Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Editor's Notepod, Sun., Jan. 15, 2012

Our sympathy to Melissa Goduti of Wallingford, who won a Mediterranean cruise from her employers and wound up shivering on a small island off Tuscany waiting to come home after the ship gouged a hole in her bottom and heeled over to about 80 degrees. Is it a function of our vastly shrunk world that so many times there’s a major event elsewhere in the world there’s a local connection?

In Southington, it would seem that Town Councilors are getting what they asked for in Town Manager Garry Brumback. If they wanted everything to continue as it had been, they’d have told the new man when he started.

Members of Meriden's Silver City Cadet Squadron, 13 youths from 12 to 21, were out participating in a search and rescue mission in Hurd State Park yesterday morning. It wasn’t a real mission, but it was a function of the Civil Air Patrol to help young people train for real emergencies – such as Hurricane Irene.

Former City Councilor David Salafia is now serving as family-schools liaison for Meriden schools, dealing with attendance and truancy issues. It sounds as if this would be a good role for this popular citizen.

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