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5th ED. INSIDE CONNECTICUT PAGE B3 TUESDAY DECEMBER 3,1985 West Hartford Farmington Valley Edition Plan for TV Tower Angers Residents in Avon TOWN BRIEFS channel that plans to broadcast ethnic programs in the Hartford area, is asking the Zoning Board of Appeals for a variance for the antenna because the new use of the tower would not comply with the town's new regulations. Those regulations, passed in July, state that the height of the tower must match the distance it is set back from adjacent property lines and the street, he said. Residents recently waged a bitter fight against an application by Astroline Communications of Hartford, WHCT-TV, Channel 18, to remove an existing 300-foot tower and build one more than twice that height. The first application was rejected in June by the town Planning and Zoning Commission, which said It was not compatible with the casters think the door Is wide open to these things," he said.

Kurt Claywell of Deercllff Road, who plans to build a new home on property adjacent to the proposed Channel 13 tower site, said he worries about radiation. The residents' primary objection to Astroline's proposal was that microwave radiation emitted from the tower would harm their health. But Claywell said there was some evidence that the 750-foot tower was high enough and far enough away from the nearest property line about 1,300 feet that any radiation would dissipate by the time it reached residents' yards. However, Claywell said, his home would be built only 97 feet away from the proposed Channel 13 tower and that structure would be much vit op By TERRY BARTLETT Courant Correspondent AVON A proposal for another television tower atop Avon Mountain has renewed residents' fears about microwave radiation and may prompt a test of zoning regulations passed this summer. W13BF-TV, Channel IS, wants to place a 43-foot antenna on top of a 99-foot tower that has not been in use since the early 1960s, Zoning Enforcement Officer Donald Griswold said.

There are six TV towers on the mountain. The tower Is on a 1.54-acre parcel, slightly less than half of which is in the town of Farmington, Town Planner Michael K. O'Leary said. W13BF, a 10-watt, low-power West Hartford Schools Study Redistricting By FRANCES RANDY Courant Staff Writer WEST HARTFORD The Board of Education Monday took a look at another part of the proposed school redistricting plan involving the elementary schools, and also discussed the possibility of seven-hour-a-day kindergarten at all elementary schools. The board scheduled a special meeting Dec.

9 to decide whether to reopen Smith and Aiken elementary schools to accommodate the increasing number of youngsters entering town schools during the next 10 years. Enrollment in kindergarten through sixth grade could reach 4,001 by 199S, a report by Associate Superintendent Lloyd Cavert states. This year's total was about 3,675, he said. Some elementary schools, such as the Edward Morley school, already are experiencing overcrowding. Morley has "frozen" its enrollment for the past year and new students who would nave attended the school are being bused out of the area.

Board Chairwoman Beverly Greenberg said that residents want a decision made on redistricting by early 1986 to ease some of the crowding problems at Morley and other schools. The board agreed Monday night to have a redistricting plan In place by Jan. 22, 1986. "We have heard that request loud and clear," Greenberg said. The board also discussed the proposal for seven-hour kindergarten at each of the elementary schools, which several members favor, but the program Is hampered by lack of available classroom space at many schools.

Those schools may not be able to have the program, the board said. Four of the town's 10 elementary schools now have seven-hour kindergarten. School Superintendent Peter D. Relic spoke In favor of a seven-hour kindergarten program in as many schools as possible. "Times are changing, and many more demands are being made on us that were not made even five years ago," he said.

"It is up to us to be responsive to those needs." HUD To Subsidize Mortgages in State Up to 45 houses for moderate-income families will be built in Connecticut, 33 of them in New Haven, through money released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, federal officials said Monday. HUD will subsidize 33 mortgages In two different developments in New Haven, six mortgages In Hartford and at least three in Enfield under the federal agency's Section 235 program. Under the mortgage-subsidy program, the government subsidizes Interest rates on mortgages for low-and moderate-income families by as much as 6 percentage points, depending on the buyer's income. HUD Is providing $2.5 million to 33 million for the mortgages in Connecticut, which will be made available through the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority.

The agency offers mortgage loans carrying 9.75 percent interest rates. shorter than Channel 18's tower. Claywell also noted said that other broadcast officials, whose towers are on the mountain, told the town during the last Astroline hearings that they might want to increase their towers' heights if Channel 18 was allowed to increase its tower. "It's just getting out of hand, it really is," Claywell said of new tower construction. The proposal will be heard by the Zoning Board of Appeals Dec.

12 at 7:30 p.m. in the town offices. If the appeals board approves the application, W13BF then must apply to the town Planning and Zoning Commission for a special exception, as WHCT did, because the tower would be built In a residential zone. Channel 13 officials could not be reached for comment Monday. Kathy Hanley The Hartfon) Courant day, but he has said that some of the Sroblems in Burlington are similar those experienced by other towns.

The DEP has agreed to install a gate at an access road In the River-ton section of New Hartford because of several problems, including loitering. In Burlington, police and town officials have reported problems with abandoned stolen vehicles, late-night parties and illegal overnight camping. Scheldel said police would continue to make random checks at the areas. He said resident troopers and constables have been ordered not to enter the areas alone at night. are executed in bright colors and are strongly symbolic and optimistic in tone.

Each carries a short message, with a translation furnished by Judi Friedman. A drawing of a rocket ship contains a less-than-subtle reference to the Strategic Defense Initiative, President Reagan's "Star Wars" defense project. "Use space for peace not war," the message says. The pictures, which were put on display last week, are being shown with the joint sponsorship of the Friedmans and the town Human Relations Commission. The exhibit will be shown through December.

the years. He said the firm would like to develop a master plan for the area that would include trees, sidewalks and road plans. "We're phenomenally excited," said Alan Bazilian, president of the Park Road Commission and owner of a retail clothing store on Park Road. "It will revive interest in the area, make it appear more cohesive. "This way, the area will be more aesthetically appealing," he said.

But, when the plan was proposed a second time, WHCT-TV said it would move the tower's site about a mile along the road, to land near an existing "tower farm" where there are four other towers. That proposal won the commission's approval last month. Deerclif Road residents say they are tired of towers. "I think Avon has borne at least Its fair share of the towers for the region and maybe more than its fair share," said Michael Konover, one resident. Konover said that now the new Channel 18 tower has been approved, other broadcasters are getting the impression that Avon Mountain is the place to build.

"I think the wrong signal has been sent out and I think a lot of broad The proposal calls for installation of a gate or fence to block the access roads from dusk to dawn In addition to the curfew. The letter Included several examples of the problems reported by police and residents and a copy of a river advisory committee's endorsement of the curfew plan. The advisory committee's members include environmentalists and a representative of the Farmington River Watershed Association, which has offered its support to the town's request. The department must decide whether it wants a meeting with town officials and police before Camp, a sort of summer camp held in Togllatti, an automobile-manufacturing city of 500,000 on the Volga River. Louis A.

and Judi Friedman of Canton originally saw the drawings during the 1984 Volga Peace Cruise, sponsored by Promoting Enduring Peace, headquartered In the Woodmont section of Milford, and four other groups. The annual cruise up the Volga and Don rivers is part of an unofficial U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange intended to foster better relations between the two nations. The entire collection of about 70 works was being displayed at the a shopping district" Chantey's firm was selected by the Park Road Commission, an organization of Park Road merchants, community leaders and town officials. Elaine Schmidt, town coordinator for the project, said a $100,000 block g-ant from the U.S. Department of ouslng and Urban Development will finance the facade design, with the town paying 60 percent and merchants paying 40 percent of con she embraced him like an old friend at the Hartford Civic Center, where hell be listening to children's wishes until Christmas.

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS Four-year-old Vanessa Keating of West Hartford was terrified of Santa Clans last year. But this year, WEST HARTFORD Diamond Pendant -Stolen in Theft Police are investigating the theft of a wooden jewelry box, containing a $2,000 diamond pendant, sometime during the Thanksgiving weekend from a dormitory room in Assumption Hall at St. Joseph College. The box also contained some- costume jewelry. There was no sign of forced entry, police Cant-Russell Hughes said.

Israeli Professor To Speak Tonight Amnon Ben Tor, professor of archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Is scheduled to lecture tonight on recent archaeological discoveries and their relationship to biblical text. The free, illustrated lecture Is at 8 p.m. In the Great Room of the University of Hartford Community Building. QRANBY Hazardous Waste Collection Approved Selectmen voted unamimously. Monday to hold a household hazardous-waste collection day next spring.

East Granny also Is expected to participate. Homeowners will be asked to bring unwanted pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals that are considered harmful to ground water to a central location. The date has not been decided. The town will hire a licensed hauler to collect and remove the wastes, something that Is expected to cost $11,000 or $7,360 for Granby and $3,640 for the smaller town of East Granby. If East Granby does not participate, the cost to Granby alone would be about $8,000.

The state Department of Environmental Protection will reimburse as much as SO percent of the costs if its fund for such payments has not been exhausted. Selectmen will ask the Board of Finance to approve the concept, but also will indicate that a special appropriation may be needed. A surplus in the landfill-operation budget, however, could pay for the project WINDSOR Computers Stolen Over Thanksgiving Computer equipment was stolen from Sperry Corp. at 10 Unlvac Lane during the holiday weekend, police said Monday. The value of the equipment, which included eight color monitors, five printers, seven personal computers and related items, had not been determined Monday, detective Lt Nicholas C.

Rlccio said. "They're still taking inventory," he said. Couple Discovers Burglar in House A couple awoke to find a burglar In their Orchard Road home about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, police said. "The couple awoke and the man was inside their bedroom.

The husband chased him down the stairs," detective Lt Nicholas C. Rlccio said. He said costume jewelry and. a small amount of cash were stolen. Rlccio said state and local -police used a German shepherd to help search the wooded area behind the house, but found nothing.

Rlccio said the burglar apparently fled in a car. Clarification A new administration office building for the Winding Trails-Recreation Area was built with $32,000 in contributions from the town of Farmington, residents, organizations and businesses and a $40,000 matching grant from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. Winding Trails Inc. will continue to accept donations until Dec. 31 to raise the additional $8,000 to match the foundation's grant The information in The Courant's Nov.

22 story was unclear. Burlington Seeks Curfew for Access Areas By JULIUS FABRINI Courant Correspondent BURLINGTON The town, unhappy with the illegal camping, drinking parties and other problems along the Farmington River, has asked the state Department of Environmental Protection to establish a curfew for three areas. First Selectman Theodore C. Scheldel said Monday that he made the request in a letter to the department's western district, which has jurisdiction over land west of the Farmington River. The areas are in Burlington, but the riverbanks are state property.

Soviet Children Send Artistic Peace Messages making a decision, Scheldel said, adding that he expects the state will want to discuss the issue. James Moulton, assistant director of the department's Inland fisheries unit, said the request will be reviewed by a consortium of DEP division directors. "It'll take at least a couple of weeks to review it and come back with a coordinated response," Moulton said. He did not know whether a meeting with town officials would be scheduled. Anthony Cantele, director of the western division in Harwinton, could not be reached for comment Mon camp.

When the Friedmans were touring the camp, Judi Friedman expressed interest in the artwork, and she was invited to take the drawings. Since then, the Friedmans have arranged to exhibit the drawings in 24 cities across the United States. "One of the things that im- Bressed us about the artwork was le sophistication of the kids about the subject," Louis Friedman said. Laura Thornton, library publicist and graphic designer, said she was impressed by the quality. "I thought they were really well done," she said.

For the most part, the drawings struction costs. Schmidt said the grant may be Increased during the next two years if the project goes well. Although the major work is still to come, a few stores have begun landscape work and others have refurbished shoo signs. The entire project is expected tote completed in about three years, she said. Charney said some of the buildings' original characteristics are good, but nave been covered up over By DAVE DRURY Courant Staff Writer WEST HARTFORD The message is written in Russian, but the translation seems straight from Utopia.

"There will be peace on the planet when the children are in charge," the artist wrote under a smiling, globelike face surrounded by blue doves. The work is one of 18 watercolor and crayon drawings about war and peace now on display at the Noah Webster Memorial Library. The artists are Soviet schoolchildren, ages 8 to 12, who drew them while attending Young Pioneer homes, lacks a focus. Richard Charney, a partner In Raphael and Charney Architects, which was selected for the project, said Monday that his company hopes its designs will bring a sense of community to the area. "We hope to come up with designs that will be unique and yet harmonious with the entire street," Charney said.

"We are taking a bullding-by-bulldlng approach in an attempt to create an overall idea of the area as City Architect Selected To Redesign West Hartford Businesses By FRANCES RANDY Courant Staff Writer WEST HARTFORD A Hartford architectural firm has been selected to design the renovation of as many as 50 businesses along Park Road, with the design work to be financed by a federal block grant. Planners say the street, which is lined with aging buildings and a mix of stores, auto repair shops and.