The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/2018/04/page/3/)
Sharon E. (Smith) Beneski
February 13, Age 75
Janet Devlin
February 13, Age 86
Michael “Meho” Alexopoulous
February 15, Age 86
Florence Miarecki
February 19, Age 95
Claude E. Rice
February 21, Age 70
Charles Donaghy
February 24
Anna Gilbert
February 25, Age 101
Leon Keith Markwell
February 27, Age 90
Rosemarie Lownds
March 1, Age 88
Janet Aidan Lapinski
March 7, Age 80
Robert Hinkley
March 12, Age 82
Photo by Lester Smith
The wet snowstorm of March 13 is seen through a picture window in mid-afternoon.
Suffield Youth Services and Suffield Senior Center are partnering to create a Senior to Senior Breakfast. On April 28, from 9 to 11a.m. Suffield High School seniors will be cooking a pancake breakfast for senior citizens. The breakfast will include pancakes, sausage, fruit, orange juice, coffee and tea. After breakfast there will be games, puzzles and bingo! Senior citizens, come join us and create intergenerational friendships!
Parkinson’s Peer Support Group meets monthly on the third Monday of each month at 10:15 a.m. The group’s goal is to share ideas and resources in the management and treatment of Parkinson’s. Caregivers are welcome and encouraged to attend. Topics vary monthly. Refreshments are served. The next meeting is April 16.
The West Suffield Village Improvement Assocation will hold its annual tag sale at Academy Hall (1499 Mountain Road) on Saturday, April 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Donations will be accepted the mornings of April 5 and 6 from 8 a.m. to noon. We are happy to accept any items except clothing. Snow date will be April 8. Following the tag sale, Academy Hall may be booked for rental for parties, receptions and family events. Our rates are very reasonable.
Celebrate the arrival of spring with two weeks of school vacation programming. Explore three giant exhibit hangars filled with over sixty historic aircraft, plus:
Hands-on Build & Fly Challenges
Interactive Flight Science Demonstrations
Open Cockpit Experiences in historic aircraft
Computerized Flight Simulators
In addition, the following special events are scheduled:
Monday April 9: Balsa Wood Airplane Workshop 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Build and fly a balsa wood model airplane. This workshop is for children ages 3 and older, must be accompanied by an adult. There is a $5 cost per model kit. Tuesday, April 10: LEGO Flying Machine Contest 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Children ages 3-13 can construct flying machines using the Museum’s LEGOs. Winners will be awarded prizes in three age categories.
In our February issue, the Observer published a description of the pavement problems on the newly-relocated Lake Road, and First Selectman Melissa Mack provided a comprehensive description of a remediation program in her Observer column in March. The program had been worked out with input from residents along with planning sessions with Town Engineer Gerry Turbet, Highway Foreman Mark Cervione, and representatives of Crestview Construction, the Southwick company that now owns the major portion of the new road. Crestview had built the road as one of the conditions of their purchase of the property to harvest sand and gravel from elsewhere on the 74-acre parcel. Viewed on March 12, just before the heavy, wet snowfall, the road had no significant potholes, but its surface was largely a rather coarse gravel that made for a noisy ride. From the First Selectman’s report, one can expect that this surface, being built up where required, will eventually be covered with processed aggregate and finally paved.
The 16th Seduction by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro and Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene
Prevention: (Noun); the action of stopping something from happening or arising. This is what the Suffield Local Prevention Council (SLPC) is all about. My name is Nikki Lengyel and I am the new Chairperson for the SLPC. I am incredibly excited to be a part of this important group that strives to make a positive change and raise awareness on multiple matters in the Suffield community. In the past, the Council has focused primarily on the topic of opioids due to the current crisis and concerning numbers of overdoses involving opioids.
In December of 2017 The Suffield Rotary Club made a generous donation to The Suffield Players for rebuilding the exterior steps on both sides of historic Mapleton Hall. To ensure the safety of theater patrons and members, The Players had been left with no choice but to replace both those staircases in the fall of 2017. An ambitious fundraising campaign to offset the costs of the project was appropriately named: “Step Up.”
“We are thrilled by the support of the Suffield Rotary Club,” said Suffield Players Facilities Manager Jerry Zalewski. “The South Hall steps had been rebuilt in late 2005, and the North Hall’s in early 2007. Though we expected them to last more than 10 years, the materials and construction had failed.