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Historical society remembers local icons

In her first lecture and slide show of 2015, “The People Next Door,” held Jan. 17 at the Plainville Historic Cen-ter, Nancy Eberhardt, president of the historical society, had set out to shed light on the lives of local icons and longtime residents Alfred Hep-worth, Frank and Bertha Wheeler, the Rogers family and Dr. George Cook.

Eberhardt had sought to present a program on exploring why the above residents who started out as regular local neighbors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries had become

very important to the overall histor-ical tapestry that formed Plainville.

For example, Plainville resident Alfred Hepworth was already well-known as a carpenter and cabinet maker when he began to show an interest in painting portraits and Plainville scenes. Most of the ex-amples of Hepworth’s artistic trea-sures are painted on wood that was left over from his carpentry shop. “He was a Yankee,” Eberhardt said with a smile. “Yankees didn’t waste anything.”

Several of Hepworth’s large painted works from the early 20th

By Ken DiMauroSpecial to The Citizen

Nancy Eberhardt, president of the Plainville Historical Society, shows one of the Alfred Hepworth landscapes on display at the historic center museum. | Ken DiMauro / For The CitizenSee Icons / Page 3

The fate of the old Linden Street School is still up in the air, but will be the subject of a town forum Thursday, Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. in the coun-cil chambers.

In November, voters rejected a referendum that would have autho-rized $2.64 million to tear the build-ing down. A $1.5 million state grant to assist the town with the demolition is available, but the deadline to accept it may soon pass.

“There is no time line on it but the state won’t keep it hanging out there if we don’t use it,” Town Manager Robert E. Lee said. With the grant, the cost to the town to demolish the old school will be about $1 million. “Some people are still telling us they don’t want the town to spend $2.6

million, so there’s some confusion on the cost to the taxpayers,” Lee said.

At the forum, options for the old school, which was closed in 2009, will be discussed. “A small group of people said the town should fix it up for another form of use and taking it down isn’t in the best interest of the town,” Lee said. “But there would be a cost of $4 [million] to $6 million to renovate it versus a cost of $1 million to take it down.”

Lee also said the old school is at-tached to the new Linden Street School, which limits what can be done with it. “There is no parking available and parking for the existing school is full, so traffic is a nightmare.”

Other options for the old school, including to use it for senior hous-ing or offices, are also impractical, ac-cording to Lee. “Since it’s attached to

Fate of Old Linden Street School will be discussed in forum Feb. 5By Ken LiebeskindThe Plainville Citizen “A small group of people said the town should fix it up

for another form of use and taking it down isn’t in the best interest of the town. But there would be a cost of $4 [million] to $6 million to renovate it versus a cost of $1 million to take it down.”

Town Manager Robert E. Lee

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School Su-perintendent Jeffrey Kitch-ing presented his proposed 2015-16 bud-get of $34.7 m i l l i o n t o the Plainville Board of Edu-cation during budget workshop sessions, Jan.

Kitching proposes $34.7M budgetBy Ken LiebeskindThe Plainville Citizen

Kitching

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the new school there are se-curity issues,” the town man-

ager said, adding that turning it into a community center would be impractical because of the cost.

Lee and School Superin-tendent Jeffery Kitching will speak at the forum and the public will be invited to com-ment. “We’ll see what other ideas are out there and the council will decide if the best option is to demolish or what else to pursue,” Lee said.

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21, 22 and 27. The board will approve the budget in Feb-ruary and present it to the Town Council on March 2.

The budget increase of $1.1 million is a 3.27 percent in-crease, the largest in recent years. Kitching said, “The last five budgets have been under a 1 percent rise and we’ve done really exciting things and made effective changes in the school district.”

Salaries for the entire staff will be $22.8 million, up 4.3 percent, with teacher sala-ries up 3.82 percent to $15.2 million.

The teacher salaries rep-resent 70 percent of staff salaries, with raises based on wage and step increases. “The teachers are in the fi-nal year of their contract and we are not looking to reduce teaching positions this year,” Kitching said.

The district will earmark $254,000 to technology, a to-tal that remains flat, out of design. “If you don’t fund technology with an annual replacement cycle the next thing you know you have a $1.5 million cost to get tech-nology updated,” Kitching said. “The plan is designed to keep it all up and running without large funding peaks and valleys.”

The district will apply for a state grant to update tech-nology that would reduce the $254,000 cost and the to-tal budget. The application will be submitted in February and the town will hear back by April or May. If a state grant is used to fund tech purchases the budget will be reduced by .5 percent and the total increase will be 2.7 per-cent, Kitching said.

The new technology that has been funded recently “has allowed us to upgrade and reorganize our network,” Kitching said. “We have net-work wireless connections in all schools, fiber connec-tions in all buildings and ev-ery student in grades 5-12 gets a Chromebook they can take home every day. It’s changed the way our teachers teach.”

While many other school districts are reporting in-creased health care costs of 7 percent, Plainville’s will re-main flat in 2015-16 at just be-low $3.8 million, saving the town more than $267,000. “Health insurance benefit plans have been renegotiated within various contracts that resulted in significant savings and future cost avoidance,” Kitching said.

Health insurance is one of many items on the budget proposal that has remained flat.

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The Barque Eagle Division of the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps and United States Navy League Cadet Corps has sched-uled drills for Tuesday, Feb. 3 and Wednes-day, Feb. 18, 6:45 to 9 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 21, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Naval Operational Support Center, 1 Linsley Drive, Plainville.

The USNSCC is open to young men and

women ages 13 to 17, and the USNLCC is open to girls and boys ages 11 to 13. Anyone interested in learning more about the ca-det corps is encouraged to come to the next scheduled drill. More information about the Plainville division of the USNSCC and USNLCC is available at www.barque-ea-gle-division.org.

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century grace the walls of the interior of the Plainville Historic Center. While he was a talented artist who ap-parently enjoyed doing land-scapes and still scenes, he also had a penchant for por-traits. Hepworth would paint portraits of friends, neigh-bors and associates to keep in practice, and once the artwork was completed, he would give the painting to the subject or his family.

Eberhardt particularly likes Hepworth’s outdoor scenes of the area near New Britain Avenue and Cooke Street. When one landscape show-ing a rural scene highlighted the exterior of Cooke’s Tav-ern was recently restored and carefully cleaned, the detail was amazing. One could see chickens that formerly were hidden by many years of dirt and grime, Eberhardt told the more than 30 people attend-ing the program.

During Hepworth’s long life, he lived on East Street,

then moved to Elbow Road and finally purchased a “fix-er-upper,” a saltbox style 1770s-built house on New Britain Avenue that needed some of his woodworking expertise and tender loving care. Eberhardt said Hep-worth indicated it only took him 25 years or so to get it in the condition he wanted.

Hepworth did have for-mal art training, learning art when he went to school in New York City. Eberhardt is proud of the Hepworth paint-ings that are in the collec-tion at the historical society. During his 86 years of life, he was fairly prolific artistically. Members of the historical society are convinced there are other “undiscovered” examples of Hepworth’s art throughout New England. He died in 1962.

While Alfred Hepworth’s surviving artwork makes him historically noteworthy, it was the philanthropy work of local residents Frank and

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The Plainville Historical Society has put this antique delivery wagon on display in the historic center at 29 Pierce St. The Rogers family, owners of the former Rogers Bakery that operated in downtown Plainville for 106 years, donated the old wagon to the museum. | Ken DiMauro / For The Citizen

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Bertha Wheeler that make the famous married couple remarkably remembered. Both Frank and Bertha orig-inally lived in Southington, but moved to Plainville early on and considered it their town, according to historical records.

Frank Wheeler started out as a mechanic and die spin-ner, but worked his way up the industrial ladder to even-tually become president and longtime officer of Trum-bull Electric Co., precur-sor of the General Electric plant in Plainville. Wheeler also was active politically in Plainville, and was well-known as an officer of the for-mer Plainville Trust Co. He also was a former president of the Plainville Chamber of Commerce.

He and his wife lived in a large upscale three-story brick Georgian-style resi-dence at 29 Farmington Ave., and was noted for many ame-nities, including a formal gar-den, which was featured in a pictorial done by Country Homes magazine. Eberhardt showed copies of the photos, lamenting she wished the photographs were in color.

Mrs. Wheeler also was ac-tive in the community, one of the founders in 1913 of what became the Woman’s Club of Plainville. Early on, she took an active interest in the estab-lishment of Plainville Public Library, which was built in 1930 on East Main Street.

Frank Wheeler and his wife were instrumental in the for-mation and establishment of the first Plainville High School, which was built in the 1920s in a modern brick build-ing on East Street. Wheeler also advocated for the paving of local highways and roads and the construction of mod-ern sidewalks, which he con-sidered pivotal to Plainville’s continued business growth.

After he died in 1951, the Frank Wheeler Elementary School was named in his honor, the first local school building named for a resident.

After Bertha Wheeler died in 1960, she left money in her estate to help create a hospi-tal in Plainville. She also do-nated large sums of money to hospitals in New Britain,

Bristol and Hartford. How-ever, when the new hospital in Plainville wasn’t created within the 10-year imposed deadline, Wheeler Clinic was established for local residents.

However, the Wheelers are best known as being bene-factors to the local YMCA, which is named in honor of Frank and Bertha. The fam-ily left use of their stately home at 29 Farmington Ave. for the Y organization. The large house eventually was demolished to make way for the new Route 72.

Myron Rogers and his fam-ily are best-known for being instrumental in the founding and operation of what be-came known as Rogers Bak-ery. For many years, Rogers Bakery, created in 1899, was located on the eastern side of Whiting Street. Four gen-erations of the Rogers family operated the popular bakery and doughnut shop before it closed after 106 years. Today the building that housed the second version of the bak-ery in downtown Plainville is the home to Bolo Bakery and Cafe.

When the first location of the bakery on the east side of Whiting Street was damaged by a fire during the last days of World War I in the late 1910s, fire sirens announc-

ing the fire emergency were at first ignored because resi-dents apparently thought the whistles were telling of the end of the war between the United States and Germany. The original bakery was dam-aged and eventually moved to the west side of Whiting Street.

Rogers Bakery used to op-erate an old-fashioned deliv-ery wagon that would deliver products to local homes. One of the original delivery wag-ons was on display in the lobby of the bakery. After the Plainville Historic Center opened in the 1970s in the old Town Hall building, the Rog-ers family donated the old bread wagon to the historical society, where it remains on display.

Lastly, Dr. George Cook was one of the oft-remem-bered country doctors who moved to Plainville and opened an office in the Neri Building, located at the East Main Street end of Whit-ing Street. Cook took care of the health of thousands of Plainville residents from the 1930s until 1959. Cook was a physician who was known for his vast knowledge of medi-cine and care of his patients. After he closed his office, he passed away in 1960 at the age of 67.

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Monday, Feb. 2Boys basketball -

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Girls basketball - Plainville at Middletown, 7 p.m.

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Friday, Feb. 6Coffee with Your Legis-

lators - Sen. Henri Martin, Rep. Whit Betts and Rep. Cara Pavalock have sched-uled “Coffee With Your Leg-islators” for Friday, Feb. 6, 8 to 8:45 a.m., at Rodd’s Restaurant, 854 Farmington Ave., Bristol. The public is welcome to meet the legisla-tures and discuss issues.

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Plainville vs. Platt, 7 p.m.Girls basketball -

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Wednesday, Feb. 11Wrestling - Plainville vs.

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Thursday, Feb. 12Girls basketball -

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Proceeds benefit the CT Humane Society Pet Food Pantry and the Plainville Food Pantry. For more in-formation, contact Shirley Bloethe at (860) 989-0033 or [email protected].

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Wednesday, Feb. 18Boys swimming -

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CT rides also participates in a van pool program that coordinates rides for groups of seven to 15 people. Riders pay a monthly fee and get a van, insurance, maintenance and fuel.

Companies that want to avoid commuting options al-together can participate in a telework program. CT rides helps companies design, de-velop and implement tele-work programs that help employees work from home or other off-site locations.

The business forum wasn’t limited to Connecticut com-muting options. Margaret Giery Dwyer, an AICP proj-ect advisor, offered examples of programs used around the country, including car pool, van pool, ride match-ing systems and transit pass programs.

Success stories were pro-vided by three Connecti-cut organizations, including Gateway Community Col-lege. Mary Ellen Cody, a spokeswoman for the college, explained how a bus pass sys-tem, funded by donations, is being used to assist many of the 8,200 students who com-mute to the campus in down-town New Haven. “Students

buy a bus pass for $25 and there are more than 100,000 rides a year on the buses,” she said. “Students need the sup-port, and it cuts down on traf-fic and impacts what happens in downtown New Haven.”

McDermott said, “The goals of CT rides are two-fold – to reduce congestion and improve air quality in the state.”

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A variety of commuter options were discussed at a recent CT rides business forum. | Ken Liebeskind / For The Citizen

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Appointments are sched-uled for Tuesdays, February through April 14.

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Health careFlu shots - Flu shots are

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HARTFORD (AP) — Ar-rests in Connecticut schools have decreased significantly over the past several years because of several efforts to deal with children’s problems in the community instead of the juvenile justice system.

About 1,400 arrests at schools were referred to state juvenile courts in the last school year, about 260 fewer than the 2011-2012 year.

Studies show kids placed into the juvenile justice sys-tem are more likely to re-

offend and less likely to graduate from high school.

Officials say they’ve added more juvenile review boards and declined to accept minor offenses in juvenile courts. The Connecticut School-Based Diversion Initiative has helped many schools set up partnerships with commu-nity programs.

Bill attempts to combat ‘spite hedges’

HARTFORD — A bill be-fore Connecticut’s General Assembly attempts to ensure local zoning officials can take action when a neighbor puts

up a tall fence or hedge out of spite.

Rep. Kathleen McCarty of Waterford submitted the bill after learning about a Connecticut woman whose valuable water view at her Rhode Island summer home was blocked by a neighbor’s plantings. The woman be-lieves it was an intentional and malicious act.

McCarty said she wanted to make sure Connecticut addressed the issue. She said if someone has a water view when they bought a home, they should be protected.

It’s uncertain, however, whether a one-size-fits-all

law is feasible or even neces-sary. Some laws are already on the books.

The Judiciary Committee must decide whether to raise the bill for a public hearing.

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Governor announces $31.5M in budget cuts

HARTFORD — Demo-cratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Friday announced $31.5 million in spending cuts, making a second round of reductions to address a pro-jected budget deficit of more than $120 million.

The cuts affecting more than two dozen state agencies follow $54.6 million in reduc-tions ordered by Malloy in November.

Malloy’s budget director, Ben Barnes, said he might need to take further steps to keep the budget in balance. Barnes has said the state will balance its books by June 30.

“We will continue to scru-tinize state spending, and if necessary, the governor will take additional steps, or pro-pose additional steps to the legislature, to keep this year’s budget in balance. Those de-cisions will be made as we develop next year’s budget, which will also require some very tough choices,” Barnes said.

House Republican Leader Themis Klarides told the gov-ernor during a lunch meeting on view for reporters Friday that the state needs to move to cut the budget.

“This deficit we have now is not going in the right direc-tion,” he said.

The new round of cuts in-cludes $6 million expected from the Judicial Branch, $2.3 million from operating expenses at the University of Connecticut and $1.5 million from the Connecticut State University system.

The state comptroller says the projected deficit has grown in part because of low-er-than-expected gas tax col-lections, caused by falling gas prices.

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Winter has finally arrivedUp until late last week, I

had held out hope that we would escape this winter without a major snowstorm.

Yes, we have had bitterly cold winter days with tem-peratures barely getting into single digits, but we had not had that big snowstorm that announced the official arrival of winter. Rather than snow, we’d basically only endured the occasional rainstorm.

Not exactly your typical New England winter.

That is until this week when we got punched in the gut by plenty of snow and wind.

With winter now officially here, I started to think about some ways I could get my-self through these long, cold days. Keep in mind, I am a warm weather person; how-ever, one of the best parts about living in New England is the changing of the sea-sons that offer us a variety of options when it comes to

entertaining ourselves:1. If you don’t already

know how to, learn to ski or snowboard. What better way to avoid cabin fever then heading to the slopes for a day of outside fun? Con-necticut is in a great location as far as skiing or snow-boarding goes, with many options just a short drive away.

2. You know those books and movies you have been saying you were going to take a look at? Well, now is the time!

3. Plan your summer va-cation. Nothing makes you forget the snow and cruel wind then picturing yourself enjoying a summer getaway.

4. This one has been a big help for me every win-ter: watch college basket-ball, and a lot of it. I don’t know why, but it has always helped make winter seem less dreary.

5. Go outside and enjoy the snow and ice. There are so many different things you can do this time of year that are simply not possible

in the summer. Sled, have snow ball fights, ice skate; whatever it takes to get you through the days.

Yes, most of us prefer the warm weather and every-thing that comes with it, but while winter is here let’s make the most of it. In the mean time, I’ll be counting down the days until I can dust off my golf clubs and use that new driver I got for Christmas.

The writer is a Plainville resident and a Plainville High School alumnus.

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The Plainville Coalition for Positive Youth Development has launched a Facebook page as an additional means to share important informa-tion with parents and the community.

As part of the Facebook page launch, the group is holding a contest for the next several months. Plainville residents who visit and

“like” the Coalition Facebook page during the upcoming months will be entered into monthly drawings for a vari-ety of prizes, including three Kindle Fires donated by the Plainville Police Union.

The Coal i t ion Face-book page is: Plainville Co-alition For Positive Youth Development.

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The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program pro-vides low-to-moderate-in-come workers and families, disabled and elderly with free tax preparation and filing. The program serves residents of Plainville, Bristol, Burling-ton, and Plymouth/Terryville. Tax-preparers assist in com-pleting federal and state tax returns using online software. Tax preparers receive free training and are certified by the IRS. No tax experience is needed. Volunteers must be available Tuesdays, 4 to 8 p.m., and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., during tax season and must be comfortable with di-verse populations. All training is provided, bilingual volun-teers are needed. For more information, call Elizabeth at (860) 582-9559 or email [email protected].

VITA program needs volunteers

Hospital has volunteer opportunities

The Hospital of Cen-tral Connecticut offers a wide variety of volunteer opportunities.

Located on the Plainville/New Britain line, the Hart-ford Healthcare Cancer Insti-tute at the Hospital of Central Connecticut is nearing com-pletion and volunteers are needed at the reception desk to meet and greet patients and family members and to provide clerical support for varied services moving to this new building in March. Vol-unteers are also needed to as-sist customers in the new gift shop at the Cancer Institute.

The Cardiology Depart-ment is undergoing reno-vation at its New Britain General campus and more volunteers are needed in the reception area to assist patients as they arrive for appointments.

The hospital also wel-comes more volunteers to serve as ambassador volun-teers and provide escort and way finding services as well as wheelchair assistance; visit patients with the hospital’s BookCart; and assist custom-

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Those who enjoy public contact and would like to volunteer, call Volunteer Ser-vices at (860) 224-5231; or, complete an on-line appli-cation at Hospcentralct.vsys-host.com.

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PLAINVILLE – In a battle of struggling rivals, it was no longer a contest of who holds the upper-hand in the overall

head-to-head series.It was about size versus

scrappy defense. It was about hot starts and cold streaks.

More importantly, it was an opportunity for one team to get back on track.

That team turned out to be Berlin, which topped host Plainville 53-35 Friday

night in a CCC South Divi-sion matchup, en route to its fourth win of the season.

“Plainville plays hard. It’s always a battle, and it was ob-viously a close game for most of the game, but our kids had really good practices prepar-ing for Plainville and at the end of the day, it helped us to execute a bit and get the W,” said Berlin coach Mike Veneziano.

The win for the Redcoats (4-7) snapped a three-game losing skid that saw them fall to division rivals Bulkeley, Maloney and Middletown.

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’Coats drop Devils in rivalry gameBy Nate BrownThe Plainville Citizen

Plainville’s Keandre Blue looks to drive in a recent matchup with Berlin. | Matt Leidemer / For The Citizen

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Things are falling in place for a big postseason for the Plainville High wrestling team.

At least, that’s what fourth-year coach Rusty Spence is thinking.

“We wrestle Class M and L teams all season,” said the coach of the 4-4 team. “But come the postseason, we will be wrestling in Class S. In that class, we will face a little less in competition than we have seen in the regular sea-son. I think we will easily fin-ish in the top six in Class S.”

In his club’s recent outing against Class L Bristol East-ern, the Blue Devils lost 47-24.

“But in that match we were down just 32-24 with three events to go,” said Spence. “Turned out we lost the last three, but we were competitive.”

The reason for Spence’s optimism is his strong senior class of Jon Oliveira, Dylan Fusco, Sam Lindgren, David Was, Tim Lister, Josh Benoit, Justin Plourde and Andrew Marsh. The eight seniors lead the 22-member team in just about everything, including the intangibles.

“None of my seniors want the season to end,” said Spence. “They all work their butts off and they’ll all be devastated when the season is over.”

One senior star is four-year team member Lister, who wrestles in the 113 pound weight class. Lister, one of the captains, is 19-4 and all four of his losses have come in tour-naments. He is undefeated in dual meets.

“He had an injured shoul-der last year,” said Spence. “Over the summer he dedi-cated himself to having a big year. He was lifting and do-ing other conditioning work every day. He’s focused and ready to do something big in

states.“He may not be a pretty

wrestler with great tech-nique, but all he does is win.”

Lindgren, who is in just his second full year, is the team’s leading winner with 20. He wrestles at 132 pounds and his 20-7 record includes placing in all four of the tournaments in which the Devils have par-ticipated. He went to the fi-nals in his weight class in three of the tourneys.

“He is very hard-work-ing and a real competitor,” Spence said of Lindgren, who is also a captain. “He will wrestle at 138 for the rest of the regular season, but then go to 132 for the postseason. His natural weight is 136, so that makes sense for him.

“I fully expect him to go to the finals in states.”

The third captain is Ol-iveira, who wrestles at 160 pounds and has 16 wins.

“Jon has been with me since the fifth grade,” said Spence, who runs the USA out-of-school wrestling pro-gram in town.

“He goes to camps and clubs – he does everything he can. He’s a leader and is very focused and a very good tech-nical wrestler.”

Oliveira placed in two of the three tournaments in which he wrestled. “He also could be in the finals in Class S,” said Spence.

Plourde gained 20 pounds over the summer and that has made the wresting life tough for him.

“He wrested at 108 last year,” said Spence. “Then he came in at 130 and that was totally different. I’ve had to wrestle him at the junior var-sity level and that hurts me. He’s a four-year wrestler who works hard every day and never takes time off. Other kids will call in sick, but he never does. When he was a freshman, he cracked bones in his hand early in the day of a tournament. But he kept on

going and wrestled two more matches with a broken hand.

“What we’re going to do is get him down so he can wres-tle at 122.”

Was, who wrestles at 132 pounds, had the flu and that just about ruined much of his season.

“He came back two weeks ago,” said Spence. “He has to get his conditioning back and I think he will. I am hoping he can do something good at states.”

Marsh is another one who has had physical trials. In a match against Middletown High, he was slammed to the mat and was diagnosed with a concussion.

“Not only was he wrestling at 152, which is a very tough weight class,” said Spence, “he then had that happen to him. He was wrestling tough before that, but now we are waiting for him to be cleared.”

Fusco is a three-year wres-tler who wrestles at 285 pounds. He was runner-up in Class S in 2014, but Plainville had been forced to go without his services until three weeks ago. He suffered an MCL in-jury while playing football for the Blue Devils.

Not only did he have to re-cover from that, he then had to work to make weight.

“His season has just started,” said Spence. “He’s 6-1 and was third in the only tournament in which he par-ticipated. I feel like he’s not going to lose the rest of the season and I feel like he’s go-ing to win states.”

Benoit will join the United States Marine Corps after graduation, fulfilling a goal he has had for a long time.

“He’s been with me for three years and is one of the hardest working kids in the room,” said Spence. “He wrestles at 182, but two years ago weighed 225. The Marines told him he had to

Mat men’s success starts with seniors

By Jim BransfieldSpecial to The Citizen

See Wrestling / Page 11


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tive the CCC South has been. We’re facing a lot of man to man defenses and really, re-ally quick teams and it’s hard for us to get into the lane, it’s hard for us to get open looks,” Veneziano said.

“I think our kids have been playing a lot better. Unfor-tunately, the results weren’t there.”

Against Plainville, they were. The Redcoats jumped out to a 15-9 lead after one quarter and extended their advantage to 26-12 at the half.

“There are a couple big points every game and one is how you start and how you come out for the second half, and the game didn’t start great for us,” Plainville coach Jim DiNello said.

Despite doing their best to game-plan around the Red-coats’ long range shooting, junior Evan McKinnen still torched the Blue Devils early for two 3-pointers. He fin-ished with 13 points on the game, while post presence, senior Dom Nuzzo, led Ber-lin with a game-high 15.

“Dom is very good when he turns and faces the rim, and uses his feet to get to the bas-ket; he’s very hard to match up with,” Veneziano said. “He’s one of our better play-ers and he’s been playing well all year. He works extremely hard.”

Plainville (2-10) was led by senior Austin Butler with 12 points. Junior Matt Festa added 11 for the Blue Dev-ils while junior Tim Dixon contributed f ive. Junior point guard Mikal Salmon (2 points) had a strong game finding open teammates.

“I thought that was Mikal’s best game. He’s not going to jump out at you with points, but his decision-making is tremendous. He pushed the

ball pretty well, he got the ball to shooters … he easily could’ve had 15 assists if guys made shots when he got them the ball,” DiNello said.

The home team was able to close the halftime defi-cit to 27-23 with six minutes remaining in the third. Yet Berlin’s inside-out game and second chance opportunities on the offensive end proved to be too costly for Plainville.

“Right now, our inside

game is practically nonex-istent so we’re doing every-thing from the perimeter and you don’t win a lot of games or get a lot of points that way,” DiNello said.

“I give Berlin a lot of credit. They played hard, they exe-cuted well, but we’re just try-ing to find the answers right now. But the good news is it’s not because of a lack of effort, and I’m proud of the kids for that.”

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get down to 180 before they would accept him, so that’s what he did.

“Every summer he does to Sea Cadets for what really is basic training. He’s one of those kinds of kids who gives 100 percent at whatever he does. His work ethic and his

pride are unbelievable. Kids like him are priceless.”

Spence was a wrestler growing up in Virginia. He was a volunteer coach at Plainville High in 2003, then became a full-fledged assis-tant and has been head coach since 2011. He has run the town’s USA wrestling pro-gram since 2005, which he started in a church-school classroom. “I have some good

kids coming up,” he said.The Devils are at Platt on

Feb. 2 and home with rival Berlin on Feb. 11. Then comes the postseason with the Cen-tral Connecticut Conference meet on Feb. 14, the Class S meet on the 20th and the State Open on the 27th.

“What I want for my kids is for all of them to finish strong,” said Spence. “That’s all I can ask of them.”

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