PHOTOS: 30 years ago this month in Wallingford - April 1989
PHOTOS: 30 years ago this month in Wallingford - April 1989
RJ file photo - Edith Czeiny, right, during a surprise party thrown to celebrate Czeiny's recent naturalization, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Moses Y. Beach second-grader Jonathon Passmore examines a spider crab during a program that featured 15 species of sea creatures, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Author Wayne Coffey signs copies of his book about teen-agers' experiences with alcohol for Sheehan High School students Lynda Rosick and Jeff Walton, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Students at Moses Y. Beach School take a look at a horseshoe crab April 1989.
RJ file photo - Alpha-Lo Bicycles owner George Dickerson, left, is organizing a new bicycle race for avid bikers. Jerry Braga is the store's manager, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Wallingford Dog Pound kennel keeper John Mercier hands out treats to several dogs that are awaiting adoption, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Christina Torres unpacks Mexican products at her father's new grocery store - Yadira Grocery - on Ward Street, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Rita Riccitelli and George Wright enjoy some private moments alone on the back of his pickup truck at Community Lake April 17, 1989. The two were on their lunch hours from their jobs.
RJ file photo - The Rev. Donnel O'Flynn, left, and the Rev. Arthur E. Walmsley, Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, talk before O'Flynn's installation as vicar of the St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in Yalesville, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Lyman Hall High School track team members Matt Tyler, 16, and Brian Appell, 16, wait their turn to compete in an event April 20, 1989. The team was scheduled to host a meet against North Branford, but the visitors never showed up.
RJ file photo -Mark Skirkanich, 5, struggles to lift a shrub onto his father's truck. He was helping his father load a truck with trees and bushes they purchased at Vinny's Garden Center on South Colony Street in Wallingford, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Wallingford, 1989.
RJ file photo - Wallingford, 1989.
RJ file photo - Wallingford Adult Education class students and instructors discuss techniques before diving in the Sheehan High School pool's deep end, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Wallingford Inland Wetlands Commission Chairman Jim Heilman and town Environmental Planner Robert Baker examine a site they say contains evidence of volcanic activity, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Wallingford Adult Education class students and instructors discuss techniques before diving in the Sheehan High School pool's deep end, April 1989.
RJ file photo - T.J. Courtney, 19, and Chris Clancy, 18, skate down North Main Street in Wallingford April 20, 1989 on roller blades while carrying their hockey sticks. They are members of the Choate Rosemary Hall hockey team.
RJ file photo - Members of the Choate Rosemary Hall hockey team skate down North Main Street April 20, 1989.
RJ file photo - Sheehah High School senior Steve Inglese, taking the role of Assistant Principal Ann Dombrowski, goes over Jill Ercolani's detention referral during Senior Day, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Kelly McElfish from Sheehan speaks about what it takes to be popular at the Housatonic League Persuasive Speaking Contest held at Sheehan High School, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Donna Cross, left, from North Haven High School, takes on the character of a teenager who turns to drugs and prostitution to escape her unloving parents during her speech at the Housatonic League Persuasive Speaking Contest held at Sheehan High School, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Carpenter Nick Matarazzo works on putting up a facade on a new showroom under construction at Super Sales Inc. on North Colony Street, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Portuguese craftsman Vitor Manuel Pereira Luis and Bonaventura Almeida De Jorge cut marble on a special machine designed for cutting stone at Stonecrafters Ltd. in Wallingford, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Stonecrafters Ltd. in Wallingford, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Stonecrafters Ltd. in Wallingford, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Frank Levigne, 8, gazes at the ground while swinging on a piece of playground equipment at Dutton Park, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Martha L. Becker works on one of the many wooden toys she and her husband make in their Wallingford home, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Warren H. Becker begins cutting one of the many wooden toys he and his wife make in their Wallingford home, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Ed Nielander surges to victory in the 110-meter high hurdles for one of his four wins, April 1989.
RJ file photo - James Sutton decided to sit down on his Church Street home's porch to read his mail while enjoying the warm weather, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Charles Davis sits in the Yale Plaza parking lot working on binding new rugs into runners. Davis is a carpet installer for Design Floor Covering and was hoping to start a tan while on the job, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Adam Cohen, 7, struggles with a cart that attaches to a small garden tractor in front of his Hope Hill Road home, April 1989. Adam was readying the equipment his father would need to mow the lawn when he came home.
RJ file photo - Choate Rosemary Hall seniors Dan Torop and Bill Chen have advanced in the JETS-TEAMS competition, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Students at Highland School during their class' dinosaur party April 7, 1989.
RJ file photo - Highland School student Steven Ferrari constructs an Ankylosaurus dinosaur out of clay durign his class' dinosaur party April 7, 1989.
RJ file photo - Chris Beauvais plans plans a cut-a-thon at Fantastic Sam's on North Colony Road to benefit victims of child abuse, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Hall of Fame inductees Joe Coffey, Joe Schiopucie and Jay Murphy rekindle memories as they san the 100th anniversary booklet put out by the Boys Club, April 1989.
Rj file photo - Lisa Acampora, a licensed hairdresser and cosmetologist, will serve in the Visiting Nurses Association's Curls on Wheels program, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Lorraine Polastri, owner of the Fantastic Sam's haircutting salon in Wallingford, April 1989.
Rj file photo - Wallingford Health Inspector George Yasensky tests the hot water while looking for irregularities in the ceiling during a routine spot inspection at Stella's Pizza, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Wallingford letter carrier Jim Carpenter is one of the carriers who helped start the Carrier Alert program, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Lisa Rodenhizer solved the problem of taking her two sons James, 9 months, front, and Mark, 2, to the post ofice by using the children's wooden red wagon, April 1989.
RJ file photo - Library Co-directors Leslie Scherer and Karen Roesler will take time during National Library Week to talk about how computers have changed the way their business is done, April 1999.
RJ file photo - Helen Stowe and her son Eddie, 4, left, and his friend Matthew Dormandy, 4, look along the shore of the pond at Doolittle Park for a muskrat they saw in the water April 10 1989.