An Invaluable Community Service

By CURT CLARK

Published: Apr 02, 2004 12:00 am

An Invaluable

Community Service

To the Editor,

The Newtown Lyme Disease Task Force would like to extend our congratulations to Charter Communicationsâ CommuniTyVision 21 for receiving a Beacon Award. We are so proud that Charter has received national recognition for its efforts in providing this invaluable community service program!

This award was the result of Mark Ingramâs efforts to provide an educational venue to reach our community about the growing health epidemic that Lyme represents to Newtown and other Charter access towns in Connecticut.

This production provided an educational component with Dr Bernard Raxlen, who spoke at the Fireside Inn in May of 2003. In addition, he included interviews from each of us on the task force, which added a personal snapshot of how our families have struggled with tick-borne diseases.

Thank you to Mark Ingram for your interest, compassion, and concern. We are truly grateful for all the support and assistance you have provided to us and our mission. Newtown is very fortunate to have Charter Communications as an integral connection to our community.

Sincerely,

Kim Harrison

Maggie Shaw

Vicki McColl

MaryBeth Olah

The Newtown Lyme Disease Task Force

35 Taunton Hill Road, NewtownÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â March 30, 2004

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I want to clarify something that was not clear in my letter. Newtown DOES have an affordable housing plan, put together with the aid of the Council of Governments (COG) in 2022 and approved by the LC that year. The strategies in that plan are to "encourage", "support", "explore", "promote" various aspects of state and local affordable housing programs. Those strategies are largely repeated in the Housing Chapter of the Plan of Conservation and Development being finalized now. Newtown needs to measure its performance against those strategies and refine them to reflect the current situation and evaluate whether we are eligible for a moratorium on 8-30(g) projects if we have met the criteria. It's a question of being more specific and more rigorous in what we as a community would like to see to address this real and serious need, rather than to be on our heels when a developer proposes a project on their terms. An independent look outside the application process would be best for that. Thank you. Peter.

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I on Glover Ave. walk my two Labs every morning and evening. Drivers are constantly cutting me off at the shopping center entrance and other driveways. There is no understanding of pedestrians rights. Drives make left turns onto Queen when its forbidden. Most cars cruse right thru the crosswalks without stopping for pedestrians. The Police have not issued one citation nor even a warming for crosswalk violations. The situation is out of control and now a loved resident, Pete, and a pet, Coby have been killed. Time for a plan. The problem is not Intersections, nor traffic, the problem 98s drivers and lack of enforcement. The plan need to create a culture that drivers obey speed limits and honor pedestrians right of ways. Isn't that the job of the Police Department and The Police Commission, to protect Newtowns citizens. This is a call to action.

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