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BRISTOL — The cover of the Mum Festival brochure is different this year, carrying a dedication and photo.

The brochure is in memory of Jerry Heresko, the owner of Bristol Mums, who died last November at age 63.

“It was a decision that was made by the Mum Festival Committee,” said Elliot Nelson, a member of the committee who was in charge of the brochures this year.

“He was just a kind man,” said Darlene Sawe, who is the chairwoman of the Mum Festival Committee. “This was just our way of thanking him.”

Nelson said Heresko was deeply involved in the festival, helping the committee, but also the groups that had floats in the parade. He said he doubted that Heresko made any money on any of the flowers he sold for the parade, charging only his own cost.

“Everybody dealt with him for years,” said Nelson. “He was community oriented. He took care of the organizations. He was a very nice gentleman.”

Above the dedication on the brochure, there’s an old photo of the front of Heresko’s store and greenhouse at 50 Pinehurst Road, the former site of Bristol Nurseries, with colorful mums in full bloom.

“Jerry was so involved in helping the Mum Festival over the years,” said Sawe.

Heresko always donated close to 100 mums every year, Sawe said.

She said they used the mums throughout the festival and when it was drawing to a close, the committee sold them, with Heresko’s blessing.

“He knew all our activities were free,” said Sawe. “I think he felt like that was his donation.”

The annual donation of flowers saved the committee $300 to $350, she said.

So not only did the committee get the mums free of charge, awe

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Jerry Heresko stands with his mums at Bristol Mums in 2008..

said, they made money for the festival on them by selling them at the end.

“It was like a fundraiser for us,” said Sawe.

No mum retailer has offered the same deal, said Sawe, who said the committee is simply looking for the best price it can get this year.

Heresko, who owned Bristol Mums for more than 20 years but worked there for more than four decades didn’t just sell mums and other flowers locally.

He grew thousands of them, shipping 200,000 of the tiny plants around the country and into Canada each spring.

Some of the company’s 75 to 80 varieties of mums were Heresko’s own creation, including a late-blooming, bright red one he named Vampire.

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‘Hometown Hero’ happy to be home

Festival salutes local soldier wounded in Iraq

who is looking forward to spending about two and a half weeks in Bristol before he has to return.

BRISTOL — After living for Highest on his list is spending almost two years at Walter Reed time with his family.

Army Medical Center, 23-year“I’m really excited to see my old Sgt. Matthew Lavoie is nephew,” said Lavoie, who said coming home to a hero’s welcome he’s happy to be able to spend in Bristol. time with Ethan Lacic, and share Lavoie, a graduate of Bristol his fourth birthday with him.

Eastern High School, is the Mum The surgeries he’s had on his Festival’s Hometown Hero. arm and leg are to help him “It’s the biggest recover from honor I’ve had yet,” a terrible blast said Lavoie, speaking in September from the hospital in 2008 that the nation’s capital. nearly cost “This is one of the him his life best things that’s hapwhile serving pened to me.” in Iraq.

The acclaim from He’d been his hometown is espedriving a cially welcome, said SGT. MATTHEW LAVOIE H u m v e e Lavoie. south of “It gives me just a lot Baghdad of hope,” he said, “and it pushes me when it hit a roadside bomb that to get better.” demolished the vehicle and threw Oct. 4 will mark his second year Lavoie to the ground. in the hospital, said Lavoie, who On a visit home in January 2009, has had 59 surgeries.

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“It [honor] gives me just a lot of hope and it pushes me to get better.”

school and get good grades so they can get through college.

Part of his job as Hometown Hero is being the grand marshal of the Mum Festival Parade on Sunday, Sept. 26.

Lavoie can’t wait.

“I’m pretty pumped for it,” he said.

Lavoie said he’s grateful for the support of his friends and family and others in Bristol.

“I appreciate everybody’s support,” he said. “It means a lot to me.”

Darlene Sawe, who chairs the Mum Festival Committee, said she’s excited to have Lavoie as the festival’s first Hometown Hero.

She said she came up with the idea of naming someone to this position as a way to get the community involved in the festival again.

Sawe knew Lavoie, she said, so she suggested – with the committee’s enthusiastic approval – that he be the first one to have the honor.

“He is the kindest, sweetest boy you ever want to meet,” said Sawe.

Before the Mum Festival Parade on Sunday, Bristol veterans will

Hometown Hero Sgt. Matthew Lavoie

host a buffet breakfast at the American Legion hall for people to meet Lavoie.

Lavoie, who planned to fly home to Bristol for his visit said he would drive back to the hospital in his new car, a 2010 black Challenger.

“I love it,” he said.

The Mum Festival, which begins Friday, is in its 49th year.

For the 50th anniversary, Sawe said her committee will take nominations for the second Hometown Hero designation.

Opening night for Mum Festival Jessica Laprise cuts the ribbon after being named Miss Mum 2009 at Bristol Central High School during the opening ceremonies for last year’s Mum Festival. The crowning of Miss Chrysanthemum, which traditionally kicks off the Bristol Chrysanthemum Festival, will be held Friday night at Bristol Central High School.

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BRISTOL — The 49th annual Mum Festival Parade will use the old parade route running along West Street.

Produced by the Bristol Exchange Club, the parade will take place on Sept. 26, stepping off from Race Street at 1:30 pm.

The theme for the 2010 parade is “Mum Festival Celebrates 225 Years of Bristol.”

In addtion, this year’s march will feature Miss Connecticut, Brittany Decker of Bristol.

The parade will go down Race Street. to West Street, turn down South Street to Mellon Street, to the Boulevard.

From the Boulevard, the parade will turn right onto North Main Street and end in front of the City Hall.

In 2008, due to construction in the East Road area, the route was changed because West Street had to stay open for vehicle traffic. The construction is finished so the tradition march through the West End will resume.

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Sept. 24 – 26 Bristol Exchnage Club Carnival

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Admission: free

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Sunday, Sept. 26 New England Carousel Museum

Open House noon to 5 p.m.

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Events during Mum Festival Continued from Page 16

Salvation Army Concert Bristol Eastern High School 7 p.m.

Tickets : $10 adults, $5 children

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Bristol Central High School, Saturday, Oct. 2 Admission $15.

Bristol Historical Society Concert, “I’ll Be Seeing You,” Sunday, Oct. 3 7 p.m., First Congregational American Clock & Watch Church, Federal Hill Museum World War II music by Mary 10 a.m.. to 5 p.m.

Denehy and other singers accom100 Maple St. panied by pianist Al Caruso Admission: Free Tickets $ 25 per person Sunday, Oct. 10 Saturday, Oct. 2 41st annual Mum-a-Thon Miss Bristol America and 7:30 a.m. Registration Miss Bristol’s Outstanding Teen Bristol Hospital Wellness Pageant Center, 842 Clark Ave.

Sunday, Oct. 10 8:to 11:30 a.m.

American Legion Post 2 Veterans Breakfast American Legion Post 2, 22 Hooker Court, Bristol Cost: $5 per person

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Baggott continues a mum tradition Farms selling flowers at Bristol Mum site

By JACKIE MAJERUS STAFF WRITER

BRISTOL — Baggott Family Farms is selling mums and other plants out of the space occupied for years by Bristol Mums.

Owner Barbara Higgins said her company is leasing the space, operating a retail store there.

“We’re going to do year to year,” said Higgins.

Baggott Family Farms took over the space in April, Higgins said, too late to grow anything this year.

“We didn’t start early enough,” said Higgins.

Baggott Family Farms grows mums in East Windsor, where the company also has a retail store.

Higgins said she knew Jerry Heresko, who had owned and operated Bristol Mums for more than

20 years before he died last fall.

Her company bought some mum cuttings from Heresko, and now, some of Heresko’s former customers are stopping in the store at 50 Pinehurst Road, she said.

The store will remain open until Halloween.

“It’s a pretty area,” she said. “I like it. I wish we ‘‘We didn’t had more traffic.”

Baggott Family Farms start early has a second location in enough.”

Bristol, at the junction of Route 6 and Matthews BARBARA HIGGINS Owner Baggott Family Street.

Farms Higgins said the plan was to consolidate the two locations into the former Bristol Mums site, which has a permanent store rather than just a tent.

But the Route 6 location gets a lot more traffic, and it’s not clear whether one or both sites will be leased next year.

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The people who make the Mum Festival happen Chairperson, Bristol Mum Festival Committee Darlene Sawe

Board of Directors (Year they started) Lynda Russell (1992) Lucy Gorneault (1967) Beverly Foote (1993) Bob Bailey (1984) Michael Nicastro (2009) Dina Mazzone (2001) Nancy Robinson (1996)

Mary Mathes (1995) Linda Lubrico (1995) Michele Currie(2004)

Jean Prescott (2003) – Boosters/Float Laurie Wojnarowski (2010) – Worker Bee Michele Currie (2004) – Treasurer/ Bingo Rocky Yost (2009) – Worker Bee Lisa Wagner (2005) – Facilities, ActiviKevin Sawe (2008) – Worker Bee ties/Organizations, Crafts, Ellie Yankofske (2010) - Worker Bee Touch-a-Truck, Festival Planner Barbara Denehy (2008) - Worker Bee Royal Bullock (2008) Sam Alkas (2010) – Touch-a-Truck Jennifer Brunoli (2010) – Crafts Darlene Sawe (2004) - Chairperson Bob Bailey (1984) – Board of Direc- Tina Fusco-Taylor (2010) – Activities/ Michele Boyko (2010)– Federal Hill Organizations tors Linda Lubrico (1995) – Miss Bristol Evan Larson (2010) – Truck & Tractor Lucy Gorneault (1967) – Parade Michael Piskorski (2010) – Miss Bristol Show Ven dors/Finance John Hartman (2003) – Oktoberfest Tim Maynard - Mum Music Lynda Russell (1992) — Historian Karen Schidat (2003) – Oktoberfest Rich Ministro (2010) – Publicity Beverly Foote (1993) – Parade Nancy Vicino (2010) – Shepard Elliot Nelson (2010) – Brochure Linda Lubrico (1995) – Community Meadows Melanie Sawe (2010) - Entertainment Events Neal Supranovich (2010) – Veterans Diane Whiteside (2010) - Signs Mary Mathes (1995) – Boosters/Float Tom Dickau (2010) – Bristol Tammy Beldon (2006) - Worker Bee Nancy Robinson (1996) – Bingo Historical Society George Klimek (2010) – Worker bee Dina Mazzone (2001) - Miss Mum Diane Brooks (2010) Rita Lavertue (2010) – Worker bee Ron Tessman (2001) - Web Site

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