Legal Notice
Town of Pomfret
Public Hearing
Notice
Planning and Zoning
Commission
The Pomfret Planning & Zoning Commission will hold the following Public Hearing at its in-person meeting on December 21, 2022, starting at 7:00 PM.

1. J&D Civil Engineering for G. Daigle, 128 Orchard Hill Road, special permit application for an interior lot.

A copy of the application is on file in the office of the Planning and Zoning Commission, 5 Haven Road, Pomfret Center, Connecticut.

Town of Pomfret
Dated this 5th day
of December 2022

Lynn L. Krajewski,
Clerk
Planning & Zoning
Commission


Dec. 7, 2022
Dec. 14, 2022

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PUTNAM — Day Kimball Hospital has once again been nationally recognized with an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for achieving the highest national standards in patient safety. This national distinction celebrates Day Kimball Hospital’s achievements in protecting patients from preventable harm and errors and providing safer patient care. Day Kimball Hospital has also been honored with an “A” grade in both the spring 2021 release and the fall 2021 release, as well as the spring 2022 release of the Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grade.
“Our patients rely on Day Kimball to deliver safe, high-quality care, and receiving an ‘A’ hospital safety grade four times in a row from a highly respected group like Leapfrog speaks to Day Kimball’s dedication, commitment, and teamwork to making patient safety a top priority,” said Kyle Kramer, CEO, Day Kimball Healthcare. “Ensuring that northeast Connecticut’s residents have access to high-quality, compassionate care is a commitment that everyone in our organization takes very seriously, and it motivates each and every one of us to do our very best each and every day as we serve our community. I am beyond proud of our entire team’s hard work and dedication which has enabled us to achieve this distinction from Leapfrog once again.”
“Day Kimball Hospital is committed to the highest levels of patient safety, and receiving four consecutive “A” grades for our efforts by a nationally recognized organization like Leapfrog is a testament to the excellent care we provide”, said Dr. Martin Durtschi, vice president, Medical Affairs and Quality for Day Kimball Healthcare. ”This important distinction truly reflects our ongoing commitment to clinical standards of excellence and our resolve to improve the health and well-being of the community we serve. I am so grateful to our diligent and dedicated team and the exceptional job they do staying focused on patient safety to protect them from harm.”

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Many of you already know that I enjoy knitting. As much as I enjoy it, I will admit, however, that I am not very good at it. What I am good at is knitting in a straight line and so I make A LOT of scarves. And because I make mostly scarves, I often try to vary their type and length. Sometimes I make a chunky infinity scarf or a narrow and longer scarf. Sometimes I buy a special yarn or several colors within the same type of yarn and knit a color block type of scarf. Recently, I combined two different colors of yarn and knit them (at the same time) together. This resulted in a very pretty scarf and an easy technique that I will repeat. But as much as I have mastered knitting a simple scarf, I am still never quite sure what the right length of the scarf should be and, therefore, when I should cast-off? No matter how many scarves I have knit (think at least 75), I am still always apprehensive about casting-off. At this point in my scarf knitting career, I should feel not only confident in my abilities to make a scarf with an appropriate length, but also accomplished in finishing a scarf. Ironically, I feel neither confident nor accomplished about the whole casting-off process. Recently, I realized why this is so…
Casting-off, to me, feels final as if there is never an opportunity to go back to fix the length of the scarf. As a result, while I am still knitting the scarf, I start to anticipate that I will need to cast-off ‘soon-ish’ and so I start wrapping the scarf around my own neck to get a feel for if it will be the right length. Then I think about who I am making the scarf for. Are they taller? Shorter? I consider the type of scarf I am knitting, and do I want it to drape around the neck once? Twice? Or maybe even three times? Without a doubt, my casting-off hesitation and lack of confidence in estimating scarf length has resulted in nearly every scarf I make being too long. One time, in my attempt to make a cool color-block scarf for my very tall husband, I think I overshot the length by about 4 feet! I am still living that one down…
The other reason why I am always so hesitant to cast-off is because I really only enjoy knitting scarves. Scarves, or at least the scarves I knit, are simple to make and require relatively little of my attention. I can (and often do) knit while I am watching TV or having a conversation. Knitting keeps my hands occupied and my creative side satisfied. And when I cast-off, it means that the scarf which I really did not need to make in the first place, is done. This makes me somewhat sad because I will then have to decide WHO I can make another scarf for the next time I have a yearning to pick up my needles and knit again…
Hobby! Hobby!
Kathy Naumann, possessor of NATURALLY curly hair and the understanding that you can’t control everything!