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WEEK IN REVIEW JULY 1-8, 2020 COMPILED BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN, MATTHEW ROY & ANDREA SUOZZO

Some of Vermont’s bestknown companies have received millions in emergency federal coronavirus relief loans: Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Logic Supply in South Burlington, and S.D. Ireland in Williston, to name just a few. Nearly 12,000 Vermont employers — including Da Capo Publishing, which puts out Seven Days — have received some $1.2 billion through the federal Paycheck Protection Program. They reported having at least 113,000 workers, according to data released Monday by the federal Small Business Administration. About two-thirds of the loans were for less than $50,000. Only 13 percent of them were for more than $150,000. And just seven businesses were in the highest tier, receiving between $5 million and $10 million: Bennington College, Copley Hospital, GW Plastics, iTech US, PC Construction, Momentum Manufacturing Group and the Vermont Energy Investment Corp. (VEIC told Seven Days that it returned more than $5 million of a $5.4 million loan because the guidelines had narrowed.) The loans, funded through the CARES Act, are meant to allow small businesses that lost revenue as a result of the pandemic to retain employees. The SBA will forgive loans to businesses that do so. The State of Vermont began accepting applications on Monday for its own Emergency Economic Recovery Grants. The program, also funded through the CARES Act, will steer up to $50,000 to companies hurt by the pandemic. The SBA data show that professional and technical service providers comprised the biggest subset of Vermont PPP recipients, with 1,511 in all. They include law offices, accounting firms, software companies and consultants. But the health care and construction sectors received the most money. Health care companies took in at least $119 million; construction firms, $118 million.

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Seventy-eight nursing and residential care facilities received PPP loans, as did 13 home health care services. Recipients included 151 hotels, 629 food service establishments and 35 bars. Trapp Family Lodge and Smugglers’ Notch Resort received between $2 million and $5 million, while the Skinny Pancake received between $1 million and $2 million. At least $39 million went to 265 private and independent educational institutions. Eight colleges and 68 elementary and secondary schools qualified, as did two study abroad companies: Brattleboro-based World Learning and Putney Student Travel, co-owned by former governor Peter Shumlin and his brother. DuBois Construction, a firm that Gov. Phil Scott formerly owned, received between $150,000 and $350,000. Scott sold his stake in the firm for $2.5 million several years ago, but, as Seven Days previously reported, he financed the deal himself — and gets monthly payments from the company. To read data editor Andrea Suozzo’s full story and search the data for specific companies, visit sevendaysvt.com.

Students in emergency housing at UVM say they’ve slept outside to beat the heat in their rooms, the Vermont Cynic reported. All that tuition and no air conditioning...

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People rallied for racial justice in Milton after someone stole a Black Lives Matter flag from the local high school last week. Love trumps hate.

1. “Magic Hat Leaves Behind a Transformed Craft Beer Industry in Vermont” by Dan Bolles. The brewery has moved its operations to Rochester, N.Y., but its legacy remains. 2. “Vermont Vet Excoriates Trump as a ‘Coward’ in Viral Lincoln Project Ad” by Colin Flanders. The one-minute ad features former Navy SEAL and current UVM Medical Center ER doctor Dan Barkhuff. 3. “Fire Causes $1 Million in Damage at Burlington’s Pearl Street Beverage” by Sasha Goldstein. A three-alarm fire ripped through the liquor store in the early morning of July 1. 4. “Magic Hat Cofounder Alan Newman Buys ArtsRiot” by Dan Bolles. The owners of the Pine Street restaurant and music venue announced the news on July 1. 5. “Leahy Absent From Vermont, Sanders From the Senate” by Paul Heintz. Vermont’s senior senator said a busy schedule, slow internet at his Middlesex home and concerns for his wife’s health have kept him in Washington, D.C., since early January.

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A college student from Barre is leading a local drive to help bridge the digital divide for elderly and low-income Vermonters. Lia Rubel is among a network of young adults across the country that is collecting computers, tablets, cellphones and other camera-equipped smart devices so that those in need can access virtual medical care. Started by students at Yale University, TeleHealth Access for Seniors is a federally registered 501c3 nonprofit that’s raised tens of thousands of dollars and collected more than 1,000 devices since its founding in March. That’s when doctors and medical provid-

ers began conducting more appointments online to avoid in-person interactions that could spread the coronavirus. Those especially at risk were the elderly, who some doctors found did not have access to the devices needed for remote appointments, Rubel said. Rubel, a rising sophomore at Emory University, has been home since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the Atlanta college’s campus, and she got involved in the effort early on. She’s recruited eight other young Vermonters and has been soliciting donations on social media and from Rotary clubs, friends and family. “It has been incredible just being there from the start and seeing how quickly we’ve grown,” Rubel, 18, said. “And to see how ex-

cited so many students around the country are about getting involved.” Thus far, the local group has collected and delivered 24 devices to the White River Junction VA Medical Center. They’re working to donate at least 100 by the end of the summer. The group also offers recipients free virtual tech support and printed guides that explain how to set up the devices, Rubel said. “It has truly empowered patients to stay at home … and [the devices] just give them that peace of mind knowing that they can continue to receive care but stay safe from COVID-19 infection,” Rubel said. To donate a device or cash, visit telehealthforseniors.org. SASHA GOLDSTEIN SEVEN DAYS JULY 8-15, 2020

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HISTORY LESSONS

In [Feedback: “Who ‘Founded’ Vermont?” June 17], Joseph LaFleur asks the question: “What should we think about the founders of the state of Vermont? Particularly Samuel de Champlain.” Here are a couple of history lessons. Champlain was not a “founder” of the state of Vermont. True, he named the lake after himself and the mountains on the eastern side using the French for “Green Mountains.” But his arrival in 1609 preceded the creation of the American state of Vermont by many decades, and that honor is generally thought to have gone to the Allen brothers. The reason Champlain came from his post in Québec City was to mediate a dispute between the Iroquois and other Native peoples. At that time in the St. Lawrence watershed, there were many tribes that alternated between warfare and trade throughout the area with each other and the newly arrived Europeans. Just about every inch of the Earth’s surface, including its waterways, has been contested over time by humans and animals. It’s been said that the diseases from invading Europeans advanced well ahead of their face-to-face interactions with Natives, causing death on an epic and terrible scale that didn’t require much effort to finish off. Perhaps the same will happen to us, who knows? But history has taught us territory hegemony never lasts forever, whether usurped by outside strength and weapons or internal strife and division, like we see in our country recently. Buzz Hoerr

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CORRECTIONS

Last week’s story “Outside the Box” inaccurately described Rachel Hemphill Dickson’s role in the premiere of Citrus. She was a speaker during a preperformance panel, not a cast member. “Solo Spotlights” contained an incorrect date. Monica Callan and her husband, Peter Holm, started copresenting the One & Only Series in 2016.

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Your article about Mount Independence is most appreciated by all of us associated with the Mount [Vermonting: “History on a Hilltop,” July 1]. It is of historical significance to Vermont and the nation’s birth and is considered the best-preserved Revolutionary War site in the U.S. We offer beautiful, well-groomed hiking trails, which feature great views of Lake Champlain and the surrounding mountains. Historical markers help visitors better understand the Mount’s role and importance during the Revolutionary period. The museum contains an introductory film, artifacts and exhibits associated with the soldier’s lives here. Nature and historical walks also occur every season. Mount Independence is one of Vermont’s treasures to be enjoyed and appreciated by all. We are, however, at the mercy of Mother Nature, and some times can be challenging to visitors here. Our deerfly season is part of this. It does not last all summer, and I would invite the author to a return visit when she could write a more honest evaluation of the Mount without focusing on insects living in forests in Vermont. Paul Andriscin

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Andriscin is a site interpreter at Mount Independence.

NAME GAME

I am grateful for Derek Brouwer’s article about Townshend’s Negro Brook and am likewise appreciative of Alex Hazzard and Evan Litwin’s efforts to rename the brook and its bridge [“Racial Remnant,” June 24]. As I read the article, I wondered if the original naming was a well-aimed slap in the face of the federal government’s 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which mandated that Northern law officials, as well as ordinary white citizens, help slave catchers return escaped slaves to their owners. The Negro Brook, so named in 1854, might well have been a place of respite for Black people, where they could bathe, wash their clothes, fish and have drinking water for whatever duration of time was needed and that was relatively safe. One hundred and nine years later, in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was still using the word “Negro.” In his “I Have a Dream” speech, he employed the term 15 times, always with enormous pride. Now the term is insulting to many, just as the term “colored,” in due course, had become outdated and insulting, too. So, a new name for the brook is needed, most will agree. But it should be considered that the original naming of the brook might have been a commemoration of sorts, during a time when the condition of being Black, even more so than today, meant danger, for the Black people themselves and anyone who dared to help them. James Robert Saunders

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We are writing this letter as an enthusiastic endorsement of Meg Hansen for lieutenant governor of Vermont [Off Message: “Ashe Kicks Off Campaign for Lieutenant Governor,” May 28]. We have known Meg for several years and are impressed with her knowledge of the concerns facing all Vermonters. Meg is a tenacious researcher, a gifted speaker, a writer, and an honest and compassionate woman. She will bring these skills and attributes to the job. Meg will be a staunch advocate for fiscal responsibility and proper constitutional governance in our Statehouse. Vermonters will find no greater ally in defending small businesses, entrepreneurs and economic freedom, and bringing prosperity to Vermont. Meg also understands the importance of self-governance through local, democratically elected school boards. Our small, rural schools are at the heart of our communities. We have all witnessed the devastating financial and moral effects of Act 46. Meg will fight against the overbearing and unnecessary overreach of an out-of-control education bureaucracy. Please join us in voting for Meg Hansen in the Republican primary. Stuart and Michele Lindberg CAVENDISH

WHITHER MARLBORO?

I have been surprised to see so little coverage from Seven Days on the demise of Marlboro College. The last story was in July 2019, announcing a merger between the 74-year old institution in Marlboro, Vt., and the University of Bridgeport [Off Message: “Marlboro College to Merge With Connecticut’s University of Bridgeport,” July 25, 2019]. Less than two months later, the college announced it was canceling the Bridgeport merger. Less than two months after that, it announced a new plan to dissolve the FEEDBACK

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Ann Pugh (Chittenden 7-2) I know Thomas not only as a SB City Councilor but also as a UVM faculty member. He will be a great addition to the Chittenden County Senate. His commitment to community, family and independent thinking in these times are essential for responding to today’s crisis while moving VT forward.

Martin LaLonde (Chittenden 7-1) Thomas’s informed, inclusive, and thoughtful approach to the issues facing South Burlington as city councilor will serve him well in making tough statewide decisions. His legislative priorities are very timely and reflect what Vermont needs. It’s my pleasure to support Thomas as a new voice in the Vermont Senate.

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Like every other Vermont enterprise, Seven Days has scrapped, postponed or reinvented many of our perennial projects this year because of the pandemic. But we decided to go ahead with the Cartoon Issue. It goes without saying that cartoons and print media are made for each other. Comic strips give newspaper readers a break from columns of text. They’re visually interesting, creative, sometimes hilarious and often packed with pointed political commentary. We’ve always made room for them in our pages. Vermont is also home to numerous talented cartoonists, including New Yorker artists Ed Koren and Harry Bliss and the inimitable Alison Bechdel. The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction employs, attracts and trains many more. Our writers always enjoy collaborating with these graphic artists. This year, though, they were especially eager for the opportunity to illustrate the present moment — strange, scary and uncertain as it is. The package starts on page 31 and includes work by the state’s current cartoonist laureate, Rick Veitch. Hope it entertains and moves you. Starting next week, we are adding a new strip from Chapel Hill, N.C.-based Keith Knight. His smart and funny semiautobiographical comic “The K Chronicles” appeared weekly in Seven Days from 2008 until 2012, and will do so again starting next week — check out the sample on this page. Knight has been commenting on police brutality in his comics for decades; in 2015 he collected 20 years of his work on the subject in a compilation called They Shoot Black People, Don’t They? In June, the Black cartoonist spoke to comics news site SyFy Wire about “the importance of sequential art in the age of protest.” Said Knight: “We need to tell our own stories because, if we don’t, others will tell them for us ... and they’ll suck. Comics are the cheapest and most effective ways to tell our stories. I just need a pen and a piece of paper. We need to hear not from the corporate mainstream media, but from the people on the ground. On the front lines.” Black Lives Matter protests across the country show: Art about race and racism is as much a part of this moment as COVID-19 case counts. Just last Saturday, yet another rally took place in Burlington. These demonstrations are teachable moments for parents — a chance to talk openly with kids about race. Lots of locals are embracing this opportunity. That’s why the editors of Kids VT made it a theme Interested in becoming a Super Reader? of the July issue, which is inserted in this week’s Look for the “Give Now” buttons at the top of Seven Days. Contributors interview experts sevendaysvt.com. Or send a check with your who recommend anti-racist reading material address and contact info to: and reflect on how they’re addressing racism in SEVEN DAYS, C/O SUPER READERS Vermont. The cover shows a family helping to P.O. BOX 1164 BURLINGTON, VT 05402-1164 paint “Black Lives Matter” on the street in front of the Statehouse in Montpelier. For more information on making a financial The issue also includes tips on staying active contribution to Seven Days, please contact and safe during this precarious summer. Our Corey Grenier: Seven Days writers cover that, too. VOICEMAIL: 802-865-1020, EXT. 36 We’re grateful to be able to share — EMAIL: SUPERREADERS@SEVENDAYSVT.COM and process — this weird time with you.

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Too Little Off the Top? Pay cuts at UVM spark debate over inequity B Y C O LI N FL A N D ER S

achael Montesano finally felt financially secure. No longer did the single mother of two fear that she would be unable to afford new winter tires or wince when she swiped her card at the grocery store. After 14 years as a Spanish lecturer at the University of Vermont, Montesano was earning a $64,000 salary, enough to pay her bills and still let her splurge on the “expensive” ice cream. “I was starting to relax a bit,” she said. That all changed when Montesano learned that she will teach only threefourths of her typical course load in the upcoming academic year. Her salary will plunge $16,000, landing her right back in the “survival mode” she had fought so hard to escape. Montesano is among dozens of lecturers — full-time, non-tenure-track employees — who were informed in May that their workloads and compensation would be 12

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reduced next year as part of a campuswide effort to trim costs in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Lecturer contracts permit the university to set course loads based on its anticipated needs, though there is debate over whether the cuts violate the unionized employees’ collective bargaining agreement. The university has also eliminated hundreds of temporary positions and announced less drastic reductions for all nonunion employees. UVM officials say the austerity measures are needed to withstand both an immediate financial shortfall and the possibility of fewer students and less tuition revenue in the future. The university’s budget this fiscal year is $705 million, about $300 million of which is covered by tuition payments. Direct losses related to COVID-19 thus far are expected to hit about $15 million. That figure should be more than covered by the $28 million

state lawmakers are sending to UVM from Vermont’s share of federal coronavirus relief funds. But vice president for finance Richard Cate said deans have been asked to budget for a $26 million drop in tuition revenue next year. Campus leaders say they have few options to make up the shortfall. The university cannot draw more from its $550 million endowment, they say, nor can UVM expect a state bailout, with virtually every sector of the economy desperate for aid. Jacking up tuition is also out of the question, leaders say, because the university’s $41,280 price tag for out-of-state students is already the fourth highest in the nation for a public university.

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Farmworker Activist Dies of COVID-19 Following Deportation B Y DER EK B R OU WER

A 32-year-old Vermont farmworker and Migrant Justice activist died of COVID-19 in Mexico last week after being deported in March, the group said Tuesday. Durvi Martinez, a trans woman who preferred they/them pronouns, “was a brave and outspoken advocate for immigrant and LGBTQ rights,” the organization said in a statement announcing their July 1 death. “Durvi will be remembered as a loving and supportive friend.” Martinez is believed to have contracted the new coronavirus in Mexico, but Migrant Justice said it holds U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement responsible for their “unjust” detention, deportation and death. Martinez’s deportation proceedings began shortly after Vermont State Police arrested them for DUI near Albany on January 12. A deportation officer “was notified” of the arrest and took Martinez into custody, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court. Martinez was previously deported from New York State in 2014, court filings say. Martinez spent the months following the DUI arrest at Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans and, later, at the Strafford County House of Corrections detention center in Dover, N.H., Migrant Justice spokesperson Will Lambek said. While awaiting deportation, Martinez took steps toward applying for political asylum on the basis of the “horrific and systemic violence that they experienced as a trans person in Mexico,” Migrant Justice’s statement said. Martinez had requested a “credible fear interview” but had not filed a formal application when ICE deported them sometime between March 20 and March 23, Lambek said. By the time Martinez was deported, human rights groups were already calling on the Trump administration to release ICE detainees and stop deportations to prevent the virus’ spread. The first ICE detainee tested positive for the coronavirus on March 24 in New Jersey. While in jail, Martinez was denied medication and suffered severe weight loss, leading to a weakened immune system, Migrant Justice claimed. ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Migrant Justice is raising money for Martinez’s family to offset hospital bills and funeral costs. Contact: derek@sevendaysvt.com

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lanked by a field cannon and a stuffed fisher cat, auctioneer Ethan Merrill rattled off descriptions of antiques for sale last Thursday at his family’s gallery in Williston. He had 800 items to get through and two days to move them. The first hour attracted buyers for punch bowls, duck calls and a centuryold nutcracker carved in the shape of a bear. Merrill, a former minor league

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baseball player, raised a muscular arm to recognize each bid as his eyes searched for a higher one amid the sparse crowd at Duane Merrill & Company’s warehouse. Lot 111, a 45-star American flag, fetched $250 from an online bidder. The next item proved equally valuable. “This is the Third Reich party banner,” Merrill announced. He explained that the 12-foot-long, swastika-emblazoned

artifact had been found in Rome during World War II by a U.S. army sergeant from Vermont. “Supposedly,” he added, the banner was carried through the streets of Burlington to celebrate the war’s end. It sold for $250, also to an online bidder. As this Seven Days reporter waited for the hammer to fall, a Merrill’s employee asked me not to photograph the banner or any of the seven other Nazi items listed in the auction catalog. “This is traumatic for us, too,” she said. Merrill’s decision to sell the items in the first place raised eyebrows in the small Vermont antiques industry and among local Jewish leaders, who say the trade is unethical. “Profiting off of Nazi memorabilia is problematic at best,” said Rabbi David Edleson, of Temple Sinai in South Burlington. Several of the world’s top auction houses, as well as eBay, have long refused to handle most Nazi material. Still, a market remains. Items tied directly to Adolf Hitler can sell at auction for tens of thousands of dollars, and consistent demand for Nazi paraphernalia has provided business opportunities for forgers. This month’s auction was not Merrill’s first to include Nazi artifacts. In fact, the company’s website features a swastikaadorned helmet it once sold for $2,760. But, after fellow dealers spoke out, it NOT BUYING IT

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The Vermont State Colleges System took a step toward stability on Monday and appointed interim Chancellor Sophie Zdatny as its new leader. Zdatny has led the chancellor’s office since late April, taking over for Jeb Spaulding after he resigned in the wake of his highly controversial proposal to shutter three campuses. The college system’s board of trustees offered Zdatny a one-year renewable contract Monday night following an hourlong executive session. Trustees praised her efforts to stabilize the system and thanked her for taking on the challenge of leading it into the future. “She’s rewritten the definition of ‘interim,’” said board of trustees chair J. Churchill Hindes during Monday’s virtual meeting. “Most people think of interim as a caretaker, just keep the lights on. It’s been nothing like that whatsoever.” “The change from the emotional and the practical situation we were in when we appointed [her] ... to where we are now is remarkable,” he added. Zdatny has been with the college system since 2014. She spent the last three years as general counsel before taking on the interim chancellor role in April. She has focused much of her efforts since then on getting the college system through its immediate financial crisis. Lawmakers gave the college system $35 million from the state’s federal coronavirus relief funds to cover losses from the pandemic. The appropriation should help the system get through at least the next academic year without making any drastic changes. But Zdatny, like her predecessor, has warned that the system cannot continue on its current trajectory, particularly as the pandemic threatens to worsen its enrollment challenges. Last month, Zdatny announced the creation of a 15-member task force that will meet through the summer and develop recommendations on how the college system can remain viable. In a press release announcing her appointment on Monday, she said the system is “already making good progress” toward “transformation.” “We’re vital to the future of the state of Vermont and I’m just glad that everyone is pulling in the same direction,” she said during Monday’s meeting. “I really hope that we can make a success of this coming year — maybe two years, three years? Whatever it takes to get us through to the other side.” Contact: colin@sevendaysvt.com

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But students, faculty and staff say that the university’s fiscal health should not be protected at the expense of its most vulnerable employees. A group calling itself UVM United Against Cuts is pressuring the university to revoke the lecturer reductions and allow for an independent audit of its finances. If the picture proves as dire as officials claim, then the university should force top earners to cough up more money, the group says, punctuating its demands with the slogan, “Chop from the top.” “We are told, in many ways, that there are not enough resources to go around,” Helen Scott, an English associate professor, said at a virtual press conference last week. “We are pitted against each other and forced to compete for the crumbs, rather than demanding what is necessary for all. “When we see the immense wealth of this university, in the six-figure salaries of top administrators, in the endowment, in property owned across the state, and in many other funds, we have to say that this is not a budget crisis,” she continued. “It is a crisis of priorities.” UVM is not the only higher education institution tightening its belt. American colleges lost millions of dollars when they refunded room and board payments to students sent home early due to the pandemic. And there is growing concern that the virus’ continued stranglehold will prompt more students to question whether attending a pricey college is worth the risk. National surveys suggest that enrollment at four-year schools such as UVM could drop as much as 20 percent this fall. Campus leaders have already taken cost-saving steps. They closed the highly popular Campus Children’s School childcare, which ran a yearly budget deficit of $550,000 even as it served 56 families and carried a wait list of nearly 600 kids. They delayed construction of a new athletics center that would have generated a $30 million debt. They imposed strict hiring limits and said they will no longer pay for accrued vacation time when employees leave the job. But the most controversial cuts are those affecting faculty and staff, particularly the lower-income earners. The university has announced that it will eliminate more than 400 temporary positions in departments such as athletics, student services, libraries and academic affairs. And two academic divisions — the College of Arts and Sciences and the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources — have reduced the workloads of at least 72 lecturers.

Critics say the cuts will worsen the inequities between lecturers and tenuretrack professors. Whereas the latter commonly make salaries of $100,000 or more, lecturers take in an average of $62,000, and many make far less, according to the faculty union, which includes both groups. Lecturers also lack job security. Their contracts, which typically range from one to three years, allow the university to annuRachael Montesano ally set their course loads — and thus their earnings. “As student interests change over time, teaching needs change,” said UVM spokesperson Enrique Corredera in an email to Seven Days. The union, however, says that since students have already signed up for fall classes, lecturers have been told they will still need to teach their full course load — while being paid less. They will teach half as many spring courses to compensate for the pay cut. The union

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has filed a grievance over the cuts, arguing that the university has misinterpreted what the collective bargaining agreement considers full time. The university denies the claim. The financial crunch has heightened scrutiny of the university’s top salaries. Cutting the salaries of the 72 lecturers by 25 percent would save a mere $1.08 million, which, United Against Cuts says, top earners could much more easily afford. A Seven Days analysis of salary data from last year for both UVM and its medical school shows that the same amount could be obtained by trimming the top 72 salaries by only 6 percent. Each of those 72 people makes $200,000 or more. Thirteen employees, including president Suresh Garimella, earn $315,000 or more. Garimella’s base salary is $480,000, but he will take in $630,000 this year after accounting for deferred compensation and a $100,000 annual retirement deposit. Tenured and tenure-track faculty who are part of the union have been protected from cuts thanks to their collective bargaining agreement. That

contract is being renegotiated this year, and the union says it is open to considering across-the-board salary decreases to save other jobs. But it must understand how much money the university needs to save and would need assurLU KE ances that top wage earners AW TR would pitch in more. Un i o n l e a d e r s say attempts to discuss those details have been rebuffed. “They haven’t given us access to any data that show, other than scare tactics, that there is actually a deficit,” said Julie Roberts, a linguistics professor and president of the faculty union. “We can make sense that there would be, with a pandemic and so on, but we don’t know that.” University officials have been tight-lipped with the press. Garimella declined to speak with Seven Days last week, and the university will not say how fall enrollment projections compare to previous years. “These are unprecedented circumstances,” wrote spokesperson Jeffrey Wakefield in an email. “Universities across the country can no longer depend on the approaches that have informed our operations for decades. We will not know what our numbers look like until early in the semester.” Cate, the vice president of finance, called his estimate of a $26 million drop in tuition revenue “optimistic” and said that while the pandemic has had an impact, the university’s real long-term concern remains Vermont’s demographics. “Our position as a public flagship university located in a state that has a very small population and limited ability to support the university financially is the key ongoing challenge,” he wrote last month. Personnel costs represent about twothirds of the university’s expenses. With that in mind, campus leaders last month announced a second wave of pay cuts that will affect all employees who make more than $45,000 and are not part of a union. That includes administrators and department chairs. The reductions will be 2.5 percent for those earning $45,000 to $60,000; 3.5 percent for those making $60,000 to $80,000; and 5 percent for those earning more than $80,000. Garimella and a “significant majority” of other senior leaders have volunteered to take an additional 3.3 percent Y

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Her statement also noted that an editor who worked on the audit, Shay Totten, was previously the communications director at Rights & Democracy, the Burlington-based progressive political action organization. Totten, who formerly worked as a Seven Days political columnist, is a writer and editor currently working on a Googlebacked digital journalism startup called BY K E VI N MCCALLUM the Compass Experiment. Staff auditors are more than capable A candidate for state auditor has accused of writing such reports, Sullivan wrote, her opponent, four-term incumbent suggesting that Hoffer’s hiring of Totten Auditor Doug Hoffer, of timing a report’s — whom she referred to as a “political release to coincide with the start of operative” — was a waste of taxpayer absentee ballot voting in their August funds. primary. Totten’s editing contract was previRep. Linda Joy Sullivan (D-Dorset) issued ously posted to the auditor’s website, but a statement Monday regarding the health Sullivan claims it “was removed around care report that Hoffer, a Democrat in the time a voter confronted the State office since 2013, put out on July 1. Auditor about the contract.” Sullivan is running for auditor while simultaneously seeking a third term representing Dorset in the House. She was lambasted by Democratic leadership in February for her unexpected vote against the effort to override Gov. Phil Doug Hoffer Scott’s veto of a paid Linda Joy Sullivan family leave bill. The effort failed by one vote, and House Speaker Mitzi Johnson Hoffer struck back Monday afternoon, (D-South Hero) lamented that it was not defending his office’s work and calling the first time Sullivan had been “squirher statement “riddled with errors” and a relly” in an important vote. “back-handed political stunt.” In a statement of his own, Hoffer said The spat, the first significant salvo he was very busy with budget and audit in the so-far subdued statewide race, work and was hesitant to be distracted illustrates the pressure some candidates by what he called Sullivan’s “cheap shot.” for political office — and challengers of He defended his work and dismissed incumbents, in particular — feel to attract Sullivan’s critique as uninformed. attention to their campaigns during a “Ms. Sullivan should have taken more pandemic with the primary now just over time to read the report written by the a month away. talented staff she ostensibly seeks to At issue is the 71-page “descriptive lead,” Hoffer wrote. audit” of the state’s accountable care orHoffer noted that Totten once worked ganization, known as OneCare Vermont, for his office, is skilled at making complex that Hoffer’s office issued after months subjects clear and was paid a mere $500. of work. The report seeks to help policy All contracts are routinely removed from makers better understand the “complex the auditor’s site when they are no longer and often opaque health care system” active, he wrote. and OneCare’s role in it. In a brief interview, Hoffer said he was The report makes several recomproud of the audit and doesn’t see anymendations to the Green Mountain Care thing wrong with using it in his campaign Board, which oversees the program, communications to supporters. including that regulators take a “What else am I supposed to do but talk hard look at whether its $19.3 milabout the work of my office?” Hoffer said. lion annual operating budget is The audit was never meant to be a cost-effective. definitive treatment of the finances and Sullivan, through her campaign manmetrics of OneCare Vermont, Hoffer said. ager, declined to be interviewed Monday. The network, which was created by the But in a press release, she dismissed University of Vermont Medical Center and the audit as a politically motivated Dartmouth-Hitchcock, hasn’t been up and “nothingburger.” running long enough for that, he said. “The optics of the State Auditor “The reason we did this is to begin using his office to issue what is plainly a a much longer conversation about a politically-timed report are just wrong,” program that everyone agrees is not well the statement read. understood and immensely complicated,” Sullivan noted that the audit came out Hoffer said. m on June 30 and that Hoffer’s campaign sent an email from “Your Auditor” that day Contact: kevin@sevendaysvt.com touting the report.

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pay cut on top of their 5 percent reduction, which adds up to a month’s pay. The university declined to provide a full list of the volunteers; Corredera told Seven Days it is a “personal decision.” As a public institution, however, UVM’s salaries are public information. The campus-wide cuts are expected to affect roughly 2,000 employees and save an estimated $4 million, according to Corredera, who said the percentagebased approach was adopted “in consideration of our commitment to fairness.” Members of United Against Cuts are not satisfied. They say the latest wave of pay cuts lets top earners off far too easily. And they note the university’s apparent awakening to the concept of progressive cuts has not translated to lecturers such as Montesano, who is still being asked to sacrifice five times the percentage of income as the highest earners. “We do not accept that lecturers or students or staff should be forced to sacrifice while this wealth is untapped,” said Scott, the English associate professor. The percentage cuts took effect this month, while the lecturer workload reductions will kick in when the semester begins in August. Officials could change their minds before then, but union leaders are not optimistic. In the meantime, Montesano is weighing her options. She recently entered her new salary into a state website to see if she qualifies for food stamps. She doesn’t. She could find a second job but would need to juggle it with a full course load in the fall. She could apply to other schools but loves living in Burlington, as does her youngest daughter, who feels like she’s a part of the community. Montesano wrote Garimella a letter on May 10 describing her situation. She referred to a 2019 report that showed the livable wage in Chittenden County for a parent of two children is $81,000 — 41 percent more than what she will earn this year. She asked the president to look inward. “I will be worried about having enough money to buy food. I will be worried about paying for housing. I will be worried about paying for heat, electricity, and water. I will be worried about my children not having enough time with me,” she wrote. “I wonder what your dinner table will be like next year?” she continued. “I wonder if you will be worried about having enough money to feed your family and pay your mortgage?” She’s yet to get a response. m

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Vermont Progressive Party seeks to ward off perennials vying for its nomination B Y PAUL HEI N TZ

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he Vermont Progressive Party is recruiting volunteers to write in the names of its top officeholders on its primary election ballot to ensure that a pair of perennial candidates don’t claim the party’s nomination. The elaborate exercise is an attempt to allow Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, who is running for governor, and state Auditor Doug Hoffer, who is seeking reelection, to win the nominations of both the Progressive and Democratic parties. State law prohibits candidates from running in more than one party primary, but they can be nominated by additional parties if enough voters write in their names — or if no other candidates run in a given primary and party leaders choose to nominate them. As they have in the past, Zuckerman and Hoffer both chose this year to run in the Democratic primary, and both face competition for that party’s nomination. At the same time, perennial candidate Cris Ericson of Chester is seeking the Progressive nomination for governor, auditor and every other statewide office on the ballot. Boots Wardinski, an organic farmer and horse logger who has run for office several times, is also seeking the Progressive gubernatorial nomination. To prevent Ericson and Wardinski from winning the Progressive nod in the August 11 primary, the party is seeking 250 to 300 Progressive stalwarts to write in Zuckerman’s and Hoffer’s names in that party’s primary, according its executive director, Josh Wronski. “It’s definitely not an ideal system,” Wronski said. “The whole primary system is not geared towards nontraditional parties.” This is hardly the first time the Progs have sought to secure their nomination from perceived interlopers, but the challenge is greater this year because, in response to the coronavirus outbreak, lawmakers temporarily removed the requirement that candidates for statewide offices gather 500 signatures to appear on the ballot. That resulted in more candidates filing for statewide office — and made it easier for Ericson to run in every race. Wronski said the party is particularly concerned about the prospect of Ericson winning its nomination. “This candidate holds views that are opposed to our core

values of social, economic, and climate justice,” he wrote in an email to fellow Progs. In an interview, Wronski said that Ericson’s platform included “some stuff that’s pretty racist,” though he declined to elaborate. Ericson, a marijuana legalization advocate, drew notice in her 2018 gubernatorial campaign for promising to host a weekly “governor’s pardon TV show” during which audience members could vote to pardon those convicted of nonviolent offenses. This year, according to her campaign website, she is proposing to “train prisoners to build log cabins with solar panels for homeless people” and to dig a canal from Florida to California in order to protect whales, the fishing industry and farmers. She also opposes the decriminalization of sex work. “[M]any men in foreign countries are people of color, and they will come here for white prostitutes because Vermont is 94 percent white caucuasian [sic],” she wrote in an April post on her website. “WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO

MAKE VERMONT A TOURIST DESTINATION FOR WHITE PROSTITUTION by decriminalizing prostitution and luring wealthy foreign men of color here, some with diplomatic immunity, to spread the legs of creamy white Vermont flesh?” Neither Ericson nor Wardinski returned calls seeking comment. Asking volunteers to vote in the Progressive primary is not without risk, given that doing so could deprive Zuckerman and Hoffer of votes in the Democratic primary, but the approach has worked before. In 2016, Zuckerman won a hotly contested Democratic primary for LG while still drawing 228 write-in votes in the Progressive primary. That was enough to beat Wardinski, the only candidate on the Progressive ballot that year, who picked up just 150 votes. Though some Democrats view Progressives with suspicion and question their desire to seek both nominations, other members of the two parties have argued over the years that running

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as a “fusion” candidate reduces the likelihood of splitting the left-of-center vote in a general election and electing a Republican. The reason the Progs are going to bat for Zuckerman and Hoffer but not other statewide candidates, according to Wronski, is that the party’s state committee voted to endorse both incumbents in May. Such an endorsement provides candidates with organizing and fundraising support, though it does not necessarily result in a party’s nomination. Thus far, the Progs have refrained from endorsing any candidate in the race to replace Zuckerman as lieutenant governor — even though one of its most prominent officials, Senate President Pro Tempore Tim Ashe (D/P-Chittenden), is seeking the post. According to Wronski, all four candidates running for the Democratic nomination — Ashe, Sen. Debbie Ingram (D-Chittenden), assistant attorney general Molly Gray and activist Brenda Siegel — are scheduled to appear at a Progressive Party forum on July 14, after which the party’s executive committee may vote to endorse in the race. Each of the four candidates or their spokespeople said they are seeking the Progressive endorsement. Ashe, Ingram and Siegel all told Seven Days that if they won both parties’ nominations, they would list their Democratic affiliation first on the November ballot. Gray’s campaign manager, Samantha Sheehan, would not say what order her candidate would choose. “At this time, Molly is focused on the upcoming statewide Democratic Primary on August 11th,” Sheehan said in a written statement. Hoffer told Seven Days that if he won both parties’ nominations, he would list his Democratic affiliation first in November, as he has done in the past. Zuckerman’s campaign manager, Meg Polyte, said her boss would do the opposite and continue to identify primarily as a Prog. And if he lost the Progressive nomination to Ericson or Wardinski? “That would be sad,” Polyte said. Disclosure: Tim Ashe is the domestic partner of Seven Days publisher and coeditor Paula Routly. Find our conflict-of-interest policy at sevendaysvt.com/disclosure.

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Absentee Ballot Requests Surge in Vermont BY PAUL H E I N TZ

More than 41,000 Vermont voters have already requested absentee ballots for the August 11 primary election, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. That’s nearly 14 times as many as had done so at this point in the last state primary. “We expect that number will continue to climb,” said Secretary of State Jim Condos. The surge is almost certainly due to concerns over in-person voting prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. But according to Condos, it’s too soon to say whether the shift means more Vermonters intend to vote this year or whether a typical number will vote but will do so in a different manner. “I’m hoping there will be an increase, because it’s your constitutional right to cast your ballot, and typically a primary gets a lower turnout than a general election,” he said. At an equivalent point in the 2018 election — 35 days before the primary — only 2,967 voters had requested ballots, according to Condos’ office. At the same time in 2016, when there were competitive primaries for open gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial positions, 5,415 voters had requested ballots. The 41,450 who had done so by the end of the day Tuesday represented close to 45 percent of the 107,000 Vermonters who voted in any manner during the 2018 primary. One factor that may be contributing to the increase in ballot requests is the debate in Vermont and throughout the country over whether to move to universal mail-in voting. Last Thursday, Gov. Phil Scott allowed a bill clearing the way for such a system in this November’s general election to become law without his signature. Scott had previously expressed misgivings about moving too quickly toward universal mail-in voting, and he argued that those on the ballot — such as Condos and himself — should not be the ones making the decision, as was required by law. The new law removes Scott from the process, allowing Condos to proceed. In a letter to legislators explaining his decision to allow the bill to become law without his signature, Scott cited what he said was a technical problem with the legislation and said he hoped the legislature would address it upon reconvening in August. “I have said publicly if the

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General Assembly decided to remove me from this process, I would not stand in the way,” the governor wrote. The new law will allow Condos to mail general election ballots to every registered voter in late September, but it makes no changes to the primary election system. In an effort to clean up the state’s list of voters before then, however, the Secretary of State’s Office has been sending postcards to every registered voter over the past two weeks. In addition to confirming the accuracy of addresses in the state’s database, the postcards inform voters that they may request primary ballots now — by mailing back a postage-paid card, filling out a form online or contacting their town clerk. Those who receive an absentee ballot may mail it to their town clerk, drop it off on or before Election Day, or discard it and vote in person. The Secretary of State’s Office currently expects all polling locations to be open, though it is encouraging Vermonters to vote by mail in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at the polls. The increase in early voting presents opportunities and challenges for candidates. For the past two decades, according to Condos, lists of those who have requested and returned ballots have been public records, allowing campaigns to obtain them in real time and contact likely voters. Every day, his office emails the names and addresses of all such requesters to more than 50 candidates, operatives and party officials. “We are aware of who has requested ballots, and there are multiple ways we can reach out to those voters,” said Cameron Russell, who is managing former education secretary Rebecca Holcombe’s Democratic gubernatorial campaign. The Vermont Democratic Party enters the data into its voter file, according to spokesperson R. Christopher Di Mezzo, giving it a better sense of who is likely to vote in the general election and, therefore, whom the party should target with phone calls and mailings. The party also allows primary election candidates who pay a fee to access that data. Former Burlington city councilor Adam Roof, a Democrat seeking to represent Chittenden County in the state Senate, said his campaign is attempting to contact every voter in the district who has requested a ballot. In addition to sending them mailings, his campaign is calling, texting and targeting them via social media. The high volume of requests, he said, is keeping his campaign busy. “It’s hard to keep up with,” he said, “but we knew it was coming.”

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of Congregation Ruach haMaqom, said Nazi symbols can provoke devastating emotions in Holocaust survivors and their families. The apparent “fetishism” involved in collecting Nazi memorabilia, she said, walks the line between the excitement of owning a piece of history and something “far more sinister” — especially as today’s neo-Nazis repurpose old symbols. In addition to two swastika banners, Merrill’s July 2 auction included five daggers and knives that the Nazi party manufactured widely before and during the war. Ethan Merrill contends that the only people who bid on such items

place to basically damage my reputation for their financial gain.” Venet is an acquaintance of Bittner Antiques owner Brian Bittner, who also objected to the auction. Bittner was the 2019 president of the Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Association, a trade group that the Merrill family founded more than 50 years ago. Bittner said his Shelburne business doesn’t buy or sell any objects that he considers racist, be they Nazi artifacts or Jim Crow-era products featuring demeaning caricatures of Black people. “It’s disgusting how much was made, and how much is still out there,” Bittner said. “It doesn’t all need to be here anymore.” Nazi objects can pose a particular dilemma, as much of the paraphernalia was taken and preserved by American soldiers during World War II. As more of those veterans die, their families must decide what to do with the keepsakes. Bittner and Lawrence said that dealers should explore whether an object could be of use to a museum or similar institution. If not, “the answer may be to destroy it,” Lawrence said. Three Burlington rabbis who spoke to Seven Days said they objected to the sale of Nazi artifacts. Rabbi Jan Salzman,

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was the first time that the state’s largest antiques auctioneer felt compelled to defend such sales. Merrill’s is the premier antiques auction house in Vermont, started in 1967 by Ethan’s father, Duane, who still takes turns at the podium. The company will sell anything “made by man,” the elder Merrill quipped from the podium last week, typically using a flat-rate commission structure; the more an item fetches at auction, the more the auctioneer makes. Adelle Lawrence, who co-owns the Barge Canal Market in Burlington with her husband, Jeremy Smith, occasionally buys items from Merrill’s to resell at her Pine Street store. The auctioneer’s previous listings of Nazi items bothered her, she said, but she was reluctant to criticize the practice. “This is such a small business world that people hesitate to say a lot because they don’t want to be blacklisted,” she said. Recent events prompted Lawrence to reconsider. In the weeks following George Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minneapolis, she and Smith pledged to become better “allies” for racial justice. The Merrill’s auction seemed like an occasion to “actually do what we say we’re going to do.” In late June, Lawrence posted images of Merrill’s online listings to her store’s Instagram account and asked rhetorically, “Do you really think this is ok?” Merrill’s soon received calls and messages criticizing the planned auction, and on June 26, the company issued a lengthy statement defending its decision. The desire to “destroy these items or sweep them into the shadows only does a disservice to the period of history from which they originate, to those who were systematically murdered by the regime they represent, and to those who fought and died to annihilate that regime in the name of democracy,” the company wrote. On Facebook, some customers supported Merrill’s stance. It didn’t take long, however, for other antiques dealers and their friends to criticize the company. In a post of his own, Clarendon Springs-based dealer Mike Winslow recalled a Connecticut antiques show he attended in the 1980s at which a Holocaust survivor was visibly shaken by the sight of a Nazi banner on display. Winslow asked the manager to take down the banner, and he complied. Winslow told Seven Days he didn’t buy Merrill’s claim that the sale of Nazi memorabilia helps preserve the memory of their atrocities.

“You’re not doing the world a favor,” Winslow said. “I thought that was pretty pitiful.” In another online response, Alex Shevrin Venet of Winooski identified herself as Jewish and urged Merrill’s to help donate the items to an educational institution or museum. Merrill’s deleted both comments, saying they were “tainted.” In an interview, Ethan Merrill accused competitors of trying to exploit social unrest for a competitive advantage. “It’s a blatant attack,” he said. “They took something like this as a social issue, and they went after possible competition in the work-

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are military collectors who keep them in historical context. Some interested customers are also Jewish, the company noted in its statement. “Skinheads,” Merrill said, aren’t looking for original material. “They’re going to buy some knockoff, Chinese-made piece of junk.” There’s no way to know for sure. Many of Merrill’s customers bid through third-party online platforms, giving auctioneers less interaction with their buyers. At last Thursday’s event, about 20 paddle-carrying customers waited to place bids. Many of the winning bids were placed online, including those for four of the eight Nazi items. The most coveted of the array was a 28-inch Railway Eagle insignia that appeared on German trains; it sold to an online bidder for $750.

One of the in-person bidders was Sandor Farkas, a member of the Vermont Army National Guard who described himself as an orthodox Jew and a regular at Merrill’s auctions. When Farkas arrived at the auction, an employee pointed out this reporter; Farkas quickly volunteered his thoughts on the auction. “They’re beautiful items in many ways, and we can’t forget the allure that that kind of thing has,” he said of the Nazi items. Farkas said he has amassed a small collection of flags from what he considers “evil regimes,” including Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Soviet Union. He successfully bid on the smaller of two Nazi party banners, winning it for $125. The other local bidder was a Panton man, Shawn Hoague. Hoague runs an antiques resale business called Dogface Supply, which specializes in militaria. Hoague told Seven Days that he began learning about Nazi equipment after he started his business a few years ago. “It kind of creeped me out a little bit to own those items,” he said. “But in the same breath, I knew the old adage of, ‘If we forget our history, we’re doomed to repeat it.’” He said he’s particularly concerned that children won’t learn enough in school about such a dark chapter of world history. Hoague purchased two daggers for several hundred dollars each with plans to resell them. He said he won’t sell to a potential buyer who presents as a neo-Nazi. But he also said it’s not his responsibility to probe his customers’ intent. “Even if they are a sympathizer, what business is that of yours or mine?” he said. “We’re in America; we’re supposed to be free to do as we choose and have differing opinions.” One of the daggers Hoague bought, he explained, was issued to young Germans who worked in the Reich Labor Service, which he compared to the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps in the United States. The German organization was a mandatory work program that served as a tool to militarize and indoctrinate the country’s young men and women. The blade of the knife is engraved with the program’s slogan, “Arbeit Adelt.” Hoague, repeating the description in Merrill’s catalog, said the words translate as “Labor Enables.” That translation is in error. “Arbeit Adelt” means “Work Ennobles.” Historians today understand the slogan as an insidious Nazi propaganda instrument. m Contact: derek@sevendaysvt.com

Feedback « P.7 college and send nearly $50 million in assets (endowment plus proceeds from selling its southern Vermont campus) to Emerson College in Boston. Tenured faculty only would have the option to teach at Emerson, and current students who were able to relocate to Boston could bypass the Emerson admissions process. Thus the college’s legacy of place-based learning, grounded in the New England self-governance model of Town Meeting, with in-depth study culminating in each student’s individualized Plan of Concentration reviewed by outside examiners — unprecedented at the undergraduate level — would come to an end. This consistent entry in the Colleges That Change Lives guide would no longer transform its students or have a lasting impact on alumni, many of whom continue to live in Vermont. This state is no stranger to the changing seasons of higher education and to the current trends that have caused real harm to these generative institutions that are essential to Vermont’s social, economic and cultural well-being. There is very little time left to make a difference. I urge Vermonters to speak up quickly and resist another Vermont college closure. Amy Tudor

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the actions of officers when those cases have been adjudicated. It only serves to heighten tensions. I would suggest those officers seek legal assistance. Defund police to fund social services? Not at the expense of minimizing your initial response capabilities. Police are not, nor can they be, social workers. When someone is shot, stabbed or assaulted on the streets, you need a police officer to respond. When an incident occurs, there is a state of disorder, a hot zone that is still hazardous. The police are charged with restoring order and making the area safe. They are responsible for public safety and protecting lives. Defunding the police is not the means to accomplish this. Reducing staff only increases response times, diminishes backup for officers, and increases the chance of injury and threat to the police and public. Burlington is not a “safe” city. Check the crime stats yourself. Common sense should tell you this is not the answer, by any means. No matter how much criticism police get, they are still duty bound and respond without prejudice. Say no to defunding. Support BPD and other departments! Ronald Beliveau

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.

Beliveau owns property in Burlington.

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‘THIS IS JOURNALISM’

Thank you for the very comprehensive and balanced coverage of the budget discussions at last Tuesday evening’s Burlington City Council meeting [Off Message: “Hours Before Deadline, Burlington City Council Approves New Budget,” June 30]. This is journalism! I watched most of the meeting on Zoom and fortunately was able to view the final hour and the vote. This Seven Days piece accurately captures the deliberations and the comments from councilors, Mayor Miro Weinberger and other participants. Bob Kiernan

BURLINGTON

‘NO’ TO DEFUNDING POLICE

I’m alarmed by the Burlington Police Commission’s direction on this [Off Message: “City Attorney Prevents Burlington Police Commission From Asking Officers to Resign,” June 23]: They are charged with overseeing public safety for the community as a whole without bias, not just bending to special interest pressures. I don’t sense an indiscriminate commitment to that cause. I also don’t understand why they keep bringing up

[Re Feedback: “Everyone Loves to Disagree,” “Hardy Defense” and “Legal Argument for Mural,” May 27]: I was disappointed to see multiple letters in your May 27 issue decrying the removal of the downtown mural, because we have more pressing racial problems to deal with and because the letters represent the white “moderate” stance that makes it so difficult to address those problems. Individual free speech isn’t at issue here; public spaces are allowed a public debate about representation. No one is stopping those authors from standing on Church Street (or writing to Seven Days) and proclaiming what is obvious: that they are more concerned with aesthetics than with violence, and more worried about the feelings of one artist than about who we count as a Vermonter. Why should one artist’s viewpoint be protected over many residents’ viewpoints? Were these same letter writers as concerned about free speech when a local artist defaced the same mural in protest last year? Symbolism doesn’t have to be as extreme as a Confederate statue to matter — it doesn’t even have to be intentional. FEEDBACK

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What matters is the effect. What matters is who we try to be as a community, even when we falter. What matters is whether we are willing to listen to each other’s experiences and to the painful sweep of American history. With that in mind, let’s move forward and focus on real reforms.

I am just writing to say what pleasure Jernigan Pontiac’s Hackie column has brought me over the years. Journalism has too few ways to tell simple stories about regular life; this was a lovely exception, executed with grace and real craftsmanship. I am sorry the time has come for this cab to drive off into the sunset, but I am very grateful for the hundreds of fine tales that got told along the way.

Caitlin Morgan

BURLINGTON

AMPLIFY, DON’T DIMINISH

As a member of the Burlington community and one of the 1,000 “activists” who called in to the public forum to echo the demands of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, I found that “After Public Urging, Weinberger Proposes Police Budget Cuts” [Off Message, June 15] diminished the significance of that event. To start, the title of the article evoked a sense that the mayor met the demands of the public, and although the article goes on to reveal that he in fact did not, I still found the language in the title to be misleading. Additionally, the article stated that 800 people called in, when, in reality, the number was over 1,000. This discrepancy might have been due to the fact that the article was published hours before the city council meeting recessed. More importantly, the article neglected to cover any of the lived experiences, stories, thoughts, arguments and opinions of the community members who called in. Rather than promote the words of BIPOC folx, the article focused on Mayor Miro Weinberger’s response. What made this city council meeting so significant was not just the sheer power in numbers, but the sincerity and vulnerability of all the speakers. It’s truly a shame that Seven Days didn’t choose to report on the meaningful testimonies from BIPOC folx and allies. Now is the time for all sources of media to amplify the voices of those who have so often been silenced; now is not the time to diminish their voices.

Bill McKibben

RIPTON

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Jernigan Pontiac

Hail Hackie! Readers were surprised and saddened by last week’s announcement that longtime Seven Days contributor and cabdriver Jernigan Pontiac is retiring his Hackie column. His farewell, “See You Down the Road,” accompanied the last dispatch, entitled “Halfway House.” We will all miss Pontiac’s well-observed portraits of the quirky, fascinating and flawed human beings he drove and chatted up. He was honest and empathic. The world could use more of that.

in northern latitudes is under way now), it would be a shame to sink funds into physical infrastructure if Starlink will be available in the near future. Tim Guiterman

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[Re “No Fast Track to Speedy Internet,” June 17]: I believe ubiquitous access to high-speed internet is essential to Vermont and other rural areas. This pandemic has only emphasized the costs of doing nothing. I was surprised there was no mention in this article about SpaceX’s Starlink, which aims to provide internet access via satellite. If Elon Musk’s company does what it promises to do (and beta testing 20

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You missed some points about disability [“High Stakes,” June 17]. Unless you come from a caring and wealthy family, disability usually means poverty. Even Section 8 allows only up to $2,000 in savings, or penalties will follow. You are kept out of owning a house and getting car loans. This means landlords who don’t want you to rent their low-rent squalor, and junk cars that fail and always need fixing, are now on your horizon, forever. Then there are the endless co-pays and health

I doubt I am the only reader who feels a sense of personal loss at the prospect of no more Hackie columns from Jernigan Pontiac. Dare we hope that he will miss his writing and feel compelled to submit future articles on occasion? In a world and at a time of so much frightening and aggravating news, he has truly been a bright spot for this reader. As a song of my youth put it: “Happy trails to you,” Jernigan. Ann Larson

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along with Jernigan and his passenger or passengers, and hearing their stories. They were intriguing sociological case studies of people and their lives. Shawn Murphy

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.

‘THE JOURNEY CONTINUES’

Greatly sorry to learn Jernigan Pontiac is retiring from writing the Hackie column. It has always been one of my favorite parts of Seven Days. I very much enjoyed his wonderful stories about his customers and admired the way his own humanity and decency showed through in his writing. Well done! Many blessings on whatever’s next for him. The journey continues… Jud Lawrie

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Just tell Jernigan: Thank you so much. He was a consistent entertaining, happy place for me. Loved his take on people and the great state of Vermont, and his overall philosophy. Thanks for all the words. Enjoy your next endeavors! Sharon Allen

MONTPELIER

HAPPY TO RIDE ALONG

I was surprised and disappointed to read that Jernigan Pontiac will stop writing his weekly Hackie column henceforth. During his 23 years of writing it, while I acknowledge that I did not read all 600, I did read the lion’s share of them. I found them to be fascinating. I enjoyed being that fly on the roof of the cab, riding

advisers who encourage you to exercise and doctors who say that you are not disabled if you can bike. The health care is inadequate, capricious and arbitrary, so you still have teeth falling out and half of your hearing because there is no real effort to address these problems in a meaningful way. All the while, you are surrounded by people with plenty who wonder why you spend so much time fixing your car and just getting by... Paul Falcone

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The District 6-5 House Representative race is possibly the most exciting one [“Five Candidates for Five Sisters,” June 24]. I can vouch for one exceptional candidate: Tiff Bluemle, who will provide

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I’ve read Hackie for years — always a great, often touching story about people from an author with a great view on life. Thanks, Jernigan. Peter Fjeld

SALISBURY

strong, effective and seasoned leadership grounded in her collaborative leadership style. Tiff is an exceptional candidate specifically because, as an executive director, she has decades of experience building relationships and consensus among diverse groups of people for policy, budget, programmatic and social change that result in justice and equity for women and girls who face compounded financial, racial, language and educational barriers. Her policy work is grounded in the lived experiences of women and girls, which Tiff learned through her work. As the board chair of Vermont Works for Women while Tiff was the executive director, I saw that she was always working side by side with program staff and participants. Her success as an advocate for organizational funding from the

legislature and philanthropic partners hinged upon understanding the lived experience of the girls and young women who came to VWW for workforce development, support and mentoring. Tiff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifelong commitment, patience and vision resulted in economic stability for many women and girls who found the courage to push past our societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s injustices. This is why Tiffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience will make a huge impact in the legislature. Liz Curry

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[Re Off Message: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cops Search for Vandal Who Targeted Black Lives Matter Mural at Statehouse,â&#x20AC;? June 14]: Being a native Vermonter, I was first dismayed and then disappointed to learn that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Lives Matterâ&#x20AC;? has been painted on State Street, in front of the Capitol building. Are there not laws against vandalism anymore?Â Â I did find the video of the Montpelier City Council meeting that approved said actions and was surprised that not one person asked whether painting a political statement on State Street was even legal in regard to vandalism (Vermont State Statute 13 V.S.A. Â§ 3701) and/or the probation of billboards (Vermont State Statute 10 V.S.A. Â§ 495). You could almost say that the Montpelier City Council showed a blatant disregard as to whether these painting actions were even legal!Â Â Then I read that the governor gave the OK to spoil the street! What gives him, or any other individual, the ability to ignore state statute? Whoever is responsible for this defacement needs to be personally, financially responsible for cleaning it up.Â But maybe we have precedent now. What if I and a bunch of my friends want to paint â&#x20AC;&#x153;Biden 2020â&#x20AC;? on one of our other major roads? How about â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trump 2020â&#x20AC;?? We couldCSWD also ScrapFoodWaste-QTR-H-7Dsnap.pdf paint â&#x20AC;&#x153;Meat Is Murderâ&#x20AC;? or,

perhaps, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus Saves.â&#x20AC;? There appears to be nothing stopping me from painting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza,â&#x20AC;? either! I used to think that we Vermonters were just a little bit smarter than your average American citizen, but I see that that is no longer the case. Bret R. Collier

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[Re Off Message: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scott Extends State of Emergency to July 15,â&#x20AC;? June 15]: Supermarkets are one of the best places to find COVID-19. They are losing business due to peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fear. Masks would help in crowds, but ignorant people refuse to mask. Local management might be willing to require masks, but their corporate overlords do not allow local control. Gov. Phil Scott needs to stop listening to the Vermont Chamber of Commerce types and require masks in high-volume stores and other venues. Small businesses may voluntarily require masks to enter. They should prominently post if masks are required or not so customers can decide to enter or not.

they went out of their way to say that they had Black family members and friends â&#x20AC;&#x201D; could not have more perfectly followed the defensive script that white people use when discussing racism. The resolution sought to decry racism and the systems that perpetuate it. It sought to be more than â&#x20AC;&#x153;not racistâ&#x20AC;? but to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;anti-racist.â&#x20AC;? (They should also read Ibram X. Kendiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s How to Be an Antiracist.) By calling out Donald Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s racist rhetoric, the resolution took a position on racism: anti-racist. When we refuse to confront racism, we condone racism and cannot claim otherwise by simply stating we are not racist or have Black friends or family members. To quote DiAngelo, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If, as a white person, I conceptualize racism as a binary and I place myself on the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;not racistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; side, what further action is required of me? No action is required because I am not a racist. Therefore, racism is not my problem; it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t concern me and there is nothing further I need to do. This worldview guarantees that I will not build my skills in thinking critically about racism or use my position to challenge racial inequality.â&#x20AC;? All white people have work to do, especially those of us who are not racist.

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[Re Off Message: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Data Show Vermont Air Guard F-35 Flights Spiked in April,â&#x20AC;? April 24]: I am wondering what the real estate industry is doing about showing and selling homes in War Zone Vermont at 9 a.m. No video or drone coverage then, eh? I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine trying to sell my nice hillside without the new owner having firsthand knowledge of the flights. Should be an interesting item we now deal with in the county.

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[Re Off Message: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Debbie Ingram Kicks Off Bid for Lieutenant Governor,â&#x20AC;? June 26]: There are excellent candidates for lieutenant governor. Two are acquaintances of mine: Tim Ashe and Debbie Ingram. Both are bright, ethical and have served as state senators. However, a choice must be made. I will vote for Debbie Ingram because of one outstanding characteristic: She understands the economics of justice! She will press for livable wages and rural economic development and will build the state budget to achieve these goals. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also include marginalized communities in the decision-making process. Vermont still reels from the dual crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and job losses. Our farmers are struggling for survival. Some 40 to 50 percent of Vermonters earn as little as poor and low-income individuals throughout the nation. An average salary will not pay a mortgage or the rent. Few workers have enough savings to get their families through a crisis or to retire. Our teachers and health care workers tell us they are worn down and spread too thin. Some jobs will not return. We must rebuild our economy, but not as it was before, with too many inequities or with shareholdersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; profit the only measure of success. We can achieve success for small businesses, banks, farms, infrastructure and tourism with a combination of capitalism and social democracy. This success must be based on fair salaries, health care, affordable housing opportunities and retirement. I am convinced this is the way forward and that Debbie Ingram is the leader Vermont needs to get us there. Hope Lindsay

SOUTH BURLINGTON

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IN MEMORIAM Dewey Guidry Dewey Guidry died at the young age of 21 in Ohio on July 14, 1971 — 49 years ago. Dewey and I grew up in Burlington, and our family was very poor. Even as a young boy, Dewey was a provider for the rest of us. He would fish in the Winooski River. He’d pick apples off trees in the neighborhood and fat, ripe blackberries from bushes by the Winooski railroad tracks. It was so tough that he even stole winter gloves and hats from the old Woolworths on Church Street in Burlington. My mother would force him to return them, of course, and to tell the manager what we had done. Dewey had a red wagon that he took all over Burlington. He picked up old copper and discarded newspapers, which he could sell for a modest amount of money. He turned it all over to my mother for necessities. Times were hard, though, and in 1959, he and I were put into the St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage on North Avenue. It could be a cruel place, and Dewey suffered beatings at the hands of the clergy who ran it. He stood up to them and was brave enough to try to save us all: He even tried to burn the place down. He grew up fighting in 22

other broken systems: Vermont social welfare, the Waterbury Mental Hospital, the Reform School in Vergennes, the courts. Despite a rough upbringing and the cruelty of some of the nuns at the orphanage, Dewey grew up to love women, no matter what they looked like. He just did. He had a wonderful

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girlfriend not long before he died. But he left his home in New Jersey after a disagreement, and he told her he’d be back on his birthday. He was arrested in Ohio for disturbing the peace. He wound up hanged with his own T-shirt. He’d been beaten. I still have a photo of him in his casket with bruises.

Years ago, I wrote a book. My brother is in it, and so is Martin Luther King Jr. I know God as my witness, and everything happens for a reason. My brother’s suffering and death should be remembered, and it should not be in vain. His siblings will always remember him. — Coralyn Guidry

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OBITUARIES Patricia Rogers Seaver JANUARY 18, 1930JUNE 28, 2020 NORTHFIELD, VT.

The family of Patricia Rogers Seaver announces the passing of their beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother on June 28, 2020. Dedicated staff members of Mayo Healthcare supported Pat in her end-oflife journey. Pat was born to Rosemay Provost and Bertrand Rogers on January 18, 1930, in Northfield, Vt., where she lived all of her life. Pat met the love of her life, Leslie Seaver, also of Northfield, in 1952, and they were married in 1954 at St. John

the Evangelist Church in Northfield. Pat was predeceased by Les in January of 2012 and her youngest daughter, Kathryn Clark, in March of 2019. She is survived by her children Carol Seaver Holt of Tampa, Fla.; Mary Ellen Seaver-Reid and her husband, Richard, of West Bolton; Elizabeth Larsen and

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love as well as her love of music. She was a great support to Les during his tenure at Northfield Savings Bank (NSB) as it grew from one office to multiple branches throughout central Vermont under his leadership. Pat loved to spend time with her family singing, camping, boating and fishing. She and Les were masters at planning and organizing family camping vacations for their family of 10. Pat always made sure that camping trips included sing-alongs accompanied by folk guitars at the campfire and while traveling in the big blue van. Given that family gatherings were the highlight of Pat’s life, in January, she celebrated her 90th birthday along with her children and grandchildren, their spouses, and her great-grandchildren. She enjoyed playing the organ, singing, playing golf, spending time with close friends

and traveling. Pat and Les had many opportunities to travel with family and friends throughout the United States, Canada and Europe over their 50-plus years together. Pat was a member of the St. John the Evangelist Church Choir for many years and was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America. In earlier years, she joined other Northfield community members in providing music entertainment for residents at Mayo Healthcare. The Seaver family sincerely thanks the staff at Mayo Healthcare for the exceptionally kind and compassionate care provided to Pat and to the entire family over the years, and especially during the last few months when family members could not be there in person. The family would also like to extend thanks to the staff of Green Mountain Family Practice, Northfield Ambulance

Service and Central Vermont Medical Center. A private family celebration of Pat’s life will be held at St. John the Evangelist Church in Northfield on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Interment will be at Calvary Cemetery in Northfield. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Mayo Healthcare’s 80th Anniversary Fund. All funds raised contribute to the safety and well-being of the residents of Mayo Healthcare. Donations can be made online at mayohc.org/donate or sent to Mayo Healthcare, 71 Richardson St., Northfield, VT 05663. Contributions can also be made to the Seaver Fund, which supports artistic, cultural, educational and scientific events within the Northfield community. Please contact the Seaver Fund, c/o Northfield Savings Bank, P.O. Box 347, Northfield, VT 05663.

teacher. Reiki master. Avon lady. Distributor of Mary Kay (no pink Cadillac, but we all have a lifetime supply of eyeshadow and lipstick!) and Young Living Essential Oils. Wig-wearing, whitewaterrafting, Sufi-dancing, peaceloving, amazing Mom. No one like her in all the world. Mary always found resourceful ways to educate her children. Trips into Manhattan on the train were frequent, through the grandeur of the old Penn Station. Prayers at Saint Francis Church, walking for hours looking in department store windows, visiting dusty bookstores, and being immersed in the richness of the city’s eccentricities, cultural delights and ethnic diversity conveyed some of her important values. New York City

was also the epicenter of her new-age spiritual activities in the 1970s and 1980s. Mary’s deep understanding of human nature and search for truth led her to study and teach many spiritual subjects, facilitating her travels around the world. Many deep connections and enduring friendships were made in her lifetime. She leaves behind a network of love that she created, which made our family feel even bigger. A close friend of Mary’s recently said that her 11 children have always been “the great loves of her life.” She is survived by son Joseph (wife Ingrid; granddaughters Sophie and Chloe); son Stephen (wife Jeanne; grandsons Chandler, wife Jenny, great-grandchildren Azalea and Axel; and Tayler, partner Caroline); daughter Mary Jo (grandson Nick, husband Eli); daughter Virginia; son Robert (wife Sue); daughter Rosemary (with loving Texas friends); son William (granddaughter Shona); son John (wife Lisa); son James, (wife Kelly; grandchildren Anthony, Mindy and Kristin; great-grandchildren Mariah, Logan, Serenity, Alyiah and Brooklyn); daughter Christianne (husband Joseph; grandson Joey); daughter Marigrace (husband Michael; grandson Joss); and special godson Michael. Mary was predeceased by

Joseph R. Engel, husband from 1948 to 1975 and father to their children; her parents, Bertha (Blatz) and James Geoghegan; her beloved aunts, who helped raise her children, Mary Magdalene (Mame), Ida, Melania (Millie) and Rose Blatz; and many other treasured aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Many thanks to the health care providers who crossed Mary’s path in recent years; Dr. Rachel Inker for “getting her”; Essex Rescue; and, in her final days, the hospice team at the McClure Miller Respite House for the kindness, compassion and deep commitment to dignified care they showed our weary traveler. A celebration of Mary’s life will be announced in the future. In lieu of flowers or gifts, please read a good book to honor Mary, who spent her life teaching us all to believe in the power of knowledge. Or, like Janet Armstrong (wife of Neil): “We ask that you honor her by standing up for that in which you believe.” Donations may be made in Mary’s honor to the McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester, Vt. Arrangements are in care of the Ready Funeral & Cremation Service. To send online condolences to her family, please visit readyfuneral.com.

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JULY 13, 1926JUNE 27, 2020 COLCHESTER AND GRAND ISLE, VT.

Ann Bradbury Wetzel of Colchester and Grand Isle, Vt., passed away peacefully on June 27 with her family at her side. Ann was born in Montréal on July 13, 1926, to Edith and Augustus Bradbury and was the youngest of seven children. She was raised in the small town of Abercorn, Québec. After high school, she moved to Burlington and became a naturalized American. She was proud of her Canadian heritage but loved being an American and a Vermonter. She married the late Lewis K. Wetzel, and they raised three children, Stephen, Mark and Jean, in South Burlington and later moved to Colchester. Ann was an avid golfer, skier and sailor, as well as a longtime member of the Burlington Country Club and Malletts Bay Boat Club. She had many interests and hobbies and won several prizes for her “penny rugs” at the Champlain Valley Fair. After raising her children, Ann became a real

her partner, Andy, of Lebanon, N.H.; Michael and his wife, Linda, of Burlington; Mark and his wife, Alexandra, of White River Junction; Andrew and his wife, Suzanne, of Essex; and Paul and his wife, Jennifer, of Essex; as well as Kathryn’s husband, Keith Clark, of Williamstown, and her 21 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Pat attended Northfield schools and was a member of the Northfield High School class of 1947. Following high school, she was employed in the public relations department of National Life Insurance Company, where she collaborated with others to produce radio spots for the company. During that time, she also made vocal recordings of her own with WDEV. After her marriage to Les, she devoted her life to homemaking and caring for their eight children and filled the family home with

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estate agent and one of the first woman appraisers in Vermont. Ann was preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, Lewis K. Wetzel, and is survived by her sons Stephen K. Wetzel and his wife, Jan, and Mark L. Wetzel and his wife, Joan; her daughter, Jean W. Hampel, and her husband, Gary; her four grandchildren, Matthew, Jeffrey, Andrea and Carly; and her loving dog Ozzie. A private memorial for Ann will be held at a future date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Grand Isle Historical Society, P.O. Box 23, Grand Isle, VT 05458. Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of the Cremation Society of Chittenden County, a division of the Ready Funeral Home. Please visit cremationsocietycc.com to place online condolences.

On July 4, 2020, our beautiful mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother, aunt, cousin and friend Mary Magdalene took flight with the angels and left this earthly plane for her next adventure. Mary was born in 1929 in Elizabeth, N.J., and joyfully migrated to Vermont in 1996. She lived 91 years with humor, fierce independence and a deep sense of justice. She was outspoken, loyal and kind. Mary had a brilliant mind and could convincingly advocate for any cause with which she aligned. Affectionately nicknamed “Forrest Gump,” she always seemed to innocently gravitate to the center of many important historical moments. A natural teacher, she had a strong, spiritual core that expressed itself through activism. As an organizer and participant, Mary was involved in the Catholic Worker Movement, anti-poverty programs, and marches for racial and social justice in the 1960s. Boy, did she wear a lot of hats. Literally and figuratively. Catechism, Angel Class and international spiritual

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Joyful Moves Vermont Dance Alliance and Black Freedom Fund partner to provide empowerment and support COURTESY OF THE VERMONT DANCE ALLIANCE

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veryone needs to experience joy, perhaps especially as the country navigates a pandemic, political divisiveness and the tumultuous struggle for racial justice. Through dance and philanthropy, the VERMONT DANCE ALLIANCE and the BLACK FREEDOM FUND are working to help people nurture their joy and support racial equality in the Green Mountain State and beyond. In late June the alliance, a statewide nonprofit that supports dance artists, released the video “TRACES 2020 Virtual Performance.” It’s the pandemic-era version of the group’s annual one-day event. Since 2017, TRACES performers have danced 24

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outside in Burland satisfying ington — on sidedance video this walks, alongside viewer has seen public sculptures, in a long time. on the waterfront Clever, energetic — where audiand filled with ences encountered surprises, the H ANNA S AT TE R L E E them by design or video exudes joy by chance. and captures normally ephemeral live This year, the 11.5-minute video, dance as a forever-accessible gem. produced by South Burlington’s EXTENSITY “People need this outlet of movement CREATIVE, features 31 dancers of all ages and connection to community,” said performing 30- to 60-second pieces in Burlington’s HANNA SATTERLEE, founder backyards and woods, on picnic benches and executive director of the Vermont and industrial stairs. The pieces are Dance Alliance. The group hasn’t elegantly interwoven and set to music by sponsored in-person events since the local musicians. It’s the most intriguing pandemic began and won’t for a long

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time, she said. Hungry for interaction, participants enjoyed Zoom rehearsals and collaborating on the video; the alliance is sponsoring more dance video projects as a result. For example, on Monday it launched Dancing Digitally, a five-week interactive series on five local choreographers’ new works. “TRACES 2020” also came at a time when alliance board members “wanted to give back immediately to an organization working for racial and social justice,” Satterlee said. After considering numerous national groups, they discovered the Vermont-based Black Freedom Fund, which perfectly fits the alliance’s mission of empowerment. Just before the credits at the end of the video, viewers are invited to donate. CHRISTAL BROWN is an artist, educator, entrepreneur and chair of the dance program at Middlebury College. In early June, she launched the Black Freedom Fund to support Black artists, families and entrepreneurs who are under-resourced due to COVID-19 or other challenges. Through it, she said, she aims not only to provide monetary gifts but also to help create the conditions that support joy. “Most of the things that we relish in this country that are African American made are from the outgrowth of joy, not pain,” Brown said. “The publicity of the pain overshadows the joy of the music, the dancing, the love. It overshadows a lot of the work we’ve done to be able to be joyful people.” Brown appreciates using “TRACES 2020” as a vehicle to raise funds because the video exemplifies the complexity of bridging different life experiences. Just as performers must understand each person’s part, so must we “recognize what goes into each person’s reality” to change systems of racism and oppression, Brown said. The collaboration of the alliance and the Black Freedom Fund is “a way of leveraging our realities.” In the Middlebury area, where Brown and her young son are among the few Black residents, her neighbors and allies recently began asking for advice on how to support racial justice. One day she responded, “‘I can do this. I can make something for you. Hold on. Give me a minute,’” she recalled. Almost that quickly, Brown created the Black Freedom Fund under the auspices of her nonprofit company INSPIRIT.

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A recent gift went to a man with whom Brown grew up in Kinston, S.C. Initially, he got caught up in crime, but after seeing many of his friends die or be drawn into “the prison pipeline of a small town where there’s no opportunity,” Brown said, “he totally flipped his life around.” He’s now married, has a son and is a generous force in his community, serving meals to the homeless, doing fund drives and cooking for neighbors, according to Brown. The man recently underwent a leg amputation and cannot work while waiting for the prosthetic. The Black Freedom Fund covered his July rent. “Black joy is a reservoir,” Brown said, that allows people to persevere despite loss, pain and misfortune. Sometimes a gift can help refill it. Contact: elizabeth@sevendaysvt.com

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Drawing Attention With the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice at the top of many Vermonters’ minds, it can be easy to forget the urgency of other global issues. With her illustrated project Megalomania, Shelburne resident Gillian Dorfman draws attention to the environment, as well as the Trump administration’s dismantling of environmental protection policies. Part children’s story, part comic book and part teaching tool, Megalomania is composed of Dorfman’s original drawings and text. It tells the story of a young boy named Reginald who, with his red hat and orangish skin, bears a striking resemblance to a certain commander in chief. The child is raised to cut corners and get what he wants by any means necessary, and he grows up to become president of a land called Megalomania. “Reginald did not read or study to learn to become a ruler,” the story goes. “He lied and bragged. He charmed and swaggered.” Under Reginald’s leadership, unregulated mining, logging, building and oil drilling wreak havoc on the planet. In rendering Reginald, Dorfman pulled inspiration from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The character appears to be a cross between the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, symbolizing his lack of both a brain and a heart.

Dorfman, who has no formal art training and considers herself an amateur, illustrated the story with colored pencils on multimedia paper. She then scanned the images and made small digital tweaks. The story can be presented as an eight-part serial comic or as a longer booklet. Now retired, Dorfman is trained in town planning, has developed environmental

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education resources and worked as a literacy tutor. Her background came into play as she conceptualized Megalomania. “A lot of kids I worked with had to really rely on picture books for younger kids, but they were interested in other concepts,” Dorfman reflected over the phone, “so I really wanted to produce some material and some books that had a good message

Cartoon by Max Lorber

A Cartoon a Day It’s become a quarantine cliché: the lament that you’ve “squandered” your stay-at-home time if you haven’t started a novel, learned a new language or mastered the alchemy of sourdough. MAX LORBER, 14, has no reason to feel guilty. The recent graduate of Lyman C. Hunt Middle School in Burlington has made a drawing every day since the shutdown began. And not just to pass the time; creating his cartoon-style pictures has been cathartic, he said. “I draw mostly stuff from my imagination,” Max told Seven Days, “but in this series I’ve been trying to do what I see going on in the world and relate it to my life. I’m more interested in capturing the emotion of what’s going on.” Indeed, Max captures both the uncertainty and the ennui of being stuck at home day after day. His cartoon from day 26 — titled “April Break 2020” — consists of three identical panels in which a figure lies on a couch reading. They are labeled “Before,” “During” and “After.” Many of his drawings display a wry sense of humor; others are observations that need no commentary, such as the image shown here. “I was at a store, and there were a lot of people just not following the [mask] rules,” Max explained. Yet another drawing reflects his

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response to the global explosion of outrage and protest after the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The dramatic red-and-black poster features a small human figure in silhouette beneath a large hand-printed quote attributed to Martin

Luther King Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Max’s quarantine output has been no surprise to his parents, JASON LORBER and NATHANIEL LEW; their son has been drawing

on the environment but also could be used for literacy.” Adult readers may also appreciate the political commentary and the tongue-incheek tone. Dorfman worked on Megalomania while watching President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the first months of 2020. “I was just feeling like, ‘Oh! We’re at risk of losing a democracy!’” she said. “It was just my creative way, I suppose, of expressing my frustration.” Although the character Reginald is clearly based on the 45th president of the United States, Dorfman created some distance between the story and real life by setting Megalomania in a parallel universe with characters that resemble aliens and buildings that look like mushrooms. “If [readers] are outside of the situation, they’re more likely to look objectively at it,” she said. As of last week, Megalomania had not yet been published. Dorfman aims to use the project in homeschool education or as a reward for political donors. For her next project, Dorfman is working on a children’s book series called Common Ground on the theme of diversity in soil and in society. “I’m just trying to use fiction to help kids learn about their environmental history — and how they can make a difference, as well,” she said. K RI S TE N RAV I N

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since he was a toddler. “When he was 2, he loved drawing the Statue of Liberty — he would draw it 10, 15 times a day,” Lorber recalled. “He wasn’t yet 3 when a friend came over, and I said, ‘Max, why don’t you draw the Statue of Liberty for her.’” Sitting across from the guest, he drew it upside down — from her perspective. “Max disdained crayons — he wanted pens — from a young age,” Lorber continued. “We got him art books, and he pored through them. He’s a voracious reader.” Though Max’s talent is clearly his own, he “comes from an artistic family,” Lorber noted. A former Democratic representative in the Vermont legislature (Chittenden 3-3), Lorber is an actor, comedian and business consultant; Lew is a singer, the artistic director of vocal ensemble COUNTERPOINT and an associate professor of music at Saint Michael’s College. Max, who has taken art classes at DAVIS STUDIO in South Burlington, as well as at Hunt, will enter Burlington High School in the fall. Though he hasn’t yet seen his official schedule, he knows he’s taking “at least one” art class. “I really hope it’s not virtual,” he said. At 14, Max is too young to know “what I’m doing as a career,” he acknowledged, “but I know I’ll keep making art, even as a hobby.” PA ME L A PO LS TO N

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Alien Nation Streaming video review: The Vast of Night B Y MA R GO T HA RRISON

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here do we find entertainment these days? On our laptops and in our living rooms. The streaming options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. So, in this weekly feature, I review a movie or series that might otherwise be easy to overlook. THE SERIES: The Vast of Night (2019)

WHERE TO SEE IT: Amazon Prime Video

THE DEAL: No need to adjust your television.

If your HD picture is suddenly fuzzy blackand-white, that’s because it’s the 1950s and you’re watching “Paradox Theater,” an anthology of tales of the unexplained. This week: What caused the bizarre noise that rippled over the airwaves in the town of Cayuga, N.M., one dark night while everyone was in the high school gym cheering on the basketball team? Well, almost everyone. That doesn’t include our main characters: Everett (Jake Horowitz), a hotshot young radio DJ; and Fay (Sierra McCormick), a 16-year-old bobby-soxer/science enthusiast who works at the telephone switchboard. The story opens with Fay showing Everett her new prized possession: a portable cassette tape recorder. Hopped up on dreams of futuristic gadgets like “tiny TV-telephones,” Fay alerts Everett when a weird vibration disrupts her phone lines and his radio signal. Everett plays the mysterious sound for his listeners, drawing responses from a veteran (Bruce Davis) and a shut-in (Gail Cronauer),

who have stories of strange sightings and government cover-ups. Is something out there, hovering over Cayuga? Something not of this Earth? WILL YOU LIKE IT? Do you like classic “The Twilight Zone”? Do you like radio plays such as Orson Welles’ “The War of the Worlds”? A Slamdance Film Festival audience favorite, The Vast of Night is selfconsciously retro, and sometimes static enough to try viewers’ patience. During the veteran’s long monologue, for instance, director Andrew Patterson cuts to a gray screen, forcing us to focus solely on the actor’s vocal performance.

W. Sanger pay almost obsessive attention to period detail, from cat-eye glasses to slangy, rapid-fire dialogue (“Raz my berry!”). The result is so immersive that it’s easy to trance out, letting the film transport us back to the era when our folk legends of alien visitation took shape. Plotwise, The Vast of Night offers no new twists on those tales, but that doesn’t seem to be the point. This is a story of dead-end towns and lonely witnessings, of young people dreaming of a better life through recording technology and not realizing that their passion leads inexorably toward our world of viral TikTok videos and deepfakes. The Vast of Night is a one-of-a-kind film experience that a lot of people may switch off. I ended up watching it twice. IF YOU LIKE THIS, TRY...

And yet, because this is “Paradox Theater” — the film’s framing conceit — The Vast of Night can suddenly become incredibly kinetic. Right in the middle, a bravura tracking shot sweeps us through town, more reminiscent of 1917 than of stagy midcentury television. Patterson (who doesn’t give himself an on-screen credit) is an Oklahoma commercial director who funded the film himself and snagged an accomplished cinematographer (M.I. Littin-Menz) to create its dark, dreamy visual textures. Patterson and cowriter Craig

• “The Twilight Zone” (1959-64; Netflix, Hulu): Why not go back to the source? While not every episode is a classic, Rod Serling’s original creepy anthology series is consistently atmospheric and cleverly written. • “Twin Peaks” (1990-91; Netflix) and “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017; Showtime): The template for all smalltown-with-weird-happenings shows. The Vast of Night shares some DNA with the surreal 1956 New Mexico sections of “The Return.” • “The Magnus Archives” (2016 to present): I’m breaking my rules, because this is a podcast. But anyone who wishes that spooky radio plays would make a comeback needs to listen to this

superlative UK horror series about an organization that collects supernatural witnessings. Like The Vast of Night, it’s also a reflection on recording technology and the power of voice. Contact: margot@sevendaysvt.com

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n these “difficult times” — as every TV commercial describes this year’s perfect storm of pandemic, lockdown, police violence and street demonstrations — we can all use a smile to brighten our days. But even before COVID-19 became a household word, two yellow grins have been beaming at passersby on West Street in Essex Junction. The curved wooden mouths, which face in both directions of traffic near the Essex community gardens and dog park, bear no words or other symbols. They just hang there at the top of a wooden post, like a pair of smirking Cheez Doodles. Some days the mouths are upturned in a smile; other days they’re frowning. Periodically, the signs split the difference, with a frown facing one direction and a smile facing the other. Equally puzzling is the wooden park bench about 10 feet away with the name “GUMP” etched into it. On a recent visit, the bench, which is nowhere near a public bus stop, had a heart-shaped box of chocolates on it — a reference, presumably, to the 1994 Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks. 28

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Are these wooden creations forms of public art, political statements, social commentary or none of the above? Turns out, they’re more like mood rings for their creator — Essex Junction native Richard Burnett. The 59-year-old carpenter, who owns the West Street duplex where these symbols are located, said that initially he made them as a way to respond to his life’s trials and tribulations. Lately, however, they’ve come to reflect his personal sentiments on whatever is happening in the world that week. About a year ago, Burnett explained, he was walking his dog at the Champlain Valley Exposition and discovered a

discarded picnic table with two benches, each cut in the shape of a comma. Looking to repurpose the seats, he took them home, painted them yellow and black like the classic smiley face, and hung them on a post in front of his house. Initially, Burnett faced a frown in the direction of drivers heading into Essex Junction and a smile facing those traveling away from it. Why? “When people are heading down to GlobalFoundries,” he said, referring to the computer chip manufacturer about two miles away, “they’re frowning on the way to work and smiling on the way back.” Last year, he recalled, a childhood

friend visiting from Arizona pulled out his cellphone and showed Burnett photos of the smiles and asked him what they were all about, not realizing that Burnett himself had made them. More recently, a woman walking to the nearby dog park noticed frowns facing in both directions and inquired about them. “I said, ‘Well, I’m really upset about something going on in the world,’” he said. Burnett explained that he was irked that protesters in San Francisco had pulled down a statue of Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and also a slave owner. “The world’s kind of crazy right now, and it hurts when you see all this stuff happening.” So what’s the story behind the GUMP bench? That creation, Burnett continued, is a remnant of a painful breakup with a girlfriend of 10 years. At the time, he said, he felt a little like the eponymous movie character, who marries but ultimately loses the love of his life, Jenny. Evidently, some of Burnett’s neighbors have been intrigued by his work. After the pandemic hit, he noted, a woman and her kids began painting messages on small rocks and leaving them on the bench. One featured a quote from the film: “You have to do the best with what God gave you.” It was signed “Mrs. Gump” and had a little Bubba Gump shrimp painted on it. “I thought that was pretty cool,” Burnett said. Then, a few months ago, after Burnett and his ex tried but failed to reconcile on Valentine’s Day, he left the heart-shaped candy box on the bench, a nod to the film’s most quoted line: “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” “It’s kept me busy, and I guess it’s a way of me venting my pain,” Burnett said about his lawn creations. Burnett noted that he gets more inquiries about the grins than the less-visible bench. For a time, they became topics of discussion on his local Front Porch Forum. Burnett’s explanation is pretty straightforward. “The world tries to beat you down,” he said. “This is just my signal to the world that I’m not going to let it.” m Contact: ken@sevendaysvt.com

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is a freelance illustrator born, raised and based in Burlington. Read her weekly comic “Mag Na Mell” online at magnamell.com. Find her portfolio at eraillustration.com.

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ariants of the adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” have existed for centuries, but modern usage of the phrase reportedly can be traced back to an advertising trade journal in the 1920s. Adjusting for inflation, a picture in 2020 is worth roughly 14,000 words — about the length of four typical Seven Days cover stories. In our annual Cartoon Issue, pictures take on even more value. Every year since 2013, we’ve paired a handful of writers with talented artists to create stories in a visual format. It’s a challenge for writers to use fewer — far fewer — words, but the process is a whole lotta fun. For example, Dan Bolles and Vermont cartoonist laureate Rick Veitch teamed up to tell the tale of a MONKTON MAN WHO BUILDS GIANT ROBOTS (page 34) that he can climb into and operate. The robots are in kind of a beta stage; there are kinks to work out. But they’re still pretty cool — as are the photos by James Buck and coloring by Veitch’s son, Ezra Veitch. Ken Picard and Emily Rhain Andrews recount the story of BURLINGTON’S BELOVED HOT DOG LADY, LOIS BODOKY (page 32). Years after her death, her Church Street cart recently resurfaced in the Northeast Kingdom, which has inspired fond memories from locals. Chelsea Edgar and Julianna Brazill explore the peculiar intricacies of DATING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 (page 36). As it turns out, finding love is just as challenging in a pandemic as it always is. Speaking of the coronavirus, Sally Pollak and Elisa Järnefelt riff on the BODY CONTORTIONS THAT HAVE BECOME PART OF OUR DAILY ROUTINES (page 38) in this new age of social distancing.

is a South Burlington-based illustrator and writer originally from Finland. She enjoys telling complex stories with seemingly simple drawings. Her illustrated column about parenthood appears monthly in Kids VT. You can see more of her drawings at elisajarnefelt.com.

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HELLO, VERMONTING Even as Vermont opens up from the pandemic shutdown, Gov. Phil Scott still encourages residents to stay home as much as possible. And so this summer is a good time to explore our home state. Its diminutive size makes a multitude of short trips accessible, whether for a few hours, an overnight or a longer getaway. This series, running weekly through mid-October, presents curated excursions in every corner of Vermont, based on the experiences of Seven Days reporters. The idea is to patronize the state’s restaurants, retailers, attractions and outdoor adventures — after all, we want them to still be there when the pandemic is finally over. Happy traveling, and stay safe.

enough to the lake to hear splashing and squeals. A number of cars with out-of-state license plates sat in driveways; the unoccupied sites, we surmised, belonged to Canadians who still can’t cross the border because of the pandemic. A few miles down the road is FISK FARM, identified by a historic marker that notes vice president Teddy Roosevelt stayed there on September 6, 1901 — a guest of Vermont lieutenant governor Nelson Fisk. Roosevelt had been scheduled to speak at the annual meeting of the Vermont Fish and Game League, but his plans changed with the news that president William McKinley had been assassinated. Roosevelt reportedly left in a rush — a word not normally applicable to sleepy Isle La Motte. Historical significance is just one reason to visit Fisk Farm, which looks like something out of a fairy tale. Linda Fitch bought the place in 1970 and has lovingly restored the main residence and the surrounding buildings and gardens. She rents the Stone Cottage guesthouse to visitors. The massive barn has become a gallery, currently showing landscapes by Susan Larkin through July 15. In another ivy-covered building, Fitch used to serve tea and cakes on weekend afternoons — but not anymore. The only thing greener than Fitch’s thumb is the algae growing in the quarry behind her house. When she bought the Fisk Farm, she didn’t realize it was a stone’s throw from one of the best sources of Isle La Motte’s famous black limestone. That stone was used to construct both the U.S. Capitol and the National Gallery of Art; extraction at the Fisk quarry began in the late 18th century, making it the oldest in Vermont. Soon after Fitch bought the place, the quarry’s owner, Vermont Marble, started blasting there. Fitch got a crash course in geology, and then in environmental activism. After years of fighting, she persuaded the company to sell the quarry to the

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rench explorer Samuel de Champlain had the right idea when he landed on Isle La Motte more than 400 years ago this week. He wisely picked July to paddle up the Richelieu River into the lake that would eventually bear his name. The water-encircled terra firma, his first stop, beckoned with its gentle topography and lush forests. Even in 1609, the northernmost Champlain Island was a great place for a day trip. It was also the ideal location for a fort. In 1666, the French army built one there to protect the settlements in New France — now Québec — from the Iroquois, who already inhabited the area. Capt. Pierre La Motte’s island outpost was the first white community in what later became Vermont. The year-round residents apparently spent a lot of time praying. The shrine they built to the Virgin Mary’s mother, Saint Anne, remains the island’s main — but far from only — attraction. My companion and I decided to “discover” Isle La Motte by bicycle. The Our Lady of Lourdes at St. Anne’s Shrine 7-by-2-mile island is an out-of-shape cyclist’s paradise — that is, mostly flat with very little traffic and short distances between intriguing points of interest. ST. ANNE’S SHRINE is the ideal place to start, and you can leave your car there. Shortly after you cross the bridge from Alburgh, the Roman Catholic refuge reveals itself on Sandy Point. On the lake side of the tarmac, a Stations of the Cross sculpture garden invites visitors to sit a while, with dedicated benches at each spot. Christ competes with a nearby sculpture of Champlain and his Indigenous guide. On the other side of the road is an open-air chapel where the Edmundite fathers conduct mass at least once a day, all summer. With strategically placed hand sanitizer and every other pew roped off, it’s probably the safest place in the state to worship at the moment. Attendance ranges from 60 to 150 people, according to a young groundskeeper who was weeding along the road that leads to the shrine’s retreat center. Life-size sculptures of saints, each in a protective wooden niche, guide visitors along the wooded edge of the sprawling property. Towering among the trees is the gilded, resurrected Our Lady of Lourdes that topped Burlington’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception before it burned down in 1972. This natural place of worship also has camping spots and a gift shop. The snack bar is closed, but there are plenty of picnic tables. It was hard to leave, but we did, proceeding counterclockwise around the island along a charming road that passes by and through various camp communities. Riding between the houses and their docks brought us close

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nonprofit she created in 1998: the Isle La Motte Preservation Trust. Fitch’s backyard still affords the best view of the FISK QUARRY PRESERVE. From the top of a rock wall, you can survey the iridescent green water and wetlands below. A little farther down West Shore Road, a sign marks a trail that offers another perspective on it. While battling the marble company, Fitch found a greater calling: protecting and increasing awareness of Isle La Motte’s unique geology. The island is part of the Chazy Fossil Reef, formed 480 million years ago from a shallow tropical sea near what is now Zimbabwe. In the prized limestone, visitors can see the swirling shapes of marine animals that once inhabited it: gastropods, a form of snail; sea sponges; and cephalopods, including the distinctive nautilus. In 2005, the Isle La Motte Preservation Trust bought a second reef site, the 83-acre GOODSELL RIDGE FOSSIL PRESERVE on the east side of the island — our next stop. En route, we passed the road to LAKEHURST, a community of seasonal, mostly mobile homes on the southeast corner of the island. HALL’S ORCHARD, which straddles the road, was flying an

“open” sign but only offered an antique gas pump and a sparsely stocked selfserve farm stand. Pro tip: If it’s a weekday, bring lunch and plenty of water. On weekends, MAMA DOGS CATERING runs a food truck on West Shore Road, between the Shrine and Fisk Farm. Fossil at Fisk Quarry A right on Quarry Road led us past the stone headquarters of the ISLE LA MOTTE HISTORIIN THE AREA: CAL SOCIETY and on to • ALBURG GOLF LINKS, Goodsell Point, where alburggolflinks.com Fitch had gone ahead • FISK FARM, fiskfarm.com to meet us. We followed • FISK QUARRY PRESERVE, the sound of her piano lclt.org/fisk-quarry-preserve • GOODSELL RIDGE FOSSIL playing into another PRESERVE, lclt.org/goodsellperfectly restored and-fisk-quarry-preserves, barn, her latest project, 802-238-7040 which comprises a • HALL’S ORCHARD, 928-3226 visitor center, concert • HARBORSIDE HARVEST MARKET, hall, classroom and Facebook • HERO’S WELCOME GENERAL STORE, museum. In 2009, the heroswelcome.com U.S. Department of the • MAMA DOGS CATERING, weekends Interior designated only, Facebook both Isle La Motte • RUTHCLIFFE LODGE & RESTAURANT, ruthcliffe.com quarry sites as National • ST. ANNE’S SHRINE, Natural Landmarks. saintannesshrine.org Beautiful fossil photographs adorn the walls in the barn’s cathedral-like north room. The south room holds books, including one of Fitch’s, and an educational video titled “The Oldest Reef.” Still stored inside for the winter are dozens of heavy panels that mark the Walk Through Time trail to some of the best rock viewing. They haven’t made it out this year because two volunteers are required to install them — a no-no during the pandemic. “Every step you take represents a million years of Earth history,” Fitch said of the outdoor walk when the proper signage is up. This summer, visitors can either explore the area independently or call Fitch to set up a tour. That’s not a

bad idea. Despite the mowed trails, we managed to miss the most celebrated sections of the preserve. By that point, we’d been exploring Isle La Motte for about five hours. It was time for a swim and a drink. At the very end of Quarry Road, past a bustling, mask-free RV park, we found both at RUTHCLIFFE LODGE & RESTAURANT, a charming eatery owned and operated by Mark and Kathy Infante. The couple thought long and hard about opening at all this year — their 35th running an operation that has been in Mark’s family for 63 years. “We lost May and the first part of June,” Kathy lamented. Many of their customers come from nearby Canada — by boat — for cocktails and Mark’s delicious seafood dishes. That business is gone, but the place was still hopping last Thursday night. We had a dinner reservation but started with drinks at a table by the water, one of four seating areas on the property. More tables on the lawn, on the porch attached to the restaurant and inside allow for adequate social distancing. Customers are required to wear masks — until they’re sitting down. Also awaiting dinner were James and Kay Hoffman from York, Pa. — retired teachers staying in Ruthcliffe’s glorified motor lodge beside the restaurant. They had spent the day biking, too, but rode many more miles than we did. We chatted them up with the awkward questions of the year: “So, how are the infection rates where you come from?” and “Where did you all quarantine?” The Hoffmans, who hadn’t planned on a Vermont vacation until their scheduled one fell apart, said they rented a place in Wells River for a few days before heading north. “It’s kind of the honor system,” Kathy said of vetting outof-staters. “Some are good. Others are just trying to get out of Dodge, and who can blame them? You don’t want to be the COVID police.” If we hadn’t had a ride back to our car, I would have spent the hot, sultry night right there, looking east across the water to the sandy beach at Alburgh Dunes State Park. It’s one of four state parks you pass on the hourlong drive from Burlington. Instead of continuing south to “make war” with the Mohawks, Champlain should have stayed a while, too. m Contact: paula@sevendaysvt.com Find more information on Vermont day trips and adventures from the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing at vermontvacation.com/staytripper. SEVEN DAYS JULY 8-15, 2020

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egan creemees and frozen bananas and sheep’s milk gelato — oh, my! When the mercury rises, there’s nothing better than digging into an ice-cold treat. And while the state is full of roadside creemee stands and windows for scoops, the landscape of frozen desserts has evolved to include more and more creative confections. This year in particular, Vermont’s ice cream scene isn’t frozen in time. Beyond experimenting with ingredients such as CBD and nondairy offerings, these businesses are adapting to the reality of COVID-19. They’ve changed where and how they sell their products: adding doors and restricting hours at honor stands, transforming into drivethroughs, and driving to the people. We sampled seven frosty treats and explored the innovative ways their producers are keeping us cool this summer. J.B.

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June when I drove to Adam’s Berry Farm in Charlotte to load up on berries and popsicles. Among the array of flavors, along with blueberry-lime, strawberrylemon and blueberry-strawberry-peach, is a cantaloupe-mint popsicle studded with raspberries. When I’d tried the cantaloupe flavor earlier in June, I swooned. The pale orange treat is the gustatory equivalent of a head turner, possessing a subtle and sublime

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flavor unlike any popsicle I’ve had. My daughter agreed: “This is really, really good!” When I returned for more, Adam’s was out of cantaloupe pops. (They’ll be back soon, farmer and owner Adam Hausmann assured me.) Still, the five-pound bag of ice in the back of our car didn’t go to waste:

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open this month in the former home of SLOWFIRE BAKERY: 4008 Route 108 in Jeffersonville. Owner BILL HOAG has been baking with MANSFIELD BREADWORKS at Stowe’s HARVEST MARKET for the past 15 years; the new venture will add café and retail customers to his strong local wholesale following as he steps out on his own. In addition to Hoag’s sourdough loaves, the wood-fired bakery will offer breakfast sandwiches, pastries, cinnamon rolls, bagels and simple sandwiches. Hoag also bakes burger buns and yeasted breads for his wholesale clients in the Stowe area, including BLACK DIAMOND BARBEQUE, DOC PONDS, VON TRAPP BREWING BIERHALL RESTAURANT

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After a temporary closure in early April, CAFÉ MEDITERANO reopened on July 1 in a new location: 60A Pearl Street in the Essex Junction shopping plaza anchored by Big Lots. For 14 years, the casual eatery has served up Greek fare, such as gyros, alongside dishes from owner BARNEY CRNALIC’s Bosnian heritage, such as cevapi beef sausages and borek pastries. The move was planned before the pandemic, which delayed the reopening. Takeout

and seating inside and outside are available. ALGANESH MICHAEL, a South

Burlington resident originally from Eritrea, has shifted course with her Eritrean/Ethiopian food business, A TASTE OF ABYSSINIA, in response to the pandemic. Known for her large-event catering, pop-up dinners at ARTSRIOT, and cooking classes at RICHMOND COMMUNITY KITCHEN and Access CVU, Michael found herself with limited business in mid-March. She now offers smaller catering options for four to six people. For $100, customers get Michael’s weekly menu of three main dishes plus injera flatbread delivered within Chittenden County (or beyond for an extra fee). Orders must be placed by Saturday for Wednesday delivery. PETE ROSCINI COLMAN has expanded ALIMENTARI ROSCINI, the grocery business at 159 North Main Street in Barre associated with his cured meats company, VERMONT SALUMI. Colman now takes online orders for curbside pickup of both his cured meats and fresh meats; most of the latter are locally sourced. He also offers fresh pasta and bread, local dairy, eggs, produce, some specialty Italian and Vermont dry goods, wine, beer, and hard cider. He hopes to open the grocery for in-person shopping by early August, with a wine bar still planned for fall.

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mint, we have cantaloupe, we have raspberries,” he said, explaining her thinking. “Let’s put all this together.” The berries and mint in the pops are also grown at Adam’s, with some melons sourced from other local growers. This summer, its 19th season, Adam’s is not operating its booth at the Burlington Farmers Market, and its pick-your-own business is closed due to safety concerns. But the berries and popsicles are available at local stores and the Charlotte farmstand, where masks are required and one person at a time is permitted in the self-serve barn shop. During afternoon drizzles or sunsets, we’ve been sitting on the front stoop and cooling off with a pulpy, not-too-sweet strawberry-lemon popsicle, dyeing our lips red and killing the cantaloupe blues. S.P.

full-time job. (Matt was hired by Burlington’s ZAFA Wines.) “We got sidetracked with ArtsRiot, because it was such an amazing thing to be included in,” Matt said. “But we could be 85 years old running Christie’s Gone Bananas. It’s something we can always put on hold; now it’s keeping us afloat.” Last summer, the stand generally operated on the honor system. Customers could pull off the islands’ main drag, grab a chocolate-covered frozen banana from the cooler, and leave $5 in the cash box. Now, to ensure safety and social distancing, the Farkases limit their hours to Saturday afternoons. Christie’s frozen bananas are also available at Burlington’s Deli 126 and CO Cellars. With people heading to their island homes early this year, the stand has had a busy start to the season. “We’ve definitely seen a lot more bicyclists coming out and

developed a passion for handwritten correspondence while working for the U.S. Postal Service. “Seeing that suffering right now, we feel like there’s a joint education opportunity here,” Matt said. Saving the USPS and getting kids to read? Noice. J.B.

CREAM OF THE CROP

Dairy Creme, 320 State Street, Montpelier, 223-5802, dairycreme.com

We counted 20 cars in front of us on a Saturday night in late June when we pulled up behind a maroon Chevy at Dairy Creme in Montpelier for a 1950s-style night on the town with 2020 health precautions. Following red arrows painted on concrete stanchions, we drove in stops and starts to the roadside stand’s creemee

Christie’s Gone Bananas, 45 Route 2, Grand Isle, 378-5940, christiesgonebananas.com

When I wrote about Christie’s Gone Bananas last summer, most reader comments said the same thing: “There’s always money in the banana stand.” That indelible line from “Arrested Development” proved prescient for owners Christie and Matt Farkas this year. In early March, the couple quit their jobs to run the restaurant at Burlington’s ArtsRiot as part of the Riot Squad ownership group. When the sale of the business fell through amid pandemic uncertainty, they found themselves unemployed — and unable to qualify for benefits. The banana stand in their driveway, which they’d put on the back burner, quickly became Christie’s 44

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a lot of people visiting the farmstands up here,” Christie said. The menu of frozen bananas, sorbets and seasonal popsicles now includes drinks to quench bikers’ thirst and kidfriendly offerings such as banana “coins” dipped in chocolate. Also new is the dairy-free, whipped banana-based Noice Kream. “It’s not ice cream, but it’s Noice Kream,” Matt explained, putting on his best Vermont accent. The couple has also started a kids’ book club inspired by the summer reading program at Manchester sweet shop Mother Myrick’s Confectionery, which Matt remembers from growing up in southern Vermont. “Kids choose a book, read it, and then we’re asking them to write to us and we’ll send them a coupon for a free banana,” said Christie, who

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with his wife, Laurie, said the 2020 system requires a little traffic control. He gave props to the local cops for supporting the effort. The couple, residents of Middlesex, were high school sweethearts at U-32. “I got married to the girl next door and moved down one house,” Cliff, 62, said. The Dodges purchased Dairy Creme, housed in a former A&W restaurant, 24 years ago. Cliff eventually quit his job as a UPS driver to run the business, taking over from the couple’s two daughters who wanted to get “real jobs,” he said. Cliff’s trips to the roadside spot go back to childhood. About 50 years ago, he delivered the local newspaper by bicycle, riding a route that took him past what was then the A&W. “I used to eat fries here,” he said. “And most of my profit went back into the A&W.”

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window. In 20 minutes — one minute per car — we had the goods in hand: a coffeemaple twist and a vanilla blizzard loaded with Reese’s Pieces. This summer, the capital creemee joint is operating as a drive-through, using cars as a physical distancing mechanism. No kids congregate at the counter, and the picnic tables where families used to hang out eating cold creemees and hot mozzarella sticks have been stashed away. Dairy Creme gets highest marks for its public health measures. Besides staying in their vehicles, customers are instructed not to touch the basket that emerges from the server window, frozen treats within. With our food safely in hand, we drove to Montpelier High School for a parking lot picnic. Cliff Dodge, who owns Dairy Creme

COUNTING SHEEP

Fairy Tale Farm, Bridport, 758-6807, fairytalefarm.net

I’ve eaten ice cream-related products made from oat milk, soy, coconut, banana, you name it — but, until recently, I hadn’t experienced a frozen treat made of sheep’s milk. Fairy Tale Farm helped me take the leap. The sheep farm and dairy in Addison County is mostly known for its small-batch artisan cheeses; the Spanish-style, mixedmilk Nuberu and the aged winter tommestyle Tomte are farmers market and co-op staples. For the past year, though, the farmers have also been selling sheep’s milk gelato at local markets. Fairy Tale Farm’s gelato fits right into the seasonal ethos expected of farmers market vendors. In addition to a chocolate line, the farmers have developed flavors

food+drink using locally sourced fruit, including Vermont raspberry, mulberry-mint and a popular blueberry-merlot. Nut-based flavors such as pistachio and maplepecan are in the works. Like any gelato, Fairy Tale Farm’s is denser than ice cream. While sheep’s milk is higher in fat than other dairy products, the farm’s gelato recipe contains no additional cream, so the final product has a lower total fat content than most gelati. This year’s regulations eliminating sampling at farmers markets have posed a challenge, owner Alissa Shethar said. Now she has to rely on customers who are willing to commit to a pint of the product without trying it first. “Sampling was such a huge part of what we did at the market,” Shethar said. “Now we just stand there.” Still, sales at the weekly Richmond and Burlington farmers markets have picked up, she said. For some customers eager to partake, the lack of singleserving scoops is no barrier. “Sometimes, when I hand people a pint, they’ll ask for a spoon,” Shethar said with a laugh. Shethar had hoped to expand the farm’s gelato production this year, marketing it to local stores and co-ops, but “Now’s not a good time to market anything,” she said. At the Richmond Farmers Market on Friday, the flavors were a chocolate lover’s dream: chocolate caramel, fudge ripple, brownie, plain chocolate. I went for the chocolate brownie ($9 a pint) and was thrilled to learn it came with a pintsize insulated tote. If the speed at which I ate my pint is any indication, there’s no reason for customers to be sheepish about giving this gelato a try. J.B.

A PERFECT WINDOW

Honey Road, 156 Church Street (window on Main Street), 497-2145, honeyroadrestaurant.com

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Keeping Our Cool « P.45 a quick-service window. The tall, doublesashed window on Main Street has a sill just wide enough to hold a spray bottle of sanitizer and other pandemic-era necessities. “The window’s always been there, but we’ve never thought twice about it,” Chigazola Tobin said. “It’s a perfect window for what we’re doing.” The quick-service menu features some of the restaurant’s savory favorites, such as dips, salads and shawarma. But it’s especially perfect for instant gratification, which is delivered by the frosty creations of pastry chef Amanda Wildermuth. Wildermuth’s tahini ice cream bars have earned a cult following. The current version is one chunky bar, rather than the original smaller pair. Rich tahini ice cream is sandwiched around a chewy layer of salted peanut caramel, and the whole thing is bathed in dark chocolate. “It’s like a Klondike bar,” Chigazola Tobin said — but one that has matured from a promising youngster into a sophisticated, well-traveled adult. The tahini ice cream also stars in a sundae drizzled with caramel and showered with shards of halvah, the Middle Eastern candy made from ground sesame seeds. Single-serve cups hold a rotating menu of Wildermuth’s other inspired ice creams, sorbets and frozen yogurt. A recent selection included delightfully tart sorbet made with rhubarb, lime and cardamom and creamy honey-lemon-saffron frozen yogurt. Also on offer are frozen drinks such as “frosé,” or rosé wine blended with juices and syrups, such as grapefruit, rhubarb and orange blossom. They give Chigazola Tobin a chance to use the slushy machine she’s had in a closet for three years: “I pulled it out and thought, Finally, this is the time.” M.P.

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Dana Parseliti of Honey Road with a tahini sundae

The Lake Champlain Chocolates ice cream truck serving up a Benefit Batch at Waterfront Park

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Lake Champlain Chocolates, 750 Pine Street, Burlington, 864-1807, lakechamplainchocolates.com

The Lake Champlain Chocolates ice cream truck isn’t the traditional kind that circles the streets blasting a repetitive jingle. But that hasn’t stopped it from heading out into neighborhoods this summer. The company now offers “neighborhood pop-ups” in greater Burlington. All residents need to do to schedule a visit from the mobile scoop shop is let their neighbors know it’s coming and help find a good parking spot. “You spread the word; we’ll bring the fun,” Lake Champlain Chocolates’ Meghan Fitzpatrick said. So far, posts on Front Porch Forum, flyers and good ol’ word-of-mouth have led to successful evenings of scooping cones and sharing safe neighborly camaraderie. There’s no cost to book the truck; customers simply pay for the ice cream they buy. They’re asked to wear masks when ordering and practice social distancing; many take their cones back to their front porches to enjoy. The pop-ups weren’t in the original plan for the ice cream truck’s third season, which had a packed schedule of festivals and events. With those canceled, Fitzpatrick said the pop-ups have helped increase local awareness of the chocolate company’s small-batch ice cream, which is also available at its three retail locations. The Pine Street Factory Store will have a takeout ice cream window later this month. “The pop-ups have been a great way to get the word out that we have a truck and that we sell ice cream,” Fitzpatrick said. “And the neighborhoods we’ve gone

Jim McCarthy with a vegan berry creemee at the Mill Market & Deli

to have been thrilled; it’s a way to gather and socialize in a safe way.” Lake Champlain Chocolates makes its ice cream using Kingdom Creamery of Vermont’s base in a small-batch machine at its Williston production space. The Belgian chocolate is quintessential, of course, but less obvious flavors such as salted caramel and maple butter pecan are equally decadent. A recent Benefit Batch incorporated crème fraîche from Vermont Creamery and raised money for the Vermont Foodbank. “It’s such a classic thing, an ice cream truck,” Fitzpatrick said. “To be a little bit more mobile and have more flexibility to get our ice cream to more places has been great.” J.B.

CHEF MEETS CREEMEE

The Mill Market & Deli, 1580 Dorset Street, South Burlington, 862-4602, themillmarketanddeli.com

The creemee menu at the Mill Market & Deli’s seasonal ice cream window has a few uncommon offerings. New this year, customers can order a vegan seasonal fruit creemee made with oat milk, or the elaborate CB-Dreemee, a chocolate creemee topped with CBDinfused caramel and chocolate sauces and CBD brownie crumbles. Even the classic maple creemee has the extra touch one might expect from a chef-owned creemee stand. Former Inn at Shelburne Farms executive chef Jim McCarthy, and his wife, Antonia Cavalier, bought the Dorset Street fixture at the end of 2018. In addition to Vermont maple syrup and the 10-percent-fat Hood creemee base, their very good maple creemee has

one unexpected ingredient that few may detect. “We add a touch of sherry vinegar,” McCarthy said. “It just brings a little bit of oakiness that goes really well with the maple.” As for the CB-Dreemee, McCarthy developed that with the assistance of a CBD processor who used to work in the same building. He said the CBD-infused components have a distinct flavor. McCarthy is trying to stand out in a crowded field. “You know,” he said, “we’re in the creemee business, and if you’re on Instagram you see that everyone’s just trying to one-up each other.” The vegan creemee starts with extra creamy oat milk, corn syrup and sugar. Right now, the fresh fruit purée is strawberries with a little orange zest. As the summer goes on, blueberries and peaches will cycle through. My husband ordered the fruit creemee without noticing it was vegan. He found it less creamy than a regular creemee but refreshingly good, on the sherbet side of the ice cream spectrum. A vegan friend noted approvingly that it reminded her a little of the strawberry layer in Neapolitan ice creams of her childhood. Personally, if I branch out from my go-to maple creemee, I will try the cider doughnut sundae with housemade cider caramel sauce, Island Homemade Ice Cream’s Vermont Maple Walnut, baked oat crumble and a pair of the market’s signature cider doughnuts. That should serve to take us into fall. M.P.

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Safety Meeting I hate feeling like a party pooper. I never thought I would be the one wagging a finger, admonishing revelers for doing the very thing I spent a great deal of my teens and early twenties doing. Yet there I was, standing on Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace in front of nightclub Red Square on July 3, silently watching in slight horror as people continued to put their own pleasure ahead of keeping others (and, frankly, themselves) safe. And now here I am, writing about it. I feel like such a dick, a traitor to hedonists the world over. Recently, Red Square and three other downtown Burlington hot spots — JP’s Pub, Akes’ Place and the Other Place — were issued warnings from the Vermont Department of Liquor and Lottery’s Office of Compliance and Enforcement to adhere to current guidance from the Department of Health regarding pandemic-related precautions and social-distancing measures. Red Square has become a lightning rod on social media with regard to the ongoing issue, likely because of its prominent placement on the Marketplace, 48

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abundant outdoor seating area and palpable party atmosphere bolstered by some of the area’s best DJs, including CRAIG MITCHELL and DJ CRE8. In a recent phone call, Division of Liquor Control director of compliance and enforcement SKYLER GENEST explained that a total of 19 establishments have been similarly reprimanded since the start of the pandemic, including the four Burlington watering holes. However, that’s out of some 3,000 compliance checks Genest’s office has carried out since March 12. That means 99 percent of businesses were operating within the guidelines. “We give and afford every opportunity for a business to comply before we wield enforcement as a tool,” Genest said. It seemed to me that the warning was taken seriously, at least by Red Square on the night I skulked around its outdoor patio. While I was briefly chatting with general manager ALEX FLAMINI, several staffers interrupted us with club business, mostly having to do with wrangling drunkards who weren’t maintaining social distance. Did staff appear to do its level best? Yes. Security looked tight and focused,

with staffers posted all around the club’s expansive patio. I doubt there was much more they could have done to enforce the rules. Did they manage to keep everyone fully in line for every single second of the evening? Of course not. How could they? Drunk people are basically like preschoolers. (I have years of experience dealing with both.) Turn around for two seconds, and they’re stirring up trouble. I don’t believe it’s possible to ensure that 150 people — the maximum number of occupants currently allowed for outdoor seating — are on their best behavior, especially with alcohol in the mix. Nor is it fair to make the average bar worker the arbiter of the potential spread of a deadly virus, especially when there are still questions about how it’s transmitted. By and large, Vermont is in way better shape than most parts of the country in terms of containing the virus. The Washington Post ran a story on June 18 titled “Vermont Borders States With Major COVID-19 Outbreaks, but You Won’t Find That Here.” But I believe we could quickly lose our crown if social distancing isn’t taken seriously. And based on the throngs of unmasked people

milling about downtown last Friday, it’s clear many people aren’t doing their part. I keep hearing, “I just want to do something normal,” with regard to outdoor dining and the like. Well, guess what? Eating out isn’t “normal”; it’s a privilege that not everyone gets to have even in the best of times. This whole issue is not Red Square’s problem, nor any other bar’s, yet people keep directing their outrage toward private enterprises. If the state government says it’s OK to open, can businesses be blamed for trying to get back in the black? It’s pointless to direct outrage anywhere but the root of the problem. When will our state and federal government act to save independent nightclubs and concert venues so consumers don’t have to feel responsible for saving their favorite businesses by patronizing them when it’s still not safe? The UK just announced a plan to invest £1.57 billion (or $1.96 billion) in its cultural, arts and heritage institutions. The National Independent Venue Association, an American group of like-minded businesses, which counts places such as South Burlington’s Higher Ground, Winooski’s Monkey House and Brattleboro’s Stone Church among its members, estimates that 90 percent of independent music venues will close without significant government intervention. I don’t want to see that happen.

Sorry Situation A little more than three years ago, Winooski was briefly home to a bar called Mister Sister. Though touted as an inclusive space for the LGBTQ+ communities, it quickly came under fire for being the opposite, particularly from transgender people. They claimed that its name was a transphobic slur, and a bitter social media battle between the club’s owner, CRAIG DEROUCHIE (or Craig McGaughan, as he was known at the time), and a contingent of outspoken activists ensued. Derouchie did not relent in his assertion that the name was not transphobic. After only a few months of operation, he launched a GoFundMe campaign to save the bar, which I called out in this column as “disingenuously purport[ing] himself as a helpless victim by presenting a sob story about his failing business” when he could have

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Be a Tourist in Your Own State! just apologized and changed the name when it first became an issue. The bar permanently closed a few months later. But now, Derouchie has seemingly come around, as he stated in a public apology email sent to Seven Days. “My ego, defensiveness and my own reaction to feeling less-than at times in my life, blinded me to the authentic feelings of others,” he wrote. “I labelled people as overly sensitive and I tried to invalidate their feelings by explaining that my intent was harmless. I’ve since learned that’s not good enough. “To the trans and gender nonconforming community, I’m sorry,” Derouchie continued. “I apologize that my actions harmed you and I applaud you for standing up and doing what was necessary to be heard.” Derouchie’s words are indicative of something larger. People learn and grow at different rates. Sometimes it takes years, but they often get there eventually.

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Rest in peace, Half Lounge, the pintsize Burlington club next door to Red Square. The club is closed and ready for new tenants to move in, as a large “For Rent” sign in the window indicates. This is the second time the club has closed in three years; it was shuttered in early 2017 before being purchased by SideBar talent buyer ADRIAN SACKHEIM along with

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Where are all of these young, gifted altpop singer-songwriters coming from? Last week, we introduced you to R&B upstart Will Keeper. Behind the scenes, that led to the discovery of his collaborator Oskar Schroeder. I tried to come up with some kind of equivalency from nature, such as: If you see one ant in your kitchen there are surely a thousand more just out of sight. But, unlike how I felt about the colony of arthropods I just eliminated from my apartment, I hope this cluster of Gen Z creators continues to grow. Schroeder, a 25-year-old graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ont., just released his first EP, Way Too Long. While living in Canada, he played with rock groups Meadowlands and lovegood, both of which sound quite different

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Burlington transplant Asa Morris’ internet presence suggests that he needs to make art the way the rest of us need to eat and drink water. Morris is a painter, writer and prolific musician. He’s known in the upstate New York DIY scene for his rock band Asa Morris and the Mess and noise-rock group Tiki Bats, among other projects. According to a press release, Morris has recorded in bedrooms, motel rooms and backs of cars, like some crazy childbirth. So, while some of us spent our quarantine downtime rewatching “The Office,” Morris recorded his 35th solo EP, God Has Entered My Body. A Perfect Body, My Same Size.

from the artist’s solo debut. Schroeder’s independent work cruises away from sprawling psychedelic rock and into highly stylized, trip-hop-adjacent synth-pop. Way Too Long is actually way too short, a commonality many local burgeoning pop stars share on their debuts. But the four-track EP sufficiently submerges the listener in a cool, aqueous space. Schroeder’s world is one of silken moods and prismatic structures within which he can safely process everything from anxiety to indifference. While listening for the first time, I couldn’t help but reimagine Schroeder’s work as screaming, early ’00s-style pop-punk — which is weird for me because I don’t listen to a ton of that kind of stuff. But something about his emotive, almost strangled delivery made me want to extract his voice and patch it into a new track with a shitload of ripping guitars and live drums. It’s not that his vocal style doesn’t jibe with his slinky concoctions of glistening synths, molten pianos and wet-from-

reverb beats. It does. But the ineffable way he fashions his hooks — particularly the grand conceit of “I Stopped Trying!” which dramatically emphasizes the words “And I can’t take it back this time” — lends itself to a stylistic shift into emo or thereabouts. Opener “Somewhere Else” establishes an iced-out mood that appears throughout, its beats flip-flopping from straight to swung as the hook arrives. Schroeder plays his keys majestically, seamlessly bridging the gap into “I Stopped Trying!” “Shake It” ratchets up tension with pulsing beats and synths, but Schroeder’s vocals are groggy. The elements subtly clash, underscoring the uncertainty of the song’s lyrics. Closer “Five Years” introduces ’80s bell synth, a nod to the decade that likely inspired some of Schroeder’s compositions. Schroeder tapped Keeper to produce his next album. Given what they’ve accomplished on their respective debuts, that partnership can only lead to good things. Stream Way Too Long on Spotify.

When I read that Morris had recorded almost three dozen EPs in the last six years, my first thought was that God Has Entered My Body would be a shining example of self-indulgence and poor editing. After several listens, though, I admit that I judged too hastily. The five-song collection opens with “We Don’t Need Anyone,” an upbeat rock number with handclaps, fuzzedout guitar and playfully imperfect harmonies. Lyrics celebrate the feelings of safety and being seen that come with companionship — a particularly resonant sentiment during this time of increased isolation. On “Song for Nothing,” Morris’ ambient background guitar adds a soothing layer of sound like warm static or, as he sings, “a slow calm laid over me.” My favorite cut is “To Be the Flame.” On the album closer, whisper-soft vocals and lilting acoustic guitar float across the sonic landscape, anchored by live drums, like a balloon tethered to Earth. Interference in the background — a

cough and somebody talking — makes the track feel extra intimate. Morris also throws in a mellow version of “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps),” a 1980 David Bowie number about a woman in the throes of psychosis. This acoustic interpretation replaces the chaos of the original with plodding melancholy. Morris’ fellow New York scenester Matt Hall, of the Plattsburgh-centric web series “TBN” (formerly “TRASHburgh”), jumps in on drums for the Bowie cover. The multifaceted Morris handles vocals, guitar, programming, keys, background atmosphere and bass, as well as production throughout the album. Other pals and former bandmates created and contributed their parts remotely. Morris’ lo-fi aural aesthetic is dynamic and cool, and his lyrics show warmth, desire for affection and appreciation of the small things. Keep ’em coming, Morris. God Has Entered My Body. A Perfect Body, My Same Size is available July 14 at asamorris.bandcamp.com. Proceeds benefit the Movement for Black Lives, Color of Change, Survived & Punished, and other organizations.

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will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. §6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the District Coordinator as soon as possible, and by no later than July 28, 2020.

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number 4C0506-13C Department, (6) new for a project generally directional signage, (7) RR-Cook-081419.indd 1 described as after-thenew lighting, and (8) fact modifications to the new landscaping. The Miller Building including project is located at 111 (1) a new sidewalk from Colchester Avenue in the turn around on Burlington, Vermont. Hospital Drive to the The District 4 north elevators, (2) a Environmental new access point from Commission is reviewing Hospital Drive to the this application under Emergency Department Act 250 Rule 51—Minor for ambulance access Applications. A copy with minor alterations of the application and to sidewalks and proposed permit are ambulance parking available for review at areas, (3) relocation the office listed below. of the security booth The application and a on Hospital Drive, draft permit may also be (4) alterations to the viewed on the Natural access drive to the Resources Board’s UVM parking area off web site (http://nrb. Hospital Drive, (5) alterations to a sidewalk vermont.gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” near the Emergency

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Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 2nd day of July, 2020. By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco Rachel Lomonaco, District Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-879-5658 Rachel. Lomonaco@vermont. gov

A Regulation in Relation to BURLINGTON CODE OF ORDINANCES— Repeal of Existing Speed Limit Ordinances in Burlington Code of Ordinances and Addition of Speed Limits Section to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission. It is hereby Ordained by the Public Works Commission of the City of Burlington as follows: That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by removing Chapter Nine, Cemeteries, Section 9-11, speed limit for vehicles; removing Chapter Twenty, Motor Vehicles and Traffic,

Section 20-39, Speed limit generally; remov6/6/16 4:34 PM ing Chapter Twenty, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, Section 20-40 Speed limit in school zone; removing Chapter Twenty, Parks, Section 22-17 Speed limit within parks, constituting the repealing of these sections; and adding a Section 30, Speed Limits to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, thereof to read as follows: 9-11 Speed limit for vehicles. The speed limit at Lakeview and Greenmount Cemeteries shall be 10 m.p.h. Cross reference—Speed limits generally, § 20-39; rules and regulations of traffic commission, App. C. 20-39 Speed limit generally. (a) No motor vehicle shall be operated or driven upon any of the streets of the city at any time at a rate of speed greater than twenty-fi ve (25) miles per hour, and suitable signs stating this speed limit shall be conspicuously posted at the city line on all public highways that enter the city; with the exception of those streets listed in 20-39(b)—(e). (b) No motor vehicle shall be operated at a rate of speed greater than twenty (20) miles per hour, and suitable signs stating this speed limit shall be conspicuously placed on such streets: (1) Church Street from King Street north to Main Street. (2) Lake Street. (c) No motor vehicle shall be operated upon

any of the following streets at any time at a rate of speed greater than five (5) miles per hour, and suitable signs stating this speed limit shall be conspicuously placed on such streets: (1) Church Street from Main Street to Pearl Street. (d) No motor vehicle shall be operated upon any of the following streets at any time at a rate of speed greater than thirty (30) miles per hour, and suitable signs stating this speed limit shall be conspicuously posted on such streets: (1) Plattsburg Avenue. (2) North Avenue from Plattsburg Avenue to the southern on ramp for the Northern Connector. (3) Shelburne Street from the South Burlington town line north to Ledge Road. (4) On Austin drive starting at Red Rocks Drive going east. (e)No motor vehicle shall be driven or operated on the Southern Connector, between Shelburne Street and a point seventeen hundred (1700) feet south of Home Avenue at a rate of speed greater than forty-five (45) miles per hour. (f) No motor vehicle shall be driven or operated on the Southern Connector, between a point seventeen hundred (1700) feet south of Home Avenue and Maple Street, at a rate of speed greater than thirty-five (35) miles per hour. (g) No motor vehicle shall be driven or operated on the Northern Connector at a rate of speed greater than fifty (50) miles per hour, except that northerly from a point five hundred (500) feet south of its intersection with Plattsburg Avenue to the Colchester town line, no motor vehicle shall be driven or operated at a rate of speed greater than thirty-five (35) miles per hour. Also no motor vehicle shall be driven or operated at a rate of speed greater than twenty-five (25) miles per hour for the entire length of the northbound exit ramp at the intersection of North Avenue and the Northern Connector. Cross reference— Speeding in cemetery prohibited, § 9-11; speed limit within parks, § 22-17. 20-40 Speed limit in school zone. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 20-39, no person shall operate a vehicle at a rate of speed greater than twenty-five (25) miles per hour when children are present in any school zone in the city as designated by

the traffic commission. * Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added. CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 31 Temporary Regulations. (a) Notwithstanding Appendix C, Sections 9, 12-1, 13, and 25, the following changes shall be made: (1) The Director of Public Works or their designee, may allow fifteen-minute parking spaces described in Appendix C to be reallocated as Temporary Parking Pick-up Zones for up to 15 minutes. Proper temporary signage will be posted. (2) The Director of Public Works or their designee, may allow vehicle loading zone parking spaces described in Appendix C to be reallocated as Temporary Parking Pick-up Zones for up to 15 minutes between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Proper temporary signage will be posted. (3) The Director of Public Works or their designee, may allow truck loading zone parking spaces described in Appendix C to be reallocated as Temporary Parking Pick-up Zones for up to 15 minutes between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Proper temporary signage will be posted. (4) The Director of Public Works or their designee, may allow taxicab parking spaces described in Appendix C to be reallocated as Temporary Parking Pick-up Zones for up to 15 minutes between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Proper temporary signage will be posted. (b) Sunset Provision. The provisions set forth in Section 31 shall terminate on November 1, 2020. The text of Section 31 shall be replace at such time with: “[Reserved.]”. The authority of the Secretary to carry out this chapter shall terminate September 30, 2020. Adopted this 20th day of May, 2020 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest_Phillip Peterson Associate Engineer – Technical Services Adopted 5/20/20; Published 07/08/20; Effective 07/29/20. Material in [Brackets] delete. Material underlined add.

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[CONTINUED] CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Rules and Regulations of the Traffic Commission, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: 30 Speed limits. (1)Speed limit generally. (a) No motor vehicle shall be operated or driven upon any of the streets of the City at any time at a rate of speed greater than twenty-five (25) miles per hour, and suitable signs stating this speed limit shall be conspicuously posted at the City line on all public highways that enter the City; with the exception of those streets listed in 30(2). (2)Speed limit on listed streets. (a) No motor vehicle shall be operated at a rate of speed greater than twenty (20) miles per hour, and suitable signs stating this speed limit shall be conspicuously placed on such streets: 1. Church Street from King Street north to Main Street. 2. Lake Street. (b) No motor vehicle shall be operated upon any of the following streets at any time at a rate of speed greater than five (5) miles per hour, and suitable signs stating this speed limit shall be conspicuously placed on such streets: 1. Church Street from Main Street to Pearl Street. (c) No motor vehicle shall be operated upon any of the following streets at any time at a rate of speed greater than

thirty (30) miles per hour, and suitable signs stating this speed limit shall be conspicuously placed on such streets: 1. Plattsburg Avenue. 2. North Avenue from Plattsburg Avenue to the southern on-ramp for the Northern Connector. 3. Shelburne Street from the South Burlington town line north to Ledge Road. 4. On Austin drive starting at Red Rocks Drive going east. (d) No motor vehicle shall be driven or operated on the Southern Connector, between Shelburne Street and a point seventeen hundred (1700) feet south of Home Avenue at a rate of speed greater than forty-five (45) miles per hour. (e) No motor vehicle shall be driven or operated on the Southern Connector, between a point seventeen hundred (1700) feet south of Home Avenue and Maple Street, at a rate of speed greater than thirty-five (35) miles per hour. (f) No motor vehicle shall be driven or operated on the Northern Connector at a rate of speed greater than fifty (50) miles per hour, except that northerly from a point five hundred (500) feet south of its intersection with Plattsburg Avenue to the Colchester town line, no motor vehicle shall be driven or operated at a rate of speed greater than thirty-five (35) miles per hour. Also no motor vehicle shall be driven or operated at a rate of speed greater than twenty-five (25) miles per hour for the entire length of the northbound exit ramp at the intersection of North Avenue and the Northern Connector. (g) No motor vehicle shall be driven or operated on Route-127 at a rate of speed greater than thirty-five (35) miles per hour starting at a point one-thousand five-hundred and eightyfour (1584) feet north of Manhattan Drive and proceeding south for

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1974 (PL 93-383), the written comments PM to the National Affordable 6/29/20on12:56 the ERR Housing Act, as Agency of Commerce amended, to undertake and Community a project known as the Development, Vermont Community Attn: James Brady, Development Block Environmental Officer, Grant (CDBG) CARES One National Life Drive, Act Small Business Montpelier, Vermont Stabilization Grant 05620. All comments Program for the received by July 8, 2020, purpose of economic will be considered by relief caused by issues the Agency prior to related to the COVID-19 authorizing submission pandemic. The project of a request for release is located within all of of funds. Vermont’s fourteen Environmental counties. The total Certification: estimated cost of the project is $1,700,000 of The Vermont which $1,530,000 will be Department of Housing available to make grants and Community to sole owners with no Development (the employees for working Department), is capital for loss of revcertifying to the Agency enues and retrofitting that Josh Hanford, in space to meet COVID-19 his official capacity as requirements. Commissioner of the Department of Housing Mitigation with respect and Community to endangered species, Development consents wetlands, historic to accept the jurisdiction preservation and toxic of the Federal Courts sites (including lead, if an action is brought asbestos and mold) to enforce responsiwill be implemented at bilities in relation to the site specific locations if environmental review compliance with the corprocess and that these responding regulation is responsibilities have required. been satisfied. The A Tier I Environmental Agency’s approval of the Review for the project certification satisfies its has been made by the responsibilities under Agency. Most activities NEPA and related laws covered under this and authorities and grant program will be allows the Department covered under the initial to use CDBG funds. Tier I review. Activities Objections to Release of covered under the Tier Funds: I included, but are not limited to, working The Agency will capital requests. A Tier accept objections to II Environmental Review its release of funds may be required for and the Department’s projects that include certification for aperiod physical alterations to of fifteen days following businesses requesting the anticipated submisgrant funds. An sion date or its actual Environmental Review receipt of the request Record (ERR) that docu(whichever is later) only ments environmental if they are on one of the determinations for following bases: (a) the this project is on file at certification was not exthe Vermont Agency ecuted by the Certifying of Commerce Officer, Josh Hanford, and Community Commissioner;(b) the Development, One Agency has omitted a National Life Drive, Davis step or failed to make Building, Sixth Floor, a decision or finding Montpelier, Vermont required by HUD regula05620. tions at 24 CFR part 58; (c) the grant recipient Public Comments. or other participants Any individual, group, in the development or agency may submit process have committed

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funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by the Agency; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed to the Attn: James Brady, Environmental Officer, Agency of Commerce and Community Development, One National Life Drive, Davis Building, 6th Floor,Montpelier, Vermont 05620. Potential objectors should contact the Agency to verify the actual last date of the objection period. Following the seven-day comment period, if no objections are received by the Agency, a release will be submitted to HUD for use of funds. HUD will accept an objection to its approval of the release of funds and the State’s certification only if it is on one of the following bases: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer, Josh Hanford, Commissioner; (b) the Agency has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR part 58; (c) the grant recipient or other participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory

from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed to the US Department of HUD – Boston Field Office, Community Planning and Development, Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Federal Building, 10 Causeway Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02222-1092. Potential objectors should contact HUD to verify the actual last date of the objection period. STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 521-5-20 CNPR In re ESTATE of: Ralph M. McGregor NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of: Ralph M. McGregor, late of Williston, Vt. I have been appointed executor of this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Dated: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Signature of Fiduciary: /s/Patricia A. Fischer Executor/Administrator: Patricia A. Fischer, 490 White Birch Lane, Williston, VT 05495 rmm192606@yahoo. com (802) 862-2888 Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: 7/8/20 Probate Court: Chittenden Unit, Probate Division, PO Box 511, Burlington, VT 05402

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Another Way seeks an Executive Director to lead our peer led Pay Rate: $17.44 (includes shift differential) Community Center in Montpelier. We provide a safe and friendly Schedules: Work approximately 14 Days per Month!! • Includes long, 4-day weekends every other week! place to share community, to 4t-NVRH070120.indd 1 6/26/20 3:05 PM network and to learn from each Eligible for Benefits on Day 1: other. Grown out of the psychiatric • Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage. survivor movement to counter • Paid Vacation Time: Approximately 3 weeks per year (accrued). oppressive systems of control, we • Paid Sick Time: 80 hours per year continue to advocate for freedom • 401k Investing Options. and self-determination of care. Education Assistance: Eligible after 6 months. Candidates must demonstrate • Up to $5,250 per year in a degree related field. a diverse array of organizational We are looking for talented and outgoing sales management, program and Apply online at globalfoundries.com/about-us/careers representatives to join our growing team. In this position, people skills. An aptitude and or for more information email jobs@globalfoundries.com. you will work with local businesses around Central Vermont motivation to lead is essential as to expand their brand identity and support their future well as the humility to listen and success using our marketing platforms: print campaigns, allow others to lead. Knowledge 4t-GlobalFoundries070820.indd 1 7/6/20 9:50 AMwebsite and mobile advertising and email marketing. of and experience with the peer support movement, especially The ideal candidate is an organized and assertive selfThe Healthy Roots Collaborative is seeking a 25-30 hour per with the mental health peer starter who loves working in a team environment to community, is highly desirable. week Coordinator to specialize in Farm and Food Business achieve sales goals. Be sure you have strong verbal, written and persuasive interpersonal skills. Sales programs and projects. The Coordinator will provide assistance Salary range: $55K–65K with health experience is a plus, but we will consider well-qualified to farm and food businesses to advance northwest VT’s regional benefits. Cover letter/resume with candidates with a passion to succeed. subject line “ED Search” to food system and will strategize with local and state partners to

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FULL-TIME, NIGHT LICENSED NURSE ASSISTANT The Nursing Assistant is responsible for specific aspects of direct and indirect patient care under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse. High School diploma or equivalent. LNA, licensed in Vermont. LEARN MORE & APPLY: uvmmed.hn/sevendays

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*Other positions available. Please check full listing on Indeed.com. ESSENTIAL DUTIES: • Provide comprehensive clinical assessments of patients • Development of patient treatment plan • Counsels patients in group or individual sessions • Provides group, individual and family counseling • Complete patient care documentation • Completes discharge & aftercare functions of the master treatment plan QUALIFICATIONS: Licensed Primary Therapist: Masters degree + Addiction and Drug Counselor License (LADC) Therapist in Training: Associates or Bachelors Degree in Mental Health, Behavioral Health, Psychology or similar. Must be working toward licensure or certification. • 2+ years’ experience as a clinician, behavioral therapist, or case manager is strongly preferred. • MSW, LADC, and/or LMHC preferred. • A minimum of two years freedom from chemical abuse problems. Salary: $40,000 to $47,000/year Send cover letter and resumes to: jenny.gilman@vvista.net

Experience with Revit, AutoCAD, and Adobe Creative Suite programs required. Must be able to work remotely with frequent Zoom meetings and occasional office visits. Temporary position, 3-6 months, with potential for permanent placement should the economy permit. Send letter of interest and resume to gwen@vermontintegratedarchitecture.com.

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Valley Vista is seeking Primary Therapists and Therapists in Training at our Vergennes facility. Join a team that works collaboratively to provide those struggling with addiction with a supportive and therapeutic experience.

You: You’re able to analyze and think creatively to turn complex concepts and information from a variety of sources into engaging stories for PMC’s digital channels – everything from acquiring new contacts, to delighting existing donors. You are proficient in HubSpot, MS Office, Adobe Creative Cloud, and WordPress. Why Work For Us: Our tight-knit team is energized by our mission and empowered with autonomy and creativity in their day-to-day work. PMC offers its employees competitive pay and excellent benefits including paid time off, health and dental insurance, and a generous 401(K) contribution. Visit populationmedia.org/jobs for full details. To apply send cover letter, resume, and a writing sample to marketing@populationmedia.org. Review of applications to begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

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Population Media Center (PMC) has a Digital Marketing & Advocacy Manager role for a creative and tech savvy professional who’s ready to help us achieve our vision of a sustainable planet with equal rights for all. Our entertainment-education programs empower people around the world to live healthier lives and live sustainably with the world’s renewable resources.

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Vermont Integrated Architecture, P.C. (VIA) of Middlebury, VT seeks a midlevel designer or architect with 5-10 years of experience with design and construction documentation for sustainable residential, commercial, and institutional projects.

Poulin Grain is a family owned and operated company that has a true passion for its people. The company has been serving the agriculture community for 88 years! Caring for our people and our customers has set us apart from the rest and we are now looking for the next family member that is willing to go the extra mile with us! We are seeking to fill positions at our Newport, Bennington, and Swanton locations.

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Engaging minds that change the world Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. Student Employment Coordinator - Student Financial Services #S2510PO - The University of Vermont, Student Financial Services office is seeking an energetic and passionate professional to provide leadership in the UVM Office of Student Employment. This position must ensure excellent support and service to student employees, hiring departments and organizations; develop and implement business practices that aid students in seeking temporary on and off campus employment while enrolled at the University. The coordinator will oversee systems and support to supervisors ensuring students’ awareness of employment opportunities in order to enable them to acquire skills and experience to prepare them for their future. It is essential that this position be able to collaborate with the Career Center and other campus departments to support career and experiential learning initiatives. This role must also oversee the University’s Federal Work Study program and supervise the Federal Work Study Coordinator and student employees. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and three years progressively responsible work experience required. A minimum of three years of supervisory experience and a proven high level of organization and problem-solving skills to plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive projects and programs. Ability to coordinate complex tasks with attention to goals. Strong analytical skills and ability to develop reports and benchmark practices. Skilled in organization development and team building. Demonstrated proficiency in word processing, spreadsheet and database application and internet-based resources, as well as skills in development of web content. Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver large and small group training and presentations. For further information on this position and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Open positions are updated daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm.edu for technical support with the online application.

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TOWN OF COLCHESTER

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HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR

• Financial management • Database management • General operations • Allied Group support (working with groups we fiscally sponsor) • IT support – website management, phones, computer hardware, software • Human Resources • General administrative work

DEPUTY TOWN MANAGER

Currently, we’re on the prowl for a hungry, strategic, future-focused HR Director to join our five member 9:26 AM Executive team. Are you a savvy, creative Director-level HR person who needs people? Then we’re ready for a people-needing HR person like you.

The Town of Colchester is seeking a Deputy Town Manager to provide day-to-day oversight of general operations and functions of the Town government, assist the Town Manager with special projects and assure the continuity of all services. In addition, the Deputy Town Manager will provide general management and business management; oversee budgeting, and coordinate public communications. The Town is engaged in long-range plans that balance economic development, respect the natural environment, community service, and physical improvements while being mindful of budgetary constraints and the impact on taxpayers.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The ideal candidate will be motivated, organized, with a desire to improve the operations of the Town government; should be an experienced municipal government professional with knowledge in general management, business management, budgeting, and have excellent communication skills. The ideal candidate will also have the ability to provide sound advice on business and policy matters to the Town Manager and Selectboard. Prior successful experience negotiating business and collective bargaining agreements is a plus. The successful candidate will be able to manage his/ her own work while simultaneously leading others and overseeing tasks and projects. Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field and minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience; excellent communication skills, written and public speaking; and strong interpersonal skills. Hiring range is $77,000 to $98,000 depending on qualifications and experience, plus a competitive benefit package.

• Creatively design, build, and implement tons of cool HRrelated programs and benefits for a 300+-strong—and growing—workforce (30% mid & management level) • Own and execute strategies to solidify and strengthen the full shebang of HR operations across the organization • Develop & provide the company & its people with resources required to run a successful & fulfilling operation

THE SKILLS YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED • 5-10 years’ HR work experience, with at least 3-5 in HR leadership, at a manufacturing company with 300+ employees • Strong program development and execution skills • Experience planning and building out one, three, and five year goals • PHR/SPHR certification (preferable) or comparable HR legal training

APPLYING:

To request a complete job description, please email Etienne Morris at etienne@morrisrc.com, and include “Request MSI Job Description” on the subject line.

Submit application, cover letter, resume, and references to Sherry LaBarge, Human Resources Director at: slabarge@colchestervt.gov. The Town of Colchester is an E.O.E. Application deadline: 8/7/20. For full job description visit: colchestervt.gov/321/Human-Resources. 7t-TownofColchester070820.indd 1

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St. Joseph’s Residential Care Home has a full-time position for a Cook at our Burlington location.

CONTROLLER New England Air Systems is a Full-Service Design/Build Mechanical Contractor serving a wide base of clients in Vermont and neighboring states. We are looking for a Controller based in our Williston, VT office.

If you’re an energetic, hardworking individual and enjoy working with great, cheerful people, please send us your resume! We offer a competitive salary and free delicious meals to our staff on duty during mealtime. We strive to work with our Vermont farmers to provide nutritious meals for all!

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Our benefits package is one of the best in the area. If interested, send resume to ddaniel@vermontcatholic.org.

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This position is part of the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board AmeriCorps (VHCB AmeriCorps) with the position located at Housing Vermont. The VHCB AmeriCorps program supports the innovative dualgoal approach to creating stable affordable housing opportunities for Vermont residents while preserving the natural and working landscape. The mission of Housing Vermont is to produce permanently affordable housing and enable investments in economic and community development to benefit Vermonters through partnerships with communities and the private sector.

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HV Connections is a Housing Vermont initiative with a goal of improving property performance and resident well-being within its communities by connecting outside organizations, resources and activities with the affordable housing development and measuring success of those connections through results-based accountability. The HV Connections Coordinator will assist the HV Asset Management team along with local partners, management companies, residents, and other stakeholders to identify and coordinate proven low-income resident services and eviction prevention strategies. The position will require regular travel by your personal vehicle to housing developments around Vermont and may include some evening and weekend hours. Full-time position begins September 9, 2020 and ends August 13th, 2021.

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The Mad River Valley Recreation District is seeking a dedicated and energetic Recreation Coordinator to advance our initiatives and support local partners to provide recreation opportunities that promote community vitality, physical fitness, appreciation for the outdoors, and high quality of life in the Mad River Valley.

The Vermont Housing & Conservation Board (VHCB) is sponsoring this AmeriCorps position through their AmeriCorps Program. VHCB is an E.O.E.

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We are hiring for the Red Hen culinary team. This is a full time position with a four day a week schedule, competitive pay, health beneﬁts, employer-matched retirement, and paid time off. Work will include prep-cooking, working the sandwich line, and working one of our Pizza Nights. Cooking experience, ﬂexibility, and a committed, professional work ethic are a must. To apply send a resume and cover letter to rob@redhenbaking.com

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Operations Support We are seeking a full-time, yearround Operations Support person for our therapeutic program for adolescents and young adults located in Waitsfield. The ideal candidate is an adaptable team player with a positive attitude who is willing to work both indoors and outdoors performing a variety of tasks associated with the logistics of running our program. Tasks including food packing and rationing, gear outfitting, transportation and facilities maintenance. Candidates must be willing to work weekends and occasional evenings. A clean and valid driver’s license is required. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits offered. Benefits include health, dental, vision and accident insurance, an employee assistance program and a SIMPLE IRA. To apply please visit truenorthwilderness.com/careers

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For further information please visit: goddard.edu/about-goddard/employmentopportunities. Goddard College is committed to creating a college representative of a diverse global community and capable of creating change. To that end, we are actively seeking applications from qualified candidates from groups currently underrepresented in our institution for this position. This institution is an equal opportunity provider, and employer.

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ROAD DEPARTMENT/HIGHWAY POSITION The Town of Warren is currently seeking a team spirited, non-smoking full-time member of the Town Road/Highway Team. The position is a year-round, full-time position with excellent compensation and benefits. Applicants must have a valid/clean driver’s license and a valid CDL license. Tanker and trailer endorsements are preferred, or must be willing to work towards a valid CDL, and have previous experience in road construction. Must be able to perform strenuous physical labor for extended periods, be familiar with, or willing to train on the operation and maintenance of highway equipment and plow trucks. Must be able to work evenings, weekends and holidays as-needed. Successful completion of a preemployment drug test, medical examination and background check will be required. A team attitude and spirit of cooperation are a must. For a detailed description, go to: warrenvt.org/roadcrew job. Letters of interest and statement of qualificators must be submitted to the Human Resource Director by July 29, 2020. Letters and applications can be sent via email to Dlisaius@warrenvt.org or mailed to PO Box 337, Warren, VT 05674.

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OFFICE ADMIN COORDINATOR Are you flexible and willing to work in a collaborative team environment? Do you have excellent communication & organizational skills? The Burlington School District is seeking two new Office Admin Coordinators to work in either the Food Service Department or Property Services Department. Responsibilities include the oversight and coordination of the general daily office operations while supporting the Program Director and key support staff. General duties include performing a wide variety of key administrative functions such as A/P, Paysheet, Time & Attendance support to the payroll office. In addition, traditional duties regularly associated with office management, including filing, faxing, creating memos and reports, and performing other clerical duties as required. Experience with Microsoft 360 and the suite of Google Docs/Sheets highly desirable.

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drumming DJEMBE & TAIKO: JOIN US!: Digital classes! (No classes on-site for now.) Taiko: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Djembe: Wednesday. Kids and Parents: Tuesday and Wednesday. Private digital conga lessons by appointment. Let’s prepare for a future drum gathering outdoors! Schedule/register online. Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

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gardening GARDENING FOR HEALTH: Learn the basics of gardening, healthy eating, mindfulness and physical activity for all abilities through workshops and home activities. Must be UVMMC patients (or employees) who are beginner gardeners and have at least one of the following conditions: pre-diabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure or overweight. Program funded through the generosity of donors to the UVM Medical Center Fund. Starts Aug. 4, 8 weeks, every other Tue., 5-7 p.m. or Thu., 9-11 a.m. 2-hour workshops + at-home activities; all materials provided. Location: University of Vermont Medical Center Rooftop Garden, 111 Colchester Ave., Burlington. Info: UVMMC and the Vermont Community

body’s meridian system, acupressure points, and yin-yang and five-element theory. Additionally, Western anatomy and physiology are taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available. FSMTB-approved program. Starts Sep. 2020. Cost: $6000/625-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Scott Moylan, 288-8160, scott@elementsofhealing. net, elementsofhealing.net.

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VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian jiujitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces. No training experience required. Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children. Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid becoming

victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life. IBJJF and CBJJ certified black belt sixth-degree instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion. Accept no Iimitations! Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 5982839, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

ONLINE HAPPINESS PROGRAM: Learn to relieve stress and anxiety from home. This course uses SKY (or Sudarshan Kriya), a powerful breathing technique to quiet the mind, leading to a deep experience of meditation. Beginners welcome. Three-day online course, live interactive sessions with certified instructors. Register online or call Rondi for more information: 718207-5684. Fri., Jul. 24, 6:30-9 p.m., and Sat.-Sun., Jul. 25-26, 9:30 a.m.-noon; or Fri., Aug. 7, 6:30-9 p.m., and Sat.-Sun., Aug. 8-9, 2:305 p.m. Cost: $190. Location: The Art of Living, Online venue. Info: The Art of Living, Rondi Sewelson, 718-207-5684, rondi.sewelson@ artofliving.org, event.us.artofliving. org/us-en/online-course-2.

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CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22):

Cancerian author Mary McCarthy provides you with a challenge you’ll be wise to relish during the rest of 2020. She writes, “Everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older is that you really must make the self.” McCarthy implies that this epic reorientation isn’t likely until you’ve been on Earth for at least four decades. But judging from the astrological omens, I think you’re ready for it now — no matter what your age is. To drive home the point, I’ll say it in different words. Your task isn’t to find yourself but rather to create yourself. Don’t wait around passively for life to show you who you are. Show life who you are.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration,” said singer Laura Nyro. This is practical advice for you to heed in the coming weeks. According to my analysis, you’re scheduled to enjoy an extended engagement with rich, fertile complexity. The best teachings won’t be reducible to a few basic lessons; rather, they’ll be rife with soulful nuances. The same is true about the splendid dilemmas that bring you stimulating amusements: They can’t and shouldn’t be forced into pigeonholes. As a general rule, anything that seems easy and smooth and straightforward will probably not be useful. Your power will come from what’s crooked, dense and labyrinthine.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may think that playing heavy metal music and knitting with yarn don’t have much in common. And yet there is an annual contest in Joensuu, Finland, where people with expertise in needlework join heavy metal musicians onstage, plying their craft in rhythm to the beat. The next Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship will be July 15 to 16, 2021. This year’s event was canceled due to the pandemic. If it had been staged, I bet multiple Tauruses would have been among the top 10 competitors. Why? Because you Bulls are at the peak of your ability to combine things that aren’t often combined. You have the potential to excel at making unexpected connections, linking influences that haven’t been linked before, and being successful at comparing apples and oranges. GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): In 1848, Danish King Frederick VII agreed, under pressure from liberal agitators, to relinquish some of his absolute power. Thereafter, he shared his decision making with a newly formed parliament. He was pleased with this big change because it lightened his workload. “That was nice,” he remarked after signing the new constitution. “Now I can sleep in every morning.” I recommend him to you as an inspirational role model in the coming weeks. What so-called advantages in your life are more boring or burdensome than fun and interesting? Consider the possibility of shedding dubious “privileges” and status symbols.

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(July 23-Aug. 22): Some night soon, I predict that you’ll have an agitated dream while you’re asleep: a nightmare that symbolizes an unresolved conflict you’re wrestling with in your waking life. Here’s a possible example: A repulsive politician you dislike may threaten to break a toy you loved when you were a kid. But surprise! There’ll be a happy ending. A good monster will appear in your dream and fix the problem; in my example, the benevolent beast will scare away the politician who’s about to break your beloved toy. Now here’s the great news: In the days after your dream, you’ll solve the conflict you’ve been wrestling with in your waking life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful,” writes author Diane Ackerman. I’m guessing that in recent months, her description has been partially true for you Virgos. From what I can tell, love has indeed been a rigorous school. And the tuition has been rather high. But on the other hand, the homework has been at least as pleasurable as it has been painful. I expect these trends to continue for the foreseeable future. What teachings about intimacy, communion, tenderness and compassion would you like to study next? LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible,” wrote Libran novelist Graham Greene. His words can serve as a stirring motto for you in the coming weeks. I sense you’re close to summoning a burst of courage — a bigger supply of audacity than you’ve had access to in a while. I hope you’ll harness this raw power to fuel a daring feat that will expand your conception of what is possible. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s not always

easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window,” wrote poet Wallace Stevens. That’s a problem you won’t have to worry about anytime soon. The coming weeks will be a favorable phase for you to both think and gaze out the window — as well as to explore all the states in-between. In other words, you’ll have the right and the need to indulge in a leisurely series of dreamy ruminations and meandering fantasies and playful explorations of your deepest depths and your highest heights. Don’t rush the process. Allow yourself to linger in the gray areas and the vast stretches of inner wildness.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to undertake a transformative vision quest, even if the exigencies of the pandemic require that your quest unfold primarily in your inner realms. The near future will also bring you good fortune if you focus on creating more sacredness in your rhythm and if you make a focused effort to seek out songs, texts, in-

spirations, natural places and teachers that infuse you with a reverence for life. I’m trying to help you to see, Sagittarius, that you’re in a phase when you can attract healing synchronicities into your world by deepening your sense of awe and communing with experiences that galvanize you to feel worshipful.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.” The author and activist bell hooks wrote that. (She doesn’t capitalize her name.) In accordance with the highest astrological potentials, I’m inviting you Capricorns to be inspired by her wisdom as you upgrade your meaningful relationships during the next six weeks. I think it’s in your self-interest to give them even more focus and respect and appreciation than you already do. Be ingenious as you boost the generosity of spirit you bestow on your allies. Be resourceful as you do this impeccable work in the midst of a pandemic! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “One-half of

knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it,” wrote author Sydney Howard. Now would be a perfect time to act on that excellent advice. Is there any obstacle standing in the way of your ability to achieve a beloved dream? Is there a pretty good thing that’s distracting you from devoting yourself wholeheartedly to a really great thing? I invite you to be a bit ruthless as you clear the way to pursue your heart’s desire.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Ellen Goodman writes, “The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.” I think she’s correct in her assessment. But I also suspect that you’re in a prime position to be an exception to the rule. In the coming weeks, you will have exceptional power to transform the way you feel — especially if those feelings have previously been based on a misunderstanding of reality and especially if those feelings have been detrimental to your mental and physical health.

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HAPPY, COMPASSIONATE AND CURIOUS I love to cook, dance, but most importantly, laugh. Favorite movie: Miracle at Morgan’s Creek; celebrity crush: Cary Grant; post-retirement dream (or if Trump gets reelected): escaping to a cottage in Connemara, Ireland. I am looking for a confident, kind, intelligent and easygoing man with a great sense of humor. Nella26, 64, seeking: M, l LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH Fun, fit, outgoing, active woman who loves to laugh and live every day to the max! Love traveling, fine dining, live music, dancing, kayaking and skiing! I’m looking for a true gentleman who is educated, fit, and emotionally and financially secure to share similar interests! LightKC, 61, seeking: M THINKING ABOUT IT... Probably everyone thinks they’re smart, funny, and reasonably good-looking, so no news there. So, what I hope to find: a reader, thinker — someone who likes movies, theater, museums, travel, music, conversation, and the Oxford comma. Three years into widowhood, I realize I could really use someone to share experiences with. The range of those experiences would have to be explored. ZanninVT, 67, seeking: M, l FEMININE, FIT, FUN-LOVING FOREST WOMAN If the sun is shining, you’ll find me outdoors. If I’m indoors pursuing my artwork or piano, it must be raining. Silent sports, camping and canoeing. Swimming every day. Looking for a fit and active outdoorsman. I’d like to see if we can become best friends and then take it from there. Charley, 67, seeking: M, l COUNTRY GIRL ON THE WATER I’m passionate about being outside. Walking, hiking, snowshoeing, paddling, horseback riding. I love food, going out or staying in. Wood fires on a snowy night. Family time. Conversation about anything interesting. I’m enjoying renovating my house. I love Vermont but enjoy traveling. Woodburygirl, 56, seeking: M, l LUCKY IN LOVE AND NICARAGUA I loved being married. Sadly, he died young. I own gorgeous land in Nicaragua and want a partner to develop it with me as an artist/surfer retreat (as soon as we get rid of the small problem of a dictator killing his own people). A perfect life is Vermont in summer and Nica in winter,but only with a terrific man. W, 72, seeking: M, l ARE YOU SEARCHING, TOO? Seeking kind, adventurous 60ish man who likes camping, fishing, walks, sunsets and Maine. I would like a partner who can surprise me with “Let’s go...” and off we go. I’m a true Vermont gal who needs adventure. Let’s have fun. BoredCat, 57, seeking: M, l ENJOY LIFE TO THE FULLEST I enjoy gardening, animals and reading, and I split my own wood (electric splitter). I love cooking and contra dancing, and I have a new hobby: shape note singing. countrygirl1, 77, seeking: M, l

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CANOE CANOE? I’m looking for someone to canoe the Allagash with, preferably a beautiful woman half my age. I’m 68, and last winter I summited Mount Washington by myself; can you believe it! And I’m not too bad-looking, and occasionally I tell a funny joke. The Allagash runs low by August, so reply soon! whatever, 68, seeking: W, l

NEW FUTURE, UNSETTLED/EXCITING! Caring, kind, adventurous, passionate and a little bit funny seeking same (or similar). If you like the outdoors, excellent! If you own a mountain bike, we should be talking! My situation is new and unsettled. A friend to chat with, to hang out with, and who can be open to and patient with my “process” would be really nice. Maker2020, 47, seeking: W, l

STRONG, LOYAL, NOBLE, MODEST MAN I’m Brian from Barre, Vt. Just moved back to town after living in Santa Monica, Calif. Loyal is probably the word that describes me best. My word is my bond. I’m interested in all different relationships with a woman: friends with benefits, casual or serious long term. Let’s meet for coffee and see where it goes from there. Judeisthe14unow, 60, seeking: W, l

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FOUR SEASONS MAN LOOKING FOR FUN Hello. I consider myself to be a very open-minded, nonjudgmental, easygoing guy. I’m very well-rounded, a citizen of the world. I’ve been fortunate to travel and experience life. I want to keep experiencing life. What am I looking for: like-minded people, women or couples who want to enjoy life. Let’s start off meeting and see where time takes us. Fourseasonsman, 53, seeking: W, Cp, l HANDSOME I am looking for someone who can make me happy and who loves to have fun. I am a loving, caring person. My hobby is woodcrafting. I love to listen to music and sing. Fun things I like to do are camping, fishing, going for walks. I like to listen to classic country music. StarmanJohnny67, 53, seeking: W,

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TRANS MEN seeking... WEIRDO LOOKING FOR MY PEOPLE Late twenties West Coast transplant looking to meet new friends in Burlington. Looking for folks up for biking, hiking, socially distanced coffee in the square, craft afternoons (crafternoons?), beers, bookstore browsing and dismantling the patriarchy. Please don’t be an asshole. jamesy, 29, seeking: M, W, TM, TW, Q, NC, NBP, Cp, Gp

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THE EARTH BROKE OPEN The Earth broke open when I saw you in the parking lot: white hair, enchanting blue eyes, about to enter a blue RAV4. Did you somehow see my blue eyes and white hair? I still want to meet you and hope you will take a chance. I can’t camp in the lot all summer long. Blessings. When: Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Where: Healthy Living. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915086 YOU AND LUCY Just checking if you and Lucy feel like hiking company with the toasted marshmallow dog and me. When: Saturday, June 27, 2020. Where: hiking. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915085 SEEKING DOBRA ASTROLOGER This is the longshottiest of longshots, but I overheard you giving an astrology and (maybe reflexology) reading in June 2018. You had this soothing, calming and grounded presence, but not in a douchey way. I can’t give any details about what you were wearing #becauseblind, but maybe if you’re meant to find this, you will. When: Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Where: Dobra. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915084 WAFFLES <3 When the world burns, I’ll still follow you into the dark. The rising phoenix screams out not in pain but in victory. You matter more than anything — the ashes make great clay from which to build again. Babe, I know. There will always be water at the bottom of the ocean. Let’s step offshore and remember how to swim. When: Thursday, July 2, 2020. Where: in my wildest dreams, my arms.... You: Man. Me: Woman. #915083 SITTING ACROSS FROM YOU I see your head peeking out of your shorts. When: Tuesday, June 30, 2020. Where: the boat. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915082

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LEDDY PARK BEACH We met at the beach with my lady-killer baby bloodhound, and I was falling in love at first sight so I bumbled words and didn’t get your number. When: Thursday, June 25, 2020. Where: Leddy Park. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915080 COLLEGE ST., YOU FOLLOWING ME You: beautiful dark-haired woman who was walking behind me on College. We caught eyes as I stopped suddenly to enter a building. I froze and I didn’t say anything, as I was late and trying to find my building. I have regretted it since not talking to you. Me: dark, curly hair, wearing a hat with big beard. When: Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Where: College St. and St. Paul. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915076 HONEY HOLLOW SMILES Was with my pup doing our thing as we came across you doing your own thing around 12:30. We exchanged glances and smiles a couple times as you climbed up beyond sight, and you’ve been on my mind. Care to do our own thing together sometime? From a socially safe distance, of course. When: Sunday, June 21, 2020. Where: Honey Hollow. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915074 BIKE PATH DETOUR, LAKESIDE Passed you at the Lakeside RR bridge as you were heading for the beach and said hi. You: in a purple bikini and orange fishnet cover. Me: office nerd out for lunch. Want to find a shady spot by the water to chat? When: Thursday, June 18, 2020. Where: Lakeside RR bridge. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915073 DELI CASE CHAT We were both getting sandwiches from Sweet Clover Market. We chatted about what’s good (everything). You recommended the quiche and egg rolls, and I said I like the samosas and peanut noodle salad. I’m intrigued. Care to chat more? When: Tuesday, June 16, 2020. Where: Sweet Clover Market. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915072 MATTY Hey, does anyone know a guy named Matty? Mid- to late thirties white guy? If so, will you please show this to him? Matty, we met on Rose Street last summer while I was walking with my son, but we started smiling at each other from way down the street. I’m single now. When: Sunday, June 16, 2019. Where: Rose Street. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915071

Ask REVEREND Dear Snot Happy, 

Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

My best friend is constantly picking his nose. I swear I’ve seen him eat a booger on more than one occasion. I love him to death, but I’m also absolutely disgusted by this. Should I say something or just keep trying to ignore it?

Snot Happy (MALE, 27)

When someone has a piece of food caught in their teeth, do you tell them? I hope so. This is worse. Your friend might not even realize he’s picking his nose, and you could be the one to help him nix this nasty habit. We’ve all stuck a finger up the schnoz on occasion. It’s a fact of life. Your pal’s excessive picking may be due to allergies or a dry nose, or it could just be a nervous habit. It’s rare, but it’s possible he has a condition called rhinotillexomania. This

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is compulsive nose-picking that relieves stress or anxiety. It’s often accompanied by other repetitive behaviors, such as nail-biting. Booger-mining isn’t just gross, it’s unhealthy in many ways. Fingernails can cause scratches inside the nose that can lead to infection. It’s a great way to spread germs all over the place. Constant picking can cause nosebleeds and even lead to septum damage.

YOUR NAME WAS ECHO You helped me out on June 9, and you caught my eye (even with a mask on). Let me know if you are interested in connecting. When: Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Where: at their workplace. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915063 SHORT HAIR, LONG SWEATER AT WALGREENS You made me smile a few times under my mask! Almost bumped into you. Maybe we will again. When: Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Where: Burlington Walgreens. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915062 SATURDAY MANSFIELD HIKER GAL You asked my friend and me how far to the top of Mansfield via Sunset trail while we were running down. I joked that it was right around the corner. Sorry, it definitely wasn’t. How about an Oakledge sunset drink sometime? When: Sunday, June 7, 2020. Where: Sunset Ridge Trail, Mount Mansfield. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915061 MR. POST OFFICE VACUUMER You were vacuuming the post office lobby early Monday morning while I was mailing a few letters. We joked that we startled each other. You seemed very friendly and kind. Could we meet again for coffee and conversation? When: Monday, June 1, 2020. Where: North Burlington Post Office. You: Man. Me: Man. #915059 YOU LOVE TO GARDEN… I like cooking it. Waiting in line to get into Middlebury Aubuchon. You showed me pictures of your garden and gave me your address. I forgot it. You are very interesting. Would like to talk again. When: Friday, May 29, 2020. Where: Middlebury. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915058 AUTOMASTER SERVICE BENCH, NOON, THURSDAY You: black Nike hat, white T-shirt, black shorts, tall, killer smile. Liked my silver sports car parked next to your bench while you waited for a ride. Amanda? We chatted about mask protocols, cars, your Civic. You asked where I lived (across the pond) and what my name was. Escape the virus on an ADK convertible tour? Dogs in the park? When: Thursday, May 28, 2020. Where: Automaster service/parts outside waiting area. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915057

It might feel weird to talk to your friend about this, but you’ll be doing him a big favor. You can even offer to help him stop. When you see his finger meandering toward the booger buffet, call him out on it. Give him a stress ball to keep his hands occupied. Tell him to wear a Band-Aid on his dominant finger so it will feel weird when he goes to stick it in his nose. If none of these things helps, your friend should see a doctor to address the underlying cause of his excessive nose-picking, be it anxiety or allergies. Good luck and God bless,

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