Women's Chorus Is LookingAhead To The Holidays

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Sep 18, 2000 12:00 am

Womenâs Chorus Is Looking

Ahead To The Holidays

TRUMBULL â While it may only be the beginning of Autumn, members of YankeeMaid Chorus are already thinking ahead and offering regional female singers the opportunity to perform as part of a holiday chorus.

The championship YankeeMaid Chorus, celebrating over 30 years of harmony, is a dynamic, spirited group of women from 33 towns throughout greater Fairfield, New Haven and lower Litchfield counties. Under the direction of Karen Sweeters of Norwalk, the chorus is a nine-time champion of Sweet Adelinesâ North Atlantic Region #1 chorus competition (Sweet Adelines International is a non-profit international organization of more than 32,000 female singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education and performance).

The YankeeMaids rehearse every Wednesday beginning at 7:30 pm at St Josephâs Manor, 6448 Main Street in Trumbull. The group is extending an open invitation for women to learn holiday music in four-part harmony, barbershop style, with the intent of performing with the YankeeMaids during their holiday performances in December.

Visitors are always welcome to rehearsals. The group will begin its rehearsals for the holiday season on October 4.

For more information, stop by one of the rehearsals in Trumbull or call 888/401-0814 for additional information. The YankeeMaids also maintain a web site, at www.yankeemaid.org, which may be able to offer additional information.

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How do you propose tapping the brakes, Dave? 8-30g already trumps any local regulations- you don't have a brake pedal to push. Brookfield, Trumbull and now Ridgefield have a clear case for a moratorium based on the development (thanks to 8-30g) that has already occurred. I don't see a clear case for Newtown to request a moratorium... yet.

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Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.

Hey, there you go! Richard solved it. Thanks, that seems so easy- we'll just get rid of the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court. Seriously, the 2nd amendment doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The Supreme Court doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The problem is not the tools, but the criminals & the mental illness. The state of Connecticut seems to be focused on the tools, like Richard, while ignoring the users of those tools.

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Ned, please familarize yourself with 8-30G, and then please share the unique flaws that may be helpful in formulating a denial An 8-30g project can be denied only on very narrow grounds – i.e., if it presents health, safety or other concerns that exceed a town’s need for affordable housing. According to the TOG website, “projects cannot be rejected for incompatibility with a Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD); density; traffic congestion; height; aesthetics; concerns of neighbors or the community; and failure to comply with local zoning regulations.” 8-30g proposals are rarely denied by planning and zoning officials because the burden of proof on appeal is on the town. Appeals are costly, but a municipality can be successful in a court case if it has sufficiently established that the concerns leading to denial are factual and substantive.

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The town should certainly measure its performance against the statewide strategies. Unless I missed it I only know of one small cluster of homes that would meet the affordable housing program. Given the 500 or so new units being added in the last 10 years I think that 4/500 would not meet the metric to allow for a moratorium. I mean, fingers crossed for a Christmas miracle but I suspect we will see a few 8-30's sent our way in a method to avoid the Nimby mob. Thanks, Nimby mob.

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