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Steve Roslonek is an American children's music performer whose band SteveSongs has garnered several awards from parenting organizations, such as the Parents' Choice Award and the iParenting Media Awards. His music is featured on CPTV in the Miss Lori and Hooper segments of PBS Kids Preschool Destination, where he appears as "Mr. Steve" and performs original songs between other programs. Prior to his career as a recording artist, Roslonek graduated from Wesleyan University and performed with a professional a cappella group on Martha's Vineyard. After graduating, he worked as a business and technology consultant with Anderson Consulting. He began performing in 1997 and moved to a full-time recording career in 1999. He tours extensively around the country, performing between 200 to 400 concerts in a year. Roslonek resides with his wife and child in Connecticut. -Courtesy of Wikipedia

• Steve Roslonek
• Steve's Songs

Helen Ubiñas was born in New York and received her bachelor's degree from Boston University. She began her career in journalism in 1994 when she started with the Hartford Courant as a city desk reporter and has held a number of positions there since, including town reporter, features reporter, and lifestyles and specialties reporter. Since 2000, Ms. Ubiñas has been a Courant columnist. Ms. Ubiñas has been awarded a number of honors and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She is also a member of a Pulitzer Prize winning team for breaking news. In 2004, she was apart of a team that won the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for public service. In 2005, she was a finalist for her column writing for the National Headliner Award and the American Society of Newspaper Editors Award. She was also a finalist for the Howard Scripps Foundation National Journalism Award for commentaries in 2006. She also won first place for her column writing from the New England Associated Press News Executives Association. Courtesy of http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/2008/ubinas/

• Hartford Courant
• Helen Ubinas
• journalist

Dr. Henry Lee is currently the Chief Emeritus for Scientific Services for the State of Connecticut and is an occasional lecturer of forensic science at the University of New Haven, where he has helped to set up the Henry C. Lee Forensic Institute. He is also a visiting professor at the East China University of Poitical Science and Law. Previously, he has served as Connecticut's Commissioner of Public Safety, the Director of the Connecticut State Police Forensic Science Laboratory, and as the state’s chief criminologist from 1979 to 2000. He has worked on famous cases such as the JonBenét Ramsey murder, the O.J. Simpson and Laci Peterson cases, the post-9/11 forensic investigation, the Washington, DC sniper shootings, and the reinvestigation of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Dr. Lee currently resides in Connecticut with his wife Margaret, to whom he was married in 1962. Courtesy of Wikipedia

• Dr. Henry Lee

Stew Leonard Jr. has been the President and CEO of Stew Leonard's since 1991. Stew Leonard's is one of the most famous food stores in the world. The company includes three food stores and four wine stores and makes more than $300 million dollars a year. For the last five years, Stew Leonard's has been recognized a "100 Best Companies to Work For." Mr. Leonard graduated from Ithaca College in 1976 and received his MBA from UCLA in 1982. He is also a member of the Master Sommelier Society for wine. He and his wife, Kim, have four daughters and reside in Westport, Connecticut. He has authored two books on water safety, Stewie the Duck Learns to Swim and Swimming Lessons with Stewie the Duck, and two cookbooks, You Can Do It with Bryan Miller and Stew Leonard’s Winning Recipes Cookbook. Mr. Leonard is also on the Norwalk YMCA board of directors. Courtesy of www.yonkersbusinessweek.com

• Stew Leonard's

Dr. Carl A. Salsedo is the host of CPTV's Gardening with Nature series. Carl has been an Extension Educator in Horticulture with the University of Connecticut's Cooperative Extension System (CES) since 1975. He has collaborated on various programs with the commercial green industries in Connecticut, including nurseries, greenhouses, garden centers, and landscaping operations. His work also includes the Master Gardener Program, coordinating a training and volunteer service based out of the University of Connecticut's West Hartford Campus. An avid "plantsman", he gardens with his family on a hillside location in Burlington, Connecticut. His research interests include sustainable landscaping and the use of plants within the suburban landscape. Gardening with Nature http://www.cpbn.org/program/gardening-nature

• Dr. Carl Salsedo
• Gardening with Nature
• Horticulture
• Landscaping
• Teacher
• University of Connecticut

Colin McEnroe has been a columnist and reporter for the Hartford Courant for over 30 years and currently maintains a weekly column in the Courant’s Northeast Magazine. McEnroe’s columns have appeared in newspapers nationwide as well as abroad. A significant contributor to Men’s Health, Best Life, McSweeney’s, Cosomopolitan, Maribella, Mademoiselle, Family Fun, and Verge (to name a few), McEnroe is also a contributing editor to the New York Times op-ed page.

Having hosted a weekday drive-time talk show on WTIC-AM, McEnroe is recognized as a radio personality and is currently hosting the new “Colin McEnroe Show” on WNPR, a media service of the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network. The program is broadcast live Monday through Friday at 1:00 p.m. from WNPR's Hartford studio, and is also available live and on-demand at WNPR.org. In 2003, McEnroe’s play, “A Woman of a Certain Age,” was produced in collaboration with former Courant colleagues, Steve Metcalf and Lary Bloom, at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Connecticut. As the author of three books, McEnroe received the Connecticut Book Award in 2004 for the biography on his father, published by Warner Books, titled, My Father’s Footprints. When McEnroe moderated the Connecticut Forum featuring Anthony Bourdain, Alice Walters and Duff Goldman in 2009, it marked the sixth time he has performed that task in the seventeen year history of the Connecticut Forum, the most of any moderator.

Colin McEnroe was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Kingswood-Oxford and then Yale University. He began his writing career with newspapers and magazines in the 1980’s and is currently teaching a course on old and new media at Trinity College.

Courtesy of Connecticut Forum

• Colin McEnroe
• Hartford Courant Columnist
• Northeast Magazine
• Trinity College Professor

First elected in 1990, Richard Blumenthal is serving an unprecedented fifth term as Attorney General. Blumenthal’s aggressive law enforcement for consumer protection, environmental stewardship, labor rights and personal privacy, has helped reshape the role of state attorneys general nationwide -- and recover hundreds of millions of dollars for Connecticut taxpayers and consumers each year. Blumenthal previously served as administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, aide to former U.S. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan when Moynihan was Assistant to the President of the United States, and law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. He was U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, the state’s chief federal prosecutor, from 1977 to 1981 -- prosecuting drug traffickers, organized and white collar crime, civil rights violators, consumer fraud and polluters. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1984 to 1987, and then the State Senate from 1987 to 1990. Blumenthal graduated from Harvard College (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude), and Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. Attorney General Blumenthal lives in Greenwich with his wife, Cynthia, and their four children. The Attorney General can be reached via e-mail at Attorney.General@po.state.ct.us, or constituents may view the Attorney General's Web page. Courtesy of http://www.ct.gov/ag/cwp/view.asp?A=2178&Q=295440

Attorney General Blumenthal announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on January 7th, following the news that U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, Connecticut's longest serving Senator would not seek re-election. For more about these developments, listen to Where We Live at http://www.cpbn.org/program/where-we-live/episode/wwl-dodd-out and The Colin McEnroe show at http://www.cpbn.org/program/colin-mcenroe-show/episode/cms-chris-dodd

• Attorney General
• Richard Blumenthal

Bill Potvin manages the Hosmer Mountain Soda Co. with his younger brothers John, Andy, and Chuck. The Potvins became the fourth family to run Hosmer Mountain Bottling Co. when his father, Arthur J. Potvin, purchased the company in 1958. The Potvins have since worked hard to create a line of unique soft drinks that are delivered to local restaurants and customers' homes throughout eastern Connecticut. Over 30 soft drink flavors are produced at Hosmer Mountain Soda. The company also uses environmentally friendly packaging with their trademark reusable glass bottles. Courtesy of http://www.hosmersoda.com and http://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/09/nyregion/view-hosmer-mountain-willimantic-bottlers-who-keep-making-soda-with-old.html

• Bill Potvin
• Hosmer Mountain Soda Company

Steve Kotchko is one of the most respected journalists in Connecticut. He is the “dean” of State Capitol resporters, hosts “OTR-On The Record” which is a Connecticut Public Television political program and frequently contributes articles to Connecticut Magazine and the New York Times. Kotchko has interviewed numerous national figures including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Raegan, George Bush, Bill Clinton and most presidential candidates. He is also the Connecticut Radio Network’s Vice President for Communications. He joined CRN in 1973. Courtesy of http://crncontent.com/ctr/steve/steve_kotchko_bio.html

• CPTV
• journalist
• On the Record
• Steve Kotchko

David Glass went to Paris to further his studies in art history but took a slight detour after a mind-blowing meal at Archestrate. Never had he tasted, or even heard of, mussel souffle, sea bass with beurre rouge (red butter sauce), filet of beef with a foie gras sauce, frise salad with truffle oil and aged sherry vinegar, and chocolate chestnut torte. Quickly changing professions, David worked at Archestrate (now called Lucas Carton) in Paris, Troisgros in Roanne, and Girardet in Crissier, Switzerland, all Michelin 3-star restaurants, the finest restaurants in the world. To round out his training, he then proceeded to work at restaurants in Istanbul, Tehran, Delhi, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Tokyo. He also hiked in the Himalayas where he learned to cook rice, potatoes and yak. His company is committed to making the most delicious desserts in the world. Drawing upon ideas and ingredients from all over the world, they create stunning, unique flavors for your ultimate dining pleasure. Courtesy of davidglass.com

• David Glass
• Desserts

Lindsay Whalen starred for the Golden Gophers from 2000-04, culminating her Minnesota career at the Final Four in 2004. She was a three-time All-American, an Academic All-American and the Big Ten Player of the Year in 2002. She is Minnesota’s all-time leading scorer with 2,285 points to her credit. Whalen’s number 13 is retired and honored with a banner hanging from the rafters in Williams Arena. Whalen entered her first season on Pam Borton’s Minnesota women’s basketball staff as an administrative assistant. She returned to her alma mater after leading the Connecticut Sun to the 2006 Eastern Conference regular-season title and the second round of the WNBA playoffs. Whalen will assist with the team’s community service projects, marketing, alumni relations and other administrative aspects of the program. Whalen earned her bachelor’s degree in sports management in 2005. On Monday, January 11, Lindsay Whalen was traded by the CT Sun to the Minnesota Lynx. See how the story was received in Minnesota, as reported by Tim Leighton in the St. Paul Pioneer Press and in Connecticut by John Perez from the Norwich Bulletin. St. Paul Pioneer Press It took six years, but the Minnesota Lynx finally got their Golden Girl. Former University of Minnesota women's basketball star Lindsay Whalen is coming home to play for the Lynx after being traded by the Connecticut Sun in a deal that was completed late Monday. Minnesota sent point guard Renee Montgomery and the No. 1 overall pick in April's college draft to the Sun for Whalen and Connecticut's first-round pick, No. 2 overall. Read the full story: http://www.bigtennetwork.com/sports/wbasketball/story.asp?list_id=20&story_id=3382041 Norwich Bulletin Mohegan, Conn. — The Connecticut Sun’s trade of Lindsay Whalen Tuesday came with mixed emotions within the organization. Whalen, who spent the first six years of her WNBA career with Connecticut, was dealt to Minnesota on Tuesday, along with the second overall pick in April’s college draft, in exchange for former University of Connecticut star Renee Montgomery and the draft’s top pick, expected to be UConn senior Tina Charles. Read the full story: http://www.norwichbulletin.com/sports/x1689202978/Sun-Trading-Whalen-not-easy

• basketball
• Connecticut Sun
• Lindsay Whalen