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Volume 14, Number 36

BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Pittsley: Town should consider different names for new school

By Joy VanderLek Special to The Citizen

As the parcel in the northwest section of Cheshire becomes ever closer to becoming a new, modern elementary school, there are many considerations being set out before the public.

One of those items under consideration is the name of the school.

recipient Harvey C. “Barney” Barnum has already been publicly advanced as a choice. Other alternate and equally promising recommendations, should be given space to be heard, according to one resident and historian.

“I have no problem naming things after veterans, and I love the idea of nam-

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Palma continues to dance at Merrimack

By Greg Lederer Herald Staff

It was back to school for more than 4,000 local students in Cheshire on Tuesday, Aug. 29.

Kindergartners all the way up to seniors at Cheshire High School strapped on their backpacks and headed to class for the first time since early June. From left: Ava Sheppard and crossing guard Robin Jasman were both excited for the first day of school.

Cheshire’s Charlotte Palma has taken her passion for dance to Merrimack College in Massachusetts, where she has quickly created bonds on the competitive and game day dance

“I’ve danced my whole life and I wanted to keep doing it in college,” explained Palma. “I knew that it would be a time commitment, but I’m glad that I decided to do it.”

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That attracts birds (and sometimes a bear or two).

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They sit on my wash line and sass me. They sit in the backyard bird baths, or they have bird parties in the itsybitsy pond I have off the back door.

More than once, my cat would bring a present to the back door. The present may or may not have a beak or other identifiable part.

Sometimes there was nothing but feathers.

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Not more than 10 minutes later the hubby appears at the door, minus the cat, harness in hand.

I raise an eyebrow and question the lack of a cat attached to the leash – a cat that was originally on a leash. I am told by this man, who I thought I knew after so many years of marriage,

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One morning, the hubby and I were admiring a cute This particular cat comes little bunny in the backyard. from one of those stories. Af- Oh yes, you do know where ter we took it in, we let the this is going. That afternoon, cat have its way – which I went to the back yard and meant it went outside. It’s came across a bunny. Not a what it was accustomed to whole bunny. It was missing doing. I didn’t think twice something. I won’t go into about it, until the past few detail. years when our cul-de-sac I know, I know. That did it wasn’t such a quiet street for me. Sometimes it takes a anymore. It has become while, but I made the deciquite busy with car traffic now. Some neighbors worry sion that it was not right to about their pets being taken allow the cat to roam freely

outside. The cat has been inside for more than a year now.

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Sometimes the cats just showed up to our door, batting their little cat eyelashes, sometimes with a present of some type of rodent. Sometimes a kitten would lie in wait at a spot on the nearby walking trail, eating kat kibbles in the rain, while crying it’s heart out. Obviously, it was setting us up.

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Our family’s history with cats is unwavering: We’ve always had a steady supply of them. We do not go to a pet store to buy a cat. That’s not how this works. Instead, cats magically appear in our lives. More than a few times Lorie and Kerry from Friends of Feral Cheshire Cats, a trap-neuter and release non-profit, have helped us. It didn’t matter the hour of the day, nor the place. Whether it was kittens in a junk-filled barn, or a cat hiding in a tangle of brambles in the woods, Lorie and Kerry would get to work.

They’d nab the kitten or cat who needed to be rescued or get medical attention.

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I am training our cat. (No snickering please.) I don’t want the cat to fetch my slippers, or balance on a ball. I just want her to go for a walk with her new, blue harness and stylish leash. She looks quite fetching with it on.

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Owners Kiara and Jadan Olger were on hand to introduce the revitalized space and revised menu. The restaurant is open for breakfast and lunch six days a week (closed on Tuesdays), from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. In addition to standard menu selections they offer crepes and breakfast all day options. They are looking forward to becoming involved in the Cheshire community.

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In quick succession, he slapped at the officer, dodged a shot from a nonlethal Taser, grabbed a knife and advanced on Ouellette.

Ouellette backed from the apartment to a courtyard, now aiming her handgun, not the Taser. Diloreto called her a “wimp.” Ouellette told him to drop the knife, or she would shoot. Diloreto hesitated by the door, then came out. He waved his arms and yelled, “Hit me. Hit me. Hit me.”

“It’s transformative,” said Robert J. Devlin Jr., a former prosecutor and judge who is approaching the midpoint of a four-year term as Connecticut’s first inspector general, responsible for assessing every police use of deadly force.

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Joseph Diloreto was profanely berating a woman inside the apartment. He did not directly answer Ouellette until she stepped inside.

Then his attention shifted from his female acquaintance to the officer, anger coming to a rapid boil.

In the other, a car chase and brief manhunt preceded a K9 officer in West Hartford shooting and killing a suspected car thief in a chaotic, claustrophobic confrontation involving the cop, his dog and the suspect on the front seat of a moving car.

decade ago, BWC use in Connecticut has evolved from a voluntary pilot project authorized by the General Assembly in 2015 to their required use, effective July 1, 2021. Every use of deadly force by a local or state police officer since then has been captured by an unblinking camera.

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The call of a domestic disturbance came at 6:39 p.m.

As Officer Haylee Ouellette approached the apartment in Manchester, a body-worn camera recording a cop’seye view of her arrival, a man inside could be heard screaming, “Shut your mouth!”

Two incidents involved men who seemed impaired — the one with a knife in Manchester, another with a claw hammer in Middletown — as they inexplicably attacked armed officers.

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ing it (the school) after Nora Adams, because she was one of the first female veterans in the Navy, and she was a reading teacher,” said Christine Pittsley, Special Projects Director for Connecticut State Library, and director for CSL’s award-winning World War One programs.

Pittsley, herself a veteran and a fourth-generation Cheshirite, said Cheshire veteran and teacher Nora Adams would be an excellent choice to name a school after.

Adams was Pittsley’s reading teacher at Norton School, and taught in the Meriden schools as well.

Years later, Pittsley became reacquainted with her former teacher, and learned Adams was a veteran and had served in the Navy Reserve in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Service) in WWII.

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“We tend to think of historical figures who died long before we knew them. But there were a lot of people in this town who knew Nora and she is part of our history. And she’s a vet,” stated Pittsley. “I know from her obituary that she was one of the first WAVES. She only died a couple of years ago, but she is a part of our history and so many of us have a connection to her. I think it would be an amazing way to honor her legacy in this town.”

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A fact that Pittsley also notices is that “when we talk about Cheshire history, we’re focused on the men, but there were women who made significant contributions to our community; historically and in the present.

So, naming a school for one of those women just makes sense.”

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“There is only one building in town named after a woman, and that’s Humiston, and I doubt if most people realize it’s named for Julia Humiston. The idea for naming a building after a woman — it’s time,” she

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Lucinda Foote is a noteworthy candidate as well, in Pittsley’s view.

Foote was the daughter of Rev. John Foote and when she was 12, she sat exams for Yale, with Yale President Ezra Stiles in 1783. “She’s listed as the first woman to take exams at Yale,” said Pittsley.

According to the certificate given to Lucinda, Stiles wrote: “She has made commendable progress giving the true meaning of passages of Euclid, of Virgil, the select orations of Cicero and in the Greek Testament and that she is fully qualified except in regard to sex to be received a pupil of the Freshman class of Yale College.”

Before marrying Dr. Thomas Cornwall in 1790, she pursued studies learning Hebrew from Stiles.

“She (Lucinda Foote) is a name we do not talk about.

We talk about her father. We talk about her brother, Samuel Augustus, the governor; and we talk about her nephew. We talk about all the male Footes. Well, what about her?” asked Pittsley.

That story has always stayed with Pittsley, and so, to name a school after her would be fitting, she said.

Another person who could be among the names considered is a man by the name of Cuff. Cuff was a free captive.

In the writings of late 19th century historian Edward R. Brown, Cuff is mentioned as having lived at the bottom of Huckins Road on Marion Road and the brook that runs parallel is Cuff Brook, named for him, according to Pittsley.

“I think that would be another fantastic name, “The Cuff Brook School,” because it would recognize the contributions of our early African descendant population, which was much larger than it is today. That would also be fitting, as those people were not afforded educational opportunities at that point in time,” she said.

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justice professor and former prosecutor, lawmaker and gubernatorial adviser who sits on the New Haven Police Commission and the state board that sets police training standards, said the videos are neutral witnesses, allowing quicker resolutions of complaints.

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The practice and clear legal requirement stands in contrast to other states.

In Cambridge, Mass., as the Boston Globe reported last week, officials have yet to identify the police officer who shot and killed a college student on Jan. 4, saying the legal authority for disclosure is unclear. There was no requirement to wear a BWC, and Cambridge officials had not provided one.

Connecticut is one of at least seven states mandating the statewide use of body-worn cameras, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Regardless of state laws, most larger police departments now employ them throughout the United States.

Research has found that complaints drop when the cameras are used.

Harder to assess is how the BWCs are changing policing.

Early studies are inconclusive, said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington, D.C., A body-worn camera on a Middletown police officer captures Winston Tate, 52, attacking group that advises police on with a claw hammer on Aug. 12 right before he was shot and wounded.

Image via Office of Inspector General everything from training and tactics to how to best recruit Was a cop rude? Did they re- and logged at the end of ev- lights or siren responding to and retain police in a tight ally use a racial epithet? Did ery shift, a cinematic record call, the body and dash cams labor market. they strike someone without of everything from the most begin recording, Melanson mundane of police interacsaid. In other situations, the “The one thing that hasn’t cause? tions with the public to con- BWC must be manually acti- happened is we haven’t seen “Well, now you watch the a major reduction in some frontations involving deadly vated, a habit most officers body cam,” said Paul Melan- force, like the ones from kinds of use of force with have developed, he said. son, the chief of police in Manchester, Middletown Michael P. Lawlor, a criminal Avon and current chair of and West Hartford.

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Obituaries Donald Hellerman CHESHIRE — Donald Hellerman, 61, of Cheshire, CT, passed away on August 21, 2023. Donald was born on September 21, 1961, in Doylestown, PA, to Doris Mellor Hellerman and the late Richard Hellerman.

Donald graduated from Penn State with a B.S. in Quantitative Chemistry which led to a career focused on Quality Management. During his career, he completed certification as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt which lead to his most recent position as Site Quality Leader for Perkin Elmer Shelton. Donald was an avid fisherman and boater who loved offshore tuna fishing trips.

Donald was also a cyclist who cycled more than 2000 miles a year. Donald was also a marksman

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In Brief who is larger than life (at least 10 times his actual size). Don had taken up cooking in the recent years and was perfecting some of his favorite dishes including sausage biscuits and gravy, Black Seabass or Mahi tacos, and breakfast burritos.

In addition to his mother, Doris, Donald leaves behind his brother, Tracy and Tracy’s wife Jennifer, nephew Matthew, and niece Lili. He was predeceased by his father Richard.

Family and friends are invited to pay their respects on Sunday, September 24, 2023 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Alderson-Ford Funeral Home, 615 South Main St., Cheshire, CT. Memorial contributions may be made to the ASPCA for his love of Stoli. To share a story or leave online condolences, please visit www.fordfh.com.

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“The last thing they want is a police officer aiming a firearm at them and barking orders. But that’s how police have been taught,” Wexler said.

body-worn cameras,” Wexler said. “And I think that the answer to that is that bodyworn cameras by themselves will not change policing — body-worn cameras with new training, new policies and new oversight will.”

trooper fired his Taser, which failed to penetrate Soulemane’s jacket.

“He’s reaching,” Rappa yelled.

Souleman pulled a serrated knife from his pocket and pointed it at the roof of the It is the scenario that unfold- car. North fired seven times. ed on Jan. 15, 2020 when 19Devlin took over the investiyear-old Mubarak Soulegation in November 2021, mane of New Haven was Wexler said BWC videos alshot to death by State Troop- two months after becoming inspector general. His task ready have been a training er Brian North after an onwas to assess whether tool, showing real-life exam- and-off chase on I-95 from North’s use of force was “obples of police shootings that Norwalk to West Haven. jectively reasonable,” a legal could have avoided with difAs recounted by Devlin’s in- standard that gives police ferent tactics, especially the benefit of the doubt. when confronted with some- vestigative report, Soulemane led police on a chase one acting irrationally. at speeds reaching 100 miles To find an officer criminally “From our standpoint, it has per hour before police boxed culpable, the state must prove beyond a reasonable been an epiphany in how him in just off I-95 in West doubt that police did not act you think about force and Haven. He sat alone behind in defense of themselves or how you train police to pre- the wheel of the car he had others. In a scathing report vent unnecessary force, so stolen from a Lyft driver afthat ultimately everybody ter acting erratically at a cell issued in April 2022, Devlin concluded that North’s accan go home safe,” Wexler phone store. tions could not be justified, said.

His eyes were closed, and he The Police Executive Reignored shouts to exit the search Forum has developed car. Soulemane’s family says a use-of-force protocol for he was diagnosed with handling people who are be- schizophrenia at age 14. having erratically and danNorth stood outside the gerously but do not possess a firearm. It is dubbed ICAT driver’s door, aiming his for “integrating communica- handgun at Soulemane’s chest through the closed tions, assessment and tacwindow. A West Haven offitics.” cer, Robert Rappa, broke a ICAT preaches against mov- passenger side window. At ing quickly when a subject is North’s urging, another

nor were they reasonable by any measure.

He charged North with manslaughter, the first officer to be criminally charged under the new accountability law.

“At the time Trooper North fired his weapon, neither he nor any other person was in imminent danger of serious injury or death from a knife attack at the hands of Soulemane,” Devlin wrote. “Further, any belief that persons were in such danger was not reasonable.”

North told investigators that he believed that Rappa was about to enter the car, and he feared that Soulemane might stab the West Haven officer.

There is body and dash camera video from various angles of the shooting, but the images from North’s

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BWC may be of limited use in resolving whether North saw anything justifying that belief.

James W. Borden, a retired Nevada police officer and court-certified expert witness in use-of-force cases, said in an interview that not every BWC video will show precisely what an officer saw and reacted to in a matter of seconds.

“They have to make sense of what’s occurring in front of them. And at that point that starts to drive a decision,” said Borden, who reviewed North’s shooting and concluded the trooper could have had a reasonable belief of an imminent threat.

Read the full story on the website of The Connecticut Mirror, www.ctmirror.org.

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This year is Merrimack’s first year as a D-I program. The dance team has shifted from a club to a varsity sport.

She has already helped her competition squad earn a special honor. In the National Dance Alliance Camp from Aug. 2-4, Merrimack women placed first in the Division I category at Bryant University in Rhode Island.

“It was a lot of work, but it paid off to get first place,” said Palma.

The 17-member squad performed on the last day of the camp.

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Open Art Studio Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m., in The Loft, upper level. Bring your works in progress and supplies to this weekly dropin art program, an opportunity to create in a collaborative environment with other artists. No formal instruction will be provided, but informal critiquing for those who want it is encouraged. Table covers will be provided, and there is a sink in the room for basic cleanup. (Do not bring turpentine; turpenoid is an odorless agent to use in its place.)

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Thursday, Sept. 7 from 6-8 p.m. The month of September will feature the oil paintings of Laura Johnstone. An opening reception with food & refreshments will be held with the artist.

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We have copies of Greenspan’s cookbooks at the Information desk on the lower level so you can start perusing today!

Learn about Ms. Guggenheim’s fascinating life including her efforts to get socalled “degenerate art” safely out of Europe on the eve of World War II, as well as her encouragement of European artists to wait out the war in the United States. To register visit https :// cheshirelibrary.libcal.com/ event/10717734

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