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Health departments prepare for eventual vaccine distribution

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Local health districts are updating plans for emergency distribution to prepare for an eventual coronavirus vaccine. “They keep telling us that we should plan for COVID vaccines anywhere from October on,” said Maura Esposito, director of the Chesprocott Health District, which serves Cheshire, Prospect and Wolcott. Anticipating that vaccines will be in short supply at first, distribution plans are focusing on first responders and other priority professions, including hospital staff and teachers. “We have been planning very hard to identify our critical workforce and priorities,” Esposito said. “… We know that the vaccines are going to come and they’re going to be limited.” Once first responders and other priority workers have been inoculated, the vaccine will be available to the general public through drive-up sites set up by municipal health departments and districts, as well as pharmacies and doctors’ offices. The existing emergency distribution plans called for converting schools and other large buildings into distribution centers. However, the contagious nature of COVID-19 has led public health officials to opt for the drive-up model. The Wallingford Health Department has selected Sheehan High School as See Vaccine, A2

A group of Cheshire Land Trust stewards recently tended to a garden of “Summer Splash” annual flowers. The pretty patch of blooms is located on the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail at Lock 12, at North Brooksvale Road. The project is part of the land trust’s participation in the Pollinator Pathway movement, a nationwide effort to counteract the loss of insect habitat and to help create native plant feeding grounds for monarchs and other pollinators. Planting on the main garden is expected to get underway this week with the installation of native shrubs and trees. Pictured, from the front: Katie Bateson, Joanna deBear and Veronica Schaefer. Courtesy of Michele Smith

Traffic camera project set to be done in 2021 By Matthew Zabierek Record-Journal staff

MERIDEN — A state project to add traffic cameras to local highways is expected to be completed in 2021. The state Department of Transportation announced plans a couple of years back to add the cameras to interstates 91 and 691, and Route 15. DOT spokesman Kevin Nursick said in early 2018 that the project

could begin construction in late 2018 and take about two years to complete. Nursick wrote in an email this week that it “looks like early 2021 for completion of the project.” Local highways are a “blind spot” in the state’s system of traffic cameras. Information from the cameras will be useful to motorists, first responders, and law enforcement, according to DOT.

The cameras will show traffic congestion, road conditions, construction and maintenance activity, lane closures, and traffic accidents. Data will be transmitted to DOT headquarters in Newington, where staff will assist in providing information to DOT personnel and state and local emergency responders. “The traffic cameras and electronic See Cameras, A2

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A truck approaches the East Main Street overpass while traveling south on Interstate 91 in Meriden on Jan. 29, 2018.

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variable message signs will assist CTDOT to better manage traffic incidents and provide up to date traffic conditions and highway travel times to emergency responders, media, and motorists in the project area,” said Kevin Nursick, a DOT spokesman.

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its primary distribution center, with Lyman Hall High School available if the town receives enough vaccine for two sites. The department ran a drill while a mission group was living at Sheehan for a week in July 2018, distributing 500 mock pills across four hours.

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ject is estimated to cost $10,527,660. Fourteen cameras are planned for I-691 between the I-91/Route 15 interchange and I-84 in Southington, in addition to three electronic overhead variable message signs. That phase of the project is projected to cost $13,340,470. Federal aid will cover 90 percent of costs for both phases, Nursick said.

U.S. Rep. Rosa Delauro, D3rd, held a roundtable discussion in Wallingford Friday about the town’s planning for disseminating a future vaccine and what they said was a need for additional federal resources and guidance to support communities in safe and equitable distribution.

Both Wallingford and the Chesprocott Health District have a medical reserve corps of volunteer nurses, pharHealth Department Director macists and other medical professionals, as well as Stephen Civitelli said the drill showed they’ll need in- non-medical volunteers who creased staff to run the clinic can help with logistics. — especially since the drill Wallingford created the involved pills, not injections. corps in 2011 after reviewing It’s expected that the COVID its response to the H1N1 vaccine will require two inpandemic, while the Chesjections approximately 20 procott corps was approved days apart. last week. The recognition grants volunteers additional “For a vaccine based — an training and liability insurinjectable — it obviously ance. takes more time than if you’re going to provide a pill Public health organizations form for somebody,” Civitelli also need to have the infrassaid. tructure to transport and store vaccines. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and

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Meriden’s Health and Human Services Department already has much of the equipment and trained staff necessary to handle the vaccines, said department director Lea Crown. Meriden has held drivethrough vaccination drills with health departments from across the state in the past and is working on a plan to use its upcoming flu vaccine initiative as a trial run for a drive-through clinic. Wallingford is already running a drive-through flu vaccine program at the municipal library and Chesprocott has identified sites in each of its three towns to set up flu clinics in October. “If there’s one thing that public health does well and has prepared for well, it’s mass (prevention),” Crown said.

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from several angles to see if you can see cracks in the trunk or branches. Sometimes cracks are large enough to see daylight coming through. Or, sometimes you may hear rubbing, or

Cracks also provide a path for insects or disease to enter the tree and further weaken the branch. The homeowner should ask himself “what happens if the crack fails and the limb falls?

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As Eversource continues to remove stormed-damaged trees and branches following last month’s powerful storms, the energy company urges customers to inspect trees on their own property that could pose a risk to the electric system and to support the energy company’s tree-trimming and hazard tree removal program.

trunk are growing in the same direction). See if you can detect any cracks at the forks visually. Another location for light crotches is at the base of trees where several trunks grow from the ground. Often, one of the forks fails and one of the trunks will fall.

Will the resulting damage be acceptable or do I need to take action?” A second thing to look at is the attachment point of limbs to tree trunks, or crotches. An open crotch, or fork, (limb close to 90 degrees from the trunk) is much stronger than a tight crotch (where the limb and

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The fire call on the incident came in at approximately 3:15 a.m. Arriving at 635 Reservoir Road, firefighters found a two-story wood framed home “well involved in fire,” according to a town press release. The blaze, which completely engulfed the home, had begun to encroach on

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Pocket parks deserve love, too By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen

Do you remember making outdoor forts when you were a kid? I do. Recently, I had a déjà vu moment from my childhood when walking the Cheshire Land Trust’s Ives Woodlands trails. I had to laugh when I spied a little kid’s fort not far off the trail. Long branches were set against the massive trunk of an oak tree. The result looked kind of like a halfconstructed teepee. The “floor” appeared as if someone swept out the leaves to create a “play area.” A toy truck was parked in the space along with two little chairs — a giveaway to the structure being the work of a child—and it was decorated with a wagon wheel and pinwheels. Quite elaborate. It brought back memories of other forts I made playing at my elementary school. (That school was grades 1-12, I kid you not, but that’s a story for another time.) At my school, there were huge forsythia bushes growing against one side of the building. If you have a hedge of forsythia, you know it needs to be pruned back hard each year or they flower only on the outermost branches, leaving a big hollow at the center of the plant. For a kid in elementary school, we would spend our lunch period, eating the brown bag sandwiches Mom made, in the secret playhouse rooms made by the forsythia’s arching flower-laden branches.

bench under the trees for shade and relaxed among the plantings for a lunchtime respite. I have not gone in — yet. You might want to beat me to it. Go, take a book and a brown bag lunch of your own or grab a lunch from a

These are public spaces. Perhaps you know the “Gateway Parklet” next to the gas station at the intersection of Maple and Highland Avenues. Back in the early 2000s, it was a verdant oasis, adorned by rhododendrons and seasonal plantings, including a beauteous wisteria growing on a perfect arbor. How wonderful it would be, I thought, to take a book to read, and perch atop one of the large rocks, which I am sure was skillfully planted by a landscape designer. I can hear them now, “No, move it here, it looks more natural,” or “Snug the larger rock over to the smaller one.” Unfortunately, the elegant wooden arbor rotted, the robust wisteria was pulled out (probably kicking and screaming, too). What currently sits there, I see, is a dwarf red Japanese maple, looking perhaps a bit embarrassed, a little out-of-its element.

Another pocket garden is located at the Maple Avenue entrance to the Maplecroft Plaza shopping complex, the big intersection in front of the Rite-Aid. When the entrance to the plaza was The whimsical fun of making rooms in outdoor spaces opened, this pocket garden doesn’t escape me now that was a stunner. It had a lovely I am grown and well past the seating area, brick pavers and beautiful plantings. I did age of playing in forsythia sit here and enjoy the flowbushes for the most part. It ers and shade many times is fun to daydream though when out on my early mornwhen I come across ing walking jaunts (back in Cheshire’s pocket gardens.

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FT POSITIONS - Produce Dept., Asst. Mngr.; Deli Dept.; Daytime Cashier. CT Fresh Food & Produce, 203 234-2162.

Autos Wanted

MATERIALS DISTRIBUTION Screened Topsoil $25/ per yd; Sand-$15 per yd; Millings-$10 per yd; Screened Millings $30 per yd; Clean Fill $8 per yd: $100 minimum delivery. No pickup truck service. Minimum 16 yd pickup at our yard. Call Jim @ 860-982-4819 for delivery

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ALWAYS BUYING CASH PAID Vintage Electronics, Musical Instruments, Amps, Ham Equipment, HiFi, Radios, CB, Guitars, Audio Equipment, Antiques. 860-707-9350

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” - Emilie Buchwald

$25/yard delivered, 3 yd, $100 min. delivery Call Jim 860-982-4819 Top Soil, Compost FOR SALE. Catering to small deliveries. Call Bob (203) 415-0723

Miscellaneous For Sale

CASH PAID For any Toyota any condition, running or not, crashed okay. Will take other makes and models. (203) 600-4431.

Motorcyles and ATVs

Rent

FREE RED BRICKS - In very good condition, call (860) 628-6019 between 12-4 p.m., If no answer try again.

FREE - Tree length wood and fireplace wood. Take it away from 1706 Cheshire St., Cheshire. 203.235.2244.

203-238-2149

Wanted To Rent 72 YEAR OLD WOMAN Exc. credit, very clean, seeking 1 BR or sm. 2 BR apt., W/D hkp, Southington area only 860.479.9214.

Lost and Found RING FOUND - Huckins Rd., Cheshire. Call to ID (203) 271 2983.

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Wanted To Buy 1,2,3 Items or an Estate $$$ CASH $$$ Todd Shamock Estate Sale Service Costume Jewelry, Antiques, Dolls, Toys, Paintings,Meriden Items 203-494-1695

AARON’S BUYING Old Machinist Tools, Lathes, BenchTools, Hand Tools & more. (203) 525-0608.

Wanted To Buy

GRASSY HILL AUCTIONS, - an Estate Sale, Liquidation, Attic & Basement Cleanout Company is Always Buying and providing services all over Connecticut. These are just a FEW of the things we are looking for: Antiques, Collectibles, WANTED Individual Old/ Vintage Toys, Mufirearms, collections & sical Instruments (Saxophones, Trumpets, Vi- estates including military olins, Flutes, Clarinets, & related items.Federally Trombone & SO MUCH licensed firearms dealer. MORE) Advertising Gunsmith, appraisals, Items, Wristwatches Richard Pleines, (860) (Broken or Not), Pocket 663-2214. Watches, Tools (Machinist, Woodworking, & MORE) Doorstops, Clocks, Oil Paintings, Old Signs, Old Photographs, Old Postcards, Brewery Items, Hunting & Fishing, PEZ Dispensers, Costume Jewelry, Broken Jewelry, Gold & Silver Jewelry, Gold & Silver Coins, Military Items, Swords & Bayonets, Helmets & Patches, Medals & Uniforms, Pocket Knives, Lighters & Pipes, Fountain Pens, Mechanical Pencils, Fraternal Order Items, Religious Items, Industrial Items, Winchester Items, Sikorsky Items, Pratt & Whitney Items, Colt Items, Native American Items, Vintage Electronics, Slot Cars, Toy Trucks, Matchbox & Hotwheels, Barbie’s, Folk Art, Statues, Bronzes, Trains, Cameras, Mid Century Modern Fur- ■ DAILY NEWS ALERTS niture, Straight Razors, ■ LOCAL SPORTS Shaving Items, Political Items, Comic Books, ■ LOCAL BUSINESS NEWS Sports Cards & Autographs…& THE LIST ■ FRONT PORCH NEWS GOES ON! So please give us a call at your ■ LOCAL POLICE NEWS earliest convenience. Grassy Hill Auctions 203-868-1816 - Grassy HillAuctions.com

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Wanted To Buy

FOLDING ANIMAL CAGE - Large, heavy-duty, 29”x36”x48”, $65. 203634-4154.

Sporting Goods and WILL PAY CASH - For old motorcycles, mini bikes Health & go carts. Gary, (860) PISTOL PERMIT - Cer558-5430. tification, for groups of 4 or less, masks req’d, 1 session only, $140. Stores and Offices For (203) 415-1144.

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ANTIQUES - Always buying old; Toys, military, jewelry, art, watches, musical instruments, signs, arcade games, cameras, pre 1970 sports memorabilia, plus more. One item or entire estate contents. Call 860718-5132. BUYING MACHINIST TOOLBOXES - Tools & tooling, contents of machine shops, home workshops and small lathes. Call anytime 860-985-5760

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Businesses & Services Attics and Basements Cleaned GARY WODATCH

Gutters

Junk Removal

Landscaping

Demolition Svs Sheds, pools, decks, garages, debris removal. Quick, courteous svc. All calls returned. Ins. #566326. Cell, 860-558-5430

Carpentry CARPENTRY

Repairs, Decks & Porches, Sheetrock & Taping Water Damage Repairs. Free Est. Ins. MC & Visa. Call Bill (203) 901-2136. CT. Reg. # 0647093

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Electrical Services

GUTTERS PLUS 25+yrs. Exp. Call today for Free estimate. 203-440-3535 Ct. Reg. #578887

Handyperson HOME DOCTOR - 48 yrs exp. Odd jobs & remodeling, former US Navy, 15 yrs, #640689, 203.427.7828.

Home Improvements AHEARN BUILDERS Additions, Decks, Siding, Doors, Windows, Remodeling. 860.346.0409

Looking for a friend? GENERATORS Winter is Coming!! Gearing up for Installs Some Sizes avail. for immed. install. Briggs & Stratton, Kohler or Cummins Used or Reconditioned Generators Available. Call for Pricing & Availability M-F 860-349-5449

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CLEAN & REMOVE Furniture, appliances, entire contents of: homes, sheds, estates, attics, basements, garages & more. *FALL YARD Clean-ups* FREE ESTIMATES. LIC & INS. 203-535-9817 or 860-575-8218.

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Gutters

GUTTERS DON’T WORK

If they’re dirty! For gutter cleaning, Call Kevin (203) 440-3279 Fully ins. CT# 569127

Specializing in roofing, siding, kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, basement remodeling. Senior citizen discount Insured. Free est. 203-265-5200 HIC#0631937

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Masonry

Power Washing

RECYCLE YOUR OLD NEWSPAPERS Please & Thank you.

HEDGE TRIMMING Mowing, top soil, grass seed, gutter cleaning, brush removal, comm./ res. HIC0622783.

JIMMY’S MASONRY Over 28 years of exp. Stonewalls, patios, sidewalks, chimneys, pool areas, fireplaces, fire pit steps, all types of masonry work. Free est. (860) 274-4893.

LUNO MASONRY - We deal in all types of masonry, repairs & new projects. Refs. avail. Free ests. Lic. HIC0643330 & Ins. Call 203.770.9273.

Moving and Storage

Roofing

POWER WASH

Painting Int. & Ext. Free Ests. Ins. Refs. Rodrigo, (203) 565-7745.

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TEC ELECTRICAL

Service LLC All Phases of Electrical Work. 24 hr. Emergency Service. Small Jobs Welcome. 203.237.2122

FALL IS HERE! Perfect time to overseed, and plantings. Complete lawn maint. & tree work.

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Gail M. Powell asks: For decades, local Food Pantries, Food Banks and Social Service agencies have struggled to help individuals and families who face hunger, food insecurity and lack of primary medical care obtain and receive these basic life necessities. The sense of urgency in meeting these needs was dramatically exacerbated when the Coronavirus/COVID19 struck in the beginning of 2020. Due to economic shutdowns, the primary issues all social service agencies faced now impacted an entirely new population and more severely affected those already living in the margins prior to the pandemic. Food and lifesaving drugs were indisputably the primary areas of serious emergent need.

What plans, programs and/or policies would you put in place to insure a failsafe supply chain for basic life necessities in the event of a second wave of COVID19, another pandemic or natural disaster â€“ fire, weather related (floods, hurricanes, others), or an economic depression?

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