State Rep. Pat Dillon sent us this photo after reading a story about the City Seed farmer’s market and staffer Nicole Berube. Dillon got the first downtown farmer’s market started: “I began trying the WIC produce / farmer’s market voucher program as a pilot program for New Haven in 1986 with Janet Polinskey’s help and the advice of Mark Winne (Hartford food advocate) and the state Ag department. It opened ~ 1987, we reviewed it, tweaked it, wasn’t really operational till 1988 – 89. Ginny Blaisdell says the New Haven Independent wrote about it – it was innovative. (Nope, don’t keep my clippings.) Big program now – we expanded to seniors too. After I was honored by a couple of groups for doing it this picture was taken by Virginia Blaisdell in 1990.”