Public Hearing/

Legal Notice

Town of Pomfret

Planning and

Zoning

Commission

The Pomfret Planning & Zoning Commission will hold the following Public Hearings on Monday, February 23, 2015, starting at 7:00 PM at the Pomfret Senior Center:

 

1. An application by Pomfret Little League, 63 Hampton Road, for the replacement of existing dugouts and snack shed

2. An application by Pomfret Little League, 63 Hampton Road, for the addition of outdoor sports lighting

 

Dated this 5th day

of February 2015

Town of Pomfret

Planning & 

Zoning Commission

Lynn L. Krajewski, 

Clerk

 

Feb. 11, 2015

Feb. 18, 2015

 

 

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Awards

Members of the Quest Martial Arts in Putnam attended a tournament recently, taking home many awards. Courtesy photo.

 

 

PUTNAM — Students from Quest Martial Arts in Putnam attended the Ed Vargas scholarship Tournament in Meriden, taking many awards:

Colby Babbitt 3rd in Forms, 2nd Sparring, 3rd in Breaking 

Nicholas Boligan 3rd in Forms, 1st in Sparring, 

2nd in Breaking

Mathew Card 2nd in forms, 3rd in Sparring 3rd in Breaking

Arianna Garnsey 1st in Forms, 1st in Sparring, 

1st in Breaking

Jeff Gibbs     3rd in Forms,Sparring and Breaking

Diedrea Hanshaw 3rd in Forms, 1st in Sparring, 

3rd in Breaking

Sebastian Hanshaw    3rd in Forms, 1st in Sparring, 

3rd in Breaking

Jacob Mainhart 1st in Sparring

David May 1st in Sparring

Molly McKeon 1st in Forms, 2nd in Breaking

Kyle Pazienza 2nd in Forms,1st in Sparring, 

3rd in Breaking

AlishiaThompson 1st in Forms, 2nd in Sparring, 

3rd in Breaking

Isabella Selmecki 1st in Forms, 1st in Sparring, 

3rd in Breaking

Scott Selmecki 3rd in Forms, 3rd in Sparring, 

2nd in Breaking

Zach Rainville 2nd in Sparring

Watts Herideen-Woodruff 2nd in Forms, 

2nd in Sparring, 2nd in Breaking

 

Centaur hockey win

WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Academy ice hockey team (8-5) defeated Hall/Southington Feb. 14, 5-2

First period:

WA Nathan Deluca assist Austin Beaupre 10:53

Hall Ocean Curling assist Kyler Cubbage 6:15

WA  Ryan Black assist Deluca Beaupre 2:53

WA Deluca unassisted (shorthanded) 1:26

Second period:

WA Deluca assist Zack Burnham, Black 9:21

WA Will Liscomb unassisted :58

Third period:

Hall Cubbage assisted Jeremy Fortin

Tucker Johns made 29 saves on 31 shots for the win for the Centaurs.

 

 

By Ron P. Coderre

I initially met Joan Scraba when I was a seventh grade student at St. Mary School.  At the time I was proud to know her, but looking back, I was probably just another kid to her.

The time was the spring of 1954, she was a 21-year-old, first-time mother and I was a basketball player for the St. Mary’s Crusaders coached by Joan’s husband Stanley Scraba.  The occasion was a spaghetti dinner at their apartment on Livery Street (pre-Flood of 1955) in honor of the team.

Despite the newborn baby, Susan Scraba, who had just been brought home from the hospital, Joan and Coach Scraba were hosting seven junior high school players as a reward for the recently completed season.  As I recall, the spaghetti dinner was plentiful and delicious and went off without a hitch.

Over the years I came to know Joan Scraba much better.  Everything she did in life, she did just like the spaghetti dinner.  No problem.  No obstacles.  Joan Scraba was a humble person, always with a smile and a welcoming hello, whatever the situation.

Sadly the news of Joan Scraba’s death in Stuart, Fla., on Sunday, February 8 reached Putnam.  It was shocking to those of us who knew and appreciated her. 

The memories of accompanying a gang of developmentally disabled teens and adults from the Dempsey Center to the Scraba cottage on Lake Alexander were just like the spaghetti dinner.  Joan was waiting, smile on her face, sandwiches piled high waiting to be devoured, swimming area roped off and no matter how boisterous or noisy the group, the ever-present smile was there.

As I moved on to adulthood our relationship changed but Joan never did.  Whether it was walking into the Delaney or Archambault Insurance agencies as an alderman, Joan Scraba was pleasant and always had time an interest in the kid who played for St. Mary’s and was at the spaghetti dinner.

Later in life, my phone would ring and it would be Stan and Joan Scraba calling from Florida or the lake, just to talk.  Positive and upbeat the conversation would always end with the pair saying, “Say hello to your sister Dee and tell Donna we said hi.”  Dee and the Scrabas became friends when she toured them through the Pentagon, a deed they never forgot.

Joan Scraba like many other s had her down moments in life.  She lost her eldest son Stanley Thomas in a tragic automobile accident.  Although I’m certain she hurt inside, she maintained her positive upbeat nature.  The loss of her husband in 2013 was surely heart breaking for her and probably partly to blame for her demise.

She was proud in a non-boastful way of her children, Susan and Paula, who forged exemplary careers in education and Mark, Christopher and Sean, who like their dad are proud military men.  But despite all the things she had to be proud of, with Joan Scraba it was always about you and your family.

She was a great wife, mother, grandmother, employee and even a public servant.  It was however, never for her benefit.  It was always about helping her family and helping others.  There will never be a statue in the square of Joan Scraba but those who knew her will have a portrait of her etched in their minds that will remind them of a good woman and citizen.

 

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