The new Jewett City Party (JCP) website - www.jewettcityparty.com - is up and running.
The internet puts the information at the doorstep of the voter; rather, than the voter being at the doorstep of Town Hall.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Jewett City Party website Up & Running
The internet puts the information at the doorstep of the voter; rather, than the voter being at the doorstep of Town Hall.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Jewett City Party Announces Public Meeting on January 24th
The Jewett City Party (JCP) is holding a public meeting at 7:00 pm, Wednesday, January 24th in the Griswold Town Hall public meeting room. The Griswold Town Hall is located at 28 Main Street, Jewett City, CT o6351. The meeting will give the residents of Jewett City an opportunity to meet JCP organizers and ask questions.
Ron Ward, JCP Founder, stated, "All members of the community are invited and encouraged to attend. The Jewett City Party looks forward to meeting residents and answering their questions."
The agenda for the evening's program will included:
Ron Ward, JCP Founder
37 Main Street, Unit 6
Jewett City, CT 06351
860-376-3530 home
email: founder@jewettcityparty.com
Ron Ward, JCP Founder, stated, "All members of the community are invited and encouraged to attend. The Jewett City Party looks forward to meeting residents and answering their questions."
The agenda for the evening's program will included:
- Opening Remarks by Ron Ward, JCP Candidate for Jewett City Borough Warden
- Introduction of Jewett City Party organizing committee members
- Endorsement of candidates for the elected Borough Offices of Burgess, Clerk, Treasurer, Tax Collector and Bailiff
- Jewett City Party Presentation of Goals and Objectives
- Open Community Forum for Questions and Answers
Ron Ward, JCP Founder
37 Main Street, Unit 6
Jewett City, CT 06351
860-376-3530 home
email: founder@jewettcityparty.com
Jewett City Party - website
www.jewettcityparty.com
Thursday, January 11, 2007
JCP announces Candidate for Borough Warden
Founder of Jewett City Party Facing
Petition Deadline to Get on Ballot
By Megan Bard
Published on 1/10/2007 - The Day newspaper
Griswold — For the first time in at least 10 years there might be
competition on the Borough of Jewett City election ballot in May.
As the two major parties schedule their caucuses and candidate
endorsement meetings for the end of the month, a new minority
party is awaiting the necessary paperwork to be recognized by the
state in time for the election.
The Jewett City Party has requested the documentation from the
Secretary of the State's Elections Division. If it is to have any
candidates on the ballot, the party must register with the state in the
coming weeks and have its candidates submit petitions to the
elections division by 4 p.m. Feb. 6.
Although he has yet to receive the paperwork, party founder and
borough resident Ron Ward said Tuesday evening that he is
confident he'll be able to achieve both goals.
“I believe that a Jewett City Party is needed to give a broad-based
opportunity for the residents and taxpayers to be involved in their
borough government,” he said. “By forming the party, there is a
permanent organization in place that can do the work to organize
and address issues in this borough.”
Unlike running as an unaffiliated petitioning candidate — a
candidate who circulates a petition and submits it to the municipal
clerk before a specific deadline to be on the ballot — minority party
candidates require additional documentation.
First, before petition papers can be released by the state, the
minority party must be registered so that party's name is printed on
the petitions. Once the petitions are circulated and submitted back
to the state, the new party's charter members or endorsement
committee must send letters to the state verifying that the
candidates are running on the party line.
The deadline for the Jewett City Party endorsement letters is March
13. In addition to founding the party, Ward also said he will be its
top candidate.
Ward intends to challenge incumbent Warden Cynthia Kata, a
Democrat, for the chief elected officer position she's held since
2003. He also intends to find candidates to run for the four available
burgess seats and possibly other positions including borough
treasurer, clerk, tax collector and bailiff.
“The Jewett City Party will give the people a candidate on the ballot
who is not beholden to either a Democrat or the Republican
parties,” Ward said.
The two majority parties — Democrats and Republicans — must
endorse their candidates at a caucus between Jan. 15 and Jan. 22.
Democratic Town Committee Chairman Richard Duda said the
committee is expected to endorse its incumbents at its Jan. 17
meeting. The only exception will be retiring borough Tax Collector
Virginia Hoddy. In her place the committee is expected to endorse
current assistant tax collector Leona Sharkey.
“We've got a good ticket, and we're confident the voters will re-elect
them,” Duda said Tuesday. “We have a good record and have
managed the borough government well.”
Kata said she will accept the party endorsement because after more
than 23 years of involvement in the borough — she started as the
assessor — she is not ready to retire.
“I've been through a lot with the borough and still have a lot to give,”
she said Tuesday evening.
The Republican Town Committee has yet to scheduled its caucus.
Petition Deadline to Get on Ballot
By Megan Bard
Published on 1/10/2007 - The Day newspaper
Griswold — For the first time in at least 10 years there might be
competition on the Borough of Jewett City election ballot in May.
As the two major parties schedule their caucuses and candidate
endorsement meetings for the end of the month, a new minority
party is awaiting the necessary paperwork to be recognized by the
state in time for the election.
The Jewett City Party has requested the documentation from the
Secretary of the State's Elections Division. If it is to have any
candidates on the ballot, the party must register with the state in the
coming weeks and have its candidates submit petitions to the
elections division by 4 p.m. Feb. 6.
Although he has yet to receive the paperwork, party founder and
borough resident Ron Ward said Tuesday evening that he is
confident he'll be able to achieve both goals.
“I believe that a Jewett City Party is needed to give a broad-based
opportunity for the residents and taxpayers to be involved in their
borough government,” he said. “By forming the party, there is a
permanent organization in place that can do the work to organize
and address issues in this borough.”
Unlike running as an unaffiliated petitioning candidate — a
candidate who circulates a petition and submits it to the municipal
clerk before a specific deadline to be on the ballot — minority party
candidates require additional documentation.
First, before petition papers can be released by the state, the
minority party must be registered so that party's name is printed on
the petitions. Once the petitions are circulated and submitted back
to the state, the new party's charter members or endorsement
committee must send letters to the state verifying that the
candidates are running on the party line.
The deadline for the Jewett City Party endorsement letters is March
13. In addition to founding the party, Ward also said he will be its
top candidate.
Ward intends to challenge incumbent Warden Cynthia Kata, a
Democrat, for the chief elected officer position she's held since
2003. He also intends to find candidates to run for the four available
burgess seats and possibly other positions including borough
treasurer, clerk, tax collector and bailiff.
“The Jewett City Party will give the people a candidate on the ballot
who is not beholden to either a Democrat or the Republican
parties,” Ward said.
The two majority parties — Democrats and Republicans — must
endorse their candidates at a caucus between Jan. 15 and Jan. 22.
Democratic Town Committee Chairman Richard Duda said the
committee is expected to endorse its incumbents at its Jan. 17
meeting. The only exception will be retiring borough Tax Collector
Virginia Hoddy. In her place the committee is expected to endorse
current assistant tax collector Leona Sharkey.
“We've got a good ticket, and we're confident the voters will re-elect
them,” Duda said Tuesday. “We have a good record and have
managed the borough government well.”
Kata said she will accept the party endorsement because after more
than 23 years of involvement in the borough — she started as the
assessor — she is not ready to retire.
“I've been through a lot with the borough and still have a lot to give,”
she said Tuesday evening.
The Republican Town Committee has yet to scheduled its caucus.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Jewett City Electric rates 16% higher than CL&P
The Jewett City Department of Public Utilities, Electric Power Division (JCDPU-Electric) is publicly owned by the Jewett City Borough Government. JCDPU-electric serves about 2200 customers that live in or near Jewett City. It purchases power from CL&P and others at wholesale rates, then distributes the electricity to approximately 2200 homes and businesses.
Customers are paying 13.13 cents per kilowatt hour to heat their homes. A comparison of electric rates for Jewett City shows that an average home using 700 kilowatts of power is paying $12.90 more per month than their neighbor living just down the road in Griswold. Connecticut Light and Power which provides electricity to the town portion of Griswold charges 11.33 cents/kwHr.
Jewett City Party Founder, Ron Ward, stated, "Yet again, the JCDPU which is owned by the residents of Jewett City is hitting the wallets of taxpayers when it hurts the most, the middle of winter when electric heat is need to keep warm."
The Norwich Bulletin (Sunday, January 7, 2007) reported that Ken Sullivan, JCDPU Director, stated, "It's municipalities' every intent to entitle consumers to have the cheapest electricity that is able to be found. And, more than that, it is the municipalities' every intent to enable price stability." Sullivan said during these times of high energy costs and supply shortages, it's important for all customers to exercise conservation.
Jewett City Party (JCP) Founder, Ron Ward stated, "Paying rates 15% higher than CL&P definitely means that Jewett City residents have the "know how" and do indeed make every effort to reduce the cost of electric heat." Ron Ward went on to suggest, "Jewett City residents own the electric company, we demand that our public servants look a bit harder to find a better bargain on electricity. How about checking out Norwich Public Utilities, customers there pay 12% less than than CL&P."
Customers are paying 13.13 cents per kilowatt hour to heat their homes. A comparison of electric rates for Jewett City shows that an average home using 700 kilowatts of power is paying $12.90 more per month than their neighbor living just down the road in Griswold. Connecticut Light and Power which provides electricity to the town portion of Griswold charges 11.33 cents/kwHr.
Jewett City Party Founder, Ron Ward, stated, "Yet again, the JCDPU which is owned by the residents of Jewett City is hitting the wallets of taxpayers when it hurts the most, the middle of winter when electric heat is need to keep warm."
The Norwich Bulletin (Sunday, January 7, 2007) reported that Ken Sullivan, JCDPU Director, stated, "It's municipalities' every intent to entitle consumers to have the cheapest electricity that is able to be found. And, more than that, it is the municipalities' every intent to enable price stability." Sullivan said during these times of high energy costs and supply shortages, it's important for all customers to exercise conservation.
Jewett City Party (JCP) Founder, Ron Ward stated, "Paying rates 15% higher than CL&P definitely means that Jewett City residents have the "know how" and do indeed make every effort to reduce the cost of electric heat." Ron Ward went on to suggest, "Jewett City residents own the electric company, we demand that our public servants look a bit harder to find a better bargain on electricity. How about checking out Norwich Public Utilities, customers there pay 12% less than than CL&P."
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Legend of the Manatee
On January the 9th of 1493, Italian explorer Christopher
Columbus, sailing near the Dominican Republic, sees
three "mermaids"--in reality manatees--and describes
them as "not half as beautiful as they are painted."
Six months earlier, Columbus (1451-1506) set off from
Spain across the Atlantic Ocean with the Nina, Pinta
and Santa Maria, hoping to find a western trade route
to Asia. Instead, his voyage, the first of four he
would make, led him to the Americas, or "New World."
Mermaid sightings by sailors, when they weren't made
up, were most likely manatees, dugongs or Steller's
sea cows (which became extinct by the 1760s due to
over-hunting). Manatees are slow-moving aquatic
mammals with human-like eyes, bulbous faces and
paddle-like tails. It is likely that manatees evolved
from an ancestor they share with the elephant. The
three species of manatee (West Indian, West African
and Amazonian) and one species of dugong belong to the
Sirenia order. As adults, they're typically 10 to 12
feet long and weigh 800 to 1,200 pounds. They're
plant-eaters, have a slow metabolism and can only
survive in warm water.
Manatees live an average of 50 to 60 years in the wild
and have no natural predators. However, they are an
endangered species. In the U.S., the majority of
manatees are found in Florida, where scores of them
die or are injured each year due to collisions with
boats.
excerpt from www.history.com
Monday, January 8, 2007
To turn a blind eye?
Admiral Horatio Nelson of the British Royal Navy is said to have made this now famous statement while willfully disobeying the order of his superior officer to withdraw and disengage the attack.
During the 1801 battle of Copenhagen, Nelson lead the attack of the British fleet against a joint Danish & Norwegian enemy. The British Royal Navy supreme commander was Admiral Sir Hyde Parker. The two men often times disagreed over tactics.
At a pivotal moment in battle, Admiral Parker sent a signal (by the use of flags) ordering Nelson to disengage the attack. When the supreme commander's order was brought to Nelson's attention, He purposefully lifted the telescope up to his blind eye, said he saw no signal, and ordered his forces to continue to press on with the attack. The obvious deception of placing a telescope to his blind eye was a means to defy his commanding officer's order and continue with the attack.
This post is a compilation of information obtained from www.phrases.org and www.wikipedia.org
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