Saturday, December 24, 2011

The Editor's Notepod, Sat., Dec. 24, 2011

Meriden, Wallingford, Southington, and Cheshire will be needing to realign their voting precincts following changes in state house and senate districts to keep voters from having to visit different places on Election Day. The process has already begun in a couple of towns.

Southington’s Gimenez family, which has gone caroling together every Christmas for 15 years, bringing music to friends and neighbors. There’s tradition for you!

That 9-year old flying in from Tennessee to visit Danbury grandparents and who had to change planes unexpectedly – and no one informed those who were to meet her. Two things: it is unacceptable for an airline not to call about a child passenger in its care; but why didn’t she have a cell phone?

Southington’s 2011 Apple Harvest Festival is expected to turn a $25,000 net gain when all the books are balance, including having paid for town expenses in extra police and fire coverage. This is an important milestone for the festival and especially welcome in these tough times.

The longish article on origins and policies surrounding American community Christmas trees is one which should be required reading, not only because of the “Christmas Tree” war, either. There is information there that almost no one knows about how and why this became a practice.

Distribution in Meriden of over 500 coats in the first Community Coat Drive. This was an excellent idea and well carried out, too.

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