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Local veterans reflect on final days of World War II By Barry Tomlinson
We all know how World War II ended 75 years ago, but we may not realize it could have ended very differently. I will take readers behind the scenes using the stories of two Cheshire veterans, now residing at Elim Park, who survived the final days of the war. Their stories reveal why it ended differently than anyone expected, and why that matters today.
Life-changing events It was July 1945. Dick Shank was a naval officer serving on a destroyer in the Pacific. Sailor Louis Forsell was working a signal tower in the Philippines. A chain reaction of lifechanging events was on the horizon for both men as the war entered its final days. They were preparing for Operation Downfall, the code name for the invasion of mainland Japan. American forces knew how difficult it had been to gut
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Radio personality is right at home in Cheshire By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
Landing his dream job in radio broadcasting, KC101 air personality Kerry Collins counts himself lucky. Finding his perfect home here in Cheshire a few years back makes him feel doubly so. Dick Shank, left, and Louis Forsell served in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II. Now residents at Elim Park, the men recently spoke about their service experience.
their way through the Pacific theater. Finally, by the summer of 1945, after the bloody battle of Okinawa, they were less than 350 miles from Japanese soil.
and 10 million Japanese deaths were also projected.
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Shank had left Yale in 1944 where he’d been part of the But the enemy showed no Naval ROTC and headed to signs of giving up. The war the Pacific. His ship, the USS had to be won, and that meant invading the Japanese Strong (DD-758), served as convoy escort and antisubhome islands. Plans called for two large amphibious in- marine screen in the Ryukyu Islands near Okinawa in July vasions with a combined 39 and August, 1945 during an U.S. divisions. With stiff reactive typhoon season in the sistance expected, U.S. estiPacific. mates of casualties ranged from 1.7 to 4 million with up to 800,000 dead. Between 5 See Veterans, A17
Around the time Collins took on hosting duties for the July 16 online gala event “An Evening in White,” with Ball & Socket Arts, The Cheshire Citizen sat down with him to talk about radio and life here in Cheshire. Collins works as production director for iHeart Radio in Hartford where he makes sure the commercials get on the air and he collaborates with multiple teams within the radio group to “create the best radio commercials for our clients.” He is also, though, an on-air personality at
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KC101. It is the same station in Hamden where he used to “hang out” as a teen. “I wasn’t an official intern … I was just a kid who just wanted to be around the radio station and learn everything I could,” Collins said. Collins grew up listening to KC101 and became fascinated with the prospect of being behind the microphone after watching the Christian Slater movie “Pump Up the Volume.” Collins stayed with the station, and had his own show, See Radio, A21
Organizations adjust summer programs amid pandemic By Jessica Simms Special to the Record-Journal
here are a few area options to check out.
Several local dance studios, art galleries, YMCAs and children’s learning centers are open this summer to give kids the opportunity to have fun with each other,
Day care Doodlebugz Child Care Learning Center in Cheshire is offering its summer program for young children.
“We have a theme and something special going on once a day,” said owner Nicole Belmonte. “Unfortunately right now we can’t have anybody come in like magicians or clowns or anything like that. So we’ve been doing a lot of it our-
selves, which is very different for us.”
masked, toys are cleaned on a rotation and only staff and children are allowed in the building.
Five staff members were chosen to work at the center, “We’ve spent 12 years of our limiting the amount of people. Tables have been spaced lives trying to teach (kids) far apart and kids are social- how to share and now we’re ly distanced. Adults are
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District officials are developing a plan for a hybrid inperson and remote learning experience should the state allow school districts to exercise that option. The current state executive order allowing remote learning expires in early September.
the amount of hand sanitizer On July 10, Superintendent available, including handsof Schools Jeff Solan refree dispensers. leased a tentative 2020 Fall School reopening plan for all Other steps include inCheshire Public Schools. creased disinfecting and The outline includes input sanitizing of common areas and restrooms and replacing from virtual meetings with air filters in air handling parents and staff regarding units with filters capable of the effectiveness of remote learning. capturing small particles.
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Door-knocking begins in August Over the next decade, lawmakers, business owners, and many others will use 2020 Census data to make critical decisions. The results will show where communities need new schools, new clinics, new roads, and more services for families, older adults and children.
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Bears entering Conn. homes at unprecedented rate Devin Leith-Yessian Record-Journal staff
Wildlife encounters have been spiking thus far this year, including as many bears entering peoples’ homes in June as all of 2019 combined. “Some of these interactions have been serious, including bears entering homes and gravely injuring both leashed and unleashed dogs,” says a statement from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. “Already in 2020
(through July 8) DEEP has received more reports of bears entering homes (25) than in any previous year and we are on track to triple the average number of home entries of 2018 and 2019.” Bears rarely harm humans and most local interactions with them involve damaged bird feeders and tipped over garbage containers and grills, said Cheshire Animal Control Officer April Leiler. When she does respond to a call, it’s usually to ensure that the bear doesn’t make it onto a major road like Route
10, where it can be struck by a vehicle. “We haven't had any real issues with bears. We do sometimes have them getting into unsecured trash and we do have them ripping down bird feeders,” she said. Cheshire only has a few bears living in the area, Leiler said, but since it’s a more densely populated region they tend to be spotted more often. Residents should still be taking precautions to deter bears from approaching residential areas, however, and she walks callers through the recommendations DEEP has to remove attractants like food outdoors, and even indoors in cases where bears are more of a hazard. “If you have the slider open and you’re making brownies and there’s just a screen between them and the deck and the kitchen they’re going to come in,” she said.
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The DEEP statement says that removing food that attracts bears is the most important step to making one’s home less attractive to scavengers like bears, since they have a strong sense of smell and can remember a food source for years. Not only will they return to homes where they were able to successfully find unsecured food in the past, over time bears will lose their fear of humans. Regularly cleaning trash bins, removing bird feeders between late March and November, avoiding leaving pet food outdoors and keeping dogs on a leash when outdoors, can all curtail interactions with bears. “Black bears should never be fed — either intentionally or unintentionally,” said Jenny Dickson, DEEP Wildlife Division director. “Bears that are attracted to homes by easily-accessible foods lose their fear of humans. Such bears spend more time in neighborhoods and near
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people, increasing risks to public safety, the likelihood of property damage, and the possibility that the bears may be hit and killed by vehicles.” See Bears, A7
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My mother and I bonded in much the same way. When I was young, she would take The other day, a friend told me along on many advenme, “I’m going blueberry tures to the farms and orpicking with my sister tochards. There were a lot of day.” Blueberry picking? I them within driving distance have not been blueberry to the town where I grew up picking in forever. I didn't (Arden, Delaware). The area even get out for strawberry seemed to have pick-yourpicking this year. That own farms in every direcdoesn’t mean I didn’t get tion. Arden is close to the fresh strawberries, though. I Pennsylvania line, so we happened by Boulder Knoll would meander up to West Farm and was invited to Chester, Pennsylvania and have a go at the strawberries since Delaware is so small, in the hoop house. Those we’d also go to the farms were the sweetest strawbersouth of the Chesapeake & ries I’ve ever had. Delaware Canal. That’s the dividing line in the state. The last strawberry session I had was last year at Zentek’s The southern part of Delaware was known as field. Those were excellent, “Slower Delaware.” From the too. I am sorry I missed it highest point on the St. this year. And I do have wonderful memories of Ives Georges Bridge over the Farm when my daughter was C&D Canal, you would find endless farm fields as far as young and the huge Ives the eye could see. Farm strawberry patch was on the west side fields. It was We went to pick blueberries, a wonderful mom-daughter strawberries, peaches, apbonding thing. ples, string beans, rhubarb
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So now it is July and blueberry season is underway. Two years ago, I went to Norton Brothers’ Fruit Farm. I got lazy last year and bought them from the store. The berries were scrumptious, and you really can make a fun day out of it with your family. There is more than enough elbow room. You get your bucket, take a short walk past the apple orchard, and wander down to the blueberries. It is a beautiful property.
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Thinking back to my youth in Arden, I remember there were two huge blueberry bushes right next to our bus stop. Guess what we would have for breakfast every morning? We picked handfuls and then stuffed them in our faces – getting to school with purple stained fingers.
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In Cheshire, you have options for picking blueberries. Old Bishop’s Farm has blueberries to pick and you can also buy a ready-made blueberry pie if you prefer (like I did the other day). Drazen Orchards, where my husband and I go to pick apples and peaches (okay, most of the time we just buy it from the farm store), also has blueberry picking. The orchard has been in operation since the 1800s. It was David Drazen who bought the orchard in the 1950s and his son Gordon Drazen improved the or-
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The Conerstone Church, 1146 Waterbury Road, is sponsoring a food drive. Drop off donations during all Sunday services through July. Or call 203272-5083 to arrange a drop off time.
College student Brian Fox has organized a volunteer initiative called Project Support CT that focuses on contactless grocery delivery for senior citizens. To request a grocery order, email us at projectsupinitiativeCT@ gmail.com, be sure to include your address, grocery list, phone number and desired drop off time. Venmo, Cash App or check.
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The USS Strong (DD-758) served as convoy escort and antisubmarine screen in the Ryukyu Islands near Okinawa in July and August, 1945 during an active typhoon season.
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was announced on the ship’s speaker. There were plenty of shouts that followed. It was “a sound of relief,” he said. Forsell would go home to attend Ohio State University where he was part of Naval ROTC. He became a successful homebuilder, for 55 years. He is now 93. Shank, now 95, would graduate from Yale in 1948 with a degree in electrical engineering and eventually become a Yale professor. He retired from the university in 1985 after an illustrious career on the New Haven campus. Now 75 years later, these two men’s lives – along with countless others – easily may have never happened. Both men share a common lesson from World War II. It taught them to appreciate life “one day at a time,” they said. — Barry Tomlinson is director of development for Elim Park and a local historian.
which holds up to 300 campers, has also had to limit groups to no more than 10 children to one to two counselors. The YMCA has an east side and west side branch. All fitness classes have shifted to the west side and the camp is run at the east side. Along with smaller group sizes, groups are taking more time between activities to sanitize equipment and wash hands. All staff members are wearing masks, but campers do not have to wear them. “While online is great, it is the actual face to face and verbal interaction that they need,” said Rob Newton, camp director. “To be able to have them come to camp, to see them smiling, to see them happy to have them interacting with their friends again, it’s awesome. We’re outside playing, we’re active. That’s such a huge component of their lives.”
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Local man faces DUI, attempted assault charges By Bailey Wright Record-Journal staff
SOUTHINGTON — A Cheshire man faces DUI and other charges after police said he hit some parked vehicles and almost struck an employee at a local automotive business. Steven Malon, 61, of Cheshire, was charged Friday, July 10, with driving while intoxicated, seconddegree criminal attempt to commit assault, reckless driving, failure to drive in proper lane, second-degree breach of peace, reckless endangerment and evading responsibility. The incident started in the parking lot of L&S Automotive, 1157 Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike, when Malon backed into a vehicle in the
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After a short timeout, Collins was back in the game, this time at iHeart Media in Hartford. Just this past January, Collins said, “I got my old night show back on KC101.”
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According to the plan, all those in the school buildings will be required to wear a cloth mask that covers the nose and mouth at all times. Frequent mask breaks will be allowed for those students who may have difficulty with the new rules, but only in designated areas
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As the coronavirus pandemic subsides for now in the hard-hit Northeast, public health officials in the region Doctors ultimately diagare warning about another nosed the then-5-year-old potentially bad summer for Sudbury, Massachusetts, res- EEE and other insect-borne ident with eastern equine illnesses. encephalitis, a rare but seEEE saw an unexpected vere mosquito-borne virus resurgence last summer that causes brain swelling. across 10 states: Alabama, Garabedian survived the po- Connecticut, Georgia, Inditentially fatal virus after ana, Massachusetts, Michiabout a month in Boston gan, New Jersey, North Carhospitals, but her parents olina, Rhode Island and Tensay her ordeal and ongoing nessee. recovery should be a warning as people take advantage of the outdoors this summer. See Bug-borne, A24
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There were plenty of acorns this spring, and now the chipmunks are driving people nuts.
Plentiful acorns last fall meant there was still plenty of food on the ground when the chipmunks emerged from winter and got busy breeding this spring, said Shevenell Webb, a small mammal biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The result is a bumper crop of the critters. “They’re cute. They’re fun to watch in the forest as they duck in and out of the holes and play peekaboo,” Webb
“We can’t grow a tulip without them digging it up,” Steven Parren, wildlife program diversity manager for the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, said of the chipmunks in his yard. “They don’t even pause.” There were so many acorns in one of the areas that he monitors that the rodents that rely on them couldn’t stash them all away for the winter. Plenty remained on the ground this spring. In addition to chipmunks, he said, he’s seeing more squirrels, rabbits and a variety of different kinds of mice. See Chipmunks, A25
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There were 38 human cases and 15 deaths from the virus, with many of the cases in Massachusetts and Michigan, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most years, the country sees just half a dozen cases of the virus in humans, the agency said. In Massachusetts and New Jersey, officials have already detected EEE in mosquitoes this year, the earliest on record in those states. There have been no human or animal cases yet.
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Crans and other state health officials say EEE, which has no cure in humans, tends to come in two- to three-year cycles, but they also stress that mosquito borne-diseases are notoriously tricky to predict.
The state also had its first case of West Nile virus this season. A more common but less severe mosquitoborne disease than EEE, it can cause fevers, headaches, body pain and other symptoms. The infection was found in a captive hawk in early June.
Ticks are also expected to be out earlier and in larger numbers this season because of the relatively mild winter, warned Aaron Bernstein, a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and a director at Harvard’s School of Public Health. That could mean more cases of debilitating Lyme disease and other tick-related illnesses for local health care systems already feeling the pressure of responding to the coronavirus, he said. “Some of the people going into the woods more now might not be experienced with how to protect themselves in the forest, and that’s a concern,” he said. Officials say people should avoid the evening and early morning hours when mosquitoes are most active, use bug spray and wear long clothing where possible when outdoors. The CDC has offered states additional help with mosquito testing this season as the coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed state public health offices, said Candice Hoffmann, an agency spokeswoman. Officials in eight states and the District of Columbia have so far taken up the offer: Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, Maine, Florida and Arizona. During last year’s EEE outbreak, the CDC provided about $700,000 in emergency funding and technical assistance to Rhode Island, Indiana, Michigan, and Massachusetts on top of roughly $18 million it provided to states for annual vectorborne disease surveillance, Hoffmann said. In Michigan, where six of that state’s 10 cases of EEE last year proved fatal, officials this summer have launched a pilot program to improve the state’s response to mosquito-borne illnesses. Ned Walker, a medical entomologist at Michigan State University heading up the effort, said the goal is to creSee Bug-borne, A25
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ate the kind of regular mosquito surveillance system already in place in Massachusetts and elsewhere to better predict and prepare for disease outbreaks. In Connecticut, officials have boosted the number of testing sites for mosquitoes in its high risk eastern portion, according to Philip Armstrong, a virologist with the state Department of Environmental Sciences.
One troubling development: the two earliest cases of EEE in mosquitoes this year were found in a northern part of the state close to New Hampshire, rather than the virus’ typical hotspots near Cape Cod, where officials also detected the virus in a mosquito sample last week.
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Maryland-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Inspector General’s office this month, arguing that 2019’s aerial spraying cost more than $2 million but wasn’t effective in reducing EEE-carrying mosquitoes. Brown disputes the group’s assertion, but acknowledges the insecticides can be toxic to bees and other species, another concern raised by the group. “Last year was unprecedented,” she said. “No one wants to do that again.”
Back in Sudbury, David and Kirstin Garabedian say they’re optimistic their daughter can continue to heal from EEE. Now 6, she was able to return to kindergarten in January before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools weeks later. But her parents say she still regularly goes to speech and occupational therapy to deal with lingering speech and memory problems.
Kirstin Garabedian says she understands people want to That, along with last year’s take advantage of the outwidespread cases, strongly suggests the territory of EEE- doors this summer. carrying mosquitoes is ex“Go outside and enjoy yourpanding, according to self, but take the proper preBrown. Climate changes that cautions,” she said. “Just be are causing warmer sumvigilant. Use common mers and altering bird misense.” gration patterns and local
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People needn’t get too alarmed over an overpopulation. Small mammal populations tend to explode, then crash and burn. Such is life near the bottom of the food chain, where food supply ebbs and flows and chipmunks are easy prey for owls, hawks, snakes, foxes and raccoons. Even if
their lives aren’t cut short, individual chipmunks tend to live only for three years, Webb said. Many New Englanders recall a similar spike in squirrel populations in 2018 in New England. The boom-andbust cycle was punctuated by a memorable number of road kills. “We’ve never seen anything like that. That was a once in a lifetime event,” Webb said.
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