Youth Wrestlers Compete And Raise Money For Mats

By ANDY HUTCHISON

Published: Jan 29, 2010 12:00 am

Newtownâs youth wrestling program, Over The Top (OTT), has been busy this winter, having participated in 11 tournaments and league matches thus far. The team, which consists of 30 boys, ranging from kindergarteners through eighth-graders, have wrestled locally against Ridgefield, Pomperaug, Mill Ridge in Danbury, Stamford, Danbury, New Fairfield, and New Milford.

Outstanding performances by team elementary school veteran members Sean Arnold, Michael Gardner, Dylan Bartlett, and Ethan Ross, as well as stalwart second-year performers Stephen Leuci, Jack Zingaro, Ryan Straiton, Justin Bogdanoff, Shane Luzietti, Gren Paynter, and Isaac and Harrison Silverman have resulted in numerous medals. The elementary team will only get better as they await the return of veteran fifth-graders Ed Lovely and Anthony Falbo from injuries.

The middle school has seen its own share of success paced by Andy Hubina, Matt Gonzalez, Kevin Ross, Forest Speed, James Leuci, Josh Harrison, Luca Crudo, Joe Praino, and brothers Chris and Ed Lajoie. The addition of newcomers Joey Accousti, Mark Carpenter, Mark Dowling, William Henckel, and Sean Dauber has strengthened the team and contributed to the early-season winning ways.Â

It has been a very exciting year for the team as they have welcomed new participants as well as a new home for weekday practices.

Due to the renovations at the high school the previous practice room and practice mats became unavailable to the team. This development has prompted the relocation of practices to Hawley School, where space was available but forced the team to rely on well worn and aging practice mats. To alleviate the problem, the team has begun fundraising in an effort to purchase new mats.

Quality, safe wrestling mats are most wrestlingâs clubs largest financial hurdle with large mats costing in excess of $10,000. Through the generous use of locations including Katherineâs Kitchen in Sandy Hook, Super Stop & Shop on South Main Street, the Newtown Deli, and the Newtown Youth Academy, the team was able to raise more than $1,400, recently, in a single morning at the Money For Mats Fundraiser at Super Stop & Shop.

On February 9, the team will hold another fundraiser at My Place Restaurant, 8 Queen Street, where 20% of all of the evening business, dine-in or take-out, will be donated to the club toward the purchase of the new mats.

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Sorry Lynn, not letting you get away with this. Yes, we all have the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully but NO, no one ever said anything about taking that right away. You just made it up.

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A small Newtown business lost important revenue because of the protest. Traffic was disrupted causing a safety concern. Newtown taxpayers paid for police OT because the PD had to react to the protest rather than be prepared in advance. God forbid, if there was loss of life or property, Newtown could be liable legally for negligence. Your comment sounds like Liberal Woke thinking and apparently you are more sympathetic to protestors than to Newtown. Non-issue? In Kerrville TX the legislative body had the chance to vote for a flash flood siren warning system. They thought it was a non-issue. Now, over 200 people are dead and families are destroyed. No way does the town not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to NOT go down this path.

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Hi David, I did not ignore anyone. I presented 4 quantifiable advantages and one intangible that an ordinance addressing protests would benefit Newtown. That was my only standard. No one that came to the meeting including the other LC members provided any argument to over come those benefits and remember, the threshold was set extremely low. The only thing the LC was voting on was to "just consider" if an ordinance would be in order. Get over the "stadium" joke. It is scandalous that you don't have the mental capacity to understand it was a joke. Remember when I asked to meet with you for breakfast to see in we could compromise on some of your many complaints? I am sure could have found compromises but apparently the word "compromise" is not a part of your vocabulary. Either is acting like an adult. By the way, the intangible...that was to provide protection for you and your family, God forbid, that you were protesting and someone came barreling through the crowd in a car. My point was you always plan for worst case scenario, not best case scenario. In Kerrville TX, the legislative body had the chance to vote to put a flash flood warning siren in place. Someone like you probably thought they didn't need it. Now over 200 people are dead. Nothing bad could ever happen in Newtown right?

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Reservoir Rd. does indeed appear to have an interesting history that I often ponder as I hike the Rochambeau Trail. Early on it was apparently part of a main route from the center of the Borough to Taunton, which went up Mt. Pleasant Rd. and then roughly followed a watershed boundary from Mount Pleasant to Taunton Hill. When the current switchback road was built from West St. to Castle Hill in the 1800s, replacing the indirect route through the campground that Rochambeau used, the part of that original route to Taunton now known as Reservoir Rd. became redundant. But on an 1868 town map and topographic maps from 1892 and 1915, it looks like both routes were still maintained as roads. By the time of the 1934 aerial survey of CT, the connection to Mount Pleasant Rd. (maybe called Reservoir Rd. by then since the reservoir is visible) even had two outlets onto Castle Hill Rd. Since it is only shown as a partial dashed line on a 1953 topographic map, it may have stopped being maintained as a passable through road by then. But on a 1963 topographic map, where the section down to Knollwood Dr. had become a normal road again, the other end is shown as a dashed-line road, still with two connections to Castle Hill Rd., and a structure on the east side where one can still find remnants of a house today. Maybe a longtime resident can add comments about what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s?

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Please stop referring to your fellow Newtowners as the Mob. I was at the Legislative Council meeting where Mr. Pisani insulted the intelligence of a room full of Newtown voters; twice, and not in a satirical way. Plenty of new projects have been given the green light - the repurposing of the Taunton Press property is a welcome addition to Town, a new retail center is under construction on Church Hill Rd there are ongoing plans for the existing Fairfield Hills campus. Newtown is a wonderful place to live. Kudos to the Town officials who have managed to grow Newtown and maintain a small town feel, which may mean saying no to development more often than you would like. There will always be two sides to any proposal - different points of view are welcome and essential - name calling adds nothing to the conversation.

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