Lili Corn
It could be the trash haulers who would make recycling, about to be made mandatory, succeed, said the top story in the Dec. 6, 1990 Press.
The state was demanding that towns require recycling, and Ridgefield’s proposed law was going to a Dec. 13 town meeting. The law required people to separate glass, cardboard, newspapers, and other items for pickup by waste collectors. Fines could be levied, but the real power of the ordinance was that trash collectors would not remove trash with recyclables in it. “Someone who doesn’t recycle will rarely be fined, but they may not get their garbage picked up,” said town attorney J. Allen Kerr.
Joanne Smith of Blacksmith Ridge Road and Marshall Kinnaird of Peaceable Hill Road formed “Fairfield County for Safe Food,” focusing on getting legislation passed to ban the sale of irradiated foods in Connecticut.
To commemorate Pearl Harbor Day, the Ridgefield Men’s Club sponsored a panel that offered viewpoints from all sides of World War II and included Ridgefielder Hans Taeger, club secretary and a former Wehrmacht Panzer major; Yoshihiro Nose, Japanese deputy consul general; and John Toland, author of The Rising Sun, a Pulitzer Prize-winning account of World War II from the Japanese point of view. “The Japan of the 1930s was destined for war with the outside world,” said Nose, who was only 1 year old at the outbreak of the war.
Keith Lawrence, Danny Williamson, Tom Fry, and Tim Fischetto were among the stars of the RHS hockey team which was about to have its season opener against Fairfield Prep.
Lili Corn, 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barry Corn of Ridgebury Road, was dancing in “The Toys That Saved Christmas” at the Connecticut Broadway Theater.
Howard Hogan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hogan of Sleepy Hollow Road, received the Wilson Hiller Award from the Eight Lakes Property Owners Association for his academic achievement at RHS.
Nancy Bariluk and Gail Anderson had just opened Gail’s Station House in the former Brunetti’s Market on Main Street. “We tried to create a place where people feel welcome, where people can feel at home,” Ms. Bariluk said. “A lot of the things you see here you won’t see anywhere else.” (The restaurant and building burned to the ground in 2005; Dog and Pony restaurant now operates from that spot.)
50 years ago
Five people, including the captain, died when an Eastern Airlines Constellation crashed into a field just over the Ridgefield border, the Dec. 9, 1963, Press reported.
An account of the unusual accident that resulted in several changes in airline safety rules appears elsewhere in this issue.
Fred Grossfeld, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Israel Grossfeld, was declared a missing person in Cambridge, Mass., where he was a sophomore at MIT. His father ran a well-known men’s clothing store on Main Street.
Two Danbury Road gas stations were out a total of $750 after an armed robbery at Kellogg and Theiss Sunday and a burglary at Bounty’s Esso station two nights later.
A bronze plaque honoring Isabel O’Shea, the school’s first principal, was placed on the wall outside the library at Veterans Park School in a ceremony attended by 150 people. James Halliday, president of the sixth grade class — the last class left that had had Miss O’Shea as a principal — was among the speakers. Miss O’Shea, the school’s principal for 35 years, died earlier that year.
State Line Service Station on South Salem Road was selling fresh-cut balsam and spruce Christmas trees up to 12 feet tall. “No tree over $4.50.”
Bissell’s was suggesting perfume as a Christmas gift, with such brands as 4711, Guerlain, Lanvin, Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden, Houbigant, Yardley, and Jade East.
Dorothy A. Mayhall was named the new director of the Larry Aldrich Museum on Main Street.
Ethel Smith Barry of West Lane, a former Ziegfeld Follies dancer, died at an undisclosed age.
Recent births included David Najman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Najman of Tally Ho Road, Dec. 5, and Anthony Bellagamba, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bellagamba of High Ridge, Nov. 29. —J.S.
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