Volume 5, Number 3
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Thursday, October 13, 2016
Bench will be memorial to Ardito
Lights of Hope event next month By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
The Lights of Hope group is planning for its 12th event next month and has enlisted participants on more than 250 streets.
By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
A bench will be installed on the Farmington Canal trail in remembrance of a high school student who died of a drug overdose last year.
The community fundraiser will take place on Nov. 12 with luminaries placed on streets throughout town, including main roads.
Skylar Ardito’s family raised more than $1,700 to buy the bench and a plaque. In September, the Parks and Recreation Commission voted unanimously to approve a request to install the bench after Parks Director Bob Ceccolini got a letter from Nancy Shea, Ardito’s aunt. Earlier this year, the Chief Medical Examiner’s office ruled the death of the 17-year old Cheshire High School student was caused by a heroin overdose. Ardito’s mother Carrie Ford described her daughter as a “straight-A student” who hoped to attend Yale UniSee Bench, A2
Author Janina Nawarskas with AAFRC’s Frank Mirto and Leslie Marinaro at the Senior Center for a recent talk on her book “A Child Lost.” | Joy VenderLek, For The Citizen
Recounting wartime experiences Local author talks about how GIs positively affected her life GIs positively affected so many European lives including her own.
By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
After a summer hiatus, the Army Air Force Roundtable of Connecticut reconvened in September with guest speaker Janina Nawarskas, who took veterans back to World War II in a vivid recounting of how
Nawarskas is the author of “A Child Lost” a memoir of her childhood experiences under occupations of Soviet and German forces in Lithuania. She spoke at the Senior Center and started her talk with a quesSee Experiences, A4
Jenifer Walsh, a Lights of Hope founder, said the group’s iconic “Hope” signs will go up in a few weeks in front of First Congregational Church and near Cheshire High School. Lawn signs also will begin to appear, according to Walsh. “The buzz is getting around,” she said. Volunteer street captains buy kits of luminaries and distribute them to participants on their streets. To make it easier on the captains, this year the luminaries will be assembled before they’re distributed, Walsh said. In previous years captains had See Lights, A2
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