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Seven Days is free and available at hundreds of locations within an hour and a half of our office. Our original circulation strategy was based on an observation: that Vermonters would readily travel to or from Burlington for arts, food, events and sports. Burlington businesses liked that we were reaching beyond the city to people in all the surrounding towns who could become their customers. Businesses outside of Burlington liked the idea of reaching Vermont’s biggest market in addition to their own. Our two-way ad pitch was predicated on a reality that persists despite the pandemic: Vermonters like to get out of town every so often, and they don’t need much of an excuse to do it. The challenge this summer is to get them to act more like out-of-staters when they venture forth in Vermont — spending what they can along the way. Last week, my partner and I spent four nights at Highland Lodge in Greensboro, which has been thoroughly and lovingly pandemic-proofed. Instead of using the dining room, guests eat outside at picnic tables under a big tent between the bar’s takeout window and a food truck that cooks up something different every night. We had gyros, barbecue, tacos and pizza — in that order — and on Saturday night a local band brought listeners in from all over the area. Alternatively, we could bring dinner and drinks back to our cabin for a private meal in Adirondack chairs overlooking loon-loving Caspian Lake. The show is still going on, too, up the road at Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover. Led by the indefatigable Peter Schumann, the troupe has been performing its Insurrection and Resurrection Circus and Shows outside on every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m. — with some adjustments. You have to reserve tickets in advance, for crowd control and contact-tracing purposes, but there’s plenty of room to park in the large field behind the natural amphitheater. Well-trained volunteers direct traffic and explain the new seating arrangements. Wooden stakes along the hillside indicate where pods of spectators should congregate. At the end of the show, which incorporates some clever, pandemic-inspired skits, the puppeteers climb the hill to bring samples of Schumann’s signature bread — on Interested in becoming a Super Reader? pizza peels — to everyone in the audience. Look for the “Give Now” buttons at the top of Such creative accommodations are happening all over sevendaysvt.com. Or send a check with your Vermont, as arts presenters, innkeepers and restaurateurs address and contact info to: rise to the challenge of operating safely in the midst of a SEVEN DAYS, C/O SUPER READERS P.O. BOX 1164 public health crisis. This week’s cover story confirms the BURLINGTON, VT 05402-1164 comeback of drive-in movie theaters, and the inserted For more information on making a financial September Staytripper spotlights disc golf, outdoor yoga contribution to Seven Days, please contact and other adapted activities. Corey Grenier: Get out there and participate if you can. If ever there were a year to seize what’s left of summer, this is it. VOICEMAIL: 802-865-1020, EXT. 36 SUPERREADERS@SEVENDAYSVT.COM

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A judge has ordered a recount to begin Wednesday, August 26, in the primary race for a Chittenden County Senate seat. June Heston, a nonprofit consultant from Richmond in her first-ever political race, came just 46 votes shy of securing a Democratic nomination for one of the six Senate seats representing the state’s most populous county. Incumbent Sen. Chris Pearson (P/D–Chittenden) of Burlington received 11,764 votes to Heston’s 11,719, according to the official tally from the Vermont secretary of state. On August 14, Heston filed a motion in Chittenden Superior Court demanding a recount. Statewide and Senate candidates within 2 percent of the total votes cast divided by the number

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Speaking Youth to Power In Winooski, students lead charge for anti-racist school reform

eople who logged into the Winooski School Board session on July 15 expecting a quiet, routine meeting were in for a surprise. Over the course of the two-and-a-half-hour Zoom call, a group of students of color and recent alumni shared raw, blunt testimony about their school experience. Abdikhafar Yussuf spoke about a 2013 incident in which an opposing player referred to the Winooski varsity soccer team as “monkeys doing tricks on a ball.” The racist name-calling left Yussuf “in shock,” he said. “I didn’t know who to talk to, and I didn’t have any resources that could help me.” Winooski is the most diverse city in Vermont, home to a large New American population of refugees and immigrants who have made it the state’s only school district with a majority-minority student population. But the stories told at the meeting made clear that racism persists, even there. 12

Calling themselves the Winooski Students for Anti-Racism, the young adults presented the board with a set of eight demands for change. Diversity alone, they argued, did not give the school district a pass on confronting racism. “It is because of your skin color that you would never have to go through this trauma,” Yussuf said, addressing board members and administrators, the majority of whom are white. He encouraged them to listen to and learn from students of color in order to “make a positive improvement to our school.” Less than a month later, on August 12, the five-member school board unanimously accepted the demands, with some tweaks. Among the changes will be a new ethnic studies curriculum and the replacement of the school resource officer — a uniformed city cop assigned to the school building — with staff trained in restorative justice practices and counseling. A retreat on September 12 will bring

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together students, school district leadership and board members to plan how to move the demands forward this year. “The board cannot fulfill our promise if students are experiencing racism and injustice in our schools,” explained Tori Cleiland, who was elected school board president earlier this month. In just a matter of weeks, the 25-member coalition of young people had harnessed the racial justice activism that erupted after George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police in late May to inspire changes they believe will benefit Winooski students for years to come. Leading the charge was Indra Acharya, who came to Vermont as a refugee from Bhutan in 2012 and graduated two years later from Winooski High School. He went on to graduate from Georgetown University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. SPEAKING YOUTH TO POWER

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of seats in the district can request a recount. Judge Helen Toor held a conference call with elections officials last Thursday and issued her ruling on the recount on Monday morning. She ordered that the Chittenden County clerk, in consultation with the Secretary of State’s Office, begin the recount at 8 a.m. on August 26 in Burlington City Hall under strict rules to protect against the spread of COVID19. The recount could take days. Masks are required for anyone participating or witnessing the recount, the number of people in the room must not exceed 50, and the process will be livestreamed. Volunteers helping in the recount must wash hands and stay six feet away from one another whenever possible. Heston and Pearson will each be allowed to have one witness in the auditorium at any time. State elections officials are under significant pressure to get the recount resolved in time for the state to mail ballots to all active voters for the general election, a process expected to begin in mid-September. The state has never undertaken such an effort. A recount with so many ballots would normally take about a week, but with the health restrictions in place, “it’s really hard to predict,” said Eric Covey, chief of staff for the secretary of state. Contact: kevin@sevendaysvt.com

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Gov. Phil Scott supports stimulus payments to undocumented workers, but will they go far enough? BY PAUL HEINT Z

ven before the coronavirus pandemic reached Vermont, many of the state’s migrant farmworkers were leading lives of quarantine. “Usually we just go from the house to the farm to the house to the farm,” said one 25-year-old laborer who asked to be identified as Pati. “Now, it’s even more isolated.” Pati, who emigrated from Chiapas, Mexico, as a teenager, counts herself lucky. In an interview last week on the northern Vermont dairy farm where she works and lives, Pati expressed relief that she and her husband have remained healthy and employed. But she cannot shake the feeling that, even though the government deemed her and fellow agricultural workers “essential,” they have not been treated that way. When the federal government distributed economic relief payments worth up to $1,200 for adults and $500 for children last spring, Pati was excluded due to her immigration status. Only those with valid Social Security numbers qualified X U SANA for the cash. “It really hurts when you see that you’re not being treated the same,” she said through an interpreter. “The government is saying these people we’re going to help, but these people we’re not. It means that some people are worth more than others, and I don’t think that should be the case.” It may not be for much longer. Last week, Gov. Phil Scott proposed spending $2 million out of the state’s general fund to compensate those who were denied federal payments, including undocumented workers, their U.S. citizen family members, those on student visas and others. “This is about bringing some equity and parity and including those who were excluded by Washington when they implemented the stimulus program,” Secretary of Administration Susanne Young told reporters Precisely how the program would work remains unclear. Though Scott included the money in his latest budget,

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Young characterized it more as a “conversation we think it is important to have with the legislature” than a fully fleshedout proposal. This isn’t the first time the idea has surfaced. In the spring, as lawmakers were considering how to dole out $1.25 billion in federal coronavirus aid, the Senate Agriculture Committee considered making $500 payments to every Vermont farmworker. The proposal was ultimately shelved over concerns that it would not qualify for federal funds and could therefore leave the cash-strapped state on the hook. In the months since, many rank-andfile legislators have joined advocacy groups such as Migrant Justice in calling for undocumented workers to receive the full $1,200 payments. “They’re human beings, putting themselves at risk on the front lines at all times,” said Rep. Mari Cordes (D/PLincoln). “In our policy making, we also consider them part of our community, so when we’re talking about programs and services, they need to be included.” Even some Republicans appear open to the idea, including Rep. Rodney DAVIS Graham (R-Williamstown), vice chair of the House Agriculture and Forestry Committee. “We’ve brought some of these people here,” said Graham, a former dairy farmer who sold his milkers earlier this year but still raises heifers and beef cattle. “They deserve to be taken care of, too.” House Speaker Mitzi Johnson (D-South Hero) and Senate President Pro Tempore Tim Ashe (D/P-Chittenden) have also signaled their support, at least in concept. The legislature, which returned this week for an unusual late-summer session to complete this year’s budget, will likely consider it soon. The program has been championed within the Scott administration by Xusana Davis, who for the past year has served as the state’s first executive director of racial equity. The impact of the pandemic on migrant farmworkers, she argues, is “too great for words.”

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Acharya told the board his high school experience was marred by teachers who felt he was “threatening” because he often challenged authority, speaking up when he thought things were unjust. At one point, he said, he was required to report every day for a month to the principal’s office for body searches; he told Seven Days he still isn’t completely sure why he was searched. The “traumatizing” experience fueled Acharya’s activism, as did Floyd’s death and the subsequent protests across the country, he said. He felt compelled to act in June after reading statements the Winooski School Board and the district released about racial justice. The messages seemed to lack awareness of local problems, he said. Acharya had several conversations with fellow alumni and current high schoolers — some of whom he knew through his past work with the advocacy group Voices for Vermont Children — about their experiences in Winooski schools. They created a Facebook group and began having regular Zoom meetings in which they shared stories and discussed goals, sometimes late into the night. Acharya started collecting research about models that had been used to change educational systems and consulted with professors who had mentored him. The group drafted a letter to the board and school leadership team, clearly laying out its demands. Of 870 students in the Winooski district, about 60 percent are nonwhite, and many are New Americans, hailing from countries including Somalia, Nepal, Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But the staff of the middle and high school lack that diversity. The school has just one teacher who is a person of color: Thierry Mugabo Uwilingiyimana, who was born in Rwanda and came to the U.S. 20 years ago as an asylum seeker. Around the same time students were beginning to organize, he and other educators established committees aimed at addressing racism in the district. Uwilingiyimana quickly realized it made more sense to support the students’ activism. “Work within the school often looks like replicating the same exclusionary and oppressive structures upon which the school is built,” the science and engineering teacher said. The students’ wide-ranging set of demands included the creation of committees that would review students’ past and current reports of discrimination, a mentorship program for students learning English, and a plan to hire more teachers of color. The document circulated online

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as a petition in the weeks before the July 15 meeting. More than 260 community members signed it. At the meeting, Acharya recounted his experiences, as did rising senior Hussein Amuri, who accused the school district of doing nothing after members of the soccer team were called the N-word at an away game. Other students highlighted systemic problems: the lack of a diverse teaching staff, a curriculum that fails to reflect the experiences of people of color, the disquieting presence of police in the school. Through the testimonials and in the chat section of Zoom, the young activists repeated the maxim: “Justice delayed is justice denied.”

This week, during the district’s preservice training, Uwilingiyimana and Dorfman planned several workshops for teachers and staff to reflect on the students’ demands. Student members will address school staff on Thursday. Several incidents over the summer only reinforced the students’ point that plenty of work remains. The decision to replace the school resource officer met with resistance from some members of the community. At a July 22 school board meeting, several speakers lauded the current officer, Jason Ziter, for maintaining school safety and even paying for kids’ food at sporting events. The students said that perspective ignored how threatened nonwhite students often feel by the presence of a

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The Addison County sheriff is challenging the findings of a state probe into allegations that he made against a rival police chief, saying Attorney General T.J. Donovan’s decision to dismiss the matter amounts to corruption. In a brief video posted to his personal Facebook account on Tuesday, Sheriff Peter Newton criticized Donovan for clearing Vergennes Police Chief George Merkel of any wrongdoing related to allegations that Merkel had falsified time sheets so that he could make more money. The sheriff accused Merkel of the misconduct in a report to the Vermont State Police earlier this year. But Donovan said last week that the VSP investigation revealed discrepancies of only 15 hours over a two-year period, with no evidence to suggest anything more than “clerical mistakes.” “The decision by the attorney general to call the time sheet discrepancies unintentional, and his repeated insistence that my claims are baseless and false — I believe this is corruption,” Newton said in the video, occasionally waving a stack of paper. “I encourage anyone who believes this to be solely clerical in nature to sit with me and my detective to review the evidence.” Newton’s claims against Merkel were detailed in a 16-page report that contained two main allegations. First, Newton accused Merkel of double-dipping by intentionally billing hours to a state-funded highway program while simultaneously clocking in on the city’s dime. The sheriff also claimed to have evidence showing that Merkel failed to report state-mandated traffic-stop data for more than 70 stops he has made over the last two years. The AG did not investigate the traffic stop claim. Merkel, meantime, broke his silence about the allegations in a Facebook post on the police department’s page last Friday, saying the AG’s report exonerated him of Newton’s “baseless, false, and scathing accusations.” “The people of the City of Vergennes and its police department did not deserve this, nor did I or my family,” Merkel wrote. “Hopefully, it was clear to anyone who read the various news articles which that [sic] these accusations were very personal in nature towards me. These attacks have caused me and my family an immense amount of pain, embarrassment, and humiliation.”

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Winooski student Hussein Amuri speaking with school board president Tori Cleiland

“It hurt,” Winooski Schools Superintendent Sean McMannon said of listening to the students’ impassioned testimonials. “Any student who talks about having a racial slur thrown at them and then feels unsupported … that’s painful, and it’s a wake-up call to the fact that we need to do more.” What followed were several weeks during which the school leadership team —McMannon, the district’s three principals and three other administrators — provided suggestions to the board on how to respond to students’ demands and also worked with students to refine those demands. “This is messy, and it does have to be messy,” McMannon said during an interview in July, as the changes were still being considered. “We’re going to have some successes, and then we’re going to … come upon really difficult issues as we navigate all of the different demands and improvements.” “A lot of this work is about people in positions of power really reflecting on that power and ultimately ceding it,” added Luke Dorfman, a district math teacher who has supported the students’ work. “That’s a really hard thing to do, and it’s not comfortable, particularly for people who are in the positions of power and positions of privilege.”

uniformed police officer. Research shows that in-school officers disproportionately target students of color and don’t actually make schools safer, they noted. The officer will eventually be phased out, but not until the 2021-22 school year; his salary has already been budgeted for the upcoming year, according to McMannon. More dismaying to students and some members of the board was a letter from Sue Ann O’Brien, a former Winooski school employee, who asked for it to be read during the public comment portion of the August 12 meeting. The letter said that she was “shocked to see the demands of this group, instead of thanks and graciousness.” “The teachers and community bent over backward to make immigrants and refugees feel welcome,” O’Brien wrote. The district raised taxes to hire more teachers for English language learners, allowed Muslim students to teach their peers about their religion, changed the hours of afterschool games to respect religious holidays and eliminated pork from the school menu — all examples that showed “a lack of racism,” she wrote. Acharya said he wasn’t surprised by the letter’s sentiment. “It’s something I hear every day in this country, everywhere I go — the sense that somehow we have to be

grateful for basic human rights and basic human dignity,” he said. Rising senior Evelyn Monje, who identifies as African American, said perspectives such as O’Brien’s show a “lack of understanding.” Monje believes it’s important to have conversations with people who have different viewpoints to explain why the students’ demands are so important to them. “I think change can be really, really scary. And we are at the beginning of a revolution in our education system, and it’s a lot all at once,” Monje said. “If you’re comfortable and things aren’t happening to you, it might not make sense why other people are upset. And I think that’s sort of our hurdle that we have to overcome.” Members of the student group said they know that getting the school board to

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meet their demands was just a first step. But it’s one that has sparked some optimism. Rising seniors Yatrika Dhamala, who came to Winooski 10 years ago from Nepal, and Eh Ka Luu, who arrived 12 years ago from a refugee camp in Thailand, said they’re especially passionate about mentoring other English language learners and creating a more positive environment for their younger relatives who will attend the school. To celebrate their progress, about 15 members of the Winooski Students for Anti-Racism, along with several teachers and members of the school board, gathered at Richards Park in Winooski last week. They kicked a soccer ball around the field, loaded paper plates with Somali rice and chicken from Kismayo Kitchen and samosas from Friend’s Nepali Restaurant, and joked about how strange it was to actually see each other, in real life. Acharya said he’d promised, back when the group first formed, that they’d have a barbecue to celebrate when they accomplished their goals. “It happened because we persisted,” Acharya told the group. Then he reminded them: “It’s just the beginning.” Contact: alison@kidsvt.com

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Scott Wants Gift Cards, Biz Grants in Next Round of COVID Relief BY DER E K B ROUWER

The bulk of Vermont’s remaining federal CARES Act funding should be used to help heal the state’s ailing economy, Gov. Phil Scott said last Friday. To accomplish that, he wants to send every Vermont household on a shopping spree. Scott wants lawmakers to spend another $133 million in federal coronavirus relief dollars to support Vermont employers in direct and indirect ways, including by offering $150 gift cards for residents to use at local businesses. “We need to focus like a laser on helping these businesses, and the jobs they provide, survive,” Scott said at a press conference. The Vermont legislature has already allocated more than a billion dollars in federal relief funds but held back some of the $1.25 billion total to spend in the fall. Businesses have also benefited from the massive federal Paycheck Protection Program. The Agency of Commerce and Community Development has already doled out more than $100 million in economic recovery grants to private businesses. Scott wants to add $23 million to the pot. He also wants to expand the program to include businesses such as sole proprietors and those with less severe revenue drops — a move some lawmakers have signaled they’re open to. The governor wants to allocate another $50 million for direct payments to tourism and hospitality-related businesses, which have struggled with a paucity of tourist visits. To that end, Scott proposed spending another $10 million from the fund on an advertising campaign around fall foliage. He’s also seeking to divvy up $50 million in the form of gift cards to every household as part of a “buy local” initiative. Residents would get $150 to use at Vermont businesses, and federal funds would be paid directly to those business. Senate President Pro Tempore Tim Ashe (D/P-Chittenden) said the governor’s new proposals will need to be weighed against other priorities, such as covering the extra costs incurred by school districts in order to reopen next month. The legislature reconvened this week and has until late September to pass a budget and decide how to spend the remaining federal aid. Disclosure: Tim Ashe is the domestic partner of Seven Days publisher and coeditor Paula Routly. Find our conflictof-interest policy at sevendaysvt.com/ disclosure.

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ust a few months ago, Sen. John Rodgers (D-Essex/Orleans), a hemp farmer and mason, had a seat that appeared safe as the 2020 election loomed. But after missing a filing deadline for the Democratic primary, he’s been forced to run as an independent — upending a race to represent this conservative-leaning Northeast Kingdom district. Republicans and Democratic rivals alike are using Rodgers’ recent missteps, including his decision to skip some legislative work in late spring, to make the case to voters that the leadership in the rural district he’s represented since 2013 needs to change. Russ Ingalls, a first-time candidate and Newport real estate agent who was the top vote-getter in the Republican primary, said Rodgers’ decision to run as an independent was an “odd twist” that benefits challengers such as him. “I think it shakes up the race a lot,” Ingalls said. The fallout is a five-way general election contest for the two Senate seats, one that “mixes up the whole system,” said Sen. Bobby Starr (D-Essex/Orleans), who is widely viewed as having a lock on one of the seats. “So now, people go to vote for two, and there’s five there — God only knows how it’s going to go,” Starr said. The top vote-getter in the Democratic primary with 2,835 votes, Starr has served in the Senate since 2004 and chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee. He represented the Troy area in the House for 26 years before that. Starr says he’s not taking anything for granted, especially given the strong turnout expected in November and the fact that a majority of Essex County voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump in 2016. The other Democrat on the ticket is retired airline manager and Jay resident Ron Horton, who ran unsuccessfully for the seat in 2016 and 2018. Horton received 2,237 votes on August 11, far more than in his previous races Firmly atop the Republican ticket sits Ingalls, who received 3,318 primary votes, more than either Democrat. Another firsttime GOP candidate, Holland resident Jonathan Morin, received 266 write-in votes. Rodgers said he overlooked the deadline while he was working full tilt on his hemp and masonry businesses. He said he’s also been distracted by the impacts

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of COVID-19 travel restrictions on a bed“We’ve been fighting this battle for and-breakfast he and his wife purchased 50 years,” Ingalls said. “It’s time to take last year. control away from the people who’ve been “My business plan has been turned keeping the farmers down.” on its head, and I’m running seven days a Ingalls also said he wants to require week trying to keep my head above water,” renewable energy producers to contribute Rodgers said. more to local communities that host wind The incumbent received a paltry 171 and solar projects. write-ins on the Democratic line but said “The power isn’t staying here, and he didn’t campaign much. the money isn’t staying here, but we’re “I think I may actually do better as an left to put up with the impacts,” Ingalls independent,” Rodgers said. “This is a very said. conservative area.” While Ingalls counts Rodgers as a Though he’s a Democrat, he’s held friend, Horton said Rodgers “doesn’t like conservative views that appeal me much.” Horton intends to to many constituents, especially make Rodgers’ recent stumhis staunch opposition to gunbles, in particular missing control measures. Rodgers was his filing deadline and some so upset after Republican Gov. legislative committee work Phil Scott signed reform legislaearlier this session, a focus of tion in 2018 that he ran a write-in the campaign. campaign for governor that year. “If the man is that overexRodgers exudes confidence, tended, he doesn’t leave much R US S INGAL L S but his rivals sense vulnerability. room for the general popuIngalls believes having two Democrats and lace,” Horton said. an independent who served as a Democrat He also noted that Rodgers was sharply on the ballot could dilute support among reprimanded by Senate leadership them and improve his own prospects. recently for using a derogatory phrase to Those race dynamics aside, Ingalls thinks refer to his colleagues. he’s a strong contender. Before he was a real Rodgers took offense at comments estate agent, he worked for his family’s dairy Sen. Chris Bray (D-Addison) made in equipment company. As the number of dair- June about Rodgers’ absence from meeties dwindled, so did his family’s business. He ings of the Natural Resources and Energy now worries that, without bold action by the Committee as it considered changes to Act state to stem their decline, Vermont’s dairies 250. Rodgers lives in Glover, in Orleans will disappear. County, and said his work schedule and He envisions a fee on dairy products sold internet access issues prevented him from in the state, generating revenue to go directly participating during the pandemic. He to farmers who for years haven’t received the further charged that the process lacked milk prices they need to survive. transparency.

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Sen. Brian Campion (D-Bennington) defended the committee’s work and said he found such criticism offensive. In response, Rodgers outlined in a defiant email his long workday and challenged “any snippy little bitch” to walk in his shoes — which some interpreted as a dig at Campion, who is gay. Rodgers denied that the phrase was homophobic or aimed at any particular colleague, but he apologized. Rodgers said he was wrong to use the phrase. But he stood by his concern that the proposed legislative changes to Act 250 would have disproportionately affected rural areas such as his, yet were being pushed through during the pandemic without a full and fair hearing. “I deal with people’s arrogance and microaggressions all the time in there, and once in a while, you’ve gotta push back a little,” he said. But Horton said Rodgers’ caustic language is just one more indication that the district needs new representation. “As far as I’m concerned, that’s right out of the current Republican playbook — you don’t like someone, insult the heck out of him,” Horton said. “That’s not the way to present yourself if you want to be a public servant.” Rodgers said he was surprised to see how many votes Horton received in the primary, but he doubted his rival’s proposals would carry broad appeal in the general election. “If anyone knows him and has listened to him, he’s really got what I think are communist ideas,” Rodgers said. He was referring to Horton’s calls for Vermont to establish a network of

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state-run vehicle maintenance garages and even a state-owned airline, which Rodgers mocked as absurd. “Airlines are doing so good. I’m sure that would really take care of all our money problems, to start a state-run airline,” he said sarcastically. Horton said he stands by those ideas. For Rodgers to label him a communist is “the sort of Republican talking point on anything that people don’t understand.” As a retired Delta airline employee, Horton said he believes a modest fleet of turboprop planes serving the rural areas of the state could help solve some of the transportation challenges limiting economic development there. Further, state-operated garages could enable people to pay for work on their vehicles on a sliding scale or use the spaces to make their own repairs. The current system forces owners of vehicles that fail inspection to pay to bring them up to standards that don’t improve highway safety, he said. If Horton represents a challenge from the left, Morin comes from the opposite political pole. A housing coordinator for a nonprofit who has applied to be a Newport police officer, Morin said he and others appreciate Rodgers’ commitment to gun rights. But Morin jumped into the race because he worried that Rodgers’ failure to get on the primary ballot could mean that Horton, who favors gun restrictions such as a waiting period for purchases, might enjoy an easier path to election. “Some people are concerned about Rodgers and some of the stuff that has transpired and how he wasn’t on the

ball enough to get his name in there,” Morin said. The prospect of Republicans gaining ground in a year of such Democratic activism nationally may seem far-fetched to some. But not to Vince Illuzzi, a Republican who served in the seat for 32 years before Rodgers. He cautioned against reading too much into primary results as predictors of the general election. But he said Starr has deep ties to an industry that remains influential in the region and is likely to be the top vote-getter again, leaving the real race for second place. “My analysis is that Russ [Ingalls] did so well in the Republican primary that he stands a very good chance of picking up one of the two seats,” Illuzzi said. He said Ingalls is well known and liked, and that matters in the Northeast Kingdom. “Party doesn’t mean as much in this area as it does in Chittenden County,” Illuzzi said. Asked whether he is concerned about a Republican challenge this year, Rodgers said that strength in the primary doesn’t necessarily translate into success in the general election. He noted that Senate candidate Marcia Horne received more votes in the 2016 Republican primary than either he or Starr did in their Democratic primary, but the Dems still cruised to wide victories over her and another Republican in the general election. Nevertheless, he said he’s not making any assumptions. “Politics is a fickle business,” Rodgers said. Contact: kevin@sevendaysvt.com

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news “They’re being welcomed to this country often because of their less expensive labor, and then when the chips are down they are left with very few, if any, lifelines,” Davis said. “What they’re going through is — it isn’t right. It’s not right that we let it happen on our watch.” According to Davis, up to 4,000 adults and 1,000 children in Vermont missed out on the payments. That includes roughly 1,250 undocumented dairy workers and 1,750 undocumented workers in other industries. It also includes about 500 U.S. citizens or green card holders who were excluded because they file their taxes jointly with a spouse who is neither, as well as about 500 noncitizens who are in the country legally but do not have a Social Security number, such as those with student visas and those seeking asylum. Even children have been denied support due to their parents’ immigration status. That’s the case with Pati’s 8-yearold daughter, a U.S. citizen who has lived in Vermont her entire life. She has been stuck at home, where she lives with her parents and two other family members, since March. “It’s been really hard,” Pati said of her daughter’s experience. “She misses school. She misses her friends. When this all started, she was really anxious to go to school, but now she’s worried about going back because she’s scared about getting sick.” Since her daughter cannot eat school meals, the family’s expenses have increased, Pati said. And because everyone in the household works on the farm, it can be challenging to provide adequate childcare. Unlike other migrant workers, who have lost their jobs as their farms have downsized or gone under, Pati and her husband have maintained their prepandemic income. She works five hours a day, and he, 11 hours, with a day off every other week. Like many of their peers, they send money home to Mexico whenever they can to support other family members. “On the one hand, it felt good to keep working and to be recognized as essential workers, but on the other hand, it feels bad to have to keep working through this crisis and have to hear about the whole state and the whole country staying home and still getting paid,” she said. “And then, on top of that, the government was giving them checks.” Pati said she is grateful to Scott for supporting the proposal, but she worries that the money he has requested from the legislature won’t cover everybody who needs it. “We don’t want to be in a situation where some people are included and some people are excluded yet again,” she said. 18

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Pati, a migrant worker, on the northern Vermont farm on which she works

By the administration’s own admission, $2 million would cover only 1,250 adults and 1,000 children, according to an outline the governor’s office provided to Seven Days. “The $2 million is not enough to meet the need,” said Sen. Anthony Pollina (P/DWashington), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

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The reality, according to Davis, is that demand for the program may be more limited than she would hope. “Not everyone who qualifies is going to come forward, because there’s a big risk to making yourself known in a country that loves to take advantage of your presence and your labor but would turn on a dime and deport you,” she said. In May, when California became the first state to provide stimulus payments to undocumented workers, it distributed $75 million in public funds, matched by another $50 million in donations, to a

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dozen nonprofit organizations charged with distributing the payments. That arrangement created a buffer between those requesting the money and the state, which could be compelled to turn over identifying information to the federal government. In her budget presentation last week, Young said Vermont might mimic that approach by asking “a trusted nonprofit” to administer the program. But according to Davis, the state might dole out the funds directly in order to reduce administrative costs. “Confidentiality is really paramount to this thing working,” she said, adding that the application process would be “minimally invasive.” Pati said she’s not sure she would apply for the money if she had to interact directly with the state. “We haven’t been fighting hard for this money just so that we turn our information over to the government and they turn it over to someone who would come to our house and get us,” she said. “The truth is, I would be afraid that they would use the information for other things.” Migrant Justice, which provides services to and advocates for Vermont’s dairy workers, would be willing to help, according to staff coordinator Will Lambek. In recent months, his group has raised $200,000 from foundations, companies and individual donors and has already distributed $420 payments to more than 400 workers. Lambek hopes that a second round will reach another 150 people.

“For the program to be successful, it needs to be administered by organizations that are known to and trusted by the communities that have been excluded from federal relief,” Lambek said. “So, in putting together this fund, the state should be reaching out to these organizations.” The coronavirus crisis could not have come at a worse time for Vermont dairy farmers, who were already grappling with a yearslong slump in the price of milk — one that has been exacerbated by the closure of restaurants, schools and colleges. According to the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, the number of cow dairies in the state has declined from 649 to 629 since the start of the year. “No one really knows where it’s headed,” said Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts. “It’s really nerve-racking for everybody.” According to Tebbetts, Vermont dairies have largely avoided coronavirus outbreaks so far. But Julia Doucet, an outreach nurse at Middlebury’s Open Door Clinic, worries that could quickly change. “The potential for a rampant infection in that population because of their living and working conditions is significant,” said Doucet, whose organization serves more than half of Addison County’s migrant dairy workers. “If there’s an infection, it would spread quickly.” While their relative isolation may protect them from exposure to those who are already infected, she said, their distrust of authorities sometimes prevents them from seeking help or abiding by public health messaging. “There’s a lot of mistrust of the government in this population and a hesitancy to go to the hospital,” Doucet said. “Because the rates of COVID are so low here and because they don’t have access to local news, they rely on what they hear from their news sources in their home country and also sources like YouTube and Facebook that may not be truthful and accurate.” Doucet said she believes her clients should receive the same financial support that all Vermonters do, but she wonders whether the $2 million would be put to better use covering health emergencies that may yet arise among migrant workers. “An appropriate use of that money could be to create a COVID emergency relief fund, especially to help support unpaid medical bills,” she said. To Pati, it’s less a question of money than fairness. “More than anything, it’s about recognition,” she said. “It’s recognizing that we’re continuing to work day in and day out and sacrificing to make sure that the cows are getting milked.” Contact: paul@sevendaysvt.com

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OBITUARIES Jessica Anne Pomerleau-Halnon WILLISTON, VT.

Jessica Anne Pomerleau-Halnon passed away on August 21, 2020, after courageously battling breast cancer for two years. Her last days were spent with her adoring husband, parents, aunts, uncles and cousins by her side. Jessica’s light shone brightly for 36 years; even throughout her illness, her loving spirit never dimmed. And that light will live on in everyone who loved her. On September 17, 1983, Jessica was born to Ernie and Dee Pomerleau in Burlington, Vt. Jessica was an exuberant child who loved art and performance. Jessica inherited her mother’s artistic sensibility and blazed her own path toward creative fulfillment, starting with a passion for drawing that would eventually lead her to computer animation. Jessica grew up in Burlington, surrounded by a tight-knit extended family. Living steps from each other, Jessica and her 12 cousins were like siblings. The cousins would all gather regularly for game nights, dinners and holiday parties. Her circle of family was made bigger by her wonderful friends. From grade school, high school and college through to her professional years in Burlington, she formed many special and lasting friendships. These friendships never wavered, and she loved her friends deeply. Jessica attended Rice Memorial High School and graduated from the Vermont Commons School in 2002. She graduated from the University of Vermont with a bachelor of arts in 2006, and then went on to study computer animation at the Ringling College of Art and Design, earning a bachelor of fine arts in 2010. After the completion of two degrees, Jessica returned to Burlington and decided that, loving her hometown as much as she did, she wanted to live and work here. In 2011, Jessica opened Jess Boutique on Church Street, a stylish women’s clothing boutique. Jessica’s own style was subtle and elegant. She also had a natural flair for seeing the style of others and buying clothing she thought they would love. Her big, bright smile welcomed a steady stream

of customers who trusted Jessica to make them look and feel great. In January of 2019, she expanded her business by acquiring her second women’s clothing boutique, Expressions, which was right next door. Jessica was so very grateful for the never-ending support of her loyal staff: Erin Brennan, Samantha

Sleeper, Shannon Kamnik, Alexis Pomerleau and all the other wonderful staff who worked so tirelessly and kept everything running every day during these very difficult times. There was so much love in Jessica’s life. Her family and her beloved St. Croix Island rescue dog,

Willard, were the loves of her life until the day she met Jameson Halnon. It was quickly obvious that he was “the one.” Jameson opened Jessica up to so many new adventures; his love for the outdoors rubbed off on her, and the two embraced hiking and being in the great outdoors together. And Jessica opened Jameson up. Her sense of humor and mischievousness brought so much joy to his life. Jameson and Jessica were married in August of 2018, surrounded by friends and family who gathered at a beautiful historic home on the edge of Lake Champlain. Jameson was Jessica’s rock throughout her two-year battle against breast cancer, which was discovered not long after their wedding. Their strong love kept each other going through the most difficult of times. Jessica will be remembered as a loving wife, daughter, cousin, niece, friend and dog mom, who made every single person in her life feel appreciated. She will be remembered for her smile, her parties, her pranks, her costumes, her beautiful photography, her artistic talents, the ease with which she laughed, her selflessness, her generosity and her abundant kindness. Her life was cut short, but she lived and loved every minute of it. The love she gave and the love she received were truly limitless. Jessica is survived by her husband, Jameson Halnon; parents, Ernie and Dee Pomerleau; maternal grandmother Rita Pomerleau; aunts and uncles Joe Nameche, Patricia Pomerleau, Elizabeth Pomerleau Mays and Tom, Susan Pomerleau Corkery and Dan, Dennis Pomerleau, Rosemary Pomerleau, Alice Pomerleau Waxler and Brian, and Grace Pomerleau;

cousins Alexis Pomerleau Bryant and Jeff, Caroline Mays, Lauren Mays and fiancé Christos Tsentas, Ellen McGinnis and Ryan, Terrence Pomerleau and Natalie, Frank Corkery, Drew Waxler, Catherine Corkery, Alexandra Mays, Madeline Waxler, Charlotte Mays, and Olivia Waxler and fiancé Jud Waite; father-in-law, Steve Halnon; and sister-in-law, Emily Halnon. She also leaves her baby cousins, whom she adored and called “nuggets”: Spencer Bryant, Olly and Sully McGinnis, and Arden Pomerleau. And Jessica leaves behind many, many wonderful friends who have promised to celebrate Halloween this year in honor of Jessica, the “Queen of Costumes.” Jessica is predeceased and will be embraced with loving arms by her paternal grandfather, Antonio Pomerleau; her maternal grandmother, Bertha Nameche; her aunts, Ellen Pomerleau and Anne Marie Pomerleau; and her mother-in law, Andrea Halnon. Loving gratitude to the nurses and doctors at the University of Vermont Medical Center, who provided such special care through these last two years. Special thanks to Emma Wagner and Kate Yantz for their kindness and love to our beautiful Jessica. There will be a private family service at this time, with arrangements by Ready Funeral and Cremation (readyfuneral.com). An outdoor celebration of Jessica’s life will be announced in the near future. In lieu of flowers, Jessica would love for you to donate to a charity that will rescue more of her beloved dogs throughout the world and the Burlington humane society: Humane Society of Chittenden County (hsccvt.org) and Rescue Me VT (rescuemevt.com).

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JANUARY 3, 1936AUGUST 21, 2020 MIDDLEBURY, VT. Norman Schnayer left the world on August 21, 2020, hoping that, through his and others’ efforts, good would triumph over evil and, come 2021, the Donald Trump fiasco would be history. Although he was able to vote in the August primary, Norman was really trying to make it to November so that he could cast his vote for Joe Biden. Born January 3, 1936, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to Elizabeth Mandel Schnayer and Herbert Schnayer, Norman was a caring and generous man who was always deep in thought. Norman didn’t always share his thoughts, but you always knew he had something to say. He loved reading, gardening, classical and jazz music, tennis, his cats and Joyce’s poodles, the seacoast of Maine, watching the birds, and a good cup of coffee and a slice of babka. Norman was equally skilled in the kitchen and in the woodshop; baking chocolate cakes and renovating old houses came easily to him. Most of all, Norman loved his family and friends. He was a devoted husband, brother, stepfather, grandfather and uncle. Norman had a unique sense of humor that made everyone around him laugh. He loved to make others smile, and his warmhearted energy was felt by all who knew him. He was always interested in how others were doing and especially loved to hear about how his grandkids’ studies were going. Whenever Norman greeted you, it always felt like he was so happy to see you. Norman was genuinely interested in those around him, and one

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could really tell that when you spoke to him. He was a very charitable man, donating to environmental, social justice and human rights causes. Norman volunteered to help the homeless, was a mentor with Everybody Wins, and, while living in the Berkshires, was active in his synagogue and a member of the Mitzvah Mobile. Norman and Joyce spent over 30 years together. They shared interests in cooking, music, tennis and animals. While in good health, they traveled together and had many exciting and enjoyable adventures in Maine, Alaska and abroad. Norm tried to get Joyce interested in algae and plants and taught her a lot. When they retired to the Berkshires, they loved the social and cultural activities of the area. Their home became the center of a growing family of kids, spouses and four grandchildren. Norman, unlike members of the Freundlich family, was very handy and had a great time designing and building a super swing set for all the grandchildren to play on. Norman’s life work was as a botanist and a provost at Rutgers University. He loved learning and enjoyed sharing his knowledge of topics from algae to the eradication of smallpox. At 60, he took up

FEBRUARY 15, 1956JUNE 30, 2020 BURLINGTON, VT. Robert M. Carpentier, 64, passed away in his home on June 30, 2020. He was born on February 15, 1956, in Burlington, Vt., the son of Arcade and Laure Carpentier. Robert is survived by his daughters, Laure Carpentier and Annette Gingras; brother, Charles Carpentier, sister-inlaw Maureen, nephew Christopher Carpentier; and many other beloved family members and

the clarinet. Norman was most proud of his accomplishment of earning his PhD. Norm was an independent and stubborn soul who wanted to do all he could on his own. He refused again and again to let Wendy trim his overly bushy eyebrows, but he always refused her offer with a smile. He owned up to his mistakes in life and almost always apologized if his anger management was not completely perfect. He remembered very fondly the raisin Schnecken his grandmother baked for him when he was a child. Norman is survived by his wife, Joyce Freundlich, of Middlebury, Vt.; stepdaughter Wendy Freundlich of Middlesex, Vt.; stepson Kenny Freundlich and his wife, Marjorie Freundlich, of Needham, Mass.; sister Caren Schnayer of Glendale, Ariz.; grandchildren Josh and Anna Farber of Middlesex, Vt., and Maddi and Adam Freundlich of Needham, Mass.; niece, Michelle Green, of Glendale, Ariz.; nephews David Green of Bel Air, Md., and Andrew Green of Cwumbran, Wales, Great Britain; and also by his special friend Elo Mc Laughlin. Norman was predeceased by his parents, Herbert Schnayer and Elizabeth Mandel Schnayer, and his sister Barbara Laing. Norman’s family would like to extend our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the loving and competent staff on the Med/Surgery Unit at Porter Hospital; Taylor Zac; Porter Hospital’s palliative care team; Addison County Home Health and Hospice; Vida, Francis and Blandine Manga of Loving Home Care; and the entire nursing and care staff at the Residence of Otter Creek. Contributions in Norman’s memory can be made to the charity of your choice.

friends. He was predeceased by his parents and his brother, Mark Carpentier. Robert had many interests, including hunting and fishing, which he often enjoyed with his friends and family. A car enthusiast, he enjoyed collecting model cars. He was always able to point out every detail about any car he passed on the road. In his later life, Robert especially loved cooking large meals with friends. Due to restrictions, there will be no calling hours or funeral services. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

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1957-2020 WILLISTON, VT. Deborah Susan Beckett (née Leete) passed away in the late hours of August 21, 2020, surrounded by her loving wife, Toby Rockwood, and her children Sean and Ellie. Born to James and Elizabeth Leete in 1957, Deb grew up in Ludlow, Mass., with her brother Rick and sisters Cheryl and Kirsty. She moved to Vermont in 1975 to attend Saint Michael’s College for business administration and journalism. In 1986 Deb married David Beckett, and in 1988 they welcomed their first child, Sean, to the world, followed by Elizabeth two years later. As her kids grew up, she never missed a single lacrosse game or school concert. Never one to hold the spotlight, Deb had a generous and selfless nature best understood through her influence on our community. Deb cared deeply about civic engagement and giving back to Williston. She demonstrated this commitment daily, and it’s hard to find a position that she didn’t occupy at some point in her 30-year tenure with the town. Deb retired in March from a 21-year career as the town clerk and treasurer. In addition to her position as clerk, she served as lister, Zoning Board/ Development Review Board member, cemetery commissioner, justice of the peace, town agent and town grand juror. She was passionate about democratic participation and voter engagement, leading Williston to become a national pioneer of drivethrough voting in 2006. Deb cherished Williston’s Fourth of July festivities, from ice cream socials on the town green to the celebrations at the Old Brick Church. Deb held many supervisory roles for other regional organizations, including the Williston Federated Church, Williston Community Food Shelf, Williston-Richmond Rotary Club, Habitat for Humanity, Vermont League of Cities & Towns, Vermont Municipal Clerks’ & Treasurers’ Association, and the New England Association of City & Town Clerks. Deb was an American Legion commander and board member for both the Williston and Bristol posts, as well as a VFW life member. Deb was a

fixture of Williston Boy Scout Troop 692, helping more than a dozen young men (including her son) achieve their Eagle Scout rank through mentorship in citizenship and community service. Deb’s devotion to her community continued beyond Vermont’s borders. Deb joined the Army National Guard in 1979 and served two tours in the Middle East in 2004 and 2010. She retired from the guard with the rank of staff sergeant after returning from her second tour. While she survived the battlefield, it is no exaggeration to say that Deb gave her life for her country. In 2017, she developed cancer as a result of exposure to toxic burn pits during her service overseas. Complications from this disease ultimately took her life. Deb planned to use her time in retirement to help other veterans exposed to burn pits navigate the challenges of receiving government and VA recognition, care and benefits. To help Deb follow through with her ambitions, please consider contributing to Burn Pits 360, a nonprofit whose mission is to carry out that very goal (burnpits360.org). The last 10 years of Deb’s life were truly her happiest. Not only did she find the love of her life, she also learned to take time for herself and value her own needs. Deb and Dave amicably divorced in 2010. In 2018, Deb and Toby married on their deck in a private ceremony, with only their dog Rudy and a sunset in attendance, and they later celebrated their union with friends and family. They chose Lee Ann Womack’s “I Hope You Dance” as their song — a message that Deb lived by and encouraged others to, as well. Their home was always full of energy and laughter, with Toby’s daughters Jamie, Allie and Tashia, plus a revolving door of family and friends, constantly flowing in and

out. Deb and Toby were partners in every sense, tackling the world together one challenge and celebration at a time. They loved spending time on the beach in Maine, recharging at the spa and enjoying summer evenings from their porch. Ten days before Deb passed, she officiated Sean’s wedding to his partner, Allison. Through every surgery and setback Deb faced this year, one thing was certain: Come hell or high water, she was going to be at the wedding. Her presence that day was a highlight of our lives, giving us a measure of comfort in the midst of our grief. Deb’s family will be forever grateful to her outstanding team of caregivers and doctors that devoted themselves to her over the past three years (and especially the past few months). We were fortunate that, through all the uncertainties, we were blessed with an unparalleled medical team in which we all had complete faith. Giving Deb the send-off she deserves would be daunting even in the best of times. A service has been planned according to her wishes that will be recorded for those who cannot be physically present. Looking ahead, we invite everyone to join in celebrating her life and legacy in the community as part of Williston’s Fourth of July festivities next summer. In the meantime, we invite anyone who would like to share a story or their sentiments about Deb to send their message to Celebrate.Deborah.Beckett@ gmail.com. We’ll collect and share those submissions far and wide. One last thing she would like you to do that would honor her again and again is to vote early and vote often. Deb was strong and resilient, she commanded respect, and she led by example. She never sought attention or accolades for her work but instead was driven by a devotion to those around her. She found genuine joy in supporting her family, friends, community and country. Her spirit lives on in the countless people whose lives she has touched. It is with the heaviest of hearts that we say goodbye to our wife, mother, sister, aunt, friend, soldier, mentor, leader and role model.

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NOVEMBER, 11, 1969AUGUST 21, 2020 PRATTVILLE, ALA. William Christopher McNeil died unexpectedly from complications due to COVID-19 on August 21, 2020. He was born on November 11, 1969, to Dr. and Mrs. William E. McNeil. He was raised in Burlington, Vt., where he finished at Burlington High School in 1987. From there, he went to Bridgton Academy in Maine. Chris then moved to Montgomery, Ala., to study at Alabama State University, where he became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He would go on to complete his BS and MS from Alabama State University, as well as become a Mason. Chris went on to work for

the Montgomery Public School System, Church Hill Academy, Therapeutic Recreational Center and Montgomery Area Mental Health Authority, Inc. Chris always considered himself a “rebel” from Vermont and cherished the cool weather and beautiful fall foliage.

Chris will be missed deeply by his children, Rohan, Arianna and Krista; his father and mother, Dr. William McNeil and Geraldine McNeil; one sister, Tiffani ‘Shaye’ Rodenbach (Tom); two nephews, Nicholas Saunders and Jason Rodenbach; one niece, Olivia Saunders; uncles Henry McNeil (Leslie) and R.V. Hawthorne; aunts Clora Mighty, Margritte Lindsey, Doris Richards and Jackie McNeil; and a host of many cousins and friends. A special thanks to dear friends Christopher McGhee and Rose. Viewing at RossClayton Funeral Home in Montgomery, Ala., will be Friday, August 28, from 1 to 8 p.m. Funeral service will be on Saturday, August 29, with only immediate family members attending.

opportunity those relationships lent to his life. Jeff was fascinated by philosophy and history, music and art, politics and foreign affairs. His passion for learning about them seemed limitless — when asked, he would say that his dream job was “student.” He loved meeting new people, playing the guitar and the video production hobby that perpetually threatened to become a new business. And he was loved: Jeff’s gentle nature, endless curiosity, good humor and quick wit earned him a vast circle of friends and admirers. Jeff was married for 20 years to Margaret Victoria Lee and is survived by his son Tom Lee (Steph Tatham); daughter Beth Lee; sisters Eleanore R. Lee (Ron Elson) and Rebecca Lee (Bobo Stephen Smith), who also served as his devoted caregiver for many years; granddaughters Eleanore and Elizabeth Tatham Lee; and numerous nieces and

nephews. Jeff cherished his family, and our lives were made immeasurably richer by his example, kindness and love. In his final ears, Jeff was able to spend time in northern Virginia, Jamaica and Vermont, all places he held close to his heart. In particular, the Burlington, Vt., community embraced Jeff in his later years and, thanks to the city’s collective goodwill and his caregiver Jill Snapp, he was able to continue enjoying walks to Lake Champlain, workouts at the YMCA, worship at Burlington Friends Meetings, and greeting all manner of friends and strangers from his Bradley Street porch. His last months were spent in the care of the tireless staff of the Arbors at Shelburne, to whom the family would like to express their profound gratitude. Jeff’s remains will be interred at Pleasant View Cemetery in Westford, Vt., close to the resting place of his parents. A celebration of his life will occur once the COVID-19 emergency has ceased. For details, please visit jeffreyleememorial. substack.com. Honor Jeff by admiring a favorite work of art, sharing a home-cooked meal, revisiting a tale from Greek mythology, catching a concert or swapping stories with friends over inexpensive white wine. Tell your loved ones how much they mean to you, and call your dad.

Jeff ey Lee NOVEMBER 7, 1950JULY 26, 2020 BURLINGTON, VT.

Jeffrey Armistead Lee died on July 26, 2020, in Shelburne, Vt., after living with Lewy Body dementia for a number of years. Jeff was born on November 7, 1950, in Wellington, New Zealand, where his parents, Armistead Mason Lee and Eleanore Ruggles Lee, were stationed for the Foreign Service. Jeff’s childhood homes spanned the world, including Washington, D.C.; Jamaica; Massachusetts; Iceland; West Virginia; Belgium; Virginia; and Vermont. He graduated from Sandy Spring Friends School, where he was first introduced to Quake traditions, for which he would develop a lifelong appreciation. He earned a bachelor’s degree with concentrations in history, philosophy and political science from the University of Vermont in 1973, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and went on to earn a law degree from the University of Richmond in 1977. After practicing law for several years, Jeff pursued work in commercial construction, eventually establishing his own company, Virginia Construction and Restoration, specializing in fine a t lighting. Jeff treasured the many customers he came to call friends and all the richness and

Bill Davison

including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Yale University Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art. Numerous awards and fellowships include the National Endowment for the Arts Artist’s Fellowship; Prix ARS Electronica Award of Distinction of Linz, Austria; and the McDowell Colony. His work has been represented by leading galleries, including Brooke Alexander, Barbara Gladstone, Martina Hamilton and Kathryn Markel in New York City, and Roy Boyd in Chicago.

Bill is survived by his wife, Kathleen McGann Schneider; brother, Robert P. Davison Jr. and his wife, Marlene Paradee Davison; children, Karin “Kadie” Davison Salfi and her husband, Jason Salfi and Tristan Davison and his wife, Keran Rose Davison; grandchildren, Lucia Salfi and Maxine, Frances and Joe Davison; nieces, Stephanie Davison and Heidi Davison Noonan and her husband, Bill Levins; great-nieces, Amelia and Grace Kittell, and Erica Noonan; and great-nephew, Taylor Noonan. Family and friends will celebrate Bill’s life when it is safe to do so with a party, exhibition, and rock-and-roll music, as he requested. You are invited to share photos, memories and condolences by visiting awrfh.com. Memorial contributions may be made to the Bill Davison Printmaking Fund, UVM Foundation, 411 Main St., Burlington, VT 05401 or uvmfoundation.org/giving.

Army Reserves for 35 years until retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Ken served his country proudly and was a lifelong member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Reserve Officers Association. Returning to civilian life, Ken completed his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Morningside and earned a graduate degree from the University of South Dakota in education. He went on to teach in Wyoming, where he met his wife, Margery. They married and made their way to Iowa City, Iowa, where they raised their two daughters and both volunteered for countless community activities. Ken was a longtime booster for the I-Club and shared a fanatical love of the Iowa Hawkeyes with Margery. The Fearings moved to Vermont in 2012 to be near family. Ken had true passion for teaching young adults,

coaching, mentoring and telling jokes. He retired with many state and national teaching awards in his name after 30 years as head of the mathematics and computer science department at Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he was known by his nickname, “Fred.” Ken was a lifelong athlete, competing in swimming, track and football in his youth, and he continued running road races and playing tennis into his eighties. He planted a vegetable garden every summer, loved tomatoes, and experimented with a hydroponic greenhouse business in the winter. After retiring, he and Margie wintered in Hawaii, where he spent his days in a beach chair with his feet in the ocean and a book in hand. The family invites those who knew him to share their favorite memories of Ken at thosearemygenes.com. Ken’s Celebration of Life Ceremony will be scheduled at a later date to be held in Iowa City, where he will be interred at Memory Gardens Cemetery. The family thanks the wo derful caregivers at Central Vermont Medical Center, the Lodge at Shelburne Bay, and Mayo Rehabilitation and Continuing Care in Northfield for ensuring that Ken was happy, healthy and at the side of his beloved Margie during his twilight hours.

1941-2020 BURLINGTON, VT.

Bill Davison, 78, distinguished print artist and emeritus professor of art, died at home in the company of his wife and family on August 12, 2020. Son of Robert Powers Davison and Janet Miller Davison (who predeceased him), seventhgeneration Vermonter, duck hunter and mentor to countless young artists, he established the printmaking program at the University of Vermont, where he taught for 42 years. Educated at Albion College and the University of Michigan (master of fine a ts), Bill sustained a rigorous art practice and exhibition record for 55 years, recently completing a series of collage and collaborative artworks titled “Diamonds and Rust.” Davison’s work has been exhibited internationally and resides in more than 50 public and private collections,

Kennard Duane Fearing JUNE 8, 1929AUGUST 19, 2020 NORTHFIELD, VT.

Kennard Duane Fearing, age 91, died August 19, 2020, in Northfield, Vt. He peacefu ly passed on surrounded by loving family and holding the hand of his wife, Margery Fearing, a hallmark the two were known for throughout their 60-year marriage. He is survived by daughters Leisa Fearing (Sarah Rosedahl) of North Hero, Vt., and Marsha (Cara) Fearing of Newton, Mass.; two grandsons, Bennett and Beckett; sister Nancy Sanders; and nieces Mary Sanders Carlisle and Donna Sanders Huffman. Ken was born June 8, 1929, in Quincy, Ill., to Robert and Ruby Fearing. He grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, where he was known for his pranks and social life. There he a tended Morningside College, although he interrupted his studies to volunteer for service in the United States Army during the Korean War. Ken served in both the enlisted ranks and the Officers’ Corps and was awarded the Korean Service Medal with two Bronze Stars, a United Nations Service Medal, a Combat Infantry Badge and a Purple Heart. Following active duty, he remained in the

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Streaming Forward Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival goes virtual B Y L U K E B AYN ES

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Stacie Griffin in For the Love of Rutland

ike most everything in the time of coronavirus, the MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL will look a lot different this year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the sixth edition of the fest, which focuses on the work of firstand second-time filmmakers, will be held entirely online. It marks a dramatic change for an event that puts a premium on audience interaction and saw 60 filmmakers make the trip to Middlebury last year. “For us, the choice was: Let’s at least stay connected,” MNFF producer LLOYD KOMESAR says. “Let’s maintain continuity with our audiences and our filmmakers and do the very best we can to present a diverse and interesting program.” The streaming festival launches on Thursday, August 27, and runs through 22

September 3. Besides computers and mobile devices, the online watch portal is accessible through Apple TV 4K and Roku devices. Shifting from a physical to an online fest had its share of challenges, Komesar observes. “As we have found out in our negotiations with a wide array of distributors and filmmakers, there are some guardrails that many distributors and filmmakers wish to put around online exhibition,” he says. One “guardrail” the festival programmers encountered was the duration of exhibition, with 12 of the 26 features available for only four days instead of the full eight days of the fest. Certain films have a limited number of streams (300 total views on the low end) and will be available

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on a first-come, first-served basis. And 12 films are subject to geo-blocking and can’t be viewed outside the U.S., while three are available to Vermont residents only. One of the titles limited to Vermont viewing is For the Love of Rutland, a documentary that follows a Marble City mother struggling to raise a family while overcoming an opioid addiction. Directed by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, who lived in the Rutland area for part of her childhood, the film also probes the community schism that formed in 2016 when thenmayor CHRIS LOURAS announced a plan to resettle 100 Syrian and Iraqi refugees in the city. “It’s the kind of movie you take on without knowing where it’s going to lead ultimately, which is always the kind of

documentary filmmaking that interests me the most,” MNFF artistic director JAY CRAVEN says.

Going Long on Shorts

Since its inception, MNFF has shown short films before features, with the directors of the paired movies often sharing the stage for post-screening Q&As. This year, Komesar notes, 33 shorts will be packaged into six thematic programs in an effort to maximize views in the virtual space. “We’re trying to support our short filmmakers as diligently as we can, because for the ones who’ve done really good work, that calling card can get them to the next level,” Komesar says. Since May, MNFF has been presenting a “Short of the Week” series of films that screened at last year’s fest on Vimeo. Shorts are also important to the organizers of the LAKE PLACID FILM FESTIVAL, which would normally take place in October across Lake Champlain. LPFF’s online spotlight for shorts will commence on September 2 and run each Wednesday through October 21. Punningly named “Keep Your Shorts On,” the free series on Vimeo includes eight movies from the 2019 LPFF “Your Shorts Are Showing” competition, each followed by a Zoom video chat between a moderator and the film’s director. GARY SMITH, who chairs LPFF’s parent organization, the ADIRONDACK FILM SOCIETY, says the fest is accepting submissions for the 2020 short-film competition through September 30, with juried prizes to be awarded to top selections at the end of October. While no dates are set, LPFF hopes to show the selected films online at some point over the next few months. “So many of these [filmmakers] want to be selected, and want the laurel wreaths associated with acceptance, and want these acceptances in their portfolios to sell their works or to attract investors,” Smith says.

Meeting the Moment

One of the hallmarks of MNFF in past years was the opportunity to spot filmmakers walking to and from screenings in downtown Middlebury and mingling with locals at the town’s eateries and watering holes. To compensate for the lack of community engagement this year, Craven recorded Q&As with 13 filmmakers, which will be viewable as bonus content with their respective features.

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The most internationally known of the interviewees is Ken Loach, whom Craven met in London following the release of the British director’s 1995 Palme d’Ornominated Spanish Civil War tale Land and Freedom. For the first four days of the fest, MNFF will stream Loach’s latest social-realist drama, Sorry We Missed You, about a self-employed delivery driver whose modest dreams of self-sufficiency are shattered by the merciless grind and bureaucracy of the gig economy. Though the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, Craven thinks its themes resonate even more strongly during the economic fallout of the ongoing pandemic. “It could not be more timely,” he says. Another of-the-moment theme that Craven identifies in the festival program is the “clash of cultures” across the globe. He singles out three films: Down a Dark Stairwell is a doc about the complex cultural repercussions of the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man by a Chinese American police officer in a New York City housing project. The Accused: Damned or Devoted? examines the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of blasphemy by her Muslim coworkers in Pakistan. John Lewis: Good Trouble profiles the civil-rights leader and 17-term U.S. representative who died on July 17 at the age of 80. Although seemingly every other national headline these days contains the word “Trump,” a far different American leader is in MNFF’s virtual limelight.

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President showcases the pivotal role that rockers such as Gregg Allman and Bob Dylan played in the Georgia peanut farmer’s ascent to the Oval Office. On the flip side, two-time Oscar winner and MNFF mainstay Barbara Kopple’s Desert One details the disastrous Operation Eagle Claw mission during the Iran hostage crisis that sealed Carter’s fate as a one-term president. The MNFF organizers acknowledge that the online format is far from ideal. But the decision to go on with the show, Craven says, was made with up-and-coming independent filmmakers in mind. “Part of the reason we really wanted to stage the festival despite the pandemic,” he says, “was to try to recognize the filmmakers who are a bit stranded right now, and to give [them] this opportunity and the best shot we can give them of a platform to get their work seen.”

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Chapter and Verse Putney’s Antidote Books champions poetry and diverse literature B Y M AR GA R ET GR AY SON

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DAVID SHAW

ust inside ANTIDOTE BOOKS, a cozy, light-filled space in Putney, customers immediately see a wall of poetry. In many bookstores, the poetry section is relegated to a few shelves tucked in a back corner behind best sellers, cookbooks and hiking guides. At Antidote, the expansive selection is front and center and impossible to miss. Volumes by Maggie Nelson, Alejandra Pizarnik, Hanif Abdurraqib and Fatimah Asghar are propped up at eye level. It’s a visual reminder that RUTH ANTOINETTE RODRIGUEZ and JEREMY SOWELL opened Antidote in 2017 to build the kind of bookstore they’d been missing since moving to Vermont from Houston five years earlier. “We wanted to create a space for vital poetry,” Rodriguez said. While new bookstore owners might be tempted to generalize in order to compete with the Amazon behemoth, Rodriguez and Sowell took the opposite approach. Antidote carries a highly curated selection of poetry, as well as used books, literature translated into English, and books from small presses. Rodriguez is a poet herself, and Sowell has worked in bookstores for years. “We turned inward. We know what we like,” Rodriguez said. “Jeremy had a ton of experience, and I relied on intuition.” They also aimed to make Antidote welcoming for readings and visiting writers. They’ve hosted public events featuring Vermonters MAJOR JACKSON and BIANCA STONE, as well as poets from elsewhere, including Samuel Ace, CAConrad, Dana Wier and Ewa Crusciel. On August 26, Antidote will celebrate its third anniversary — with the world looking a little different now than when the shop first opened. In addition to closing the store for three months, the pandemic put a halt to its events. Though Rodriguez has been attending virtual readings, she’s hesitant to organize one herself. Antidote was less prepared to pivot to online than some retail shops — it still doesn’t have a website, the owners admitted with a laugh, though it has an active Instagram account. A contingent of loyal customers in Vermont and beyond has kept the shop afloat, Rodriguez said. Since March, the owners have taken orders for curbside pickup via email — and, despite the shop’s curated inventory, they’re

Ruth Antoinette Rodriguez and Jeremy Sowell

PEOPLE KNOW THAT THIS IS A PLACE WHERE

THEY CAN FIND OUT-OF-PRINT POETRY BOOKS. J E R E MY S O W E L L

happy to order any book in print at a patron’s request. When the shop reopened in late June, many visitors said it was the first store they’d been to in person since the pandemic began. Online shopping or curbside pickup is quite different from browsing the shelves or resting on a lazy purple chaise under a window at Antidote. “Even now, we get people that will come up from all over,” Sowell said. “People know that this is a place

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where they can find out-of-print poetry books.” The owners love buying used books from community members and learning about their reading habits and interests. Rodriguez describes the learning as “a conversation,” full of quiet insights and funny coincidences. (They’ve discovered that, for some elusive reason, many southern Vermonters own a book about climbing Mount Everest.) Sowell also draws on his depth of industry knowledge to price rare books.

For loyal customers such as KEN ESTEY of Newfane, Antidote’s survival is a must. “It feels like the center of town,” Estey said. He’s an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and runs a free bookstore there for students. Rodriguez and Sowell donate used books that they don’t sell, Estey said. Also vital to the owners’ pandemic-era business was what had started as a side venture: coffee. Sowell taught himself to roast beans a few years ago. Now, each week the pair roasts about 200 pounds of coffee from woman-owned farms in Central and South America. Under the name Duchess Coffee Co., Rodriguez and Sowell sell the beans in local stores and online (it does have a website), along with drinks at their storefront. While the last few months have been hard, they’ve also given the couple a chance to plan for the future. “We’re able to take a pause, and it’s not all bad,” Rodriguez said. “We got stuck in one mode for the last three years … It’s hard to cut away and resist the temptation to be everything to everyone.” When the fallout from George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis increased demand for anti-racist literature at bookstores around the country, Rodriguez was already stocked up. When one customer asked if she was planning an anti-racist reading group, she was surprised. Antidote has been centering writers of color, trans writers and other underrepresented voices all along. Rodriguez, who is of Mexican descent, said her role as an owner and bookseller “challenges local people’s own ideas about their perception of literary Vermont.” She could talk about poetry for hours. But what does she say to people who resist the genre or think they’ll never understand it? “My recommendation is to open up a book, sit down with it … and just spend time with the words,” she said. “I think people need to give themselves more credit, as readers.” Contact: margaret@sevendaysvt.com

INFO Antidote Books, 120 Main St., Putney, 387-2260, facebook.com/antidotebooks. Learn more at duchesscoffeeco.com and on Instagram.

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• Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-In Movie (2013; Kanopy, Tubi, Amazon Prime Video, rentable): Vermont’s Fairlee Drive-In Theater & Motel and a long-gone Brattleboro drive-in make appearances in this absorbing documentary about the rise and fall of car-centric cinema. • Dead End Drive-In (1986; Tubi, rentable): In this culty Australian futuristic flick, cars are precious commodities, and drive-ins have been converted into concentration camps for wayward punk youths. Hey, it could happen! • Mad Ron’s Prevues From Hell (1987; Netflix, rentable): If you have a strong stomach, take a tour through the wild world of grindhouse horror — which once flourished in drive-ins — via this collection of vintage trailers. For a mellower experience, watch the nostalgia-inducing compilation of Drive In Movie Ads on Amazon Prime Video.

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Streaming video review: At the Drive-In B Y MA R GO T HA RRISON

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. This week, I’m complementing my cover story about Vermonters rediscovering the drive-in picture show in the summer of COVID-19 (“Outdoor Picture Show,” page 32) with a review of a 2017 documentary about some folks who were ahead of the curve.

they could continue to show new releases. Others closed up shop. But Jeff Mattox, owner and head projectionist of the Mahoning Drive-In, took a third approach. With the help of two younger drive-in enthusiasts, film booker Virgil Cardamone and manager Matthew McClanahan, he kept right on showing curated 35mm prints on his 1940s projectors, advertising his drive-in as a slice of cinephile history.

THE FILM: At the Drive-In

Kanopy, Tubi, Amazon Prime Video; rentable on other platforms THE DEAL: Located in rural Lehighton, Pa., the Mahoning Drive-In has been showing movies since 1949. Its single screen is one of the largest CinemaScope screens — designed for the wide-screen spectaculars that flourished at midcentury — on the East Coast. In 2014, the Mahoning was one of many drive-ins threatened by the Hollywood studios’ plan to stop shipping out 35mm film prints. Some drive-in owners — including three in Vermont — bit the bullet and made the expensive switch to digital projection so WHERE TO SEE IT:

Directed by Alexander Monelli, this documentary follows the Mahoning Drive-In over a crucial six-month season in 2016. Even with a staff of committed volunteers, there was no guarantee the theater could survive. WILL YOU LIKE IT? At the Drive-In is a movie for people who grasp what’s special about watching a vintage film print — complete with scratches and “cigarette marks” — in a setting that has barely changed since the ’50s. It’s for unabashed geeks and lovers of classic horror movies, grindhouse cinema,

cosplay and movie memorabilia. It’s for lifelong cinephiles, such as the frequent Mahoning Drive-In customer who spits out detailed film analyses and allusions with blinding speed. All these types of people appear in the film, congregating at the drive-in for weekend deep dives into zombie cinema, modern classics or the Friday the 13th series. The place inspires commitment, some might say obsession. Because the drive-in is so remote, many of the unpaid staffers camp out all weekend in its cinder-block hub. One drives six and a half hours from New Hampshire to run the register at the snack bar. Monelli clearly spent plenty of time with this colorful crew and, by the end of the doc, we feel like we know them. Valuable context comes from a visit to the Mahoning Drive-In’s original projectionist, who recalls that he was put on the payroll in his teens because the war had kept so many adults overseas. The drive-in’s recent history remains murkier (who owned it before Mattox?), but what matters is that it endures. The theater ran a successful $10,000 crowdfunding campaign in 2019; this coming weekend, August 28 and 29, cult actor Bruce Campbell will be on-site for a sold-out show. It’s almost enough to make a person want to drive seven hours for a movie.

Sunset Drive-In Through Wednesday, August 26: Unhinged & The Rental The Secret Life of Pets & Superman (1978) Jurassic World & The Mummy The Goonies & Stand By Me Thursday, August 27, and Friday, August 28; Sunday, August 30, through Thursday, September 3: Unhinged & The Rental The New Mutants & Spider-Man: Homecoming Bill & Ted Face the Music & Monty Python and the Holy Grail The Goonies & Stand By Me Saturday, August 29: Metallica Drive-In Concert Unhinged & The Rental The Goonies & Stand By Me The New Mutants (late show only) Bill & Ted Face the Music (late show only)

Bethel Drive-In Friday, August 28, through Sunday, August 30: Apollo 13

Fairlee Drive-In Friday, August 28, and Sunday, August 30: Sixteen Candles & Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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BOTTOM LINE

BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN

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Game Over? Without its arcade games, the Archives focuses on being a bar

he phone rang twice in a matter of minutes last Friday at the Archives, a Burlington bar and arcade. Both times, co-owner Matt Walters delivered the bad news. “We don’t have games on, mate, if that’s what you’re interested in,” Walters told one of the callers before encouraging him to come by for a drink. “Just bring masks, though, OK?” After hanging up, Walters, an Australian who’s lived in Vermont for the better part of two decades, shook his head in frustration. “I feel like I’m selling all the time now,” he said. Along with a pandemic, Walters is dealing with an existential crisis: What, exactly, is a bar-arcade without its arcade? State-imposed conditions have changed how people can gather in bars. And, in a bid to keep college kids from spreading the coronavirus, the Burlington City Council last week passed rules that prohibit alcohol sales after 11 p.m., forcing watering holes to lose normally lucrative hours. “I feel like it’s political,” Walters said of the city changes, which are in effect until at least September 14. “Their reasoning for doing this is completely wrong.” For the Archives, the hits keep coming during a year that started with promise. Business boomed during the usually quiet months of January and February, and, in early March, Walters was prepared to open a second location in Winooski. But the pandemic scuttled that plan and has imperiled the flagship College Street location, which opened in 2016. “I’m watching the pennies every week to see where we’re going and whether it’s worth it,” Walters said. Since March, “we haven’t been positive yet.” That’s when the coronavirus arrived in Vermont and Gov. Phil Scott ordered all bars and restaurants to close except for takeout. The Archives, which offers a cheese plate but no other food, created a to-go cocktail menu that Walters said was fairly successful. With business halted, he laid off all 18 employees, including himself. He applied for a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan and received about $130,000. The money, plus a business grant from the State of Vermont, has allowed the Archives to partially staff up and reopen five days a week, as the governor eased restrictions on indoor and outdoor seating for bars and restaurants. Walters made the decision to shut off the 38 arcade games, driven by the possibility 26

that COVID-19 can be transmitted via surfaces. The idea of patrons trading off turns at Pac-Man or the Addams Family pinball machine was anxiety inducing. Walters checked with Spare Time, a Colchester bowling alley, to see how it was handling cleaning and sanitizing, but he ultimately decided that continuing games was too risky. “You don’t think we’d make any money off quarter arcade games or 50-cent pinball machines, but we do,” he said. “It’s a big part of our revenue. We knew that by cutting that off, it was going to hurt. But it was the right decision.” Walters is unsure when he’ll turn the games back on, though there’s a silver lining to having them off: saving about $500 a month on his electric bill. With half of its business model off-line, the Archives has turned full time to the drink-serving side. The pandemic hasn’t made that easy.

I’M WATCHING THE PENNIES EVERY WEEK TO SEE WHERE WE’RE GOING

AND WHETHER IT’S WORTH IT. MAT T WALTE R S

With fewer customers, the bar offers 12 beers on tap — half the pre-pandemic offerings. Many of the Archives’ creative cocktails use fresh fruit and vegetables, and stocking the right amounts has been challenging with shifting rules for operation, Walters said. Inside, hand sanitizer dispensers dot the walls, and signs warn customers against standing at the long, concrete-topped bar; instead, servers bring drinks to the tables. Patrons must wear masks except when seated, and they’re not allowed to visit other tables or mingle standing up. Staff sanitize tables and chairs between groups. The city has closed College Street to vehicles on most Saturdays this summer, giving outdoor space to the local businesses. The Archives has been able to seat nearly 20 people outside, and the bar has partnered with Bento, a nearby sushi shop, that delivers right to the tables. “We’ve got a lot of regulars, a lot of supporters that are trying to help us out,” Walters said.

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Matt Walters

What keeps them coming back, he explained, is the quality service. While the environment is much lower-key than the business he had set out to run, Walters said he’s proud of the way his staff has enforced the rules and kept everyone safe. That’s why he’s especially upset by the city’s early curfew for alcohol sales. Prepandemic, the Archives closed at 2 a.m.; in recent weeks, it’s closed at 1 a.m. to give staff more time to clean. Walters said the Archives draws mostly tourists and downtown workers who come by for a drink after a shift elsewhere. The city’s decision penalizes businesses such as his that have complied with the governor’s orders, he said. Archives beverage director Sean McKenzie agreed, calling the measure “a really tone-deaf response. “It seemed like the human impact wasn’t really considered fully,” he continued. “It seemed like they wanted a token public display of their concern, when I don’t think this addresses the actual issue.” During the city council’s virtual emergency meeting to consider the measure last Thursday, other bar owners and employees Zoomed in to lambaste the move. Some noted that the decision will push college kids to house parties that could quickly spread the disease in an unregulated environment. Liquor stores aren’t subject to the early sales cutoff. “College kids are going to party either way,” Zach Ward, manager of Main Street bar Ruben James, told the council. “Bars provide a safe environment that’s controlled,

sanitized and has worked throughout the whole summer. So I don’t see why we should be punished for … following the regulations in keeping this thing at bay.” Mayor Miro Weinberger initially proposed cutting off booze sales at 10 p.m. through at least September 30, when the council would reconsider the restrictions. In a memo announcing the proposal, Weinberger noted, “Drinking alcohol in group settings such as at bars and student parties has contributed substantially to the spread of the virus in other cities.” Councilors ultimately allowed for an extra hour and promised to revisit the regulation on September 14. Walters worries that the shrunken hours and loss of revenue will again force the Archives to lay off staffers. Last Friday, he hinted at abandoning Burlington altogether and setting up just one location, in Winooski. The games and bar are ready to go inside the Archives’ rented space on the traffic circle. Whatever the future holds, Walters said, he takes solace in the bar’s loyal following and the sense of community among downtown businesses “who work damn hard.” “It’s certainly brought me closer to a lot of restaurant and bar owners, because we’re all feeling it,” Walters said. “We all don’t know what the outcome’s gonna be of this.” Contact: sasha@sevendaysvt.com

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A New Leaf

The Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism finds a new home at Goddard College B Y K R IST EN R AV I N

PHOTOS: JEB WALLACE-BRODEUR

fter 13 years near downtown Montpelier, the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism needed room to grow — literally. The nonprofit clinical herbalism organization uses gardens both to teach its students and cultivate products for its apothecary, and VCIH leaders found themselves wishing for quieter outdoor space and more easily accessible plots. Turns out, a prime location with a longtime partner was just a few miles away on Goddard College’s rural Plainfield campus. Founded in 2007, VCIH offers slidingscale herbal medicine clinics, community classes and comprehensive herbalist training programs. Long-term educational offerings include the beginner-level Herbal Roots apprenticeship, the intermediate Family Herbalist program and the three-year Clinical Herbalist program — all of which involve hands-in-the-dirt learning. “As herbalists, we do a lot of teaching outside, and it was quite difficult to teach outside and have students hear us and feel like we had a little bit of containment,” or privacy, executive director Larken Bunce told Seven Days, referring to VCIH’s former campus uphill from downtown Montpelier. In June, VCIH moved to Goddard, where it’s “surrounded by natural features,” Bunce said. The plants in the Montpelier garden — think perennials such as echinacea, the flowering plant astragalus and the shrub eleuthero, also known as Siberian ginseng — will make the approximately eight-mile journey to Plainfield in the fall with help from the community. Some of the qualities that attracted Bunce to the new locale are the flat grounds (more convenient than the Montpelier hillside plot), increased accessibility for individuals with mobility issues, and garden space right outside the classroom building — a former Goddard dormitory. Bunce, a Goddard alum and former faculty member, said the organization received a grant to renovate an old greenhouse into a drying space for its harvest. In addition to its natural features, Goddard’s approach to education was a selling point for VCIH. For approximately 10 years, the two institutions have shared a memorandum of understanding that allows VCIH graduates to transfer credits toward a Goddard bachelor’s degree.

Larken Bunce

A recent outdoor class at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism in Plainfield

Conversely, Goddard undergrads and graduate students in subjects such as permaculture, sustainable living, and health arts and sciences can count work with VCIH as part of their individualized study tracks. Goddard is a low-residency school where students spend 10 days on campus each semester and complete the rest of their coursework remotely, so a fellow campus tenant was welcome. “I would consider it an irresponsible or poor use of our resources to have just let these buildings sit dormant,” Goddard president Bernard Bull said, “when they could be used to create a greater sense of community, to serve the larger central Vermont

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community and help Goddard bring in some additional revenue to support its mission.” Bull added that hosting organizations such as VCIH helps Goddard stay afloat at a time when many institutions of higher learning are struggling. “It’s not the solution,” he said, “but it is part of our vision for financial strength and stability for the future, absolutely.” VCIH joins nonprofit nature education organization EarthWalk Vermont as a renter on Goddard’s campus. The two are also partners in the college’s Village for Learning Initiative, a plan to invite like-minded organizations to make the most of underutilized campus space

and collaborate on projects, events and programming. For now, the initiative “exists in our hearts, minds and somewhere on paper,” Bunce joked. With VCIH still in the throes of the move, EarthWalk on break due to COVID-19, and a public health crisis wreaking havoc on traditional procedures and timelines, the ball isn’t rolling yet. Though she looks forward to collaborating with EarthWalk and Goddard, Bunce is focused on current and incoming students right now. In the coronavirus era, that means offering distance learning. VCIH pivoted to remote instruction for the first time in March and will offer the option going forward, despite the organization’s longtime commitment to teaching in person. “We are all classroom teachers,” Bunce explained. “We’re all people who love being with our students in person and the hands-on aspect of herbal medicine, as well as the person-to-person aspect of the clinical work.” Still, she sees the built-in benefits of remote learning for students. For one, folks who are unable to relocate to Vermont can now access VCIH programs from afar. And those students are banking skills in telemedicine.

“Frankly, telehealth is going to be what we’re all needing to lean into for the foreseeable future,” Bunce said, “so it really gives us an opportunity to skill up more ourselves … as well as give our students another tool.” In a typical year, remote learners are required to attend three in-person intensives. Depending on the state of public health, though, even those might take place online in 2021. “Then, hopefully, in 2022 and beyond, we’ll definitely be able to all be together for these intensives,” Bunce said, while continuing to hold online instruction for the rest of the year. Downtown Montpelier might seem to offer students more access to employment, housing and attractions, but Bunce is confident that once they experience the new campus, they won’t be deterred by the rural Plainfield location. “It was almost like we didn’t have many of the positives, and we got a lot of the negatives,” Bunce said of the Capital City campus. Noise and break-ins were problems there, she recalled, as well as a higher cost of living. “There’s enough benefits [of being in Plainfield], and we’re hopeful that folks will feel the resonance or alignment of having our school on a rural, old farm campus,” she said. Bunce estimates that only five or six other programs in the country provide the rigorous clinical training that VCIH students receive. As a result, its programs attract applicants from all over the United States. The tie that binds the students, Bunce said, is an understanding of herbal medicine as something larger than individual health care. “We believe that herbal medicine has the power not only to heal the individual but also address the broad dysfunctions in our culture that have at their root a deep disconnection from Nature,” VCIH’s website reads. Building on that idea, Bunce said, “We really focus on how we’re teaching about herbal medicine and how it is that our students are going to take this [knowledge] and make change out in the world, and those are the values that are also shared by Goddard.”

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Split the Vote

Vermont commemorates the victories and inequities of the 19th Amendment B Y M ARG A RET G RAYSON

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

n August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, and on August 26 the U.S. secretary of state certified the ratification, which encoded the voting rights of women into the U.S. Constitution. A century later, people nationwide are commemorating the anniversary while also reckoning with the flaws of a suffrage movement punctuated by racism and an amendment that failed to ensure suffrage for people of color. The Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance is encouraging people to gather in safe numbers on Wednesday, August 26, to recognize the anniversary, urge continued dedication to voting, and oppose the voter suppression that continues in parts of the country. The VSCA began planning centennial celebrations in 2018, according to Sue Racanelli, the VSCA director and president of the League of Women Voters of Vermont. The VSCA is a project of the league’s education fund. “It’s 100 years since women got the right to vote, and we were looking more at commemorating it than celebrating it, because we knew there was a history of racism in the movement,” she said. “It was not a celebration for all women … It’s a long, complicated history, and we’re often told all the good things that happened.” Though the pandemic has waylaid the VSCA’s original plans for a large celebration, the organization is planning events through the fall, including a traveling exhibit at high schools and virtual presentations. The centennial is occurring in a year in which racial inequities in many facets of American life have been brought to the forefront of national conversation. Historians and the media are reexamining the legacies of many of the white heroines of the movement who opposed Black people’s voting rights, excluded them from the movement and erased their contributions from the story of the fight for suffrage. These women include Alice Paul, famously portrayed by Hilary Swank in Iron Jawed Angels, and Susan B. Anthony, whose gravestone was decorated with “I Voted” stickers in recent elections. “From its inception, the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. was segregated,” said Kathryn Dungy, an associate professor and chair of the history department at Saint Michael’s College. “Black women were always in the movement,

HISTORY

Vermonters marching with suffragists from other states in Washington, D.C., in 1913

A suffragist at the 1912 Vermont State Fair

JUST BECAUSE THE AMENDMENT WAS PASSED DOESN’T MEAN THAT BLACK WOMEN STOPPED

FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE. K ATH RYN D UNGY

and there was always contention between white women and Black women.” After the Civil War, Black men were granted the right to vote by the 15th Amendment in 1870, which caused a

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split between white suffragists and the abolitionist movement. White suffragists feared that associating their cause with Black women would alienate Southern white women, whose support they felt they needed because Southern Democrats were some of the staunchest opponents of suffrage in the House and Senate. Many Black women made their names advocating for women’s suffrage and civil rights, including Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Sadie T.M. Alexander and Nannie Helen Burrows. Black women marched in the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C., in March of 1913,

despite white suffragist leaders’ attempts to exclude them and make them march at the back. Even after the 19th Amendment passed, people of color were routinely blocked from voting through various voter-suppression tactics. “It’s just a law. It’s the enforcement of it that is the issue,” Dungy said. “If you’re not a white woman, then you’re not afforded the protections of your whiteness.” It took the 1965 Voting Rights Act to enforce the 15th Amendment and prohibit racial discrimination in voting, but organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union argue that modern-day voter ID laws and voter roll purges disproportionately disenfranchise people of color. “The movement never ended,” Dungy said. “Just because the amendment was passed doesn’t mean that Black women stopped fighting for the right to vote. They continued in all of their causes.” She cited the nomination of Kamala Harris as the Democratic candidate for vice president as a powerful step for Black women. “One hundred eight years on from the [1913] march, and look what we’ve achieved,” Dungy said. “I don’t think any of the women in that march would’ve ever

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imagined Kamala Harris being here, where she is, in 2020.” Vermont, despite its modern reputation for progressivism, wasn’t one of the first 36 states to ratify the 19th Amendment. (Percival Clement, the governor at the time, prevented legislators from calling a special session to vote on ratification because he largely opposed alcohol prohibition and thought women would vote in favor of it and other reforms.) Women’s suffrage was much more common in western states. After the Civil War, Vermont remained agrarian, didn’t industrialize in the same way as other states and actually became relatively “backwards” on women’s rights issues, said Marilyn Blackwell, a historian and member of the VSCA executive committee. “The state was not in the forefront of this issue at all.” Rumblings of suffrage had begun in the state as early as the 1850s, when Clarina Howard Nichols proposed that women be able to vote in school meetings. She was the first woman to address the Vermont legislature, said Blackwell, and she was ridiculed. Nichols eventually left Vermont for Kansas; women weren’t allowed to vote in Vermont school meetings until 1880. In later decades, the Vermont suffrage movement drew most of its ideas from national figures in Boston and other northeastern cities. Suffragists from those cities came to visit Vermont, and the newspapers here were “merciless” in mocking them, Blackwell said.

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Outdoor Picture Show

Vermonters are going back to the movies — under the stars B Y M A R G O T HA R R I S O N

t two minutes to opening, five cars were lined up outside the Sunset Drive-In in Colchester. It was a warm Friday night in early August, and owner Peter Handy had announced a double feature of The Goonies and Stand By Me in a Facebook post that “almost went viral,” in his words. (It was shared 115 times.) The ’80s children of greater Burlington and beyond were coming to relive their favorites on this grassy spot near Lake Champlain, bringing their own kids. Like most drive-in theaters these days, the Sunset offers nostalgia aplenty, despite its fancy new digital projection. Handy’s parents bought the four-screen theater in 1948, when the drive-in business model was still new and on the rise. Nearly every adult over 40 interviewed for this story had drive-in memories, all the more poignant because New England’s outdoor theaters flourish in firefly season and shutter as the leaves fall. As the summer goes, so goes the drive-in. Until recently, the history of American drive-ins seemed to mimic that seasonal pattern: a rapid, spectacular rise followed by a long, much-lamented decline. In 1958, there were 4,063 drive-in theaters across the nation; in 2019, just 305, according 32

to the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association. Then the novel coronavirus changed the narrative — at least for a summer. While most indoor movie theaters across the U.S. have been closed through August, drive-ins operate with built-in social distancing, putting them abruptly back at the center of America’s movie

AFTER MONTHS OF STREAMING MOVIES FROM THE COUCH,

A STIR-CRAZY NATION HAS REDISCOVERED THE DRIVE-IN.

culture. After months of streaming movies from the couch, a stir-crazy nation has rediscovered the drive-in. With new safety precautions, of course. Instead of handing cash or a credit card to the attendant in the Sunset’s ticket booth, I held up the QR code on my phone for scanning. My sister, Eva Sollberger, and I had prepurchased our tickets for touchless

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entry (the preferred method, but not required) and preordered our food. When we rolled onto the field in front of screen 1, which would soon host The Goonies, we found cars positioned a roomy 14 feet apart, creating social-distancing pods. The playground at the foot of the screen was closed. A crowd controller in a yellow vest and black mask directed SUVs to the back rows. “The permanent drive-in theaters, all of us are seeing an increase in business because of the pandemic,” Jim Kopp, administrative secretary of the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association, said in a phone conversation. The demand is so high that temporary setups are popping up to supplement now-scarce permanent drive-ins like the Sunset. Early in August, Walmart announced plans to bring drive-in movies to the parking lots of 160 stores across the country. Sony Pictures has been hosting drive-in screenings on its studio lot in Culver City, Calif. And in Vermont, for-profit and nonprofit businesses are running new pop-up drive-ins featuring inflatable screens and compact digital projectors. From Rutland to the Northeast Kingdom, Fairlee to Colchester, Vermonters are

going to the drive-in picture show, paying about $25 per carload for a double feature. Eva and I visited three drive-ins — one permanent and two pop-ups — to see why people are choosing this new old form of entertainment.

Welcome to the Neighborhood

From your couch, you can stream a 2013 documentary full of vintage footage and lore called Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-In Movie. It features commentary from Jennifer Sherer Janisch, coauthor of Pocket Drive-In Locator. As I visited drive-ins, I kept thinking about one of her sound bites: “For two hours, this is your neighborhood.” At the Sunset, as the west turned pink and the smell of butter-flavored popcorn wafted through the air, Eva and I got to know our new neighborhood. Most neighborhoods have walls and doors. Here, masks marked the boundary between private and public spaces; they were universally worn by people venturing to the portalets or the central snack bar, and almost never by those safely in their parking spaces-cum-isolation pods. (The pattern held true at every drive-in we visited.) Walking over (masked) to

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peer into the pods and ask people questions, I felt as if I were spying on them in their living rooms. I was drawn to the gigantic teddy bear in the bed of a black pickup truck facing screen 1, where Kim Kost and Chris LaMountain of Burlington were setting up a nest of pillows and blankets. “We’re trying to bring back the ’70s drivein feel,” said LaMountain, a fan of The Goonies. While young Myra hugged her bear, the pair said this was their second trip to the drive-in in as many years. “It’s a great option,” Kost said. “I’m more motivated because of the issues going on.” The possibilities for family outings are limited these days, LaMountain noted; their last one was mini golf. Nearby, Karen Stout of Milton, supervising her kids from the cab of a white Dodge SUV, knew The Goonies well; her husband “can recite the entire movie,” she said. Her family makes an annual trip to the drive-in for non-COVIDrelated reasons: Not only is the experience fun, she said, but “It’s easier to entertain kids with special needs here than in a theater.” This neighborhood has law enforcement, too. The masked crowd controller I’d noticed earlier was Christopher Handy, Peter’s nephew. He seemed to be everywhere at once, “schooling” people, as he called it, on the Sunset’s rules in a way that was somehow both firm and indistinguishable from friendly banter. When a friend of Stout’s drove in with four small boys, Christopher lamented, “You came tearing in here like ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’!” Then he directed the kids to play ball on the edge of the playground, not in it. With dusk and showtime an hour off, picnicking was in order. Over in a corner, I found Steve Sharon and Sherry Coburn of Burlington enjoying a delectable-looking spread from Bessery’s Quality Market in the New North End. Their beverage: cans from Burlington’s Foam Brewers decorated with art by Sharon, an abstract painter. A movie at the Sunset, the young couple said, has been their Friday night ritual for the past few months. Coburn’s been coming there since childhood. “We’ve been so cooped up in the house,” she said. “You can’t go see live music,” Sharon said. For him, the drive-in is

From left: Paul Clapps, Mustang and Anais Roy

Jim DuVal

From left: Chris LaMountain, Kim Kost and Myra

Sherry Coburn and Steve Sharon

“a way of being together and romantic in a different setting than inside our apartment.” For Anais Roy and Paul Clapps, in the row behind ours, the drive-in was the perfect outing for their newly rescued greyhound, Mustang, who peeked from the hatchback. “It’s nice to get him in public and meet people and not have it be as much pressure,” said Roy, another moviegoer with childhood memories of the Sunset. “Right now, especially during a pandemic, it’s nice to get outside and have a social gathering.” Clapps agreed: “It’s perfect for the pandemic.” Down in front, I found local tattoo artist Jim DuVal and his wife and muse, Niki Frankenstein — both walking advertisements for his trade. For them, the drive-in is a date night with sentimental value: DuVal proposed to Frankenstein at the Sunset in 2009. The crowd was thickening; I counted 30 cars ready for The Goonies. Christopher Handy had his hands full. After relocating a group of kids in lawn chairs so a car could be reparked, he suggested I talk to a family in the front row that comes every weekend. “I only had to school them once,” he noted approvingly. I found the Doyles — mom, dad and two teenage sons — from Colchester on lawn chairs in front of their silver Civic. The family has “been coming here for years,” Jim Doyle told me. If their visits are more frequent this summer, that’s because the drive-in is playing “classic movies. We’re coming to see Jaws and E.T.,” he said with the reverence of a true movie lover. “We don’t feel like we got a choice; if they’re playing these movies, we gotta go.” I understood. The last time the Sunset played so many old movies was in 2014, when Hollywood studios made good on their threat to stop shipping 35mm films to theaters that hadn’t made the expensive conversion to

digital projection. Peter Handy supplemented his dwindling supply of new 35mm films with old prints of Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Breakfast Club and more. That fall, I went to the drive-in at least three times, bundling up for the chill of late September and gulping snack-bar coffee to get through the second feature. It was worth it. Now the Sunset is fully digitized, and the films are classics for a different reason: Hollywood has postponed virtually all of its new releases until indoor theaters open. “There’s nothing really substantial out there in the first-run world,” Peter Handy told me in a phone conversation. The “retro movies,” he said, do better than the “oddball new releases” he’s run, such as Jon Stewart’s political satire Irresistible and the killer-crocodile movie Black Water: Abyss. But he’s more excited about the new mainstream films that are being released in late August: Unhinged, starring Russell Crowe; The New Mutants; and Bill & Ted Face the Music. Their appearance coincides with the likely return of indoor theaters. National chain AMC Theatres began opening some of its locations on August 20, and in Vermont, Essex Cinemas and the Capital Showplace will start showing indoor movies on August 28. Here in the pocket universe of the summer drive-in, though, all that felt far away. As the sky darkened, I asked James Doyle, 17, how he felt about watching old movies. “I prefer it,” he said. “It’s a generational thing,” his dad said. “Now we’re starting to bring my 7-year-old grandson. He falls asleep, but he loves it.”

‘The Comfort of Your Vehicle’

The rise of drive-in movies in America was tied to the rise of postwar car culture. From their earliest days, outdoor theaters sold themselves as a way to go out while staying in a space that was yours alone. “They’ve always advertised drive-ins as … ‘Come to the movies in the comfort of your vehicle,’” Kopp of the drive-in theater owners organization said, “and it’s kind of funny now that it’s so true in 2020. Folks are seeking out drive-ins because they want something that is physically distant. Something that is … more safe than some other entertainment options.” Richard Hollingshead, who patented the concept of the drive-in in 1933, created it with his mother in mind: A large woman, she wasn’t comfortable in traditional theater seats. Drive-ins accommodated everyone who needed a little more room: parents of small children, lovers looking to get it on (hence the term “passion pits”), smokers, rowdy teens. OUTDOOR PICTURE SHOW

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Outdoor Picture Show « P.33 But in the 1970s and ’80s, the cars got smaller and the TVs got bigger (and attached to home video systems), and many Americans decided their living room was the most comfortable theater of all. The teens who used to flock to drive-ins discovered the mall. Drive-ins are typically family-owned, Kopp said. For many of these struggling proprietors, selling the land to developers became an irresistible proposition. Going Attractions features a sad before-and-after montage of drive-ins becoming strip malls and other suburban sprawl. By 2012, the switch to digital cinema loomed as an existential threat to the already decimated drive-in scene. That year I wrote about Peter Trapp, owner of the Fairlee Drive-In Hotel & Theater, who was crowdfunding to buy the pricey new equipment he needed to keep his onescreen theater alive.

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In the end, the St. Albans Drive-In was the only local casualty of the changeover to digital. Today, Vermont has three operating drive-ins: the Sunset, the Fairlee and the Bethel Drive-In. Longtime locals, however, remember many more. The owners and advocates of drive-ins hope the new surge of interest lasts. “It’s been an interesting year for us,” said Kopp, who owns Family Drive-In Theatre in Stephens City, Va. “We’re seeing new people coming who have not been aware that drive-in theaters were around.” Drive-ins are finding new revenue sources, too. Kopp’s theater and the Sunset are among many that will stream an upcoming Metallica concert. “In a way, drive-ins have come full circle,” April Wright, the director of Going Attractions, wrote in an email. “In the beginning they were gathering places for the community, and now they are again, not only showing movies but hosting concerts, graduations, weddings, even church services.” For Wright, the resurgence of drive-ins is “one of the bright spots during this pandemic.” 34

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On the Fairgrounds

In normal years, Peter Handy said, late August is when his business has to reckon with competition from the Champlain Valley Fair. This year, fairs are canceled. Fairgrounds up and down Vermont stand empty — except where savvy entrepreneurs have turned them into pop-up drive-in theaters. On a gorgeous, humid Saturday evening in early August, I found Saturn Roblee running the register inside a shipping container turned into a snack bar and projection booth on the Caledonia County Fairgrounds in Lyndonville. With her friend Emily Ladd and their respective partners, Tito Ladd and Cavan Meese, she owns Moonrise Cinemas, a mobile drivein venture that was already in its second month and location. In July, Moonrise opened at the Orleans County fairgrounds in Barton, and it’s working to confirm a location for a threeweek run in September in Stowe. “It was really neat watching it move,” Roblee said of the 10,000-pound shipping container. “There’s a guy who came with his big old tow truck and just put his bed right underneath it.” Roblee, 30, wore a stretchy marigold dress and boots and carried her 3-monthold, Kai, on her hip. “He popped out, and then I started a business,” she said with an impish smile. Nearby, Meese, clad in a Smokey Bear T-shirt and bandanna mask, directed cars as they made their way into the grassy field and staked out spaces in front of the 52-by-26-foot inflatable screen. In Lyndonville, Moonrise screens movies Wednesday through Saturday. On Sundays, St. Johnsbury-based Catamount Arts shows movies and concerts at Northern Vermont University-Lyndon as part of its own Drive In Movie and Music series. On Moonrise’s busiest night as of August 8, Roblee said, she saw “upward of 80 cars.” On a typical Saturday, she sees 40 to 60; on a weekday, 30 to 40. We were there for the double feature of Jurassic Park and Spaceballs, which she hoped would be “our biggest night ever.” “We’re gradually building,” she said. “We’re learning what kind of movies people like. We’re learning that, as the summer goes on, our nights get longer, and [we’re learning] what people want in the kitchen.” The hot dogs and sausages sold at Moonrise are Vermont brands; the butter on the popcorn tastes real. Beside the shipping container stood an open-air bar where I bought a Bee’s Knees made with

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VERMONT DRIVE-INS AND POP-UPS Pop-up drive-ins have flourished this summer, so we can’t guarantee this list is comprehensive. If we missed one, please let us know. BETHEL DRIVE-IN, 36 Bethel Dr., 728-3740, betheldrivein.com. BIJOU DRIVE-IN, 157 Route 15, Morrisville; and Stafford Ave., Morrisville; bijou4.com. CATAMOUNT ARTS PRESENTS DRIVE IN MOVIE AND MUSIC SERIES, through August 29 at Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 337 College Hill Rd., Johnson; and through August 30 at Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, 1001 College Rd., Lyndonville; catamountarts.org. ESSEX CINEMAS OUTDOOR MOVIES, at least through September 26, Essex Experience, Essex Way, 878-7231, essexcinemas.com. FAIRLEE HOTEL AND DRIVE-IN THEATER, 1809 Route 5, 667-1194, fairleedrivein.com. THE JACK MCKERNON DRIVE-IN, Estabrook Field, Brandon, 775-0903, paramountvt.org. MOONRISE CINEMAS, through August 29: Caledonia County Fairgrounds, Lyndonville; see website for September location; moonrisecinemas.com. PARAMOUNT THEATRE DRIVE-IN, Vermont State Fair, Rutland, 775-0903, paramountvt.org. A free showing of Selma on Thursday, September 24, will honor U.S. Rep. John Lewis; reserve tickets ahead. SUNSET DRIVE-IN, 155 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 862-1800, sunsetdrivein.com.

Barr Hill gin; next door was a booth housing a U.S. Census worker. When it comes to movies, the choice is simple: “Classics,” Roblee said. “Adults like to bring their children to the classic movies that were so great for them when they were kids.” Among the most requested films are The Goonies, Dirty Dancing and Ghostbusters. “I think that there’s something just, like, nostalgic about a drive-in,” Roblee said, “so the nostalgic movies really resonate with people here.” As we talked, a car that was impossible to ignore pulled up to the snack bar: a 1994 Saab convertible with a Bread and Puppet Theater garbageman mask riding shotgun. Out jumped Alexis Smith, who came to greet Roblee. Later, I caught up with Smith and her companion, Howie Cantor, in the Saab. Both are Bread and Puppet troupe members. Cantor, a guitarist and songwriter who is Meese’s stepfather, sometimes plays live music at Moonrise before the show. Smith has vivid drive-in memories. “I’m a child of divorce, and my parents picked the drive-in as our neutral drop-off ground. The big pictcha,” she said, affecting a Hollywood mogul accent. “The big screen. Very exciting. Sleeping bags, Star Trek, lying on the windshield. In Vermont … this is a big outing!” It didn’t take us long to dub Moonrise the “hipster drive-in,” given the beards, vintage dresses, and crafty cloth masks and bandannas on display. But the dressed up and the dressed down (including me) mixed easily there. Amanda Copeland of Barre, wearing a polka-dot dress, sat with three other young people in a truck bed. “The last time I watched Jurassic Park I went into labor,” she noted. Copeland used to show her horse on these fairgrounds. “People can’t go to theaters, can’t go to bars, can’t go to restaurants, really, so it seemed like a nice thing to do,” she said of the drive-in. Also settled in the back of a pickup were Dina and Kai Pradel of Wheelock and their sons, Marc, 9, and Lukas, 11. This was their first trip to any drive-in, Dina said. They’d come “just to give us something to do, to get out of the house for something that’s safe and fun.” The Pradels directed me to a family whose movie-watching pod boasted a rattan sofa. “We don’t live that far,” explained Bill Goodhue of Lyndonville, who was there with his wife and sons. Like almost everyone else, they’d come because “there’s not a lot going on,” he said. “I’m excited; these guys aren’t,” Bill added with a laugh. He remembered going to a drive-in in Woodsville, N.H., and hearing about the Blue Moon Drive-In in St.

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Johnsbury (RIP 1987, according to cinematreasures.org). When he learned about Moonrise, he said, he thought, “What a great idea.” To Goodhue, a drive-in is an attraction with or without the pandemic. “Hopefully it continues rolling,” he said. Here’s a 21st-century drive-in problem: What do you do with a Prius? The drivers on PriusChat warn that playing your radio in accessory mode could drain the 12-volt battery, but drive-ins broadcast their sound via FM, and running your engine during the show is verboten. We came equipped with a battery-powered radio, a big one. (The folks at Moonrise will set you up for $15.) Once again, nature’s lights were going down, pink sinking in the west. Soon the screen was lit up with green jungle and ravening velociraptors. “Life finds a way,” Jeff Goldblum intoned. As if to confirm his words, moths flitted in the projector beam, wings catching the light and making them wink like fireflies. Below, an electric golf cart glided among the cars making snack deliveries. Much as I love Jurassic Park, it fought for my attention with the stars that spread over the sky, remarkably clear despite the soupy air. While the moon didn’t actually rise during the first feature, the sight of Jupiter blazing over the low hills was all I needed to underline the movie’s message: Nature is bigger than we are.

Amanda Copeland (right) and friends

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A Magical, Abnormal Summer

For Roblee and her partners, a pop-up drive-in is a new business venture uniquely suited to the times. For film and arts presenters whose usual indoor venues are shuttered, it’s an alternative income stream. “Our goal is to give people something to do and to maintain our relevance in the community,” Eric Mallette, interim executive director of Rutland’s Paramount Theatre, said in a phone conversation. The Paramount, which usually presents live performances, opened a 60-car drive-in on the Vermont State Fairgrounds on July 3. Tickets sold out “in minutes.” Given the “overwhelming ” response, Mallette said, the Paramount constructed a second drivein in Brandon. It’s up and running

From left: Saturn Roblee and Kai and Cavan Meese

From left: Kai, Lukas, Marc and Dina Pradel

movies such as sing-along favorite Mamma Mia! Mallette, who is 35, “didn’t grow up going to drive-ins,” he said. For him, opening night was “magical,” complete with a full moon. Sitting with his girlfriend and “watching it unfold … It felt normal to be out doing something, but juxtaposed with the feeling that for people our age it was abnormal,” Mallette recalled. “That contrast between old and new and normal and abnormal sort of collided, and it gave me the energy I needed to keep this thing moving ahead.” On another fine Saturday evening, I found the team from Catamount Arts laying out a blue tarp in a parking lot on the Johnson campus of Northern Vermont University. It would hold the inflatable screen, which takes 45 minutes to an hour to put up, Tim Mikovitz told me. Mikovitz is the technical director of both the arts center’s KCP Presents series and the college’s Dibden Center for the Arts. The Drive In Movie and Music Series, which kicked off in early July, was his idea. “We jumped quickly and bought the equipment necessary,” he said, “which was backordered shortly thereafter.” Every weekend, Catamount Arts screens a film or concert at each of the two university campuses. The series will end with Harry and the Hendersons in Johnson on August 29 and musician Chad Hollister on the Lyndon campus on August 30. Mikovitz has seen up to 50 cars in a night, he said, for the menu of family-friendly classics. While he might not call the drive-in a significant revenue stream, he said, he sees it as “a valuable community offering,” one that draws repeat customers. “We have one family that’s front and center every week,” Mikovitz said. “It’s giving people something to do this summer that’s safe and enjoyable. They’ve all loved it. We’ve had a great summer.”

All in the Family

The sun gilding the university campus tempted me to stay, but we had another pop-up drive-in to visit that night — this one run by veterans of the movie biz. Eight miles southeast of Johnson, a sign reading “Bijou Drive-In” ushered us into the Dunkin’ parking lot on Route 15 in Morrisville. From there, a dirt track led into a high, grassy field that felt surprisingly pastoral, given the chain restaurants nearby. On the field’s far edge, two inflatable screens, measuring 35 feet diagonally, were puffing into shape with remarkable speed. One faced the Dunkin’-adjacent field; the other, a neighboring field at the bottom of a steep hill. In each field, wooden stakes 12 feet apart marked parking pods. From the top of the hill, I gazed across Route 100 toward the former site of the Morrisville Drive-In, where in the 1980s I saw a double feature of Psycho II and John Carpenter’s The Thing. It’s now a Hannaford supermarket. Back at the entrance, Bill Jarvis and his wife, Cherie, were busy laying out candy, popcorn and soda on a table. Selling concessions is nothing new to them. For the past 24 years, Jarvis has owned the Bijou Cineplex 4, a four-screen indoor theater whose vintage marquee is a fixture of Morrisville’s main drag. In a normal year, the family would be busy selling tickets to summer blockbusters. This year, everything’s happening outdoors. The Jarvises opened their drive-in on June 12, screening classics and more recent hits on Friday and Saturday nights. Last night, Bill said, they had 60 cars for The Princess Bride. Gregarious and welcoming, Bill sported a tan and a gleaming white smile. “Knock on wood, it’s been busy,” he said, bustling back and forth. “People enjoy coming out to the movies, getting out of the house.” “They say all the time, ‘Thank you for doing this,’” Cherie added. Bill wasn’t going to tote one of the theater’s $50,000 digital projectors out into a field, so the drive-in plays DVDs on “spare” $10,000 projectors. He has to watch out for winds that might send the inflatable screen flying. “You can’t do it in the rain; you can’t do it in the wind,” he said. “It’s a lot of work to set it all up.” Initially, he tried weeknight shows, but, he said, “Eight cars? It wasn’t worth it.” I tagged along after Bill as he greeted his daughter — who drove onto the field in a spanking-new silver Dodge OUTDOOR PICTURE SHOW

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Outdoor Picture Show « P.35 Ram — and waved hello to his granddaughter, who was helping Cherie at the concessions table. Later, he pointed out his son and grandson, who were busy in the projection “booth” (actually a tented table), centering the image while a cartoon ran. On any given night, Bill has four or five family members working with him, he said. While the Sunset can run new movies such as Unhinged, the studios don’t give their fresh product to pop-up operations, Bill said. We were at the Bijou Drive-In for the 2017 musical hit The Greatest Showman. Reeva Murphy of Stowe, who was setting up camp beside a Toyota Avalon, was a fan of the film — she’d seen it three times, she said. Her primary mission here, though, was an outing with her sisters, Peggy Wark and Marilyn Hostetler, who were visiting from Rhode Island.

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Wark had been staying in for safety, Murphy explained, and wasn’t ready for outdoor dining. But she’d enjoyed a visit to a Maine drive-in so much that she asked her Vermont sister, “Can you find us a drive-in to go to?” Murphy found the Bijou Drive-In by word of mouth. “We went to drive-ins all the time when we were kids,” she said. “I’d go to a drive-in any time, anywhere.” Mike and Mary Benway of Hardwick, sitting in a pickup bed, had similar feelings. They said this was their fourth or fifth trip to the Bijou Drive-In this summer. “I loved drive-ins as a kid,” Mike said. By his teenage years, the ones he’d known were gone. “We were so excited when we found out they were going to do this,” Mary said. When the Bijou Drive-In played the 1977 trucker comedy Smokey and the Bandit, the Benways came in their 36

’77 Thunderbird. Bill Jarvis made that one a theme night and welcomed 13 semitruck cabs onto the field, he said. The next weekend, race cars showed up for the Tom Cruise racing flick Days of Thunder. “When we make it into an event, it seems to do a lot better,” Jarvis said. For Hotel for Dogs on August 22, he was planning a politically themed canine costume contest — an idea he said came from his brother Merrill, owner of Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas in Burlington. The Jarvis family owns three of Chittenden County’s four multiplexes: the Roxy, Majestic 10 Cinemas and Palace 9 Cinemas. The fourth multiplex, Essex Cinemas, started showing its own drivein movies at the Essex Experience on August 21, even as it reopens its indoor screening rooms. “I’m gonna run it as long as I can,” Bill Jarvis said of his rustic Morrisville drive-in, but he looks forward to the day when new-release dollars will start coming in again. That could be “soon,” according to a message on the Majestic’s home page. With the giant AMC Theatres chain testing the waters in late August, and Christopher Nolan’s Tenet currently scheduled for release on September 3, the brief renaissance of the pandemic summer may soon be just another misty drive-in memory. Defenders of the classic drive-in, such as filmmaker Wright and Kopp of the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association, caution against taking these pieces of Americana for granted. To survive, they point out, driveins need more than nostalgia. They need repeat customers. With or without reopened indoor theaters, Peter Handy of the Sunset wasn’t feeling wildly optimistic about the fall. It’s always a slow season, he noted, and his business so far in 2020 has been “on par with last year” — not booming. (It didn’t help that he

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lost his first month to pandemic closure.) If drive-ins do see a lasting resurgence, it could be because the summer of 2020 showed people what they were missing: that combination of public outing and private comfort that drive-ins have always offered. Jay Caroli of Barton, a frequent Moonrise customer, said in a phone conversation that he doesn’t usually go to movie theaters. With a 4- and a 9-year-old, it’s tough to get everybody to sit still. “But to have the big screen back outside with the drive-in is a blast,” Caroli said. His wife, Sharon, liked being able to hold their 4-year-old on her lap. “That’s been really fun, to have the cuddly experience,” she said, calling the drive-in “a community experience,” too. “We had lost so many of our drive-ins, there was a generation of kids who didn’t have that experience,” Wright wrote in her email. “I’m happy they’re having it now.” At the Bijou Drive-In, Bill Jarvis said he sees “a lot of regulars, and there’s a lot of people, I’ve never seen them before. And they all thank me for doing this.” As we watched The Greatest Showman on that Saturday night, the movie’s none-toosubtle theme of the unifying power of show biz seemed apropos. Like the circus, driveins have sometimes had a seedy side. But whether they’re showing family films or porn (as some did in the ’70s), they always hold out the irresistible promise of a safe, controlled escape. I’ll admit that I had trouble focusing on Zac Efron and Zendaya warbling the song “Rewrite the Stars” when actual meteors kept shooting across the sky above my head. That’s the beauty of a summer drivein, though. It’s two shows in one, and one of them is as big as nature itself. Contact: margot@ sevendaysvt.com

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n her peaceful, flower-filled Williston backyard, Rachel Averitt welcomed a reporter with a stylish, personal pandemic hospitality kit. It included sanitizer, gloves, a freshly laundered cloth napkin and a glass bottle of water. About three years ago, Averitt, 37, left the restaurant industry to start her own event coordination and digital marketing consultancy called Rely on Rach. Her Instagram feed will make your mouth water with images of glistening coconut-cream-glazed cinnamon rolls, bronzed chicken wings and perfectly pleated dumplings. Averitt works with a variety of clients, but the food industry remains her first love, despite a few challenging restaurant jobs over the years. Some employers were respectful and supportive, others not so much. She declined to name names. Averitt said she wants to spread more positive vibes than negative: “I

don’t necessarily believe in fighting fire with fire.” But she doesn’t shy away from talking about the tough stuff. “I sometimes feel like transparency is good for other people,” she said during the backyard conversation, which touched on growing up biracial in a single-parent household. “It makes people feel like they’re not alone.” Averitt hopes to empower others by sharing her efforts to “’preneur my ass through this life journey with a camera in one hand and a fork in the other,” she writes on her blog. In June, much to Averitt’s surprise, her new website’s inaugural blog post landed her in a Washington Post article about COVID-19-era entertaining. Averitt spoke with Seven Days about her love-hate relationship with the restaurant industry, her brother’s vinegar chicken and how to host a pandemic dinner party.

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Grilled-cheese sandwiches return to FOUR QUARTERS BREWING at 150 West Canal Street in Winooski on Thursday, August 27, when the Onion City’s only brewery resumes food service. The brewery was in the midst of an expansion at 70 Main Street in Winooski when the pandemic halted construction. The new facility, which will allow for increased production, will open in the fall, owner-brewmaster BRIAN ECKERT said. Indoor and outdoor seating, including a full-season porch, will be available daily for on-site beer and food. “When [the pandemic] first hit, we were deemed essential, but there was a moral issue of whether we should stay open for the sake of our employees,” Eckert said, referring to beer production. “We left it optional, and everyone in the production crew stuck with it.” The West Canal Street taproom, which opened outdoors on June 11 and indoors a month later, is currently open Thursday through Sunday; beer is available to-go at the

Burlington’s ARTSRIOT, closed since mid-March, opened on August 21 under new ownership with a new menu. The restaurant and bar at 400 Pine Street offers beer, wine and cocktails at its outdoor patio, along with food from PINGALA CAFÉ. The vegan restaurant, also currently open in Burlington’s Chace Mill, will pop up at ArtsRiot Fridays through Sundays through Indigenous Peoples’ Day, according to Pingala chef-owner TREVOR SULLIVAN. Sullivan said he’s pleased to be back in the South End, where Pingala’s mobile Broccoli Bar was a mainstay of the ArtsRiot Truck Stop. Among the pop-up menu items are the Chicago dog — a smoked carrot on a

bun with “crazy delicious toppings,” Sullivan said — and options familiar to Broccoli Bar customers, such as broccoli tempura. Other offerings will be exclusive to ArtsRiot, including the N.F.T. sandwich — Nashville hot-fried tofu with special sauce, lettuce, tomato and pickled veggies. “It’s all good stuff,” Sullivan said.

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Appetite for Success « P.40 learned a bunch. I was waiting tables in fine-dining restaurants and being exposed to really good food. I wanted to work in kitchens, but no one ever took me seriously. SD: What brought you to Vermont? RA: The food scene, the local agriculture. I was so inspired by the Intervale and thought City Market [Onion River Co-op] was just the coolest thing. I couldn’t believe the local food. SD: On your website, you refer to the “never-ending cycle of the restaurant industry’s misogynistic bro-culture” that propelled you to start your own business. But you continue to work with restaurants? RA: Oh, I love the restaurant industry. I struggle with it. I have a love-hate relationship with it. I needed to connect with it in a different way. The restaurant industry is a gritty place, [but] I love it because there’s a social atmosphere to it. There is a huge sense of community. There’s a sense of family with restaurant employees. I had kind of a rough childhood, so the restaurant was where I found family. My mom was an alcoholic, and my father died when I was 25. But it just wasn’t the industry for me anymore. I felt like there wasn’t room for me to grow anymore. There’s a certain amount of crap that you just get used to, and you don’t even realize that it’s happening. But what happens is, over time, things build up, you know? And it affects things like your selfesteem, your confidence in using your voice. You start feeling like maybe you shouldn’t speak your mind, or you shouldn’t have opinions. In the restaurant industry, at least in my experience, there was a lot of that. I want to work for myself, be in control. I want to work hard and get the benefits. I want to fill my life with positive things and good things and help people. And so I just had to walk away. SD: When you went out on 42

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SD: Do you have a favorite evocative food memory? RA: My dad worked late nights, and my older brother would always try to make us a nice dinner. He put some energy into it; he wouldn’t just make a frozen pizza. He’d make this vinegar chicken, which now I know was [Filipino] adobo style. My mom didn’t live with us, but he remembered it. It was special. My mom actually, before she started drinking heavily, she really was a very good cook. I still cook a lot of her food, so I do have some goodness there, you know, to hold on to. SD: How are you hosting dinner parties these days? Got any tips to share? RA: Primarily, [we’re hosting] outside. We’re keeping it to a small, manageable size. I make all the food. It’s finally the license to get everyone out of your kitchen! And I plate everything individually. I love to plate. If you’re having a gathering with people, you need to take some responsibility for creating a safe environment and set some guidelines. Communicate what your COVID [rules] are; not everyone’s on the same page. I had a girlfriend who went to a friend’s house thinking it was going to be all socially distant, and it wasn’t at all. And she was taken aback and had to leave. [For cleanup], one person [at a time]

goes in, rinses their plate, shoves it in the dishwasher. Then I don’t have to do all the dishes. We typically use linen napkins, ’cause I’m kind of an environmental freak. We just have a basket, and everyone throws them in and we just dump it in the laundry. And hand sanitizer is everywhere. SD: You take beautiful food photos. How’d you learn to do that? RA: I originally was at photography school. My dad got sick, and I quit college to take care of him. Then it just clicked one day. I was looking back through my phone, and I realized I’d been taking photos of food — bad photos of food! — for so long. [My boyfriend] bought me a camera. Then I met [Richmond-based food blogger] Katie [Webster], and she was so awesome. She was just like, “What do you have questions on? What do you need help with?” I never would have been able to leave the restaurant industry, or do any of this, if it wasn’t for this community, and specifically the women in this community. It’s just insane how much support there is if you just allow it. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length. Contact: pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

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Side Dishes « P.41 more than eight years before moving to OKEMO MOUNTAIN RESORT in 2013. Tostrup opened Free Range in late 2017 as a managing partner and later became sole owner. He continued to lease the building. “Almost three years in,” the chef said, “I was just about to turn the corner.” Various factors led to his decision, Tostrup said, “but the economic realities of COVID contributed to the closing.” When the pandemic hit, he developed a takeout menu. “We stayed open throughout,” Tostrup said, “but we were down well over 50 percent.” Tostrup will continue

to coordinate the efforts of CHESTER HELPING HANDS, which he founded to provide meals to those in need. After serving more than 27,000 meals, the nonprofit is now part of the statewide program Everyone Eats, funded through CARES Act federal relief funding. Chef ED REPOSA and his wife, SARA KILGUSS, plus two recent Rhode Island restaurant industry transplants, plan to open KINGFISHER in Ludlow by the end of September. The partnership team, which includes chefs TIM SHULGA and MIKE LAWYER, has been doing pizza pop-ups at their future location, the former

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an Rai carried an umbrella for shade as she approached her familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vegetable gardens at the Ethan Allen Homestead on a steaming, sunny August afternoon. Across the meadow, kids horsed around against a backdrop of tasseled cornstalks reaching well above their heads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is my fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s garden. I have one, too,â&#x20AC;? Rai, 35, said, standing by a row of daikon radish. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here to take the grass out of the jungle,â&#x20AC;? she added, with a laugh at her own description of weeding. Rai, her sister and her brother-in-law had come to tend several family plots that cover about half an acre. They pay an annual fee of $50 per one-sixteenth acre to the New Farms for New Americans gardening and agriculture program, which was started in 2008 by AALV, a Burlington nonprofit serving refugees and immigrants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working all together and eating from the garden,â&#x20AC;? Rai said of her extended family of 15. They are among more than 2,500 Bhutanese people of Nepali heritage who have been resettled in Vermont over the past decade or so. Most spent years in eastern Nepalese refugee camps after leaving Bhutan, due to ethnic and religious persecution. Rai summons to mind the date she arrived in the U.S. (February 7, 2011) as quickly as she shares her birthday. At the edge of the verdant patchwork of gardens, a new shade structure held a small purple birdhouse. Several notices were pinned around its wooden doorframe, listing COVID-19 garden safety protocols in both English and simple pictures. New Farms for New Americans manages seven and a half acres of land, some at the Ethan Allen Homestead and some in Burlingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Intervale. The 67 families who are raising food for themselves speak at least half a dozen languages collectively. Most came to Vermont CSWD ScrapFoodWaste-QTR-Hv2-7D-snap.pdf 1 7/29/20

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from Bhutan, Burundi, Somalia, Burma or the Democratic Republic of the Congo. AALV program specialist Alisha Laramee estimates that the gardens feed 250 to 300 people. But the value of the program goes beyond fat cabbages, bottle gourds and green beans as long as shoelaces. Lush plots filled with plump white African eggplant and canary-yellow hot peppers represent the opportunity to work as a family raising familiar crops near others with shared life experience. Right now, the gardens also help fend off the food insecurity that is affecting people statewide. An early June coronavirus outbreak in Winooski triggered discussion at AALV about closing the gardens to reduce transmission risk, even though there were no known cases among participants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;When they shut down Hannaford, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll shut down the farm,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Laramee said emphatically. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is happening here on the ground is really quite miraculous in terms of the amount of food people are growing.â&#x20AC;? Ponga Lubula left the civil war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1999. Now in her forties, she lives 3:41 in PM Colchester and works as a caregiver. When she

first came to Vermont, Lubula said over the phone, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a lot of people from my country.â&#x20AC;? As more Congolese escaped the ongoing conflict and landed in Vermont, the gardens gave them a place to connect, she said. It also provided space to cultivate their own varieties of eggplant, amaranth, squash and corn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;African squash and the corn is different from American,â&#x20AC;? she emphasized. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back home, we live in community. Here, you feel lonely. The gardens help us to be together,â&#x20AC;? Lubula said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do everything with my people like back home. We work as a team. We help each other. We feel like we are back home. In winter, we will feel lonely again.â&#x20AC;? New Farms for New Americans has gone through various iterations over its 13 years. For six seasons, it operated as a social enterprise in which participants worked cooperatively to raise crops for sale. But the revenue, once divided, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t amount to much for each family, Laramee said. Similar programs around the country have incubated New American-owned farming enterprises. In Vermont, Laramee said, because of population demographics and other factors, relatively few participants have established their own agricultural businesses. While many previously

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food insecurity,” Laramee said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if this stirred up memories.” With sweat soaking through his T-shirt that proclaimed, “Of course I’m awesome. I’m Nepalese,” Bidur Rai took shelter from the afternoon heat, along with his 6-year-old daughter, Bisasta, under the trellis he’d constructed for gourds and other vining plants in his Ethan Allen Homestead plot. (He is not related to Man Rai.) The elaborate structure, created with driftwood from the Winooski River, is similar to one his parents would have made back in Bhutan and Nepal, Rai said: “When the fruit hangs down, it gives support.”

The friends share seeds and stories. Like Rai’s, Kuikel’s gourds are supported by a trellis of tree branches. “It is happy to be hanging,” he said, showing off a healthy specimen. “On the ground, it will decay.” Gardening for him is primarily about health and selfsufficiency, Kuikel said. “I like to eat the organic food, so if I grow [it] myself, that is better,” he said. “We feel good when we produce our own food.” This year, especially, there are more reasons to do so.

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AALV program’s one-sixteenth-acre minimum is more than three times the size of the largest Burlington-area community plots. “They’re not hobby farmers, they’re subsistence farmers growing a significant amount of food to feed their families,” Laramee said. “People are eating off of these gardens all winter. They are very proud of that.” Many of the plots are tended by multiple generations of one family, and the garden can be an important way for elders to contribute. “The reward of being able to grow food for your family and save money is so much more than what they were making through the social enterprise,” Laramee noted. AALV offers support services such as soil preparation, a greenhouse for starting seeds in the spring, a community corn-grinding mill and advice on extending the season. This year, the demand for gardens was up, although Laramee said she was able to accommodate all but three applicants. She suspects the pandemic prompted the increase; some people lost their jobs, and many simply had broad concerns about food access. “If you’ve ever had the experience in your life of being in a refugee camp, you’ve probably had the experience of

Rai’s family of five had just finished eating the peppers they grew last summer, he said with satisfaction. Their frozen tomatoes lasted until mid-July. Rai, 42, came to Burlington in 2015 after many years in a Nepalese refugee camp. At the time, he was in a wheelchair due to untreated injuries, for which he has since received treatment that enabled him to walk again. Rai is a part-time family support consultant for Vermont Family Network, and his wife works nights at the hospital. In the refugee camp, Rai said, “Food given by the government was not sufficient to survive.” The family had a small space to grow beans and tomatoes and cultivated some land in a nearby village. Now he proudly showed off a healthy flowering tobacco plant. “It has lots of benefits,” he said: The leaves can be wrapped around joints to relieve pain, or ground into a juice that serves as a natural pesticide. Rai said he has enjoyed meeting fellow gardeners. “With the Vietnamese, we share seeds of pumpkins. With the Somali, we share our lenga lenga [amaranth] and peppers,” he said. “They gave to us; we gave to them. We communicate in sign language. Our kids would play together.” Bisasta shyly offered that her favorite garden plant was pumpkins. Asked how she likes to eat them, she said, “You can make pumpkin pie.” Rai’s friend and garden neighbor Ganga Kuikel, 51, said it had been “12 years and three days” since he arrived in Burlington from Nepal as a refugee. He now works as a Burlington School District multicultural liaison.

Ganga Kuikel showing a bean

“More people, they tend to grow because of the pandemic. They lost their jobs. Some of them are afraid they won’t have a job, so they grow more,” Kuikel said. When the gourds are ripe, Kuikel will steam and freeze some for the winter. He bought a new freezer to store all his produce. The leaves of amaranth, he detailed, “We prepare like any other vegetable. We cut it, put in the oil and a lot of spices, like cumin, coriander [and] ginger, garlic, onions.” Corn is prepared in many ways. “Back in Bhutan and Nepal, in the mountain areas, this is the main staple food,” Kuikel said. Dry kernels are ground and made into a porridge. Fresh corn is boiled, fried in butter or roasted in the fire. Another method evokes specific memories for Kuikel: Whole dried kernels are fried whole, and some pop. “That we take as a snack when we go to help on a farm,” he said. “In Bhutan, that is called parma; it means helping each other.” Contact: pasanen@sevendaysvt.com

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It’s with a heavy heart that I bid adieu to one of my favorite local artists, EBN EZRA. Real name ETHAN WELLS, he recently released his final work under the moniker, an EP simply called Piano. Entirely instrumental, it puts glossy electric piano sounds up front, gently weaving emotional landscapes like an ’80s film score. Wells writes in an email that he’s begun working on a new project with a new name that should be available to listeners soon. His 2017 album, Pax Romana, was among my favorites of that year. Check out his music at cadentrecords.bandcamp.com.

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In case you were wondering, Record Store Day 2020 is still on, but in a slightly different way. The celebration of independent record stores was supposed to happen back in April, as it usually does. But concerns over the pandemic prompted the event to be pushed back to June — and then again to Saturday, August 29. This week’s event is actually the first of three. In order to (hopefully) keep crowds small, Record Store Day will be rolled out over two additional Saturdays: September 26 and October 24. So get out there and support your local record stores! I’m sure they’ll appreciate it.

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You’ve probably noticed that the Seven Days music section is a lot smaller than it used to be. Hell, the whole paper is smaller, given that we aren’t currently listing events of any kind in print. Not that there are many to list these days. And instead of having a weekly music feature and an installment of this column, it’s been one or the other since the pandemic set in. That means we haven’t had nearly enough space to cover some of the fun, cool things local musicians have been working on lately. Read on for quick hits and tidbits of musical happenings.

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Remember the VT QUARANTINE COLLECTIVE? The eclectic ensemble, helmed by composers KYLE SAUNIER, MATT LAROCCA and CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORN, debuted in May with a sprawling, experimental composition called “here behind the glass.” The group is back and bigger than ever with a new video collaboration with indie-pop singer-songwriter FRANCESCA BLANCHARD. Showcased in a “border-crossing project of enormous proportions,” according to an email from the collective, the group reimagines “Make It Better,” the title track from Blanchard’s recently released album. Beginning with a small ensemble of musicians, some of whom perform with the VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, the video slowly unfurls into a choral, orchestral explosion, constructed from videos shot individually by participants in their homes. Blanchard’s original version was already powerful, but the new clip jacks it up to a whole new level of awesomeness. Watch it on YouTube.

Can we talk for a second about the new alcohol curfew in Burlington? In case you missed it, the Burlington City Council decided last Thursday to curtail alcohol sales at bars and restaurants at 11 p.m. until Monday, September 14, in anticipation of the return of area college students. I’m not sure how they arrived

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at that arbitrary cutoff, and I’m pretty sure the coronavirus doesn’t care what time it is when it infects people. The measure is meant to ensure people’s safety, but it can only ensure pissing people off. Ah, politics. Plattsburgh/Saranac, N.Y., psychpop group the MOUNTAIN CAROL just dropped a new two-track EP, Brother Bloom. Recorded at Leilani Sound in Burlington, it includes yet another reworking of the band’s song “Essex Ferry,” which first appeared on its 2017 self-titled debut EP and its 2018 LP, Starkiller and the Banshees. Brother Bloom also features a new tune called “Justify My Love.” The band’s MATT HALL notes via email that it will continue to rework and release existing songs on future releases, writing, “We just like to take the songs at different tempos and styles depending on how we are feeling at that moment.” He also hints that another full-length album is imminent. If you aren’t familiar with this trio of oddballs from across the lake, now’s a good time to check them out. Higher Ground presents a pair of highly anticipated drive-in shows this weekend at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction. Vermont-born country singer JAMIE LEE THURSTON takes the stage on Friday, August 28, while NICOLE NELSON (DWIGHT & NICOLE) and BOB WAGNER (KAT WRIGHT) present Million Dollar Bash, a tribute to MAVIS STAPLES and BOB DYLAN, on Saturday, August 29. If you haven’t checked out HG’s drive-in events at the Expo, you should get on it, because this is one of the last weekends. Right now, only Columbus, Ohio, folk band Caamp are booked, on Tuesday, September 22. The band was meant to play at Higher Ground in April. The shows, which benefit the Vermont Arts Council and Burlington City Arts, are the closest thing to a true concert experience you’re likely to find this season. Riot-rockers ROUGH FRANCIS are set to appear on the soundtrack to Vicarious Visions’ new remake of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2, out on Friday, September 4. NOISEY just released a promotional video featuring the band playing its contribution, “Deathwire,” a track from

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its 2020 LP Urgent Care. Watch it on YouTube. University of Vermont spaz-rockers PONS just dropped a new track, “Subliminal Messages.” Body-jacking beats, shouted lyrics and psychedelic swirls of sound converge for an intelligent and confrontational take on dance music, a specialty of the young trio. As the group’s Jack Parker points out in an email, “‘Subliminal Messages’ deals with themes of paranoia surrounding technology and the frustration of someone being an overbearing presence when you’re just trying to be left alone.” Pons also plan to drop a new LP, INTELLECT, in September. Listen to “Subliminal Messages” at ponsbandofficial.bandcamp.com. The Ripton Community Coffee House, a staple of Addison County’s rural music scene, is going virtual. On Saturday, September 5, folk singer-songwriters CLIFF EBERHARDT and LOUISE MOSRIE break in the new online format. Find the streaming link at rcch.org. Sizzling blues and rock outfit SARAH KING & THE GUILTY HENCHMAN recently dropped a striking, pastoral video for the traditional tune “Columbus Stockade Blues.” Directed by CHRISTIAN JAMES, the clip is set entirely on a working Addison County farm and features “some rather large co-stars who kept things entertaining,” as King points out by email, referring to some accompanying equine beauties. See it on YouTube.

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I recently unearthed a photo of myself from when I was 19. Staring directly into the camera with an inscrutable look on my face, I’m sitting on a couch in my first apartment — a real shithole that I loved dearly. Whenever I see pictures of myself from that era, I try to remember how deeply and purely I felt things back then. It’s nearly impossible. Perhaps that’s why I’m so drawn to 19-year-old queer singer-songwriter Eben Ritchie and his debut album, Bonjour. The Champlain College student’s eight-song record teems with passion and energy, an iridescent beacon of pop-rock hopefulness at the literal worst moment to be a young adult — especially a college student. Ritchie, a budding bedroom producer, mentioned in an email that he set out to make music that had an inherent

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When Rob Voland dropped his last record — the lonesome, sonically adventurous Quality Loneliness — in 2018, the Burlington singer-songwriter had just come through a breakup. The record reflected it, too, as it was chock-full of songs about regret, isolation, heartbreak and all the philosophic wonderings that love gone wrong can bring about. As it happened, when the record hit my desk that winter, a relationship of mine had just flamed out spectacularly. Frankly, I was terrified to grapple with a collection of songs about heartbreak. I needn’t have worried. That album reminded me of how a truly skilled songwriter can make any such fears moot. Yes, the songs made me think of sad memories and painful flights of fancy. But Voland’s artistry, skill and emotional acuity allow him to create songs that make you feel like your misery has company. His latest album, Afterglow, doesn’t

optimism. That’s a pretty tall order for someone whose first taste of independence was tainted by a global pandemic. But Ritchie’s quarantine fostered a sense of urgency, which manifested in sparkling tunes about sweet moments and big feelings. His songs are ear candy, outfitted with meticulous synth and drum programming, big-swing hooks, and a wise-beyondhis-years lyrical sensibility. Fans of early Vampire Weekend will likely notice Ritchie’s affinity for the band’s erstwhile musical magician Rostam Batmanglij, who spread his queerness all over the group’s first few records. Ritchie emulates Batmanglij’s finely honed equilibrium of organic-sounding instrumentation and computer-aided programming, applying just a sprinkling of production glitter to make his excellently crafted songs snap, crackle and pop. None does this as clearly as “Parc,” a rollicking summer jam full of untainted love. Ritchie’s voice clocks in somewhere around baritone, applying a moderately

deep, rounded quality to nearly everything he sings. It makes him sound older than he is, as do his patient, empathetic assessments of the world around him. “Don’t be scared of time / Because time is all I want to spend here,” he sings on “Upwards,” a bubbly track with 8-bit video game sensibilities. “All in perspective / We could get up and leave here / Or stay / It’s up to you / All for you now,” he continues over chipper beats and searing, picked licks. “City Talk” beams with springy riffs and flights of buzzy synth. Brimming with sunshine, the song’s lyrics imply a sense of security and a quiet, unflappable knowingness that can’t be struck down. “French Tokyo” is completely instrumental, a raging slice of electro-pop that conjures fast convertibles blazing along a seaside highway. In many ways, American life is a different animal than it was when I was 19. But the ardor felt by young adults on the cusp of truly coming into their own is very much the same. Ritchie has a lot to share with the world, and he does it better than most. Bonjour is available at ebenritchie. bandcamp.com.

have quite the same pronounced thematic elements as Quality Loneliness, but there’s an uptick in energy. Voland places a little more emphasis on garage and psychedelic indie-rock jams, as on “Rainbows,” and shoe-gazing, Pavement-esque numbers such as “James Marshall.” Once again, Voland handles just about everything music-wise, with the exception of “Dream On,” which features longtime collaborator Wren Kitz on drums and Hunt Manley on bass. As a one-man production, Voland is more than capable, often building slow-burning, fuzzed-out jams into platforms for his echo-laden voice and dreamy lyrics. Voland also showcases his guitar chops a bit more on his latest record. Opening instrumental “Sparks” has the feel of an early Doves track — a watery, stumbling jam featuring Voland’s guitar shimmering over a lo-fi bed. At 24 tracks, Afterglow is threaded with a lot of ideas. It’s a credit to Voland that the record suffers no slow points or slog tracks, nor does it feel overstuffed. The majority

of the songs are under three minutes and, with various instrumental passages, the record moves along at a brisk pace. Much of that feel is due to Voland’s ability as a songwriter. It’s hard to pin down his songs’ DNA, but each has an innate sense of individuality. The tunes can sound detached, aloof and cool, but all the while his melodies and vocal tones lure in the listener. I will cop to some relief that the new release doesn’t have quite the same emotional heaviness as Voland’s previous record — and that I myself am not in such a compromised emotional state while listening. While Afterglow definitely has songs as sedate and down-tempo as anything on Quality Loneliness — such as the stunning “Catching Up With Me” — the newer work has more drive and creative energy. There’s also a sense of lessons learned. When Voland sings “Careful what you wish for” over and over on “Careful,” his voice has a sage-like quality and conveys the feeling of a man who has gone through it and wants to impart some wisdom before he moves on. Afterglow is a unique record — washed out and vibrant at once. Download it at robvolandmusic.bandcamp.com.

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religion TREASURES OF THE WORLD’S RELIGIONS: Discover the gifts that each of the major religions and indigenous spiritualities contributes to our world, including mystical and ethical dimensions and the new emerging form of spiritual expression. We welcome email conversations from anyone who would need a reduction in the usual fee. Led by Sue Mehrtens. Register by email info@jungiancenter.org. Sep. 1, Oct. 6, Nov. 3, Dec. 1, Jan. 5, Feb. 2, Mar. 2, Apr. 6 & May 4, 7-9 p.m.

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yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Come as you are and open your heart! Whether you are new to yoga or have been at it for years, you’ll find the support you need to awaken your practice. Livestream, recorded and outdoor classes. Practice with us in the park or on the Sailing Center dock, overlooking Lake Champlain and the scenic mountains. Enrich your practice with our Yoga for Life program or 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training for Health and Wellness Professionals. Single class: $0-15. 10-class pass: $120. $5 new student special. Flexible pricing, scholarships avail. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

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and entering the project8/21/20 person for party 4:56eligible PM Untitled-26 number “4C0481-1F.” status under110 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must No hearing will be held include a petition for and a permit may be party status under the issued unless, on or Act 250 Rules. Prior to before September 10, submitting a request 2020, a person notifies for a hearing, please the Commission of an contact the district issue or issues requiring coordinator at the the presentation of telephone number evidence at a hearing, listed below for more or the Commission sets information. Prior to the matter for a hearing convening a hearing, on its own motion. Any the Commission must person as defined in 10 determine that substanV.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may tive issues requiring request a hearing. Any a hearing have been hearing request must be raised. Findings of Fact in writing to the address and Conclusions of Law below, must state the may not be prepared criteria or sub-criteria unless the Commission at issue, why a hearing holds a public hearing. is required and what additional evidence If you feel that any of will be presented at the the District Commission hearing. Any hearing members listed on the request by an adjoining attached Certificate of property owner or other Service under “For Your

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application. Interview, refs, bg check req. EHO stages of passage:an______________ Second reading: 08/10/20 COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE – Action: adopted Homeshare-temp2.indd 1 8/17/20 11:13 AM Bowling Alleyorin E-LM +13017158592 community into five (5) DRB proceeding is a CITY OF BURLINGTON Date: 08/10/20 +13462487799 or parcels. One each for prerequisite to the right IN THE YEAR TWO ZA #20-06 +16699006833 or Buildings A, B, C and D, to take any subsequent Signed by Mayor: 08/18/20 +12532158782 and one common land appeal. Please note that THOUSAND TWENTY BURLINGTON AN ORDINANCE parcel. ANYTHING submitted DEVELOPMENT REVIEW Published: IN RELATION TO 1. 21-0076CA/CU; 426 08/26/20 to the Zoning office BOARD COMPREHENSIVE South Winooski Avenue 3. 21-0202CU; North is considered public Tuesday, September 15, Effective: DEVELOPMENT (RM, Ward 6S) Scott Avenue (RCO-C, RCO-A, and cannot be kept 09/16/20 2020, 5:00 PM ORDINANCE - BOWLING Mapes Ward 7N) 6120006818 - SNA EBI Consulting, 21 B Street, Burlington, MA 01803, or via telephone at (757) 354-7566.

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Community School, Shelburne Community School, and Williston Central School hereby provide the following notice in compliance with the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) 40 CPR 763.93 [g.] [4] Requires that written notification be given that the following schools/buildings have Asbestos Management Plans for the safe control and maintenance of asbestos containing materials found in their buildings. These Management Plans are available and accessible to the public at the administrative office of each facility listed above. 08/26/2020

ORDINANCE 7.05 That Appendix A, Sponsor: Office of City Planning, Comprehensive Development Planning Commission Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the Public Hearing Dates: 08/10/20 City of Burlington be _____________________________ and hereby is amended to allow Bowling Alleys First reading: 07/13/20 in the E-LM District as a permitted use by amending Appendix Referred to: Ordinance Committee A-Use Table – All Zoning Districts, thereof to read Rules suspended and placed in all as follows: Appendix A-Use TableAll Zoning Districts Footnotes: 1. – 32. As written. i. As written. Legend: As written. ** Material stricken out deleted. *** Material underlined added.

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NOTICE OF TAX SALE TOWN OF COLCHESTER The resident and nonresident owners, lien holders and mortgagees of lands in the Town of Colchester in the County of Chittenden are hereby notified that the taxes or delinquencies assessed by such Town remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid on the following described lands in such Town, to wit:

It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington as follows:

Plans may be viewed upon request by contacting the Department of Permitting & Inspections between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Participation in the

to the said Tonya Gabert by Quitclaim Deed of Brian Gabert dated August 14, 2007 and recorded at Volume 594, Page 346, and by Warranty Deed of Benjamin C. Martin, II and Gail E. Martin to Brian Gabert and Tonya Gabert dated March 27, 2001 and recorded at Volume 346, Page 213. Ditech Financial, LLC’s interest is by Complaint for Foreclosure in the matter Ditech Financial, LLC f/k/s Green Tree Servicing LLC v. Tonya L. Gabert and Citibank (South Dakota) N.A., Occupants of 102 Canyon Estates Drive, Colchester VT dated June 6, 2018 and recorded at Volume 837, Page 673, Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure by Judicial Sale dated January 17, 2019 and recorded at Volume 861, Page 202, and Certificate of Non-Redemption dated August 26, 2019 and recorded at Volume 861, Page 201 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, Vermont. Amount of delinquency, interest, cost and penalties: $100,952.80

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Property Owner: Tonya Gabert (with interest of Ditech Financial, LLC)Property Address: 102 Canyon Estates Drive Parcel ID # 22-048003-0000000

Reference may be made to said deeds for a more particular description of said lands and premises, as the same appear in the Town Clerk’s Office of the Town of Colchester.

Valley School District 2. 20-0488SD;A, 95 Comprehensive Development Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the City That Appendix ofsuch lands So much of composed of Allen Derway Drive (RL, Ward 7N) Larkin Realty Final subdivision of the Claire Pointe planned

Brook School, Charlotte Central School, Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg

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Burlington be and hereby is amended to allow Bowling Alleys in the E-LM District as a permitted use by

amending Appendix A-Use Table – All Zoning Districts, thereof to read as follows:

All and the same lands and premises conveyed

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That Appendix A, Comprehensive Development Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended to allow Bowling Alleys in the E-LM District

4 as a permitted use by amending Appendix A-Use Table – All Zoning Districts, thereof to read as follows: 5

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Colchester, 781 Blakely Road, Colchester, Vermont 05478, on the 24th day of September, 2020 at 10:30 a.m., as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with interest, costs and penalties, unless previously paid. Property owners, mortgagees, and lien holders may pay such taxes, interest, costs and penalties in full by cash or certified check made payable to the Town of Colchester. At tax sale, successful bidders must pay in full by cash or certified check. No other payments accepted. Any questions or inquiries regarding the above-referenced sale should be directed to the following address: Kristen E. Shamis, Esq. Monaghan Safar Ducham PLLC 156 Battery Street Burlington, VT 05401 kshamis@msdvt.com (802) 660-4735 Monaghan Safar Ducham PLLC, and the Town of Colchester give no opinion or certification as to the marketability of title to the above-referenced properties as held by the current owner/ taxpayer.

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Dated at Colchester, Vermont, this 6th day of August, 2020. Julie Graeter, Collector of Delinquent Taxes Town of Colchester

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE BURLINGTON COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4442 and §4444, notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington City Council to hear comments on the following proposed amendment to the City of Burlington’s Comprehensive Development Ordinance (CDO): ZA-20-04 Minimum Parking Requirements Per Act 92, Secs. 5 and 6, the public hearing will take place on Monday, September 14, 2020 during the Regular City Council Meeting which begins at 7:00 pm. You may

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Pearl St., N. Winooski Ave., Riverside Ave. (N. Winooski to Colchester), Battery St. Main St., Pine St., St. Paul St., and Shelburne Rd., and to affordable housing, adaptive reuse, and ADUs regardless of zoning district. List of section headings affected: Th e proposed amendment affects Sec 8.1.3 and Map 8.1.3-1, Parking Districts; Sec. 8.1.6, Existing Structures: Exemptions in Downtown District; Sec. 8.1.8 and Table 8.1.8-1 Minimum Off-Street Parking Requirements; Sec. 8.1.9 Maximum Parking Spaces and new Table 8.1.9-1 Maximum Off-Street Parking Requirements; Sec. 8.1.10, Off-Street Loading Requirements; Sec 8.1.11, Parking Dimensional Requirements, and Table 8.1.11-1 Minimum Parking Dimensions; Sections 8.1.12, Limitations, Location, Use of Facilities; 8.1.13, Parking for Disabled Persons; 8.1.14, Stacked and Tandem Parking Requirements; and 8.1.15, Waivers from Parking Requirements/ Parking Management Plans; and adds a new Sec. 8.1.16 Transportation Demand Management. Th e full text of the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance is available online at www. burlingtonvt.gov/DPI/ CDO. A hard copy of the proposed amendment is posted and can be viewed on the information board located on the first floor of City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or on the department’s website at https:// www.burlingtonvt.gov/ DPI/CDO/ProposedAmendments-Beforethe-City-Council.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT PROBATE DIVISION CHITTENDEN UNIT DOCKET NO.: 413-3-20CNPR IN RE: Th e Estate of Nettie R. Lambert ORDER AND NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Whereas, the following petition has been made to the Chittenden Probate Division of the Vermont Superior Court: Petition to Open Decedent’s Estate; and Whereas, a hearing on the petition will be held

on September 17, 2020, at 10:00 AM, at the Chittenden Probate Division located at 175 Main Street, Burlington, Vermont. It is hereby ordered that notice thereof be given by publishing this notice in a newspaper of general circulation in Chittenden County. Service by publication to be complete at least fourteen days prior to the day assigned for the hearing. Th erefore, you are hereby notified to appear before said Court, at the time and place assigned, to make objections if you have cause. This is the first action in this proceeding. If you wish to receive notice of future events in this matter you must formally enter your appearance with the Court by filing Form P148. Dated at Burl., Vermont this 10 day of June, 2020. /s/ Gregory J. Glennon Probate Judge Publication Date: August 26, 2020

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT FRANKLIN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 174-5-18 FRCV BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. v. SHAWN P. DILLON AND FAIRFAX GREEN HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION OCCUPANTS OF: 63 Old Academy Road Unit 102, Fairfax VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered September 13, 2019 , in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Shawn P. Dillon to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., dated August 31, 2007 and recorded in Book 187 Page 228 of the land records of the Town of Fairfax, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to Bank of America, N.A. f/k/a BAC Home Loans Servicing

LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP dated October 14, 2009 and recorded in Book 202 Page 776 and (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. to Bank of America, N.A. f/k/a BAC Home Loans Servicing LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP dated June 4, 2012 and recorded in Book 220 Page 357 of the land records of the Town of Fairfax for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 63 Old Academy Road Unit 102, Fairfax, Vermont on September 9, 2020 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Shawn Dillion by Warranty Deed of Armand W Turner, JR. of even date and to be recorded prior to the recording of this instrument in the Town of Fairfax Land Records. Reference is made to a Quit Claim Deed from Bonnie Howard to Armand W. Turner, Jr. dated February 16, 2007 and recorded February 22, 2007 in Volume 183, Pages 126-127 of the Town of Fairfax Land Records quit claiming all of Bonnie Howard’s interest in said Lot 3A to Armand W. Turner, Jr. Being Unit B of 63 Old Academy Street Condominium, together with a 50% allocated interest and all rights, obligations and interests appurtenant thereto, which condominium regime is located at 63 Old Academy Street, Fairfax, Vermont. Said Unit is subject to a Declaration of Condominium for 63 Old Academy Street Condominium dated August 31, 2007; and is associated bylaws, rules, regulations, plats and plans and to be recorded in the Town of Fairfax Land Records. Th e 63 Old Academy Street Condominium site plan titled Old Academy Street Condominium Site Plan, Fairfax, Vermont dated August 2007 prepared by David A. Tudhpope to be recorded in the Town of Fairfax Land Records. Th e 63 Old Academy Street Condominium floor plans prepared by

Frank Naef, Architect, dated July 20, 2007 to be recorded in the Town of Fairfax Land Records. Said Unit, and the lands and premises of which it is a part, are subject to and/or benefi ted by: (I) easements, rights of way and other restrictions of record, (ii) those in Lot 3A as shown on a map entitled Fairfax Investments, LLP, Fairfax, Vermont, Map of Subdivision, Vt. Route 104, Fairfax, Vermont, dated April 30, 2003, last revised September 8, 2005, prepared by Cross Consulting Engineers, PC, and recorded as Map Slide 240A of the Town of Fairfax Land Records. Said lots have the benefi t of and are subject to rights of way for foot and vehicular traffic and the installation of utility services over all developed streets in the Grantor’s subdivision, including the street constructed on Lot IC as shown on the above-described plan providing access to and from Vermont Route 104. Said rights shall terminate at such time, if ever, as the Town of Fairfax accepts the rights of way as public streets, and the installation, repair, maintenance and replacement of utilities. This right of way is a portion of the same lands and premises conveyed to Fairfax Investments, LLP by Trustees Deed of Gerald F. Minor, Trustee for the Gerald F. Minor Revocable Trust dated July 24, 2002 and recorded July 30, 2002 in Volume 138, Pages 451-454 of the Town of Fairfax Land Records. Said premises are subject to the terms and conditions of Wastewater System and Potable Water Supply Permit WW6-0842-1 as recorded in Volume 173, Pages 572-574 of said Land Records; and Land Use Permit 6F0561-2 as recorded in Volume 164 at Pages 556-560 and the permits recited therein. Reference is made to project review sheets dated October 2, 2005 approving a modification of the wastewater disposal service as filed for record. Said premises are subject to and have the benefi t of the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions of Fairfax Green dated November 4, 2005 and recorded in Volume 174 at Page 171 of said Land Records.

same land and premises conveyed to Betty L. Johnson by Mark A. Johnson by Quitclaim Deed dated January 4, 1999 and recorded in Book 153, Page 713 of the Land Records of Barre Town, Vermont. Being also part of the same land and premises conveyed to Mark A. Johnson and Betty L. Johnson by Warranty Deed of Richard B. Betters, Jr., and Janet Betters dated August 6, 1979 and recorded in Book 78, Pages 487¬488 of the Land Records of Barre Town, Vermont. Said Lot #1 is more particularly described in Subdivision Map 1935, approved by the Barre Town Planning Commission on February 14, 2001, P-00-12-49, as recorded in Slide 245 of the Land Records of Barre Town, Vermont. The within conveyed lands and premises are subject to the terms and conditions of State of Vermont Subdivision Permit C-5-3435, dated January 30, 2001 and recorded in Book 163 at Page 20 of the Barre Town Land Records. Reference is made to a certain Certificate of Trust, which names Barbara H. Schoenberg as Co- Trustee of the Betty Langrehr Johnson Revocable Trust, dated January 10, 2005 and recorded at Book 205, Page 206 of the Barre Town Land Records. This conveyance is made subject to and with the benefit of any utility easements, public rights-of-way, spring

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STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 686-11-17 WNCV WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR ASSET BACKED SECURITIES CORPORATION HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES OOMC 2005HE6, ASSET BACKED

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject

DATED: July 30, 2020 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered November 6, 2019 , in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Scott Anderson and Virginia Anderson to Option One Mortgage Corporation, dated April 15, 2005 and recorded in Book 207 Page 534 of the land records of the Town of Barre, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Option One Mortgage Corporation to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee for Asset Backed Securities Corporation Home Equity Loan Trust, Series OOMC 2005-HE6, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series OOMC 2005-HE6 dated April 17, 2013 and recorded in Book 267 Page 999 of the land

To wit: Being a parcel of land, said to contain 2.38 acres, more or less, together with dwelling house and other improvements thereon standing, now designated as 100 Miller Road Extension, Barre Town, Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises as conveyed to Scott Anderson and Virginia Anderson by the Trustee&#39;s Deed of Barbara H. Schoenberg, CoTrustee of the Betty Langrehr Johnson Revocable Trust - 2002, u/t/a dated January 31, 2002 as amended by First Amendment dated January 10, 2005, which Deed is dated even with this instrument and to be recorded in the Barre Town Land Records, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Betty Langrehr Johnson, Trustee of the Betty Langrehr Johnson Revocable Trust by Deed Into Trust of Betty L. Johnson, dated January 31, 2002 and recorded at Book 171, Pages 685-688 of the Barre Town Land Records, and described in part more particularly as follows: Lot #1

Reference is made to the aforementioned deed, and to the record thereof, and to the deeds and records therein referred to in further aid of this description. Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale.

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

records of the Town of Barre for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 100 Miller Road Ext, Barre, Vermont on September 10, 2020 at 9:30 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage,

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Armand Turner and Bonnie Howard by Warranty Deed of Fairfax Investments, LLP dated November 10, 2006 and of record at Book 181, Pages 247-248 of the Town of Fairfax Land Records.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES OOMC 2005-HE6 v. SCOTT ANDERSON AKA SCOTT J. ANDERSON, VIRGINIA ANDERSON AKA VIRGINIA L. ANDERSON, COMMUNITY NATIONAL BANK, GRIPTITE MANUFACTURING CO., LLC, VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC OCCUPANTS OF: 100 Miller Road Ext, Barre VT.

Grantor reserves the right to convey the development roadway, partially located on the above-described lots, to the Town of Fairfax as a public highway. In such event, Grantee, its successors add assigns, shall have no ownership interest in and to that portion of the above-described lots as shown on the above-described plan as 60 Access R.O.W.

to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

Included with said lot is one membership in the Fairfax Green Homeowners Association, Inc., which membership is appurtenant to the lot and may not be conveyed separately therefrom. Membership in the Association and the obligations of the Association may not be waived by any lot owner.

rights, easements for ingress and egress, and rights incidental to each of the same as may appear more particularly of record; provided, however, that this paragraph shall not reinstate any such encumbrance previously extinguished by the Marketable Record Title Act, Chapter 5, Subchapter 7 of Title 27, Vermont Statutes Annotated. If it should be determined that all or a portion of the conveyed lands and premises are Vermont perpetual lease land, then same are conveyed as such. Reference is hereby made to the abovedescribed documents, and the documents described therein and to the municipal land records in aid of this description. Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED : July 30, 2020 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

TOWN OF BOLTON, VERMONT NOTICE OF ADOPTION BOLTON TRAFFIC ORDINANCE AMENDMENT On August 17, 2020 the Select Board of the Town of Bolton,

Vermont voted to amend the “Bolton Traffic Ordinance” pursuant to 23 V.S.A. §§ 1007, 1008 and 24 V.S.A. §§ 1971 and 2291, to add the following language under Article VII: Parking Regulations, Section 1. Prohibition, with respect to Town Highway #1, Duxbury Road, and Town Highway #3, Stage Road. Article VII: Parking Regulations Section 1. Prohibition (i) On T.H. #1 (Duxbury Road), on either side of T.H. #1 (Duxbury Road, ) from .9 miles east of the intersection of T.H. #1 (Duxbury Road) and Cochran Road, for .325 miles east measured along T.H. #1 (Duxbury Road, the vicinity of the GMC Winooski River pedestrian bridge ), and from three (3.0) miles east of the intersection of T.H. #1 (Duxbury Road) and Cochran Road, for .25 miles east measured along T.H. #1 (Duxbury Road, the vicinity of the GMC Long Trail parking lot). (ii) On T.H. #3 (Stage Road) on either side of T.H. #3 (Stage Road) for .25 miles north of the Preston Pond Conservation Area trailhead at 3638 Stage Road, and .25 miles south of the Preston Pond Conservation Area trailhead at 3638 Stage Road. This notice is published pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 1972 to inform the public of this amendment and of the citizens’ right to petition for a vote to disapprove it. Title 24 V.S.A. § 1973 grants citizens the right to petition for a vote at a special or annual town meeting to disapprove the ordinance as amended by the Select Board. To exercise this right, citizens must present to the Select Board or the Town Clerk a petition for a vote on the question of disapproving the amendment signed by not less than five percent (5%) of the town’s qualified voters. The petition must be presented within forty-four (44) days following the date of adoption. Unless a petition requesting a vote is filed pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 1973, the “Bolton Traffic Ordinance” as amended shall become effective sixty (60) days from the date of adoption. Due to COVID-19 and the closure of the Town Office to the public, the full text of the ordinance as amended may be reviewed on the

Town of Bolton website www.boltonvt.com or made available by contacting the Bolton Town Clerk, 3045 Theodore Roosevelt Highway, Waterbury, VT 05676, (802) 434-5075, during regular office hours, M – Th, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

NOTICE TOWN OF DUXBURY SELECTBOARD PUBLIC HEARING ON DRAFT TOWN PLAN SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 6 P.M. AT THE TOWN MEETING ROOM The Duxbury Selectboard will hold a public hearing to receive input from the citizens of Duxbury and adjoining towns on the draft of the updated town plan. The last town plan expired in October 2019. The town plan covers the entire town of Duxbury and proposes no changes in land uses in the land use districts that currently are in place. The plan covers: an updated community profile; housing; natural resources; flood resiliency; economic development; food and agriculture; transportation; education; community utilities; facilities; forest blocks and wildlife crossings; and future land use are attachments to the plan. Town history and wildlife information are included in appendices. The full text with accompanying maps is available at the Duxbury Town Clerk’s office and on the town website: http://www. duxburyvermont.org/ planningcommission Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT 0104436 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DRIVE, WILLISTON VT, 05495 WILL BE SOLD ON OR ABOUT THE 10TH OF SEPTEMBER 2020 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF KEVIN MARTIN. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

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FULL-TIME CASE MANAGER (based in Burlington) Dynamic position working with HIV+ individuals to facilitate medical connections, financial stability, and housing; some HIV testing, harm reduction, and HIV education. Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, community resources, and harm reduction philosophy necessary. Reliable transportation required. Full time position (37.5 hours/wk) based in Burlington with generous benefits (health, vision, PTO). Salary range: $29,00030,000. All those looking for challenging role that directly impacts HIV/AIDS in Vermont, please apply. Position open until filled. Please email cover letter and resume by September 4th to: Peter Jacobsen, Executive Director, Vermont CARES at peter@vtcares.org.

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American Flatbread Middlebury Hearth is planning for our future! We’re hiring a Restaurant Manager to lead and support our incredibly hard working team, while continuing to drive our standard of excellence in customer service and quality of food and beverage. If you have experience offering stellar customer service, possess great communication skills, work well with a 1:19 PM team, know how to motivate others and have an interest in delicious, local and organic food, please forward your resume to Danielle@americanflatbread.com. We offer a positive and respectful work environment, competitive salary and vacation package, retirement plan and other benefits. Please, only serious candidates interested in making a long term commitment and ability to work nights and weekends. EOE.

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Highly regarded upscale restaurant seeks a full-time pastry chef and a full-time line cook. Fine dining experience preferred. Must be extremely reliable, hardworking, team-oriented and have unfailing attention to detail.

LEAD CARPENTER/ CARPENTERS Network Systems Engineer Administrator There are IT firms and then there is Technology Consultants, Inc. (TCi). TCi is one of Vermont’s established IT Consulting and MSPs going on 35 years. We pride ourselves on being friendly, hardworking, and most of all business unusual. We believe our employees are our most important asset. During these unusual times, our services have been under demand and our team needs another experienced and certified Network Administrator.

Shelterwood Construction is looking for both a lead carpenter and also one or two additional carpenters. Excellent compensation for the right candidates. Four 10-hour days per week. Full-time, year-round work in all conditions. These are career-oriented positions. For full job descriptions go to: shelterwoodconstruction.com/ employment. Please email Colin directly at: colinlindberg1@gmail.com.

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without any men or children is needed. Pets are welcome.

Compensation includes a generous tax-free annual stipend of $31,000, room and board payments, and a supportive respite budget. To request an application, please contact Patrick Fraser at patfraser@howardcenter.org or 802-871-2902.

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PART-TIME ESTHETICIAN Come join Vermont’s best new business! Empower MedSpa is hiring! We are seeking a part-time licensed Esthetician to join our growing team. As part of our staff, you will play a key role in ensuring our clients have a relaxing and rejuvenating experience in our facility. You will provide a variety of services, including comfort waxing, facials, microdermabrasion, chemical peels, skincare, and makeup consultations. Excellence in customer service is a must. You will need to be self-motivated, have a willingness to learn and be able to work independently. In addition to providing spa services, you will be responsible for selling and promoting our skin care and beauty products.

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Corporate Support Manager Vermont PBS is seeking a qualified individual who will participate in identifying, developing, and signing partnership, sponsorship and underwriting deals that drive new and existing revenue for the organization’s media properties. This position will create, execute, and drive revenue growth through underwriting, creating strategic partnerships, and integrating sponsors’ messages in the TV and digital outlets available.

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NANNY We are seeking some help with our kid entering third grade and a hybrid model of learning. At this point, we are seeking someone to watch her three days a week (8 am to 5 pm) with the possibility of this expanding to 5 days in case remote learning does not work out. Start date: late Oct/Nov 2020 - June 2021 timeframe. Send resumes to:

A Drop of Joy, LLC is a fastgrowing beverage co-pack located in Williston, VT that is looking for a Food Safety Manager, who will be responsible for all food safety and quality programs.

The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in selling broadcast and digital sponsorships, advertising and underwriting. Experience in public relations, corporate communication and branding are highly desirable and essential, as are relationships with big corporations and corporate sponsors.

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PROJECT MANAGER The Chittenden Solid Waste District is seeking a full-time Project Manager to oversee capital improvement projects and the Maintenance and Property Management Programs. About you: Your knowledge in construction and contract management is matched by a drive for innovation and constant improvement. You enjoy being part of a team that gets things done. You inspire others to do their best by leadership, communication and people management skills that serve you well when supervising construction projects or your direct reports in the maintenance department. Applicants should have: Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or related field with 5 years’ experience associated with design, permitting, and construction projects, and familiarity with the solid waste industry a plus. This individual demonstrates excellent problem-solving skills and strong organizational skills.

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a Marketing Coordinator! Bread Loaf Corporation, Vermont’s integrated company of architects, planners and builders, is looking for a Marketing Coordinator to provide the Business Development team with administrative support and production of graphic design materials. This position will be responsible for creating and maintaining graphic materials to aid in the consistent branding of the company to potential and current clients. Ideal candidates will have at least two years of experience working with InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. Knowledge of website maintenance is strongly preferred. This position will also assist the Construction department with administrative tasks. Visit our website at www.breadloaf.com for a full company description. Bread Loaf thrives on innovative ideas and excellent work. If you do, too, send a cover letter with your resume to: Bread Loaf Corporation, 1293 Route 7 South, Middlebury, VT 05753, or email to smclaughlin@breadloaf.com EOE Visit our website at www.breadloaf.com for a full company description.

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EQUITY RESEARCH ANALYST Rock Point Advisors, LLC, based in Burlington, VT, is a wealth advisory firm focused on helping clients make sound financial decisions and take advantage of the benefits of long-term investing. We are looking for a full-time analyst to join our team to help identify and analyze potential investment opportunities, build and maintain earnings and valuation models and serve as a member of our Investment Committee. Relevant experience is required with a CFA designation preferred. Salary and Benefits: • Salary commensurate with experience and position • Benefits include paid vacation, dental and health care insurance, 401(k) matching Qualified candidates should send their cover letter and resume to info@rockpointadvisors.com. Please, No Phone Calls Rock Point Advisors, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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Our Essex Westford School District Child Nutrition Services is seeking a part-time temporary delivery driver to deliver food from a central preparation kitchen to satellite school cafeterias and to perform general deliveries and errands as requested. We are seeking candidates with the following qualifications: • Hold a valid VT Driver’s License • Have relevant experience/skills in driving a truck or van • Have an excellent driving record • Able to do heavy lifting Position pays $15.13/hour and is available M-F on school days from 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM (5 hours/day). For consideration, please apply electronically through schoolspring.com, send cover letter and resume to mbreuer@ewsd.org, or mail cover letter and application to: EWSD Human Resources - Attn: Maxine Breuer 51 Park Street, Essex Jct., VT 05452

CONTRACT IT SPECIALIST Vermont Legal Aid, a non-profit law firm providing legal services to low-income Vermonters in five offices around the state, seeks a contract IT specialist for up to a one-year contract. Applicants should have a minimum of 1 to 3 years of Microsoft 365 support, as well as some experience with cloud-based network and systems administration experience in a Microsoft Windows environment. We are committed to building a diverse, social justice-oriented staff, and encourage applicants from a broad range of backgrounds. We welcome information about how your experience can contribute to serving our diverse client communities. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a discrimination- and harassment-free workplace. Applicants must have strong Help Desk, MS365 (Exchange admin tasks, etc.), and Win 10 application skills, as well as familiarity with MS Azure AD, basic networking, bench work, Windows server, workstation management, etc. Familiarity with case management systems, social media platforms, mobile devices, cloud-based services, and cybersecurity are a plus. Clear oral and written communication skills, eagerness to learn and the ability to work independently as part of a small IT team are required. In-state travel (vehicle required), some evening and/or weekend work, and the ability to occasionally lift and move up to fifty pounds is required. This is an exempt position. Salary is $25/hour ($48,938 annualized). Some salary credit may be given for relevant prior work experience. Paid vacation, retirement, and excellent health benefits. Application deadline is September 8, 2020. Your application should include a cover letter, resume, and three references combined into one pdf, sent by e-mail to Betsy Whyte at bwhyte@vtlegalaid.org with “Contract IT” in the subject line. The full job description can be found at vtlegalaid.org/current-openings. Please let us know how you heard about this position. 7t-VTLegalAid082620.indd 1

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Evernorth is hiring! Evernorth unites Housing Vermont and Northern New England Housing Investment Fund together as a single nonprofit organization to serve the low and moderate-income people of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont by creating affordable housing and making community investments. We are a group of more than 40 professionals working to serve communities across northern New England. Our staff has deep knowledge of local markets, close relationships with regional organizations and a shared passion for affordable housing and social justice.

Seeking full time experienced medical assistant to join our busy OB/GYN practice clinical team. Experience in women’s health is preferred but not required. Looking for someone that can work accurately and efficiently in a fast paced environment. The position requires competency in taking vitals, phlebotomy, immunization administration, assisting with medical procedures and medical intake. Candidate should also be comfortable with EMR systems, medical terminology, and general computer skills.

Assistant Controller- Burlington, VT The Assistant Controller is a member of the finance and administration team. The individual in this position participates in a range of bookkeeping, accounting, and financial analysis functions, and works closely with staff across the organization. We are looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or a related field, 3-5 years of related experience, excellent communication skills and a highly proficient user of Microsoft Office 365. Connections Program Manager- Burlington, VT The Connections Program Manager is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with our local and community partners and will gather and share information, identify opportunities and strategies to create or improve supportive service coordination, programming, and building designs to assure that our communities thrive. We are looking for someone with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work or related field, 2+ years’ experience in conducting surveys and analyzing large data sets, excellent public speaking skills and proficient user of Microsoft Office 365.

Looking for an individual with good interpersonal and communication skills, who understands the importance of providing quality customer service and has a willingness to be flexible with duties in order to meet the needs of the patients and the clinic. Interested candidates should send a cover letter and resume to jobs@maitriobgyn.com.

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The Jump On Board for Success (JOBS) and PostEmployment Case Manager position is full-time and ideal for someone with strong communication skills, a clear sense of boundaries, knowledge of adolescent development, and an understanding of Vermont’s education, vocational training, and human service systems. Responsibilities include providing flexible and participant-centered case management services for teens and young adults. The case manager helps program participants develop the skills needed to live independently while focusing on their employment and education goals. Preference will be given to professionals with a bachelor’s degree and work experience with individuals with emotional or behavioral disabilities. LRC is a team-oriented, non-profit organization based in Hyde Park. Consider joining the LRC team if you’re interested in a work place that promotes employee well-being and that is known for its inclusive and collaborative work environment. The position comes with a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefit package that includes health, dental, and life insurance. Other benefits include paid sick and vacation leave, 15 paid holidays, and a retirement plan. Applications must include a cover letter that describes the candidate’s interest in the position and relevant skills and experience, and a resume, and can be sent to this email address: info@lrcvt.org. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. LRCis an equal opportunity employer. More information is available at www.lrcvt.org.

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Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) is seeking a Medical Coder to facilitate clinical interface implementation coding with external clients and the Vermont Health Information Exchange, State and Federal healthcare organizations, and/or third-party registries. Results-oriented candidates must demonstrate expertise in reviewing clinical documentation from medical records to assign standard codes correctly. Candidates must demonstrate that they can work independently and are proficient in health care terminology and standard code sets. We are looking for a temporary, part-time Medical Coder that requires the following skills: • Demonstrated expertise reviewing lists of medical terms from medical record documentation and able to assign a standard code for diagnosis correctly, procedures from transcriptions, laboratory data, immunization, and encounters. • Demonstrated expertise researching unknown clinical terms and able to assign appropriate codes • Familiarity with HEDIS measures and associated codes to assist in prioritization of code mapping • Strong attention to detail Qualifications: • A coding certificate from an approved program • 2+ years of healthcare coding experience • Required Expertise in Healthcare Code Sets, Clinical Terminologies, and Classification Systems: · ICD9 CM, · ICD10 CM, · LOINC, · SNOMEDCT, · RXNORM, · CPT, · MULTUM, HCPCS Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) is a nonprofit organization that assists Vermont health care providers with adopting and using health information technology, to improve the quality of care delivery, to enhance patient safety, and to reduce the cost of care. VITL is legislatively designated to operate the health information exchange (HIE) for Vermont and is governed by a collaborative group of stakeholders, including health plans, hospitals, physicians, other health care providers, state government, employers, and consumers. For more information, please visit https://www.vitl.net. Email a cover letter and resume to human resources, hr@vitl.net. No phone calls, please. 9t-VITL081920.indd 1

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All people share a powerful need for the basic necessities of a good life and a place that understands that good health starts with a caring touch and a kind word. Since 1971, the Community Health Centers of Burlington (CHCB) has provided access to high quality health care regardless of financial status or life circumstance. We strive to improve the health of all within the communities we serve in an environment that conveys respect, offers support, and encourages people to be actively involved in their own health care. Our positive, mission-minded staff make CHCB a great place to work! CHCB is an innovative Federally Qualified Health Center with eight sites throughout Chittenden County and southern Grand Isle County. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and are especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the organization. We offer a generous benefits package to eligible employees and a competitive minimum hourly wage for entry-level positions.

CHIEF NURSING OFFICER The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) assumes authority, responsibility and accountability for the delivery of nursing services for the Community Health Centers Burlington. The CNO openly supports and consistently communicates and models the mission, goals, and values of CHCB adhering to regulatory guidelines supporting a FQHC/HRSA Health Center’s operations and services provided. As a member of CHCB’s executive team, the CNO engages regularly with the Board of Directors, participates in executive level decision-making, strategic planning, the development of business initiatives, and advancement of the oversell mission and goals of the organization. Collaborating with the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Chief Finance Officer (CFO) on the development, implementation and on-going oversight of a Clinical Scorecard. Providing leadership to CHCB’s Quality Improvement Program, partnering with the CMO, CQCO, CHCB’s Risk Manager and Compliance Officer. Ensuring nursing policies and procedures conform to current standards of clinical practice while maintaining compliance with state and federal laws and regulations, supporting CHCB’s policies and regulatory requirements.

Basic Qualifications • Active Vermont RN License, Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in healthcare or related field. • Minimum five years of professional nursing experience in a medical practice setting or hospital. Primary care of FQHC experience is highly desired. • Minimum five years of leadership experience demonstrating managerial and operational expertise and competence. • Demonstrated health care operations experience and an unwavering commitment to quality programs, cultural competence, community/public health, and data-driven program evaluation.

Knowledge, Skills and Ability • Strategic planning, resource allocation, productivity and performance measurement. • Primary care medical practice leadership, understanding protocols, processes, and procedures. • Knowledge and understanding of HRSA Health Center Program (330 Grant) requirements. Including the following: Quadruple Aim Principles, Value Based Care model, Pay for Performance (P4P), and Pay for Quality (P4Q) reimbursement models. • Uniform Data System (UDS) and Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)

• Evidence-based Continuous Quality Improvement and Process Improvement methodologies. • Patient Centered Medical Home model, concepts, competencies, and criteria. • Care Coordination and Care Management programs/services • Excellent communication skills; verbal and written; conflict management and resolution. • Demonstrated basic knowledge of safety regulations such as OSHA, Emergency & Crisis Management, de-escalation of emergency situations, etc.

MEDICAL ASSISTANT Community Health Centers of Burlington is a seeking a Medical Assistant to join the team! Medical Assistants are responsible for facilitating patient care and flow, thorough and accurate patient documentation and for performing as a contributing member of the team!

Basic Qualifications • High School Graduate with vocational training or ability to be trained as a medical assistant.

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Skills & Abilities • Ability to acquire knowledge of medical terminology and standardized testing procedures. • BLS Certified. • Must possess or be willing to acquire clinical and organizational skills.

• Must work accurately and efficiently in a fast paced environment. • Ability to seek out appropriate resources to problem solve effectively. • Willing to work with a variety to ethnic and socioeconomic groups with various special needs.

PATIENT SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE The Patient Services Representative is the face of the Community Health Centers of Burlington! Patient Services Representatives are responsible for accurately and expeditiously checking patients in and out for appointments, scheduling new appointments and providing excellent customer service.

Basic Qualifications • High School Diploma or GED, some experience in a related field or medical office environment

Knowledge, Skills and Ability • High-level customer service skills - ability to maintain an even tone in the face of conflict. • Good computer skills including accurate data entry and the ability to use Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel and Outlook as well as electronic scheduling systems. • Ability to convey detailed information clearly, ensuring others understand

• Ability to self-motivate, attend to and retain detail, and prioritize/re-prioritize with minimum supervision. • Ability to handle a fast-paced and changing environment • Willingness to cover satellite clinics and a variety of shifts as needed.

PATIENT ACCOUNTS REPRESENTATIVE II Essential Duties We are looking for an energetic, team player to join our staff. This position is responsible for overseeing the complete revenue cycle for assigned categories, ensuring that the days in accounts receivable stay within set guidelines. If you are someone who likes the challenge of claims processing and thrives in the ever changing world of medical billing, this job is for you!

Basic Qualifications • High School plus 3 years (or Associate’s Degree plus one year) experience in Medical Management

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THE U.S. CENSUS NEEDS TO PAY FOR THIS SPACE Seven Days published an interesting column in the August 19 edition entitled: “Why Is Vermont’s Census Response Rate So Low?” It touched on several possible explanations. Unfortunately, we consider there to be another driving reason why 43 percent of Vermonters failed to complete the census form. The Census Bureau in its ill-conceived marketing plan virtually ignored advertising in community newspapers in Vermont — and some other states. The message about the critical need for an accurate state population count by filling out the form is clearly not getting to Vermonters through social media and other limited marketing ways selected by the Census Bureau. Now facing a dismal response rate, the Census Bureau has been asking newspapers to devote free space — something that is not in great supply these days with the attack on businesses due to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. From the start, the census and government should have been investing in and supporting Seven Days and other community newspapers in Vermont and other states. Newspapers remain the No. 1 news source in Vermont communities for all things COVID-19, politics, sports and more. So it would make obvious sense that if the Census Bureau wants its message delivered

about the importance of completing the form, newspapers are the answer. That point also has been underscored several times in recent weeks in Seven Days with the one-page messages from the publisher. Print-edition newspapers are available 24/7 and, even if interrupted by a phone call, you can always resume reading when free. (You can also find the print newspapers online.) Non-daily newspapers sit on tables in homes and offices for four to five days for reading and for browsing. Most weekly papers are read by three to five people. And with the Census Bureau cutting back on census workers going door-to-door due to the coronavirus, it makes complete sense to use newspaper advertising more. Newspapers have been around before the start of this country and will continue on. The Vermont Press Association, which represents the interests of 10 daily and more than three dozen non-daily newspapers serving the state, has reached out to the Census Bureau to help it try to recover from its failure. We await action. As Vermonters, we just hope it is not too late to get an accurate state population count. Otherwise Vermont will be penalized for the next 10 years when federal funds are distributed based on the limited responses. Lisa Loomis PRESIDENT, VERMONT PRESS ASSOCIATION

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This is true even between the same two people in an intimate alliance with each other. The love that you and your spouse or friend or close relative or collaborator exchanged a month ago isn’t the same as it is now. It can’t be identical, because then it wouldn’t be vibrant, robust love, which needs to ceaselessly transform in order to be vibrant and robust. This is always true, of course, but will be an especially potent meditation for you during the next four weeks.

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“Self-love is also remembering to let others love you. Come out of hiding.” Poet Irisa Yardenah wrote that advice, and now I’m passing it on to you, just in time for a phase when you will benefit from it most. I mean, it’s always good counsel for you Virgos to heed. But it will be especially crucial in the coming weeks, when you’ll have extra potential to bloom in response to love. And one of the best ways to ensure that this extra potential is fulfilled is to make yourself thoroughly available to be appreciated, understood and cared for.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes, “Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can’t be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.” I offer this meditation as your assignment in the coming weeks, Aries. You are in a phase when you’ll be wise to make various corrections and adjustments. But you should keep in mind that you don’t have unlimited time and energy to do so. And that’s OK, because some glitches can’t be repaired, and others aren’t fully worthy of your passionate intensity. You really should choose to focus on the few specific acts of mending and healing that will serve you best in the long run. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice,” wrote author F. Scott Fitzgerald.

writer, novelist Thomas Wolfe trained himself to have keen perceptions that enabled him to penetrate below surface appearances. And yet he wrote, “I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.” In other words, it was hard even for him, a highly trained observer, to get a deep and accurate read of what was going on. It required a long time and many attempts — and rarely occurred for him on the first look. Even if you’re not a writer, Gemini, I recommend his approach for you in the coming weeks. You will attune yourself to current cosmic rhythms — and thus be more likely to receive their full help and blessings — if you deepen and refine the way you use your senses.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s sometimes tempting for you to seek stability and safety by remaining just the way you are. When life pushes you to jump in and enjoy its wild ride, you may imagine it’s wise to refrain — to retreat to your sanctuary and cultivate the strength that comes from being staunch and steadfast and solid. Sometimes that approach does indeed work for you. I’m not implying it’s wrong or bad. But in the coming weeks, I think your strategy should be different. The advice I’ll offer you comes from Cancerian author and aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh: “Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work,” says author Sister Mary Lauretta. Have you been making progress in accomplishing that goal, Leo? According to my astrological analysis, fate has been offering and will continue to offer you the chance either to find work

that you’ll love better than the work you’re doing or to discover how to feel more love and excitement for your existing work. Why not intensify your efforts to cooperate with fate?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran poet Wallace Stevens wrote that if you want to be original, you must “have the courage to be an amateur.” I agree! And that’s an important theme for you right now, since you’re entering a phase when your original ideas will be crucial to your growth. So listen up, Libra: If you want to stimulate your creatively to the max, adopt the fresh-eyed attitude of a rookie or a novice. Forget what you think you know about everything. Make yourself as innocently curious and eager as possible. Your imaginative insights and innovations will flow in abundance to the degree that you free yourself from the obligation to be serious and sober and professional. And keep in mind that Stevens said you need courage to act this way. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off,” writes author Michael Lewis. According to my analysis, the coming weeks will provide you with ample evidence that proves his hypothesis — on one condition, that is: You will have to cultivate and express a thoughtful kind of optimism. Is that possible? Do you have the audacity to maintain intelligent buoyancy and discerning positivity, even in the face of those who might try to gaslight you into feeling stupid for being buoyant and positive? I think you do. SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Rebecca Solnit writes, “The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation.” Her statement is especially apropos for you right now. The experiences you’re yearning for will indeed change you significantly if you get them — even though those changes will be different from what your conscious mind thinks they’ll be. But don’t worry. Your higher self — the eternal part of you that knows just what you need — is fully aware of the beneficial transformations that will come your way when you get what you yearn for.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): At age 22, future pioneer of science Isaac Newton got his college degree just as the Great Plague peaked in 1665. As a safety precaution, he proceeded to quarantine himself for many months. During that time of being sealed away, he made spectacular discoveries about optics, gravity and calculus — in dramatic contrast to his years as a student, when his work had been relatively undistinguished. I’m not predicting that your experience of the 2020 pandemic will prove to be as fruitful as those of your fellow Capricorn Newton. But of all the signs in the zodiac, I do think your output could be most Newton-like. And the coming weeks will be a good time for you to redouble your efforts to generate redemption amidst the chaos. AQUARIUS (Jan.

20-Feb. 18): The rapper named Viper has released over 1,000 albums. In 2014 alone, he created 347. His most popular work is You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack, which has received over 3 million views on YouTube. According to the Chicago Reader, one of Viper’s most appealing features is his “blatant disregard for grammar.” I should also mention that he regards himself as the second Christ and uses the nickname “Black Jesus.” So what does any of this have to do with you? Well, I’m recommending that you be as prolific, in your own field, as he is in his. I’m also inviting you to experiment with having a fun-loving disregard for grammar and other noncritical rules. And I would love to see you temporarily adopt some of his over-the-top braggadocio.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “If you don’t ask the right question, every answer seems wrong,” says singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. I suspect you may have experienced a version of that predicament in recent weeks, Pisces. That’s the bad news. The good news is that I expect you will finally formulate the right questions very soon. They will most likely be quite different from the wrong and irrelevant questions you’ve been posing. In fact, the best way to find the revelatory questions will be to renounce and dismiss all the questions you have been asking up until now.

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Irreverent counsel on life’s conundrums

Dear Reverend,

My girlfriend wants to get my name tattooed on her chest over her heart. I’m really superstitious about it and believe that if she gets the tattoo, we’ll be destined to break up. She thinks I’m being ridiculous, but I really don’t want her to do it. How can I make her understand?

Inky Dinky Don’t

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It has long been considered bad luck to get a lover’s name tattooed on your body. I’m not really sure where this thinking originated, but a survey referenced in Inked magazine in 2018 found that the No. 1 most regretted tattoo was someone’s name. For some expert advice, I called up my favorite local tattoo artist, Jim DuVal, owner of Monster Mash Ink in Essex Junction. He told me he’s known multitudes of people who have gotten tattoos signiﬁcant other’s name, and of their signifi many of them still have both the tattoo

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and the partner to this day. He suggested that people who claim it’s bad luck may have other apprehensions about the relationship that make them leery of the ink. I inquired whether he’s ever advised a client against getting a name permanently etched into their skin. He answered ﬁ firmly in the negative and gave these reasons: A. Who the hell am I to tell you who you love? B. You’re an adult, and you can make your own decisions. C. It’s job security, dude.

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˜ ere might not be much you can do to stop your girlfriend if she’s hellbent on getting the tattoo. However, you may be able to sway her in a different direction if you offer some alternatives. Is there an image that could signify your relationship? A favorite ﬂower, some symbol of where you met, or perhaps even the date of your anniversary? If that plan doesn’t work and she goes through with the name tattoo, at least if you do break up, you won’t be the one who has to deal with laser removal or a cover-up tattoo. Good luck and God bless,

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“One could write a book about why shopping local is so important. When you shop at one of our bookstores, the money keeps recirculating in the local economy, because our staff patronizes farmers markets, restaurants and many other local retailers. National shopping websites don’t employ any local people, nor do they give back to our vital nonprofit organizations.” MICHAEL DESANTO OWNER, PHOENIX BOOKS

Take a break from the big guys and support local first. Vermont merchants have faced mandatory store closures and other challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as some open back up, others operate online only. All need your support.

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PICTURED: PHOENIX BOOKS, 191 BANK ST., BURLINGTON, PHOENIXBOOKS.BIZ (JAMES BUCK)

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Visit the Register for all the info on area shopkeepers who are selling their products online for local delivery or curbside pickup. Browse by categories ranging from jewelry to electronics, outdoor gear to apparel. Whether you need something for yourself or that perfect gift for a loved one, shop savvy and keep Vermont strong. SHOP T HE R EGIS T E R .C OM SEVEN DAYS AUGUST 26-SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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WHERE CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY ARE UNLEASHED.

Champlain film and broadcast students traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to co-produce two short films alongside local Saudi filmmakers.

Make your mark on the world, starting on day one. At Champlain, you’ll start doing what you love sooner than you would at other schools. You’ll dive into career-focused internships years earlier than students in other programs. You’ll learn the latest technology and be exposed to big ideas in your ﬁeld and related industries. You’ll discover what inspires you, what gets you in the zone, and ﬁnd out what you want to do—and who you want be—not just today and tomorrow, but for the rest of your life. When you’re ready to launch your career, you’ll hit the ground running. Ready? Let us dare. champlain.edu/explore

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