Date: Fri 25-Apr-1997

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDREA

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SNAPSHOT JAN ANDRAS

Occupation: Executive assistant to the first selectman. I also clerk meetings

for Board of Selectmen (3« years), WPCA (10 years), Board of Health (1«

years), Local Housing Partnership (4 or 5 years), and I just resigned after 10

years as clerk for Legislative Council.

How long in Newtown: Let's just say I've lived in town most of my life.

Biggest change in Newtown: More houses, less woods, less fields, less cows - I

miss the cows.

Family: My husband, Bill, and our three kids, Amy, David, Paul. My husband

drives a school bus. We both grew up in Newtown; we lived across the street

from each other. My family moved up here in 1960 when my father was a blaster

for 84 [project]. My parents moved back to Ducktown, Tenn., and my four

brothers followed them back. The funny thing about Ducktown is it's next to

Turtletown. Ducktown is a very small town; it makes Newtown look like a

metropolis. During the last summer Olympics, they held the white water rafting

and kayaking [events] in Ducktown.

Pets: I have a miniature Pinscher, and eight chickens. The chickens are bigger

than the dog. We used to have 400 chickens but I found out I was allergic to

them.

Organizations: Co-director of Memorial Day Weekend Soccer Tournament. This

year we'll have about 100 teams.

Hobbies: Just my kids. I'm out so many nights I don't have time for anything

else.

Favorite food: Linguini with white clam sauce. And I'm a chocoholic. For

breakfast I usually have a Hershey bar and diet Coke.

Favorite place outdoors in Newtown: The top of Castle Hill - I love to go up

there. We always like to walk to the mica mines off the end of Purdy Station

Road, but now there are houses there, and we don't know how to get through.

Most vivid memory of Newtown: I'll never forget the night the Yankee Drover

burned down. I still picture the Drover every time I drive up Main Street.

Personal philosophy: Know the rules and follow the rules. I carry Robert's

Rules of Order, the Town Charter, and a pocket-sized Bible in my purse at all

times.