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Redding Pilot
May 12, 2008
Fox kit
Redding Pilot
May 12, 2008
Annual Founder’s May Fair
Author is a special guest
Bill Steers, author and illustrator of the popular Tractor Mac
children’s book series, is a special guest at this year’s Annual
Founders’ May Fair at New Pond Farm on Saturday, May 17, from 11 to 4
(rain date is May 18 from 1 to 4).
Mr. Steers grew up on a farm in Roxbury. A “chronic doodler,” he began
completing pictorial diaries of his daily experiences as a child, a
practice he continues to this day.
He majored in geography with an emphasis on cartography at the
University of Utah, where he was a cartoonist for the student
newspaper. After serving as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force with
participation in the invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War, he left
active duty service and began apprenticing with a well-known children’s
book author and illustrator.
Inspired by bedtime stories he had been telling his young sons that
revolved around the adventures of their little red toy tractor, Mr.
Steers introduced his first Tractor Mac book, Tractor Mac Arrives at
the Farm, in April 1999.
Redding Pilot
May 12, 2008
Redding
Quilting in New England is topic of upcoming talk
The Redding Historical Society is inviting the public to its annual
spring meeting on Sunday, May 18, from 1 to 4 at the Lonetown Farm
Museum.
Redding Pilot
May 12, 2008
Redding
Seminar addresses issue of post-employment benefits
Do you know how and why municipalities must soon account for
post-employment benefits, like health care? Karl Johnson, an expert on
this topic, will provide answers to elected officials and financial
staff, and others who are interested, at a free informational session
on Thursday, May 15, at the Ethan Allen Hotel in Danbury.
Redding Pilot
May 11, 2008
Americares/Homefront initiative
Church members help restore local home
On Saturday, more than 30 members of the First Church of Christ,
Congregational gathered to restore a home on Mountain Road as part of
the AmeriCares/Homefront initiative.
Redding Pilot
May 11, 2008
Group seeks volunteers for river cleanup
A cleanup is planned of the Saugatuck River Watershed on Saturday, May
31, from 9 to noon in celebration of National River Cleanup 2008.
Redding Pilot
May 11, 2008
Redding
State project delays prompt expedited application proposal
First Selectman Natalie Ketcham, along with David Pattee, Conservation
Commission chairman, and Nancy King, a Planning Commission member,
recently attended a Land Use Leadership Alliance program.
Redding Pilot
May 10, 2008
Another Heibeck reaches a milestone
Bobbi Heibeck celebrates 25 years of cutting hair on Route 7
by Rachel Kirkpatrick
rkirkpatrick@thereddingpilot.com
Twenty-five years ago Barbara “Bobbi” Heibeck of Georgetown jumped head
first into her hair salon business and never looked back.
As the owner of StudioB Hair Design, a salon on Route 7, formerly named
Head First Hair, she’s become another part of the Heibeck family’s
legacy in Georgetown. Her father, George S., and four brothers, Mike,
Marty, George W. and Tom, operate Heibeck Motors on Route 7, a business
that is in its 77th year.
Her business began down the street in Wilton, but about a year ago she
moved into her new location, across from the Nissan dealership, next
door to Heibeck Motors, and in the same spot where ironically her
father started his Volkswagen business decades ago.
Redding Pilot
May 10, 2008
COMMENTARY
Talking Transportation: The folly of a gas tax holiday
by Jim Cameron
Once again, politicians are pandering to our worst instincts. They’re
suggesting a summer vacation for our 18.4¢ per gallon federal gasoline
tax, telling us it will make driving more affordable in the busy travel
months again. Hogwash!
Redding Pilot
May 10, 2008
Redding
Meeting's focus is on new Georgetown Train Station
Georgetown Land Development Company will be meeting with the town’s
land use agencies on May 28 for a pre-application discussion on the new
Georgetown Train Station.
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