Menus pg 3 10-28-21
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Tuesday: No school - Professional Development
Putnam Elementary/Middle
Monday - Breakfast for lunch - elementary: French toast sticks, scrambled eggs, hash browns. Middle: Waffle sticks with fruit topping, scrambled eggs, hash browns. Wednesday: Spaghetti, meatballs, broccoli, fruit. Thursday: Popcorn chicken potato bowls, corn, fruit. Friday: Cheese pizza, salad, fruit.
Putnam High
Monday: Pasta Bolognese or spicy chicken sandwiches. Wednesday: Chicken burrito power bowls or turkey day panini. Thursday: Nachos Grande or calzone pizza boli. Friday: Stuffed-crust pizza or mozzarella sticks.
Woodstock Elementary/Middle
Everyday: Fruit. Monday: Cheeseburgers. Wednesday: Chicken tenders, mashed potatoes. Thursday: Ziti, meatballs, green beans. Friday: Pizza, salad.
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Interact pg 4 10-28-21
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Interact Motto: Help/Fun
The Putnam Rotary Club’s Interact Club helped the Quinebaug Middle College students and parents who in turn helped TEEG with its Halloween Festival Oct. 23. Interact Advisor Roberta Rocchetti thanked them and said: “We had fun handing out candy and helping children with arts and crafts and games. Thank you Zoie Castillo, Ashlee Goss, Vanessa Mercado, Vincent Moore and Rene Lajuenesse, Meadow Bulan and Justice Henderson and Suzette Lefevre.” From left: Zoie Castillo, Ashley Goss, Justice Henderson and Meadow Bulan. Courtesy photo.
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Dry pg 5 10-28-21
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By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
WOODSTOCK — Rural ponds will be transformed into modern day bucket brigades after a dry hydrant was installed across from the Muddy Brook Fire Department Oct. 20.
Woodstock Fire Marshal Richard Baron was supervising the installation of a dry hydrant in the pond. Land owner Mark Billings, a one-time member of the fire department, gave the department permission for the dry hydrant to be installed.
Within the next few weeks, Baron said, a second dry hydrant will be installed in a pond at Fairholm Farm Inc. off Chandler School Road.
Both will draft a minimum of 1,000 gallons per minute, Baron said. “That’s the minimum,” he said. “I expect more.”
Many dry hydrants consist of a pipe coming out of a pond turning upward at a 90-degree angle.
Baron said the dry hydrants being installed will instead leave the pond and come to the surface at 45 degrees which will help increase the volume of water being drafted.
Tanker trucks will fill, drafting out of the pond and go to the scene of a blaze in the hydrant-less section of Woodstock where firefighters will attach their hoses to the tanker. The tanker will also build more pressure to the water as it exits the truck.
Baron said the two dry hydrants are funded with a 50-50 DEEP state grant under the forestry division. Part of the 50-50 for the dry hydrant across from Muddy Brook involved hiring Young Excavation to do the work.
Baron said it’s unlikely the ponds will ever run dry as they are spring fed. Straw was spread over the mud that popped up while the installation was done and two large boulders were placed next to the pipe to protect it.
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Hunter pg 5 10-28-21
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Hunter pace in
Pomfret enjoyed
by 100+ riders
POMFRET — More than 100 riders enjoyed a 6-mile-trail on one of Pomfret’s oldest farms on a warm October day. The first Chandler Farm Hunter Pace was hosted by owners Katy Holzer, Alex Williams, and Marjorie Corker-Holzer as a fund-raiser for the Pomfret Horse and Trail Association, which supports open space and trail development.
Katy and Alex worked for months to cut trails through woods and fields and create a family-friendly, cross-country course with 34 jumps for all levels of riding.
Riders competed in divisions which ranged from jumping to slower-paced trail riding. They aimed for a “fox-hunting” pace which adjusts for the terrain and simulates the varying speeds of following hounds.
The course began at Chandler Farm, which was established in 1708 in the north end of Pomfret. It continued through neighboring land thanks to the generosity of owners Barbara Lussier, Robert Craig, and the Wyndham Land Trust.
The Pomfret Horse and Trail Association is a non-profit organization established in 2007 to support the centuries-old trail system for riders and hikers in Pomfret.
Proceeds from fund-raisers are donated to the Wyndham Land Trust, the Audubon Society in Pomfret, Tyrone Farm, the Last Green Valley, the New England Forestry Foundation, the Connecticut Horse Council, and the Windham-Tolland 4H Horse Camp.
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