Thursday, December 5, 2019
cheshirecitizen.com
Volume 7, Number 8
Food insecurity persists, even in ‘well-off ’ communities
Junior class prevails in powder puff football game By Michael Gagne Record-Journal staff
By Michael Gagne Record-Journal staff
There was still a minute left to play on the game clock and it appeared Ariana-Luz Rosado and her team could pull out a last-second victory in what was Cheshire High School's first senior class versus junior class intra-squad powder puff football contest Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 27.
Cheshire High School junior Ellie Rockoff, with the ball, is cheered by her teammates after scoring a touchdown during the school’s first senior vs. junior intra-squad powder puff football game. Photos by Devin Leith-Yessian, Record-Journal
It had been close throughout the game's previous 59 minutes, and at that point, the junior class was leading 13 to 12.
Cheshire High School senior Liney Dutchyshyn scores a touchdown.
Rosado, quarterback for the seniors, had led her team, wearing black uniforms, down the field with a long run of her own, and then heaved a 57-yard catchand-run pass to teammate Emma Watkinson, who had outlegged her opponents down the field until they finally pulled her flag, stopping Watkinson at the six-yard-line.
Some three dozen hikers, eschewing the retail activities for which the day after Thanksgiving is known for, gathered at Ives Farm and
The food bank, which moved to Sandbank Road in 2016, serves 137 families in town, with about 250 clients visiting each week, Walsh estimated. The clients include young families with children, older adults who haven’t quite reached retirement age and senior citizens.
See Food, A13
#OptOutside proves to be popular alternative to Black Friday frenzy Friday marked another installment of the Cheshire Land Trust's now annual #OptOutside event.
It resembles a small grocery store, complete with donated shopping carts, and rows of shelves, containing soup cans, cereal boxes, pasta, cleaning products, pet food and other items.
“The need is there. The need is great,” Walsh said, estimating there are at least another 130 families in town who qualify for food pantry aid, but don’t come.
See Juniors, A9
By Michael Gagne Record-Journal staff
Executive Director Kerry Walsh walked past a wall of glass doors, behind which lettuce, meat, milk, eggs and other refrigerated and frozen items sit, before making her way to the largest room in the 6,000-square-foot building the Cheshire Community Food Bank calls home.
hiked through the woods, towards the historic Cheshire Street Cemetery. Hikers made stops along the way. During those stops historians and volunteers with the land trust shared stories about the wood lands and the cemetery, explained Karen Schnitzer, CLT vice president. See #OptOutside, A3
Thomas Mulholland shares stories of long-gone Cheshire residents who lay buried in the historic Cheshire Street Cemetery during Friday’s #GetOutside walk. The event was held by the Cheshire Land Trust. Michael Gagne, Record-Journal