Looking back at RJ photos from 25 years ago this month – March 1994

RJ file photo - Scott Backus has 2,500 hardcover books - and food - to offer his customers at Huxley's Bookmark Cafe, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Sheehan High School junior Gina Santucci works on a charcoal drawing showing negative space at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Frank Jorge of the finishing department, oversees metal about to be shipped out at Ulbrich Stainless Steel & Special Metals Inc. in Wallingford, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Michele Harnois, right, placed first in the Highland School spelling bee, while Michelle Topper was second, March 4, 1994.

RJ file photo - Lyndsay Ruffolo and Danielle Perry invented a mop with a dispenser for cleaning solution, March 1994. Their "LD All-in-One" won honorable mention for a Stevens School project.

RJ file photo - Elizabeth Almeida, left, and Chris Roth, both 4, open their mouths wide during a class in dental hygiene taught by Bossy Flossy at the YMCA on Cornwall Avenue in Chesire, March 1, 1994.

RJ file photo - Maloney Correctional Institution in Cheshire librarian Candace Hall, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Charlie Eisenhauer, a resident at Ashlar Village in Wallingford, shows the bluebird house he built to state wildlife biologist Jenny Dickson. Residents are trying to help restore the state's bluebird population, March 1994.

RJ file photo - For two years in a row, a Crakes twin has won Cheshire's townwide spelling bee. Andy, in glasses, and Jeff attent Norton School, March 1994.

RJ file photo - James Sipperly, Cheshire's environmental planner, inspects Boulder Road property acquired by the town, March 1994. His job mainly involves reviewing development proposals to make sure Cheshire's wetlands are not harmed.

RJ file photo - Cheshire resident Chris Hogan kneels while Steve Leigh of WPLR radio pours nacho cheese, chocolate sauce and vegetables on his head, March 17, 1994. The stunt was part of the St. Patrick's Day party at Callahan's Cafe in Cheshire.

RJ file photo - Washington Middle School art exhibit March 7, 1994.

RJ file photo - Meriden Mayor Joseph J. Marinan Jr. tals with Larissa Erazmus of the Roger Sheman School Girl Scouts March 10, 1994. The mayor accepted 17 quilts sewn by local Girl Scouts for babies with AIDS.

RJ file photo - Guitar whiz Blues Saraceno, left, talks with Teen Beat writer Justin Piccirillo outside a New Haven music store, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Lien Vo opens up Easter eggs with her mom Margaret Vo after the Meriden Parks and Recreation Easter Egg Hunt at Platt High School March 1994.

RJ file photo -Marie McManus and Gerald Preston from John Barry School point out the rocket that represents their fourth-grade class. The mural us featured in a program to motivate students to read more books, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Rafael Collazo, president of the Hispanic Action for Meriden at a meeting March 4, 1994 to plan a voter registration effort.

RJ file photo - Chief State's Attorney John Bailey addresses an audience of about 40 journalists during a forum on violence March 7, 1994. Magali Kupfer, executive director of Casa Boricua de Meriden, is at far left. Also seated is RJ Executive Editor James H. Smith, who moderated the forum.

RJ file photo - Marge Coutermash sits with Evan Fusaro and Jordan Davila who became friends at the American Cancer Society's Camp Rising Sun, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Rita Lecuyer and her son Eric, an eighth-grader at Lincoln Middle School, try an experiment to determine the time it takes for various sugar crystals to dissolve March 4, 1994. The experiment was part of the school's Winter Festival.

RJ file photo - Sandra York and her two children, Amanda, 3, and Michael, 6, visited Meriden's Hubbard Park, March 1994. The Yorks, from Southington, tossed pennies and made wishes.

RJ file photo - Sister Helen Ruane and her class of 26 kindergarteners at St. Joseph School in Meriden dress as leprechauns for St. Patrick's Day March 17, 1994.

RJ file photo - Roy Graziano, a letter carrier for the Meriden post Office, delivers mail to the Main Street Baptist Church on Crown Street March 23, 1994.

RJ file photo - Don VanEmburgh of Meriden walks his Irish setter, Mike, through the morning fog at Hubbard Park March 8, 1994.

RJ file photo - Gertrude McMahon claps as the Dublin All Star Band passes by on West Main Street during the Meriden parade March 19, 1994.

RJ file photo - Gary Welskopp racks up the balls for another game against opponent Greg Labaire at Q0Stick Billiard Parlor, which used to be a dance hall called the Starlight Ballroom, on Old Colony Road in Meriden, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Donna Giannetti and Marie McGourn prepared corned beef and cabbage last week for lunch at the Salvation Army, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Aileen Gonzalez, T.J. Kronenberger and Sara Loos make posters with their instructor Jackie Shea, at St. Stanislaus School in Meriden March 2, 1994.

RJ file photo - St. Patrick's Pipe Band from Glastonbury marches down East Main Street in Meriden March 19, 1994.

RJ file photo - Joslyn Gadwah and Jennifer O'Brien look over college applications. High School seniors says several factors influenced their decision about what school to attend, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Renee Hamel, Amanda Musso, Vanessa Silverio, Kelly Gagne, Rachelle Killeen and Ashley Hamel keep watch over a swan that somehow wandered to their Bradley Avenue apartment building March 11, 1994.

RJ file photo - Meriden's Public Works Department repairs a 30-inch sewer main that had become clogged, causing an unknown amount of raw sewage to spill into Harbor Brook March 21, 1994.

RJ file photo - David Burr, Meghan Hatch and David Siedzik rehearse for "Anything Goes" to be performed at Maloney High School, March 1994.

RJ file photo - John Rice of RSVP takes Danny Caruso to Veterans Memorial Center for radiation treatment, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Vincent Chodkowski, left, and Frank Peracchio study the old tombstones at Meeting House Hill Burying Grounds, March 14, 1994.

RJ file photo - Homebound volunteer Florence Schaufler takes orders for the Cancer Society's Daffodil Days drive, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Darren Daveluy and Michael Baker are looking for a big turnout for St. Paul's alumni basketball game, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Leonard Lucian enters the post office on Main Street in Southington under a mural painted by Ann Spencer Hunt in 1942, March 1994. The mural is one of a few artworks in Connecticut post offices commissioned by the federal government during the Great Depression and into the 1940s.

RJ file photo - Desira Powell, left, and Tammi Monsolf, make wiener schnitzel with teacher Rosanne Zannetti at Southington High School March 17, 1994.

RJ file photo - Tom Nardi and his daughter Lea Maria Nardi at Nardi's Old Mill Restaurant on South End Road in Southington, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Southington Police Capt. James Porter, left, and a patrol officer inspect literature supporting the Ku Klux Klan that was in a vending machine someone put outside police headquarters March 7, 1994.

RJ file photo - Teen playwright Erica Magrey of Southington writes in several notesbooks with multi-colored pens, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Judy Pluff works at a band saw donated to the Southington High School by Home Depot, March 1994.

RJ file photo - Norm Smallwood stocks shelves at his Electronic Shopper business in the Plantsville section of Southington March 3, 1994. It is a grocery stores that effectively resides right in the customer's kitchen. Customers key their orders over the telephone line to the warehouse.