The North Haven
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Volume 5, Number 2
Your Town, Your News
Friday, Januar y 8, 2010
Trio of winners in poster contest
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Citizen photo by Kyle Swartz
The three winners of the North Haven fourth and fifth grade fire safety poster stand before fire department officials in town hall. Front row, left to right, Arianna Capriglione, Isabella DelVecchio, and Juliana Carchia. Back row, from left to right, Lt. Jeffrey Obier, Fire Chief Vincent Landisio, and Deputy Chief Frank Gersz.
By Kyle Swartz The North Haven Citizen Three North Haven elementary school students were rewarded Jan. 4 at town hall by fire department, school and town officials for their winning posters for the town’s fire safety poster contest. “This is a good day for us,” said North Haven Fire Chief Vincent Landisio of the contest. “This creates an awful lot of good things for our department.” Landisio said that the contest, open to all fourth and fifth graders, is part of a statewide fire safety contest sponsored by the Connecticut Fair Plan. The contest opens the first week of school. “We had an awful lot of good posters this year,” Landisio said, speaking in the town hall conference room. “We methodically took the posters down to about eight or nine fourth and fifth grade posters. From there, we let our on-duty personnel and town hall employees take a vote.” “We were looking for spelling, art and color,” Landisio added. “But we were mostly looking at the message we wanted the posters to say for us See Contest, page 7
P&Z chairman labels brief meeting a ‘sign of the times’ By David Marchesseault, Special to the Citizen
The Planning and Zoning Commission held its monthly meeting at the Recreation Center on Monday evening with a single public hearing, completing its agenda in less than an hour. The members and alternates assembled called it “record time.” Chairman James Giulietti attributed the quick meeting to the poor economy, commenting, “The people just do not do much with their properties when times are tough.” The hearing was held in regard to a special permit application by Simms Metal Management, LLC, a large scrap metal company located at the far end of Universal Drive beside I-91 in North Haven. Several representatives of the company were present and addressed the commission regarding the need to construct a
building on an existing pad that would house equipment, despite the possibility of a one-foot discrepancy in the surface elevation due to a pending change by FEMA in the code used in flood plains. Peter Kauerstein of Salient Architects described the building as 75 x 100 feet and 55 feet high and confirmed that the pad would bear the weight of the load. Brian Sackett, project director for Simms, explained that their intention was to expand their metal separation capabilities in order to remain financially competitive. Material that has been discarded in the past as waste will now be processed further to remove every bit of metal. Because the result of the undertaking is a product that resembles fine sand, the process must be enclosed in a facility See P&Z, page 5
Policeman visits Ridge Road School
Photo courtesy of Lydia Westerberg
Mr. Carmen Riccitelli, retired Hamden assistant police, together with Mrs. Westerberg, librarian at Ridge Road School, role played realistic scenarios in which the children would need to communicate with the police. This special visit is part of the library unit on Safety.