Parent Connection's Final Forum Of The School Year

By JOANNA LESTIC

Published: Mar 17, 2006 12:00 am

Parent Connectionâs Final Forum

Of The School Year

To the Editor:

On behalf of the Board of The Newtown Parent Connection, I would like to thank all who attended our Forum on Tuesday, March 14, at The Reed School, titled âItâs The Internetâ¦Do You Know Where Your Children Are?â

I believe itâs safe to say that it was a truly enlightening experience for those in attendance. A very special thank you to Parry Aftab, executive director of WiredSafety.org, the largest online safety and educational program in cyberspace, dedicated to the prevention and investigation of cybercrime. A security, privacy, and cyberspace lawyer, she is a worldwide leader in the area of online safety and parent and child Internet education. With her high profile and the enormous demands on her time, we were both fortunate and grateful that she made herself available to us for this very timely forum. We hope this program provided valuable insight and useful information in matters surrounding this urgent issue, as we continue our quest to provide a safe and secure environment for all the children of Newtown.

This was our last forum for the school year 2005-2006. At this time we would again like to thank all in the community who have supported us throughout this year in ways too numerous to count. A very special thank you to Kathy Dahlmeyer and The Drug Center for providing the free and informative materials available to all at each forum; and to David King and his technical crew from Charter Communications for taping each session so that these forums can be aired for viewing on Community Vision 21 at future dates. Please check the NPC website for the viewing dates and times of Tuesdayâs forum.

Please watch for future updates concerning our opening event for September, scheduled to be a âFreeâ Family Dinner Night, date still to be determined. Lastly, we hope you will all attend our upcoming fundraiser, The Rooster Review Cocktail Party and Live Auction on Saturday, April 29, from 7:30 to 11 pm, at The Rock Ridge Country Club. As some may have already viewed first hand, or seen in recent issues of The Bee, the 25 artfully decorated Roosters are presently roosting at various establishments around town, while awaiting adoption by a loving Newtown family. Watch for further information and updates on this event, mark your calendars, and donât delay in purchasing your tickets, as seating is limited. This evening is sure to put the âfunâ in fundraiser!!

Remember to keep connected with The Parent Connection at www.newtownparentsconnection.org.

Dolores White

Secretary

Newtown Parent Connection Board of Directors

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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.

Expresses Opposition To Proposed Assembly Ordinance

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.

Assembly Ordinance?

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?

Pisani to Sue Newtown – Part 1

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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