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Volume 13, Number 32
Thursday, August 11, 2022
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS
NATIONAL TREND
State funds arrive for upgrade
Fewer teenagers driving
Record-Journal staff
By Jessica Simms Record-Journal staff
Gov. Ned Lamont was in Cheshire, Aug. 2, to announce that $450,000 in state funds have been released to create an Emergency Operations Center at Town Hall. The money was approved by the State Bonding Commission July 26. Request for the EOC funding was in the 2023-2024 capital budget. However, the state allocation will allow for the project to move forward immediately. The town already has begun the design phase of the project. “With an increasing number of severe weather events happening on a regular basis, it is critical that towns have the resources they need for their local emergency management teams to quickly respond to any kind of emergency situation,” Lamont said, in a statement.
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The number of teen drivers has decreased nationally for a variety of reasons, a trend noticed by officials at local driving schools. Joanna Giddings received a Residential Green Award for the natural landscape she has developed at her Oak Ridge Drive home. Giddings is pictured in her frontyard native pollinator garden. Joy VanderLek, The Cheshire Citizen
Green Award focuses on natural, sustainable home landscaping By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
Lawn signs with the message “Residential Green Award” are popping up in Cheshire. The placards are being awarded to residents who work “to foster a healthier watershed for pollinators, mammals and humans.” That’s according to Cheshire Pollinator Pathway co-chair Joanna deBear. The pollinator pathway group, along with the Mill River Watershed Association and the Coalition for a Sustainable Cheshire, sponsor the local recognition.
“It is a program acknowledging homeowners who are being environmentally responsible,” deBear said. For the month of August, Residential Green Awards were installed at the Oak Ridge Drive home of Joanna Giddings and in the yard of Adele Kasinskas, on Redwood Drive. The awards are given to homeowners who are, first and foremost, actively "shrinking their lawns,” said MRWA President Ron Walters. See Award, A11
“These days, people are not motivated to get their license,” said Jay Alvarez, owner of Shield Driving School in Meriden. “The younger driver, they don’t want their license. They don’t want that responsibility. A lot of the parents are forcing their kids to get their license at 16 because they need them to get a job, they need them to go to practice, they need them to go to school.” The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that out of the 228.2 million licensed drivers in the United States in 2020, only 11.6 million (5.1%) of them were considered to be young drivers, ages 15 to 20 years old. This is an 8.3% See Teens, A10
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