Thursday, August 22, 2019
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Volume 16, Number 29
New asst. super ‘excited to help contribute’ By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
Beautiful scenes were on display at the 2018 Plainville Fire Company’s Hot Air Balloon festival. The event returns to Norton Park this weekend. Photos by Lee Roski
High-flying fun this weekend Firefighters are hard at work preparing Norton Park for the Plainville Fire Company’s Hot Air Balloon festival this weekend, now in its 35th year. “This event gets better and better every year and we just want people to come out and enjoy themselves,” said Jim Lenois Sr., festival chairman. The three-day festival, Aug. 23-25, attracts tens of thousands to Norton Park to watch balloons lift off at 6
a.m. on Saturday and Sunday morning. Saturday evening features another balloon launch at 6 p.m. After the first launch on Saturday, craft and food vendors take over the park, with 120 booths in total, and an antique car show that runs from 10 a.m. through 4 p.m. Vendors and other activities continue through the evening with live musical entertainment Friday and Saturday evening. Friday night also features the balloon glow, at 7:30, when balloons are inflated See Festival, A9
See Levenduski, A8
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By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
20 years working at every grade level and various positions across the teachThe Board of Education ing and administrative named David Levenduski, spectrum. As the supervisupervisor of instruction sor of instruction and and learning with Meriden learning, he helped build Schools, to be the next as- professional learning comsistant superintendent for munities, where he Plainville Community trained educators in creatSchools. ing and using data systems that are uniform "I'm extremely excited to across the schools. take this next step in my career and I'm so happy it "One of (my) strengths is I will be in Plainville. Every- have varied experience thing I've learned through across all levels. So I have this process has been so experiences from teaching positive with this district to administration; I've that I couldn't be more ex- worked at all levels, from cited to help contribute to elementary to middle to all the successes that high school. Teaching and Plainville is having right administrative and now, now, and then to help my former position was them build towards the fu- that district-wide lens," he ture," said Levenduski, said. who was unanimously apSuperintendent Steven pointed during a special board meeting on Aug. 15. LePage said Levenduski’s well-rounded experiences “I think it’s going to be a made him the best candipositive addition,” board date for the position, out member Foster White of 50 applicants and 10 insaid. terviewees. Levenduski is leaving Meriden after more than