"Fresh Start As a Husky: UConn Freshmen Move into res halls," and "Couple doesn't let diagnoses steal their lives," in The Chronicle on 8/27/16 on page 1.

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Couple doesn’t let diagnoses steal their lives
Editor’s note: The Windham
Region Relay for Life will take
place at the Eastern Connecticut
State University’s track in Mans-
field Oct. 15. “Survivor Stories”
is an occasional series leading
up to the event profiling how area
folks successfully beat cancer.
By COREY SIPE
Chronicle Staff Writer
WINDHAM — Many people
have heard of Tim McGraw’s song
“Live Like You Were Dying,” and
Bonnie and Ned Squire, of North
Windham, are proving that cancer
won’t stop them from enjoying
life.
Ned Squire just turned 58 and
Bonnie Squire is 63. They have
been married to each other for
RELAY FOR LIFE:
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Ned and Bonnie Squire have each been diagnosed with cancer twice.
Roxanne Pandolfi photos
ABOVE: Ted Shafer and his son Ethan Shafer tote empty containers back to their vehicle after
unloading in Ethan Shafer’s new dorm room. Ethan Shafer is starting his college career at the
University of Connecticut this year. The family is from Burlington. RIGHT: Karli Golembeski,
an incoming UConn freshman, and her parents Kevin (out of frame) and Colleen Golembeski
have just 15 minutes to unload their car because of parking restrictions at the UConn dorms
Friday afternoon. The family is from New Milford.
Fresh start as a Husky
UConn freshmen move into res halls
FDA: All donated blood
should be tested for virus
By KAREN KAPLAN
Los Angeles Times
All blood donated in the U.S.
should be screened for Zika to
prevent the virus from spreading
through transfusions, the Food
and Drug Administration said
Friday.
The new guidance should be
implemented “immediately” in
states and territories where the
virus is already being spread
by mosquitoes, and it should be
phased in over the next four to 12
weeks in the rest of the country.
“The recommendation for test-
ing the entire blood supply will
help ensure that safe blood is
available for all individuals who
might need transfusion,” Dr. Peter
Marks, director of the FDA’s
Center for Biologics Evaluation
and Research, said in a state-
ment.
Zika has spread rapidly through-
out the Americas, with 50 coun-
tries and territories now dealing
with active outbreaks.
As of Wednesday, 8,746 people
in Puerto Rico have been infected
with the virus locally, along with
dozens of additional cases of local
transmission in the U.S. Virgin
Islands and American Samoa, ac-
cording to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Florida is the only U.S. state
with Zika infections that can’t be
linked to travel. As of Wednesday,
29 people there have been diag-
nosed with laboratory-confirmed
infections, the CDC says.
The Zika virus is spread by mos-
quitoes through their bites. Once
infected, a person can spread it to
another through sexual contact.
Most notably, an infected preg-
New playscape installed
for Columbia students
Roxanne Pandolfi
Construction on the new Mark S. Zoback Memorial play-
ground, seen here Thursday, at Horace W. Porter School is
expected to be completed by the first week of school.
By KIMBERLY WETZEL
Chronicle Staff Writer
COLUMBIA — Students will
be welcomed back Wednesday to
Horace W. Porter School with
everything almost the same as
when they left at the start of sum-
mer. Though there will be one
major improvement outside — an
almost finished playground for
students to enjoy.
They will also have their first
Porter Pride program — a way
to formally welcome everybody
back to the new year after stu-
dents and teachers are settled in
— on Friday, Sept. 9.
School officials are hopeful the
first day will go well, the school
day will be “routine” and every-
thing will go “smoothly.”
From first glance, students and
families will see the school play-
ground, an initiative that had both
school and town support.
Columbia Superintendent Law-
rence Fearon said the school and
2016
(New playscape, Page 4)
(Couple, Page 4)
By COREY SIPE
Chronicle Staff Writer
STORRS — Despite less than
ideal weather conditions, anx-
ious freshmen at the University
of Connecticut moved into their
residence halls on Friday with
plenty of optimism.
Around lunchtime on Friday,
traffic was bumper-to-bumper on
Route 195 northbound from Route
275 all the way up to UConn’s W-
Lot, taking more than 20 minutes
to travel those 1½ miles.
The usually deserted Route 6
expressway, in Columbia, Cov-
entry, Mansfield and Windham,
was busier than usual but there
were no reports Friday of traffic
delays or accidents there.
Most of the 3,800 incoming
freshmen at Storrs will live on-
campus and they moved into their
new homes Friday, while upper-
classmen living on campus will
move in this weekend.
A total of 12,600 undergradu-
ates will be living on the Storrs
campus for the fall semester,
which starts Monday.
On Friday, UConn parking lots
were full of vehicles while stu-
dents, parents and staff sweated to
(UConn freshmen, Page 4)
Spread of Zika
(FDA, Page 4)