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Ornaments are treasured keepsakes of town life By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
You know you are from Cheshire when — you own at least one Cheshire Christmas tree ornament. The ornaments, depicting iconic Cheshire scenes, have been made since 1989, 31 ornaments in all. Brian Fico has collected most all of them. The Cheshire resident even devotes one tree in his house just for the Cheshire ornaments. Fico said his family shares his love of the Cheshire ornament tree. See Ornaments, A4
Two iconic sites are depicted on these ornaments: Notch Trestle in Mixville, 2015, and Blackie’s Hot Dog Stand, 2020 edition. At right is one of Fico’s trees, decorated entirely with commemorative ornaments.
Pandemic prompts adjusting of Hanukkah celebrations
The joy of shopping locally By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
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With Hanukkah beginning at sundown on Thursday, area synagogues have events planned to celebrate the holiday safely. Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, celebrates the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem after a battle between the Maccabees (Jews) and the Seleucids (Greek-Syrians). The reason Hanukkah lasts eight nights is because the Eternal Light, the final act of the rededication of the temple, was able to last eight nights on oil that was only meant to last for one.
Raizy Kaplan tests an electric menorah while setting up the front windows of Chabad of Wallingford for Hanukkah on Friday. Photos by Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
A bowl of dreidels decorates the front window of Chabad of Wallingford.
Whether it’s Alvin and the Chipmunks’ rendition of “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth,” or Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You,” do not believe a word of it. No matter if it’s your wife, husband, best friend or your in-laws, they really would like a gift. Duly noted, The Cheshire Citizen elves took the sleigh out around town to see what Shop Local finds we could locate for those special ones on your Christmas list.
Each night of Hanukkah at 6 p.m., Temple Beth David in Cheshire will hold a community candle lighting on Zoom. At 7 p.m., bedtime stories for
First stop, The Red Door Gift Shop, 830 S. Main St., owned and operated by Maria Fortier. She and her husband moved her shop from Milldale into the Bovano Plaza in the southend of Cheshire in 2017 and have since expanded the store.
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Maria Fortier holds handcrafted heirloom stuffed animals in her store, The Red Door Gift Shop, 830 S. Main St., in the Bovano Plaza. Joy VanderLek, The Cheshire Citizen
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Customer Jim Krupp stopped in recently to pick up chocolates and other Christmas gifts for his wife. The Wallingford resident makes it a point to shop at small businesses, especially during the holidays, he said. Walk-in business, on the whole, has been good, according to Fortier, with customers taking interest in the shop’s wide range of products. There’s Bovano giftware, Destination Connecticut serving and cutting boards (with attractions and towns, including Cheshire), and adorable, handcrafted bears and bunnies by Marion Marino-Virello. Gift ideas for coworkers and friends run the gamut from copper and glass hummingbird feeders, decorative lighted water lanterns (similar to snow globes), jewelry, baby
Elegant Touch Gift Shoppe, 1115 S. Main St., is a must for gift shopping. Anita Bruscino is the proprietor and has a collection of thoughtful gifts for family and friends. Among the fun items are unique purses, warm and cozy scarves and gloves, and soft wraps and throws. Wine glasses, cheese boards, and specialty teas, dips and olive oils are perfect for host and hostess gifts or stocking stuffers. Flocks of cardinals find their place on platters, tea towels and other decorative items. Stuffed animals with Christmas moose and squirrels bedecked in
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If you are a pet parent, don’t forget Fido or Fluffy this holiday season. Our last stop is Cheshire Cat and Dog, 1320 Waterbury Road. Heather Bearz opened her store more than a decade ago. The shop offers fresh, raw, canned, dried and frozen specialty pet foods. Pet products are varied with pet collars in snappy, glow-in-the-dark colors; tidbits and treats, holiday puppy cookies, squeaky toys and catnip treats, wishbones and other chew bones all make a perfect holiday treat for your own four-legged friend or to gift to a fellow pet parent.
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“I send my two daughters a picture of the new one every year when I get them, and they always look at the tree when they come home for a holiday visit,” he said. Fico has the smaller Cheshire Christmas ornament tree in the family room, where they spend most of their time, while the family’s larger tree is in the living room. His favorites include the 2015 Notch Road Trestle; Cheshire High School in 2008; Roaring Brook for 1998 and Sweet Claude’s Ice Cream Shop in 2014.
Another collector, Sally Bowman, remarked that when the number of pewter ornaments got to be too heavy for her tree, it began to protest by dramatically drooping its branches. That‘s when she began to hang them around the house, including popping them on doorways. One ornament she puts on her tree each year is the Notch ornament, which reminds her of her father and family. Two other ornaments she loves are the McKinley Tree Farm from 1992 and the Marion Road barn from the Arisco family. That ornament was made in 1996.
The history of the ornaments is somewhat hazy. R.W. Hine office staff let the story unfold like this: It began with the ladies’ guild at the Church of the Epiphany, formerly located off Huckins Road. It was a successful fundraiser for them. After the Epiphany, the ornament sale was eventually spun off to St. Thomas Becket Church for its youth group fundraiser. Since 2015, however, the Cheshire ornaments have been in the hands of R.W. Hine Hardware, according to the business office. Woodbury Pewter manufactures the custom ornaments for R.W. Hine. Woodbury Pewters' craftsmen have
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Who comes up with the idea for each new ornament? Suggestions can come from anywhere; some have even been made by the public. After looking at what had been done in past years, the decision for a new ornament is completed and R.W. Hine puts in an order to Woodbury Pewter for 400 ornaments.
Bartlem park options discussed A virtual public input session held Dec. 3 gave residents an opportunnity to learn more about and comment on three proposals to expand the Bartlem Recreation Area onto an adjacent 10-acre parcel the town purchased four years ago.
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Chapman space as it is. Jeff Pangaro hoped for a blend that would appeal to those who wanted the improved sports fields, but would also leave the Chapman property alone. Dick Mitten and Jim Mertz are Cheshire residents who spoke about the Cheshire Community Garden plots. In one of the plans, additional parking would replace the plots. Mertz said he and others had put in a lot of work into their gardens, including raised beds and walkways and he was not in favor of relocating the gardens. Approximately 16 people rented garden spaces this past season with a total of 26 plots, said Mertz. Karen Schnitzer asked if the town would consider requiring all new plantings to be done with "native plants"
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kids will be read by temple members. Both the candle lighting and the bedtime stories are new events this year. “Everything, just by nature of it all being virtual, we’ve never thought to do before,” said Jodi Harris, the temple’s director of congregational learning and engagement.
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the country,” Harris said. “There’s a wonderful Jewish bluegrass type of musical group called Nefesh Mountain.”
The temple’s religious school will be having virtual On Dec. 12 at 10:30 a.m. the Hanukkah festivities on Dec. temple will be holding a Tot 13, including crafts, music, a Shabbat service. That same cooking demonstration and day at 7:30 p.m., congregants games. “We’re trying to can attend a virtual concert. make it as much a festival as Driver Side we do every year for the “We’re joining with other kids,” Harris said. synagogues I believe around
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able to start the holiday spirit and not feel alone, really feel connected to many other people.” At the end of Shabbat, Dec. 12 at sundown, there will be a Havdalah ceremony. This year, along with the ceremony, the Chabad of Wallingford will also have a kumzits, which is a Yiddish word for “little music and song,” while they light the menorah and the Havdalah candle via Zoom. “At the beginning of the Sabbath, we usher in the Sabbath. At the end of the Sabbath, we say goodbye,” Kaplan said. “Traditionally, it’s done over a cup of wine with a candle with some singing.”
On the fifth night of Hanukkah, the Chabad of Wallingford will be having an outdoor, social distanced menorah lighting. They are still finalizing the location. “We want to make sure it’s done safely, in a way that everyone can join, participate, but also feel comfortable from where they are going to participate,” Kaplan said. On the seventh night, a menorah car parade will take place, where people will decorate their cars. They will be meeting in Orange to begin the parade. “We’re all going to drive to a huge parking lot where we’re going to have a drive-in Chanukah celebration,” Kaplan said. “... We will have holiday packages delivered to everyone that is there. It’ll have a little jelly donut, a
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CHAMBER APPRECIATION FOR FOOTBALL CAPTAINS
Plan comes into focus CIAC sketches out winter time frame, cites spring season as top priority By Bryant Carpenter Record-Journal staff
Casting an eye to the calendar, the CIAC Board of Control met earlier this month to give some shape to the delayed winter season. The CIAC also announced that, for what remains of the 2020-21 school year, it will give priority to making the spring season as complete an experience as possible for the teams and athletes who missed all of last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. As for any formal decisions, though, none were forthcoming. The winter season remains on hold until at least Jan. 19, a decision the CIAC made back on Nov. 17 and a decision followed two days later by Gov. Ned Lamont’s suspension of youth and recreation sports, also until Jan. 19. Although the Cheshire Chamber of Commerce was unable to have its annual Football Luncheon, due to the pandemic, the Chamber wanted to recognize Cheshire High School’s football captains. A brief ceremony was held Nov. 23 at the gazebo across from the high school. Chamber members F.F. Hitchcock Co, Inc. presented gift cards to captains Nick DiDomizio and Chisom Okoro. From left: Yetta Augur, president Cheshire Chamber of Commerce, Coach Don Drust, Principal Mary Joscelyn-Gadd, Nick DiDomizio, Chisom Okoro, Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey Solan, John Bowman of F.F. Hitchcock and Phil Newton, chairman, Cheshire Chamber Board of Directors.
Should the Jan. 19 launch come to pass for the winter scholastic season, a twoweek practice period would lead to games starting Feb. 3, according to the time frame the Board of Control See Sports, A11
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Up on the rooftop weathervanes & cupalas delight, intrigue By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
When I think of quintessential New England architecture, Cape Cod, saltbox and colonial-style houses come to mind, albeit there are many others. Barns also are integral to this region, so I think we should include them. Mind you, I am not an architect. I have, however, always been keen on the subject of architecture, love driving around to look at houses, and view my interest as a wholesome pastime. A friend of mine, the late Laura Clementson, who wrote her own column for The Cheshire Citizen some years ago, was a huge fan of
rector Christopher Wigren came to my house and I handed over Laura’s files.
octagon houses. She and her husband Art would travel around the state in search of them. She would talk to the owners, write up their histories and she would give presentations about octagons to clubs and organizations. She was considered a bit of an
expert when it came to these eight-sided wonders. In fact, when she died, she willed her octagon research collection to Preservation Connecticut (formerly called the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation). I remember when its deputy di-
weathervane (a duck taking flight), it was put back crooked. My neighbor would come to my house, on the As for the architectural styles guise of visiting and having that pique my interest, I coffee, but truth be told, it have to say I am drawn to all was because she would have styles, and I am interested in the chance to look out of my just about everything and dining room window and try anything about houses, into gauge if her weatherside and out. When I mean vane was crooked or not. everything, I mean it. CurWeathervanes were originalrently, my interest lies in adornments and embellish- ly called windvanes. Their ments. That means that right purpose? It was simply to now, I am mesmerized by show the direction the wind was blowing. They have cupolas and weathervanes. been around a long, long Weathervanes began to octime. One of the earliest cupy space in my thoughts windvanes topped the Towwhen my neighbors reshiners of the Winds in Athens gled their roof. My neighbor and was fashioned to resemwas sure that when the roofers reattached their See Joy, A11
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ble the Greek god Triton. The one on Faneuil Hall in Boston is quite wellknown. It is a grasshopper and weighs close to 40 pounds, with glass doorknobs for eyes. I have read that weathervanes were ornately detailed from the stylized directionals (north, south, east, west) to the banners and other flags and embellishments on the stem. Nowadays the weathervanes are mass-produced and relatively plain. Sometimes, but not always, a weathervane sits atop a cupola. As for cupolas, they sit on top of barns and sheds and buildings. However, cupolas were not originally for decoration. They were derived from function. Designed to let in natural light and to allow air flow under a roof of a house, they were also often found on sheds and barns. The name “cupola” is Latin. It means cup, and many cupolas do look like upside down cups. You find them with or without weathervanes. You can find them as part of a belltower and here in 2020, they also hide roof-top air conditioning
Bethany Mountain Road and a fabulous heron (and for the life of me I cannot remember where I saw him in Cupolas are commonplace town). Also, worth mentionin New England. They are ing is the weathervane in everywhere in our “the Vale,” the Brooksvale town. Town hall has one. It is section of Cheshire. On this clad with copper that’s fadweathervane, there is the figed. (Is it really copper?) ure of a man. He looks as if Trinity Ambulance on High- he is holding a gun up toland Avenue has a cupola, as ward the sky, maybe to do a few new commercial shoot the duck on the buildings on South Main weathervane that is across and many, many residential the street. Then again, he houses in town. could also be playing a flute. I am happier to think he is a Weathervanes are not as musician. common, at least that is what I initially thought. In As I mentioned before, it the past few Covid weeks, I was tough to find a number have been driving around of weathervanes in trying to find weathervanes. Cheshire—that is, until on a Cheshire Academy has a whim, I pulled into Patton few, but one is really special, Drive. There, just about evdetailed and beautiful. ery house in this small Cheshire Town Hall has a neighborhood has a weathlightning rod. Nope. That ervane. does not count. Images of animals and birds are typiThere were ducks, eagles cally what you find on and more. House after house had a weathervane. This was weathervanes. As I mentioned earlier, rather than a productive day. I‘d hit the the more expensive artistmotherlode. commissioned works, most weathervanes are now mass Contact me at jvanderlek@ produced. Ducks, eagles, record-journal.com. geese and roosters are what I found on my travels. However, there are some standouts, including a larger than life deer on South Brooksvale Road before
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been deemed high risk for spreading COVID19. The Connecticut Department of Public Health is recommending those winter sports not be held.
The advice of the state health department and Gov. Lamont, CIAC member schools and the CSMS Sports Medicine Committee will continue to be weighed in as the CIAC reThis time frame partially overlaps with the “alterna- asseses its winter plan in the weeks to come. Athlettive” season the CIAC has ic directors expect to hear set up from late February as early as Jan. 4, the day to mid-April for football schools return from Christand any other sport that does not complete 40 per- mas break, if the Jan. 19 start date is still a go or if cent of its schedule. the winter season will At this point, the only sport again be delayed. that fits that bill is football, which the CIAC cancelled Should a season come to for the fall 2020 season. All pass, it will look different. Basketball and hockey the other fall sports completed their seasons, albeit players will be required to play wearing masks, just as truncated ones that ran girls volleyball players from Oct. 1 to Nov. 14. were this fall. The Jan. 19-March 21 winDecisions about some of the ter plan discussed last week by the Board of Con- other winter sports, most notably gymnastics and introl covers all the winter door track, are being affectsports except wrestling ed by a lack of suitable faciland competitive cheerities. leading, which have Teams would play 12 games during the regular season. The state tournament would follow March 8-21.
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Connecticut unveils preliminary plan for vaccine distribution
While the state’s final detailed plan was not yet ready to be released, Lamont said the first phase of distribution will include 204,000 health care workers, 22,000 nursing home residents and 6,000 medical first responders, such as paramedics and EMTs. Lamont said those figures represent 80% of people in those groups agreeing to take a vaccine. The Democratic governor said his state advisory group followed federal guidance, which he called “very sensible.” Lamont said it makes sense, for example, to vaccinate residents of nursing homes early in the process, noting how the population has been hit hard by COVID-19. “Number one, these are the folks most likely to suffer complications. These are the older folks who most likely suffer fatalities. And these are the folks most likely to go into the hospital,” he said during a briefing for reporters. “So not only will we hopefully be saving lives, we’re hopefully keeping these folks out of the hospital, which again, adds to our capacity in the hospitals.” Connecticut tentatively expects to receive its first shipment of 31,000 doses of vaccine from Pfizer on Dec. 14 and its first shipment of
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The announcement that prisoners will be in the second group of residents to get the coronavirus vaccine followed days of calls from advocates that the roughly 9,240 people behind bars in Connecticut be given the same priority as other residents living in congregate settings, such as nursing homes and psychiatric facilities. The ACLU of Connecticut, which has twice sued the state over its handling of COVID-19 in correctional facilities, sent a letter to Lamont on Wednesday urging him to consider the incarcerated in his vaccine rollout plan.
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Lawmakers are also eyeing the vaccine rollout plan as it relates to the incarcerated. In a tweet sent before the governor’s Thursday press conference on the vaccine, Sen. Gary Winfield, co-chair of the Judiciary Committee, said, “The people in our prisons live in congregate settings, have health issues of concern, and have the virus walked into their living spaces. They need the vaccine early. This is not a political question, it is a moral one.”
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“Like nursing homes, they have much more likely a possibility of spread. No matter how serious our precautions, we’re finding community spread often gets into these congregate settings,” Lamont said at Thursday’s press conference. Considering the racial disparities in state correctional facilities, vaccinating the incarcerated would disproportionately benefit people of color. Black and Hispanic people made up more than 70% of people behind bars in Connecticut as of Dec. 1. In an interview Wednesday night with John Dankosky, CT Mirror’s director of multi-platform content, Lamont praised the Department of Correction and other state agencies for reducing the prison population during the pandemic and working to release people whose return to the community would be low risk.
The prison population has plummeted during the pandemic. There are more than 3,000 fewer people in prison and jail today compared to March 1, mostly due to a steep reduction in the number of people serving time. That reduction can be traced to a dramatic drop in court Lamont included prison staff proceedings, which have largely ground to a halt durand inmates in “Phase 1b,” ing the pandemic, and peothe same tier as all congreple either reaching the end gate settings other than nursing homes, whose fatali- of their sentences or being released through parole or ties represent 63% of the transitional supervision. state’s overall coronavirus deaths and are receiving a “We were able to get them higher priority for the vacout of there,” Lamont said. cine. Health care workers in “So, there’s some extra cacorrectional facilities will be among those in “Phase 1a” See Prisoners, A15
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Create whimsical, lush scene for holiday decor — don’t obsess By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
In her recent “Decorate Your Home for the Holidays,” online presentation, Nichols It’s the Christmas holiday sea- gave a tour of her home along son, and a lot of us are realiz- with a 45-minute floral howing it’s time to Deck the Halls. to workshop. The Dec. 3 presentation, was made possible However, if you’re floral designer Sylvia Nichols, you will by the Friends of the Cheshire not only deck the halls, you’ll Public Library. also decorate the entryways, Granddaughter Ina had the the dining and living room honor of doing the camera and any corner or counter in work to capture the rooms in your home.
A centerpiece for the table, created by designer Sylvia Nichols. Joy VanderLek, The Cheshire Citizen
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pacity, but it is ticking up again with those facilities just like it is around the state.” More than 1,700 incarcerated people have contracted the virus since the pandemic’s onset. Eight people have died. Currently, there are outbreaks at Cheshire, Osborn and York Correctional Institutions. A recently published letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine coauthored by Dr. Byron Kennedy, the Department of Correction’s medical director, states that about 13% of the incarcerated male population tested positive for the virus between March 13 and June 26.
A 2006 study found that the incarcerated are, on average, up to 15 years older, physiologically, than similarly-aged peers who are not in prison.
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Fewer than 460 people over the age of 60 were incarcerated at the beginning of December. There were also more than 2,000 individuals between the ages of 46 and 60 in state correctional facilities.
In a step-by-step how-to of making a vase arrangement,
Melvin Medina, the group’s public policy and advocacy director, said there are less than 250 people age 65 or older currently locked up, and that there’s an unknown number of people who have been deemed medically vulnerable by prison officials.
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Those held in Connecticut’s prisons are more likely to be poor, suffer from mental illnesses or drug addictions and have fewer social supports. They’re also disproportionately racial and ethnic minorities, which means they’re more likely to die before reaching adulthood and report that they’re in poor health.
After Lamont’s press conference, the ACLU continued to call on state officials to prioritize certain members of the incarcerated population in Phase 1a, which includes health care workers, emergency responders and nursing home residents who will be vaccinated in the coming weeks.
their holiday best, festooned with fresh greenery, Santa after Santa Claus, centerpieces with beautiful blooms, multiple Christmas trees, and charming decorations throughout each space. One exceptional display led to another just as wonderful.
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cookie cutters and white flowers. Tall, painted white twigs are added to the “whimsical” display, but do not obstruct the sightlines of those who would be seated around the table.
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Nichols advised creating a grid system by crisscrossing the stems of greenery as they are added. “It’s like Pick Up Sticks,” quipped Nichols. The crossing of the sticks makes it easy to place the flowers as you like. It’s best to also cut stems at an angle, not straight across, in order to allow water to travel up the stem when placed into the flat bottom of a vase, she advised.
Across the mantle of the fireplace in the family room. Nichols simply laid lengths of white pine across the span, adding flourishes with snowdusted pine cones, fake snowballs and finished with a decorating touch of the family’s favorite games, all ready to play. Family is most important to her. A child’s paperchain decorates a Christmas tree in one area of the house, decorated with ornaments the children made long-ago. The tree is adorned with pictures of the children encircled in a paper chain circle. Each year an updated photo of the child is added to the tree.
To add accents and create more interest, a quick trip to the supermarket to pick up a little stock, roses or other blooms is not unusual. Nichols encourages everyone to make arrangements look full. Don’t be skimpy. The eye wanders over and into the arrangement, she said.
A tall, linear display of holly branches and white pine is set on a table in an alcove. A sprig of white flowers and another sprig, this one of large red berries, serve to bring interest to the arrangement. Another arrangement features the interesting flowerhead protea as its focal point. In a pedestal vase, magnolia leaves alternating green and rust-color encircle a giant pinecone. Red, artificial pepperberry and holly leaves add to the arrangement with a wide strip of white birch bark.
Adding the accents is one way to lead your eyes deeper into the arrangement, said Nichols. On the breakfast table, set tonight with cocoa and chocolate waffles, and bedecked with a red table runner and plaid placemats, is the centerpiece. It is fabulous. Three large flameless candles are arranged in a rectangular container holding a variety of greenery, shiny kitchen tools,
As lovely as the swags, bouquets, and trees, Nichols made it clear “not to obsess” over decorating and to enjoy the holiday experience as a way to enjoy the season with your loved ones.
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Choices for what greenery you use, can be as easy as what is your own yard. Nichols goes through her property and she might snip sprigs and pieces of white pine, hydrangea blossom, cedar, boxwood and holly. “What’s important to me is to see a variety of textures and colors of green,” Nichols said.
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