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Some local poets add voice to a collection of paintings. See how they did it in Arts + Leisure.
Dr. Laura Weylman and Nurse Practitioner Ania Mortier have joined forces. See Page 13A.
A Vergennes native ended up pitching for his father’s homeland — Ireland. See Sports, Page 1B.
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INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont
County Methodists advocating for more inclusivity in church
Gender identity at heart of disagreement By JOHN FLOWERS lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, MIDDLEBURY — Many queer or questioning, intersex, or Addison County followers of asexual — LGBTQIA. the United Methodist Church are Addison County and Brandon praying for their denomination’s are home to nine Methodist Judicial Council to congregations. reject provisions of The One Church a recently adopted “I don’t see our Plan, according to “Traditional Plan” church going retired UMC Rev. for the worldwide backwards and George Klohck, organization. The our conference would have removed new plan maintains on samegoing backwards. prohibitions the church’s ban sex marriages and on the ordination We ordain all ordination of “selfand marriage of people who avowed practicing Methodists whose are qualified, homosexuals.” It sexual orientation regardless of would also have and/or gender their sexual allowed each local identity is outside pastor, church and the traditional orientation, and annual conference heterosexual male/ we place gay to “follow their own pastors and female model. way” in such matters, The modified welcome gay said Klohck, a current Traditional Plan was parishioners with Middlebury UMC one of three options parishioner. no prejudice. the denomination’s Meanwhile, — Rev. Kim Commission on a the Connectional Hornung-Marcy Way Forward put to Conference Plan a vote by delegates would have led at the UMC General Conference to a restructuring of the UMC, held in St. Louis on Feb. 23-26. ultimately leading to three The commission floated two other jurisdictions — Progressive, options — a “One Church Plan” Tradition and Unity. and a “Connectional Conference While a clear majority of UMC Plan” — in an effort to resolve constituents from the U.S. were a longstanding UMC stalemate advocating for a lifting of the on the issue of full inclusion of church’s longstanding LGBTQ members who fit the categories of (See Methodist churches, Page 12A)
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By CHRISTOPHER ROSS MIDDLEBURY — On April 5, climate activists from around the state — and from elsewhere — will gather on the Middlebury green to kick off “Next Steps,” a five-day, 53-mile climate solutions walk organized by 350Vermont.
Billed as a “sacred walk for climate justice,” 350Vermont literature says Next Steps will “celebrate the solutions to the climate crisis already under way, while also grieving the (natural gas) pipeline, ecosystem destruction and the ever-growing, multi-faceted injustices of ‘industrial growth society.’” It makes sense to begin such a walk in Middlebury, where Middlebury College created
the nation’s first undergraduate environmental studies program, and where activist/author Bill McKibben’s collaboration with college students nearly 15 years ago eventually led to the formation of 350.org (separate from 350Vermont). But these are not the reasons Next Steps organizers chose the town to begin their odyssey. (See Climate walk, Page 11A)
Friendlier setting offered to divorced parents seeing kids By NICOLE POLLACK MIDDLEBURY — Imagine this scene: a family is entering divorce proceedings with a husband and wife who aren’t able to work out a collaborative transition, often resulting in a restraining order being placed on one of the parents. That restraining order, once lifted, then limits the affected parent to visiting hours with his or her children only during work hours, Monday-Friday, at the Addison County Courthouse. For parents who can’t take time off during the workweek, that’s a problem. And even if they can make those hours, the sterile courthouse rooms or hallways offer a poor substitute for a home-like environment.
Irene Poole, an assistant family court judge in Addison County for the past four years, resolved to change that dynamic and recently opened Vermont Families in Transition, or VFiT, a safe meeting place for families in conflict. Located adjacent to the Addison County Sheriff’s Department at 39 Court St. in Middlebury, VFiT services include supervised visitation, monitored exchanges, parenting classes and family mediation at affordable prices and during hours accessible to working parents. With its pale blue walls, armchairs and area rugs, the building is meant to feel more homey than institutional, to help children feel safe and relaxed (See VFiT, Page 12A)
TRENT ROLEAU, LEFT in hat, leans over his maple sap evaporator at the Gateway Farm sugarhouse in Bristol Sunday as another Gateway worker feeds wood to the fire to keep the sap boiling. Gateway welcomed many visitors during Vermont Maple Open House Weekend to see how real maple syrup is made.
Independent photo/Steve James
Snow slows sugaring season
Maple producers play catch-up but remain hopeful By CHRISTOPHER ROSS ADDISON COUNTY — Once the 2019 sugaring season is finished, Vermont will likely remain the nation’s leading maple syrup producer, but this year’s title won’t have come as easily as it did last year. Persistent cold temperatures have
delayed the initial sap run this year. Some sugarmakers in Addison County have made up for time, but others are growing a tad anxious. “It’s been too cold, with too much snow,” said Don Gale of Twin Maple Sugarworks in Lincoln, which taps roughly 5,200 trees. “There’s 30 inches of snow in the
sugarbush right now.” By this time last year, Twin Maple’s taps had already produced a significant one-day sap run — 9,200 gallons, on Feb. 28. But this year Gale has had no such luck. “The biggest day we’ve had was about 3,000 gallons,” he said. “We’re far behind.”
Gale has also seen an uptick in critter activity. “I’ve never had so much damage from squirrels as I’ve had this year,” he said. “Squirrels are everywhere.” The season has also gotten off to a slow start in Starksboro. “The way winter seems to be (See Sugaring, Page 14A)
THT to repair former ‘Diner’ By the for new uses way
Jukebox musical
EDEN GINSBURG, LEFT, Emily Tardie and Elizabeth Siminitus vamp through a number in a Monday rehearsal of Mount Abraham Union High School’s spring musical, “Mamma Mia!” The show features hit songs by the ’70s super group Abba. See more photos on Page 2A. Photo courtesy of Buzz Kuhns
By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The former Diner restaurant at 66 Merchants Row in Middlebury is being sized up for repairs and will be available for short-term rental and/or Town Hall Theater functions as soon as this summer. Mark Bradley, executive director of THT, shared the news during a tour of the former eatery space, perhaps best known during its lengthy run as Steve’s Park Diner. Town Hall Theater officials announced the purchase of the property, for $300,000, last April. It was a strategic buy for THT, in that the former Diner is adjacent to the picturesque theater building at 68 S. Pleasant St. and thus provides the organization with future expansion options and storage space. Bradley said the long-term concept for the property is for The Diner building to be razed to make way for a proper THT addition. But short-term (See THT, Page 11A)
The Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center’s Mechanical Class needs lawn mowers for students to service and make minor repairs to. The students will be asked to sharpen/balance mower blades, change oil, service air cleaners and perform other preventative maintenance. Teacher Cheryl (See By the way, Page 6A)
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Mamma Mia!
IN 1999, A new show based on the songs of the pop group Abba opened in London — Mamma Mia! This fun musical has been performed around the world since then, and will be staged at Mount Abraham Union High School this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7 p.m., and Saturday at 2 p.m. Shown at a rehearsal Monday are, clockwise from above, are Mount Abe students Kai Correll; Chessley Jackman, Olivia Heath and Mae Peterson; Isaiah DiNapoli, Jade Edwards, Sam Schoenhuber, Andrew Morris, William Wright, Weston Allred and Evan Jennison; William Wright with Juliette Snell, Eden Ginsburg and Josie Brennan; Andrew Morris, William Wright and Weston Allred; and the whole cast.
Photos by Buzz Kuhns / buzzkuhnsphotography.smugmug.com
Local man alleges Bristol police officer put gun to his head
By ALAN J. KEAYS VTDigger.org BRISTOL — A Bristol man has filed a federal lawsuit against the town of Bristol and its police department, alleging that when he went to check on an alarm going off late at night, a responding officer put a gun to his head and placed him in handcuffs. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Burlington, comes two years after the incident outside Bristol Discount Beverage in Bristol. Tyler Westbrook, and his wife, Piper Wallace Westbrook, are seeking unspecified damages on several civil claims, including assault and battery, excessive force and emotional distress. In addition to the town and police department, the suit names then-Police Chief Kevin Gibbs, who has since retired, and Officer George Crowe. Vermont State Police troopers who responded to the call are also listed as defendants. They are Brett Flansburg,
Matthew Daly and Eden Neary. According to the lawsuit, before midnight on March 25, 2016, an alarm sounded at the discount beverage store in Bristol. Tyler Westbrook, who lived at a neighboring property, after hearing the alarm sounding for an extended period time, went out in his slippers to check on his friend’s business. Westbrook started returning to his home when he noticed a Bristol police cruiser arrive in the parking lot, and the alarm, that had been sounding for 20 to 30 minutes, was no longer going off, according to the filing. Bristol Officer Crowe got out of the cruiser, and Westbrook told him that he had heard an alarm and went to check on his friend’s business. According to the suit, Crowe, “in a low voice from some distance,” told Westbrook to stay where he was. Westbrook replied, “What’s that,” and pointed toward his house and said, “I’m heading home.”
Crowe then told him not to leave, adding, “you’re going to do what I tell you,” the lawsuit stated. Westbrook, who had turned to walk to his yard, told the officer that the business owner was his friend, the lawsuit stated. Westbrook, who had no weapon and “made no overt action to harm Officer Crowe in any way” was “casually walking” away from the officer back toward his home. “Officer Crowe then pointed his pistol directly at Mr. Westbrook’s head and said ‘I don’t care! Get on the ground! Now! Get on the ground! All the way on the ground!’” the lawsuit stated. Westbrook immediately complied and went face down on the ground, according to the lawsuit, “Officer Crowe kneeled on Mr. Westbrook’s back keeping the gun pointed directly at Mr. Westbrook’s head at point blank range.” Crowe, with the gun still pointed
at Westbrook’s head, then yelled, “If you’re not going to listen to me, I’m going to make you listen to me! You understand!” the lawsuit stated. “Yes sir. What I’m trying to tell ya is … I just came up here because I live right there … here … Adam’s my friend,” Westbrook replied, according to the filing, adding, “The alarm went off. I heard rattling inside.” According to the lawsuit, at no time did Crowe ask Westbrook to put his hands up or use any other “de-escalation techniques” or commands. “His first instinct and action were the use of deadly force, i.e. drawing his firearm on Mr. Westbrook,” the lawsuit stated. “Mr. Westbrook did not have a weapon, and made no physically aggressive or overt behaviors toward Mr. Crowe at any time.” Crowe patted Westbrook down, found no weapons and said, “You’re not moving do you understand me?” according to the lawsuit.Westbrook
replied, “I understand you.” The lawsuit also recounts Crowe telling a dispatcher he had a “subject detained.” From the ground, Westbrook responded, “I am not suspect.” Crowe then yelled, “I said don’t move,” and Westbrook replied, “I’m not moving. I’m talking. I have a right to talk.” Westbrook was handcuffed and placed in the cruiser. Troopers Flansburg and Neary arrived at the scene; Crowe asked Flansburg to watch Westbrook while state police Sgt. Daly and Crowe walked around the business, and confirmed it was secure. The business owner arrived, and confirmed he knew Westbrook, and after nearly an hour Crowe released Westbrook, according to the suit. “Mr. Westbrook was angry with the Officer and yelled profanity as he walked toward his home for a few minutes,” the lawsuit stated. “One of
the troopers joked about driving Mr. Westbrook to an isolated dirt road and making him walk home.” Current Bristol Police Chief Bruce Nason did not immediately return a phone message. Crowe also could not be reached Tuesday for comment. Bristol Town Administrator Valerie Capels said she had not yet seen the filing, and would have no comment. Gibbs said that an internal investigation was conducted, but referred comment on its outcome to Capels. He noted he was not called to the scene. An online posting a few months after the incident in July 2016 titled “Quest for Justice” states that it dash cam video from a cruiser at the scene captured on audio the exchanges between the officer and Westbrook. The posting also talked of a settlement offer in which Westbrook asked for $3,000 for legal expenses, $1 in damages and more training and discipline for Crowe.
Addison Independent, Thursday, March 28, 2019 — PAGE 3A
Killington poised to become top ski resort
Wesley named interim CEO of home health & hospice
Work to begin soon on bigger lodge structure By LISA LYNN KILLINGTON — Killington Mountain Resort is on course to becoming not only the biggest ski resort in the East with the most snowmaking, but with tens of millions of dollars more poured into slated improvements over the next A RENDERING OF the new Killington base lodge designed by Middlebury’s Bread Loaf Corp. features a two years it will also have some of glass front looking uphill toward the slopes. It also will have 36 percent more square footage than the current the newest lodges and best year- base lodge. around resort activities. Bread Loaf will start construction three miles of pipe from Killington infrastructure investments that This past Thursday at Killington’s Grand Summit Lodge resort this summer with the new lodge across the mountains to Pico. “We’ve Killington’s parent company made President Mike Solimano unveiled going up behind the current lodge always had nearly unlimited access to “The Beast of the East” this past plans for what will be the largest (on the mountain side) — which will to water at Killington, but Pico has season. Last year more than $25 new ski base lodge in New England. stay in place for next season before relied on snowmaking ponds that can million went into building three This summer Killington will break being demolished in the summer dry up or freeze,” said Solimano. By tunnels to allow for better traffic ground on a 58,000-square-foot of 2020. The new base lodge is running a 16,850-foot pipeline across flow, improving snowmaking, structure that will replace the current expected to be complete by fall 2020 terrain that locals jokingly refer to adding a new 6-person bubble as the “interconnect” (a vast area chair, moving the old lift to South 37,000-square-foot K1 base lodge by “or winter 2021,” said Solimano. Some of the other infrastructure between the two ski areas) Pico will Ridge and adding new cars to the the fall of 2020, or winter of 2021. Middlebury’s Bread Loaf Corp., improvements for the 2019/20 be able to double its snowmaking K1 gondola. The resort also added which recently revamped the season include replacing the North capacity. The expanded capacity is RFID ticket scanning. “All of these projects will Killington Grand Resort Hotel, will Ridge triple chair lift with a quad, expected to be completed before positively affect the local take a prominent role in design and a new tunnel on Great Bear trail, next winter. and reimagining the kids’ beginner At Killington, the company will community,” said communications construction of the new base lodge. The new lodge will have three terrain. “We’re also looking at also replace 12 kilometers of water manager Courtney DiFiore. “We’re integrating more of the pipe and add 400 low-energy snow working with Bread Loaf Corp. levels, putting the Woodward approach guns and 125 low-energy towers again, a local company based out lodge closer to (and to progression,” said used to blast snow. of Middlebury. With a bigger K-1 on the same level as) “With a bigger Solimano, adding While Solimano could not confirm Base Lodge, we’ll need more staff, the gondola, with K-1 Base that one day he hopes any news on Killington’s most giving locals more chances to work a food court on the Killington will have popular event, the World Cup, which where they play. We’re truly set to second level and bar Lodge, we’ll on the third. There need more staff, a Woodward facility drew 39,000 people to the resort last have the best year ever and grow similar to others Powdr Thanksgiving, he did promise “when our year-round business, which will be seating for giving locals Corp. has installed at we can announce it, I think you will will help all the hardworking local 975 compared to the more chances resorts such as Copper be happy.” business owners as a result. We current 650. The lodge Mountain in Colorado Most of Killington’s other popular have a lot to be excited about.” will have a full-service to work where and Boreal in California. events, ranging from mountain The resort has also focused on a bar, couches and they play.” The Woodward biking’s Eastern States Cup to the “Create Joy” campaign — doing high-top tables similar — Courtney to the layout in The DiFiore, Killington facilities there feature Spartan Race will return and a new things like putting candy canes on barns with event, the Total Archery Challenge, windshields, having DJ Dave play Peak Lodge, upscale communications vast trampolines, foam pits, will be held at Killington and Pico impromptu sets at lift bases, and fine china dining, manager skate ramps and other over Memorial Day Weekend and is surprising guests with cookies and and unobstructed apparatus that kids and expected to draw several thousand milk or hot chocolate on the slopes. 180-degree views of adults can use to improve skills in any people. Over the past seven years, the mountain landscape. Killington has seen its net “We’re transforming the way sport ranging from snowboarding and MOUNTAIN BIKING IMPROVEMENTS promoter score (a measure of how guests will experience and enjoy skateboarding to gymnastics. “That’s bringing the fun back into The resort will also focus on likely guests are to return and to Killington for years to come,” said Solimano. “On its own, the K-1 base skiing,” said industry veteran Bernie adding more beginning mountain recommend the resort to friends) lodge rebuild is transformative for Weichsel, the man behind the Boston bike terrain to its nearly 35 miles of rise from 47 to 75. And on a scale Killington. But building on last year’s Ski Show and a Killington skier trails, adding trails at the Ramshead of -100 to 100, any score above 50 investments, and combined with the since 1963. “Everyone wants to be base and a beginner skills park. This is considered excellent. other infrastructure enhancements able to do what they see going on at past summer Killington had nearly and new experiences, these upgrades the X Games and this would allow 30,000 rider visits and expects to bring that up to 37,000 this coming set the tone for future generations to them to try in a safe environment.” summer. enjoy Killington resort. Killington is PICO UPGRADE Another major announcement is All of these improvements undeniably the Northeast’s hub for that Killington plans to run nearly are in addition to the massive year-round adventure.” CLARIFICATION: In our March 21 story “Admissions scandal upsets area students” we noted that admissions counseling services that cost $80,000 and up would not be affordable to many residents of Addison County (where median annual
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By JOHN FLOWERS NEW HAVEN — Deborah Wesley, vice president of Addison County Home Health & Hospice (ACHH&H), is serving as the organization’s top administrator while the nonprofit’s board of directors organizes its search for a permanent executive director to succeed Tim Brownell. Wesley had been serving as ACHH&H’s chief of clinical services prior to her interim appointment to the agency’s top spot last month. The ACCH&H bylaws call for the organization’s second in command — in this case, Wesley — to serve as acting CEO upon the sudden departure of the presiding executive director, according to board President Bryan Young. “We are very pleased with the way things are going under the current interim management,” Young said through an email updating the ACHH&H’s leadership transition. As previously reported by the Addison Independent, former CEO Tim Brownell vacated his position with the
New Haven-based nonprofit in early February. His departure came in wake of criticism of ACHH&H’s leadership by some past and present employees of the agency, which dispenses a variety of health care services to homebound patients and terminally ill residents. Those complaints, largely relating to administration/staff relations, were detailed in an extensive article published in the Independent’s Jan. 31 edition. An ACHH&H board subcommittee is now gathering input from the agency’s various constituencies on the qualities the next CEO should possess, Young noted. That information will help the board formulate a search strategy, job description, and other details leading up to an open and active search, he added. “We’re taking this opportunity to dig deeply into what has worked and what hasn’t in the last few years, think about what we want from the position, perhaps tweak the job description somewhat, and determine who we need for what roles,” Young said.
College language schools returning to Vt. from Calif.
MIDDLEBURY — After a decade operating some of its summer Language Schools at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., Middlebury College will consolidate all 11 of its schools in Vermont beginning in 2020. The change was made possible by a new agreement between Middlebury and Bennington College, which will host several of the Middlebury Language Schools starting next year. Middlebury President Laurie Patton and Bennington College President Mariko Silver announced the agreement Wednesday in Bennington. “I’m delighted that Middlebury will be partnering with a neighboring school with such dynamic and thoughtful leadership,” Patton said. “Our new agreement allows for operational collaboration between two institutions that share values and goals, as well as proximity.” “The necessity of language education, of cultural proficiency, and of bridge-building across borders is more urgent today than ever,” Silver said. “This arrangement is a mutually beneficial opportunity for Middlebury Language Schools to serve their students and for Bennington to welcome
more people to our campus.” Middlebury’s Language Schools educate about 1,500 students each summer. Middlebury expanded its operations to Mills College in 2009 to accommodate growth, and in recent years about 300 students each summer have studied Arabic, Italian, or Korean at Mills. Middlebury has not determined which languages will be taught in Bennington. The college’s home campus in Middlebury will continue to host most of the schools, which also include French, Spanish, German, Hebrew, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and Russian. Dean of the Middlebury Language Schools Steve Snyder said that the schools had identified some new goals that resulted in the search for a new partner. The objectives — including curricular innovation, faculty professional development, research in language and culture pedagogy, and digital learning — all require additional time for the Language Schools directors and faculty to meet. Other benefits include cost-saving measures, such as one summer graduation ceremony instead of two.
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‘The party of health care’ and its tie to Trump’s genius “Let me just tell you exactly what my message is: The Republican Party will soon be known as the party of health care. You watch.” That was King Braggart, himself, earlier this week doing what this president does best: boasting about something that won’t happen, but months later he’ll try to work to his advantage. You watch. To review, Trump’s comment refers to his administration’s embrace of a Texas district judge’s ruling that the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, should be ruled unconstitutional. Previously, the administration and other Republicans were trying to nullify a small part of the law that forces insurance companies to cover people with preexisting medical conditions, along with several “essential” benefits, such as pregnancy and maternal health, mental health and prescription drugs. To Republican eyes, those are all items the government should not expect insurance companies to cover, at least not without exorbitant fees. The district judge’s ruling came about after Trump’s tax cut law brought the tax penalty for not having health insurance down to zero, which triggered the judge to consider it all kaput. Many legal scholars dispute such reasoning and have called it a bogus ruling, but the administration has embraced it whole-hog. If the Affordable Care Act, with its thousands of provisions, were rejected, the impact would be enormous. Here’s the upshot by Nicholas Bagley, professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School: “The irresponsibility of this new legal position is hard to overstate,” Bagley writes in an opinion published in Wednesday’s New York Times. “It’s a shocking dereliction of the Justice Department’s duty, embraced by Republican and Democratic administrations alike, to defend acts of Congress if any plausible argument can be made in their defense. “Nor is the Affordable Care Act some minor statute that can be shoved aside without disruption,” Bagley continues. “It is now part of the basic plumbing of the American health care system. It guarantees protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions. It expanded Medicaid to cover 12.6 million more people, and it offers crucial protections to the 156 million Americans who get insurance through employers. Beyond that, the law forces insurers to cover preventive care and contraception without charge; changed how hospitals and physicians bill for their services; requires fast-food restaurants to post calorie counts; cut hundreds of billions of dollars of Medicare spending; imposed hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes; and much, much more. “Unceremoniously ripping up the law would inflict untold harm on the health care system — and on all Americans who depend on it,” Bagley explained. “Yet the Trump administration has now committed itself to doing just that.” ********* Shocking? Not anymore. It is just Trump using his “shock and awe” strategy that defies common sense, or rational outcomes. It’s also typical of other issues that have not lived up to Trump’s promises: • Just as his tax cut law has now saddled the nation with trillion dollar deficits — after only boosting the economy for a single year on its sugar high — not the multi-year boom Trump had promised. • Nor did the trade war with China, that Trump claimed would be “so easy to win,” turn out to be a cake walk. A year later we’re still in the midst of it and Trump’s actions have taken a toll on Midwestern farmers, as well as steel, automotive and other industries. • He promised coal miners he’d save their jobs, but more coal mining jobs have been lost under Trump’s first two years than at any time under President Obama. • The nuclear disarmament agreement with North Korea is in turmoil, and Trump recently caved on economic sanctions against North Korea that his own team had advocated just the day prior. And Trump’s overt fondness for Russian President Vladimir Putin still mystifies and yields no apparent good for Americans. And while the Mueller report found Trump demonstrated no collusion with Russia to sway the 2016 election beyond a reasonable doubt, Trump has not been cleared of obstruction of justice and his team has already been cited for criminal charges that make it one of the most corrupt, if not the most corrupt, in the nation’s history. The two-year investigation, in short, was not unwarranted. • Despite Trump’s denial, climate change is now accepted science around the world, even as Trump and Republican leaders continue to play dumb. And that’s the tip of the iceberg. Trump’s strategy on this latest health care initiative, if there is one, is similar. What Trump knows is that it’s far easier to be on the offensive tearing something down (Obamacare), than to build something to replace it. It’s why Republicans have no viable alternative. Trump also knows it’s important to try to keep this campaign pledge so he doesn’t lose the trust (even in this fake promise) his supporters cling to. ********** To that end, Trump has become America’s circus barker, the flimflam man out to swindle suckers into believing his con, a fast talker who keeps changing the goalposts so his mesmerized followers tire of keeping score. His game plan is to make so many outrageous comments, promises and lies that his own followers stop expecting results and instead embrace his stickit-in-your-face attitude as his singular quality worth supporting. Sadly, that is Trump’s genius.
Angelo Lynn
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If you read anything in today’s Addison Independent, take a couple minutes to read an insightful and touching piece by Narges Ansali, an eighth-grade student from Weybridge attending Middlebury Union Middle School. She writes about those Americans who would hate Muslims, about the anger that breeds it and the fear it causes to others. She’s a neighbor, a classmate and friend to many of her peers, and delivers an important perspective to this community, state and country. Angelo Lynn
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Trump should follow example I just read a Guardian piece on the terrorist attack in New Zealand that included a video of the Prime Minister (a woman — hard to imagine a man acting like this) bringing flowers to the memorial and hugging a family member of a victim. My thought: Here is the leader of this ‘down under’ country, New Zealand, mourning with affected citizens — crying, hugging, laying flowers. The leader of my country? Cited by the alleged perpetrator as an inspiration for his violent actions in the ‘Manifesto’ he published on line and sent to the Prime Minister and other Parliamentary offices minutes before the attack. I’ve never really related to the phrase “God save the Queen (King),” but: please God, save President Trump and his supporters. Ron Slabaugh Middlebury
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IN THE PLUS column, the return of deep snow to Addison County this past weekend enabled a skier to get out and enjoy another slide across a Middlebury field.
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Retirement career: Artist redefined I’m retired. I am constantly asked what I am doing in retirement. For a long time, that question flummoxed me. It’s a hard question to answer: “What do you do?” I do a lot of things, this and that, projects big and small (well, more like small and smaller). I spend time with my grandkids and I like that. I buy the Boston Globe every day at the Middlebury Market (now Shafer’s) and read it for an hour. I go to sporting events and lectures and concerts — and plays at the Town Hall Theater. I was a teacher for over 40 years and still have opportunities to get back in front of a class now and then. I do a little writing. I read. Most of what I do with my time involves words, language, conversation. By Karl So I am quite pleased with myself, Lindholm as I have fashioned a new answer to this question about what I do: I tell people “I’m an artist.” When they ask me what kind of artist, I say, “a bullshit artist.” As a category, that’s the closest thing to what I do do. I think “B.S. Artist” befits me as a Yankee. The lexicon of our region is always inflected with irony and understatement. I’d like the term, “B.S. Artist” to be ironically colloquial (or colloquially ironic), more affectionate than disparaging. I aspire to be a kinder, gentler “B.S. artist.” (We’re using the initials “B.S.” from now on so not to further put off those who find the s-word a vulgarity, or at best, crude.) As a B.S. Artist, I don’t mean that I am a liar, a purveyor of nonsense, teller of tall tales (well, maybe
once in a while). The definitions of B.S. are decidedly negative: “stupid,” “untrue,” “misleading,” “deceptive.” The most neutral dictionary definition of B.S. I have found is “idle chatter.” That’s the one I’d like to see expanded into something less pejorative — you know, as in “just shooting the bull.” “Just shooting the bull” can be a productive enterprise, even an intimate sharing among friends. When I am asked to clarify what I do as a B.S. Artist, I say, “I go to lunch with my friends.” In retirement, friends are a treasure. I bump into people whose company I enjoy, and they occasionally say, “let’s have lunch sometime.” So I respond quickly, “Okay when? I’m free on Mondays and Tuesdays, I can move some things around on Wednesdays, and Thursdays and Fridays will also work.” I am reminded of what former Red Sox General Manager Lou Gorman was fond of saying at opportune times: “The sun comes up, the sun goes down, and I go to lunch.” In my job as a dean in student affairs and a teacher at Middlebury College, before retirement, I was pretty much a B.S. Artist even then and got paid for it! — though I worked hard to be a good listener too, listening in earnest to students’ issues before offering my two cents. My daughter Jane used to spend the summers with me after her mother and I divorced. I worked many years in the Pre-Enrollment Program in August, a three-week introduction for first year students who could benefit (See Lindholm, Page 5A)
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Winter again proves to be hot topic Please believe me: I didn’t want to write about the wear around the house, having found that simply not weather. shaving my legs failed to provide adequate insulation You may recognize it as a theme I revisit throughout below the knee. the year. July: “It’s too hot.” December: “It’s too cold.” But I promised myself I wouldn’t complain. January: “It’s even colder now than the last time I wrote “It’s fine,” I told her. “Just wear layers. Check out about how cold it was.” these ankle warmers.” And I know what you’re thinking: “This again? When Glancing down at my fluffy feet, she made a face. is she going to get back to how incompetent she is as “They make you look kind of like —” a gardener?” (Patience: Summer is “— a 1970s dancer?” coming.) “No. Like a Clydesdale.” The truth is, I don’t have the most (That was just the hypothermia exciting life to write about. Weeks go talking. She’s generally quite a nice by when the most notable thing that person.) happens to me is I run out of stamps. Another friend, clutching her Ott Sometimes, weather is all I’ve got. light to her chest, said, “The constant At other times, however, such as darkness is so depressing.” after last weekend, it earns real attenI affected an endearing Mary Poption. pins smile. “Actually, I like how cozy By Jessie Raymond The way I whine in print, you might it feels to sit by a warm fire when the be surprised to learn that in real life, winds are howling outside at night.” I’ve been trying hard to stay positive about the weather, “Agree to disagree,” she said, hurling the Ott light at no matter how much I annoy my friends and family. my head. I wasn’t always so rational. A friend once told me ages They didn’t understand: grousing about the weather ago, when I was griping about the temperature (see “It’s doesn’t change it. So why let it bring you down? too cold,” above), “There’s no such thing as bad weather. Then this weekend happened. It’s just weather.” As you may recall, over a foot of heavy, wet snow fell I stopped speaking to him after that. on top of a layer of spring mud. At our house, we manBut, having realized that embracing my misery every aged to bury not one, but two vehicles in the driveway winter somehow wasn’t making me happy, this year I de- while trying to leave Saturday morning. cided to try his approach. No judgment. It’s just weather. Mark sputtered and swore as we dug down through the It almost worked. snow to expose mud-slicked tires. Though my heart was “I’m so sick of being freezing all the time,” one friend as heavy as the snow that stuck to the shovel and had to said not long ago. I get it. I had to knit myself a pair of be knocked off by hand after every scoop, I refused to (See Jessie, Page 5A) thick ankle warmers — think Flashdance fashion — to
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I would like to send a sincere thank you to the members of Town Line First Response and the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad for all the help they gave to me and my father in Addison on the morning of Tuesday, March 12. The rapid response time, on-scene care, and sense of urgency was nothing short of perfection. It made a difficult morning a lot easier with which to deal. First responders rarely receive the recognition for the hard work and dedication that is put forth in someone’s time of need. That being said, to all, I thank you again. Lt. Thomas Frankovic Jr. Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department
No shortcut to good education In writing about the higher education admissions scandal, many commentators have said something like “This isn’t like giving money for a hospital wing to get your kid into Yale; these parents were having their kid’s SAT tests taken by others and having their faces photoshopped on to athlete’s bodies.” True, but isn’t the result of buying entry through donations and buying SAT scores the same? In either case, a mediocre student who has not earned a seat is given one and a worthy student is rejected. In both cases, the golden ticket — a ticket to privilege — goes to the unworthy. Consider George W. Bush, whose prep school records were mediocre to the point where his Dean counseled him to apply to a “safety school” as well as Yale, a legacy school for the Bush family. According to the World Biography of U.S. Presidents, “His SAT scores were 566 for the verbal part and 640 for math. Those were far below the median scores for students admitted to his class at Yale: 668 verbal and 718 math.” Bush was accepted and graduated from Yale with average grades. Was this Ivy League credential and the social connections that came with it, in part, responsible for his climb to the White House. For example, George Bush met Dick Chaney, an even worse student, at Yale. Does it matter? As President, Bush brought the U.S. to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. These wars have cost the U.S. over two trillion dollars and over resulted in over 400,000 military and civilian deaths. Perhaps this is the legacy of a legacy admission. Donald Trump also had a checkered educational background, yet he attended an Ivy League school for the last two years of his college career. Despite his bragging about his brilliance — “I’m, like, a really smart person.” — he seems to have been an unremarkable student whose time was spent investing in real estate with the two million dollar loan his father gave him. We don’t know whether his father donated to Wharton or what his grades and SAT scores were. We do know that his former lawyer testified that Trump “directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores.” We do know that “the headmaster of Trump’s alma mater, New York Military Academy, was instructed by his manager to secure Trump’s academic records so they could not be released, report(See Letter, Page 5A)
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Porter ready for ‘Road Ahead’ Porter Medical Center will soon some background. celebrate our second anniversary as The University of Vermont Health part of the UVM Health Network Network is an affiliation of six and welcome a new president to take hospitals in New York and Vermont, our organization forward. It is an a multi-specialty medical group exciting time for our organization. and a home health and hospice The past three years has been a busy, agency. Although each affiliate of productive and positive our Network, including period in the history of our academic medical Porter, and it seems like center, brings unique a good time to pause characteristics, history and reflect on what we and contributions to have learned and what the creation of this new we as an organization integrated rural health see as our “Road Network, what binds us Ahead” for the next 3-5 together is our singular years, and to share with commitment to putting our community this our patients at the vision for the future. center of our efforts: To Recently, we have improve the health of spent significant time our communities. at the leadership level Sound familiar? This talking about the UVM is exactly how we deHealth Network itself, scribe Porter’s mission. This week’s why it exists and what Community Forum The alignment between exactly we are working is by Dr. Fred our mission at Porter to accomplish and how Kniffin, president and the mission of the we plan to get there. To of the UVM Health Network is powerful. state the obvious, clari- Network’s Porter But there are chalty of purpose and total Medical Center. lenges that we are facalignment among all of ing, and the evidence the affiliates around our can be found by simply short and long term goals are key looking around. Nationally, rural ingredients of success. hospitals continue to struggle as The product of these conversa- costs rise and workforce becomes tions has been a new plan, which we increasingly scarce. According to have called “The Road Ahead.” It is Becker’s, between 2010 and January a comprehensive plan that has been 2018, 83 rural hospitals closed and developed and approved by the lead- an additional 11 more closed in 2018 ers of each affiliate and is a “call to alone. The reasons for these closures action” to every employee at Porter are varied, but all have failed to and throughout the Network to work weather the myriad changes in health together with a shared vision of what care in recent years. Throughout the we are doing today, and what we country, hospitals have responded to must do tomorrow, to truly fulfill our these challenges by coming together promise to the patients and residents to form networks, including the who depend on us every single day. UVM Health Network, and develWhy do we need such a plan? First oping regional strategies to better
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serve their communities. Our health Network has done just that. Our affiliations are borne from a shared commitment to preserve access to critical health care services across our region. Here is our core belief as leaders of Porter Medical Center — As an affiliate of the UVM Health Network, we are stronger together. LOOKING AHEAD What does this mean to us at Porter? There are several current initiatives that touch Porter and our community directly and that must be accomplished if we are to fulfill this promise of “stronger together.” These include the implementation of the Epic unified health records system, addressing the mental health and opiate addiction crisis and executing our strategic facilities plan. This strategy recognizes that our people are our greatest asset as informed and engaged advocates of positive change, and that we must maintain our “local culture” as we become more aligned with the culture of the Network. Here is an important point about culture. A “Network culture” and a “local culture” are not mutually exclusive. Porter has an organizational culture that has evolved over the past 95 years, a way of doing things here in our community. There are many great things about our Porter culture we are all committed to preserving. In addition, as a “young” network, we also need to develop a Network culture, a way of doing things Network-wide and a shared understanding of why we are stronger together. This Network culture will be based on our collective values — putting patients first, valuing our workforce, (See Kniffin, Page 7A)
Jessie (Continued from Page 4A) show it. “Don’t be a grouch,” I said to Mark as we labored on. “It’s just weather.” I didn’t like the way he glared at me and tightened his grip on the shovel, so I moved to a different part of the driveway. “It’s just weather,” I kept saying (quietly, so Mark couldn’t hear me). But was it? Spring had been on its way, and now here we were, stuck again. Stuck in the driveway. Stuck in winter.
After nearly two hours of heavy digging — how can a person get so sweaty yet have such cold toes and fingers? — we had little progress to show. All of a sudden, a winter’s worth of suppressed despair crashed over me like an avalanche. I curled up in a ball on the half-shoveled walkway and sobbed into my mittens. “It’s not ‘just weather,’” I said, over and over. “It’s bad weather. It’s so, so bad.” I might have wallowed there all day if not for Mark’s words of encouragement: “Get up, Lazy, we’re
not done!” It wasn’t my finest moment. Of course, by the time you read this, the snow will be all but a memory, and last weekend will be water under the bridge — or, more likely, given the rapid snow melt, over it. So I apologize for once again writing about the weather. But I want you to know that I really did try to convince myself, and everyone around me, that this winter wasn’t so terrible. I’ve got the Ott light scar to prove it.
Others found out and joined us, and before long we were combining tables and had taken over one end of the diner. Longtime Dean of Students Erica Wonnacott who had retired to Weybridge, was reluctant to join us, despite our entreaties, saying “I don’t want to just sit around and talk about the College.” We assured her we didn’t do that — we just shot the bull, talked about our families, local affairs, whatever was on our minds. Placated, Erica joined our happy crowd, a welcome addition. I can’t remember any B.S. better than those Tuesday mornings. Erica died of cancer in 2002 and Frank of heart congestion in 2006. That’s what happens, eventually, after you retire — you die. But we
retired folks don’t dwell on that (except in the wakeful early morning when we are alone in the dark with our thoughts and fears): Mostly, we feel blessed for the time we have, and token moments, once taken for granted, are imbued with special meaning and timeliness. The colors of life are more striking, the emotions deeper. We despair when a contemporary dies. Like I said, we treasure friendship, and moments of connection. So . . . want to go out for coffee sometime, or lunch, or a late afternoon cold one, and just shoot the bull for a while? I’m available. I’ll meet you there. I’m retired.
Lindholm (Continued from Page 4A) from an early exposure to college. I tried never to miss lunch with these students, and Jane, maybe 8-12 years old, enjoyed coming to lunch with me. We sat at a different table of students every day so I might get to know them all. Jane listened to the conversations between me and these young people newly arrived at Middlebury. After lunch one day, she and I walked down the hill to my office and she paused and asked: “Can I ask you a question, Dad: is this what you do? For work?” Some 25 years later, Jane is now a B.S. Artist herself, a radio journalist, a good talker, and good listener too. Some of you no doubt remember Frank Kelley. Frank had a small farm in Cornwall, raised five kids with his wife Ann, and taught school at MUHS for 25 years (five as Principal). His last job in education was as the first Director of Residential Life at Middlebury College. In his ten years at the College, he became much beloved by students and colleagues young and old, including me. When he retired, some 15 years before I did, I missed him, so we met once a week, Tuesday mornings early, for breakfast at Steve’s Diner.
The case for independence The Declaration of Independence Prudence, a moral and political as an act of Congress occurred on virtue, requires that “Governments July 2, 1776, after being debated long established should not be for more than a month. On July 3, changed for light and transient 1776, John Adams reported this causes.” This is a counsel of caution or imperfection. It is often wiser to action to Abagail Adams, his wife. “Yesterday the greatest Question “bear the ills we gave than fly to was decided, which ever was others we know not of.” Prudence advises “Be patient.” debated in America, But patience has and a greater perhaps, limits, and these never was or will be limits have been decided among Men. A transgressed by “a Resolution was passed long train of abuses without one dissenting and usurpations” Colony “that these unitthat are not random, ed Colonies, are, and of but which reveal right ought to be free a common sinister and independent States purpose: namely, to …” establish an absolute A day later, Congress despotism over the voted to adopt The colonies. The eviDeclaration of Indedence is conclusive. pendence. It had been The American Having stated in drafted by a committee consisting of John Ad- Political Tradition general the reasons An essay by for independence, the ams of Massachusetts, evidence is presented Benjamin Franklin of Victor Nuovo Pennsylvania, Thomas Middlebury College in detail. There follows a list of “injuries Jefferson of Virginia, professor emeritus and usurpations” Robert Livingston of of philosophy committed by the New York, and Roger King and his minSherman of Connecticut. Jefferson was the principal isters, “all having in direct object author of the draft. It was debated in the establishment of an absolute Congress, revised, and adopted, and Tyranny over these states.” The list published as a formal announce- contains twenty-eight grievances ment or proclamation. It presents that range over the following: interthe following argument justifying fering in the legislative processes of the states; ignoring their legislative the action taken two days before. First, it is noted that this action actions; tampering with their elechas historical precedent. There tions, refusing to allow them, or not are occasions “in the course of accepting their results; corrupting human events,” when a people the administration of justice; find it necessary to “dissolve the pursuing a policy of militarization, political bands” that joined them and waging war against the people. to another people and assume “the The Congress has petitioned the separate and equal station to which King to end these oppressions “in the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s the most humble terms,” but to no God entitle them.” Nevertheless, avail. From all this it follows that when such occasions occur, it is “A Prince whose character is thus incumbent upon those who separate marked by every act which may to state the reasons of their action. define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the A “decent respect to the opinions ruler of a free people.” of mankind” requires it. Without It is stated also that the Congress this rational ground of common has appealed to British people understanding and agreement, the through their parliament, and to business of human society could their “native Justice and Magnanot be conducted. nimity” and kindred ties, all to no What follows is a theory of effect government in three clauses. The The conclusion follows: “We, first asserts the self-evident truths therefore, the Representatives of the of human equality and universal united States of America, in General inalienable rights of life, liberty, Congress, Assembled, appealing to and the pursuit of happiness. Next, the Supreme Judge of the world for Governments, which properly de- the rectitude of our intentions, do, rive their powers from the consent in the Name, and by the Authority of the governed, are obliged to of the good People of these Colosecure these rights for all of them. nies, solemnly publish and declare, Finally, when any government That these United Colonies are, “becomes destructive of these and of Right ought to be Free and ends” the people, whose consent Independent States.” The colonies established it in the first place, no longer owe any allegiance to have the right “to alter or abolish the British Crown, and all ties to it.” the State of Great Britain and to its Next follows a word of caution. people are dissolved. They are now
Letter (Continued from Page 4A) edly at the direction of ‘prominent, wealthy alumni of the school who were Mr. Trump’s friends’” I wonder what he’s hiding. We do know that the recent New Zealand shooter was inspired by Donald Trump’s white nationalist tendencies. I grew up thinking of America as a country of ideals — a place where hard work would get you somewhere. Credentialing those who have not studied hard — who have taken
a shortcut to success — is wrong. Informing and training the mind to think well is important. Well-educated leaders are in a position to make smarter decisions. Of course, school
is not the only place to learn, but there is no shortcut to the hard work of learning. Harry Yeo Chaucer New Haven
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and hereafter free and independent states, free to wage war, to make peace, to enter into international treaties, and engage in commerce with other nations. Note that by this unanimous declaration the thirteen states did not create one comprehensive state. Rather, by it, each state became sovereign and independent in its own right. Independence was their common endeavor and goal, and for this purpose they pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. They were now engaged in a mutual endeavor. The creation of a more perfect union between the states was still to come. Nevertheless, the act of independence was done, and it was irrevocable. And it brought into being a new political consciousness founded on irrefutable principles, among them, the principles of equality, and of the inalienable human rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and, finally, the principle that no government has legitimacy unless its only endeavor is to secure these rights for all of its people. To depart from this endeavor is to enter a path along that leads to tyranny. Because the act of the Continental Congress declaring independence was an act of Reason it became a model all peoples could follow, and it established a right that all peoples could claim: the right of a people to political independence and by mutual consent to create their own government. It should be no surprise that this universal right of peoples could be the cause of chronic disorder in world history. For instance, it can lead to conflicts between peoples that claim the same land as their home, of which there are many current examples, and conflicts over what constitutes the identity of a people, and over what rights to accord those who do not meet the criteria of identity, and the problem of how to reconcile the right of peoples to be free and independent with the inalienable rights of individual persons to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which must be everywhere and always observed. Ever since the declaration, it has become the duty of our species to create and maintain a global society in which these irrevocable rights of peoples and of persons are faithfully maintained. One could write a history of the world from July 4, 1776 to the present with these issues as its focus. But it would be without a conclusion, for that is more to come and we are not mere observers of the narrative but active participants in it, and our histories are only provisional, subject to revision.
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ADDISON COUNTY
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Francis Buonincontro, 78, Bristol
Dolores D. (Clark) Desrochers, 70, Henderson, Nev. HENDERSON, Nev. — Dolores D. (Clark) Desrochers, age 70, of Henderson, Nev., transitioned to the Lord, on Sunday, March 17, 2019, at Desert Hills Post-Acute & Rehabilitation Center in Las Vegas, Nev. She was born on Monday, June 7, 1948, in Middlebury, Vt., the daughter of Wilbert F. Clark, Sr. and Olive E. (Wood) Douglas, the second child of seven born to the family. Dolores was preceded in death by her parents. Dolores was married to Normand J. Desrochers on Monday, Sept. 6, 1967, in Manchester, N.H. They had three children, Denise, Derek and Natalie.
She is survived by daughter Denise (Desrochers) Malone and husband Shawn, son Derek J. Desrochers and wife Sherylynne, and daughter Natalie J. (Desrochers) Sgambato and husband Mark, along with six grandchildren; Adrian M. Fierro, Ashley A. Desrochers, Analisse Desrochers, Collyn J. Desrochers, Davyn Caoili, and Mark A. Sgambato. Her long life partner, Alan B. Lowry, and his daughters Alenna Catello, Brooke Stuart, Dawn Lowry and Betsy Lowry also survive her, and her six siblings Joyce Brown, Virginia Vermette, Wilbert F. Clark, Jr., Elise Robidas, Retha Visser, and Phyllis Norton.◊
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Margaret Galgano, 82, Addison children and encouraging them to live life fully and pursue their goals. Peg and Frank raised their children primarily in Ridgewood, N.J., but they spent spring and fall weekends and summers at a camp on Lake Champlain in Vermont, where they were happily surrounded by family (Hoyts and Randalls) and wonderful friends at Elm Point. Frank and Peg eventually built a year-round home there and moved permanently to the Lake. Peg cherished living on Lake Champlain enjoying the beautiful views and abundant wildlife. Peg was artistic and loved to paint in watercolor and pastel, enjoyed reading, and playing piano. Generous, kind, and loving, she greeted everyone with a smile. Peg was very intelligent with a sharp sense of humor and a knack for pointing out the lighter side of life. Peg was also passionate about her work with the American Association of University Women (AAUW), serving as a board member for many years and eventually as State President. She was dedicated to all causes supported by AAUW, especially outreach to students at Middlebury College who came from foreign countries that did not support education for women. She was inspired by the strength of these young women and their journey to pursue higher education. Most recently Peg was dedicated to the cause of finding solutions to the opioid crisis facing so many communities. In lieu of flowers, please send
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MARGARET (PEG) GALGANO donations to Middlebury AAUW c/o Liane Barrera, at 688 Weybridge St., Middlebury, VT 05753. A funeral is scheduled for Sunday, March 31, at Brown-McClay Funeral Home at 48 S. Maple Street, Vergennes. Visiting hours begin at noon with the funeral service at 1 p.m. A celebration will follow at St. Peter’s Catholic Church hall at 85 S. Maple St. in Vergennes. All are welcome to attend and celebrate Peg’s life. The family would like to thank all the people who cared for and loved Peg as well as all of the hospice and caregivers at Porter Hospital in Middlebury for their kind and dedicated care for her at the end.◊
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father, Anthony and his mother, Millicent. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Susan; his brother, Guy Buonincontro; his son Andrew Buonincontro; his daughter, Jennifer Oxford (Shawn) and grandsons, Will, Liam, and Brenden; his son Matthew (Jennifer) and grandson, Max, and granddaughter, Madeleine; his son, John Buonincontro (Bridget); and his son, Peter (Colesie) and grandsons, Lou and Salvatore, and granddaughter Josephine. Frank also leaves a large, loving extended family and some very special friends with whom he shared much laughter and many wonderful times. Our family is grateful for the excellent care he has received in the past two years from his health care teams at the UVM Medical Center and from Addison County Home Health and Hospice. A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 28, at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Bristol. Friends called at Brown-McClay Funeral Home
FRANCIS ANTHONY BUONINCONTRO in Bristol from 6-8:00 p.m., on Wednesday, March 27. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health and Hospice, P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753.◊
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ADDISON — Margaret (Peg) Galgano passed away peacefully in Middlebury, Vt., at the age of 82. She is survived by her loving husband Frank Galgano of Addison, Vt.; her son Peter Galgano of Oley, Pa., his wife Aleta and grandson Xavier; her daughter Susan Giles of Portland, Ore., and her two grandsons, Wilson and Nicholas; her brother Michael Hession and his family of Wilmington, N.C.; and her brother Tom Hession and his family of Madison, Conn. She is also survived by many cherished nieces, nephews, cousins, and her long-time family friends of Elm Point. She is preceded in death by her mother, Marion Hession; her father Michael Hession; her mother- and father-in-law Vera and Joseph Galgano, her sisters-in-law Ginny Hession and Anne Albanese; and her beloved cousin Margie Randall. Peg was born on Oct. 24, 1936, in Hartford, Conn. She graduated from Le Moyne College with a degree in Sociology and then worked at Lederle Laboratories in New York. She met her husband, Frank, at a Catholic Youth Organization dance in Piermont, N.Y. She always liked to reminisce that when Frank first saw her, he made a “bee-line” across the room to dance with her and the rest was history. They married on September 24, 1960, and welcomed their son Peter in August, 1961, and daughter Susan in October, 1962. She was an amazing mother who devoted her life to caring for her
BRISTOL — Francis Anthony Buonincontro, 78, devoted husband, father, grandfather and friend, died at his home surrounded by his loved ones on March 25, 2019. Frank was an avid fisherman, recreational pilot and, in his later years, a vegetable gardener. He loved playing cards — especially poker — and especially with his grandkids. He enjoyed riding his motorcycle, driving his MGB and spending time at his cabin on Lake Willoughby in Vermont. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y, and a graduate of the College of Pharmacy at St. John’s University, Frank was fortunate enough to practice his profession in both a hospital and community pharmacy settings. Throughout a long and varied career, he shared his talents, compassion and empathy with his community and he was enriched by those he served. Frank loved the people of Vermont and he was generous with his hugs, his jokes and his kindnesses. Frank is predeceased by his
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MONTPELIER — Barbara Moore Hobbs, 88 years young, was relieved of duty on this earth on March 7, 2019, and has joined her beloved Marine Corps regiment in Heaven. She was proud to “always be a Marine.” A sixth generation Vermonter and distant cousin of President Calvin Coolidge, Barbara was damn proud of both. She was born in 1930 in Burlington to Joseph Warren Moore and Grace Young Moore. Barbara was raised in Plymouth and graduated from Rutland High School in 1948. She graduated from the Rutland Business School before joining the Marines from 1950-52. While stationed at El Toro, California, she met actor Kirk Douglas, a highlight of her military stint. She also met the father of her three children. Barbara married fellow Marine, Dr. Robert Murray Book Jr., and settled in Middlebury where he practiced as a chiropractor. Barbara was active in the community and was a member of Eastern Star. She always had a pot of coffee ready for the many that stopped in to chat and who found comfort in her self-described “soft pillow”. Later the Books divorced and Barbara and her children moved to Montpelier. While working for National Life, Barbara became a member of Toast Master’s International, which she felt gave her greater confidence in her professional and personal life. Hoping to instill this confidence in others, she became a part-time teacher at Vermont Community College, “teaching Life,” she often said. During this time, she again provided her soft pillow to friends as well as her children’s high school friends. Barbara also became an advisor to the Montpelier High School chapter of the American Field Service. Barbara married Samuel Hobbs and moved to Chicago and continued
BARBARA MOORE HOBBS work in the insurance industry. There, Sam suffered a stroke after which they returned to Montpelier. They would later divorce. She would continue her professional life working for insurance companies in Connecticut and the EPA in North Carolina. Returning to Montpelier, Barbara would keep busy during “retirement” taking friends to doctor’s appointments and cherishing time with her “three wonderful grandchildren.” Known for her wonderful sense of humor, she was a favorite at the Heaton Woods and Berlin Health and Rehab facilities. When asked how she was doing with her worsening dementia, she often told staff and others “Well, I’m doing pretty well for an old broad.” Left to deeply grieve are two daughters, Anne Greenberg of Maryland Susan Book of Montpelier. Equally saddened are her grandchildren Artie Greenberg of New York, Kimberly Cowan of Colchester and Madison
Cowan of South Carolina, cousins Deb (Jon) Hildebrand of Essex and Candace Corey of Richford. Also surviving are her sister-in-law Karen Moore, and her children Ron (Tanya) and Mark (Carol) Moore of North Carolina and Denise (Chris) Gehler of Texas. Barbara was deeply wounded at the passing of her brother, Ret. Col. Herbert Moore of Fayetteville, N.C. and two years later, her first born, Robert Murray Book, III. Words fail to fully express her kindness and courage and the sadness felt by her family and long-time friends. Barbara was one in a million, a cherished sister, a loving mother and adoring grandmother and aunt. Memories are all we have left of our “soft pillow.” Those wishing to honor Barbara, may send donations in her memory to the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, of which her parents were founding members, at coolidgefoundation.org/donate/◊
By the Way on behalf of the citizens of Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven and Starksboro? If so, you’re welcome to apply for a Bristol vacancy on the MAUSD board, which presides over Pre-K-12 public education in the 5-Town area. The vacancy runs through the next election on March 3, 2020. The Bristol selectboard will appoint the new member. Please direct letters of interest to the Bristol Selectboard, 1 South St., P.O. Box 249, Bristol, VT 05443 or by e-mail to townadmin@bristolvt.org no later than The Masons of Libanus Lodge Wednesday, April 10. No. 47 at 2 Elm St. in Bristol invite the public to a ceremony on Randy Martin let us know about Sunday, April 7, at 3 p.m., at which a fundraiser for the Charter House the following longtime members Coalition that provides 30,000 free will be honored for their tenures: meals a year in Middlebury and overBill James, 75 years; Roger Layn, night accommodations for about 90 70 years; Charlie Weisenbach, 60 people over the colder months. Local years; and Robert Fuller, 50 years. supporters can think of this fundraiser Light refreshments will follow the as March Madness and the Charter House Coalition is the Cinderella ceremony. Team, Randy said, pointing out that Are you a Bristol resident inter- the Charter House is in competition ested in ensuring that the schools with groups from Dallas, Houston in the Mount Abraham Unified and Phoenix for a $2,000 prize. He School District achieve high-qual- asked people to take a moment and ity educational results and foster go to a contest Facebook page — supportive learning environments tinyurl.com/y29k64ua — and please at reasonable and appropriate costs like and comment. A like is worth one (Continued from Page 1A) Werner would like each of her students to have a 4-cycle lawn mower (push or rider) or small tractor to work on. If you have a mower or small tractor that you are willing to have a student service, please e-mail cwerner@pahcc. org or call Werner at 382-1013. Projects should be delivered to the school by April 18 for service completion by May 20. They can be delivered between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., or by appointment.
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vote and a comment is worth another vote. Also, Randy asked that you please share and tag all your friends. Head online now — the contest runs through late Friday. Vermonters are invited to learn about how citizen science is employed to help with wildlife conservation in Vermont on Thursday, April 11, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area Conference Room in Addison. This “Citizen Science 101” presentation is free and open to the public and is limited to the first 50 people who register by email. The presentation will be led by Erin Talmage, director of the Birds of Vermont Museum, and Amy Alfieri who manages Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area and Visitor Center. Talmage will discuss the history and importance of citizen science and how the information collected can be used for conservation. Alfieri will discuss citizen science opportunities through the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. The Dead Creek Conference Room is located at 966 Route 17 West in Addison. To sign up, email Alfieri at amy. alfieri@vermont.gov.
Climate crisis needs attention On December 2, 2018, I sat outside, watched a lizard and a butterfly, and thought about the end of the world. I was in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, miles away from the nearest city, farm, mine, power plant, or car, but the suffocating fear of climate change had followed me even to this most protected and pristine environment. I may not have had roads, but I had Wi-Fi, and I had spent the last few days reading article upon article about our president’s plans to deregulate fossil fuels and open up the last wildernesses in our country to drilling. It was just the latest link in a chain determined to draw us closer to our doom. I’ve waited my entire life for that chain to snap, but that day, I snapped instead. As I sat on those steps, watching that lizard and that butterfly against a backdrop of the most beautiful
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East Middlebury resident Greta Hardy-Mittell, a 2018 graduate of Middlebury Union High School, spoke at College Park in Middlebury recently as part of the Climate Strike. The worldwide call to action on climate change brought out more than a hundred at the Middlebury event. Here are Hardy-Mittell’s remarks.
jungle you can imagine, I could only think about how it was all going to die. Everything started to seem pointless, even the very reason I was there — to research scarlet macaws and save them from extinction — because, thanks to us humans, who knew if the next generation of macaws would even
have an earth to live on? We would either exploit every last inch of the planet for natural resources, or the burning of those natural resources would change the climate enough to destroy the planet for us. Either way, I truly believed that the world was going to end. Looking out at all of you today, I’m not so sure. I came back from the rainforest to a new hope. For the first time, our country has a plan drastic enough that it could actually prevent the worst of a climate crisis. Our country has national lawmakers young enough that they will live to see our future. And our country has us. We can strike, we can speak, and in less than two years, we can VOTE: for lawmakers and a president who will take our future seriously. Let’s make sure, TOGETHER, that we never see the end of the world.
Letters to the Editor A recap of Salisbury invite, a welcome to new members It was my understanding that I had been invited to the Salisbury town meeting to address the issues related to the BLSG (Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury, Goshen Insect Control District) and the funding for the legal expenses by members of the Salisbury selectboard. I was informed that we could have a booth there also to provide information to town residents, which we did. Prior to the start of the meeting, I did consult with the moderator, Wayne Smith, and ask when on the agenda we would be addressing the concerns of the town residents. As I recall he indicated it was either article 8 or 9 on the agenda. I was surprised when I approached the podium and was told that I could not speak because I had not been invited. By that time, a
number of folks had already spoken against the article, and I was shaken and rattled as I tried to set the record straight, so I apologize for my poor performance. Each town that is a member of the BLSG community is entitled to two representatives and one alternate. Salisbury has not had a representative on the board for the past one and a half years, so it is not surprising that there has been a lot of misinformation propagated by members opposed to our adulticide program; which was expressed prior to my presentation. The current selectboard has moved to rectify their lack of representation and recently appointed two members to the BLSG board. We look forward to working with their representatives and providing
an open forum for a discussion of issues related to mosquito control. The learning curve is long and arduous, but extremely gratifying in helping to provide an environment free of nuisance and disease-bearing mosquitoes, as best we can with very limited resources. Our board meetings are open to the public, the third Thursday of the month at the Stephen Douglas Memorial building on Route 7 in Brandon at 7 p.m. Minutes are also posted on our website (BLSGmosquito.wordpress. com) and also sent to the town clerk’s for posting.
Dr. Benjamin Lawton Jr. Chairman, BLSG Insect Control District Goshen
To all the people who hate Muslims, please don’t be angry Do I scare you? They call it Islamophobia after all. Do I scare you? Does my family scare you? Let me give you a summary of us, in case you didn’t really know us all that well. Me, Standing at about 5 foot 2 inches, With big, bushy, fuzzy hair And a penchant for zoning out and Always having graphite-stained fingers. My sister, 10 years old, who once made Her own little snack dispenser Out of a cardboard box and some tape. My father, Who makes us pancakes in the mornings, Who loves gardening and prides himself On making food out of our own vegetables In the summers. My mother, Who drinks more tea than seems humanly possible who’s just finishing up her dissertation now, And loves dancing to any song, anywhere. Are you scared of us? Because that seems a little silly at this point, doesn’t it? You tell everyone that you’re scared, scared that your culture is going to be gone, scared we’ll bomb you, scared that we won’t assimilate. But you know what? I don’t think you’re really scared. I think you’re angry. Angry, Because you have lost people That you knew, And for this I cannot blame you. Angry, Because we speak with the wisps Of foreign places on our tongues And you cannot love what you have Never seen. Angry, Because you hear of things that are done And you do not understand them, And confusion is often the source of Hatred. So no, I do not think you are scared. I think you are angry with people you have never met in your life, never talked to in your life, and isn’t that a bit weird. But hey, I’m not here to tell you how to live your lives, no. But just consider this. I am scared. I am scared when I walk down the street at night. Whenever someone is behind me I hold my phone to my ear Oh So Tight And pretend That I am talking. I am scared whenever I see someone Wearing a red hat. I quickly scan the words Feel
My Heart Skip A beat when it’s not What I’m expecting. I am scared whenever I watch the news, Hope that we are not forced To identify ourselves With Badges Repeating History My God What has it come to? I’m scared. And maybe in your minds you feel that is an accomplishment, some kind of sick, twisted sense of satisfaction will fill you when you read these words. But there shouldn’t be any. Because I am a 13 year old girl. You made a 13-year-old girl scared. Do you feel accomplished? You made my 10-year-old sister be afraid. Do you feel accomplished? You made my mother cry. Do you feel accomplished? You made my father feel like he couldn’t function. Do you feel accomplished? I bow down to a God that you think Is not yours and you hate. I sing prayers in a language That is not yours and you hate. I fast for a month to understand The struggle of the poor and you hate, All because you got your information Of Islam from old and outdated beliefs So you hate And yet didn’t the Bible say, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Well, we are your neighbors, we are the people that run your local supermarket or dollar store, we are the people that teach you, we are the people that are your students, your friends, we are everywhere and yet you never noticed us because your version of Islam is some monster that you have built up in your mind, and hey, I’m not saying that we’re perfect but neither are you. And there’s something fundamentally wrong with this conversation we’re having because I should not be asking you to not hate us. It is my right to live in happiness and it is my right to practice my religion, so don’t tell me that I am a monster for praying and loving and simply existing. So don’t tell me that my religion is an ideology when you say that yours isn’t. So I guess what I’m trying to say to all the people who hate Muslims is that I don’t hate you. I just want you to understand, and I don’t want to be scared anymore. Please don’t let me be scared anymore. Open your eyes, bring a little love to the table. And as much as I hate this, I’m begging you to not be angry anymore. Love, me. — Narges Ansali, Weybridge 8th-grader, Middlebury Union Middle School
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Kniffin (Continued from Page 5A) excellence and quality in the care we deliver, responsible stewardship and ensuring appropriate access to the right care in the right place. We must, and we will, meld these cultures — leveraging the strengths of each — and use these foundational concepts as guiding principles to frame our approach: • In all decisions, we put the needs of our patients and families first; • We are creating for our region a locally led, non-profit care delivery network in collaboration with community partners; • Our patients should get the high-quality care they need as close to home as possible, indeed at home if possible; • We must be good stewards of resources. At times, this means making difficult decisions. • Across the Network, we need to “meet people where they are” relative to change and communication. At Porter, our patients and residents are at the center of all our de-
cisions. This is true of the Network as well. We need to leverage our relationships to provide coordinated, consistent high-quality care for our communities. To do more of what we are already striving for at Porter with the strength of the Network behind us. There are several high-level strategies that are directly related to the Network Strategic Plan that we are focused on to accomplish the vision I have outlined above: • Hospital Margin Improvement. “No margin, no mission.” All of the UVMHN hospitals must work together to create efficiencies and be financially sound. • Clinical Integration and Care Delivery Optimization (CDO). CDO is a provider led process to examine what services should be delivered where. The decisions of CDO are driven by quality, access and cost – in other words – what is best for our patients. I imagine the day when “the promise” is true – you walk into a UVMHN-Porter clinical area and get exactly the quality of service we
all expect from a University Medical Center. The approach to common clinical problems is consistent, driven by best practices. • Shared Services. Shared Services refers to the sharing of non-clinical administrative services. Some of these services are “back office” such as legal or supply chain. Others are more apparent, such as IT, Communications and Human Resources. We need to leverage our size to have the best IT support, the best priced purchasing, and the best possible recruiting and communications functions. • Integrating Hospital Operations. The goal here is to integrate and coordinate clinical and care related services such as pharmacy, linens, supply chain and more to ensure we are delivering care in a more integrated, efficient and coordinated way. We believe that this “Road Ahead” plan will continue to lead Porter toward a positive future and allow us to “Improve the health of our community, one person at a time.”
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organist of Christ Church in Grosse Point, Mich. All are welcome. Feel free to bring a lunch. Light refreshments provided. “Vermont’s Wildlife in a Changing Age Well senior luncheon in Vergennes. “Problems with Evidence Used in the Criminal Climate” in Ripton. Thursday, March 28, Tuesday, April 2, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Process” in Middlebury. Thursday, April 4, 4:30 7-9 p.m., Ripton Community Church (NOTE Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 p.m., Warner Hemicycle, College St. Phi Beta Kappa LOCATION CHANGE), Route 125. Come hear this Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee Scholar, Dan Simon, Ph.D. lectures frequently on presentation by Tom Rogers, biologist with the VT hour. Meal served at noon of shepherd’s pie with corn, psychological insights into the criminal process to Fish and Wildlife Dept. Through Rogers’ colorful cut green beans, wheat dinner roll and sliced pears. judges and law enforcement personnel. photos and stories, the audience will gain a new Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. “I’m So Mad I Made This Sign” opening reception in understanding of how climate change affects wild72 hours advanced notice required. Call Age Well to Middlebury. Thursday, April 4, 5 p.m., Café, Mahaney life in VT and what people can do to help wildlife in reserve at 802-865-0360. Open to anyone age 60 Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Join student artists the face of these threats. and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may and instructor Sepi Alavi for the opening of an exhibi“Maher: Rising to New Life” presentation in be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. tion of posters created by students in a j-term class on Bristol. Thursday, March 28, 7-8:30 p.m., Lawrence Public hearing and open house in Vergennes. graphic design beyond advertising. Addressing social Memorial Library, 40 North St. When Catherine Tuesday, April 2, 6 p.m., Vergennes Opera House, issues, both local and global, the works explore the Willson and Mikaela Keepin learned of Sister Lucy 120 Main St. Stantec, Inc. will present their study to vocabulary of typographic forms and their relationship Kurien’s work with destitute children and adults in assess options for reducing the impacts of truck trafto message and meaning. Free. India, they each felt a calling. Learn about their fic in downtown Vergennes. Representatives from Addison Central School District Safety Night experiences, at this One World in Middlebury. Thursday, April 4, 6:30-8 p.m., Library Project event. Free and Middlebury Union High School, 73 Charles Ave. accessible. More info at 802-453Learn more about school safety in ACSD and the 2366 or OneWorldLibraryProject. initiatives and work the district is doing org or the One World Library to provide a safe and secure learning MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL —Adult Classes: Garden environment for students, staff, and Project Facebook page. “From Starksboro to Sao Paulo, Planters with Kathy Clarke, Mon & Thurs Wheel Classes, Intro to community. Rob Evans, Vermont Brazil” in New Haven. Thursday, Safety Liaison, will be sharDigital Photography, Oils, Pastels, Try Colored Pencil Drawing, School March 28, 7 p.m. New Haven ing statewide safety initiatives and Garden Design Sess 2, Summer Clay Kids: NEW-Make Your provide an update on what’s happenCommunity Library, 78 North St. Chris Kokubo and Nate Shepard Own Gifts for Mother’s & Father’s Day, Clay Wheel & Hand ing across the country as schools will be sharing the story of their Building middleburystudioschool.org Contact Barb 247-3702, continue to work to improve safety journey from Starksboro, Vt., to Sao response systems. email ewaldewald@aol.com Paulo, Brazil to raise money ($1 Reiff intern talk: Architecture a km) for the Open Door Clinic in the Museum in Middlebury. MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION — a suite of at Middlebury. An evening of wonderThursday, April 4, 6:30 p.m., Sabra meditative practices improving wellness, offered at Vergennes Field Lecture Hall and Museum ful photographs and the story of an Movement Studio, 179 Main St., Vergennes, weekly beginning of Art, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 incredible journey. Free and accessible. More info contact Deborah Thursday, April 4 - May 23rd @ 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 visit www. Porter Field Rd. As part of her Reiff Lundbech at 802-453-4015. Architectural Studies ronidonnenfeld.com, 802 793 5073. Registration Deadline Internship, major Jill Stauffer discusses her – March 31. display of architectural images and related materials drawn from the permanent collection and displayed Blood pressure and foot clinic in the company will be available for questions during the at the museum’s balcony gallery. Followed by light Brandon. Friday, March 29, 11 a.m., open house at 6 p.m. Hearing begins at 7 p.m. Free. refreshments and a museum visit to view the exhibiConant Square. Offered by VNA & Hospice. All ages and interests welcome. Family-friendly. tion. Free. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury. Blood pressure clinic is free. Foot clinic $10. More edu/arts. info call 802-770-1536. Bill McKibben in Middlebury. Thursday, April 4, 7-8:15 “Fly Fishing, Guiding and Kayaking in Vermont” p.m., Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center, Old Habitat for Humanity of Addison County in Middlebury. Friday, March 29, 1:30 p.m., Henry Chapel Rd. In “What I Learned in the Last Three benefit dinner in Bristol. Wednesday, April Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St. The final installment Decades: A first glimpse of my new book,” McKibben 3, 4-9 p.m., Bobcat Café, 5 Main St. Have a of the Sheldon’s Did You Know? series features will share excerpts from his upcoming book “Falter: great meal at the Bobcat and support Habitat at the professional fishing guide and co-owner of Stream Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?” The same time. The cafe has generously agreed to donate and Brook Fly Fishing guide service Brian Cadoret, book asks what we’ve lost in the past three decades a portion of their profits to support Habitat’s work. who shares his knowledge of Addison County’s and what we might still hope to protect. rivers along with a fish story or two. Tickets $10 for Vermont Business Ecosystem Meetup in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 3, 5:30-8 p.m., Sheldon members/$20 non-members. More info Community Barn Ventures, 44 Main St. Hosts, Stacey and advance registration at henrysheldonmuseum. Rainey and Mary Cullinane of Community Barn org or 802-388-2117. Proceeds will benefit the Five-day walk for climate justice in Ventures, will lead a conversation with Sarah Kearns Sheldon Museum’s education programs. Middlebury. Begins Friday, April 5, all day, (VtSBDC), Fred Kenney (ACEDC) and Sas Stewart Lenten fish fry in Bristol. Friday, March 29, 5-7 p.m., Middlebury. 350 Vermont has organized this (Stonecutter Spirits) around ecosystem building as St. Ambrose Parish Hall, 11 School St. All-you-canwalk from Middlebury to Montpelier, April 5 to 9, 2019. it relates directly to economic development. Enjoy eat fried or baked haddock, French fries, cole slaw, Witness the pipeline’s impact on land and lives and complimentary adult beverages, light appetizers and beverage and dessert. Tickets adults $12/children witness the creative solutions and changes being a productive, thought-provoking conversation. under 9 $6/immediate family of 5 $37. More info at implemented — from homesteads to solar panels, Vermont Youth Risk Behavior Survey discus802-453-2488. from mass transit to mass compost. Walk 11 miles sion in Vergennes. Wednesday, April 3, 6-7 p.m., from Middlebury to Bristol on the first day. The walk Library, Vergennes Union High School, Monkton Rd. continues through Tuesday, April 9, when walkers Vergennes Student Leadership Committee hosts this arrive in Montpelier. Walk for one day, five days, or discussion of strengths and concerns we have identiGreen Mountain Club snowshoe/ski a few days, according to your ability. More info and fied in our school using the data from the Vermont in Ripton. Saturday, March 30, Burnt registration at 350Vermont.org. Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The discussion will give Hill Trail. A moderate to strenuous 6+ mile Large rummage sale/bag in Vergennes. Friday, an overview of the data from the YRBS that VUHS hike up the Burnt Hill Trail to the Long Trail and April 5, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Champlain Valley Christian students participated in 2017. return leaving from Rikert. Bring water, lunch and “Slow Democracy and the Power of Neighborliness” Reformed Church, 73 Church St. All items are overappropriate clothing and gear for the weather, and stock clearance from Your Turn Resale Shoppe in in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 3, 7 p.m., Ilsley anticipate changes in temperature and weather as Vergennes. More info call Martha at 802-349-0229. Public Library, 75 Main St. Author and advocate elevation is gained Contact leader Ellen Cronan Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury. Friday, Susan Clark explains the Slow Democracy moveat ecronana@yahoo.com or 908-595-2926. More April 5, 11 a.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. Doors open ment in which ordinary people mobilize to find local activities at gmcbreadloaf.org. at 11 a.m. Meal served at noon of roast pork with solutions to local problems. In the process some find Introduction to IB’s Primary Year Program in apple cider gravy, baked potatoes with sour cream, they can bridge the “us-them” divide so prevalent in Middlebury. Saturday, March 30, 9:30-11 a.m., green leaf salad with grape tomatoes, cucumbers, our national politics. Part of the Vermont Humanities Music Room, Mary Hogan School. Join ACSD’s chopped egg and craisins, dinner roll, and chocolate Council’s First Wednesdays series. PYP coordinators Joy Dobson and Jessica Lynch Green Mountain Boys presentation in Shoreham. cake with strawberry filling and chocolate frosting. to learn about the International Baccalaureate (IB) Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Wednesday, April 3, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, Primary Year Program, including an overview of Advanced tickets required by Monday, April 1. Call 279 Main St. At this Shoreham Historical Society the PYP philosophy and curriculum; engaging in Pat Long at 802-865-0360. Open to anyone age 60 meeting Sue MacIntire will give us some insight into a hands-on, classroom-based inquiry; a chance to and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may Shoreham through the correspondence of Noah ask questions; informational handouts; and opporbe provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. Jones, one of the Green Mountain Boys during the tunity to provide feedback. Free Childcare provided “Holistic Models of Decision Making” lecture in years of 1802-1820. The Program to be presented in the North Gym. Refreshments provided. Middlebury. Friday, April 5, 12:30 p.m., MBH 216, following a short business meeting. Light refreshSpaghetti dinner benefit in Middlebury. Saturday, Middlebury College. Phi Beta Kappa Scholar, Dan ments will be served. March 30, 5-8 p.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. Menu The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, UK, in Simon, Ph.D. lectures frequently on psychological includes spaghetti with meat or meatless sauce, insights into the criminal process to judges and law Middlebury. Wednesday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m., St Salad, bread/rolls and homemade dessert. Face enforcement personnel. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 3 Main St. Conductor Painting, 50/50 raffle and other activities. Drinks “Collecting Asia” in Middlebury. Friday, April 5, 1 p.m., Graham Ross leads the choir in Tomas Luis de purchased separately. Proceeds go to fund UVM Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Art Victoria’s “Requiem” (1605) with British and Spanish Children’s Hospital. Tickets $8 adults/$4 children 7 Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Sarah Laursen, Curator Lenten motets. Tickets $15, available online at ststeand under. of Asian art and assistant professor of History of Art phensmidd.org or in person at the church office King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, & Architecture, discusses the history of the Museum’s Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. March 30, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Community Reiff Gallery and its Asian art collection, as well as Center, Route 7. The evening begins with a sandfuture directions in collecting and upcoming exhibiwich supper and then on to the games. King Pede tions. Free. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury. is a unique game that involves “trick-taking” techedu/arts. Senior meal in Bristol. Thursday, April 4, niques such as in Hearts and Spades or Pitch. A “Improvising Within and Beyond Traditions: noon, First Baptist Church, Park St. Menu game of fun and skill. Come prepared to use your Engaged Listening Music Session” in Middlebury. includes roast pork, potato casserole, parsley strategic thinking. Friday, April 5, 1 p.m., Room 221, Mahaney Arts carrots, homemade rolls and strawberry shortcake. Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Join Digitizing Folk Music Suggested donation $4. To be on the list call Nancy at History artist-in-residence Anna Roberts-Gevalt and 802-453-5276. Come early to talk with members of Middlebury’s Department of Music for a friends and make new ones. discussion and exploration of musical improvisation. Traditional music and step-dancing Organ recital in Middlebury. How can we turn to music for new modes of hearconcert fundraiser in Cornwall. Sunday, Thursday, April 4, 12:15-12:45 ing each other better and responding effecMarch 31, 2 p.m., Cornwall Town Hall, Route p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal tively across lines of difference? Free. More 30. The Bolton/Munkres family band will perform Church, 3 Main St. Come hear info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts. driving fiddle and banjo music, a few songs, and this organ recital by Fred DeHaven, “Raise the Spirit: Alumni Panel” in step dancing from Appalachian, Cape Breton, Irish retired choirmaster and former Middlebury. Friday, April and other traditions to raise funds for Ben and Romy Munkres’ musical tour in April with Young Tradition Vermont. Refreshments for sale, as well as CDs, raffle tickets, and other fundraising items Admission is freewill donation. More info contact 802- 462-3722. All-you-can-eat chicken and biscuit supper in Middlebury. Sunday, March 31, 5-6 p.m., Middlebury United Methodist Church, Seminary and North Pleasant St. Enjoy this buffet style meal in the church’s fellowship hall. Large selection of homemade offerings. Suggested donations, adults $9/youth 6-12 $5/5 and under free. All donations go to local charities. 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children and HIV guardians in northeastern Uganda. A shepherd’s pie supper will precede the concert at 5:30 p.m. Suggested donation $10 adults/$5 children 6-11/ children 5 and under are free. All proceeds go to Village2VillageProject. “Raise the Spirit: The 25th Anniversary Concert” in Middlebury. Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Musical alumni return to campus to celebrate Professor Su Lian Tan’s quarter century of teaching. A pre-concert lecture, “Mighty (Silent and Structural) Fortresses: Identity in Milton Babbitt’s Glosses,” will precede the concert at 6:15 p.m. in Room 125. Tickets $15 public/$12 Midd ID holders/$8 Youth/$6 Midd students. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts.
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Twelve women read “Twelve Angry Men” in Middlebury. Sunday, April 7, 2 p.m., Byers Studio, Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. An all-star cast of women will lend their impassioned voices to a reading of this classic play by Reginald Rose as part of the 12,000 Voices project. Women all over the country will read a play about the power one person can have when they speak with conviction in our judicial system. Free, but donations are always appreciated. Audience members, cast, and staff will have the opportunity to update their voter registration following the staged reading. Information will also be given about how to increase voter registration and voter turnout. New Century | New Voices: Marcos Balter, “Music without Borders” in Middlebury. Sunday, April 7, 8:00 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Internationally renowned composer Marcos Balter introduces some of his favorite living composers. Free. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts.
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BEEKEEPER KIRK WEBSTER will lead a talk and discussion about the future of honeybees and explain his method of controlling invasive mites and the challenges of maintaining a thriving bee population in spite of widespread bee colony collapse. The talk will be held on Wednesday, April 3, 7 p.m., at the New Haven Town Office, 78 North St. Photo courtesy Kirk Webster
5, 4:15 p.m., Sabra Field Lecture Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Music Professor Jeffrey Buettner moderates a panel of Su Tan’s former students-turned-music-professionals, in honor of her 25 years of teaching. Reception to follow at 5:30 p.m. in the lobby. Free. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts. Lenten Fish Bake in Vergennes. Friday, April 5, 5-7 p.m., St. Peter’s Parish Hall, 85 South Maple St. Come join us for battered baked haddock, fries, macaroni and cheese, green beans, cole slaw, rolls, dessert, punch, milk and coffee. Tickets adults $12/children under 12 $6/children under 6 free/immediate family only $35. More info call 802-877-2367.
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Green Mountain Club TAM hike in Middlebury. Saturday, April 6. Moderate hike through Means Woods and up Chipman Hill, 3.5-mile route, 400-foot elevation gain. More info contact David Andrews at vtrevda@yahoo.com or 802-388-4894. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org. Large rummage sale/bag in Vergennes. Saturday, April 6, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Champlain Valley Christian Reformed Church, 73 Church St. All items are overstock clearance from Your Turn Resale Shoppe in Vergennes. More info call Martha at 802-349-0229. Tag sale in Weybridge. Saturday, April 6, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Weybridge Elementary School, Quaker Village Rd. Regular price from 8-11 a.m., $5 bag sale from 11 a.m.-1 p.m., lots of freebies from 1-2 p.m. If you would like to donate items, you may drop them off at the school on the evenings of April 3 and 4 between 3 and 6 p.m., or anytime between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Friday, April 5. More info contact Kirsten at khendy@ acsdvt.org. Spring cleaning yard sale in Brandon. Saturday, April 6, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Fellowship Hall, Brandon Congregational Church, 1 Carver St. Start spring off with some bargains or sell all those things piling up from decluttering efforts. To rent space contact Kristen Varian at kristenvarian@gmail.com or 802-779-7909 by March 29. Women in Tennis Together workshop in Middlebury. Saturday April 6, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Middlebury Indoor Tennis, 360 Boardman St. A one-day workshop for local athletes event to promote young women in tennis in Vermont. Eighteen slots are slots available to girls grades 9-12. Fee of $5 includes event admission, breakfast and lunch, a gift, fun tennis activities, and one free ticket to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I. on Friday, July 19. Vermont Covered Bridge Society meeting in Middlebury. Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m.-noon, Congregational Church of Middlebury Unity Hall, 30 N. Pleasant St. Annual Spring meeting followed by a talk on the history and revitalization of the Scott Covered Bridge by VCBS Member John Weaver, P.E., a VTrans engineer and design reviewer for the rehabilitation of the bridge. Methane digester tour and Blue Trail hike in Weybridge. Saturday, April 6, 1-3 p.m., Monument Farms, 2107 James Rd. Middlebury Area Land Trust hosts this event. Tour begins at 1 p.m. with the Blue Trail Hike to follow. Champlain Orchard’s Cider and Monument Farms’ milk will be provided as refreshments. “Apollo 11” on screen in Middlebury. **NEW DATE: Saturday, April 6, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, 356 College St. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, “Apollo 11” takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission — the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names. Free. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/ arts. Spaghetti dinner in Granville. Saturday, April 6, 5-7 p.m. Moss Glen Grange, Post Office Hill Rd. Cost by donation. Old Bones fundraising performance in Bristol. Saturday, April 6, 6:30 p.m., First Baptist Church of Bristol, Park St. Come hear this talented group of local country musicians and help raise funds for the Village2Village Project, a charity born in Bristol which now supports more than 128 orphaned and needy
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Legislative Breakfast in Weybridge. Monday, April 8, 7-8:45 a.m., Weybridge Congregational Church, 2790 Weybridge Rd. Talk with local legislators over breakfast. Purchase of breakfast not required to attend but helps defray the cost of opening the hall.
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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Tuesday, April 9, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Lane. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. VASA monthly meeting at 11:30 a.m. Meal served at noon of chicken and biscuit, diced carrots, broccoli florets and apple cake with confectioner’s sugar. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle to reserve at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. “A Baseball Potpourri in Celebration of Opening Day” in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 9, 3-4:15 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Local award-winning sports columnist Karl Lindholm returns to entertain with some baseball history, and no doubt some analysis of the Red Sox hopes for a repeat and other current major league commentary. Free and open to the public. AIDS and the next modern plague presentation in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 9, 4:30-6 p.m., Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room, 148 Hillcrest Rd. The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs hosts Timothy Lahey, Director of Clinical Ethics, Infectious Disease Physician, and Professor at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM. Lahey will discuss the HIV epidemic and the lesson it provides to help prepare for the next plague.
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Age Well senior luncheon in Shoreham. Wednesday, April 10, 11 a.m., Halfway House, Route 22A. Doors open and meal served at 11 a.m. until all are served. Menu includes meatloaf, mashed potatoes, vegetables and dessert. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419 to reserve. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. Meeting of the Bridport Senior Citizens, Inc. will follow the luncheon at 12:15 p.m. at the Bridport Masonic Hall. “The Past is Prologue” talk in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 10, 10:30-11:30 a.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. In 1970, photographer Jim Blair captured the relatively new issue of ecological crisis for “National Geographic” magazine. Since that time Jim has continued to cover the topic all over the planet. His presentation will demonstrate how “we have made some progress, but are always playing catch up.” Free and open to the public. Artist Tiffany Smith in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 10, 4:30 p.m., Room 304, Johnson Memorial Building, Chateau Rd. Interdisciplinary artist from the Caribbean diaspora Tiffany Smith gives a lecture on her work in photography, video, installation, and design. Smith’s practice centers on what forms and defines communities of people of color — in particular, how they are identified and represented, and how they endure. Free. Limited accessibility. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts. “Understanding Identity Theft” in Orwell. Wednesday, April 10, 6:30 p.m., Orwell Free Library, 423 Main St. Presented by AARP Vermont. Find out how and why identity theft occurs, what steps can be taken to protect yourself and your loved ones and what to do if it happens to you.
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Age Well senior luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, April 11, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Money Smart for Older Adults – Prevent Financial Exploitation program at 11 a.m., the first of three sessions. Meal served at noon of stuffed chicken breast, mashed potatoes, baby carrots, dinner roll and berry crisp. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. The Addison String Quartet in Middlebury. Thursday, April 11, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s
Episcopal Church, 3 Main St. The quartet features Carol Harden, Emily Sunderman, Joy Pile and Tom Dunne. All are welcome. Feel free to bring a lunch. Light refreshments provided. Author Molly Millwood in Middlebury. Thursday, April 11, 7-8 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Millwood, author of “To Have And To Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma” will explore the complexities of early motherhood, including its very real impact on marriage, with candor and practical advice. “Citizen Science 101” in Addison. Thursday, April 11, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area Conference Room, 966 Route 17. Learn about how citizen science is employed to help with wildlife conservation in Vermont Free and open to the public and is limited to the first 50 people who register via email. To sign up, email Amy Alfieri at amy.alfieri@ vermont.gov. “Ada and the Engine” on stage in Middlebury. Thursday, April 11, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. As the British Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace (daughter of the flamboyant and notorious Lord Byron) sees the boundless creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul-mate, Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age. General admission $25/ students $12, available at 802-382-9222 or townhalltheater.org. Repeats April 12, 13 and 14.
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Green Mountain Club hike in Bristol. Friday, April 12, the Watershed Center, Plank Rd. Moderate 5-mile hike on the Waterworks property, mostly level. Meet at parking area on Plank Road. More info contact Ruth Penfield at ruthpenfield@gmail.com or 802-388-5407. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org. Rummage Sale in North Ferrisburgh. Friday, April 12, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m., North Ferrisburgh Methodist Church, 227 Old Hollow Rd. Proceeds support children and youth attending summer camps and mission trips. Come enjoy an old fashioned rummage sale and support our neighborhood youth. More info at 802-425-2770. BlueBrass in Middlebury. Friday, April 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., in the Bistro, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Margie Beckoff plays a 32 string electric harp and Jim Morse plays a flugelhorn. Their repertoire consists of songs from the Great American Songbook, some pop tunes, some originals and some traditional Celtic songs. They don’t play bluegrass, but their duo name, BlueBrass!, does come from when someone asked Jim what they play and he answered, “BlueBrass!” Free and open to the public. Lenten Fish fry in Bristol. Friday, April 12, 5-7 p.m., St Ambrose Parish Hall, 11 School St. All-you-caneat fried or baked haddock, French fries, cole slaw, beverage and dessert. Tickets adults$12/children under 9 $6/immediate family of 5 $37. More info at 802-453-2488. Spring waterfowl migration bird-watching tour in Ferrisburgh. Thursday, April 11, 6-8 p.m. Little Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area. Join state waterfowl biologist David Sausville to catch the spring migration of waterfowl in this naturally productive wild rice marsh. Backup date, Friday, April 12. “Ada and the Engine” on stage in Middlebury. Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. As the British Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace (daughter of the flamboyant and notorious Lord Byron) sees the boundless creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul-mate, Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age. Tickets $25/students $12, available at 802-382-9222 or townhalltheater.org. Repeats April 13 and 14.
LIVEMUSIC All Bach program in Middlebury. Thursday, March 28, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church The Black Feathers in Middlebury. Thursday, March 28, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Rick Ceballos in Middlebury. Friday, March 29, 3:304:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury. Ameranouche in Brandon. Saturday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Champlain Philharmonic and the Castleton University Chorale in Middlebury. Saturday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., the Congregational Church of Middlebury Bolton/Munkres family band in Cornwall. Sunday, March 31, 2 p.m., Cornwall Town Hall. Jazzou Jones in Middlebury. *RESCHEDULED FROM FEB. 17* Sunday, March 31, 3 p.m., EastView at Middlebury. The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, UK, in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m., St Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Fred DeHaven Organ recital in Middlebury. Thursday, April 4, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Ted Wesley in Middlebury. Friday, April 5, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury Old Bones in Bristol. Saturday, April 6, 6:30 p.m., First Baptist Church of Bristol. Rupert Wates in Brandon. Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Lewis Franco and the Missing Cats in Lincoln. Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall. Raise the Spirit: The 25th Anniversary Concert in Middlebury. Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center. Moose Crossing Jazz Trio in Middlebury. Sunday, April 7, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek. New Century | New Voices: Marcos Balter in Middlebury. Sunday, April 7, 8 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center. The Addison String Quartet in Middlebury. Thursday, April 11, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephens Episcopal Church BlueBrass in Middlebury. Friday, April 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury Snake Mountain Bluegrass in Brandon. Saturday, April 13, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. The Castalian String Quartet in Middlebury. Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center. The Michele Fay Band in Lincoln. Saturday April 13, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall. BlueBrass! in Middlebury. Sunday, April 14, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek.
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Editor’s note: The Vergennes message from City Manager Matt A couple of years ago while servPartnership posted the following Chabot in its March 24 newsletter. ing on the City Council, I promised Clerk Treasurer Joan Devine that we would refresh City Hall “before she retired.” I’m certain she thought the prospect of that happening was dubious at best! After decades of love by our community and visitors, Vergennes City Hall was showing its age. Carpets were threadbare and torn SALISBURY — Henry and and the interior wall finish was circa Brenda Haskell of Salisbury, Vt., 1970s woodgrain paneling! At one proudly announce the engagepoint, someone painted my office a ment of their daughter Allison to pale blue with burgundy trim... It was Brandon Kummer of Great Falls, high time for an update! Mont. Both are graduates from With the support of the City the University of North Texas. No Council, we began with the renovadate has been set for the wedding. tion of the former Police Department, which has become a conference room. With new carpet and fresh paint, the project is nearing completion with energy efficient LED lighting in the offices and new ceiling tiles in the works. New blinds and births a tiled hallway and counter area in the City Clerk’s office will finish up • Alyka (VanderWey) and Jeremy Kelly of New Haven, March 14, a the refresh for now. We’ll be seeking girl, Chloe Nadine Kelly. funds to replace the desks and coun• Dana (Smith) and Nicholas Perzanoski of Bristol, March 20, a boy, tertop in the office later this summer. Max Arlyn Perzanoski. If you’re in town and have not seen • Cherish Hulst and Nicholas Cook of New Haven, March 26, a girl, the “new and improved,” please stop Evelyn Claire Cook. in and say hello.
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Notes of appreciation Carnevale Vergennes a success thanks to supporters With deep gratitude, I’d like to publicly thank the many, many supporters of the 6th Annual Carnevale Vergennes. Held on Saturday, March 2, at the Vergennes Opera House, the sell-out crowd was entertained with costumes, games, aerialists, music and more. Sincere thanks to the attendees as well as the people, businesses and organizations that made the evening possible: Jeniah Johnson and Tom Sheeran, Andrew and Jeff Fritz, “In Memory of Garry Simpson, the grandfather of the Opera House restoration,” National Bank of Middlebury, Gary Lange Law Office, NFP Property & Casualty
Insurance (formerly Foote’s Insurance), Moriah Houndsell Photography, Rice Lumber, media sponsor WVTK 92.1, Addison Repertory Theater at Hannaford Career Center, Kurt Plank of North Station Millworks, Dana Ambrose Photography, The Schaefer Family, RPM: Restoration Performance Motorcars and the Markowski Family, H.J. LeBoeuf & Sons Contractors and Builders, Vergennes Animal Hospital, Lizbeth and Timothy Ryan, Amanda Bodell and Jeffry Glassberg and Jackman Fuels. Also, thank you to the small army of volunteers who kept the evening rolling smoothly along. A very
Ground Truthed
By Ross Thurber
Here is the long season of forgiveness. Love leaves only the lilies wanting from a ghostly harvest: The fruit was too green to pick, the stalks were torn from their roots. Soon evening spring rains will be the blessing and commission. Skin will be night air. Dawn throated songs begin each day. I am a poor king: bird on a branch, stone picker, woodsman, herdsman. My stable small, my fields flinty pitched and far from the river. My vestments made from the blotted leaves of trout lily stitched with lichen fast to the rock. Sun skiff under a passing cloud a ranging coronation of grace and speed: Give up your grip, let down the floodgate. The middling mountains will hold your silt, wing flaps, meanders, passing concerns.
special thank you to our signature sponsor WhistlePig Rye Whiskey. We also appreciate the local businesses that assisted that evening: 3 Squares Cafe, Bar Antidote, Basin Harbor, Comfort Hill Kennel, Dakin Farm, Daily Chocolate, Everywear for Everybody, Malabar, Shear Cuts and Vergennes Animal Hospital. In the past six years this event has raised more than $100,000, supporting the Vergennes Opera House, Vergennes Partnership and Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes. The three organizations play a vital role in Vergennes and beyond. Julie Nelson Basol Vergennes Partnership
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MEMBERS OF THE Cauliflower Power team from Bristol — Emma Doucet, left, Ruby Estelle Connell, Isobel Gallavan and Jemma Brinker — assemble their cauliflower pizza crust with pesto and tomato sauce dish at the Junior Iron Chef Vermont competition at Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction on March 16. More than 50 middle school teams competed.
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Letting Down the Floodgate Ross Thurber is a poet and farmer from southern Vermont. He recently published “Pioneer Species,” his first full-length collection of poems. His work has appeared in various literary journals and in the anthology “So Little Time,” published by Green Writers Press. He was awarded the Emily Mason Fellowship in 2012 at Vermont Studio Center. He lives in Brattleboro with his family, and owns and operates Lilac Ridge Farm, a third-generation organic dairy and diversified hill farm.
The thoughtfully crafted poem “Ground Truthed” by Vermont poet Ross Thurber speaks of this transitional time of year we are in with precise beautiful language. Some images hold a sense of promise while others suggest loss, challenge, or frustration. So much can happen in the wintery times of our lives, and the shift into spring isn’t always easy. Suggestions of this
appear in unexpected phrasings few weeks ago I could hear only one like “lilies wanting from a ghostly lone chickadee singing. Now there harvest” and “the fruit was too is at least a quartet. And the cardigreen to pick.” nal’s note is loud and clear. “Dawn The poem moves through uneven throated songs begin each day,” as rhythms and tones the speaker says. His in the early stanzas. lush language encomThere is the hopepasses many places ful “Soon evening and directions at spring rains” and the once, allowing us to evocative “Skin will experience the multibe night air.” But ple realms of this not quite yet. We are literal and emotional first brought into the landscape. life and landscape By the last stanza of the speaker with I feel I’ve traveled to his flinty fields and some of these places stones and asked to and then some: the stay for a bit in this circuitous path toward place that can be only winter’s end, the striwhat it is. Then the dent hours of early tone shifts, and we spring, a falling back, are reminded we are and the final surge By Susan Jefts heading somewhere. ahead. I feel my own The light is shifting hand’s grip loosening and we are invited to as well. a bit, and a sense of opening to the It seems every morning in my shifting energy of this in between neighborhood, a new bird has season. And gratitude for those returned, or more have gathered. A “middling mountains,” whatever
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Susan Jefts is a poet and educator living near Middlebury whose work has been published in various regional and national literary journals. She is currently finalizing a book of poetry and offering workshops using poetry to move into the energy of spring. For more info, contact her at sjefts7@gmail.com. Her website is manyriverslifeguidance.com.
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Climate walk Each evening, hosting towns have (Continued from Page 1A) “Middlebury is the current organized potluck dinners, which will terminus of the Addison Natural Gas provide an opportunity for dialogues Pipeline,” said 350 Vermont Director between activists and communities. Some of these dialogues may be Maeve McBride. “By choosing Middlebury we feel like we’re saying more difficult than others, McBride acknowledged, especially if they ‘Here, no farther.’” 350Vermont and its allies began arise spontaneously on the road. “We fully expect to be confronted resisting fossil fuel infrastructure in 2010. They have managed to delay or opposed sometimes,” she said. Organizers will look to their construction of some natural gas projects, including Phase 2 of what dedicated team of community in 2015 was known as the Addison liaisons to facilitate peaceful Rutland Natural Gas Project, which interactions. 350Vermont will also proposed extending the pipeline from provide nonviolent communication Middlebury to the International Paper training to walk participants. And they’re checking in with local plant in Ticonderoga, N.Y. They also supported 37 Bristol residents police departments. Middlebury Police Chief Tom in their lawsuit against the town and Vermont Gas Systems, which Hanley gave the group guidance led to the cancelation of a license about how to conduct themselves agreement that would have brought safely through and out of town. “These are usually good people,” natural gas service to parts of Bristol. When they arrive in Montpelier, Hanley told the Independent. “We have no concerns. We walkers will demand recommended that they “Middlebury legislative action. use assistance, maybe “What we’re hearing is the current someone with a traffic (from our supporters) terminus of vest, to get across North is a longing for a the Addison Pleasant Street. And commensurate response we advised them to use to the climate crisis,” Natural Gas Pipeline. By sidewalks until they get McBride said. out of congested areas.” For a distillation choosing of their concerns, she Middlebury we IN BRISTOL Once they arrive in pointed to 16-year-old feel like we’re Bristol, activists will Swedish climate activist find that a group of Greta Thunberg, whose saying ‘Here, residents, organized work has inspired young no farther.’” — 350 Vermont by Sally Burrell, has people around the world. Director Maeve lovingly prepared a “I’m here to say McBride potluck meal for them, our house is on fire,” and coordinated sleeping Thunberg told adults during a Jan. 25 speech in Davos, arrangements for those who plan to Switzerland. “I want you to panic. I continue walking the next day. On Monday, Burrell met with want you to feel the fear I feel every fellow residents Alice Leeds, Patty day. And then I want you to act.” But as Middlebury College Heather-Lea, Mary Adams-Smith, Professor Jon Isham recently told Gary Smith and Sarah Stott to the Independent, all action and figure out how to feed more than 60 no reflection is not the kind of activists — the latest count — plus mobilization the climate justice community members. Coordinating with 350Vermont officials gave them movement wants. Knowing that, Next Steps a view into the amount of work and organizers have created plenty of organization it takes to pull off a space for reflection during their five-day journey of this magnitude, they said. journey. Middlebury College sophomore Each day of the walk will focus on Divya Gudur, a member of the Next a particular theme: • April 5 (Middlebury to Bristol, Steps Action Council, is helping pull 11 miles): Reunion: building it off. “It has been such a powerful community and relationships among experience because it introduced me walkers. • April 6 (Bristol to Hinesburg, 17 to so many community members that miles): Resistance: bearing witness deeply care about climate justice and making change for our futures,” she to the pipeline. • April (Hinesburg to said. “This work has shown me that 7 Richmond, 11 miles): Reimagine: there are people out there who are incredibly passionate about the very shifting consciousness. • April (Richmond to issues that I not only fight for with all 8 Middlesex, 19 miles): Re-create: of my being but are also impacting seeking solutions, alternatives, my life every day; this has given me hope in my own abilities to make transitions. • April (Middlesex to change but more importantly, it gives 9 Montpelier, 7 miles): Reform: me hope in the community I am a part of.” speaking truth to power. For more information about In addition to the kickoff event in Middlebury and the finale in Next Steps, visit 350vermont.org/ Montpelier, activists will also hold nextsteps. Reach Christopher Ross at an outdoor worship ceremony in Hinesburg’s Geprags Park, where christopherr@addisonindependent. Vermont Gas installed a gas pipeline com. Ross and his 13-year-old daughter plan to walk all 53 miles of in 2017, despite public outcry. “It’s also very important to us to be Next Steps and write about it for the a listening audience,” McBride said. Independent.
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Chase Boudreau of Bridport and Calvin Almeida of Addison were among 62 4-H’ers from throughout Vermont to face off in a highly competitive dairy quiz bowl on March 16, in Burlington. The annual contest, hosted by University of Vermont Extension 4-H and held at UVM, challenged 4-H members’ knowledge and quick recall of various dairy topics from animal health and nutrition, breeding and genetics to milk production, showing cattle, dairy products and marketing.
The participants, ages 8-18, took a written general knowledge test and competed in several lightning rounds of oral questions with the combined scores from each used to decide the winners in each age group. Boudreau and Almeida won rosette ribbons in the 10- and 11-year-old division. Youth volunteer Bethany Orvis of Middlebury, who previously represented Vermont in regional and national 4-H dairy quiz bowl competitions, assisted at the event.
Mary-Katherine Clark of Bristol, was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Clark was initiated at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. Clark is among approximately
30,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by invitation only and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors are eligible for membership.
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TOWN HALL THEATER Executive Director Mark Bradley describes upcoming improvements to the former Diner restaurant at 66 Merchants Row, which will soon be available for short-term rental, pop-up ventures and THT functions.
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THT (Continued from Page 1A) plans call for it to get basic interior upgrades so it can be put to a variety of uses, including pop-up events, brief retail ventures, workshop and/ or office space, and to meet THT needs ranging from storage, set building, and performances for up to 50 people. “We’ve been spending a lot of time bouncing around a lot of different ideas for that space,” Bradley said. “Flexibility is the number one priority for the renovations.” Most of those renovations will be to the approximately 600 square feet of sit-down space at the front of the former restaurant building. Work will include eliminating current walls that demarcate the old
vestibule and coffee service areas, which will create better access and a larger rectangular space. Other upgrades will include more spacious restrooms and a movable refreshments bar, along with phone and internet service, according to Bradley. The former kitchen area in back of the building will be relegated to storage, Bradley said. An old exhaust hood is the last culinary remnant in a kitchen in which meatloaf, omelets and other diner staples were whipped up for Middlebury’s hungry masses for decades and decades. Fortunately, the old structure remains stable, according to Bradley. It weathered the winter in good shape except for a radiator pipe break that
spewed water onto the floor, which has since been stabilized. Officials have yet to get an estimate for the renovations, but THT has adequate funds to cover them. Bradley continues to seek ideas for use of the former Diner, which will be renamed when repairs are completed. He also wants to hear from prospective short-term tenants, who will provide THT with some welcome revenue and give shoppers an extra reason to come to Merchants Row during some trying months ahead. Work will resume this spring on a $72 million project to replace the Main Street and Merchants Row bridges over the railroad with a concrete tunnel. Construction will force downtown detours, noise and
temporary loss of parking. It will also result in closure of Main Street and Merchants Row for 10 weeks during the summer of 2020. Theater officials are now building a financial cushion knowing THT won’t be able to host a steady slate of performances during the road closure. “The rail bridges project was a real wakeup call,” Bradley said. In other THT news, the organization has thus far raised around $1.5 million toward its $2.5 million goal to permanently endow its new “artistic director” position, and provide for ongoing maintenance of the historic theater building. Anyone interested in donating to the THT can do so through its website, townhalltheater.org.
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Methodist churches (Continued from Page 1A) essentially stating its member ordination and marriage bans, 53 churches won’t comply with global percent of worldwide delegates at UMC rules that “discriminate the General Conference ultimately against LGBTQ persons.” voted for an amended version of The Rev. Kim Hornung-Marcy is the Traditional Plan that continues pastor of North Ferrisburgh UMC. the LGBTQIA interdictions. She was candid in her reaction to Local UMC leaders said they the recent adoption in St. Louis of believe passage of the Traditional the modified Traditional Plan. Plan was a product of the “It’s very unfortunate for the international mix of delegates majority of American Methodists,” voting at the conference, with Hornung-Marcy said. “The scores hailing from nations that majority of us were ready for a continue to espouse a conservative more open church, and have been view of homosexuality. for years. So we’re waiting to see “We’re disappointed by what what the Judicial Council does at the national church the end of April. has done,” Klohck “It was always our said during a recent “I do feel hope that we would heartbroken interview. move forward,” she The UMC’s and devastated added. Judicial Council will that the UMC A GLOBAL meet April 23-26 continues to hold CHURCH in Evanston, Ill., to The Rev. Jill among other things on to antiquated Colley Robinson consider a petition ideas and is Vermont District challenging the policies that Superintendent of constitutionality of the harm people.” the New England amended Traditional Methodist — Hillary Barrows United Plan. Klohck is Church. She Nipple, Ferrisburgh among a large group helmed native previously of UMC faithful who the Middlebury are hoping the council UMC on two invalidates provisions of the plan. separate occasions. As district But in the meantime, superintendent, she helps oversee representatives of several UMC the work of Vermont Methodist conferences and congregations churches on behalf of Bishop said they’ll continue to welcome Sudarshana Devadhar of the their LGBTQIA neighbors into the UMC’s Northeastern Jurisdiction. pews and pulpits, in spite of the Colley Robinson agreed the St. fiery debate at the national level. Louis vote can be linked to the The Middlebury UMC is listed as growing international reach of the one of almost 1,000 “Reconciling” UMC. Methodist Church communities “Now, more than ever, the United in the U.S. and abroad. Members Methodist denomination is a global of the Reconciling Ministries denomination,” she said. “And the Network subscribe to principles vote that was taken really reflects and practices leading to “healing values from a lot of different and transformation of animosity cultures. It reflects national laws into honest relationships that from other continents that are really respect all God’s children,” different from what the U.S. has on according to Network literature. the books. So we have within our The New England Conference of work a conflict between the desire the UMC considers itself “open and to be a global church, and a desire affirming,” committed to meeting to be an inclusive church.” the spiritual needs of people of all Approximately 80 percent of walks of life. The conference voted the clergy and laity of the UMC’s 445-179 on June 18, 2016, to pass New England Conference have an “action of non-conformity,” “consistently, for years, voted
in a progressive, more inclusive direction,” according to Colley Robinson. The other 20 percent, she said, have held onto more traditional and conservative views. “I can say that I’m already deeply concerned about the message this decision sends very publicly to members of the LGBTQIA community,” Colley Robinson said. “I would continue to be concerned about that message and those who feel excluded by this decision.” And Methodist churches committed to inclusion aren’t likely to reverse their current course of civil disobedience and formally endorse a ban on ordination and marriage of LGBTQIA citizens. “If the Traditional Plan goes into effect, the punishment for those actions will become more defined,” Colley Robinson said. “So that would essentially be an untenable relationship, and things would have to be reimagined, for sure.” Hornung-Marcy said the Ferrisburgh UMC’s “open and affirming” status won’t change. “We welcome everybody; I don’t see our church going backwards and our conference going backwards,” she said of the New England Conference. “We ordain all people who are qualified, regardless of their sexual orientation and we place gay pastors and welcome gay parishioners with no prejudice. “I’m glad to be in New England and Vermont,” Hornung-Marcy added. The Rev. Mari Clark, leader of Middlebury UMC, said the vast majority of her congregation is committed to maintaining a reconciling church. “Like most churches, there’s a variety of emotions and opinions about what’s going on,” she said. “But I would say for the most part, since this is a reconciling congregation — and they’re very proud of that — there is no (discord between members).” Klohck, in a written statement, compared the UMC’s evolving stance on LGBTQIA acceptance to civil rights battles of the past.
GEORGE KLOHCK STANDS in front of the parish of which he is a member, the Middlebury United Methodist Church on North Pleasant Street. A retired Methodist minister, Rev. Klohck is among many UMC members anxiously awaiting an upcoming ruling by a church council related to the inclusion of Methodists with nontraditional sexual or gender identities.
Independent photo/John S. McCright
“In modern times in our nation’s Methodist Church through her shameful past there were ‘good childhood and was one of Klohck’s Christian people’ who defended parishioners. She was baptized as the right of white people to own an adult and answered the call for slaves,” he said. “Later, it was ministry in 2009, moving from keeping women out of leadership Vermont to Denver, Colo., to positions in the church. And, these attend the UMC’s Iliff School of ideas were defended Theology in 2010. by referring to certain “God loves all Barrows Nipple, Bible verses, even married to another people and calls though there are other woman poised verses that count all us to love and to preach in the men and women as include everyone Presbyterian Church, equal in the eyes of in the circle of grew increasingly God.” frustrated by the God’s love.” Klohck is a member — Rev. George Klohck national UMC’s of the progressive position on the movement in the inclusion of UMC, which he said espouses the LGBTQIA folks. fundamental belief that “God loves “Stay and make change or leave all people and calls us to love and because the change will never include everyone in the circle of happen was always the discussion,” God’s love.” she said, through an email to the While the UMC has been Addison Independent. expanding, it has lost some She ultimately chose the latter LGBTQIA parishioners along the route, finding her spiritual home way. with the United Church of Christ. Hillary Barrows Nipple attended “I do feel heartbroken and the Ferrisburgh Center United devastated that the UMC continues
to hold on to antiquated ideas and policies that harm people,” she wrote. “It’s not just this vote; it’s a history of voting against inclusion while having ‘open hearts, open minds, open doors’ — a UMC campaign that is simply hypocritical.” Still, she supports ongoing efforts to open wider the UMC’s doors. “I have friends that identify as LGBTQ that are ordained in the UMC currently,” she wrote. “They decided that they could make more change from within the system. I applaud them and continue to keep them in my prayers.” Colley Robinson is hopeful for a good outcome. “These are really challenging times,” Colley Robinson said. “Also, out of moments like these, are birthed new possibilities. That’s what I cling to. If we cannot find a way in this current relationship, then we find a new way.” Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.
violence against women and children, operations and sought out training. offers supervised parental visitation While no licensing process exists of children at the Addison County for supervised visitation centers, Courthouse during business hours, Poole attended an initial 24-hour but before Poole created VFiT, no training for visitation facilitators alternative existed for parents unable alongside her partner, Tom Cabot, to make it at those times. VFiT through the national Supervised aims to supplement the Visitation Network, and WomenSafe program underwent additional “People have and expand parental training specifically for access by having its had horrible center directors. open hours during struggles, The goal, Poole evenings and on and we can’t said, is “safe, nonweekends. judgmental, neutral Poole described a judge them. supervised visitation.” father crying in the We’ve got to Many of the children courthouse after not give them a will not have seen their seeing his child for chance.” parents for months a year, because even before they reunite in — Irene Poole VFiT’s playrooms. though he had done nothing wrong over that “People have had year and had never laid a hand on the horrible struggles, and we can’t child, he said he would lose his job if judge them,” Poole said. “We’ve got he took time off work for visitation. to give them a chance.” “I just thought, ‘This is wrong,’” Citing the importance of having Poole said. experienced people in the visitation Poole, a Ripton resident and rooms, Poole found retired Middlebury massage therapist, began schoolteachers to work as supervision developing VFiT two years before the volunteers. She also assembled a end of her term as an assistant judge: board of directors, responsible for she selected a name, visited similar managing affairs and property, and
a board of advisors, composed of community members, including retired state police, attorneys, psychologists and mediators, whose experience is accessible to VFiT. CREATING THE SPACE Poole started looking for a building three years ago. She settled on 39 Court St. last year, signing the lease in June. Renovation work started in September and for the past four months the place was a construction zone. She played an integral role washing the walls before painting and being on site to answer hundreds of small questions. “I was basically the general contractor,” she laughed. The upstairs space for mediation was an important part of choosing the current site. Poole said that judges encourage mediation prior to court, but the service is expensive and many self-represented litigants end up unhappy with the agreements that result from court. Families with access to the low-cost mediation VFiT provides will be able to work issues out for themselves and bring predetermined agreements to court, Poole explained. VFiT has received $50,000 from Cabot-related entities like the Virginia Willington Cabot Foundation. Its additional $10,000 in local donations includes a $3,000 Spark! Connecting Community grant for books and toys from the Vermont Community Foundation, which Poole plans to spend entirely locally. The center depends on donations of books, toys and furniture as well as money, such as the donated leather recliners and discounted oriental rugs it received from Woodware in Middlebury, and desks donated by the Addison County Sheriff’s Department. Poole, who couldn’t open for business until her term ended as an assistant judge on Feb. 1, expects most of her clients will be Addison County residents. VFiT can be reached at 802-388-8010.
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IRENE POOLE AND Tom Cabot look through an interior window in the renovated space in Middlebury that is the new home to VFiT, which provides a place for divorced parents to visit with their noncustodial children. Independent photo/Angelo Lynn
(Continued from Page 1A) during visitation. The facility’s amenities include multiple entrances with separate parking lots, necessary to prevent contact between parents, and two visitation rooms designed for children of different ages. Its front room is filled with toys meant for young children, while the other room, outfitted with larger furniture and a full-size dining table, offers older children crafts, puzzles and a working kitchen. Parenting classes and mediation will be offered upstairs. Poole, who is VFiT’s executive director, opted not to run for reelection to the judge position so she could start a nonprofit addressing a community need that became her passion during her time in family and civil court. Every week, she said, often in cases involving domestic violence and substance abuse, she watched judges order parents to have contact with their children only under the supervision of another adult in a restrictive environment. WomenSafe, an organization working to end domestic and sexual
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Don’t turn your life upside down to install costly ductwork! Local health care providers Family Nurse Practitioner Ania Mortier, left, LPN Alysha Curtis and Dr. Laura Weylman have joined forces to open Green Mountain Primary Care at 102A Court St. in Middlebury. The new practice, among other things, offers a monthly fee option for a menu of preventative care services.
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New primary care service opens “We continued to brainstorm on how to have our ‘dream practice,’” Weylman said. “We discovered this space (at 102A Court St.) and got excited about the idea of a change and having more time with patients.” They hired Alysha Curtis, LPN, as their multi-talented assistant, and officially opened Green Mountain Primary Care around three weeks ago. Patients are noting that Weylman and Mortier like to think outside the box when it comes to the delivery of healthcare. They both place a premium on preventive healthcare, and their business model is in large a reflection of that principle. For example, they offer adult patients (age 18 to 90) the option of paying a $50-per-month fee for a menu of services that include: yearly 60-minute • A comprehensive routine physical exam, regardless of medical condition or necessity, that includes an EKG and routine screening labs for cholesterol, metabolic, diabetes, blood count and urinalysis. • Cancer screening. • Immunization counseling. • Advanced directives. • Disease prevention. • Health and wellness coaching. to • Follow-up visits comprehensive physical. • Preferred pricing for integrative (including pain management and wellness) visits. The practice does bill insurance for chronic and sick visits, and of course patients need coverage for emergency room visits, imaging and hospitals stays. “Our model involves patients investing in a more connected
care model that annually screens patients and provides ongoing annual physical health education and care support toward meeting annual exam-based health goals,” reads a business narrative on greenmountainprimarycare.com. “If you feel healthy, and we hope you do, our model is designed to identify and (when possible) defer or avoid illness,” the narrative states. “Given the prevalence of highdeductible plans… it is not only uncomfortable but also expensive to be ill. We want our patients invested in illness avoidance, early detection, and prevention. And we believe that over time, that can generate actual cost savings for patients. Our primary focus is to keep patients well and to avoid more expensive ‘medical’ care if possible.” The pair had grown weary of a conventional primary care system that often calls upon physicians to see many patients each day in rapid succession. “We really wanted to have more time with our patients, and we love our relationships with our patients,” Weylman said. “We researched this new model and decided to take the leap. It’s really exciting.” Mortier and Weylman want to cap their total number of patients at around 300 each. They noted some primary care providers carry a patient load of 1,000. They’re offering house calls to homebound patients and will use telemedicine to communicate with others. “It’s a very new model and we’ve put a lot of work into it,” Mortier said. “I’m proud of what we’ve done. I think it’s very innovative.”
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By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Dr. Laura Weylman and Family Nurse Practitioner Ania Mortier have a lot in common. They both are passionate about running and staying fit. They’re unabashed dog lovers. And they’ve long shared the same healthcare philosophy that patients should be treated like family and be seen when healthy as well as when sick. Now they have another thing in common: Green Mountain Primary Care, a new Middlebury practice at 102A Court St. It’s a joint venture finally coming to fruition after a decade of wishful thinking. “We were both ready for a change, and everything came together,” Mortier explained on Monday. The two providers already knew what it would be like to work together. Their professional paths recently crossed for four years, at Bristol’s Mountain Health Center. Mortier during that time served as Weylman’s medical assistant. They “clicked,” and Mortier was able to take on an increasing role as she gained more experience and healthcare credentials. She went back to school to earn her Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner degrees. “She was my best and first mentor,” Mortier said of Weylman. Until recently, Mortier worked at Bristol Primary Care, while Weylman was at Little City Family Practice in Vergennes. Those two practices are affiliated with Porter Medical Center. As previously reported by the Independent, Bristol Primary Care will be closing next month.
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ABBY AND TRENT Roleau, like many sugarmakers, got a late start at Gateway Farm this year but they said the maple season is “going great!”
Sugaring (Continued from Page 1A) clinging it feels more like the 1970s or some previous era,” said Dave Folino of Hillsboro Sugarworks this week. “But we’re about on target for this date, or maybe a hair short.” In fact, this could turn out to be a very good year for Hillsboro, Folino said. “Maybe not a record year, but a good year for supply.” Folino, who’s been sugaring at Hillsboro for 41 years, also noted that some maple-producing regions to the north, including southeastern Quebec and northern Maine, are “basically snow-locked” right now. “That will make sugaring difficult, physically, of course. It’s tough when you’re up to your armpits in snow.” These conditions could affect the
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overall global supply and lead to steady pricing, he said. At the Gateway Farm in Bristol, sugaring is “going great,” said Abby Roleau, but she and her husband, Trent, suffered a late start, as well. “We had thousands of gallons made by end of February last year,” Abby Roleau said. But this year they didn’t have their first boil until the middle of March. Now it’s “happening all at once,” she said. Gateway Farm, which is in its second year, manages 12,500 maple taps and 900 birch taps. Their hills, too, are alive with critter destruction. “We have noticed more damage to our tubing system in the woods done by porcupines,” Roleau said. “We had a 10-foot section of our 1.5 inch mainline that was completely chewed apart and holding on by
FRESH MADE PURE Vermont maple syrup was ready for purchase at Gateway Farm in Bristol this past weekend, as it was at sugarhouses around the region. Independent photo/Steve James
THIS YEAR DURING the Vermont Maple Open House Weekend there was still enough snow on the ground for horse-drawn sleigh rides at Gateway Farm in Bristol. The rides were very popular with the kids.
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just a small half-inch section. Plus the squirrel damage seemed more plentiful.” In a way, this past Saturday and Sunday’s official Vermont Maple Open House Weekend presented the season so far in microcosm. Friday’s snow showers dumped more heavy wet white stuff than expected, making a mess of roads and depressing Saturday’s open-house turnout. But once the weather turned nicer and the roads were plowed, the public came out in full force to enjoy sugar on snow and maple creemees and to see the boiling process up close and personal. “We had a good crowd on Sunday,” said Gale. “Not so much on Saturday.” Even so, the Lincoln sugarhouse saw more total visitors this year than last, he said. “We were boiling the whole time. We were selling syrup right off the arch.”
In Bristol, the Gateway Farm open house “went fantastic,” Roleau said. Of course, it didn’t hurt that they’d brought in a couple of ringers. Vermont ice cream legends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s showed up to serve scoops of their finest vanilla. The Roleaus thought it would be fun to serve ice cream with warm maple and wanted to know where they could get Ben & Jerry’s in a bulk-size container, Roleau explained. Who do we contact about that? they asked Cohen, whom the couple had gotten to know over the past year. “Me,” Cohen said, and then he offered to come and do the scooping, himself. “Saturday, when Ben showed up, it was such an amazing surprise to have Jerry, too!” Roleau said. “We are so thankful they took the time to contribute to our event.”
LOOK WHO SHOWED up at Gateway Farm on Saturday to scoop up some Ben & Jerry’s vanilla ice cream during Vermont Maple Open House Weekend — Ben Cohen, left, and Jerry Greenfield. Open house visitors were delighted. Independent photo/Megan James
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Gronk leaves on own terms, as he should Ah, Gronk, we’ll miss you. It wasn’t a surprise New England Patriots sure-fire Hall of Fame tight end Rob Gronkowski hung it up. After all, he’s had four arm surgeries, three back surgeries, and one procedure each on a knee and an ankle. Enough is enough. Anyone who has followed Gronk knows Gronk wants to have fun. Gronk loves to play football. But also to dance. And go on party cruises. And forget to wear shirts. I know I can’t speak to the level of pain Gronk already experiences, but it’s certainly hard to have fun doing all that other stuff if you’re hurting all the time. Or maybe I should say if he’s already hurting more than he no doubt is now. Even if Gronk chooses WWE wrestling, as is rumored, at least the mayhem is choreographed. He doesn’t have to worry about some psycho safety taking another cheap shot at his knees or head, or a lineman rolling over his leg awkwardly in a goal-line pile-up. So good on the big lug for deciding enough is enough. Gronk doesn’t have to prove anything to anybody. The Patriots won three Super Bowls in his nine years. Nobody with the least bit of objectivity doubts he is the best tight end to have played in NFL history, at least at his peak health. He blocked like a snowplow, ran like a hybrid deer-rhino, and caught damn near everything he could reach. All with a certain joy, with booming spikes and knocking (See Kirkaldy, Page 3B)
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VERGENNES NATIVE DEVIN Hayes hurls a pitch this past July in Ashbourne, Ireland, for the Irish National Baseball Team in the European Baseball Championship. Hayes, whose father was born in Ireland, earned the pitching victory over Norway in the game. Hayes and his teammates will try to win the next round of the tournament in Bulgaria this summer. Photo courtesy of Kevin Hayes
Taking the mound on a national stage Hayes journeys from VUHS to Ireland
By ANDY KIRKALDY you to travel,’” he said. “And because VERGENNES — Early during of that (baseball) I’ve been to Alaska, Vergennes native Devin Hayes’s the Dominican, and Ireland, Bulgaria. baseball career at Castleton It’s just crazy to think that one game University, he had a conversation that can bring you so many places.” proved to be prophetic. That remark predated Hayes’ trip When the talk occurred Hayes, a to the Dominican with his Spartan 2013 Vergennes Union teammates. And it came High School graduate before Hayes’s stint whose four-year career “Probably 95 in the Alaska Baseball at Castleton came to out of my 100 League, which bills a close in 2017, had pitches were itself as designed for already compiled fastballs, just college players with an enviable baseball professional goals, a trying to throw résumé. description that fits the As a VUHS junior it as hard as pitcher who was listed Hayes threw a three- I could every at six-foot-two, 215 hit victory at the time.” pounds as a Castleton University of Vermont — Devin Hayes senior. in the Division II And that championship game. As conversation came a Castleton freshman he picked up more than four years before Hayes three wins to help the Spartans claim — whose father, Kevin Hayes, is a the North Atlantic Conference title, native of Ireland — took the mound and he made the first of what would this past July in Ashbourne, Ireland, eventually be four appearances in for the Irish National Team in the NCAA Division III tournament European Baseball Championship. games. Devin Hayes pitched for Ireland in Hayes, 23 and now assisting its Pool C opener vs. Norway. the Middlebury College baseball The Irish National Baseball program, recently recalled that program had built a new stadium conversation. about a half-hour from Dublin “My sophomore year at college I because Ireland had never hosted the had someone tell me, ‘Let baseball Pool C tournament, or won it. Hayes take you places. Let it be a reason for (See Hayes, Page 3B)
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Middlebury track excels in meet held in San Diego SAN DIEGO — The Middlebury College men’s track and field team won the Point Loma Nazarene University Collegiate Invitational on Saturday, while the Panther women finished tied for fourth. The Panther men scored 303.5 points to top 13 scoring teams, edging out Tufts (289). The women finished in a fourth-place tie with Rowan among 14 scoring squads with 230 points. Williams won with 246 points. The Panthers will compete at UC San Diego this Saturday. Two Panther men won events. Minhaj Rahman took the hammer throw with a school-record toss of 183-feet, 6 inches, and Miles Meijer led a Panther sweep of the top three spots in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:45.52. Thomas Tarantino was second in 9:46.09, while Jack Litowitz was third (9:55.07). Daniel Brey was second in the javelin (159-9), while Jonathan Fisher finished third in the high jump (6-0) and John Natalone took third in the pole vault 14-5.25. The 4x100-meter relay team of Conrado Banky, Arden Coleman, Matthew Durst and Nicholas Hendrix finished second in 42.58. Jimmy Martinez was second in the 400 (48.78), Nathan Hill was second in the 1,500 (3:51.89), and in the 5,000 Theodore Henderson (15:01.93) and Will Meyer (15:03.82) finished second and third, respectively. The Panther women also earned two event titles. Julia Lothrop won (See Track, Page 3B)
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DEVIN HAYES, PICTURED here throwing for VUHS in 2013, went on to pitch in NCAA Division III tournaments for Castleton State and in the Alaska Baseball League before joining the Irish National Baseball Team and last summer.
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MIDDLEBURY — One member of the Middlebury Union High School boys’ hockey team received postseason honors from the Division I coaches. Junior goalie Ezekiel Hooper was named a Second Team D-I All-Star. Another Tiger, senior forward Kolby Farnsworth, was selected to play in the 35th annual Rotary All Star Classic, featuring the state’s top seniors. Farnsworth will skate for the Harris team at 4 p.m. in the Essex Skating Facility. Hooper and Farnsworth helped the Tigers post a winning season and reach a D-I semifinal before falling to eventual champion Essex.
Girls’ hoop athletes earn recognition
WHEN VERGENNES NATIVE Devin Hayes, in uniform, pitched for the Irish National Baseball Team in July 2018, his Irish family showed up in force. Hayes is shown with what his father, Kevin Hayes, described as “half the crew” of relatives on hand. His brother Liam is second from the left; Kevin is over Devin’s right shoulder in blue and his mother, Jackie, is over Devin’s left shoulder in black with a white collar. Photo courtesy of Kevin Hayes
ADDISON COUNTY — Seven local high school girls’ basketball players recently received postseason honors from their leagues’ coaches, and one, Mount Abraham senior Jalen Cook, was named the Lake Division Player of the Year. Joining Cook as a Lake Division First-Team All-Star was Eagle junior Chloe Johnston. Vergennes senior Ciara McClay earned a spot on the Lake Division Second Team. Three Otter juniors were named to the Marble Valley League B Division Second team, Alia Edmunds, Livia Bernhardt and Leah Pinkowski. VUHS sophomore Kate Gosliga earned Honorable Mention from the Lake Division.
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Middlebury baseball pushes record to 7-4
Brush duo helps team to N.E. title
EXETER, N.H. — The Vermont Shamrocks Under-16 girls’ hockey team, featuring Middlebury Union High School freshman Carlisle Brush and co-coached by MUHS Coach Matt Brush, won the New England Tier II championship in games played in Exeter, N.H., from March 15-17. The Shamrocks went 4-1 in the tournament and defeated the Connecticut Northern Lights, 2-1, in the final on March 17, with Carlisle Brush picking up the assist on the game-winner with 3.9 seconds to go in regulation. Brush shot from the point, and teammate Lydia Bullock netted the rebound. Brush picked up four assists overall during the tournament for a team that includes players from around Vermont. The Shamrocks will play for the National Tier II title in Buffalo, N.Y., between April 4 and 7. The Shamrocks’ U-19 team, including local players Aleta Mathers, Alexis Bartlett and Abigail Gleason, also won the New England tournament and will play in Buffalo next week for the U.S. Tier II championship.
THE VERMONT SHAMROCKS Under-16 girls’ hockey team, including Middlebury Union High School freshman Carlisle Brush, recently won the New England Tier II championship in Exeter, N.H. The Shamrocks, cocoached by MUHS Coach Matt Brush, will play in Buffalo, N.Y., next week for the national title.
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Panther softball’s lone win is Bevere’s 250th CLERMONT, Fla. — The Middlebury College softball team won just once in six outings between Saturday and Tuesday, but the one victory was a big one — it was the 250th of Coach Kelly Bevere’s career. Heading into Wednesday games, Bevere’s Middlebury mark stood at 250-162-1, including this season’s 5-5 record. The Panthers return home on Saturday to host Johnson for two games at noon, and Keene State visits for a Sunday doubleheader at 1 p.m., both dates assuming field conditions cooperate. On this past Saturday the Panthers lost twice, 3-1 to Thomas and 6-0 to Carleton. Against Thomas (6-2), the Panthers scored in the top of the first inning, when Melanie Mandell doubled home Emily Moore.
Mandell doubled twice, and Emily Moore and Liza Tarr each singled twice in the setback. Irene Margiotta took the pitching loss, allowing three runs, all in the fifth, on five hits over six innings. Carleton improved to 8-2 with the shutout win over the Panthers. Margiotta allowed five runs in 2.1 innings, while Jen McGann yielded one run over 4.2 innings in relief. Olivia Bravo and Sophia Marlino each had two hits for Middlebury. On Sunday the Panthers fell to Oberlin, 9-8 in eight innings, a game in which four errors proved costly, and to Miami-Hamilton, 13-7. The Panthers rallied to tie the Oberlin game, 6-6, with three runs in the sixth on a Bravo single, doubles by Moore and Mandell, and a Tarr sacrifice fly. They then took an 8-6 lead in the top of the eighth on a Tarr
sacrifice fly and a wild pitch. But Oberlin rallied for three runs to win in the bottom of the eighth on two singles, a wild pitch and two errors. Margiotta took the loss, throwing 7.2 innings with five strikeouts and allowing only two earned runs. Mandell went three-for-three with three runs scored and two RBIs. Noelle Ruschil also contributed three hits. In the second game MiamiHamilton led throughout after scoring six runs in the first. At the plate for Middlebury, Marlino and Tobias each poked three hits, including a Tobias two-run triple. Caroline Thacker got the start and went five innings, surrendering 10 runs in taking the loss. On Tuesday, the Panthers topped Buffalo State, 9-5, and fell 14-12
in the second game to Kalamazoo. Mandell poked five hits in the two games to reach 100 career hits. The Panthers took a 6-1 lead vs. Buffalo with a six-run third, all with two outs. Mandell homered, Marlino tripled in a run, Tarr singled in a run, and Ally Doll capped the rally with a three-run double. In the fourth, Moore singled, Ruschil doubled her in, and a Tarr sacrifice fly made it 8-1. A Mandell double and Ruschil single in the sixth added the final run. Margiotta (3-3) tossed a complete game with five strikeouts to earn the win. Kalamazoo outslugged the Panthers in the nightcap, with Bravo taking the pitching loss in relief. Tarr, Mandell, Marlino and Ruschil drilled three hits apiece, and Moore homered, singled and scored four times.
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each finished the game with two hits. In the nightcap Elmhurst hurler Jordan Scrimpsher earned the win, giving up one run on five hits over six innings with eight strikeouts. The Panthers took the lead when Strmecki led the game off with a triple and scored on a Smith sacrifice fly. But Panther miscues allowed Elmhurst to score three unearned runs on six hits over 3.2 innings off starter Alex Rosario, who struck out five. On Monday, Wisconsin-Whitewater scored in the bottom of the ninth inning to edge Middlebury, 4-3. The Panthers tied the game at 1-1 in the fourth on a Strmecki single and a Carroll double. Phil Bernstein’s tworun homer in the fifth to make it 3-2. Wisconsin-Whitewater tied the score in the fifth and scored the winning run in the ninth when the Panthers couldn’t turn a game-ending double play wth the bases loaded. Alex Price allowed four runs in eight innings for the Panthers, while Goldstein took the loss. On Tuesday the Panthers took a 5-1 lead in a 6-4 win over Thomas. RBIs from Dianno and Gough scored runs in the first two innings. Panthers added three in the third, with a Dianno single, Kevin Woodring double and Jack Stolper sacrifice fly doing damage. A Strmecki sacrifice fly plated Gray Goolsby in the eighth. Sam Grace earned the win, allowing two runs on two hits and striking out eight in five innings. Andrew Martinson and Morris pitched scoreless relief innings, with Morris getting the save.
Panther women’s lacrosse knocks off No. 4 Salisbury SALISBURY, Md. — In a Monday meeting of two women’s lacrosse teams ranked in the top five in NCAA Division III, Middlebury rode a big second half past host Salisbury to win, 11-6. No. 4 Salisbury dropped to 7-2 as the Sea Gulls saw their 20-game home winning streak end. The No. 5 Panthers improved to 5-1 heading into a Wednesday date at No. 8 York played after the deadline for this edition. Middlebury will host Amherst at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Middlebury and Salisbury on Monday traded goals in the first half, which ended with Middlebury on top, 6-5, after Emma McDonagh’s tiebreaking goal at 5:04 and a key save from goalie Kate Furber 11 seconds before the break. The Panthers then opened the second half with four straight goals, including three in the first 10 minutes. Emily Barnard scored twice, McDonagh netted her second at 9:13, and another Barnard goal made it 105. A Courtney Fegan strike at 13:54 cut the Panther lead to four, but
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The Middlebury College baseball team won four of six games played in Florida between Saturday and Tuesday and carried a 7-4 record into a contest scheduled against Union on Wednesday afternoon. The Panthers are set to open NESCAC West play this weekend vs. Hamilton in Orlando. The teams will play one game at noon on Friday and then two starting at noon on Saturday. On last Saturday the Panthers swept two from Lawrence, 9-2 and 10-0. In the opener Colby Morris improved to 2-0 with a complete-game win, allowing two runs and five hits over seven innings with five strikeouts. Andrew Hennings doubled, singled, scored and drove in two runs, Ryan Hanrahan poked two hits, Henry Strmecki belted a two-run homer, and Justin Han tripled and scored twice. In game two, Michael Farinelli tossed six innings of two-hit baseball, striking out nine and walking none. The Panthers pounded out 14 hits, three by Strmecki, who tripled twice, scored twice and drove in three. Sam Graf, Brooks Carroll and Andrew Gough had two hits apiece. On Sunday the Panthers split two games with Elmhurst, winning the fiirst, 3-1, but then falling, 4-1. Colin Waters earned the win in the opener, allowing one run in six innings. George Goldstein got the save. Middlebury scored once in the first, when Hennings singled in Hayden Smith. In the fourth the Panthers added two more on a walks, a Dianno single and a Han double. Han and Dianno
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(Continued from Page 1B) helped change that in 2018, and hopes to help bring the team more victories this summer — that’s where Bulgaria comes in. And thus many Irish fans’ introduction to baseball began with the ball in the hands of a 22-year-old Vermont native, in front of a crowd of about 400 that included about twodozen of his family members. “It’s an entirely different atmosphere; just because of the way the field is set up the fans are right on top of you. And I hadn’t pitched in a year. I was excited and wanted to show off and give them a reason to watch,” Hayes said. “All the nerves were there for the game.” To an extent, it showed. Hayes earned the win in a 15-5 game, but a pitcher who walked only nine hitters in 62.2 innings his senior year at Castleton hit three batters. More typically, he struck out 10 with a fastball that touched 93 mph — he led the tournament in both strikeouts VERGENNES UNION HIGH School graduate Devin Hayes, pictured at and hit batsmen. In 5.1 innings, he Middlebury College where he assists the Panther baseball program, has allowed seven hits and two earned made his mark in baseball, pitching for Ireland in the European Baseball Championship, excelling for the Castleton University team, and earning runs. Division II final. “The head coach had said early on the pitching win for the Commodores in the 2012 Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy in the game they haven’t seen anything faster than 85 in a fastball, so you that summer, and he looked at those Ashbourne this past June his relatives should probably keep throwing that,” stats, too, and some videos,” Hayes hadn’t seen him since his high school Hayes said. “Probably 95 out of my said. “He was pretty interested in me years. 100 pitches were fastballs, just trying coming over to play.” His reappearance in June and July to throw it as hard as I could every And Hayes, who owns Castleton’s 2018 triggered a family reunion. time. Most of the time I knew where it only NCAA pitching win, had “It was fun to have the entirety of was going, but a couple of them ended improved steadily at Castleton thanks (my father’s) family there to watch a up getting inside on guys.” to his work on his fastball velocity, sport that led to me missing a lot of Ireland rolled control, and secondary family events,” Hayes said. “It was through the bracket pitches — he throws a nice to be there finally and to have with a 4-0 record and “To be honest curve and a changeup that be the reason I was there. That defeated Greece in the it was very and is working on a was cool.” championship game. emotional. My Kevin Hayes appreciated seeing slider. In his senior And by virtue of winning whole family year Hayes went 7-1 in everyone together again at last. the C Pool, Ireland “To be honest it was very 62.2 innings, with 59 were very qualified to play in the strikeouts to go with emotional. My whole family were B Pool in early July in proud. It was those nine walks and very proud,” Kevin Hayes said. “It great for them Sofia, Bulgaria. an earned-run average was great for them to see him and And winning the to see (my son watch him throw.” of 1.58. B Pool would mean Devin) and As for describing what it was like Hayes said he Ireland could compete watch him learned the value of watching his son play for his native in the European A Pool off-the-field effort land, Kevin Hayes was briefly silent. tournament in September throw (for the “There are other words I don’t during his Castleton in Germany, with a Irish National tenure, and that lesson have right now, but it was definitely chance to qualify for Baseball very satisfactory to see him on the paid off. 2020’s Tokyo Summer Team).” “When I got to mound with the Irish jersey on and Olympics. — Kevin Hayes college I finally found the Baseball Ireland cap,” he said. “For the A Pool we get a love for the gym and “And the national anthem. And going a shot at the Olympics, was in there all the back to my roots. It was definitely which would be awesome, an honor, time getting stronger,” he said. very heartwarming for me.” and something I would never be able For Devin Hayes earning a state Leonard, himself a former minor to see myself doing a year or two league baseball player, believes it is championship at Centennial Field, years ago,” Hayes said. not out of the question that Hayes hurling an NCAA victory, and NOT BY CHANCE pitching for Ireland in front of his could play professionally. Really, it’s not fair to say baseball “I think so,” Leonard said. “Having family are all peak memories. is taking Hayes places. As Baseball someone with his size and strength “All those baseball moments sit Hall of Fame General Manager and physical ability to throw the at the top for me. I wouldn’t want to Branch Rickey famously said, “Luck ball the way that he does, certainly place one ahead of another,” Hayes is the residue of design.” In other I think he deserves a chance, and said. “They all group together as some words, Hayes has worked hard to get I hope someone will give him that of the greatest accomplishments I’ve where he is. chance. He’ll make the most of any had on a baseball field. It’s all about For example, his current gig with opportunity.” the teammates and all the friends I’ve the Middlebury College program FOR COUNTRY & FAMILY made over the years and winning it could be called fortunate, but wasn’t One thing Hayes’ devotion to with them. truly an accident. Hayes was training baseball in the past six years cost him “It’s just fun how baseball brings faithfully at the college’s Virtue was making the annual family trip people together, and you’re friends Fieldhouse, lifting and throwing, back to Ireland. When he arrived in with those people forever.” often with a younger former VUHS standout, Hunter O’Connor, and at times with former teammates Chris Leach and Charlie Stapleford. His diligence caught the eye of Head Coach Mike Leonard. After seeing Hayes going at it often enough in his Castleton gear, Leonard asked him why he was there. “I told him I’m a local guy, I live 20 minutes away, I was just trying to help Hunter out, and we were throwing together,” Hayes said. “And he said, well, I really like your work ethic. I’ve seen you in here for a couple months, and our assistant, I think, is leaving at the end of the year, so if you want to stay in touch we’d love to have you come aboard.” Leonard said the way Hayes went about his business impressed him, and he has proven to be a valuable member of the Panther staff. “It’s really neat to see someone who is recently out of college get into coaching and carry himself in such a mature and professional way,” Leonard said. “He’s offered really good guidance to our players with his experience and knowledge, but also his work ethic. They’re able to see someone training, who is actively pursuing a dream of some sort of professional baseball, so he’s been a really good role model.” Nor was it just chance that Hayes landed on the Irish team in January 2018. While looking during his senior year for further opportunities in baseball, Hayes saw an online ad for the Ireland opportunity and learned he was eligible due to his father’s birthright. He went through the twomonth process to get a passport, with help from a team manager, who in turn learned from someone who had been impressed by watching Hayes pitch. “He had heard from the Southern Maine coach, who we had played at the (NCAA) Regionals that year, that I had been pretty successful at Castleton. And he read up on my stats. And I had played in Alaska
(Continued from Page 1B) helmets in the end zone, followed by almost delicate dance moves, often back on the sideline among his teammates. Gronk never really complained about the marginal tactics defenders used against him, the grabbing, the illegal and late hits. But every now and then Gronk would get angry. Defensive back Sergio Brown held and interfered with him once too often, and maybe just should have shut up. Gronk responded by pile-driving Brown 30 feet off the field into a cameraman. “(Brown) was just yappin’ at me the whole time,” Gronkowski said. “So I took him and threw him out of the club.” It’s no secret the Patriots are not popular around the country or in the league, but Gronk … Most everybody likes Gronk. Rivals like J.J. Watt and Le’Veon Bell tweeted out respect, as did safety Jamal Adams from the New York Jets, who came up with this: “An absolute honor to line up and compete against the greatest Tight End ever! Congratulations to a true professional on an amazing career! Luv #President.” A couple other things should be known about Gronk. Despite the goofball persona, nobody looks like Gronk without being a dedicated athlete. Sure, he cut loose and partied in the public eye every now and then, but for every one of those moments there were thousands in the gym, especially if he had to recover from nine surgeries. Nobody does that without hard work. Also, Gronk is no dummy. According to multiple reports he lives on his endorsement money and has banked the roughly $53 million, minus taxes, the Patriots have paid him to play football. He should be OK until Social Security kicks in, sadly unlike many athletes. Finally, it’s great to see Gronk go out on his own terms. Never mind the Patriots, they’ll figure things
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of whom are much too fond of advising athletes when to retire — want them to. If like Gronk, Jim Brown or Barry Sanders, they decide not to squeeze out a few more years, good on them. If, like Willie Mays, Ichiro Suzuki or Peyton Manning, they keep playing as long as someone will cut them a paycheck, well, more power to them, too. Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at andyk@addisonindependent.com.
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We sell and consign collectibles, antiques, dishes, tools, furniture, re-usable, re-purposed, art/craft/jewelry items and so much more!
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DIRECTORY
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CLASSIFIEDS
Public Meetings
Public Meetings
Public Meetings
ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders. Wednesdays, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery. Bring a friend in recovery. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turn‑ ingpointaddisonvt.org.
ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 4 WEDNESDAY. Big Book Meeting, Middle‑ bury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 7:15‑8:15am. Discus‑ sion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. 12 Step Meeting, Brandon, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South, 7‑8pm.
NARCAN KITS are avail‑ able at the Turning Point Center of Addison County FREE of charge. Narcan (Naloxone) is a nasal spray used to reverse an opioid overdose in progress. These kits are specifically intended for public distribution and can be used by anyone to save a life. Easy train‑ ing is provided at Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, and takes approximately 10 minutes. Wednesdays between 9 a.m. ‑ noon, or call for an appointment (802) 388‑4249.
AL‑ANON FAMILY GROUP ‑ For families and friends of problem drinkers. Anony‑ mous, confidential and free. At the Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury. 7:30‑8:30 PM Friday eve‑ nings. AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑ LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking. Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. New‑ comers welcome. Confiden‑ tial. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 1 SUNDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am. Discussion Meeting, Bris‑ tol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 4‑5pm. 12 Step Meet‑ ing, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 7‑8pm. AA 24‑Hour Hotline 802‑388‑9284, aavt.org. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 2 MONDAY. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Ripton, Rip‑ ton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Women of AA (Step/Speaker), Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd, 5:30‑6:30pm. Big Book Meeting, New Ha‑ ven, Congregational Church, Village Green, 7:30‑8:30pm. Discussion Meeting, Bran‑ don, St. Thomas Episco‑ pal Church, Rte 7 South, 7:30‑8:30pm. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 3 TUESDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Daily Reflection Meeting, Vergennes, Congregational Church, Water St. 7‑8pm.
Services
ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 5 THURSDAY. 12 Steps and Traditions Meeting, Ripton, Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. Big Book Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Alternat‑ ing Format Meeting, Fer‑ risburgh, Assembly of God Christian Center. Route 7, 7‑8pm. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 6 FRIDAY. Spiritual Awakening, Middlebury, St. Stephes Church, 3 Main St., 7:30‑8:30am. Discussion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Discussion Meeting, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 8‑9pm. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 7 SATURDAY. Discussion Meeting, Mid‑ dlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am. Discussion Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, Beginner’s Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 6:30‑7:30pm. ARE YOU BOTHERED BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs). Anonymous and confiden‑ tial, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common problems. Babysitting available. NA (JUST IN TIME) Mon‑ days, 6:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.
PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at The Resi‑ dence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.
Garage Sales
Help Wanted
INDOOR YARD SALE Sat., Sun. March 30, 31. 9am‑3pm. Kitchenware, furniture, linens, books and much more. 93 Mountain St., Apt. 1, Bristol. 453‑4082.
Help Wanted BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.
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HELP WANTED:
LANDSCAPER
K. A. Bagley, Inc. is hiring for lawn care maintenance and landscaping. Need to be honest, reliable, and motivated. Must have a valid drivers license. Wage based on experience.
K. A. BAGLEY, INC.
307 KELLY CROSS ROAD, SALISBURY, VT 05769
WANTED Town of Leicester Leicester seeks an individual to fill the position of Zoning Administrator. This is a part-time position; generally 3 hours per week office time. Seeking individual to review applications and issue building permits. Previous experience helpful, but not necessary. For more information and/or to apply contact Town Clerk Julie Delphia at 247-5961.
THE ADDISON INDEPENDENT IS SEEKING AN
Services
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, taping, skim coat plas‑ tering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190. CONSTRUCTION: ADDI‑ TIONS, RENOVATIONS, new construction, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All aspects of construction, also property maintenance. Steven Fifield 802‑989‑0009. INDIVIDUAL AND BUSI‑ NESS TAX preparation, accounting and consulting. Ralph C. Miller, CPA. PO Box 77, Vergennes, 05491. 877‑3601.
Are you looking for an engaging position in a busy office where you can be part of an award-winning team that publishes community news every day? Are you a problem solver always looking to lend a hand? Do you have a can-do attitude where you’re always looking for the next way to help out? Then you might be JUST who we’re looking for!
NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.
Services
Help Wanted
Call 802-352-9088 to apply.
EASTVIEW AT MIDDLE‑ BURY is seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual for both our Main‑ tenance and Housekeeping teams. Hours would be Mon‑ day – Friday with a possible weekend rotation. Competi‑ tive pay and benefits. Help us keep EastView beautiful and well‑maintained. In‑ terested? Send resume to acoyle@eastviewmiddle‑ bury.com or call 989‑7502.
R E F U G E R E C O V E RY ‑ TUESDAYS 6‑7 p.m. A non‑theistic, Buddhist‑in‑ spired approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds. Dedicated to the practices of mindfulness, compassion, forgiveness, and generosity, this recovery meeting uses meditation and kindness to heal the pain and suffering that addiction has caused. Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. (802) 388‑4249.
Help Wanted
Services
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Services
The Addison County Independent is hiring a parttime administrative assistant to help in the advertising department. This gold star individual will work with our team of on-the-go sales executives and the rest of the office team to keep operations running smoothly and help get the paper to press smoothly! 20-30 hours depending on schedule and availability of the right applicant. Excellent organizational skills necessary, good command of spelling and grammar and a knack for creativity is helpful. Willing to train all specific skills. This is a great opportunity to get to know the ins and outs of the media business or hone your office skills. Please send letter of interest and resumé to Christy Lynn, Director of Sales/Associate publisher: christy@addisonindependent.com
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INDEPENDENT
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Help Wanted
Preschool Teachers Wanted
Bridge School of Middlebury, founded in 1980, is expanding it’s high quality education to include preschool. Are you interested in joining our team and being part of a new and creative venture opening in April? We are looking for two teachers, 40 and 30 hours, one of whom shall be licensed. Teachers with strengths in curriculum planning and collaborative teaming and an interest in emergent curriculum are encouraged to apply. Experience and degree in early childhood education or related field preferred. Salaried position with benefits. Send cover letter, resume, and three written references to Bridge School, 1469 Exchange St, Middlebury, Vt, 05753 or via email to jenne@ bridgeschoolvermont.org. For more information, contact Jenne Morton at 877-3742.
Help Wanted GREENHOUSE WORK‑ ERS WANTED. Seasonal, March‑June. Also part time available; great for students and others. Call Bill Spencer, First Season Greenhouses 802‑475‑2588. Best time to call between 5pm‑6pm. HANNAFORD MIDDLE‑ BURY IS now hiring for Hannaford To Go Shoppers. Apply online at hannaford. com or call Amanda Clark at 802‑388‑1017.
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LOOKING FOR EXPE‑ RIENCED carpenter/con‑ struction worker. Minimum 2 years’ experience. Must be willing to do all aspects of construction work. Must have reliable transportation. Pay based on experience. This is a full‑time year‑round position. Contact Chris at Summit Up Construction, 802‑558‑0784 or send re‑ sume to: summitupconstruc‑ tion@gmail.com. PERSON TO ASSIST with flooring manufacturing and saw milling of wood products. Part time, possibly full time for the right individual. Lots of team work and heavy lifting involved, 50 lbs. frequently. Lathrop’s Maple Supply. 453‑2897 ext. 2 for Tom, for more information.
Help Wanted
Mail or email resume:
TOM BODETTE Excavating & Landscaping, Inc. tombodettelesinc@gmail.com. 6 Lower Plains Rd, Middlebury, VT 05753, Attn: Leslie.
Call 388-4529.
ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
Vacancies
Food Service Director/Cook
First Shift: hours are M-F, 7:30 am - 3:30 pm. Second Shift: hours are M-F, 3:30 pm - 11:30 pm Second Shift offers a wage differential in addition to standard wage Benefits include health care package, 401K, wellness benefits and more. Full listing at www.whistlepigwhiskey.com/work-with-us Please submit a resume with references to jobs@whistlepigrye.com. No phone calls, please.
2018-2019
Cornwall School is seeking a food service director to work at our small (82 student) school with a thriving Farm to School program. We are looking for an individual who is committed to scratch cooking healthy, locally-sourced, fresh food for our students. The ideal candidate will be familiar with using fresh, in season produce; and knowledgeable about governmental food storage and safety regulations (Safe Serve certification is preferred, though not required). The ideal candidate will also work collaboratively with students, parents, and teachers around food service; be interested and willing to work with Farm to School program and our Cornwall School garden; collaborate with our parent organization on special events; and be able to accommodate different dietary restrictions/ needs. The manager is responsible for all aspects of running the school kitchen as well as the serving of all meals. The position requires a person to lift 50 lbs. Competitive hourly rate and benefits available. • • • • • • •
Responsibilities for this position include: Planning monthly breakfast and lunch menus Shopping and ordering all food and managing stock rotation Maintaining production records Enter daily breakfast and lunch counts Dishwashing Upkeep and cleaning of the kitchen 12 hours of food service related training including attending monthly meetings
Apply by submitting a letter of interest, resume, and three current reference letters via School Spring or send to: Jennifer Kravitz Bingham Memorial 49 Charles Avenue, Middlebury,VT 05753 Applications will be accepted until position is filled. E.O.E.
Town of Cornwall Road Foreman Position
The Town of Cornwall is seeking qualified applicants for a full time Road Foreman position. This position involves the dayto-day supervision and performance of road maintenance operations year -round. This person must be available to work, with a reasonable commute time, nights, weekends and holidays through the winter or any other emergency. A clean driving record, the ability to pass prehire and random drug testing as well as having a Class B CDL with air brake endorsement is required. A Class A CDL and/or tank endorsement are a plus. Experience with municipal snowplow trucks and equipment, road grader, loader and other road maintenance equipment is preferred. The Foreman will be responsible for purchasing parts and materials under the Town’s purchasing policy, keeping updated road and culvert inventories, submitting grant applications, and attending ongoing training opportunities. A High School diploma or equivalent as well as basic computer skills e.g. email, word processing and spreadsheets, are also required. The Town of Cornwall offers competitive wages and benefits which include health insurance and retirement. Applications and job description are available at the Cornwall Town Clerk’s Office or on the Cornwall website. Submit a cover letter and resume of past work history with the application to the Town Clerk by 5:00 pm, April 30, 2019.
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Full-time Delivery Driver CDL-Clean Record Apply in person: 2107 James Road • Weybridge, VT 802.545.2119 Addison CentrAl sChool distriCt
Custodian
Addison Central School District is seeking a part time (.80 FTE) Custodian, Monday through Friday second shift. Experience is a plus, but not required. Apply through Schoolspring or by sending a letter of interest, resume, and three current letters of reference to: Dr. Peter Burrows, Superintendent Addison Central School District 49 Charles Avenue Middlebury,VT 05753 Applications will be accepted until the position has been filled. E.O.E.
HORTICULTURE
Bonnie Plants, Inc., Lempster, NH now hiring 8 temporary Greenhouse Laborers to work in Sullivan County, NH from 5/7/2019 to 7/10/2019. Hourly wage of $13.25. Perform manual labor to plant, spray, weed, and water plants using hand tools and gardening tools. Operate vehicles and equipment. Load and unload racks. Perform prolonged standing on concrete or other surfaces and pushing and pulling. Repetitive use of hand and finger movement. Three months of agricultural work experience required. Three quarters of an average of 54 hrs./wk guaranteed. Tools, supplies and equipment provided at no cost. Housing provided at no cost if outside commuting area. If applicable, transportation and subsistence expense to the job will be paid upon completion of 50% of the employment period, or earlier. Apply for this job by reporting to the nearest SWA in the state in which this ad appeared or contact the NH WORKS Claremont, 404 Washington Street PO Box 180, Claremont, NH 03743-0180, (603) 543-3111, JO#NH201705.
CHARMING STUDIO APARTMENT in the heart of downtown Middlebury. Tile bath and kitchen. Avail‑ able June 1st. Text Baba, 802‑373‑6456.
MIDDLEBURY 3 BED‑ ROOM ground floor apart‑ ment with deck and parking, in the center of town. $1,800/ mo. all inclusive. No pets. 802‑349‑8544.
CORNWALL 1 BEDROOM apartment, 1‑1/2 bath, sky‑ lights, private deck. $950/mo. includes heat and hot water. batesproperties@yahoo.com
MIDDLEBURY, 2,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., cen‑ tral location, parking. Can be subdivided. Real‑Net Man‑ agement Inc. 802‑388‑4994.
DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measure‑ ments are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.
MIDDLEBURY: IN‑TOWN 1‑BR, Second‑floor apart‑ ment near Marble Works. Includes heat, off‑street parking, large lawn/garden space, storage, plowing and lawn maintenance. No pets or smoking, requires lease, references, and security deposit. $795/month. For more information, call or text 802/355‑4164.
MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ ROOM, fully furnished apartment, all inclusive, W/D. $1,250/month. 802‑349‑8544.
WhistlePig is dedicated to crafting a premier whiskey and is looking for passionate, dedicated people to help us as we grow. First and Second Shift Bottling Team To meet our growing demand we are looking for quality, detail oriented team members for our bottling line. Must be able to lift 25 pounds unassisted and stand during your shift.
For Rent
LARGE 4 BEDROOM co‑ lonial house, Salisbury. 1 3/4 bath. Large living room, dining room, kitchen and family room with attached 2 car garage. Secluded setting. 11 minutes to MUHS .$1,800. monthly. References and deposit. 802‑989‑8399.
help wanted
Busy Landscaping and Excavating firm seeking skilled, motivated and reliable people. Full-time and Seasonal positions available. We are looking for experienced help in landscaping, excavation and lawn maintenance. Must have valid drivers license. Commercial mowing or excavation experience required. Wage based on experience.
For Rent
For Rent
Needed: Head Custodian at Barstow Memorial School
BRISTOL 2+3 BEDROOM apartments. Heat, lawn care, snow removal, parking, small storage space included. 802‑453‑2566.
Barstow Memorial School, Chittenden VT is accepting applications for a head custodian to begin as soon as possible. A minimum of high school diploma or equal with demonstrated leadership skills, mechanical capabilities and experience in a supervisory capacity are required. If interested, please apply through blankschoolspring.com with the following requirements or send a cover letter, resume and current letters of recommendation to: Stephen Eaton, Facilities Manager, RNESU 49 Court Dr. Brandon, VT 05733 Position open until filled
Help Wanted
For Rent
LANDSCAPERS‑ COLBY HILL Landscape Company is now hiring for the 2019 season. We are a landscape construction company, spe‑ cializing in the installation of patios, walkways, walls and plantings, as well as mainte‑ nance. Applicants must have vaild drivers license and reli‑ able transportation. Starting pay $14/hr. Pay may com‑ mensurate with experience. Call Dave at 802‑363‑9958.
2,500 SQ.FT. LIGHT IN‑ DUSTRIAL or food‑based business. Vermont state or USDA inspected. 656 Ex‑ change Street, Middlebury, Vermont. Call for information 802‑388‑4831.
NEW HAVEN YARD WORK. Some mowing, trimming and raking. 802‑453‑4597.
For Rent
MIDDLEBURY 2 BEDROOM near downtown. Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.
2 0 1 9 E N E R G Y S TA R homes, Modular, Double‑ wides and Singlewides. Open 7 days a week. Beanshomes.com. 600 Rte. 7, Pittsford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflan‑ ders@beanshomes.com. Down Payment Assistance Now Available.
BRISTOL VILLAGE, HIGHLY Visible Retail/Of‑ fice street level space on the Main Street. Approx. 1,800 SF plus basement storage. Available March 1, 2019. $1,370 mo. Call Tom at Wallace Realty 453‑4670 or Tom@WallaceRE.com.
EAST MIDDLEBURY, DAI‑ SY Lane Lot #11. Beautiful, level 1/2 acre building lot with good southern exposure on a private lane. Town water, power and cable hookups at curbside. Site approved for four bedroom home with conventional (no mound necessary) septic system. $68,000. Call Jack Brown 388‑7350.
For Rent
Att. Farmers 2018 PROCESSED CORN silage, 600 ton. Mix legume and grass, haylage, 800 ton. Call West Haven, VT. 802‑265‑8698 after 7pm.
P.O. Box 156 • Vergennes, VT 05491
VERGENNES, VT 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT - RENT: $1,066.
For Sale
Equal Housing Opportunity
BARRELS ‑ 55 GALLON food grade. Great storage for sap/syrup, water, grain, compost. $25/each. Call 453‑4235. FOUR NOKIAN ROTIIVA HT tires. 265/65R17 116T XL. Fit 2nd gen. Tacoma. $240. 759‑6001. PELLET STOVE FOR sale. $500. 802‑349‑7214. PRIVACY HEDGES ‑ spring blowout sale. 6ft. Arborvitae ‑ reg. $179, now $75. Beau‑ tiful, nursery grown. Free Installation/Free delivery. Limited Supply. Order now: 518‑536‑1367, lowcosttreef‑ arm.com. UPRIGHT FREEZER ‑ 20.3 cubic inches. Asking $200 obo. 388‑2754.
PROFESSIONAL FE‑ MALE WISHING TO share two‑bedroom apartment. Rent extremely reasonable. 802‑978‑1797.
Real Estate
Second story apartment located on Main St. in Vergennes. All basic utilities included except electricity. Nicely remodeled apartment with new flooring. Includes trash, recycling, lawn care, snow removal, professional management and 24-hour emergency maintenance. Income limits apply. References required. To request an application visit www.addisontrust.org, call (802) 877-2626 or email info@addisontrust.org
2 WINPOWER ELECTRIC generators, PTO driven. Model 8040 $2,000. Model 4525 $1,400. 802‑453‑3870.
Want to Rent
FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green. 802‑282‑9110.
ROOFERS WANTED No experience needed. Will‑ ing to train the right person. Excellent pay and benefits. Basic hand tools and valid driver’s license needed. Call 802‑388‑2903.
1,000 GALLON FUEL tank, 28 ft. sun flower wheel har‑ row, five shank sub soiler, 16 ft. haul land leveler. 802‑623‑8571.
TWO FLOOR, TWO bed‑ room apartment for rent in Shoreham Village. No smoking and no pets. Se‑ curity deposit and month to month lease. Appliances included. Rent is $800 plus utilities. Please call Sandy at 802‑759‑3119.
Wood Heat
BRIARWOOD APART‑ MENTS is currently accept‑ ing applications for 2 BR apartments in Middlebury. All income/assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. NS/NP, onsite laun‑ dry. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.sum‑ mitpmg.com. Equal Housing Opportunity.
For Rent
SMALL OFFICE SPACE, 656 Exchange Street, Middlebury. $500/month. 802‑388‑4831.
It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing. Particularly on sites like Craigslist. And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say. The federal government is watching for such discrimination. Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law. Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944. Talk to our sales professionals.
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HAY FOR SALE, small square bales and mulch. 802‑453‑2054. HAY FOR SALE. Small square bales, first cut + mulch. 802‑349‑9281. O R G A N I C H AY L A G E FOR sale. Singing Brook Farm. 802‑758‑2445. Cell 349‑2102. WH ITN EY’S C U STOM FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.
Trucks 2008 DODGE TACOMA Florida truck. 118,000 miles. Excellent shape. Asking price $12,995. 802‑468‑0278.
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Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., has named Renee Bolduc of New Haven to the dean’s list for fall 2018. Bolduc, who majors in Environmental Science, is a member of the class of 2022. To qualify for the dean’s list students must achieve a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale while carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours in graded courses. Brittany Baker of Bridport was among the 10 groups and about 100 participants who participated in the University of Vermont’s Alternative Spring Break program — a student-led, week long program that provides UVM students with an opportunity to travel and involve themselves in service-work focused around a number of social issues in communities throughout the nation. For the week long spring recess, Baker traveled to Nashville, Tenn.,
to work with Project C.U.R.E. (projectcure.org), which identifies, solicits, collects, sorts and distributes medical supplies and services according to the imperative needs of the world. MUHS graduate and Middlebury resident MaKayla Foster has received student-athlete accolades for the third year in a row. Foster is one of eighteen members of the Saint Michael’s College field hockey team to qualify for the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Collegiate Division II National Academic Squad for this past fall. Foster not only qualified for the National Academic Squad but was also among 86 Division II student-athletes named NFHCA Scholars of Distinction for putting together a minimum cumulative 3.90 grade-point average through the first semester of the 2018-19 school year.
Public Notices Index
Public notices for the following can be found in this ADDISON INDEPENDENT on Page 8B. Addison (1) Addison County Courthouse (1) Addison County Superior Ct. (1) BLSG Mosquito Control Dist. (2) Bridport (1) Cornwall (1) Leicester (1)
Lemon Fair Mosquito Control Dist. (1) Middlebury (1) New Haven (1) Shoreham (1) Vergennes (3) Vermont Rail Systems (1) Weybridge (1)
WARNING TOWN OF BRIDPORT PUBLIC HEARING
CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Residents and non-resident property owners of the Town of Bridport are hereby warned to appear at the Bridport town office at 7:05 pm on 9 April 2019 to hear the application of Andreas Witschi. The applicant requests a Boundary Line Adjustment. Interested person(s) may forfeit the right to appeal the decision of the Town of Bridport Board of Zoning Adjustment or Planning Commission if they fail to participate by; [attending and speaking, submitting a signed letter of concern, or are represented by an authorized person]. Steven Bourgeois Asst. Zoning Administrator 3/21, 3/28
Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 15, 2019 at 7:15 P.M. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by Glenn Kimball for an addition to his garage and a side yard setback waiver. The request will be considered under Article XV and Section 1605 of the Zoning and Subdivision Regulations. A copy of the application is available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office. March 26, 2019 Peter Garon Administrative Officer
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LEMON FAIR INSECT CONTROL DISTRICT PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO APPLY MOSQUITO LARVICIDES Local mosquito control districts may be making ground and aerial applications of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI), Bacillus sphaericus (BS), and spinosad to surface waters where mosquito larvae are present. These applications will occur in the towns of Cornwall, Bridport, and Weybridge. Pesticide applications will begin on or after April 15, 2019. Further information or comments about the larviciding activities or application exclusion requests can be obtained from: Lemon Fair Insect Control District David Dodge, Chair 802-462-3898 The Vermont Agency of Agriculture oversees the permitting of these mosquito larvicides and can be reached at 802-828-3473. For more information see the following websites. http://www.lficd.org/ http://agriculture.vermont.gov/plant_pest/mosquitoes_ticks/mosquitoes 3/25, 28
TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY BOARD AND COMMISSION VACANCIES
Each year at this time the Town of Middlebury Select Board makes its annual appointments to volunteer positions required by State Statute, and local and regional boards and commissions. If you are interested in any of the following positions, please submit a letter of interest to the Town Manager’s Office, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, or send an e-mail to bdow@townofmiddlebury.org, no later than Friday, April 5, 2019. If you would like to find out more about any of these positions, please contact us at 388-8100, Ext 202. ( ) indicates number of positions open ThREE YEAR TERMS Planning Commission (2) Design Advisory Committee (2) Development Review Board (2) Downtown Improvement District Committee (1) Energy Committee (3) Infrastructure Committee (3) Parks and Recreation Committee (2) ONE YEAR TERM Addison County Regional Planning Commission Delegate (3) Addison County Regional Planning Commission Alternate (2) Addison County Regional Planning Commission Transportation Advisory Committee Delegate (1) Addison County Regional Planning Commission Transportation Advisory Committee Alternate (1) Addison County Solid Waste Management District Alternate (1) Fence Viewer (3) First Constable (1) Middlebury Area Land Trust Board (1) Middlebury Community Television Board (1) Sports Commission (3) Town Agent (1) Town Grand Juror (1) Town Service Officer (1) 3/25, 3/28, 4/1 Tree Warden (1)
NOTICE TOWN OF CORNWALL INVITATION TO BID ON LAWN CARE
Sealed bids for mowing and trimming various municipal parks, cemeteries and grounds for the Town of Cornwall during the 2019 season will be accepted until 5 PM on April 16, 2019 at the Cornwall Town Clerk’s office, 2629 Route 30, Cornwall, VT 05753. Bids should be submitted with a price on a per mowing/trimming basis. Frequency will be weekly or as needed. Must provide proof of insurance. Bids will be opened at the Selectboard Meeting on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. For further information, please contact Sue Johnson, Town Clerk at 462-2775 or at cornwallvt@shoreham.net or stop by the office at 2629 Route 30.
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Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 15, 2019 at 7 P.M. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by Otter Creek Holdings LLC for a variance to change the use at 135 Main Street to allow residential housing on the first floor. The request will be reviewed pursuant to Article VI and Section 1605 of the zoning and subdivision regulations. A copy of the application is available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office. March 26, 2019 Peter Garon Administrative Officer
To publish a legal notice in The Addison Independent email information to legals@addisonindependent.com or fax it to (802) 388-3100. Deadline for the Monday edition is the previous Thursday at noon. Deadline for the Thursday edition is the previous Monday at 5pm.
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Notice is hereby given that the Shoreham Selectboard shall hold a public hearing and site visit on Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 6:30pm at Shackett Drive and meet at the Town Office at 7:00pm where testimony shall be taken for the purpose of determining whether to discontinue Town Road #53 known as Shackett Drive which consists of .05 miles. The Road is located on the South side on Main Street, Route 74 West, in the village between the Old Grange Building and 175 Main Street. Shoreham Selectboard 3/21, 3/28. 4/4
WEYBRIDGE CEMETERY REQUEST FOR BIDS
PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO APPLY MOSQUITO LARVICIDES
The BLSG Insect Control District will be applying ground and aerial treatments of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI), Bacillus Sphaericus (BS), and Spinosad to surface waters where mosquito larvae are present. These are bacterial insecticides used against mosquito larvae. Ground applications of Agnique (biodegradable, alcohol ethoxylared, AE) or Cocobear (Mineral oil) may also be applied in selected wet areas. These are monomolecular films that prevent adult emergence and can be used against mosquito pupae. Methoprene may also be used to prevent adult mosquito emergence. These applications will occur in the towns of Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury, Goshen, Pittsford and Proctor. Pesticide applications beginning on or after April 15, 2019. Exclusion requests need to be renewed yearly. Please send a written request to BLSG, PO Box 188 Brandon, VT 05733. Further information or comments about the larviciding activities or application exclusion requests can be obtained from: BLSG Insect Control District 802-247-6779 https://blsgmosquito.wordpress.com The Vermont Agency of Agriculture oversees the permitting of these mosquito larvicides and can be reached at 802-828-1319. For more information see the following website: http://agriculture.vermont.gov/plant_pest/mosquitoes_ticks/mosquitoes 3/21
PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO APPLY MOSQUITO ADULTICIDES
On or after May 15th, the BLSG Insect Control District may be making ground applications of mosquito adulticides along the public right of ways in the towns of Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury, Goshen, Pittsford and Proctor to control mosquito’s. In the past years, mosquitos in these towns have been found to carry West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis, both of which can be deadly to humans and animals. Applications of Malathion or synthetic pyrethroid insecticides will be made with ultra-low volume truck-based sprayers. If you wish to Opt Out and not have your property treated: please send a written request annually to BLSG, PO Box 188 Brandon, VT 05733. Please provide your 911 address and a property map, which delineates your property boundaries on the public right of way. A representative from the district will contact you to assist in marking your property as a no spray zone. Opt out needs to be renewed yearly. The BLSG hotline is 802-247-6779 and will receive request for treatment as needed during the season. Further information or comments about adulticiding activities or application exclusion requests can be obtained from: BLSG Insect Control District 802-247-6779 http://blsgmosquito.wordpress.com Additional information available at https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocontrol 3/21
Quaker Village Road. Seeking bids for the 2019 mowing season. Bids accepted until April 4, 2019. Call 545-2482 for details.
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TOWN OF LEICESTER DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Leicester Development Review Board will consider the following applications at its scheduled hearing at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17th at the Leicester Town Office, 44 Schoolhouse Road. Applicants: Cyd Isleib/Carol Aines # 0319-ZA for new shed 10x12 with attached lean to 8x12, on Parcel #070031.1, 734 Ferson Road. This is a RAC district. Applicants request a waiver as this project does not meet the setbacks of the current ordinance. Applicant: Ashley Wolf # 02-19-ZA for a conditional use for new construction of a 600 square foot studio/storage building for a home based business on Parcel #202150, 37 Rustic Ct. in L1 and L2 districts. All documents submitted with the application are available to be reviewed at the Town Office during normal business hours. Communication relating to the application may be filed in writing to the Board either before or during the hearing. Pursuant to 24 VSA § 4465 participation in this hearing is necessary to establish status as an Interested Person and the right to appeal. Peter Fjeld, Chair Development Review Board March 28, 2019
TOWN OF NEW HAVEN WARNING DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF HEARING
A public hearing before the Development Review Board of the Town of New Haven will be held at the Town Clerk’s Office on Monday, April 15, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. to consider the following: To hear a request by Jeffrey B H Cook to subdivide his property located at 5303 and 5305 Plank Road, New Haven, Vermont (DRB2019-03-SD) into 2 lots, a 12.16 acre lot and a 2.14 acre lot. This is a final hearing as it has been determined to be a minor subdivision in the RA-2 district. Participation in local proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. The above applications are available for inspection at the Town Clerks office during normal business hours. Persons wishing to appear and be heard by the Board may do so in person or be represented by an agent or attorney. Communications about the above applications may also be made in writing to the board on or before the date of the hearing. Kathleen L Barrett New Haven DRB Chair
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PUBLIC NOTICE TOWN OF ADDISON
The Addison Planning Commission will hold a monthly meeting on Monday, April 15, 2019 at 6 :30 p.m. at the Town Clerk’s Office. To consider the following: 1. To approve the meeting minutes of the March 18, 2019 meeting. 2. To transact any business found necessary before the board: 3. To allow time for public comment interaction at beginning of meeting. 4. We are working on the Zoning Regulations for discussing a future presentation of the (2013 copy) of regulations. This continues as a work in progress. We are working on the “Zoning” Regulations page by page & section by section. We need to work on updating & referencing correctly according to VSA 24 Chapter 117. We will make a new list for the cross referencing #’s to be corrected for the rough draft. We plan to present a rough draft of “Subdivision” Regulations for the 3 boards to look over, but have a few minor corrections and revisions to make for the final rough draft. 5. Continue working on items that are considered to be projects in progress. We need to look at a rough draft of “Density-zoning “ that was prepared with suggestions for implementing into the Town Plan. We will continue to invite the Z.A. to other meetings. 6. We will continue working on Zoning Regulations (2013 copy) & Subdivision Regulations for bringing them into compliance with the revised Town Plan. We will review the revised copy of the PUDS section on rearrangement of the sequence order. We need to implement into rough draft of everything. Frank Galgano, Chair and Starr Phillips, Secretary Addison Planning Commission
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CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Vergennes Partnership Public hearing and open house on April 2 at 6:00 pm. Stantec, Inc. will present their study to assess options for reducing the impacts of truck traffic in downtown Vergennes. Representatives from the company will be available for questions during the open house at 6:00pm; the hearing will begin at 7:00 pm at the Vergennes Opera House. The Addison County Regional Planning Commission and the Vermont Agency of Transportation have commissioned this study, while also considering the possible impacts on neighboring towns. The draft study was presented to the Addison County Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) on Wednesday, March 20. 03/28
PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos. REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.
WEYBRIDGE CEMETERY REQUEST FOR BIDS Quaker Village Road. Seeking bids for the 2019 mowing season. Bids accepted until April 4, 2019. Call 545-2482 for details.
802-388-1966
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STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 60-4-17 ANCV MTGLQ INVESTORS, LP. v. KRISTEN A. LAFLAM, MICHAEL H. CRAM AND MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR QUICKEN LOANS INC. OCCUPANTS OF: 33 Purinton Road East, Lincoln 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 FORMTEXT , in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Kristen A. Laflam and Michael H. Cram to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., dated May 6, 2006 and recorded in Book 63 Page 570 of the land records of the Town of Lincoln, 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 Quicken Loans Inc. to Bank of America, N.A., Successor by Merger to BAC Home Loan Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP, dated October 19, 2012 and recorded in Book 73 Page 175; (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Bank of America, N.A to Green Tree Servicing LLC dated May 28, 2013 and recorded in Book 74 Page 193 and (3) Assignment of Mortgage from Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC to MTGLQ Investors, LP dated September 7, 2018 and recorded in Book 82 Page 552, all of the land records of the Town of Lincoln for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 33 Purinton Road East, Lincoln, Vermont on April 8, 2019 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: TAX ID NUMBER 04-01-48-000
VERMONT RAIL SYSTEM Vermont Railway • Green Mountain Railroad Clarendon & Pittsford Railroad • Washington County Railroad & WACR Conn River Division Weed Control Program Newspaper Advertisement
The Vermont Rail System has applied to the Secretary of Agriculture for a permit to apply herbicides to its tracks for control of weed growth in the ballast. • Vermont Railway operates between Bennington and Burlington.(In the towns of Burlington, S.
Burlington, Shelburne, Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, Vergennes, New Haven, Middlebury, Salisbury, Leicester, Brandon, Pittsford, Rutland Town, Rutland City, Clarendon, Wallingford, Danby, Mt Tabor, Dorset, Manchester, Sunderland, Arlington, Shaftsbury, Bennington) • Green Mountain Railroad operates between Bellows Falls and Rutland City. (In the towns of Rockingham/Bellows Falls, Chester, Cavendish, Ludlow, Mt. Holly, East Wallingford, Shrewsbury, Rutland Town, Rutland City)
Land situated the County of Addison in the State of VT A CERTAIN PIECE OF LAND IN LINCOLN, IN THE COUNTY OF ADDISON, AND THE STATE OF VERMONT, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, VIZ: THE LANDS AND PREMISES CONVEYED HEREBY ARE CURRENTLY BELIEVED TO BE BOUNDED, NOW OR FORMERLY, AS FOLLOWS: ON THE NORTH BY TOWN HIGHWAY NO. 15, ALSO KNOWN AS THE OLD COUNTY ROAD AND/OR PURINTON ROAD; ON THE SOUTH BY LANDS DONOVAN K. MAYO AND ROSEMARY D. MAYO WHICH WAS CONVEYED TO THEM BY EDSON W. COBB AND SANDRA J. COBB BY THE DEED REFERRED TO BELOW AND WHICH IS SHOWN ON A SURVEY ENTITLED “’PROPERTY OF DONOVAN K. MAYO AND ROSEMARY D. MAYO” DATED SEPTEMBER 15, 1982 BY RONALD L. LAROSE, LS.; ON THE EAST BY TOWN HIGHWAY NO. 3, ALSO KNOWN AS THE DOWNINGSVILLE ROAD; ON THE WEST BY LANDS OF CLARENCE AND WILMA HALLOCK.
• Clarendon & Pittsford Railroad operates between Rutland and Whitehall NY, and Pittsford Town.(In the towns of Pittsford, Rutland Town, West Rutland, Ira. Castleton, Fair Haven) • Washington County Railroad operates between Montpelier and Barre.(In the towns of
BEING ALL THE SAME LANDS AND PREMISES CONVEYED TO MICHAEL H. CRAM AND KRISTEN LAFLAM BY DEED OF DONOVAN K. MAYO AND ROSEMARY D. MAYO DATED APRIL 12, 2004 AND RECORDED APRIL 14, 2004 IN BOOK 60, PAGE 106 OF THE LINCOLN LAND RECORDS,
• WACR Conn River Division operates between White River Junction to Newport VT.(In
Commonly known as: 33 Purinton Rd East, Lincoln, VT 05443
Montpelier, Barre City, Barre Town, S. Barre, Berlin)
CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Town of Shoreham Public noTice
the towns of White River, Hartford, Wilder, Norwich, Thetford, Fairlee, Bradford, Newbury, Wells River, Newport, Coventry, Orleans, Barton, Sutton, West Burke, Lyndonville, St. Johnsbury, Passumpsic, Barnet, Ryegate)
The tracks in these locations will be treated utilizing “hi-rail” equipped trucks with nozzles aimed downward from fixed booms 18 inches above the rails which spray the roadbed beneath the tracks. Beginning on or near May 1st, 2019, our applicator will be using a mix of Aquaneat(Glyphosate),Esplanade 200 SC(Indaziflam),Milestone(Aminopyralid), and Spyder or Oust XP(Sulfomenturon Methyl) with an anti drift additive in water for control of weeds and grass. Beginning on or about July 1st, 2019 areas close to streams and standing water which were not sprayed on the first application, will be spot treated with Aquaneat (Glyphosate) with an anti-drift additive in water. Residents abutting Vermont Rail System right-of-way should protect private water supplies or other sensitive areas. It is the responsibility of the resident to notify us of the existence of a private water supply located near our property. • Notification from residents along the Vermont Railway, Clarendon & Pittsford Railroad, Green Mountain Railroad, Washington County Conn River Division and the Washington County Railroad Barre to Montpelier, should be made before April 26th, 2019 to: Benjamin Delorme, Supervisor Signals/M.O.W. w Vermont Railway, Inc. w 118 Post Street Rutland, VT 05701, or by telephone at (802) 775-4356, Monday through Friday between 7:30 am and 4:30 pm. • Questions or comments should be addressed to: Vermont Department of Agriculture w 116 State Street w Montpelier, VT 05602-2901, or by telephone at (802) 828-2431. 3/28, 4/4
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 : February 28, 2019 By: Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032
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Theft of marijuana reported to cops Ferrisburgh MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police on March 21 were informed of the alleged theft of “a small amount of marijuana” from an out-building at a Case Street property. In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Met on March 19 with a local resident who was allegedly showing signs of possible mental health crisis. • Assisted Vermont Adult Protective Services with a visit to a Valley View home on March 19. • Investigated a report on March 20 of a local resident selling a piece of furniture that was not theirs to sell. • Investigated a report of an intoxicated woman refusing to leave the Middlebury Short Stop on Court Street Extension on March 21. The woman left after speaking with police. • Received a report about a man allegedly stealing two cartons of cigarettes from Middlebury Discount
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Beverage on MacIntyre Lane on March 21. The case remains under investigation. • Assisted Middlebury Union Middle School staff with a student who was ultimately referred to the Counseling Service of Addison County on March 21. • Checked on the welfare of a man seen walking aimlessly around downtown Middlebury on March 21. • Assisted a parent with a child who was having a mental health episode in the Court Street Extension area on March 22. The youth was taken to Porter Hospital to meet with mental health counselors, according to police.
• Received a report of a person having a mental health episode at the One Dollar Market on Court Street Extension on March 22. The person eventually left the store, police said. • Told a local resident to move a vehicle that had been partially blocking Three Mile Bridge Road on March 23. • Assisted a person having a mental health episode on Court Street on March 23. Police said the man was connected with mental health counselors at Porter Hospital. • Responded to a South Village Green resident’s complaint of marijuana smoke seeping into his apartment on March 23. • Were informed that a downed tree was blocking Lower Plains Road on March 23. • Responded to a trespassing complaint at a South Village Green residence on March 24. Police said they found no one trespassing.
Police: One man hit another holding baby VERGENNES — Vergennes police cited a man on March 18 for assaulting another man who was carrying an infant in a car seat at the time. Police allege that Michael Parie Jr., 22, who had an address at a John Graham Shelter apartment in the city, grabbed the victim by the neck and punched him in the face. Police cited Parie for simple assault and released him. Police said they believed a dispute over finances triggered the alleged assault. Between March 18 and 24 police also ticketed a dozen vehicles left out overnight on city streets in violation of the Vergennes wintertime parking ban. The ban will conclude on April 1. In those seven days, city police also operated three special patrols designed to enforce traffic laws and issued three tickets, and also: On March 19 checked a report of a strange odor in the Hillside Drive apartment complex, but could not determine its source and notified the apartments’ management. On March 20: • Ticketed a truck for operating without a permit while more than 24 tons overweight on Monkton Road. • Secured a business door found open during a downtown foot patrol.
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• Spoke to six students caught using vape pens at Vergennes Union High School; police are discussing possible penalties and policies with school administrators. • Took a report of a fender-bender in the Shaw’s Supermarket parking lot in which the offending driver had left the scene. • Helped a disabled tractor-trailer truck on Route 7 south of Vergennes on Woodman Hill. • Took a report from Collins Aerospace that one of its employees had received a threat. • Received a complaint about speeding in the Bowman Road-Adele Court area. • Spoke to the operator of a truck reported to be weaving on Route 7 and determined he was OK. • Heard an anonymous complaint about two drivers operating in the city with suspended licenses, but could not find them. • Were told by a woman that another woman had approached her car on Green Street and made a threat.
On March 21: • Issued a no-trespass order to a Ferrisburgh resident on behalf of the National Bank of Middlebury. • Took a report from VUHS administrators that a student’s earphones had been stolen. • Began investigating a shoplifting incident from Kinney Drug Store. • Checked the welfare of an Alden Place resident, who was found to be OK. On March 22: • Helped at the scene of a fatal accident on Route 22A in Addison. • Issued a no-trespass order to a Ferrisburgh resident on behalf of DR Power. On March 23 calmed an arguing couple and advised the woman involved how to pursue a relief-fromabuse order. On March 24: • Stood by while a relative collected the belongings of a former John Graham Shelter resident. • Cited Samuel Bombard, 27, of North Hero for driving under the influence of drugs, an action taken after stopping his vehicle on West Main Street after checking his license plate and learning it came back to a vehicle owned by a driver with a suspended license.
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ADDISON COUNTY — On March 20 between 11 a.m. and noon troopers from the New Haven barracks of the Vermont State Police conducted a saturation patrol on Leicester Whiting Road in Leicester. This patrol was in response to a request from a utility company working in the area to slow traffic in the work zone. During the patrol, police stopped one vehicle and issued one traffic ticket for driving with a suspended license. In other recent activity, Vermont State Police: • On March 20 at 5 minutes before 11 p.m. saw Justin Stover, 45, of South Burlington driving on South Street in Middlebury. Troopers knew that Stover’s privilege to operate a motor vehicle was under criminal suspension in Vermont and that he had an active warrant for his arrest. Troopers arrested him, cited him for driving with a criminally suspended license and lodged him at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility on $100 bail. • On March 21 at about a quarter past 4 p.m. spotted a vehicle travelling southbound on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh with no registration validation sticker affixed to the rear plate, and stopped the vehicle. Troopers ended up citing David Ouellette, 53, of Waltham for driving with a criminally suspended license. • On March 22 at five minutes before 7 a.m. responded to a twovehicle, head-on crash on Route 22A in Addison. Police allege that a Subaru driven by Ian Labounty, 28, of Crown Point, N.Y., was northbound when his car crossed the centerline and crashed into a southbound Honda driven by Cecile Druzba, 57, of South Burlington. Both cars ended up completely overturned. Druzba and her brother Jacques Marton, 62, of South Burlington were taken to UVM Medical Center; Druzba was pronounced deceased; Marton was treated and released. Police believe Labounty was intoxicated, and authorities took a sample of his blood to test. They cited Labounty for driving under the influence of drugs and gross negligent driving with death resulting. A full account of the incident was in Monday’s Addison Independent. • On March 23 at a little before 1:30 p.m. responded to a two-car crash on Route 116 in St. George. Police report that Ethan A. Poulin, 24, of St. George was driving a Hyundai Elantra and trying to turn left from Route 116
onto Route 2A into the path of a VW Passat driven by John P. Chamberlain Jr. of Starksboro. Chamberlain attempted swerving to the right but the cars collided in the northbound lane or Route 116. No one was injured, but both cars were totaled. Impairment was not a factor in this collision, police said. Anyone who may have witnessed Chamberlain’s driving as he traveled north on Route 116 prior to the crash is asked to contact Cpl. Andrew Leise
at the Williston state police barracks 1-802-878-7111. • On March 25 at approximately 6 p.m. located Laura Khouri, 28, of Bristol on Autumn Lane in Bristol. Khouri had an active warrant for her arrest and was taken into custody without incident. Troopers took Khouri to the New Haven barracks for processing and later lodged at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility with bail set at $25.
FERRISBURGH — On Wednesday, April 3, from 6-7 p.m., the Vergennes Student Leadership Committee will host a discussion of strengths and concerns we have identified in our school using the data from the Vermont Youth Risk Behavior Survey This community dialogue will take place during the April Commodore Parent Teacher Group meeting in the VUHS library. The discussion will give an overview of the data from the YRBS that VUHS students participated in 2017. Parents and community members who are interested in student wellness or otherwise want to get involved in bettering our school community, feel free to stop by and share your ideas. For more information, contact Jay Stetzel at jstetzel@anwsd.org. The Commodore Parent Teacher Group will meet immediately afterwards. The Commodore Parent Teacher Group Spring Fundraiser is happening now so please consider a donation. CPTG facilitates educational enrichment grants at VUHS. In the last year CPTG has hosted a SAT Prep Class for students, helped the 8th grade fund a field trip to Hosmer Point camp, outfitted VUHS math teams with team t-shirts, supported students on the French class trip to Canada, and helped sponsor an all-school presentation by Kevin Pierce and his “Love Your Brain” foundation, which was the focus of the senior walk-a-thon. Some of the funds are put to use for teacher/staff appreciation, open house, parent conference nights, and end of year celebrations. In appreciation for donations, we are offering a chance to receive a $100 gift certificate to the Antidote in Vergennes. You can leave your donation (check or cash) at the VUHS main office. The VUHS Personalized Learning Parent Informational Series continues with a session on Tuesday, April 16, from 6-7 p.m. at the VUHS Library. Parents will be able to learn about the new initiative of
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Personalized Learning, how it is being implemented, and how it is designed to improve the students’ educational experience. For example, there is planning being done between the VUHS faculty and the staff at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum to support student-led learning on topics such as the microscopy of the lake water, metalworking, and shipwreck artifacts. For more information on this program, visit tinyurl.com/vuhs-plp. The Bixby Library continues to hold its first Friday monthly movies series. The next event will be Friday, April 5, at 6:30 p.m., in the Bixby’s Community Room. Visit bixbylibrary. org to find out about each month’s movie, which is usually a new release. Also, parents of toddlers are encouraged to take advantage of Bixby’s weekly children’s story hour. These are held every Thursday at 10:30 a.m., and are designed with a specific theme and follow-up craft or activity. The Second Saturdays’ program offers a variety of activities for children of all ages. Saturdays provide a time for area children to gather at the Bixby with friends, classmates and neighbors. Programs can also be a chance for parents to spend time with their child after a busy workweek. For more information on all these programs, call 802-877-2211 or visit bixbylibrary.org. The North Ferrisburgh Methodist Church is holding its annual Rummage Sale on Friday, April 12, from 9 a.m.6 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, from 8 a.m.-11 a.m. Saturday is “TakeWhatever-You-Want” day, with a flat fee of $5 per person. Proceeds support children and youth attending summer camps and mission trips. The church is located at 227 Old Hollow Rd. in North Ferrisburgh. Come an enjoy an old fashioned rummage sale and support our neighborhood youth. For more information, call 802-425-2770. The Ferrisburgh Historical Society will host Douglas Brooks
of Vergennes on Sunday, April 14, at 2 p.m., at the Ferrisburgh Town Offices and Community Center. A boat builder, writer, and researcher, Brooks specializes in the construction of traditional Japanese wooden boats for museums and private clients. He studied with six boat builders from across Japan between 19962015, and is currently working with the Henry Sheldon Museum on a comprehensive survey of historic boats and boatbuilding in the Lake Champlain Basin. Brooks teaches classes in boatbuilding, regularly publishes articles on his research, and is the author of “Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding,” the first comprehensive survey of the craft. For more information, contact Silas Towler at 802-425-3380. The Ferrisburgh Grange King Pede card parties are scheduled for the Saturdays of April 13 and 27. All are invited to participate in these get-togethers. The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with a sandwich supper and then on to the games. King Pede is a unique game that involves “tricktaking” techniques such as in Hearts and Spades or Pitch. This is a game of fun and skill so come prepared to use your strategic thinking. Remember to make plans for children and youth summer camps being offered at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. In addition, in April there will be several learning sessions on such arts as bladesmithing, blacksmithing, and bronze casting. For more information on all these events, visit lcmm.org. NOTE: We are always interested in including a variety of Ferrisburghrelated news in this column, so if you have news that would be of interest, contact Sally Kerschner at smwkersch@comcast.net. You are able to access these columns and other information about Ferrisburgh news and events by viewing the Ferrisburgh Town Website at ferrisburghvt.org.
juvenile issue, which was resolved without police involvement. • On Feb. 26 investigated tobacco offenses. • On Feb. 27, at the request of a local business, opened a theft investigation. • On Feb. 27 assisted with a medical call. • On Feb. 27 issued court paperwork to someone. • On Feb. 28 assisted a resident without incident. • On March 1 ticketed a driver for driving with a suspended license after investigating a complaint about a motor vehicle that was off the road. • On March 4 served court
paperwork to someone. • On March 6 opened a theft investigation. • On March 6 investigated a report of littering. • On March 6 investigated a report about a minor vehicle accident and found it required no police action. • On March 8 opened a property watch for a local resident. • On March 8 facilitated the return of property that had been lost. • On March 9 completed required training. • On March 9 investigated a complaint of suspicious activity. • On March 10 completed required training.
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BRISTOL — Between Feb. 25 and March 10, Bristol police assisted Vermont State Police twice and Vergennes police once. Officers in the Bristol department completed 33 foot patrols and more than five hours of car patrols in various parts of town, some of which were part of the Governor’s Highway Safety Program. Bristol officers checked security at Mount Abraham Union High School 10 times, processed nine requests for fingerprints and completed one business check in the town. In other recent activity, Bristol police: • On Feb. 25 responded to a
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Driving through a sea of words The idea of driving for pleasure has opposite but don’t seem to exist never appealed to me. But as we slog inthemselves. Or at least they don’t through whatever early spring throws get used much. at us, there are small But upon investigation pleasures to be found I must report that the dicfrom bumper stickers. tionary says it is in fact Here’s one I saw prepossible to be ept. It’s saging April 15: “Unlike now my new goal in life. taxes, death doesn’t go But what’s the oppoup every year.” site of an ingrate? It may There’s a mommy van grate on your nerves to out there with a sticker hear this, but an especialthat mourns the driver’s ly grateful person is not a past status, declaring “I grate. used to be cool.” There are, however, Another sticker tells some non-existent oppous, “Don’t piffle! Persisites. “Chalant,” after all, flage!” I had to look that isn’t a word. And that is one up. Merriam-Webster nothing to be nonchalant says persiflage is light, about. mocking banter. To piffle But back to bumper is “to talk or act in a triv- by Gregory Dennis stickers. Of course there ial, inept or ineffective are tons of political ones way.” out there. Most of them Speaking of “inept,” whatever are serious in tone but there are exhappened to “ept”? It’s one of those ceptions. apparently non-words that have an I recently spotted one that simply
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read, “Fake President.” We all know who they were talking about. Then there’s the one claiming that the National Security Agency is “the only part of the government that actually listens.” Some stickers along our local roads have a semi-serious message: “God is too big to fit in one religion,” states one, while another avers, “I’m straight but I’m not narrow.” I’ll close with two local bumper stickers that have a distinctly Vermont flavor. The first: “I ate more kale. Now what?” The second is a timely reminder in this state with the most craft breweries per capita: “Save the Earth. It’s the only planet with beer.” I’ll drink (but not drive) to that. Greg Dennis’s column appears here every other Thursday and is archived on his blog at gregdennis.wordpress. com. Email: gregdennisvt@yahoo. com. Twitter: @greengregdennis.
The coast of Florida has hidden gems STATE WATERFOWL BIOLOGIST David Sausville will lead a tour of Little Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area in Ferrisburgh to look for mallards and other waterfowl on April 11, from 6 to 8 p.m.
See wildlife up close with experts FERRISBURGH — This spring Vermont Fish & Wildlife will offer free guided excursions by fish and wildlife biologists. The excursions will continue throughout 2019. “These events are a chance for Vermonters to get to know the state’s 98 wildlife management areas either in their own back yard or in a wild remote corner of the state,” said John Austin, lands and habitat program manager for the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. “Whether you’re watching trout jump up Willoughby Falls in the spring, looking to observe unique birds, or looking for moose among the colorful fall foliage, there are always great opportunities to view wildlife on Vermont’s wildlife management areas.” The first seminar on offer in Addison County is the Spring Waterfowl Migration Bird-Watching Tour, Thursday, April 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Little Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area, in Ferrisburgh. Join state waterfowl biologist David Sausville to catch the spring migration of waterfowl in this naturally productive wild rice marsh. Sausville will lead participants on a brief walk along
Lincoln LINCOLN — The deadline to register your dog with the town clerk’s office is Monday, April 1, every year. They will need to receive a copy of your pet’s current rabies certificate along with a fee payment. It costs $15 if the dog is spayed or neutered, or $19 if intact. Those fees will increase with a late fee after April 1. You can stop by the town office during regular hours, use the secure drop box outside the office door or mail your payment with vaccine information and they will mail your dog tag to you. Call or email the town clerk’s office with any questions. On Thursday, April 11, there will be an author talk at the library from 7-8 p.m. In “To Have And To Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Mod-
the shoreline to look for birds with binoculars. The group will also use a spotting scope to look at a nearby eagle nest. A backup date has been set for Friday, April 12. “The group could easily see six to twelve different species of waterfowl, numerous wading birds, osprey, eagles, and possibly several wetland mammals including muskrat, beaver, otter, and mink,” said Sausville. “The sunsets can be amazing on the water from this location, with the Adirondacks in the background and birds flying and calling in most directions.” All events in the series are free. Space is limited and these events fill up May will bring two more events to Addison County. The first is the Spring Wildflower Walk on Thursday, May 9, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., at Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area in Addison. Vermont Fish & Wildlife botanist Bob Popp will lead the group looking for spring wildflowers. Dead Creek includes one of the largest remaining clay plain forests in the state, with many unique plant species found here as a result. The group will meet at the Visitor Center and go on an
easy walk looking for flowers and other unique plants. The second event is the Evening Bird-Watching Paddle, on Tuesday, May 28, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., also at Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area. The group will set out in canoes and kayaks hoping to catch a glimpse of the many bird species that are present at Dead Creek during the spring bird migration, led by Fish & Wildlife’s Ali Thomas and Tom Rogers. Dead Creek represents some of the finest birding opportunities in all of Vermont — an incredible 200 bird species can be found there, particularly ducks, shorebirds, and hawks. The spring bird migration represents a great time of year to see birds that might not be present at other times of year. Participants must bring their own canoe or kayak, paddles, and life jackets. A backup date has been set for the following day, May 29. All seminars are free and participants are encouraged to bring snacks and water and to dress in footwear and clothing appropriate for the weather and season. Space is limited and these events fill up quickly, so sign up as early as possible at vtfishandwildlife.com.
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ern Dilemma” by Molly Millwood, Millwood explores the complexities of early motherhood, including its very real impact on marriage, with candor and practical advice. Says Molly “I wanted to write the book I longed to read when motherhood was brand-new to me: a narrative that explores the emotionally and psychologically complex terrain of new motherhood. In that terrain, we encounter not only a woman’s internal experience of herself, her child, and her radically changing identity, but also her experience of her marriage or intimate partnership.” The Michele Fay Band will perform as part of the Burnham Music Series on Saturday, April 13, from 7:30-9:15 p.m. at Burnham Hall. The
Michele Fay Band is a compelling and captivating ensemble featuring original and Americana music from Vermont. Tickets are $10 adults, teens and kids are free. SAVE THE DATES Wednesday, April 10, is an early release day for MAUSD students. Dismissal is at 11:45 a.m. Green Up Day is Saturday, May 4 from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Lincoln Fire House. If you’d like to help with roadside cleanup please contact me at dawnyanks@gmail.com to secure the road/roads you’d like to cleanup. Until next time ... Life Begins Where Fear Ends. Start That Thing You’ve Been Putting Off Today. Sometimes Good Things Fall Apart So Better Things Can Fall Together.
After decades of vacations determined by the school calendar, my husband and I take a monthlong drive to Florida and back. It feels luxurious. We set out in early January, dodging snow and ice storms along the way. Our destination is the central west coast of Florida. While driving there, we envision beach combing and river walks, exotic birds and trees, perpetual warmth. After arriving, we set out on a new adventure each day. But there is a price to pay: each expedition involves endless miles of stop-and-go strip driving, roads teeming with traffic and a repeating array of urgent care centers, discount stores and billboards advertising divorce lawyers and vasectomy centers. Occasionally a costumed Statue of Liberty or chicken waves to us, advertising the latest bargain. I wave back. One day we head to a newly discovered local waterway. After a mind-numbing series of lights and visual assaults we take a quick left turn, thrusting us into Old Florida with its cypress, live oaks and Spanish moss. Suddenly, we’re surrounded by primeval foliage. We enter the park, rent a double kayak and push off, heading down a narrow winding creek along with ibis and egrets, dodging the entangled roots of extensive cypress tree communities, floating with the current through a winding tunnel of life. What appears to be an upright black snake undulates across the slow-moving water. Emerging on the bank, it morphs into a longnecked bird struggling chaotically
Ways of Seeing By Alice Leeds for a low branch, where it spreads its ancient black-and-white wings. Scientists theorize the anhinga poses like this both to gather heat and dry its feathers. As we approach for a closer look at its patterned plumage, it responds with a vibrating sound sometimes described as a frog with a sore throat. We back away. The water gleams like honey, brightly colored fish darting alongside us, sometimes leaping from the water. Mesmerized by the heat and the dancing light, we float along. After a long stretch, a kayaker ahead of us points to a small wharf and mouths the word “manatee.” A large form surfaces just beside us in the dark water, its nostrils reaching up for a quick breath. We hear it inhale before slowly re-submerging out of sight. As we paddle, a young raccoon follows us along the water’s edge. We pull closer. When it’s clear he’s ready to hop aboard to share our lunch, we push off and continue downstream, avoiding this hungry bandit. The river opens to a large pool fed by warm underground springs. Half a dozen manatees glide slowly through clear water, feeding on algae, curiously approaching an equal number of humans floating on
the surface. Their oblong gray-brown bodies resemble an overgrown walrus with a bulbous whiskered mouth that grabs food much like an elephant’s trunk. In fact, manatees and elephants are closely related. As these huge creatures swim gently about, one young kayaker can’t stop herself from joining them. She resists reaching out to touch one, yet when its rough flesh brushes her feet, she squeals with delight. A mother and her calf swim alongside our boat, close enough to see crisscrossing motorboat scars on the adult. As the calf dips beneath us, the mother turns her head, and our eyes meet for just a moment. Her universal message is clear: don’t hurt my baby. My eyes return reassurance: we will do no harm. Each bend in the river offers a new gift: sunlight playing on water, a pattern of overlapping foliage, a great blue heron skimming silently by. We paddle on. At the appointed pullout, we climb out of our kayak, our bottoms dripping, and head for the shuttle back to our car. Leaving the park and Old Florida, we re-enter the strip of stores and traffic lights, eventually turning into a spotless community with manicured lawns framing perfect-looking homes. Western Florida is filled with gems, waiting to be found. To uncover these wild, hidden treasures, the parallel universes of Florida must be navigated. It is worth the effort. Alice Leeds, of Bristol, was a public school teacher for 25 years and is currently a writing instructor at the Community College of Vermont in Winooski.
It’s time to take down your bird feeders MONTPELIER — The Vermont their dens more hungry than normal Fish & Wildlife Department says due to low fat reserves.” warm spring weather Bears are very fond and melting snows will of suet and bird seed, cause bears to come “Some bears especially black oil out of their winter dens will be coming sunflower seed. Bringin search of food. The out of their dens ing feeders in at night department recomdoesn’t work, because more hungry mends taking down bears will still feed on bird feeders by April than normal seed that is spilled on 1 to avoid attracting due to low fat the ground. bears. Bird feeders are reserves.” “Many bears went just one of the things — Forrest Hammond, into their winter dens that can attract hungry Vt.’s bear biologist in poorer than normal bears. Other sources of condition due to a food that bears find apshortage of acorns, beechnuts and pealing are pet food, barbecue grills, apples last fall,” said Forrest Ham- garbage, household trash containers, mond, Vermont’s bear biologist. open dumpsters, and campsites with “Some bears will be coming out of accessible food and food wastes.
Purposely feeding a bear is not just bad for the bear, it’s also illegal. Fish & Wildlife also offers the following tips to avoid bear problems: • Keep chickens and honeybees secure within an electric fence or other bear-proof enclosure. • Never feed bears, deliberately or accidentally. • Feed your pets indoors. • Store trash in a secure place. Trash cans alone are not enough. “We are asking anyone who has a problem with a bear to report the incident in a form that we have on our website vtfishandwildlife.com. under Living with Wildlife,” said Hammond. “There is a section in the form where you can ask us to call you to provide advice.”
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Local poets Kari Hansen, left, Linda Shere, right, and Ray Hudson, back, stand with Theresa Harris, front, who is the director of the Edgewater Gallery. These three poets are amoung those in the Spring Street Poes group who were inspired by art at the Middlebury galleries. A new exhibit, “The Language of Art,” will open at both Edgewater locations on April 5, featuring paintings paired with poems. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / STEVE JAMES
Local poets enliven art gallery opening
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ew words in the English language look and feel as diametrically opposed to their definitions as ekphrasis. It derives from Greek and sounds very much as if it belongs among the terminology that that language has shaped for the medical profession. What ekphrasis describes, however, is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a work of art.
BY CHRISTOPHER ROSS
Poets love this stuff. So do artists. Which is why Theresa Harris, director of Middlebury’s Edgewater Galleries, has brought together poets and visual artists for
a new show. “The Language of Art” opens April 5 at both of Edgewater’s Middlebury locations: 1 Mill St. and 6 Merchants Row. Among the paintings and photographs of six accomplished artists, Harris will intersperse original work from the Spring Street Poets, a local writing group organized by David Weinstock. The opening reception, which starts at 7 p.m. next Friday, will also feature poets reading aloud from their work. “To sell art you have to be more and more creative,” Harris said. “This blending of two arts — poetry and painting — could be really interesting. It provides gallery visitors with an opportunity to stop and pay attention in a different way.”
One of the show’s painters, Holly Harrison, is a poet herself. “Her work is horizontal, linear and could almost be read as a poem,” gallery director Harris said. Harrison agrees. “My work is definitely affected by my training as a poet,” she told the Independent. “I became interested in bird imagery through my love of Wallace Stevens, in particular the poem ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.’ A lot of the linear bird paintings in this show are from this series. These paintings are less obviously striped, and they focus more on a single image, but I think the poetry comes in through the rhythms of the horizontal lines and SEE POETS ON PAGE 3
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ART Eric Nelson captures nature’s mysteries in photos PHOTOGRAPHS OF VERMONT LANDSCAPES AND PATTERNS IN NATURE ARE ON VIEW AT THE JACKSON GALLERY
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he Jackson Gallery presents an exhibition of color photographs by Middlebury artist Eric Nelson, March 29-May 5. The display will feature images whose common themes are pattern, rhythm, and the interaction of color and light in nature. His sources are landscapes —large and small — that include trees, plants, bodies of water and geological formations. The images range from bold compositions of delicate flowers in close-up view to intricately patterned scenes of the forest and its floor, capturing the texture and subtle tones in each. “I am particularly focused on revealing the record of growth, competition for survival, and decay and regeneration found everywhere in nature,” Nelson explained. “For me photographs almost always uncover details, hidden objects, and alignments that are not noticed at the outset but become, through processing and acceptance, an essential part of making and viewing photographs. These unanticipated aspects of producing a photograph give my images an element of surprise that enhances every intentional characteristic that I have for them.”
taught sculpture and drawing there for 33 years. Most recently he exhibited at the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury in a group photography show, the Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, N.Y., in a one-person sculpture show and the Fleming Museum of the University of Vermont in a group sculpture show. Other exhibitions of his sculpture have been installed in public sculpture parks at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., Navy Pier in Chicago, and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass. He has been a visiting artist at the Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt. Nelson has been awarded several residencies and has received awards and fellowships including two from the Vermont Council on the Arts.
“Pitcher Plants” by Eric Nelson
Nelson also works in the mediums of wood and watercolor. Retired from Middlebury College, he
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“Beech Trees in Late Autumn” by Eric Nelson
The show at the Jackson Gallery will open with a reception for the artist on Friday, March 29, from 5-7 p.m. The exhibit will remain on display through May 5. The Jackson Gallery is located in the lower level of Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 12-5 p.m., and an hour before any public events in the building. For more info call (802) 382-9222 or visit townhalltheater.org.
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Poems & Paintings Poems (arranged by painter) from the Spring Street Poets group in the Middlebury exhibit include:
VICTORIA BLEWER the way the disparate materials come together to create an integrated visual whole.” Spring Street poet Ray Hudson wrote about Harrison’s painting “Soft Landing.” His “View from the Bus” captures the flight of birds and words alike: “They pause in midflight, proof / of what the unencumbered eye can do, can break free, / rest in mid air, on the thin wire that carries / the voices of parents and lovers, those pre-recorded / solicitations. Soft landings are still landings.” “I saw my job as writing what sparked inside when I looked at the painting or photograph,” Hudson explained. “It’s going to be interesting for me to read these poems in the presence of the paintings. I may wonder, ‘What in the world does my poem have to do with this painting?’” Fellow poet Mary Pratt described a moment when a poem appeared suddenly. “I often think about poetry as something that happens at the intersection between the outer world and my inner world, and one of my poems for this exhibit really happened that way,” she said. “I was sitting in the river window seat at the Daily Grind thinking about (Victoria Blewer’s) photo “Night Birds,” about how blue I’ve been lately and about the owl that’s been hanging out in our yard — and a poem just came and landed in my notebook.”
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On the Lookout (Mary Pratt: “The Crow”) Nightbirds (Mary Pratt: “Night Birds”) Nightbirds (Linda Shere: “The Stars that Fell to My Feet”) Simple Dwelling (Janice Miller Potter: “The Nest”) Tire Swing (Ray Hudson: “Stillness”) Waiting for Nightfall (Linda Shere: “The Stars that Fell to My Feet”)
ROBERT O’BRIEN South Window, Nearing Workshop (Janice Miller Potter: “The Jar in the Window”) Japanese Maple (Ray Hudson: “Snow”) Blue Wheelbarrow (Janice Miller Potter: “The Blue Wheelbarrow”) Towards Entropy (Janice Miller Potter: “Henhouse”) Hillside Buckets (Linda Shere: “The Maples by the Road”)
MARGARET GERDING Cloud Layers II (Janice Miller Potter:
“Solitude”) Cloud Layers II (Linda Shere: “Blue Shade”) Concord Farm (Janice Miller Potter: “The Husbandry Poet”) The View (Janice Miller Potter: “In His ThirtyFourth Year, Thoreau Hears the Music of Time”) Summer Blue (Ray Hudson: “Revelation”)
HOLLY HARRISON The Watchers (Linda Shere: “Seeds from Argentina”) Soft Landing (Ray Hudson: “View from a Bus”) Treble Clef (Mary Pratt: “Birds on Wires”)
HOLLY FRIESEN Cloud Incantation (Ray Hudson: “Appearances”)
LIZ HOAG Purple Path (Ray Hudson: “Dust”) Through the Field (Mary Pratt: “The Poet Uses Forbidden Adjectives”)
That poem, “Night Birds,” captures something of the mood of Blewer’s piece. “The crows / don’t ask. They / do not care. // In the trees, bare / or not, under the sky, / starred or not, / they sit while my world / sleeps. Or not.” Montreal-based painter Holly Friesen is no stranger to ekphrasis. “I’ve had poets come up to me and ask my permission to write poems about my work,” she said. Her answer is always, “Of course!” Friesen loves the idea of integrating the two arts for the upcoming show. “It’s really beautiful when people read the poem, look at the work, then read the poem again. It broadens and deepens both the poetry and the painting,” she said. “It’s really lovely to watch.” As much as she loves poetry, Friesen said, it’s never really influenced her work as a painter. “When I go into the studio, the paintings take over and I’ve learned not to get in the way. It comes from a wiser place than me.”
Kari Hansen, was inspired to write poetry by the light and clouds in paintings by Margaret Gerding. She wrote a poem called “Soft Air.” INDEPENDENT PHOTO / STEVE JAMES
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OUT OF TOWN Painting and living in a warming world
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orthern Daughters is pleased to present recent works from Cameron Davis at their Annex Gallery in Shelburne, now through April 28. An opening reception will be held March 29, from 5-7 p.m. Davis’ work emerges from the intersection of art, ecology, social and environmental justice. Her paintings are a vehicle for exploring issues of conscious perception and living sustainably in a warming world.
Davis has been an artist for over 40 years. She is a member of the Ecoart Network, and Senior Lecturer with the University of Vermont Department of Art & Art History.
Vergennes players perform in ‘Noises Off’ Vergennes residents Su and Eric Reid-St. John (left and center) act out their roles in Shelburne Players’ spring comedy “Noises Off,” a farce about a play within a play by Michael Frayn. Su plays the role of “Poppy Norton-Taylor” and Eric plays “Frederick Fellowes,” “Phillip Bent” and “The Sheik.” Performances take place at Shelburne Town Center on April 5-7 and April 11-13. For more information visit shelburneplayers.com.
“There’s a place in the painting practice where I tap into what feels like a deep aquifer of intuition,” Davis said. “It’s beneath the surface of the everyday world. We can all tap into this much wider source of knowing and understanding. The painting practice itself, gives me an opportunity to engage with, or swim, if you will, in that aquifer, that deep place of knowing.” For more info visit northerndaughters.com/annex or contact info@ northerndaughters.com or (802) 877-2173.
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The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, under the direction of Graham Ross will perform at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Middlebury on Wednesday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. PHOTO / NICK RUTTER
St. Stephen’s welcomes renowned British choir
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he Choir of Clare College, of Cambridge, U.K., will perform “Tomas Luis De Victoria Requiem” (1605) with British and Spanish Lenten motets, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Middlebury this Wednesday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 3 APRIL St. Stephen’s Church, Middlebury
Under the direction of Graham Ross, the choir will stop in Middlebury for this
concert as part of their tour through Canada, U.S.A. and Mexico. “The music of this great a cappella Requiem Mass setting has, for more than 400 years, glowed with extraordinary fervor and conviction and remains for me one of the most refined, dignified and serene settings in the cannon,” explained Ross, who has been the director for nine years. Since the founding of a mixed voice choir in 1972, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading university choirs. In addition to its primary function of leading services three times a week in the College chapel, the Choir keeps an active schedule recording, broadcasting and performing. The choir has produced more than 40 recordings, which have garnered exceptional praise. Tickets for Wednesday’s concert are $15 and are available at ststephensmidd.org or at the church office (Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.)
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ARTIST’S OPENING RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, March 29, 5-7 p.m., The Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Come meet photographer Eric Nelson and view his work. On display through May 5.
DANCE
DANCE AND MUSICALITY MASTER CLASS BY ALISON CLANCY IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, April 1, 4:30 p.m., Dance Theater, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Alison Clancy is a multidisciplinary artist working across the time-based mediums of dance, music and visual media, in pursuit of beauty and catharsis. Class begins with a gentle physical warm up, moving into improvisational techniques and phrasework, with a special emphasis paid to musicality. All levels welcome. Free. 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts. ALISON CLANCY PERFORMS IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, April 3, 7:30 p.m., Dance Theater, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Clancy, a NYC-based multidisciplinary artist, works across mediums of dance, music, and visual media in pursuit of beauty and catharsis, pushing the edges of contemporary dance and music She incorporates ritual practices and visual design into the forms of contemporary ballet and popular music, creating an otherworldly highway. Free. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts.
FILM
“THE COLOR PURPLE” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, March 28, 6-8:30 p.m., Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. The Middlebury Community Classic Film Club courage series presents the quietly powerful story of an African American woman who struggles against racism and abuse to finally prevail. It is also the story of a community facing those same challenges. Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Oprah Winfrey, bring Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning novel vividly to the screen. “FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF,” THE LOCAL REMAKE, ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, March 30, 7 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. Ilsley Public Library and Middlebury Community Television present the 4th annual Crowdsourced Cinema film remake, a community art project that remakes favorite Hollywood films. More info: Kurt Broderson at kurt@ middleburycommunitytv.org or 802-388-3062. “TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG” (ORIGINAL TITLE
TARDE PARA MORIR JOVEN) ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 6, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, 356 College St. During 1990 in Chile, a small group of families lives in an isolated community right below the Andes, building a new world away from the urban excesses. In this time of change, 16-year-old Sofía and Lucas, and 10-year-old Clara, neighbors in this dry land, struggle with parents, first loves, and fears, as they prepare a big party for New Year’s Eve. Free.
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ROBERT FROST BIRTHDAY PARTY IN RIPTON. Saturday, March 30, 5:30 p.m., Ripton Community Church, Route 125, Ripton Village. Celebrate poetry and the life and birthday of Vermont’s poet laureate Robert Frost. If you have a story to share, come. If you have a poem to share (or two, or three) come. There will be music and some theatrical renditions of a few favorite poems and birthday cake. Questions call Nola at 802-388-6107. HOMEWARD BOUND FUNDRAISER IN GRANVILLE. Saturday, April 6, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Granville Town Hall, 4157 Route 100. Come on out to the “Hello Spring” fair, featuring a number of specialty vendors and craftspeople with great products. Tasty baked goodies too. Free. Donations to Homeward Bound’s wish list are welcome. CELEBRATE WILLIAM “BILL” BOWERS, KEN WESTON AND THE BRISTOL TOWN BAND IN BRISTOL. Sunday, April 7, 1-3 p.m., Holley Hall, 1 South St. 5 Town Friends of the Arts host this event to honor Bristol Town Band’s, which, in 2020 will commence its 150th year. Bowers and Weston took the helm in 1983. Refreshments, music and stories by current and past band members.
LECTURES & LEARNING
“EXPERIENCING NATURE: AROUSAL, INTEREST, AND AESTHETICS” IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, March 28, 6:30 p.m., Stonecutter Spirits Distillery, 119 Exchange St. Come hear this talk by Lorraine Besser. This free event is part of the Burlington Public Philosophy Week, a week of philosophical events for everyone to enjoy. Free and open to all. “THE MANY MEANINGS OF MAPLE” IN HANCOCK. Thursday, March 28, 7 p.m., Hancock Town Hall, Route 100. Champlain College professor Michael Lange will discuss sugaring ethnographically, based on over five years of research among sugarmakers all over the state, focusing on how and why maple has become so important to Vermont’s identity, and how and
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why it helps us shape who we are as Vermonters. “FLY FISHING, GUIDING AND KAYAKING IN VERMONT” IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, March 29, 1:30 p.m., Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St. The final installment of the Sheldon’s Did You Know? series features professional fishing guide and co-owner of Stream and Brook Fly Fishing guide service, Brian Cadoret, who share his knowledge of Addison County’s rivers along with a fish story or two. Tickets $10 for Sheldon members/$20 non-members. More info and advance registration at henrysheldonmuseum. org or 802-388-2117. Proceeds will benefit the Sheldon Museum’s education programs.
“WHAT’S THE BUZZ ABOUT BEES?” in New Haven. Wednesday, April 3, 7 p.m., Town Office, 78 North St. Beekeeper Kirk Webster will lead an interesting talk and discussion about the future of honey bees. The honeybee population in North America is in rapid decline. Kirk will explain his method of controlling invasive mites and the challenges of maintaining a thriving bee population in spite of widespread bee colony collapse. All are welcome. Free. Seating is limited. “ROBERT WYATT: THE SOUND OF MUSIC” LECTURE IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 5, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. 2019 celebrates the Silver Jubilee of Rogers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” original Broadway production. Wyatt will discuss this iconic musical, Hammerstein’s last. Free, open to the public and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220 or pryan@residenceottercreek.com. TED WESLEY IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 5, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Wesley returns to EastView’s Bistro with his 6 and 12-string guitars, harmonicas and voice. He’s the real deal, finger picking the blues and other styles. Great song material, too. Free and open to the public.
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ALL BACH PROGRAM IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, March 28, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. 3 Main St. Violinist Emily Sunderman and organist George Matthew Jr. play Bach. All are welcome. Feel free to bring a lunch. Light refreshments provided. THE BLACK FEATHERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, March 28, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. This U.K band blends CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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Americana, Folk, and Acoustic Indie Rock sensibilities, weaving in traditional influences so thoroughly that they become the warp and weft of fresh creations. Tickets $15/$20/$25, available at townhalltheater.org, 802-382-9222, or in person at the box office Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. RICK CEBALLOS PERFORMS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, March 29, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Ceballos returns to the EastView Bistro with his voice, banjo, harmonica, bones, button box and overall fun presence. Chris Prickitt accompanies on guitar. Free and open to the public. AMERANOUCHE PERFORMS IN BRANDON. Saturday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Burlington based and awardwinning trio Ameranouche play a passionate style of music they call “Gypsy Flamenco Swing.” Concert tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info call Edna at 802-247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music.net. CHAMPLAIN PHILHARMONIC AND THE CASTLETON UNIVERSITY CHORALE IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., the Congregational Church of Middlebury, 2 Main St. The program will be Dvorák’s Carnival Overture, Op. 92, Beethoven’s Fantasia in C Minor “Choral Fantasy” featuring pianist, Dr. Charles Madsen, Fauré’s Pavane, Op. 50, and Dvorák’s Te Deum, Op 103. Tickets $15 adults,/$12 seniors/$5 students, available in advance at champlainphilharmonic.org or at the door. FIDDLE MUSIC JAM IN BRANDON. Sunday, March 31, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., American Legion, Route 7 S. Champlain Valley Fiddlers host this jam. You do not need a fiddle for the Brandon Jam. Refreshments available. 50/50 raffle, door prizes. Open stage. Cost $3. THE CHOIR OF CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK, IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m., St Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 3 Main St. Conductor Graham Ross leads the choir in Tomas Luis de Victoria’s “Requiem” (1605) with British and Spanish Lenten motets. Tickets $15, available online at ststephensmidd.org or in person at the church office Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. ORGAN RECITAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 4, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 3 Main St. Come hear this organ recital by Fred DeHaven, retired choirmaster and former organist of Christ Church in Grosse Point, Mich. All are welcome. Feel free to bring a lunch. Light refreshments provided. VILLAGE2VILLAGE PROJECT FUNDRAISER IN BRISTOL. Saturday, April 6, 5:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, Park St. A Shepherd’s Pie supper with brownie sundaes followed by a concert by the
“Old Bones” Country Gospel Singers. Tickets $12 adults/children 6-11 $5/children 5 and under free. Donations will be taken to help the at-risk children in Uganda. All proceeds go to V2V. RUPERT WATES IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. A prime figure in American music, the talented singer-songwriter and guitarist Rupert Wates is the quintessential singer-songwriter. Audiences respond enthusiastically to his warm and expressive vocals, his beautiful acoustic guitar playing and his calm, relaxing performance style. Tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info contact Edna at 802-247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music.net. LEWIS FRANCO AND THE MISSING CATS IN LINCOLN. Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. The latest Ripton Community Coffee House concert features on the Road in Lincoln. Lewis Franco and the Missing Cats are an acoustic jazz combo, that performs originals as well as gypsy swing and jive swing tunes from the 1930s and ’40s, featuring close 3-part vocal rhythm harmonies and thrilling improvisation. 7:30-open mic followed by featured performers. $10 general admission/$15 generous admission/$3 kids under 12. CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FIDDLERS IN BRANDON. Sunday, April 7, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., American Legion, Route 7 south. Jam session 11 a.m.-noon, then music and dancing. Refreshments available. All fiddlers welcome $3 donation. MOOSE CROSSING JAZZ TRIO IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 7, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. The go-to group for the jazz aficionado looking for classics from Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra, to Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and hard driving funk tunes from Josef Zawinul to Herbie Hancock, with some original jazz music too. Free, open to the public and fully accessible. Part of The Residence’s Sunday Music Series. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220 or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.
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MET LIVE IN HD: “DIE WALKÜRE” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, March 30, 12 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. Pre-performance talk at 11:15 a.m. by Greg Vitercik in the Studio downstairs. Tickets $24 adults (+$2 preservation
| ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, March 28, 2019 — PAGE 7 fee)/$10 students (+1 preservation fee). “THE BALTIMORE WALTZ” ON STAGE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 4, and Friday, April 5, 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 6, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Paula Vogel’s play, set in the late 1980s, tells the story of Anna, an elementary school teacher recently diagnosed with a mysterious fatal disease. Tickets $15 general public/$12 for Middlebury College faculty, staff, alumni, emeriti, and other ID card holders/$6 for Middlebury College students. More info at 802-443-MIDD (6433) go.middlebury.edu/arts. Repeats April 5 and 6. “A STORY’S A STORY” — A BENEFIT FOR NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Deborah Lubar portrays two wild old immigrant women, one an Italian Catholic and the other a Polish Jew, neighbors and friends on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. All proceeds go to support the North Branch School’s financial aid program. Tickets $15 senior and student/$20 general/$50 generous/$100 extra generous, available at townhalltheater.org, 802-382-9222, or in person at the box office Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m.
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MUSIC Gypsy Flamenco Swing comes to Brandon Music
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urlington based and award winning trio, Ameranouche (pronounced uh-Mare-uh-noosh) will perform live at Brandon Music on Saturday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. This group plays a passionate style of music they call “Gypsy Flamenco Swing.” They are veterans of the Newport Jazz Festival, Djangofest Northwest, Muzikfest Bethlehem, Penn., and the National Press Club. The trio’s name is derived from two words: American and Manouche, the gypsy tribe of Django Reinhardt. The rip-roaring ensemble is a super force of hot acoustic Gypsy inspired music mixing Flamenco, Bebop and jazz swing influences. Played on traditional French jazz guitars, the music is rhythmic, vigorous and elegant. Whether they are playing a musette waltz from 1930 or an Andalusian inspired original tune, Ameranouche’s Gypsy Flamenco Swing style is a fresh and highly enjoyable new sound for the 21st century.
Boston and Southern Maine. He performs and works with artists in a wide array of world traditions including Turkish art music, Hindustani music, jazz, Western Art music and American roots music. Harrist studied double bass with James Macdonald at the Open Music Collective in Brattleboro and received his BA in music and religion from Marlboro College.
JULIAN LOIDA Ameranouche will bring their Gypsy Flamenco Swing style to Brandon Music this Saturday evening. Grab dinner before the show and make it a date night.
The group features three musicians: Richard “Shepp” Sheppard on guitar, Michael K. Harrist on bass and Julian Loida, percussionist.
Music where he studied guitar, composition and aesthetics. He later taught guitar, composition and music theory at Bennington College. Sheppard has performed extensively with major artists including John Jorgenson from the award winning J2B2 and the legendary fiddler, Vassar Clements, one of the most innovative musicians in the history of bluegrass music. Sheppard’s love for the guitar and his passion for Gypsy music are what drew him to form Ameranouche.
RICHARD SHEPPARD
MICHAEL K. HARRIST
Sheppard is a graduate of Berklee School of
Harrist is a musician and educator based in
Loida is a percussionist, multimedia artist and curator exploring repertoire spanning Western classical music, to Cuban Bata drumming, to Jazz and R&B. He grew up in St. Louis with his rock band Project 324 and the St. Louis Youth Orchestra. Today, as well as performing with Ameranouche, Loida leads a folkloric Cuban and Brazilian band called INA, a modern world-jazz quintet called Mojuba, as well as his awarded folk band, Night Tree. Saturday’s concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20. A pre-concert dinner is available for an extra $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call Edna (802) 247-4295, email info@brandonmusic.net or visit brandon-music.net for reservations or for more information.
live music ALL BACH PROGRAM IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, March 28, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. THE BLACK FEATHERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, March 28, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. RICK CEBALLOS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, March 29, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury. AMERANOUCHE IN BRANDON. Saturday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. CHAMPLAIN PHILHARMONIC AND THE CASTLETON UNIVERSITY CHORALE IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, March 30, 7:30 p.m., the Congregational Church of Middlebury. JAZZOU JONES IN MIDDLEBURY. *RESCHEDULED FROM FEB. 17* Sunday, March 31, 3 p.m., EastView at Middlebury. THE CHOIR OF CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, UK, IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m., St Stephen’s Episcopal Church. FRED DEHAVEN ORGAN RECITAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 4, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. TED WESLEY IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 5, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.
Chorus and orchestra team up for spring concerts Under the direction of Matthew LaRocca and Dr. Sherrill Blodget, the Champlain Philharmonic and the Castleton University Chorale are teaming up to perform some of the best works for chorus and orchestra. On the program will be Dvorák’s Carnival Overture, Op. 92; Beethoven’s Fantasia in C Minor “Choral Fantasy,” featuring pianist, Charles Madsen; Fauré’s Pavane, Op. 50; and Dvorák’s Te Deum, Op 103. This concert will take place on Saturday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m., at the Congregational Church of Middlebury and Sunday, March 31, at 4 p.m. at the Casella Theater at Castleton University. Tickets available ($15 adults, $12 seniors, $5 students) in advance at champlainphilharmonic.org, or at the door for both performances.
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Honey in the Hive will offer a concert in Cornwall to help fund Ben and Romy Munkres’ musical tour in April with Young Traditions Vermont.
Cornwall family offers traditional step concert
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he Bolton/Munkres family band, Honey in the Hive, will be offering a concert at the Cornwall Town Hall on Sunday, March 31, at 2 p.m. Honey in the Hive is a family band including: Romy on fiddle, flute, and feet; Ben on piano, mandolin and accordion; Andrew Munkres on 5-string banjo, guitar and accordion; and Kristin Bolton on upright bass and feet. They will performing driving fiddle and banjo music, a few songs, and step-dancing from Appalachian, Cape Breton, Irish and other traditions.
The concert is a fundraiser for Ben and Romy Munkres’ musical tour in April with Young Tradition Vermont (YTV). There will be refreshments for sale, as well as CDs, raffle tickets, and other fundraising items. Admission is by freewill donation. The concert will begin with the family band and then close with a set by Romy and Ben, Young Tradition Vermont Contest winners. Teenagers Romy and Ben Munkres won the YTV contest last May. They have performed as a duo at dances and festivals in Vermont and New Hampshire. They both toured with Young Tradition to Ireland, Cape Breton, Quebec
and Scotland. Romy Munkres also toured Vermont’s sister state, Tottori, Japan with YTV. YTV is a non-profit organization that inspires young people to learn and perform traditional music, then ultimately give back to the community. The Touring Group is one of YTV’s many programs, and its focus is to promote connections between people locally, nationally and internationally by performing, sharing and studying traditional music and dance. For more info visit honeyinthehivevt.weebly.com.
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Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org Preservation Fee: $1-$2 per ticket
Thu 3/28 7:30pm $15/$20/$25 TOWN HALL THEATER PRESENTS:
THE BLACK FEATHERS
U.K. natives, Ray Hughes and Sian Chandler perform Americana, Folk and Acoustic Indie Rock, with Hughes’ superb guitar work buoying the beautiful harmonies. Their 2016 album Soaked to the Bone was met with critical acclaim.
Sat 3/30 12 pm - $24/ $10 Students
DIE WALKÜRE MET LIVE IN HD
A Wagnerian event for the ages. Christine Goerke plays the defiant Brunnhilde. Tenor Stuart Kelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts. Pre-performance talk at 11:15 by Jim Pugh in the Studio.
Sat 4/6 7:30pm $20/$15 Seniors/$50 Generous/$100 Xtra Generous
A STORY’S A STORY:
A BENEFIT FOR NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
In her one-woman show Deborah Lubar stars as two immigrant women on the lower east side – an Italian Catholic with coraggio and a Polish Jew with chutzpah, both shopping-bag mystics who face obstacles, hardships and heartbreaks in their new country, but find support and humor in their friendship.
Sun 4/7 2pm Free
12 ANGRY MEN
READ BY 12 IMPASSIONED WOMEN
Two decades before all 50 states allowed women to serve on juries Reginald Rose wrote 12 Angry Men. This year, from April 5th to 8th, inspired women throughout the country join forces to present dramatic readings of this classic and indelible 1954 drama. Directed by Erica Furgiuele with support from Town Hall Theater and Middlebury Community Players. In the Byers Studio.
Thu–Sun 4/11 – 14 Thu–Sun 4/11–13 @ 7:30pm; Sun 4/14 @ 2pm $25/$12 Students
ADA AND THE ENGINE
PRESENTED BY MIDDLEBURY ACTORS WORKSHOP
At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, Ada Byron Lovelace (Lord Byron’s daughter) adores Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. In this story of love and edgy aspirations Ada envisions a future where art and information converge. Post-show talk with Middlebury Professor of Mathematics, Michael Olinick on 4/14 after the 2pm performance.
Wed 4/17 11am & 7pm $13/$8 Students GREAT ART WEDNESDAYS
THE MICHELANGELO CODE: LOST SECRETS OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL
This is the definitive film about the Sistine Chapel, featuring exclusive new footage, which was shot specifically for this project, of the world’s largest, most famous and ambitious painting.
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EXHIBITS 50/50: FIFTY YEARS OF COLLECTING FOR MIDDLEBURY. On view Jan. 25-Aug. 11, featuring one piece of art from every year Middlebury College has formally been acquiring art for its permanent collection. Middlebury College Museum of Art at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu. ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early 15th-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007. ART OF THE EARTH. On view March 1-April 30, featuring BAG artists take on the Earth, including pottery by guest artist Amanda Ann Palmer. This is part of a series of themed exhibits honoring our planet and celebrating the BAG’s 20th anniversary. The Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org. AT HOME. On view through March 31, featuring work from 12 of the gallery’s artists alongside furniture from Stone Block Antiques. The show features groupings of work that can be imagined as different rooms in a home, punctuated with beautiful antiques pieces. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St., Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com. ERIC NELSON PHOTOGRAPHY. On view March 29-May 5, featuring images whose common themes are pattern, rhythm, and the interaction of color and light in nature. An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 29, from 5-7 p.m. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org. FREE & SAFE, IN NEW ENGLAND. A permanent exhibition at the Rokeby Museum that addresses slavery, abolition, and the Underground Railroad. Rokeby Museum, 4334 Route 7, Ferrisburgh. (802) 877-3406 or rokeby.org. ICE SHANTIES: FISHING, PEOPLE & CULTURE. On view Feb. 15 through the summer, featuring the structures, people and culture of ice fishing seen through the lens of Vermont-based Colombian photographer Federico Pardo — with audio reflections from the shanty owners drawn from interviews conducted by the Vermont Folklife Center. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St., Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION. On view Jan. 8-April 28, featuring more than 30 works from the museum’s modern and contemporary collections, including recent video works by William Kentridge, Tracey Moffatt, and the Swiss team of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Other artists represented include Andrew Lenaghan, Banksy, Damian Hirst, Shazia Sikander, Dale Chihuly, Elizabeth Catlett, Andy Warhol, Judy Chicago, Christian Marclay, Kara Walker, and Dennis Byng. Middlebury College Museum of Art at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu. POETRY ON AND OFF THE PAGE. On view through the summer, featuring “Object Poems” by Vermont-based poet and translator, Jody Gladding along with fine press poetry broadsides and manuscripts by poets such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and William Carlos Williams. Middlebury College Special Collections, Atrium, Lower Level, and Special Collections, Davis Family Library. (802) 443-3028.
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the movie ASH IS PUREST WHITE — RUNNING TIME: 2:16 — RATING: R Do go to “Ash is the Purest White.” Let’s look at the tough part of this new film that is earning excellent reviews from the pros. The Chinese language pulls our eyes to the running translations at the bottom of the screen. That means we miss some important facial expressions and quick behavioral actions that are key to the culture and dialogue of this very good movie. Aside from those hurdles we see some grand acting by Tao Zhao as Qiao and Fan Liao as Bin. As we watch their tale unfold, we are given several parts of China as Qiao makes her way through a tough journey. Watching the behavior, the gestures, and the intermingling as the landscapes and cultures change becomes progressively interesting as we get to know the main characters. Tao Zhao stars in “Ash is Purest White” (2018).
Qiao and Bin are a couple who oversee a gang of crooks with their own set of principles that they apply harshly. We meet Qiao as she strides with confidence through the mob. Bin asks the mobsters only that they behave with decency toward each other. We are suddenly on the inside of this gang of crooks where guns are illegal and smoking is ever present. When Qiao violates the legal system in a big way, she goes to jail for five years. On her release, she crosses the country again in search of Bin and hands us another chance to see a piece of China. As we follow her journey, we see differing cultures, writings, illustrations, habits. And yet they, and we as we watch, are all human beings figuring out their lives. The differences between our cultures and theirs seem so great and yet here we all are on the same round earth, many countries touching others, citizens alike with similar bodies that allow us to function in like ways. It’s our brains, every single one different from every other, that make us individuals. But how is it that neighboring countries — Canada/America/ Mexico here, or China/ Russia/North Korea there — live just steps across
the book HOLD FAST — BY MARSHALL HIGHET AND BIRD STASZ JONES
border lines and yet have thoroughly different cultures and languages? That’s the fun of watching this movie. As we follow Qiao on her long journey through differing cultures, China seems new to us in every way and we are very lucky to have her as our strong, quiet guide. Actor Zhao earns a big salute as she creates Qiao’s life. She is a fine actor who earns great credit for leading us through several Chinese cultures. Our time with this film is filled with the details and behavior of those faraway cultures that linger far beyond our leaving the theater. Our guide has given us a tour of various Chinese lands as seen by a young woman searching without money for the man she loves. The surprising thing is that we need no more plot than that as we follow her. A salute to actor Zhao and writer/director Zhangke Jia. — Reviewed by Joan Ellis
TALES OF ADVENTURE FOR THE YOUNG ADULT READER The Black Stallion, by Walter Farley The Girl King, by Mimi Yu
(Globe Pequot Press)
The Raft, by S. A. Bodeen When nocturnal hijinks (and, by the way, a fantastic hair-raising start to a rollicking read) land two cousins, heirs to a merchant shipping company, Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen in hot water, the uncle to Joseph Carlo and father to Suchet, decides a stint serving on the ship will give them the needed “encouragement” to Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys become more serious about their futures. What seems like a successful idea to achieve just that is ambushed by unanticipated and disastrous Call It Courage, by Armstrong Sperry events, the boys are forced to grow up even faster. No longer the favored members of a happy extended family, their ability to endure life Ashes, by Ilsa J. Bick on the high seas is essential to their survival. 13-year-old Joseph Carlos, may be physically stronger and better able to withstand brutal facets Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead of their current existence, but Suchet‘s intelligence may win them the George advantage after all. Based on a true story and geared to 10- to 14-yearolds, Hold Fast harkens back to true adventure stories, classics in their My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead genre. This is a tale to be read aloud and savored, or inhaled all in George one setting as I did. Please note: Marshall Highet and Bird Stasz Jones will appear at the Vermont Book Shop, Saturday, April 27, at 4 p.m., Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell presented as part of Independent Bookstore Day. — Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury. Swallows and Amazons, by Arthur Ransome
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THE DIET FOR LIFE ust recently, I traveled to Napa for a culinary medicine conference. Culinary medicine is a relatively new field that integrates scientific principles related to nutrition, behavior and medicine. In the clinical realm, this is the practice of supporting patients to use nutrition and cooking habits to restore and maintain health. Healthcare providers, researchers, and chefs shared their knowledge and passion surrounding health and food in an inspiring week. It was also a delicious week, as we cooked together and noshed on culinary delights morning, noon and night.
BY LAURA WILKINSON
The timing of this educational experience feels apropos, as recently my clients have had many questions about “diets.” Which diet is the best? Should they consume meat? Is their gut flora doomed? Should we all just order up a fecal transplant? The questions I hear are often marked by exhaustion and exasperation. My clients want answers, the real answers, as they are inundated by the newest trends and quick fix solutions. On the surface, these diets usually promise fast weight loss, but the unspoken promise and draw is of ultimate happiness and belonging. I am always cautious with my responses to these questions. Here are a few thoughts to add to your plate.
THE BEST DIET IS THE SUSTAINABLE DIET I use the word “diet” here to refer to the kind of food that a person habitually eats, not a prescribed and restrictive course of eating. Your diet is your general pattern of eating, not what you consumed during a one-month challenge. The best way to know your pattern of eating is by tracking it for a short period. You don’t need to get fancy with calories and micronutrients — just get a notebook and write down what you eat. That can be your starting point, as we cannot make adjustments if we don’t know, or honestly allow ourselves to know, what we eat.
THE BEST DIET IS THE WHOLE FOODS DIET Food is our body’s fuel. When my daughter was little I would talk to her about healthy choices and I referred to this fuel as “grow food.” She was a child with an insatiable sweet tooth and a grandmother whose primary goal was to indulge that desire. There has be room in our lives for small sweet pleasures, but our bodies need specific nutrients to grow and build strength and immunity. As adults we aren’t growing vertically anymore, but our bodies still need food that supports our optimal health. Whole foods rarely come in packages and have long shelf lives.
“RECENTLY MY CLIENTS HAVE HAD MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT DIETS... ‘IS THEIR GUT FLORA DOOMED? SHOULD WE ALL JUST ORDER UP A FECAL TRANSPLANT?’”
cooking and she would prepare it three different ways. She roasted, she steamed, she pickled, she spiced. She added citrus as well as nature’s bacon, onion. She stayed curious — exploring the various textures, flavors and enhancements.
THE BEST DIET IS THE COLORFUL DIET Red peppers, orange sweet potatoes, yellow mangos, green avocados, blueberries and purple beets. Not only is your plate visually stunning, your body is nourished with the nutrients it needs for best health. A plant-forward style of cooking and eating emphasizes and celebrates, but is not limited to, plant-based foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and legumes.
THE BEST DIET IS THE FLEXIBLE DIET Once again, the focus is on your general pattern of eating, not the special occasion. Gradually shift your pattern; enjoy the food you want to eat, just do it less frequently. Slowly your general pattern of eating will change.
THE BEST DIET IS CREATED IN YOUR KITCHEN The research shows that people who cook their own food are hands down healthier. When you prepare and cook your own food, you know all the ingredients and you have the choice to substitute for healthier alternatives. In addition, you have the opportunity to cook in larger quantity and create “plan-over” meals. Your roasted cauliflower and chicken from Sunday night becomes part of your lunch salad on Monday and your quesadilla on Tuesday. Add some lime juice and spices and it becomes a completely new dish. Lastly, cooking at home is more economical.
THE BEST DIET IS SUPPORTED BY SLEEP & MOVEMENT We optimize the fuel we give our bodies when we practice whole person self-care. Eight to nine hours of sleep/night and regular movement are not luxuries — that are honestly a necessity. Our sleep and movement affects our immune system, appetite, stress hormones, blood pressure and cardiovascular health. It also affects our psychological health, giving us the clarity and resilience to engage fully in our complex lives.
THE BEST DIET IS THE DELICIOUS DIET
So, with that I am off to pack for an upcoming adventure. This year I treated my daughter and myself to an extra special birthday present. We are traveling to London and Paris. As you are reading this, we will likely be sitting at a café, engaging our flexible mindset and thoroughly enjoying a croissant. Au revoir!
If our food is not delicious, we are likely going to choose something else. Food can absolutely be both healthy and tasty. I recently worked with a client who primarily ate processed food and was accustomed to artificial flavors. She wanted to lose weight and knew that she needed to make healthier foods more enjoyable to her palate. She started by picking one vegetable a week that she was not in the habit of eating or
Laura Wilkinson is a Nurse Practitioner and Integrative Health Coach at Middlebury College. Learn more about her and her coaching at middlebury.edu/middleburyintegratedhealthcoach.
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4467 RICHVILLE ROAD, SHOREHAM, VT $725,000
A LOOK INSIDE ADDISON COUNTY HOMES FOR SALE.
Form meets function in modern Shoreham home Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, this Architect-designed, Mid-Century Modernist home is a striking assertion inside and out. Form and function were considered in every detail. Clean lines and contemporary finishes nod to high style minimalism, while the overall feel has a casual, utilitarian ease. An open concept great room, kitchen and dining area are at the center of an axis with private bedroom wings on each end. A wall of windows across the entire south eastern elevation lets in an abundance of light and spectacular Green Mountain views. Extensive screened porch and decking expands the living space through three seasons. From the bold and fluid interior, across bucolic farmlands and to the majestic mountain backdrop, this Shoreham property is a stunning statement. This week’s property is managed by IPJ Real Estate. More info at middvermontrealestate.com.
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Are backyard chickens right for you?
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aising backyard chickens has been a growing phenomenon for several years. Many cities have passed laws legalizing backyard chickens, encouraging many to raise chickens as a rewarding hobby.
Chicken Coop, a resource for raising chickens and starting coops, says handy men and women can build homemade coops, but ready-made ones will cost a few hundred dollars. The coop will need to offer around four square feet of space per chicken (or what’s recommended for the breed).
One of the biggest benefits to raising backyard chickens is that their eggs are fresher and often tastier than store-bought varieties. Hens can lay one egg per day. Multiply that egg per hen, and breakfast is always available.
Despite being seemingly independent birds, chickens need people to be active caregivers. They require feed and water daily. The chickens will need a caregiver while you vacation. People who are frequently away from home should reconsider chickens.
Another benefit to chickens is they produce a natural fertilizer that can be used in gardens. “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” says chicken manure can be composted, aged and eventually added to the garden. In about six months, a person will accumulate about one cubic foot of manure per chicken. Egg shells and other compostable material can be added to create an even richer formula. Chickens also can help control bugs around the yard. Before investing in backyard chickens, people should determine if chickens will fit with their lifestyle. Costs and care are a big consideration. Each chick will cost anywhere between $3 to $5 a bird. Then there’s feed to consider. The most expensive item will likely be the coop. The experts at The Happy
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Chickens also are prone to worms, parasites and lice. They need to have rear feathers trimmed to stay clean and sanitary, and they will require an area where they can “dust” and self-groom. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises not to cuddle and kiss chickens like pets because they can carry salmonella. Don’t forget about the death-factor. Not every coop is completely varmint-proof, and some chickens will succumb to predators. If you can’t handle the thought of your beloved chicken getting eaten, then you should reconsider. Cluck. Cluck. —MetroCreative
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Two local Realtors receive awards Two Addison County Realtors were honored this month at Shelburne Museum’s Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education for their 2018 sales and service achievements. Chris von Trapp and Michael Johnston of Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty were each recognized.
& Boardman Realty in 2018, was recognized for his sales as an individual agent since and before joining Coldwell Banker. Michael received the Coldwell Banker International Diamond Society Award, recognizing the top 25 percent of Coldwell Banker Individual Sales Associates worldwide.
Chris von Trapp of Waltham, he lead agent for the Chris von Trapp Team, received the Coldwell Banker International Diamond Society Team Award recognizing the top 30 percent of all Coldwell Banker Teams with one-to-three agents in North America. For 20 years, von Trapp has specialized in Addison and Chittenden county real estate, with a particular focus on lakeshore, vintage homes and distinctive country properties.
“For 60-plus years, Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty has been serving home buyers and sellers in the four counties of northwest Vermont,” says Leslee MacKenzie, president/owner of Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty. “Chris and Michael are dedicated to serving Addison County buyers and sellers at the highest level. I am so proud of them for being recognized among the top in the Coldwell Banker system. This is a testament to their hard work and expertise.”
Michael Johnston of West Addison, who joined Hickok
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