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Thursday, January 21, 2021

SUBURBAN GARDEN CLUB OF CHESHIRE

Mask sales raise funds for food aid

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The Suburban Garden Club of Cheshire continues with its mask sales and some new options for looking good, as you cover up, are coming soon.

According to club members, 100% of sales are donated to local food banks and food pantries. The club has raised just over $25,000 to date.

“We are about to launch an all new line of face masks for adults made with beautiful fabrics not previously avail-

able,” said SGC’s Susan Dillman. The masks will be priced at $5 each.

The supply is somewhat limited, said Dillman, as there are only four masks for most designs. Special features for the masks include using 100%

cotton fabric, with a pocket where a coffee filter, paper towel, or other material can be inserted to provide additional protection. The masks also feature the same type of metal nose strip used in surgical masks to provide a snug fit and help prevent glasses from fogging. “Super-

soft ” elastic goes behind the head rather than around the ears. In this way, the mask can be comfortably worn around the neck when not in use and helps prevent it from being dropped or lost. If desired, masks can easily See Masks, A2

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‘Game on’ for most Practices launched Jan. 19, contests pushed to Feb. 8, no state tourneys, alternative football season canceled

By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff

CHESHIRE — A Connecticut high school winter sports season is officially a go.

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While games will start a week later than expected and there will be no state tournaments and some teams won’t compete at all, last week a modified winter season was approved by the CIAC Board of Control for basketball, ice hockey, gymnastics and boys swimming. The board determined that practices could start Tuesday, Jan. 19. That’s the start date the CIAC had been eyeing since suspending the winter season in midNovember.

by individual conferences. It replaces the traditional state tournaments the CIAC had hoped to run March 8-21. There is a casualty in the new dateline for winter, and that’s football. The alternative season that had been set up when the CIAC canceled football in the fall, expected to run Feb. 22 through midApril, has been eliminated. With the winter season now extending through March 28 and the spring season slated to start March 29, CIAC Excecutive Director Glenn Lungarini said the window for the alternative season grew too small.

Another factor: Sports deemed high risk for the spread of COVID-19 have Games can start as early as been postponed through Feb. 8. That’s a one-week de- March. That high-risk group lay on the projected start of includes football as well as Feb. 1. wrestling. The postseason, slated for March 15-28, will be staged

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The CIAC is confident it will be able to pull off a modified season in the winter just as it did in the fall.

Wrestling, already postponed for winter, was holding out hope for the alternative season. Instead, at this point, like football, it will miss out on the 2020-2021 school year entirely. Like the other high-risk winter sports of competitive dance and competitive cheerleading, wrestling can hold conditioning and noncontact skill practices in cohorts of no more than four.

Ultimately, the decision on if and when to play winter sports resides with individual school districts. The CIAC’s winter plan remains “fluid” based on COVID-19 data. The season could be shut down at any time if the state’s health situation worsens.

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The CIAC regards high school sports as an adjunct to education. Starting winter practices on Jan. 19 coincides with the return to inperson learning for most school districts that had gone all-remote before the holidays. Pushing the start of contests to no earlier than Febraury 8 not only gives schools extra time to prepare for sports, it gives winter athletes, separated from their teams since mid-November, an extra week of conditioning. On the back end, the state tournaments were cancelled because CIAC postseason events require a “hard” stop date to the regular season.

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“We don’t want state tournaments to be a limiting factor in kids being able to play games,” he added. “We want to maximize their opportunity to play.” When it comes to the postseason, the CIAC is allowing leagues to expand what they did in the fall. Playoffs in that season were limited to divisions within the conferences. Full league tournaments will be allowed in the winter. The regular-season picture, though, will remain the same. As in the fall, for the sake of limiting travel and exposure, teams will play strictly within divisions of 68 teams.

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Heading in, the winter plan calls for a 12-game regular season for basketball, hockey, gymnastics and boys swimming. As recommended by the Connecticut Department of Public Health, athletes in basketball, hock-

“The support of the Sports Medicine Committee shows confidence that we can get it done,” the executive director continued. “And the flexibility that we provide allows districts to move forward at a pace that is appropriate for them and meets the needs of the individual districts.”

“We have to anticipate there’s going to be teams that are going to be required to quarantine,” Lungarini said. “We are still playing in a pandemic, so we have to anticipate there will be disruptions in the schedule through the winter season.

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There was better news for indoor track. While the CIAC is abiding by the state’s recommendation that the large multi-teams meets that are the staple of indoor track not be held at this time, teams can practice. The CIAC will revisit the possibility of smaller indoor and outdoor meets in March.

“If we weren’t confident we can get it done, we wouldn’t be moving forward with it,” Lungarini said. “Not only are we confident that we can get it done, but the guidance from DPH shows confidence that we can get it done.

That would potentially limit the number of games teams get to play. It’s not a given that all schools will start playing on Feb. 8 or complete a 12-game schedule without a hitch.

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folds, the CIAC will stay focused on COVID-19 case numbers in the state. Data collection on the virus has improved since the fall, Lungarini said, and while there aren’t specific benchmarks that will make or break the winter season, the CIAC will pay close attention to where school-related infections are happening and in what groups.

Cut the Cord Cheshire Public Library virtpresents, via Zoom, “Cut the Cord,” Monday, Jan. 25, at 6 p.m. Many cable-TV customers want to break the expensive and frustrating cable service cycle and gain lower costs, greater content control and an expanded selection of entertainment and communication choices. Topics will include getting out of a cable service agreement, finding the best internet/ broadband access deal, and getting started with streaming services. The presentation will explain streaming equipment, how to explore the ever-expanding list of channels and services streaming and the forgotten free resource of broadcast TV. Support issues such as quality home wifi and lowcost home phone service are also covered. The presenter, James Gifford, has been a writer, editor and publisher See Library, A5

For one, the National Federation of State High School Associations recently issued new guidance on spring football. If states play football this spring, the NFHS ruled, it will reduce the number of games they can play in the fall due to concussion and contact concerns. Athletes would also have to choose between sports. A CIAC survery showed 38 percent of Connecticut high school football players and 31 percent of wrestlers also play a spring sport. That overlap could put teams in a pinch, Lungarini noted, especially at smaller schools.

Looking beyond the winter, the CIAC remains committed to staging a full spring campaign, complete with state tournaments, given that The CIAC does not allow athletes to play more than the entire season was canone sport in the same seacelled in 2020. son. Some thought had been givWith the alternative season en to moving football and going by the boards, football wrestling to spring, but that and wrestling have run out encountered roadblocks. of options.

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Pandemic of 1918 Cheshire Public Library presents, via Zoom, “Connecticut and the Pandemic of 1918,” Thursday, Jan. 21, at 3 p.m. In 1918-1919, the world experienced a lethal outbreak of influenza that took the lives of millions. What was it like to live through the Influenza Pandemic of 1918? In this program, the Connecticut Historical Society will look at archival images, letters, newspapers and other sources left by Connecticans who experienced the flu first-hand. To register, visit cheshirelibrary.org.

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“He’s very good at communication and he does it in a way that’s invitational,” Villanova said. “He gives you his undivided attention.” Neag School Dean Richard Schwab said Cardona was atypically young compared to most candidates seeking to get into that school’s education leadership program when he enrolled nearly two decades ago. Cardona had sought to become a building principal. Schwab said a friend, former East Hartford schools’ Superintendent George Drumm, had strongly recommended Cardona for the program.

For decades the seat of U.S. Education Secretary had been filled by individuals associated with think tanks and other organizations outside of schools and who did not bring practical teaching experience to it. “We finally realized we need a Secretary of Education who is a leader of K-12 education, who’s been on the front line.” — Richard Schwab, dean of the Neag School ot in the U.S. Capitol building. “After the last four years with someone who is so anti-public schools leading the nation, we’ve got someone who is a product of the public schools,” Schwab said.

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Connellan continued, “Dr. Cardona puts children and their education first. He has been able to cut through the red tape and genuinely listens and values the opinions “I think Miguel is what we Cardona titled the 2011 disneed,” he said of his nomina- sertation he wrote toward his of superintendents and other educators. It has been so tion to join the Biden Cabieducational leadership doc- nice to have a commissioner net. torate “Sharpening the Focus of education who is a ‘reguSchwab said for decades the of Political Will to Address lar guy’, a real person with seat of U.S. Education Secre- Achievement Disparities.” front line experience and tary had been filled by indiknowledge. I fully expect In it, he examined the conviduals associated with think tinuous disparities in student him to carry over his philostanks and other organizaachievement between those ophy of “children first” and tions outside of schools and his views of what constitute who are considered English who did not bring practical language learners and those equity and excellence in edteaching experience to it. ucation. Working with the who are not, in Connecticut new administration, I am “We finally realized we need and nationally. confident that he will be able a Secretary of Education who Cardona cited academic reto reverse some of the disasis a leader of K-12 education, search in his findings that who’s been on the front line,” the “ineffectiveness of major trous policy promulgated by Ms. DeVos.” Schwab said. reform efforts in education Wallingford Superintendent in the U.S. and abroad has It’s also a boost for public Salvatore Menzo had similar been linked to the educaeducation. things to say about Cardona, tional leaders involved hav“This is a Connecticut grown ing diffuse political will that adding he wishes the secreeducator, a K-12 English lan- was not sharply focused on tary-select “all the best.” guage learner, a product of addressing educational in“His commitment to stuConnecticut teachers and equities.” dents and families has been Connecticut universities,” he evident throughout the panFor educators outside of said, describing Cardona as demic. Balancing those Meriden and even outside smart and “grounded in needs with those of teachers the state of Connecticut, practice.” and staff across districts has Cardona’s selection repreThat, he said, shows investbeen a challenge he has met sents a significant shift in ing in public education does federal policy and a reason successfully … I know he will pay off. “What an honor not be steadfast in his efforts to to be optimistic. only for Meriden, but for close the achievement gap Connecticut overall,” Schwab In an email to the Recordand to address the many Journal, Southington said. challenges that districts face schools’ Superintendent Tim across our nation at this Cardona, if confirmed by the Connellan wrote Cardona time,” Menzo wrote. U.S. Senate, would be a con- “will be missed here in Contrast with predecessor Betsy For example, in Fall River, necticut, but our loss is a DeVos in that role. DeVos huge gain for all the children Massachusetts, which is stepped down in the afterin this country. I expect him more than 100 miles east of math of the violent Jan. 6 rito continue to be the caring, Meriden. The city of close to “He said this guy is an upand-comer. We ought to keep an eye on him,” Schwab said.

90,000 people once had been home to a flourishing textile industry. Its school district serves more than 10,000 students from pre-kindergarten to high school. Like Meriden and other cities, a vast majority of those students come from low income households. Many of them need academic interventions and other support. Like Meriden, that school district has seen successes turning around once struggling schools by implementing strategies like extended school days and increased interventions. Matthew Malone, superintendent of the Fall River Public Schools and a former state secretary of education in Massachusetts, said based on what he knows, Cardona “checks all of the boxes in terms of someone I would want” in that role. “You want someone who is able to see all sides in the education system,” Malone said. “He’s an English language learner. This is the great challenge we’re all struggling with. There’s no silver bullet in terms of how to close that achievement gap. “I think that it is a breath of fresh air to have someone making calls who can see, who knows first hand the challenges students and teachers face,” Malone said. “It’s great to have someone in a policy setting position, in high level leadership who understands what’s the impact on kids.” Like other school districts, Fall River faces challenges continuing in-person learning. That district is averaging around 70 to 80 teacher absences daily, because they must quarantine due to exposure to the coronavirus. Like other educators, Malone is hopeful Cardona will restore honor to the teaching profession, which he and other education leaders feel has been maligned under previous administrations. “Our goal is to make sure this profession is one people want to strive to enter,” Malone said.

Cardona, in his acceptance speech, discussed the teaching profession and the devastating impact of the pandemic. Cardona acknowledged the present day challenges. But, he said, “It shouldn’t take a pandemic for us to realize how important teachers are for this country,” describing a profession that has been kicked around “and not given the respect it deserves.” “For so many of our schools and far too many of our students, this unprecedented year has piled on crisis after crisis,” Cardona said. “It’s taken some of our most painful, long standing disparities and wrenched them open even wider. It’s taxed our teachers, our leaders, our school professionals and staff who already pour so much of themselves into their work. “It’s taxed families struggling to adapt to new routines as they balance the stress, pain, and loss that this year has given,” he said. “It has taxed young adults trying to chase their dreams to advance their education beyond high school, and carve out their place in the economy of tomorrow. And it has stolen time from our children who’ve lost something sacred and irreplaceable this year despite the heroic efforts of so many of our nation’s educators.” He continued, “Though we are beginning to see some light at the end of the tunnel, we also know that this crisis is ongoing, that we will carry its impacts for years to come. And that the problems and inequities that have plagued our educational system since long before COVID will still be with us even after the virus has gone. “So it’s our responsibility,” he said, “it’s our privilege to take this moment and to do the most American thing imaginable, to forge opportunity out of crisis, to draw on our resolve, our ingenuity, and our tireless optimism as a people and build something better than we’ve ever had before.” mgagne@record-journal.com 203-317-2231

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Energy assessment The Cheshire Energy Commission recommends that all Cheshire homeowners sign up for a home energy assessment. The service is currently being offered at no cost for those who have not had one in the past three years. This is being offered for a limited time. The assessment starts with a virtual pre-assessment, and is followed up by an in-house direct installation weatherization program to help homeowners save energy and money while making the home more comfortable. Find out all the details at energizect.com, or to sign up visit form.jotform.com/ 201316128966153.

Fundraiser The Cheshire High School boys lacrosse program is fundraising to honor the memory of former coaches and athletes Jim Dempsey and Brian Perry, who passed away last year. Since the men coached at Bartlem

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