Daily Five: Curfews, Cooler Weather and Church Teen Challenge

1. Hope you enjoyed the gorgeous day that was Monday. We blew it with the forecast. Well, actually, blame the weather guy who said expect crummy, cloudy… when instead it was sublimely lovely; all low humidity! Ah! Anyway, today we’ll see it a tad muggier, but still with blue skies and passing clouds and temps in the mid-to high 70s. Enjoy!

2. Talk about extreme! Cornerstone Baptist Church has a three-evening event slated for area teens 12 – 19 featuring “X-treme games, X-treme food, and X-treme fun,” they promise. Set for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights from  7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 900 Rt. 163, in Oakdale. The church says its ‘Teen Challenge’ is an annual evangelistic outreach for teens where they compete in games, trivia and various other competitions. Each participant gets a free T-shirt and dinner each night. For more information call 860-848-2438 or check out the web site.

3. Last week, March of Dimes Connecticut Chapter advocates and friends gathered at the State Capitol to celebrate the signing of An Act Concerning Pulse Oximetry Screening in Newborn Infants, which officially makes screening infants for Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) mandatory in the state of Connecticut.  With Governor Dannel Malloy’s signature, newborns throughout the state, beginning January 2013 will be screened for CCHD through a simple, painless test known as pulse oximetry.

Here ‘s the thing. Many, many people, while happy there is such a test, object to it being mandatory. We have had more than 50 comments from folks on this ‘announcement.’

4. Today’s Finance Commission meeting may be just perfunctory or it could contain fireworks. You never know until you show, so they say. The agenda includes the ongoing discussion about school-ton finance consolidation Let’s see where that goes.

5. This issue comes up every summer. And every summer it’s a tough, but important, discussion.  if it were implemented in Montville? Or is do you agree that this a violation of kids’ constitutional rights?