Putnam Elementary/Middle
Monday: Orange popcorn chicken in orange glaze, brown rice, broccoli, fruit. Tuesday: Macaroni and cheese, squash, fruit. Wednesday: Hot dogs or mini corndogs. Thursday: Fiesta Taco Bowls. Friday: Stuffed-crust pizza, salad, fruit.
Putnam High
Monday: Rodeo BBQ rib sandwiches or spicy chicken sandwiches. Tuesday: Chicken bacon ranch Panini or bacon cheeseburgers. Wednesday: Mozzarella sticks with marinara sauce or chicken and cheese quesadilla. Thursday: Nachos Grande or calzone pizza Boli. Friday: Free Picnic – Hamburgers or pasta salad.
Woodstock Elementary/Middle
Monday: Cheeseburgers, cucumber cups, fruit. Tuesday: French toast sticks, sausage, hash browns, fruit. Wednesday: Popcorn chicken, mashed potatoes, carrots, fruit. Thursday: Tacos, refried beans, fruit. Friday: No School – Professional Development.
The Pomfret Community School menus were not received by deadnline.

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Legal Notice
Town of Pomfret
PLANNING AND
ZONING COMMISSION
The Pomfret Planning & Zoning Commission acted upon the following applications at its recent meeting of August 18, 2021:
1. Robert & Joan Macneil, 73 Cooney Road, 2-lot re-subdivision; APPROVED with conditions.
2. Robert & Joan Macneil, 73 Cooney Road, special permit for re-subdivision with rear lot; APPROVED.
3. Wayne Orloski for Peter Schultz, 69 Ragged Hill Road, special permit application for a 22’ x 46’ building; APPROVED.
4. J.A.S. Design & Screen-Printing, 589 Pomfret Street, special permit application for a manual screen-printing, embroidery, graphic/web design, sublimination/heat press products, and photography.  Keeping with the theme of the house, the applicant plans to maintain the garden and presence that Martha’s Herbery had by offering small gatherings like baby/bridal showers, yoga, etc. in the garden area; APPROVED.

Town of Pomfret
Planning & Zoning
Commission
Dated this 21st day
of August 2021

Lynn L. Krajewski,
Clerk

Aug. 25, 2021

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In recent weeks I have heard this word frequently, either on the TV or online in news feed videos, most notably, in reference to Olympic athletes.  The announcers and the athletes themselves widely used this term whenever referencing their athletic journey over the past almost two years of ‘stop and start’ that was the pandemic Olympic training plan.
I’d like to say that I can imagine how challenging that must have been, but, alas, despite my best grade school hopes of one day being an elite figure skater (or rhythm gymnast, or cross-country skier…) I do not know AT ALL what it would feel like to train your body to peak at a certain time and then have to wait…try it again…wait…and now?  Of course these athletes needed to adjust, and quite frankly, isn’t it way cooler to say ‘pivot’ than ‘adjust’?  However, pivot doesn’t really mean adjust or evolve, it sort of means to turn or revolve, denoting that there is a fixed point one is tied to. In fully and correctly using this newly cool word on my recent 8-hour flight back to the Motherland I had to find new and meaningful ways to pivot in order to keep my aching body functioning, not so I could strive for a gold medal, but simply, so that I could actually walk off the plane…
Eight hours on a plane is a long time, especially when you add in the time it takes for the pre-boarding requirements of all the ‘waiting’.  All in, if I factor in the time it takes to drive to the airport, an 8-hour flight can turn into a 12-plus hour day of sitting. Before I have even parked my rear-end into my narrow airplane seat, I am already in need of a visit to a chiropractor!  Eight hours on an airplane with aisles just barely wide enough to accommodate a side-ways saunter to avoid a simultaneous bumping of two rows of passengers, requires ample opportunities for a well-directed pivot.
At home, in the same travel time frame, I would have taken several quick walks to the bathroom, eaten a meal (and a snack), watched a movie, surfed the internet, solved a crossword puzzle, read a couple of chapters in a book and slept!  Each sedentary activity would induce body movements that felt natural and necessary, keeping my back and neck from aching. On the airplane, I tried to do all these things, but since my body was tethered to a seemingly ever-restricting chair, I needed to constantly pivot in order to maintain some semblance of comfort.
Pivoting to the left offered me an opportunity to expand into the fuselage, but the window, although enjoyable to look out of, seemed inexplicably distanced from where my head could naturally rest and, more suited to someone (or something) with a much longer neck, such as a giraffe.
Pivoting to the right got me closer to the comforting arm (or shoulder) of my husband, but there was an immovable armrest in-between us which served as a hard reminder to pivot elsewhere lest I wanted a bruised rib cage. In the end, I gave in to my inability to effectively pivot and just tilted my head back…that’s when I discovered that the individual vent controls on the planes have been removed!
Adjust. Adjust.
Kathy Naumann, possessor of NATURALLY curly hair and the understanding that you can’t control everything!

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