Denise Raap has her vote

A year before Connecticut passed legislation to ban indoor smoking in 2003, a local restaurant adopted a nosmoking policy for customers and employees. This policy change was in response to the growing knowledge about the effects of secondhand smoke and in response to an employee being diagnosed with mouth cancer.

The business owner with the foresight and moral compass, grounded enough to go against public opinion at the time, to do what she knew to be in the best interest of all concerned, was Denise Raap.

Denise Raap has my vote for First Selectmen of Litchfield because over the past 21 years I’ve witnessed firsthand how this community minded, considerate, fiscally prudent and forwardthinking woman has time and again put her talents to use support her community and neighbors.

More recently Denise asked how she could support the Food Pantry at St. Michael’s Church. Based on the feedback she was given, she now donates one case of butter each month. Seeing neighbors organizing to help neighbors, Denise Raap first asked how she could help, then listened. Denise Raap’s vision for Litchfield is fluid, always growing and changing as she listens and reacts to the needs of our community. Denise Butwill, Litchfield