Date: Fri 14-Aug-1998

Publication: Bee

Author: DOTTIE

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SNAPSHOT: Mike Zavatsky

Occupation: I am part owner of the Red Rooster Tobacconist in the Queen Street

Shopping Center along with Todd Suhar, Brendan Carson and Dean Fattibene. I am

also a senior representative for Excel Telecommunications.

Biggest Change in Town: I moved to Newtown in 1984. The population has grown

so much that it's hard to drive through town around 5 pm during the week.

There so much development now, so much more than I even knew existed.

Family: I have two children, 1-year-old Taylor Rose and my newborn son, Mark,

who was born June 24th. Being a parent has definitely changed my life as far

as my free time, but it's great. I've been married to Amy Philipp, also from

Newtown, since September, 1997.

My brother Matt, he's 20, also lives with us. He's a student at Sacred Heart.

My dad, John, works at the Red Rooster, too.

Hobbies: Cigars, sports, spending time in Old Lyme at my mother-in-law's house

on the beach. We go there to relax. I coached Little League baseball here in

town for nine years.

Movies: Goodfellas, Scarface, Field of Dreams, The Godfather. I like Martin

Scorcese movies. Pulp Fiction. I like Quentin Tarantino movies, too.

Favorite Sports Teams: New York Mets, Kansas City Chiefs and New York Knicks.

All-Time Greatest Sports memory: I was at game six of the 1996 World Series

when the Yankees beat the Braves. As far as on TV, Kirk Gibson's homerun in

the 1989 World Series to beat Oakland.

Philosophy: I previously owned an oxygen company and the reason I was in it

was to help people. But I felt I wasn't able to do that because it had turned

into such big business with all the large insurance companies and the state

and federal governments. If you can't help people, then what's the point?