Most of us at The Bee have been lurching around the workplace like zombies this week, struggling to keep pace after several late nights watching the men’s and women’s UConn Huskies basketball teams finish off the competition and bring home His and Hers NCAA titles for the first time in college basketball history. Not only did we not miss a shot at the final buzzer, we stayed up for the commentary, heard the interviews with the coaches, and watched our teams celebrate. Add this to the onset of Daylight Savings Time and you’ve got a lot of pretty tired Connecticut Yankees. But hey, it was worth it.

At the top of the list of people I would like to be this week was Emeka Okafor, who led the UConn Huskies men’s basketball team to victory over Georgia Tech in San Antonio on Monday night. But since there’s a long line of people wishing they were Emeka this week, I am going with my second choice, which is Michael Greenwood, a fourth grader at Hawley School. Actually Michael wasn’t at Hawley School this week, but in San Antonio with his dad, Ray Greenwood, to see the Huskies’ play.

About an hour after the big game ended, Michael and his dad ran into Emeka (who was still holding the game ball), and the UConn star was more than happy to pose for this photo with Michael. Some kids have all the luck!

They say we should all stop to smell the roses but Tom Johnson, owner of Lexington Gardens, wants us to come down to his nursery off Church Hill Road and smell the Easter lilies instead. “They’re unbelievably fragrant. Don’t miss it,” Tom noted in passing one gray and rainy day early in the week as he was headed out the door for a cup of Starbucks coffee.

Readers of the Sandy Hook Footprint Post may be disappointed to find out that Dotty the Dalmatian isn’t really available for adoption. Apparently when fourth grader Elizabeth Eiseman wrote the article about the dog pound, there weren’t any dogs available for adoption, so Elizabeth was told to use a generic dog picture and she took one of her own dog. That fact got lost somewhere, however, and in the newspaper, there is Dolly in her electric collar, sitting in front of the Eiseman house in Sandy Hook, and identified as being up for adoption at the pound.

 Alice Mascher wants everyone to know that the Relay for Life organizers are collecting photographs of cancer survivors and of those who lost their lives to cancer for a video show that is being put together for the June event. Photos should be dropped off at Bob Tendler’s office at 17 Church Hill Road. Include the name of the person on the photo. Alice also asks contributors to include their own name and address if they want the photo to be returned. The High School Technology Club will combine the photos in a slide show set to inspirational music for the relay.

One sure sign of spring is the proliferation of moms pushing baby carriages along the roadways at Fairfield Hills. Also, spring brings us a new wave of activity in the police department. On Wednesday, the police station was hopping, with officers handling the many and varied duties involved in law enforcement. Police plan to step up their enforcement of illegal drinking as the seasons change, which I hope is sobering news for all underage spring revelers.

A little 2-year-old girl named Rebecca had a close encounter with the elevator at the C.H. Booth Library Monday that had her mother, library personnel, firefighters, police, and EMTs scrambling to get her out. She had apparently hit the button to open the door and got in when the door closed behind her. She apparently hit other buttons, setting off the alarm. While the elevator alarm continued to ring, almost drowning out the frightened cries of the child, fire personnel used an emergency key to open the door, and soon had her safely back in her mother’s arms. Rescue personnel checked her out in the children’s room, offering her a stuffed animal as she cuddled with her mother, tears still evident on her cheeks. Next time, I think she’ll take the stairs.

The twin championships of the UConn men’s and women’s basketball teams weren’t the only historic “first” of the week. The Board of Selectmen agreed Monday night that it was the first time in their six years in office together that they had to amend their minutes, which was a testament to the great note-taking ability of Jan Andras.

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