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Apiwan Buckner, left, helped raise $530 for the Putnam Rotary Club's major international project, a water project in Ecuador. She stands with club President Richard Naumann. Linda Lemmon photo.
PUTNAM --- The Putnam Rotary Club is on a mission to help fund a Rotary Global grant humanitarian water project in Ecuador. Many of the club's fund-raisers for the 2019-2020 year will go toward the project, according to Putnam Rotary Club President Richard Naumann.
Recently, when Naumann was talking about the project at a club lunch meeting at the Inn at Woodstock Hill, one of the servers, Apiwan Buckner, was listening and decided to help. She collected $530 for the project and presented it to Naumann. She's been a server at the inn for seven years, said Naumann, chef and owner of the inn.
The total cost of the project is $60,000. The Putnam club plans on raising about $20,000 and the balance will come from various Rotary organizations.
The project is in Santa Rosa River Basin in Ecuador. It will bring healthier lives to the residents. The river is the main source of water for the villages. The project would install residual water treatment plants or self-cleaning biodigesters to bring clean water to the residents and to protect the water quality of the river.
It's a two part system that solves the problem with sedimentation and then biologic filters.
The population that will benefit directly is 500 inhabitants made up of roughly 100 families as well as the residents of the city of Santa Rosa which number about 50,000, according to project information. The communities of El Guayabo, La Pereira and La Avanzada are located in the southern part of the county of Santa Rosa on the banks of the river of the same name. The three communities contain roughly 500 residents. The region’s economic activities are livestock, agriculture and tourism. They have systems for potable water but do not have treatment systems for wastewater that collects in septic ditches dug in the patios of every home. This wastewater eventually filters into the river causing bacterial contamination of this water body which serves as the main water source for the city of Santa Rosa whose urban population is around 50,000.
The objective of the project is to improve the health of the three communities and the city and improve their quality of life.
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‘Deathtrap’
The Bradley Playhouse will present “Deathtrap” starting Oct. 4. Left: Sean Gardell will play Clifford Anderson. Right: William Corriveau plays Porter Milgrim and Jen Briere plays Helga ten Dorp. Photos by Chris Atwood.
'Deathtrap' coming to Bradley
PUTNAM — It’s time for the Theatre of Northeastern Connecticut’s traditional fall thriller. Head to the Bradley Playhouse for Ira Levin’s “Deathtrap,” which is described as two-thirds thriller and one-third devilishly clever comedy. The show opens Oct. 4 and runs for three weekends.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 and 19 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 6, 13 and 20. Tickets are $20 for adults and $16 for seniors and students.
Reservations may be made with a major credit card online at www.thebradleyplayhouse.org or by calling 860-928-7887. Tickets may be purchased at the theater box office, either before the performance or at the door if available. Purchasing tickets ahead of time is always a good idea.
Deathtrap, which is set in Westport, finds Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, struggling to over come a string of failures. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from one of his students that he recognizes as a potential hit. With his wife’s help, he devises a plan to offer collaboration with the student, which the young man accepts. Thereafter suspense mounts and the plot begins to twist and turn with devilish cleverness. Helga, a nosey psychic neighbor, and Porter, Sydney’s observant friend and attorney, can only speculate where the line between truth and deception lies.
The TNECT performance of Deathtrap is directed by Natasha Darius who is assisted by Jonathan Demers. Preston Arnold appears as playwright Sidney Bruhl and Valerie Coleman is his wife, Myra. The young, aspiring writer, Clifford Anderson, is played by Sean Gardell. The cast is completed by Jennifer Briere as psychic Helga ten Dorp and William Corriveau as friend and attorney Porter Milgrim.
When Deathtrap opened on Broadway in 1978, New York Times critic Walter Kerr wrote that it contained “effrontery everywhere and fun straight through.” It was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Play. In 1982, it was adapted for film, starring Christopher Reeve, Michael Caine and Dyan Cannon.
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2nd halves
spoil Centaurs’ week
The second half of matches was not kind to the Woodstock Academy boys’ soccer team.
Against both Ledyard and E. Lyme, the Centaurs had the lead in the early part of the last 40 minutes only to see it slip away.
As a result, Ledyard beat the Centaurs on their home turf Sept. 17, 3-1, and E. Lyme got the best of the Centaurs, 4-2, down by the shoreline Sept. 20.
“You just have to keep upbeat,” Woodstock Academy coach Paul Rearden said after his team dropped to 0-4 overall and 0-1 in Division I of the ECC. “Nobody let their heads drop on the field. The spirit is there and they are trying to do the right thing. They are working hard, trying to do the things we tell them and there are definitely improvements in every game. Eventually, hard work gets rewards.”
Just not last week.
The Centaurs fell behind the Vikings Sept. 20 when senior Kurt Mahlke made the most of a “cruel deflection” in Paul Rearden’s opinion and beat Centaurs’ keeper Zach Roethlein 10 minutes into the contest.
Woodstock Academy answered just before the break when Huck Gelhaus won the ball at midfield and played it to Sean Rearden. He passed it to Eric Phongsa who looked like he was headed for the net, until he spied Logan Talbot in a better position. Phongsa’s pass got to Talbot at the perfect time as Talbot only needed one touch to beat the defense and send the ball into the top corner of the net.
It was Talbot’s second tally of the season.
The Centaurs went ahead 10 minutes into the second half when Sean Rearden got position in the box and Jack Butler got him the ball. Sean Rearden had a nice first touch, got his foot on the ball on the first bounce and sent it into the far bottom corner for his first goal of the season.
Unfortunately, it didn’t stand up. E. Lyme (2-2, 1-0 ECC Division I) tied the game on a goal by junior Noam Sokolovsky.
But halfway through the second half, it all came crashing down.
Keeper Zach Roethlein was given a red card when he had to come out of the area to challenge an E. Lyme player on a breakaway and the two collided.
It wasn’t the hit that got Roethlein, it was the fact that he was the last Centaur standing between the E. Lyme player and the goal and had there not been contact, the ball likely would have ended up in the net.
It did soon after. As soon as Roethlein was forced to the bench, Colin Manuilow stepped into the net. Mahlke was awarded a free kick from just outside the box and his well-placed low liner eluded Manuilow and put the Vikings up, 3-2.
“I wouldn’t say it was a mistake by Zach because if the same thing happened again, I would expect him to come out for that ball,” Paul Rearden said.
About 10 minutes later, Sean Rearden was forced from the match when he fell awkwardly and struck his head on the turf.
“He had to come out, and he’s one of the most influential players on the team. To go down to 10 men and then to lose one of your captains, one of your leaders, it’s a double whammy,” Paul Rearden said.
The Centaurs decided to push up.
Late in the match, East Lyme took advantage of that and got a breakaway opportunity.
Sokolovsky took a rebound off the cross bar and directed it into the net.
The Centaurs had their chances against Ledyard.
They outshot the Colonels 8-3 in the first half including some darts from Gelhaus, Sean Rearden, Phongsa and Talbot.
Nothing found its mark.
Woodstock Academy finally broke the scoreless tie early in the second half when Sean Rearden sent a corner into the box, Ledyard thought it had cleared the ball, only to see it land in front of Talbot who took the bounce and sent it into the upper left corner.
Rich Hickson almost made it 2-0 when he took a cross from Talbot, but he was hit in the foot just as he kicked it which sent the ball right at the post.
As the Centaurs luck this year would have it, it ricocheted harmlessly away.
Halfway through the second half, the Colonels (2-1) tied it on a goal by Nick Washington.
Ledyard then went ahead when Alex Warmus converted just four minutes later.
Roethlein did turn away a Ledyard penalty kick, but the Colonels added some insurance when Washington scored with five minutes remaining.
“A lot of teams get away with the mistakes they make. We’re just in one of those periods of time where every little mistake bites you,” Paul Rearden said. “The last two games, we’ve looked a lot more solid defensively. The game against Ledyard, that took away from out attacking game a little. But the practices we had between, we talked about once we did win the ball to be braver and go for it and we had two great goals (versus E. Lyme).”
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy
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Clockwise from top left: Tin 'dragons' on an old cattle pen in Woodstock. Cattle pen. Stone wall with floral adornment in Pomfret and thistle in Woodstock.
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