of
trans-catheter ablation.
Trans-catheter ablation is
a non-surgical technique that
employs a catheter to reach the
heart where radio frequency
energy is then used to disrupt the electrical impulses
that cause and maintain atrial
fibrillation.
St. Vincents has already
gained recognition for being
the only facility in the state
to offer the latest minimally
invasive (mini-maze) surgery
to correct atrial fibrillation,
a rhythm disorder commonly known as A-fib, which
occurs when electrical signals
cause the upper chambers of
the heart, the atria, to beat
rapidly and erratically.
The disease produces lifestyle-damaging symptoms
such as palpitations, fatigue
and shortness of breath, which

not only can prevent people
from participating in activities
they enjoy, but can create fear
and anxiety in those individuals and their families. It can
also lead to stroke or weakening of the heart, called congestive heart failure.
Surgical outcomes have
been highly successful for this
procedure performed at St.
Vincents by Cardiothoracic
Surgery Chief Dr. Rafael
Squitieri and Minimally
Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Medical Director Dr. Albert
DiMeo. Approximately 90%
of people who undergo the
procedure at St. Vincents do
not experience another episode of A-fib, putting it among
the highest in the nation.
Currently, St. Vincents is the
only hospital in the state and
among 10 healthcare organizations nationally providing this
innovative and proven treatment.
We have seen phenomenal results with this surgical
technique, with very fit people
of all ages who had become
debilitated by A-fib, resuming

their often rigorous exercising
and full schedule of family,
career and recreational activities, Squitieri said.
This truly is a great solution for those who have chronic A-fib, particularly those
who are very active, because
it has an extremely high success rate and allows them to
resume more physical activity, DiMeo said.
The latest mini-maze surgery is totally thoracoscopic,
or performed solely through
endoscopes or flexible tubes
inserted into two tiny, onecentimeter keyhole incisions
on each side of the chest. A
tiny camera and video-guided
instruments are then inserted
into the endoscopes to reach
the heart and create a mazelike pattern of scarring or
ablation with radio frequency
energy which interrupts the
electrical impulses that initiate
A-fib.
For more information, contact cardiovascular medicine
at 203-576-5788 or visit stvincents.org.
Health Notes
Health Notes is a weekly feature that highlights health and wellness news in the area.
Hospitals and other health related agencies
may e-mail items to scappetta@hersamacorn.
com.
Hospital run Tuesdays, noon-1:30 and 2:304 (ongoing); eight week evening group
Wednesday, 6:30-8 p.m. beginning Sept. 7Oct. 26. To register, call 203-732-1100.
Bridgeport Hospitals Ahlbin Rehabilitation

Centers also hosts a free Stroke Support Group
meeting for recovering stroke patients and
their caregivers Tuesday, Sept. 6, 6-7 p.m., at
its Shelton outreach site, 4 Corporate Drive.
Information/registration: 203-925-4201.
St. Vincents Stroke Survivors and Caregivers
Support Group meets third Wednesday of
the month, 5:30-7 p.m., Hawley 3A of the
Cancer Center at St. Vincents Medical Center.
Upcoming: Sept. 21; 203-576-5361; 203-5765608.
Bridgeport Hospital presents free two-part

lecture, Healthy Feet, Healthy Toes-One Step
at a Time, Thursdays, Sept. 8 and 15, 7
p.m., Trumbull Marriott, 180 Hawley Lane.
Reservations required: 1-888-357-2396.
Stroke support
Blood pressure screenings
Screenings offered by Bridgeport Hospital:

Fairfield Senior Center, 100 Mona Terrace,
Monday, Sept. 19, 9:30-11:30 a.m. and Tuesday,
Sept. 6, 9:30-11:30 a.m.; Stratford Baldwin
Center, 1000 West Broad St., Monday, Sept.
12, 9:30-11:30 a.m.; Shelton Senior Center, 81
Wheeler St., Monday, Sept. 26, noon-2; 1-888357-2396.
Also offered by the South End Community
Center in collaboration with the Stratford
Health Department, first and third Wednesdays
of the month, 10-noon, South End Community
Center; 385-4058; 377-0689.
The Mario and Irma DAddario Hypertension
Program at St. Vincents Medical Center provides free blood pressure screenings and information to the public every Tuesday, 11:30-3:30,
in the main lobby of St. Vincents Medical
Center, 2800 Main St., Bridgeport; 1-877-255SVHS (7847).
First aid/safety classes
Bridgeport Hospitals Emergency Care

Institute offers the following self-care classes
in the duPont Board Room at Bridgeport
Hospital, 267 Grant St. To register, call 203384-4497.
American Heart Association Heartsaver
adult, child and infant CPR two-year certification, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 6-9 p.m., $50; AHA
pediatric first aid and safety and infant and
child CPR two-year certification, Saturdays,
Sept. 3 and 17, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., $80 full
class; $50 first aid only; Administration of
Medicine class, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 6-9 p.m.,
$30 full program with a three-year certification; $20 injectable medications only; AHA
Heartsaver CPR with AED (fitness instructors
and trainers), Wednesday, Sept. 21, 6-9 p.m.,
$50.
Bereavement support
Bereavement support groups at Griffin
Foot problems talk
Heart Healthy food
Bridgeport Hospital Clinical Nutrition

Manager Andrea Valenti will discuss Tips for
a Heart-Healthy Plate Wednesday, Sept. 14,
6:30 p.m., fourth-floor Hollander Auditorium,
Bridgeport Hospital, 267 Grant St., Bridgeport.
Refreshments served 6-6:30 p.m.
Cancer College
Hoda Kotb, co-host of NBCs TODAY

and a breast cancer survivor, will be the keynote speaker at Bridgeport Hospitals OneDay Cancer College, Saturday, Sept. 17, 9-2,
Trumbull Marriott, 180 Hawley Lane. Free
event includes lectures on a variety of cancerrelated topics by nearly 20 Bridgeport Hospital
physicians and other clinical experts. Postevent opportunities include a book signing
by Kotb at 2; and the MetLife presentation,
Coping with Cancer Finances, 2:30-3:30.
Advance registration required for the Cancer
College and the MetLife presentation. Call 1888-357-2396.
Ostomy support
Bridgeport Hospital will sponsor a free ostomy support meeting Sunday, Sept. 18, 1:30
p.m., Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut,
40 Lindeman Drive, Trumbull. Meeting is
open to anyone/significant others who has
had/or will have an ostomy operation, such as
colostomy, urostomy or ileostomy. Meetings
are third Sunday of the month except July and
August; 203-384-3209.
Look GoodFeel Better
Free American Cancer Society program

that helps women with cancer improve their
appearance and self-image through hands-on
beauty techniques, will be offered Monday,
Sept. 19, 10-noon, Operations Conference
Room, first floor of Bridgeport Hospital; and
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2-4 p.m., Norma F. Pfriem
Breast Care Center, 111 Beach Road, Fairfield.
To register for the Bridgeport Hospital location, call 1-888-357-2396. To register for the
Fairfield location, call 203-255-5300.
For more visit stratfordstar.com.
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Arts & Leisure
Arts & Leisure Briefs

Joanne
Rochman lives in a hard-hit neighborhood where power
went out early Sunday morning and is not likely to be restored for up to a week. As a result, to her regret, she was
not able to produce the Curtain Call column this week but
reassures readers that they can expect to find it in next
weeks edition.
Curtain Call falls victim to hurricane
National political cartoonist

to comment at Sacred Heart
Award-winning political
cartoonist Jimmy Margulies
will speak at Sacred Heart
University as part of the
Gottlieb Memorial Lecture
Series, co-sponsored by the
Department of Communication
and Media Studies.
Margulies has been at The
Record in Hackensack, N.J.,
since 1990, and his work is
distributed nationally to more
than 425 newspapers and
magazines, including The
Washington Post, The New

York Times, Time and USA
Today.
He has won the National
Headliner Award and Fishetti
Editorial Cartoon Competition,
and also the Barryman Award
from the National Press
Foundation.
When the National Rifle
Association placed Margulies
on its blacklist, he considered
it a badge of honor.
The author of two published
collections of cartoons My
Husband is Not a Wimp! and
Hitting Below the Beltway
he appears regularly on
network and local TV news
programs.
His talk takes place at Sacred
Heart Universitys Schine
Auditorium, 5151 Park Ave.,
Fairfield, on Sunday, Sept. 18,
at 7 p.m.
The event is free and open
to the public. Donations are
welcome.
Free Shakespeare Elm Shakespeare Company presents Measure for Measure Thursday-Sunday, 8 p.m.,
through Sunday, Sept. 4, Edgerton Park, 75 Cliff St.,
New Haven; elmshakespeare.org; 203-393-1436. Bring a
blanket or chair. Picnics encouraged. Free with suggested
donation.
To benefit the Elm Shakespeare
Company, Thursday, Sept. 1, 5-8 p.m., followed by performance of Measure for Measure, Edgerton Park, 75 Cliff
St., New Haven. Gala tickets: $125; elmshakespeare.org.
Gala and auction
Jimmy Margulies
Time for homegrown tomatoes

Homegrown tomatoes, Homegrown
tomatoes;
What would life be without homeThe Conscious Cook
grown tomatoes?
By Robin Glowa
robeglow@yahoo.com
Only two things money cant buy;
Thats true love and homegrown
tomatoes.
tomato; for me, its the luscious
Sung by John Denver, pinky red Brandywine. Spread your
lyrics by Guy Clark favorite bread (very lightly toasted
sourdough) with a bit of mayonAhhhh, the mouth-watering, naise, season with freshly ground
meaty magnificence of homegrown black pepper and a pinch of sea salt
tomatoes. Fresh from the vine, and take a giant bite.
homegrown tomatoes are one of my
There are at least 10,000 varieties
great loves and truly the heartthrob of tomatoes, in a rainbow of colors
of the summer garden.
including black, green, pink, scarlet
Have you ever experienced the red, yellow and glowing little orbs
full, frontal flavor of a tomato of orange. Sun golds, the current
plucked straight from the vine? darling of cherry tomatoes, is a perThose lucky enough to have their fect blend of sweet, sugary flavor
own garden can get out there and and glorious orange color.
take a big bite!
Tomatoes are so good for you
The juices will run down your good for your heart, your brain,
chin as you revel in the dazzling your soul and your health. Bursting
explosion on your tongue. The sun, with lycopene, a super charged antithe rain, the moon, all the natural oxidant, tomatoes are an excellent
forces joined together to create this source of fiber and vitamins A, B
extraordinary taste experience that and C. Tomatoes can help repair
is such a symbol of summer.
smoke scarred lungs, combat heart
I can scarcely wait to make my disease and save vision.
first tomato sandwich of the season.
So, eat your homegrown tomaIn the dead of winter, I often dream toes, tomahtoes, anyway you say
of the sun warmed sweetness of it, tomatoes are one of the most
this simple, yet sweep-me-off-my delightful ingredients when preparfeet snack.
ing a delicious life!
Cut thick slices of your favorite
Fantastic Tomato Salad
Assorted tomatoes in assorted colors, use any

flavor or variety
Fresh basil, minced
Fresh parsley, minced
Extra virgin olive oil
Balsamic vinegar
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
at the state Department of

Agriculture Web site, ct.gov/
doag.
Information about other
family activities and adventures in Connecticut can
be found by visiting www.
CTvisit.com or calling 1-888CTvisit. CT Visit is a site
created by the Connecticut
Commission on Culture &
Tourism to help residents
find fun in state activities and
travel deals.
I hope that you and your
family find this information
useful. Enjoy the local farms
and fairs.
Sen. Kevin Kelly represents the 21st District, which
includes all of Shelton, most
of Stratford, and parts of
Monroe and Seymour.
Robin Glowa, HHC, AADP, is a food and

wellness enthusiast who earned her certification in holistic health counseling from
the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and
Columbia University Teachers College.
She specializes in teaching healthy cooking classes for children and adults, as well
as cooking presentations and wellness workshops for many local organizations.
For more information go to theconsciouscook.net, call 203-393-1037, or http://confessionsofaconsciouscook.blogspot.com.
Civil War Living History Day
Apple Festival Saturday, Sept. 10, 10-5; Sunday, Sept.
11, 10-4, hosted by St. Peters Episcopal Church, on the

Historic Monroe Green, Route 111. Sunday service will be
conducted at 9 a.m. on the Green; the church bells will be
rung to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. 203268-4265; stpetersonthegreen.com.
Live Green Connecticut,
Saturday and Sunday,

Sept. 17 and 18, Taylor Farm Park, Norwalk. Exhibits,
speakers, local food, childrens activities, money saving
tips and green education; livegreenct.com.
Sticks & Stones Farm, 201
Huntington Road, Newtown, Sundays, 9-11 a.m., Sept. 18
and Oct. 16. Walk of reflection and a closing meditation.
Information: e-mail jwhite1108@gmail.com.
Healing gatherings
Hosted by Trumbull Arts Commission,

Sunday, Sept. 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., rain or shine on the
Town Hall Green, 5866 Main St. Handcrafted items with
60 artists and crafters; photography and sculpture for sale.
Childrens Creative Center, live entertainment, food vendors. Free admission; 203-452-5065.
Arts festival
Singers sought Harmony on the Sound (HOTS)

Chorus invites women who love to sing to come and learn
holiday music in four-part harmony beginning Wednesday,
Sept. 21, and then sing in holiday show. Visit harmonyonthesound.org or call 203-881-1477.
Fallen Heroes Memorial
Tribute Remembering military service members from
the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard,
Saturday, Sept. 24, 12:15 p.m., Indian Ledge Park, 307
Indian Ledge Park Road. U.S. Air Force Colorguard and
U.S. Marine Corps as escorts. Performances by The United
States Navy Band, Northeast, and the U.S. Army Parachute
Team Golden Knights. Free and open to the public.
Fallen Heroes tribute
Join us for a study of God's word about...
Angels
"For he will command his angels concerning

you to guard you in all your ways"
~ Psalm 91:11
Primary Care Associates, P.C.
Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Recycle T his Newspaper
Saturday, Sept.
10, 10-4, grounds of Shelton History Center, 70 Ripton
Road, Shelton. Everyone from Army privates to President
Abraham Lincoln will be on the grounds. $5/person; $15/
family. Proceeds benefit the Shelton Historical Society;
203-925-1803; sheltonhistoricalsociety.org.
Long Wharf Theatres Education

program offers Adult Acting I, Saturdays, Sept. 10-Oct.
8, 10:30-noon, $225; and Off the Cuff Improvisation II:
Middle School, Tuesdays, Sept. 13-Oct. 11, 5:30-7 p.m.,
$195, Long Wharf Theatre, 222 Long Wharf Drive, New
Haven; longwharf.org; 203-772-8262.
James P. Ralabate, MD
Sarah A. Mullane, APRN
Erin K. Flynn, APRN
please
Saturday, Sept. 10, 10-4, Trinity

Episcopal Church, 1734 Huntington Tpke., Trumbull.
Jewelry, floral arrangements, crafts, bake sale, childrens
activities, book sale, plants and more. Lunch on the grill
available. Free admission.
Arts & crafts fair
Acting classes
Tony Reno performs dance music

Tuesday, Sept. 6, 7 p.m., Trumbull Town Hall gazebo. In
case of rain, concert held in Trumbull Library community
room.
Free concert
Connecticut fairs
By Kevin Kelly
Tag sale Sunday, Sept. 4, 8-4, Congregation Bnai

Torah, 5700 Main St., Trumbull. Clothing, small appliances, electronics, furniture, art, toys, sporting goods, household items. Funds raised benefit educational programs;
cash only; 203-268-6940; info@bnaitorahct.org.
Slice or chunk your tomatoes and arrange

on a large platter. If you picked up sun golds
or other cherry tomatoes, cut them in half
and scatter over the top. Drizzle with olive
oil and balsamic vinegar. Sprinkle with basil
and parsley. Season to taste with salt and
pepper. Serve immediately with good bread.
Gild the lily by adding minced garlic,
chopped cherry peppers, olives, crumbled
goat cheese or sliced fresh mozzarella.
Goshen Fair, Sept. 3-5, goshenfair.org

Haddam Neck Fair, Sept. 2-5, haddamneckfair.com
Taste of Litchfield Hills Food & Wine Festival, Sept. 3-5
Woodstock Fair, Sept. 2-5, woodstockfair.com
Bethlehem Fair, Sept. 9-11, bethlehemfair.com
Granby Grange Agricultural Fair, Sept. 10, ctstategrange.
com/subgrangepage.asp?GrangeID=185
Hebron Harvest Fair, Sept. 8-11, hebronharvestfair.org
Ledyard Fair, Sept. 9-11, ledyardfair.org
Killingly Grange Fair, Sept. 10, ctstategrange.com/subgrangepage.asp?grangeid=47
Meriden Grange Fair, Sept. 10, ctstategrange.com/subgrangepage.asp?GrangeID=192
Monroe Apple Festival, Sept. 10-11, stpetersonthegreen.com
North Haven Fair, Sept. 8-11, northhaven-fair.com
Wapping Fair, Sept. 8-11, wappingfair.org
Four Town Fair, Sept.15-18, fourtownfair.com
Guilford Agricultural Fair, Sept. 16-18, guilfordfair.org
Orange Country Fair, Sept., 17-18, orangectfair.com
Wallingford Grange Fair, Sept. 17, ctstategrange.com/subgrangepage.asp?grangeid=84
Cheshire Grange Community Grange Fair, Sept. 24-25, ctstategrange.com/subgrangepage.asp?grangeid=26
Durham Fair, Sept. 22-25, durhamfair.com
Hebron Renaissance Fair, Sept. 24-25, ctfaire.com
Beacon Grange Fair, Sept. 26, ctstategrange.com/subgrangepage.asp?grangeid=17
Berlin Fair, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, ctberlinfair.com
155th Harwinton Fair, Oct. 1-2, harwintonfair.com
Portland Fair, Oct. 7-9, portlandfair.com
Riverton Fair, Oct. 7-9, rivertonfair.org
From the Capitol
For the benefit of muscular dystrophy,

Saturday, Sept. 3, 11-4, home and yard of Bob and Margie
Schulman, 3 Layayette Drive, Trumbull. Rain date: Sept.
4. Hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza cotton candy, magic show,
games, arts & crafts, bounce house, and dunk tank with
First Selectman Tim Herbst; 203-261-2248.
Carnival
Connecticut fairs and farms

As the summer months
come to an end, we all begin
thinking about the cooler
weather, the fall foliage and,
of course, fall family traditions such as weekend trips
around the state.
And as my family gets
back into the busy school
year and all the kids lacrosse
and hockey games, we enjoy
supporting our local farms.
Throughout the fall we take
time to visit local farms to
pick apples, drink cider, wander through corn mazes, or
experience a hay ride. These
trips are a fun way to enjoy
the fall season, and an even
better way to support our
local family farms, businesses
and economy.
Like me, I am sure many
of you also make one of our
states fairs an annual family
tradition where you can enjoy
food, rides, games, animals,
music, art, local crafts and
Connecticut culture.
Additional information
about upcoming fairs and
local farms can be found
Massaro Community Farm fund-raising dinner Saturday, Sept. 3, farm tour at 4:30 p.m., cocktails at 5, dinner at 6, outside on the farm, 41 Ford Road,
Woodbridge; catered by Antonios, featuring Massaro
farm produce. $100/person. RSVP to Melissa Waldron at
melissa@massarofarm.org.
Benefit dinner
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Obituaries
Mary Bernice Fida Brown

Mary
Bernice
Fida Brown, 84, of
Bridgeport, wife of
the late Robert R.
Brown, died Aug.
25, in Tullahoma,
Tenn.
Mrs.
Brown,
a
homemaker, was born in Kurima,
Czechoslovakia to the late
Joseph and Sophie (Rohal)
Fida and was a lifelong area
resident.
She was an avid gardener
and a longtime member of St.
Andrews Church.
Survivors include her children, April Markovics and her
husband, Glen of Stratford,
Sandra Maisano and her husband, Mark of Tennesee, Dawn
Santos and her husband, Chris
of Bridgeport; eight grandchildren, Krista, Robert, Layne,
Jessica,
Jamie,
Jake, Craig, and
Christopher; three
great-grandchildren,
Dani, Anthony and
Sophia; two brothers, Raymond Fida
of West Haven,
and Joseph Fida of
Huntington; a stepdaughter,
Sharon Poppa and her husband, Lawrence; brother-inlaw, James Pace of Idaho; and
several nieces and nephews.
Services are Friday, Sept.
2, 10 a.m., Adzima Funeral
Home, 50 Paradise Green
Place, Stratford and at 11
a.m. in St. Andrews Church,
Bridgeport. Burial will be in
St. Johns Cemetery, Stratford.
Visiting hours, Thursday, 4-8
p.m.
Online condolences: adzimafuneralhome.com.
Michael Dattilo
Michael Dattilo of Stratford,
husband of Anne Kolcun
Dattilo for 60 years, died Aug.
26, at Bridgeport Hospital.
Mr. Dattilo served in the
U.S. Navy during World War
II aboard the USS Witter, DE
636. He was an NRA instructor with the Bridgeport Rifle
Club.
Mr. Dattilo won several
shooting tournaments. He was
a member of the Bridgeport
Rifle Club, the NRA, the East
End Yacht Club, the Veterans
Association and the Italian
Community Center. He loved
shooting, fishing, photography, teaching and spending
time with his children and
grandchildren.
Michael lived life to the
fullest and would always lend
a helping hand; he greeted
everyone with a smile, his
family said. He loved telling
jokes and always made everyone laugh.
Besides his wife, survivors
include his children and their
spouses, Dale and Bill Janega,
Dianne and George Alldredge,

Michele Dattilo, Richard
Dattilo, Robert and Kathleen
Dattilo; grandchildren, Billy,
Michael, Ana, Vicky, Jake,
Kristen, Jason, Leslie, Joseph,
Jessica, Mickey, Kaitlyn,
Kellie; and great-granddaughter, Jordyn.
He was predeceased by
his parents, Giuseppe and
Antonia Dattilo and John and
Anna Kolcun; his siblings,
Josephine, Mary, Domenica,
Ignazio, Tony, Malfalda,
Yolanda, and Louis; and his
cousin and best friend, Bart.
Adzima Funeral Home,
50 Paradise Green Place,
Stratford, handled arrangements.
Memorial contributions
may be made to the WW II
Memorial at WWII Memorial
Processing Center, P.O. Box
305, Calverton, NY 11933 or
wwiicustserv@americancusto
mercare.com.
Helen Slossar Duch

Helen Slossar Duch, 98, of
Shelton, formerly of Stratford,
wife of the late Joseph Duch,
died Aug. 24, in Griffin
Hospital, with her family by
her side.
Daughter of the late Joseph
and Anna Kochiss Slossar, she
was born Oct. 31, 1912 in
Bridgeport.
Mrs. Duch was employed
with the Frisbie Pie Company
for more than 20 years. She
enjoyed cooking, reading,
playing bingo and doing
crossword puzzles, and most
of all, spending precious time
with her daughter and grandchildren, her family said. She
was a member of the Slovak
Catholic Sokols Assembly #
308 and the First Plavecky
Society.
She is survived by her
daughter, Joanne Mastroni of
Huntington; two sisters, Mary

Chuba of Seymour, Anne
Kollmannsperger of Mass.;
three grandchildren, Melissa
Alves and husband Manny,
Anne Marie Mastroni, Jamie
Mastroni and wife, Courtney;
and several nieces and nephews.
She also was predeceased
by two brothers, Joseph and
Vincent Slossar.
Galello-Luchansky Funeral
Home, 2220 Main St.,
Stratford, handled arrangements. Burial in St. Johns
Cemetery, Stratford.
Memorial contributions may
be made to the Connecticut
Hospice Homeport Cove, 100
Double Beach Road, Branford,
CT 06405-4906.
Online condolences: galellofuneralhome.com.
Robert L. Zmarzlak
Robert
L.
Zmarzlak, 73, of
Fairfield, husband of
RoseAnn DeFelice
Zmarzlak for 51
years, died Aug. 22,
at home. His daughter, Rose Zmarzlak;
and his sister, Justine
Scherback, live in Stratford.
Son of the late Andrew and
Margaret Heigel Zmarzlak, he
was born in Bridgeport, and
lived in Fairfield for 43 years,
where he and his wife raised
their family.
Mr. Zmrzlak served his
country as a sailor aboard the
Aircraft Carrier USS Essex
CVA9 from 1955 to 1958.
After his time in the U.S.
Navy, he went to work for
Avco Lycoming, retiring after
35 years with the company. He
also spent 20 years working
part-time for Hawley Industrial
Hardware. Additionally, he
worked as a maintenance person for St.Pius X Church, and
later for Holy Family Church,
where he recently retired.
Bob enjoyed staying active,
regularly volunteering his time
and talent as a skilled craftsman to help friends, neighbors, and those in need, his
family said. A person of strong
faith, he and his wife

would semi-annually participate with
Emmaus retreats
at Our Lady of the
Assumption Church,
where he was affectionately referred to
as Cha Cha.
Besides his wife, survivors
include three children, Robert
Zmarzlak, of Los Angeles,
Calif., Rose Zmarzlak, of
Stratford, and David Zmarzlak,
of Fairfield; four grandchildren,
Brittney and Lindsey Croteau,
Tyler and Dylan Zmarzlak;
one sister, Justine Scherback,
of Stratford; two sisters-inlaw, Louise Macchiarelli,
and her husband, Michael, of
Bridgeport, Judith DeFelice,
of Southbury; one brother-inlaw, Fred DeFelice, and his
wife, Sherrie, of Florida; and
Lesko & Polke Funeral
Home, Fairfield handled
arrangements. Burial in Oak
Lawn Cemetery.
may be made to Holy Family
Church, 700 Old Stratfield
Road, Fairfield, CT 06825.
Online condolences: leskopolkefuneralhome.com.
Andrew John Nelson II

Andrew
John
Nelson
II,
of
Stratford, died July
31, at home.
He was born
Jan. 22, 1947, to
the late Andrew
J. and Marjorie
(Lescheshen)
Nelson.
Mr. Nelson attended Eli
Whitney Elementary School,
and Wooster Middle schools
before graduating from Frank
Scott Bunnell High School in
1965. He attended and graduated from Arkansas College in
Batesville, Ark., now known
as Lyon College. He received
a masters degree in social science from the University of
Mississippi at the same time as
former President Bill Clinton.
Upon completion of his education, Mr. Nelson worked with
Gov. Winthrop Rockerfeller
before returning to Stratford. At
that time he began to work with
Fred Biebel at the Republican
party, before starting his own
successful advertising-public
relations and marketing firm
Nelson & Associates.
Politics would remain to
be a source of great interest to Andy and he remained
actively involved in
the political arena
for years, behind
the scenes, his family said. He also
was very involved
with the Stratford
Historical Society.
He loved to travel and enjoyed sailing with
a number of his friends, his
family said. He also was an
avid gardener. He always
enjoyed laughter and a good
joke. Andys disposition was
a source of many smiles for
those associated with him. He
will be remembered as a man
who lived life to the fullest.
A life celebration will be
held Sunday, Sept. 11, 1 p.m.,
at the home of his cousin,
Bettie Jane Guggenheim. His
friends and family ask that in
honor of Andys life please
plan to bring a favorite memory you have of Andy to share.
Those wishing to participate
in the celebration of Andrews
life call 203-377-1014 on or
before Sept. 9, 2011. Adzima
Funeral Home, 50 Paradise
Green Place, Stratford, handled arrangements.
Helen M. Masloski
Helen M. Masloski, 84, of Stratford,
wife of the late Frank
J. Masloski for 50
years, died Aug. 27,
in Smilow Cancer
Hospital in New
Haven, with her
daughter Francine
by her side.
Daughter of the late
Francisek and Bronisalawa
(Kaminiski) Olenski, she
was born Feb. 22, 1927 in
Worcester, Mass., and had
resided in Stratford for the
past 60 years.
Mrs. Masloski worked for
the Diocese of Bridgeport
for 40 years as a cook for
the priests at her parish, St.
Michael the Archangel Church,
Bridgeport; followed by St
James and St Catherines parishes; then for Bishop Egan,
later Cardinal Egan for 12
years as his personal cook and
housekeeper. During Cardinal
Egans term in New York,
she assisted with the cooking
and housekeeping at the residence of the Archbishop at St.
Patricks Cathedral, something
she loved doing, her family
said.
While in New York, she
had the honor of being introduced to Pope John Paul the II
Joseph M. Lesinsky
Joseph
M.
Lesinsky, 90, of
Stratford, husband
of the late Catherine
Carbone Lesinsky,
died Aug. 27, at Lord
Chamberlin Nursing
and Rehabilitation
Center.
Son of the late John and
Mary Shiyler Lesinsky, he
was born Nov. 8, 1920 in
Bridgeport.
Mr. Lesinsky was a U.S.
Army World War II veteran. He was employed at the
Bridgeport Brass Company in
the shipping department for
more than 40 years.
An avid fisherman, he was
a member of the East End
Yacht Club. He also enjoyed
shooting pool and spending
time at the Stratford

Baldwin Center.
He is survived by
two sisters, Helen
Hoff of Shelton,
Irene Mailloux of
Fairfield; and several nieces and nephews and great nieces
and great nephews.
He also was predeceased by
two sisters, Margaret Pivarnik
and Ethel Miklus; and four
brothers, Julius, John, Steve
and William Lesinsky.
Galello-Luchansky Funeral
Home, 2220 Main St.,
Online condolences: galellofuneralhome.com.
Thomas Pellitteri Sr.
Thomas Pellitteri Sr., 84, of

Stratford, died Aug. 28, at St.
Vincents Medical Center.
Son of the late Vincent and
Jennie Ballone Pellitteri, he
was born Nov. 19, 1926 in
Astoria, N.Y.
Mr. Pellitteri was a U.S.
Army veteran. He was the
owner and operator of Pellitteri
Chevrolet of Norwalk.
Survivors include three
Pjura of Wilton, and children, Vincent Pellitteri
Helen Tomasko of of Milford, Janice Ludwig
Niantic; four grand- of Trumbull, and Thomas
children, Deanna,
Jeffry Jr., Michael,
Kristina; and several
nieces and nephews.
She also was predeceased by her son,
Ruth M. Riccio Silver, 81,
James; grandson, James Jr.;
and three brothers, Joseph, of Stratford, died Aug. 25,
at home, after a brief illness,
George and John Pjura.
Services are Friday, Sept. with her family by her side.
Daughter of the late John
2, 9 a.m., Galello-Luchansky
Funeral Home, 2220 Main and Angelina Roberto Riccio,
St., Stratford, and at 10 a.m. she was born Oct. 22, 1929 in
in the Holy Name of Jesus Bridgeport,
She was a retired employee
Church, 1950 Barnum Ave.,
Stratford. Burial will follow of Sikorsky Aircraft and was
in St. Michaels Cemetery. formerly employed by Avco
Visiting hours, Thursday, 4-7, Lycoming.
Survivors include two
at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may children, Robert Silver of
be made to the American Heart Philadelphia, Pa. and Lynn
Association, 5 Brookside Reno and her husband, James
of Scotts Valley, Calif., three
Drive, Wallingford, CT.
Stephanie,
Online condolences: galel- grandchildren,
Julie and Alex Reno; two sislofuneralhome.com.
ters, Jean Fazio of Stratford
and Anita Salce and her hus-
Frances M. Pjura Maytas

Frances M. Pjura
Maytas, 86, of
Harwinton, formerly
of Stratford, wife of
the late John Maytas,
died Aug. 29, in the
Charlotte Hungerford
Hospital, Torrington,
with her family by
her side.
Daughter of the late Joseph
and Kristina Pjura, she was born
Jan. 28, 1925 in Bridgeport.
Mrs. Maytas was employed
with the City Trust Bank in
their accounting department
for more than 20 years. She
was a graduate of Stratford
High School.
Mrs. Maytas was a member of the Harwinton Ladies
Society. She enjoyed quilting
and cooking.
Most of her precious time
was spent with her cherished
grandchildren, her family said.
She is survived by her son,
Jeff and his wife, Denise
Maytas of Harwinton; two
sisters, Sister Mary Madonna
and Pope Benedict

the XVI. She had
a strong devotion to
her Catholic faith,
especially to the
Blessed Mother and
to saying the rosary.
Mrs. Masloski
was proud of her
Polish heritage and loved
her polka music, her family
said. She was a devoted loving mother with both inner
and outer beauty. Her fun loving spirit, kindness and caring
touched the lives of all who
knew her.
Survivors include three
daughters, Francine Masloski
of Stratford, Mary Warshal of
Ansonia and Regina Espinosa
of Oxford; four grandchildren;
two sisters, Tessie Kabara of
Stratford and Jane Czapla of
Fairfield; several nieces and
nephews and many friends.
She was predeceased by
three brothers, Walter, Frank
and Stanley Olenski.
Adzima Funeral Home,
50 Paradise Green Place,
Memorial contributions may
be made to a charity of ones
choice.
Pellitteri Jr. of Brookfield;

five grandchildren, Jamie,
Dana, Michelle, Nicole and
Thomas; a brother, Joseph
Pellitteri and his wife, Virginia
of Whitestone, N.Y.; and several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by a
sister, Mary Laurita and her
husband, John.
Abriola Parkview Funeral
Home, 419 White Plains Road,
Trumbull, handled arrangements. Burial in Lakeview
Cemetery, New Canaan.
Ruth M. Riccio Silver
www.StratfordStar.com

band, Paul of Shelton; brother-in-law, Michael Piccirillo

of Stratford; and many nieces
and nephews.
She was predeceased by two
brothers, Frank and Raymond
Riccio; three sisters, Marie
Piccirillo, Dorothy Drinkwine,
Nancy Riccio; and brother-inlaw, Joseph Fazio.
Abriola Parkview Funeral
Home, 419 White Plains Road,
Trumbull, handled arrangements. Burial in St. Michaels
may be made to Connecticut
Hospice, 2 Trap Falls Road,
Suite 408 Shelton, CT 06484.
To light a virtual candle,
visit abriola.com.
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Obituaries
Donna Marie Cimmino Reda

Donna
Marie
Cimmino Reda, 47,
of Bridgeport, wife
of Patrick Reda, died
Aug. 24, at home,
with her family by
her side. Her brother, Michael Rynich
lives in Stratford.
She was the daughter of
Anita Parsons and the late
Dominick Cimmino.
Mrs. Reda worked in the
Jewish Home for the Elderly
in Fairfield for many years.
Her caring and loving ways
touched everyone who knew
her, her family said. She was a
very special person and will be
greatly missed.
Besides her husband and
mother, survivors include her
dog, Eddie; brothers, Jerry
Rynich of Milford, Michael
Rynich of Stratford, and
Anthony and Betty Cimmino
of Trumbull; an
aunt, Florence Muto
of Milford; a stepson
and his wife, Jason
and Stacy Cancelli
of Bridgeport; her
g r a n d d a u g h t e r,
Hayley Cancelli;
a sister-in-law and
brother in-law, Holly and Mark
Bartlett of Brookfield; several
nieces, nephews, cousins, several great nieces and nephews,
and many friends.
She also was predeceased
by her baby daughter, Patricia
(Trisha) Lee.
Adzima Funeral Home, 50
Paradise Green Place, Stratford,
handled arrangements. Burial
in Kings Highway Cemetery,
Milford.
George Clark Mulligan

Retired Fairfield Fire
Lieutenant George Clark
Mulligan, 66, of Stratford, formerly of Fairfield, died Aug.
22, at home.
Born and raised in
Bridgeport, he was the son of
the late George W. and Muriel
Clark Mulligan.
Mr. Mulligan had lived in
Fairfield for most of his life
before moving to Stratford
seven years ago. A veteran of
the Vietnam War, he served in
the U.S. Marines. Returning
from service, he joined the
Fairfield Fire Department, and
retired as a lieutenant after
serving the community for 31
years.
While there, he actively
volunteered his time and talent to educate children on fire
safety. For many years, he also
helped with the Fairfield Fire
Department Half Marathon
Road Race.
He enjoyed trips to NASCAR
events. An avid fisherman and
boater, he was a former member of Fayerweather Yacht
Club, where he served as past
rear commodore. Additionally,
he belonged to Bridgeport Area
Retired Firemen (BARF).
Survivors include his sons,
George M. Mulligan and
Devin C. Mulligan; his brother, Kenneth Mulligan; his sister, Muriel Ann Dushok; and
Lesko & Polke Funeral
Home, 1209 Post Road,
Fairfield, handled arrangements. Burial in St. Michaels
may be made to the Mulligan
family.
Online condolences: leskopolkefuneralhome.com.
Dr. James David Garrity

Dr. James David Garrity, 80,
of Stratford, husband of Anne
ONeill Garrity, died Aug.
25, at St. Vincents Medical
Center.
Son of the late Walter and
Mary (Bannon) Garrity, he
was born Sept. 16, 1930 in
Bridgeport.
Dr. Garrity was a graduate of
Fairfield College Preparatory
School (winner of the first
four-year academic scholarship), Fairfield University, and
received his medical degree
from Georgetown University
School of Medicine. He
served his country as a senior
assistant surgeon for the U.S.
Public Health Service at the
Kiawa Hospital in Lawton,
OK. He then was a family
practice physician in Monroe
for more than 40 years.
Dr. Garrity was an active
member of the medical staff at
St. Vincents, where he met his
wife of 53 years, Anne, during
his residency and her nursing
training. He was an assistant
medical examiner for Fairfield
and New Haven counties,
police and fire department
surgeon, town health officer,
police commissioner, and physician for numerous school
and town sports teams.
Dr. Garrity was a devout
Catholic, and was a former
member of St. Judes RC
Church in Monroe. He also was
a communicant at St. Marks
RC Church in Stratford.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his children and their
families, Bridget (Lawrence
Sweeney) of Morris; Moira
(Karen Takeda) of Bristol, Vt.;
James D. Jr. (Nancy Juda) of
Bethesda, Md.; Timothy of
Atlanta, Ga.; Sheilagh (Lisa
Rowley) of McBee, S.C.; Peter
(Karen) of Wrentham, Mass.;
and Christopher of Somerset,
Mass.;
Also, his grandchildren
Celia, Connor, Christopher,
Simon,
Ruth,
Timothy,
Meghan, Peter, Sean, and
Katy; great-grandchildren,
Jake and Ben; sisters-in-law,
Doris Garrity of Fairfield;
Marilyn Garrity of Scituate,
Mass.; Maureen ONeill
Kocher of Boca Raton, Fla.;
Jean ONeill of Stratford;
brother-in-law, Peter ONeill
(Alice) of New Cumberland,
Pa.; daughters-in law, Gail
Marks of Willimantic, and
Bonnie Norman of Bethesda,
Md.; many nieces and nephews; the extended Garrity
and ONeill clan; and many
friends.
He also was predeceased by
his brothers, John, Walter, and
Joseph; his office assistant,
Peg Dolzani; and his youngest
daughter, Katie.
Redgate-Hennessy Funeral
Home, Main Street and
Gorham Place, Trumbull, handled arrangements.
may be made to St. Mark
Church Organ Fund or memorial masses may be said for Dr.
Garrity.
Online
condolences:
redgatehennessy.com.
Senior News
Activities and Events
Lifelong Learners New Member
Meeting Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1 p.m.
in the Stratford Library Lovell Room.
The group coordinates programs on a
variety of topics. Plans for the upcoming year will be discussed at the first
meeting. All programs are open to the
public, and new members are always
welcome.
Travel Opportunity Information
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 12:30 p.m.,
Tracy O'Neill of Collette Vacations will
present a slide program and information
session about a trip to England, Scotland
and Wales planned for April/May 2012.
Questions about costs, details of the
tour and all itinerary information will
be included at this time. Please sign
up at the Baldwin Center Front Desk if
you will be attending the information
session.
Free Dental Screenings Tuesday,
Sept. 13, 9 a.m. Jason Oberhand, DDS,
will provide free dental screenings in
the Baldwin Center clinic. Dr. Oberhand
will address any questions you have
about gum disease, dentures and overall
oral health. There is no obligation for
this service. Please sign up for a time
slot at the Baldwin Center front desk.
Senior Center Month Celebration
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1 p.m. Baldwin
Center will celebrate Senior Center
Month with an afternoon of country
music, line-dancing and refreshments.
Wear your best western duds, and enjoy
our special old-fashioned desserts of
Fruit Cobbler, Missouri Bread Pudding
or Gold Miner's Mud Pie and coffee.
Tickets are $2 and should be purchased
in advance.
Annual Card and Game Party
Friday, Sept. 16, 1:30 p.m. Bring your
favorite card games of all types, i.e.,
bridge, pinochle, scrabble, MahJong,
etc. There will be door prizes, table
prizes, raffles and refreshments. Don't
miss this very popular annual event.
Tickets ($5.00) must be purchased in
advance.
Tai Chi Active Aging Through

Tai Chi classes, designed to enhance
strength, balance, and coordination currently are being offered at Baldwin
Center for adults age 55 and older.
Classes run Monday and Friday mornings at 10 a.m. in Baldwin Center Main
Hall. Fee: $1 members; $2 non-members.
Latin Dance Exercise Certified
Zumba instructor, Sandi Frashefsky
will teach a Latin dance exercise class
Friday mornings, 9 a.m. Class incorporates salsa dance; especially geared
to older adults. Fee is $1 for current
Center members; $2 for non-members.
Brain game Stratford Senior
Services offers the Dakim Brain Fitness
Program, a computer program, which
provides a challenging and entertaining
workout for the brain. Developed for
older adults, it transforms neurological
tests and exercises into engaging and
fun games with five levels of challenge
so it may be used by a wide variety
of people at all levels of functioning.
The system self-adjusts automatically
to the individuals memory level, and
can measure progress over time.
Information: Marie Guman, 203-3854055.
Wii bowling Thursdays, 12:30
p.m., Lower Level. No prior knowledge
of Wii or bowling required. Stop by any
Thursday at 12:30 to participate.
Free Internet Stratford Senior

Services offers free wireless connection
to the Internet at the Baldwin Center
Coffee Shop weekdays from 9 a.m. to
3 p.m.
Fitness classes Aerobics for active
adults is offered Monday through Friday
at 9 a.m.; Sittercise, a chair exercise
program developed by the American
Arthritis Foundation, Tuesdays and
Thursdays, 10 a.m.; Yoga, Tuesdays
and Thursdays, 11 a.m.; and Tai Chi,
Mondays and Fridays, 10 a.m.; Latin
Dance Exercise, Friday, 9 a.m.
All classes are open to Baldwin
Center members ages 55 and older.
Register at the Main Desk or call Marie
Guman for more information.
Blood pressure screenings offered
by Bridgeport Hospital, second Monday
of every month, 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the
center; 1-888-357-2396.
Yoga class Two days a week,
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m.
Thursday class is appropriate for intermediate students.
Connecticut Veterans Wartime
Service Medal Established by the
2005 General Assembly, any veteran
who served at least 90 days during
wartime and was honorably discharged
is eligible for the medal. Visit ct.gov/
ctvg. Applications also are available
at Baldwin Center Main Desk, and
can be submitted to the Connecticut
Department of Veterans Affairs.
Friendship Club New group for

seniors who are single, widowed or
Mens Club seeks members men
divorced meets second Monday of the
age
55 and over may join this friendly
month at 2 p.m., Baldwin Center Coffee
Shop. Share common interests; plan association of like-minded individuals
who are looking for fun and companspecial activities.
ionship. Club meets at Baldwin Center
Center forms classical musical from 9 to 11 a.m. on the first and third
group A group of music enthusi- Fridays of the month.
asts is seeking new members who are
Lets Talk A short-story discusinterested in playing chamber music.
sion
series facilitated by author Kathy
The group meets at the Baldwin Center
Thursday afternoons, 1 p.m., and offers Faggella meets twice a month, the first
opportunities for beginners to seasoned and third Wednesday, 10 a.m. For more
information see Marie Guman.
musicians.
Stratford man sent to prison for structuring transactions

A Stratford man will serve 18 months
in prison for illegally structuring more
than $943,000 in cash transactions.
U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall also
sentenced 54-year-old John A. Ortiz
to two years of supervised release,
ordered him to forfeit $388,540 to the
federal government, and imposed at
$75,000 fine during a court appearance
Thursday, Aug. 25
According to David B. Fein, United
States Attorney for the District of
Connecticut, federal law requires all
financial institutions to file a Currency
Transaction Report (CTR) for currency
transactions that exceed $10,000. To
evade the filing of a CTR, individuals will often structure currency transactions so that no single transaction
exceeds $10,000. Structuring involves
the repeated depositing or withdrawal of amounts of cash less than the
$10,000 limit, or the splitting of a cash

transaction that exceeds $10,000 into
smaller cash transactions in an effort to
avoid the reporting requirements.
Even if the deposited funds are
derived from a legitimate means, financial transactions conducted in this manner are still in violation of federal criminal law, according to Fein.
Court documents and statements
made in court indicate Ortiz maintained
a money market savings account at a
credit union, and also had a personal
line of credit at a bank. Between May,
2006, and Oct., 2009, Ortiz made more
than 70 large cash deposits into his savings account and more than 30 large
cash payments to his personal line of
credit account. The vast majority of the
cash transactions were in the amount of
$9,000, and none exceeded $10,000.
In total, Fein said, Ortiz structured
approximately $943,000 in cash deposits and line of credit payments.

Ortiz used the deposited funds to
purchase, or to obtain credit in order
to purchase, properties in Connecticut
and Florida. He also used more than
$270,000 of the structured funds to
settle a business dispute with his former
partner.
Ortiz owns and operates towing and
auto repair businesses in Bridgeport and
Stratford.
On May 25, Ortiz waived his right
to indictment and pleaded guilty to one
count of structuring cash transactions.
The matter was investigated by the
Internal Revenue Service Criminal
Investigation and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. The case was prosecuted
by Senior Litigation Counsel Richard J.
Schechter.
PAGE 10A
Schools
Campus Update
Eastern Connecticut State University
He is the grandson of Mrs. Sophie Hovan
Kathryn Harry of Stratford was inducted into of Stratford and the late Andrew P. Hovan Sr.,
the Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society a former Stratford police detective and 8th
at Eastern Connecticut State University, where District town councilman.
she is a member of the Class of 2012.
His maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Fertelmes also of Stratford.
Lehigh University
Brendan is entering his senior year at UNH.
Brittany Dickinson of Stratford earned a
bachelor of science degree in business and
Springeld College
economics.
Brian Sobel of Stratford received the 2011
Springfield College Student Humanics Award,
Iona College
at the colleges 85th Stepping Up Day ceremoAlyssa Jones who is entering her sophomore nies at the Richard B. Flynn Campus Union
year, made the deans list for the spring semes- Patio, on April 14.
ter at Iona College.
Sobel, a fourth-year student whose major
field of study is recreation management,
received the presentation from Lauren Grimes
Pace University
Two students from Stratford recently gradu- Youmans, Springfield College Alumni Council
ated from Pace University.
vice president.
Kelly Orpilla received a bachelor of arts
The Student Humanics Award is given
degree from Paces Dyson College Arts & to seniors for their scholarship, leadership,
Sciences.
contributions to campus co-curricular life
Alexander Blanco received a bachelor of and personification of the humanics phibusiness administration degree from Paces losophy. Humanics focuses on education of
Lubin School of Business.
the whole person spirit, mind and body
for leadership in service to humanity.
Assumption College
Allison Boccamazzo of Stratford, a memUniversity of Vermont
ber of the Class of 2012, has been named to
Mathew P. Wajda of Stratford was recogthe deans list for the spring 2011 semester at nized at an Honors Day Ceremony in the
Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.
College of Arts and Sciences at the University
of Vermont this spring.
Merrimack College
Wajda received the Bernd Heinrich Award,
Joan F. Corcoran of Stratford was named presented by the Biology Department.
to the spring 2011 deans list at Merrimack
College.
American International College
Sarah Calgreen of Stratford was recognized
for participation in campus activities at a cerRoger Williams University
Amanda T. Bolbotowski, Lauren A. Kepchar, emony in the Griswold Theatre at American
Magee S. Kmec, Taylor W. Petruccelli and International College.
Calgreen, a junior majoring in criminal jusCody B. Young, all of Stratford, were named
to the spring deans list at Roger Williams tice received the Outstanding Junior, LEAD
Program award.
University.
York College
University of New Haven
Kelli Frusciante of Stratford, CT, a senior
Brendan Andrew Hovan, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew P. Hovan Jr. of Matthew Drive, has nuclear medicine technology major at York
attained deans list honors for the spring 2011 College of Pennsylvania, has been named to
the deans list for the spring 2011 semester.
semester at the University of New Haven.
Hovan is majoring in the Criminal JusticeStonehill College
Forensic Psychology Degree program, with
Two Stratford students were named to the
minors in psychology and sociology.
Housatonic Community College 2011 graduates Van Cao of Bridgeport and Lenny
Poplaski of Stratford brainstorm a technical issue with Academic Coordinator Bill
Griffin of Clinton. Earlier this year, all three were inducted into Epsilon Pi Tau, the
international honor society for professions in technology. Cao and Poplaski were
inducted as students and Griffin as a faculty member. Both Cao and Poplaski have
been recognized for their project work with the Life Support and Sustainable Living
program, while Poplaski received a NASA Space Grant scholarship.
(Submitted photo)
spring 2011 deans list at Stonehill College in ing in secondary education.
Easton, Mass.
Skidmore College
Samantha S. Cranston is a member of the
Erica Johnson, a member of the Class of 2014
Class of 2011.
Catherine F. Grasso is a member of the Class at Skidmore College, was selected for membership in the Honors Forum, which works
of 2014.
to strengthen intellectual life at Skidmore
and especially to encourage the academic
Western New England College
Four Stratford students have been named to aspirations of highly motivated and talented
the presidents list at Western New England for students, according to a press release. Formal
membership in the Honors Forum is based on
the spring semester of 2011.
Kayla M. Cihal is a senior majoring in mar- academic accomplishment.
She is the daughter of David and Linda
keting communication/advertising.
Courtney A. Fitzpatrick is a junior majoring Johnson of Stratford.
in marketing.
Wagner College
Justin A. Thomas is a sophomore majoring
Wagner College named Lauryn Shirra of
in general biology.
Zachary A. Thomas is a sophomore major- Stratford to the spring 2011 deans list.
School Briefs
Historical
Society gives
scholarships
Special ed records to be shredded
The Stratford Public Schools Special Education

Department will be destroying records for students who
graduated or left the Stratford School District in 2005.
Former students, or guardians of former students,
who would like to have their records must contact the
Stratford Pupil Personnel Office at 203-385-4225 before
Sept. 2, to make arrangements to pick up records.
Lunch menus online
Stratford schools are doing lunch menus in a new format. PDFs can be downloaded at stratfordstar.com.
Each menu covers a full month.
Perry House needs volunteers
Perry House is in desperate need of volunteers.

Docents are needed for a new educational program.
Each spring and fall Perry House provides tours for all
Stratford third and fifth grade students. The third grade
curriculum is Colonial Stratford, and the fifth graders
study the Revolutionary War period.
Perry House docents, dressed in costume (provided by
Perry House), lead tours.
Volunteers are also needed to operate the visitors center for one to two hours each week, helping keep Perry
House open and performing general office work.
Information is available from Carole Adzima at 203377-3779.
Megan Simon of Stratford High School, Katherine Aspinwall of Bunnell High School
and Esther Jean Marie of Stratford High School accepted Stratford Historical
Society scholarships from Shirley McCormack, chairman of the societys Scholarship
Committee. Carol Proto of Bunnell High School also received a scholarship.
(Submitted photo)
The Stratford Historical

Society awarded four $2,000
scholarships to four graduating senior high school students residing in Stratford.
Three students received their
awards at the society s membership meeting in May.
Recipients were Megan
Simon and Esther Jean Marie,
both of Stratford High School,
and Katherine Aspinwall and
Carol Proto, both of Bunnell
High School.
Scholarship Committee
Chairman Shirley McCormack
presented the awards
Since
initiating
the
Scholarship Program in 2007,
20 awards have been made to
Stratford high school seniors
in the amount of $22,000.
Storm washes out Burn Foundation fund-raiser

Hurricane Irene forced the Stratford
Professional Firefighters Burn Foundation
to call off its Tip a Firefighter event
Wednesday, Aug. 31, at 99 Restaurant,
411 Barnum Ave. Cutoff.
It is the first of several events over the
next two months to raise money for the
foundation, which is supporting construction of a suite at Bridgeport Hospital for
burn victims and their families.
The fourth annual Long Island Sound
Bluefish Tournament will be held from

Saturday, Sept. 17, at 6 a.m. to Sunday,
Sept. 18, at 2 p.m. The entry fee is $35 for
adult anglers, $20 for children.
The weigh station will be at the Birdseye
Boat Ramp at the end of Birdseye Street.
More information can be found at
www.IAFFlocal998.org. Tournament
assistance and promotion is being provided by CTFisherman.com and Stratford
Bait and Tackle.
Tickets to the Oct. 1 National Hockey

League pre-season game between the
New York Islanders and Boston Bruins
at the Webster Bank Arena at Harbor
Yard are available for $35, with proceeds
going toward renovation of the Bridgeport
Hospital Burn Center. Information is
available at slupinacci@spffafightingbu
rns.org.
Information about the foundation can
be found at spffafightingburns.org.
PAGE 11A
PAGE 12A
Hurricane Irene
Water fills the roadway and sidewalk adjacent to the sea wall after the storm surge from Hurricane Irene.
Weather service on Irene:

Could have been worse
Continued from page one
said of hurricanes, explaining that sections of hurricanes
and tropical storms carry rain
bands that are saturated with
various amounts of moisture.
Wind damage also varied
from region to region. Igor
Sikorsky Airport recorded wind gusts of 63 miles
an hour, but Danbury only
saw gusts that hit 40 mph.
Sustained winds were between
20 and 40 mph for most areas.
Central Connecticut was hit
the worst, Stark said, although

many towns along the coast
have 100% of its residents
without electricity.
The storm could have
been worse, Stark said. As
Irene made landfall in North
Carolina, its structure changed
slightly. By the time it hit
Connecticut it had downgraded to a tropical storm. But
its reach extended across the
northeast, and before the eye
of the storm hit in western
New York, much of the region
was already soaked and suf-
fering wind damage. This also

helped slow the storm as landmasses take away the storms
energy source, Stark said.
Hurricanes are low-pressure
systems that spin counterclockwise and are categorized
as cyclones, Stark said. These
storms get energy from warm
water, so the cooler water in the
north also helped weaken the
storms intensity. Stark added
that vertical streams of wind
may also have helped slow the
storm, but its unclear.
The gazebo on Paradise Green was heavily damaged by a falling tree during
Hurricane Irene.
(Submitted photo by Matt Catalano)
Town mops up
Continued from page one
and businesses it served were
without power. As of mid-day
Wednesday that number hovered around 3,000, sometimes
spiking as areas where power
had been restored were briefly
blacked out again to allow
People walk up First Avenue during the lull in Hurricane Irene Sunday. Sand shows work on nearby areas. At the
how far water encroached on the shore.
(Photo by Mario Recupido) peak nearly half, 158,130 of
the 320,145 customers, were
plunged into darkness.
By Wednesday UI had
241 crews working to repair
the lines. One truck seen on
Barnum Avenue had Dont
Ask written on the drivers
door in black tape. As early

as late Sunday, before winds
had subsided, some were

complaining via Twitter about
power being out.

Metro-North suspended rail

service from noon Saturday to
late Monday afternoon. [See

related story.]

The railroad trestle in
Stratford Center, swamped by
water in previous storms, then

the subject of a major reconstruction project, escaped
major flooding Sunday, Marc
Dillon, chief of staff for
Harkins, said.
As the storm approached
Friday, crews from the
Department of Public Works
and Dalling Construction
installed large cement blocks
to bolster the sea wall. The
street along the sea wall was

fractured by the storm surge,
and late Sunday resembled a
jigsaw puzzle.
The gazebo in Paradise
Green, an iconic structure in
Stratford, was damaged when

a large tree on the Main Street
side of the green toppled
onto it Sunday. Dillon said

the original archi Wednesday
tect was being brought in to
assess the damage, but there
was no timeline for repair.

One vacant cottage on West
Bnai Torah... the center for Jewish life in Trumbull.
Beach Drive was driven into
another by the storm surge,
Open House
Shabbats
Fri., Sept. 9-7:30pm Sat., Sept. 10-9:30am
A tree on Elm Street was ripped apart by the winds of

Hurricane Irene Sunday.
(Submitted photo by Cathy McDonald)
leaving both destroyed.
The River Dog concession
stand at the Birdseye boat ramp
was pushed off its base when
the storm surge pushed into
the parking lot and toward the
water treatment plant. Water
flowed around the hill leading
into the boat launch and down
the driveways leading into the
plant, flowing as far inland as
Elm Street.
Monday morning, Elm
Street remained littered with
branches and trees blown
down by the high winds.
Stratford opened an emergency shelter at Bunnell
High School, where some 50
people sought refuge from
the storm. For the first time,
according to Animal Control
Officer Rachel Solveira, pets
were sheltered in the same
location as their owners.
`The Stratford YMCA offered
use of its showers to residents

from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily
through Friday. Residents
need to take identification, a
towel and personal care items.
All town facilities were
closed Monday. Town Hall
reopened Tuesday, and all
municipal buildings were back
in business Wednesday morning.
The Stratford Library
closed Monday, but reopened
Tuesday morning.
Social media kept residents
in touch with each other, and
relayed valuable information
during the height of the storm.
A north end resident reporting
brown water from a faucet led
to news of the breaking of a
water main on Beaver Dam
Road. The pipe was repaired
Monday.
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Hurricane Irene
Ferry Boulevard was covered in water as Hurricane

Irene roared ashore Sunday, Aug. 28.
The River Dog concession stand at the Birdseye boat ramp was tossed about by Hurricane Irene.
(Submitted photo by Cathy McDonald)
(Submitted photo by Jamie Rock)
Help available to businesses impacted by Hurricane

A business assistance program has been launched to
help companies negatively
impacted by Hurricane Irene.
This storm had a tremendous impact on residents
and businesses alike. As we
move forward in our recovery
efforts, I want to ensure that
businesses that were affected
get the financial and technical help they need in a timely fashion, Gov. Dannel P.
Malloy said. Providing this
type of assistance will ensure
Connecticut companies get
back to business, which in turn

and working capital;
Agricultural businesses are
will help the state's economy Loan guarantees of up to eligible for funding.
stay on track in the wake of
$200,000 will be provided
A team of DECD workers
to banks and other lend- has been assembled to work
this devastating storm.
Businesses sustaining damers to spur local lending to with companies at business
age will be eligible for assisbusinesses impacted by the resource centers around the
tance, including bridge financstorm;
state. They will assist in idening and loans covering unin- Grants will be available to tifying financial and technical
sured losses, through the state
businesses for assistance in resources, as well as serve as
Department of Economic and
disaster recovery, such as business advocates with utility
Community Development.
temporary help and train- assistance, insurance compaHighlights include:
ing; and
nies, and federal agencies.
Loans of up to $200,000 to Technical assistance, linkInformation, including a list
companies for storm-related
ing businesses to a wide of centers, can be accessed
damage, including property,
array of state and federal through DECD.org or by callmachinery and equipment,
resources.
ing 860-270-8215.
A mailbox torn from the ground by strong winds

Sunday.
Malloy: Report storm

damage to 211
A resident makes a stand as Hurricane Irene approaches Saturday.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy

has urged all state residents
and business owners to
report property damage from
Hurricane Irene to the states
free Infoline, 211, or online at
www.211ct.org.
The collection of this data
will be used to help prepare
the states request for a disaster
declaration from the Federal
Emergency
Management
Agency (FEMA).
Over the past few days I
have seen first-hand the devastating impact Hurricane
Irene has had on our state,
Malloy said in a press release.
As people take stock in the
(Photo by Mario Recupido) damage inflicted upon their
homes and businesses, I am

asking residents to help expedite the data collection process of these damages and call
or e-mail them in to the 211
Infoline. The reporting of this
damage is a critical step in our
attempt to secure federal aid in
the wake of Hurricane Irene.
Data will be collected starting immediately. The 211
Infoline will be fielding calls
seven days a week, 24 hours
a day.
If granted, this declaration
would bring much needed help
to Connecticut residents and
businesses, added Governor
Malloy.
Stratford man charged in dock dispute

A Stratford man was arrested in Milford Saturday after
he fought with a marina representative advising him it was
not safe to ride out Hurricane
Irene in his boat.
Milford police said 45-yearold David Zaccaria of Vought
Place was told he would have
to leave Port Milford around
5:30 p.m. because the storm
was approaching.
Zaccaria refused to leave

and pushed the marina representative to the ground,
nearly knocking him into the
water, according to Milford
police.
He then allegedly poured
gasoline onto the dock and
threatened to light it afire
using a flare gun, which was
in his waistband.
Zaccaria was charged with
second-degree reckless endangerment, first-degree breach

of peace, first-degree threatening and discharging a substance into the harbor without
a permit. Bond was $10,000
for court Sept. 13.
The state Department of
Energy and Environmental
Protection was notified
because gasoline was spilled
into the water.
New Haven Line trains resume

after two-day suspension
By Joshua Fisher
Staff
With Hurricane Irene still
hundreds of miles away last
week, the MTA shut down the
New Haven Line and the rest
of the New York City Transit
system. There was not a passenger train that stopped in
Stratford for more than two
days.
As the large storm
approached the East Coast on
Friday, MTA officials made
plans to shut down MetroNorth Railroad and the rest
of New York Citys sprawling
subway, bus and commuter
rail lines beginning at noon
on Saturday about 24 hours
before the heart of Irene was
forecast to hit the area.
Officials decided to go ahead
with the transit shutdown as
the city was evacuating hos-
pitals and nursing homes in

low-lying areas.
Metro-North was shut down
at noon on Saturday, but still
finishing its runs up the New
Haven Line until almost 2. The
12:07 out of Grand Central
was the last train out Saturday.
Monday afternoon, inbound
service resumed.
On Sunday, Gov. Malloy said
Metro-Norths Connecticut
lines had suffered severe damage, particularly on its New
Canaan branch, from Tropical
Storm Irene, downgraded
from a hurricane just before it
reached Fairfield County.
Metro-North
service
remained suspended much
of Monday as repairs continued to be made. After 1
p.m., the railroad announced
limited service would resume
on all three of its main lines at
2. But, a spokesman said, as
soon as it sent out word that

service would resume, a tree
fell across the New Haven
Line, setting back its busiest
line.
The Harlem and Hudson
Lines resumed limited service
at 2.
Eventually MTA workers
cleared the tree and limited
service resumed from New
York to New Haven.
By Tuesday regular service
resumed on the main New
Haven Line.
Connecticuts three spur lines
New Canaan, Danbury and
Waterbury did not resume
on Monday. All but Danbury
was back by Tuesday. But
the Danbury line, which goes
through some of the worsthit towns in southwestern
Connecticut, remained suspended on Wednesday.
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Spotlight
Saturday, Sept. 3
Bottle drive St. Mark School,
500 Wigwam Lane, will hold its
monthly bottle and can drive
Saturday, Sept. 3, 10 a.m. to noon,
at the Parish Center entrance. Rain
or shine.
Tuesday, Sept. 6
Square One auditions The
Square One Theatre Company will
hold open auditions for its 201112 season Tuesday, Sept. 6, from
6 to 8 p.m. In the Lovell Room at
the Stratford Library, 2203 Main St.
Actors are requested to prepare a 1to 2-minute (strictly enforced) monologue of their choice for the Sept. 6
audition, and to provide a current
resume and photo. Information: 203375-8778 or squareonetheatre.com.
Saturday, Sept. 10
Redeemables and shredding
St. James Schoo, 1 Monument Place,
will hold a bottle and can drive and
shredding fundraiser: Saturday, Sept.
10, from 9 a.m. to noon. Shredding
fees are $10 per box, $20 per garbage bag. Bottles, cans and items
to be shredded can be taken to the
gym entrance on Monument Place.
Proceeds from both events will be
put toward upgrading the technolog:
203-375-5994.
New and Nearly New sidewalk sale The Kennedy Center
Auxiliarys New & Nearly New
Thrift Shop will hold a sidewalk sale
Saturday, Sept. 10, from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 17
Trumbull High reunion The
Trumbull High School Class of
1976 will holding its 35th reunion
on Saturday, Sept. 17, from 6 p.m.
to midnight at the Pinewood Lake
Clubhouse in Trumbull. Cost is $45
per person is required by Sept. 10.
Checks can be made out to Trumbull
High School Class of 76 and mailed
to Patricia Connelly, c/o Fairfield
County Bank, 915 White Plains Road,
Trumbull, CT 06611. Registration
is also available online at paypal.
com, click on send money and
enter: patricia.connelly@fairfieldco
untybank.com. Any faculty/staff that
worked at Trumbull High School
from 1973 to 1976 are welcome to
attend. Questions: Anne Kearns Fers,
annfers@earthlink.net.
Sunday, Sept. 18
Slovak Picnic The Slovak
Alliance of Greater Bridgeport is
sponsoring a Slovak/Slavic Picnic on
Sunday, Sept. 18, from 1 to 6 p.m. at
the Germania Schwaben Club Beer
Garden, 416 Horace St., Bridgeport.
Admission is $5 for those 14 years
and older, free for those younger than
14. Food and beverage for purchase;
Music by Vox Ethnika. Information:
George or Marta Suychak, 203-3771874.
Democratic outing The
Stratford
Democratic
Town
Committee has rescheduled its annual Family Picnic to Sunday Sept. 18,
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the main
pavilion at Short Beach. The picnic
is open to the public. Tickets are
$10, children younger than 7 admitted free of charge. Information: from
Joan Pruzinsky at 203-610-3480.
Monday, Sept. 19
Sterling Classic Sterling House
Community Center will celebrate
the 20th anniversary of the Sterling
Classic Golf Tournament on Monday,
Sept. 19, at the Mill River Country
Club. Information about entries and
sponsorship is available from Special
Events Coordinator Patty Calabrese
at 203-378-2606, ext. 107, or pcalab
rese@sterlinghousecc.org.
Indoor Tag Sale St. James

School, 1 Monument Place, will
hold an indoor tag sale Saturday,
Sept. 24, from 9a.m. to 3p.m. Tables
cost $25; only 40 tables available
on a first-come, first-served basis.
Applications at at stjamesstratford.
org 203-375-5994; due Sept. 9.
All rental fees donated to Save the
Children Foundation.
Sept. 30-Oct. 1
Stratford High reunion The
Stratford High School Class of 1956
will celebrate its 55th reunion Sept.
30 and Oct. 1. Classmates who have
not been contacted are asked to call
Don at 203-929-5013.
Saturday, Oct. 8
STARS Fall Festival The
Stratford Animal Rescue Society is
looking for vendors and sponsors
for its annual Fall Festival to benefit homeless animals on Saturday
Oct. 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
Paradise Green. Vendor spaces are
$50 and sponsor levels start at $25.
Additional information can be found
at starsfest.com.
by Dave Eggers in October, The

Black Girl Next Door by Jennifer
Baszile in November, Ambulance
Girl by Jane Stern in December,
and Steig Larsson: Our Days in
Stockholm by Kurdo Baski for Jan.
2012. Facilitated by Roberta Shea.
Nutmeg Stamp Club The
Nutmeg Stamp Club meets the second and fourth Wednesdays of each
month at 7 p.m. in the all purpose
room at Atria Stratford, 6911 Main
St. A small auction and presentation usually occur. Refreshments are
served. Dues of $10 per year will
be collected for anyone who would
like to become a member. For more
information call Ed Corfini at 203384-8197.
New and Nearly New Shop

The Kennedy Center Auxiliarys
New & Nearly New Thrift Shop is
conducting a summer clothing halfprice sale. The shop will also host a
sidewalk sale Sept. 10, from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Donations of clean, useable clothing and small housewares
accepted 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily.
Books, electronics and childrens
clothing not accepted. Information:
Saturday, Oct. 15
Autumn in Spain The 203-377-5669.
Perry House Foundation will celebrate Spanish heritage at this years
Golden Rooster Consignment
annual Community Ball, Autumn in Shop of Christ Episcopal Church,
Spain, on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 7 2019 Main St., Stratford; Wednesdayp.m. to midnight at Vazzanos Four Friday, 10-4; Saturday, 11-3.
Seasons, 337 Kenyon St. Tickets and
information: 203-377-3779.
Sikorsky Retirees The Sikorsky
Retirees Friendship Club meets
Saturday, Oct. 22
the second Friday of each month
Treasures, Treats and Trinkets at 1 p.m. at St. Josephs National
The Stratford Womens Club Catholic Church, 1300 Stratford
needs vendors for its 24th Treasures, Road, in Lordship. The next meeting
Treats and Trinkets Fair on Saturday, is Friday, Aug. 12. All Sikorsky retirOct. 22, at 2600 Main St. Details and ees are invited. For more information
applications at 203-378-6176.
call Rich at 203-735-2982.
Saturday, Sept. 24
Church tag sale Lordship
Community Church, 179 Prospect
Drive, is seeking vendors for its sixth
annual church-wide Tag Sale & Craft
Fair, to take place Saturday, Sept. 24,
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine.
For a $20 donation, a vendor will
receive an 8-foot by 10-foot space.
Vendors may supply their own tables
and chairs, or they can be rented
from the church for a small fee. The
church is also seeking vendors with
clean items in good condition such
as china, glassware, antiques, etc.; no
Stratford Farmers Market
electronics. Information: 203-3776568, lordshipchurch@sbcglobal.net The Stratford Farmers Market is
open Mondays through October, 2
or www.thelordshipchurch.org.
to 6 p.m., rain or shine, in the AVCO
Bunnell 40th reunion The parking lot on the south end of Main
Bunnell High School Class of 1971 Street. Information: Stratford Health
will hold its 40th reunion on Oct. 1 Department at 203-385-4090.
from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Stonebridge
Book group at Sterling House
Restaurant in Milford. Tickets are
$25 with a cash bar. Reservations Books Worth Discussing meets the
available from Brian Carroll at 203- first Monday of each month at 7 p.m.
258-3161 or bcbigdog@aol.com by at Sterling House. Upcoming books
include Strange Fits of Passion by
Sept. 22.
Anita Shreve for September, Zeitoun
ONGOING
Sikorsky Retirees trips

Destinations during 2011 include:
Polka Mass at Ace-in-the-Hole,
includes family style luncheon, entertainment, and dancing; Oct. 19, My
Fair Lady at Westchester Broadway
Theatre, includes lunch; Nov. 15-17,
The Miracle of Christmas show and
the American Theatre Music Show
in Lancaster, Pa. three cruises are
planned for 2012, Jan 17-29, 13-day
cruise on Celebrity Silhouette to the
Eastern Caribbean; Feb. 25 to March
9, 12-day cruise on Explorer of the
Seas to the Southern Caribbean; and
May 12-19, an 8-day cruise on Oasis
Stratford Library presents scholarships

Stratford Library Board
President Judy Crudo
recently presented the
librarys annual college
scholarships to Stratford
students
Ester-Marie
Baptiste, who will attend
the University of Hartford,
and Farah Themistocle,
who will attend Fairfield
University. The Library
Board is proud to award
two $500 scholarships for
the second year to each
of these deserving teens.
We applaud their academic achievements and
their hours of volunteer
service to the Stratford
Library and the Stratford
community, Crudo said.
(Submitted photo)
EVENTS
AARP
Drive
Alive
Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1 p.m.
Classroom driver retraining program designed to help
older persons improve driving
skills. Fee is $12 for AARP
members and $14 for nonmembers. Class is limited to
24 participants and reservations are required. Call AARP
representative Michael Klein
at 203-929-4851.
Harding HS class reunion

Warren Harding High School, class
of 1969 reunion; classes of 1968 and
1970 welcome, Saturday, Nov. 12,
7-11 p.m., Costa Azzura Restaurant,
Milford. $50/person in advance;
includes dinner/dancing, cash bar.
No entry without ticket. Checks payable to Sandy Basile Uliano-WHHS
Class Reunion; send to Sandy Basile
Uliano, 136 Cupheag Crescent,
Stratford, CT 06614. List each person attending. Ladies include maiden
name. Information: Linda Harrison
Sherry, 203-502-1128; Elena Berardi
Spinelli, 203-240-3099; or e-mail
whhsclassof1969@yahoo.com.
Slovak Alliance All meetings
are canceled until Sept. 29. The
Slovak Alliance of Greater Bridgeport
usually meets last Thursday of the
month, 7 p.m., Holy Name of Jesus
School meeting room, Mary Avenue,
Stratford. Anyone of Slovak descent,
or married to one is welcome; 203377-1874.
Camera club Greater
Bridgeport Camera Club meets
first and third Wednesday of the
month, September-May, 7 p.m., First
Congregational Church, 2301 Main
St.; 203-923-1277.
Church tag sale Every
Saturday, 9-6; and Sunday, 91, St. Margaret Shrine, 2539 Park
Ave. (Suburban Avenue entrance),
Bridgeport; 203-414-9786; 203-3450662; johnmastri@aol.com.
Addiction program Local
chapter of Reformers Unanimous, a
faith-based program with a complete
curriculum for those with addictions
meets every Friday, 7-9 p.m., White
Oak Baptist Church, 5344 Main St.,
Stratford; 203-381-0559.
National Helicopter Museum
Wednesday-Sunday, 1-4, Stratford
East Bound Railroad Station; free.
Yoga in Lordship Conscious
Living Studio is accepting registration for its daytime and evening yoga
classes. They are geared to adults, but
parents may bring children; 203-3752577; consciouslivingstudio.com.
Library Notes
Library hours: MondayThursday, 10-8; FridaySaturday, 10-5; Sunday, 1-5;
203-385-4162 or stratfordlibrary.org.
of the Seas to the Western Caribbean.

Reservations and information: 203783-1173.
Script Talk: Rabbit Hole

Tuesday, Sept. 13, noon.
Monthly drama and film discussion takes a look at David
Lindsay-Abaires drama about
loss and forgiveness. The
film version starring Nicole
Kidman will be shown following the talk. Bring a bag
lunch; coffee and tea served.
Discussion leader will be Tom
Holehan
Friday Night Movies The
Social Network Friday,
Labor Day closing
The Stratford Library will be closed

Monday, Sept. 5, in observance of Labor Day.
encyclopedia with maps, photos, and current events and
can be used for homework
and personal reference. These
resources are available through
the Librarys website and are
free of charge to any Stratford
resident with a valid Library
card. For further information,
call 203-385-4165 or visit the
Chiropractic Advice website at stratfordlibrary.org.
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m.
Advice about all things chiroCountdown Tuesdays
practic from Stratford chiro- at 4 p.m. Children ages 5
practor Dr. Corsello. Free and to 9 play math games in a
open to the public.
new program, Countdown,
which meets each monthly.
ONGOING
Registration requested.
Online Resources The
Library subscribes to two
Sensory storytime
online resources for students. Special needs children with
Tumblebooks is an online tactile interests are welcome
storybook site that will read to Sensory Storytime one
books aloud to young chil- Saturday a month, 10:30 a.m.
dren and allow older children Storytime is specially designed
to read along. World Book for children with sensory
Online combines a traditional needs. Registration required.
Sept. 16, 7 p.m. Monthly film
series offering free screenings of new and popular
films begins with this critically acclaimed drama about
the meteoric rise of Facebook
founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Free and open to the public.
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Social
Religious Briefs
Catholic Daughters meet Sept. 6
Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court St. Cecelia

#735, will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday, Sept. 6,
at 6:30 p.m. at Sterling House Community Center, 2283
Main St.
A welcome back social with refreshments is planned and
upcoming events will be discussed.
Questions can be directed to Regent Doris Berke at 203377-0255.
Croquet parties help victims escape violence

A series of croquet parties,
at individual residences at
the same day and time, will
support Emerge, a Stratford
based non-profit organization
that provides transitional and
permanent housing, mentoring and counseling to women
and their children affected by
domestic violence.
Rosinne Chlala of Fairfield,
co-owner of Festivities, a
Norwalk-based event planning
and catering company, is coordinating the inaugural Croquet
Fete at houses throughout
Fairfield and Southport on
Sept. 18.
We are asking members of
our local community to throw
a croquet party, a truly unique
and fun way to entertain their
guests while at the same time
supporting a local agency that
helps women and children who
have been impacted by domestic violence, said Southport
resident and Emerge board
member Lucy Roberts.
Following the individual
parties, guests will gather at an
estate in Southport for a champagne and dessert reception.
Each host/hostess will be
responsible for providing a
croquet set, setting up their
lawn for tournament play,
compiling their guest lists.
Invitations will be provided
and supplying food and drink,
Chlala said. The day can be
as simple, or as extravagant,
as the host/hostess desires,
with the emphasis on fun and
with the intent to help women
Tag sale, car show at Holy Name
Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1950 Barnum Ave., will

hold its annual tag sale Saturday, Sept. 10, from 8 a.m. to
3 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Mens Society at Holy Nmae of Jesus Church will
hold its fourth annual car show Saturday, Sept. 10, from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The show will feature cars from the Cruisin East Car
Club.
Bacon and eggs and coffee will be served until 11 a.m.
Hot dogs and hamburgers will be served after 11 a.m.
The car show will be held in conjunction with the annual
tag sale, set for Sept. 10-11.
The rain date for the car show is Sept. 17.
Car admission is $10 on day of show. Trophies will be
awarded in two categories, cars 25 years and older, and
cars 25 years and younger.
Those attending the tag sale should enter from Mary
Avenue. Car show entry is from College Street.
Tag sale information is available at 203-381-0191.
Information on the car show is available from Larry
Wells at 203-375-2836 or lawman56@optonline.net.
Fairfield residents will host croquet parties in support of a domestic violence

transitional program. Attending a kickoff event were Rosinne Chlala, co-owner of
Festivities; Donna Jackson, co-founder of Emerge; Lucy Roberts, member of the
event committee and Emerge board; Fran Dubicki of the event committee; Adrienne
Conzelman, owner of ARC Gallery and host of the kickoff event.
(Submitted photo)
and their children who have
been victims of domestic violence.
In addition to serving as a
host/hostess, members of the
community may purchase a
ticket and play at an organized
party, or attend the post-party

reception.
Each guest will be asked
to purchase a $75 event ticket, with 100% of the ticket
sales going directly to support
Emerges mission to create
safe homes for women and

their children.
Those interested in participating may contact the
Croquet Fete committee at
croquetfete@gmail.com or
203-847-7774.
Perry House Ball to honor Spanish heritage

The Perry House Foundation
will celebrate Spanish heritage at this years annual
Community Ball, Autumn in
Spain, on Saturday, Oct. 15,
from 7 p.m. to midnight at
Vazzanos Four Seasons, 337
Kenyon St.
The theme is a continuation
of the foundations celebration of the diverse population
in Stratford. Previous cultures
honored were the Italian, Irish
and Russian.
The October 15 event will
have Spanish food and drink,

entertainment and a silent auction. Music will be provided
by The Essentials.
Committee
chairmen
include Erica Bartelson
Mitchell and Mary Dean,
Facilities Committee; Joyce
Baran, Decorating Committee;
Christine Doolan, Silent
Auction Committee.
Berta Perez, has agreed to
act as Spanish adviser to the
committee.
Other members of the
committee include Shannon

Bruchal, Dave Killeen, Carol
Feduik, Alix Semanchik,
Evelyn
Clough,
Patty
Gallagher, Nancy Monk, Angie
Ovchar, Alberta Vargas, Pam
Hutchinson, Alicia Fraguada
and Carole Adzima.
The ball will help raise
funds for the Perry House
Foundation and its ongoing
work to support its visitors
center; educational programs
that teach children what it was
like to live in Stratford during
the Revolutionary War period;

and operations.
Information
regarding
Autumn in Spain, including how to purchase tickets,
purchase an ad or donate an
item to the silent auction, is
available from Perry House,
203-377-3779.
Missionary to speak at Unity Hill
UCC Missionary Michael Joseph will share stories of

his work and time in Colombia, South America, during
two events at Unity Hill United Church of Christ, 364
White Plains Road, Trumbull.
The Unity Hill United Church of Christ Mission
Committee will hold a potluck supper and program by
Joseph in Fellowship Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 6
p.m.
The supper is open to the public. Reservations can be
made by calling 203-374-8822.
The Womens Fellowship of Unity Hill United Church
of Christ will hold a covered dish luncheon and talk by
Joseph Thursday, Sept. 15, at noon in Lynch Hall at the
church.
Hostesses are Waltraud Yeager and Carole Fanslow,
with devotions led by Fanslow.
Those attending are asked to prepare a covered dish to
share or pay $7 at the door. Reservations may be made by
calling the church at 203-374-8822. The event is open to
the public.
25th reunion for St. James class
The St. James School Class of 1976 will have a reunion

at Stanziales, 595 Main St., Sunday, Sept. 25, from 1 to 5
p.m. Admission is $30, with a cash bar.
New generation visits

Christina Burge and her new baby Connor recenlty visited with her mother Pat
Thompson and her grandmother Agnes Mulligan of Stratford. (Submitted photo)
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Business
Business Briefs
BounceU cites Stratford franchise
BounceU of Stratford, 305 Hathaway Drive, received the

Gold Circle Award at the BounceU Franchise Convention
July 25- 27 in Scottsdale, Ariz.
The award recognized John and Wendy Van Kirk for
their can do attitude, healthy business growth, and spectacular sales in 2010.
BounceU of Stratford was one of six franchises selected
for the Gold Circle Award. BounceU has 59 locations in 21
states, with four new franchise locations in development.
More information can be found at www.bounceu.com/
party-places-for-kids/connecticut/stratford.
New owner, tenant at 816 Honeyspot Road
Angel Commercial LLC has announced the sale of

816 Honeyspot Road, Stratford for $440,000 to Hawley
Management Group, and the subsequent lease of 6,000
square feet of space within the 8,000-square-foot industrial
building to Stonehenge Marble and Granite LLC.
Jon Angel, president of Angel Commercial, represented
the seller, Bove Enterprises LLC.
Patrick Bourque, sales associate, represented both the
purchaser/landlord and the tenant.
Stonehenge Marble and Granite will immediately occupy 75% of the building, leaving 2,000 square feet available
for lease.
Business After Hours at Peoples Sept. 1
The Stratford Chamber of Commerce will hold Business

After Hours at Peoples United Bank, 2772 Main St.,
Thursday, Sept. 1, from 5 to 7 p.m.
The cost is $10 for members of the Bridgeport Regional
Business Council, $20 for all others.
Those who wish to attend must RSVP by Aug. 29 by
visiting brbc.org; calling 203-335-3800; sending a fax to
203-366-0105; or by mail to BRBC, 10 Middle St., 14th
Floor, Bridgeport, CT 06604.
Burger King supporting Jimmy Fund
Burger King is supporting The Jimmy Fund through the

A Chance for Kids program through Sept. 5.
Guests at 1540 Barnum Ave. and Burger King restaurants in 10 Northeast states can donate $1 to the program.
With each contribution, donors will receive a promotion
card guaranteed to be a winner with prizes ranging from
all-inclusive resort vacations, airline tickets, theme park
admissions and Burger King food.
Through A Chance for Kids, 552 franchise and company
owned Burger King restaurants set a goal to raise $1.1 million for pediatric cancer research and care at Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute.
Property Transfers
The following property transfers are copyrighted material previously published in the Commercial Record, a
weekly trade paper. It is reprinted with permission from the
publisher, The Warren Group, thewarrengroup.com.
STRATFORD
387 Allyndale Dr, Elizabeth Hanson to Christopher D.
Lawrence, $166,000.
507 Jamestown Rd Unit 507, Lee P. Gabriel to George
L. Holmes, $355,000.
60 Karen Ave, Mary Jurkiewicz to Jonathan Ackley,
$195,500.
255 Lighthouse Ave, Bonnie R. Baumgart to Matthew
Scemalle, $300,000.
28 Lynncrest Dr Lot, Hanick Florence Est and John
Hanick to Millenium Developers LLC, $70,000.
90 Marina Dr, Secord Teckla M Est and Holly F.
Balsinger to Alan E. Lopez, $163,000.
115 Patterson Ave, Jonathan Ackley to Jacee Rhodes,
$280,000.
567 Pequot Ln Unit A, Gria M. Binkley to Arthur M.
Cardillo, $150,000.
30 Shirley Dr, Lesley Kostyszyn to Cody M. Forte,
$129,900.
294 Sunnybank Ave, Marco Pulgarin to Diane Lupinacci,
$256,500.
84 Temple St, Marshall Props LLC to Kyle J. Ramos,
$218,000.
30 Woodcrest Ave, Barvenik Alma Est and Frank
Barvenik to Giovanni Rodriguez, $120,000.
N/a, Ferry Boulevard Assoc LLC to Triple E&J LLC,
$320,000.
Kelly talks to workers at Bridgeport Fittings

State Senate Kevin Kelly
(R-21) joined Gov. Dannel
Malloys jobs tour during a
visit to Bridgeport Fittings in
Stratford,
Bridgeport
Fittings
Inc. hosted the Governor,
the Commissioner of the
Department of Economic and
Community Development,
members of the Bridgeport
Regional Business Council,
Kelly and other elected officials and guests.
Todays visit provided
us all with a first-hand look
into the needs of our states
manufacturers and struggling
employers, Kelly said in a
press release.
Members of the audience
had the opportunity to ask
questions and voice their
thoughts. Unemployment,
lack of tax incentives and a
need for state support to retain
human capital were among the
topics discussed.
In discussions with other
manufacturing representatives
and members of the Bridgeport
Regional Business Council,
Kelly said, Jobs has always
been my number one priority
as a state senator. As a state
and as a legislature we need to
reevaluate our agenda, take a
State Sen. Kevin Kelly (R-21) talks to a constituent during a tour of Bridgeport
Fittings.
(Submitted photo)
look at Connecticuts rapidly
aging work force and make
needed changes. Going forward we must actively retain
our young, educated population and also implement tax
incentives to support the manufacturers that create the jobs

many of our families rely on.
Bridgeport Fittings is a
manufacturer in electrical fittings and is the market leader
for zinc die cast fittings. It was

founded in 1925, originally in
Bridgeport,
More information can be
found at bptfittings.com.
Clubs donate tennis balls to aid disaster recovery
When Erik Horwedel visited Springfield, Mass., to

tour Cathedral Catholic High
School, he could not believe
the devastation after a tornado
ripped through the city.
On a tour of the site with
Service Master, the company
handling restoration efforts at
the 450,000-square-foot complex of buildings, Horwedel
asked if there was anything he
could do personally to help get
the school up and running.
One of the oddities resulting from the violent water and
wind damage occurred when
hundreds of table and chair
legs on the childrens furniture, which had been fitted
with tennis balls to protect
the floors, were left embedded with millions of shards of
glass from shattered windows.
The glass was virtually impossible to remove through conventional cleaning.

Tennis balls that lose their
bounce are generally discarded. But cupped on to legs
of tables, chairs and furniture
they find new life protecting
the floor finish against scuff
marks and cracking thereby
making cleaning and maintenance easier and less costly.
During the tour Paul Plouffe,
president of Stratford-based
Service Master of Greater
Bridgeport, wondered aloud
where he was going to find
thousands of used tennis balls
to replace the damaged ones as
it would not be cost effective
to clean them.
Horwedel, general manager of the Shorehaven Golf
Club in Norwalk, has access
to hundreds of used balls normally discarded by the clubs

pros and players who use their
tennis courts. Beyond that,
Horwedel reached out to other
clubs throughout Fairfield
County to see if the would
join in. So far, Horwedel said,
the response has been overwhelming.
Finding used tennis balls
to protect the floors is just
a tiny part of overall efforts
to restore the facilities. The
multi-million dollar restoration will continue for several
months and is bringing together other restoration specialists
from Service Masters Large
Loss Division under the direction of Steven Wills, Service
Master Recovery Management
franchise owner in Stamford.
Getting the complex of
buildings restored quickly and

safely, in conformance with all
local, state and federal regulations is a high priority for us,
Wills said.
He added that although tennis balls are just a small part
of the overall project, every
little bit helps and he appreciates the fact that golf and tennis pros throughout the region
were generous in responding
the need.
Horwedel said he will accumulate as many used tennis
balls as he can and then deliver them all at once when they
are needed at Springfields
Cathedral High.
Anyone wishing to contribute used tennis balls to
the project may call Service
Master of Greater Bridgeport
at 203-386-1565.
Attorney gives
gift to bikers
Jonathan Perkins Injury
Law of Woodbridge,
Stratford and Hartford
raffled off a $250 gift certificate to Brothers Harley
Davidson in Branford during the shops kickoff Bike
& Car Cruise Night July
28. Perkins Injury Law is
a co-sponsor of the event.
From left are Colleen
Banahan, case manager
at Jonathan Perkins Injury
Lawyers; Jonathan Perkins;
Rabab Akel, team leader
at Jonathan Perkins Injury
Lawyers; and Ariel Bruno
of New Haven, who won
the gift certificate.
(Submitted photo)
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20th annual Sterling Classic

tees off Sept. 19 at Mill River
Sterling House Community Center
will celebrate the 20th anniversary of
the Sterling Classic Golf Tournament
on Monday, Sept. 19, at the Mill River
Country Club.
Walmart and Bishop, Jackson &
Kelly LLC are the key sponsors.
Other major sponsors include
Bridgeport Fittings, Aurora Products
and PMA Companies.
Long-standing committee member Laura Hoydick, Steve Kutash and
Recreation Programs
Wayne Booth have been selected as the

chairmen. Other committee members
include Robert Betlinski, Eric Booth,
Maureen Doherty, Donna Donofrio,
Debbie Higgins, Paul Hoydick, Rob
Sutton and Stu Walls.
Information about entries and sponsorship is available from Special Events
Coordinator Patty Calabrese at 203378-2606, ext. 107, or pcalabrese@ster
linghousecc.org.
Sterling House
Sterling House Community Center a current Sterling House membership.
is located at 2283 Main St. It can be Call 203-378-2606 for information.
reached at 203-378-2606, and has a
Web site at sterlinghousecc.org.
Bullying Seminar This fourweek seminar begins on Monday, Sept.
Karate Classes Saturday Karate 19, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. This seminar is
classes are from 10:30 to noon begin- designed to help children and their parning Sept. 10. Weekday Evening ents understand and manage bullying
Classes are on Wednesday, 7:30-9 p.m. behavior. It is based on martial arts and
beginning Sept 7th. Classes are for modern psychology, and offers practiadults and youth and are offered on a cal, non-physical solutions to coping
Monthly basis. Cost is $20 per calendar with bullies. Fee is $50.
month, plus a current Sterling House
membership.
Adult Rug Hooking Class Sixweek class begins on Tuesday, Oct. 4,
Woodcarving Course Ten-week 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Come learn this tradicourse begins on Thursday Sept. 15. 7 tional New England craft. Learn how to
to 9 p.m. The class is geared for students hook rugs, both functional and decorafrom middle School through adults. tive. Materials purchased directly from
Students are encouraged to Carve any the Instructor. Fee is $60 plus a cursubject matter of their choice. Fee is rent Sterling House membership. The
$100 plus a current Sterling House instructor is Benita W. Raleigh.
Membership. Materials purchased
directly from the Instructor.
Special Needs Groups All groups
This program is a continuation of a require a current Sterling House memStratford tradition Which has its roots bership. Ages 6 to 9 meet the first
reaching back a century. Occasionally, Thursday of each month from 5 to 6:15
the earlier works of Stratford Decoy- p.m., starting in Oct. Fee is $75. Ages
carvers surface on high-end auctions. 10 to 14 meet the first Friday of the
month from 5 to 6:15 p.m., starting in
The instructor is Zsolt Megai.
Oct. Fee is $75. Adult Group meets the
Youth Art Classes Ages 6 to 10: first Friday of each month from 6:30-8
Five-week class begins on Saturday, p.m. Fee is $100
Sept. 17, 9 a.m. Fee is $55. Ages 13 to
Music Lessons Half-hour private
19: Five-week class begins on Saturday,
Sept. 17, 12:45. No fee, but a current flute lessons by appointment will take
Sterling House membership is required. place Monday evenings for youths and
Cartooning class for grades 1 to 6: Six- adults. Group guitar lessons for all
week class begins on Saturday, Sept. ages are available on Thursdays and
Saturdays. Half-hour private piano les17, 10:30 a.m. Fee is $50.
sons by appointment will be offered
Yoga Ten-week course begins on Tuesdays for children 7 years and
on Monday Sept. 19, 6 to 7:15 p.m. older. Fees range from $20 to $30 per
Instructor Laurie Trupp will focus on half-hour session and group guitar lesheightening body control, awareness, sons are $15 per lesson. Sterling House
balance and flexibility. Fee is $110 plus membership is also required.
Register for programs at the

Recreation Department office at
Short Beach or online at www.
townofstratford.com/recreation.
Head to Toe Fitness
Register through Sept. 2. Classes
are Tuesdays and Thursdays, Sept.
6 through Nov. 29 from 6:15 to 7
p.m. at Flood Middle School Aux.
Gym. Head to Toe Fitness, an
exercise class that targets cardio,
strength and flexibility. Fee is
$80.
Boxing Club Register
through Sept. 3. Classes are
Mondays and Thursdays beginning Sept. 8. Beginner class is
from 5 to 5:30 p.m., Advanced
from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., and
Adults from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Program is for boys and girls ages
10 to 17. There will be a parent
meeting on Sept. 1 at 6 p.m. at the
Birdseye Complex. Fee is $120
for 6 weeks, plus a $40 insurance
fee.
Zumba Register through
Sept. 6. Classes are Monday,
Wednesday & Friday, Sept. 7
through Oct. 14 from 5:30 to
6:30 p.m. at the Baldwin Center.
Zumba is a fun-filled, easy to follow Latin dance fitness class at
the Baldwin Center. Fee is $80.
Saturday Swim Lessons
Registration is Saturday, Sept.
10 from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at the
Recreation Office or online.
Lessons are Saturdays from 9
a.m. to noon at Flood pool beginning Sept. 17. Fee is $35 for halfhour class and $35 for one hour
class for 10 sessions.
Drill/Dance Team for Teens
Register through Sept. 9. Drill
Team Program for ages 12-17.
Program will begin in Sept. Fee
is $10.
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Register through Sept. 9.
Lessons are Mondays and
Wednesdays and begin Sept. 12
at Flood pool. Beginner class is 8
to 8:30 p.m., Advanced is 8:30 to
9 p.m. Fee is $35 for 10 sessions.
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through Sept. 12. Classes are
Thursdays, Sept. 15 through Nov. have already completed Drills

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Chess Club Register through
water. Fee is $60.
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6:30-7:30 p.m. for eight weeks,
Mad
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Program beginning Sept. 29. Students will
Register through Sept. 15. play chess and matches will be
Program runs from 3:30 to 4:30 arranged. Chess instruction will
p.m. for four weeks. Locations also be offered for beginners. Fee
and start dates are as follows: is $35.
Mondays at Eli Whitney Scjool
starting Sept. 19; Tuesdays at
Youth
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and Wednesdays at Second Hill Sept. 23. Ages 3 to 6. Classes are
Lane School starting Sept. 21. Wednesdays, 4 to 4:45 p.m. for
This class will provide imagina- eight weeks, beginning Sept. 28.
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and 29. Ages 2 to 3 is Mondays
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Thursday, Sept. 22 at the Birdseye ages 7 to 10 is Thursdays from
Complex from 9 to 10 a.m. or 5 to 5:45 p.m. All classes read
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and their caregiver. Fee is $45.
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Paolini continues slugging ways

Lighting up Rookie League
By Bill Bloxsom
Sports Editor
Dan Paolini is 61 games
into his profesional baseball
career.
The Stratford native is playing second base for the Pulaski
(Va.) Mariners in the Rookie
Appalachian League.
The Seattle Mariners selected Paolini on June 7 with the
second pick of the 10th round
(303rd overall) in the Major
League Baseball draft.
Paolini signed a contract on
June 13 and is batting .284
with 26 RBIs and 32 runs
scored. Twenty-seven of his
62 hits have gone for extra
bases.
The grind of playing professionally hasnt slowed
Paolinis bat, as the former
Bunnell High standout is 6for-11 in his last three games,
with three doubles, two runs
scored and an RBI in wins
over the Greenville Astros.
He is first on the team in
doubles (17), second in total
bases (101), slugging percentage (.463) and on-base percentage (.378).
After being drafted, Paolini
went on Brian Sinkoffs ESPN
Radio Show to talk about his
future.
I love baseball, I love playing the game of baseball, he
said. From day one [being
drafted] this has been the ultimate goal, to go out and compete and have a chance to play
Major League baseball.
The 6-0, 190-pound Paolini
first felt his future was expand-
The grind of playing professionally hasnt

slowed Paolinis bat, as the former Bunnell
High standout is 6-for-11 in his last three
games, wins over the Greenville Astros.
ing following his sophomore
season at Siena.
I knew going into Siena I
was going to succeed, everyone going to college has to
think that, Paolini said of
joining a program where he
would set a Metro Atlantic
Athletic Conference record
with 26 home runs as a sophomore. The old mark was 15 set
by Steve Borg in 1985.
Three years down the road
and looking back, I say wow.
I thank Siena College for the
opportunity they gave me. Im
really thankful.
Paolini finished his career
with a .380 career batting average and 56 home runs, both
program records. It was the
56 long balls in just three seasons that earned him national
recognition as one of the top
power hitters in all of college
baseball.
As a freshman, Paolini led
the MAAC with a .430 batting
average, hit 11 home runs with
53 RBIs, and ranked third in
the conference with a .685
slugging percentage.
Coming off a Rookie of the
Year campaign, Paolini didnt
bend at all to the sophomore
jinx.
He posted a .368 batting
average, registered a leaguebest .816 slugging percentage,
and set a school-record with
Sports Briefs
Lordship 5K kicks off season
The 18th annual running of the Lordship 5K will be

held Saturday, Sept. 10. The USTAT&F certified course
is flat and provides both youngsters, teams and traditional categories views of Long Island Sound. Runners
will be met at the end of the run by a food fest supplied
by Lordship Community Church, the event sponsor.
Teams from local running clubs and high school
track teams gather for the beginning of the fall racing
season.
Each registered runner receives the traditional
Lordship Run-About tee shirt, and trophies are awarded
in all classes and categories.
The Kids Fun Run starts at 8:30 a.m. and the 5K race
at 9 a.m.
Late registration on race day begins at 7:30 a.m.
Register through the Lordship Community Church
office at 203-377-6568 or call Vivian Caserta at 203268-1913.
Sunset Run update
Due to Hurricane Irene and surrounding weather, the

Sunset Run For the Warriors is being postponed until
Sunday, Oct. 9, at 3:15 p.m. Registration will carry over
to this date and the Kintera site will remain open. Those
unable to attend the race on Oct. 9 may consider their
registration as a donation or may request a refund. To
learn more, visit hopeforthewarriors.org.
Instructional soccer offered
Sterling House Community Center in Stratford is

accepting registrations for several instructional soccer
programs.
Register at Sterling House, 2283 Main Street during
regular business hours. E-mail bobrien@sterlinghousecc.
org or call 378-3606, ext. 106 for additional information.
Instructional soccer for 4 and 5-year-old boys and
girls will be held for six weeks on Saturday beginning
on Sept. 10.
Coach Ken Hill will teach passing, dribbling and fun
on the soccer field. Fee is $75 plus a current Sterling
House membership ($12 per year).
Each player receives a tee shirt and a soccer ball.
Sessions will be offered from 9 to 10 a.m. for boys,
10:15 to 11:15 a.m. for girls, and on Monday from 5:30
to 6:30 p.m. for boys and girls.
All programs will be conducted at the Wooster
Middle School soccer field.
Tennis programs at Bunnell
Stratford Recreation Department is offering fall

tennis programs through Fairfield County Tennis for
children and adults.
The five-week session will begin on Tuesday, Sept.
13 at Bunnell High School tennis courts.
Pee Wees (ages 4-5) will meet 3:30-4 p.m., Juniors
(ages 6-9) 4-5 p.m. and Juniors (ages 10-13) will meet
from 5-6 p.m.
Adult lessons will be held at Flood Middle School for
beginner/advanced beginners from 6:05-7:05 p.m. and
low intermediate/intermediate from 7:05-8:05 p.m.
Registration is being accepted online at townofstratford.com. Please call Fairfield County Tennis at 203640-1724 with any questions.
Program details available at fairfieldcountytennis.
net.
62 runs scored and 64 RBIs.

Paolini stole 12 bases in
just 15 attempts on the season,
and made just four errors in
264 chances (.985) at second
base.
Overall, he led Division I
with 0.49 home runs per game
and ranked second nationally
in homers.
Where did the power surge
come from?
In high school we really didnt have a fence until
my senior year, Paolini told
Sinkoff. I hit a lot of long
triples until my senior year.
When I got to college with
56-game schedules and fences
all around the nation those triples turned into home runs.
Paolini credits the summer
after his break-out season with
putting him on the national
stage.
Paolini played for the
Chatham As in the Cape Cod
League, and competed in the
inaugural College Baseball
Home Run Derby at Omahas
famed Rosenblatt Stadium
He said: After my sophomore year when I put up big
numbers, I went to the Cape
and then got to play in the
home run derby in Rosenblatt.
Thats when I began to get
recognized.
This past year, despite the
introduction of new bats for
increased safety that resulted

in less carry, Paolini helped
the Saints reach the MAAC
title game, belting 19 home
runs, and breaking his own
single-season RBI record with
67.
He was MAAC Player of
the Year as a sophomore and
junior and became the only
Siena student-athlete ever to
be tabbed to an All-American
team at the Division I level.
When I was coaching third
base, I couldnt get far enough
out of the way. His bat speed
is just violent, Bunnell High
baseball coach Scott Szturma
has been quoted.
We have a concrete wall
thats actually our foul line,
so I was always worried he
would just pull one so foul it
would hit off the concrete and
get me.
Siena coach Tony Rossi,
who has had 34 players sign
professional contracts and
three reach the major leagues
in his 42 seasons as Saints
coach, said of Paolini:
Hes been very consistent
from his freshman year. [Now]
Youre comparing him nationally, not just locally. You dont
see that in the Northeast too
much. There havent been a
lot of guys that hit that many.
Its his ability in all phases
of the game. I dont know
what goes on in his head, but
nothing really bothers him or
phases him. He just kind of
goes about his business without any fanfare and doesnt Dan Paolini is starting at second base for the Pulaski
really worry about whos (Va.) Mariners in the Rookie Appalachian League.
watching him.
(Photo courtesy of Pulaski Mariners)
Sports resume at Bunnell High School

Although classes will
not begin for students until
Tuesday, Sept. 6 in Stratfords
public schools, high school
interscholastic athletics and
band practices resumed on
Aug. 31.
Please go to highschoolsports.net (Frank Scott Bunnell
High School) for up-to-date
practice and game schedules.
Dance team tryouts, originally slated for this week,
are postponed to Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, Sept. 7,
8 and 9 at 6 p.m. in the main
gym.
Junior varsity cheerleading

tryouts, originally scheduled
for Thursday and Friday, Sept.
1 and 2, are postponed to a
date yet to be determined.
Girls cross country practice
will take place Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, Aug. 31,
Sept. 1 and 2 at 4 p.m. at
Bunnell.
Boys cross country practice
is scheduled for Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, Aug.
31, Sept. 1 and 2 at a.m. at
Bunnell.
Varsity and junior varsity
volleyball tryouts and practice
will take place Wednesday,

Aug. 31 and Thursday, Sept. 1
at 9 a.m. in main gym.
Boys varsity and junior varsity soccer practice is scheduled on Friday, Sept. 2 from
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the BHS
turd field.
The boys soccer scrimmages
scheduled for Thursday, Sept.
1 are on (as of press time).
Girls junior varsity soccer
practice will take place at 10
a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1 on
the BHS turf field.
Girls varsity and junior varsity soccer practice will take
place from 8 to 10 a.m. on

Friday, Sept. 2 on the BHS
turf field.
The girls varsity soccer
scrimmage at Brien McMahon
at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1
is on (as of press time).
Girls swimming practice
is scheduled for Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, Aug. 31,
Sept. 1 and 2 from 12 to 2 p.m.
at Flood Pool.
Varsity football practice
will take place at 3 p.m. on
Thursday, Sept. 1 (side field)
and Friday, Sept. 2 at 3 p.m. on
the turf field.
Fourteen practices required before season starts

The CIAC has received
numerous calls from member
schools and the media questioning if the requirement to
complete 14 days of mandatory practices prior to first day
of competition will be waived
or altered.
The mandatory practice day
requirement has been in existence for over 30 years and
CIAC believes these days of
practice are necessary to pre-
pare teams for competition.

Consequently, the only
adjustment that will be making to the regulation is to allow
schools to count practices held
on Sunday toward the required
14 days.
Schools may count both
both Sunday practices held
previously and those to be held
from this point forward toward
reaching the 14-day requirement.
Sunday practices have

always been allowed, but
could not be counted towards
the requirement. As always,
the holding of Sunday practices will be at the discretion of
the local school district.
Any team that has not conducted 14 days of practice
prior to its first scheduled game
must postpone and reschedule
all games until it has satisfied
the requirement.
Schools are reminded that

rescheduling of postponed
games are not subject to weekly limitation rules.
School districts are encouraged to allow teams to continue to practice when it is safe
to do so, even if school is not
in session.
The CIAC will continue to
monitor the situation and assist
member schools in their effort
to meet the requirement.
38th town tennis tourney winners

Results of finals of 38th
annual Stratford Town Tennis
Tournament are as follows:
Mens singles: Matt Lance
defeated Rick Sanford, 6-2,
6-2.
Mens doubles:
Jason
Ottomano and T.R. Rowe
defeated Rick and Bob Sanford,
6-2, 1-6, 10-6.

Womens doubles: Wendy
Swain and Cindy Dahl defeated Peggy Mehai and Julie
Raslavsky, 6-1, 6-3.
Junior singles: Chris Nava
defeated Sean Karasik, 6-1,
6-0.
Mens doubles consolation:
Josh Hollaman and Brian

Fielding defeated Mike Boyle
and Jamie Millward, 2-6, 7-5,
6-3.
Winners of the Stratford local
qualifiers, who advanced for
the First Niagra Family Classic
Regionals in New Haven, in
their respective divisions were
Laura and Alex Harvey (mother-child 12U), Julie Raslavsky

and Brandon Harvey (grandmother-child 14U), Rob and
Allyson Sweeney (father-child
14U), Paul and Matt Wojcicki
(parent-child 19 and over) and
Greg and Courtney Sansonetti
(husband-wife).
Softball benefit to help cancer patients

The 7th annual Slow-pitch Softball
Benefit for St. Vincents Swim Across
The Sound, which helps cancer patients
with cancer screening, education and prevention programs, will be held Oct. 1 and
Oct. 2 at Frank DeLuca Hall of Fame
Field in Stratford.
The event will consist of 12 teams competing in one of the most notable tournaments in the state.
Tournament Directors Frank DeLuca
and Pat Matto Jr. report that all money
raised through entry fees and donations

will go directly to the Swim Across The
Sound, which helps cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, mammogram clinics
and other events that are tied to cancer.
Teams may enter the tournament by
calling DeLuca at 203-394-1408 or 203377-4127 or Matto Jr. at 203-414-7436.
Entry fee for the double-elimination
tournament is $250.
The Home Run Derby with a fgee of
$20 will be held on Friday, Sept. 30 at
Short Beach softball field in Stratford,

beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Balls and pitching cage is provided,
however, you must bring your own pitcher and swing what you bring, because any
bat is legal for the HR Derby.
The Stratford/Bridgeport/Milford/North
Branford umpires will be donating their
services for this cause to help children
and adults that have been touched by this
terrible disease.
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Blue Mass to commemorate 9/11

The 10th anniversary of
the 9/11 terrorist attacks on
the U.S. will be commemorated at the Diocesan Blue
Mass at the Cathedral of St.
Augustine, 359 Washington
Ave., on Sunday, Sept. 11, at
10 a.m.
The Mass will be concelebrated by the Most Rev.
William E. Lori, Bishop of
Bridgeport, and area priests
who serve as chaplains for
local fire, police and rescue
companies. A reception will
follow at Kolbe Cathedral
High School.
The Blue Mass was initiated by Lori to commemorate
the lives of those who died
in the tragedy on Sept. 11,
2001. Law Enforcement and
fire and emergency medical
service personnel of Fairfield
County of all faiths are invited to attend the Mass and
reception.
During the Mass, awards
will be presented to
Firefighter Nicola Tamburro
of Stamford, a member of the Stamford Fire
Rescue Department; Police
Officer William Garay of
Bridgeport, a member of the
Stamford Police Department;
and Police Officer/Medical
Response Technician Joseph
Calorossi of Trumbull, a
member of the Wilton Police
Department.
The Blue Mass takes its
name from the blue uniforms worn by police, fire
and emergency services
Stratford to remember at VFW
Stratford will hold its annual 9-11 Memorial Service

and Candlelight Vigil Sunday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m.
at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9460, corner of
Barnum Ave. Cut-off and Veterans Boulevard.
If it rains the ceremony will be moved inside the
VFW hall.
More details will be posted as they become available.
personnel who are honored

and prayed for at the yearly Mass and reception. The
honorees of all faith were
nominated by their respective chiefs and chosen from
among more than 90 police,
fire and EMS departments in
Fairfield County. They have
been selected for the award
because of their heroism and
sacrifice for others.
By honoring them for
their extraordinary commitment, we also honor all those
who make a difference every
day in their communities,
Lori said.
Serving as 2011 Blue Mass
Chairpersons are Father
Robert Post of St. Thomas
More Parish in Darien, chaplain for the Stamford Fire
& Rescue Department; Sir
Knight Michael F. Basso,
past district deputy 36; and
Deacon John J. Moranski,
chaplain of the Bridgeport
Police Department.
Chaplains of the Fairfield
County fire, police and
emergency medical service
departments include Father

Charles Allen, Fairfield
Police Department; Father
J. Barry Furey, Noroton
Heights Fire Department;
Father
Richard
Futie,
Stamford Police Department;
Father Tom Lynch, Stratford
Fire Department; Father
Joseph Malloy, Bridgeport
Fire Department; Msgr.
Franc McGrath, Westport
Fire & Police and Noroton
Fire departments; Deacon
John Moranski, Bridgeport
Police
Department;
Deacon William Murphy,
Germantown
(Danbury)
Fire Department; and Father
Raymond Petrucci, Danbury
Police Department.
The Blue Mass is sponsored by the Knights of
Columbus. Fourth Degree
Knights from various assemblies who will process into
the Mass with emergency
personnel and bagpipers.
The Mass of Thanksgiving
reception is sponsored by the
assemblies of the Knights of
Columbus.
Grace, Jack and Max Lewis, the childern of Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Jason
Dale Lewis, 30, a Navy SEAL from Brookfield, release doves with his grandmother,
Jean Mariano, and the owner of the doves, Vincent Tullino, after acknowledging
Gold Star Families during the Connecticut Fallen Heroes Foundation ceremony June
12, 2010, at Indian Ledge Park.
(Photo by Wayne Ratzenberger)
Fallen Heroes Memorial Tribute

at Indian Ledge Park Sept. 24
The annual Connecticut Fallen Heroes
Memorial Tribute will be held on Saturday,
Sept. 24 at Indian Ledge Park, 307 Indian
Ledge Park Rd. at 12:15 p.m.
Remembering our brave military service
members from the Army, Navy, Air Force,
Marines and Coast Guard, featuring U.S. Air
Force Colorguard and the U.S. Marine Corps

as escorts. Performances by The United States
Navy Band, Northeast and the U.S. Army
Parachute Team Golden Knights. Free and
open to the public.
More information can be found by visiting
ctfallenheroes.org.
World War II aircraft on display at Sikorsky Airport Sept. 6-9

The Boeing B-17 Flying
Fortress Nine O Nine
World War II Heavy Bomber,
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Witchcraft World War
Heavy Bomber and a P-51
Mustang will fly into Igor I.
Sikorsky Memorial Airport
in Stratford Sept. 6-9 as part
of the Collings Foundations
Wings of Freedom tour.
The B-17 is one of only

10 in flying condition in the
United States. The B-24J
and Full Dual Control P-51C
Mustang are the sole remaining examples of their type flying in the world.
Visitors may explore the
aircraft inside and out; $12
for adults and $6 for children under 12 is requested for
access to up-close viewing and

tours through the inside of the
aircraft. Discounted rates are
available for school groups.
World War II veterans can
tour through the aircraft at no
cost.
Visitors may also take a 30minute flight aboard these rare
aircraft. Flights on the B-17
or B-24 are $425 per person.
P-51 flights are $2,200 for a

half hour and $3,200 for a full
hour. Reservations and information on flight experiences is
available at 800-568-8924.
The planes will be on display at Three Wings Aviation
from Sept. 6 at noon until
Sept. 9 at noon.
Hours of ground tours and
display Tuesday, Sept. 6, noon
to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, Sept.

7, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday,
Sept. 8, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and
Friday, Sept. 9, 9 a.m. to noon.
The 30-minute flight experiences are normally scheduled
before and after the ground
tour times.
The Collings Foundation is
a non-profit educational foundation devoted to organizing
living history events that

allow people to learn more
about heritage and history
through direct participation.
The Wings of Freedom tour
is in its 22nd year and annually visits an average of 110
cities in more than 35 states.
More information can be
found at www.collingsfoundation.org.

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Volume XXVII, No. 35

Thursday September 1, 2011

Irene thrashes Stratford

The street near Marnicks was shattered by Hurricane Irene.

- see Town on page 12A

(Photo by Mario Recupido)

Weather service on Irene:

Could have been worse

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A sailboat was tossed into a handicapped parking spot near Outriggers by

Hurricane Irene pushed water up to houses on Washington Parkway Sunday.

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Man in hard hat

A suspect remains at large after robbing the Carvel ice cream

Pet of the Week

Maury is a handsome, medium-haired tabby that

Basic Dog Obedience

SARAH Rescue, a Stratfordbased non-profit organization that rescues handicapped

Volunteer orientation at animal shelter

The Stratford Animal Rescue Society will conduct new

Dog Walk Oct. 8

THE STRATFORD STAR, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Garbage Museum left at curb

Labor Day schedules

Monday, Sept. 5, is Labor Day.

Boating classes scheduled

Pepsi Refresh Everything program. Voting ended last night.

responsibility to teach the next

United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 24-2 will

Democrats reschedule picnic

Crime Watch meets Sept. 7

Stratford Crime Watch will meet Wednesday, Sept. 7,

Car tax appeals to be heard Sept. 10

Fire damages house on Wooster Street Friday

The Board of Assessment Appeals will hear appears of

Three war vets sought for new group

Veterans who served in World War II, Korea and

Yoga on Shakespeare Theatre grounds

Yoga will be offered on the grounds of the Shakespeare

Firefighters at the scene of Fridays Wooster Street fire.

(Photo by John Kovach)

A 60-year-old man who formerly lived on Klondike Street

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