The Killingworth Road Race will be held on Saturday, August 5 at 8:30 a.m. Come join us for a beautiful, mostly flat 4-mile run through rural Killingworth. The run begins at the historic Killingworth Congregational Church and loops through some scenic roads. After some post race refreshments, enjoy the 47th Annual Church Fair, opening at 9:00 am, with lots of food, a live auction, fun for kids, and more! T-shirts for the first 100 runners to register. Register for the race prior to August 1st for $17.00, or $19.00 after August 1st. Call 663-1789 or register on-line at http://www.killingworthchurch.org/roadrace.html.

Future runners Emma, Dominic, and Adam Anziano. Photo courtesy S. Anziano

Ruth Irene Hatch, 88, the youngest of seven children born to Manfred Arlington and Marcha Hatch, died in Killingworth where she was a life long resident. Ms. Hatch attended Beaver College in Pennsylvania and worked for New England Bell Telephone and its successors for 35 years. After her retirement she was an active member of the Pioneers. She also volunteered for the American Red Cross and was an active member and leader of the African Violet Club.

She is survived by two nieces, Roberta Gneib Rogers of Franklin Lakes, N.J., Betty Joyce Goewey of Prospect; one nephew, Donald J. Hatch of Falls Village and several grandnieces and nephews. Services will be private at Evergreen Cemetery by the family plot. Swan Funeral Home of Clinton is in charge of arrangements.

The Haddam Killingworth Babe Ruth (14-15) team is in the championships of the Shoreline Babe Ruth League tournament. HK (20-4) lost to league powerhouse Old Saybrook (22-1) Friday evening at Westbrook High School by a lopsided score of 15-5 in the opening game (best 2 out of 3 format). HK starting pitching and outfield defense were brutally tested early but leveled-off behind reliever Sean Zapatka. Killingworth's Dan Pucillo was two for two. Local players Brad Nuhn, Willy Tobelman and Ben Uihlein scored for HK. Manager Hilary Kumnick said "The solid pitching and flawless defense which got us all the way to this level were absent tonight... we should be able to hold any team below 5-runs".

HK previously beat Guilford, 1-0, in a nerve-wracking, opening round, ninth-inning walk-off game as previously reported last week. HK also defeated Branford, two straight (6-4 & 9-3), in the semi-finals. Tobelman and Ossa combined for the win in the first game aided by Zach Kumnick's baserunning and 2-RBI. Chris Bova went the distance on the mound in the clincher against Branford with locals Ossa, Kumnick, Tobelman and Uihlein combining for 10-hits.

Shoreline Babe Ruth (14-15 division) has 20 teams. The finalists were each #1 seeds from their respective leagues. HK faces Old Saybrook in championship game #2, Saturday, 10:00 a.m. at HKHS. Sunday game, (if necessary) at Westbrook High School, time TBA.

The Killingworth Democratic Town Committee is happy to let the citizens of Killingworth know of the upcoming visit of Ned Lamont to our town. Mr. Lamont, the challenger to Joe Lieberman for the US Senate seat , is scheduled to appear Tuesday afternoon, August 1, at 5:00 pm at the Sheldon Field pavilion. Lamont will be speaking and answering questions. The primary, on August 8th is only days away. The results will determine which of these two men will appear at the top of the Democratic ballot come November. This election is being watched nationally. Please come, listen, and ask your questions. Find out what all the fuss is about.

Voter registration forms will be available, along with local voting officials and campaign staffers to answer questions about eligibility for voting.

Michael J. Sanders, KDTC Chairman

CRAFTERS WANTED - Booths are still available for the 19th Annual Holiday Craft Fair sponsored by the Haddam-Killingworth Middle School PTO on Saturday, November 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Professional, juried crafters will offer a wide variety of handmade crafts, ranging from floral arrangements, jewelry, pottery, and furniture to a wide range of holiday ornaments and decorations, bee and alpaca products, woodcarvings, handmade kites and more. Come get a jump-start on your holiday shopping!

Admission is free. Breakfast treats, lunch, and snacks will be available at the fair all day, and the bake sale has goodies to take home. The PTO will use proceeds from the fair to enhance student activities at the Middle School throughout the year.

The craft fair will be held in the cafeteria of the Haddam Killingworth Middle/High School complex on Little City Road, Higganum.

If you are interested in renting space at the Craft Fair, please contact Marianne Fitzgerald at 860-345-2534.

Come to the HK Recreation Department to sign up for Six Flags New England or Lake Compounce tickets at a discounted price. Save time and money and avoid waiting in the long ticket lines at the parks.

Six Flags New England Tickets will be available through September 1st at the HK Recreation Office and are good for the '06 season. The fee is $32.50 for Adults and Juniors (36" and up). There is a $1.50 handling fee per ticket. The total fee per ticket would be $34. Children under 36" are free. Tickets are good for the whole day. (Regular admission prices are $50 for Adults - that is a $16 savings).

Lake Compounce Tickets will also be available from through September 1st at the HK Recreation Office and are good for the 06' season. The fee is $23.95 for Adults and Juniors (ages 4 & up). There is a $1.05 handling fee per ticket. The total fee per ticket would be $25. Children under 3 are free. Tickets are good for the whole day. (Regular admission is $32.95 - that is a $7.95 savings).

For more information and how to sign up for discounted tickets, please call the HK Recreation Dept. at 345-8334 or visit us on-line at www.hkrec.com.

Youth and Family Services of Haddam-Killingworth is proud to offer the Summer Program for the seventh straight year to H-K teens in grades 7-12. Students can choose from three exciting sessions where they will be able to experience unique adventures, learn useful skills and establish new friendships. Activities are conducted both on the high school campus and off. Group size during each session is limited. Participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Fee: $175/session (scholarships available).

Contact: Youth and Family Services of H-K Tel: 860.345.7498 or www.hkyfs.org Choose from the following 4-DAY Sessions: (Monday-Thursday, 9:00-3:00 pm. See registration and schedule for exceptions.)

July 31-August 3/Explorations in Nature: Do you love the outdoors? Grab your sense of adventure and join us for a week of activities on land and at sea. Explore the trails, plants and animals around you and celebrate your natural community.

Aug. 8-Aug. 11/Arts & Theater: During this session, participants will discover their own musical, artistic, and creative abilities through theatre, improv, and drawing. Local professionals will entertain and awaken your hidden talents!

Aug 14-Aug 17/Wet & Wild: Enjoy the last week of the Summer Program splashing down water slides, tubing through rapids, and fishing the tides.

During the first two weeks of August, Killingworth's Transfer Station will conduct a trial program in which cardboard and newspaper for recycling will be crushed on-site. Newspaper and cardboard usually accepted in the collection bin will be crushed in the large and currently unused blue compactor in the center of the Transfer Station, just past the entrance.

Town residents with cardboard and newspaper for recycling should bring it to the Transfer Station as they always have done. No special home separation process is necessary. Once at the waste collection facility, Transfer Station staffers with the assistance of the town's Pay As You Throw (PAYT) Committee will redirect the cardboard and newspaper to the compactor for crushing. The trial program results from the PAYT Committee's urging and endorsement from town selectmen as a way of improving efficiency and saving tax dollars at the town waste collection facility.

Currently, Killingworth's full bin of uncrushed newspaper and cardboard weighs about one and three quarter tons, usually requiring two loads per week to be taken to the regional processing center in Essex. The town truck hauling the bin is capable of carrying 20 tons. PAYT believes only one load every two weeks would be necessary by compacting on-site, with the projected annual savings of over $5000. Therefore PAYT, as the town committee studying and making improvement recommendations for the Transfer Station, has urged the two week program, with which selectmen have agreed.

The highly-popular and very successful mixed paper recycling collection program will continue as usual, unaffected by the trial newspaper and corrugated cardboard crushing experiment.

Based upon improved recycling and other steps during the past nine months, PAYT says its recommendations should result in a projected annual cost savings exceeding $10,000 at the Killingworth Transfer Station during the first year alone. Noting there are other cost savings steps and improvements planned, PAYT members say they are optimistic that town residents will continue to enthusiastically participate as they have to date.

To the Editor:
I used to like Joe Lieberman but he has a lot of problems these days. While some see him as being viciously attacked by the "radical left wing" of the Democratic Party many Connecticut Democrats just have a bad taste in their mouths when it comes to good old Joe.

Joe's biggest problem is that he has publicly and with heartfelt enthusiasm supported Gorge Bush in the lead up to the war in Iraq and also in every step along this wars road to catastrophe. Joe has said that we who oppose the war and question the Bush administration incompetence in matters of war, "undermine Presidential credibility at our nation's peril." Read more

Sharon M. (Curry) Felt, 58, beloved wife of 35 years to David E. Felt, died Saturday, July 22 at Middlesex Hospital surrounded by her family. Born April 11, 1948 in Hartford, daughter of William R. Curry of Glastonbury and the late Loretta (Donovan) Curry, she had lived in Killingworth for the past 30 years. She was the loving and devoted mother of her two children, Jeremy Felt of Holyoke, Mass., and Jessica Felt of Madison. She is also survived by two brothers and a sister-in-law, Bill Curry of Glastonbury and Tom and Kimberly Curry of Cromwell, two sisters and brothers-in-law, Mary and Joseph Poisson of Grantham, N.H., and Barbara and Bill Brimmer of Newtown; her godparents Uncle John and Aunt Ellen Donovan of Durham; her nieces and nephews, Michael Poisson, Kelley Flynn, Erin Burrows, Matthew Brimmer, Andrew, Sean and Aidan Curry; and many dear friends at Aetna. She was pre-deceased by a nephew, John Poisson. A graveside service took place Monday, July 24, Memorial contributions may be made to the Middlesex Hospital Hospice Unit, Crescent St., Middletown 06457.

Barbara E. Henderson, 62, of Essex, died Sunday, July 23, at Yale New Haven Hospital. She was born in New York City, NY on September 23, 1943. She and her surviving husband, John, lived in Clinton and Killingworth for 38 years before moving to Essex in 2005. She was known for her interests in gardening, singing, and the environment. She served on various committees and commissions dealing with recycling and the environment in both Clinton and Killingworth. She was a founding member, along with her husband, of the Yale Alumni Chorus, and toured with that group in China, Russia, Ireland, Scotland and England in recent years. Besides her husband, she is survived by two sons, David M. Henderson and his wife, Dr. Nancy Kim of Branford, and John A. Henderson of Quincy, MA; and two grandsons, John and William Henderson of Branford. She is also survived by her sisters, Joan Metcalf of New York City, and Lynn Pressprich of Poughkeepsie, NY; and her brother-in-law, S. Warren Metcalf of New York City. The time and location of a Celebration of Life service will be announced in the near future. Memorial donations may be made to First Congregational Church, 6 Methodist Hill, Essex, CT 06426. Arrangements by Robinson, Wright & Weymer Funeral Home, Centerbrook.

The Board of Selectmen approved the motion last night to have Lover's Lane remain open until icing becomes an issue or the Board of Selectmen determines to close it for safety reasons. Selectman Fred Dudek proposed that the road remain open until December first and that the Board, not the First Selectman, have the authority to close and open the road. Dudek and Selectman Ed Sipples voted in favor; First Selectman Marty Klein abstained. Sipples then added his own motion that two road signs be added, restricting the speed on Lover's Lane between Rt.148 and the cemetery to 15 mile per hour. The proposal was approved 3-0.

Dudek said he had a problem with the road being open for a few days and then closed again. He also said the concrete blocks that have been recently used to close the road made it impassable for emergency vehicles. The road is currently open.

Town Attorney Michael Wells was present at the request of Klein to explain the Town's legal responsibility when it comes to the road. He said there is no dispute that there is a defect with the road, so if an accident were to occur, the Town would be liable. Klein said having the road remain open with standing water across it leaves the Town wide open to a lawsuit. Dudek and Sipples agreed they understood the risks. Residents turned out in support of opening the road and commented that it had never been closed in the summer before and that several Town roads have defects and are not similarly closed.

Wells said by State Statute, the First Selectman has the power to close Town roads temporarily. In order to close a road permanently, it would have to be approved by the Board of Selectmen, the Planning and Zoning Commission and then approved at a Town Meeting. Last night's motion restricts the First Selectman's powers except in cased of an unforeseen event or emergency.

Dudek requested that Town engineers Howard Pfrommer and Nathan Jacobson & Associates attend a Selectmen's meeting to re-present the proposal approved by the previous administration for fixing Lover's Lane. The proposal called for the cutting of a trench across the road and the laying of pipes to facilitate the movement of water. Jacobson had requested a permit for the work from the Inland Wetlands Commission, but Klein pulled the permit before the IWWC could vote on it. At the time, Klein said he didn't want to spend any more money on the road, after receiving a $5,000 bill for the permitting process. IWWC Chairman Wayne Addy, present at last night's meeting, said he didn't think the proposal would pass in its present form. Klein also said the State Department of Environmental Protection may not allow the cutting of the trench. Dudek and Sipples agreed that the investigation into fixing the road should resume.

This month, Killingworth Democratic Town Committee member Susan P. Dean writes in support of gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy.

Dan Malloy was elected in 1995 as mayor of Stamford in a landslide vote, a remarkable event since Stamford is almost 75% Republican. Popular in Republican Fairfield County as well as Democratic strongholds across the state, Malloy is now in his fourth term as mayor. He has proven himself capable of bipartisan cooperation and coordination in getting things done for all his constituents and is the candidate with the best credentials to defeat the current governor in November.

During Malloy's terms as mayor, Stamford has been ranked as the 11th safest city in the nation. There has been a double-digit reduction in the crime rate, bringing it to a 30-year-low. Malloy has restructured and revitalized city government with its 3,000 employees and initiated programs that have made city government more accessible. In addition to open office hours, his administration has created a Citizen's Service Bureau to bolster the citizen's stake in the community. full story.

Former Haddam-Killingworth High School baseball standout, Cory Riordan finished up a strong sophomore year at Fordham University and this summer, is playing for the Falmouth Commodores in the Cape Cod Baseball League.

According to Fordham Athletics, Riordan, the 2005 Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year, went 4-3 with a 4.94 ERA for the Rams in 2006, despite missing a month of the season with an injury. He struck out 35 in 58.1 innings of work and threw one complete game.

Read a profile of Riordan in The Source.

The Haddam-Killingworth Recreation Department presents The Kerry Boys, on Friday, July 28 from 7-9:00 p.m. at Sheldon Park. With support from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, the Kerry Boys comes to Killingworth. Originally from County Kerry Ireland, this Irish trio has dazzled fans of all ages from Maine to New York with their humorous high-energy performances and engaging style of Irish ballads and sea songs. The band sings pristine harmonies rarely heard anymore, which are accompanied with powerful and expressive instrumentation such as mandolin, guitar and banjo. Bring the family out for a fun night of clapping and singing with songs from Ireland and the sea!

The Killingworth Library Association is offering a unique volunteer opportunity. The library is looking for a volunteer to assess the value of books that may be worth more than face value. The ability to sell books on eBay for the Library is a plus. Please call head Librarian, Tammy Eustis at 663-2000.

Agenda
Regular Meeting of the Board of Selectmen
Monday, July 24, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.
Town Office Building

1. Call to Order
2. Approval of Minutes of Meeting held July 10, 2006
3. Visitors: R. Welsch, M. Wells, Esq., D. Berry
4. Tax Abatements & Refunds
5. Appointments/Vacancies:
    1. ZBA Alternate
6. Old Business:
    1. Lover's Lane - M. Wells, Esq.
    2. Affordable Housing
7. New Business:
    1. Land Conveyance/Green Hill Rd. - M. Wells, Esq.
    2. Budget FY 2005/2006
    3. Computer RFP Bid Opening
8. MK Announcements:
9. Selectmen's Concerns
10. Adjournment
Agenda as of 11:50 a.m. Friday, 7/21/06
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This hand quilted and hand appliquéd Amish quilt in the Country Rose pattern is the grand prize in the Congregational Church in Killingworth's 2006 Quilt Raffle. The quilt will be awarded to one lucky winner at the 47th Annual Country Fair on Saturday, August 5th. (But, the winner does not need to be present to win the quilt.) The cotton quilt, in shades of burgundy and green appliquéd onto a white hand quilted background, is sized to fit on either a queen or king size bed. Quilt tickets can be purchased for $1 each at the church office, and will also be sold at the fair, and at the Chicken BBQ and Classic Car Show, Friday night, August 4th, from 5 to 8pm at the church.