The elite level is important but so too is community sport and recreation, including what happens in secondary schools.

I think this is going to be great _ not only for the school _ but for the community because the recreation league teams will be able to use it on Sundays. But the main thing is that we don't have to worry about games being postponed the way we have in the past.

People can call their solid waste district or community office, or an urban forester in the parks and recreation department if they have one, to see if a chipping program is available in their area.

Parks and Recreation is really good for the community .... it has a real balance of sports and arts. They're so supportive of the community theater and the youth theater....they want to offer the people of Rocky Hill everything. [Plus] they go out of their way to help us.

We've always partnered with the schools. They are the anchors of the community.

We're opening up the doors of the schools to the community and we'd like to see as much community involvement in our schools as possible.