The Week in Photos, Sunday, October 18th
October 17, 2020 12:00 am
• Last Updated: October 17, 2020 10:01 pm
Awilda Cabrero, center, and fellow parishioners react during the service Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, at Oasis de Restauración church in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
A look back at the week in photos from The Day, Sunday, October 18, 2020.
New London Police Sgt. Charles Flynn, Sgt. Max Bertsch, and officer John Green, from left to right, listen as Sgt. LM Keating leads a training session on the department´s new body cameras Friday, October 9, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Mike Ward, left, of Waterford, and Truth Hunter, of New London, relieve tension during a stand and relaxation circle while participating in Morris Burch's Tai Chi group, Health Healing Martial Arts, at Green Harbor Park Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Participants in a flotilla, organized by a local branch, of the Wide Awakes movement, pass flags between boats on the Mystic River in the area of the Noank Town Dock on Sunday, October 11, 2020. Around 15 boats, from motor boats and sail boats to kayaks, participated in the event that moved from the Noank Town Dock up the Mystic River through downtown Mystic and back. The event was focused on getting out the message to vote, pride and BLM flags were seen as well. Wide Awakes is a national artist group working to get out the vote and agitate for change. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Abraham Sosa, left, and Shannon Burk walk their huskies, from left, Fenrir, Riddick, Tigger, Ardick and Nova along South Water Street in downtown New London on Monday, October 12, 2020. The couple said they walk their dogs around downtown every day but that today´s was extra long as they had the holiday off work. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, left, speaks with Second District Congressman Joe Courtney following a press conference to discuss response to an increase in COVID-19 cases in the New London area Monday, October 12, 2020 outside the Community Health Center. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
A nurse administers a coronavirus test Monday, October 12, 2020 outside the Community Health Center of New London. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
A supportive motorist flashes a thumbs-up as members of the Backus Federation of Nurses, AFT Connecticut, Local 5149, picket the hospital on the first day of a two-day strike Tuesday, October 13, 2020 in Norwich. The 415-member union, which has been working without a contract since July 31st, voted September 13th to authorize the two-day strike. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Lorraine Waring poses for a portrait at her home in Mystic on Tuesday, October 13, 2020. Waring, a retired biochemist who worked at Pfizer, has been treated for breast cancer three times. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
Danielle Dufour, RN, serenades the members of the Backus Federation of Nurses, AFT Connecticut, Local 5149, with labor songs during a rally on Lafayette St. across from the main entrance to the hospital on the first day of a two-day strike Tuesday, October 13, 2020 in Norwich. The 415-member union, which has been working without a contract since July 31st, voted September 13th to authorize the two-day strike. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
A fisher braves the rain as they work from the rocks along Eastern Point Road in Groton on Tuesday, October 13, 2020. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
As safety precautions due to COVID-19 candidate Greg Howard and incumbent Kate Rotella, of the State Representative District 43 race, carry their own chairs, name cards, and water to the stage to participate in the Stonington Candidates Night Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, at Dragonfly Equestrian Center at Deans Mill Farm in Stonington. The event was hosted by the Ocean Community Chamber of Commerce and the League of Women Voters of Southeastern Connecticut. (Dana Jensen/The Day). Buy Photo Reprints
Democratic candidate Bob Statchen and incumbent Republican Heather Somers, of the State Senate District 18 race, during the Stonington Candidates Night Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, at Dragonfly Equestrian Center at Deans Mill Farm in Stonington. The event was hosted by the Ocean Community Chamber of Commerce and the League of Women Voters of Southeastern Connecticut. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
The Norwich Fire Department fire/rescue boat Chief Scand motors around Norwich Harbor Tuesday, October 13, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Morgan Kelley and James Guarino, of Uncasville, laugh as they hold hands following a small wedding ceremony with a few friends and family at the Connecticut College Arboretum on Wednesday, October 14, 2020. “We´re lucky we weren´t affected by COVID-19, this was always our plan,Ó said Morgan. The couple has been together for eight years and started planning a fall wedding a few months ago, they decided on the 14th because it was James´ grandparents wedding anniversary. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)
John Edgington, owner and captain o the schooner Mystic Whaler, left, re-paints the waterline of his vessel as Mystic Seaport Museum employees work on scraping the bottom of the replica Viking ship, Draken Harald Hårfagre, at right, Thursday, October 15, 2020 at the Henry B. duPont Preservation Shipyard. Mystic Whaler spent the summer at the seaport instead of plying the waters of Long Island Sound. This is the first time the Whaler has been hauled out for hull maintenance in the state of Connecticut says Edgington. The Whaler is usually hauled at a Rhode Island shipyard more familiar with work on its steel hull construction. “I did like the trip to get to the yard this year,Ó joked Edgington. The Draken is a clinker-built Viking longship, a reconstruction of what the Norse Sagas refer to as a “Great Ship.Ó In April of 2016, Draken left her home port Haugesund in Norway to begin an expedition to sail to America. The aim of the expedition was to explore and relive one of the most mythological sea voyages - the first transatlantic crossing and the Viking discovery of the New World, more than 1,000 years ago. The ship crossed the Atlantic, sailed throughout the Great Lakes, and ventured through the Erie Canal and Hudson River to New York City before coming to Mystic. The Draken had another summer voyage along the eastern U.S. in the summer of 2018, and has been in storage in Mystic since. This is the first maintenance since 2018. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Kayakers paddle down the Poquonock River off shore from Bluff Point State Park Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Groton. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Rocco Gentilella,of Waterford, wades ashore after swimming Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, at Waterford Beach Park. Gentilla said he comes to the beach almost every day during the summer when the weather is good and keeps coming until it gets to cold. Last year the last time he went swimming was November 2. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
John and Jillian Wilson, of Sign Craft, Inc., install new signs on the Niantic Children´s Museum on West Main St. in the East Lyme village of Niantic Friday, October 16, 2020. The museum announced the name change, from the Children´s Museum of Southeastern Connecticut, during its annual fundraising gala, held online this year, on September 11th. The museum was founded in 1992, and the first logo stemmed from a contest, in which 230 entries came from children 12 and under. The museum website is now NianticKids.org. Wilson said his company installed the signs when the museum moved to the current location from a storefront in another part of town. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Sea Scout leaders Gabe Cusack, left, Matt Lalumandier and Cheyenne Holliday, not shown, work on removing all recyclable materials from the Concorde power boat that is not salvageable Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, at Burr's Marina in New London. The Sea Scouts have three sailboats that are in good shape and are the main focus of their seamanship skills. The four pillars of the Sea Scouts are seamanship, scouting, service and social. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Volunteers Nicole Tirado, left, and Felicia Horeczy go to the pallets to get the next round of food and milk during a Farmers to Families food box distribution Friday, October 16, 2020 at the former Foxwoods Resort Casino employee parking lot in Norwich. Each box in the food distribution program, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, contains 5 pounds of meat, 5 pounds of produce and 5 pounds of dairy products. A gallon of milk will be given separately. Similar food giveaways were held in several locations in Norwich last Friday, which proved difficult logistically, Mayor Peter Nystrom said. Nystrom received permission from Foxwoods officials to open the previously blockaded parking lot to allow for vehicles to line up off the street for the distribution. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
A wedding reception gets under way at the Mount Crescent House bed and breakfast on Broadway in Norwich Saturday, October 17, 2020. The owner, Natalie Huey Min Lee is engaged in a dispute with the city and neighbors over weddings and large events at the venue. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Participants paddle down the Mystic River during the 2nd annual October Witch Paddle on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in downtown Mystic. Adventure Mystic hosted the event. (Dana Jensen/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
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