Five News Items to Read on Web Wednesday

Here are five interesting bits of Avon news we read on the web at Avon Patch that we thought affect our readers. Welcome to Web Wednesday!

• The and book drop are closed Wednesday to Friday as construction contractors put the final roof sheathing and shingling on the roof over the main entrance, according to the Avon town website. Books deadlines for those days will be extended to Saturday, Aug. 20, when the library re-opens. Patrons can also return books at neighboring libraries.
• Some people do double birthday celebrations, but a pair of sisters, one of whom lives in Avon, did a double wedding, The Hartford Courant reported on Aug. 14. Arline Greenbaum married David Wolansky, as well as Arline's sister, Sandy and her husband, Freddy Michaels, are approaching their 50th wedding anniversaries on Aug. 20. Wolansky is a former Avon Board of Education member, according to the article. 
• In March, Jeff Gonski, started a video blog called The View From Ten on Tumblr about his "different kind of normal" after losing his fiancee, on 9/11. Toyen, who grew up in Avon, was at the World Trade Center that day on business as a representative of the Boston financial branch of Thomson Reuters. Gonski has since married and has a son, and this year he decided to use some film Toyen's father, Martin gave him to help him reflect on how he achieved his new normal. The blog consists of video messages and photo galleries, and Gonski also invites people who 9/11 affected to ask him questions and share their "view from ten" as the tenth anniversary of the tragedy approaches. Gonski said on the blog that he plans on making a trip to Ground Zero in the fall.
• While searching for Gonski's video blog, Avon Patch stumbled across another blog with an interesting concept. It's called 100 Interviews, created by Gaby Dunn, a New York City journalist and comedian. Dunn interviewed Gonski and published a story July 5 about his reflection on 9/11 and losing Toyen. The premise of Dunn's blog is to interview 100 specific types people in one year by Oct. 1, 2011. She has written pieces that appeared in The Boston Globe, The Huffington Post, The New York Times Magazine, as well as on Salon.com, Thought Catalog and TheDailyShow.com, according to her biography on the blog. As of Aug. 9, she had four people left to interview.
• The Hartford Courant picked up an story over the Associate Press wire on Aug. 4 about a bull riding school in Canaan, taught by James Wilson Gowan. His "partner and business manager" is Cyndi Cappabianca, who owns a hair salon in Avon, according to the AP article.