By Cathy Iino, Killingworth First Selectman.
(Dec. 22, 2020) — Killingworth’s COVID case rate (the number of cases per 100,000 population) remains low compared to surrounding towns, although we are seeing new cases every day. Our cumulative total number of cases has reached 121 confirmed and 127 probable. We are all feeling the strangeness of a holiday season without parties and visits, but please stay with the program. Let’s keep our rates down for the winter and our hopes up for a more congenial 2021.
New Health Director. I’d like to introduce our new health director, Amy Scholz. Amy was most recently chief sanitarian for the Plainville-Southington Regional Health District, where she served as acting director in the director’s absence and handled much of the COVID response. She holds a Master in Public Health degree from Southern Connecticut State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of New Haven. Amy is serving as our sanitarian as well as health director. You can reach her at 860-663-1765, x223.
HK Holiday Telethon tomorrow. Remember: from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, December 23, students at Haddam-Killingworth High School will broadcast the 32nd annual Holiday Telethon. This year’s telethon is raising money for the Nathaniel B. Field Memorial Foundation, a suicide prevention program founded by the parents of an HKHS junior who took his life in April 2015. In spite of all the pandemic challenges, our wonderful young people will be on the air on Channel 18 or online at holidayshow.rsd17.org. Please support their efforts.
Transfer Station closed Thursday, December 24. It will be open Saturday, December 26, for an extra hour–until 3:00 p.m. Please be patient and remember to keep your distance.
Christmas Eve Jingle. To lift spirits during the darkest time of the year, Mary Frances Studzinski and friends invite everyone to come out of their house at 6:00 p.m. on December 24 and ring a bell for two minutes. Raise a joyful noise!
Peace on earth, and good will to all.
