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Volume 13, Number 11 Plainville’s Only Weekly Newspaper www.plainvillecitizen.com Thursday, March 20, 2014 Plainville’s Patrick Creel was honored at the Aqua Turf in Southington last month as the 2013 Nutmeg State Games Male Athlete of the Year for his achievements in ice hockey and roller hockey. “Patrick personifies the ideals of the Nutmeg State Games and the State Games movement; participation and achievement, sportsmanship, good attitude and tremendous effort,” Patrick Fisher, execu- tive director of the Connecticut Sports Management Group, which helps to run the Games, said. “Our organization is hon- ored to recognize Patrick for his efforts on and off the field of play.” Patrick, who is 12, began skating shortly after learning to walk, and has been involved in hockey almost as long. “He got exposed to roller hockey at a young age be- cause I was coaching kids who played it,” said Jay Creel, Patrick’s father. “He came and started hanging around like a little rink rat, so we put skates on him at a young age and he caught on pretty quickly.” Patrick was playing pick-up games of roller hockey at just three years of age and was par- ticipating in ice hockey games, as a goalie, by the time he was six. Now a seasoned veteran, True student-athlete honored By Nate Brown The Plainville Citizen Local hockey player Patrick Creel, the 2013 Nutmeg State Games Male Athlete of the Year, is pictured with his parents, Jay and Shelley. | (Submitted) See Honored / Page 14 Reading or sending a text message can be such a minute, mindless action. But if done while driving, suddenly that action can have catastrophic consequences. William Beckert, a lawyer practicing in Plainville at Jainchill and Beckert, is part of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association’s End Distracted Driving program. The program had its kick-off March 12 at Lewis Mills High School in Burlington in front of some 600 kids. “Our goal is to really try to educate the public, and, hopefully, people make the right choices,” Beckert said. The program is coming to schools all across Connecticut, including Plainville High School. Beckert likened distracted driving, which includes texting, eating or drink- Lawyer does his part to curtail distracted driving By Julie Sopchak The Plainville Citizen See Driving / Page 2 Town Council unani- mously approved increases in Parks & Recreation Department program fees and also a pavement project at Trumbull Park that would reduce water runoff at its meeting Monday night. Town Manager Robert E. Lee explained the Connecticut Fund for the Environment wants to pave a portion of the parking lot at Trumbull Park with as- phalt designed to be porous, which will reduce runoff to the Quinnipiac River. “The reason they picked Trumbull Park is because we don’t plow that area in the winter,” Lee said. “They don’t want to get an area that has a lot of salt.” The paving would be in the lower end of the parking lot, he said, and the project would be paid for by CFE. Lee said the work is antic- ipated to be completed in April before the start of the Little League season. The town, he said, would only be responsible for maintenance, which includes vacuuming to prevent clogging. According to the CFE’s website, ctenvironment.org, storm water runoff is one of the most serious problems facing Long Island Sound. When the water runs off of roofs, roads, parking lots, and other hard surfaces, it picks up harmful substances, in- cluding grit, nitrogen (from fertilizers), and petrochem- icals, delivering them to wa- terways. For the most part, water soaked up and filtered through vegetation and soil is mostly harmless, but when there isn’t enough vegetation to absorb it, the harmful sub- stances get dumped into wa- terways, causing a harmful impact on the Sound. In other business, Lee ex- plained the Parks Advisory Board Committee deter- mined that fee increases for recreation programs was in order as a result of increased cost to providing programs as well as the hike in min- imum wage. Increases are nominal and are a matter of a few dollars. Lee said it’s es- timated the increases would result in approximately $16,500 in revenue. Fee hike, park project approved By Julie Sopchak The Plainville Citizen See Fees / Page 24 79633R

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  • Volume 13, Number 11 Plainvilles Only Weekly Newspaper www.plainvillecitizen.com Thursday, March 20, 2014

    Plainvilles Patrick Creel was honored at the Aqua Turf in Southington last month as the 2013 Nutmeg State Games Male Athlete of the Year for his achievements in ice hockey and roller hockey.Patrick personifies the

    ideals of the Nutmeg State Games and the State Games movement; participation and achievement, sportsmanship, good attitude and tremendous effort, Patrick Fisher, execu-tive director of the Connecticut Sports Management Group, which helps to run the Games, said. Our organization is hon-ored to recognize Patrick for his efforts on and off the field

    of play.Patrick, who is 12, began

    skating shortly after learning to walk, and has been involved in hockey almost as long.He got exposed to roller

    hockey at a young age be-cause I was coaching kids who played it, said Jay Creel, Patricks father. He came and started hanging around like a little rink rat, so we put skates on him at a young age and he caught on pretty quickly.Patrick was playing pick-up

    games of roller hockey at just three years of age and was par-ticipating in ice hockey games, as a goalie, by the time he was six.Now a seasoned veteran,

    True student-athlete honoredBy Nate BrownThe Plainville Citizen

    Local hockey player Patrick Creel, the 2013 Nutmeg State Games Male Athlete of the Year, is pictured with his parents, Jay and Shelley. | (Submitted)

    See Honored / Page 14

    Reading or sending a text message can be such a minute, mindless action. But if done while driving, suddenly that action can have catastrophic consequences.William Beckert, a lawyer practicing

    in Plainville at Jainchill and Beckert, is part of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Associations End Distracted Driving program. The program had its kick-off

    March 12 at Lewis Mills High School in Burlington in front of some 600 kids. Our goal is to really try to educate the

    public, and, hopefully, people make the right choices, Beckert said.The program is coming to schools all

    across Connecticut, including Plainville High School.Beckert likened distracted driving,

    which includes texting, eating or drink-

    Lawyer does his part to curtail distracted drivingBy Julie Sopchak The Plainville Citizen

    See Driving / Page 2

    Town Council unani-mously approved increases in Parks & Recreation Department program fees and also a pavement project at Trumbull Park that would reduce water runoff at its meeting Monday night.Town Manager Robert

    E . Lee expla ined the Connecticut Fund for the Environment wants to pave a portion of the parking lot at Trumbull Park with as-phalt designed to be porous, which will reduce runoff to the Quinnipiac River.The reason they picked

    Trumbull Park is because we dont plow that area in the winter, Lee said. They dont want to get an area that

    has a lot of salt.The paving would be in

    the lower end of the parking lot, he said, and the project would be paid for by CFE. Lee said the work is antic-ipated to be completed in April before the start of the Little League season. The town, he said, would only be responsible for maintenance, which includes vacuuming to prevent clogging.According to the CFEs

    website, ctenvironment.org, storm water runoff is one of the most serious problems facing Long Island Sound. When the water runs off of roofs, roads, parking lots, and other hard surfaces, it picks up harmful substances, in-cluding grit, nitrogen (from fertilizers), and petrochem-icals, delivering them to wa-

    terways. For the most part, water soaked up and filtered through vegetation and soil is mostly harmless, but when there isnt enough vegetation to absorb it, the harmful sub-stances get dumped into wa-terways, causing a harmful impact on the Sound.In other business, Lee ex-

    plained the Parks Advisory Board Committee deter-mined that fee increases for recreation programs was in order as a result of increased cost to providing programs as well as the hike in min-imum wage. Increases are nominal and are a matter of a few dollars. Lee said its es-timated the increases would result in approximately $16,500 in revenue.

    Fee hike, park project approvedBy Julie Sopchak The Plainville Citizen

    See Fees / Page 24

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    Nearly 200 chickens seized, destroyedThe Depar tment o f

    Agriculture and local police seized 193 diseased chickens from a North Washington Street house Friday morning. The birds had contracted Infectious Laryngotracheitis, a respiratory disease that is highly contagious to poultry, necessitating the destruc-tion of the entire flock, said Sgt. John Quilter. Removal of

    the chickens from the home at 84 North Washington St. began at about 9:30 a.m., Quilter said. The Department of Agriculture had previously obtained a warrant to search the house, he said. The home was condemned in January and residents Joe and Mary Honyak were forced to move out after the chickens were discovered. The birds re-

    mained until they could be tested for disease, with the owners allowed to return to look after them as needed.The Depar tment o f

    Agriculture is continuing to investigate the incident and will bring any charges that are filed against the Honyaks, Quilter said.

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    ing, reading, or adjusting electronic devices, to hav-ing a .08 blood alcohol level.The difference, in es-

    sence, is its more perva-sive than a DUI because most people got the mes-sage about the evils of [driv-ing under the influence], Beckert said. But everybody knows somebody that texts and drives.Just because everybodys

    doing it, doesnt mean its okay, he added.The EDD program was

    started by Joel Feldman, a t r i a l l awyer f rom Philadelphia whose daugh-ter was killed by a distracted driver in 2009. Beckert said he got involved when a col-

    league asked if he would be willing to speak to students as part of the program.Before joining EDD,

    Beckert said he too was guilty of texting and driv-ing. I never gave it a second thought, he said.According to www.dis-

    traction.gov, approximately 11 percent of drivers under 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported as distracted at the time of the crash.The risks are very se-

    rious, Beckert said. You could hurt somebody

    theres so much to lose.There is a statute in

    Connecticut that restricts the use of hand-held de-vices while driving, but the penalties are a scale of fines. Beckert said he hopes this will change over time.As we become more

    aware as a society or com-munity of the dangers of dis-tracted driving, hopefully the legislature will take a look at that and make rules similar to that of a DUI in some respects, he said.

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    Its still winter. Have you noticed? We cer-tainly have, and are pining for spring days that bring trips to the park and the ability to go outside without the task of rustling up the necessary snow gear. One of our favorite activ-ities during these cold, indoor days is visiting the Connecticut Science Center.The science center is one

    of the most impressive places to take kids in Connecticut. Located in Hartford, it boasts 150 hands-on exhibits, a 3-D digital theater, and a wide va-riety of topics to entertain fam-ily members of all ages in its 144,000 square foot building. We have spent hours explor-

    ing the multiple floors and their dizzying array of educational fun, and my children, being four and six, particularly love the Lego Imagination Station, the Stream Table, and the Sight and Sound Experience. There is always a traveling

    exhibit, and currently Lost in Egypt is on display. When we visited recently, the kids deci-phered hieroglyphics, sat on a camel replica, and pieced to-gether a 3-D pottery puzzle, pretending to be archaeologists reconstructing a clay pot with found pieces. We explored photographs of ancient Egypt, comparing them to current day pictures depicting cities and children playing soccer, and saw a real life human mummy. Its a very interesting exhibit, and will be available until May 4.Usually when we visit, we ar-

    rive in the morning and pack a lunch to enjoy at the tables pro-vided, or grab something from the onsite caf. There is a third option now for hungry patrons, with a newly opened Subway. Last spring, we purchased

    a family membership, and we have easily used it enough times to make that investment a great value. Sometimes the kids and I will have a few hours open up in the afternoon and zip up for a

    few hours. We may not have time to see every-thing, but thats okay. Well be back soon to catch what we missed. Every time we visit

    the science center, I pack extra clothing for my children. By far,

    their favorite spot in the vast building is the KidSpace water area. Flanked by benches for the parents, kids wear bright blue smocks meant to keep water off the kids clothing which work with varying de-grees of success. The siren song of the Lego water table pulls my boy in and keeps him there for as long as Ill allow, while his lit-tle sister grabs a container and gets to work filling, dumping, refilling, and transferring wa-ter from one water table to an-other. There are bright plastic balls that are sucked into clear tubes and spit out somewhere else. Its very cool, and even though youll see it as soon as you enter the center, make it your last stop, not your first, to keep clothing dry until the end. The Connecticut Science

    Center is a wonderful place to spend a cold, winter day, with or without children. It is located at 250 Columbus Boulevard, Hartford, near the conven-tion center. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Parking is available in the garage. See more information at www.CTsciencecenter.org.

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    Plainville High School has named the following students to its honor roll for the second term.Grade 9Gold: Dwight Burns, Jessica Gorski, Caterina LaBella, Brandon Mello, Jonathan Olson, Grant Sarra, Lauren Tanner, Angela Zheng.Silver: Somer Abdelsame, Cameron Aivaz, Alexander Autunno, Erin Brochu, Jonathan Christy, Jared Demmons, Abigail Depner, Alexis Diorio, Nathan Doyle, Aleksandra Fiedorowicz, Audrey Gediman, Olivia Gibilisco, Joseph Gohar, Robert Goldsnider, Shane Hartunian, Jordan Jones, Erin Kordik, Christian MacDonald, Taleah McCrorey, Claudius McNish, Christiana Melninkaitis, Natalie Michaud, David Mouangvienkham, Tyler Oakes, Jose Ortiz, Alexis Ouellette, Nichole Page, Autumn Parkinson, Bethany Pelletier, Joseph Pelletier, Victoria Plourde, Kamil Radziszewski, Tyler Rizzo, Alyssa Rocco, Ashley Roy, Robert Ryan, Hayde Santos, John Sliwka, Kyle Smith, Alexa St. Jean, Luc St. Pierre, Dominika Szok, Lian-Wei Yuan.Bronze: Isaiah Bandle, David Bielawski, Aliyah Biron, Jared Boucher, Kaitlyn Butler, Christopher Centurelli, Camden Clifford, Alexa Collin, Jared Duchaine, Oluwaseyi Fabiyi, Ethan Hushin, Damari Jackson, Ashley LaPira, Matthew Linnhoff, Marc

    Liquindoli, Melissa Lux, Alexander Macomber, Jessica Masco, Ashley Miceli, Amanda Michaud, Paige Miller, Lillianaliz Morales, Madison Osakowicz, Melaina Pedrolini, Joshua Pellerin, Kyli Petillo, Isabella Pugliese, Trina Robinson, Lorenzo Samperi, Katie Schmidt, Andrew Skawinski, Gina Temple, Mikayla Termini, Mark Valeri, Jessica Varrato, Christian Wassil, Emma Watson, Caleb Wells, Jackson Welz, Larenz Young.

    Grade 10Gold: Kathryn Beloin, Emily Bienasz, Nicholas Cyr, Tyrah Green, Erin Kane, Adrian Kulak, Kristen Whalen.Silver: Buzz Adams, Andrew Autunno, Spencer Barbagallo, Alexandra Bernier, Nina Catanzaro, Joseph Chacho, Annie Clement, Daniel Costantini, Tyler Czuprinski, Gina DAmico, Nicole Davis, Hana Effendi, Alexis Estevez, Isabella Fil, Jessica Johnson, Jarred Karal, Roxanne Kongkiat, Brianna Lagassey, Myranda LaPira, Lauren Lederman, Jonathan Lindgren, Shatsada Lovan, Briana Lugo, Stephanie Martino, Sydney McGough, Edward Peshka, Amanda Peters, Kristina Petit, Bethany Pye, Madison Richardson, Jalees Sherwani, Gregory Sileo, Ericka Solomon, Madison Ware, Dominika Woch.Bronze: Lauren Acey, Tia Anderson, Anthony Autunno, Jalen

    Benoit, Elisabeth Bernier, Jayde Bernier, Ashley Bialko, Ke-Andre Blue, Martha Boltromiejuk, David Bryja, Alex Cal, Storm Caswell, Julianna Christy, Paige Darcy, Skylar Diorio, Katie Geddes, Michael Gibilisco, Alex Girard, Ryan Gorham, Michelle Grenier, Emma Heslin, Jalinne Iriarte, Deidra James, Emily Kerfoot, Gabriel Lacaille, Diondre Lampkins, Kristina Lamson, Yamilex Lopez, Jenna Martino, Riley Michalic, Ethan Millette, Mark Muller, Melissa Neal, Jacob Nilson, Nicole Pabisiak, Nicole Plourde, Melvis Rios-Torres, Justin Robinson, Taylor Rogers, Jarod Romankiw, Jamilex Rosado-Rivera, Kaylee Roux, Maryan Sargizian, Antonio Savelli, Kyle Schilke, Joshua Schilling, Jared Sgroi, Jaylyn Sierra, Joseph Slivinsky, Jacob Somers, Timothy Sullivan, Jeremy Velie, Jacob Vicinus, Katlyn Wolfahrt, Sarah Yorski, Natalia Zajaczkowski, Aleksander Zelasko.

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    Honored

    Patrick has been a participant in the Nutmeg State Games since 2009.He works on the ice to bet-

    ter his game, and off the ice to better his future. The Middle School of Plainville sixth grader boasts a 3.81 grade-point average and has already given thought to a career in engineering if hockey isnt in his future, noting that math is his favorite subject in school.He has also begun to look at

    potential high schools. Avon Old Farms is at the top of the list. I believe that it has both a strong hockey and academic

    programs, said Patrick.Aside from his academics,

    Patrick keeps busy with la-crosse in the spring and rugby in the summer months prior to playing annually for the Connecticut Yankees of the Eastern Hockey Federation.Watching Patrick become

    a more technical goalie, a stu-dent of the position, is one of the greatest feelings I get watching him play; just watch-ing him take what hes learning and applying it to his craft, Jay Creel said.Patrick enjoys analyz-

    ing the play of NHL goal-ies in the hopes of learning new strategies to use on the ice, especially Marc Andre-Fleury of his favorite team,

    the Pittsburgh Penguins, and Pekka Rinne of the Nashville Predators.Theyre both very technical

    goalies and they both are very tall, Patrick said. Im proba-bly going to be a little taller, so Im watching the moves that I might be able to do.Patricks proficiency in net

    helped his team to a state championship in 2013, as well as a New England champion-ship. Also, it helped him land a spot on the Westchester Express for next season. The Express, out of New York, is a top tier Triple-A youth team.I think the best part (about

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    perintendents, school board members, parents, and other attendees then marched to the Hill to visit one-on-one with their legislators at the State Legislative Office Building.Representing Plainville

    Schools were students Jacob Masco and McKenna Rita, Superintendent Jeff Kitching, Board Member Foster White, and CABE Resolutions Chair/Board Member Becky Tyrrell.Other districts represented

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    Honor Roll

    Khalid Effendi, Neahmiah Freitas, Nina Golden, Anne Goldsnider, Michael Izdebski, Sebastian Jurzyk, Christopher Kallianiotis, Damira Kandic, Bret Lech, Samuel Lindgren, Patrycja Majewski, Samuel Mankowski, Christopher Maschio, Phoenix Moquete, Michael Munson, Syed Naqvi, Justin Plourde, Andrew Quealy, Natalia Ramirez, Trevor Roy, Connor Savage, Alessandra Siracusa, Gabriella Siracusa, Brett Snowden, Christopher Therriault, William Tuxbury, Rachel Warner, Connor Welz, Sebastian Werpachowski, Bryan WojcikGrade 12

    Gold: Tyler Acey, Brittany Brown, Cody Charneski, Joseph Esposito, Stephen Gallo, Sage Gentry, Alicia Gorski, Marisa Rizzo, Andrew Rottier, Tydell Samuel, Sarah Simard, Taylor Varrato.Silver: Danielle Angelillo, Christopher Arduini, Brianna Atwood, Kayleen Bear, Shayla Beausoleil, Kaitlyn Bernier, Nadia Boucher, Jesayda Carrasquillo, Raymond Carroll, Kelsey Clemens, Claudia Cwalina, Kenneth Daniels, Julia Davidson, Sarah Durkin, Sarah Ercoli, Justin Freitas, Morgan Henn, Melissa Hernandez, Jacob Jones, Justyce King, Morgen Lacombe, April Lemanski, Meghan Liquindoli, Luis Lopez, Kelsey McCracken, Kristiana Moliko, Leslie Mroczek, Lauren

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    SportsStorybook season continues for cheerleaders

    These arent your parents cheerleaders.Actually, theyre unlike

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    school history, the Plainville High School cheerleaders will compete in the New England regionals, which will be held this weekend in Massachusetts, after finish-ing second in the Class M state competition.We werent sure if we

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    A group that continues to blossom, the Plainville Senior Centers Snappy Seniors Club, is holding its third annual photo exhibit at the Plainville Public Library through the end of March.Judy Humphrey, who

    formed the group three years ago as a photography course that taught the basics, said the class started with about nine people, and now has around 30.With so many members

    now, this year Humphrey had to limit the number of photos each member could exhibit at the library. About 105 photos are on display.Its mostly to get people

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    a way to get people out and interested in different things and to see how they can improve their skills, said Humphrey, who teaches the Snappy Seniors to focus on a subject in order to really tell

    a story, while using composi-tion and lighting for optimal results.One of Humphreys pho-

    tos on display is of her adult son eating off a plate of food while playing in his Irish band. The band didnt take a break during the set, so Humphrey cut up some food so that her son could eat while playing.Don Liljedahl is one of

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