Thursday, April 20, 2017

5,000 pipes

Volunteers

Outlasting OV

The Vergennes Congo Church organist has played around the world. See Arts + Leisure.

Lots of your friends and neighbors get involved; you can, too. See our salute to volunteers, Pp. 13A-20A.

The combined Mt. Abe-VUHS boys’ lax team earned its first win. See Sports, Page 1B.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 71 No. 16

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Prosecutor Health care reform effort stalls in Statehouse shifts focus Lawmakers focus on Act 250, other issues in final weeks from clubs to courts

REP. FRED BASER

By JOHN FLOWERS BRISTOL — Local lawmakers on Monday served notice that legislation aimed at creating publicly financed primary health care in Vermont will not advance until next year, at the earliest.

Sen. Claire Ayer, D-Addison, explained there has not been the needed support from the administration of Gov. Phil Scott, now in his first term of office.

She told participants at Monday’s legislative breakfast at the Bristol

American Legion Hall that the lack of Scott’s support has meant few resources from the administration to hire experts to help design and “operationalize” a universal primary care system. Such a system would cover Vermonters for trips to a physician, who can diagnose illnesses earlier and prescribe treatment before the patient requires more serious and expensive services.

“It’s hard to get the administration to talk about this, because they are not in favor of it,” Ayer said of universal

primary care.

“We have limited resources.”

The Legislature in 2011 passed Act 48, a single-payer health care law that then- Gov. Peter Shumlin ultimately determined was too costly for the state to pursue. Advocates have now been rallying around bills that would give Vermonters greater access to health care providers.

Ayer hopes a primary care bill will gain traction during the 2018 session.

Other discussion at Monday’s breakfast focused on:

SEN. CLAIRE AYER

Act 250

Renewable energy

Pot legalization

Gridlock

Vaccinations

Act 250 is Vermont’s 47-yearold land use law through which a development plan’s potential impact on the environmental and the community are weighed against 10 criteria. Developments (See Act 250, Page 22A)

S.51, a bill calling for the state to make measurable progress in its goal of deriving 90 percent of its energy from renewables by the year 2050. Bray said the bill is currently languishing in the House Natural (See Energy, Page 22A)

An unsuccessful attempt this session to legalize possession of small amounts of recreational marijuana in Vermont. Middlebury attorney Dave Silberman, a longtime advocate for legalization, (See Pot, Page 11A)

Legislative gridlock.

Some participants at Monday’s breakfast seized upon a comment recently made by Rep. Dave Sharpe, D-Bristol, who said that this has been one of the most frustrating (See Gridlock, Page 11A)

Mandatory vaccinations against measles, chicken pox and other illnesses. The Legislature a few years ago passed a law removing the exemption that allowed parents to decline (See Vaccinations, Page 11A)

State’s Atty. Wygmans shares his story, goals

Mount Abe leader takes an unusual career path

By GAEN MURPHREE BRISTOL — It’s almost impossible to imagine newly hired Mount Abraham Union High School Assistant Principal Justin Bouvier outside the halls of the school where he’s worked for over a decade and from which he graduated almost 20 years ago.

The 35-year-old Bristol native has built a career out of helping young people — especially those who struggle the most.

But what most teens roaming the halls of MAUHS might not realize is that Bouvier’s own path to success wasn’t always clear or certain.

When Bouvier graduated in 1999, he didn’t know what he wanted to do.

College didn’t seem like the right option. So he took a clerical job and put in his time — filing, faxing, data processing.

An attack of appendicitis helped turn his life around.

“My appendix ruptured, and I was really, really sick in the hospital for a long time,” said Bouvier.

(See Bouvier, Page 12A)

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Dennis Wygmans had always envisioned himself as someone who would bring entertainment to the masses, whether as co-owner of the former Burlington nightclub Club Toast or as a budding attorney looking to represent rising stars in the music industry.

But about 10 years ago, Wygmans flipped the script. He decided to make the courtroom his new stage, where real-life dramas play out for the highest of stakes — justice.

Addison County’s new state’s attorney recently took some time to recount his journey from barrooms to posh legal offices to the Frank Mahady Courthouse in Middlebury, where he and his staff are handling a full docket of cases that routinely range from larceny to aggravated sexual assault.

Wygmans said he relishes the work, and he is spearheading changes in the manner in which defendants (See Wygmans, Page 11A)

Middlebury farmers’ market moves to VFW

Blow your horn

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School student Hunter Munteanu plays in the middle of fellow tenor saxophonists during the school band’s spring concert Monday night.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Farmers’ Market (MFM) will serve up its 43rd season beginning Saturday, May 6, at a brand new location with a growing crop of vendors offering a diverse menu of fresh veggies, cheeses, fruit, prepared foods and a whole lot more.

The new location is the Middlebury Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7823 headquarters at 530 Exchange St., which offers a generous parking area on which vendors will set up their respective booths.

The market most recently called the Marble Works its home, but the upcoming replacement of the two downtown rail bridges — and the temporary parking/traffic challenges that will come with it — drove the need for MFM leaders to find a new home base for the series of (See Market moves, Page 22A)

Coworking space could foster more business in Bristol By the way If you see Todd Smith of Bristol running by this week, give him a wave and a hearty “Way to go!” Smith was the top Vermont finisher in Monday’s Boston Marathon. He ran the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton, Mass., to Copley Square in Boston in only 2 hours, (See By the way, Page 12A)

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By GAEN MURPHREE place to work.”

BRISTOL — Would small Bristol CORE is a group of area business owners and entrepreneurs business people, property owners with startup plans be willing to work and community members committed in shared office space in downtown to increasing and maintaining the Bristol? economic vitality of downtown Leaders of the downtown business Bristol. It takes its name from the advocacy group Bristol CORE think “CO” in “community” and the “RE” so, and they’re reading in “resources.” plans to offer such “By creating The nonprofit is businesses space that a coworking now investigating trades some level of whether is space you create significant thereenough privacy for space that is less expensive and may a different interest amongst local environment than professionals for the foster collaboration.

“By creating a what you would co-working space. It coworking space you have by just has its eye on a potential create a different renting a single spot: the first floor environment than what of the Trading Post you would have by just office.” building on Mountain — Ian Albinson Street. And it has renting a single office,” said Bristol CORE initiated discussions Executive Director Ian Albinson. with building owner John Moyers.

“Even if it’s an office in a space that Phoenix Rising has been Moyers’ has a shared community kitchen or anchor tenant at the Trading shared social space, you still have an Post ever since he purchased the office where you walk in and maybe circa 1900 structure and had it half of those doors are closed. Here essentially rebuilt from the ground you walk in and you see people up over a decade ago. But Phoenix immediately. A coworking space Rising will move its Bristol office would increase Bristol’s vitality as a (See Working space, Page 7A)

BRISTOL CORE BOARD Chair Carolyn Ashby and Executive Director Ian Albinson stand in a Bristol Trading Post building space they hope to convert into a coworking space.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, April 20, 2017

Orwell to vote again on FHUHS budget

Midd. grad chronicles his lenthy talking trek

By KEVIN O’CONNOR VTDigger.org When Andrew Forsthoefel enrolled at Middlebury College a decade ago, he felt like a blunt pencil, he wrote in an application for a historiography course that he had heard “would change you forever” — or perhaps at least sharpen him into a well-honed man.

But Forsthoefel didn’t win entrance into the class or a postschool fellowship in which he wanted to explore the concept of “coming of age.” And so, graduating in the spring of 2011, he took a job on a fishing boat in hopes of gaining some money and sense of direction, only to be fired by autumn.

That’s when the now 29-year-old decided to walk away from it all.

Squeezing 50 pounds of camping and cooking supplies (and a mandolin) into a backpack, he stepped out of his mother’s back door in Pennsylvania and headed southwest with a sign that read “Walking to Listen.”

“I figured it would be a good conversation starter,” he recalls.

Five years after reaching the California coast the following summer, Forsthoefel is talking up a new book, “Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time.”

“The walk would be like a graduate program in the human experience,” he writes in the prologue. “I’d brought along an audio recorder to capture whatever it was people had to say. Over and over again I asked, ‘What would you tell your 23-yearold self?’ I figured if I walked well and listened close, there was a chance I’d find out what I needed to know.”

Forsthoefel set a few rules. He’d travel on foot — as many as 30 or more sole-blistering miles a day — rather than hitchhike. He’d hear out anyone and everyone.

And eschewing a smartphone and directional apps, he’d turn to three poets for guidance.

In the words of Kahlil Gibran: “Was it I who spoke? Was I not also a listener?”

And Rainer Maria Rilke: “You, yesterday’s boy, to whom confusion came: Listen, lest you forget who you are.”

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE GRADUATE Andrew Forsthoefel shows off his new book, “Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time.”

Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger

And Walt Whitman: “I think I will his will to live. do nothing for a long time but listen, “I don’t know what the big life And accrue what I hear into myself lesson is,” she said into the recorder. … and let sounds contribute toward “But I definitely know to think before me.”

I speak. And when I talk to people, “Listening has become an keep in mind that I might not talk to endangered skill — too few of us them again. And is that what I want know what it actually is,” to leave them with or Forsthoefel says today. them to leave me with?”

“I wanted to slow down “I wanted to From cold and see the miraculous slow down mountaintops to in the mundane, the and see the hot desert valleys, extraordinary in what we Forsthoefel saw and miraculous call the ordinary.” heard it all: “The walk That proved in the was miraculous,” he challenging when the mundane, the recalls, “and damn traveler encountered a extraordinary lonely and filled with dead deer hit by a vehicle doubt and confusing in Virginia, live alligators in what and heartbreaking.” and wild boars lurking in we call the Returning home Louisiana, a breakfast of ordinary.” after 11 months and deep-fried squirrel served — Andrew five pairs of shoes, up in Alabama and, Forsthoefel Forsthoefel spliced his even harder to stomach, audiotape into segments people expressing racial, for Transom.org and social or political prejudice. the public radio program “This But Forsthoefel also found himself American Life.” in the storied civil rights city of “Andrew did the thing that Selma, Ala., on Martin Luther King shouldn’t work at all as a radio story,” Jr. Day, in jazzed New Orleans on host Ira Glass said upon introducing Mardi Gras, in Houston on a day the latter show. “He took a recorder a friend introduced him to former with him just in case, and ended up President George H.W. Bush, and at recording 85 hours of stuff.”

But the resulting 30 minutes were an RV park near the Gulf of Mexico when a young Iraq war widow so engaging, Forsthoefel received an explained how her husband, seared offer from a publisher.

“Turns out writing a book about by an amputation and addiction, lost

walking across America is more difficult than walking across America,” he says only half-jokingly after some three years of effort.

The 400-page Bloomsbury hardcover is debuting as the nation is torn by political polarization.

At Forsthoefel’s first reading in Manchester, an attendee asked if he would be appearing at his college alma mater.

“I hope to,” the graduate said.

“Without controversy?” she replied.

Unsaid but understood was Middlebury’s recent ruckus over a visit by another author, the political scientist Charles Murray, who wrote “Coming Apart” and “The Bell Curve.” But Forsthoefel, now living in Northampton, Mass., is more interested in teaching “the practice of listening as a catalyst for connective presence, personal transformation and peacemaking.”

“There’s an irony that I’m here talking about listening, but listening doesn’t speak up for itself, so I have to,” he says. “I was preparing for people to be suspicious, hostile, skeptical or afraid. What I found was they felt my sincere desire to really see, know and understand. I hope this book becomes a testament to what’s possible. At this time in our country’s history, it’s more important than ever.”

Nathaniel Electronics sold; local jobs safe

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — New signs will soon pop up outside the Panton Road headquarters of 30-yearold Vergennes technology firm Nathaniel Electronics.

Firm founder Joel Melnick, 59, on April 5 sold the privately held engineering and manufacturing firm he founded in 1987 to laser maker Necsel IP Inc. Necsel’s parent company is Japanese firm Ushio America Inc., and Melnick said his firm — which specializes in designing and building lighting for fiber-optic cables as small as 2 millimeters in diameter that are used in surgical procedures and automated manufacturing — has a strong existing relationship with its new, larger partners.

“We’ve worked with Ushio for

over 10 years. This came out of long-term relationships. We got to know them, and they got to know us,” Melnick said, adding that those Panton Road signs will state “Ushio.” “They’ve shown to be honorable people, good people.”

The deal — financial terms of which were not disclosed — preserves Nathaniel’s 15 onsite employees (another six engineering consultants have working relationships with the company) and their Panton Road workplace, and installs Melnick as the company’s general manager for the next five years.

In fact, Melnick said he is seeking to increase the number of Nathaniel’s Panton Road engineers from five to eight.

“We’re hiring a quality engineer, a mechanical engineer and an

electrical engineer,” he said. “We’re actively looking for candidates.”

According to the press release, Ushio, headquartered in Cypress, Calif., is “a leading manufacturer of specialty and general illumination lighting solutions,” and Necsel “develops and manufactures lasers and laser solutions for the projection, endoscopes, bio instrumentation, industrial and life sciences marketplaces.” That work is similar to Nathaniel’s.

Nathaniel has experimented with different products over the years, including solar panels and bowmounted rangefinders, but Melnick said the company has more recently refocused on its original and core product line of medical lighting.

The company’s first major product provided lighting for arthroscopes used in joint surgery

or inspection. Now, Melnick said Nathaniel’s laser-based lights may be found on surgical instruments for many other procedures — he describes them as “high complexity medical illuminators” in the press release.

“In medical there’s a whole class of endoscopes that are being made smaller. So when they go into your lungs, the smaller the endoscope the deeper they can go into your lung,” he said. “In urology, size there is very important. So that kind of work, having small cameras and small-camera illumination, that’s what we’re focused on.”

Nathaniel has also used similar fiber-optic lighting technology to branch out into automated manufacturing.

“Right now a lot of manufacturing (See Nathaniel, Page 7A)

By JOHN FLOWERS each) representation on the new uniORWELL — Orwell voters fied board regardless of the town’s on May 9 will cast ballots on the size. Originally, the board was to same 2017-2018 Fair Haven Union have had proportional representaHigh School spending proposal of tion, which would have given seven $7,831,980 that they and other Ad- members to Castleton. Tom Spandison Rutland Supervisory Union genberg, chairman of the ARSU residents defeated by a combined board, theorized the switch from 927-763 tally on Town Meeting Day. proportional representation might And there will be even busier bal- have acted as the catalyst for the relots in some of the other ARSU com- vote petition in Castleton. munities, which include Benson, “What they all have in common Castleton, Fair Haven, Hubbardton, is the overall feeling that this one is Orwell and West Haven. another instance of the state trying to Residents served by the Fair Ha- take local control from the schools,” ven town school and the Castle- Spangenberg said of those opposed ton-Hubbardton Union School Dis- to governance unification. trict will vote on revised versions of But he is concerned revote petithose 2017-2018 elementary school tioners have not fully considered the spending proposals, which failed on potential consequences of eschewMarch 7. ing Act 46.

In addition, Fair Haven and Cas“The next step (after rejection) is the tleton voters will again be asked state telling you where to go and what to support creating a Slate Valley you’re going to do,” Spangenberg Modified Unified Union School Dis- said. “I’d rather be driving the car than trict (SVMUUSD) under Vermont’s having someone drive it for me.”

Act 46. Addison Rutland SuperviHe also noted some of the pensory Union officials need at least alties that non-complying towns four of the district’s six communi- will have to absorb, such as the loss ties to support forming of the small schools the SVMUUSD, which grants, some property “The next would govern its schools tax breaks and a “tranby a single board presid- step (after sition facilitation grant” ing over a single budget. rejection) of $120,000.

Communities that is the state Locally, the Addidon’t choose to particison Central, Addison pate will have to nego- telling you Northeast, Addison tiate the future of their where to go Northwest and Rutland governance with the and what Northeast supervisory Vermont Agency of Ed- you’re going unions have all passed ucation. If they can’t deAct 46 referenda and velop governance plans to do. I’d are in the process of that meet the consolida- rather be consolidating their retion goals of Act 46, the driving the spective governance agency could place them structures. car than in an already unified FHUHS BUDGET having school district.

Addison Rutland Orwell residents on someone drive Supervisory Union ofMarch 7 voted 219-137 it for me.” ficials decided against against joining the new — Tom making any changes to Slate Valley unified disSpangenberg the 2017-2018 FHUHS trict. It was the third time budget proposal for the in two years that Orwell May 9 vote, noting it had defeated the Act 46 referendum, represents a 3.4-percent reduction and no one in town filed a petition ($279,130) in spending compared to that would have required Orwell to this year. participate in the May 9 reconsiderRon Ryan, ARSU superintendent, ation vote. believes some voters might have lost But residents in Castleton and Fair sight of that overall spending deHaven did file revote petitions. Fair crease after seeing language on the Haven voters rejected the Act 46 ref- budget warning indicating 9.75-pererendum on March 7 by a slim, 220- cent increase in per-pupil spending.

208 tally. Fair Haven had originally That increase, officials said, is in OK’d the school governance consol- part due to a drop in student enrollidation proposal in April 2016. ment and a $718,885 decline in revCastleton residents OK’d the Act enues for the high school.

46 question by a 360-290 back on State law now requires school disTown Meeting Day. But a resident tricts to include, in their respective successfully petitioned for reconsid- warnings, spending levels per equaleration. ized pupil and the percent change in Losing Orwell, Castleton and Fair in education spending per equalized Haven would deal a major blow to pupil. But the warning does not tell the Addison Rutland SU’s efforts the whole story, Ryan noted. to comply with Act 46. Opponents The district will soon be sending have voiced concerns whether the an informational flyer to district votunified district would result in the ers about the FHUHS budget. That level of local control communities flyer points out various impacts of currently have with their individual the spending plan, including: school boards. Some critics of the • A per-pupil spending level of plan have also asked whether gov- $14,881, which is “still substantialernance unification might be a pre- ly below the statewide union high cursor to closing some of the smaller school average of $15,380.” schools in the district.

• A single “significant change,” in The ARSU Act 46 committee tried the form of $38,500 for a new phone to assuage those concerns by stipu- system that would allow FHUHS to lating: be E911-compliant.

• At least 75 percent of the new School officials said FHUHS has Slate Valley unified board would averaged spending increases of 1 perneed to vote for a school closing, cent annually during the past 10 years. in addition to a majority vote of the District voters will have a chance residents of the town in which the to learn more about the FHUHS school is located. Those votes would budget plan and ask questions at not have been able to take place un- an informational meeting slated for til four years after the governance Wednesday, May 3, at 7 p.m. at the merger was OK’d. high school.

• Each of the member towns Reporter John Flowers is at would get equal (three members johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 20, 2017 — PAGE 3A

Bristol nonagenarian a fount of wisdom

Vt.Digger state news briefs Senate moves ahead on marijuana legislation

By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger MONTPELIER — As a marijuana legalization bill idles in a House committee, senators are planning to force the issue forward themselves.

A proposal to create a tax-and-regulate legal marijuana system is poised to come up for a vote this Friday in the Senate.

The language, which will be offered as an amendment on a House-passed bill related to drug possession penalties, is one of two last-minute measures senators are planning to put forward after legalization measures stalled in the House.

The other amendment would set up a committee to make recommendations about legalization.

After twice passing marijuana legalization last year only to see it die in the House, Senate leaders said any move on the issue this year would need to start on the House side.

The House Judiciary Committee did move forward on the issue, passing H.170, a bill that would have legalized adult possession of limited amounts of marijuana without creating a regulated or taxed system.

It was expected to come up for a vote on the House floor in March, but at the last minute was sidelined to another committee for further study amid uncertainty whether there were enough votes for it to pass.

Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he and others in the Senate had “fully counted” on the passage of H.170 in the House. He and several senators met informally to discuss how they might like to amend the House bill.

“We’ve been trying to figure out now what do we do, cause it ain’t getting to us,” Sears said Wednesday.

Sen. Jeanette White, D-Windham, will resurrect a proposal the Senate passed last year to create a tax-and-regulate marijuana system. White’s amendment draws heavily on the text of S.241 from last year but makes some changes. The new version would allow Vermonters to grow small amounts of marijuana at home and would put some responsibility for regulation with the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.

White plans to offer the amendment to H.167, a bill the House passed last month that would direct legislative counsel to study and make recommendations on changing penalties for drug possession. The Senate Judiciary Committee substantially revised the proposal to study pretrial services and access to drug treatment.

White does not expect her amendment or H.170 to pass the House and become law this year.

“There’s no way that either bill is going to make it to the finish line this year,” she said.

However, she would like to have a proposal that includes a regulated market put forward before the session ends, providing a foundation for further discussions over the summer and when the Legislature returns for the second half of the biennium.

White has concerns about the model the House Judiciary Committee proposed. She feels it would encourage black market activity rather than minimize it. With Massachusetts and Maine on track to implement legal sales, the model would also encourage Vermonters to go out of state, she believes. In her southern Vermont district, it may be a short drive across the border to a marijuana dispensary, she said.

“Maybe Massachusetts will have one right there on (Interstate) 91,” she said.

Sears will put forward the other amendment to create a commission to study and make recommendations on implementing marijuana legalization.

“Everybody, including the governor, has said (legalization is) inevitable, someday it’s going to happen. So let’s be prepared when that happens,” Sears said.

He is not certain which bill he will propose to attach it to yet, but it will likely come up on the Senate floor in the near future.

It’s not the first panel convened to study the issue. After the legalization bill failed last year, House and Senate leaders agreed to make marijuana the subject of six off-session joint legislative committee meetings through the summer and fall.

Sears argues this committee would be different because it would include members of the public and appointees of the governor in addition to legislators.

Sears is “hopeful” his amendment would find support in the House and pass this year.

“They seem to like studying stuff. This would be an opportunity to study it,” Sears said.

The future of marijuana legalization in the House remains uncertain. House Majority Leader Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, said Tuesday that the House Democrats do not have a plan for H.170 in the near future.

“We are still working as a caucus on what we’re going to do as next step on the legalization of marijuana bill,” Krowinski said.

UVM study: Lake Champlain is getting saltier

By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger Lake Champlain is growing increasingly salty, and researchers say winter snow maintenance is the likely culprit, according to a new study published April 10.

Salt in the lake can promote the spread of bluegreen algae, according to scientists.

Lake Champlain is one of two of the 20 Vermont lakes in the study that are experiencing increasing salinity and that trend worries some researchers, said Mindy Morales-Williams, a scientist with the Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory.

“I think the concern is the increasing trend, and the potential for it to continue to rise,” she said.

“It’s currently not at the level (in Lake Champlain) where it would hurt aquatic life … but the problem with salt is that it’s really hard to remove from water, and it’s really hard to remove from soil.”

The lake has a long ways to go before it reaches what the Environmental Protection Agency defines as the “aquatic life threshold criterion,” which is at 230 milligrams per liter. Sampled sites from Lake Champlain show a mean concentration of 11 milligrams per liter.

Even at lower concentrations, salt can affect the balance that exists between organisms living within freshwater water bodies, Morales-Williams

said.

Toxic blue-green algae, which as the result of phosphorus pollution throughout the state blooms annually in Lake Champlain, tolerates salt better than most freshwater plant species, MoralesWilliams said. Also known as cyanobacteria, these plants can handle up to a third of the salinity found in ocean water, she said.

As a result, cyanobacteria in salty freshwater lakes can potentially outcompete other, less salttolerant species, Morales-Williams said.

The study, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that impervious surfaces, such as asphalt and concrete, are closely linked with trends of increasing salinity.

“We really need to have society work on balancing our needs with how we affect local ecosystems,” she said. “We want ice-free roads right away, but we’re really doing damage to the quality of our water resources.”

The Vermont Agency of Transportation applied 66,821 tons of salt to state roads over the winter spanning 2015 and 2016, according to the VTrans 2017 Fact Book. On average over the past five years, VTrans has applied 114,607 tons of salt each winter, and 5,530 cubic yards of sand.

Owen recorded old sayings, superstitions BRISTOL — Margaret Owen has kept track of the things she’s heard over her 90 years on this Earth.

The Bristol resident took the time to write down some of the old sayings or superstitions that people used to use and some still are used.

Some of them are filled with wisdom, some of them are a little silly.

Many of them can make you stop and think.

1. Comb your hair in the dark, you’ll comb sorrow into your heart.

2. Clean hair out of your comb and burn it, or you could lose all your hair.

3. Drop a dishcloth on the floor and company is coming.

4. Drop a fork, a man is coming to visit. Drop a knife, a woman is coming. Drop a spoon, you’ll get a letter.

5. If you spoon off bubbles on top your coffee before they touch the side of the cup and put them into your mouth, you’ll get some money.

6. Never when walking with a friend allow a tree to come between you, walk around it; otherwise, a fight will happen.

7. If you go outside of a dwelling and have forgotten something inside and go back inside, always sit on a chair or something for a second or two; otherwise, bad luck will follow.

8. Bad luck or death comes in three’s.

9. Never count cars in a funeral procession or get bad luck.

10. If it rains in an open grave, another will soon follow.

11. If a dog howls, someone will die from whatever direction the dog holds its head.

12. Never cut finger or toenails on Sunday or get bad luck.

13. Never start anything new on Friday or you will never finish it.

14. Rub a wart with a dry bean and bury the bean.

15. Never light three lamps in a row in a room or bad luck.

16. If a black cat crosses your path in front of you, bad luck will follow.

17. When a snake dies, its tail doesn’t die until sunset.

18. Tip over a salt shaker and you’ll have a fight with someone in the direction the salt spills unless you throw some salt over your left shoulder.

19. Never open an umbrella inside a dwelling or bad luck.

20. If a hand or foot goes to sleep, wet a finger with your tongue and make a cross on the sleeping limb.

BRISTOL RESIDENT MARGARET OWEN, 90, shares a bit of wisdom with us.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

21. Dream of someone dead and you’ll hear from someone alive.

22. If your right palm itches, you’ll be shaking hands with someone soon, and if left hand itches, you are about to get money.

23. If your ears are ringing, someone is talking about you.

24. Hiccups mean someone is thinking of you. If you can think who it is, the hiccups will stop.

25. On a cloudy day, seeing enough blue sky to make a cat a pair of trousers, the sky will clear.

26. Never walk under a ladder or bad luck.

27. A bird gets into your house, bad luck will follow.

28. If a broom falls across the doorway, expect company.

29. See a pin pick it up and all through the day you will have good luck.

30. If you sew on Sunday a lie will be told about you for each stitch you do.

31. Never put your hat on a bed or ill health will follow.

Editor’s note: Thanks to Sandra Comly of Bristol for sharing Margaret Owen’s sayings with us.

CORRECTION: In Monday’s edition, the caption for a photo celebrating VUHS senior Sophia Parker’s 1st place in a Lions Club speech competition incorrectly identified Brandon-Forestdale Lions Club member Jackie Dutil, statewide chairman for this speech competition, as VUHS teacher Cookie Steponaitis. Steponaitis was Parker’s coach, but she was not in the photo.

CORRECTION: The Independent’s April 17 article on a proposed seven-lot subdivision on Green Street in Vergennes incorrectly identified the hometown of property owner Scott Hardy; he is a New Haven resident.

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Tax reform, climate action is a better way in Vermont

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Editor’s note: This commentary was written by Vermont Representatives Sarah Copeland-Hanzas, Johannah Leddy Donovan, Diana González and Martin LaLonde.

Donald Trump’s anti-climate agenda threatens Vermont’s economy and endangers Vermonters’ health. While the president retreats to bygone days when coal was king, there are no coal-mining jobs in Vermont. There are, however, 17,000 Vermonters whose jobs in clean energy are threatened by his policies. And every Vermonter needs to be concerned that the president will allow more mercury, lead and arsenic — just some of the deadly byproducts of coal combustion — into our air and water.

There’s a better way.

While Vermont can’t avoid all of the impacts of the president’s destructive agenda, we can mitigate the damage.

As a state, we can continue our progress toward our long-term clean energy goals. Doing so will create jobs and strengthen our economy; it will keep our energy dollars local; and it will reduce Vermont’s contribution to global warming.

In addition – and readers might be surprised by this – we can also cut taxes. By aligning our tax code with our priorities we can reduce taxes on Vermonters’ homes, incomes and necessities. To keep the budget balanced, we can put a price on something the vast majority of Vermonters don’t want – the pollution causing climate change.

As Vermont legislators we have introduced four bills to do just that. One bill would eliminate the sales tax. A second would provide property tax relief. A third would reform income taxes and double the Earned Income Tax Credit. A fourth bill would provide every Vermonter a climate dividend check every three months.

Each of these bills is “revenue “By aligning our tax code neutral,” meaning state government won’t grow. with our priorities we can Each of these bills is reduce taxes on Vermonters’ conservative in concept and progressive in application. homes, incomes and They’re conservative because necessities. To keep the individual Vermonters – not budget balanced, we can put state government — will drive the market by choosing for a price on something the themselves if and how they vast majority of Vermonters would like to reduce carbon emissions. They are progressive don’t want – the pollution because low- and middlecausing climate change. As income Vermonters — who burn fewer fossil fuels Vermont legislators we have typically than their wealthier neighbors – introduced four bills to do would pay less in fees, while all Vermonters would benefit from just that.” lower taxes.

Each of these bills would spur innovation, create jobs and benefit current and future generations of Vermonters. Our bills are not comprehensive. They are designed to get Vermonters and policymakers thinking about what makes sense to tax, and what doesn’t.

As we grapple with demographic shifts, climate change and recurring budget crises, it is worth asking questions like: • If we want more commerce in Vermont, why do we tax sales?

• If we want more Vermonters in the workforce and more companies hiring, why do we tax payrolls as much as we do?

• If we want to reduce global warming emissions that are damaging Vermonters’ health and environment, why don’t we charge for carbon pollution?

Dozens of nations and states put a price on carbon pollution, and their economies are growing. California introduced a carbon price in 2013 and has created over 1.5 million new jobs since then. That’s almost three times as many new jobs in California as there are Vermonters.

As veteran legislators, we are not naïve about the challenges of reorienting Vermont’s economy away from fossil fuels. We expect our bills will generate howls of protest from the oil and gas lobby and their special interest allies, but that’s because they are the protectors of the status quo.

Their job is to protect fossil fuel company profits.

Our job is to listen to Vermonters’ concerns about their jobs, family’s health and way of life, and then work together to find solutions that will improve the lives of every Vermonter.

Our bills start a conversation, and like it or not, we have to have this conversation. President Trump’s draconian budget will wreak havoc on Vermont, necessitating a larger review of Vermont’s values and budget priorities in the months ahead.

This conversation need not be partisan. One of our bills is modeled off of “The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends” that was proposed by James Baker, George Shultz and Henry Paulson – all cabinet secretaries from the Reagan and Bush administrations. Locally, it was Republican Governor Jim Douglas who introduced and implemented Vermont’s first price on carbon pollution in our electric sector, and it is working.

Vermont’s economy is growing faster than the rest of New England while we have the second lowest electric rates in the region. Because our bills are all revenue neutral, none of them would violate Gov. Phil Scott’s desire to hold state spending in check.

Here in Vermont, we don’t suffer from the same epidemic of head-inthe-sand climate science “denialism” that infects the White House. We know that climate change is real and it’s a threat to the Vermont way of life. But Donald Trump’s policies will only accelerate climate change and endanger the jobs and health of thousands of Vermonters. That’s why it’s so important that we fight back against the economic and environmental damage his policies will cause.

Tax reform and climate action may be Vermont’s most effective response.

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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SOPHOMORE pitcher Colby Morris keeps his eye on the batter during the first of two games against Hamilton Saturday. Morris allowed five runs and struck out five batters through six innings in the 6-5 Panther win.

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Take time to do a little sheep gazing Our young granddaughter was here for part of lambing season this year. She wondered why we had to do chores so often. In the summer, we just tend the sheep once a day. This time of year, we may be checking every few hours. But she was game to try (usually) and we settled into a nice routine of checking on lambs, refilling water buckets, and offering hay and grain.

Then, near the end of her visit, there was a glorious sunny day. We were out checking the hill for newborn babies, when she said “Gaga, let’s just sit down here and watch.” There is a big outcropping of ledge in that part of the pasture, so we sat on the sun warmed rocks. She lay back and said “I am sky gazing, you do it too.” Her aunt and I dutifully laid back and looked at the clouds slowly wafting by. Sitting up again, she said

By Cheryl “Now we are sheep gazing.”

Mitchell After 40 odd years of raising sheep, I realized that most of the time I am just looking at them to figure out if they need anything.

Watching lambs frolic while their mothers eat is an evening pleasure but just sitting quietly and gazing at the ewes had seldom held the same enchantment. This brilliant afternoon, gazing through her young eyes, we all felt a piece of something bigger and very beautiful.

I seldom pay attention to the ledge we were sitting on, except to avoid walking on it when the rocks are icy or slippery. That afternoon, it became a natural wonder. We looked at the patterns, tried walking or sliding down the steep places, pondered if the groundhogs could tunnel beneath, reveled in the warmth. I watched warily as she tackled the steeper places, worried that she might fall and get seriously hurt. But she seemed to have a natural sense of caution, and only asked for a hand once or twice.

Ways of Seeing

When I think about what is happening to our beautiful country, where violence and extremism seem closer and closer to unraveling our sense of peace and caring, I often feel that I must do something Right Now. I am watching and listening for what needs to be done. Taking the time to just sit and observe seemed a senseless luxury when the need for action was urgent. But that afternoon of sheep gazing on the sun-warmed ledge, has reminded me how important it is to really look at, listen to, and appreciate our world.

Thirty years ago this granddaughter’s mother taught me a lesson that has lasted to this day. We were walking in the city and someone asked me if I had any spare change. I said no and walked on. Anais said, “Mom, you have money, why didn’t you give him some?” I went into a lengthy explanation, which she wasn’t buying.

We came up with the idea of filling our pockets with a certain amount of change. This we could give out when asked, and when it was gone could say no without a sense of guilt.

So I have taken in the past few months to engaging in those actions that are either recommended by the larger Quaker world or by my close friends, and not feeling guilty about the many other possible actions that I’m not taking. What I had forgotten is how important it is to sheep gaze, to look at the wonders of our world and our lives so that we are grounded in the why’s of activism.

Cheryl Mitchell is president of Treleven, a retreat and learning program located on her family’s sheep farm in Addison County. She does freelance consulting on issues related to children, families, social policy and farm to community work.

SCOTUS voting rights ruling looms Election turnout rates in Vermont are consistently among the highest in the nation. This is due both to the presence of a strong culture of civic participation in Vermont, and to state laws and regulations that facilitate voter participation.

Vermonters may register to vote not only in advance, but also on election day itself. There is extensive collaboration between the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Secretary of State’s office to update registration rolls with new residents and those who change addresses. Any voter may cast a ballot during the 45 days before an election. Voter fraud is nearly non-existent in Vermont.

Election administration is an area in which states have considerable discretion. Not all states follow Vermont’s approach of encouraging voter turnout. Some states, most of them with Republican governors and By Eric L. Davis legislatures, have deliberately altered election laws to suppress voter participation.

In these states, registration deadlines are set far in advance of election day, registration locations are few and have limited hours, early voting periods are short, and photo ID requirements are enforced at polling places.

Measures such as these disproportionately reduce turnout among lower-income and minority voters, who often tend to vote for Democratic candidates.

Many of these restrictions on voting have been challenged in federal courts, with rulings on both sides of the issue. For example, North Carolina’s restrictions on early voting were struck down, while Wisconsin’s photo ID

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requirements were allowed to remain in place. Federal courts around the country have not developed common standards for judging election law changes that are alleged to suppress turnout.

The Supreme Court may set forth national standards before the 2020 election, perhaps in a case from Texas that is now working its way through the federal judicial system. In 2011, the Republican-majority Texas legislature passed a law requiring voters to show a government-issued photo ID at the polls. There are no DMV offices in 27 of Texas’ 254 counties, so some voters may have to travel up to 100 miles to get a government-issued photo ID. Because of a series of federal court challenges, this law has never gone into full effect. Voters who do not have one of the required IDs may sign an affidavit affirming their identity at the polling place and then present an alternative document.

Up until the end of 2016, the Obama Administration’s Justice Department supported the challengers of the Texas voter ID law through filing briefs and other legal interventions. In the 2012, 2014 and 2016 election cycles, the Justice Department was among the most active litigants in voter suppression cases all across the country.

This all changed once President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions took office. As a member of the U.S. Senate, and as attorney general of Alabama earlier in his career, Sessions has consistently been a strong op(See Davis, Page 5A)

While the Vermont Legislature has been grappling with Vermont’s shrinking student enrollment with heavy-handed mandates like Act 46, which in some school districts will do more harm than good, the Campaign for Vermont has put a more creative and more promising proposal on the table. Issued March 23, and entitled “Re-Energizing Vermont’s Public Education System: Making Vermont an Education Destination” the proposal calls for Vermont to become more active in recruiting international exchange students.

Vermont currently has one of the best secondary public school systems in the country. Our public high schools however are challenged by high costs and excess capacity. In an increasingly global economy our students are also short changed by a lack of ethnic and cultural diversity at many schools. On the other hand, the emerging global economy has brought new wealth and prosperity to countries that were once mired in poverty. Many families in these increasingly affluent countries appreciate the importance of education and understand that schools in Vermont have a great deal to offer their children.

The Campaign for Vermont proposal calls for Vermont to initiate a program to reach out to families around the world and bring more tuition students from foreign countries to Vermont. It is an idea that deserves serious attention. In order to work the proposal requires careful screening of both students and host families. Exchange students need to be screened for maturity and to assure that they have the language skills needed to succeed. Host families or boarding homes need to be able to adapt to the tastes and values of a different culture. But if Vermont secondary schools worked together with the Vermont Agency of Education the prospects for enhancing the educational quality of our schools and reducing our property tax burden are significant. The General Assembly, Vermont’s Superintendents’ and the Vermont School Boards’ Association should all give serious attention to this proposal and consider a collective effort to create a state-wide Vermont public school foreign student initiative.

Dave Kelley Greensboro, VT

New DMV rules a pure ‘power grab’ I don’t like when state bureaucrats figure out a new way to intrude in our lives, and charge us additional tax dollars while they are at it. It also bugs me when they disguise their schemes in the name of “safety.” I’ll give the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles credit for being crooked, though; they’ve concocted a scam to increase costs to drivers, enlarge their bureaucracy, and cluck about safety all without public input or Legislative review.

As this newspaper reported, from now on when you take your car or truck to be inspected, your local mechanic will not be the individual who approves or denies your inspection. Rather, someone behind a desk in Montpelier, or his computer, will determine if you can drive your vehicle for another year.

This isn’t about safety, this is a power grab by DMV. There is not an existing problem being fixed.

Just the opposite — many, many cars and trucks that are currently safely being driven will no longer be inspectable. Not because they are dangerous in any way; but because they won’t pass the uniform, exaggerated standards suddenly enforced to the letter by the DMV. I have heard the arguments by the heads of DMV that this about safety, and there is enough baloney in their sound bites to give anyone heartburn. Here’s a quick example of what will happen in the real world.

About one-third of all used Subarus being driven in the United States are in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. I’d bet it’s a rare driver of one of these, or similar vehicles, who hasn’t seen their “check engine” light illumine. This is because these types of cars are notorious for having minor oxygen sensor and exhaust issues. And I do mean minor, as these have absolutely nothing to do with safety and unmeasurable impact on emissions.

(See Letter, Page 4A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 20, 2017 — PAGE 5A

To-do lists, human and otherwise On a walk this past weekend, I and devouring them. Her book found this to-do list on the side of includes a photo of fisher scat the trail where someone had acci- filled with the pads of a porcudentally dropped it: pine’s feet.

• Taxes Also on a fisher’s shopping list: • Silicone bathroom rabbits, squirrels, mice, voles, • Order locks blue jays and ruffled grouse.

• Look into vacations (Though fishers are often blamed • Respond to Pam dinner in- for killing house cats, Holland vite. We bring salad. says it’s usually some other cul• Ski prit that has made a meal of • Fidelity retirement Fluffy.)

• Research Roth versus tradiSpotted salamanders’ to-do tional IRA lists in March and April are all Aside from providing a look about “Big Night.” into someone else’s private life, No, not the movie “Big Night.” the list reminded me It’s the herpetologists’ that we all have a term for the night lot of things to do. when these shiny, We humans are very black creatures with busy. Especially as yellow spots trek to winter unfolds into the nearest pool in orspring. der to breed. It’s one Out there in the natreason why in April ural world it’s even you will sometimes busier — as I’ve been see road signs that say reminded by read“Warning: Salamaning Mary Holland’s der Crossing.” wonderful book, They’re not just “Naturally Curious.” looking for any pool This enchanting field though. These salaguide describes itmanders need to find self as a “montha vernal pool — one by-month journey that will eventually through the fields, dry up. They provide words and marshes of by Gregory Dennis a fish-free environNew England.” ment so all the eggs Think about peepwon’t get eaten. ers for a moment. Seeking mates, This is of course also mating male peepers make their way this season for many other animals. time of year to the nearest suitThe male leopard frog, for examable water. There they begin their ple, has a mating call that’s likened high-pitched calls, which echo to the sound of a human snore. On through our nights every spring. the list of the average female leopThe average male peeper re- ard frog: lay 6,000 eggs. peats his mating call 4,500 times As anyone waking up at dawn at night. this time of year can testify, the Despite that cacophony, fe- birds are also getting busy. male peepers apparently have no That includes killdeer, which problem distinguishing the calls need to find an open place to lay of one male from another. Aston- their eggs. ishingly enough, scientists think Though they are technicalmale peepers may not even hear ly shorebirds, killdeer also like each other’s calls. gravel country roads, judging While a male peeper’s to-do by what’s going on in my neighlist might start with “scream out borhood right now. Every time I for a mate 4,500 times a night,” drive in and out, one of the adults the springtime lists of other ani- goes screaming off in complaint mals are quite different. that I’ve once again disturbed the A fisher cat, for example, might neighborhood.

At the top of the list for most now have at the top of its list “kill a porcupine as it comes out of its birds is “find an appropriate place to nest.” den.”

That’s tougher for Eastern Holland reports that fishers kill porcupines by tearing at their fac- bluebirds. Back when non-naes until they are weakened, then tive house sparrows and Europerolling them over on their belly an starlings were introduced to

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North America, they took over most of the nesting sites favored by bluebirds. So these brightly colored creatures often rely on birdhouses placed by humans.

A bluebird’s list also has to be pretty specific. Something like: “Find a birdhouse with an entrance of 1.5 inches — large enough that we can all get in and out, but small enough to keep out those big pesky starlings.”

For beavers, it’s time to repair their mounds, often by building them up with sticks that they have debarked when eating them.

These mounds mark beavers’ territory and can be over three feet high.

Another item on the beaver list: scent the mounds with urine.

That’s a message to transient beavers — many of them two years old and searching for their own ponds — to move along.

River otters are also in the business of using urine to scent their territories, called “rolls.”

But taking care of the kids is at the top of their list right now.

Young otters are born blind and without teeth. Soon enough, they’ll be out on Otter Creek foraging with their mom, who gestated them 10 months before they were born.

For male deer, the to-do list includes “grow antlers.”

The velvety skin covering a buck’s antlers is packed with blood vessels carrying nutrients to the bone. Antlers, it seems, grow at the rate of half an inch a day and are the fastest-growing mammal bones.

Those antlers will come in handy as bucks fight for mating rights in late fall.

But in the prime of springtime mating season, it’s the vole that gets the prize in New England.

Voles have multiple predators.

That provides extra urgency to female voles, who can produce up to 17 litters in one year — if they live that long.

It’s a busy springtime world out there. So if you’re feeling overwhelmed with a long to-do list — well, you’ve got a lot of company.

Gregory Dennis’s column appears here every other Thursday and is archived on his blog at www.gregdennis.wordpress.com.

Email: gregdennisvt@yahoo.com.

Twitter: @greeengregdennis.

Aristotle and the birth of Political Science

By VICTOR NUOVO thinkers has diminished. His ideas Now we come to Aristotle. Politi- have become mere commonplaces. cal science is only one of the scienc- In some respects they suffer from es that he invented. He was the par- rigor mortis, and there is an aspect ent of many: logic, physics, biology, of obsolescence about them, espepsychology, rhetoric, poetics, meta- cially in logic and physics. There is physics and the theory a measure of this in his of scientific method and politics also, but only a explanation generally. small measure.

Aristotle was the first He was completely to codify concepts and absorbed in his time distinctions that have and place. He was a become commonplace proud Greek, an elitnot only in theoretical ist, a male chauvinist, discourse, but also in evnotwithstanding that eryday conversation. He he did not cut a very conceived distinctions impressive masculine between theory and pracfigure—he had spindly tice, form and content, legs and beady eyes subject and predicate, and was overall uncause and effect, essence Thinking about handsome; he was an and attribute, potentialapologist of slavery, politics — ity and actuality, necesa denier of women’s the origins sary and contingent. He rights, and a sentimenalso distinguished basic talist with regard to the An essay by concepts like method in golden age of Greece Victor Nuovo science and various ideas when its cities were Middlebury College free and independent. of causality: material, efprofessor emeritus ficient, formal, and final; There is poignancy in as well as literary conAristotle’s pride, for of philosophy cepts such as mimesis he lived just at the mo(imitation), plot, characment of profound poter, catharsis and recognition. litical upheaval, when Greek cities Along with all this he perfected were fighting a losing battle to mainthe practice of abstraction, of form- tain a measure of independence. He ing abstract ideas and the universal was not only an eyewitness in these terms that denote them. It is in this affairs, but a participant in them. last instance that he differs most Aristotle’s theory of politics confrom Plato. sists of two parts, which have come The rediscovery of his writings down to us in separate works entitled during the late Middle Ages caused Ethics and Politics. Keep in mind a renewal of learning predating the that he regarded ethics as an integral Renaissance and inspired the found- part of political science. Nowadays ing of universities in Europe, outfit- they are treated separately in college ting them with a ready made curric- curricula, in separate departments. ulum and a model for the university College curricula are expressions of lecture that is still in use today. It is modern culture, which regards the no wonder that he was reverently re- person as morally separable from ferred to as “the master of those who society, perfectible in isolation from know.” it. Aristotle would have found such I remember as a student in my first an idea puzzling, if not lamentable. graduate seminar (on Aristotle) be- In Aristotle’s world, we are political ing told that we are all Aristotelians animals first and foremost. The perwithout knowing it, because many of fection of human life is unrealizable his concepts and terms and methods apart from the city; they must be perof enquiry have become common fected together or not at all. sense or at least common discourse.

Hence, he opens his discourse on If this is true, and it is true enough, ethics by introducing the idea of then we must not ignore Aristotle. At political science. He begins with a the very least, reading him will en- grand generalization: “Every art, evable us to recover the meanings of ery science, every action, every act words we use every day with only a of choice (that is, everything we do passive understanding of what they or contemplate doing!) aims at some mean. good; hence it has been well said that With the passage of time, Aristo- the Good is the end towards which tle’s stature in the pantheon of great all things aim.”

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It is a wonderfully crafted sentence, a Platonic bubble, which he bursts in the very next sentence: “But it appears that these ends differ,” which is to say, “Good” is a mere abstraction, a general term that has a variety of different meanings depending on the context in which it is used.

Still, Aristotle finds a way to combine all these ends in a single place.

These activities all occur in a city; they are activities of a civilized life.

Hence there is indeed a Supreme Good, not an idea, as Plato supposed, but a place, the polis, and the science that unites them in thought is political science.

Aristotle believed that the highest human good is a well-governed city consisting of responsible or virtuous citizens, where creativity flourished and a happy life could be lived in several ways. In this respect, Aristotle’s idea of ethics is wholly secular.

The good life, morally and happily, is essentially a political life. This does not mean that Aristotle was irreligious, he just regarded religion as a subordinate part of politics. He was a proponent of secular religion.

Ethics is the theory of human flourishing, of life well lived, of a human life endowed with civility.

Civility is not a natural endowment; it is achieved through training and perfected by regular self-discipline in an active life directed not by the prods of conscience but by the agile direction of a rational mind open to possibilities.

A large part of the Ethics is devoted to describing this training and discipline, which, properly regarded, is training in citizenship. The basics of his method will be the subject of the next essay.

But there is more: Aristotle also gives instruction on how to be wise in the best practical sense of making wise choices; and he has written a most insightful and definitive account of friendship as a social bond.

The Ethics concludes with an examination of the nature of happiness.

His work is best understood as a handbook for citizens.

Postscript: Aristotle’s major work on ethics is entitled Nichomachean Ethics (it was supposedly addressed to his son Nichomachus), but is mostly cited simply as Ethics. His major work on politics is entitled just that, Politics. Both are available in reliable translations in Oxford World Classics.

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(Continued from Page 4A) If you have a car or truck with such insignificant issues — ones which many reasonable mechanics recognize are not worth denying you the ability to drive to work or plow your driveway — you will soon be out of luck. Most of us driving older vehicles can’t afford the hundreds or thousands of dollars in repairs that would be required.

Plus, the repairs themselves are often short-lived in older vehicles, and purchasing another used vehicle will probably result in the same problem being repeated. Sensor

light troubles can result from well over 100 different causes, few of a serious nature. The DMV has no data to prove their draconian plan will improve safety or reduce emissions. This is a plain old power grab and it may well even lead to more costs to us in the future (think: “yearly mileage tax”).

DMV must have known this kooky new system would have produced an outcry, so they never held public hearings. They also never presented it to the Vermont Legislature for review. They must have known there would have been fierce

opposition. It was likely cooked up in a cauldron of bureaucratic wizardry — “Hey, Joe, I have a great idea how we can gain more control, increase revenue, and add employees...” Then, “Good thinking, Bill, just don’t forget the ol’ switcheroo by claiming it’s about safety.”

Thanks, DMV, for this costly, unnecessary and burdensome boondoggle. I hope our legislators roll this mess back before it gets too entrenched.

Prem Prakash East Middlebury

the voter ID law, holding that it was enacted for the purpose of discriminating against African-American and Latino voters in violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and that Texas did not demonstrate a plausible non-racial motive for passing the law.

Texas will appeal this decision, with the support of the Trump Administration. A Supreme Court rul-

ing on the Texas voter ID law will likely be issued within the next few years, prior to the 2020 election.

This ruling, and its consequences in 2020, could turn out to be one of the most important decisions in the Court’s recent history.

Eric L. Davis is professor emeritus of political science at Middlebury College.

Davis (Continued from Page 4A) ponent of federal voting rights laws and enforcement. In February of this year, the Justice Department filed papers in the Texas case supporting the voter ID law and asking the federal courts to delay further action against it.

Last week, a federal district judge in Texas once again ruled against

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Obituaries

Peter Gallant, 72, formerly of Vergennes, Panton

Marjorie Edgerton, 91, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Marjorie Elizabeth (Roucoulet) Edgerton, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, died at her home in Middlebury on April 15, 2017, with family members at her bedside. Marge was born in Rutland, Vermont, on December 19, 1925, the 11th of 16 children of Anna Lillian (Bellany) and Louis Roucoulet. Only one sister survives her.

Marge married the love of her life, Elmer (Bud) Edgerton, in Rutland on December 23, 1945. In 1950, Marge and Bud moved to Middlebury, and in 1958, they purchased the home in Salisbury in which Bud was born.

They raised their family there and it was home for nearly 48 years. Bud died on December 10, 2002, in the room where he was born. Marge and her oldest daughter, Jean, moved back to Middlebury in 2006, into an apartment that was large enough to accommodate family Christmases.

Marge worked for several Middlebury businesses and she retired from Grand Union, where she was a clerk for over 20 years. She loved her customers and many of them were very loyal, coming only to her register.

She loved to travel, especially on motor coach tours. She and Bud traveled to Florida several times and enjoyed a cruise to the Bahamas.

She enjoyed many trips with Jean, to Alaska and the Caribbean and to Cape Cod and Pennsylvania Dutch

country. Together, they enjoyed driving to Wells and Ogunquit, Maine to eat seafood. She loved watching the birds outside her kitchen window, especially the chickadees and the cardinals. She always loved large family gatherings, with her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, siblings, nieces and nephews.

Marge is survived by her sister, Patricia Moore; her daughters, Jean Edgerton, Diane Barrows Johnson, and her husband, Bruce Johnson, and Carolyn LaRose, and her husband, David LaRose; her sons, Thomas, Lawrence and Steven Edgerton, and Steve’s wife, Karen (Johnston) Edgerton; her grandchildren, Seth Barrows, and his wife, Marsha; Justin Barrows, and his wife, Anna; Caleb Edgerton, and his partner, Jennifer Buono; Jennifer Ethridge, and her husband, Dennis; Patryck and Alicia Edgerton; Leah Edgerton, and her fiancé, Thomas Connolly, and Joshua Edgerton, and his wife, Kathleen; her great-grandchildren, Jack, Sam, Lauren and Braeden Barrows, Thomas Hayden Connolly, and Alexxis Jace Zeno, with whom she enjoyed a very special relationship, her sisters-in-law, Julia Redington and Ramona Mills, and many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents, her brothers, Frank, Bill, Edward, Louis, Eugene, Bernard, Donald and Robert Roucoulet; her sisters, Dorothy Foster, Shirley

MARJORIE ELIZABETH EDGERTON Chabot, and Eileen Davis, and their spouses, several nieces and nephews, three older siblings who died before she was born, and her son-in-law, John Barrows.

Arrangements are by Sanderson Ducharme Funeral Service, Inc. There will be no calling hours.

Funeral services will be held at Salisbury Congregational Church, on Sunday, April 23, at 2 p.m. Private burial will be beside Bud in Holman Cemetery in Salisbury.

Memorial contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health and Hospice, 254 Ethan Allen Hwy., New Haven, VT 05472.◊

Myrle Jackman, 90, Vergennes VERGENNES — Myrle Edith Jacobs Jackman, devoted sister, mother, grandmother and great grandmother went to be with her Lord and Savior on April 15, 2017, while surrounded by her loving family.

She was born July 23, 1926 to Chester and Ruth (Beers) Jacobs in Bristol, Vt., where she graduated from Bristol High School. After graduation, Myrle married her childhood sweetheart, Ralph Jackman.

Together Ralph and Myrle moved to Vergennes to build their lifetime business, Jackman Fuels, Inc. There they raised 5 daughters who survive her: Lynn Donnelly (Michael), Christine Collette (Michael), Catherine Desjadon (Ronald), Susan Burdick (Gregory) and Carleen Telgen (William, Jr.) She also leaves behind her treasured siblings, Burton Jacobs, Elaine Bordeaux and Carol Burbank along with 12 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren whom she deeply cherished. Myrle was fondly known as ‘Aunt Moe’ to several nieces and nephews who loved her dearly.

Myrle dedicated her life to her

husband and daughters, taking great pride in her family. She enjoyed many hobbies including sewing, knitting, crocheting, golfing, and playing cards — often beating her opponents.

She was known to welcome all into her home as a gracious hostess for an impromptu meal day or night.

By the side of her husband, Fire Chief Ralph Jackman, Myrle was considered the ‘matriarch’ to all the fireman of the VFD for over 50 years.

She is predeceased by her parents, her beloved husband, Ralph, her firstborn child, Mark, son-in-law, Ronald Desjadon and her much loved grandson, Eric Jackson.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Peter’s Church, 85 So. Maple St., Vergennes, on Wednesday, April 19, at 11a.m. with Fr. Yvon Royer officiating. Family and friends may call during the hours of 6-8p.m on Tuesday, April 18, at Brown McClay Funeral Home in Vergennes. Contributions in Myrle’s memory may be made to St. Peters Restoration Fund and Addison County Home Health and Hospice, whom the family wishes to thank for

PERU, Mass. — Peter Amos Gallant (Redfox), 72, of Peru, Mass., died unexpectedly at his home March 9, 2017. He was born on June 13, 1944 in Washington, Mass. to Joseph Edward and Arlene Frances Gallant.

He attended schools in Washington and Dalton, Mass.

Pete joined the United States Marine Corps on June 16, 1961 and served until 1965. He was a member of the Tactics Rifle Squad. He was very proud of his time spent in the Marines.

He spent a short time with his brother Lance in Delaware before moving to Vergennes, Vt. It is there that he met and married Leona (Nonie) Smith. They began their family in Panton, Vt. Pete worked for Marcel Brunet Family farm. He drove a truck for Daily Transport, Wilford Sabourin and installed the Tri-Town water lines.

He and Nonie moved to Pittsfield, Mass., and he drove trucks for Leo Nash Co. until they closed their doors. He went on to drive over the road for Freedman Steel for several years. Pete worked for the Town of Hinsdale, Mass., as Road Superintendent until he retired. He was a member of the American Legion Post 14 for 48 years.

Pete enjoyed the outdoors and walks in the woods and around the bird sanctuary. He enjoyed riding around visiting with friends and family and just looking at the sites.

He especially enjoyed having his grandchildren and kids come visit.

He enjoyed spending time with them in Vermont. He enjoyed fishing and hunting.

He leaves behind his two daughters and their families. Terri Lee (David) of Lincoln, Vt., and their two children Amanda Lee Smith (Cody) and Jacob Allen Lee, also his daughter Tina Gallant Cota and her children Patrick Lee Cota and Jordan Christine Cota of Bristol, Vt. Pete also leaves behind Jamie Talbot of Peru, Mass. Jamie was like a son to him and they spent many hours at Jamie’s family camp in Wardsboro, Vt. and hanging out.

Pete leaves behind his siblings.

Brothers, Lance Gallant of New Castle, De., James Gallant of Ferrisburgh, Vt., sisters, Sharon Perreault of Hancock, Mass., and Rosemary LeMastus of Melbourne, Fla. He leaves one aunt, Kimberley French of Stephentown N.Y. He leaves several nieces and nephews and cousins.

Pete was predeceased by his two

PETER AMOS GALLANT children Sherry Lynn and Peter Edward, his parents Ed and Arlene Gallant, his brother Edward Gallant and sister Christine Brunet.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday May 6, at St Peter’s Catholic Cemetery in Vergennes, Vt., with a gathering at the Vergennes American Legion Post 14 immediately following.◊

Howard Grimes, 92, Lincoln LINCOLN — Howard Edward Grimes, 92, of Lincoln, Vermont went to be with the Lord on Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017. He was surrounded by family and friends, laughing and telling personal memories with each one.

Howard was born in Bristol on July 11, 1924, to Ray and Flora Grimes. He was the oldest of four boys. He loved gardening, farming, the outdoors and being with family and friends. He enjoyed anything he could do with the people he loved — barbeques, church events, hiking, canoeing, and vacationing.

Howard was active in his church.

He loved feeding and watching the birds, working in his strawberries and blueberries, maple sugaring and raising sheep and chickens.

If Howard met you, he would pull you into his family and love you like you were one of his own.

Howard was predeceased by his mother and father, and two brothers, Ralph and Duane Grimes.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Patricia; his three daughters, Joni Masterson and her husband Ron, Suzanne Grant and her husband Greg, Stacy Sack and her husband Clay; his grandchildren, Jeremiah and Ashley Grant, Aaron and Joanna Grant, Seth Grant, Matthew Gosselin and Whitney Williams, Paul Gosselin, Sarah Sack, Steven Sack and Taylor Sack and three great granddaughters.

Also his brother Donald, Sr. and sister-in-law Thelma Grimes, his brother-in-law and sister-in-law Vilas and Walterine Masterson and several nieces and nephews.

Visiting hours will be held Friday, April 21, from 6-8 p.m. at BrownMcClay Funeral Home in Bristol, Vt. Funeral services will be held

HOWARD EDWARD GRIMES Saturday, April 22, at 1 p.m. at the United Church of Lincoln in Lincoln, Vt. Reception to follow at the Burnham Hall in Lincoln.◊

John S. McLaughlin, 71, Leicester

MYRLE EDITH JACOBS JACKMAN their great services and care given to their mother, with special thanks to Jane Kearns.

Interment will be at St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Bristol following a short reception.◊

LEICESTER — John S. McLaughlin, 71, of Leicester, passed away Thursday, April 13, 2017 in Middlebury. He was born August 6, 1945 in Boston, Mass., the son of J. Karl and Shirley (Drake) McLaughlin.

John was a proud veteran of the United States Army and honorably served his country in Vietnam from August 1967 through August 1968. He was a graduate of Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.

He is survived by his sons Mark, Peter, and Christopher McLaughlin,

brother Hugh McLaughlin of Groton, Mass., and sister Kathryn McLaughlin Montgomery of Costa Mesa, Ca. Visiting hours will be held at Sanderson Funeral Home in Middlebury, on Friday, April 21 from 3-5:30 p.m. and 6:30-9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the “People for Porter” Annual Fund at Porter Medical Center.

Arrangements are under the direction of Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home. Online condolences at Sanderson Funeral Service: Middlebury, Vt.◊

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Ferrisburgh talks new charter

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — Questions were few from the eight residents who came on April 10 to Ferrisburgh’s Route 7 town hall for the first of two required public hearings on the Ferrisburgh selectboard’s proposed town charter, which officials believe would be the first in the 255-yearold town’s history.

According to town officials only one resident attended the second hearing on this past Monday.

If approved in a May 11 townwide vote and then adopted by the Vermont Legislature, as required by state law, the two-page charter would most notably change the town clerk and treasurers positions from elected posts to positions filled by selectboard appointment.

The charter also includes basic language giving the town the right to “continue to be a municipal corporation” with “all the powers granted to towns and municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of the State … together with all implied powers necessary to carry into execution all the powers granted,” including to “enact ordinances” consistent with the Vermont Constitution.

The proposed charter is brief in describing duties for the clerk and treasurer, but also gives the selectboard the power to write job descriptions. It also includes a provision that the jobholders do not have to be Ferrisburgh residents.

The driver behind the selectboard’s decision to propose the charter was dissatisfaction with the performance of the town’s former treasurer. Board members said they could not enforce what they believed were needed changes because the treasurer did not answer to them, but rather to voters.

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Selectboard members believe in the future the town will operate better with employees in those positions who answer to the board. They presented that rationale at the hearings on both April 10 and 17. Overall, board chairwoman Loretta Lawrence last week described a calm, 50-minute meeting on April 10.

“It was actually quite quiet.

We had a few questions,” she said, adding, “There was no opposition.”

Lawrence said during the hearings the board went over the entire charter and paused frequently to allow questions.

“We explained how people would be treated as employees, subject to review and personnel policies,” she said.

Two major questions arose on April 10, Lawrence said. One resident asked if the board could just appoint a clerk or treasurer, or whether the positions would have to be advertised.

Lawrence said the board “could solicit a larger pool of applicants if need be,” but would not be required to do so.

“We did get advice from that on our attorney. We can do either,” she said.

The other significant question focused on whether and how the charter could be amended in the future. Lawrence said she assured the resident it could be amended, but that she did not have the relevant law with her at the meeting.

Lawrence later provided the statute to the Independent and said she would bring it to the next hearing: Essentially, changing the charter is much like creating the charter.

It states the selectboard, or a resident who gathered 5 percent of the checklist on a petition in support of a change, could trigger

an amendment process that would require two public hearings, a town-wide vote, and approval by the Legislature.

“To amend the charter would be the same process,” Lawrence said.

Also speaking on April 10 was former selectwoman Sally Torrey, who according to Lawrence backed the proposed charter.

“Sally Torrey spoke up about why people might feel their rights would be taken away to elect people, but that it would be a good thing to go to appointed (positions) because it would be the selectboard you could vote out of office. Every year there are two people up for office,” Lawrence said “In actuality if you’re not happy with the appointments you could vote the selectboard out.

She was supportive.”

The board chose Sept. 5 as the date the board would gain the powers outlined in the charter to appoint Ferrisburgh’s clerk and treasurer. But it appears unlikely the Legislature will still be in session with time to act on the charter, and probably the soonest it could take effect if voters support it would be early next year.

Residents in March re-elected Gloria Warden as town clerk and voted in former town auditor Deb Healey as Ferrisburgh’s new treasurer.

About a dozen other Vermont towns — including Vergennes, Stowe, Springfield and Berlin, as well as a number of larger communities, mostly cities — also appoint clerks and/or treasurers.

Locally, Panton changed its charter in 2014 to make the treasurer and clerk appointed positions, and Panton selectboard members have said the move has worked well.

Obituaries Ruby Minor, 81, Fairfield

FAIRFIELD — Ruby E. Minor, a lifelong area resident and dairy farmer, passed away Saturday, April 8, 2017, at the Northwestern Medical Center with her family at her side.

Born in Fairfax on June 11, 1935, she was the daughter of the late Percy L. and Ethel (McGowan) Corey. Ruby was 81 years old.

On Feb. 5, 1955, in Saint Patrick Church, she married the love of her life, Thomas H. Minor, who preceded her in death on May 16, 1987.

Ruby was a 1953 graduate of Brigham Academy in Bakersfield and a longtime communicant of Saint Patrick Church. She always looked forward to her outings with Betty and Joyce.

Survivors include her son, Thomas Minor, Jr. and two daughters, Marie and Marion Minor all of Fairfield; her two brothers, Lyndon Corey and his wife, Joyce, of Fairfield and Everett Corey of Enosburg; her twin sister, Ruth Jerger of Ferrisburgh and sisters, Cecile Hutchins and her husband, Clyde, of Frostproof, Florida and Iona Reed and her

RUBY E. MINOR husband, Robert, of Fairfield, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Ruby is also survived by special friends, the Ryan and Berry families, her feline companions, Bella Jean and Smokey and many friends.

In addition to her parents and

husband, Thomas, Sr., Ruby was predeceased by her brother, Merton, Godson, Billy Joe Ryan, her special niece, Rita Minor Archambault, her brother-in-law, Alfred Jerger, and several sisters-in-law and brothersin-law.

Ruby’s family greeted friends on Tuesday, April 11, at the Heald Funeral Home, 87 South Main St., St. Albans.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Wednesday, April 12, at 11 a.m. in Saint Patrick Church in Fairfield with the Rev. Joseph Ikegbunam as celebrant. Interment will be at a later date in Saint Patrick Cemetery.

As an alternative to flowers, her family suggests memorials to the Franklin County Animal Rescue, 30 Sunset Meadow, St. Albans, Vermont 05478 or UVM Medical Center, c/o Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division, 111 Colchester Ave., Main Pavilion, Level 5, Burlington, VT 05401.

To send Ruby’s family a written expression of sympathy, please go to her on-line guest book at www. healdfuneralhome.com. ◊

Working space least one of which would include a Bristol, in the local area, employed.

(Continued from Page 1A) And you haven’t moved away. and yoga training center to western shower • Kitchen “Having a space like this where you Massachusetts at the end of the year.

• Lounge area have this energy, I think, is like the The building has 3,500 square feet Renovation would also include next step for Bristol. We’re looking of commercial space on the first floor (Phoenix Rising’s current home), creating a public reception area off for better economic development in plus four apartments on the upper of the entrance facing Mountain the town and this could be a big part Street. This front part of that.” floors. of the commercial For individuals and the community “It’s this unique To take Bristol space would include alike, a local coworking space also opportunity where we CORE’s coworking the conference rooms offers a way to avoid the time, can work with a great guy who happens to be the survey, go to http:// (that could be booked expense and pollution of commuting landlord of this building tinyurl.com/jw92nz8. by coworkers), kitchen, — something many Vermont towns bathrooms, and a lounge are grappling with as they look to who’s willing to support area for coworkers. The their town energy plans. this venture if we can As part of envisioning whether a prove that it might be a viable thing larger part of the commercial space toward the rear of the building (the coworking space is right for Bristol, for Bristol,” said Albinson.

Moyers is interested in the area now used for yoga training) Albinson and Ashby have visited coworking proposal, he said, but would be converted to the coworking and/or been inspired by different would like to see enough interest space per se. This area would have coworking spaces around the state and commitment on the part of the its own entrance off the rear parking including Burlington’s Karma Bird House, Hinge and Study Hall, and community to know that the venture lots, as it does now.

Other amenities would be nearby Montpelier’s Local 64. is fiscally sound and feasible. He’s A coworking space in Vergennes’s also weighing the merits of going and wouldn’t need to be duplicated, for a more traditional tenant: ideally said Albinson and Ashby. For historic Kennedy Brothers building a single business that could rent the example, Kimball Office Services on opened in January 2016.

Main Street is mere steps away from NEXT STEPS entire commercial space.

Moyers and Bristol CORE have “It’s easier to wrangle one tenant the Trading Post and already offers than say 30 or 40 tenants,” said extensive photocopying, printing, agreed the next step is for Bristol Moyers. “But I also am so attracted scanning and other services. A CORE to find enough interested by the overall concept of coworking number of eating options are around parties to get the idea off the ground.

To take Bristol and by what it might offer Bristol the corner. Deer trails are CORE’s coworking that I’m certainly willing to go Leap survey, go to towards the coworking option if a quick walk up “Having a space like this where you http://tinyurl.com/ there’s a response in the community Mountain Terrace.

A coworking have this energy, jw92nz8. Albinson that supports it. would I think, is like the can be reached at “I’d love to hear from people space ian@bristolcore. through Bristol CORE or directly offer a number next step for Bristol. org. Moyers can about their thinking on whether of advantages to We’re looking for be reached at it would suit their needs and if so local professionals, bristoltradingpost@ whether they might find it attractive said Albinson and better economic development in the gmail.com. and commit to it. That’s going to Ashby: • A f f o r d a b l e town and this could If the idea seems make the difference in the next four to be feasible, or five months in deciding what path workspace be a big part of that.”

• A dynamic Moyers would then to go down.”

— Carolyn Ashby, Bristol work environment create the business GET YOUR ‘HOT DESK’ CORE Board Chair fosters structure needed.

As envisioned by Albinson and that and Phoenix Rising will Bristol CORE Board Chair Carolyn interaction continue to occupy the building Ashby, professionals could opt for builds community For the town itself, the two see it as in 2017, offering workshops this three kinds of workspace, each with its own price tag. The least expensive a way to make Bristol more attractive summer and fall. Renovation option would be a “hot desk” — to young professionals, especially, would likely begin in early 2018, a term borrowed from the naval by offering the kind of workspace with the coworking space ready for practice of assigning bunks, or “hot typically found in more urban occupancy in spring 2018.

Albinson and Ashby stressed racks,” on a rotating basis (“hot” communities. A coworking space because the sheets might still be in the Trading Post building would that they are now looking for warm from the previous occupant). bring more traffic to downtown. And local professionals interested in “Hot desk” users might pay $50 a because the least expensive rentals working with them on envisioning month and have access to a seat at an would be in the neighborhood of how the coworking space could be $50 a month, the space would be a put together. They’re also looking open table or workspace. to see how many individuals are Next in price would be renting business incubator for Bristol.

“First you can afford a $50 desk,” willing to commit to a chunk of one’s own desk, defined in an area with its own partitions. Desks would said Ashby. “Then you get a business workspace. The two calculate be lockable. This option might plan and you upgrade to that desk. that they would need around 26 cost in the neighborhood of $175 a Then you upgrade to an office and committed renters, ultimately, then you start having employees.” to get a coworking space off the month.

“You move to BristolWorks ground.

The third, and most expensive, Especially important, they said, option would be a small private because Kevin Harper has space over office with lockable doors. These there,” added Albinson, filling out is for folks to take CORE’s online would rent for around $300 a month. the vision. “And then you move to coworking survey, which they are The coworking space would offer: the (proposed) Stoney Hill business using as the first step in gauging park because now you’re a larger community interest.

• High-speed Wi-Fi business. And through all that time, Reporter Gaen Murphree • A printer over all those years, you’ve stayed is reached at gaenm@ • Two or three conference rooms • ADA-compliant bathrooms, at in Bristol and you’ve kept people in addisonindependent.com.

Nathaniel (Continued from Page 2A) has automated processes or automated inspection. And to do that they use cameras as powerful as computers. And the lighting is very critical. And we’re in that part of the market where you use fiberoptic light into small places, places where they put optics in the end of the fibers,” he said. “It’s a way to find a way of expansion of lighting products, where lighting is very critical. Inside the body is dark, so you have to have light, and when you’re doing measurements with cameras, lighting is very critical.”

Teaming up with Necsel/Ushio makes sense, Melnick said, for a number of reasons, one of which is that the move will help open up markets for Nathaniel’s products.

To start with, he described Ushio as “a $1.9 billion company.”

“We wanted to bring a lot of capital into the business, because a

lot of the products we make require development of anywhere from six months to more than a year,” Melnick said. “So it really helps to have capital so you can embark on these long projects.”

Secondly, telling potential customers, “I’m from Ushio,” should help get their attention.

“Really large companies, multibillion-dollar companies, they would prefer to deal with companies that are large rather than as small as Nathaniel was. So it really helps us to get in the door in certain places. And Ushio has a worldwide presence, and they’re a Japanese company,” Melnick said. “So there will be a lot of connections.”

Melnick has also, of course, been in charge of Nathaniel himself for three decades. He said he is grateful for help from the National Bank of Middlebury, Addison County Economic Development Corp.,

Vermont Community Loan Fund, Small Business Administration and Vermont Economic Development Authority for their support over the years. He added each “significantly helped while we consummated this deal.”

And after almost 30 years — September would be exactly 30 years — Melnick can now take a deep breath.

“When you own it yourself, there’s this really high risk-reward thing going on. I think the risk part of it gets to you after a while. You have to keep betting on yourself a lot. I think it was time to join up with someone really large and increase our chances of success,” Melnick said. “It’s much less risk to me. It’s just trying to be really good at my job and trying to grow this company.”

Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at andyk@addisonindependent.com.

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A Walk in their Shoes: Dementia Simulation in Middlebury. Thursday, April 20, 4:30-5:30 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road. Experience how it feels to manage the many challenges dementia presents as Certified Dementia Practitioners to take you through an the challenges of compromised vision, hearing and dexterity which all affect cognition. In collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Free and open to the public. Handicap accessible.

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Willy Wonka in Vergennes. Thursday, April 20, 6:30 p.m., Vergennes Union High School auditorium.

The Vergennes Union Elementary School AfterSchool Fusion program presents Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Tickets are $5 per person/$20 family and are available at the door.

Bobcat slide show in Cornwall. Thursday, April 20, 7 p.m. Bingham Memorial Elementary School, 112 School Road. Award-winning photographer and naturalist Sue Morse will present a slide show and lecture in entitled “Wild Yet Wonderfully Near Us: Bobcats in Cornwall and the Champlain Valley.”

Morse will describe the habitat needs of these elusive cats, why they like living here, and the role they play in the local ecology. The program is free and open to the public.

Parker Merrill Speech Championship in Middlebury. Thursday, April 20, 7:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts. In a Middlebury College tradition that started in 1825, student finalists compete for a top prize of $500.

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Photographic Portraiture Talk in Middlebury. Friday, April 21, 12:15 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art. As part of the Fridays at the Museum series, celebrated National Geographic photographer and local resident Jim Blair will discuss photographic portraiture in the exhibition “American Faces: A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity.” Blair has traveled to every continent on Earth. His photographs are published in numerous books and are included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh). Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Free.

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Robert Wyatt’s music lecture surveys Porter’s life on Broadway and in Hollywood, covering 40 years that produced 33 stage works and the music for 23 films. Rare archival film clips and recording of original cast members, including Ethel Merman, Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, and Bing Crosby are featured, along with Porter singing and playing “You’re the Top”. Free and open to the public. Handicap accessible. RSVP to Connie Leach at cleach@residenceottercreek.com or 802-388-1220.

Spaghetti Dinner in Vergennes. Friday, April 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Christian Reformed Church. Come enjoy a delicious spaghetti dinner and help the Champlain Valley Christian School’s 7th & 8th graders get to Washington D.C. Spaghetti, meatballs, garlic bread, salad, drink, and dessert. Tickets $8 for Adults (ages 13 & older), $5 for Children (ages 4-12), Free for children ages 3 & under, family cap $35.

Miss Vermont Competition in Vergennes. Friday, April 21, 7 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Come and see who will win the title of Miss Vermont 2017.

The winner will earn $5,000 in college scholarships and will represent the Green Mountain State on the Miss America stage in September in Atlantic City.

In addition to the contest, she will begin a year of service traveling the state and presenting her platform. Doors open 6 p.m. Tickets are $25 at the door.

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SATURDAY

Young Adventurers Club Hike in Ripton. Saturday, April 22, Spirit in Nature trail. The Earth Day theme will be “Labyrinths & Mazes.” While the pace is geared towards younger adventurers (ages 4-8), everyone is welcome. Each outing is tailored to individual participants, and will be fun for the whole family! Call or email YAC Leader Lauren Bierman for meeting location and details at 802-349-7498 or laurenbiermanrn@gmail.com. For other events and activities visit www.gmcbreadloaf.org Green Mountain Club Snake Mountain Hike in Addison. Saturday, April 22. This is a moderate 3.5-mile hike with a gradual ascent and an elevation gain of approximately 980 feet. The summit offers great views of Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks. Bring water and lunch or snack. This is a dog friendly hike. Contact Mike Greenwood at mike802vt@comcast.net or at 802-349-5653 or Anne Christie at achristie1026@gmail.com or at 802-388-4347. For other events and activities visit www.gmcbreadloaf.org Ladies’ Union Spring Sale in New Haven. Saturday, April 22, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., New Haven Congregational Church. Sale will include plants, food table, RADA wear, kitchen items, linens and curtains, household items, toys, games, attic treasures, furniture, décor items, garden items, books and other miscellaneous items. No clothing. For more information call Carol 453-5059.

Chronic Disease Management Workshop in Middlebury. Saturday, April 22, 9:30 a.m.- noon, The Residence at Otter Creek. Free healthier living workshop for people living with a chronic disease such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer, obesity or heart disease. Registration is required. Contact Connie Leach at 388-1220 or cleach@residenceottercreek.com.

Volunteer Orientation in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April 22, 10 a.m., Rokeby Museum. As part of National Volunteer Month, Rokeby will hold an orientation session for new recruits. Volunteering at Rokeby offers a unique opportunity for personal education and service rolled into one. Come and check out the opportunities.

Verd Mont Button Club open house in Middlebury.

Saturday, April 22, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Middlebury VFW, 530 Exchange St. The Verd Mont Button Club will identify buttons from your stash. The

50 years of great music

THE VERMONT CHORAL Union will give its 50th Anniversary concert on April 21, and will feature a commissioned work by award-winning composer and Middlebury College graduate Christina Whitten Thomas.

program at begins at 12:30 p.m. and features lectures on Vermont button manufacturing, military buttons and ladies buttons during the Civil War, plus children’s activities, reference books and buttons for sale by Clarisse Shecter. Free.

Handicap accessible.

Relay for Life in Middlebury. Saturday, April 22, 1-9 p.m., Battell Loop, Middlebury College.

Middlebury College will host its annual Relay for Life event that celebrates all cancer survivors, honors those who have lost their battles, and fight back against this disease by raising money for cancer research and patient support programs.

There will be live entertainment, food, games, guest speakers and a luminaria ceremony. To sign up your team go to Middlebury’s Relay page: http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/ RFLCY17NE?pg=entry&fr_id=81004.

Poetry Reading in Vergennes. Saturday, April 22, 5:30 p.m. Northern Daughters, 221 Main St. Local Poets Karla Van Vliet and Karin Gottshall will read from their new work.

St. Ambrose Casino Night in Bristol. Saturday, April 22, 7:30 p.m., St. Ambrose Church. Play craps, roulette or black jack. Tickets $20 per person and include $200 in gaming chips. Everyone has a chance to win great prizes. This year’s door prize: $250 Visa gift card. Appetizers and refreshments will be available. Contact Sue Grover for more information: 453-2488.

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SUNDAY

Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest in Middlebury. Sunday, April 23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Vermont Folklife Center. The first annual Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest — a daylong event — presents a diverse assortment of Vermont cartoonists engaged in non-fiction work, including political cartoons, memoirs and diaries, and covering such topics as science, medicine, energy security, cooking and much more. Meet the artists join in the panel discussions. Free and open to the public.

Fiddling, dancing and dinner in Middlebury.

Sunday, April 23, noon-5 p.m., VFW, Exchange Street. Champlain Valley Fiddlers sponsor a day of fun and dancing. All fiddlers welcome. $12.

Questions: 897-7461.

Springtime Coffeehouse in Hancock. Sunday, April 23, 6-8 p.m., Hancock Town Hall, Route 100.

Hancock Town Pride Committee presents music from 15 local artists. Homemade sandwiches and deserts. Donations for admission and refreshments will support the 2017 Hancock Summer Concert Series.

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24

MONDAY

“President Trump’s First 100 days” in Middlebury. Monday, April 24, The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road.

Join Professor Eric Davis as he discusses Donald Trump’s first 100 days as. Davis will discuss Trump’s management style in the White House, the major policy initiatives of his administration and the response to them, Trump’s attempts to reshape American foreign policy, and the political response to the start of Trump’s presidency.

Free and open to the public. Handicap accessible.

RSVP to Connie Leach at cleach@residenceottercreek.com or 802-388-1220.

American Red Cross Blood Drive in Brandon.

Monday, April 24, noon-5 p.m., Brandon American Legion, 55 Franklin St. Walk in or for an appointment visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-733-2767.

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TUESDAY

Quilting Talk in Middlebury. April 25, 7-9 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Road. The Milk and Honey Quilters’ Guild presents “When Modern Meets Traditional,” a talk

by Maria Ammatuna, the owner of Creative Fiber Designs in Brandon. Come listen to how Maria brings together traditional with a modern twist.

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WEDNESDAY

Story Circle in Middlebury.

Wednesday, April 26, 4 p.m., Vermont Room, Ilsley Public Library. Come join the story circle and share your stories about spring reawakenings — in the earth or the human spirit.

Writing Workshop in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 26, 6 p.m., Ilsley Public Library Community Room.

The Middlebury Chapter of the Burlington Writers Workshop will meet to read and comment on each others’ work in an MFA-style workshop. All writers in all genres are welcome. More info at www. burlingtonwritersworkshop.com/our-workshops/ middlebury.

Adult Book Discussion in Lincoln. Wednesday, April 26 7 p.m., Lincoln Library. A discussion of the book “Green Island” by Shawna Yang Ryan, a stunning story of love, betrayal, and family, set against the backdrop of a changing Taiwan over the course of the twentieth century.

Apr

27

THURSDAY

Illustrated lecture in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 27, 4:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre. Nancy Etcoff, assistant clinical professor and psychologist, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, will present an illustrated lecture titled “Beauty and Self Image.”

“Beauty and Self Image” lecture in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 27, 4:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre. Nancy Etcoff, Assistant Clinical Professor and Psychologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, TED talk presenter, and author of Survival of the Prettiest (2000) sheds light on why we devour fashion magazines, check our waistlines, and gaze longingly at objects of desire. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “American Faces: A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity.” Free.

Death Cafe in Middlebury. Thursday, April 27, 5:307:00 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Court. At a Death Café, people gather to eat cake, drink tea, and discuss death in a relaxed, open setting. A Death Café is a groupdirected discussion of death with no agenda, objective, or themes. It is a discussion group, rather than a grief support or counseling session.

It will be hosted and facilitated by Helen Young and Kate Gridley. A $2 donation will offset the cost of refreshments. See DeathCafe.com for more information. Offered as part of Hospice Volunteer Services’ Being Mortal series.

A Discussion on opiate addiction in Brandon.

Thursday, April 27, 7 p.m., Brandon Inn, 20 Park St. Richard Rawson, Ph.D., a research professor at the Center for Behavior and Health at the University of Vermont and a professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Medicine, shares his 40-year history of addiction research and treatment, including Vermont’s innovative response to the opioid crisis.

Apr

28

FRIDAY

Rummage and Bake Sale in Salisbury.

Friday, April 28, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. The Salisbury Contact Nancy Galvin at 352-4375 to make donations of good quality, clean items or baked goods.

Art lecture in Middlebury. Friday, April 28, 12:15 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art. Senior Phoebe Mitchell and Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture Eddie Vazquez discuss Medardo Rosso’s use of wax as a sculptural material, and address the communicative implications of his artistic strategies of repetition and hybrid materiality. Seating is limited; please arrive early. Part of the Fridays at the Museum series. Free.

Table of Grace free meal in Vergennes. Friday, April 28, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church. The menu will include roast pork, potatoes, applesauce, vegetable and dessert. Come and bring your friends. Free.

Addison County Right to Life Spring Dinner in Vergennes. Friday, April 28, 6 p.m., St. Peter’s Parish Hall. Guest speakers, Mary Hahn Beerworth, Ex. Director of VRTL and Joanie Praamsma, Ex. Director Pregnancy Resource Center of Addison County. Full course Ham Dinner with meatless choice. Adults $15, students ages 6 and up, $6, under age 5, free. Reserve by April 21 to: Lee Comly, 2012 Carlstrom Road, Bristol, Vt. or call 453-6302.

Paula Huston in Middlebury. Friday, April 28, 7:30 p.m., Memorial Baptist Church, 97 S. Pleasant St. Paula Huston, author of “The Holy Way”, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellow, and author of two novels and six other works of spiritual nonfiction, will be speaking on “Spiritual Formation: Down-toEarth Practices”. This event is free and open to the public. For information call 802-388-7472.

Bach Festival in Middlebury. Friday, April 28, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts.

The Brentano String Quartet will perform The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 by J.S. Bach. Tickets are $25 for the general public, $20 for Middlebury College ID holders; and $6 for Middlebury College students with ID.

Apr

29

SATURDAY

“Sound Bites” in Vergennes. Saturday, April 29, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Vergennes Opera House, 120 Main St. Spend your day in Vergennes and raise money for Evergreen Preschool and the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes. Events include: Free Boys & Girls Club Open House with coffee, juice, and pastries at 9:30 a.m., a benefit concert featuring Grammy nominated Kid-Rock Superstar Justin Roberts at 11:30 a.m., and Bixby Library Story & Craft Time at 2:15 p.m. Raintree Jewelry will be raffling off three handmade pieces of jewelry. Tickets available at $10 each with a chance to win one of Raintree Jewelry prizes. Concert and raffle tickets available at Raintree in Vergennes and at the door. For more details visit www.facebook.com/soundbitesvt.

Chronic Disease Management Workshop in Middlebury. Saturday, April 29, 9:30 a.m.- noon, The Residence at Otter Creek. Free healthier living workshop for people living with a chronic disease such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer, obesity or heart disease. Registration is required. Contact Connie Leach at 388-1220 or cleach@residenceottercreek.com.

Spring into Art in Bristol. Saturday, April 29, Main St. Participating businesses in downtown Bristol will be celebrating Spring in creative and artful ways, including: ARTSight Studios & Gallery — free bookmaking and collage workshops (ages 16 and over), letterpress demonstration, open studios, Bo Price, Celtic Harp; Art on Main — 1-3 p.m. Ukranian egg painting demonstration, all ages; Verde Mountain — open studio and gallery; Honey Lights — beeswax candlemaking demonstration, all ages. Emerald Rose — 11 a.m.-1 p.m., henna demonstration, all ages; Bristol Clay Studio — open house and demos. This activity is part of Vermont Arts 2017, a project of the Vermont Arts Council.

Cabin fever basket raffle in Middlebury. Saturday,

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calendar Buettner. Teddy Crecelius directs this semi-staged performance. $12 for the general public; $10 for Middlebury College ID holders; and free for Middlebury College students with ID. “Mountains May Depart” in Middlebury. Saturday, April 29, 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium. An intensely moving study of how China’s economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned have affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love. In Cantonese with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series. (Zhangke Jia, China, 2015, 131 minutes). Free.

Water opera in Middlebury. Saturday, April 29, 8 p.m., Peterson Family Athletics Complex, Natatorium.

Middlebury College Artist-in-Residence Gabriel Forestieri, along with Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (composer) and Adrian Jevicki (writer/visual artist), transform Middlebury’s Natatorium with “Breathe,” a multidisciplinary performance event. The project is a contemporary water opera that combines song, movement, light, dance, water, music, and text. The cast is a mix of athletes, performers, and professionals contributing to an unconventional performance with many surprises. Tickets: Public $12, College ID holders $10, Students $6.

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Two friends, one act

JIM STAPLETON AND Diana Bigelow rehearse “Save Me A Place at Forest Lawn,” a one-act comedy they will perform at Bristol’s Lawrence Memorial Library on April 23.

April 29, 11 a.m., VFW, Exchange St. Have lunch while lots of baskets and gift certificate from local businesses are raffled off. First ticket, $5, additional tickets are $2 each, with 25 chances on each ticket. There will also be a 50/50 raffle, and special raffles and door prizes. Lunch and baked goods will be available. Hosted by Order of Eastern Star of Bristol/Brandon/Hinesburg/Chester.

Free backyard composting workshop in Middlebury. Saturday, April 29, 1:30 p.m., Addison County Solid Waste Management District, District Transfer Station, 1223 Route 7 South, Middlebury.

Workshop will cover the basics of backyard composting, and will have both an indoor presentation and an outdoor demonstration component.

Each participant will receive a voucher for a halfpriced Soil Saver Composter ($23, orig. $45) or a half-priced Green Cone Solar Digester ($63, orig. $125). To register, visit AddisonCountyRecycles. org, or call 802-388-2333. For questions, call and ask for Jaclyn Hochreiter.

Kingsland Bay Hike in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April 29. An easy 2-3 hour hike “on the level” into Kingsland Bay State Park, including both the developed and undeveloped portions and with, hopefully, an abundance of wildflowers. Bring water and a lunch. Contact David Andrews at 802.388.4894 or vtrevda@yahoo.com. For other events and activities visit www.gmcbreadloaf.org.

Bach Festival In Middlebury. Saturday, April 29, 3 p.m., the lawn, Mead Memorial Chapel.

The Festival continues with a carillon recital by Middlebury College carillonneur George Matthew, Jr. This recital is free and open to the public.

“Mountains May Depart” in Middlebury. Saturday, April 29, 3 p.m., Dana Auditorium. An intensely moving study of how China’s economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned have affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love. In Cantonese with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series. (Zhangke Jia, China, 2015, 131 minutes). Free.

Bach Festival In Middlebury. Saturday, April 29, at 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts.

Handel’s “Esther,” featuring a cast of Middlebury College Alumni, the Bach Festival Orchestra and Middlebury College Choir conducted by Jeffrey

SUNDAY

All-you-can-eat public breakfast in Vergennes. Sunday, April 30, 7:30-10 a.m., Masonic Lodge. Only $8 for Eggs, Bacon, Sausage, Pancakes, Blueberry Pancakes, French Toast, Home Fries, Waffles, Corned Beef Hash, Sausage, Gravy and Biscuits, Juice, Coffee and Tea. Proceeds from the breakfast are used to support various local community needs and organizations. Everyone is welcome.

Bach Festival in Middlebury. Sunday, April 30, 3 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts. Musicians from previous Middlebury Bach Festivals will perform a concert of chamber music.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Water opera in Middlebury. Sunday, April 30, 8 p.m., Peterson Family Athletics Complex, Natatorium.

Middlebury College Artist-in-Residence Gabriel Forestieri, along with Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (composer) and Adrian Jevicki (writer/visual artist), transform Middlebury’s Natatorium with “Breathe,” a multidisciplinary performance event. The project is a contemporary water opera that combines song, movement, light, dance, water, music, and text. The cast is a mix of athletes, performers, and professionals contributing to an unconventional performance with many surprises. Tickets: Public $12, College ID holders $10, Students $6.

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MONDAY

Kindergarten registration day in Bristol. Monday, May 1, 8:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m., Kindergarten classrooms, Bristol Elementary School. Registration is for all children who will be five years of age on or before September 1, 2017 FFA Open Greenhouses in Middlebury. Monday, May 1, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Garden Patch Greenhouse, Patricia Hannaford Career Center (PHCC), 51 Charles Ave. The beginning of FFA’s month-long plant sale. Sale continues each Saturday through the month of May. Also at Mount Abraham Union High School office on May 4 and Vergennes Union High School Main Office on May 12. Proceeds to benefit the FFA.

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TUESDAY

Blood pressure and foot care clinic in Brandon. Tuesday, May 2, 10 a.m., Forestdale Senior Center. Sponsored by VNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region. Cost is $10, no appointment necessary. For more info call 802-770-1536.

Kindergarten registration day in Bristol. Tuesday, May 2, 12:45-2:45 p.m., Kindergarten classrooms, Bristol Elementary School. Registration is for all children who will be five years of age on or before September 1, 2017.

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WEDNESDAY

“Paying for College” workshop in Middlebury. Wednesday, May 3, 6:30 p.m., Middlebury Union High School auditorium. New changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, are here. Find out what it means for your financial aid plans at this workshop, hosted by the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation.

Considering “Don Quixote” in Middlebury.

Wednesday, May 3, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library.

Celebrated literary critic and author Ilan Stavans will consider the impact of the masterful Don Quixote in the 401st anniversary year of author Miguel de Cervantes’s death. His talk, “Don Quixote of La Mancha: The Novel That Invented Modernity,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public.

May

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THURSDAY

Annual rummage sale in North Ferrisburgh. Thursday, May 4, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Free books information from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library will be available in the children’s room. Come see what it’s all about.

Proceeds benefit children and youth going to church summer camps and mission trips. Sale benefits everyone who enjoys rummage sale bargains! See you there.

Meal for seniors in Bristol. Thursday, May 4, noon, First Baptist Church of Bristol. Come enjoy the menu of baked ham, sweet potatoes, peas and carrots, homemade rolls, and blueberry dessert.

Come early to talk with friends and make new ones. Suggested donation is still $4. To sign up call Nancy 453-5276.

“Working” in Middlebury. Thursday, May 4, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The Middlebury Community Players presents the musical “Working,” a celebration of the men and women who keep America humming. Based on Studs Terkel’s landmark book compiled from interviews with hundreds of American workers, “Working” uses their stories to weave a tapestry of hopes, fears, ideals, realities, satisfactions, and disappointments. Song styles range from show tunes to ballads to down-anddirty blues. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the box office, 802 382-9222, or online at www. townhalltheater.org. More information about the production, as well as pictures and video clips can be found at middleburycommunityplayers.org

May

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FRIDAY

Personal Safety Fair in Bristol. Friday, May 5, all day. Mt. Abraham Union High School will host workshops and presentations by numerous organizations, creating a daylong, campus-wide event with a ‘personal safety’ theme for students. The fair, developed by faculty and students in partnership with the Youth Safety Council of Vermont and with support from Co-operative Insurance Companies, will showcase safety knowledge from across Vermont.

Hike at Watershed Center in Bristol. Friday, May 5, Bristol Watershed. Moderate 4-mile to cabin on ridge wit h possible extensions on side trails if group is interested. Meet at Watershed’s parking area (approximately 1.3 miles east of North Street, New Haven, on Plank Rd near the Bristol town line). Wear appropriate clothing; bring water, food and hiking poles if desired. Contact Ruth Penfield at ruthpenfield@gmail.com or at 802-3885407. For other events and activities visit www. gmcbreadloaf.org.

Annual rummage sale in North Ferrisburgh. Friday, May 5, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. North Ferrisburgh Methodist Church, 227 Old Hollow Road. Free books information from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library will be available in the children’s room. Come see what it’s all about. Proceeds benefit children and youth going to church summer camps and mission trips. Sale benefits everyone who enjoys rummage sale bargains! See you there.

Photography and woodcarving exhibit opening in Brandon. May 5, 5-7 p.m., Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St. The Brandon Artists Guild welcomes spring with a new exhibit — “Fish, Fowl & Flowers: Woodcarving and Photography.” Floral photographs by Richard Conrad and wildlife woodcarving by William Barnard will be on display. “Fish, Fowl & Flowers” runs May 3 through June 27th.

“Working” in Middlebury. Friday, May 5, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The Middlebury Community Players presents the musical “Working,” a celebration of the men and women who keep America humming. Based on Studs Terkel’s landmark book compiled from interviews with hundreds of American workers, “Working” uses their stories to weave a tapestry of hopes, fears, ideals, realities, satisfactions, and disappointments. Song styles range from show tunes to ballads to down-anddirty blues. Tickets are $23 ($18 for students with ID), and can be purchased at the box office, 802 382-9222, or online at www.townhalltheater.org.

More information about the production, as well as pictures and video clips can be found at middleburycommunityplayers.org.

Stargazing Open House in Middlebury. Friday, May 5, 9-10:30 p.m., Middlebury College Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall. The Observatory and Middlebury Physics host a stargazing open house, weather permitting. See Jupiter in the evening, and view a variety of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae through the Observatory’s telescopes. Observatory open house nights are free and open to the public if the sky is expected to be mostly clear. Please check the Observatory web site at http://go.middlebury.edu/observatory/ or call the Observatory at 443-2266 after 7 p.m. on the evening of the event for weather status.

L IV E M U S I C Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble in Middlebury.

Friday April 21, 8 p.m., 51 Main.

Erin Cassells-Brown Trio in Middlebury. Friday April 28, 7:30 p.m., 51 Main.

Root 7 in Middlebury. Saturday April 29, 6 p.m., 51 Main.

Red Tail Ring in Ripton. Saturday, May 6, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

Low Lilly in Ripton. Saturday, June 3, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

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Brain Bee winners face off in U.S. BRISTOL — Mount Abraham Union High School’s Aidan May, winner of the Vermont Brain Bee, participated in USA National Brain Bee Championship last month.

May, a junior at Mt. Abraham Union High School, matched wits in this neuroscience competition with teenagers who were winners from 51 chapters across 30 states.

The competition took place at the University of Maryland in Baltimore on March 17-19.

National Brain Bee participants were tested on their knowledge of the human brain, including such topics as intelligence, emotions, memory, sleep, vision, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, addiction and brain research.

The competition involved a practical exam identifying parts of real human brains, diagnosing brain diseases portrayed by patient actors, examination of brain cells, brain MRI imaging identification and an oral competition. The event was sponsored by the Department of Neural and Pain Sciences of the University of Maryland Dental School.

May finished the competition as 33rd out of 51 contestants. The winner, Sojas Wagle of Arkansas, will represent the United States at the World Brain Bee Championship in August.

May has participated in the Vermont Brain Bee for the past three years. Following his win in Vermont on Feb. 18, May was prepped for the National Brain Bee by VBB Committee members Sean Flynn, Ph.D., assistant professor of neurological sciences at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont; Riley St. Clair, neuroscience graduate student at UVM; and Sharon Leach, Ph.D., neuropsychologist at the Stern Center for Language

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MOUNT ABE JUNIOR Aidan May meets International Brain Bee founder Norbert Myslinski at the national Brain Bee in Baltimore last month.

and Learning. May exhibited strong knowledge in many areas tested in the National Brain Bee. “Participating in the National Brain Bee was definitely more challenging, but it was awesome and fun and the people there were incredible and smart,” May said.

“It was an exciting and amazing experience, I was honored to represent Vermont.”

Currently there are about 200 Brain Bee Chapters in about

40 countries in 6 continents.

Dr. Norbert Myslinski, a 2016 International Science Educator of the Year, founded the International Brain Bee in 1999.

“Its purpose is to motivate young students to learn about the human brain and inspire them to seek careers in the basic and clinical neurosciences to help treat and find cures for brain disorders,” Myslinski said. “We build better brains to fight brain disorders.”

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Helping others achieve academic success is nothing new to University of Virginia School of Law student Andrew Manns. A former teacher, Manns, a native of Leicester, Vt., is being honored for helping his peers with their academic work.

The Rosenbloom Award, established by Daniel Rosenbloom ’54 is given every year to honor a student with a strong academic record who has significantly enhanced the academic experience of other law students by volunteering support and assistance to them.

“I think it’s very natural for me to take on a role trying to mentor people and try to help them understand things,” Manns said. “I enjoy

that, and I get a lot out of it; I find it rewarding.”

Before coming to law school, Manns taught with Teach For America in Brooklyn, N.Y., for two years as a special education teacher. He also spent a year in Austin, Tx., helping the school with special education, and as a reading and writing teacher.

“Andrew Manns is a wonderful choice to be the recipient of the Rosenbloom Award,” said Sarah Davies, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs. “He has worked hard in law school but he has taken the time to develop relationships with his peers and he is always finding ways to help them. Andrew freely gives of himself, and has enhanced our law school community through

Poet readings to be hosted on Saturday VERGENNES — In celebration of National Poetry Month, Northern Daughters, on 221 Main St., will host a poetry reading by two local poets on April 22 at 5:30 p.m. Karla Van Vliet and Karin Gottshall will give readings for their new work.

Van Vliet’s most recent book is “The River From My Mouth” (Shanti Arts, 2016). She is an Edna

St. Vincent Millay Poetry Prize finalist and was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, The Tishman Review, Green Mountains Review, Cronnog Magazine and numerous other journals. Van Vliet is a co-founder and editor of deLuge Journal, a literary and arts journal, as well as the administrator of the New

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Manns holds a degree in Government from Dartmouth College.

While at the Law School he has served on the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, was an articles editor for the “Virginia Law Review” and has worked as a research assistant.

“I was very surprised and honored to receive the award,” Manns said.

“It was nice to hear all the nice things that were said about me. It was a very pleasant surprise.”

After graduation, Manns will clerk for Judge T.S. Ellis III in the Eastern District of Virginia and then for Judge William Fletcher on the Ninth Circuit.

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(Continued from Page 1A) Vermont. He clerked for attorney Dan are prosecuted, particularly the Davis in Brattleboro, and passed the processes for substance abusers and bar exam. people with mental health problems.

The first major full-time gig for “This is the first job I’ve loved the newly minted criminal lawyer since owning my own nightclub,” came in 2013, when he was hired as Wygmans said during a recent an Addison County deputy state’s interview. “Working as a prosecutor attorney. is very rewarding in a lot of ways.”

“I had never pictured myself being He had grown accustomed to late a courtroom lawyer,” Wygmans nights operating Club Toast, which said. “I really thought I’d be a introduced Vermont to a number of ‘corporate, behind-the-scenes, doingtalented bands during its six-year the-deals guy.’ The bandleader, not run. Now Wygmans is learning member. I was always a behindthat a state’s attorney can also keep the-scenes person. The criminal strange hours. His interview with law thing was something totally the Independent began at 8:30 a.m., new, but it’s very interesting work, and he had already been on the job it is, I dare say, entertaining. There for around five hours, working with are always intellectual challenges, police in the aftermath of a high- factual challenges. I am one of those speed chase in Bristol. people who thrives in a challenging CHANGING PATHS atmosphere. I have really enjoyed it.

But it comes with the territory, and I have made the right choice.”

Wygmans has shown himself to be Wygmans became the office’s point adaptable. person in prosecuting sex crimes and The University of Vermont domestic violence cases. It is the latter graduate has always loved the music category of crimes that Wygmans scene. He spun records at UVM’s found most perplexing. radio station, WRUV 90.1 FM, and “I think people in the general freelanced as a disc community tend jockey at nightspots to miscomprehend “I think people around Burlington. what the motivations “I has always in the general are in a number wanted to work community tend to of those offenses, in that industry, miscomprehend what and it’s hard to see from when I was a the motivations are people purposefully child,” he recalled. put themselves “I attended a lot in a number of those in harm’s way of concerts and offenses, and it’s and remain in a was fascinated hard to see people very destructive by the production purposefully put environment,” and promotion of themselves in harm’s Wygmans said of a show. I knew a domestic cases. way and remain in lot of musicians. It “That’s what a lot of seemed like a natural a very destructive victims of domestic environment. That’s progression.” violence do. I am He and his what a lot of victims not judging anyone brother, Justin, of domestic violence … but it’s still hard decided to become do. I am not judging to watch, and it’s invested in the local hard to see happen.” entertainment during anyone … but it’s After three the early 1990s, still hard to watch, years on the job in when they opened and it’s hard to see Addison County, Club Toast.

Wygmans wanted happen.”

“It was really — Dennis Wygmans to broaden the scope popular,” Wygmans of his legal work. So said. “We (featured) this past December, bands from all over the planet. That he successfully applied for a deputy was our deal.” state’s attorney job in Chittenden But the brothers arrived at a County, where he began taking on a crossroads in 1998. In order to really wide range of criminal cases. prosper, they felt they needed to His departure from the Frank either put on bigger shows at larger Mahady Courthouse was short-lived, venues, or expand their small empire however. to include other bars.

On his way out the door, Wygmans “It’s hard to make it off of just one had applied for the Addison County’s venture,” Wygmans said. “My brother top prosecutor job when David didn’t have much of a stomach for Fenster was named to a Vermont doing larger concert production. The Superior Court judgeship. risk was just too much for him to Gov. Peter Shumlin picked handle. And we didn’t really want to Wygmans from a list that included be in the bar business.” longtime Addison County Deputy So Justin went into construction State’s Attorney Chris Perkett. and Dennis — following a brief Shumlin named Wygmans to the detour to Massachusetts — began job this past January. He said he studying law at Seton Hall University and Perkett continue to have a good in New Jersey in 2001. working relationship.

His goals were to practice “I told Chris before I put my hat entertainment-related law and into the ring,” Wygmans said. represent artists trying to sign with He knows his way around the record labels. The vocation had local courthouse, so he hasn’t had to potential when Wygmans entered law negotiate a learning curve. school, but it faded due to several “I like the pace here. You can factors: People began to download spend some real time on cases,” music through the Internet, and Wygmans said. the Telecommunications Act of ON THE JOB 1996 allowed media companies to The county’s new state’s attorney, consolidate radio stations and blocks in just less than four months, has of artists. already put his imprint on the office.

“It eroded independent music in He’s implementing a new drivingmany ways,” Wygmans said of the with-suspended-license (DLS) new federal law. “Then you had the policy for offenders that allows downloading on top of it and a very them to get back on the road if they poor industry response to that.” comply with a contract that includes At the same time, entertainment paying off their fines. lawyers saw their insurance rates go “We’ve moved toward a policy up precipitously, due in part to what of forgiveness if someone can be Wygmans called the “puffery” that reinstated in a six-month period some in the industry practiced. after arrest,” Wygmans said, “Some “It became very expensive to get people have taken advantage of it insurance to represent artists, if you already.” were going to shop them, and a lot of The main advantages of the new firms were not going to shop artists policy, according to Wygmans: any longer,” Wygmans said.

Getting people back in the driver’s Still, Wygmans eventually caught seat helps them remain employed. on with a large firm in New York City “Handing out tickets one after the that prepared and reviewed contracts. other hasn’t done anything for that He was working long hours for a particular individual when they have nice paycheck. But he was among reached a point of criminal DLS,” the many corporate lawyers laid off Wygmans said. “We are in a rural during the economic crisis in 2009. county; people are going to drive.”

He and his spouse, Nicole, had just He also told the Independent of had a child. He didn’t want to work his plans for a “treatment court” for again in corporate law, which he offenders struggling with addiction. found “very boring.”

Eligible defendants would be those ON THE MOVE considered high-risk for relapses, So the family decided to roll the and who have been judged as dice on its next adventure. good prospects for sticking with “We figured we’d pick a spot to a treatment program, according to move between Philadelphia and Wygmans.

Portland, Maine,” Wygmans recalled.

If the defendant fails the program, Their destination was set when he or she is essentially assured jail Nicole found a job as a dean at time, according to Wygmans.

Marlboro College in Brattleboro.

There’s not enough money to make Since Wygmans is a native Vermonter the new program fly in Addison who grew up in Jericho, he was happy County, so it will be coordinated up to come back home. north.

But he needed to sort out his next “We have gotten a commitment career move. from the folks in Chittenden County “I did a couple months of soul to take our cases,” he said. “That’s searching,” Wygmans said. still in the works, but we expect He decided to go into criminal law, by this summer to be able to offer but needed a license to practice in people who qualify the option (of a

(Continued from Page 1A) sessions in his 15 years in the House.

Baser took a stab at interpreting his colleague’s comment, in his absence. He theorized that an almost complete turnover in key leadership posts in Montpelier — including House speaker, Senate president pro tem and governor — has temporarily slowed

communication and therefore productivity.

“Even with the brightest people in those scenarios, it takes time to get the engine warmed up,” Baser said.

“A lot of bills haven’t moved off the wall. I think that will get better.”

Ayer agreed.

“There are a lot of new people and names,” Ayer said. “We haven’t developed those relationships yet.”

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NEW ADDISON COUNTY State’s Attorney Dennis Wygmans has had an interesting career, beginning in the entertainment industry, before being appointed to the top prosecutor’s job in January.

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treatment court).”

He expects a fairly small number of people will qualify for the new court due to its tough acceptance standards.

“It’s a rigorous vetting progress,” Wygmans said. “You meet twice with the judge (in Chittenden County) and give progress reports. You have to show real progress in changing your life. It can take a long time — two or three years. In some cases, it might be easier to just go to jail than to engage in this process. But for those who are committed, there’s a very high success rate.”

Another one of Wygmans’ priorities: Devising a “mental health option” for defendants whose offenses can be linked to mental health issues. Wygmans is working with the Counseling Service of Addison County to design such a program.

“I think our responses to mental health are woefully inadequate,” he said. “(Criminal court) is the only solution available now.”

Since taking the top job, Wygmans has been looking at local crime trends. One such trend, according

to Wygmans, has been a spike in drunken-driving cases. He believes the county could benefit from a renewed education campaign on the dangers of drinking and driving.

He is also concerned about the number of drug-related cases he is seeing.

“Drug abuse is tearing people apart,” he said.

Asked to describe his philosophy on punishment in criminal cases, Wygmans gave the following response: “If it’s a violent case, I’m not going to show a lot of compassion. But when it comes to petty crimes, I’d rather see (a punishment) that leads someone down a path to rehabilitation, as opposed to incarceration. Jail can be a pretty disruptive force.”

Wygmans is looking forward to spending a lot of time in the courtroom during the months and years to come. He’s had his fill of nightclubs and law firm suites.

“I think I can safely say, having practiced in a few different areas, that there’s no job as an attorney that’s as fun as working in criminal law,” Wygmans said.

(Continued from Page 1A) voiced his frustration that the latest effort has stalled.

“What’s the alternative (to legalization)?” Silberman asked lawmakers. “There are 108,000 Vermonters who use marijuana annually, they spend about $200 million a year in the black market with criminal drug dealers. If we are not going to legalize, what are we going to do?”

Lawmakers at Monday’s breakfast said they did not see a rush to tackle the issue in 2017.

“We’ll have to live with the situation we have now until next

year,” Baser said. “There’s no alternative.”

Bray agreed that passing a pot bill is not in the cards until 2018, at the soonest.

“When a controversial bill like this is pulled off the floor, that is probably it for this session because there is not the will in the building to take it up and pass it out of the House,” Bray said. “There’s nothing coming to the Senate, and the Senate won’t, in the closing three weeks, take up a bill of that scale and send something over to the House.”

Vaccinations (Continued from Page 1A) vaccinations for their children based on philosophical reasons.

Parents can still refuse shots for their children based on religious and medical reasons. Addison resident John Ball urged lawmakers to reverse their decision on the philosophical exemption, pointing to research he said links some vaccinations to serious medical conditions, including autism.

Ball added there appear to be more sick children in the United States since the late 1980s, when Congress passed legislation exempting vaccine manufacturers from liability.

“There’s a huge fire with a lot of smoke that needs to be looked at again,” Ball said of the issue.

Ayer has become very familiar with the issue as a chair of the Senate Health & Welfare. She questioned the credibility of studies asserting health risks from vaccinations.

“The issue is about ‘herd immunity,’” Ayer said of the importance of immunizations. In essence, a disease can more easily take root in a population with a large group of children who have not been vaccinated, Ayer said.

Lawmakers also addressed H.3, the so-called “green burial bill,” that would reduce the minimum burial depth for a body from the current 5 feet to 3.5 feet. Advocates believe the lower burial threshold will better facilitate decomposition.

The measure passed the House and was expected to get a green light from the senate this week.

Gov. Phil Scott will be the featured speaker at the next legislative breakfast on Monday, April 24, at St. Peter’s Parish Hall in Vergennes. Like all of the breakfasts it start at 7 a.m., with the program beginning at 7:30 a.m. and ending at 8:45 a.m.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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Weight loss gives opportunity for teaching

By GAEN MURPHREE BRISTOL — Mount Abraham Union High School Assistant Principal Justin Bouvier does a lot in his job to help young people.

This past year, Bouvier has found yet another way to help kids grow through sometimes difficult passageways. He’s been upfront about his struggles with obesity and the entire school has witnessed his transformation. He said kids have not been shy about telling him they noticed the change A year ago Bouvier weighed 327 pounds. Today he weighs 177.

Bouvier’s story of losing 150 pounds demonstrates the same willingness to build on strengths

and assess weaknesses he asks from students all the time.

When he decided a year ago he wanted to achieve a healthier weight, he tackled the challenge on all fronts.

Bouvier enlisted friend and Bristol Elementary PE teacher Michaela Wisell to run two miles with him every day. They’re still running, and he’s added yoga to the mix.

He worked with nutritionists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and took a long hard look at the emotional roots of overeating.

Over the first six months of his new regime, he lost 70 pounds. He opted for gastric bypass surgery in August and continued to lose weight.

Today Bouvier packs a cooler

stocked with healthy food every day he comes to work.

“I eat lunch in the cafeteria and kids are fascinated by what I bring.

They’ll say, ‘So what are you eating for lunch?’” said Bouvier. “So I open my little cooler and out comes my celery sticks and my sunflower butter and my sliced turkey or whatever I’m eating for the day.”

Students’ questions lead in turn to easy conversations about healthy eating habits.

But Bouvier’s dramatic physical change has continued to inspire deeper conversations with kids as well.

“I always relate it back to when they’re like ‘Well I can’t possibly

change’ and I’m like ‘Oh really?

Talk to me about that.’

“And they’ll say, ‘Well you’ve changed, right? You’ve changed your weight.’ And I’ll say, ‘Yep. And I’ve changed my eating habits and my lifestyle and my exercise patterns and it was hard. It’s really hard.’

“Change is some of the hardest work that we have to do as a human beings,” Bouvier added, And his inevitable questions for a kid is, “What changes can we make to make your education experience better? What strengths do you have that are leading to the changes you want to make?”

“Those are really powerful conversations,” he said.

JUSTIN BOUVIER

don’t want to go to Broadway. I want to work with kids.’ It was my aha! moment.”

Bouvier got a math degree but struck out on his first application to join the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union math team. Then just four days before school began in 2011, he got a call. A high school math teacher had suddenly resigned, and the school wanted him pronto.

“I said yes.”

Bouvier began teaching on a provisional license and enrolled in the graduate education program at St. Michael’s College. He began putting in the coursework needed for certification, while also acquiring his license through Vermont’s peer review process.

He loved teaching, but felt he’d be able to have more of an impact as an administrator. So he kept up his coursework at St. Mike’s and graduated in 2016 with a Master’s in School Leadership and Administration.

Bouvier credits Centerbar and Logan-Robnett and many other generous colleagues for helping him have the confidence to become an educator. Likewise he credits a number of Mount Abe administrators for encouraging his interest in school leadership and giving him opportunities to serve and learn.

When Andy Kepes was Mount Abe principal, he scheduled a weekly spot for Bouvier to work alongside him on his administrative rounds.

Gaynell Lyman, Kepes’s successor as principal, hired Bouvier as the school’s administrative liaison (a position similar to dean of students) for the 2014-2015 academic year.

In 2015-2016, Bouvier returned to teaching. Last summer he was hired as dean of students. In late

December, he was appointed interim assistant principal. On March 28, he officially got the job and dropped “interim” from his title.

Bouvier credits Lyman especially with helping him find how to lead with confidence, learn from mistakes, and refocus complaints as problem solving opportunities.

She also guided him to focus on the positive.

“We focus so hard on what we don’t do very well, ” Bouvier said, “or what a student might have done that was bad instead of like, ‘But did that student make it through 45 minutes of class and before they’d only made it through 15? So that’s a win.’ So really getting the small victories and knowing that those mean the world to students.”

Those small victories, Bouvier believes, lead to the kind of “aha!” moments that can turn kids’ lives around.

“It’s all about building that relationship with the student and celebrating what they are, helping them to identify what their strengths are,” he said.

“I always say to students, ‘I still love you as much when you leave this office after you’ve done something wrong as I did when you came in.’ I let them know ‘I’m still going to support you, and we’re going to work through this challenge instead of run away from it or sweep it under the carpet.’”

Adults can get impatient, Bouvier said, when a disruptive behavior doesn’t change right away. But he said it’s his job to point out the steps forward.

“To draw the ‘aha!’ moments for everybody to see is really powerful.”

Gaen Murphree is reached at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

Bouvier (Continued from Page 1A) With all that time to think Bouvier got to asking himself, “When am I the happiest?” The answer: “When I was teaching kids.”

One particular moment stood out most clearly.

“I was reflecting on that moment in the pool when a kid learns to float.

And I remember distinctly sitting in my hospital bed going, ‘What brings you joy?’ and it’s that moment of looking into that kid’s eyes when you let your hand drop from the back of their head and they’re floating by themselves and they know they are and it’s like sheer joy and jubilation that they’re experiencing in that one moment and knowing that I helped create that moment.”

A lifelong thespian, Bouvier also knew he loved the time he’d put working with kids on theater projects.

Newly inspired, Bouvier landed a job at Mount Abe middle school as a special education program assistant, or “paraeducator.”

Paras support special education students in the classroom, typically working one on one or with a small group of students. The job requires only a high school diploma.

Bouvier loved the work so much he stayed for six years.

But all that time, colleague mentors saw his talent as an educator and kept nudging him to move out of his comfort zone, go get a college degree and become a teacher. Chief among these friends and nudgers were English teacher Lori Centerbar and math teacher Janet LoganRobnett.

“Every year Lori would have a conversation with me through tears and say, ‘Go get your degree,’” Bouvier recalled. “And I would say, ‘No. I’m just not cut out to be

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a teacher. I’m happy with the para work.’”

When Centerbar moved on to a job at another school and Bouvier was reassigned to the high school, Logan-Robnett took up the cry.

“Every day she would say, ‘Please, I am begging you. Get your teaching license.’

“She really pushed,” Bouvier said.

“And finally in 2008, I left Mount Abe and went to Castleton.”

Initially, Bouvier pursued a theater degree and took math classes simply because he loved the subject and it was an easy credit.

Then the head of the Castleton math department tapped him to be a tutor in Castleton’s afterschool math program for grade schoolers.

“I fell completely in love. And I was like, ‘This is clearly what I want to do. I don’t want to be a para. I

WELLNESS CENTER

Duo performs 1-act in Bristol BRISTOL — Veteran actors Jim Stapleton and Diana Bigelow will stage a one-act comedy-drama to benefit the Lawrence Memorial Library this Sunday, April 23. “Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn” will be performed at the library, at 40 North St. in Bristol, beginning at 2 p.m.

“Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn” is a fun and touching play about friendship. Two old women, Clara and Gertrude, friends for 40 years, meet daily for lunch. They gossip, they complain, and, at long last, they share secrets.

Bigelow performed the play 17 years ago in Washington state with her good friend Marilyn Welch. This winter, in casting about for a spring project, she came up with a novel idea. She approached her husband, Jim.

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) 44 minutes and 7 seconds. Yikes that’s six minutes and 16 seconds per mile for mile after mile after mile. Smith finished 303 out of more than 26,000 finishers, and was 33rd in his division.

Looking for something to do this Earth Day — Saturday, April 22?

There will be a “March for Science” rally in Montpelier from noon-1:30 p.m. on the Vermont Statehouse lawn. Community members of all backgrounds, professions, ages, disabilities and identities will rally to celebrate science and to demand support for science research, innovation and exploration, education, and evidence-based policies for the public good. It will be one of more than 500 March for Science events happening around the world on Earth Day. In the spirit of spring cleaning, anyone who would like to donate good, clean, usable items to the Congregational Church of Cornwall’s annual spring tag sale is invited to do so. Please contact Nancy Kemp at 462-2370. (No clothes, please!) If you want to fill up that closet you just emptied, the sale is slated for May 6, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

If you wish to support the One World Library Project, which brings lots of interesting speakers to Bristol’s Lawrence Memorial Library, you can also support a local business while you’re supporting the project. Gather some friends and dine at the Bobcat Cafe on Bristol’s Main Street next Wednesday, April

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“How about reviving ‘Forest Lawn?’” she asked him. “This time I play Gertrude and you play Clara?”

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“If it was good enough for Shakespeare, it’s good enough for me,” he said.

Like “The Gin Game” and “Love Letters,” which they performed last year to benefit “Let’s Hear It for Holley Hall.” “Forest Lawn” works well as a staged reading. It also gives Bigelow and Stapleton another opportunity to work together and to raise money for worthy local causes.

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 National Volunteer Week  Addison Independent, Thursday, April 20, 2017 — PAGE 13A

Getting involved in our community ADDISON COUNTY — RSVP is a volunteer management program that connects individuals who would like to volunteer with local non-profit organizations in need of support. The impact of becoming involved is far reaching for many — for volunteers who make a commitment to helping, for agencies working toward their mission and for community members who are served.

Each year, RSVP volunteers donate approximately $2 million in support to the Addison County community.

RSVP is part of Senior Corps, the largest volunteer network for people age 55 and over, with more than 300,000 volunteers serving nationwide. RSVP also provides special programs that support healthy aging.

RSVP gives clients the opportunity to choose how and where they want to

support and guidance that inspires our community to embrace aging with confidence!”

RSVP works with approximately 100 non-profit agencies, each with a different set of volunteer needs.

Members who join and are active with RSVP stay connected to the needs of the community in numerous ways, and are recognized for their contributions every year.

Volunteers benefit from the many rewards that come from staying

involved, including providing a sense of purpose, building relationships, learning new skills, reducing stress and having fun. Moreover, it provides the opportunity to learn about and shape the community on a day-to-day basis.

For more information on available opportunities (a sampling of spring opportunities follows) visit www. volunteermatch.com or to schedule an appointment, please contact RSVP at 388-7044 or rsvpadddison@

HILDA BURNHAM PLAYS Scrabble with some Middlebury sixth-graders who volunteer at Project Independence twice a month.

serve, the amount of time they want to give, and whether or not they want to draw on their skills or develop new ones. It’s a rewarding process for clients who find their match and for agencies who greatly value their contributions.

One example is RSVP’s relationship with the organization Age Well.

“RSVP is an integral part Age Well’s Meals on Wheels program,” A SIXTH-GRADER FROM Cathy Byers’ class at Mary Hogan Elementary School works on a puzzle with Arlene Rougier at Project Indepen- said Meals on Wheels Program Coordinator Tracy Corbett. “In dence in Middlebury.

March alone, Addison County volunteers generously shared over 300 hours of their time, delivering over 3,700 Meals, making friendly visits, helping with transportation, shopping and more.

“Volunteers play an instrumental role in Age Well’s ability to reach the increasing number of aging adults who benefit from the wide array of services provided. Thanks to the DURING A RECENT game at Elderly Services, Barbara Sabourin plays partnership with RSVP, we are able with Bob Kemp and a Mary Hogan School sixth-grader, whose class has to fulfill our mission of providing the made friends while volunteering at the Middlebury ESI clubhouse.

There are many ways is right for them, so it is essential that volunteers are able to suspend judgment and listen compassionately.

Volunteers must also be able to abide by confidentiality guidelines so that schools contribute artwork and visit all visitors feel safe and comfortable the event to view artwork and attend coming to the center. peer and professional workshops and performances.

Helping Hand Volunteers SITA will take place at the Needed Middlebury College Center for the Project Independence, a part of Arts. Volunteers are needed for 3-hour Elderly Services in Middlebury, is shifts on Wednesday, May 31, or seeking volunteers to participate in Thursday, June 1, from 8:30-11:30 activities with their guests. These are a.m. or 11:15 a.m.-2:15 p.m. simple, fun activities such as playing scrabble, helping with table bowlEarly Literacy Advocacy ing, ring toss or indoor Nerf tennis, Addison County Readers Inc. and taking residents on daily walks.

(ACR) is a volunteer organization that There are many other opportunities promotes child hood literacy through its mailing of free books from Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to young children, ages 0-5. Children who are registered for the program receive a new, age-appropriate book each month at no cost to the family. ACR is looking for volunteers to assist with the following: Recruiting children from Addison County, fund raising, serving as a liaison between ACR and your town, creating and distributing promotional materials, assisting with public relations events.

you can become involved in our community. Here is a small sampling of RSVP’s spring volunteer opportunities: ACAF is Looking for Volunteers The Addison Community Athletics Foundation (ACAF) is looking for volunteers to support tennis and other healthy activities for youth, adults, and families in Addison County.

Individuals volunteering with ACAF will have the opportunity to be a part of outreach and ensure programs are accessible the community. ACAF programs occur on site at schools, in partnership with local recreation programs, as well as at Middlebury Indoor Tennis. There are 2- to 3-hour shifts during special events, programs, tennis activities, or at the front desk.

Wednesday Morning Driver Needed The John Graham Housing and Services in Vergennes is seeking a volunteer to help pick up a local food donation and deliver it to the organization one time per week. Pick-up and delivery will take place on Wednesday mornings before 9 a.m. Staff will be available to help volunteers unload their car and the total time commitment of the pick-up and delivery would be approximately one half hour.

The support is greatly appreciated.

Classroom Aides A handful of local elementary schools, childcare centers and after school programs are seeking classroom aides for the 2017-2018 school year. The Foster Grandparent Program (FGP) is a federally funded program that has successfully placed thousands of volunteers in schools nationwide.

Individuals must be at least 55 and willing to work a minimum of 15 hours/week. Participants receive travel reimbursement, 50 paid vacation/sick days and a tax-free hourly stipend if they qualify. Sign up this spring to begin in the fall.

Meals on Wheels Drivers Needed Age Well’s Meals on Wheels Program is looking for volunteers to deliver hot, nutritious meals to elder neighbors, allowing them to remain independent and in their homes. This is a vital and very rewarding volunteer opportunity. Please tell your friends.

Routes are available throughout Addison County. Full training and

support will be provided.

Visitor Center Volunteers The Addison County Chamber of Commerce operates a Visitors Center located at 93 Court St., Middlebury.

Volunteers are needed to assist the full time staff with administrative duties and to help direct visitors. Volunteers need to be personable, have basic computer skills and enjoy talking to visitors about how wonderful Addison County is!

Volunteer Drivers Addison County Transit Resources, better known as ACTR, is seeking volunteer drivers to safely transport residents of Addison County to necessary services. Volunteers must have at least five years driving experience and have clean background checks.

Volunteers will be helping vulnerable populations such as the elderly and the disabled, as well as disadvantaged families who require medical transports. ACTR also transports critical care patients for dialysis, radiation and chemotherapy. Volunteer drivers are provided with an orientation and Classroom Support ongoing training and supervision.

The Otter Creek Child Center is They also receive mileage reimburse- seeking volunteers to help out in their interactive classrooms. Volunteers ment of 56 cents per mile. would collaborate with teachers, parents and children in an environment Do you love to garden?

HOPE is looking for volunteers to that fosters a love of learning through manage and harvest their small garden imaginative and creative play. Daily this season. This position would take tasks could include holding infants, place from April through as late as reading books to children, preparOctober, but offer flexibility. Both ing snacks and meals, and providing garden resources and supplies would support with household chores. be provided.

Administrative Support Lead Activities /Visit with The Turning Point Center is a peerResidents at Living Well to-peer recovery center that provides We are looking for volunteers who a welcoming, safe, sober space for are interested in running an activity or anyone in or seeking recovery from program at Living Well in Bristol. Do addiction, as well as the family you have a skill or interest that you’d members and friends of those struglike to share with residents? We have gling with addiction. The center is many activities that are extremely easy looking for caring, friendly volunteers to facilitate. Full training provided. to greet visitors when they enter, keep track of attendance for meetings, and Help with Spring into the do some light cleaning and organizArts - A Celebration of the ing. The ability to come to a regular, 2- to 4-hour shift each week is imporArts in ACSU Schools Spring into the Arts (SITA) relies on tant, and good communication with volunteers to serve as greeters, hosts, the volunteer coordinator is essential. and to direct students and other guests Visitors to the center may be at any to workshops and art exhibits. All point in their journey to recovery, ACSU schools and many area private and they may be on whichever path

Food delivery

from which to choose, such as read- Super Scrubbers Needed ing, playing cards or arts and crafts.

Homeward Bound is seeking volunA Helping Hand Volunteer can come teers to provide the following: in as frequently or occasionally as the Condo Cat Companions: individual wishes. daily socialization, exercise, and enrichment for cats residing in cat Open Door Clinic condos. Regular weekly ,1- to 5-hour Volunteers commitment during the noon-5 p.m.

The Open Door Clinic is seeking window. licensed physicians, nurses, and mediWagging Dog Walkers: cal practitioners for primary patient provide shelter dogs with regular care at the free clinic. MDs, NPs, RNs, exercise and social interaction. Must LPNs, PTs, massage therapists, chiro- be available 8-10 a.m., 11 a.m.-1 p.m., practors, and mental health profes- or 3-5 p.m. sionals are all welcome. Spanish interSuper Scrubbers: provide preters are also encouraged to call. support to shelter staff in the daily cleaning chores that accompany Condo Cat Companions, caring for the animals. Must be availWagging Dog Walkers and able from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

STEVE KETCHAM, LEADER of Middlebury Knights of Columbus Council No. 642, gets ready to deliver a truck load of food to the social service organization HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects). The donation was raised by members of the organization participating in a worldwide K of C project called “40 Cans For Lent.”

On each of the 40 Days of Lent members set aside one can of food for those in need as part of their observation of the time leading up to Easter. On Holy Saturday, the last day of Lent, Ketcham gathered the donations and then transported them to HOPE.

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A Claire Adams, Gretchen Adsit, Celina Aiguier, Pierre Akpo-Sani, Rob Alberts, Ashley Aldrich, Elizabeth Aldrich, Tricia Allen, Ursula Alwang, Rebecca Ambachew, Conrad Ambrette, Declan Anderson, Betty Anderson, Pat Anderson, Barbara Andres, Glenn Andres, Jonathan Andrews, David Andrews, Jeanine Angier, Julie Arel, Jacqueline Arel, Chuck Arel, Jeannette Armell, Anza Armstrong, Dylan Arthaud, Laura Asermily, Sarah Ashe, Ginny Ashenfelter, Carrie Askren, Shanon Atkins, Leon Aubin, Janis Audet, Nelson Audet.

B Charlie Bain, Dinah Bain, Marissa Baker, Mary Baker, Anne Baldwin, Ruth Barenbaum, Simon Barenbaum, Jan Bark, Irene Barna, James Barnard, Margaret Barnes, Carrie Barrows, Barret Barrows, Lily Barter, Laura Bashor, Julie Basol, Megan Battey, Sandi Bauer, Wendy Beach, Hannah Beach, Eileen Bearor, David Bearor, Alyse Beauchemin, Monique Bedard, Laura Begnoche, Eloise Beil, Margie Bekoff, Cindy Belanger, Fred Belanger, Craig Bemis, Colby Benjamin, David Bennett, Anna Rose Benson, Hannah Benz, Celeste Berenbaum, Melody Berenbaum, Pam Berenbaum, Art Berenbaum, Sue Bergmans, Tyler Bergmans, Lance Bergmans, Luke Bergmans, Susan Berkenbush, Bowie Berloso, John Berninghausen, Alice Berninghausen, Richard Bernstein, Ashley Bessette, Anna Betz, Dorothea Beyer, Bev Biello, Lesley Bienvenue, Victoria Bigay, John Billard, Anita Bilodeau, Isaac Bilodeau, Gertrude Bingham, Joan Bingham, Robert Bingham, Polly Birdsall, Lynn Bisbee, Margaret Bishop, Catherine Bissonette, Brenda Blacklock, Jim Blair, Cathy Blaise, Judith Blake, Beverly Blakeney, Christine Blakeney, Gail Blasius, Victoria Blewer, Kyler Blodgett, Barbara Blodgett, Leslie Blow, Abby Blyler, Kathy Boe, Paulette Bogan, Janet Bogdan, Lynne Boie, Cassandra Boise, Renee Bolduc, Joy Bora, Niles Bora, Dan Borden, Claire Borre, Lindi Bortney, Paul Bortz, Brenda Boule, Clement Bourgon, Phyllis Bowdish, Lisa Boyle, Sarah Boyle, Suzanne Boyle, Richard Brach, Marie Bradbury, Chris Bradford, Linda Braginton, Gayl Braisted, Tor Brakeley, Jody Brakeley, Katherine Branch, Angela Brande, David Breen, Carolyn Brewer, Mary Louise Bright, Betty Brileyea, Ian Brons, Olivia Brooks, Adelaide Brooks, Catherine Brooks, Josh Brooks, Ann Brousseau, Roland Browe, Michele Brown, Brandy Brown, Guinevere Brownell, Gillian Brunola, Kelley Brunola, Charlene Bryant, Constance Bumbeck, Stan Bunal, Leigah Burbo, Chuck Burdick, Susan Burdick, Matthew Burkins, Cindy Burnett, Richard Burnett, Susan Burns, Gale Burns, Juliet Burroughs, Joan Burt, Jane Burton, Melonie Bushey, Tim Buskey, Kay Bussiere, Barbara Butler, Crispin Butler, Bruce Byers, Sue Byers, Robert Byrne.

C Tomas Caballero, Jean Cadoret, Charlotte Cahillane, Peg Calder, Ashley Calkins, Anne Callahan, Duncan Campbell, Margaret Carothers, Barbara Carson, Samuel Cartwright, Joanne Casey, Lea Cassidy, Mary Ann Castimore, Holly Catlin, Dick Catlin, Nick Causton, Nancy Chamberlain, Mary Jo Champlin, William Chandler, Virginia Charman, Maureen Charron, Charlotte Chase, Malcolm Chase, Patricia Chase, Carol Chatfield, Rebecca Chauvin, Tina Chen, Michele Chester, Sandy Chicoine, Ronnie Chirnoff, Teresa Churchill, Maura Clancy, Tony Clark, David Clark, Christine Clark, Jason Clark, Judith Clark, Karen Clayman, Liz Cleveland, Fern Cloutier, Lionel Cloutier, Pauline Cloutier, Kathy Coakley, Lealoni Coathup, Rachel Codding, Eleanor Coeby, Roberta Coffin, Hal Cohen, Linda Cohen, Derek Cohen, Chelsea Colby, Mary Cole, Judy Cole, Suzanne Colley, Arthur Colley, Jim Collier, Anne Collins, Mary Lew Collins, Rebecca Colon, Karen Colvin, Mary Conlon, Bill Connor, Maureen Conrad, Moira Cook, Ann E. Cooper, John Corbett, Mary Corbett, Tracy Corbett, Donna Corcoran, Eileen Corcoran, Diane Cota, Patricia Coursey, Casey Covey, Peggy Cox, Frank Cramton, Mary Ruth Crawford, Meg Crosby, Sandra Crossman, Ann Crumb, Jon Crystal, William Cunningham, Thomas Curran, Timothy Curran, Rose Curran, Richard Curran, Lillian Curran, Elizabeth Curran, Ann Curran, Dan Currier, April Cutsinger.

D Amanda DaFonte, Dan Dale, Claudette Dale, John Dale, Dawn Daly, Barbara Darling, Kristyn Dash, Pat Davies, Maya Davis, Beth Davis, Craig Davis, Martha Davis, Matt Daylor, Becky Dayton, Xander DeBlois, Leola Deering, Lyn Degraff, Tae DeGray, Caroline DeLisle, Zeb Delphia, Corie DeMatties, Jane Demers, Hannah Demming, Ed DeMott, Irene Denis, Glenna M. Densman, Leslie Deppman, Ceci Desautels, Kathy Desjardon, Virginia Desrocher, Karlene Devine, Marty Dewees, Ashley Dewey, Beth Diamond, Deborah Dickerson, Martha Dier, Sylvia Dixon, David Dodge, Mary Dodge, Kevin Dong, Lynn Donnelly, Michael Donnelly, Robert Donnis, Cliff “Bucky” Douglas, Dorothy Douglas, J. Douglas Dows, Melissa Dragon, Lydia Dragon, Jillian Dragon, Francisca Drexel, Sandy Driscoll, Naomi Drummond, Jay Dubberly, Kathleen Duclos, Ann DuclosCollier, Cindi Duff, John Dugan, Sue Dula, Jillian Duncan-Taylor, Dot Dunham, Anthony Duprey, Pat Durfee, Sarah Dutton.

E Jim Eagan, Margaret Eagan, Eleanor Eagan, Shulamith Eagle, Timothy Eaton, Rick Ebel, Anne Eberle, Jane Eddy, Marshall Eddy, Jay Edelstein, Lyn Elder, Cecilia Elwert, Deb Emerson, Rebecca Emery, Michael Emilio, Glenna Emilo, Rick Emilo, Muriel Emmons, Kathy English, Richard English, Judy English, Will Ernst, Betsy Etchells.

F Therese Fafard, Alta Fageley, John Fallon, Lois Farnham, Maria Farnsworth, Carol Farnsworth, Pam Farnsworth, Amirah Fauzi, Ellen Fenn, Emmanuelle Ferguson, Jake Feury, Maxine Fidler, Linda Field, Jean Fifield, William Fifield, Sylvia Fisk, Barbara Fleming, Arthur Flemings Sr. , Elwyn Flynn, Ann Folger, Elias Ford, Valerie Forret, Ted Foster, Deborah Foster, Jill Fraga, Linda Francis, Tom Frankovic, Jane Freda, Hannah Freedner-Matesi, Beverley Freeguard, Ava Freeman, John Freidin, Jeffrey Fritz, Andrew Fritz, Richard Fritz, Molly Funk, Otto Funk.

G Michele Gadue, Isabella Gaffney, Scott Gaines, Angelia Gebo, Ema Gernander, Jennifer Gernander, Denise Gibeault, Dee Gilbert, Conner Gilbert, Mary Gill, Paul Gill, Florence Gill, Cindi Gillen, Susan Gingras, Donald Glauber, Karen Glauber, Richard Gliddan, Rita Glidden, Tammi Goddard, Lynn Goldsmith, Toby Goldsmith, Silvia Gonzalez, Glenn Goodwin, Priscilla Gordon, Mary Gordon, Jack Gould, Maureen Gour, Madeline Goyette, Margo Grace, Morgan Grady-Benson, Hazel Grant, Peter Grant, Ann Gray, Michael Gray, Gabrielle Greenberg, Susan Greenberg, Sharon Greene, Barbara Greenewalt, Max Greenwald, Bruce Grove, Sam Guarnaccia, Timothy Guiles, Sue Guran, Andie Guran, Burt Guran, Martha Gurney, Abigail Gusakov, Nate Gusakov.

H Helen Haerle, Emma Hagey, Cecelia Halavonich, Matt Hall, Nance Hall, David Hallam, Patty Hallam, Ron Hallman, Clarence Hallock, Wilma Hallock, Jane Halpin, Deanna Hammel, Ann Hanson, Anna Hardway, Scott Hardy, Kathleen Harriman, Mar Harrison, Ian Hart, Kathy Hart, Bill Hart, Audrey Hathaway, Emma Hatheway, Bridget Hauman, Douglas Hawley, Tai Hazard, Jessica Hazen, Thomas Healey, Sophie Heggen, Emmeline Heilman, Lissy Heminway, Caley Henderson, Renee Hendricks, Kevin Hernandez, Marvel Herriman, William Herrington, Barbara Herrington,

Tasha Hescock, Tulley Hescock, Alan Hewat, Meaghan Hickey, Lynn Hier, Gail Hietzker, Helmut Hietzker, Lois Higbee, Jody Higgs, Ed Hilbert, Kristin Hirsch, Eddy Ho, Jessica Hoagland, Kitty Hodgetts, Max Hoffman, Marsha Hoffman, David Hogan, Janet Holden, Tim Hollander, Judith Holler, Jeremy Holm, Judy Holmes, Ron Holmes, Traceylynn Hommel, Linda Horn, Paul Horn, Arthur Howard, Brad Howe, Christina Howe, Esther Howlett, Sue Hoxie, Joan Hoxie, Martha Huber, Stan Huber, Rebecca Huestis, Sheila Huestis, Brenda Hughes, Arlene Hunt, Alissa Huntington, Gale Hurd.

I Karri Ingerson, James Inglis, Steve Ingram, Judith Irven, Maude Irwin, Jonathan Isham, Libby Isham, Nancy Iwanicki.

J Chessley Jackman, Charles Jakiela, Isabel Jamerson, Karen James, Agnes James, Chelsea Jerome, Bill Jesdale, Judy Jessup, Tom Jessup, Gail Jette, Kathleen Jewett, Steven Jewett, Sei Yeaon Ji, Huirong Jia, Kris Johannesson, Emma Johns, Kira Johnson, Alexandria Johnson, Lydia Johnson, Shari Johnson, Abigail Jones, Hayley Jones, Bob Jones, Julie Jones, Emily Joselson, Nathanial Joselson.

K Samantha Kachmar, Sophie Kapica, Karen Hescock, Krista Karlson, Sadie Kass, Kate Kaster, Betty Kaszuba, Michael Katz, Marge Kayhart, Christine McKeever-Parkes, Deb Kelley, Bob Kellogg, Linda Kelton, Jean Kelty, Rosie Kemp, John Kenney, Alice Kenney, JoAnne Kenyon, Paul Kenyon, Robert Keren, Melanie Kessler, Sandy Ketcham, Christine Ketcham, Sheila Khalladeh, Khan Kim, Josh Kimball, Maxine Kimball, Wallace Kimball, Warren Kimble, Tim King, Xaeph King, Carol King, Betty Kipp, Debbie Kirby, Janet Kirby, Michael Kirby, Marie Kireker, Val Kittredge, Tom Klemmer, Jacob Klemmer, Gary Kling, Barbara Kling, Blair Kloman, Hilary Knight, Bryson Knight, Porter Knight, Mark Koenig, Walt Koenig, Sarah Koenigsberg, Gretchen Koerpol, Sophia Konanc, Erik Koskinen, Alison Kraner, Lois Kraus, Max Kraus, Jen Kravitz, Carol Kress, John Kromer, Carolyn Kuebler, Sara Kutchkian.

Thank You

Volunteers!

National Volunteer Week is about inspiring, recognizing and encouraging volunteerism in our communities. Its purpose is to demonstrate how working together in service allows communities to meet their challenges, address critical needs and accomplish valuable goals.

We wish to thank these dedicated Addison County volunteers for the time they invest in our community.

We greatly appreciate your generosity. This is an impressive list, and we know there are hundreds more who give their time to organizations to strengthen our community.

If you would like to learn more about volunteering please contact: RSVP’s Volunteer Program at or rsvpaddison@volunteersinvt.org or

388-7044

The Volunteer Center of the United Way at 388-7189 or jesse@unitedwayaddisoncounty.org

L Donna LaBerge, Shirley LaBerge, Michelle LaBombard, Heather LaDuke, Carrie Lafayette, Ann Lafiandra, Betty LaFoy, Barbara LaFramboise, Reinhold Lange, Joann Langrock, Meg Langworthy, Breanna Lapan, Linda Larocque, Mary LaRose, Reginald LaRose, Lise Lathrop, Marlene Latourelle, Norene Lattrell, Larry Lawson, Donna Leary, Norm LeBeouf, Inez Lee, Loretta Lee, Alice Leeds, Marilyn Lefevre, Beverly Lenk, Susie Leonard, Marcia Lertola, Clark Lewis, Betty Lewis, Sue Liberty, Casey Lilley, Steven Lindeman, Anne Lindert, Karl Lindholm, Kathy Lindsey, Selena Ling, Robin Little-Lebeau, Hengrui Liu, Signi Livingstone-Peters, Judi Loewer, Joelle Logan, Marjorie London, Rachel Longaway, Mary Lord, Margaret Lowe, Stephen Lowe, Elizabeth Lowry, Brighton Luke, Nancy Luke, JoAnn Lyles.

M Ellyn Mack, Sue Mackey, Kathy Mackey, Hannah Magoun, Caitlin Magruder, Valerie Maheu, Lejla Mahmuljin, Lawrence Maier, Kathy Malzac, Catherine Manegold, Michael Manley, Eric Manning, May Mantell, Robert Many, Deborah Many, Carol Mapel, Renee Marceau, Bob Marchand, Gabrial Marder, Liz Markowski, Peter Markowski, Erica Marks, John Marlin, Hugh Marlow, Barbara Marlow, Barbara Marquis, Tim Marrinan, Patti Marrinan, Cindy Marshall, Randy Martin, Chuck Martin, Geovany Martinez, Tammy Mashteare, Jess Masinter, Amy Mason, Brian Mason, Sophie Mason, George Matthew, Patricia Mattison, Alice Maurer, Nancy Maxwell, Chip Mayer, Pat Mayo, Erin and Irie Mazur, Frank Mazza, Shirley Mc Clay, Stuart McAninch, Amy McAninch, Janice McCann, Betsy McCarthy, Angela McCarthy, James McClay, Connor McCormick, Patty McCormick, Barry McDonald, Helen McFerran, Gillian McGarvey, Corinne McGillicuddy, Kate McGowan, Edward McGuire, Alexandria McGuire, Ed McGuire, Michele McHugh, Bert McIntyre, Lynn McKenna, Christina McKennan, Bill McKibben, Myrdith McKinley, Janet McKinnon, Meaghan McLaughlin, Marilyn Mclaughlin.

N Marjorie McNeill, Lance Meade, Paulette Meader, Barbara Merker, Nancy Merolle, Katie Merrick, Barbara Merz, Joseph Meyers, Daniela Michaels, Elsa Michaels, Sam Michaels, Chase Midgley, Rhode Miguel, Eli Miller, Rick Miller, Jane Miller, Magda Miller, Alyce Millson, David Millson, Joy Minns, Elaine Mitcham, Charlie Mitchell, Cheryl Mitchell, Paul Monod, Evan Monod, Beth Eddy Montello, Nancy Mooney, Paula Moore, Richard Moore, Delaney Moran, Maddison Morgan, Roseanna MorganKuntz, Rose Morris, Jamie Morrison, Patricia Morrow, Thomas Morrow, Lenore Morse, Jim Morse, Eric Mortensen, Roma Mortensen, Tom Moser, Virginia Moser, Margaret Mulhern, Lorrie Muller, Carol Muller, Valerie Mullin, Melody Mundorf, Mavis Munger, Alice Munson, Marie Murphy, Patricia Murphy, Natal Murphy, John Myhre, Scott Myrick, Anita Nadeau, Otto Nagengast, Laura Napolitano, Nathan Merrill, Elizabeth Neal, Dottie Nelson, Susan Nelson, Geoffrey Nelson, Fran Nelson, Dorothy Neuberger, Diane Neuse, Karl Neuse, Marybeth Nevins, Ryan Nevius, Quincy Nichols,

Lani Nichols, Jules Nickerson, Bob Nixon, Tom Noble, Katie Nolan, Molly Nora, Irene Norian, Annette Norris, Sharon Nosal, Tiffany Nourse, Ralph Noyes, Jennifer Nuceder, Betty Nuovo.

O Mary O’Brien, Pedie O’Brien, Walter O’Donoghue, Elizabeth Oettinger, Margaret Ogata, Judy Olinick, Alden Oliver, June Olson, Tanis Olson, Michelle O’Neill, K.O. Onufry, Anneke Oranje, Patricia-Ann O’Rourke, Nancy Orvis, James Ouimette, Kitty Oxholm.

P Searidang Pa, Daniel Padilla, Rae Paine, Rebecca Palacios, Joan Palin, Darlene Palmer, Kathy Palmer, Kelly Palmer, Jean Panicucci, Lynn Paquette, Trent Paquette, Mike Paretti, Shirley Parfitt, Guilia Park, Faith Parkins, Julia Parkinson, Jennifer Parmelee, Jaime Parmelee, Georgia Peach Parmelee-Varkartas, Lisa Patton, Stephen Payne, Julie Peddie, Don Peddie, Cholena Pegues, Robert Peisch, Lucy Pelligrini, Barbara Pelton, Ruth Penfield, Sue Perchemlides, Ken Perine, Alice Perine, Dorothy Perkett, Sydney Perlee, Michelle Perlee, Lynne Perry, Renny Perry, Dana Perzanoski, Kathryn Peters, Jeanne Peters, Doreen Peterson, Pam Pezzulo, Eva, Ian, Tanya Byker Phair, Ian Phair, Tanya Byker Phair, Naing Thant Phyo, Priscilla Pierce, Adele Pierce, Tom Pinsonneault, Lynne Pirkkanen, Ingrid Pixley, Michael Pixley, Ed Place, Delsie Polgar, Jess Popp, Jeanne Posner, Suzanne Potente, Richard Potter, Susan Prager, Henry Prange, Mary Pratt, Barbara Pratt, Kevin Pratt, David Preble, Kerry Predix, Marilyn Prior, Sarah Pschernig, Eben Punderson, Frank Punderson, Linda Punderson, Fran Putnam, Will Pyle.

Q Lisa Quesnel, David Quesnel, Susan Quesnel, Diane Quiet.

R Jill Rainville, George Ramsayer, Kaisa Ramsen, Lawrence Randall, Lois Randall, Nanci Anne Randall, Stacy Raphael, Sue Rasmussen, Robin Rast, Lucy Reading, Devyn Reed, Meredith Rehbach, Jeff Rehbach, Steve Reigle, Margo Reigle, Ethan Reilly, Linda Revell, Alison Reynolds, Alice Reynolds, Al Reynolds, Peter Reynolds, Lisa Reynolds, Sheila Rheaume, Judy Rice, Sue Rice, Keith Rickerby, Irene Riddle, Eileen Rinker, Sarah Rittgers, Marjorie Robbins, Steven Roberge, Joseph Roberts, Aaron Robertson, Clare Robinson, Mikayla Robinson, Laurene Rogers, Maureen Rogers, Mona Rogers, Patrick Rooney, Gazena Roorda, Suzy Roorda, Joanne Rose, Elena Rosen, Jean Rosenberg, Nancy Rosenberg, Christopher Ross, Kathy Rossier, Tyler Rossier, Danielle Rougeau, Persis Rowe, Michael Roy, Nancy Rucker, Ron Rucker, Diana Rule, Laura Rumbough, John Rusbarsky, Jerrod Rushton, Paige Russell, Sally Russell, Judy Russell, George Russell, Maggie Ryan, Olivia Ryder, Vera Ryersbach.

S Gisele Sabourin, Sandra Salgado, Monica Sanchez, Douglas Sandler, Pat Santner, Rochelle Sargent, Joyce Sargent, Sharon Saronson, Barb Saunders, Sibylle Saunders, Tom Saunders, Suzanne Sawyer, Bryan Sawyer, Nancy Sawyer, Eliana Schaefer, Peter Schenck, Robin Scheu, Linda Schiffer, Marita Schine, Johannah Schneider, Devin Schrock, Mary Kay Schueneman, Alessandria Schumacher, Ann Schwab, Lauren Scott, Paula Scott, Tanya Scuteri, Janet Seaburg, Sue Sears, Saundria Sears, Abbi Sessions, Ann Sevee, Jean Shappee, Alex Shashok, Susan Shashok, Cheryl Shea, Regina Shea, Jerome Shedd, Ralph Shepard, Eldon Sherwin, Jeanette Sherwin, Doug Shivers, Carol Short, Skyler Shute, Mthobisi Sibandze, Judith Siegel, Benjamin Siegfried, Kristina Simmons, Jean Simmons, John Simms, Virginia Sinclair, Doug Sinclair, Nancy Skidmore, Lois Ann Skillings, Sanela Smaka, Eliza Smallwood, Gerianne Smart, Susan Smiley, Megan Smith, Tom Smith, Lisa Smith, Brenda Smith, Armon Smith, Earlene Smith, Gail Smith, Kathleen Smith, April Smith, J Smith Kramer, Judy Smith-Jaubert, Susie Snow, David Snow, John Snyder-White, Jin-Mi Sohn, Joyce Sohotra, Paul Sokal, Trent Sorenson, Liliy Spaulding, Nancy Spears, Eliza Spencer, Carol Spencer, Thomas Spencer, Lori Sperry, Marie Sperry, Evelyn Sprague, Sarah Stahl, Jennifer Stanley, Beth Stanway, Emma Stapleton, Robyn Stattel, Penelope Stattel, Carol Steady, Jane Steele, Linda Steele, Luna Shen, Joyce Stephens, Roberta “Cookie” Steponaitis, Bonnie Stevens, Allen Stillman, Francis Stone, Sadie Stowe, Tiffany Stowe, Dylan Stowe, Becky Stratton, Owen Streicher, Val Strong, Jim Stuart, Cathy Sullivan, Jon Sullivan, Mary Sullivan, Christie Sumner, Richard Surprenant, Elizabeth Sutton, Bonnie Swan, Kelly Sweeny, James Swift, Steph-Marie Szenasi.

T Robert Taft, T Tall, Cy Tall, Teja Tanner, Beth Tarallo, Charlotte Tate, Susan Tatem, Carolyn Tatlock, Jennel Tatro, Joanna Tatro, Elizabeth Taylor, Sally Taylor, Anne Taylor, Karen Taylor, Sandra Tebbetts, Nancy Tellier, John Tenny, Kenneth Terrien, Lydia Terrier, Dawn Thibault, Michael Thomas, Carolyn Thompson, Lois Thompson, Betty Thurber, Linda Thurber, Mary Beth Tichacek, Valerie Tilford, Grace Tolles, Eileen Toomey, Helen Toomey-Covey, Heather Tourgee, J. Silas Towler, Alex Traxler, Julia Trencher, Beth Trombly, Joy Trombly, Helen Turner, Tom Turro, Jeff Tweedy.

U Paul Urband, Vesta Urband.

V Lydia Vaine, Sam Vaine, Stephanie Vaine, Pat Vallaincourt, Alice Van Tuyl, Diana VandeVelde, Tom VanOrder, Camila VanOrder Gonzalez, Helena VanVoorst, Nancy Vaughn, Julie Vest, Jill Vickers, Paul Viko, Jane Vincent.

W Ed Wageman, Connie Wagner, Dawn Wagner, Conrad Waite, Linda Wakefield, Kim Walker, Liz Walker, Malkie Wall, Juliet Walsh, Bill Walsh, Cathy Walsh, Jim Walsh, Drey Ward, Mali Ward, Frances Warren, Frances Washington, Joseph Watson, Jack Watts, Steve Webb, Sophia Webb, Ben Weinstock, Vicki Wells, Susan Werle, Marion Werner, Sara Wesson, Ethan West, Steve Wetherby, Jenevra Wetmore, Louise White, Janice Whitman, Robert Whitman, Barbara Whitney, Michelle Whitney, Janice Whittemore, Rebecca Whittemore, Arlinda Wickland, Cari Wilch, Curtis Willey, Maureen Williams, Beatrice Williams, David Williams, Sallie Willis, Heidi Willis, Doug Wilson, Lily Wilson, Kira Winslow, Cedar Winslow, Roger Winters, Shirley Wisell, Virginia Wolf, Rachel Wollum, Nancy Wollum, Marnie Wood, Cap Woodruff, Anthony Woods, Helen Wright, Carrie Wulfman, Jesse Wulfman, Vijaya Wunnava, Anja Wurm, Isis Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.

Y Kate Yarbrough, Michiko Yoshino, Deborah Young.

Z Albert Zaccor, Irene Zaccor, Helen “Renee” Zalubski, Nikki Zammuto, Suzanne Zeliff, Pat Zeliff, Hannah Zeno, Lulu Zhou

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Alyse Beauchemin Alyse Beauchemin is a quiet, intelligent, and thoughtful person. Whatever she works on she puts her heart into it, and the outcome is always a job well done. Alyse has been a diligent teen volunteer at the Bixby Memorial Free Library for the past 3 years. She is a senior at VUHS and is currently interviewing at colleges and universities both in and out of state. We thank her and wish her well wherever she lands!

Yvonne Malzac Yvonne Malzac, of New Haven, has been a Porter Medical Center Volunteer since 2004, soon after she retired from being an employee at the hospital. She has varied volunteer roles.

Yvonne volunteered delivering mail and then switched her role to volunteering in reception in Registration then to the Front Lobby. She brings a dedicated and positive spirit to each task.

Yvonne enjoys volunteering because it is great motivation to get out of the house, see people and enjoys welcoming and greeting our patients, families and visitors.

Dave Hallam Dave Hallam, of Middlebury, has volunteered for Middlebury Area Land Trust for over ten years. Dave volunteers each week helping with everything from organizing and creating promotional materials for the TAM Team Trek, to entering information into our systems and securing needed technical equipment, helping the office run more smoothly. Along with a thoughtful and caring demeanor, Dave provides MALT with regular assistance, and frequently even baked treats. Thanks for everything, Dave!

John Derick John Derick, of Cornwall, is a one-in-amillion volunteer! For a quarter of a century John Derick has worked with the Middlebury Area Land Trust as the TAM (Trail Around Middlebury) coordinator, donating thousands of hours to working on the trails. John has been the one constant driving force behind the trail from its early development to its ongoing maintenance and improvement. He works tirelessly to coordinate other TAM volunteers and manage improvement projects with students from the Hannaford Career Center’s DO program, Middlebury College’s Outdoor Club and several other local groups. He not only works with these groups throughout the school year, but also helps coordinate trail work for Days of Caring. As a result of John’s hard work and dedication to MALT, these local trails are easy to follow, clear of debris, and offer an enriching place for members of the community to connect with their natural landscapes. Thank you John, for your time and passion for the trails!

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Robin Little-LeBeau, of Addison, has been a volunteer driver with ACTR’s Dial-A-Ride System for over three years. Robin says she enjoys “meeting new people” and she’s even “become good friends with a couple of clients.”

Robin also enjoys talking to the ACTR dispatchers. Robin’s supervisor says “Robin is such a friendly person. Our clients enjoy riding with her as much as we enjoy chatting with her.”

Thank you for all of the time you give, Robin!

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Maxine Kimball, of Salisbury, has been volunteering for ACTR’s Dial-A-Ride System for two years. Volunteer drivers, like Maxine, provide an invaluable service for Addison County. Many residents need access to healthcare and critical services, but have no transportation and cannot use ACTR buses.

As a Dial-A-Ride volunteer, Maxine picks up older disabled Addison County residents and takes them to and from their appointments.

She enjoys driving and “meeting new people, hearing their stories, and being able to help in some small way.” Maxine’s supervisor says “Max is a great driver. She’s always willing to help out when we need her and our riders enjoy her.” Thank you for supporting the needs of the community, Maxine!

Zorica Radanovic, currently a Middlebury College student, has been volunteering for The John Graham Shelter for over a year now. In her time there she is responsible for doing crafts and making snacks with residents; she also helps coordinate the Middlebury student initiative.

“Volunteering at John Graham has showed me the reality of the housing crisis and homelessness rate in Vermont, an important problem that is rarely, if ever, spoken about. When I go to John Graham, I am able to connect to the people there and feel connected to a world with different problems than the ones present in my immediate surrounding environment of Middlebury College.” Zorica said of volunteering her time. Thank you for your contributions, Zorica.

Anna Hardway Anna Hardway, of Middlebury, has been volunteering with HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) for six years. Anna volunteers in the Food Shelf. She is responsible for sorting and repacking food. Anna also takes clients through the Food Shelf. Anna enjoys volunteering because it keeps her busy and she likes to meet people. Anna also volunteers for the Charter House Community Lunch Program.

This free lunch program provides meals for community members every Monday through Thursday. We appreciate all of your work, Anna!

Carol Steady Carol Steady, of Middlebury, has been a supporting the children at the Addison County Parent Child Center (ACPPC) for the past 6 years.

ACPPC Coordinator Becky Bertrand is grateful for her assistance. “We have been fortunate to have Carol with us” says Becky. “She works 20 hours a week and is a huge help in our childcare center. Carol jumps right in and is so incredibly kind! We don’t know what we would do with her.” Carol finds the work she does very satisfying and especially enjoys the people she works with.

Thank you for the time you give, Carol!

Caroline Delisle Caroline Delisle, of Bristol, has been a volunteer driver for ACTR’s Dial-A-Ride System for the past 14 years. Dial-A-Ride System takes elders and persons with disabilities, Medicaideligible residents and many other vulnerable populations to medical services, work, grocery stores and meal sites. Caroline enjoys meeting lots of great people on her routes. She says “the people are so nice and I appreciate the opportunity to take them to their appointments or to Project Independence”. In the summertime, Caroline works a full day driving from 7am to 8pm. Caroline’s supervisor at ACTR says “Caroline has been with ACTR for a very long time. She loves to stay busy and will do any ride she’s asked about.” Thank you for all the time you give, Caroline!

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Hilary Knight, of Starksboro, has been volunteering with HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) for one year. Hilary sorts, prices, and cleans donated items at RetroWorks.

Hilary enjoys volunteering because she “likes keeping busy and it is fun to sort items and price them.” Hilary also says volunteering is giving her “good exposure in the work place.” Thank you, Hilary!

Zorica Radanovic Robin Little-LeBeau

APPRECIATES VOLUNTEERS!

WomenSafe would like to thank our dedicated volunteers who support us and the community each year by donating in the following ways: • staff the 24-hour hotline • assist people at court • provide childcare • co-facilitate support groups • assist with tabling and outreach efforts • perform administrative tasks • serve on our Board of Directors During Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2016, our volunteers donated a total of 7,918 hours of services. Every day, WomenSafe depends on our amazing volunteers to provide the vital services to respond to domestic, dating, and sexual violence, and stalking in our community.

WomenSafe thanks volunteers for their outstanding service. We are so appreciative of their hard work.

Chelsea Colby Chelsea Colby, currently a Middlebury resident, has been busy volunteering in the local community for Middlebury College’s Nutrition Outreach and Mentoring Program, Mary Hogan, the Bridge School, Addison Central Teens, Community Friends, Sister-to-Sister, and MiddCAM. The programs Chelsea works with focus on mentoring relationships with students of different ages. “The most rewarding part of volunteering is introducing mentees to new experiences” Chelsea said when asked what she most enjoys most about volunteering. Keep up the great work, Chelsea!

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Homeward Bound

Addison County’s Humane Society Homeward Bound, Addison County’s Humane Society, wants all our volunteers – our board members, our dedicated dog walkers and cat socializers, our dynamic community outreach ambassadors, our tireless foster care families, our clerical and customer service folks, and everyone in the community who steps up when asked for help – to know how very grateful we are for your support and commitment!

Please visit our website www.homewardboundanimals.org for information on our volunteer program.

Submit an application and join our team!

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Chelsea Jerome, of Woodbury, VT, and currently a student at Middlebury College, has been volunteering with the Charter House Coalition for the past four months. In her time with the Charter House, Chelsea has been primarily responsible for preparing meals. This often looks like having a great conversation and sitting down for a meal together. “My responsibilities are to provide guests with whatever they need, be that food, laundry, or a listening ear when they have a hilarious story to tell!” Chelsea said of her experience. Thank you for your contributions, Chelsea!

Daniel Currier Daniel Currier, of Vergennes, is a volunteer at HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects).

Daniel has volunteered his time at RetroWorks for the past four years. The many people he meets make volunteering fun for Daniel. RetroWorks is open from 9:30 until 4:30, Monday through Saturday. It is located at 282 Boardman Street.

Thank you for all of the time you give, Daniel!

Diana Vande Velde Diana Vande Velde, of Middlebury, is a volunteer with HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects). For the past four years, Diana has worked in RetroWorks, HOPE’s resale store. The profits from RetroWorks help families with heating and housing costs, medicines, food and much more. Diana responsibilities at RetroWorks include customer service and checking the clothing racks. Diana likes “interacting with customers and employees.”

Thank you, Diana!

Hazel Grant Hazel Grant, of Orwell, has volunteered for ACTR’s Dial-A-Ride System for over five years.

Hazel assists clients and drives them to and from their appointments. She enjoys talking to clients.

Hazel’s supervisor says “Hazel is a great driver.

She’s always a pleasure to work with and really enjoys her clients as much as they enjoy her.”

Thank you, Hazel, for making our community a better place!

Jackson Van Raan The leadership of MREMS would like to express their sincere appreciation for the selfless service of all their volunteers, past and present.

We value the time and effort that it takes in order to provide quality emergency care to the ten towns we serve.

Forty-six Years of Cheers and Thank Yous!

Thank you volunteers for keeping our community running.

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Jackson Van Raan, of Burlington, is the AmeriCorps STATE member volunteer with the The Willowell Foundation in. Jackson helps with fundraising, serves as a mentor at their two schools, leads after school programs, works on land based projects at the Willowell Foundation’s property in Monkton, and helps organize other volunteers. What Jackson most appreciates about his work with Willowell is the ability to interact with and help out high school students in need: “I believe that adolescents need more mentors, and that we all gain from being a part of a community. I remember what it was like going through high school and not having a mentor, so I feel proud to be able to serve that role for others, and volunteering for a positive community.” Willowell Director Tasha Ball values Jackson’s work ethic and strong skill set, “Jackson is a hard worker.

He is kind and truly cares about the youth he works with. He is good at meeting new people and connecting them to the work we do as a non-profit and is motivated and skilled at mentoring youth. He always comes to the table with new ideas and suggestions on how we as an organization can do things better. We are so lucky to have him serving at Willowell this year.”

Jean Panicucci Jean Panicucci started volunteering at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in 2015. Jean brings a unique perspective to her role, having had more than one family member reside here at Helen Porter for a time. Jean mixes easily with everyone, bringing a friendly face and much needed conversation and understanding to the residents of Helen Porter. Whether delivering mail, encouraging folks to come out for an activity, manning a table for a special event, or just visiting, Jean brightens everyone’s day. When asked what she likes best about volunteering here at HPHRC Jean says “I enjoy working with Judy and Nancy in the activities department very much” and “I enjoy being with the residents and hopefully bringing them a little good cheer.” Jean does more than bring a little good cheer, she is a cherished member of our community!

Valerie Tilford Valerie Tilford, of Middlebury, generously offers her time to both HOPE and RSVP every week. She supports the front desk at HOPE by answering phones, greeting visitors, assisting clients in the food shelf, answering questions and helping track client services data. Valerie also provides support to the organization RSVP, assisting with letter writing, tracking volunteer data. She always brings a wonderful, positive energy to her roles. Valerie began volunteering a year and a half ago and has found it to be immensely rewarding, “I have really enjoyed connecting with staff, volunteers and community members. I’m amazed by their commitment and by how many people give as a way of life in our community.” Our organizations are grateful for your dedication and support, Val!

Connor Gilbert Connor Gilbert, of Georgia VT and currently a Middlebury College student, has been volunteering for Page One Literacy Project at Middlebury College for the past year. Connor has been responsible for organizing literacy programs at local elementary and middle schools, communicating with community partners, and assisting leaders in program development. Additionally, Connor volunteers at Homeward Bound and has been with them for a year. Connor feels he is able to learn about the community and stay connected to what lies beyond the Middlebury College campus through his volunteer work.

“Volunteering also allows me to forget about the stress in my life and truly make the needs of others my main priority” says Connor. Thank you for all your efforts, Connor!

David Bishop David Bishop, of Goshen, is a volunteer driver for Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR). ACTR is non-profit organization that operates a network of community transportation alternatives that connect the people and places in Addison County. David has volunteered for ACTR for one year and enjoys meeting people.

Program Manager Stephanie Stearns describes, “David is a wonderful driver. Our clients are always happy to ride with him and he’s a joy to work with.” When he’s not providing essential rides for community members, David enjoys spending time with his wife and four daughters.

David is also an 18 year volunteer member on the Goshen School Board and a 20 year member on the Mosquito Control Board. Thank you for your contributions, David!

Eleanor Fisk Eleanor Fisk, a Middlebury College student, has been volunteering with Middlebury College’s Community Friends for the past 3 ½ years.

Eleanor matches Middlebury College students with children ages 6-12 from the community in one-on-one mentoring pairs, and also plans events for all members of the organization. She has also been volunteering at Mary Johnson’s Children Center for the past year. Eleanor loves learning from the all of the different people that she works with. Thank you for the time your give, Eleanor!

Jack Carew Jack Carew, currently a Middlebury resident, has been volunteering at Middlebury College’s Refugee Outreach Club since the fall of 2016.

He has been responsible for both for outreach to new members and for maintaining a presence in the Middlebury community. When asked why he offers his time to volunteer, Jack describes: “I enjoy the potential that I will make a difference for the better in another individual’s life”. Thank you for your time, Jack!

Jay Silverstein Jay Silverstein, a student at Middlebury College, has been volunteering for The Middlebury College Volunteer Service Organization since September of 2015. Jay has been serving as the President of VSO since September of 2016. In this role, he speaks with community partners, organizes weekly events, and transports student volunteers to and from the events. He attends each event that is organized to ensure that the student volunteers get the most out of working with the community partners. Jay is volunteer at Middlebury Regional Emergency Services. What a great example of volunteering!

John Fallon John Fallon, of Weybridge, has volunteered with HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) for the past 4 years. He volunteers at the HOPE Food Shelf where he serves as the Food Shelf Coordinator. John’s responsibilities include ordering from the Vermont Food Bank, inventory control, and training new volunteers.

Thank you for making our community a better place, John!

Virginia Clark Virginia Clark, of Ripton, has been volunteering at Porter Medical Center for 2 years.

Virginia kindly greets and directs patients, families and visitors, logs in patients and offers assistance in the registration area and front lobby. She graciously volunteers 3 days a week and always offers to cover other shifts as needed. Virginia’s welcoming, calm presence and sense of humor is greatly appreciated. She is a wonderful asset to the PMC Volunteer department. Virginia states, “Helping people makes me happy.”

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John Snyder-White John Snyder-White, of Middlebury, has donated his time as an overnight staff member at the Charter house warming shelter during the winters of 2014 and 2015. This past summer, he volunteered in the Charter House gardens and helped to process vegetables for meals.

Most recently he has worked with United Way of Addison County helping promote different community events. Thank you for your well rounded efforts John!

Kathy Palmer Kathy Palmer, of Vergennes, has volunteered for HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) for seven years. Kathy volunteers in HOPE’s warehouse. Her responsibilities include sorting and pricing items for sale in RetroWorks. RetroWorks accepts donations of good quality new and used clothing and household items, including furniture and collectibles. Kathy says she “enjoys working with staff and fellow volunteers” and she “likes seeing the different things that come into the warehouse.” We appreciate all of your work, Kathy!

Linda Steele Linda Steele has been a volunteer at the Sheldon Museum for 2 ½ years as a Museum shop/visitor services assistant. She welcomes Museum visitors and shares with them the history of the Sheldon Museum and introduces them to the current exhibits. Linda’s warm and happy personality make all the museum visitors feel right at home. Her other duties include processing shop sales and answering the phone. Linda particularly enjoys interacting with the visitors and shoppers and sharing her enthusiasm for the Sheldon Museum with them. With a background in antiques, Linda joyfully engages visitors as they tour the museum. Her handmade cards, sold in the Museum Shop, express her creativity and interest in history. She is the Sheldon’s go-to volunteer who not only works her weekly shift, but many times works two and three shifts a week. The staff is so appreciative of all the time Linda devotes to the Sheldon!

Larry Maier, of New Haven, has been a Sheldon Museum volunteer for four years. makes sure the annual holiday train layout is ready and working for the hundreds of train fans of all ages who come to see the trains. Larry is responsible for setting up/taking down the layout, repairing and maintaining the engines and rolling stock.

He also designs and builds controls for accessories, and is one of the volunteer train engineers who operate the trains. The Sheldon couldn’t be in better hands -- Larry worked for Simmonds Precision and while there, they contracted with NASA to provide various systems for the Space Shuttle – he was lead engineer on four of the systems! What Larry enjoys most at the Sheldon is the people he works with. He takes great delight in seeing the faces of the visitors as they smile and share memories of trains while watching them roll down the track. Larry is also a volunteer at the Shelburne Museum. Thank you, Larry!

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Linda Wakefield, of Middlebury, has been volunteering with HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) for 2 years. Lisa assists with the books in RetroWorks. Linda is primarily responsible for managing and maintaining the children’s books and she assists with the other book sections. Linda enjoys volunteering because of the people. “I love interacting with both employees and customers. I feel good about getting books into the hands of others who enjoy them as much as I do.” Linda also volunteers during the book sales at the Ilsley Library. Thank you for all the time you give, Linda!

Lucinda Cockrell, of Lincoln, has volunteered in the Sheldon Museum’s Research Center since 2015 assisting archivist Eva GarcelonHart. She helps with various projects with the ephemera collection including creating an inventory, database, preservation, exhibits and reports. “Lucinda’s expertise and professional background, wonderful demeanor, great sense of humor and reliability make her a great asset to the Research Center,” describes Garcelon-Hart.

What Lucinda enjoys most about volunteering at the Sheldon is working with the professional staff and being able to work with such a wonderful, unique collection of historical materials.

Lucinda’s background as a curator and archivist and her love of 19th-century ephemera made volunteering at the Sheldon a perfect match for her retirement. “Working with Eva and all of the staff and volunteers at the Sheldon Museum is the icing on the cake!” Since 2015 Lucinda has also volunteered at the Lincoln Library. Thank you for the time and expertise you bring to the Sheldon, Lucinda!

Luna Shen Luna Shen, of Middlebury, has been volunteering for the Charter House Coalition since September. Her main role is to make sure families have what they need (i.e. medicine, utensils), and help maintain a positive, cooperative atmosphere. She also enjoys helping to prepare meals for the shelter. Luna also is participating as a community mentor and looks forward to working with her mentee this month! Keep up the great work, Luna!

Manya Dickinson Manya Dickinson, of Middlebury, has volunteered with HomeShare Vermont for the past eight years. Manya meets with people who want to share their homes, and interviews potential home sharing candidates. Manya really enjoys getting to know the HomeShare hosts and guests. “Each one has an interesting story to tell.” Manya says “this work keeps me involved with the community and the people who live here and I find it a means of enrichment and growth.” Amy Jelen, Homesharing Coordinator, describes Manya as an amazing and devoted volunteer. “Manya’s interest in helping people and her wonderful way with people make her an invaluable part of our volunteer team. As a small nonprofit organization, the volunteer component makes it possible for HomeShare Vermont to provide its services.” Thank you for your time and commitment, Manya!

Joy Jackson Joy Jackson, a resident of Vergennes, is the true definition of “humanitarian”. Joy donates more than her time in rescuing dogs and stray cats, she also ensures that rescued animals receive needed medical attention. When she’s not being a hero to her furry friends, Joy is tending to her personal garden and chickens. She uses harvested vegetables and fresh eggs to help supply the local food shelf. Joy also volunteers time helping community programs through her employer, the DR Factory Store. Joy is a shining example of what it means to volunteer every day in her community!

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Katie Staley Katie Staley, of Starksboro, serves as the, AmeriCorps VISTA Programs Coordinator for the Willowell Foundation. Katie coordinates and supports all of the Willowell Programming for youth ages 3-18 in Addison County. As an AmeriCorps VISTA she works to alleviate poverty, helps build capacity, manages the community garden, generates fundraising sources for the organization, and strengthen the community resources such as the educational farm and the support of the Monkton Wood Bank. “This position at Willowell allows me to play in the woods with toddlers at our Wren’s Nest Forest Preschool program and mentor high school students that attend The Walden Project. Every day is a new adventure into the beauty of nature with awesome kids and engaged teachers.” Willowell Director Tasha Ball describes Katie as a “real go-getter”. Katie is always upbeat and willing to say yes to strange or challenging tasks we assign her at Willowell. She is a great problem solver and is fantastic with all sorts of people. Whether serving with our preschoolers at Wren’s Nest Wilderness preschool or helping high schoolers with college readiness, Katie can meet people exactly where they are, without judgment or question. Her year of volunteer service at Willowell is invaluable and we feel so lucky to have her.”

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Recognizing and thanking every volunteer

Community Involvement … It’s Important to Us At EastView, the strength of our community involvement sets us apart. Our residents, staff, and board members are continually involved in the community – making meaningful contributions as volunteers, both at EastView and in the greater Middlebury community.

We also extend thanks to all of our warm-hearted and wonderful volunteers, who enrich our community every day.

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Thank You Volunteers!

Elderly Services thanks all of our wonderful volunteers for a job well done – we love you!

Lynne Boie In 2002, Lynne Boie started volunteering at the Sheldon Museum as a member of the Middlebury Garden Club, helping with designing and maintaining the museum’s beautiful gardens. Since 2005, Lynne has created dried flower arrangements (mostly from flowers she has grown and dried herself) for the historic Judd-Harris House. Soon, the dried flower arrangements became a team effort with a group of Garden Club members working with Lynne.

Lynne continues to help in the garden, but creating the seasonal flower arrangements brings her the most pleasure. “I enjoy seeing how the natural flowers add another dimension to the Museum’s collection and draw the visitors to objects they might not normally see.” Her keen eye for design is evident in the beautiful arrangements that she creates for the Sheldon. Thank you Lynne for bringing the beauty of nature to the Sheldon Museum!

Marilyn Snow Marilyn Snow, of Forestdale, has been a volunteer driver for the Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) Dial-A-Ride Service for the past year and a half. Dial-A-Ride offers free door- to- door rides for eligible community members. As a volunteer driver, Marilyn, picks up clients and drives them to and from appointments. Marilyn believes the most enjoyable aspect of volunteering is meeting so many people. Stephanie Stearns, Program Manager for ACTR, appreciates her work describing, “Marilyn gets along very well with all of our clients. They always look forward to having her as their driver.” Thank you, Marilyn, for your time and commitment to our community!

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Eddy Farm School Thanks all those who volunteer their help throughout the year…

The young women who help us on weekends and during summer camp…

Those who help get hay into the barn during haying season…

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Thank you to all our wonderful boarders…

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We appreciate all of you! Thank you!

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Thank you to all our volunteers who share their time and hearts with us every day.

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Versatile, efficient and energetic are good words to describe Marsha Hoffman when it comes to her volunteering at Bixby Library. If it’s Saturday you might find her at the circulation desk. Other days she might be helping the library cataloging effort, putting holiday baskets together for a silent auction or scanning books to go on consignment. Marsha is the wintertime treasurer for the Friends of Bixby Library and has been an active participant in making the Bixby Book Sale a successful endeavor. Thank you, Marsha, for being a positive source of energy and accomplishment and for all that you do for Bixby Library!

Mary-Ruth Crawford Mary-Ruth Crawford, of Middlebury, is a dedicated volunteer for Addison County. Mary has been volunteering for HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) for 7 years. She describes herself as the HOPE “Book Lady”. Mary sorts and prices books for sale in RetroWorks and oversees the book display and book events in the shop.

Mary also ascertains the value of any special books HOPE receives. Mary also is a longtime volunteer for the Ilsley Library. Mary helps organize a monthly book sale that benefits library programming. Mary says she likes to work and “I am delighted that all the skills I gained working 30 years at the Middlebury College Library are proving useful to bring income to HOPE.” Mary also “loves being an active retiree.” Thank you, Mary, for generously offering your time and experience to the community.

Meg Crosby Meg Crosby, of Middlebury, has volunteered with HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) for one year. Her responsibilities include preparing and cleaning jewelry for resale in RetroWorks. The revenue generated at RetroWorks help support HOPE’s poverty relief work. Meg enjoys “helping a wonderful organization that does so much to help others.”

Meg also volunteers for the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) in Middlebury. We appreciate all your work, Meg!

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Mary Baker, of Middlebury, has been a volunteer at Porter Medical Center for 37 Years!

Giving over 12,000 hours of her time, Mary currently volunteers two days a week greeting and guiding patients, visitors and staff at the Front Lobby Reception area and at the Volunteer Registration Desk. She has consistently shown her dedication and unwavering commitment to the Porter Community. What she enjoys most about her volunteer experience is meeting and greeting the friends she has encountered over the years. She derives great pleasure from seeing employees children grow from babies to adults.

Mary is a true inspiration. We are so grateful for Mary and enjoyed recently celebrating her 99th birthday with her.

Mason Wood Mason Wood, a junior at Mount Abraham High School, has been volunteering as a referee for elementary level basketball games, presently for both Starksboro and Monkton. In addition, he has helped coach the Mount Abe boy’s 7th grade basketball team. Mason is an active member of the Monkton Boy Scout Troop 525, which keeps him involved in many local community service activities. His most recent accomplishment was his Eagle Scout project, in which he constructed a waiting shelter for the Town of Monkton in their new Park and Ride lot. Thank you for your commitment, Mason!

Meredith Rehbach Meredith Rehbach brings joy and harmony to The Residence at Otter Creek with her musical generosity each week. Whether singing hymns or golden oldies, the Residents look forward to her soft voice and gentle spirit. They feel truly blessed to have her! Meredith also performs at Elderly Services and Wintergreen North, a small eldercare home in Brandon. Meredith has been very active in the Memorial Baptist Church where she has taught Sunday School, led bible studies classes and women’s retreats and served on the Board of Deacons and as Financial Secretary for the church. Thank you for sharing your many gifts, Meredith!

Nelson Audy Nelson Audy, of East Middlebury, has been volunteering for HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) for five years. Nelson volunteers at RetroWorks, HOPE’s resale store, primarily working with the donated clothing. He helps fix and bag clothes as well organizes newly donated items. Nelson’s favorite part about volunteering is “helping people”. Thank you, Nelson, for all your hard work!

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THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR VOLUNTEERS!

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Nicole Caci Nicole Caci, a student at Middlebury College, has been volunteering for Relay for Life at the college for the past 4 years and has been a part of the event for 10 years total. Currently serves as the Logistics Chair on the Relay for Life Event Leadership Team along with three other leaders. She is responsible for planning Middlebury’s annual fundraiser, which consistently raises over $50,000 to fund cancer research and patient support programs. Additionally, Nicole coaches swimmers ages 8-12 on the Middlebury Aquatic Club two nights a week and has been doing this for 3 years. Thank you for your continued support in our community, Nicole!

Pat Anderson, of Cornwall, has volunteered with Addison County Readers (ACR) for the past 10 years. Pat works with a small group of dedicated volunteers to offer Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to all preschool children in Addison County. The program sends a book each month to the home of each registered child (birth through five years of age) at no cost to the family. She helps to register children, raise funds to buy books that are delivered to each child’s home every month and promote the program at local town events. Pat has served in many capacities including as a Board Member, Treasurer and Recording Secretary for the organization. ACR greatly appreciates her energy and positive attitude: “They are big reasons why the Imagination Library has reached so many Addison County preschoolers” says Board Member Mary Dodge. “Her skills with data and accounting tools, her ability to manage challenging tasks, and her willingness to step in and help when help is most needed has brought success to our work.” Pat most enjoys when she sees children excited about books and watches parents and children read together: “I know that it is still such a valuable experience.” Pat has also been a weekly volunteer and Board Member with Neat Repeats Resale Shop for the past 8 years and a volunteer with Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op for 10 years. Thank you for your commitment, Pat!

Paula Moore, of Panton, exemplifies the true meaning of “volunteer” in her service to Bixby Library. As the former director of a 5-Star library near Chicago, she arrived in the Vergennes area with a wealth of know-how and has been willing to share her expertise. Not to be defined by any job description she helps where she sees help is needed. Along with other volunteers, Paula planted a butterfly and bee-friendly garden on the Bixby grounds. She has been a tireless leader with fundraising events, policy development and with bringing library services to a higher level but she can also often be found sorting books on a Friday morning. Paula currently serves as President of the Board where she oversaw the development of a new strategic plan. Thank you, Paula, for your involvement with Bixby Library and for helping us set the course!

Rick Miller

Rita Glidden

Rick Miller, of Middlebury, is a volunteer at HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects).

For the past five months, Rick has regularly collected donations from Hannaford’s and Shaws and delivered them to the HOPE Food Shelf. Rick also stocks shelves and works with clients. Rick volunteers because he likes “being with people and helping out.” Thank you, Rick!

Paula Moore

Rita Glidden, of Cornwall, started volunteering at HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) a little over a year ago. Rita works in the Food Shelf. Her responsibilities include filling the shelves and helping people as they select their groceries. Rita volunteers because she enjoys “being there for others”. We appreciate all of your work, Rita!

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Robert Marchand Robert Marchand, of Vergennes, has been volunteering in the HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) warehouse for eight years. HOPE’s vision is that all people in Addison County have access to the tools and resources necessary to meet their own basic needs. At the HOPE warehouse, on Boardman Street, Robert helps customers delivering donations and assists with pick-ups and deliveries. Robert also prices items in RetroWorks, HOPE’s resale store. Robert enjoys working in the community and getting to know the other HOPE employees and volunteers. He says volunteering “gets me out of the house and keeps me busy.” Thank you, Robert!

Roger Winters Roger Winters, of Middlebury, has been volunteering at the Charter House Coalition for the past 3 ½ years. In his time there, he has been responsible for staffing the homeless shelter, serving and cooking dinner for all of the residents, and contributing to a warm and welcoming atmosphere. Roger also serves as a Board Member of the organization, attending monthly board meetings and participating in the Action and Public Relations Committees. Thank you for your generosity, Roger!

Sandra Tebbetts Sandra Tebbetts, of Leicester, has been serving as a volunteer driver for ACTR’s Dial-A-Ride System for the past five years. Volunteer drivers, like Sandra, play a crucial role in the ACTR organization. Sandra helps clients “get where they need to go” which sometimes includes helping them with “their groceries, walker, or oxygen.”.

She also assists clients, at their request, in stores.

Sandra enjoys “knowing I am doing something meaningful”. She also enjoys “our chats while we ride” and says “the smiles and thanks are worth it all”. Sandra’s supervisor says “We have a lot of clients ask for Sandy by name. They are always happy to see her.” Thank you for your commitment to the community, Sandra!

Shader Croft Band

From left to right are Andrew Munkres, Kristen Bolton, Eric Mortensen, Roma Mortensen, and Dave Henderson.

Shader Croft Band has been coming to play for the residents of Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehab Ctr. for years now. Band leader, Eric Mortensen, and band members Roma Mortensen, Andrew Munkres, & Dave Henderson bring an array of old familiar songs spanning the decades. Between musical numbers the band’s performances are sprinkled with jokes from Eric and a friendly banter between band members and the audience. Roma adds her own personal touch, greeting each person that comes out to the performance.

The residents and staff alike look forward to “Shader Croft.” We offer our most sincere thanks for the band’s generous gift of time and talent!

Stuart McAninch Stuart McAninch, of Middlebury, has volunteered at HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) for the past three years. Stuart is a dedicated volunteer who regularly lends his time in the HOPE Food Shelf. He also volunteers with the organization RSVP by organizing and delivering food box donations from Hannaford’s to local food shelves and delivering warm clothing to health care organizations, schools and eldercare homes throughout Addison County. Thank you for all of the time you give, Stuart!

Tana Scott Tana Scott, of Middlebury, has been volunteering at Porter Medical Center since 2008 and prior to that volunteered at Round Robin for 10 years. Tana offers clerical support at Porter Women’s Health and is a Care Support Volunteer in the Emergency department. Her flexibility and commitment to Porter is greatly appreciated. She brings the important role of excellence service contributing to the patient experience. Tana also keeps busy volunteering at the Ilsley Library, is an officer on her condo board, a church trustee and a church adult choir member. Tana states, “If I feel what I am doing is helpful and appreciated, I enjoy what I am doing.” PMC is very grateful for Tana’s volunteer contribution.

Tom Smith Tom Smith, of Ripton, has volunteered at the HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) Food Shelf for two years. HOPE’s Food Shelf serves over 600 people a month with non-perishable, client selected groceries. Tom’s responsibilities include taking clients through the food shelf so they can select the items they need. Tom also volunteers with Meals on Wheels, The Ripton Emergency Assistance Program, and The Addison County Athletic Foundation. Tom enjoys “the ability to help make a positive contribution to the local community.” Thank you for all of the time you give, Tom!

Robert Wyatt Robert Wyatt gets our toes tapping at The Residence at Otter Creek! He has shared with residents his love of Gershwin (Robert authored a book on George Gershwin) and many other musicians. Robert is an immensely talented musician and he shares his passion for music with our Reflections Neighborhood every Thursday morning! His generosity with music (and stories, anecdotes and piano repairs) has made our days and our lives better and brighter. Thank you for sharing your time and talents, Robert!

Ronald Browe Ronald Browe, of Bristol, has been volunteering at HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects) for the past few months. Ronald volunteers in HOPE’s store, RetroWorks, and he volunteers for the Food Bank. His responsibilities include making sure all the appliances are working and safe. Ronald enjoys volunteering because he likes “feeling needed and being a help to the organization.” Thank you for your work, Ronald!

With Great Gratitude to Our Hospice Volunteers Thank you for all that you do and all that you are.

Hospice Volunteers … …are devoted community members who move their compassion into action. …are trained in the end of life passage that holds both challenges and gifts. …honor the unique journey of an individual and their loved ones. …are companions who attentively listen and touch hearts. …provide respite support for families.

“The last good thing that may happen in a person’s life is a hospice volunteer.”

Sandy Driscoll Sandy Driscoll is the type of person who functions like glue in a community. You might not always see her, toiling behind the scenes-though you can see her smiling face manning our circulation desk every Thursday--and you might take for granted her effects, but she holds the place together. Sandy loves libraries. She has worked as a librarian, and still volunteers hours and hours of her week to the Bixby. She is the story-hour crafts guru, applying her creativity behind the scenes to help bring a different craft project to each story hour session. She masterfully helps visitors, drawing from her personal treasure trove of knowledge and from her intimate expertise of resources available at the library. We’re not sure what we would do without her! Thank you, Sandy for all your contributions!

The Volunteer Center

Shubha Ganesan Shubha Ganesan, currently a Middlebury College student, has been volunteering for the John Graham Shelter for a little over a year.

Every week she makes visits to the main shelter to participate in crafts, make snacks, or just hang out and chat. As the Programming Chair, she is also responsible for brainstorming fun activities to do each week and figuring out what they need.

Shubha has also helped organize Middlebury College’s TEDx conference for the past 3 years, and led a Community Engagement orientation trip this past fall. Thank you Shubha for all of your hard work!

Tammie Mashteare Tammie Mashteare, of Vergennes, is a volunteer for HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects). She has volunteered in the HOPE store, RetroWorks, for three years. RetroWorks is the largest thrift store in the area. It has a wonderful selection of clothing, dishes, furniture electronics, collectibles, and more. Tammie’s duties vary from keeping the store clean and organized to helping customers when needed. Tammy enjoys volunteering because she gets to use different skills and likes to keep busy. Thank you for your work, Tammie!

Tom Jessup Tom Jessup has volunteered at the Sheldon Museum for 18 years. Over the years he served as a docent, greeting visitors and taking them on tours. Currently he helps the staff with routine duties such as the bi-weekly recycling. “The capable Sheldon staff members have always made my day when I help them. They make all the time I can share with them a bonus and I hope to be supportive of their wonderful programs whenever possible,” says Tom. He is a retired US History teacher and volunteering at the Sheldon keeps him in touch with our local history. In addition to the Sheldon, Tom volunteers on committees at the Middlebury Congregational Church and helps support the local high school football program as a scout. A few years ago he made his theatrical debut as Professor Willard in the Middlebury Community Theater’s production of “Our Town.” He and his family love Middlebury and the connections they have made and continue to make here. Tom is an energetic, devoted Sheldon Museum volunteer whose enthusiasm for Vermont history is contagious.

Every time he is at the Museum, he says “You know I’ll do anything for my friends at the Sheldon Museum.” Thank you Tom for all you do!

Vergennes Area Rescue Wishes to thank our Volunteers for many hours of dedicated service to our communities of Vergennes, Ferrisburgh, Addison, Panton, Waltham, New Haven & Monkton.

Your commitment and support are the heartbeat of the organization!

Thank You! TA M V O LU N T E E R S M A K E I T H A P P E N !

The Middlebury Area Land Trust thanks their many volunteers!

To find out more about MALT’s volunteer opportunities, call 802-388-1007 or visit www.maltvt.org

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Volunteer center is always online

By JESSE BROOKS United Way of Addison County It has been almost a year since the United Way of Addison County launched our new online Volunteer Center through our website and since then we have made some great strides with volunteers, funded partners, and with reaching and collaborating with different areas of our community.

The new online center offers everything that volunteers can access by walking in our office 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Volunteers can browse and respond to opportunities specific to the Addison County region as well as follow local organizations and track their volunteer hours. Since launching this site we have averaged over 70 hours tracked per month by individual volunteers in

our community and in the last two months we partnered up with the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op to provide an incentive contest to all of our volunteers who are tracking their hours on our site. Each

month we put all of the volunteers who have tracked their hours that month into a drawing to win a $20 gift card to the co-op; we will continue to offer this incentive over the next 10 months.

For our local partners and area organizations the program offers a free platform to advertise volunteer needs, promote events, and spread

the word about who they are and what exactly they do, their information reaches the programs nearly 360 registered volunteers any time they make an update to their profile.

Currently the site supports 30 local agencies and organizations.

Looking ahead our goal for this program is to create an online “one stop shop” community bulletin board where individuals can not only access volunteer opportunities but also they can learn about local businesses, farmers markets, seasonal activities, and other area events and Addison County community news.

For more information about the United Way of Addison County’s Volunteer Center visit u n i t e d w a y a d d i s o n c o u n t y. galaxydigital.com or call the office at 802-388-7189.

(MS) – The term “charitable giving” is often associated with financial donations. But charity is not exclusive to donating dollars, and those who want to give back but can’t fit donations into their budgets can explore various

ways to make an impact without organizations to see if they would writing a check. like your furniture, or donate pieces that they can then sell to finance Volunteering their operations. Some donated According to the United States items, such as vehicles, may earn Bureau of Labor Statistics, roughly donors tax deductions.

63 million people volunteered through or for an organization at Medical donations least once between September 2014 Donating money or dropping off and September 2015. Up north, the canned goods at food banks may be General Social Survey on Giving, the first things many people think Volunteering and Participating of when mulling charitable donafrom Statistics Canada found that tions, but medical donations also more than four in 10 Canadians present a great way to give back. ages 15 and older volunteered to The American Red Cross notes that blood donations help millions of some degree in 2013.

Volunteering is a popular and people and a single blood donation rewarding way to give back to can end up helping more than one one’s community. Nonprofits and person. The Red Cross also notes charitable organizations may fall that roughly 36,000 units of red short of meeting their missions blood cells are needed in the United if not for the valuable services States alone each day, while nearly provided by volunteers, so pitching 7,000 units of platelets and 10,000 in can be just as valuable as writing units of plasma are needed daily. a check. Discuss your personal and Donating blood, plasma or platelets professional experience with an can help save lives, and making organization to find a volunteering such donations does not require opportunity that suits you and your substantial commitments of time.

Organ donations also present a skill set. In addition to charitable organizations, schools, hospitals, great way to give back. The U.S. libraries, and religious institutions Department of Health and Human may have volunteering opportu- Services notes that an average of nities for those who want to give 22 people die each day waiting for transplants that cannot take place back. because of the shortage of organ donors. Many of those deaths may Item donations Donating time and money may not happen if more people signed be among the most popular ways up to be organ donors, an act that to give back, but those are not may be as simple as checking a box the only ways to donate to orga- on the back of your driver’s license.

Charitable men and women withnizations and people in need. Go through your closet and donate out much room in their budgets to clothes you no longer wear. Instead make donations can still make a of selling furniture you plan to difference by giving back in other replace, contact local charitable ways.

Notes of appreciation Thanks to all who help us give Addison County Readers, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary of delivering Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library free books to county preschoolers, is thankful for monetary support from our community supporters which include town libraries, civic organizations, United Way of Addison County, local businesses, foundations both in Vermont and elsewhere, local individual donors, town budgets of Addison County and local charitable organizations.

Social Service agencies, doctor’s offices, child care centers, libraries, Porter Birthing Center and businesses help with registering children by sharing our registration brochures. Local markets and festivals host the ACR book tent during town-wide events.

Our dedicated group of

volunteers searches out sources of funding to pay the cost of the books and the postage; manages petitions for town warnings; recruits and registers the children into the database; staffs events; distributes registration brochures; conducts surveys and much more.

The young children of Addison County have many friends and neighbors that are making a difference for them. Thank you from the Board of Addison County Readers.

Pat Anderson, ACR secretary Dinah Bain, Bridport Pat Anderson, Mary Dodge and Patty McCormick, Cornwall Claire Adams, Tricia Allen, Marita Bathe-Schine, Sue Liberty and Amy McAninch, Middlebury Margo Grace, Waltham

International students get lesson on USA Leicester man sets up exchange

By LEE J. KAHRS LEICESTER — Imagine you’re spending 10 months in a foreign country, and you don’t know a soul.

Now imagine you’re only 16 or 17 years old.

Wouldn’t it be great if you had a host family to take you in and help you navigate American culture?

David Allan is hoping more families in the Addison and Rutland counties feel that way. In his second year as an area representative for World Heritage International, a non-profit student exchange organization, Allan is one of only two reps in the state of Vermont.

“We’re asking the host families to take these students in and feed them and house them and treat them like family,” he said. “My role is to support the family and the students and facilitate any problems, but so far, there haven’t been any.”

WORLD HERITAGE INTERNATIONAL rep David Allan of Leicester, left, confers with three exchange stuThere are currently 300 WHI students, from left, Italian Francesca Palitta of Italy and Diana Kiykbayeva of Kazakhstan (both attending Middledents in the U.S., and 21 in Vermont.

Area readers might recognize bury Union High School) and Haruka Isayama of Japan, who attends Vergennes Union School.

Photo by Lee J. Kahrs Allan as the local swing dance instructor who often holds classes at ficiently. There are also personality and this winter in Vermont, the girls SCOHR stands for Student Coalition Brandon Music. He said his experi- tests to make sure students can han- have experienced America during a On Human Rights. The club works ence with kids made his decision to dle the stresses and challenges of liv- unique socio-political time. But like to initiate change and making a difing abroad for so long. most teenagers, they are focused ference as an individual/small group become a WHI rep an easy one.

“They have to have the personali- more on school and social activities. on global human rights issues.

“I’ve worked with young people Diana is all in at Middlebury. She While Diana said Kazakhstan’s all my life, through dancing, men- ty to handle living in a different cultoring, Scouts,” he said. “So, when ture,” Allan said. “It takes a special climate is similar to Vermont with played basketball and tried out for snow in the winter, Francesca and the tennis team. She was part of the I saw this opportunity and that they student to adjust to all of this.”

It’s also competitive. In Kazakhstan, Haruka have found the Green Moun- group that organizes the community didn’t have a rep in this area, I apsupper at the Congregational Church Diana went through tain winter a little hard to take. plied. No regrets.” of Middlebury, helps with unified three rounds of test“It’s cold!” Francesca said.

He currently has five ing, three to four hours “We get a little snow in Nagasa- basketball for the mentally disabled, exchange students un- “It’s very each round, including ki,” Haruka added, “but not like this. volunteered to wrap gifts during the der his wing, and next different, the holidays, and is on the prom commitEnglish tests, extensive This is too much.” year hopes to get 10 relationships tee. interviews and appliThe girls were asked if anything students.

American “You get a lot of experience, and cations. She is one of about America surprised them.

On a recent evening, 127 students accepted “Pineapple on pizza!” Francesca you get to be more mature,” Diana we sat down with Allan teenagers have and three of his inter- with each other. into the program out said, adding with a laugh, “It’s not said. It’s a great experience. All peoof 5,000 in Kazakhstan legal in Italy. They’ll put you jail!” ple are the same, no matter what national charges in his In my opinion, applied.

Francesca also said she has been race, nationality, color of skin, they cozy Leicester home they don’t know who And then the wait for surprised by the somewhat negative treat me here all the same.” to discuss the program Francesca agreed, but added stuand the exchange stu- what friendship a host family begins. social relationships American teendent exchange is not for everyone.

Diana waited for four agers have with each other. dent experience. is, they don’t “You can’t be an exchange student months and was two “It’s very different, the relationFrancesca Palitta, know how to days away from her de- ships American teenagers have with if you’re not really sure,” she said.

18, hails from Sardinparture date when she each other,” she said. “In my opin- “It’s very different and if you’re not ia, an Italian island in be friends. finally received word ion, they don’t know what friend- ready, if you’re shy, if you’re not the Mediterranean Sea. I was really that she had a host fam- ship is, they don’t know how to be outgoing, you’ll just sit.”

Haruka Isayama, 17, is surprised.”

There are several exchange profrom Nagasaki, Japan, — Francesca Palitta ily. Francesca and Ha- friends. I was really surprised.” grams open to Vermont students ruka also waited for six Diana took the long view. and Diana Kiykbamonths for their host “I didn’t have time to imagine and Vermont families. For more inyeva, 17, comes from America,” she said. “It’s not better formation about becoming a World the nation of Kazakhstan in Central families to be assigned.

Allan said there is an extensive and it’s not worse, just different, but Heritage International host family, Asia. contact David Allan via phone at As they sat on Allan’s couch and screening process for host families the people are the same.”

Haruka is focused more on her 343-1475, or email heritagestudentalked about their interests and back- that includes reference checks and a ground, the cultural divides nar- criminal background check, but the schoolwork. She is very quiet, but texchange@gmail.com, or go to rowed and the teenagers were front process can be completed in a matter when asked about her host family, www.whhosts.com. and center. Francesca and Diana at- of days. The families can choose the she couldn’t help but smile.

“They are so good,” she said tend Middlebury Union High School, country of origin, age, gender and reand Haruka goes to Vergennes Union ligious affiliation of the student they beaming. “I have three brothers would like to host. The hard part is and two sisters. We go to the same High School.

Allan said Otter Valley Union finding the families willing to host church. They’ve been so good.”

All exchange students must do High School Principal Jim Avery has for an entire school year.

The students do not go home for volunteer work while they are here. said he would accept three World Heritage International students at the holidays, and the girls acknowledged Haruka works in the preschool at school starting in September, so host that there was some homesickness in Victory Baptist Church in Vergennes the first few months. with the 3- 6-year-olds, and said she families in the OV area are needed.

“And at Christmas,” said Frances- really likes it.

It’s not easy to be accepted into Francesca ran indoor track for the World Heritage International ex- ca, who is Catholic, “but now, it’s Middlebury and is going out for lachange program. Although require- totally fine.” crosse. She does her volunteer work ments vary from country to country, GETTING TO KNOW YOU Between the presidential election through the school’s SCOHR club. all students must speak English suf-

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 20, 2017 — PAGE 21A

Salisbury

NEWS

SALISBURY — Salisbury will host a hazardous waste collection on Saturday, May 6, at the landfill from 8 a.m-1 p.m. The landfill committee will be mailing a newsletter to all households listing the acceptable items that will be collected.

Phoebe Stone, artist and writer, was the CLiF representative at last week’s program at the Salisbury community school. The school had received a rural school grant. Phoebe met with students to talk about how reading and writing has helped her to become an artist. She encouraged them to read and write a little every day.

Have a news tip?

Call Mary Burchard at 352-4541

The school’s Spring Concert has been postponed until Tuesday, May 9, at 6 p.m.

Volunteers are needed for the annual Spring into the Arts which will be held on Wednesday, May 31, and Thursday, June 1, at Middlebury College. The volunteers will serve as greeters and hosts and direct students and guests to workshops and art exhibits. You may serve from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. or from 11:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. If interested, email sharonkollervt@ gmail.com.

The school will be on vacation next week.

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Market moves (Continued from Page 1A) VFW the consensus pick: The Wednesday and Saturday showcases organization will allow the market of unctuous edibles and creative to be held inside its building during crafts. the often frigid months of November Market organizers checked out and December. The 2017 season of more than a dozen potential new MFM will run through Dec. 23.

MFM sites, measuring them against “It’s a plus that we will be able to some key criteria. They wanted the have the winter market at the same site to have at least 15,000 square location,” Sessions said. feet (excluding parking), and be The VFW parking area will highly visible, have good drainage, provide ample hard surface for a restroom, and be as shoppers and the close to the downtown “It’s a plus average of 38 vendors as possible in order who have been selling that we will to make it an easy at the market in recent destination for walkers be able to years, according to and those taking the have the Sessions. There’s also Addison County Transit winter market a grassy area bordering Resources (ACTR) bus. the lot on which The VFW site fit at the same visitors will be able to the bill on virtually location.” picnic and/or recreate all counts, according — Hannah during Wednesday and to Hannah Sessions, a Sessions Saturday market hours longtime MFM board (9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.). member and co-owner Sessions promised more music, of Blue Ledge Farm in Leicester. games and other activities for MFM And she noted Middlebury officials customers. have been discussing installation of “We want to make it like a a sidewalk or “shared use path” to festival,” she said, adding the grand serve the Exchange Street area. This opening for MFM will be May 27, new amenity would make the MFM during Memorial Day weekend. even more convenient for bikers, Sessions noted ACTR is definitely pedestrians and joggers. on board with this year’s farmers’ “They were so welcoming to market. She said ACTR’s in-town us,” Sessions said of the Exchange shuttle will make stops, upon request, Street neighborhood in general and at the VFW during market hours on he VFW in particular. “There were Wednesdays and Saturdays. And several locations on Exchange ACTR might designate a regular Street that were vying (to host) the MFM stop if enough people request market.” it, according to Sessions.

She called the VFW location “as Bub Crosby is quartermaster close to the center of town as we for the Middlebury VFW. He and could possibly be.” his colleagues are pleased to land Another factor that made the the farmers’ market at a regular

Act 250 (Continued from Page 1A) must secure an Act 250 permit if they are to proceed. The law has drawn its share of praise, but also criticism from those who believe its standards are too stringent and at times unevenly applied.

Lawmakers this session are considering a bill, H.424, calling for Act 250 to be re-examined and potentially updated to work more efficiently for Vermonters.

“We are looking for a more simple and direct process without compromising the quality of the (permit) outcomes,” said Sen. Chris Bray, D-New Haven.

The review seemed particularly timely since Act 250 is approaching its 50th birthday, Bray noted.

“We are The late Sen. looking for a Art Gibb of Weybridge is more simple credited with and direct being the process architect of without Act 250. compromising The bill the quality of would, among other things, the (permit) create a outcomes.” commission — Sen. review Chris Bray to Act 250 and recommend ways of improving it. The commission would solicit public feedback to shape its recommendations to the Legislature.

There are eleven Act 250-related bills in the legislative hopper this session. One of them is H.194, sponsored by Rep. Fred Baser, R-Bristol, which proposes to waive Act 250 review for major affordable housing developments in towns with at least 10,000 residents.

The initiative, Baser explained, is designed to encourage developers to fill a substantial affordable housing void in the state’s housing stock.

“It’s not happening organically,” Baser said, citing permitting costs as an impediment.

“Housing sometimes gets lost in the (legislative) rush, and it shouldn’t.”

Bray cited S.100 as another affordable housing bill being considered by lawmakers. The bill calls for, among other things, more bonding for affordable housing projects and adjustments to permitting rules to pave the way for more lowcost, energy efficient homes

Energy (Continued from Page 1A) Resources & Energy Committee, where it has not garnered enough support to be voted out. Bray said some of those committee members don’t feel S.51 is aggressive enough.

Bray, chairman of the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee, said he hopes the bill will come up for a House vote before the end of the session — either on its own, or as an add-on to another bill.

MIDDLEBURY FARMERS’ MARKET board members and vendors pose next to the new site for the market. Starting May 6 the market will be held in the parking lot of the VFW on Exchange Street.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

offering. The VFW will have a yearto-year arrangement with market organizers, according to Crosby.

“It’s a good community service,” Crosby said of the market. “We’re looking forward to hosting them.”

The new relationship with the farmers’ market is further evidence

of a renaissance for the Middlebury VFW, which only three years ago was on the verge of putting its Exchange Street property on the market, with leaders citing budget challenges and dwindling membership.

But Post 7823 is now on firm footing, thanks to an infusion of

new energy, a growing membership and a tremendous uptick in bookings for its events hall, according to Crosby. The VFW is now up to 195 members, and the events hall is currently booked for every Saturday into September, he said.

“We’ve gone to more progressive

marketing and promotions,” Crosby said.

For more information on the Middlebury Farmers’ Market, log on to middleburyfarmersmarket.org, or check them out on Facebook.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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B Section

THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017

ANDY KIRKALDY

SPORTS

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Stats can help both athletes and observers On Saturday I watched my younger daughter’s college lacrosse game. At one point she burst through a knot of four or five players battling for a ground ball (laxspeak for a loose ball) and tried to scoop it. Her first try to pick the ball up knocked it clear of the scrum.

But she was able to snag the ball cleanly on a second try, and then reverse field and sprint down the right sideline, back toward the opposing goal. Two opponents tried to pin her along the sideline, but she stopped, switched to her left hand, and tossed the ball to a teammate.

Even though she earlier netted a goal in a 13-10 loss, that play was easily her best of the day. It allowed her team, the Sharks, to gain possession, and they scored soon afterward.

That’s why the sport has a statistic for ground balls — they count.

Often the team that wins the ground-ball battle wins the game. On Monday, Mount Abe senior middie Owein LaBarr scooped 10 vs. Otter Valley; his team won, 16-10.

That’s why sports stats often matter. The good ones tell us something about what happened, and about players’ skills.

In the Saturday game, the Sharks’ goalie made two saves. The other team’s goalie made 10. The other team won by three goals. Now, those two saves could mean the defense in front of the Shark goalie surrendered too many unstoppable shots; saves can be a tricky stat.

In this case the simple explanation would be correct: The Shark netminder didn’t have her best day.

On the other hand, in the 2016 NCAA Division III women’s lax final four, Middlebury College goalie Katie Mandigo stopped 22 of the 38 shots she faced. She was the final four MVP. Another example: What does a baseball player look like with a .249 batting average, a .306 onbase percentage (OBP), a .388 slugging percentage, 12 homers and 43 stolen bases? Yes, it’s a quick guy without a lot of plate discipline (or he would draw more walks and have a better OBP) and not much (See Kirkaldy, Page 3B)

OTTER VALLEY UNION High School senior Collin Parker fights for a ground ball during Monday’s game against Mount Abraham. The Eagles won the game, 16-10.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

Mount Abe-VUHS lax outlasts Otter Valley Eagles repel OV rally for first victory

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative boys’ lacrosse team on Monday earned its first win, 16-10, at home over stubborn Otter Valley, which repeatedly fought back from deficits in what

was the Otters’ opener.

The Eagles evened their record at 1-1 after a disappointing 17-15 loss to visiting Montpelier on the previous Wednesday.

Eagle Coach Ed Cook said he (See Lacrosse, Page 3B)

Schedule

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls Lacrosse 4/21 Burlington at MUHS................4:30 p.m.

4/25 Harwood at VUHS..................4:30 p.m.

4/28 Randolph/Chelsea at VUHS...4:30 p.m.

Boys’ Lacrosse 4/21 Randolph at OV...........................4 p.m.

4/24 Mt. Abe at Montpelier...................4 p.m.

4/24 OV at Woodstock.........................4 p.m.

4/26 Mt. Abe at OV..............................4 p.m.

4/28 CVU at MUHS.............................4 p.m.

4/29 Mt. Abe at Stowe.......................11 a.m.

4/29 OV at GMVS.............................. 11 a.m.

Softball 4/20 VUHS at S. Burlington............4:30 p.m.

4/20 OV at Leland & Gray..............4:30 p.m.

4/20 CVU at MUHS........................4:30 p.m.

(See Schedule, Page 2B)

H.S. softball: Eagles post win; Tigers, VUHS lose

ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school softball action, all on Tuesday, Mount Abraham won its opener, Middlebury dropped a tight game, and Vergennes lost its opener.

Otter Valley was idle early this week.

EAGLES The Eagles broke open a tight game with a six-run sixth inning in a 9-3 victory over visiting Mount Mansfield. Jenna McArdle homered, singled and drove in three runs for the Eagles. Erika Tracey hit a key twoout triple, singled and drove in a run; Genysis Berube tripled and singled; and Emily Aldrich poked three hits.

Winning pitcher Rachael McCormick allowed one earned run and two hits while striking out nine; McCormick also had two hits.

Rylee LeBourveau took the complete-game loss and also also had both MMU hits.

COMMODORES Visiting St. Johnsbury took a quick 9-0 lead on the way to pounding out a 23-10 victory over VUHS. Taylor Bresnick, Sarah Rathbun and Xzavia Berry each had three hits and an RBI for VUHS. Bresnick, Berry and Becca Maloy scored two runs apiece, and Aly Gebo took the pitching loss.

TIGERS Visiting Essex edged MUHS, 1-0, with the only run scoring on sixth-inning passed ball. Losing pitcher Payton Buxton (nine strikeouts) and winning hurler Jamie Morin (six whiffs) each tossed complete-game two-hitters. Ally Larocque and Darcy Staats had the hits for the 1-1 Tigers.

Sports BRIEFS Young wrestlers earn state titles

ScoreBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls Lacrosse 4/17 St. Johnsbury vs. VUHS.................16-4 4/18 MUHS vs. St. Albans......................11-3 Boys’ Lacrosse 4/17 Mt. Abe/VUHS vs. OV...................16-10 4/18 South Burlington vs. MUHS..........12-10 4/19 OV at Randolph..............................Late Softball 4/17 St. Johnsbury vs. VUHS...............23-10 4/18 Mt. Abe vs. Mt. Mansfield.................9-3 4/18 Essex vs. MUHS...............................1-0 Baseball 4/17 OV vs. Windsor...............................12-1 4/17 St. Johnsbury vs. VUHS.................17-0 4/18 Mt. Abe vs. Mt. Mansfield...............17-5 4/18 Essex vs. MUHS.............................11-1 COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Lacrosse 4/18 Midd. vs. Union.............................18-10 Softball 4/17 Midd. vs. Norwich.........................11-10 4/17 Midd. vs. Norwich.............................9-9 4/18 Midd. vs. Johnson...........................11-1 4/18 Midd. vs. Johnson.............................8-0 Baseball 4/19 St. Mike’s at Midd.............. Ppd. to 4/20

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OTTER SENIOR TYSON Cram scores one of his five goals against Mount Abraham Monday afternoon in Bristol. The Eagles won the game, 16-10.

EAGLE SOPHOMORE JACK Halpin fires a shot on goal during Mount Abraham’s game against Otter Valley Monday in Bristol. Halpin had two goals in the Eagles’ 16-10 win.

Otter football coach steps down, citing family

By LEE J. KAHRS PITTSFORD — When Jim Hill was eight years old, he watched the 1984 Rutland High School football team win the Division I State Championship — and that’s when he knew.

“I saw the excitement after the game,” Hill remembered, “when everybody poured out of the stands and onto the field and they were mobbing the players, and I said to myself, ‘Wow, this is amazing, and I

can’t wait to be part of this.’”

Now 40, Hill is shifting his priorities from football to family, resigning last week from his job as varsity head coach of the Otter Valley Union High School football team after 16

years with the program.

Hill helped lead the OV football team to its first state championship in 2005 as an assistant coach, the first year the school participated in (See Hill, Page 2B)

ST. JOHNSBURY — Two local youngsters won titles and another eight finished in the top six in their weight classes at Saturday’s wrestling championships for kindergarteners and first- and second-graders, hosted by St. Johnsbury Academy.

Earning championship trophies were Kaidin White from the Vergennes area club and Isayah Isham from the Mount Abraham area club.

In all, 65 wrestlers from a dozen schools or clubs — including Vergennes, Mount Abe and Otter Valley — competed in seven weight groups.

White won in Weight Group Three, and Isham in Weight Group Seven.

Brady Babcock posted the best Otter Valley result, taking second in Weight Group 1, and Blake Allen from the Vergennes club took second in Weight Group 5.

By weight, the other top-six finishers were: • Weight Group Three: 3. Lucas Whitney, OV; 4. Jasper Kingsley, OV. • Weight Group Five: 4. Owen McArdel, OV; 5. Ethan Kenyon, OV. • Weight Group Seven: 4. Trevor Carr, Vergennes; 6. Duncan Husk, Mount Abe.

Panther nine sweeps, crests .500 in league

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College baseball team swept three games from visiting Hamilton this past weekend to move over .500 in NESCAC West play.

The 9-10 Panthers, 5-4 NESCAC West, were hoping to reach .500 when they hosted St. Michael’s on Wednesday after deadline for the sports section. They then are scheduled to entertain league foe Wesleyan at 4 p.m. this Friday and then at noon on Saturday for a doubleheader. Non-league foe Plymouth is also set to visit for a twin bill on Sunday at noon.

On this past Saturday, Middlebury rallied in both ends of a doubleheader to post 6-5 and 7-6 victories over Hamilton (10-12, 0-5 NESCAC West).

Hamilton took a 4-0 lead after three innings in Saturday’s opener, but Middlebury scored three times in the

fifth on two errors and hits by Brooks Carroll, Sam Graf and John Lock, and then tied the game in the sixth on a walk, a hit-batter, Justin Han’s bunt single, and a Carroll sacrifice fly.

Hamilton took a 5-4 lead in the seventh on a Kenny Collins triple off starting pitcher Colby Morris and a Ryan Wolfsberg single through the drawn-in infield off reliever Conor Himstead. Himstead shut the door, and the Panthers rallied in the bottom of the inning.

Graf walked to lead off, and he moved to second and third on a wild pitch and throwing error. Raj Palekar reached on a fielder’s choice and moved to second on a throwing error as Graf scored the game-tying run. Gray Goolsby bunted Palekar to third, and pinch-hitter Phil Bernstein punched a walk-off single up the mid(See Panthers, Page 2B)

PANTHER FRESHMAN JUSTIN Han takes a throw at second too late to tag out a Hamilton runner Saturday.

Middlebury won the game, 6-5, and swept the three-game series.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

PAGE 2B — Addison Independent, Thursday, April 20, 2017

VUHS girls drop lax debut; Tiger squads net split

Hill huge part of our lives,” he said. “My (Continued from Page 1B) 11-man football, and again in 2015 mom and grandfather are huge Gias head coach. He was hired as the ants fans. Two of my older brothers junior varsity football coach in 2001 played for Rutland. It was in our by then-head coach Geoff Law- blood.”

In 1993, Hill was a Rutland team rence, now one of OV’s principals.

But now Hill also has a four-year- captain and the Raiders played for old daughter named Macie, a foster the championship yet again. They son named Paul, who is a sophomore lost to Middlebury in a triple overat OV, and is a shared living pro- time thriller in the rain and the mud.

“It was like a movie,” Hill said. vider with Rutland Mental Health, something he did years ago before “So, I had this great high school he took a job working third-shift at experience, and I knew I wanted to coach.”

Omya.

Hill was 24 years “I did shared living old when he was hired for six years, and I had “I didn’t want as the OV junior varthe opportunity to get to be half the sity football coach. the young man I had coach, and I That was another waback living with me,” didn’t want to be tershed moment, and Hill said. half the parent.” not just because of Anyone who knows — Jim Hill the job.

Hill knows he is pas“I thought it was a sionate about football and has devoted thousands of hours stepping stone,” he said. “I didn’t to coaching the Otters. But now, realize I would fall in love with OV Macie is starting to take dance class- and the community. Sixteen years es and gymnastics, and Hill said he later, here I am.”

In 2005, Dennis Perry came to had to make a choice.

OV from Fair Haven to take the var“I want to be a part of my daughter’s activities,” he said in an inter- sity head coaching position, and Hill view. “But when I thought about became an assistant varsity coach. the time and effort I put into varsity Perry brought Brian Grady with him football, I would miss a lot. I didn’t from Fair Haven to assist as well. want to be half the coach, and I The arrival of Perry and Grady signaled a key turning point in Hill’s didn’t want to be half the parent.” coaching education.

BLEEDING FOOTBALL “When they came to OV, they While Hill’s love affair with football began as a little boy, it grew as changed the culture, and they he did. The youngest of four boys, changed me,” Hill said. “WorkHill watched two of his brothers ing with those men shaped me as a play for Rutland High School before coach and changed who I became.”

Hill can’t say enough about Perry, he got the chance. He had a successful high school career playing guard who he said had the innate ability to and linebacker, and was part of the read kids and know how to deal with 1991 team that won the state cham- each player, one-on-one.

“He had a great ability to know pionship again.

“In my family, football was a which kids you can rip and which

OTTER VALLEY HEAD football Coach Jim Hill, in gray, with his four captains following the Otters’ Division III State Championship win in November 2015. Hill resigned last week after 16 years with the OV football program, citing the need to spend more time with his children.

File photo by Lee Kahrs

ones you have to coddle,” Hill said.

“That’s one thing I learned, not only how to coach football, but how to coach kids. I can’t thank him enough for what he has taught me.”

Hill credits Grady for teaching him strategic and creativity on the field.

“There isn’t a more brilliant football coach than Brian Grady,” Hill said. “He just loves the game of football and he loves to teach football.”

Hill recounted going on scouting trips with Grady and learning how to spot weaknesses on opposing teams and how to exploit them.

“To see what he sees was invaluable,” Hill said. “A lot of coaches just stick to what they do. I’ve never

been that kind of coach, and that’s because of Brian Grady.”

THE TWELFTH MAN Hill clearly has a love of OV. Hill came there in 2001 and stayed. He settled in Pittsford. His foster son Paul attends OV. In much of America, football has a way of bringing a community together, and that was clear during the 2015 season as the Otters marched to their first state championship in 10 years. The crowds at Markowski Field grew with every win, and the excitement and utter thrill of the championship game will be remembered for years to come.

Hill said not only was that season not possible without the support of

the community, the entire football program at OV would not have grown the way it did over the last 16 years either without broader support beyond the school walls.

“I really feel like this is a special community,” Hill said. “There are some great, great people here. It was a great run and I’m very proud of what we did. It was a lot of hard work by a lot of people that built football at OV.” Hill said he will likely return to coaching someday, but right now his priority is his kids.

“It’s just a different chapter in my life,” he said. “For me, now it’s just focusing on my kids and be the best Dad I can be.”

ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school lacrosse, all on Tuesday, the Vergennes-Mount Abe cooperative girls’ team dropped its first varsity contest on the road, the Middlebury girls kept rolling, and the MUHS boys played another close game, this time coming up just short.

VUHS GIRLS VUHS girls’ coach Marikate Kelley said the Commodores started out strong vs. host St. Johnsbury, but the Hilltoppers “picked up their play and took us out of our game” to win, 16-4.

Kelley called it a learning experience.

Norah Deming led VUHS with two goals, Ashley Turner and Ciara McClay tossed in a goal apiece, and Jalen Cook picked up an assist. Kelley added that Turner was strong on draw controls. Commodore goalie Madison Valiquette made five saves.

MUHS GIRLS The Tiger girls topped host BFA-St. Albans 11-3, as seven MUHS players found the net. Leading the way were Satchel McLaughlin with three goals, Andi Boe with two goals and two assists, and Isabel Rosenberg with two tallies. Goalie Raven Payne stopped nine shots for MUHS, and the Comets’ Cameryne Hemingway made 10 saves. The Tigers improved to 6-0.

MUHS BOYS Visiting South Burlington edged the MUHS boys, 12-10. The Tiger boys had won their two previous games by two goals before falling short by that margin on Tuesday.

Rebel Calvin Hultgren scored five goals to lead the visitors, and SB goalie Ryan Hockenbury stopped nine shots.

Jake Peluso scored four goals for the Tigers, and Jack Donahue netted three goals and set one up. Goalie Cam Devlin made 10 saves.

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4/20 Mt. Abe at Rice.......................4:30 p.m.

4/22 VUHS at Randolph....................11 a.m.

4/22 OV at Brattleboro....................... 11 a.m.

4/25 MUHS at S. Burlington...........4:30 p.m.

4/25 VUHS at Mt. Mansfield...........4:30 p.m.

4/25 Mt. Abe at Burlington..............4:30 p.m.

4/27 Essex at Mt. Abe.....................4:30 p.m.

4/27 MUHS at VUHS......................4:30 p.m.

4/27 OV at Rutland.........................4:30 p.m.

4/29 Brattleboro at OV....................... 11 a.m.

4/29 VUHS at Burlington...................11 a.m.

4/29 Mt. Abe at St. Albans.................11 a.m.

4/29 Rice at MUHS............................11 a.m.

Baseball 4/20 VUHS at S. Burlington............4:30 p.m.

4/20 CVU at MUHS........................4:30 p.m.

4/20 Mt. Abe at Rice.......................4:30 p.m.

4/22 VUHS at Randolph....................11 a.m.

4/22 Mount Abe at OV.......................11 a.m.

4/25 MUHS at S. Burlington...........4:30 p.m.

4/25 VUHS at Mt. Mansfield...........4:30 p.m.

4/25 Mt. Abe at Burlington..............4:30 p.m.

4/27 Essex at Mt. Abe.....................4:30 p.m.

4/27 MUHS at VUHS......................4:30 p.m.

4/27 OV at Rutland.........................4:30 p.m.

4/29 Brattleboro at OV....................... 11 a.m.

4/29 VUHS at Burlington...................11 a.m.

4/29 Mt. Abe at St. Albans.................11 a.m.

4/29 Rice at MUHS............................11 a.m.

COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse 4/22 Colby at Midd...............................1 p.m.

4/26 Midd. at Williams.........................6 p.m.

Women’s Lacrosse 4/22 Midd. at Colby............................... Noon 4/26 Williams at Midd.....................6:30 p.m.

Softball 4/21 Midd. at Wesleyan.......................5 p.m.

4/22 Midd. at Wesleyan (2)................... Noon 4/25 Plattsburgh at Midd. (2)..........3:30 p.m.

4/28 Williams at Midd..........................5 p.m.

4/29 Williams at Midd. (2)..................... Noon Baseball 4/21 Wesleyan at Midd........................4 p.m.

4/22 Wesleyan at Midd. (2)................... Noon 4/23 Plymouth at Midd. (2)................... Noon 4/29 Midd. at Trinity (2)......................... Noon 4/30 Midd. at Skidmore (2)................... Noon Late events occurred after deadline. Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SENIOR Jason Lock follows through on a hit that drove in a run during the first of two games against Hamilton Saturday. Middlebury won both games.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Panthers (Continued from Page 1B) dle to plate Palekar.

Himstead picked up his first career win. Morris allowed five runs on eight hits, while striking out five over sixplus innings. Carroll led the attack with three hits and two RBIs. Hamilton starter Finley O’Hara allowed nine hits and two earned over six innings. Callum Slater took the loss in relief.

In the nightcap, Hamilton took a 3-2 lead into the sixth. Middlebury got its runs in the second, on a Palekar triple and a Bernstein RBI grounder, and the third, when Alan Guild plated Graf with a groundout.

Hamilton then took a 6-2 lead in the top of the sixth with three runs on three hits and two Panther errors.

Middlebury scored four runs in the bottom of the inning to tie the game.

Guild tripled home Han and Bernstein and scored on a wild pitch, and Carroll later singled in Andrew Corcoran.

In the bottom of the eighth with two outs, Lock was hit by a pitch, and Graf doubled in Lock with the go-ahead run.

In the ninth, Panther centerfielder Ryan Rizzo threw out a runner trying to score from second base on a single to preserve the win.

Robert Erickson (1-2) picked up the win in relief with two scoreless innings. Starter Colin Waters went 5.1 innings. Tom Riley suffered the loss for Hamilton, allowing one run and one hit over 1.2 innings of work with a pair of strikeouts.

Rizzo, Carroll, Bernstein, Graf, and Han each finished with two hits for the Panthers, while Guild tripled and drove home three.

On Friday, the Panthers blanked Hamilton, 3-0, as Panther starter Spencer Shores struck out 12 batters in eight innings and Himstead earned his third save of the season by striking out the side in the ninth.

Middlebury broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the sixth. Ryan Rizzo doubled, moved to third on a fly ball to right, and scored when Graf legged out an infield hit.

In the Middlebury seventh, Guild drilled his first collegiate home run, and Jason Lock singled home Carroll for the game’s final run.

Hamilton came close to scoring in the eighth, but Palekar at third base took a relay from Graf in left field and threw out a runner at home trying to score from second on a single.

Shores (2-0) pitched into the ninth inning, allowing six hits and one walk.

Hamilton starter Dan DePaoli (2-3) yielded three runs on five hits and struck out four in seven innings, and Slater tossed a scoreless eighth.

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 20, 2017 — PAGE 3B

Eagles, OV prevail on diamond

Lacrosse (Continued from Page 1B) expects continued improvement on fundamentals as his team enjoys more full-field practice time now that the weather is finally cooperating, and that he already sees progress since the Solon setback.

“We played much better having a week of practice on the field,” Cook said. “Our defense stayed home much better today. We still need to work on passing and catching. But our midfielders really stepped up.”

OV Coach Jesse Milliman’s team fell behind by 8-3 late in the second period and then by 11-4 early in the second half. But the Otters, sparked by senior midfielder Tyson Cram’s five goals and sophomore goalie Alec Stevens’ 10 saves, several of them point-blank, fought back to make it 13-9 early in the fourth quarter and had possession of the ball twice with a chance to cut the lead to three.

“We’ve got a team of competitors.

They play hard. They never give up,” Milliman said.

Milliman said the Otters also need to work on the basics, but that as Monday’s game wore on started to move the ball better and run their offensive sets more effectively.

“We’re going to get there,” said Milliman, whose team was scheduled to visit Randolph on Wednesday after our deadline and host the Ghosts on Friday at 4 p.m. “We’ve got to go back to practice tomorrow and work hard and work on some of the fundamental stuff.”

But on Monday the Eagles had a little more firepower. Nine Eagles scored, led by senior attacker Max Ratti-Bicknell’s four goals and four assists and senior middie Owein LaBarr’s three goals and three assists.

LaBarr also helped the deeper Eagle midfield control most of the play by scooping a game-high 10 ground balls, while senior long-stick middie Sam Paradee provided a steady defensive presence and played a key role moving the ball up the field.

“On attack, I think Max Ratti-Bicknell is settling into his leadership role a little bit more,” Cook said. “We’ve got six or eight middies that can run with anybody.”

Early on, the Eagles took a 3-0 lead as LaBarr scored and then set up a Bicknell strike, and junior attacker Phoenix King came out of a scrum with a ground ball near the OV goal and converted at 5:25 of the first.

OV notched the game’s next two goals. Sophomore middie Hayden Gallo found the lower left corner past Eagle freshman goalie Patrick Davidson (seven saves) late in the first, and Cram went coast-to-coast and buried a high shot early in the second.

LaBarr and Gallo traded goals to make it 5-3, and then the Eagles went on a 4-1 run over the final 3:31 of the half, and it was 9-4 at the break.

Sophomore attacker Jack Halpin ran in from midfield and found the left corner, junior middie Nick Catlin connected from long range, and Paradee tossed a pass from the sideline to senior attacker Addison King open at the left post to make it 8-3.

Cram netted a feed from senior Noah Smith to break the run, but as time wound down Ratti-Bicknell hit LaBarr curling counter-clockwise from behind the net, and LaBarr found the upper far corner for the five-goal lead.

The Eagle momentum continued after the break. In the first 1:29 Ratti-Bicknell netted a right-to-left feed from LaBarr, and then from behind the net he fed sophomore middie Nate Wojciechowski to make it 11-4.

The Otters fought back with better ball movement and help from two Eagle penalties.

“There were glimpses, times when we ran our offensive sets,” Milliman said.

Senior Collin Parker buried a long-range bomb at 9:21, and at 6:08 Cram curled from behind the net and stuffed the ball home, and it was 116.

The Eagles answered with goals from Paradee and Ratti-Bicknell; at 13-6 they seemed to have control.

But at 4:33 Cram bounced a 15-yard shot into the upper left corner, and with 20 seconds left in the period Gallo found sophomore Ethan Sulik-Doty alone out front, and it was 13-8. The Eagles committed a foul on the play, and 25 seconds into the fourth Parker hit Sulik-Doty again on the Eagle doorstep, and things were getting interesting.

Davidson then made a key stop on Cram, but an Eagle foul gave the Otters another chance to cut the lead to three. Instead, Eagle junior Will White Pifer picked off a pass, raced the length of the field and whipped home a 12-yard sidearm shot. With less than nine minutes to go it was 14-9, and the mountain was finally too high for OV to climb.

Down the stretch Halpin scooped a ground ball and whipped it home, Cram netted his fifth for OV, and

ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school baseball play earlier this week, Otter Valley and Mount Abraham picked up big wins, but Vergennes and Middlebury found themselves on the wrong side of the score sheet.

OTTERS On Monday, the Otters moved to 2-0 with their second BASEBALL straight road win, 12-1 over defending Division III champion Windsor (1-1).

Payson Williams earned the pitching win, and Dom McCullough mopped up.

OV got three runs in the third and then broke the game open with five in the fifth and four in the sixth. In the third Reilly Shan-

non and McCullough singled, Josh Beayon doubled and then Williams tripled. Nate Hudson keyed the fifth inning with a two-run single, and four Otters picked up RBIs in the sixth.

The Otters will host another defending champion on Saturday at 11 a.m., D-II’s Mount Abe. EAGLES The Eagles pounded out a 17-5 victory over visiting Mount Mansfield on Tuesday in their opener, scoring in every inning. Zach Hines tripled with the bases loaded and singled in another run, Chris Wood totaled three hits, and George Bailey and Eli Rickner poked two hits apiece.

Adam Whitcomb earned the pitching win, going five innings,

allowing five runs, two earned, and fanning seven. Dustin Whitcomb tossed two innings of scoreless relief.

COMMODORES Visiting St. Johnsbury on Tuesday blanked VUHS, 17-0, as Hilltopper Patrick Greenan struck out 12 batters and walked none in a five-inning one-hitter. Hunter O’Connor took the loss for the Commodores in their opener and also singled for their only safety.

TIGERS On Tuesday, Essex hurler Maverick King tossed a two-hitter and struck out 12 as the visiting Hornets topped the Tigers, 11-1. Hale Hescock and Skyeler Devlin had the base knocks for MUHS, which dropped to 0-2, and Wyatt Cameron suffered the loss.

how many points someone scores.

Then there is the obsession with “double-doubles” in basketball.

That’s when a player records in a game at least two of the following: 10 points, 10 rebounds or 10 assists. Announcers and sports information departments love double-doubles; sometimes they even cite “near double-doubles” instead of trusting us to do the math for 12 points and nine boards.

Still, I often wonder if 12 points and 10 rebounds is more useful than, say, 26 points and eight rebounds. Not that I’m going to knock Russell Westbrook for averaging a triple-double for an entire NBA season, mind you. Now we’re crossing over into valuable information. I would probably still vote for James Harden for MVP, though.

There also remains a central problem with stats. For sure there are team stats: Points and yardage for and against in football, team earned-run average in baseball, and even team points-per-possession in basketball.

But the stats sports fans and alleged experts toss around the most — such as the ones used in debating whether Westbook or Hard-

en should be the NBA MVP, Tom Brady is better than Peyton Manning, or Mantle was better than Mays — are those individual stats.

And the stat that really counts in team sports is the record: There is a saying in soccer that the only ones that matter are wins and goals.

Why should we pay attention to so many individual stats when what really matters is how the team fares?

This is delicate territory. Successful teams depend on chemistry, on players who accept roles and trust and support one another.

Too much emphasis on individual accomplishment can threaten what is paramount, the success of the group.

On the other hand, most members of the team are not all-stars. Well, unless they play for the Golden State Warriors, but that’s another story.

They are doing essentially thankless jobs like scrabbling after ground balls, bunting runners up to second base, or setting picks.

Why not keep track of what everybody does for the team, not just the goal-scorers, home-run hitters and three-point shooters?

Credit where credit is due.

Wrap-Up

Kirkaldy EAGLE SENIOR MAX Ratti-Bicknell scored four goals in Mount Abraham’s 16-10 win over Otter Valley Monday afternoon in Bristol.

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Ratti-Bicknell converted a LaBarr feed.

Cook pointed to the fact that nine Eagles scored as an encouraging, praised the play of his midfielders, and said his defense would gel as a unit given more full-field time in practice and games. And he believes depth will be a strength.

“We got everybody in today and got them some great experience that we’re going to need down the road,” Cook said.

Milliman has a smaller roster, but believes the Otters’ character and drive will help them improve and compete this spring.

“This is a great group,” he said.

“We don’t have a lot of numbers, but we have a lot of heart, and that’s a great place to start.”

MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION High School senior Owein LaBarr spins and scores one of his three goals against Otter Valley Monday afternoon. LaBarr also had three assists in the Eagles’ 16-10 win.

(Continued from Page 1B) power. Outfielder Rajai Davis put up those numbers for Cleveland in 2016.

How about one with a .262 average, a .361 OBP, a .562 slugging percentage, 47 homers and two steals? Yes, that’s a lumbering slugger who walks a lot because pitchers are careful, and he’s patient.

Those numbers belonged to Baltimore first baseman Chris Davis in 2015.

Other stats do have to be taken with a grain of salt. I love watching fearless Boston Celtic Isaiah Thomas, who averaged an outstanding 28.9 points per game this season.

I was at the Fleet Garden when he scored 41 vs. Portland on Jan. 21.

But Boston was missing defensive stopper Avery Bradley, and Thomas had to defend a top opposing guard. Blazer guards C.J. McCollum and Damian Lillard combined for 63 points and 10 assists.

Two points here about Isaiah’s scoring average: At five-foot-nine (maybe) Thomas really can’t guard anybody, and the Celtics have won 18 NBA titles and have never had a player lead the league in points per game. It’s not enough just to know

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BURLINGTON — To help the public better understand the benefits of cover crops and other environmentally friendly farming practices, three Vermont farmer watershed protection groups have partnered to produce a short video.

The video, “Protecting the Soil: Cover Crops for Clean Water,” was developed by the Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition (CVFC), Connecticut River Watershed Farmers Alliance (CRWFA) and Farmer’s Watershed Alliance (FWA) in cooperation with University of Vermont (UVM) Extension. It features Vermont agronomists and farmers discussing strategies for using winter cover crops to help protect Lake Champlain and other state waterLOCAL UVM EXTENSION specialist Kristen Workman explains some environmentally friendly farming pracways. tices in a new video on cover cropping.

“Cover crops are planted after the farmer’s main crop, such as plant species such as winter cereal crops last year, an increase of more established new phosphorus Total corn, is harvested in the fall,” ex- rye, annual ryegrass, oats, clover, than 30 percent compared to 2015. Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs) plained Brian Kemp, CVFC pres- vetch and even radish and turnip. CRWFA, which was organized in for Lake Champlain to reduce nuident. “They grow throughout the NRCS provides technical and 2016 and represents farmers in sev- trient runoff. The TMDLs were winter and spring to build soil financial assistance to help en Vermont and New Hampshire developed in collaboration with health and are widely recogfarmers plant cover crops counties, expects to have similar the Vermont Agency of Natural nized as an environmentally and tracks the acres plant- data to report starting in 2017.

Resources Department of Environsustainable way for farmed. However, many farm“The adoption of cover crops in mental Conservation and the Verers to prevent nutrients and ers in Vermont plant cover Vermont has been extremely rapid mont Agency of Agriculture, Food sediment from leaving crops on their own, over the past couple years,” said and Markets. the fields.”

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“Farmers are thinking about their protected by cover crops to prevent Conservation Service FWA has document- soils in new and innovative ways nutrients from leaving their fields.

(NRCS) data, Vermont ed acreage planted in cover crops because they understand the envi- UVM Extension estimates that the farmers planted a record-setting on farms in Franklin and Grand ronmental and agronomic benefits 25,727 acres of cover crops planted 25,727 acres of cover crops on Isle counties since the group was to improve the soil, control erosion last year will prevent an estimated more than 2,000 fields in 2016 on established in 2006. In 2016 a to- and protect our waterways.”

28,000 tons of topsoil from leaving approximately 25 percent of all an- tal of 10,155 acres of cover crops Cover crops also are helping fields as erosion. Additionally, an nual cropland in Vermont. That’s a were planted on these farms. farmers to meet goals recently estimated 51 tons of phosphorus 58 percent increase in the acres of CVFC was established in 2013 outlined by the U.S. Environmen- was conserved in the cover crop protective winter cover crops plant- and includes farmers in Addison, tal Protection Agency (EPA) to plants and is available to feed the ed in 2015, according to NRCS. Chittenden and Rutland counties. protect and restore the waters of next crop to be grown.

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Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets is highlighting the important role women play in Vermont’s Ag community.

Women represent about 22.3 percent of the principal farm operators in Vermont, according to the most recent USDA agricultural census. That number is significantly greater than the national average, which is 14 percent. A “principal operator” is defined as the person overseeing the daily farm operations.

Vermont ranks 9th in the nation for percentage of principal farm operators that are women.

Vermont has more than 7,300 farms total, and more than 4,700 female farmers. Vermont ranks 8th in the nation for percentage of total farm operators that are women.

“We have a strong tradition of female farmers here in Vermont,”

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MIDDLEBURY — The recent In the Nutrition Lab they learned Addison County 4-H Foods Day was about the new Vermont composting a day of learning and giving as 52 laws — including food scrap comyouths participated in posting in schools, from workshops and culinary Jaclyn Hochreiter, AddiThe youths competitions. son County Solid Waste The event was held were divided Management District.

Feb. 25 at Middlebury into groups Andrea Warren from Union Middle School. based on age to Addison County Line In addition to fun learn- rotate between Dancers in New Haven ing activities, particitaught line dancing in three different pants also collectively the Exercise Lab. donated 45 pounds of workshop labs.

In the Foods Lab the dry and canned food younger group cut up items to the Middlebury Food Shelf. root vegetables and learned how to The youths were divided into roast them with the help of Sue Bogroups based on age to rotate be- dette, a nutrition educator with the tween three different workshop labs. University of Vermont (UVM) Ex-

tension Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. Janet Piper, a 4-H leader from Bridport, and Melinda Piper, Sudbury, worked with the two older groups, teaching them how to make beef and vegetable skewers and pork stir fry. These groups also heard from staff from Green Pasture Meats in New Haven who presented information on cuts of meat and worked with them on their knife skills.

Participants prepared dishes at home to be evaluated at the event with each age group assigned a different category of dish to make.

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Awards were given out in the following groups:

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Grades 5-7 (salads): Gabby Ellis, Shoreham, shrimp pad Thai salad (first); Morgan White, Whiting, spring fruit salad (second); Michael Plouffe, Bridport, pasta fruit salad (third).

Grades 8-12 (main dishes): Courtney Curler, Bridport, slow cooker creamy tortellini (first); Serena Welch, Shoreham, healthy beef stew (second); McKenna White, Whiting, rainbow spring roll (third).

The day ended with a buffet lunch featuring the dishes the young cooks brought in to be judged as well as what they prepared in the Foods Labs.

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He has worked with U.S. and UN agencies, including the World Health Organization, on international addiction projects in many parts of the world. He established a nonprofit treatment program, the Matrix Institute, in Los Angeles in 1984 and subsequently over 15,000 patients have received treatment in the Matrix clinics.

Rawson has published six books, 40 book chapters and more than 240 professional papers and annually conducts over 50 workshops, paper presentations and training sessions.

Police look into bombing threat

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Bronx, N.Y., for unlawful trespass on police interviewed two Champlain Middlebury College grounds on April Valley Academy students who had 13. allegedly talked about bombing the • Investigated a report of a driver Catamount Park school after having leaving the scene of a two-vehicle acbeen disciplined for behavioral issues cident at the intersection of Merchants on April 13.

Row and Main Street on Police said they beApril 13. Police are still lieved the students were looking for one of the not serious about cardrivers.

Police Log rying through on the • Were informed alleged threat, and they someone had entered a called Counseling Service of Addison Heritage Circle resident’s unlocked County officials to intervene in the garage to steal some items from the case. School officials vowed to take resident’s unlocked vehicle. Police further action against the students, po- warn residents to always lock their velice said. hicles and to not leave any valuables in In other action last week, Middle- plain sight. bury police: • Were informed of the theft of a • Received a report a wallet had pair of flip-flops from Mendy’s clothbeen stolen from the Middlebury Col- ing store on Main Street on April 13. lege gym on South Main Street on • Received a report of a car stoApril 10. len from a Cottage Lane residence • Were informed on April 10 that on April 13. The vehicle is described the Middlebury American Legion had as a green Honda Accord 2000, with received some bad checks.

Vermont registration number FTD104.

• Asked the Middlebury Fire De- The vehicle was still missing as of earpartment Technical Rescue team to ly this week. check on some youths who had al• Responded to the untimely death legedly been playing near the Otter of a 71-year-old man at a Forrest Lane Creek Falls on April 11. residence on April 13. Police said • Helped Middlebury firefighters John McLaughlin of Leicester was at the scene of a vehicle fire on Route pronounced dead of apparent natural 125 East near Ripton on April 11. causes.

• Helped Bristol police with their • Responded to a noise complaint at pursuit of a vehicle that ended on Cob- a Court Street apartment on April 13. ble Road in Middlebury on April 11.

Police said the resident had dropped a • Investigated an illegal dumping TV, thus causing the loud noise. complaint on Creek Road on April 11.

• Were informed on April 13 that • Were informed on April 11 some- someone had egged a vehicle parked one had cashed some voided checks off Valley View on April 13. belonging to a Washington Street resi• Cited Rachael Carter, 21, of Middent. dlebury for petit larceny, in connection • Checked on the welfare of a local with an alleged incident at Kinney youth believed to have been consider- Drug on Court Street on April 13. ing self-harming on April 12. Police • Received a report about a local said the youth was OK. traffic control official allegedly being • Cited Kevin O. Narine, 22, of the harassed by two women in the Mer-

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ADDISON COUNTY — Twice dercarriage. between April 11 and 17, Vermont Then, on April 17 at 1:11 a.m.

State Police responded to automo- state police responded to a one-car bile crashes on Route 22A in Addi- crash on Route 22A in Orwell near son County and ended up citing the the intersection of Cook Road. Podrivers involved with lice report that the driving under the influ2008 VW Jetta was ence of drugs. traveling northbound First, on April 11 and crossed the southat just before 8 p.m. bound lane and struck Police Log state police responded a tree off the west side to a one-car crash on Route 22A in of the road.

Shoreham near the Bridport town The vehicle sustained heavy frontLine. Police report that evidence at end damage and was a total loss. the scene indicated a 2011 Chevy The driver, identified as 28-yearImpala had slowly gone off the old Matthew Hawkins of St. Albans, road, which was not consistent with sustained bloody facial lacerations. the information provided by driver Police suspected that Hawkins Shannon Harris, 41, of Chazy, N.Y. was impaired, and they screened him Troopers met Harris at Porter Hospi- for DUI. A preliminary breath test tal and screened him for DUI. They showed a blood alcohol content of said Harris showed signs of impair- 0.029; below the legal limit for drivment, but a preliminary breath test ing of 0.08. The trooper took Hawshowed no alcohol in his system. kins into custody, processed him for Police arrested Harris, cited him for DUI and cited him for DUI-drugs.

DUI-drugs and ordered him to answer He is due to answer the charge in the the charge in Addison Superior Court, same court on May 8. criminal division, on July 10.

In other recent activity, Vermont The troopers reported that Harris State Police: • On April 12 at approximatesuffered back injuries and his Impala sustained heavy damage to the un- ly 1:08 a.m. received a call from a

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chants Row area on April 14. Police said one of the women alleged the traffic control official assaulted her. The matter remains under investigation, according to police.

• Received a report about a man allegedly soliciting a woman for sexual favors near the intersection of Weybridge Street and Pulp Mill Road on April 14. Police said the man was gone when they arrived.

• Responded to a report of a loud party on South Main Street on April 14.

• Checked on the welfare of a suicidal man in the downtown area on April 14. Police said the man was OK. • Responded to two separate noise complaints about a college student party at a Washington Street residence on April 15.

• Responded to a dispute involving some Piper Road neighbors on April 15.

• Assisted Middlebury firefighters on April 15 at the scene of a brush fire on Delancy Lane that had been moving toward an occupied home. Authorities evacuated residents and had them move their cars out of the path of the fire, which firefighters brought under control.

• Responded on April 16 to a motorcycle crash on Route 116 in which the driver sustained what police believe was a serious foot injury. Police said the accident occurred near the intersection with Cady Road, and resulted in the temporary closure of Route 116. The driver was taken to the University of Vermont Medical Center, according to police.

• Met with the parent of an out-ofcontrol 8-year-old child on April 16.

• Received a report about a verbal argument between a couple at the Middlebury Short Stop on Court Street Extension on April 16.

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BRANDON — A researcher well versed in the drug problem will present a talk titled “Treatment of Opiate Addiction in Vermont, Is it Working?” in Brandon on April 27, 7-8:30 p.m. at the Brandon Inn. Richard Rawson, PhD, is a research professor at the Center for Behavior and Health at the University of Vermont and a professor emeritus in the UCLA School of Medicine.

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female who reported that there was a man, identified as 24-year-old Matthew Brown of Hancock, at her residence who was intoxicated and refusing to leave. She stated that he was suicidal and had held a gun up to his head threatening to shoot himself. The caller later reported that he had discharged one shot from the firearm. Troopers responded to the scene and took Brown into protective custody. The Clara Martin Center assisted as Brown was evaluated at Gifford Hospital. Police cited Brown for reckless endangerment.

• On April 12 at approximately 9:35 a.m. responded to a report that a 2007 BMW 530 had crashed on Route 30 near School Street in Cornwall. Troopers said the tan BMW was on its side in a ditch when they arrived. After investigating they said that they determined that Amber Thomas, 21, of Shoreham was driving the car and took her attention off the road and then drifted into a utility pole — damaging the pole and totaling her car. Police issued Thomas a civil ticket for unreasonable and imprudent driving with an accident resulting.

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VERGENNES — Vergennes police handled a variety of incidents between April 10 and 16, including helping other agencies, calming a domestic dispute, dealing with a fraud case, responding to two threat complaints, and helping one inebriated individual find his car. During those seven days, Vergennes police: • On April 10 responded to a 911 hang-up call from a First Street home and calmed an arguing couple who police said had been drinking.

• On April 10 worked with the Department of Motor Vehicles on a case in which a commercial driver might have been operating a vehicle while under the influence of drugs. Police said an off-duty officer saw a truck weaving while approaching Vergennes on Route 22A and reported it, leading to a DMV stop in which the driver was arrested for suspicion of DUI and the truck was taken off the road.

• On April 10 helped a motorist

get into a locked vehicle at the United Technologies Corp. parking lot.

• On April 10 took a report that a car had been struck by an unknown vehicle in the UTC parking lot.

• On April 10 and 12 dealt with minor two-car accidents on Main Street.

• On April 11 deployed the department’s K9 unit to try to find a driver who had fled the scene of a one-car accident on Cobble Road on the Middlebury/Bristol line after trying to elude police southbound on Route 116.

Authorities later found the driver on Munger Street, which intersects with Cobble Road.

• On April 11 checked the welfare of a male Walker Avenue resident, who was found to be OK. • On April 13 and 15 put notices on parked cars about street cleaning planned during nighttime hours this week.

• On April 13 were told that $680 of had been taken using a stolen debit

card; police notified the bank.

• On April 13 helped a motorist start a car on Main Street after its headlights had been left on.

• On April 14 picked up two dogs on Panton Road and took them to the Vergennes Animal Hospital.

• On April 14 issued a no-trespass order to a Northlands Job Corps employee who had threatened his boss on his last day of work.

• On April 15 heard from a woman that her ex-boyfriend’s wife was threatening her on Facebook; police were still earlier this week trying to reach the woman who allegedly made the threats.

• On April 15 were told by a man police described as drunk that his car had been stolen; police determined he had forgotten where it was parked, and the vehicle was found on Green Street.

• On April 16 helped motorists get into locked cars on Second and South Maple streets.

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At the Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

7:30‑8:30 PM Friday eve‑ nings.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMILIES and friends affected by some‑ one’s drinking. Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. Newcomers wel‑ come. Confidential. St. Ste‑ phen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRANDON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Discussion Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. All held at the St. Thom‑ as Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRISTOL MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, Discussion Meeting 4:00‑5:00 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Meeting, 6:00‑7:00 PM. All held at the Howden Hall, 19 West Street.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS FRIDAY: Discus‑ sion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

Services

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS SATURDAY: Dis‑ cussion Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM at the Middlebury United Methodist Church. Discus‑ sion Meeting 10:00‑11:00 AM. Beginners’ Meeting 6:30‑7:30 PM. These two meetings are held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middle‑ bury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS SUNDAY: 12 Step Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Came to Believe Meeting 1:00‑2:00 PM held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middle‑ bury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS THURSDAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (On the Green).

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS TUESDAYS: 12 Step Meetings; Noon‑1:00 PM. AND 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middle‑ bury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS WEDNESDAY: Big Book Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM is held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Discus‑ sion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NEW HAVEN MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at the Congregational Church, New Haven Village Green.

Services

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS RIPTON MEETINGS: Monday, As Bill Sees It Meet‑ ing 7:15‑8:15 AM. Thursday, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Both held at Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS VERGENNES MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Dis‑ cussion Meeting 8:00‑9:00 PM. Both held at St. Paul’s Church, Park St. Tuesday, Discussion Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM, at the Congregational Church, Water St. 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 confidential, we share our experience, strength and hope to solve our common problems. Babysit‑ ting available.

MAKING RECOVERY EASI‑ ER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turning Point Cen‑ ter (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facilitated group meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and discussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understanding of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednes‑ days, 9 am, held at The Turn‑ ing Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

NEW SUPPORT GROUP ‑ Grief Anonymous Meeting every Thursday @ 6:30 pm at Grace Baptist Church 52 Merchants Row, Middelbury, Vt. First Meeting Thursday, December 1st, 2016 OA (OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS) MEETS on Thurs‑ days at 6 PM. Located at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Road, Middlebury, VT.

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) step meeting.

Tuesdays, 3 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 Mountain Health Center in Bristol. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS MEETING of Alcoholics Anon‑ ymous, 7:30‑8:30 a.m., Fri‑ day, upstairs at St. Stephen’s Church., Middlebury, VT.

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STOREFRONT LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. In the heart of downtown. Ap‑ proved for seating for 24.

Plenty of parking, lots of pos‑ sibilities. Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

ACORN PAINTING IS NOW hiring for the exterior season.

Experienced painters pre‑ ferred but willing to train the right candidates. Must have valid drivers license, trans‑ portation and be reliable. This is a fun job for people with a solid work ethic. Excellent starting pay with incentives to earn more. For an interview, or to learn more, please call 453 5611.

COSTELLO’S MARKET IS looking for an experienced person to wrap subs, do prep‑work, deep frying, dish washing and other duties.

Please apply in person to Costello’s Market, Marble‑ works, Middlebury.

FULL TIME LUMBER AND sales person.

Experienced,honest, or‑ ganized person to answer phone, sell our flooring and help customers select retail lumber. Tally slips and handle transactions. Excellent math skills and some knowledge of wood products and /or wood‑ working experience preferred.

Must be personable, out go‑ ing individual with excellent phone manner. Call Tom Lath‑ rop. 802‑453‑2897. Ext. 2 to apply. Exclusively Vermont Wood Products and Lathrop’s Maple Supply. Hewitt Rd., Bristol, VT.

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CONSTRUCTION ELE‑ MENTS‑ PROJECT con‑ sulting, planning and man‑ agement. Secure structures and safe rooms. Over 40 years of experience with competitive hourly rates. Re‑ sume on request. Call David, 802‑948‑2257.

GOT POTHOLES? DeMers LLC. Driveway repair. Spring Cleanups. Free estimates.

802‑349‑8906. leondemers@ icloud.com .

PARTY RENTALS; CHI‑ NA, flatware, glassware, linens. Delivery available.

802‑388‑4831.

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PROFESSIONAL PAINTING; interior/exterior, residential/ commercial, pressure wash‑ ing. 20 years’ experience.

Best prices. References.

802‑989‑5803.

Lost and Found

Help Wanted COMMUNITY INTEGRA‑ TION SPECIALIST provide 1:1 mentoring to individuals with developmental disabilities in goal‑oriented community activities. Help them access community resources, make friends, learn new life/social skills, and express their cre‑ ativity. You will be supporting diverse needs and interest.

Seeking a candidate with pa‑ tience, good judgment, flex‑ ibility and excellent boundary setting skills. Experience in behavioral support strongly de‑ sired. Good driving record, use of personal vehicle and GED required. M‑F with compre‑ hensive benefit package. To apply, visit www.csac‑vt.org, or respond to CSAC HR, 89 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, 802‑388‑6751, ext. 415.

BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

FOUND: CHILD’S HAND‑ MADE cardigan, hooded sweater. May be claimed at the Town Treasurer’s Office, 77 Main Street, Middlebury.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Highway/Grounds Maintenance Worker 1

Services C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, tap‑ ing, skim coat plastering. 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.

Summer Event Coordinator

Help Wanted

Town of Ferrisburgh

WOMEN OF AA Mondays, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Services

Opportunities

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OPIATE OVERDOSE RES‑ CUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required.

For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www. turningpointaddisonvt.org.

Services

Public Meetings

Seeking entry level, full time team oriented individual for routine maintenance of Town properties. Primary responsibilities include snow plowing, lawn mowing, trimming and light janitorial duties. The applicant needs to be respectful of equipment and safety conscious during vehicle and equipment operation, have a good work ethic, and the ability to take and remember directions. This work is physically demanding and we work in all types of weather. Competitive salary and benefits are offered. Pay scale $12.50 to $15.00 DOE. Applications and complete job descriptions may be picked up at the Ferrisburgh Town Office, P.O. Box 6, 3279 Route 7, Ferrisburgh Vermont 05456.

The Town of Ferrisburgh is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Application remains open until filled.

Services

Services

The Volunteer Center, a collaboration of United Way of Addison County is seeking a (or several) RSVP and the volunteer coordinator(s) for their annual Stuff the United Way of Bus back to school donation drive event. The ideal Addison County, candidate(s) are highly efficient, organized, and posts dozens of volunteer opportunities thorough. Event planning experience is a plus but on the Web.Go to

The Volunteer Center, a collaboration of RSVP and the We are seeking a professional photographer and a United Way of professional videographer for two upcoming events Addison County, hosted by the United Way of Addison County. We posts dozens of volunteer opportunities are seeking individuals for May 4th (2017) and on the Web.Go to

www.unitedwayaddison

www.unitedwayaddison

county.org/ VolunteerDonate and click on VOLUNTEER NOW!

not a requirement, this would be a great project for higher level high school student/students.

Please contact our office or Volunteer Center for more info at 802-388-7189 or visit http:// unitedwayaddisoncounty.galaxydigital.com/ need/detail/?need_id=240149

Photographer Needed

county.org/ VolunteerDonate and click on

June 1st (2017) to attend and film the event(s).

Please contact our office or Volunteer Center for more info at 802-388-7189 or visit http:// unitedwayaddisoncounty.galaxydigital.com/ need/detail/?need_id=246930

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L o c a l age n c ie s c a n p o s t t h e i r v o l u n te e r ne e d s w i t h Th e Vo l u n te e r C e n te r by c a l l i ng RSV P at 388-7044.

L o c a l age n c ie s c a n p o s t t h e i r v o l u n te e r ne e d s w i t h Th e Vo l u n te e r C e n te r by c a l l i ng RSV P at 388-7044.

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Vermont’s premier sitework and concrete contractor, S.D. Ireland is looking for experienced and enthusiastic people to join our team. We have openings for the following positions: • Concrete Finishers • Commercial and Residential Form Workers • Rebar tiers • Equipment Operators • Class A and Class B CDL Drivers including tandem and mixer

• Safety Professionals • Pipe Layers • Laborers • Pump Operator • Pavers • Crane Operator • Traffic Control

Pay will be commensurate with experience.

We offer great benefits, including health care, dental, paid time off, and a 401(k) plan.

Please apply in person at 193 Industrial Avenue in Williston, VT to fill out an employment application, mail your resume to P.O. Box 2286 South Burlington, VT 05407 or send via email to kbarrett@sdireland. com. Employment Applications are available on our website at www.sdireland.com S.D. Ireland is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Safety Professional Vermont’s premier sitework and concrete contractor, S.D. Ireland is searching for a Safety Professional to join our team.

We are looking for someone experienced with OSHA construction and general industry standards. The right candidate must be a flexible, motivated team player, and have an excellent work ethic.

Bachelors degree in a related field preferred however, not required.

We offer competitive wages, benefits including: health care, dental, paid time off, and 401(k).

S.D. Ireland is a great place to work! If you’re up for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to come in and apply in person at 193 Industrial Avenue in Williston, VT to fill out an employment application, mail your resume to P.O. Box 2286 South Burlington, VT 05407 or reply to this ad. Employment Applications are also available on our website at www.sdireland.com S.D. Ireland is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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STORAGE 4 Sizes ~ Self-locking units Hardscrabble Rd., Bristol

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Established Construction Company is seeking an individual to work in our Aggregate Production Division.

We are looking for someone experienced with crushing, screening, wash plants and associated support equipment.

However, we would be willing to train the right candidate.

This is a “hands on” position and requires a willingness to do what is needed to get the job done.

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PHARMACY TECHNICIANS in Training RITE AID, one of the nation’s leading retail drugstore chains, is looking for responsible individuals to fill these full time and part time positions in the local area. Applicants must be able to work days, nights and weekends.

Experience preferred but will train appropriate candidate

We offer full time employment with competitive benefits, paid holidays, 401k plan, and health insurance in addition to a fun and safe place to work.

If you possess good mechanical skills, have a passion for heavy equipment, and want to work in a fast pace productive environment send your resume and/or letter of interest to:

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We are a solid, stable organization that’s been around for 98 years. We offer an excellent benefits package and a competitive wage structure.

Paris Farmers Union currently operates 11 retail stores, a Wholesale Division, Farm Sales & Service Division, Warehouse and Trucking, and a Municipal/ Contractor Sales Division.

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FULL TIME LUMBER HAN‑ DLER assist with flooring production and various other duties. Heavy lifting involved.

Must be extremely reliable and a team player. Call Tom Lathrop. 802‑453‑2897 ext 2 to apply. Exclusively Vermont wood products and Lathrop’s Maple Supply, Hewitt Road, Bristol, VT 05443.

PART OR FULL TIME, 2 positions, convenience store.

802‑758‑2361.

COME TO YOUR LOCAL consignment shop to buy furniture, collectibles, ev‑ eryday household item, toys and so much more. Open this week for summer hours 7 days a week 10 to 5. Find us located in the Compass Music and Art Center at 333 Jones Drive. 465‑8436. Do your spring cleaning and come consign your items too.

HOPE HAS AN OPENING at its resale store for a 24.5 hour a week textile sorter.

Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds, to stand, sit and walk for prolonged periods, be able to perform work re‑ quiring repetitive hand mo‑ tion, must be speedy and attentive to detail. Send resume and cover letter to: receptionist@hope‑vt. org. mailto: receptionist@ hope‑vt.org.

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LANDSCAPERS AND LAWNMOWERS Looking for honest, hard working people for the 2017 season. Valid drivers license required.

Call Mark at Pleasant Valley Landscaping. 802‑343‑4820.

North Ferrisburgh, VT. LOOKING FOR A SEA‑ SONAL food truck manager.

Responsible for maintain‑ ing truck, inventory. Order products for events. Expe‑ rience in flat grill cooking preferred. Call Suzanne at 802‑349‑6781 or email: mile‑ pointvt@yahoo.com.

LOOKING FOR SUMMER hay help. Mowing, raking, and baling. 948‑2675. Start‑ ing in May.

SUBSCRIBE 388.4944, or www.addisonindependent.com.

STOREFRONT LOCATION, LOCATION LOCATION. In the heart of downtown. Ap‑ proved for seating for 24.

Plenty of parking, lots of opportunities. Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

LILAC KNOLL HOUSE at Park Village in Brandon. At‑ tractive 2 bedroom. Bright and sunny. $830.00. In‑ cludes heat and trash. Must be 55 or older. No pets. Call 802‑247‑0165.

MIDDLEBURY ‑ TWO APARTMENTS available in the heart of town within walk‑ ing distance to everything.

Two bedroom and three bedroom available on June 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

VERGENNES ROOM FOR RENT. Shared bathroom and kitchen. $100/week.

802‑877‑9237.

WEST ADDISON: 2 STORY, furnished house on lakefront.

Washer, dryer. No smok‑ ing. Available September through May. $1,000/month.

860‑878‑9580.

MIDDLEBURY 3 BED‑ ROOM apartment on Court Street, fully furnished, all inclusive except internet/TV. Call 802‑388‑4831.

MR. MIKE’S COMMER‑ CIAL Cleaning Service has openings for part to full time.

Must have reliable trans‑ portation, be flexible and reliable. Available to work nights a must, and need to pass background check. Self motivated, able to work inde‑ pendently. E‑mail resume to: info@mrmikescleaningser‑ vicevt.com. Application also available online at: www. mrmikescleaningservicevt. com. No phone calls please.

We encourage all to apply.

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SUMMER GARDENING HELP NEEDED for Panton Ridge. Raking, mulching, planting and care of flow‑ ers and garden. Full time.

Drivers license a must.

May call 802‑475‑2974 or 802‑363‑0082.

ORGANIC DAIRY FARM Cornwall, VT. Previous experience with livestock preferred but willing to train the right person. Must be reli‑ able and timely. Looking for someone to help with build‑ ing fence, feeding, afternoon chores, and calf chores. 40 hours a week available, full time or several part time positions. Hours may vary but around 9am‑6pm. butterwickfarm@standard‑ milk.com or (603) 359‑6504.

THE TOWN OF MONKTON has an immediate opening for a full time road crew member. We are seeking a highly motivated individ‑ ual with basic mechanical skills. The applicant must work well with others and the general public. Candi‑ dates are required to have a CDL, the ability to be on call during the winter months and live within 20 minutes of the Monkton town garage.

Duties will include general road maintenance, grading, plowing and mowing. This position includes a full benefit package. Compensation will be based on experience. Ap‑ plications are available at the Monkton Town Hall.

For Sale ANTIQUE DOUBLE BAR‑ REL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful vintage firearm. $185. 802‑989‑5803.

CEDAR POSTS for sale.

8 footers, no points.

802‑388‑4831.

MONKTON: SHARE A HOME with woman in her 60’s interested in environ‑ mental issues, reading & cooking. $400/mo. plus utili‑ ties/internet/cable, and lend a hand with yard work. Private half bath. 802‑ 863‑5625 or HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background checks required. EHO. NEW HAVEN, 2 BEDROOM upstairs apartment. Bright and spacious. Need 1st and last month’s rent. Price in‑ cludes heat, electricity & rubbish removal. No pets, $1195 per month. Call 802‑453‑4037.

NEW HAVEN: BEAUTIFUL VIEWS, sunny apartment.

Garden space. No pets, no smoking. References, security deposit, lease. $875/month plus utilities.

802‑236‑2040.

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Candidates must be available weekends, evenings, and holidays. We offer competitive wages and benefits. Previous hotel experience is preferred but not required. Training is provided. Join our award-winning team, providing quality customer service, a positive attitude and excellent work ethic. Interested, qualified candidates can apply in person at 309 Court Street, Middlebury. Please, no phone inquiries.

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FOR RENT PRIME RETAIL space. 1,303 square feet.

Location, location. Front door parking. Good visibility. Call Eric at 388‑6054.

MIDDLEBURY NEWLY RENOVATED two bedroom house. Walking distance to schools and stores. No smoking. No pets. 388‑7743.

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MIDDLEBURY 3 BED‑ ROOM apartment on Court Street, fully furnished, all inclusive except internet/TV. Call 802‑388‑4831.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Interested candidates can also apply online to the position in the careers section of our Company website, www.riteaid.com/ careers.

For Rent

THE BARREL MAN; plastic and metal barrels, 275 gallon food‑grade totes. 55 gallon plastic food‑grade barrels with spin‑on covers. Great for rain barrels. A barrel for every need. 802‑453‑4235.

For Rent 1,800 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092.

273 MAIN STREET, VER‑ GENNES Available now, medium size 2 bedroom apartment. $920 per month.

Laundry hookups, large en‑ closed porch & full bath. Heat and hot water included. Call 802‑862‑7467.

BRIDPORT; 2 BEDROOM upstairs apartment. No smok‑ ing, no pets. 802‑758‑2361.

802‑388‑2754.

BRISTOL : 2 BEDROOM Heat, lawn care, garage, basement. $1,160/mo.

802‑453‑2566.

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BRISTOL; 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT Heat, trash, snowplowing, lawn care, parking included. $1,175/ mo. 802‑453‑2566.

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.

ONE BEDROOM APART‑ MENT $650 per month plus utilities included. $400 se‑ curity. No pets. No smoking.

Located in Whiting. Contact Marie for an appointment.

802‑623‑6082.

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PRIME RETAIL SPACE IN Middlebury. Located in the center of town with lots of foot traffic. Over‑ looks the falls on Otter Creek at 44 Main St. 740 sq. ft., AC. 802‑989‑7277 or 206‑715‑5344.

SHOREHAM: SHARE A UNIQUE spacious country home, 25 minutes to Middle‑ bury, with professional in his 40’s interested in cook‑ ing, NPR, reading, hiking. $400 plus utilities. Shared bath. A pet would be con‑ sidered. 802‑863‑5625 or HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background checks required. EHO.

Wood Heat FIREWOOD, GREEN OR DRY cut, split. $200/cord.

802‑247‑6061.

Real Estate LAKE‑ 8.9 ACRES + of wooded land with 650 feet of lake frontage. Peaceful retreat, quiet water sports.

A rare find. $300,000.

Whittaker Real Estate, 8 0 2 ‑ 2 4 7 ‑ 6 6 3 3 . To m @ WhittakerRealEstate.com.

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOUSE on one of the six, now five remaining home‑sites in East Middle‑ bury’s Daisy Lane, a small established subdivision with village water, underground electric, cable and tele‑ phone to each lot. All sites are approved for simple in ground septic. Just down the street you’ll find a library, playground, tennis courts and the beautiful Waybury Inn and Pub. That’s not all, Daisy Lane is 15‑20 minutes from the Snow Bowl, two 18 hole golf courses and beautiful Lake Dunmore.

Telephone 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350.

NEW 2017 ENERGY STAR display models. Modular, double and single wides.

Open 7 days a week. Up to $27,500 down payment assistance available on new homes if you qualify.

FactoryDirectHomesofVT. com. 600 Rte. 7 Pittsford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflanders@ beanshomes.com.

Att. Farmers FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

SHOREHAM: SPACIOUS 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex apartment in quiet country location. 5 minute walk to berry and apple picking. 20 minute drive to Middlebury or Brandon. This three‑sto‑ ry apartment is very clean, approx. 950 sq.ft, eat‑in kitchen, large living/dining room, bonus room, full base‑ ment with W/D hookup, room for workshop, large yard & storage building. Lease, references, and deposit re‑ quired. No smoking, pets negotiable. $825.00/month plus utilities. Rent includes TriTown water, lawn care & snow plowing. Email: eleanorbrisson@shoeham. net or Call: 802‑897‑7880, leave a message.

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.

VALLEY VIEW APART‑ MENTS is currently accept‑ ing applications for 1 and 2 BR apartments in Ver‑ gennes. All income/assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. Elderly or dis‑ abled only. W/D onsite. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg. com. Equal Housing Op‑ portunity.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer special‑ izing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, an‑ tique collectibles, etc. Visit www.bittnerantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527.

Consulting/appraisal ser‑ vices available. House calls made free of charge.

Boats TRAILEX ALUMINUM CA‑ NOE TRAILER like new. $750. 388‑0044.

Cars 2000 TOYOTA SIENNA, XLE loaded, 247,500 miles. $1,000 OBRO. 802‑989‑4704.

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Public Notices can be found on this Page 11B.

CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

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Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, May 8, 2017 at 7 p.m. at City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by Scott Hardy for subdivision, planned unit development, site plan review, conditional use review, to develop Fisher Farm, a 7-Unit planned unit development at 184/186 Green Street. The request will be reviewed pursuant to the zoning and subdivision regulations.

A copy of the subdivision plat and specifications is available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office.

April 18, 2017 Mel Hawley, Zoning Administrator 4/20

TOWN OF BRISTOL PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

TOWN OF LINCOLN PUBLIC NOTICE

The town of Lincoln Planning Commission will hold a FINAL HEARING for a 3-lot subdivision proposed by Thomas B. Shelton et al of Parcel #13030105.0 located on the east side of the Guthrie Road. Said hearing will be held May 4, 2017 at 7:05 PM at the Lincoln Town Office.

The town of Lincoln Planning Commission will hold a SKETCH PLAN HEARING for a 4-lot subdivision proposed by John Masterson et al for Parcels #41100219.51 and #41100219.50 located between County Road and Booska Road. Said hearing will be held at 7:30 PM (or immediately following the above hearing) in the Lincoln Town Office. Information regarding the hearing may be seen at the Town Office during normal business hours. Persons interested in participating at the hearing must be present or express interest in a letter.

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TOWN OF FERRISBURGH SELECTBOARD 9, 2017 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING - TOWN PLAN Vermont, The Selectboard will hold a public hearing on Tuesday May 9, 2017 at 6:30 P.M. at the pursuant Town Hall, 3279 Route 7 in Ferrisburgh, Vermont, on the proposed 2016-2024 Town Plan.

This hearing is held pursuant to 24 V.S.A. 4385. This notice is issued pursuant to 24 A.

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The Bristol Zoning Board of Adjustments will hold a hearing on May 9, 2017 at the Town Offices located at 1 South Street beginning at 7:30 P.M. to consider the review of zoning permit #17-14, Caitlin Cusack (Parcel #09-02-30), requesting a conditional use permit for a Bed & Breakfast, Bristol Zoning Regulations Article III, Sec. 353.

The Bristol Zoning Board of Adjustments will also hold a hearing on May 9, 2017 at the Town Offices located at 1 South Street beginning at 7:30 P.M. to consider the review of zoning permit #17-18, Town of Bristol (Parcel #22-50-61), requesting approval of a Kiosk with electronic message board, Bristol Zoning By-laws and Regulations Article VII, Sec. 747.

Copies of the complete zoning applications are available for review at the Bristol Town Office during regular business hours.

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V.S.A. 4444(b).

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND AREAS OF TOWN AFFECTED The Ferrisburgh Town Plan creates and defines a long-term vision for the Town of Ferrisburgh. The Plan provides historical data and statistics to provide context for those making community decisions. It describes Ferrisburgh’s current conditions, character and challenges. It also establishes goals and action items intended to implement the vision of the Plan. The Plan should serve as a primary reference for all individuals and entities making community decisions and should guide local officials setting public policy. All areas within the Town of Ferrisburgh are affected.

Topic areas of the Plan include: Table of Contents 4. Ferrisburgh Future 1. Foreword 4.1 Natural Resources Policies 2. Ferrisburgh Past 4.2 Human Resources Policies 3. Ferrisburgh Present 4.3 Land Use Plan 3.1 Natural Resources 5. Epilogue, with implementation plan 3.2 Human Resources Copies of the proposed Ferrisburgh Town Plan can be viewed at the following locations: Town Clerk’s Office, 3279 Route 7, Vermont during regular office hours.

On the Web at www.ferrisburghvt.org.

For further information please call Gloria Warden, the Town Clerk at (802) 877-3429.

Ferrisburgh Selectboard BY: Loretta Lawrence, Chair 4/20

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.

(Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham) The legal voters of the Addison Northwest School District are hereby notified and warned to meet at 5:45 p.m., on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, at Vergennes Union High School to transact the following business: Article 1. Shall the voters authorize the Addison Northwest School District to borrow money to be used for the payment of School District expenses pending receipt of payments from the State Education Fund by the issuance of its notes or orders payable not later than one year from date of issuance?

Dated at Vergennes, Vermont this 22nd day of March, 2017, Addison Northwest School District Board of Directors Susan Rakowski, Chair Rose Wenzel, Clerk 4/3

PUBLIC NOTICE – BRISTOL EAST

Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless proposes to construct a 113-foot monopole at 188 Purinton Road, Bristol, Addison County, VT. Public comments regarding the potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30-days from the date of this publication to: Britta Tonn – CBRE, 4 West Red Oak Lane, White Plains, New York 10604, Britta.Tonn@CBRE.com, or 802-522-8259.

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Town of Middlebury (Owner) 77 Main St., Middlebury, VT 05753

The Whiting Planning Commission will hold a public meeting on May 10th, 2017 at 7:30 pm in the Town Office located on South Main Street in Whiting VT. Purpose of the meeting: to hear a request for a minor subdivision of the property located at 202 West Road, belonging to Charles and Karen LeRoy. The application is available to the public at the Whiting Town Office, 29 S Main St, Whiting VT. You are free to review the files for any additional information concerning these matters.

Persons wishing to be heard at this Public Meeting may do so in person or may be represented at the meeting by licensed Vermont Attorneys or authorized agents. Please note that in accordance with Chapter 117, Section 4464 of the Vermont Statutes that participation in this Public Meeting is prerequisite to the right to take subsequent appeal.

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Separate sealed BIDS for the construction of: North Pleasant Street Infrastructure Improvements Project will be received by The Town of Middlebury, Public Works Dept at: 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 until 1:00 pm (prevailing local time) on Friday, May 12, 2017, if mailing, or to the Public Works Department at 1020 South Route 7, if hand delivering, and then at Middlebury Public Works Dept. publicly opened and read aloud.

Each BID must be accompanied by a certified check payable to the OWNER for five percent (5%) of the total amount of the BID. A BID bond may be used in lieu of a certified check.

The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined at the following locations: Green Mountain Engineering, Inc., 1438 South Brownell Road, Williston, VT 05495 Town of Middlebury, Public Works Offices, 1020 South Rt. 7, Middlebury, VT 05753 Works in Progress, 20 Farrell Street, Suite 103, South Burlington, VT 05403 Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of Green Mountain Engineering, Inc., located at 1438 South Brownell Road, Williston, VT 05495 upon payment of $120.00 for each set.

A Performance BOND and a Payment BOND each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price, will be required.

Federal minimum wage rates and public work employment laws are applicable.

Any BIDDER, upon returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS within 30 days after the actual date of BID opening and in good condition, will be refunded the payment, and any non-bidder upon so returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS will be refunded $60.00.

A pre-bid conference for prospective bidders will be held at the Middlebury Public Works Department, located at 1020 S. Route 7 in Middlebury, at 9:00 a.m. on May 1, 2017.

Representatives of Green Mountain Engineering and the Town of Middlebury will be present to answer questions from bidders and discuss participation requirements.

April 13, 2017 Ms. Kathleen Ramsay, Town Manager 4/17, 20, 24, 27

VERMONT AGENCY OF TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC NOTICE HERBICIDE SPRAYING

The Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) has requested from the Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets, a permit to apply the following herbicides: Garlon 4 ULTRA, Garlon 3A, Oust Extra, Escort, Krenite S and Rodeo to control unwanted vegetation along all State highways and at State airports. Operations are authorized to start approximately May 15, 2017 but will not begin until the appropriate notification requirements are completed. The application will be made by certified pesticide applicator using mechanically controlled equipment and hand controlled methods. The methods employed are intended to avoid or eliminate drift. Resident along the rightsof-way (ROW) are encouraged to protect sensitive environments or water supplies within 100 feet of the ROW limits. Residents should notify VTrans of the existence any water supplies within 100 feet of the State’s ROW. Citizens wishing to inform VTrans are urged to contact the nearest District Transportation Administrator as follows: District 1 - Bennington - (802) 447-2790, District 2 - Dummerston - (802) 254-5011, District 3 - Mendon - (802) 786-5826. District 4 - White River Junction - (802) 295-8888, District 5 - Colchester - (802) 655-1580, District 7 - St. Johnsbury - (802) 748-6670, District 8 - St. Albans – (802) 524-5926, District 9 – Derby – (802) 334-7934. The contact person at the State Highway Department Headquarters is Jennifer Callahan, Stormwater Technician, One National Life Drive, Montpelier, VT, 05633-5001, (802) 498-4947 or Jennifer.Callahan@vermont.gov. Contact can also be made using the VTrans Internet Web page at www.aot.state.vt.us/maint/mainthome.htm The appropriate place to contact with comments other than VTrans is the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, Agriculture Resource Management and Environmental Stewardship, 116 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602, (802) 828-2431. The link to their web page that would describe VTrans herbicide application permit request can be found at www.VermontAgriculture.com 4/20

The Middlebury Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, May 8, 2017 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room at the Municipal Office Building, 77 Main Street, to consider the following: 1. An application by Erik and Jennifer Bleich for a Conditional Use review of a request for a rear setback waiver to construct a covered porch on the rear of their house. This property is located at 42 Woodland Park in the High Density Residential District.

2. An application by Eric Highter for preliminary review of a subdivision application for a two-lot subdivision.

This property is located at 494 South Munger Street in the Agricultural Rural District.

3. An application by Turning Point Center for a preliminary review of a Conditional Use application to establish a recovery residence. The proposed location is the Grey Stone Motel located at 1395 Route 7 South in the Protected Highway District.

All interested persons may appear and be heard. Written materials may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning Office during regular business hours.

(802) 388-8100, Ext 210. Participation in this public hearing is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

Jennifer L. Murray Town Planner/Zoning Administrative Officer 4/20

Vergennes is scheduled to receive natural gas in 2017. As part of our commitment to safety, service teams will be out inspecting sewer lines in many neighborhoods this summer ahead of construction. We are excited to be a part of your community. Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns you may have: www.VermontGas.com or 800-639-8081

802-388-1966

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING TOWN OF WHITING

WARNING SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY – DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 145-3-17 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM H. BERTOLET, 3RD NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of William H. Bertolet, 3rd late of Middlebury, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: March 16, 2017 Allan R. Bertolet 298 Southridge Road Williston, VT 05495 (802) 878-1487 arb217@gmail.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: April 20, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 4/20

NOTICE OF SELF-STORAGE LIEN SALE ASMG PROPERTIES 30 MAIN ST, BRISTOL VT 05443

Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self-storage units listed below will be sold at public auction. This sale is being held to collect unpaid storage unit occupancy fees, charges and expenses of the sale.

The entire contents of each self-storage unit listed below will be sold, with the proceeds to be distributed to ASMG Properties for all accrued occupancy fees (rent charges), late payment fees, sale expenses, and all other expenses in relation to the unit and its sale.

To be sold at public auction at 12:30 pm on Friday, May 5, 2017. The highest bidder on the storage unit must remove the entire contents of the unit within 48 hours after notification of their successful bid. Purchase must be made in cash and paid in advance of the removal of the contents of the unit. A $50.00 cash deposit shall be made and will be refunded if the unit is broom cleaned.

ASMG Properties reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids.

The contents of the following tenants self-storage units will be included in this sale: Unit #1 – Mildred Martin Unit #30 – Jack Hutchins Unit #3 – Arthur Hathaway Unit #39 – Brittany Fredette Unit #23 – Tatum Bostwick Unit #42 – Mona Tatro Unit #28 – Corrine Cantin 4/20

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.

• Green Mountain Railroad operates between Bellows Falls and Rutland City.

• Clarendon & Pittsford Railroad operates between Rutland and Whitehall NY, and Pittsford Town.

• Washington County Railroad operates between Montpelier and Barre.

• WACR Conn River Division operates between White River Junction to Newport VT. 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 15th, 2017, our applicator will be using a mix of Aquaneat(Glyphosate),Esplanade 200 SC(Indaziflam),Polaris AC Complete(Imazapyr) and Method 50SG(Aminocyclopyrachlor) or Opensight(Aminopyralid Metsulfuron Methyl) with an anti drift additive in water for control of weeds and grass. Beginning on or about July 10th,2017 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 May 8th, 2017 to: Benjamin Delorme, Supervisor Signals/M.O.W. • Vermont Railway, Inc. • 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 • 116 State Street w Montpelier, VT 05602-2901, or by telephone at (802) 828-2500.

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PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 162-4-17 ANPR

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 146-4-17 ANPR

STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS.

STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS.

IN RE THE ESTATE OF ERMA J. LOWD

IN RE THE ESTATE OF THOMAS M. MCLAUGHLIN

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Erma J. Lowd late of New Haven, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: April 17, 2017

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Thomas M. McLaughlin late of Bristol, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: Apri 10, 2017

Frederick E. Lowd Jr. 242 Pine Lane, Salisbury, VT 05769 802-352-6666 flowd@portermedical.org

Martin McLaughlin c/o Pease Mountain Law, P.O. Box 76 Bristol, VT 05443 (802) 453-2300

Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: April 20, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 4/20

Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: April 20, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 4/20

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PANTON VT

PROSPECT CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING PUBLIC NOTICE

The Town of Panton Planning Commission is holding a public hearing pursuant to the adoption of an amended Zoning Ordinance and amended Subdivision Regulations of Thursday, May 11, 6:30 PM in the Panton Town Hall, in conformance with 24 VSA Section 4444. The purpose of such amendments is to be consistent with the intent of the Zoning and Subdivision Regulations and to provide for orderly community growth and to further the purposes established in the Panton Town Plan and as identified in 24 VSA Section 4302.

Copies of the amended regulations are available for review at the Panton Town Hall, Jersey St., during regular office hours.

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The Officers and all Persons interested in the Prospect Cemetery Association are hereby WARNED to meet at the Sarah Partridge Community House in East Middlebury on Monday, 8th of May at 7:30 p.m. for the following purpose 1. The hear the reports of the officers.

2. To hold elections of the officers for the following year.

3. To vote on fees for the maintenance of the cemetery grounds.

4. To transact any other business that may come before the meeting Elaine Newton Secretary 4/13

WARNING POLICY ADOPTION ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT

The Addison Northwest School District will be reviewing and adopting the following policies: • C1 Student Records (formerly F5) • C2 Student Drugs and Alcohol (formerly F7) • C2R Student Drugs and Alcohol Procedures (formerly F7) • C5 Firearms (formerly F21) • D1 Proficiency Based Graduation Requirements • D2 Grade Advancement (formerly G9) • D3 Responsible Computer and Network and Internet Use (formerly G11) • D4 Title 1 Comparability (formerly G12) • D5 Animal Dissection (formerly G13) • D6 Class Size (formerly G14) • D20 Curriculum Development and Coordination • D21 Educational Support System (formerly G7) The Addison Northwest School District Board will take action of adopting the above stated policies on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, at 6:00 p.m. at the Vergennes Union High School.

The policies are located at the Superintendent’s Office and at www.anwsu.org website for review.

Addison Northwest School District 11 Main Street, Suite B100, Vergennes, VT 05491 802-877-3332 4/13

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 225-10-15 ANCV WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR SECURITIZED ASSET BACKED RECEIVABLES LLC TRUST 2005-OP2, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-OP2 v.

MICHAEL J. CRAVENS, DENISE COUSINO AND OPTION ONE MORTGAGE CORPORATION OCCUPANTS OF 75 PINE STREET, BRISTOL, 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 July 25, 2016 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Michael J. Cravens and Denise Cousino to Option One Mortgage Corporation, dated July 1, 2005 and recorded in Book 115 Page 409 of the land records of the Town of Bristol, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Sand Canyon Corporation f/k/a Option One Mortgage Corporation to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Securitized Asset-Backed Receivables LLC Trust 2005-OP2 dated October 25, 2011 and recorded in Book 135 Page 626 of the land records of the Town of Bristol for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction on at 75 Pine Street, Bristol, Vermont on May 15, 2017 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Michael J. Cravens and Denise Cousino by Warranty Deed of Bruce Ladeau and Jeanie MacDonough dated June__, 2005 and recorded in Volume ___, Page ___ of the Bristol Land Records and being more particularly described therein as follows: “Being all of Lot 1 as depicted on a Plan entitled ‘Hammond Property Pine Street/ Liberty Street, Bristol, Vermont’ by James Tyler Hart, dated November, 2004, recorded in Slide 52 as Map 324 of the Bristol Land Records.

“Being a portion of the same land and premises conveyed to Grantors by Executor’s Deed of Maureen Garofano, Executrix of the Estate of Lawson G. Hammond dated December 29, 2004, recorded in Volume 113, at Page 536 of the Bristol Land Records.

“The property is burdened and benefitted by an easement for ingress and egress and utilities via the ‘12’ Shared Driveway’, as depicted on the above-referenced Plat.

These easement rights shall run with the land, and shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, Grantees and Grantees’ successors and assigns.

“The herein-conveyed property is subject to, and benefitted by, the terms and conditions of a certain Declaration of Covenants, dated July 1_, 2005, recorded in Volume _115_ at Page _407-408 of the Bristol Land Records.

“The herein conveyed property is subject to approvals and regulations of the Town of Bristol, Vermont state permits WW-9-0672 and 9A0301 (as they may be amended) and utility Easements, Rights of Way and municipal permits as may appear of record.

“Reference is hereby made to the above mentioned instruments, the records thereof, the references therein made and their respective records and references in aid of this description.”

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within thirty (30) 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: April 12, 2017 By: /S/Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

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Micro business program helps develop young firms “I have consistently he said, “but Gillian doubled my income Franks of CVOEO’s for the last three years.

Micro Business This year my gross is Development so far past my wildest Program discussed the expectations of what I importance of having thought I could do!” an accurate portrayal Johannes Ziegler, of one’s company owner of JZ Carpentry, so customers could LLC, began working understand the business with CVOEO’s Micro they were supporting.”

Business Program Bill Cherry started in 2011. He had a as a brew master Bridging gaps, dream of owning his and followed his own business and he dream. He founded building futures Switchback Brewing, worked on that dream

By Jan Demers until it became a which has grown reality. Johannes’ small from one employee Executive Director business emphasizes to 30. He began with Champlain Valley Office craftsmanship, and a 5,000-square-foot of Economic Opportunity helping people floor plan and has realize their dreams expanded to 28,000 for perfecting their homes. That is square feet. As a result, his annual economic development at its finest. output has reached 900,000 gallons of Bill Cherry was strong on budgets, premium beer a year. As of February, projections and engineering. He felt 2017 their company is 100 percent less secure dealing with sales and employee owned. That is economic marketing. “I am naturally resistant development at its finest. to what I think of as ‘marketing,’” The Micro Business Development

Program (MBDP) provides lowincome Vermonters interested in starting up a business with free technical assistance and access to capital. MBDP is part of CVOEO’s Financial Futures Program, which includes programs addressing credit building and repair, Individual Development Accounts, financial capability group training, and individual counseling and mentoring. MBDP follows the steps of thinking through business ideas: looking at readiness, developing essential business skills, creating a plan, connecting to resources, assessing credit and applying for business funding. All accomplished last year by one staff person: Simeon Geigel.

And the results? Last year 12 new businesses were created.

There were 21 business expansions and 17 business enhancements. $104,336 in capital was leveraged within 32 capital transactions.

149 individuals participated in the program with 11.6 full time jobs created. All at the average cost of

Fire Dept. ham supper set for May 2 MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Fire Department began their annual calls on East Middlebury homes last week to sell tickets for their 63rd annual Ham Supper, to be held May 2, at the Waybury Inn, serving continuously from 5 to 8 p.m.

“People really look forward to this tradition,” Middlebury Fire Chief David Shaw said. “It’s a way for us to visit our community and thank them and they thank us,” The Middlebury Fire Department maintains two recently upgraded stations, including the major training station in downtown Middlebury, on Seymour St., and a station in East Middlebury. Fire equipment, including trucks, rescue apparatus and uniforms are covered by an operating budget and capital reserve fund of 2 cents on “People the property really look tax approved

by Middlebury forward voters. In late to this October the tradition. community will It’s a way see the arrival of a new ladder for us to truck to replace visit our its current one, community which is over 25 and thank years old.

Firefighters them and do much more they thank than fight fires. us.”

They train for — Chief and perform a David Shaw wide variety of other rescues, including human and animal searches and safe returns, hazardous waste spills, and river and ice incident responses. They work in concert with other emergency responders, including Middlebury Police Department, Vermont State Police, Middlebury College Campus Security and Middlebury Regional Emergency & Medical Services (MREMS).

With so many calls coming in, the Middlebury Fire Department hopes to fill out its current force of 34 volunteers to 50. They are a community based paid, on call department. 2016 saw an everincreasing demand for their services.

“We answered 230 calls for service with 58 different types of events from chimney fires to car accidents to rope rescues,” Shaw claimed. “This past December we saw our first fatal house fire in over four decades. Two of our members, Assistant Chief Pat Shaw and Captain Paul Garrow, risked their lives to make entry and locate the owner.”

Volunteers meet the second Wednesday of each month to review business and train. Several members dedicate hours of additional time in subcommittees planning training, reviewing equipment needs, maintaining their website, planning the Ham Supper and more. Fire Chief Shaw encourages anyone over 18 years old interested in learning what’s involved in becoming a firefighter to learn more by speaking with firefighters at the Ham Supper or by visiting www.middleburyfire.org, where a membership application can be found.

“We want you to join our family,” Shaw shared. “Yes, it will take some sacrifice of time and energy, but the good things in life always do. It’s worth the proud feeling of helping friends and neighbors in your community in their time of need.”

Middlebury Fire Department members look forward to thanking the community for its support at its Ham Supper and the upcoming

Memorial Day Parade when visitors may visit the main station to view Middlebury’s technical equipment as well as its rich firefighting

history. Ticket prices for the supper are Adults $15, children 10 and under $5 and kids three and under free.

RENE J FOURNIER FARM EQUIPMENT THREE AUCTION TRUCKS SELLING EQUIPMENT

HORSE DRAWN EQUIPMENT BALERS CARGO, CATTLE AND FLATBED TRAILERS BACKHOES GENERATORS ROTOTILLERS MISC INDUSTRIAL EQUIP OVER 60 TRACTORS

PLOWS DISCS OVER BRUSHHOGS 2,000 FIELD CULTIVATORS LOT ITEMS RAKES SKID LOADERS 3PNT LANDSCAPE EQUIPMENT TRUCKS FORKLIFTS LAWN AND GARDEN

$3,600 per job created.

Economic development comes one idea successfully implemented at a time. It comes with intense conversation and wise council. It starts with a dream and proceeds at a risk.

Included in Vermont’s 2017 legislative session are two bills to increase the work of the MBDP. H.480 was introduced in the House

by Representative Jean O’Sullivan with 19 other sponsors signing on. S.135 was sponsored by the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Commerce and Housing Affairs. Successful passage of this legislation would mean more dreams fulfilled, more independence established and more economic development.

Bill Cherry of Switchback Brewing said, “We have taken on the slogan ‘Vermont Owned Forever!’ to express our desire to always be a Vermont company. Not a bad marketing slogan since it just reflects our reality.” In other words, Vermont businesses created and owned

AUCTIONS ATTENTION FARMERS!!

Annual Spring Machinery Consignment Sale Saturday, May 6th – 10 am SHARP Addison County Commission Sales barns • Rt. 125, East Middlebury

DON’T MISS THIS ANNUAL SPRING MACHINERY AND GARDEN AUCTION – SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!!

TRACTORS, HAY EQUIPMENT, HAY EQUIPMENT AND WAGONS, PLOWS, RAKES, LAWNMOWERS, AND MORE!!

FARM AND GARDEN ITEMS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION!

**ACCEPTING QUALITY CONSIGNMENTS NOW** ADDISON COUNTY’S PREMIER ANNUAL SPRING EVENT CALL NOW FOR INFORMATION SALE MANAGED: ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES T.G. WISNOWSKI & SONS

802-388-2661 OR 802-989-1507 WWW.ACCSCATTLE.COM AUCTIONEER: JOHN NOP

MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for April 13 & April 17 BEEF Hatch Farm C. Butler Vosterveld Farm Kimball Brook Farm Bartholomew Bros.

H. Sunderland B. Kayhart

Costs Lbs. per lb Dollars 1415 .71 1,004.65 1170 .79 924.30 1045 .685 715.83 1170 .67 783.90 1645 .655 1,077.48 1515 .655 992.33 1640 .63 1,033.20

CALVES T. Fitzgerald L. Rublee M&C Family Farm Nop. Bros & Sons D. Pouliot

Lbs. 81 95 102 95 110

Costs per lb Dollars 1.175 95.18 1.50 142.50 1.10 112.20 1.075 102.13 1.05 115.50

Total # Beef: 248 • Total # Calves: 362 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

For pickup and trucking, call 1-802-388-2661

ABSOLUTE AUCTION - NO RESERVES 48TH ANNUAL SPRING EQUIPMENT AUCTION EARLY LISTING

SATURDAY – APRIL 29TH, 2017 - STARTING @ 8:30 AM

For Townline Equipment and other local equipment dealers and contractors. Located at Gray’s Field, 1315 US RT 5 North in Fairlee, VT 05045. Take exit 15 off I-91 go North on RT 5 and field is on the left.

PUBLIC AUCTION JCT. ROUTES 22A & 125 • BRIDPORT, VERMONT SUNDAY – APRIL 23RD 9:00 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 9:00 A.M.

We have combined several small estates for this sale. The following will be sold….

Glass door corner cupboard – blanket chest – 1 drawer stands – copper horse weathervane – early 1 door cupboard w/cut out base – duck decoys – iron tractor lawn sprinkler – lift top blanket box – snow shoes and sleds – sleigh bells – blue decorated jugs – lg. bookcase and others – metal truck and farm toys – ogee mirror w/reverse painting – lg. assortment of dressers – early hat boxes – linens and quilts – dining room table with 6 chairs – flight helmet – washbowl and pitcher – Iron Le Creuset cookware – yellowware mixing bowls – depression glass – German steins – Wedgewood – early wedding gown – Ribbon dolls – 24 door yarn cabinet – cherry drop leaf table – braided, hook rugs and others – Ceremonial swords – nice variety of books (1 lot) – pitcher pump lamp – Comb back Windsor chair – 6 oak dining room chairs – 3 drawer Burl front dresser – Lincoln fire helmet – cast iron banks – duck in shadow box – China head vases – mantel clocks and Cuckoo clocks – modern tall case clock – wrought iron floor lamp – Ditze lanterns and others – 33’ high glass medicine style cabinet – knirty notty – Firkin bucket – silhouettes – milk bottles – lift chair – Blue wingback chair – 4 drawer Hitchcock dresser – early Poland Springs water bottle – table top phonograph – lg. variety of 33, 45 rpm records – gun powder tins – Navy Pea coat – miniature doll trunk – lg. stamp collection (1 lot) – Lutz – guitar – Mandolin banjo – early cello box – sheet music – 3 signed Lucionio etchings – variety of prints – saw blade art – BB guns – lg. boat anchor – cast iron ware – oval dining room table w/ 4 chairs – lg. paper lot – curved glass china cabinet – early cranberry picker – wardrobe – copper tea kettles – full size canopy bed frame – and much more.

Outside 9:00 a.m.

Cub Cadet 2 T1046 Garden tractor w/46” deck – 16’ Old Towne Canoe – 4 pc. Iron garden patio set – fishing tip ups – wooden barrel – new modern loom – 24’ aluminum ext. ladder – wicker porch chairs – 4 pc.

Patio set – new portable air conditioner – Ryobi weed eater w/ext. attachments – lift top commode – oak library table – Boston & Lincoln rocker – Huffman Balloon tire bicycle – and much, much more.

Terms: Cash, Check or MC/VISA Lunch by Bridport Grange Auctioneer:

Tom Broughton Jct. Routes 22A & 125 Bridport, VT 05734 802-758-2494

AUCTIONEER’S NOTE: Preview 7:45 a.m. day of sale – Good clean sale – Weather permitting – starting 9:00 a.m. outside – All items sold as is, where is with no implied warranty. 10% Buyer’s premium with cash or check. 13% buyer’s premium with credit card.

www.tombroughtonauctions.com

SELLING CONSTRUCTION EQUIP, FARM TRACTORS, COMPACT TRACTORS, EQUIPMENT, TOOLS AND ATTACHMENTS

TRACTORS 2008 Kubota BX25 4WD TLB, 235 hrs Kubota B7500 4WD TLB, 530 hrs Kubota L3410HST 4WD w/loader, 1553 hrs Kubota B7610 24hp, 4WD, w/loader, 749 hrs NH TZ18 4WD TLB w/belly mower, 237 hrs NH TC40 4WD w/loader, 1348 hrs NH Workmaster 35 4WD hydro & loader NH TN55 4WD w/cab & loader 2000 JD 790 w/heated cab NH TC21D 4WD TLB, cab, front snow blower, 1462 hrs Kubota L3130DT 4WD w/loader, shuttle shift, 885 hrs Kubota L2600DT 4WD w/loader, 606 hrs MF 1540 4WD, loader, shuttle shift, ice chains, 517 hrs Case IH 385 4WD w/loader, forks, plow, blade, 965 hrs 1945 INT W4 w/ice chains & snow plow SUPPORT EQUIPMENT Allmand Night Lit Pro light plant New Mustang LF-88 plate compactors New Bolt On asphalt cutter

New Magnum 4000 hot water pressure washer CONSTRUCTION Dresser TD-8H dozer Cat 307B w/blade, manual thumb Dynahoe backhoe SKIDSTEER Bobcat T300 track, cab, high flow 2003 Cat 277 track, needs undercarriage UTILITY VEHICLES Kubota RTV900 diesel 4x4 Kubota RTV 400EFI 4x4 Kawasaki 610 Mule 4x4 manual dump FARM MACHINERY NH 311 baler w/kicker Vicon Fanex 523T hyd fold Tedder NH 273 baler w/kicker MF 3pth harrow Priefert creep feeder Hi-Hog trailer mounted cattle chute VEHICLES & TRAILERS 1998 Ford Louisville sander truck w/74,000 miles 1999 Int 4700 w/T444E engine, LoProfile platform/Sign truck New 2016 Heffty 16’ tandem axle landscape trl Storage trailers LAWN & GARDEN Kubota G1800 diesel 4wheel steer,

48” deck, 1061 hrs JD X320 tractor w/mower & bagger Pallets of patio blue stone Misc.

New 40’x80’ Fabric building Sunliner 20’ pontoon boat w/motor & trailer Rustgo scaffolding Clamp on forks ATTACHMENTS Valby 3pth chipper Bobcat 3pth 3SC72M soil conditioner Bobcat 3pth finish mower US Mower flail mower for excavator Woodsman 3pth saw rig New 51” Hyd tilt grade bucket for Cat 307/308 Woods LR106 3pth rock rake w/ wheels New 3pth 6’ rock rake Alamo SH88 flail mower Caroni 3pth finish mower Igland Q/A hyd log grapple Case IH 3pth snow blower Tomahawk Q/A 66” brush grapple New Q/A open bottom rock buckets New Q/A 48” grapple bucket New Q/A 72” bucket New Q/A stump bucket New Q/A plates New Q/A forks Quantity of Kubota buckets

Sale will start at 8:30 am on the misc. small tools and support equipment!

MANY MORE ITEMS TO BE CONSIGNED BY SALE TIME TERMS: CASH OR GOOD CHECK, CREDIT CARD W/3% FEE • 6% VT SALES TAX LUNCH BY WRIGHT’S CATERING — There will be many more items included in this sale.

AUCTIONEERS: C W GRAY & SON’S, INC.

EAST THETFORD, VT Sale site Jan. 20, 21& 22 • 802-296-5806 • VT LIC # 128 • 802-785-2161 Email address: cwgray@valley.net Web address: www.cwgray.com • www.auctionzip.com

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Jenny Bower, a 26-year-old UVM grad student, plays the organ and harpsichord for the Vergennes Congregational Church most Sundays.

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Jenny Bower: fixed on Baroque music

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hen you think of a church organist, it’s probably nothing like Jenny Bower.

She’s 26, holds two Masters degrees — one in Organ and Harpsichord performance and the other in Geology and Earth Science. She likes Baroque, experimental classical music and is known to rock purple lipstick. And while, she plays the organ for the Vergennes Congregational Church every Sunday, she also plays in Burlington, Montpelier and pretty much any place else that will let her practice on their keys.

BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

Bower’s career as an organist began sometime

in high school. “The organist at my mom’s church died, and I got pushed into playing organ,” explained the St. Louis, Mo., native. “The organ was electric and full of dust, but it was the best place to learn music. People clapped a lot.

“I already self identified as a weirdo,” Bower added, excusing her love of the organ. “But if you start playing organ as a kid, you can’t get out.”

But Bower didn’t want out. “We were socialized to be timid and hold our opinions delicately,” she said of her upbringing in Missouri. “So there was nothing cooler than finding the power in handling 5,000 pipes!”

After high school, she auditioned for James David Christie, the organ professor at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio. She played the “one organ song everyone knows” — you

know, the Dracula song (Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor) — but it worked and she was accepted. Bower was also accepted on piano.

During her undergrad years, she also fell in love with geology and earth science. One of her mentors in the Geology department connected Bower with Nico Perdrial, a research assistant professor at the University of Vermont leading a soil project, which brought Bower to Vermont in August 2014. This month, Bower defended her research on the project and said she did “well enough to graduate.”

Maybe it’s her organ skills, but Bower is one multi-tasking master. Since coming to study soil at UVM, she’s also been playing organ and harpsichord for the Vergennes congregation, joined a friend’s Baroque band to tour in SEE BOWER ON PAGE 4

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ART

Seeing is believing ERIC NELSON PHOTOGRAPHS SHELDON MUSEUM’S COLLECTION FOR EXHIBIT

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ric Nelson, Middlebury College Professor Emeritus of Studio Art, known regionally for his contemporary sculpture, demonstrates his ability as a photographer in the current exhibit “Focus on the Sheldon: A Five-Point Perspective,” currently on view at the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury through May 13.

One of five photographers invited to tour the many historic rooms of the Sheldon Museum, founded in 1882, as well as the chock-a-block storage areas located in the basement, attic and historic barn, Nelson found pay dirt amidst the miniature toy collection and in Henry Sheldon’s stockpile of antique eyewear and folk art sculptures.

His artistic decisions emanated from childhood experiences.

“Some of my earliest memories are playing with toys, figures and decorative objects,” Nelson said. “The materials, texture, color and method of manufacture of these objects interested me. Most of them held a sense of intimacy and imaginative power that was transformative. Also, the accessibility and tactility of these objects gave me great satisfaction and lasting pleasure.”

Nelson selected 75 “toys, figures, and decorative” objects to photograph. He took them from the archival boxes and drawers where they were stored to the library of the Museum’s Research Center where he set up a temporary studio with his camera mounted on a tripod, portable studio lighting kit, and backdrop. Nelson experimented with diverse groups of the cherished objects, resulting in five photographs.

He arranged them “in the manner of layouts you see in 18th and 19th century encyclopedias whereby the designer employs a left-right symmetry and the placement of smaller images on top and larger ones below,” Nelson explained. “I chose objects that I could photograph and print life-size so that there is a one-to-one relationship between the objects and their images. The objects more or less naturally grouped themselves into such categories as games, toys and other hand crafted and manufactured creations. My aim is to foster a connection between the objects and

“All the Better to See you With,” by Eric Nelson is one of the photographs on in the “Focus on the Sheldon: A FivePoint Perspective” exhibit at the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. The exhibit is on view through May 13.

“THE ACCESSIBILITY AND TACTILITY OF THESE OBJECTS GAVE ME GREAT SATISFACTION AND LASTING PLEASURE.”

— Eric Nelson images that are drawn from the very institution in which you are viewing them.”

The connection is evident in his photograph “All the Better to See You With” containing multiple spectacles from Henry Sheldon’s antique eyewear collection. The connection is also there in “Be Wise,” which contains a diverse grouping. The title is taken from the miniature metal owl located in the lower left hand corner of the photo, or perhaps from the imagined sermonizing of the teeny metal preacher with bible or the riches to be earned by using the small metal Pop Eye register bank for dimes.

Also sharing the photo are a toy wooden carpet sweeper, various minuscule wooden blocks and houses, as well as small croquet mallets and hoops, along with colorful boats for rowing or sailing.

Nelson has grouped a dozen ancient lead toys figures in “Soldier Boys” against a white paper backdrop that elicits a battle underway on a snowy landscape. Several soldiers are on horseback and two cannons are ready to be fired. Only absent from the scene is Nelson, who had played with similar toy soldiers when younger, and is looking forward to doing so with two recently born grandchildren.

“When You Walk By” depicts four canes Nelson found amongst Henry Sheldon’s extensive walking cane collection, three with arresting figurative heads and one wrapped in blonde vines. For the photograph “Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Pursuits,” he selected medicine bottles containing carved folk art sculptures, several wooden meticulously carved linked chains, a broken chicken bone that served as a make-do cigar holder, and a fear-inducing antique, metal tooth extractor.

Visitors to the exhibit enjoy comparing the arrangement of the items in the photographs to the display of the items in the exhibit cases. The presentations differ, resulting in an enjoyable museum scavenger hunt.

Nelson’s inventive photographs and installations benefit from his 35 years as a talented sculpture and drawing professor at Middlebury College and his own artistic works in the mediums of wood, steel, mixed media and watercolor. His encyclopedic photo creations demonstrate his innovative artistic skills and the variety of the Sheldon Museum’s historic collections.

The Henry Sheldon Museum is located at 1 Park Street in Middlebury. Admission to the museum is $5 adults; $3 youth (6-18); $4.50 seniors; $12 family; $5 research center. For more info visit (802) 388-2117 or visit www.

HenrySheldonMuseum.org.

Editor’s note: This story was provided by the Sheldon Museum staff. It is the third in a series featuring all five exhibiting photographers.

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‘Suspended Moments’ hangs in Vergennes CAMERON SCHMITZ EXHIBITS ABSTRACT PAITINGS AT NORTHERN DAUGHTERS FINE ART GALLERY

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orthern Daughters Fine Art Gallery in Vergennes opened “Suspended Moments,” a solo exhibit of new abstract oil paintings from Cameron Schmitz, on Thursday, April 13. The exhibition is on view through May 28 with an opening reception at the gallery on April 28, from 5-8 p.m.

“Suspended Moments” features new abstract paintings with Schmitz’s dynamic brushwork and a lush color palette. “I use mark-making to express the constantly moving, changing and morphing of life and nature, leaving observers certain that they are witnessing merely a fleeting moment in time,” Schmitz said. Through her vibrant pieces you can stay in those transitory moments of high energy, movement and expansion and walk through them as you travel through the composition of her abstract work.

Schmitz has a background in landscape and figurative painting, but moved to primarily painting abstract work after the birth of her first child three years ago. “I have found that being a parent has heightened my senses and my desire to move beyond literal forms and clarified my artistic motivation to express joy, wonder and a contented unknowing about life, which is messy and intense but always potent with exceptional beauty,” she said.

“The tension of really hot colors, layered composition and texture with this combustion of energy is certainly compelling,” said gallery owner Justine Jackson. “As a viewer, standing in front her work, you feel the energy ricochet out.”

“Clibming,” by Cameron Schmitz, oil on canvas 32” x 24”.

“Tending to Our Garden,” by Cameron Schmitz, oil on canvas, 32” x 24”.

“Painting is a metaphor for my perception of life,” Schmitz said, “inspired by tender, emotional relationships, and rooted in notions of touch, love and wonder that I experience as a woman, mother and humble observer of the world.”

Studio Arts Centers International in Florence, Italy. Following a month-long artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2006 and meeting her now husband, Schmitz moved to Vermont for a time. She and her husband and three children currently reside in Bernardston, Mass., but Schmitz comes back to the Green Mountain State to teach painting at the River Gallery School in Brattleboro.

Schmitz holds a Master’s of Fine Art in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting and drawing from the University of New Hampshire, and studies in art and art history at

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OUT OF TOWN Winooski hosts Wiffel Classic INAUGURAL TOURNAMENT TO BENEFIT VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK

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ed Clover Events presents the Winooski Wiffle Classic, an inaugural event to be held this weekend, April 22-23 at The Meadow in downtown Winooski. It costs $30 per player; teams of five to eight players will play a minimum of three games in the college, corporate, competitive or just for fun divisions.

details When: Saturday, April 22-Sunday, April 23.

Where: The Meadow, downtown Winooski

“I LET THE ORGAN FILL THE SPACE AND CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE SO PEOPLE CAN CREATE A COMMUNION WITH THEIR GOD.” — Jenny Bower

Tickets: $30 per player. Teams of five to eight players.

There will also be a beer garden, food vendors, a variety of games and a homerun derby. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Family Network, to support their mission of empowering and supporting all Vermont families of children with special needs.

raise will go a long way in helping to meet the needs of children and families across the state.”

“We are very excited to be partnering with Red Clover Events for this fun, family friendly event to support the Vermont Family Network,” said Pam McCarthy, President/CEO of VFN. “The money we

For more information and to register your team, visit www.winooskiwiffleclassic.com.

To learn more about the Vermont Family Network visit www.VermontFamilyNetwork. org or call 1-800-800-4005.

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Bejing, China, participated in a Bach marathon in CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Montpelier, spent a month playing organs in Germany, got a job last spring at the Vermont Center for Geographic Information as a technician; oh, and she found time to find a husband — they’re getting married in May.

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“There’s freedom in doing two things — I don’t have to take every gig or teach lessons if I don’t want to.

It’s so nice to be in a community that appreciates my playing,” she said. “The times I feel the most successful are not when people are gasping over the impressiveness of the organ, but rather knowing that when I play a hymn, 100 people are coming together.

I search to connect with a part of their lives — I let the organ fill the space and create an atmosphere so people can create a communion with their god.”

Organs originate back to Roman times when they were powered by water, Bower explained. They were considered divine and invoked a sense of godliness.

Bower prefers organ music from a bit later, during the Baroque period (1600 to 1750). “I connect to Baroque music because it has a spirit of improvisation. We don’t know how anyone played it, so you can take the bones of the music and spin something new out of it.”

But Bower’s not quite ready to call herself a “friend of jazz.” She’s happy now experimenting with Baroque interpretations: pulling stops, pressing foot peddles and tickling the ivories until the boxelder bugs come flying out of the pipes — no joke, apparently organ pipes are a good hiding spot for the little black and red bugs.

Most of us probably won’t catch Bower’s next performance in Shanghai, China, but she’s planning on sticking around northcentral Vermont for the near future and will continue to play for the Vergennes Congregational Church where you can hear her perform most Sundays.

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IN TOWN Non-Fiction Comics Fest comes to Middlebury

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rom science to politics, history to health care, cartooning has recently exploded as a legitimate medium for exploring non-fiction topics and the textures of lived experience. So, the Vermont Folklife Center is hosting their first Non-Fiction Comics MiniFest on Sunday, April 23, from 10 a.m.4 p.m. All are welcome to SUNDAY APRIL this free event at 88 Main Vermont Folklife Center, Street in Middlebury Middlebury (ADA accessible).

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This day-long event presents a diverse assortment of Vermont cartoonists engaged in non-fiction work, including political cartoons, memoirs and diaries, and covering such topics as science, graphic medicine, energy security, cooking and more.

In addition to an opportunity to meet and chat with the exhibiting cartoonists, the NonFiction Comics Mini-Fest also features three panel discussions:

“CARTOONING AND PLACE: ON BEING A VERMONT CARTOONIST” Comics legends Steve Bissette (Swamp Thing, Tyrant) and Rick Veitch (Swamp Thing, Eureka Comics) will join Stephanie Zuppo (Ladybroad Ledger) and Rachel Lindsay (Rachel Lives Here Now) in a discussion on how place affects the life and work of cartoonists.

“DIARY COMICS: A CONVERSATION WITH JAMES KOCHALKA AND ISAAC CATES” Vermont’s first Cartoonist Laureate, James Kolchalka, will be interviewed by comics scholar Issac Cates of the University of Vermont about his diary comic, “American Elf.”

“CARTOONISTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON EL VIAJE MAS CARO/THE MOST COSTLY JOURNEY PROJECT.” Angela Boyle (Awesome Possum), Glynnis Fawkes (Alle Ego), Iona Fox (Almanac) and Kevin Kite (Hurry Up Please It’s Time) will talk about their participation in El viaje mas caro/ Most Costly Journey, a project to create comics as a health outreach tool for Latin American migrant workers in Vermont’s dairy industry.

Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest is made possible by donations from the Folklife Center’s supporters, and is presented in conjunction with their exhibit, “Family Traits: Art Humor, and Everyday Life,” featuring a selection of family cartoons by the late Stanley Lyndes. The exhibit will be on display through May 15.

For more info call (802) 388-4964 or visit www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/non-fictioncomics-minifest.

one more thing YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK th!NK is a collaboration between Rutland Northeast School District schools and the Compass Music and Arts Foundation in Brandon. The walls of the 2,300 sq. ft. gallery space at the Compass Music and Arts Center are covered with ink drawings by more than 900 students of all ages and their teachers. A reception was held last week to celebrate the completed drawing. Visit Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon’s Park Village before the end of April to view this community art project. For more info visit www.cmacvt.org or call (802) 247-4295.

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CALENDAR

CARTOONS

NON-FICTION COMICS MINI-FEST IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Vermont Folklife Center. The first annual Non-Fiction Comics Mini-Fest — a day-long event — presents a diverse assortment of Vermont cartoonists engaged in non-fiction work, including political cartoons, memoirs and diaries, and covering such topics as science, medicine, energy security, cooking and much more. Meet the artists join in the panel discussions. Free and open to the public.

DANCE

DANCE PERFORMANCE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 20, 6 p.m., Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts. Join Maree ReMalia, Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer, for “Movement Matters: Two Years in Process.” Enjoy an informal sharing through text, movement, archival media and more, followed by a reception. Free.

FILM

“THEEB” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 22, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium. In an Ottoman province during WWI, a Bedouin boy experiences a hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination. In Arabic with English subtitles.

Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film

Series. (Naji Abu Nowar, Jordan, 100 minutes) Free.

GARDEN

SEED SWAP IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 20, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Ilsley Library. Bring your seeds and share in the gardening conversation. For more information, call Chris at 388-4095.

SPRING WILDFLOWER WALK IN ORWELL. Sunday, April 30, 1-3 p.m., Mt. Independence State Historic Site. Search for the tender beauties of spring wildflowers in a guided walk with Amy Olmsted, horticulturist with Rocky Dale Gardens in Bristol and a nursery professional for over 20 years. Admission is $5 for adults, children are free.

JUST FOR FUN

TOY HACKING FOR ALL AGES IN ORWELL. Saturday, April 22, 10 a.m., Orwell Free Library.

Hacking is all about taking something and making it do what the designer never intended. Pull apart toys the experiment with circuit bending and reverse engineering while reimagining and reinventing toys with the materials on hand. Led by electrical engineer Dave Larsen.

STARGAZING OPEN HOUSE IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 28, 9-10:30 p.m., Middlebury College Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall. The Observatory and Middlebury Physics host a stargazing open house, weather permitting. See Jupiter in the evening, and view a variety of stars, star clusters and nebulae through the Observatory’s telescopes. Free and open to the public if the sky is expected to be mostly clear. For the latest updates visit go.middlebury. edu/observatory or call 443-2266 after 7 p.m.

MUSIC

VERMONT CHORAL UNION 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., Robinson Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. The program centerpiece features the worldpremiere of a choral suite commissioned

by VCU and composed by Middlebury College graduate Christina Whitten Thomas, and is scored for eight-part chorus and flute, with texts by Vermontbased writers. Tickets, $12, $6 for students available at go.middlebury.edu/ boxoffice or at the door. Details at www.

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WHAT YOU WANT TO DO APRIL 20-30, 2017

vtchoralunion.org or call Jeff at (802) 989-7355.

DEB BRISSON AND THE HAY BURNERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 21, 7:30-10:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Deb Brisson and the Hay Burners will bring their propulsive and tuneful blend of original songs and favorite covers to a night of live local music with an open dance floor.

JEREMIAH MCCLANE & TIMOTHY CUMMINGS IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 22, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Jeremiah McLane (accordion) and Timothy Cummings (bagpipes) are an energetic Vermontbased duo that share music deeply rooted in the traditional dance repertoire of Northern Europe and North America. Concert tickets are $20. A preconcert dinner is available for $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show.

Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295, e-mail info@ brandon-music.net or visit www.brandon-music.net.

“CHOIR FAVORITES, YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW” IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 22, 7:30 p.m. Brandon Town Hall. The Ladies Night Out Women’s Chorus will perform some of their favorites. Come hear the Angel Trio from Mendelssohn, a Madrigal, an African American Spiritual, a song in the shape-note tradition, pop hits from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, current composed music by Eric Whitacre, Gwyneth Walker, Z. Randall Stroope and more.

FIRE AND ICE CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 22, 8-10 p.m., Mahaney Concert Hall. The Fire and Ice concert will feature world premieres of three new works by Norwegian and American composers: Bjorn Bolstad Skjelbred, Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen and Conrad Kehn and a new solo by Magnar Am. Free and open to the public.

FIDDLING, DANCING AND DINNER IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 23, noon-5 p.m., VFW, Exchange Street. Champlain Valley Fiddlers sponsor a day of fun and dancing. All fiddlers welcome. $12.

Questions: 897-7461.

PATRICK FITZSIMMONS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 23, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road. Part of the residence’s Sunday Music Series. Free and open to the public. Handicap accessible. RSVP to Connie Leach at cleach@ residenceottercreek.com or (802) 388-1220.

PIANO RECITAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 23, 4 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts.

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will give a recital of selected 19th century pieces, featuring Ferruccio Busoni’s piano transcription of Bach’s Chaconne for solo violin, and Franz Liszt’s keyboard rendition of Mendelssohn’s orchestral Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free.

SPRINGTIME COFFEEHOUSE IN HANCOCK. Sunday, April 23, 6-8 p.m., Hancock Town Hall, Route 100. Hancock Town Pride Committee presents music from 15 local artists. Homemade goodies available. Donations for admission and refreshments benefit the 2017 Hancock Summer Concert Series.

AFRICAN MUSIC AND DANCE PERFORMANCE IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, April 26, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts. Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, directed by Damascus Kafumbe, showcases the diversity and richness of African music beyond drumming-based practices, and highlights the dynamic nature of these traditions. Free.

BACH FESTIVAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 28, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts. The Brentano String Quartet will perform The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 by J.S. Bach. Tickets are $25 for the general public, $20 for Middlebury College ID holders; and $6 for students.

BACH FESTIVAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 29, 3 p.m., the lawn, Mead Memorial Chapel.

The Festival continues with a carillon recital by Middlebury College’s George Matthew, Jr. Free and open to the public.

DANIKA & JEB IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 29, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Nationally known musicians Danika Holmes and Jeb Hart bring their acoustic pop and blues to the area. Tickets are $20. Pre-concert dinner for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for show.

Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295 or email info@ brandon-music.net for reservations or more info.

JEFF WARNER IN BRISTOL. Saturday, April 29, 8 p.m., Walkover Gallery and Concert Room, 15 Main St., as part of the Cabin Fever series. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 day of show. For reservations, call (802) 453-3188, ext. 2.

BACH FESTIVAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 29, at 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts. Handel’s “Esther,” featuring a cast of Middlebury College Alumni, the Bach Festival Orchestra and Middlebury College Choir conducted by Jeffrey Buettner. Teddy Crecelius directs this semi-staged performance. $12 for the general public; $10 for Middlebury College ID holders; and free for Middlebury College students with ID. BOB RECUPERO & MICHAEL CORN IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 30, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road. As part of The Residence’s Sunday Music Series, Corn and Recupero will play a wide range of tunes. Some jazz from the 1930s and ’40s, some standards and

some fun sing-a-longs. Free and open to the public.

Handicap accessible. RSVP to Connie Leach at cleach@residenceottercreek.com or (802) 388-1220.

BACH FESTIVAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 30, 3 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts. Musicians from previous Middlebury Bach Festivals will perform a concert of chamber music.

Free and open to the public.

THEATER

“IT STARTED WITH A ROCK” PERFORMANCE IN LINCOLN. Thursday, April 20, 6:30 p.m., Lincoln Community School. Watch Lincoln Community School fifth- and sixth-graders examine U.S. history through the lens of theater.

For more information contact Kaela Frank or Tory Riley at 453-2119.

“ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD” IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 20, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The National Theatre’s production of Tom Stoppard’s early masterpiece, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” will be broadcast live from the Old Vic Theater in London, marking the 50th Anniversary of the play.

Tickets are $17/$10 for students, and may be purchased at www.townhalltheater. org, by phone at (802) 382-9222 or in person at the Town Hall Theater Box Office (daily except Sunday, 12-5 p.m).

“EUGENE ONEGIN” IN MIDDLBEURY. Saturday, April 22, 12:30 p.m., Met LIVE in HD, Town Hall Theater. Tchaikovsky’s setting of Pushkin’s timeless verse novel is presented on the Met stage in Deborah Warner’s moving production, starring Anna Netrebko and Peter Mattei as Tatiana and Onegin. Alexey Dolgov sings the role of Lenski, and Robin Ticciati conducts. Pre-show talk at 11:45 a.m. in the Byers Studio. Tickets: $24/$10.

ONE-ACT COMEDY IN BRISTOL. Sunday, April 23, 2-2:45 p.m., Lawrence Memorial Library, 40 North St. Jim Stapleton and Diana Bigelow will perform “Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn,” a one-act comedydrama to benefit the Lawrence Memorial Library. Admission by donation at the door. Refreshments and Q & A will follow the performance.

“WORKING” IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 27, Friday, April 28, Saturday, April 29, 8 p.m., and Sunday, April 30, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The Middlebury Community Players presents the musical “Working,” a celebration of the men and women who keep America humming. Based on Studs Terkel’s landmark book compiled from interviews with hundreds of American workers. Song styles range from show

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tunes to ballads to down-and-dirty blues. Tickets are $15 available at the box office, (802) 382-9222, or online www.townhalltheater.org. For more info visit middleburycommunityplayers.org.

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Meet the chef

Erin and Sanderson Wheeler from the Bobcat

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there’s one thing to be said about the owners of Bristol’s Bobcat Cafe, Erin and Sanderson Wheeler, it’s that they have embraced the visions of their elders.

The Bobcat was first owned

by Robert Fuller, also a former owner of Burlington’s Leunig’s and Pauline’s in South Burlington. From Fuller, the Wheelers gleaned the idea of “third place.”

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“That’s why he created this,” Erin said, sitting on one of the Bobcat’s barstools last Wednesday morning, her daughter eating a pancake and playing a video game at a table behind her. “The idea is that it’s not your home, it’s not your work, but it’s somewhere where you can go every day and be a part of the community. In every town in England, there’s a pub, and that’s what this is modeled after. It’s a place where people in the community can gather and have a drink and dinner, or not, and see their friends.”

And Bobcat’s unique management system — in which the Wheelers are active owners, chefs and managers — comes from Michel Mahé, a prominent Vermont restaurateur until his death in 2015. Mahé owned the Black Sheep Bistro and Park Squeeze in Vergennes, The Lobby in Middlebury and The Bearded Frog in Shelburne.

The Wheelers had always intended to run the Bobcat, and they bought it from Mahé shortly before his passing.

“We came with Michel about 10 years ago, and we put in our sweat equity, I guess you could call it, for ownership,” Sanderson said. “We purchased it from Michel about two years ago, and right after we purchased it, he passed away. It was really nuts. All the other restaurants, they were kind of reeling from that.”

Soon after Mahé purchased the

Erin and Sanderson Wheeler are the masterminds behind the Bobcat’s cozy atmosphere and creative cuisine.

restaurant from Fuller in 2008, he gave the Wheelers free rein to make changes.

In turn, they adopted his main principle: the food comes first. To do this, they turned the space into a so-called “Michel restaurant.” By letting a few folks go, streamlining processes and getting rid of middle management positions, the couple was able to manage the restaurant from the kitchen, up.

“A LOT OF STUFF ON THE MENU COMES FROM US EXPERIMENTING.”

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“Ten years ago we were putting in a lot more hours, and a lot more sweat,” Sanderson said. “Now we’re able to step back a little more. We’ve got great people in the kitchen, and people in the front that we can trust with everything.

We can go away for a week on vacation, and the wonderful staff keeps this place going. We don’t have to worry about it at all.”

and new dishes that are swapped in after some experimentation in the kitchen.

The system allows the Wheelers to concentrate on food. Sanderson describes the cuisine as “creative comfort food,” combining old favorites

“A lot of stuff on the menu comes from us experimenting at home, reading cookbooks, eating something while we’re traveling, or going to another

Some classics, like the venison chorizo meatloaf, have never left the menu.

Others, like the Korean rice bowl (braised Vermont brisket, homemade kimchi, shiitakes, green beans and a slow poached egg) are recent additions, born out of the Wheelers’ latest culinary bent.

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restaurant and taking it home and experimenting with stuff,” Sander said. “We get to experiment with whatever we want in the kitchen, that’s helpful.”

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BISCUITS: Pork sliders from Bobcat Cafe in Bristol.

different home-brewed beers on tap, Matson works to make sure there’s a beer for everyone. This spring, Bobcat will introduce a limited-release beer brewed with maple sap from Twin Maple Sugarworks in Lincoln in place of water.

“It’s not sweet, it just gives it this really nice, round, full-bodied consistency,” Erin said. “It’s a mouth feel,” Sanderson added. The beer, called Twin Maple Red will also appear at the Vermont Brewfest on the Burlington Waterfront, July 21-22.

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“It is really like that,” Erin said. “The people in this community are at the Bobcat. You see people mingling and having dinner, and the kids are going from table to table because they all know each other.

It’s cool. Every town should have a Bobcat.”

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SAVE OUR TREES

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s Vermonters join others around the nation to celebrate National Arbor Day — Vermont celebrates on the first Friday of May — there’s worrisome news on the horizon: Vermont is currently surrounded by two tree-killing beetles — the Emeral Ash Borer and Asian Longhorned Beetle.

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in New York, New Hampshire, Quebec and Massachusetts.”

Zeoli said the beetles are extremely fatal to ash trees. That’s bad news, considering ash trees are one of the top 10 most common trees in Vermont; the state tallies about 160 million ash trees. Of the trees planted on Middlebury’s greenscape — the small piece of land between private property and the roadway — ash trees make up 9 percent.

According to Middlebury-based arborist Chris Zeoli, who has run his own arborist business for 41 years and took on the task as Middlebury’s tree warden three years ago, the two beetles (both invasive species) pose a serious threat to the town’s trees and to Vermont’s forests.

Emerald Ash Borers make quick work of the trees; the tree typically dies within two to four years. That means, we could face a significant number of dead trees in town and in the state’s forests.

“I don’t want to scare people,” Zeoli said, “but Emerald Ash Borers are probably in Vermont already. They literally surround us. They’re

“That is the 64 million dollar question,” Zeoli said in an interview last week. “There is a product homeowners can broadcast on the

So how do we save our trees?

ASIAN LONGHORNED BEETLE What is an Asian Longhorned Beetle? The Asian Longhorned Beetle (ALB) is an exotic pest threatening a wide variety of hardwood trees in North America.

What do they look like? Adults are large (0.75-1.50 inches long) with long black and white banded antennae. The body is glossy black with irregular white spots. The beetle was introduced into New York City, Chicago, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Toronto, Canada. Adults can be seen from late spring to fall depending on the climate.

What kind of damage do they do? ALB attacks and kills many hardwood trees, such as maple, elm, horsechestnut, ash, birch, poplar, willow and more.

Are ALBs in Vermont? Not yet. Since its discovery in 1996, the ALB has caused tens of thousands of trees to be lost in Ohio, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Illinois. But all states are at risk.

LEARN ABOUT INVASIVE SPECIES THIS ARBOR DAY

surface (and the tree absorbs through its roots), or injections that can be administered by a tree service.” There are both conventional and organic options for both methods.

The treatment has to be done every other year, and costs about $10 per DBH — that’s diameter at breast height, meaning the diameter of the tree measured four-and-ahalf feet above the surface. For example if a tree has an 18-inch diameter, it would cost about $180 to treat. “It does not hurt the tree, but it does hurt other pests on the tree,” said Zeoli. “And it does keep the Emerald Ash Borer from affecting the tree.”

Ash trees in a natural forest environment can live for a couple of hundred years, but in an urban environment the trees endure more stress. “Middlebury has taken some ash trees down already that were in poor condition and stressed,” Zeoli said, adding that he thinks taking down weak ash trees proactively is a SEE ARBOR ON PAGE 11

EMERALD ASH BORER What is an Emerald Ash Borer? Emerald ash borer (EAB) is an exotic beetle that has been killing ash trees in North America.

What do they look like? Adult beetles are ½ an inch long and metallic green. Under the wing covers, their abdomen is purple. Beetles are found between June and August.

What kind of damage do they do? EAB feeds on all species of ash. None of Vermont’s native ash trees are resistant to the insect. It takes two to four years for infested trees to die. EAB damages trees by boring through the inner bark. Heavy feeding by the immature, grub-like larvae blocks the movement of water and nutrients. Branches as small as 1 inch in diameter can be infested.

Upper branches are often infested first.

Are EABs in Vermont? Not yet. No beetles have been caught on the thousands of purple panel traps that have been set out, statewide, or by any other detection methods. The closest known infestations are around Montreal, in central New Hampshire, in the Massachusetts Berkshires, and in New York’s Hudson Valley.

What to look for: Signs that ALBs might be in your trees include: dime-sized exit holes, sawdust-like material, egg sites in the bark and dead or fallen branches.

What to look for: Signs that EABs might be in your trees include: dieback, epicormic branching, bark splits and woodpecker damage.

WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP?

FIND IT. REPORT IT. SAVE TREES.

Moving firewood is the number-one cause of spreading invasive species like EAB and ALB. Use local firewood. Spread the “Don’t move firewood!” message to slow the human-caused spread of these invasive insects.

If you see EAB or ALBs call the USDA toll free: 1-866-702-9938 or report it to the Forest, Parks and Recreation Department of Vermont in Essex Junction (802) 879-6565.

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What: Arbor Day celebration. Come learn and plant six shade trees. Chance to win a free tree and other prizes.

When: Saturday, May 6, 10 a.m.

Where: Harold Curtiss Park in East Middlebury.

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The Emerald Ash Borer is on its way — Zeoli has no doubts. “It is a sad story. Our trees are in trouble… People aren’t that concerned yet, but it is something to be concerned with.

Every breath you breath is filtered by a tree, so yeah, they’re kind of important.

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“The Emerald Ash Borers are going to hit us… I’m amazed we haven’t found them yet.

These bugs spread faster than they would naturally because they travel in firewood.

That’s the crux of the biscuit. We could quarantine the pests, but we can’t quarantine people… It’s up to us. It’s really important that people take this seriously,” Zeoli urged.

“The ash tree is a major deciduous tree in our forest environment; it will be a huge loss.”

How do you know if your ash tree has the Emerald Ash Borer?

“One thing you want to look for is a lot of woodpecker activity in the upper canopy,” Zeoli explained. “That’s a major red flag.”

If you suspect your tree has been infested, call the town offices and ask how to contact one of the area’s first detectors: Lee Terrier, Sally Thodal or Zeoli. Meet Zeoli and other members of the Middlebury Tree Committee on May 6, where you can ask questions and learn more (see details above) about the trees.

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Celebrate Arbor Day 2017 with Tree Planting and Free Tree Giveaway

Saturday, May 6, 2017 • 10am • Harold Curtiss Park, East Middlebury

The celebration is hosted by the adhoc Middlebury Tree Committee and will begin with a short introduction about Arbor Day, the importance of trees and the Vermont Urban & Community Forestry’s VT Commemorative Tree Grant that made this event possible.

All ages are invited to help plant, stake and water six shade trees at the park. Following the tree planting the group will offer a free tree giveaway, free “Tree Owner’s Manuals” and a special opportunity to win a pair of Felco pruners and/or The Sibley Guide to Trees.

During the event Middlebury’s tree warden, a certified arborist and several tree enthusiasts will be available to provide information and answer questions. For more information, contact Chris, Middlebury’s tree warden, at 388-2767.

Mark your calendar and hope to see you at Harold Curtiss Park!

“The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”

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T HEATER

OWN HALL

Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org

Thu 4/20 7pm $17/$10 Students THE NATIONAL THEATRE IN HD

ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

An all-star cast, including Daniel Radcliffe, star in Tom Stoppard’s brilliant & brilliantly funny modern classic -- from London’s Old Vic!

Fri 4/21 7:30pm $15

DEB BRISSON & THE HAY BURNERS

Deb’s soulful, rootsy, bluesy vocals are backed-up by local legends Mark Pelletier, Peter Ryan, John Wallace and Doug Wilhelm. Superb quintet will rock you with heartfelt alt country originals.

Sat 4/22 12:30pm $24/$10 Students MET LIVE IN HD

EUGENE ONEGIN

Tchaikovsky’s beloved interpretation of Pushkin’s classic tale of love and loss. Free pre-show talk by Scott Morrison in the studio at 11:45

Thu 4/27 – Sun 5/7 (see below for times & ticket prices) MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS

WORKINGA musical from the book by Studs Terkel The latest version of this 70s musical includes two songs by Hamilton superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda.

For more info: www.middleburycommunityplayers.org

Thu–Sat 4/27–4/29 & 5/4–5/6 @ 8pm; Sun 4/30 & 5/7 @ 2pm Thurs $15; Fri–Sun $23/$18 Students w/ ID

Wed 5/10 11am $10/$5 Students

EXHIBITS AMERICAN FACES: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY. On exhibit Feb. 17-April 30 featuring 90 portraits from more than 20 collections exploring why Americans have been fascinated with images of themselves. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

ART OF THE WORD. On exhibit April 7-May 7, featuring work by New Haven artists Jane Ploughman of Ploughgirl Press, and John Vincent of A Revolutionary Press. Art on Main, 25 Main Street, Bristol. (802) 453-4032.

DICK KIRBY: METAL MADNESS. On exhibit March 3-April 30, featuring a one-man show of artist-designed steel works such as lamps, weathervanes, candle holders and coat racks. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

FAMILY TRAITS: ART HUMOR, AND EVERYDAY LIFE. On exhibit through May 15, featuring a selection of family cartoons by the late Stanley Lyndes.

Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St, Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or www. vermontfolklifecenter.org.

FOCUS ON THE SHELDON: A FIVE-POINT PERSPECTIVE. On exhibit March 7-May 13, featuring five Middlebury-area photographers’ exploration of the collections of the Henry Sheldon Museum. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St, Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

FRED LOWER, PAINTINGS. On exhibit, April 7-May 11, featuring the Fred Lower’s landscapes of Addison County. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or www.townhalltheater.org.

GLASS ART: MOLTEN COLOR AND FROZEN FORMS. On exhibit March 24May 7, featuring kiln formed glass sculpture by Alyssa Oxley; hand-blown glass by Bud Shriner; and kilnformed glass jewelry and objects by Micaela Wallace. The exhibit also includes work by emerging glass artists Anne Hulvey, Mary Ellen Jeffries, Cherie Marshall, Lori Pietropaoli and Christie Witters. Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main Street, Vergennes. (802) 877-3850 or www.creativespacegallery.org.

GREAT ART WEDNESDAYS

NORTHERN NEIGHBORS: CELEBRATING 150 YEARS. On exhibit through April, featuring work by Scott Addis, Holly Friesen, Donna Andreychuk and Sherry Czekus. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls, 1 Mill Street and 6 Merchants Row, Middlebury. (802) 458-0098 or edgewatergallery-vt.com.

Pioneering American artists crafted a sumptuous visual language telling the story of an era.

RE-IMAGINE THE BRAIDED RUG. On exhibit, Feb. 4-April 29, featuring the work of West Fairlee rug braider Delsie Hoyt. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St, Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or www. vermontfolklifecenter.org.

THE ARTIST’S GARDEN: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM Mon 4/24 – Fri 4/28* 9am – noon Ages 10-15 $150

MUSICAL THEATRE TOOK KIT Students will explore vocal production, presentation, choreography, characters & more. Class accommodates a wide range of abilities and experience, and everyone walks away with useful performance skills and confidence.

*During April Break.

NOW ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR

LIGHTS! CAMERA! AUCTION!

Downsizing? Do you have something wonderful sitting in a corner gathering dust? The THT auction plays a major role in supporting the wide range of events and educational opportunities at THT. On-line auction begins on May 15. The festive live auction is June 17. To make a donation, call 802 388-1436 or email executivedirector@townhalltheater.org

SUSPENDED MOMENTS. On exhibit April 13-May 28, featuring abstract oil paintings from Cameron Schmitz. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or www.northerndaughters.com.

UNTOUCHED BY TIME: THE ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS FROM PERICLES TO PARR. On exhibit Jan. 10-April 23, featuring early archaeological publications, antiquarian paintings, drawings and prints, as well as photographs, books, and more recent images that are all drawn from collections at Middlebury. Together they bear testimony to the fascination with the Acropolis that has prevailed from the Enlightenment to the present. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

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MUSIC Dust off the dance floor with alt country music DEB BRISSON AND THE HAY BURNERS HEAT UP TOWN HALL THEATER IN MIDDLEBURY

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ho are the Hay Burners? They are Deb Brisson, Mark Pelletier, Peter Ryan, John Wallace and Doug Wilhelm.

These local legends will bring their propulsive and tuneful blend of FRIDAY APRIL original songs — Town Hall Theater, Middlebury including some new material — and favorite covers to a night of live music with an open dance floor at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on Friday, April 21, from 7:3010:30 p.m.

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Ever wonder where they got the name “Hay Burners?” Well, according to the band’s bio on their reverbnation.com page, “the songs were arranged, rehearsed and some even birthed in the loft above Deb’s horse barn.

At times the music got so hot up there, you could almost see the hay start to burn.”

Catch Deb Brisson and The Hay Burners at Town Hall Theater this Friday evening. Tickets are $15, and are available at the THT Box Office: 802-382-9222, www.townhalltheater. org, or in person Monday-Saturday 12-5 p.m.

The evening will feature the twin guitar mastery of Mark Pelletier on Telecaster, Clint Bierman on Gibson, Brisson on rhythm guitar, Pete Ryan on bass, John Wallace on drums and Doug Wilhelm on congas, harmonica and percussion. Their songs are real and heartfelt–rootsy, soulful and bluesy, rockin’ alt country with twanging telecaster, rhythmic acoustic and bass driving drums.

Brisson’s vocals are influenced by Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris and Sheryl Crow, but are all her own.

live music SOUND INVESTMENT JAZZ ENSEMBLE. Friday April 21, 8 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

ERIN CASSELLS-BROWN TRIO. Friday April 28, 7:30 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

ROOT 7. Saturday April 29, 6 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

RED TAIL RING. Saturday, May 6, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

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Deb Brisson and The Hay Burners will play at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on Friday evening.

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the movie BEAUTY AND THE BEAST — RUNNING TIME: 2:09 — RATING: PG Beauty and the Beast was written in 1740. Imagine the many versions of the story that have passed through the following centuries. And yet, one sentence carries its essence down through time: a handsome young prince imprisoned in the body of a beast can be freed only by true love. What a premise to hand to future authors about the power of love in all kinds of circumstances. The wonder of the new Walt Disney Pictures movie springs from new technology that allowed creative animators to wrap the story in full time magic. Add to this a set of performances that are subtle and irresistible.

Belle (Emma Watson) and the Beast (Dan Stevens) spend much of the movie in the enchanted castle where all the beautiful objects — candelabra, cups and furniture that surround them — are imprisoned in those forms while waiting for their salvation to arrive when at last the Beast is loved.

Belle is absorbed in ensuring the safety of her beloved father Maurice (Kevin Kline). His time is divided between their home village and the enchanted castle. Hers is spent unloading Gaston (Luke Evans), the arrogant, aggressive village suitor.

Today’s techies enable the castle itself to cast a beautiful spell by imaginative use of their new tools. The settings are magical. So what could go wrong? Casting? Not one mediocre performance.

Emma Watson’s Belle is never silly or vulnerable in any situation. She has grown from Harry Potter fame into a composed, subtle actor who has an inner antenna about the danger of overacting. She makes falling in love with the Beast a gradual, believable happening.

As her dad, Kevin Kline is also grand. He’s brave and loving with the vulnerability that comes with age and any audience understands instinctively why his protective daughter loves him so much. As the Beast,

Dan Stevens and Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast (2017).

Dan Stevens manages — despite his hideous horns — to convey his inside self gradually as he falls in love with Belle. When love releases him, we see only a few moments of him as a human being. Probably, I think, so the audience won’t think of him as less than magical. The director was wise just to plant him in our imagination. In this case, the dream is better than reality.

Quality is guaranteed by the presence — actually or in voice — of Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Audra McDonald and Stanley Tucci. For all of you who no longer watch fairy tales, borrow a child for the afternoon from family, friends, or neighbors or go with a pal. Age doesn’t matter. Give thanks to Walt Disney Studios for releasing a good one in the spring and ignoring the practice of holding their best until Oscar season.

Beauty and the Beast is the rule breaking exception that will win hearts and endure. It is also one moment when technology and humanity meld in the best of ways — an old fashioned story in modern day dress. Have fun.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

the book A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING — BY TIM WEED

MUST-READ SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

(Green Writers Press)

If the stories in this debut collection are any indication, Vermont author Tim Weed has led a full and rich life so far. These stories bristle with energy and immediacy. The outside world will fall away as the places and people of Weed’s stories inhabit your mind. The writing is spare and meticulous and packs a hefty emotional punch. Original phrasing and descriptive passages are especially adept at conveying feelings or emotions as physical sensations. The settings — Rome, a remote lake in New Hampshire, Venezuela’s Orinoco basin, the summit of an Andean volcano, just to name a few — and scenes are idyllic yet wild, exotic yet familiar, but beware, tensions build, unexpected turns shock, and self-discovery is uncovered as a messy, oftentimes painful, journey. I am not exaggerating when I say this collection kept me up at nights. I just couldn’t stop reading…

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of the Vermont Bookshop in Middlebury.

Editor’s note: Tim Weed, along with Green Writers Press founder, author and poet Dede Cummings, will read from and sign their books at the Vermont Book Shop, Tuesday, May 16, 7 p.m.

Difficult Women, by Roxane Gay What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours,

by Helen Oyeyemi Eveningland, by Michael Knight Swimmer Among the Stars,

by Kanishk Tharoor Wait Till You See Me Dance,

by Deb Olin Unferth A Manual for Cleaning Women,

by Lucia Berlin The Paper Menagerie, by Ken Liu

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