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Mosquito from Churchill Park tests positive for virus By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER

from those locations tested negative this year. Other towns with WNV-positive mosquitoes were: Bethel, Bridgeport, Danbury, East Haven, Greenwich, New Haven, Newtown, Norwalk, Stamford, Stratford, Wallingford, West Haven and Wilton. Of the 228 mosquitoes collected from Churchill Park in Newington and tested; only one came up positive for WNV. There

The dreaded West Nile Virus was found in a dozen shoreline towns recently, and the farthest north that infected mosquitoes were discovered happened to be in Newington. Between June 27 and July 18, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station trapped mosquitoes from approximately 91 See WEST NILE, Page 2 sites in 73 municipalities around the state.Infected mosquitoes were Volume 53, No. 27 Free found at sites in both Newington and Wethersfield. There are nearby collection sites in Cromwell, Glastonbury, Hartford, Manchester, New Britain, West Hartford, and Southington, but all mosquitoes

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At left, Bill Hennessey, retired news anchor, voice of the Connecticut Lottery and co-emcee at The Golden Days of Broadcasting, speaks at one of Newington Kiwanis Club s free Public Forum Nights held at Paradise Pizza in New Britain Monday. To his right is Arnold Dean of WTIC who has been broadcasting for more than 60 years. See story and photos on Page 5.

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Veggie World hosts 2nd annual ‘Summerfest’celebration, Page 3

Town accepting applications for justice of the peace, Page 5

Gun sales surge, Page 16

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were 317 collected at the site on Goff Road in Wethersfield, and just one tested positive there as well. A total of 83,162 bugs were collected in Connecticut so far this year, and 35 were found infected. The West Nile Virus was first identified in the state in 1999. The last time it was found in Wethersfield was 2010; in Newington, 2007. Although no human cases have yet been reported, there were nine in the state last year and since 2000, there have only been two human cases in Wethersfield, none in Newington. “The symptoms mimic the flu,” said Lori DiPietro, health educator with the Central Connecticut Health District.“I think if someone is experiencing severe symptoms doctors may be more likely to test for it, especially this time of year.” The CCHD was notified of this by the Connecticut Department of Public Health and DiPietro released a statement last week, informing residents of the symptoms of the disease as well as preventative techniques: Although there is no cure, the symptoms of West Nile Virus can be treated. Symptoms may occur three to 14 days after being bitten by the infected mosquito and may include: slight fever,body aches,headache,rash and conjunctivitis,and can be relieved with over-the-counter medications. However, anyone experiencing a high fever, stiff neck, severe headache, disorientation, vision loss, numbness or muscle weakness should consult a doctor, because serious infections can result in neurological disease and even death. Those individuals at risk for developing a severe illness include the elderly, the very young, and those

with compromised immune systems. To reduce the risk of being bitten by mosquitoes, the public should use the following personal protection measures: ■ Avoid outdoor activities one hour before and one hour after dawn and dusk when mosquitoes are most active. ■ Wear long sleeved shirts and long pants when outdoors; it is especially important to cover the arms and legs of children. ■ No product containing DEET should be used on infants less than two months old. ■ Cover babies’ playpens and carriages with mosquito netting when outdoors. ■ Avoid camping near fresh water swamps and use mosquito netting in tents. ■ Stay indoors when mosquitoes are numerous. ■ Eliminate sources of standing water such as stagnant ponds, ditches, flower pots and old tires, as mosquitoes only need a few tablespoons of water to lay eggs. Drain children’s pools, clean clogged gutters, and flush birdbaths and fountains once or twice a week. Dispose of tin cans, plastic containers and any similar containers that have accumulated on your property, and drill holes in the bottoms of recycling containers that are left outside. ■ Make sure your property is graded properly and has adequate drainage. Look for places where rainwater collects and fill all holes and depressions. Mosquitoes will breed in any puddle that lasts for more than 4 days. ■ Store boats, wheelbarrows, and containers upside down. If you have a

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pond, be sure it is aerated or stocked with fish such as goldfish or minnows, which eat mosquito larvae. ■ Patch holes in screens and make sure screens are tightly attached to doors and windows. ■ Use low toxicity insecticides and always follow the directions on the products. When applying sprays, be sure to keep the wind at your back, carry the spray away from you and avoid personal contact with it and excessive inhalation of spray materials. ■ Place bat houses on your property. Anyone with questions or concerns about mosquito control, WNV or any public health issue may contact the Central Connecticut Health District, serving the towns of Berlin, Newington, Rocky Hill and Wethersfield at www.ccthd.org or by calling (860) 721-2822. Additional information about mosquito control can be obtained from the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) at www.ct.gov/ mosquito or at the CT Agricultural Experiment Station at www.ct.gov. caes. Inquiries about pesticiderelated subjects are handled through the National Pesticide Information Center at 1-800-858-7378.

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Food, face painting and more at Veggie World’s ‘Summerfest’ By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER

Veggie World, located at 749 New Britain Ave., Newington, held its second annual Summerfest Saturday. The popular market sold more than a thousand $3 grinders, while kids enjoyed face-painting, a bounce house, a DJ and more.

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Fire departments to face the heat in chili cook-off By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER

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They’re not only experts at a WHAT: Tri-Community Volunhigh-heat job, but the town’s fire teer Fire Department Chili Cook-off crews also know how to whip up When: This Sunday, Aug. 5 a hot meal. from noon to 4 p.m. The Newington Volunteer Fire Where: Chef s Equipment EmDepartment will be putting their porium, 717 Berlin Turnpike, cooking skills up against those of Berlin the Rocky Hill and Kensington Admission: $5 per person Volunteer Fire Departments this Sunday, at the Chef ’s Equipment Emporium on the Berlin those departments but it’s probably not their first rodeo. I’m sure its Turnpike. The Tri-Community Volunteer going to be stiff competition.” Pat Gagnon, a firefighter from Fire Department Chili Cook-off will feature chili recipes from each Co. 1, will be representing the of the three towns’ Newington fire officials, who team. cook on a regular The best part basisforweeklyand is: the public is monthly meetings invited to judge, at their respective but also, all profirehouses. And ceeds from the they know each event will be split other very well, as evenly among each department is the competing part of a task force departments for mutual aid. and will go to “We respond to their charity of their towns and choice. Chef ’s they come here Equipment on a routine basis Emporium will as well,” explained also be donating Newington Fire FRANK KELLEY an additional Chief Chris Rocky Hill fire fighter $500 to the winSchroeder. “We ner of the chili have an excellent relationship with cook-off for that department’s charity. them.” The departments haven’t yet Each of the departments has chosen one individual firefighter to revealed their charities of choice, represent their team. but likely will following Sunday’s In Rocky Hill, Firefighter Frank cook-off. Kelley is bringing the heat. Kelley Firefighter-cooks will be using has been a ‘Steward’ at Station 2 the store’s on-site kitchen, which for the last 23 years and cooks for has three large stoves where classes meetings regularly. and demonstrations are offered “Over the course of a few years regularly. I’ve made a few pots of chili,” he Chef ’s Equipment Emporium, laughed.“It’s a recipe I got from my soon to celebrate its one-year annimom years ago,” added Kelley, who versary on the Berlin Turnpike, also makes a lot of steak, pasta and offers a vast selection of cookpea soup for his fellow firefighters. ware and kitchen equipment for “Anything that can be reheated, both commercial and residential if in any case we have to leave the kitchens. station for a call,” he said of his usual fare. “I can’t wait. I’m not Erica Schmitt can be reached at (860) sure who’s going to be representing 225-4601, ext. 210, or eschmitt@

“I can’t wait. I’m not sure who’s going to be representing those departments but it’s probably not their first rodeo. I’m sure its going to be stiff competition.”

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Broadcasting history shared at Kiwanis Club event By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER

Modern-day satellite radio and televisions that pause and fast forward through commercials; these contrivances aside — the discussion at Paradise Pizza on East Street on a recent night was about a much slower, simpler time in broadcasting. The Newington Kiwanis assembled a variety of newscasters,TV and radio personalities both young and old, for a nostalgic stroll into the old days for the club’s monthly public forum. The evening’s most esteemed guests were “A Bunch of Old Broadcasters” — folks who spent many years in the business and who meet at Hartford’s legendary Arch Street Tavern monthly to revel in the old days. The group spent the evening sharing memories of local airway icons like Mitch Betters, Bob Steele, Bob Ellsworth, Ben Hawthorne, Una King, Ivor Hugh, Dick Bertel, Arnold Dean, Charlie Parker and others. Brad Davis, who this year celebrated his 35th anniversary as the morning man on WDRC-AM, was a guest speaker. Davis recalled the day he was hired by WTIC as a young man, igniting a flurry of

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At left, the crowd enjoys some radio and television voices of the past and present at The Golden Days of Broadcasting, one of Newington Kiwanis Club s free Public Forum Nights held at Paradise Pizza in New Britain Monday. At right, Brad Davis of WDRC AM 1360 speaks to the audience.

Davis’ commentary led into that of former Channel 30 News Anchor and WTIC-AM (1080) broadcaster Bill Hennessy, who was 22 when he was first hired by the station. Hennessy, who co-emceed the event with Steve Parker (the son of the late-great Charlie Parker of WDRC) offered the media professionals in the room some wise advice about an industry he had far-reaching history in: “If you are honest and tell the truth and are loyal to your sponsors and your audience, you’ll succeed.” Hennessy went on in his career to win an Emmy for his investigative prowess in a refugee story, citing “passion, inspiration and hope” as three qualities any radio personality should possess when addressing their listeners. Although Arnold Dean came sauntering in a few minutes late, it didn’t forestall the enthusiastic applause that broke out as soon as Annalisa Russell-Smith | Staff the large group saw the a familiar At right, Bill Hennessey, retired news anchor, voice of the Connecticut lottery and co-emcee at The Golden Days of Broadcasting. At left is Al Cohen of figure in television and radio for almost 65 years arrive. Dean founded Newington. laughter across the room. “I walked into the set and said, I don’t know anything about the teleprompter or microphones,” remembers Davis, rehashing his reaction to a commercial for ‘Friend’s Beans’during which he told the man who would soon be his boss that his grandmother used the brand to make her signature hot dogs once a week, a quirky move that ended up earning him his position with WTIC.

WTIC SportsTalk in 1976 and went on to talk with favorites like Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, even Ted Williams. When Dean was handed the microphone at Monday night’s program, he shared his memories of interviewing all the big band greats, like Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington, and chronicle moments from an unforgettable Red Sox game in 1977. But one of the Rocky Hill resident’s more notable interviews was with former White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Many of the guests who attended the evening knew each other, but hadn’t been in touch in years. Program Chair Al Cohen, a longtime Kiwanis member, was happy to see old friend Ivor Hugh, who was music director at WCCC (AM) for over 10 years starting in the early '50s and also known for his ‘Good Evenin’ Good Music’ program on WJMJ. “One of my greatest joys is

having listeners make requests,” said Hugh, who just celebrated his 85th birthday. “In all my years of broadcasting, the thing I loved most about radio is it’s so personal,” he added. “You’re in the car and the person you’re listening to becomes your friend. I don’t think any new technology can take that away.” Phil Callan, a former broadcaster with WMMW-AM, WRCQ-AM and WDRC-FM, was another guest speaker. “I had a lot of fun in radio. I like to tell people I never made a lot of money but I never got up in the morning dreading going to work,”he remarked. The Newington Kiwanis have held free public forum nights monthly since 1986 that feature guest speakers and different topics of public interest. For more information, call (860)667-2864. Erica Schmitt can be reached at (860) 225-4601, ext. 210, or eschmitt@ newbritainherald.com.

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Town accepting applications for justice of the peace By ERICA SCHMITT STAFF WRITER

For such a formal political appointment, justices of the peace don’t play roles of a very political nature. On Wednesday, the Town Clerk’s office opened the application period for those that have been unaffiliated with any political party since May 1, 2012 and interested in the position. This only happens in years when there is a presidential election. “JP” hopefuls can submit their applications any time before Nov. 1. At that point, it will be known how many of the 15 spots reserved for unaffiliated voters are available, depending on how many of these current justices of the peace (guaranteed renewal) have re-applied for the four-year designation. Both the Democratic and Republican parties endorse 15 candidates each, while the unaffiliated group is appointed by the Town Clerk. If too many people apply, the winners are chosen by a lottery. Upon appointment, the four-year term of office begins Jan. 7, 2013 and ends Jan. 2, 2017. There is a waiting list for Republican and Democratic

hopefuls. Whew. So what do these lucky people do, anyway? Formally, justices of the peace perform marriages, administer oaths, and take acknowledgements and depositions. But these individuals are most often called upon to perform marriage ceremonies for those who don’t want to be (or can’t be) married in a church, or are just in a rush to get hitched. And they get paid for their services, which are outlined in a state-written manual. “Ninety-eight percent of what we do is weddings,” said Tom Shields, who has been a justice of the peace in Newington since the late ’70s, when he was elected by the town’s Democratic Committee. Shields charges couples anywhere from $75 to $125 depending on how far away the ceremony is. But he’s not called on too often anymore by the town, which rotates through its list of JPs when there is a need for them.Justices of the peace more often

get assignments through word-ofmouth, however. He has also notarized documents, basically signing his name along with the following statement: “I witnessed this on (date) and my commission expires on (date).

If too many people apply, the winners are chosen by a lottery. Upon appointment, the four-year term of office begins Jan. 7, 2013 and ends Jan. 2, 2017. There is a waiting list for Republican and Democratic hopefuls. “You’re doing a service for the community,” said Shields, who also serves on the town’s Development Commission. This is the case with many Newington justices of the peace — they serve on town commissions in addition to their appointment. Eighty-five year old Everett Weaver — also on the NCTV Commission and the Republican Town Committee — has served for

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Lynn Connery has been a justice of the peace for more than 10 years and performs about five weddings a year. She is also a notary and on the Democratic Town Committee. “When I did my first wedding, I was really hooked,” says Connery, who has already re-applied for another term. “It’s so nice to be part of such a happy event, a new beginning for a couple. And it’s nice to help people design their own ceremony, their own vows,”she added. Connery works as a high school counselor and was asked by a former student — who is now approaching 30 years old — to perform a wedding. Newington has a total of 45 justices of the peace; 57 percent are men, 43 percent are women. Anyone interested in applying for the position who is not enrolled in a major political party can call the Town Clerk’s office at (860) 6658545 to obtain an application and instructions. Erica Schmitt can be reached at (860) 225-4601, ext. 210, or eschmitt@ newbritainherald.com.

Judge: Gay marriage law unconstitutional HARTFORD — A federal judge has ruled that part of a federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman and denies federal benefits to married gay couples is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford ruled Tuesday that the provision in the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act violates the Fifth Amendment right to equal protection. The ruling came in the case of six married same-sex couples and a widower who sued after being denied federal benefits. The plaintiffs are from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont. Advocates for gay and lesbians applauded the ruling but expected an appeal. Several similar rulings have been made by courts across the country. The Obama administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to settle legal fights over the law.

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HARTFORD —The proposed Connecticut State Veterans Memorial will be built in Hartford, across from the William A. O’Neill State Armory in Minuteman Park. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other state officials made the announcement on Tuesday. Malloy’s office said it will be the state of Connecticut’s first memorial honoring all Connecticut veterans, estimated at more than 1.3 million soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. A volunteer, non-profit organization called The Connecticut State Veterans Memorial is handling the funding, design and construction of the site. The group is currently in the planning phase for the memorial. State Veterans Affairs Commissioner Linda Schwartz said there are more than 277,000 veterans living in Connecticut but there is no central location where ceremonies can be held on Memorial Day and Veterans Day to officially honor them.

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For three and a half years at the Danbury Health Care Center, Margaret Bunblasky received the best of care — until the recent nursing home strike, her daughter says. NowBunblasky’s daughter,LindaBunblaskyCioffoletti, cannot help thinking that the contentious stand-off between HealthBridge Management and its nurses’union hastened her mother’s death. As a result of the strike, 87-year-old Bunblasky’s care-givers were replaced by a temporary staff — one Cioffoletti believes was inadequately trained to meet her mother’s needs. “My sister went to visit my mother and when she walked into her room, my mother had peaches coming out of her mouth, a spoon left on her bed, and peaches on the floor,” Bunblasky-Cioffoletti said. A replacement nursing assistant had apparently fed Bunblasky solid food instead of the puree she was supposed to have to prevent aspiration and pneumonia. A few days later, the woman’s daughters found her with a high fever and summoned an ambulance. She died at Danbury Hospital on July 19. “My mother had been at the center since 3-1/2 years.The Danbury Health Care Center Striking workers treated my mother as I wish for her to be treated.In fact,the care went above and beyond,”said her daughter. “Prior to her illness, my mother always dressed to the nines,” she added. “She was a model in her younger days for Edwin Georgi, who illustrated her in the Ladies Home Journal, as well as the Saturday Evening Post.” Dot,her assigned caregiver at DHCC,always took meticulous care of Bunblasky and truly considered the nursing home staff her family, said Bunblasky-Cioffoletti. “Even in her debilitating condition,my mom never had a bed sore. Dot, as well as the regular caregivers, always had her dressed every day with the loose clothing we supplied.” “When the union went on strike, July 3, my mother was no longer dressed by the replacement caregivers.She was left in a johnny coat all day.And it was indicated to me that my mother

needed ‘adaptive’clothing for her needs.” Within a week,added Cioffoletti,her mother sustained two skin tears because the replacement staff did not dress her properly. Danbury Health Care Center is one of five nursing homes owned by a for-profit New Jersey-based nursing home chain,HealthBridge Management/Care One. On July 3,more than 160 employees went on strike to protest the imposition of a new compensation package that cuts caregivers’ wages and other job benefits. Nurses, aides and support staff from four other HealthBridge nursing homes in Milford, Newington, Stamford and Westport are also on strike. As union workers picketing in shifts from early morning to late at night,HealthBridge has hired replacement workers to ensure the centers continue providing what the company terms the highest quality care. But this is far from an accurate portrayal, residents’family members say. Susan Huorn’s father is a resident at the West River Health Care Center in Milford, where HealthBridge locked out workers for four months — an act which the National Labor Relations Board later ruled to be an illegal act. “Having hired replacement aides is sacrificing the quality of care for my father,” Huorn said. “They may be ‘qualified’ but they don’t know the residents.They don’t know my father.” Hourn’s 73-year-old father is a stroke patient and is mostly paralyzed. “He cannot talk so he is unable to tell me how he is suffering, but when he stares hard... I can tell he is unhappy,” she said. Huorn said she visits him at least four times a week and each time finds a different caregiver assigned to assist him. “It hurts me to see that he is not clean and is not being taken care of by that one caregiver who understood his needs.” Normally, every certified nursing assistant, or CNA, is assigned 10 to 12 permanent patients with whom they work closely. “Our patients are like our family,” said Regina Dillon, 67, a nurse at the Danbury Health Center. “They have learned to associate with us and confide in us and this sudden shift in caregivers’ attitude towards them is upsetting them.” But HealthBridge insists that patients’ healthcare has not been affected and they continue to receive quality care. “The families

and residents at our Connecticut centers have been overwhelmingly complimentary about the care provided since the strike began,” said Lisa Crutchfield, spokesperson for HealthBridge management. In an email, Crutchfield cited praise from one patient’s family member identified as “E. Best.” Best “said she and her husband have found that since the strike, their daughter’s level of treatment has vastly improved ... the room is cleaner, the new aides are giving better care and better companionship. We love them,” Crutchfield wrote. She added that patients say they are at ease and feel just as pampered as ever due to the dedication and assistance by the new staff. Crutchfield said that a resident at the Westport health care center — identified as “P. Gooden” — “said the atmosphere at the center makes him feel part of one big family. “ She quoted P. Gooden as saying “’If I ever have to go into a rehab center again, I would choose Westport.’” Union workers, however, tell a different story. Deborah Chernoff, spokesperson for New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199 said residents and family members complain of having to deal with the replacement workers whom they consider “strangers.” Chernoff said that it was “absurd” to think the new staff could provide the same quality of care. “Our workers are professionals who have worked with patients and their families to build trust. There is no way the level of care by the new CNAs can match our workers’ care.” Workers and family members are concerned about the well-being of residents, and say HealthBridge should quit focusing on its long term profits from the concession. “It’s a shame that corporate greed is more important than quality care,” said Huorn. “They should stop wasting time and money breaking the law, and should spend these resources bringing stability to the caregivers and my father.” “We heard complaints that residents’hygiene is suffering the most,”said Eva Fal, 47, a dietary

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Hoping to collect a wider variety of potentially life-saving stem cells, a state committee wants to launch a public umbilical-cord blood collection program by the end of the year. Under the plan, Connecticut mothers who have just delivered babies could opt to donate their post-birth umbilical cord and placenta to a public blood bank. The donated cord blood, which is rich with stem cells, could be extracted and then transplanted into someone with a deadly disease, possibly saving that personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Cord blood transplants have been used to treat bone marrow cancers, such as leukemia and multi myeloma; and genetic diseases, such as sickle cell anemia. Similar to a blood drive, donors would not get any direct benefit from the donation except perhaps the satisfaction of helping someone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an altruistic thing to do,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Edward Snyder, professor of lab medicine at Yale University. He is chairman of the Connecticut Cord Blood Collection Program Committee, which is developing the program. Cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta, which are usually discarded as medical waste after the birth. Through the collection program, the blood would be drained into a special collection bag similar to one used during a blood drive. The collection process has nothing to do with embryos or embryonic stem cells, but is simply

leftover blood that would otherwise be discarded, said committee member Dr. Winston Campbell, professor and interim chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the UConn Health Center. The project currently has no state funding. But State Sen. Len Fasano, R-North Haven, who proposed the legislation to create the public cord-blood collection program, said he will seek a $250,000 grant from a foundation to launch it. After that initial seed money, he said he hopes the program will pay for itself through proceeds from the sale of the cord blood to a transplant center. Any proceeds would be used to help pay for the Connecticut collection program and for research. The committee is just beginning to work on logistics, Snyder said. Initially, the committee plans to arrange to collect cord blood at two main sites in the state â&#x20AC;&#x201D; likely Hartford Hospital and Yale-New Haven Hospital. Each hospital handles at least 4,000 deliveries a year and serves a range of racial and ethnic groups, which could expand the pool of potential matches, Campbell said. Eventually, the committee hopes to collect donated cord blood at smaller hospitals as well. Cord blood collected in Connecticut would be transported

to a cord blood bank located out of state. The bank would store the blood frozen in liquid nitrogen, and it would become part of an international donor pool, Snyder said. The cords would be evaluated and classified byHumanLeucocyte Antigen type by a national transplant center. A patient who needed a transplant would contact the national center, which would then do a search to try to find a match. If a match is found, the center would arrange to send the cord blood to a stem-cell transplant center. Some of the cord blood collected in Connecticut could also be used for research at medical schools. If the blood collected falls below a minimum quantity needed for transplant, it would be used for stem cell research instead, Snyder

After that initial seed money, he said he hopes the program will pay for itself through proceeds from the sale of the cord blood to a transplant center.

said. Donors would not be able to use their own cord blood because of the nature of a public cord blood bank. Their donation could end up helping someone in another state. And if the Connecticut donor needed a cord donation herself someday, it could come from someone else in the United States or even overseas. New parents can still opt to store their own cord blood for use by their own families, but they would have to go through private cord blood banks for that. The bank would freeze and store their cord blood for an initial fee and annual maintenance fees. But the chances of a family needing a cord blood transplant are slim.Only about 10 percent of families actually ever need this stored blood, Campbell said. However, it could be useful if the family has a history of bone marrow cancers or certain genetic diseases, he said. This story originally appeared at CTMirror.org, the website of The Connecticut Mirror, an independent nonprofit news organization covering government, politics and public policy in the state.

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known and tolerated by superiors. “Whether that is because there is no real discrimination or indifference, or because plaintiff has simply failed to discover and present evidence of it, is beyond the competence of this court,” the appeals court wrote. “Our ruling assesses only the sufficiency of the evidence presented at the trial — not the true facts.” It said the evidence “unquestionably showed instances of reprehensible and at times illegal and unconstitutional conduct by individual officers” but wasn’t sufficient to impose liability on the municipality. The 2nd Circuit noted that it was aware of reports about misconduct of East Haven officers, including a report last December that a Justice Department investigation concluded that the police department had “engaged in widespread biased policing, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and the use of excessive force.” It also referenced the FBI’s January arrest of four East Haven police officers on charges of conspiracy, false arrest, excessive force and obstruction of justice for their mistreatment of Hispanic residents in the town. David N. Rosen, Emma Jones’ lawyer, said it’s “fair to say that she’s disappointed but doesn’t regret for a moment haven’t fought for something that she believes in deeply.” He said his client’s lawsuit on her son’s behalf “has paved the way for all of these continuing efforts to get this department under control.” A decision on whether to appeal was pending, he added. Town representatives didn’t immediately comment.

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ANSONIA (AP) — Ansonia High School’s football field has been badly damaged after someone broke into the facility with what authorities believe was at least one all-terrain vehicle. Ansonia Mayor James Della Volpe, tells the Connecticut Post (http://bit.ly/NIEOuG) the rider or riders did about $15,000 damage to Nolan Field on Monday night, tearing up much of the natural turf. Youth football teams were scheduled to begin using the field for practice on Wednesday. The first varsity high school game on the field is set for Sept. 20.

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Thousands of Connecticut students are expected to enroll in for-profit colleges this upcoming school year, and according to a new report, most will not graduate. Nevertheless, they will be charged more for tuition than they would have been at a nearby public college, and taxpayers will pick up much of the cost in the form of defaulted loans or student aid. Amid a gamut of dismal performance ratings, enrollment in the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for-profit colleges has almost doubled in the state over the last decade while other colleges experienced a modest 17-percent igrowth. One out of every 20 students attending college on a campus in the state is now doing so at a for-profit institution. However, thousands more Connecticut residents are believed to be flocking to the Internet for college, which is often outside of state and federal oversight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These for-profit colleges are left largely on their own,â&#x20AC;? said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a member of the Senate education committee that released the report examining the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest for-profit colleges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is really no monitoring of the online programs.â&#x20AC;? Blumenthal estimates that 10,000 Connecticut residents enroll in for-profit institutions each year, either online or at one

of the four with a physical campus in the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any jurisdictionâ&#x20AC;? over the strictly online programs, said Patricia Santoro, director of academic affairs for the Office of Higher Education. The office does regulate programs with a campus in the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we tell people is that you need to be a savvy consumer. Look at their graduations rates. Compare tuition.â&#x20AC;? Of the five national for-profit colleges with campuses in Connecticut, Lincoln College Sanford Brown College and University of Pheonix were highlighted in the congressional report for their subpar records. And another for-profit referenced in the report â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Education Management Corporation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is awaiting approval from the State Board of Education to open five art programs throughout the state. Lincoln and Sanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accredidation expires before the end of the calendar year and will need to be reapproved by the state board At Lincoln, for example, more than half the students who enroll will not make it to their second semester. It also outlines the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;guerrilla marketingâ&#x20AC;? recruitment plan. It requires its admissions staff to call someone who makes an online inquiry within 12 minutes, and follow up with five phone calls over the next two days. Lincoln also offers vacations

are saddling students with debt they cannot afford for degrees they cannot use. Nationally, forprofits enroll 11 percent of higher education students but produce almost half of all loan defaulters. These criticisms led to this report and some new rules issued by the U.S. Department of Education in 2010. By far the largest of the for-profits in the state, Post University in Waterbury, was not referenced in the congressional report. But the U.S. Department of Education reports Postâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6-year graduation rate for students enrolling in bachelor degree programs has never topped 36 percent over the last five years. Central Connecticut State University, a nearby four-year public university, has never had its comparable graduation rate drop below 40 percent during that time. Almost three quarters of Post collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part-time students donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it past their freshman year and only about half of their fulltime students do. According to the report, most of the money for-profit colleges are receiving is from federal student loans. Lincoln and Sanford Brown get almost 84 percent of their revenue from federal education funds, the report said. To get an automotive certificate from Lincoln, students will pay almost $14,000 compared to $6,050 for a similiar program at a nearby community

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was easy. I was almost immediately enrolled,â&#x20AC;? he recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They dealt with everything. They convinced me itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the right thing to do,â&#x20AC;? said Grenier, who works at Wal-Mart and lives in Madison. He attended for only about a year, and has a $30,000 student loan to show for it. He said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been told the credits he earned before dropping out will not transfer to his local community college. Officials at Lincoln College, Sandford Brown and Westwood were not available for comment Tuesday. For-profits have been criticized for years amid concerns the schools

college. The rates at which former students of these colleges default on their students loans is much higher than the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other colleges and universities, reports the U.S. Department of Education. While officials the Office of Higher Education said they get very few complaints about the colleges with campuses here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; about 20 a year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Blumenthal said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the colleges located primarily online that residents need to be most wary of. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My office has received a number of complaints from students who feel theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been deceived or misled,â&#x20AC;? he said, noting the findings during this investigation of the practices are â&#x20AC;&#x153;astonishing and appalling.â&#x20AC;? He said he plans to introduce legislation in the coming weeks that will attempt to increase federal oversight of for-profit schools. Included in his proposal will be strict limitations on marketing practices and spending, and a requirement that the schools provide potential students with a list of indicators, such as graduation and default rates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think disclosure in how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, for these students, is key,â&#x20AC;? he said. This story originally appeared at CTMirror.org, the website of The Connecticut Mirror, an independent nonprofit news organization covering government, politics and public policy in the state.

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NEWINGTON — A 52-year- Wright’s intentions he reached over old Middletown man has been the counter and punched the clerk arrested afer he punched in the face before being a 7-Eleven clerk in the pushed out the door by face who called him another customer. “honey.’’ The clerk was able to On Monday get a vehicle descripNewington Police tion and partial plate of responded to the the assailant. With the 7-Eleven located at 337 assistance of Middletown Willard Avenue after a Police Department, a 911 caller reported an David Wright Newington Police Officer assault. wasabletolocateandarrest The clerk told police Wright, of Burgundy Hill officers that a customer ques- Lane in Middletown. tioned the cost of items and when Wright was charged with breach she told him the price she called of peace in the second degree and him, ‘honey.’ The customer, David assault in the third degree. Wright Wright, then told the clerk that if was released on a $5,000 nonshe called him honey again, that he surety bond and is scheduled to would punch her in the face. appear in New Britain Court on After the clerk questioned Aug. 13.

Top aides to Bernier quit PLAINVILLE —Two top aides to Republican 5th Congressional District candidate Justin Bernier have stepped down, two weeks before Connecticut’s primary. Campaign manager Jonathan Hanen and campaign spokesman Jonathan Scott both announced they will no longer be working for Bernier’s campaign. Several news outlets cited a joint news release issued Tuesday by the top aides. The Hartford Courant quoted Scott saying he wished Bernier luck, acknowledging they’ve had “creative differences.” He said Republicans would be well-served if Bernier becomes the GOP’s nominee following the Aug. 14 primary. Bernier, a U.S. Navy veteran from Plainville, is in a primary battle with state Sen. Andrew Roraback, the party’s endorsed candidate; Lisa Wilson-Foley and Mark Greenberg. Bernier said the transition had been in the works for weeks and was not contentious.

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Gun sales surge in wake of Colorado massacre Fears of curtailed gun rights drive spike in sales By SUSAN CORICA STAFF WRITER

Firearms sales are reportedly surging in many parts of the country in the wake of the Colorado movie massacre as buyers express fears about both personal safety and lawmakers who are using the shooting to seek new weapons restrictions. Those who follow such trends locally also believe there has been a heightened interest in guns — but some speculate it may have more to do with it being a presidential election year. “I’m sure there has been a small spike everywhere (in the selling of guns),” said Scott Hoffman, owner of Hoffman’s Gun Center & Indoor Shooting Range on the Berlin Turnpike in Newington. “It isn’t so much the crime, it’s the talk about restricting the sales,” he said. Jim Zoppi, owner of Jim’s Collectibles and Firearms in Bristol, agreed that gun buyers are more concerned about having access to guns restricted than they are about reacting to a particular crime. Zoppi said he has seen a steady rise in people getting permits since Barack Obama was elected president four years ago. Gun buyers are also concerned about a pending United Nations treaty to control small arms trade overriding Second Amendment rights, he said. “They thought they were going to get their guns grabbed, so everyone from the old people to the young people in their 20s started coming and getting their permits,” he said. “They’re getting everything, from a shotgun to a handgun to carry for self protection,” he said. “Usually they buy more than one — one for self protection and one for the range to have fun with.” “We don’t deal in the assault weapons,” he said. “We deal in fine firearms, antique firearms and good modern firearms. You don’t buy $90 guns here, the quality stuff that’s what we handle here.” State requirements for pistol permits mean police departments in Connecticut don’t see an immediate surge in permit applications after a notorious crime anyway, according to Detective Harold Gannon of the

New Britain Police Department. People have to go through a training course to get their NRA certificate, they have to obtain their birth certificate and come up with the money, according to Gannon. “It might be two or three months down the road before they can get all the stuff finished,” he said. Gannon has noticed an increase in applications since last year, however. In 2011, from Jan. 1 to July 26, approximately 140 people applied for permits in New Britain. This year during the same period, there were about 170, he noted. “Around election years I notice people get nervous because there is always talk about changing laws and more gun restrictions,” he said. “I’m not saying that’s the exact cause, but it seems that way.” In Bristol, Detective Joseph Lobo, from the Bristol Police Department’s identification division, said he didn’t know offhand if there had been a rise in applications or not. You don’t usually see that even after a well-publicized crime, he said. “It’s been pretty consistent for the last couple of years. We normally handle probably 20 to 25 applications a month.” The Associated Press reports that in Colorado, the site of the July 20 shooting that killed 12 and injured dozens of others, gun sales jumped in the three days that followed.The state approved background checks for 2,887 people who wanted to purchase a firearm — 25 percent more than the average Friday to Sunday period in 2012 and 43 percent more than the same interval the week prior. Dick Rutan, owner of Gunners Den in suburban Arvada, Colo., said requests for concealed-weapon training certification “are off the hook.” His four-hour course in gun safety, required for certification for a concealed-weapons permit in Colorado, has drawn double the interest since Friday. “What they’re saying is: They want to have a chance. They want to have the ability to protect themselves and their families if they are in a situation like what happened in the movie theater,” Rutan said. Day-to-day gun sales frequently fluctuate, but the numbers also look

strong outside of Colorado, too. Seattle’s home county, King, saw nearly twice as many requests for concealed pistol licenses than the same time frame a year ago. Florida recorded 2,386 background checks on Friday, up 14 percent from the week before. Oregon checks on Friday and Saturday were up 11 percent over the month prior. Four days of checks in California were up 10 percent month-to-month. During the past decade, June and July have consistently been the slowest months for gun sales, according to FBI data. Jay Wallace, who owns Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna, Ga., found that his sales on Saturday were up 300 percent from the same day a year ago — making it one of the best Saturdays his business has ever had. He said customers are often afraid when there’s a gun-related tragedy that some lawmakers might try and push through an anti-gun agenda. “We shouldn’t let one sick individual make us forget and lose sight of freedoms in this country,” Wallace said. A few members of Congress have talked this week about the need for tougher gun laws, though political leaders in Washington have shown no sign of bringing up such measures any time soon. Authorities have said that the suspected Colorado shooter, James Holmes, methodically stockpiled weapons and explosives at work and home in recent months. He purchased thousands of rounds of ammunition and a shotgun, a semiautomatic rifle and two Glock pistols, authorities said. On July 20, clad in head-totoe combat gear, he burst into a midnight showing of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises,” tossed gas canisters into the crowd and opened fire. The shooting killed 12 people and wounded dozens of others. Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say Holmes also boobytrapped his apartment. Holmes is now in solitary confinement in a Colorado jail. The rise in gun sales reflects but one of the anxieties created by the shootings. Since the massacre, there have been reports of chaos at movie theaters, apparently sparked by misunderstandings or careless

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words. A confrontation with an intoxicated man in an Arizona theater caused about 50 people to flee, authorities said. A southern California man was arrested after authorities say he made allusions to the Aurora massacre after the movie didn’t start on time. In New Jersey, a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” was canceled after someone stood up during the movie, opened an emergency exit and then returned to their seat. About 90 minutes into a Monday night showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Santa Monica, Calif., a commotion caused some girls to shriek and two dozen people to sprint for the exit, jumping over seats and pushing each other out of the way. It turned out that a large man with a backpack was actually not a threat and was simply having a medical problem. “This was nothing, and yet it startled us and rattled us so much,” said moviegoer Paria Sadighi. Nationally, the shootings have triggered a fierce debate over gun control and whether government has a role in reining in the ownership of firearms. Gun sales often fluctuate based

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on news events, especially whenever people think the passage of more restrictive gun laws is imminent. Sales spiked following the election of President Barack Obama, when weapons enthusiasts expressed fear that the Democrat might curtail gun rights. FBI figures also show background checks for handgun sales jumped in Arizona following the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in 2011. “It’s not uncommon for us to see spikes in requests for concealed pistol licenses when there’s a significant gun-related tragedy,” said Sgt. Cindi West of the King County sheriff ’s office in Washington State. Some Democratic lawmakers in Congress cited the shooting as evidence of the need for tougher gun control laws — particularly a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines. Congress, however, hasn’t passed strict legislation in more than a decade. Susan Corica can be reached at (860) 584-0501, ext. 7259, or scorica@ bristolpress.com. The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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260 guardsmen receive send-off before deployment By SUSAN CORICA STAFF WRITER

HARTFORD — Sgt. Crystal Echeverria of Bristol has been in the Connecticut National Guard since she was 21. Now, at age 27, she is about to deploy overseas for the first time. She admitted to being both excited and nervous, as Gov. Dannel Malloy and other state officials gave her and some 260 other guardsmen an official send-off Tuesday evening at the William A. O’Neill Armory in Hartford. According to Maj. Gen.Thaddeus J. Martin, adjutant general and commander of the Connecticut National Guard, approximately 140 soldiers of the 143rd Military Police Company of West Hartford and 120 soldiers of the 248th Engineer Company of Norwich will mobilize and deploy overseas. The governor presented both units with Connecticut state flags to fly at their destinations. Then the assembled soldiers received a standing ovation from the crowd of family and friends filling the bleachers at the armory. “You are truly the next ‘greatest generation,’”Sen.RichardBlumenthal (D-CT) told the soldiers. Echeverria will be leaving behind her husband, Staff Sgt. Christian Echeverria, and their two daughters, Gabriela, 5, and Isabela, 2, to go to Afghanistan with the 143rd. “I’ve been in admin, serving with several different units within Connecticut and when the 143rd said they needed an admin sergeant, I decided to volunteer,”she said,adding that she expects to be away for about nine months. She said her older daughter understands what it means for mom to serve overseas. “We’ve done this before, since my husband is also in the National Guard,” Echeverria said. First Sgt. Santo DeFelice,a Bristol resident and former Bristol police officer, is already a veteran of overseas deployment. He served in Bosnia and Iraq with the 143rd. Now that he is heading to Afghanistan,“I’m excited,I feel pretty good about it,”he said. “We were in Iraq for the initial invasion and then the year after, 2003 to 2004,”DeFelice said.“It was interesting. We basically did Iraqi police mentorship, training up the Iraqi police officers, getting them out on

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Above, Crystal Echeverria during the deployment ceremony for the Connecticut National Guard.

their own,conducting patrols,combat operations, convoy security. We ran the whole gamut, everything there was to do as an MP.” He was in Bosnia from 2001 to 2002 for peacekeeping operations. “It was mountainous terrain, similar to what we are going to be dealing with in Afghanistan,”he added. For the first time, DeFelice will be leaving behind his daughter Taylor DeFelice, 7, when his unit mobilizes. “When he was in Iraq he was a single guy,so now it’s a little bit differMike Orazzi | Staff ent,” said his mother, Lyne DeFelice, The deployment ceremony for the Connecticut National Guard s 143rd Military Police Company of West Hartford, also a Bristol resident. As a mother, she admitted to hav- and the 248th Engineer Company of Norwich at the William A. O Neill Armory in Hartford. ing “a heavy heart” about her son being deployed again. “But he’s a good man, he takes his job very seriously and he knows what he is doing,” she added. While in Afghanistan, the 143rd MP Company’s missions will be to provide a police combined action team, work alongside the Afghan Uniformed Police (AUP) to provide law and order, as well as providing maneuver and mobility support, area security, and police intelligence operations. The 143rd was awarded the U.S. Department of the Army Valorous Unit Award for its service in Iraq. The unit is commanded by Capt. James Locke of Manchester. 025482 The 248th Engineer Company will deploy to Bahrain and provide security and installation protection duties within the country, under the command of 1st Lt. Keith Parent of Enfield. The 248th mobilized and deployed in 2003 to Iraq,where the unit worked to restore power and water supplies, clear mines and accomplish various construction missions. The Connecticut National Guard now has more than 550 soldiers and airmen mobilized and deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, the official name for the war in Afghanistan.

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Sen. Doyle lends a hand at mobile food pantry in town

State Sen. Paul Doyle (D-Wethersfield) nutritious fruits and vegetables to people who visited Newington Wednesday, July 25 to help need them.” volunteers hand out whole wheat bread and “At this site we see and average of 80 people fresh vegetables to 85 people who showed each visit,” said Gloria McAdam, president up at the mobile food truck site at Market and CEO of Foodshare. “It really just demSquare. onstrates that there is need in every one of our Foodshare, an anti-hunger and food distri- towns in Connecticut. People think it’s just in bution organization that urban centers, but it is in serves greater Hartford, suburban places too.” provided fresh corn, This summer, Doyle tomatoes, collard greens, is visiting food pantries romainelettuceandwhole and mobile food truck wheat bread for distribusites around his district to tion at the site, which is help distribute food and hosted by the Newington to raise awareness about Department of Human hunger issues. Previously, Services. Doyle stopped he visited Cross Street by Wednesday to help A.M.E. Zion Church in hand out food and to raise Middletown, where the awareness about hunger Connecticut Food Bank’s issues in Newington. mobile food truck stops, and helped volunteers “Food is a basic hand out food.Sen.Doyle necessity in life and GLORIA MCADAM also visited the Amazing no individual or family President and CEO of Foodshare should be forced to go Grace food pantry to talk to bed hungry,” Doyle said. “Food distribu- about the growing need for more food donation organizations like Foodshare fulfill a real tions there, especially in the summer months. need in the community and help families put Foodshare serves an average of 128,000 dinner on the table even in tough economic people living in greater Hartford each year, times. I commend the volunteers for their including 50,000 children and 10,000 seniors. hard work and I thank the town of Newington The anti-hunger organization distributes more and Foodshare for partnering to bring fresh than 12 million pounds of food annually.

“It really just demonstrates that there is need in every one of our towns in Connecticut. People think it’s just in urban centers, but it is in suburban places too.”

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Budget challenges put Malloy, urban Democrats at odds By KEITH M. PHANEUF CONNECTICUTMIRROR

Here’s a preview of political drama that may be running at the Capitol for the next two years. The central character is Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who is running out of popular options for solving Connecticut’s fiscal woes. The rest of the cast comes from Connecticut’s urban centers — which played a key role in electing the Democratic governor — and whose residents were among the hardest hit in the last recession. The plot revolves around Malloy’s plan to curtail Medicaid benefits for single adults, a cut the governor needs to keep his new budget from slipping into an early deficit. Meanwhile, Democratic legislators from Connecticut’s cities say this would leave more than 13,000 of the state’s poorest residents — most of whom are their constituents — with no health coverage in a legislative election year. A better alternative, they say, would be to raise taxes on big business or the wealthy, neither of which are prevalent in their districts. Rather than embarrass Malloy publicly by rejecting his plan, majority Democrats on the Appropriations and Human Services committees abruptly adjourned their joint meeting last week. If those panels don’t vote to block the plan before Aug. 18, Malloy can pursue this social services cut — and possibly more in 2013. Committee leaders are expected to meet Thursday with administration officials to try to find common ground. And while that wasn’t the first social services cut the administration has sought since state revenue projections first began to shrink last November, it is arguably the most significant — and most visible — cutback offered to date. ‘Bare bones’ “When it comes to the safety net, I really think we are at bare bones,” Sen. Toni Harp, D-New Haven, co-chairwoman of Appropriations, said Tuesday. “The governor doesn’t want to cut social services either,” Roy Occhiogrosso, Malloy’s senior policy adviser, said Monday. “But his job is to be the governor of the entire state, not just the cities.”

Occhiogrosso noted that Malloy was mayor of one of Connecticut’s largest cities, Stamford, for 14 years, through 2009. “He understands the problems faced by urban populations,” Occhiogrosso added. “It’s a balancing act.” Malloy faced the ultimate fiscal balancing act when he took office 19 months ago, inheriting the largest projected deficit in state history. The legislature’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis had projected a built-in hole as high as $3.67 billion in the 2011-12 fiscal year — a gap equal to nearly one-fifth of the entire budget. The governor and legislature took a three-pronged approach to resolve that, ordering $1.5 billion in new state taxes and fees; assuming a significant economic recovery and increasing General Fund revenue projections by $900 million; and covering the remainder with a state employee concession plan and other cuts in spending below the level needed to maintain current services in 2011-12. And while some aspects of the concessionplanhaven’tsavedasmuch as Malloy had hoped, Connecticut’s sluggish economic recovery has created the biggest budget challenge. It’s not that state revenues haven’t grown since 2011. They just haven’t grown as quickly as anticipated. The latest projections for General Fund revenues both this fiscal year and for the next each are about $370 million less than the administration originally projected. Part of Malloy’s solution to the current year was to save $50 million in the Medicaid for Low Income Adults program, or LIA, by restricting eligibility until 2014, when federal aid for the program increases significantly. That was the largest social service cut proposed, but the governor also sought modest cuts this year for school-based health clinics,children’s health initiatives and communitybased health services. 13,400 would lose coverage

LIA serves single adults who have no minor children and whose incomes are at or below 55 percent of the federal poverty level. Enrollment has shot up over the past two years from about 47,000 to nearly 78,000. To control costs, the administration has proposed two eligibility

restrictions: setting an asset limit of $10,000; and requiring that if a LIA applicant is between ages 19 and 26 and lives with a parent or can be declared as a dependent for income tax purposes, the parent’s income and assets must be counted. The state Department of Social Services estimates that with these changes, nearly 13,400 LIA recipients would lose coverage. Health-care advocates have argued that the proposed restrictions could, in fact, affect 15,000 people, most located in Connecticut’s cities. And more importantly, they say, there is no evidence that most of these recipients have the resources to buy private health insurance. But if lawmakers block the change, that creates a new problem.That’s because the $20.5 billion budget adopted for this year already assumes the $50 million savings. When lawmakers approved the budget last May, full details on how the LIA savings would be achieved weren’t defined. “I’m not a numbers person, but when I listen to the testimony of the people who are going to be the recipients — or the non-recipients — of these services, I am not pleased” with the planned reduction, said Sen.Edwin Gomes,a Democrat from Bridgeport,Connecticut’s largest city. “I know we have problems in this state, but this is sad,” added Rep.Minnie Gonzalez,D-Hartford. “We want to fix our budget on the backs of poor people?” Gonzalez, who — like Gomes — voted for the budget but now is wary of implementing the LIA cut with the details on the table, said she didn’t realize how much damage it might do until she looked into problems at the social services department this summer. A health care advocacy group is suing the state, charging that the Department of Social Servicers has failed to process Medicaid assistance applications on time. Requests to renew assistance have been improperly terminated by DSS — even though clients submitted the correct paperwork on time — because the agency lacks staff to record this paperwork in its data processing system. And despite assurances from Social Services Commissioner Roderick L. Bremby that more than 120 new staffers were added in March — and permission to

add another 100 was just granted — Gonzalez and others fear the proposed asset test represents another wave of paperwork that will swamp the department. The result, critics say, could be more clients improperly removed from the LIA rolls for months before errors are discovered and corrected. Seeking solutions

So what’s the solution if urban Democrats want to cancel the cut and punch a $50 million hole in the new state budget? Just last month, Malloy and lawmakers had to raid nearly half of a $222 million account to pre-pay debt from the 2009 budget to avoid closing the last state budget in the red. Gomes and Gonzalez both say Connecticut’s income tax needs to be more progressive,placing a higher burden on its top earners. Occhiogrosso noted that, under Malloy, Connecticut established its most progressive income tax to date, expanding from three rates to six, and elevating the top rate from 6.5 percent to 6.7 percent. Malloy has a strong sense that Connecticut’s tax policy should reflect the need to compete with neighboring states for the enormous wealth of Fairfield County’s businesses and residents. For the huge pocket of wealth centered on Wall Street, Connecticut’s competitors are New Jersey, westernmost Massachusetts, New York City and its closest suburbs. The top rate in New York is 8.8 percent, though residents of New York City can add up to 3.6 additional percentage points to their top rate. New Jersey’s income tax tops out at just under 9 percent. Massachusetts has a flat rate of 5.3 percent on most income. But it taxes capital gains and other major investment income at 12 percent, forcing its high-end earners to pay more than they would in Connecticut. “We have to maintain our competitive structure vis-a-vis our neighbors,” Occhiogrosso said. Malloy also is finding himself in an increasingly tight fiscal box because of his concession deal with unions. That agreement bars Malloy from imposing layoffs on most bargaining units since they agreed to wage freezes both last year and this one. That deal also calls for most workers

to get a 3 percent wage hike starting in 2013-14. The governor also committed last spring to increase spending on labor, particularly to expand contributions to the long-neglected, cash-starved state employee pension fund. Municipal aid, another big section of the state budget, is politically off-limits for the most part, with both parties opposed to deep cuts in this area. And with Republican legislators constantly decrying the $1.5 billion in taxes already raised, many lawmakers from both parties have said they don’t think the governor or many Democratic legislators want to go near the T-word again any time soon. Taxing the wealthy?

But urban Democrats counter that Connecticut social service cuts aren’t the only budget-balancing alternative available. The state could raise income taxes on its wealthiest citizens and still maintain rates below its neighbors. “Give me the power and it would happen,” Gonzalez said. “They need to pay their fair share.” Urban Democrats also noted that Malloy narrowly won the 2010 gubernatorial contest against Republican Tom Foley, due largely to carrying Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven by huge margins. Harp, a veteran senator, said she understands the political problems with revisiting the income tax. “I know the governor’s not going to want to do it just two years out from running for re-election,” she said, but quickly added there still are other alternatives to cutting social services. The New Haven lawmaker said she would like the administration and legislature to explore the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business tax credits Connecticut has on the books, and repeal those that aren’t fulfilling any economic development goals. “We should hold those tax credits as accountable as we hold our programs for the poor,”she said.“I think if we cut the safety net much more it would be very uncomfortable.” This story originally appeared at CTMirror.org, the website of The Connecticut Mirror, an independent nonprofit news organization covering government, politics and public policy in the state.

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State’s abortion coverage conflicts with federal regulations By ANA RADELAT CONNECTICUTMIRROR

The federal government’s prohibition on funding abortion services sets up a new range of problems for Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration when Connecticut implements the next phase of the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act requires all states to come up with a basic health-care coverage plan that insurers must offer, at a minimum, to all of their customers. The mandate for that basic plan would take effect in 2014, when all states must have an insurance exchange in place that would offer individuals and small businesses a choice of private insurance plans. Last week, the state’s health insurance exchange board considered a plan selected by two of its subcommittees that would form the basis for all health insurance coverage in the state. Only companies that selfinsure won’t be required to offer that plan, modeled after ConnectiCare’s HMO.

Connecticut’s Deputy Insurance Commissioner Anne Melissa Dowling, who chairs one of the subcommittees that recommended the plan, said abortion services were included in the benchmark plan because they are included in ConnectiCare’s HMO and other plans considered by the exchange board. “Every one of them offered voluntary termination coverage, so that was already in place,” Dowling said. Connecticut’s exchange board will vote on the benchmark plan in August, then send it to Malloy for his likely approval. But the inclusion of abortion services in the plan will cause some problems. While all Connecticut’s insurers will be required to offer all of the coverage in the benchmark plan, the federal government has made an exception for abortion services. That means some plans in Connecticut exchange could offer them and some of them, even those that currently offer abortion services, may not.

And there’s another problem. To win the vote of Democratic senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the ACA’s proponents in Congress agreed to include some anti-abortion language in the health-care bill that requires a complicated segregation of funds in both the sale and purchase of abortion coverage. The Affordable Care Act will provide federal subsidies to low-and middle-income peopleand families and federal tax breaks to qualifying small businesses that cover thier workers. But there’sa prohibition on the use of federal funds for abortion services, strengthened by he “Nelson language.” That means Connecticut residents who receive federal subsidies to purchase health-care policies would be required to pay for abortion coverage out of their own pocket. It also means insurance companies must itemize the portion of the premium for abortion services for everyone buying policies. Insurers will also have to establish a dual accounting system. One

account must be created solely to deposit premium dollars used to pay for abortion coverage — an account into which no federal dollars may be deposited — and another, separate account to process premium dollars that pay for all other coverage. Connecticut businesses receiving tax credits to purchase insurance policies that include abortion coverage for their employees would have to “keep a segregation between federal funds offered as premium tax credits and coverage for abortion services,”Department of Health and Human Services guidelines say.How this would be done is unclear. Naral-Pro Choice, an abortion rights group, said the ACA “unfairly treats abortion coverage as a separate and distinct — even stigmatized — benefit.” “No other provision in the law requires individuals to make separate payments for other sensitive, personal health services,” Naral-Pro Choice said. Adding to the Malloy administration’s problems is the federal government’s lack of guidance to the

states. “We all anticipated the federal government was going to tell the states exactly what we have to do,but they didn’t,” said Jeannette DeJesús, special adviser to the governor for health reform and a member of the health exchange board. Initially, the federal government was going to establish a uniform benefits package that would form the basis of health plans for all the states. But health insurers and employers said states should have more flexibility. So the federal government in December issued general guidelines that included 10 essential services states should include in their benchmarks, but let each state craft its own plan. It’sunclearhowmanystatesbesides Connecticut will include abortion services in their benchmarks. This story originally appeared at CTMirror.org, the website of The Connecticut Mirror, an independent nonprofit news organization covering government, politics and public policy in the state.

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3 through 5 (Friday to Saturday at 7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.). Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors, students and children. All performances will take place at the NCTC Performing Arts Theatre, 743 North Mountain Road, Newington, 06111. Tickets are available by calling the Box Office at (860) 666-NCTC or online at www.NCTCArts.org.

Forward” group at First Congregational Church, 355 Main St., Cromwell, that will meet Friday, Aug. 3, and Friday, Aug. 17, at 6:30 p.m. Come down and find out what others are doing to move on. For more information, call Mark at (860) 517-6688.

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EVENTS CALENDAR NEWINGTON PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT TO PRESENT FREE SUMMER FUN RUNS: Free Summer Fun Runs will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Aug. 8 and 15 at the cross country trails behind John Wallace Middle School. Two course lengths are offered: a traditional 5k (3.1 miles) and a shorter 3k (about two miles) for younger kids and beginners. Races are free for everyone and ribbons are awarded. The races are in honor of Frank O’Rourke who was a longtime NHS cross country coach.

“ANNIE” COMING TO NCTC: You can bet your bottom dollar on this timeless classic! Along with 38 area youth, ages 5-15, the popular comic strip heroine takes center stage at the NCTC Performing Arts Theatre, to bring one of the world’s best-loved musicals to life. Performances are Aug.

MOVING FORWARD: Trying to move on with your life after divorce, or relationship breakup. There is a “Moving

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NEWINGTON HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY CHEERLEADING TRYOUTS: Newington High School Varsity Cheerleading Tryouts will be held at Newington High School Field House, from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6 Info Session (Parents Welcomed); from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7, Learn material; from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 8, Learn material and 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10, Tryouts. Contact Lisa Hatton, head cheerleading coach at (570) 470-5749. NEWINGTON YOUTH BALLET FREE BENEFIT PERFORMANCE: The Newington Youth Ballet will present a free benefit performance for The Newington Department of Human Services and The Lucy Robbins Welles Library. National and international champions will perform their award-winning dances as well as excerpts from the original production of “The Legend of The Magical Forest” Tuesday, Aug. 21, at 6 p.m.in The Council Chambers Auditorium of Newington Town Hall. In lieu of ticket sales, we will collect back-to-school clothes and supplies for The Department of Human Services and books, DVD’s and CD’s for The Lucy Robbins Welles Library. For further information on the performance or classes, contact Jane Levin at balletmaster@snet.net or call (860) 986-9847.

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JOIN BOY SCOUT TROOP 347: To join Newington Boy Scout Troop 347, call Tim Manke, Scout Master, at (860) 666-4491. Meetings are held most Wednesdays from September through June, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Martin Kellogg Middle School, Newington. All boys ages 11 to 17 and their parents are welcome. Troop 347 was founded in 1948 and continues its mission to encourage citizenship, personal growth and leadership through community service and outdoor adventure. During Troop 347’s 60 plus years of scouting, over 50 boys have earned the rank of

Eagle Scout. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE APPOINTMENTS: The Town Clerk’s office reminds local unaffiliated voters interested in becoming a Justice of the Peace that the application period is now until Nov. 1. The town of Newington has 45 justices of the peace. The Democratic and Republican parties endorse 15 candidates each. The remaining 15 positions are reserved for registered voters who are not enrolled in a major political party. These justices are appointed by the Town Clerk. The appointment process begins with an application to the Town Clerk, which

can be filed on or after Aug. 1 and is due on or before Nov. 1. To qualify, an applicant must be a Newington registered voter not enrolled in a major political party since May 1, 2012. Incumbent unaffiliated justices will be reappointed during November if an application is received by this office during the allotted time frame and if the justice has not been enrolled in a major political party since May 1. If on Nov. 1 the number of applications for justice of the peace filed with the Town Clerk exceeds the number of justices of the peace allowed by State Statute, there will be a public lottery. Anyone interested in becoming a Newington

justice of the peace who is not enrolled in a major political party is encouraged to contact the Town Clerk’s office at (860) 665-8545 to obtain an application and instructions. Justices of the peace perform marriages, administer oaths, and take acknowledgements and depositions. The four-year term of office begins Jan. 7, 2013 and ends Jan. 2, 2017.

WEEKLY PROGRAMS: The Lucy Robbins Welles Library has various weekly programs for children ages 9 months through 12 years. Pick up a detailed schedule in the Children’s Department.

sored by the Friends of the Library.

FLOWER POWER PAINTINGS: Maria Vilcinskas will exhibit her flower paintings of large blooms that explode color and literally burst off the canvas. They can be viewed during the months of August and September in the

Newington Senior & Disabled Center’s cafegteria, 120 Cedar St. Hours: 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. weekdays and 1 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. GOING THROUGH, IN THE PROCESS, OR THINKING ABOUT GETTING A DIVORCE? There is a “Divorce Support Group” to help you get through this major life altering event, with very caring, sensitive people who have been where you are. This group meets at First Church of Christ, 250 Main St., Wethersfield, on the second and fourth Fridays of the month at 7 p.m. Next meetings are Aug. 10 and Aug. 24.

LIBRARY CALENDAR BORN TO SOAR: Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m. Author Welles Brandriff will speak about his recent novel, “Born to Soar,” and the Women’s Air Service Pilots program. The book centers around a young woman who decides to join the WASPs and the opposition she faces along the way. Books will be available for purchase and signing. ONLINE GENEALOGY: Ancestry.com Library Edition, HeritageQuest and Familysearch.org Thursday, Aug. 9, 10 a.m. Do you wonder about your family ancestry? With so many genealogy resources available online, it’s sometimes difficult to know where to start. Come learn about these three sites. The presenter will be Sheila A. Lafferty, director of the Julia Brooker Thompson Library, UConn Torrington campus. She is a self-taught genealogist and has been researching her ancestry long before the Internet. Register by calling (860) 665-8700. ADULT SUMMER READING FINALE — BETWEEN THE COVERS: Friday, Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m. In the library under the atrium. Join us for refreshments and prizes for adults registered in the summer reading program. The drawings for the grand prizes begin at 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. BOB’S MUSICAL MONTAGE FROM MGM: Monday evenings in August, 6:30 p.m. Join film buff Bob Larsson Monday evenings for the screening of four 1950s films. Aug. 6 — “Kiss Me Kate” (1953) starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel and Ann Miller. A Broadway star reluctantly agrees to co-star with her ex-husband in a musical remake of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.” Featuring songs by Cole Porter. Aug. 13 — “Gigi” (1958) starring Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan. A tomboyish young girl, training to be a courtesan, falls in love and decides she wants to marry, shocking her family. Music by Lerner and Loewe. Aug. 20 — “High Society” (1956) starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra. A society girl is about to marry, but as her wedding day ap-

proaches, she finds herself being pursued by her ex-husband and a brash reporter from a scandal magazine. Features music by Louis Armstrong. Aug. 27 — “Showboat” (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson and Ava Gardner. Story of the lives and love, trials and triumphs, of a group of entertainers working on a Mississippi river boat in the pre-Civil War south. Music by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. LEGALFORMS AND CAREER TRANSITIONS ONLINE RESOURCES NOW AVAILABLE: The Lucy Robbins Welles Library, announces the addition of two new online systems to the available resources: LegalForms and Career Transitions. They are free of charge to Newington library card holders from home. Anyone can access these services in the library as well. LegalForms provides thousands of customizable legal documents. The forms are specific to Connecticut. Also included are form letters, legal definitions and an attorney directory. Career Transitions makes looking for a job a little easier. People are guided by information about career paths, industries, economies and companies. They can discover their career interests and then explore the careers related to these interests. They can than look at what preparation is required and what opportunities exist for that career. Career Transitions helps job seekers prepare their resumes and cover letters and prepare for interviews. There is a section included to find classes and training in an area to pursue one’s career interests. The last function allows the people to scour the internet for career opportunities through Indeed.Com. Newington residents can access these free online tools from the library web page at www.newingtonct.gov/library. A valid Newington library card number is needed to access them. For more information, contact the adult information desk at (860) 665-8700. FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS FAMILY STORYTIME: Every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Stories, songs and more for the whole family all year ‘round. No registration necessary. ONGOING DROP-IN SUMMER

READ, RATTLE AND ROLL!: Tuesday, Aug. 7 and Sept. 4, noon.Welcome to a music and movement program for 3 and 4 year-olds featuring books that “sing” and lots of music! Call the Children’s Department at (860) 665-8720 to register. FLASHES OF LIGHT: Thursday, Aug. 9, 10 to 11 a.m. (in place of Pluto Pals Preschool Storytime) Learn about lightning bugs in this program for children ages 3 to 6 and their caregivers. We’ll hear the story of “Sam and the Firefly” by P.D. Eastman and make a glow-in-the-dark bug jar to take home for catching and releasing fireflies. Register by calling (860) 665-8720 and bring a clean clear plastic bottle with cap when you come. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. . CONSTRUCTION CLUB: Saturday, Aug. 11, 1 to 2 p.m. Come to our monthly gathering to build projects with Lego bricks. For safety reasons, only people age 7 and older will be allowed in the room. Call the Children’s Department at (860) 665-8720 to register. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. LITTLE DREAMERS: Mondays, through Aug. 13, 10:15 to 11 a.m. Stories, songs and playtime for children 9 to 24 months, siblings and their caregivers. JR. COOKBOOK CLUB: Tuesday, Aug. 14, 6:30 p.m. Let’s use our imaginations as we read “Harold and the Purple Crayon” by Crockett Johnson. We will then cool off with purple cow milk shakes. Junior Chefs entering grades K-2 may call the Children’s Department at (860) 665-8720 to register. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. TEEN GAMING: Tuesday, Aug. 14, 6:30 to 8: p.m. For grades 6 to 12. Come play on the library’s Xbox Kinect and Nintendo Wii! A variety of video games and board games will be available. Feel free to bring your own games! Snacks will be available. Spon-

COOKBOOK CLUB: Wednesday, Aug. 15, 6:30 p.m. Take a trip to the moon and gather some moon rocks. Chefs in grades 3 to 6 will make and eat a sweet moon salad. Call the Children’s Department at (860) 665-8720 to register. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. TWINKLE STARS TWO’S: Wednesdays, through Aug. 15, 10:15 to 11 a.m. Stories, songs and playtime for children 24 months and older, siblings and their caregivers LUNCH BUNCH: Wednesdays, through Aug. 15, noon. Children entering kindergarten through grade 2, are invited to bring their lunch and dream big with us each week. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. CLAY AND GLITTER JEWELRY PROGRAM: Thursday, Aug. 16, 6:30 to 8 p.m. What do you get when you mix glitter and clay and bake it in the oven? Beautiful, wearable art of course! Join jewelry designer Laurie Lynne and create your own gorgeous, handcrafted necklace that glitters! Have a finished product at the end of class. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. PLUTO PALS PRESCHOOLERS: Thursdays, through Aug. 16, 10:15 to 11 a.m. (NOTE: Special registered program Aug. 9) Storytime for children ages 3 to 6. AFTERNOON HEAT: Thursdays, through Aug. 16, 2 p.m. Join us for an hour filled with fun and creative activities. Children entering grades 3 to 6 may call the Children’s Department at (860) 665-8720 to register beginning two weeks prior to each program. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. TEEN VOLUNTEER NETWORK CELEBRATION: Tuesday, Aug. 21, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Calling all teen volunteers! Come join us for a celebration in honor of your time and commitment to volunteering here at the library. Pizza and snacks will be served and fall/winter volunteer opportunities will be available. Hope to see you there! Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

SKATING PARTY: Thursday, Aug. 23, 10 a.m. to noon. Let’s go ice skating! Join us at the Newington Arena for a skating party. Entrance fee is $5 and ice skates can be borrowed for free. Bring your own skates if possible to ensure availability. No registration is required. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. LAST DAY FOR OWN THE NIGHT SUMMER READING PROGRAM 2012: Thursday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m. All reading must be recorded online by this date. Prizes must be claimed by 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23. There will be no exceptions. The grand prize drawing will be on Friday, Aug. 24 at noon. The winner will be contacted. LAST DAY FOR DREAM BIG, READ! — SUMMER READING 2012! Saturday, Aug. 25. All reading must be recorded online by Aug. 25 and prizes must be claimed by Sept. 1. PLAY WITH US!: Tuesdays, through Aug. 28, and Sept. 4, 11 and 18, 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. Join us for this program geared for families with young children who have special needs. Meet with birth to 3-year-old resource professionals and socialize with your peers. All are welcome. No registration necessary. TEEN ADVISORY BOARD: Tuesday, Aug. 29, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. For ages 13 to 18. Help us make the library a better place for you! Become a member and take a leadership role in your community, give input on teen events, help develop the collection of teen materials, and preview new books. Earn a service hour for sharing your opinion! You must be willing to participate in discussions. Snacks will be provided. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. LIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP MONTH! Calling all children from birth through eighth grade who live in Newington! Come to the Children’s Department anytime between Sept. 1 and 30 to sign up for a library card and receive a free goody bag (new registrants only). JUST A STORY AND A SONG!: Wednesdays, Sept. 5, 12, 19 and 26, 10:15 a.m. Join us for a 30-minute all ages storytime. We’ll enjoy a story (or

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