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In its third year as a varsity program, the VUHS-Mt. Abe girls’ lax team is on a roll. See Page 1B.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 73 No. 18

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Voyage to Mexico a revelation Open Door Clinic’s Doucet reconnects with migrant workers

LOCAL RESIDENT JULIA Doucet visited with many people in Mexico linked to the Open Door Clinic, including this family of three Mexican brothers currently working on an Addison County farm. Men such as these provide an economic benefit to Vermont and to their hometowns in Mexico.

Photo courtesy of Julia Doucet

Beeman installs a ‘mud kitchen’

By JOHN FLOWERS The oldest of those three brothers, MIDDLEBURY — The words Miguel, has worked on Addison came from the old man’s heart, and County farms for eight years; the they touched Julia Doucet’s soul. middle brother, Diego, has been here There, surrounded by his family in for four. his rustic home in southern Mexico, “It sounded like the family was he told Doucet about hoping they’d be back by how yet another of his “I had a lot of Christmas, but it doesn’t sons had begged him on like they’re going questions. I felt sound three separate occasions to,” Doucet said during to join his two brothers like what I was a recent interview. already working on seeing here Such is the life for Addison County farms. was a very the hundreds of migrant Father reluctantly important piece workers — many of surrendered to his son’s of the puzzle, them from Mexico — repeated pleas, and the who drift into Vermont boy slipped away on his but it wasn’t to take farm jobs that perilous cross-border the whole simply aren’t attracting perspective.” journey. locals.

“There had been The young man — Julia Doucet several other men from mentioned above was that area who had died willing to risk the crossing, so he was talking about the move because of the paucity of job fear and anxiety of never knowing if opportunities in rural Mexico. you’re going to see your child again,” “If he had stayed, he wouldn’t said Doucet, a Registered Nurse with be able to afford uniforms and the Middlebury-based Open Door school fees for his kids, and then Clinic (ODC) that provides health they couldn’t get ahead,” Doucet care to many migrant workers. explained.

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS NEW HAVEN — The phrase came up at a staff meeting at Beeman Elementary School in the fall of 2017.

“Mud kitchen.”

Robin Shalline was intrigued.

“It started percolating,” she said.

“I thought, What is a mud kitchen? I googled it, looked it up on Pinterest.”

A mud kitchen, it turns out, is an outdoor play space where kids can pretend to cook and bake with mud.

“I thought, We’ve got to have this,” she said.

(See Beeman, Page 10A)

United Way nears end of its fund drive

Agency making final pitch to meet its goal

ANWSD set to mediate teacher talks

By JOHN S. McCRIGHT VERGENNES — Members of the negotiating committee representing the school board are raising their own issues about how talks have proceeded between the Addison Northwest School District and the Addison Northwest Teachers’ Association (ANTA). ANWSD (See ANWSD, Page 12A)

She heard many such stories — both sad and uplifting — during a recent 10-day trip to southern Mexico to reconnect with past ODC patients, and bring news and gifts to the relatives of migrant workers who continue to toil anonymously in the milking barns and fields of Addison County.

Doucet has served as an outreach nurse/case manager at the ODC for the past eight years. She’s kept in contact with some of her former patients who have returned to Mexico after having made enough money to build modest homes — and in some cases, small businesses — in their native land.

ON THEIR HOME TURF She always wondered what it would be like to visit her former patients on their home turf. She decided to do just that in late January — on her own dime.

“It felt really important to me to provide a cultural context,” Doucet said. “A lot of it is what I’ve learned from talking to patients about their (See Mexico, Page 14A)

Who gimme five!

BRIDPORT AUCTIONEER TOM Broughton brought his forty years of auctioneering experience to bear at the VFW Hall in Middlebury on Saturday when he helped move hundreds of treasures — including four new handmade quilts from Doris Grimm and her quilting group. The event raised slightly more than $15,000 for St. Stephen’s. See more photos and a story on Page 12A.

Independent photo/Steve James

Mobile eatery gears up for return to road ‘Evolution Kitchen’ available for rent

LOCAL ARTIST MICHAEL Kin works on a colorful mural that will adorn “Evolution Kitchen,” a new food bus that will be rented out to chefs wanting to take their wares to the masses.

Independent photo/Steve James

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Addison County residents are used to traveling to area restaurants for a nice meal.

Soon, a new restaurant will be traveling to them.

It’s called “Evolution Kitchen,” a food bus that will serve up a constantly changing menu based on the whims of whoever happens to be renting the vehicle at the time.

The brainchild of local foodie Lisa Mitchell, Evolution Kitchen will be loaned to established restaurants looking to export their wares, or to aspiring chefs looking for an inexpensive avenue through which to showcase their dishes without having to first commit to a long-term, bricks-and-mortar lease.

“I think that’s the beauty of food trucks, is that it allows people to rent at an affordable rate and have an opportunity to test things out

and decide if it’s something they’re interested in pursuing,” Mitchell said. “When we bought it, I knew I couldn’t do this as my full-time business, so I had to come up with a model to allow other people to use it, too.”

Evolution Kitchen’s journey to Addison County and its renaissance as a food truck is an interesting story unto itself.

The 1988 GMC G3500, with approximately 67,000 miles, lived a long life in Texas as a taco, hot dog and catering truck before arriving in Addison County two-and-a-half years ago. Then-owner Anne Collins donated the vehicle to the ParentChild Center (PCC) of Addison County, hoping the local nonprofit could get some use out of it.

Unfortunately, the bus would have required substantial updating to be (See Food truck, Page 13A)

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — United Way of Addison County (UWAC) officials have raised $541,000 toward a 2018 fundraising goal of $660,000, a summit they’ll work tirelessly to reach before the books close on the campaign on June 30.

The Independent reached out this week to UWAC Executive Director Helena Van Vorst and Amy Bodette Barr, the organization’s manager of development and marketing, for an update on a 2018 fund drive that began last September. While there’s more to raise, Van Vorst and Barr believe they have good cause for optimism.

First, they pointed to past giving trends indicating another $85,000 could soon pour into the campaign coffers from such sources as other United Ways whose contributors have targeted Addison County, such as county residents who work elsewhere but earmark their donations for their local United Way. If that $85,000 comes through as expected, that would leave (See United Way, Page 10A)

By the way Here’s a delicious way to show your support for the Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department: Attend the organization’s annual ham supper, to be held on Tuesday, May 7, from 5-8 p.m. at the Waybury Inn. The cost is $15 for adults, $5 (See By the way, Page 13A)

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New cupola bought for Panton Town Hall

Building’s renovation nears completion

A MOTHER AND daughter were among the three dozen people who helped catalog the biodiversity in Middlebury’s Otter View Park this past Saturday in an even called a “bioblitz.”

Independent photo/Christopher Ross

Species catalogued in Otter View Park

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS MIDDLEBURY — For a few misty-weathered hours this past Saturday 30 to 40 people went on a “bioblitz” in Middlebury’s Otter View Park, cataloguing as many species of flora and fauna as they could identify.

Their final count: 44.

“I think lots of people were both surprised and excited to see the big crayfish,” said Myles Aidan Stokowski, a member of the Wild Middlebury Project at Middlebury College and one of the event’s organizers. As Stokowski understood it, “someone just saw it swimming around, shot after it with a net and luckily caught it.”

Less exciting, and somewhat sobering, was the identification of a mosquito larvae.

Half the species identified on April 27 were plants, which includ-

ed both the expected (bulrushes and duckweed) and the invasive (purple loosestrife).

Among the 10 catalogued birds, one very definitely did not belong: Melopsittacus undulatus, or the budgerigar, whose natural habitat is limited to ... Australia.

Of course, Melopsittacus undulatus is also known, in American English, as the parakeet.

Later that day, Ron Payne of the Otter Creek Audubon Society, which co-sponsored the bioblitz, wrote an online post hoping to alert anyone whose pet was missing.

Participants — who ranged in age from preschool to retirement and included students, experienced naturalists and curious beginners — used a free phone app called iNaturalist to upload photographs to a central website, where they could eventually become part of

THIS CRAYFISH FOUND swimming in the waters of Otter View Park was one of 44 different species of animal and plant found in the Middlebury park this past Saturday.

Photo courtesy of Kufre Udoh

the research record.

Launched last September as a club at Middlebury College, the Wild Middlebury Project is a placebased environmental movement

that aims to unite youth around local conservation efforts.

Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent.com.

Bristol to hold Green Up Expo this Saturday

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS BRISTOL — Bristol will hold its first annual Green Up Day Expo this Saturday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the town green.

Green Up Day bags are available now at Holley Hall, during town office hours, and will also be available Saturday on the green starting at 8 a.m.

Carolyn Dash, who’s serving her second year as Bristol’s Green Up Day coordinator, wanted to try something new.

“Other towns have Green Up Day barbecues, prizes, and use Green Up Day as a fantastic opportunity for community bonding,” Dash said.

“Because we have amazing support from the town, all our green bags are left on the side of the road and there is simply no reason for folks to return to the town green after they’ve worked all morning. I felt like this

was a real missed opportunity.”

A collaboration between the Bristol Conservation Commission and the Bristol Energy Committee, the Expo will provide the following opportunities to learn more about green living and to have fun: • Solar installation company SunCommon will present information about solar panels and Tesla Powerwalls, as well as electric vehicles.

• They’re also bringing a bouncy house.

• Local residents will show off electric tools, such as battery-powered lawnmowers.

• Richard Butz will give rain barrel tutorials.

• Gail Butz will hand out free milkweed plants and information regarding pollinators.

• A representative from New Leaf Farm will be on hand to sell summer CSA (community supported agriculture) shares.

• Gerry Slager will bring one or two electric bikes for people to check out.

• Folks from the Human Powered Parade will also be there, recruiting volunteers and participants for their May 11 event.

• Food and drink will be available from Almost Home Market and Juice Amour.

Plans are also afoot to provide live music during the event.

This year marks Vermont’s 49th annual Green Up Day, and there will be activities in many towns around the county. See the Addison County Solid Waste Management District ad on

Page 2B to find out who is the Green Up Day coordinator in your town.

“Since 1970, Vermonters have taken to the roadsides greening up 13,000 miles,” wrote Sue Killoran, Green Up Vermont’s interim executive director, in this year’s announcement. “In years past as many as 22,400 volunteers from over 240 communities (have taken) part in the largest, oldest statewide green up event in the country.”

Last year in Bristol, according to Dash, 84 groups — including 410 students from Bristol Elementary School and Mount Abraham Union High School — picked up more than 3,000 pounds of garbage and tires on Green Up Day. “We handed out a record-breaking 390 bags,” she said. “Hopefully 2019 will have even more participation!”

Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent.com.

By ANDY KIRKALDY PANTON — Years of work to restore and modernize Panton Town Hall are nearing completion after the selectboard recently struck a deal to purchase an aluminum replica cupola to place on top of the building by later this summer or early fall.

Including installation, the cupola will cost about $63,000, according to meeting minutes.

And Selectboard Chairman Howard Hall said the Cerf Foundation, which pledged $25,000 toward installing a restored original cupola back on the building, will support the aluminum version with the remaining $15,000 unspent from that grant.

“She (the grant manager) said send us the invoices for the cupola,” Hall said, “and we’ll send you the checks.”

In recent years Panton has used annual taxpayer contributions to its Town Hall Restoration fund, plus financial support and technical expertise from Green Mountain Power, to make a series of critical improvements to its town hall.

GMP agreed to work with the town to make energy improvements to town buildings, among other concessions, as part of an agreement with town officials for the siting of a 5-megawatt solar array not far from town hall.

As part of that deal, GMP helped the town install in the town hall four heat pumps, energy-efficient windows and doors, insulation, LED light fixtures, and an auxiliary heater for the town hall meeting room.

GMP also consulted with town officials on furnace repairs.

Meanwhile, the town has also in the past two years funded a new handicap-access ramp for the town hall, new handicap-accessible bathrooms in its meeting room, repairs to its stairs to the meeting room, and other needed work to its eaves and roofing, some of that done when the

cupola was removed in 2011.

But the question of what to do about the cupola has been debated since then, and that debate was formally and finally resolved in April, when the selectboard voted to contract with Campbellsville Industries of Campbellsville, Ky., to custom-build an aluminum replica of Panton’s cupola based on plans drawn up by Vergennes architect Norman LeBoeuf.

“Every cupola is custom order.

There is nothing off the rack,” said Hall, who has noted the company’s clients have included the U.S. Naval Academy.

DOLLARS AND SENSE The quote from Campbellsville came in at $46,799, and the McKernon Group, which has performed much of the work at Panton Town Hall, estimated installation would be another roughly $17,000, according to April selectboard meeting minutes.

That estimate includes prep work for the installation as well as crane and man-lift rental for a project that, Hall said, could take as little as four hours once it is done in September or possibly late August.

The town now has almost $29,000 in its Town Hall Restoration Fund, with another $15,000 due this year after voters approved it in March.

Voters on Town Meeting Day also approved a selectboard budget with a line item of $4,140 for a loan payment for an aluminum cupola, with the expectation of similar line items in future years if necessary.

“We’ll see how much of a loan we need,” Hall said. “It could be anywhere from 15 to 25 or 35 thousand dollars over a five-year period.”

Hall said the cupola will weigh less than 1,000 pounds and will place less stress on town hall’s structure than replacing the original cupola would, and maintenance costs would be lower than trying to (See Panton cupola, Page 3A)

Midd Congregational Church taps Gleich as its new associate pastor MIDDLEBURY — At a special meeting after worship on March 3, the members of the Congregational Church of Middlebury, United Church of Christ, voted unanimously to call the Rev. Elizabeth Gleich to serve as their new, full-time associate pastor.

The vote was the resolution of a yearlong discernment process, which began in March 2018 with the formation of a search committee and the gathering of input from church members and friends. The process continued with the posting of the position on the national website of the United Church of Christ in July, and the evaluation of candidates from August through the end of the year.

The search culminated during the snowstorm of Jan. 20, when an unfazed Rev. Gleich demonstrated great skill and adaptability as she led a special “neutral pulpit” service for the search committee and two dozen hearty worshippers at the First Congregational Church of Burlington.

Rev. Gleich currently serves as the Associate Pastor for Children and Youth Ministries at the First Church of Christ, Congregational, in Glastonbury, Conn.

A native of Minnesota, she graduated from the College of St. Benedict, in St. Joseph, Minn., with a bachelor’s

ELIZABETH GLEICH degree in Theology and Peace Studies in 2012, and received her Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School in 2015. Prior to her current position, Rev. Gleich served for a year as a full-time chaplain resident in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at New York Presbyterian Hospital and, prior to that, as a part-time chaplain intern at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

The members and staff of the Congregational Church of Middlebury are thrilled to welcome Rev. Gleich to the church family, and eagerly await the start of her tenure in late May.

Addison Independent, Thursday, May 2, 2019 — PAGE 3A

Mt. Abe seeks community input Topics include budget, facilities

THE BUILDING AT 30 MacIntyre Lane, which has housed Pool World since 1995, will be torn down this month. Pool World officials haven’t pinned down a new location so the business will be leaving Middlebury — at least for now.

Independent photo/John S. McCright

Pool World to close its doors

Building will be removed to make way for more parking

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Pool World this month will close its Middlebury location after a 24-year run at 30 MacIntyre Lane, a building slated to be demolished before June 1 in order to create more parking for the adjacent Greg’s Market.

Pool World owner Tom Booska said he was unable to pin down a satisfactory, new Middlebury location for his business, which will continue to operate its flagship store at 16 Austin Drive in Burlington and a second location in Barre. Booska won’t close the door on a possible return to Addison County’s shire town if the right space at a reasonable rent were to become available.

“It’s unfortunate that we’re leaving Middlebury; our employees don’t want to, I don’t want to, and our customers don’t want us to,” Booska said during a Monday phone interview.

“We’ve been fortunate to make a lot of good friends in Middlebury.”

Booska said Pool World would have been content to stay at 30 MacIntyre Lane, which during its 107year history once served as a storage structure for coal and grain. Booska’s late father worked at Wayne Feed, which once occupied the building.

The Pool World building, erected back in 1912, had been featured on the state Register of Historic Places in spite of what some might call a dubious architectural pedigree and a deteriorating condition. Local businessman Tony Neri acquired 30 MacIntyre Lane and the neighboring Greg’s Market building at auction during the summer of 2017 from TD Bank. Neri vowed to rekindle the very popular Greg’s, which has stood dormant since April 2015, when its

former owner Bart Litvin filed for bankruptcy protection and closed it.

Neri successfully petitioned the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation to have the Pool World building delisted from the state register, thus paving the way for its demolition.

The Middlebury Development Review Board last December gave Neri conditional permission to reopen Greg’s Market. His plan calls for razing the Pool World building before June 1 in order to create an additional 37 parking spots for an already busy lot that also serves nearby Nino’s Sicilian Pizza, Middlebury Discount Beverage and Cole’s Flowers.

Neri has targeted May 15 for reopening Greg’s. He told the Independent he made it clear to Pool World officials soon after he bought the property that their headquarters would be removed.

“After the (auction), I told them the building’s got to go,” Neri said. “The building is absolutely rotten.”

But Booska disputed Neri’s recollection. Booska said it was this past February that Neri told him he was working with the town to remove the Pool World building. Booska said he received a letter from Neri’s attorney on April 1 confirming the official termination of Pool World’s lease as of May 1, according to Booska.

Neri, according to Booska, offered Pool World two separate relocation options: • A 2,500-square-foot vacancy at 656 Exchange St., a building that currently houses Yolo Snacks and Fastenal.

Booska said the space isn’t appropriate for Pool World.

“Exchange Street is an industrial

area,” Booska said, adding he didn’t believe his retail store would do well there.

• A spot in a building at 55 Middle Road that Neri plans to rehab and expand. Neri has shown his plans to the Middlebury DRB, but he doesn’t yet have permission to begin construction.

Booska said he was willing to execute a five-year lease for a spot at 55 Middle Road, but ultimately balked because the building wouldn’t be ready for occupancy soon enough to meet Pool World’s needs.

Pool World, according to Booska, has explored other spots in Middlebury, none of which have worked out due to insufficient space, the amount of rent, and/or location. Booska has wanted to keep the business in or close to the downtown and in a retail setting.

Neri has argued that Pool World, with its specialty products, would be sought out by its customers no matter where it lays down roots.

But that’s not necessarily true, according to Booska. He said Pool World — like most retail ventures — is losing ground to internet-based sales. People can order many of the same pool and billiard supplies online and have them delivered to their door, often at a lower price because of the lower overhead for web-based companies.

So Pool World has learned to remain viable through good customer service, Booska said. For example, it launched a policy around eight years ago that it would repair any of the products it sells, for free; the customer only has to pay for parts.

“We are being forced to work with smaller margins,” he said.

Film in Middlebury tells about Muslim Congresswoman MIDDLEBURY — The group Middlebury Showing Up for Racial Justice will host a public screening of the award-winning documentary film “Time for Ilhan” next Wednesday, May 8, at 4 and 7 p.m. at Middlebury’s Marquis Theater at 65 Main Street. This event is free and open to the public; donations are being collected to fund anti-racism work in Addison County.

“Time for Ilhan” chronicles U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s historic campaign to become the country’s first Somali Muslim woman legislator. The film follows the young, hijabi-wearing mother of three as she challenges a Bottom-Up/Top-Down

43-year incumbent in her Minneapolis state legislative district, home to the largest Somali community in the nation. A fresh and timely take on the classic American Dream, the film offers an inspiring, stereotype-busting portrait of one of America’s brightest new political stars, at the start of her meteoric ascent from political newcomer to one of the first Muslim women in Congress.

Film Journal says “Time for Ilhan leaves little doubt about what immigrants, especially diaspora survivors, have historically contributed to our democracy”; while the Chronicle of Philanthropy says the film gives

a deep look behind the scenes of a grass-roots movement.

On the heels of the historic 2018 midterm election, this event is part of the national Time for Ilhan Take Action! Screening Tour, aimed at inspiring and mobilizing women, people of color, new Americans, young people, and others who have been historically excluded from the political process to join forces with those working to build a more reflective, representative democracy.

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By CHRISTOPHER ROSS BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Unified School District (MAUSD) is looking for at least 50 people to participate in the next phase of its community engagement plan.

“We hope that you will be willing to have one-on-one conversations with 5 (or more!) community members from your respective towns,” wrote Krista Siringo, chair of MAUSD’s Community Engagement Committee, in a recent announcement.

The committee hopes to foster at least 250 such conversations between May 1 and June 15.

Conversational goals include gathering feedback about the MAUSD, communicating the district’s goal of improving and sustaining community engagement, spreading the word about upcoming Community Conversations in the fall and discussing the top priorities

identified by the community in a March 16 community engagement workshop. Those priorities include: • facilities and buildings.

• participatory budgeting.

• communication pathways and feedback loops.

• school-based councils.

• policy governance reform.

Residents will also be invited to add other topics they feel it’s important for the school district to consider.

The Community Engagement Committee has designed an interview format for the conversations and will provide volunteer interviewers with questions that were developed with input from Mount Abraham Student Activism, school district leaders and professional facilitator Sue McCormack, who led the March 16 workshop.

Sample questions include: • What word most closely describes your feelings towards the Mount Abraham Unified School District?

• In general, how do you think things are going in the 5-Town district?

• Give an example of something that you think is going well at the school that you attend or are most familiar with.

• Give an example of something that isn’t going well, or that you wish could be different.

Each interview should take 10 to 15 minutes, Siringo estimated.

Diversity is integral to the campaign’s success, she explained.

“Your job is to interview at least five people of varying background, age, town residence and connection to our schools.”

Those interested in conducting interviews should email Krista.Siringo@mausd.org and provide a postal mailing address where the Community Engagement Committee can send information and instructions.

“Please consider taking up this challenge to interview at least 5 people this spring,” she wrote. “It’s a great time of year to reconnect with your community after the winter hibernation!”

Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent.com.

Panton cupola (Continued from Page 2A) maintain a wooden cupola.

In addition, the aluminum cupola will sit on six half-inch legs that means the cupola would not trap moisture under it, thus protecting the roof’s integrity, Hall said. It also comes with a 30-year guarantee, and Campbellsville claims the cupola is resistant to winds of up to 120 mph.

“It’s got all these things that are advantageous to us, and the people at the Cerf Foundation are very excited about that,” Hall said.

As for the old cupola, which is still sitting behind and to the left of town hall, there are two options to move it out. One is a local farmer might take it off the town’s hands, but the selectboard is still seeking a firm commitment.

“There is a farmer who is interested in that,” Hall said. “He’s talked about it, but we want a drop-dead date.”

If that option doesn’t work out, the cupola will be demolished and hauled off to the Addison County Solid Waste Management District

transfer station in Middlebury, adding slightly to the project cost.

“We believe it would fit in one load of a dump truck,” Hall said.

OTHER ELEMENTS One town hall element remains up in the air — a possible kitchen in the second level to go along with the meeting room. Respondents to a planning commission survey a few years back supported the idea of a kitchen because it could allow Panton Town Hall to serve as a community meeting center.

To add a sink and possibly a dishwasher, however, would require at the very least adding a pumpable wastewater holding tank to the building on top of the expense of installing the kitchen.

Hall said given the potential cost the selectboard remains skeptical of how strong the demand really is.

“We’re going to finish this project and see what happens. We haven’t had a lot of demand for a kitchen.

Our suggestion is there is a church next door, and if this really is an interest that the public wants to have a

kitchen or meetings, let’s try that for a while, organize that and see how it is,” Hall said. “The selectboard’s basic position is that we don’t want to be, ‘build it and they will come.’

If there is a need for it we will do it, (but) we believe it will be substantial money.”

If the kitchen is postponed or abandoned, Hall said all that will remain to be done is a floor refinishing project estimated at about $10,000, interior painting, a new sign, new gravel to the rear to expand parking, and maybe a minor upgrade to the building’s landscaping in the front.

All that and an exterior paint job in a few years can be accomplished, he believes, with a continued annual $15,000 contribution toward town hall maintenance.

“It kind of finishes everything up for town hall. There are a couple more things we’re probably still looking to do,” Hall added, but after that “our town hall will be in excellent shape.”

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

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A DDIS ON INDE P E NDEN T

Letters

Editorials

to the Editor

Green Up Day: ‘Those things you do to support the whole’

The real first U.S. president named In his thoughtful essay on the Articles of Confederation, Victor Nuovo missed a golden opportunity to provide the answer to an obscure trivia question, namely, “Who was the first president of the United States?” The answer of course is John Hanson, “the first President of the United States in Congress assembled,” elected under the Articles of Confederation in November 1781. (see Morris, Richard B. “The Origins of the Presidency.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 17, no. 4 (1987): 673-87. jstor.org/stable/27550477.)

It is true that Morris states that Hanson’s claim is tenuous and that several others could make a similar claim. Nevertheless, a chance to briefly knock George Washington off his lofty perch should not be missed, given the rarity of such opportunities.

Michael Lynch Ferrisburgh

This weekend, or any day this week or next, grab a Green Up bag and pick up a little trash near where you live. It will make you feel connected — a small part of a larger whole.

And if you do, even if it’s just for an hour up and down your street for a block or so, you’ll be part of the state’s largest all-volunteer one-day event in which everyone does a little bit for a whole lot of good.

Green Up Day started in 1970 under Gov. Dean Davis. At the time it was considered by some to be a radical idea, and Gov. Davis doubled-down on that notion by actually closing the interstate for a morning to send crews of community folks up and down the pike picking up trash. It was a bold and very Vermont-like statement to make then, and that it has become part of the community culture over the past 49 years reflects the persistence, and closeness to the land, innate to the Vermont character.

Last year, more than 24,000 Vermonters in more than 240 towns participating picked up 225 tons of litter and 5, 561 tires on Green Up Day. Such effort not only helps beautify where we live, but also makes one’s sense of community, and place, stronger.

Volunteer Green Up coordinators volunteer to make it easier for all of us to help by providing trash bags, assigned routes, and drop off points in each town. The Addison County Solid Waste District lists each town’s coordinator in an ad on Page 2B in today’s issue along with a phone number.

Why do it? Middlebury’s Peg Martin, a long-term state representative who has served as that town’s Green Up Day coordinator for 26-plus years, captured the reason why to pitch in during an interview a few years back.

“I’ve always had very strong feelings about community and the fact that in a community you do what you can, however you can do it, to participate and make things better for the whole community,” Martin told us.

“Green Up has always seemed to me like a very simple ... and in-yourface-thing to do. Lean over and pick up a piece of trash off the ground. And it’s something that a lot of people doing a little bit can make a great deal of difference. And that to me is kind of what community is about: those things that you do to support the whole.”

So no matter what you’re doing this week, be a part of a 49-year-old Vermont tradition and pick up a little trash — even if it’s for just an hour or two — and know that the small role you play is part of a much bigger whole.

That should put a smile on your face, and spark a warm feeling of belonging in your heart.

Family thankful to first responders

Angelo Lynn

How Barr’s shameless testimony reflects Trump’s corrosive influence Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony in front of the Senate’s Judiciary Committee this Wednesday is the predictable outcome of being part of an administration that has disdain for the rule of law.

It starts at the top, and there is no doubt that this president considers himself above the law. Armed with the belief that Congress can’t indict a sitting president, Trump and his collaborators have trashed the notion of justice, honor and integrity within his administration. Their plans to stonewall any investigations into the president’s taxes, or any further details connected with the findings of the Mueller Report, hold executive privilege as the supreme law of the land.

During Barr’s testimony viewers confirmed he knowingly misled Congress and the nation in his initial summation of the Mueller report, mimicking Trump’s own claims that the report found “no collusion” of Trump’s team with Russians to sway the 2016 presidential election (Mueller specifically noted that collusion has no legal significance, as Trump as always known), even though there were numerous accounts of meeting with Russian operatives who they knew were working to sway the election on their behalf.

More importantly, there were 10 specific accounts of Trump and his team engaged in instances of obstruction of justice, but which they were not able to prosecute because of the justice department’s ruling that one could not indict a sitting president, but which is left to Congress to more fully discover.

To summarize Mueller’s report in such a way that the president could grab the airwaves (even for a few days) and claim total exoneration was a travesty of justice — and exactly what Barr, and Trump, wanted.

But Barr took it a step further on Wednesday when he lied point blank to the Senate Judiciary Committee, telling them he didn’t believe he had misrepresented Mueller’s report and that he wasn’t aware of Mueller’s opposition to his characterization. It was a blatant breach of faith with the public — as if lying to Congress didn’t even matter; it’s just what you do when you’re with Trump.

As Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. wrote this week: “The corruption Trump has fostered now goes to the top of the Justice Department.

We have an attorney general who has proudly and shamelessly corrupted our political conversation to protect a president whose survival depends upon burying facts and clouding public understanding.”

Or as Sen. Kamala D. Harris said after the morning’s questioning of Barr, in which at one point Barr admitted to not reviewing the Mueller’s report’s underlying evidence when deciding to clear Trump of obstruction charges: “This attorney general lacks all credibility and has, I think, compromised the American public’s ability to believe that he is a purveyor of justice.”

The story on Barr’s misrepresentation of the Mueller report will come out.

Mueller will testify and expose Barr’s misdeeds. Barr will be cast aside as a political pawn of Trump’s who can’t be trusted, but Trump’s core supporters won’t care and will always swear by Barr’s bogus statements, and the rest of America will move on to the next Trump-inspired crisis.

It’s how Trump works, through lies and deceit, and until his supporters understand that, it’s a winning strategy that relies on people too enthralled with his personality to realize when they’re being snookered.

Angelo Lynn

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LONG-TIME STARKSBORO FIRE Chief Tom Estey shows some recruits to the New Haven and Shelburne fire departments the finer points of hooking a hose up to a hydrant during the annual Addison County Firefighters Association fire school, held at Middlebury Union Middle School this past Saturday.

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The heavy weight of racism in USA My friend Andre Henry has a boulder in the back of his car. It’s a large, heavy rock, painted white. It is covered with black writing, words like “police violence, racial profiling, white fragility, and eurocentrism.” It is also covered with hashtags. Lots and lots of hashtags, each one followed by a name. Each name is the name of a Black person killed by police.

Also in the back of Andre’s car is a wagon. He uses the wagon to drag the boulder around his home city of Los Angeles. He has dragged that stone into classrooms, churches, job interviews. It is a heavy, heavy rock. But it doesn’t weigh as much as the fear that he, or one of his best beloveds, could be the next hashtag.

Andre’s boulder project reminds me

By Joanna of another person who decided to lug Colwell something heavy around, wherever they went.

Emma Sulkowicz is the artist who was sexually assaulted by a fellow student while an undergraduate at Columbia University. When the university decided not to expel the perpetrator, Emma (who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns) created a piece of endurance performance art titled Carry That Weight.

From Sept. 2, 2014, until May 27, 2015, Emma carried the dorm room mattress on which the assault occurred everywhere they went on campus. The art piece includes the “Rules of Engagement,” in which Emma painted on the walls of a studio on campus the rules: that the mattress must be carried at all times when Emma was on campus, that they could not ask for help in carrying it, but that if help were offered they could accept it.

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In Emma’s words, “To me, the piece has very much represented [the fact that] a guy did a horrible thing to me and I tried to make something beautiful out of it.”

I remember reading about “Carry That Weight” in the New York Times, while the piece was being performed. I remember being deeply moved by the image of a group of students carrying the mattress together. The mattress weighed fifty pounds — what a relief it must have been when Emma’s fellow students offered assistance.

While art critics hailed the piece as a triumph of “pure radical vulnerability,” “Carry That Weight” was not without its detractors. Perhaps most notably, the accused perpetrator sued Columbia for allowing the mattress performance, claiming it created a hostile environment for him.

I do have some sympathy for young men who are navigating college dating life while having been raised on a steady diet of entitlement and toxic masculinity.

Young people need to be taught that their bodies are their own, and that when interacting with others, enthusiastic consent is the gold standard. The Columbia students who helped Emma carry the mattress included young men, young men who wanted their campus to be safe for everyone.

I asked Andre if anyone ever offered to help him pull the heavy boulder, and he said no.

I am thinking about all the ways we have been taught that racism and white supremacy is just “the way things are.” How we have absorbed the idea that Black people living in neighborhoods with crumbling schools, instead (See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

Court cases could help GOP rule In the next two months, the Supreme Court will issue decisions in two cases that have important political implications.

At the end of March, the justices heard oral arguments in a case about the constitutionality of North Carolina’s congressional district map. In the November 2018 midterm elections, Democratic House candidates in North Carolina won 50 percent of all the votes cast for House candidates throughout the state, their best showing in almost a decade. Yet Democrats won only 3 of the 13 House seats, the same number they won in the more Republican years of 2014 and 2016.

Legislative Republicans in North Carolina drew the district lines to provide a substantial advantage to their party’s candidates. The case before the Supreme Court asks the justices to decide whether partisan political gerrymandering is a violation of several provisions of the By Eric L. Davis Constitution: Article I, on the election of the House; the First Amendment, on freedom of speech; and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

To date, the Supreme Court has overturned state legislative and congressional district maps for only two reasons: the populations of the districts were not equal, and thus violated the Court’s one-person, one-vote standard, or the district lines that were drawn were motivated by discrimination against African-American and/or Latino voters. The Court has never rejected a map for reasons of partisan gerrymandering.

A few justices have been seriously interested in the claim that gerrymandered districts violate the constitu-

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tional rights of voters who are in the political minority.

However, these justices never made up a majority of the court. One of these justices was Anthony Kennedy, who retired last year. Many observers believe that the only way the challengers to the North Carolina district map could now get a Supreme Court ruling in their favor would be for Chief Justice John Roberts, most unexpectedly, to change his position on whether or not partisan gerrymandering is a constitutional violation.

If the justices uphold the North Carolina congressional map, those challenging gerrymandered districts will have to pursue other strategies in the next few years to prevent a new set of gerrymandered maps from being drawn using 2020 census results, for elections in 2022 and beyond.

The first is electing Democratic governors in states such as North Carolina, who might be able to veto Republican-drawn maps. The second is, if the state constitution permits, passing a referendum taking the power of drawing legislative district lines away from state legislators and giving it to an independent commission. This step has already been taken by voters in Colorado, Michigan and Utah, all of whom passed measures in November 2018 to establish redistricting commissions for the maps to go into effect in 2022.

Whether redistricting is done by legislators or by commissions, the process depends on accurate data from the census about the number and residence of the population.

The outcome of another Supreme Court case, heard last (See Davis, Page 5A)

On Feb. 27 our family lost our home from a house fire. Although we face the struggles of putting our lives back together, we have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from our community, friends, family, organizations — including the Veterans of Foreign Wars — American Legions, donations from a Go-Fund-Me account, the Addison Central School District, my 4-H community and others.

A special thank you to all the fire and rescue people and the Red Cross who came to our needs on that frigid day and for the wonderful supper that was provided by the Orwell Masons and fire department. We are grateful from the bottom of our hearts for your thoughts, prayers, monetary donations, clothing, gift cards and best wishes.

It has been surreal to us for all the generosity and concern that our community has given us. As we continue to rebuild our home and our lives we will be ever so grateful for everyone’s help and support.

Thank you all!

The family of Neil and Terri Metcalf Raymond and Jarod Bushey Addison

8th-grader writes about gun laws Two Thousand Three Hundred Twenty-Six days Of pain ...

Two Thousand Three Hundred Twenty-Six days To regain hope ... … Only to be shot down again And again.

Two Thousand Three Hundred Twenty-Six days Since the deaths at Sandy Hook, Since the murder of 26 people To guns.

But guns Commanded by people.

Four Hundred Thirty-Eight days To grieve, Four Hundred Thirty-Eight days To suffer, Four Hundred Thirty-Eight days since the massacre at MSD, since 17 lives lost To guns.

But guns Commanded by people.

One Hundred Twenty-Two Days Of Almost One Hundred Twenty-Two Days Of an Almost shooting At my school, Where I should be safe.

One Hundred Twenty-Two Days To be glad of the legislation that was put in place, To seize the Almost weapons, To stop the Almost deaths By guns.

But guns Commanded by people.

One. Day. To read, And read again.

The story of Another.

Shooting.

This time Against my people, Jews who were celebrating our freedom from Egypt So many years ago.

(See Letter, Page 11A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, May 2, 2019 — PAGE 5A

The Constitution: Ignore it and perish More music for a desert island Editor’s note: This is the 16th in the delegates. Ratification by the a series of essays on the history and states was an open process. Overmeaning of the American political all, the process was one of rational argument and compromise, which tradition. is as good as it gets in politics.

By VICTOR NUOVO Article VI of the Constitution Constitutionalism is a theory of declares that all laws government by the enacted in accordance rule of law. It is not with its articles and a mere expression of all treaties entered the wishes and desires into under its authority of a monarch, or the thereby also become whims and fancies law, so that this nation of a demagogue, or a remains in perpetuity a legal device fashioned nation under law. to serve the special By what authority interests of the rich, did this happen? One but a fundamental law need only read the Preor constitution peramble for an answer: taining to the whole “We the people of the nation, individually United States, in Order and collectively.

The American to form a more perfect A constitution is a set of basic rules by Political Tradition Union, establish Justice, insure domestic which a nation is orAn essay by Tranquility, provide for ganized and governed.

Victor Nuovo the common Defense, It may be written or Middlebury College promote the general unwritten. The British professor emeritus Welfare, and secure the Constitution, if it may Blessings of Liberty be called such, is of philosophy to ourselves and our largely unwritten, and, Posterity, so ordain and in any case, is rooted in dubious traditions vaguely establish this Constitution for the United Stated of America.” defined, and is mired in privilege. ********** In contrast, the Constitution This Constitution was enacted of the United States of America consists of a single, relatively and its purposes prescribed by the short document that prescribes an authority of the “People of the entire system of government and United States,’ not by the states, its practices as well as the rights acting through their respective and duties of its officials and its legislatures, but by the People at people together with the means large. The People are its authors of amending it. It is the first of its and enactors. They claim for kind in recorded history and also themselves this sovereign right, the longest lasting, and, since its and they recognize no other auratification in 1787, it has become thority in heaven or on earth that a model and precedent for new might challenge it, and indeed nations and for old nations seeking there is none. By the People’s act renewal. It is something in which of ordaining and establishing the we can all take pride, but proper Constitution, The United States of pride must be rooted in knowledge America became a nation, and the People, its sovereign. It was a magand critical understanding.

The terms “constitution” and nificent act of self-creation, and it “fundamental law” convey this forever negated the once prevailing meaning. To found or constitute prejudice that government required a thing is to give it form and ex- a monarch or a privileged few or a istence; it is an act of original cre- god to establish and reign over it.

But there is more. By the very ation. The process of framing and adopting the constitution by a con- act through which the People devention of representatives selected clared themselves sovereign they by the people of each state, and its also subjected themselves to this subsequent ratification by the states supreme law. They became subin the same way concluded with jects of their own self-prescribed the coming into existence of a new law, whose rule is stated in the entity, a nation such as The United Constitution.

Thus, “The People of the States of America.

Once ratified, the Constitution United States” is not an anarchic became the “the supreme law of the aggregation of individuals, nor a land.” This process is not hidden populist crowd, nor an unruly mob. in mystery; although the sessions It is a sovereign person, eminently of the Constitutional Convention rational, a self-regulating body that were closed, the issues considered exists over time under a fundamenand the arguments made for and tal law instituted by itself, which against are known, and were re- all of the people are duty bound “to corded in the notes and diaries of preserve, protect, and defend.”

Finally, the goals and purposes of the Constitution are clearly stated: Justice, Domestic Tranquility, the Common Defense, the General Welfare, and the guarantee of the Blessings of Liberty to this and all succeeding generations. The list covers everything of political and moral value. ********** The United States of America is a four-dimensional entity. It has a place—this broad land and the sky above it—and it has a history that extends through time. And we, the people of the United States, are its citizens. In this era of identity politics, this should be our primary identity as individuals and communities, so that we can unite as free and equal persons under one law as one nation.

This is not to say that we should regale ourselves in chauvinist bigotry, but live together as citizens bound by the same law, impartial in its application, always welcoming to immigrants and dedicated to equality, justice, liberty, public safety, and to the welfare for all.

When I had come this far in writing this essay, I paused to reflect on what it all meant, and it dawned upon me that I had discovered the “very idea of the United States of America.” I am surely not the first person to have made this discovery, a vast multitude have already done so, many much earlier in life. But the idea is the same and valid nevertheless—better late than never.

I recalled that this law and its first enactment, its ratification and successive amendments, is the product not of some founding genius but of ordinary fallible human beings. It is the product of the deliberations of committees of persons like you and me, each with private interests, vain, selfish, beset by prejudices and resentments, yet capable of rational deliberation which produced a law that has slowly and at times painfully been revised and enlarged. In that process it has become more inclusive so that that the People of the United States now includes not just individuals of one gender or race or ethnicity or culture or sexual preference or religion, but a mixture of all, native born and immigrant, a People ever growing more inclusive and more equal who together are, by their acceptance of this law, irrevocably dedicated to establishing justice, insuring domestic peace, uniting in a common defense, promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty for all generations now and to come.

This Constitution is our common heritage. It is ours by right. And we are all duty bound to keep it. Or we may ignore it and perish.

Here’s Part 2 of the Desert Island tempted by “Cornell 5/8/77,” wideDisc Challenge. It’s drawn from ly known as “Barton Hall.” (My the key question in a long-running brother says his picks to take to a BBC Radio show: If you were to desert island would be this album be indefinitely stranded on a desert and, um, Halle Berry.) island, what eight pieces of music A friend of mine who knows the would you take with you?

Dead far better than I nominates Part 1, in a previous column, “Europe ’72” with “Live/Dead” as covered the first four of those eight the runner-up: “It’s been known to albums. It required this slay dragons and bring second treatise because tears to the dead (not it’s hard to be concise Dead) people.” when it comes to music.

I’m even tempted Those first four alto choose the Jerry bums were: Garcia Band’s “After • Joni Mitchell, “Blue Midnight: Keen Col(runner-up: “Miles of lege 2/28/80” for the Aisles”) all-time-best version of • Paul Simon, “Sugaree.” Which, by “Graceland” (runner-up, the way, I would like “Paul Simon’s Concert played at my memorial in the Park”) service.

• Bob Dylan, “Blood Ultimately “One from on the Tracks (runthe Vault” is my pick ner-up: “Blonde on because it has excellent Blonde”) versions of the three • The Beatles, “Abbey Dead cuts that would Road” (runner-up: the by Gregory Dennis help Castaway Greg White Album) stay sane: “Sugaree,” Now it gets hard.

“Franklin’s Tower” and Because there is literally a world of “Eyes of the World.” music out there, and the castaway“Wake now, discover that you are to-be has to narrow it down to just the song that the morning brings. four albums.

The heart has its seasons, its eve5. Grateful Dead, “One from the nings and songs of its own.”

Vault” — Deadheads will spend the 6. John Stewart, “Phoenix Conrest of their lives debating the band’s certs” — Departing the Kingston best album. This one captures the Trio in 1967, Stewart embarked on Dead in an August 1975 show. The a long and distinguished career as band was on a break from touring a singer-songwriter. His music was and many of the songs are from the played by artists as varied as Rose“Blues for Allah” studio album. anne Cash, Lindsey Buckingham, Among the cuts: 21 space-case the Four Tops and the Monkees. minutes of the title tune. Perfect for I acknowledge that I am not ratiomeditating on a desert island or just nal on the topic of John Stewart. I staring out at the endless ocean. saw him maybe 20 times in concert One can make a strong case for between 1965 and his passing in other Dead picks, of course. I’m 2008, often as the culmination of a

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Davis (Continued from Page 4A) week, could affect the accuracy of the results from the 2020 census.

The case involves the decision of Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, whose department oversees the census, to add a question to all census forms regarding the citizenship of respondents. The question was added as part of the Trump Administration’s larger nativist agenda. New York state and other plaintiffs argue that the Commerce Department did not follow proper administrative procedure in adding the question,

and that, in so doing, they prioritized the citizenship question over the main purpose of the census, to obtain an accurate count of the population.

After last week’s argument, the five Republican-appointed justices appear ready to uphold the citizenship question. Demographic experts believe the effect of adding this question will be to depress participation in the census. If so, states and metropolitan areas with large immigrant populations may end up with fewer representatives in state legislatures and in Congress

than if the census results were more accurate.

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Ways of Seeing (Continued from Page 4A) of the safe and leafy suburbs where so many white Americans live, is somehow the natural order of things. Who taught us this? No one said it explicitly, but haven’t these messages surrounded us anyway?

What would it look like for more white Americans to take on the burden of thinking and talking about race? What would it look like to engage in conversations, and look for opportunities to educate ourselves?

What would it look like to advocate for racial justice, to pay reparations, to share resources? What would it mean to take a turn dragging that boulder around?

Joanna Colwell is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher who founded and directs Otter Creek Yoga, in Middlebury’s Marble Works, and lives with her family in East Middlebury. When not practicing or teaching yoga, Joanna enjoys taking walks, cooking, serving on the board of WomenSafe, and working with the Middlebury chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. Andre Henry is the founder of an online community called Hope and Hard Pills, an online resource for helping people

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Stewart was quintessentially West Coast but never mainstream.

He was a musician’s musician, Americana before there was Americana, and an endlessly inventive guitar player. Said his bass player, Dave Batti: “John never played a song the same way once.”

Stewart’s unabashedly patriotic “Mother Country” is the only music in “Apollo 11,” the new documentary about the first men to walk on the moon. The chorus plays in the film as the astronauts tumble back to earth: “Oh, mother country, I do love you.”

Though some of Stewart’s best work was later in his career, “Phoenix Concerts “captures him one 1974 night in a city where he had a rabid fan base. It compiles the best songs of his early solo career into one long set.

Runner-up: “The Last Campaign, inspired by Stewart’s travels with Bobby Kennedy in the 1968 presidential campaign.

7. “Further In,” Greg Brown — With a smoky bourbon baritone, Greg Brown provides a contrasting take on American folk music. He’s backed on “Further In” by stellar pickers Bo Ramsey and Kelly Joe Phelps. It’s great road trip music.

I’ve spent years of highway trying to decipher the depths of the sly, often humorous lyrics.

Brown has always dabbled in sensual longing, and this album is full of it. In “Think About You” he assures his absent girlfriend: I can smell your warm neck, I can hear your low laugh/ I see the way you come to me, feel the muscle in your strong back/ (See Dennis, Page 11A)

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Obituaries Robert Jackson, 80, Orwell

ORWELL — It is with great sadness that Robert John Jackson, aka “Bob,” “Dad,” ”Pops,” “Pop Pop,” “Bobby Jack,” ”Jackson” and other names we will save for later, passed away on April 28, 2019.

Bob, being the strong, determined man that he was, battled lung disease (COPD) for a long time. The last three years was done courageously, with few complaints until he took his last breath. Bob’s faithful, devoted dog “Rebel” was by his side the entire time.

Bob is survived by his wife Diane, with whom he eloped in North Carolina in May of 2009; a son, Douglas (Robin) of Rutland; daughter Kristi Jackson (Bruce Rolfe) of Hooksett, N.H.; and two step children, Shelia Fowler (Carl Holmquist) of Chittenden, and Brian Fowler (Lynn) of Benson.

He has two special grandchildren, Shelby Jackson “Miss Shelby”, and Kiara Fowler “Little Missy” who will miss him tremendously, four step grandchildren and his former wife Brenda Neumire of Pembroke, N.H. We are blessed to have great children who have all helped us over the last few years. Thank you so much.

Bob was born on Nov. 9, 1938 in Manchester, Conn., to John Olaf Jackson and Edna Irwin Jackson. Bob also had a younger brother Douglas.

All three pre-deceased him.

Bob’s early education was in Manchester, Conn., where he went to trade school. He worked on the 400-acre family owned tobacco farm (no wonder he smoked). Bob joined the Army at 17 and was in the Federal Reserve for 8 years.

Bob was a machinist by trade, moving to Florida for Mal Tool with his family. He was transferred to Vermont in the early sixties to become the plant manager in the Rutland plant till he retired in 1995.

After Bob retired, he would go to Shaw’s garage everyday to give his good friend Mike a helping hand and to get his free coffee.

Bob has done it all, made a lot of money, spent a lot of money, drank, smoked, owned a Harley, Corvette,

ROBERT JOHN JACKSON four-wheelers, speedboats, guns, pickups, a camp on Sunset Lake, a log cabin on Perch Pond Road (hunting season hang-out) and his house with 80 acres. He also belonged to the NRA, Rutland Elks, and Castleton Legion.

Bob loved to hunt, fish, watch humming birds, grow a beautiful garden (with no weeds), watch NASCAR, tennis matches and the Bloomberg channel on TV and read every newspaper he could get his hands on.

Bob’s family learned to appreciate a strong work ethic — a tribute to a man that led by example and rarely through words. President Calvin Coolidge said “Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it”. That could be words out of Bob’s mouth.

Bob loved to build things and fix whatever was broken. Nothing was ever out of place in his garage. We hope and pray we can live up to his standards.

The one thing he enjoyed the most was the property purchased in 2000 to build our house on. Bob put endless hours building the driveway, clearing

the land, making trails with his Kubota tractor, and moving every rock up back … down front, one bucketful at a time. That all paid off because of the last two and half years all he could do was to sit on the couch and enjoy his property out the living room window.

Bob really enjoyed all the visits from Donald, Ed, Tim, Mike, the Clifford’s and his special cousin Marti.

Thanks to everyone else that stopped by, called or sent a note. It meant a lot during these difficult last years.

We would also like to give a heartfelt thanks to Patty Thornton for all the excellent care over the years. Bob would not have had all the time he has had without all your special care and concerns. Also, a special thanks to nurse Laura Dame of Addison County Hospice for her much appreciated house calls, and to Kori Mitchell for his last few hours.

Also special thanks to Tim Boyd, Sue DeGraw, and Lynn for coming in and sitting with him for the last few weeks when he needed a little extra help. But most of all, thanks to the First National Bank of Orwell and all the staff for covering for me (Diane) for the last three years so I could go home to fix breakfast, help with meds, and whatever else came up, at times that weren’t always the best time to leave. The State of Vermont is trying to pass a family leave bill in this legislative session to allow just what I have been doing for the last three years. I am very blessed to work where I do.

Thank you so much to each of my Bank family.

A graveside service with military honors will be held at Mountain View Cemetery, in Orwell on Wednesday, May 1, at 10 a.m., officiated by friend Thomas Eddy, pastor, with a reception to follow at Castleton American Legion Post 50.

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Healing Touch Practitioner Betsy Spannbauer is a Vermont native. Her love of nature has led her to improve her quality of life by becoming a Healing Touch Practitioner [CHTCP], furthering her knowledge of self-care. “It seems I’ve spent a lifetime working with people, as a Master Gardener, in local retail outlets, and for the last 20 years, as a hospice volunteer. For years I dealt with my own arthritis and other common ailments” Now Healing Touch has availed her to be pain and prescription drug free. Her clients have experienced a wide variety of benefits as well.

In addition to Healing Touch, she also uses Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, and Perlandra Flower Essences to restore health and Balance to the Body.

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LINCOLN — Marjorie Culver Vosburgh, age 90, died on April 16, 2019 at Birchwood Terrace. She was born in Lincoln, Vt., on June 10, 1928, the daughter of Clarence and Maude (Masterson) Culver.

Marjorie attended elementary school in Lincoln and Bristol High School.

She worked at VanRaalte for many years and retired in 1989 from BF Goodrich. Marjorie married Foster

Vosburgh on Nov. 3, 1944. They lived most of their married life in Lincoln.

Marjorie was a member of United Church of Lincoln for 75 years. She was a member of Aid Industria and hosted weekly intercessory prayer groups for many years.

She is survived by nephew Greg Orvis (Nancy), niece Suzanne Orvis and niece-in-law Diane Orvis as well as extended family. Marjorie was

Nellie Spencer, 92, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Nellie Spencer of Middlebury, Vt., passed away peacefully Friday, April 26, 2019, at the Vergennes Residential Care Home, with her daughter Alice by her side. Nellie was born August 25, 1926, in Weston, Vt., to Roland and Mildred (Harris) Hale.

Nellie was born one of five children at her family home in Weston.

In July of 1947 she married Fred E. Spencer Jr., and after living briefly in Bellows Falls, Vt., moved to White River Jct., Vt., and raised her two children while her husband worked at Dartmouth College. In 1968 the family moved to Middlebury, where her husband began his career as Campus Security Chief at Middlebury College.

Nellie began working in local retail and was a fixture at the original Ski Haus store in downtown Middlebury for many years until its closing. After it closed, she continued to work in retail at the local Fashion Bug until she was in her late seventies.

Nellie always enjoyed her friends and family and was a passionate Bingo player, often attending several

Bingo nights a week.

Nellie is survived by her two children, daughter Alice George and her husband Dean of Middlebury, and son Wayne of Vergennes, Vt.; three grandchildren, Dean, and his wife Stefanie of Rochester Hills, Mich., Scott Spencer and his partner Sarah English of Orwell, Vt., and Gerry Spencer and his wife Deandra of Orwell, Vt.; and four great-grandchildren, Elyssa George of Rochester Hills, Mich., Raegan Spencer of Orwell, and Connor and Gavin Spencer, also of Orwell.

Additionally, she is survived by her brother Harold Hale, and his wife Hazel of Weston, Vt., and sister Viola Twitchell of Ludlow, Vt. Nellie is predeceased by her husband of 69 years Fred Spencer, parents, one brother and one sister.

Visitation will be on Saturday May 11, from 10 to 11 a.m., with a funeral service to follow at 11 a.m. at the Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home on 117 South Main St., Middlebury.

Memorial contributions in lieu of flowers may be made to Elderly

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NELLIE SPENCER Services, Project Independence, 112 Exchange St., Middlebury, VT. 05753.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home. Online condolences at sandersonfuneralservice.com.◊

Michael Breitigan, 41, Salisbury SALISBURY — Michael Joe Breitigan, age 41, died unexpectedly of an intracerebral hemorrhage, on Saturday, April 27, 2019, at Porter Medical Center in Middlebury.

Michael was born in Phoenix, Ariz., on June 4, 1977. He was the son of Connie Mitchell and Dennis Breitigan. He moved with his family to Vermont in 1982. He grew up in Vergennes and Orwell, where he received his early education in local schools. He attended Fair Haven Union High School.

Following his education, he began his working career as a welder and commercial painter. He most recently worked, as an automobile detailer at Foster Motors in Middlebury. He enjoyed playing golf, camping and fishing with his daughter.

Surviving are his mother, Connie Mitchell of Tucson, Ariz.; his father, Dennis Breitigan of Vergennes; his daughter, Maci Lee Breitigan; his fiancée and mother of his daughter, Ashley Whitney Jackson and her parents, Evan and Robin Jackson,

all of Middlebury; his sister Jaime O’Rourke and her husband, Patrick and their children, Gabriella, Tristan and Calvin all of Tucson, Ariz.; three step-brothers, Jesse Breitigan of Vermont and Douglas Breitigan and Matthew Breitigan, both of Minnesota; and maternal grandfather, Richard Mitchell, and his wife Linda of Florida. Several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins also survive him.

He was predeceased by his maternal grandmother Nancy Mitchell of Vergennes, uncles Rick Mitchell and Jeff Mitchell and aunt Wendy Mitchell, all of Vergennes.

The memorial service will be held on Thursday, May 2, at 3 p.m., at the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon, where friends may pay their respects to the family from 2 p.m. until service time at 3 p.m.

Following the ceremony, the family will receive friends in a celebration of his life at Middlebury V.F.W. Post on Exchange Street, from 4-7 p.m.

Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers

MICHAEL JOE BREITIGAN may be made, in his memory, for the benefit of his daughter, c/o Connie Mitchell, 4219 Seeger Street, Cass City, MI 48726.◊

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Paid obituaries cost 25 cents per word and will be published, as submitted, on the date of the family’s choosing. For those who do not wish to purchase an obituary, the Independent offers a free notice of passing up to 100 words, subject to editing by our news department. Photos (optional) with either paid obituaries or free notices cost $10 per photo. Obituaries may be emailed to obits@addisonindependent.com.

Submissions must be received by 11 a.m. on Wednesday for publication in the Thursday paper and 11 a.m. on Friday for Monday’s paper.

Email obits@addisonindependent. com or call 802-388-4944 for more information.

Penny Sherwood funeral services LINCOLN/BRISTOL — The friends and acquaintances of Penny Sherwood, who was born October 8, 1943, and died Jan. 26, 2019, are respectfully invited to attend funeral services in her honor at Lincoln United Church in Lincoln at 11 a.m., May 4, 2019. A gathering to follow at the American Legion Hall, Bristol, VT from 1-3 p.m. ◊

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predeceased by her husband, her parents, sister Gladys, brother-in-law Roger, and nephew Gary.

A service will be held at 2 p.m., on May 10, at United Church of Lincoln. Memorial contributions may be made to Weathervane United (c/o Larry Masterson, 2500 South Lincoln Rd., Lincoln, VT 05443) or United Church of Lincoln (23 Quaker St. Lincoln, VT).◊

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Obituaries

ADDISON COUNTY

David Burton Van Vleck Sr., 89, Cornwall

Allen Israel, 73, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Allen Israel, 73, of Middlebury, died on April 27, 2019, following a long illness. Allen was born to Sara and Julius Israel in Novogrudok, Belarus, on June 16, 1945, soon after his parents were liberated toward the end of World War II in Europe. As the son of Holocaust survivors, Allen worked throughout his life to keep their memory and the memory of the atrocities they endured alive for future generations.

Allen moved with his parents and younger brother, Seymour, to New York in 1948; a sister, Sylvia, was born shortly after the family arrived.

After attending religious high school, Allen studied at the City College of New York. He worked briefly as a teacher in the Bronx and then, in the early 1970s, he made his way to Vermont.

Allen and his first wife, Pat, briefly lived in a school bus on the grounds of the Quarry Hill commune in Rochester, but soon decamped for Middlebury and opened the store Wild Mountain Thyme in 1971.

ALLEN ISRAEL Allen was a founding member of Havurah, the Addison County Jewish congregation, and in the early 1980s, he helped spearhead the effort to stop hydroelectric development of the falls downtown with the “Save the Falls Campaign.” He was a proud New Yorker, but he also came to love

country living too — especially summer trips to the racetrack in Saratoga Springs.

Wild Mountain Thyme has been a fixture on Main Street since its early days. Together with Paula Israel, his longtime partner in life and in business, Allen supplied many in Middlebury with the perfect dormroom tapestry, the right outfit for any occasion and thoughtful conversation from behind the register.

He was a loving father, a loyal friend and a dedicated member of his community.

He is survived by Paula Israel; by his brother Seymour Israel; his sister Sylvia Israel, and her wife Sheryl Goldberg; by his children Noah Israel, and his wife Courtney Fox; Sara Israel, and her husband Leon Eidelman; and Nathan Israel; by his grandchildren Lily and Anna Israel; and Sasha and Julian Eidelman.

Memorial donations may be made to Middlebury Chabad, 43 Short Shannon St., Middlebury, VT 05753 USA. Phone: 802-578-2965. ◊

Lawrence Moore Washington, 93, Weybridge WEYBRIDGE — Lawrence Moore Washington, husband, father, and teacher, passed away peacefully on April 23, 2019, at the age of 93.

Larry was born on November 5, 1925, in Manchester, Conn., the first child of Joseph Senior Washington and Ruby Moore Washington. He later moved to Bloomfield, Conn., where he was senior class president at Bloomfield High School, graduating in 1943. He enrolled that summer as a French major at Middlebury College before being drafted into the army in March of 1944. He entered World War II in January of 1945 with the 571st Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, which crossed and defended the Bridge at Remagen before its collapse. He spent a year as part of the occupation troops near Munich, where he became fluent in German.

Larry returned to Middlebury College in the fall of 1946 and graduated in 1948. That summer he entered the Middlebury College Master’s program in German in Bristol, Vt., where he met and fell in love with fellow student Ida Harrison. They were married on December 26, 1948, in Port Washington, N.Y. Larry was a graduate teaching fellow in German at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1948-1949, then completed his Master’s degree in the Middlebury College German School in 1950. He earned his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1958.

In 1952, Larry and Ida purchased a small lot and constructed a house by hand in Weybridge, Vt., using wood from an old horse barn. As

‘Jimmy’ Greene memorial service MIDDLEBURY — A graveside service for James “Jimmy” Greene, who died Dec. 3, 2018, at age 75, will be held on Sunday, May 19, at 11 a.m. at the East Prospect Cemetery in East Middlebury, Vt. A Middlebury resident, Mr. Green will be remembered as an employee at Middlebury College for more than 40 years.

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LAWRENCE MOORE WASHINGTON their family grew, they expanded the house and added land, also building a barn and cabins on the property.

The Weybridge property was a constant home base throughout Larry and Ida’s 69 years of marriage.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Larry taught German at King’s College, Gettysburg College, Bowdoin College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hamline University, and Upsala College. Larry supported his wife Ida’s return to graduate school to complete her Ph.D. during that time. Larry spent the last 20 years of his teaching career at Southeastern Massachusetts University (now UMass Dartmouth), where Larry and Ida created a German major

program. At SMU, Larry served as Foreign Language department chair, Faculty Senate president, and other faculty governance positions.

He also published a translation of Gottfried Keller’s stories and developed an introductory German textbook.

Larry and Ida retired from SMU in 1986 and returned full time to their home in Weybridge, Vt..

During retirement, Larry ran the Bread Loaf Bookshop, volunteered at the Sheldon Museum, served as town lister, served on the Weybridge School Board, and held several leadership positions in the Weybridge Congregational Church.

Throughout retirement, Larry continued to pursue his passions of studying linguistics and learning languages. He was devoted to the care of his wife Ida during her last few years. Following Ida’s death in May 2018, Larry moved into assisted living near his daughter Ruth in Alabama.

Larry is survived by his brother Allyn (Warrenton, Ore.); his six children, Carol (Weybridge, Vt.), Lawrence (Rockville, Md.), Paul (Mill Hall, Pa.), Ida (Morgantown, W.Va.), Ruth (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), and Richard (Saint Nom la Breteche, France); sixteen grandchildren; and eleven great grandchildren.

Interment will be at the Weybridge Cemetery on Friday, July 12, 2019, at 11 a.m., followed by a celebration of life ceremony at the Weybridge Congregational Church at 1 p.m. and a reception in the church hall. ◊

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CORNWALL  David Burton Van Vleck Sr., 89, died on April 22, 2019, at his home in Cornwall.

He was born July 11, 1929, in Montclair, N.J., the second of six children, of Joseph and Mary Van Vleck, where the family resided adjacent to his grandparents at 21 Van Vleck Street, and where with his beloved older brother Joe, he achieved great and constant mischief.

When their family moved to West Hartford, Conn., he attended Loomis School, and at sixteen, met Eunice Amelia Holt, by all accounts the most beautiful, sweetest girl in West Hartford. They dated until marrying in 1951, and remained so until her death on December 29, 2018. David and “Eunie” had three children: Carolyn, David Jr., and Sarah; and three treasured grandsons: Penn, Stokes, and Townsend.

In 1951 Van Vleck matriculated at Princeton University, majoring in Economics and Sociology; earned Masters degrees at the School of Forestry at the University of Michigan, and Cornell University in Mammalogy, and a Ph.D. in Vertebrate Zoology from Cornell in 1963, with a stint as a U.S. Navy Meteorologist in Panama for two years during the Korean War. He taught at Loomis School 19541958, taught Comparative Anatomy and Human Anatomy as a graduate student at Cornell 1960-1963. He began his professional career as an assistant professor of Biology at the University of Miami 1963-1968 (teaching comparative anatomy and physiology, and human biology), followed by assistant professor of Biology at Middlebury College 1968-1972; director of Optimum Population in Charlotte, Vt., 1972-1974; and science/biology teacher at Middlebury Union High School 1974-1992, where he was

DAVID BURTON VAN VLECK SR. affectionately known as “Doc.” He was Chairman of the Science Dept., developed an Advanced Placement course of biology, and from 1979-1989 coordinator of a health program (drugs, sex education, nutrition) for grades 7-12; and sponsored Overpopulation Starvation Weekends for students to learn what starvation from food shortage really feels like, educating them to experientially think about the world’s future problems due to overpopulation.

His publications included a book, “How And Why Not To Have That Baby,” as well as academic articles and essays on zoology and regarding the perils of world overpopulation (which, as he liked to point out, is the source of global warming, and future food, water, and oil shortages, likening our present society as partying while the room is on fire.) He was a frequent speaker on the subject of reproduction and population growth, and served on the

board of the national organization Zero Population Growth. He founded the Addison County Planned Parenthood Clinic, was an avid member of the Lions Club, and Town and Gown Club; was the Cornwall town moderator for seven years, served eight years on the Addison County Regional Planning Commission, and five years on the board of the Addison County Audubon Society.

Following retirement in 1992, his pursuits included an apple orchard, raising Black Angus beef with Daniel Rowe, growing wine grapes; and traveling the world including all seven continents: Africa, Norway, Italy, India, Antarctica and the Arctic. He took up painting, canvases depicting loons, landscapes, autumn trees, and Eunie and her dogs. He loved being outdoors, planting trees and blueberries, and chainsawing dead trees (leaving key latter ones for the use of birds); playing tennis with best friends, and socializing with best friends at Woodware. He greatly enjoyed visiting his siblings’ children and their families; and spending time at the Forest Lake Club in Pennsylvania where he spent formative years with his siblings (and where some of his ashes will join those of his brother Joe in the Forest Lake.)

A celebration of their lives will be held on June 15th, location to be announced. In lieu of flowers, donations to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England or the Vermont Land Trust, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks to Addison Home Health and Hospice for their kindness to both David and Eunice during their sunset days.

Arrangements under the direction of Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home. Online condolences at sandersonfuneralservice.com. ◊

Kelly Boe bike ride to be held May 17

MIDDLEBURY — In 2015, Middlebury resident Kelly Boe was struck and killed by a car while out riding with this wife. On Friday, May 17, at 4 p.m., Middlebury Safe Routes, with support from ACSD/ MUHS, Walk/Bike Council of Addison County, Frog Hollow Bikes, Middlebury Police, Addison County Sheriff, and Boe’s wife Kathy, invites anyone wishing to honor those killed or injured while riding public roads can join in a slow-paced bike

ride. The ride is aimed at raising awareness that everyone shares the road.

Those who wish to may ride in silence in memory of those killed.

Riders will assemble at the Middlebury Union High School entrance by 3 p.m. Police and cyclist escorts will guide riders on a short loop of about eight miles, departing MUHS through downtown, out Weybridge Road to Hamilton Road and back to town by 5 p.m. A helmet and waiver

of liability signature are required to participate. The ride will take place if there is light rain, but will be cancelled if there heavy rain, thunder or lightning.

Donations toward improved bike parking and road safety can be made by check payable to Town of Middlebury with “Middlebury Safe Routes” written on the memo line. Donations to the Kelly Boe Scholarship can be made by check payable to the “Kelly Boe Memorial Scholarship Fund.”

East Middlebury’s 65thAnnual

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TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2019 takeout available at the door FGP offers opportunities for volunteers to serve as classroom aides in Addison County, providing mentoring and support to children of all ages.

Foster Grandparents can serve from 10 - 30 hours a week and receive a stipend, training and travel reimbursement if income-eligible.

For more info on how to become a Foster Grandparent, please call 802-388-7044 or visit volunteersinvt.org

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calendar casserole, scrambled eggs, French toast, bacon and sausage, coffee, juice and milk. Join friends, family and neighbors for a little conversation, a great meal and a way to support the Monkton Volunteer Fire Department.

Maple Run in Middlebury. Sunday, May 5, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., MREMS, 55 Collins Dr. test your endurance at this USATF-certified half marathon and two-person relay, and a 3-mile fun run. Scenic routes with views of the Green Mountains and Adirondacks. 50/50 mix of paved and dirt roads for the half marathon, all paved for 3-mile fun run. Well-organized, great t-shirts, live music on course, post-race pancake breakfast. New for 2019 prize money and age group awards for the fun run.

Baseball Bingo Extravaganza in Middlebury. Sunday, May 5, 11 a.m. until it ends, American Legion Post 27, 49 Wilson Rd. Doors open at 11 a.m. Regular games

advanced notice required, call Michelle at 802-3771419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR Thursday, May 2, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area at 802-388-2287 to inquire. Meeting of the Bridport Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Senior Citizens, Inc. will follow the luncheon at 12:15 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee pm at the Bridport Masonic Hall. hour. Meal served at noon of oven roasted pork with American Red Cross blood drive in Ferrisburgh. apple tidbit sauce, sweet potatoes, vegetable blend, Wednesday, May 8, 1-6 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall, wheat roll and fruited Jell-O. Bring your own place 3279 Route 7. setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced “Time for Ilhan” on screen in Middlebury. Wednesday, notice required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377May 8, 4 and 7 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. 1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse Middlebury Showing Up for Racial Justice hosts this of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at public screening of the award-winning documentary 802-388-2287 to inquire. film, which chronicles U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s historic campaign to become the country’s first Somali Muslim woman legislator. Free and open to the public, although donations are being collected to fund anti racism work in Addison County.

Ladies Aid Industria rummage Book club meeting in Bridport. Wednesday, May sale in Lincoln. Friday, May 3, 8 8, 7 p.m., Bridport Highway Department Conference a.m.-6 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Room, Crown Point Road at Short St. The Bridport Rd. Book Club will gather to Rummage and bake sale in Salisbury. Friday, discuss “Born a Crime,” by MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL —Kid: Clay Wheel & Hand May 3, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Salisbury Church, 853 Trevor Noah. All interested Building, Art Camps: Dragons, Art is Delicious, Art of Israel, readers welcome. More info Maple St. Always lots of great stuff on sale Nature Art, Welcome to the Zoo, 5 Days of Fun, World of Color, call 802-758-2858. to benefit the Salisbury Church. To make a donation call 802-352-4375.

Art is Everywhere. Adult: Mon & Thurs Wheel Classes, Drawing, New Haven Historical Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury. meeting in New Oils, Garden Design, Pastels, Digital Photography, Summer Society Friday, May 3, 11 a.m., VFW, 530 Exchange Haven. Wednesday, May Classes. middleburystudioschool.org Call Barb 247-3702 8, 7-8 p.m., New Haven St. Doors open at 11 a.m. Meal served at noon of marinated BBQ chicken, potato salad, Community Library, 78 North or email: studioschool2377@gmail.com macaroni salad with tuna and peas, baked St. Come hear “Historical beans, dinner roll, and chocolate chip cookand Humorous Tales About ies. $5 suggested donation. Advanced tickets required at 1:00 p.m. Quickies start at 12:15 p.m. Regulars and People/Events in New Haven.” All are welcome.

by Monday, April 29. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. specials, silent auction, pull tab tickets, and concesRefreshments provided.

Bring your own place setting. Open to anyone age 60 sions. All proceeds support the Middlebury Union High and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be School baseball team. provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Guided history walk in Orwell. Sunday, May 5, 1-4 Bike Swap in Middlebury. Friday, May 3, 3-6:30 p.m. p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes.

Cannon Park. Drop off bikes and gear you wish to give Independence Rd. A pre-opening day guided history Thursday, May 9, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area away or sell on consignment at Frog Hollow Bikes walk with Revolutionary War expert Mike Barbieri, Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 up to noon on Friday, May 3. Look for displays from Mount Independence Coalition president Stephen Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee local groups, demo rides, electric bikes and cars and Zeoli, and site administrator Elsa Gilbertson. Go off hour. Meal served at noon of chicken and biscuit, great deals. Proceeds benefit Middlebury Safe Routes. the trails to explore this Revolutionary War site. The mashed cauliflower, diced carrots with dill, and birthMore info contact froghollowbikes@gmail.com. focus will be on the camps and brigade layouts here day cake in memory of Mildred January. Bring your Pizza bake in Ripton. Friday, May 3, 5-6:30 p.m., Ripton in 1776-77. Tickets $5 adults/children under 15 free. own place setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours Elementary School, 753 Ripton Rd. Support the Wear sturdy boots, be prepared for off-trail walking, advanced notice required. Call Michelle to reserve Friends of Ripton School by purchasing handmade and dress for the weather.

802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and wood-fired pizzas cooked to order. Proceeds support Bob Recupero plays in Middlebury. Sunday, May 5, 2 their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. enrichment activities for Ripton Elementary School p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. students. Choices include cheese $12, pepperoni $15, Come hear some wonderful live music. Bob plays a or sausage, mushroom and feta $15. Gluten-free crust wide range of tunes including jazz from the 1930s available. Call 802-388-2208 or email wleeds@acsdvt. and 40s, some standards and some fun sing-a-longs. org before 2 p.m. on Friday, May 3, to place an order.

Maybe a cowboy song or two. Free, open to the public 2019 Mountain bike season kick off in Middlebury. and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388Green Mountain Club walk in Vergennes.

Friday, May 3, 7-9 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main 1220 or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

Friday, May 10, 10:30 a.m., meet at Button St. Help the Addison County Bike Club (ACBC) mainBay State Park by the entrance fee building tain and develop sustainable mountain bike trails in ready to walk. An out-and-back walk on park road to Addison County. Cash Bar, Southwest Cafe, Swag trail to Button Point and on Champlain Trail along the and brief update from the ACBC Board.

Poetry reading in Middlebury. Monday, lake toward Basin Harbor. 45-60 minutes one way.

May 6, 11 a.m.-noon, Community Room, Roots and rocks on trail. Lake and Adirondack views.

EastView at Middlebury, 100 Eastview Ter. Wildflowers. Poison ivy warning signs. May be windy Poet Gary Margolis will read from his newly published or buggy. Bring windbreaker, water, bug dope, snack Green Up Day in Vermont. Saturday, collection. Free and open to the public. and hiking poles if desired. Fee $4 in the slot for those May 4, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Towns across Addison MiddMUG meeting in Middlebury. Monday, May 6, without a park pass. More info contact leader Jill County. Join the 49-year tradition of communi7-8:30 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, Vickers at jvickers@gmavt.net or 802.759.3227. More ties working together, walking the roads and picking 75 Main St. Learn how to make personalized greetactivities at gmcbreadloaf.org. up trash. Call your town’s coordinator for details or ing cards, picture books, photo albums, and calendars American Red Cross blood drive in Bristol. Friday, look for Addison County Information in the Addison using Photos or iPhotos. The rest of the evening will be May 10, noon-5 p.m., American Legion Post 19, 56 Independent. for Q & A. More info at MiddMUG2018@mail.com. All Airport Dr. Ladies Aid Industria rummage sale in Lincoln. levels of skills are welcome.

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Bristol. Friday, May Saturday, May 4, 8 a.m.-noon, Burnham Hall, 52 River 10, 11:30 a.m., Mary’s at Baldwin Creek, Route 116.

Rd. $2 per bag day.

Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Meal served at noon of Rummage and bake sale in Salisbury. Saturday, May mixed green salad with maple vinaigrette, homemade 4, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Salisbury Church, 853 Maple St. roll, salmon burger with lemon aioli, roasted potatoes, Blood pressure and foot care clinic in Always lots of great stuff on sale to benefit the Salisbury fresh vegetables, and chocolate mousse. 72 hours Brandon. Tuesday, May 7, 9 a.m., Brandon Church. Saturday is bag day. To make a donation call advanced notice required. Call Michelle at 802-377Senior Center, 1591 Forest Dale Rd. The cost 802-352-4375.

1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuof the foot clinic is $10. More info at 802-770-1536. No Spring tag sale in Bristol. Saturday, May 4, 9 a.m.-2 ity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse appointment necessary. p.m., First Baptist Church of Bristol, Park St. The of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at church’s annual sale. If rain, it will be inside the church. Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Tuesday, 802-388-2287 to inquire.

May 7, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Youth of the church will be selling baked goods to raise “History of Captain Bligh, the Mutiny on the Bounty Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 money for their mission trip in North Carolina in July and Caribbean Landscapes” in Middlebury. Friday, a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Aaron Retherford from to help with repairs. Other items include toys, books, May 10, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, Homeshare Vermont will be speaking at 11:15 a.m. puzzles, a few clothes, kitchen items and much more.

350 Lodge Rd. Middlebury College professor Mike Meal served at noon of glazed beefsteak with cheddar Something for everyone.

Sheradin will explore the story of Captain William Bligh, cheese, maple baked beans, garden peas, hamburger Ladies’ Union spring sale in New Haven. Saturday, famous for having been a strict captain. He also shaped roll and a clementine. Bring your own place setting.

May 4, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., New Haven Congregational the way that the Caribbean looks today by bringing a $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced notice Church, Town Hill Rd. Sale will include plants, food ‘floating forest’ of Polynesian plants to the Americas. required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. Open table, RADA wear, kitchen items, linens and curtains, Free, open to the public and fully accessible, but space to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. household items, toys, games, attic treasures, furniis limited. Refreshments provided. RSVP to Suzanne Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388ture, decor items, garden items, books, and other Bennett at 802-377-3393 or sbennett@residenceot2287 to inquire. miscellaneous items. No clothing. More info call Carol tercreek.com.

Middlebury Fire Department Ham Supper in East at 802-453-5059.

Beth Duquette and Richard Ruane in Middlebury.

Middlebury. Tuesday, May 7, 5-9 p.m., Waybury Green Up Day in Panton. Saturday, May 4, 9-11 a.m., Friday, May 10, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Bistro, EastView at Inn, 547 E. Main St. Come help raise funds for the Panton Town Hall. Come enjoy coffee, doughnuts and Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Duquette and Ruane Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department at their annual conversation with the Panton selectboard as part of return to the Bistro at EastView to perform with Ham Supper. Tickets $15 adults$5 children 4-10/free Green Up Day. Meet your neighbors and then head polished musicianship and harmonies and a wonderful children 3 and under, available at 7 South Sandwich out to clean up our roads. repertoire of original songs and covers. Free and open Company, Champlain Plumbing and Heating, Cole’s Cat Café in Vergennes. Saturday, May 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., to the public.

Flowers, Goodro Lumber Company, The Waybury Inn Half Round Room, Bixby Memorial Library, 258 Main Artist opening reception in Brandon. Friday, May 10, and from any Middlebury fireman.

St. Join Homeward Bound for their first-ever Cat Café.

5 p.m., Compass Music and Arts Center Exhibition Enjoy refreshments, the company of adoptable shelter Hall, 333 Jones Drive, Park Village. Meet watercolorcats, and the wonderful ambiance of the Bixby. Room ist Amanda Amend and see her work in “Lost Edges.” space, number of guests, and cat needs may limit the Amend wowed judges at the Compass Music and time and number of people allowed in the room.

Arts Center when she was recognized as one of three American Red Cross blood drive in Spring book sale in New Haven. Saturday, May 4, 10 artists to receive awards for their work in the BARN Vergennes. Wednesday, May 8, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., New Haven Community Library, 78 North ART exhibit early last year. On display through June. a.m.-2 p.m., Vergennes Union High School, 50 St. Something for all, including cookbooks, lots of kids Reading and book signing with Richard Hawley in Monkton Rd. books, fiction, and non-fiction. Take what you want, Middlebury. Friday, May 10, 5-6:30 p.m., Vermont give what you can. Note that hours are reduced and Age Well Senior Luncheon in Shoreham. Wednesday, Book Shop, 38 Main St. Hawley will read from and May 8, 11 a.m., Halfway House, Route 22A. Doors sale will be closing earlier than in previous years. More sign” On My Way Out,” an intimate account by the open and meal served at 11 a.m. until all are served. info contact Deborah at 802-453-4015. author of “The Headmaster’s Papers,” the recent “The Menu includes spaghetti and meatballs, garlic toast, MNFC Green Up Day festivities in Middlebury.

Three Lives of Jonathan Force,” the widely reviewed coleslaw or vegetables, and dessert. 72 hours Saturday, May 4, noon-3 p.m., Middlebury Natural “Boys Will Be Men,” and a dozen books of imaginative Foods Coop, 9 Washington St. Enjoy free quesadillas, grab a garden friendly freebie, and meet green-minded organizations.

Sister-to-Sister pizza party in Middlebury. Saturday, May 4, noon-2 p.m., Chellis House, 56 Hillcrest Rd. Middlebury College Sister to Sister invites middle school girls to their free pizza party. Meet outside of Chellis House and then make pizza at the organic garden (also known as The Knoll) or another location on campus in case of rain.

“The Farewell” on screen in Middlebury. Saturday, May 4, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, 356 College St. In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai (grandma), has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai-Nai herself. Free.

Relay for Life chicken and biscuit dinner in Brandon.

Saturday May 4, 5-7 p.m., American Legion Post 55, 550 Franklin St. Meal includes chicken and biscuits, cole slaw, cranberry sauce, pickles, beverage and dessert. 50/50 raffle. Cash bar. Tickets Adults $10/ children 5-10 $6/under 5 free. Proceeds go to the Neshobe School and Friends Relay for Life Team.

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“THE FAREWELL,” A Chinese movie being shown this Saturday, May 4, at 3 and 8 p.m. at Middlebury College’s Dana Auditorium, is a funny story about how a family deals with a beloved matriarch who is given only a few weeks to live. It’s free.

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“Wildlife” on screen in Middlebury. Friday, May 10, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. In the final film of the 2018-2019 MNFF Winter Screening Series.

Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a film set in 1960s small town Montana, where a 14-year-old boy witnesses his parents’ marriage falling apart after his golf pro father loses his job and leaves to fight fires in the Canadian wilderness. Tickets $13.

“How to Sit with You” on stage in Middlebury. Friday, May 10, 7:30 p.m., Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Rd. In this compilation piece featuring selected playwrights, epic women pursue varied forms of self-realization and liberation. An exercise in yearning, solitude, and finally, healing. Tickets $6. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts.

Sophie Shao and Friends in Middlebury. Friday, May 10, 7:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Perennial Middlebury favorite cellist Sophie Shao returns with an exciting new ensemble including violinists Zachary DePue and Arnaud Sussman, violist Matthew Lipman, and Nathan Farrington on double bass. Reserved seating. Tickets $28 Public/$22 Midd ID holders/$10 Youth/$6 Midd students, available at 802-443-3168 or middlebury. edu/arts. Pre-concert lecture by Professor of Music Larry Hamberlin, 6:30 p.m., Room 221.

Ryan McKasson, Jeremiah McLane and Eric McDonald in concert in Bristol. Friday, May 10, 8 p.m., WalkOver Gallery Concert Room, 15 Main St. The final Concert of the WalkOver’s 2019 series.

Come hear these masters of tradition. Their individual artistry on fiddle, accordion, guitar and vocals combine in a complex blend, full of spontaneous musicality.

Tickets $15 in advance/$20 day of. Advance reservations recommended. More info at walkover@mac.com.

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Green Mountain Club hike in Weybridge.

Saturday, May 11, Snake Mountain Trailhead.

Moderate hike from the Weybridge trailhead on Snake Mountain Road to the summit, with hope of wildflowers. Approximately 5 miles, with 1,000-foot elevation gain. More info contact leader Ali Zimmer at quickbeam@gmavt.net or 802-349-2166. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org.

Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Saturday, May 11, 7-9 a.m., Meet Otter View parking area, Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Road. Help Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust survey birds and other wildlife at Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland.

Shorter and longer routes possible. Beginning birders are welcome. Come for all or part of the walk. More info call 802-388-1007 or 802-388-6019.

Spring rummage and food sale in Shoreham. Saturday, May 11, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Come for bargains in clothing and housewares and great food items as well. Bag Sale starts at noon — fill a bag with non-food items for only $5. Clean donations accepted at the church on Thursday, May 9, and Friday, May 10, between 1 and 3 p.m. No sporting goods or electronics. More info contact Jeri at 802-897-8591.

Human powered parade and celebration in Bristol.

Saturday, May 11, 10-2:30 p.m. Bristol Rec Park. This community event launches with a professional high flying BMX show and moves through town on human powered wheels. An after party includes a communitywide fête at the skate park with bands, pickleball, cargo bike test rides and bike races for kids.

Portrait of Abby Victoria Painter presentation in Middlebury. Saturday, May 11, noon, Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 park St. Pieter Broucke, Sheldon trustee and Middlebury College Professor of History of Art and Architecture/Director of the Arts selected this inaugural object for the Sheldon’s “Hidden Treasures” series.

Abby was the daughter of Gamaliel Painter, a key figure in the founding of the town of Middlebury and Middlebury College. Free with museum admission.

More info at henrysheldonmuseum.org.

Roast pork supper in Vergennes. Saturday May 11, 5-6:30 p.m. Vergennes United Methodist Church, Main St. Vergennes, across from the Vergennes Opera House. Menu includes roast pork, mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetable, applesauce, roll, dessert and beverage. Tickets adults $9/children $5. Served buffet style. Take out available. More info contact 802- 877-3150.

King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, May 11, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Community Center, Route 7. The evening begins with a sandwich supper and then on to the games. King Pede is a unique game that involves “trick-taking” techniques such as in Hearts and Spades or Pitch. A game of fun and skill. Come prepared to use your strategic thinking.

Harold Lloyd’s “Safety Last” on screen in Brandon.

Saturday, May 11, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. See Harold Lloyd’s iconic 1923 thrill comedy — the first film in the 2019 Silent Film Series at Brandon Town Hall. The story of “Safety Last” follows young go-getter Lloyd to the big city, where he hopes to make his mark in business and send for his smalltown sweetheart. His career at a downtown department store stalls, however, until he gets a chance to pitch a surefire publicity idea — hire a human fly to climb the building’s exterior. Free. Free will donations accepted. Family-friendly.

Pete Seeger Tribute sing-along concert in Middlebury.

Saturday, May 11, 7 p.m., Middlebury United Methodist Church, 43 N. Pleasant St. Folk singer Pete Seeger was born a century ago, in May, 1919. Come to this sing-along concert and celebrate Seeger’s life and work on behalf of peace, justice and the earth. All proceeds benefit for The Open Door Clinic. The concert will feature musicians who worked closely with Seeger.

More info and tickets at riseupsingingvtconcert.com.

Hilton Park on stage in Brandon. Saturday, May 11, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Come hear Hilton Park’s unique style of Americana/Folk for Mother’s Day. The trio hails from southern Maine and is made up of father Bruce Hilton, youngest son Connor and close musical partner, friend and neighbor Gregg Pannier. Tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. The Revenants perform in Lincoln. Saturday, May 11, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. Come hear The Revenants’ Americana music. Part of the Burnham Music Series. Tickets $10 adults/kids and teens free.

Refreshments served. More info call 802-388-6863.

“How to Sit with You” on stage in Middlebury.

Saturday, May 11, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Rd. In this compilation piece featuring selected playwrights, epic women pursue varied forms of self-realization and liberation. An exercise in yearning, solitude, and finally, healing. Tickets $6. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts.

“Scenes and Songs” in Middlebury. Saturday, May 11, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Vocal students of affiliate artists Carol Christensen and Susanne Peck present a lively sampling of musical theater from opera to Broadway in this popular and fun evening. Accompanied by affiliate artist Cynthia Huard and by Annemieke McLane, piano. Free. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury. edu/arts.

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Vergennes Voyager bike ride in Vergennes. Sunday, May 12, 9:45 a.m., meets at Vergennes Union High School Parking lot, Monkton Rd. Green Mountain Bicycle Club has organized this 26-mile rolling or 39-mile flat to rolling rural ride running along Otter Creek to Middlebury for a bakery stop. The longer ride rolls out by Kingsland Bay State Park before heading south to Middlebury.

More info contact John Bertelsen at 802-864-0101 or jo.bertel@gmail.com, or Karla Ferrelli at 802-864-0101 or karla.ferrelli@gmail.com.

Met Live in HD: “Dialogue Des Carmélites” in Middlebury. Sunday, May 12, 1 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzosoprano Isabel Leonard sings the touching role of Blanche and soprano Karita Mattila, a legend in her own time, returns to the Met as the Prioress.

Pre-performance talk at 12:15 p.m. by Scott Morrison in the Studio downstairs. Tickets $24 adults (+$2 preservation fee)/$10 students (+1 preservation fee).

Cooie DeFrancesco in Middlebury. Sunday, May 12, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Enjoy Cooie’s clear and vibrant vocal stylings as she bring lyrics to life, whether she’s singing traditional tunes, popular songs, or originals. Free, open to the public and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220 or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

Amaryllis performs in Lincoln. Sunday, May 12, 2 p.m., United Church of Lincoln, 23 Quaker St. Come hear Vermont’s early voice ensemble perform “Love ‘N Lust: Madrigals and Tunes from 16th-Century England.’ The 15-voice a capella ensemble will perform madrigals by leading composers in the time of Queen Elizabeth and James the First. Suggested donation $15 at the door.

More info at amaryllisvt.org, Speck@middlebury.edu or 802-453-3513.

New Century | New Voices: “American Mestiza: The Music of Gabriela Lena Frank” in Middlebury.

Sunday, May 12, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Gabriela Lena Frank offers the music of some of her students from her Creative Academy of Music, a new project now in its second year. Free. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury. edu/arts.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in New Haven. Monday, May 13, 11:30 a.m., Porky’s Place, Route. New Haven. *THIS DATE IS SOLD OUT. CALL TO GET THE NEXT OPENING* Doors open at 11:30, meal served at noon of BBQ chicken wrap with mayo, cheddar cheese, lettuce and tomato, Porky’s baked beans, coleslaw, and an oatmeal cookie. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419.

Film and Media Culture Senior Thesis Screening in Middlebury. Monday, May 13, 7 p.m., Dana Auditorium, 356 College St. Come see Middlebury College’s annual spring showcase of senior thesis work produced by film and media culture majors.

Expect a variety of media modes and styles including fiction, nonfiction, experimental, remix, animation, and the videographic essay. Free. More info at 802-4433168 or middlebury.edu/arts.

Amaryllis performs in Middlebury. Monday, May 13, 7:30 p.m., Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on the Middlebury Village green. Come hear Vermont’s early voice ensemble perform “Love ‘N Lust: Madrigals and Tunes from 16th-Century England.’ The 15-voice a capella ensemble will perform madrigals by leading composers in the time of Queen Elizabeth and James the First. Suggested donation $15 at the door. More info at amaryllisvt.org, Speck@middlebury.edu or 802-453-3513.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes.

Tuesday, May 14, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. VASA, Inc. monthly meeting at 11:30 a.m. Meal served at 12 noon of egg salad with grape tomatoes and cabbage on a hamburger roll, 4-bean salad, broccoli salad, gelatin with mandarin oranges. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle at 802-3771419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

American Red Cross Blood Drive in Middlebury.

Tuesday, May 14, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Rd. Senior Thesis screenplay readings in Middlebury.

Tuesday, May 14, 2 p.m., Abernethy Room, Axinn Center, Old Chapel Rd. Join Film and Media Culture students as they read from their senior thesis screenplays. Free. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury. edu/arts.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury.

Wednesday, May 15, 11:15 a.m., Middlebury Rec Center, 154 Creek Rd. Doors open and

program begins at 11:15 a.m. Meal served at noon of roast pork with raisin sauce, mashed sweet potatoes, Scandinavian vegetables, wheat roll and apple crisp.

Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation.

72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided.

Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

“Vermont Move Management and Home Inventory” presentation in Middlebury. Wednesday, May 15, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Join Peter Conlon, a relocation, downsizing and estate specialist when he presents strategies to get started, how to carry through, and where to find the help needed to make downsizing a success. Vermont Move Management specializes in senior moves. Free, open to the public and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220 or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

Galick Site excavation update in Orwell. Wednesday, May 15, 7 p.m., Orwell Free Library, 473 Main St. The South Champlain Historical Ecology Project investigates long-term human-environmental interactions around the southern end of Lake Champlain. Come hear about the results of the past three summers’ excavations.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes.

Thursday, May 16, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for coffee hour. Meal served at noon of BBQ beefsteak, mashed potatoes, peas and pearl onions, hamburger roll, and peaches.

Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation.

72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided.

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Volunteer appreciation cookout in Middlebury. Friday, May 17, noon-2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. The Residence gives thanks for the dedication and generosity for all who volunteer in Addison County.

Outdoor event with live music by Towne Meeting and a delicious free lunch. Volunteers from UVMHN/Porter Medical Center, End of Life Services, RSVP and United Way and others who volunteer in Addison County are welcome. Free, open to the public and fully accessible.

RSVP to Suzanne Bennett by May 8 at 802-388-1220 or sbennett@residenceottercreek.com.

BlueBrass in Middlebury. Friday, May 17, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Bistro, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Margie Bekoff (on a blue electric harp) and Jim Morse (on the brass flugelhorn) return to EastView’s Bistro to perform a repertoire of songs from the Great American Songbook, some pop tunes, some traditional Celtic songs and a few originals. Free and open to the public.

Kelly Boe Memorial Bike Ride in Middlebury. Friday, May 17, meets at 3:30 p.m., Middlebury Union High School, 73 Charles Ave. Join in a slow-paced bike ride in honor of those who have been injured or killed while cycling on public roads. Raise awareness that we all share the road. Those who wish to may ride in silence in memory of those killed. Helmet and waiver of liability signature required. Eight-mile loop through Middlebury and Weybridge, weather permitting. More info contact Laura Asermily at 802-349-4157 or Kathy Boe at 802-388-6711.

LIVEMUSIC The Threatles Middlebury. Friday, May 3, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

MCMC benefit concert in Middlebury. Saturday, May 4, 1-3 p.m., Town Hall Theater.

Gypsy Reel in Brandon. Saturday, May 4, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Ordinary Elephant in Ripton. Saturday, May 4, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

The Good Parts in Bristol. Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m., Hatch 31.

Bob Recupero in Middlebury. Sunday, May 5, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek.

Middlebury College Community Chorus in Middlebury. Sunday, May 5, 3 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

Diana Fanning Piano students’ recital in Middlebury.

Monday, May 6, 7:15-8:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

Jazz Showcase in Middlebury. Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

Sophie Shao and Friends in Middlebury. Friday, May 10, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

Beth Duquette and Richard Ruane in Middlebury.

Friday, May 10, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

Pete Seeger Tribute in Middlebury. Saturday, May 11, 7 p.m., Middlebury United Methodist Church.

Hilton Park in Brandon. Saturday, May 11, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

The Revenants perform in Lincoln. Saturday, May 11, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall.

Ryan McKasson, Jeremiah McLane and Eric McDonald in Bristol. Friday, May 10, 8 p.m., WalkOver Gallery Concert Room.

“Scenes and Songs” in Middlebury. Saturday, May 11, 8 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

Cooie DeFrancesco in Middlebury. Sunday, May 12, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek.

Amaryllis in Lincoln. Sunday, May 12, 2 p.m., United Church of Lincoln.

New Century|New Voices: “American Mestiza: The Music of Gabriela Lena Frank” in Middlebury.

Sunday, May 12, 8 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

Amaryllis in Middlebury. Monday, May 13, 7:30 p.m., Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

BlueBrass in Middlebury. Friday, May 17, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

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BEEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL students, staff and community welcome the arrival of their new “mud kitchen” last month, which was installed in the school’s Outdoor Classroom. The kitchen was a collaboration between teachers, parents, community members and r.k. Miles, which donated the materials.

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Beeman (Continued from Page 1A) In mid-April, thanks to a collaboration among students, parents, community members and a local business, Beeman got its own mud kitchen.

Just in time for mud season.

Shalline, who retired last June after teaching at Beeman for 36 years, returned to the school to witness the delivery.

“I just had to see it,” she said.

“The final piece to this idea we were dreaming about as a staff — it was so exciting.”

COMMUNITY PROJECT “We are the Kindergarten Class at Beeman Elementary School,” Caitlin Christie’s students wrote in letters to the Beeman parent-teacher organization and to local buildingsupply company r.k. Miles last year. “We are hoping to have a mud kitchen for our Outdoor Classroom.

It already has a Beehive for the kids to play on, and we love to make forts.”

Their wish list included wood, a metal sink, buckets, kitchen tools and “a sink sprayer (if possible :-) ).”

Kindergarteners weren’t the only ones reaching out to adults about the project, however.

“My daughter Eleanor had been in Robin’s class and was so moved

by the idea of a mud kitchen that she wanted to accomplish it in her honor,” said Beeman parent Dawn Laprise-Hurlburt, who at the time was employed by r.k. Miles. “And she stayed on me as her mother to make it come to fruition.”

After her employer donated more than $800 worth of materials, Laprise-Hurlburt turned to her partner, Chris Crane.

“We talked to the teachers about the layout of the kitchen and then Chris built it,” Laprise-Hurlburt said.

The result far exceeded Shalline’s original vision.

“I was originally thinking about something built from old pallets,” she said. “They have created an unbelievable masterpiece. It’s better than my kitchen. I was looking at it and thinking, What kind of faucet is this? Where did that sink come from?”

Beeman grades 2/3 teacher Jen Johnson also confessed to a bit of kitchen envy.

“This is literally nicer than my own kitchen,” she said.

The students like it, too.

“The sixth-graders seemed as excited as the third-graders,” Johnson said. “I don’t know if they’ll actually use it as much as the younger kids, but when it was delivered they were

PRINCIPAL TRAVIS PARK (in suit and tie) helps transport a component of Beeman’s new “mud kitchen” on a sunny but cool day last month.

The kitchen, which was built in two parts by community member Chris Crane, has been installed near a stream, so pupils will have easy access to water and, of course, mud.

Photo courtesy of Dawn Laprise-Hurlburt

pushing buttons and turning knobs and testing it out.”

The kitchen’s two sections — sink and stove — are installed near the stream that runs through the school’s Outdoor Classroom, so kids can have easy access to water — and mud.

And the space is adaptable,

Laprise-Hurlburt pointed out.

“This isn’t a one-and-done thing,” she said. “If anyone else has an idea abut how to add on to this project — this is open to that.”

Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent. com.

(Continued from Page 1A) around $34,000 to raise.

Second, they confirmed a longtime UWAC supporter — who wishes to remain anonymous — has pledged to match, dollar for dollar, campaign contributions up to $10,000 made between June 10 and 14. A $20,000 harvest during that match period would go a long way toward covering the remaining $34,000.

“We’re hoping that will create some end-of-year energy and excitement,” Van Vorst said.

The UWAC, in its 50th year, employs a variety of strategies — including soliciting individual donations and inviting businesses to offer payroll deduction plans — to meet an annual fundraising goal set by staff and the United Way Board. That money, minus expenses, is distributed to local nonprofit agencies providing food, shelter, counseling, education and other vital services to low-income residents.

The community has raised and re-invested more than $17 million back into Addison County through the UWAC during its 50 years.

But times have changed for the United Way and other major philanthropic organizations. Folks now have many charitable causes — local, national and international — in which to invest, often through the tap of a keyboard.

That means the UWAC must work harder to shine a light on local needs, and it’s been doing that, now with a new staff headed by Van Vorst. She and her colleagues will spend the next two months reaching out to past donors who haven’t yet made a contribution, as well as prospective new contributors.

United Way officials are also considering new strategies to maximize gifts. The organization recently completed a five-year strategic plan aimed at honing its mission and outreach efforts. New strategies, according to Van Vorst and Barr, will include making more personal appeals to prospective donors and encouraging supporters to suggest United Way giving to their friends and neighbors through word-of-mouth and social media.

Asked where the 2018 campaign lost ground this year, Barr cited the payroll deduction campaign. The UWAC has seen eroding support from folks willing to have a small slice of their salary automatically deducted for United Way charities.

Barr said payroll deduction plans tend to get a better following with large businesses — and there aren’t a lot of those in Addison County outside of Porter Hospital, Middlebury College and Collins Aerospace.

“We’re looking at ways to help smaller businesses support us in the future,” Barr said.

Here are some other things the UWAC will be doing in the coming months:

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• Launching a new UWAC website in July with new content, including more video testimonials from local residents who benefit from the United Way and its partner nonprofits.

“We’re very excited to be talking about what’s working, and the impact we’re having on people’s lives,” Van Vorst said. “We’ve heard that we need to tell (clients’) stories more often.”

• Authoring a regular e-newsletter to bring supporters up to date on the organization’s activities.

• Expanding the “United at Work” program, which works with employees of local businesses when they are in crisis situations. The program helps workers in crisis stabilize their lives so they can resolve problems and keep their jobs.

“We see it as a workforce development and training program, and we’re hearing a great need for that from many of our partners,” Van Vorst said.

• Fortifying the United Way’s substance abuse prevention programs, particularly those targeting youth. The 10-week Heroin Epidemic Learning Program (HELP) has proven very successful in local high schools. Coordinated

by UWAC Regional Prevention Partnership Coordinator Jesse Brooks, the HELP program has served 88 teens this year at Mount Abraham Union High School and the Patricia Hannaford Career Center.

• Making it easier for people to give in many ways, including online and via cell phone.

• Partnering with the Addison County Chamber of Commerce to develop an ‘“emerging leaders of Addison County group” that targets the under-40 demographic.

“We see that as a way to engage them in giving back to their community, learning about the issues that Addison County is facing, while giving them an opportunity to network and have fun and be engaged with both the chamber and the United Way in a more active way,” Van Vorst said.

“I think this will help us reach a younger demographic of donors, volunteers and advocates.”

Anyone wishing to donate to the 2018 UWAC fund drive can do so by logging on to unitedwayaddisoncounty.org, or mail a check to UWAC, P.O. Box 555, Middlebury, Vt., 05753.

In other recent UWAC news, the organization awarded a combined total of $111,301 in “Community Impact Funding” to 14 area nonprofits serving Addison County.

Each year, the UWAC makes threeyear grant commitments in the priority areas of health, education and financial stability. The focus of this year’s funding is on improving health outcomes in Addison County.

This year’s biggest recipients included the Open Door Clinic ($20,000), WomenSafe ($20,000), and John Graham Housing & Services ($12,771), all for healthrelated services.

The UWAC will be thanking the county’s many volunteers at a BBQ on Friday, May 17, from noon to 2 p.m., at the Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury.

Jerrod Rushton will become president of the UWAB board this summer. He’s looking forward to it.

“This is an exciting time for UWAC,” he said. “We have new leadership, a new strategic plan, and an active and passionate board. I am proud to be associated with an organization that values and demonstrates such effective collaboration on all levels. It’s not too late to make a gift to the 2018 Campaign and help us reach our goal — gifts of every size make a huge impact in Addison County.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Addison Independent, Thursday, May 2, 2019 — PAGE 11A

Have fun, play golf and make a difference FERRISBURGH — For over a decade golfers have been setting aside one day every year to play in the Young Life 100 Hole Golf Marathon. Addison County Young Life will host this year’s event at Basin Harbor on Monday, May 20.

Participants can play 100 holes of golf, spend time with friends, maybe tee off with a tennis racket, putt with a pool cue and walk away knowing they have helped make difference in the life of teenagers.

The day starts with a 7 a.m. registration and breakfast on the Pro Shop porch. Each with their own golf cart, golfers are sent out in groups of two to begin ten hours of golf. It’s not for the faint of heart, but there is tremendous satisfaction in being part of this one of a kind golf fundraiser.

There is no fee for participating in the marathon. Golfers agree, however, to raise at least $750 in donations.

Young Life will help golfers’ secure personal and corporate sponsors and will even help first time marathon participants by raising the first $250.

Young Life awards special prizes to top Golf Marathon fundraisers as an incentive for golfers to go above and beyond their fundraising goals.

As with everything Young Life, the 100 Hole Golf Marathon has high adventure, lots of fun, and great food. The golf is a healthy balance of competitive play and creative entertainment.

There are several opportunities for local businesses interested in sponsoring the event. For more information and to register go to addisoncounty.younglife.org.

Dennis (Continued from Page 5A) I get the good blues when I think about you “If I Ever Do See You Again” finds him writing to an old love haunted by “twenty years, a couple of busted phone calls, letters I had no where to send.” Sometimes, he tells her, “I see the little child we never had running to you.”

But this is for the most part an album of happy anticipation. He’s got his eye on a woman, a friend and maybe a lover-to-be, telling her “some day when we’re both alone we’ll get together … find out if our dreams are all they seem.”

Runner-up: “The Evening Call” because “I had my fun, my fun had me.”

8. Judy Collins, “Living” — I’d want to take more than just one woman’s voice with me to that island, and there’s hardly a finer one than Collins’s. This live 1971

album captures the wondrous intensity of her concerts.

She’s giving voice here to some of the best work by Leonard Cohen (“Famous Blue Raincoat”), Ian Tyson (“Four Strong Winds”), and Joni Mitchell (“Chelsea Morning”).

For the closer here she delivers a stirring, bluesy, torch-singer version of Bob Dylan’s epic “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues.”

Two of the best cuts were penned by Collins herself: “Song for Judith” (“Open the door and come on in, I’m so glad to see you my friend”) and “Easy Times,” a yearning-for-you plea that was co-written with her then-boyfriend, the actor Stacy Keach.

So this album, too, is drenched in lost love. What better company for a desert island?

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Tobacco cessation classes begins May 22 in Brandon BRANDON — Porter Hospital and Vermont Blueprint for Health are sponsoring a free workshop starting this month for people who want to quit smoking. The free workshop begins on Wednesday, May 22, from 5-6 p.m., at UVM Health Network Primary Care Brandon office at 61 Court Drive.

It is designed with the knowledge that reducing or quitting tobacco can be tough, and often is more successful with help. The workshop will give support and help those who wish to quit set a plan to succeed. It continues at the same time and location for three more Wednesday’s following May 22.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy will be available at no cost to those who participate.

For more information or to register, contact Courtney Thorn, Porter Hospital Community Health Team, at 802388-8860 or cthorn@portermedical. org.

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) Now, It doesn’t feel like I’m free does it?

With these threats constantly at my back.

All of our backs.

So one day, To mourn the loss of life, To a gun But a gun Commanded by a person.

And this is why

Safe But who die Every Single Damn Day By guns Commanded by people.

But bills like H.159 will keep us and so many others Safe.

Guns, Do not follow brains, Or hearts They only obey Releasing endless death

We need laws that will keep people safe.

Guns, Can be safe If used With precautions With training For hunting And sports.

People, Follow brains, And hearts To release death Because people Are the ones Who can be commanded by laws.

Laws that keep them safe.

Laws that keep us safe.

Laws that keep me And my little brother And my moms And my friends And cousins And teachers And acquaintances And fellow human beingsWho I don’t even knowBut who I don’t want to be lost-

Guns, Bought by people without universal background checks Without 72 hour waiting periods With bump stocks With semi-automatic capacity And with the use of high capacity magazines Of 20 rounds Or more Are not safe.

These Guns Hurt people, Kill people, And tear families apart.

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ANWSD term of the contract — we are only (Continued from Page 1A) Superintendent Sheila Soule last allowed by the state to have a oneweek announced that contract year contract,” Rakowski said. negotiations had come to an impasse, She added that the board isn’t and a mediator would be called in. necessarily opposed to a multi-year On Wednesday, Soule said the contract, because repeated one-year district and the teachers group had contracts are costly and exhausting to secured veteran mediator Ira Lobel negotiate. for this negotiation.

“We’ve asked our legislators to Lobel has more than 30 years allow more than a one-year contract,” experience as a federal mediator and Rakowski said. has helped resolve hundreds of labor PAY COMPARISONS disputes in eastern New York, western Rakowski also addressed concerns Massachusetts and Vermont. He that ANWSD schools offered the worked to settle a contract impasse in lowest pay in the county. She said the the Addison Central School District comparisons are always difficult to in 2017. In that case, the contract make given the way that pay increases was hammered out in one are figured differently in “I am sure all meeting. different districts.

Soule said the date parties agree A recent comparison for the ANWSD board that the sooner of teacher pay in the and ANTA to meet with we can reach Addison Northwest, Lobel was being worked Addison Central, Mount agreement the Abraham and Rutland out.

“I am sure all parties better.”

Northeast school districts agree that the sooner we — Superintendent shows that the average Sheila Soule salary can reach agreement the across those better,” she said. districts was $59,196, SALARY IS THE ISSUE Rakowski said. She said that 27 ANWSD Board Chairwoman Sue ANWDS teachers were below that Rakowski, who is on the negotiating average and 93 were above. committee, this week said there is “It just depends on how the (pay) one central issue that needs to be schedules are developed,” she said. resolved.

Rakowski said that the overall “Basically, it is salary,” she told the atmosphere at ANDWSD schools Independent.

— Vergennes Union elementary Members of the ANWSD board’s and high schools, and Addison and negotiating committee took issue Ferrisburgh central schools — is with comments by a teachers union good. After investing in some representative and reporting in last building repairs and upgrades, plus Thursday’s Independent. buying into solar panels, the district First, they said that the comparison has been saving “a lot of money in of the board’s salary increase offer terms of electricity and fuel.” Plus, compared to the increase the teachers she said security at all the schools has sought lacked information explaining improved. the differences. They also said the Also, Rakowski said the schools board was not “reluctant” to create are lucky to have Soule, who started a “safe work environment,” as the as superintendent last summer. story reported, but that the offer on “I feel like things are going well the table ran contrary to the Family for all the schools,” she said.

Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Going forward, ANWSD schools Third, Rakowski countered a have smaller groups of children comment by ANTA President Susan coming through the system. The Oliveira that her union had offered board and schools are dealing with to have a multi-year contract by lower student numbers in pretty much pointing out that the state would not the same ways that other Vermont allow the schools and teachers to districts are dealing with the trend, create a contract that runs beyond Rakowski said.

September 2020. That’s because the “The board has collected state is trying to set up statewide community thoughts on how to solve health insurance for teachers and these issues,” she said. “We hope wants it all to start at the same time. to gather more community input in “There’s no question about the early fall.”

ST. STEPHEN’S VOLUNTEER Steve Snider shows off two silver urns that were to be auctioned off on Saturday.

LARRY YARBROUGH, a professor of Religion at Middlebury College, is one of four Episcopal ministers who are taking turns preaching at St. Stephen’s until a permanent replacement is found for the rector who retired.

LIZ CLEVELAND DISPLAYS a box of mineral stones from Russia that surely brought a pretty price.

A VISITOR AT the VFW Hall waits patiently ready to raise up his numbered paddle when he sees and item he wants to bid on.

MOST OF THE bidder’s paddles were in use during Saturday’s auction at the VFW Hall.

St. Stephen’s auction was successful

By STEVE JAMES MIDDLEBURY — On Saturday at the VFW Hall on Exchange Street, Middlebury folk bid on the future of one of the town’s almost two-century-old landmarks, helping raise over $15,000 at auction for preservation of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

“We had been planning this auction for two years and I had estimated it would be a success if we made $15,000,” said St. Stephen’s Junior Warden Tom Klemmer. “We made 15,020!”

The auction, conducted under

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the hammer of auctioneer Tom Broughton, included art works and collectibles, but the piece de resistance was a 2008 Mazda 3 car, donated by an anonymous church member, which fetched $3,300.

Klemmer explained that the proceeds of the sale will go towards

preservation, not restoration, of the Main Street church, which was build it 1826.

“Some repair needs to be addressed,” he said. “The most pressing is in the bell tower where some wood is rotting.”

But, he added, the recent

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(Continued from Page 1A) of use to the PCC, which ended up putting the vehicle on the market.

“I had been trying to find the money to purchase it, when someone else scooped it up,” Mitchell recalled.

“The owner didn’t know I was interested in it and randomly wrote me for food truck advice because of Foodaroo. I shared the research I’d done while contemplating the bus, and asked her to please ask me first if she ever decided to sell it, and about a year later, she did.”

Presented by Middlebury UndergrounD (MUD), Foodaroo draws some of the state’s most talented chefs and beverage makers.

Food trucks and locally sourced cuisine are a big part of Foodaroo, as are musicians, street performers, cooking competitions, dancers and other forms of entertainment.

Lisa and spouse Andy Mitchell have been driving forces behind both MUD and Foodaroo. Evolution Kitchen will officially get rolling at the Fifth Annual Foodaroo on Sunday, June 23, at the Marble Works shopping complex in Middlebury.

ARTIST MICHAEL KIN takes a break while painting an old bus that is being refurbished to be used as a food FOODAROO DEBUT That Sunday is when Arcadian bus that chefs can rent out and sell their dishes on the street.

Independent photo/Steve James Restaurant and Haymaker Bun Co. “We’re starting with our own Body painstakingly stripped and which will soon face construction will use it to parade their popular products. Arcadian co-owner and networks, reaching out to folks who primed it, Mitchell noted, and disruption related to a major rail executive Chef Matt Corrente has are chefs we’ve either worked with Aqua ViTea artist Michael Kin is bridges project.

“I think it’s really exciting and I looked over the bus to see how through Foodaroo or other things,” completing a vibrant mural on the love the idea,” Duguay said. “I think he’ll design a menu based on its Mitchell said. “We will work to exterior of the vehicle.

Silver Maple Construction is anything we can do to generate a equipment, which includes a fryer, curate what the offerings are, and a flat-top grill, two burners, a our goal is for the bus to offer food sponsoring and adding a new grill sense of excitement and maybe even refrigerator, sink and countertop. A that’s not available in Middlebury and other creative features, while some urgency is good. If a food Dennis Newton is working on truck is downtown for a short period small, portable pizza oven will also right now.”

Mitchell would the electrical system. Joe Schine of time, I think that generates that be part of the mix, prefer that applicants performed interior sanding and kind of urgency — ‘let me get down according to Mitchell.

“We named have past experience painting, while Jesse Gillette from there, I have to check this out.’”

“We named it with food service and Vermont Integrated Architecture did Special and unusual events will Evolution Kitchen it Evolution “pop-up” cooking interior welding. be key in helping the downtown because it focuses on an Kitchen because events.

“Our health inspection is on May remain resilient during the next evolving series of chefs it focuses on an That said, Mitchell 15, and we can’t wait to get the bus three years of periodic rail bridges and (food) concepts, evolving series of won’t overlook rolling,” she added. work, according to Duguay. so that’s kind of the chefs and (food) applications from Kin is now painting the bus mural “Anything we can do right now ‘umbrella’ name,” said concepts, so folks who aren’t in a garage on Route 7 in New that encourages people to come Mitchell, who co-owns that’s kind of the currently in the food Haven. into the downtown and hopefully the bus with Andy.

Mitchell has yet to work out rental stay and check out the stores … is The bus will include ‘umbrella’ name.” service industry. A person fees for the vehicle, but promised fantastic,” she said. “I love that so a shingle on which the — co-owner responsible rotating cast of chefs Lisa Mitchell with a solid idea can they’ll be reasonable. She said its many other organizations are doing make the cut. The bus availability will range from single those things to complement what’s can place their own will also be available to cater private events to approximately one week. already happening. I think all of us business names.

“We want to make it very working together is a really great Following Foodaroo, Evolution parties.

“We just want to make sure affordable, so people will actually way to support Middlebury during Kitchen will be ready to hit the road. Organizers are organizing a (ventures) are high quality and good use it,” she said. “We really want it this period, and well beyond.”

Reporter John Flowers is at Facebook page, Instagram handle service, so people associate that with to serve the community.”

Mitchell, of Cuban heritage, will johnf@addisonindependent.com. and other social media opportunities the truck,” Mitchell added. be among the food bus users. for consumers to track the bus after GETTING ON THE BUS While the Mitchells don’t want “I would love to do some Latin it’s put into service.

Mitchell has also spoken with to broadcast their total investment American and Cuban cuisine,” she Evolution Kitchen, they said.

Town Hall Theater officials about in No special permit is needed to parking the bus in their adjacent acknowledged it will total less than alley and creating a food court with a quarter of what it would cost to drive the food bus. Due in part to the tables there. The bus will travel to buy a new food van, which can run bus’s age, Mitchell wants Kitchen other nearby destinations in Addison $50,000-$100,000. She gave major Evolution to stick around Addison County, too, like Tandem in Bristol, props to a variety of local businesses County. and artisans that have agreed to fix “I want it to have the longest life it he said.

Pitches are coming in from chefs and improve the bus for free, or at possibly can,” she said.

Better Middlebury Partnership interested in taking the bus for reduced cost.

“It’s taken a village to bring the Executive Director Karen Duguay a culinary spin. Inquiries about praised the Mitchells for their food Evolution Kitchen should be emailed bus back to life,” Mitchell said.

Mike’s Auto made small repairs bus concept and believes it will make to Mitchell at lisa@evolutionkitchen. and inspected it. Cornwall Auto a good addition to the downtown, org.

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Join Homeward Bound for their first-ever “Cat Café” at the Bixby Library in Vergennes on Saturday, May 4. The event will take place from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Half Round Room. Enjoy refreshments, the company of adoptable shelter cats, and the wonderful ambiance of the Bixby.

Drivers passing through Middlebury this Sunday, May 5, should take note of a few brief road closures during the annual Middlebury Maple Run. The race starts at 9 a.m. from the parking lot behind Porter Hospital, and there will be two short-term road closures to make the race safe for the roughly 500 participants. If you’re driving in the area on that day, please comply with the officers, flaggers, and volunteers who will be controlling several intersections along the route.

Temporary road closures are: South Street, from Porter Hospital to downtown, will be closed 8:55-9:15 a.m. Then South Street and South Street Extension, from Porter Field Road to the intersection of Morse Road, will be closed 9:45-11:30 a.m. Residents, employees, hospital visitors and emergency vehicles will be permitted to pass. Race and town officials offer thanks for your support.

The Town Hall Theater will hold “A Toast to the Arts” on Thursday, May 9, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. It’s a special fundraising celebration during which you can meet some of the best visual artists from our area and have an exclusive opportunity to purchase their works for the benefit of Town Hall Theater. More than two dozen carefully selected paintings, pastels, ceramics, wood and glass sculptures, tapestries, wearable art, basketry, and photography works will be for sale.

There will also be a raffle drawing for a custom handcrafted gold and jeweled ring from Raintree in Vergennes. The

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The idea of running a series of “pop-up” events to keep Middlebury’s Main Street active is keeping its momentum. “Bundle,” the new pop-up event space at 60 Main St., will be host to a curated secondhand clothing and makers market this Sunday, May 5, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Ten vendors are scheduled to showcase gifts of various sorts, as well as secondhand spring and summer clothing.

Vendors include The Waypost, Round Robin, The Good Witch, Buy Again Alley, Breathing In Wellness, Rebecca Freedner Art and Henna, Root Studio, Just Bead Different, Wild Forest Herbals and more.

Volunteers have done a great job sprucing up the Starksboro Village Meetinghouse, and there’s another upcoming opportunity to help. On Saturday, May 11, a crew will be needed to make final touch-ups and paint the walls. Please come and help prepare the interior of the community building for the next 50 years of its life. Work will start at 9 a.m. and conclude around 1 p.m. Those not excited about painting can work in the flower beds in front of the building.

When painting wraps up, helpers will enjoy a celebratory lunch with grilled burgers, dogs, and beverages provided by the meetinghouse board. Feel free to bring a pot luck item for the grilling.

It’s been chilly lately, but here’s a sign of spring: Middlebury College’s Ralph Myhre Golf Course opened for business on Wednesday — at least for those willing to walk the course and not ride golf carts.

Officials said the course remains too wet to accommodate carts, and the driving range is also closed for the time being. They’re also asking golfers to cooperate in keeping the course in good condition by avoiding wet spots, filling and replacing all divots, and repairing ball marks.

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Mexico (Continued from Page 1A) culture, their language and what their thoughts are about the health care they receive. But I think to really be able to understand fully the whole context from which they come, it was important for me to see them not only here… but for me to go to them.”

She said she wanted to get a clear sense of what was causing their migration and see, first-hand, the life they were leaving behind. She wanted to better understand the sacrifices they’ve made.

“I had a lot of questions,” Doucet said. “I felt like what I was seeing here was a very important piece of the puzzle, but it wasn’t the whole perspective.”

So she gave former migrant workers a heads-up she’d be in their area — a region of southern Mexico near the Guatemalan border that includes Chiapas, Comitan and

Las Margueritas. These are some of the major sending areas for migrant workers, according to Doucet.

“I thought I was going to get to these places and there would be no men there because they were all in (Addison County),” she joked.

It was indeed an enlightening experience, and one she was well equipped to handle.

Doucet has always had an interest in Spanish, a language she studied throughout her school years and put into practice during occasional trips to Mexico. While she’s not fluent, she’s proficient enough to field phone calls at the ODC from migrant workers with health care questions, and she can converse with ease.

Due to HIPAA and requests for confidentiality, pseudonyms are being used for the former migrant workers that Doucet references in this story.

The first person with whom

MANUEL, A FORMER Addison County migrant farm worker, is pictured here with his wife, Flora, and their daughter, Sophia. The family has been able to build a house and invest in other basic necessities in Mexico thanks to Manuel’s earnings from his six years working in Vermont.

Photo courtesy of Julia Doucet

Doucet renewed acquaintance was Ricardo Jimenez Garcia, who had worked on an Addison County farm for five years. He returned to Mexico last fall.

“When (Garcia) left, he brought us some beautiful orchids to say goodbye and thank you,” Doucet recalled. “We had helped him with some health situations and he was very grateful.”

Garcia had spent five years working on a county dairy farm, regularly sending money back to his family to help support them while setting aside enough to realize a dream of his own: To build a modest home, a restaurant and a garden to grow corn, chilies, beans, tomatoes and other vegetables.

It’s now a dream come true. Garcia and his wife proudly took Doucet on a tour of their new assets. They are now self-sufficient, having a place to stay, work and raise food.

Doucet spoke with him about his trials, tribulations and ultimate success.

“It was a painful but rewarding time,” the man told Doucet.

“He gained a lot and he sacrificed a lot,” Doucet added. “He had an experience he would have never had otherwise.”

Garcia is a religious man who believes his faith carried him through.

“He’s very grateful for all the opportunities,” Doucet said, “both to come here to provide for his family, and to go home.”

CROSSING PATHS In Comitan, she got to meet “Rosa,” the girlfriend of one of the three brothers referenced above who are still working on an Addison County farm. She spent a whole day with Rosa and her family, a day that included swimming and a picnic.

“They opened up their homes and lives to us,” Doucet said. “They wanted us to know where they came from.”

While at the local market one day with Rosa, Doucet heard a man shout her name.

“I look around and see Pepe, who had been here around four years ago,” Doucet said.

The serendipitous encounter allowed Doucet to catch up with Pepe and his wife, who now have a child. And a home and truck, thanks to Pepe’s earnings.

“That’s what the goals are — to

set up the family or parents, or build yourself a house so when you get back you can get a wife,” Doucet said. “Really, it’s the basic needs — a nice house with running water with a nice roof and a real floor, and a vehicle.”

She also crossed paths with Manuel, a migrant worker who recently returned to Mexico three years ago after having worked six years on an Addison County dairy farm.

Manuel and his wife now have a young daughter and a 14-year-old son. Manuel is working part-time as a hospital guard. He experienced a few health issues while here that hindered his ability to work, Doucet explained.

But he was nonetheless able to salt away money for essentials.

“He built a house, and he has a refrigerator,” she said.

When Doucet asked Manuel what he missed about Vermont, he jokingly replied, “The muscle aches.” But he added “There are many things I miss, like the friendships that I left behind. And the work. I don’t have regular work here like I did there.”

Doucet equated the migrant farm worker experience to that of firstgeneration immigrants who discover new opportunities in the U.S., but still feel the cultural and familial tug of their respective homelands.

That pull lessens the longer they’ve been here, though most remain committed to putting in a three- to five-year stint before heading south again.

“When you’ve been here for eight years, you’ve become accustomed to life here,” Doucet explained. “This is what you know, yet you have this whole other life in Mexico.

“The longer you live here (Vermont), this is the life you know.”

MUCH GAINED, MUCH LOST Doucet returned to Addison County laden with treats from relatives wanting to give their loved ones a taste of home. Those treats included ground, milled coffee and “Nanches” — fruits pickled in alcohol.

Diego (one of the three brothers cited above), was grateful for the gifts from home.

“When I received the coffee from my family, my first thought was to think about them and miss them,” he said. “It has been such a while since I’ve seen them. It made me feel good

JULIA DOUCET, A registered nurse and outreach worker at the Open Door Clinic in Middlebury, recently traveled to Mexico to reconnect with former migrant workers whom she assisted, and their families. She is pictured here with a former ODC client, Pépé. His real name, and those of other past and current migrant workers referenced here, are not being used due to HIPAA and privacy requests.

Photo courtesy of Julia Doucet

to know that they, too, were worried about me and their sons who are here.”

He explained why he and others take the risk to come to Addison County farms.

“It is worth it to come here because there are no jobs, no opportunities there (in Chiapas),” Diego said.

It was a transformative trip for Doucet, and she brought back experiences that should benefit other Addison County health care providers.

“I think it will help… providers in Addison County understand the patients they’re seeing in a more humanistic way,” Doucet said.

“They’re not just seeing them as “migrants,’ or ‘Mexicans,’ or ‘people who don’t speak English,’ but understand them more fully like their Vermont patients… “ Doucet won’t soon forget her experiences.

“I think the trip touched me more deeply than I thought it would,” Doucet said. “I thought it would be educational, that it would help me understand the patients better.

I was excited to see what they’ve accomplished. But it really helped me understand the sacrifices, what these guys here have lost.”

Those losses range from the complex — contact with family, friends and Mexican culture — to the more rudimentary: food.

“It’s such a healthy, holistic life in terms of food,” she explained. “Here, they’re eating frozen toquitos and drinking gallons of soda because they don’t have the time to cook. They’ve sacrificed their health, most guys who are here. The longer they’re here, the greater their risk of diabetes and obesity and hypertension. So being able to experience what their life had been like made me realize how much they have lost coming here.

“That’s not to say they don’t live somewhat fulfilling lives here, but it puts an understanding on what it’s like to lose your family and your culture and your lifestyle — and the weather,” she added. “The weather is so different.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

B Section

THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2019

MATT DICKERSON

Of cliff swallows and javelinas It was hard to keep my eyes on the road as our car roller-coastered through the Texas Hill Country. Thanks to the winter rainy season, wildflowers in myriad hues of blue, yellow, white and red blanketed the ground. Though we had missed the season for the state’s famous bluebonnets, the Indian blankets were in full bloom. Also known as “firewheel,” their deep red petals tipped in yellow were accented by an occasional stem of blue sage popping up in their midst.

The fields of wildflowers were not all that drew my gaze when I could risk a glance away from the winding pavement.

I also kept an eye out past the high fences that lined the roadside, looking for wildlife grazing in the sparse grasses or resting in the shade of the short, gnarled cedars and squat oaks that dotted the dry, rocky landscape of this Hill Country.

Ranches that owned and maintained those miles of fences seemed to spread out forever. Some must have been the size of an entire Vermont town. Indeed, a few might have been as big as a Vermont county. They were so large they had multiple gated entrances. We drove past one sign bearing the name of the ranch above the words, “Gate 6.” Gates 5 and 7 were nowhere in sight. Miles away, I assumed. Between them, the high fences kept unwanted visitors from getting into the ranches, and equally importantly kept the large mammals from roaming out (at least some of the time).

Though we did pass a few cattle in one relatively treeless stretch of land, for the most part the “large mammals” contained within those fences were exotics: non-native wildlife that had been brought to Texas to entertain wealthy hunters. We spotted a small group of zebras wandering among a stand of cedars on the north side of the road. Further along, another ranch (or perhaps just another section of the same ranch) had African antelope with long pronghorns. Axis deer from southern India were popular also, along with various types of exotic sheep and goats.

(See Dickerson, Page 3B)

ScoreBOARD

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse 4/29 MUHS vs. Rice...............................10-5 4/29 VUHS vs. Stowe.............................10-3 4/30 VUHS vs. Stowe...............................5-2 5/1 Burlington at MUHS..........................Late Boys’ Lacrosse 4/29 Mt. Abe vs. U-32...............................5-3 4/30 MUHS vs. Rice.............................11-10 5/1 Milton at Mt. Abe...............................Late Baseball 4/29 Missisquoi vs. Mt. Abe...................... 4-2 4/29 OV vs. Mt. Anthony...........................6-2 4/30 Mt. Abe vs. Fairfax...................... 3-1 (9) 4/30 VUHS vs. Missisquoi........................9-4 4/30 MUHS vs. Fair Haven.......................3-2 5/1 Windsor at OV..................................Late Softball 4/29 Missisquoi vs. Mt. Abe.................... 14-4 4/29 OV vs. Fair Haven..........................22-9 4/29 Randolph vs. VUHS........................12-9 4/30 Missisquoi vs. VUHS......................18-3 4/30 Mt. Anthony vs. MUHS.....................9-7 4/30 Fairfax vs. Mt. Abe............................9-8 5/1 Windsor at OV..................................Late COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse NESCAC Quarterfinal 4/27 No. 7 Midd. vs. No. 2 Wesleyan.....11-7 Women’s Lacrosse NESCAC Quarterfinal 4/27 No. 1 Midd. vs. No. 8 Bates............15-2 Softball 4/27 Amherst vs. Midd..............................4-1 4/27 Amherst vs. Midd............................12-4 4/28 Amherst vs. Midd..............................7-0

(See Scoreboard, Page 3B)

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Commodore girls’ lax on a roll, tops Stowe twice

High school teams win on diamond

ADDISON COUNTY — In high school baseball action earlier this week Mount Abraham won twice, while Otter Valley, Middlebury and Vergennes each picked up road victories.

EAGLES On Monday the Eagles edged visiting Missisquoi, 4-2, scoring twice in the sixth to snap a 2-2 tie. Ryan Whitcomb tossed a complete-game five-hitter to earn the win, allowing two walks while fanning five. Eben Clifford, Wyatt Thompson, Jackson Gepfert and (See Baseball, Page 3B)

VUHS-Mt. Abe squad pushes record to 6-0

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — Two years ago the Vergennes-Mount Abraham cooperative girls’ lacrosse team won one game in its first season at the varsity level.

In 2018 the Commodores took a step forward, winning four times.

In 2019 the Commodores are 6-0 after back-to-back wins over Stowe, 10-3 on Monday at home and 5-2 on Tuesday on the road.

So, what’s going on here, Coach Marikate Kelley?

To start with Kelley said there have been back-to-back groups of talented athletes joining the program who enjoyed success “We have at the middle school level — this year’s quite a freshmen were few kids league champions who can in 2018. They’re coming in with really skills. play “We have quite right a few kids who can hand really play right and left hand and left hand,” hand.”

Kelley said.

Senior captain — Coach Cook, a Marikate Jalen who Kelley midfielder is one of only six upperclassmen on the team, said the level of talent means more competition at practices and allows more emphasis on tactics rather than fundamentals.

“We can do more strategy instead of focusing on just skills,” Cook said.

And, Kelley added, the team simply has good athletes, and many of them — including Cook, junior Leah Croke, sophomores Hannah Kelly and Savannah Scrodin, and freshmen Molly Laurent, Txuxa Konczal-Doherty and Grace Harvey — have played on successful Eagle field hockey or Commodore and Eagle field hockey, basketball and soccer teams.

“We have a core of kids who … are big contributors in a couple different sports. We have kids who are quick, and kids who are fast,” Kelley said.

Tactics, skill and speed were all in (See Lacrosse, Page 2B)

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Girls’ tennis trims Mount Mansfield COMMODORE FRESHMAN TXUXA Doherty-Konczal wards off a Stowe defender as she carries the ball upfield in the first half of the Monday’s contest in Vergennes. The Commodore girls’ one that game and a rematch the next day in Stowe, and now have a perfect 6-0 record.

Independent photo/Steve James

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School girls’ tennis team defeated visiting Mount Mansfield on Tuesday, 5-2, to improve to 2-0, a win total that already eclipses that of a year ago.

Winning for the Tigers in singles in straight sets were Elizabeth Bright at No. 1, Julia Bartlett at No. 2, Abby Bailey at No. 3 and Gabi Marin at No. 4. Bridget Graham was defeated at No. 5 for MUHS. The Tiger doubles teams split two matches, both decided by tiebreakers. At No. 1 Lois Alberts and Emma Franklin came up short, and at No. 2 Ellie Kiel and Isadora Luksch prevailed.

Boys’ tennis tops host Cougars, 5-2

MIDFIELDER GRACE HARVEY keeps the ball from a Stowe player in the second half of Monday’s Commodore win in the Little City.

Independent photo/Steve James

JERICHO — The Middlebury Union High School boys’ tennis team on Tuesday defeated host Mount Mansfield, 5-2, to improve to 2-1.

Winning straight-set singles matches for the Tigers were Spencer Doran at No. 2, Hunter Munteanu at No. 3, and Joseph Findlay at No. 5.

No. 1 Jesse Rubin and No. 4 Drew Kiernan came up short.

In doubles the Tiger No. 1 team of Andy Giorgio and Abel Anderson won in straight sets without surrendering a game, and the No. 2 team of Oliver Poduschnick and Aiden Cole prevailed in a tiebreaker.

Panther men’s track team wins NESCAC Women take second in home meet MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men’s track and field team on Saturday earned its second straight NESCAC title — and the second in program history — by scoring 201 points to easily outdistance second-place Tufts.

The Middlebury women posted 145.5 points, second only to Williams (165) and well ahead of third-place Bowdoin (109).

The Middlebury men claimed nine event wins in competition at Dragone Field in Middlebury on a cold, wet and windy day. Nicholas Hendrix earned part of three titles, claiming both the 100-meter (10.60) and the 200 meters (21.71) dashes and also running on the winning 4x100-meter relay team

along with Noah Wagner-Carlberg, Arden Coleman and Conrado Banky. That quartet won by a tenth of a second with a time of 42.76.

The Panthers swept the top-three spots in the 400 meters. Jimmy Martinez won with a time of 50.06, followed by Joshua Howard (50.89) and William Robertson (51.02).

Also on the track Theodore Henderson won the 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:23.70), and the 4x400-meter relay team of Coleman, Robertson, Howard and Martinez won in 3:23.35.

Panther men claimed three field events titles. Minhaj Rahman won the hammer throw with a toss of 188 feet-1 inch, while Nathaniel

FORMER MOUNT ABE standout Lydia Pitts, now a freshman at Bowdoin, bounds through a triple jump at the NESCAC Track and Field Championship Meet at Middlebury College this past Saturday. Pitts earned second place by going more than 36 and a half feet.

Photo courtesy of Kirsten Pitts

Klein finished third (153-10). John Natalone won the pole vault (15-11), and Zack Sieb claimed the discus

(139-10) with Rahman in third (1348).

(See Track, Page 3B)

SENIOR JOSH HOWARD keeps 10 meters in front of a Bowdoin competitor as they cruise through the 4X400M relay Saturday. The Panthers won the race and the NESCAC Championship title.

Middlebury Campus photo /Benjy Renton

PAGE 2B — Addison Independent, Thursday, May 2, 2019

Tiger, Mount Abe-VUHS lacrosse teams post wins ADDISON COUNTY — The Middlebury Union High School girls’ and boys’ lacrosse teams each picked up victories earlier this week, as did the Mount Abraham-Vergennes collective boys’ squad.

TIGER GIRLS On Monday the Tiger girls doubled up host Rice, 10-5, as goalie Lydia Deppman stopped nine shots and Ada Anderson found the net three times.

Grace Tucker added a pair of goals for the Tigers, Malia Hodges chipped in a goal and two assists, and Lacey Greenamyre added a goal and an assist. The Tigers improved to 2-4 with their second straight win and were set to host Burlington on Wednesday.

EAGLE BOYS The Eagle boys gritted out a 5-3 victory over visiting U-32 on Monday

as goalie Grady Brokaw made 11 saves and Ryan Rougier and Neo Weaver each scored twice. Liam Oxford added the final goal, and Griffin Paradee, Carmelo Miceli and Quincy Cook chipped in with assists as the Eagles improved to 2-1 heading into a Wednesday home game vs. Milton.

TIGER BOYS The Tiger boys held off a rally by host Rice to win, 11-10, on Tuesday.

Bode Rubright poured in six goals to spark MUHS, and Kolby Farnsworth added three goals and Ben Crawford scored twice to account for the Tiger offense.

Rice goalie Cale Layman made 14 saves, and MUHS goalie Jack Rizzo stopped 12 shots as the Tigers evened their record at 3-3.

OV softball wins; Eagles, Tigers, Commodores fall STOWE GOALIE ANNIKA Wagner saves a shot from Commodore Hannah Kelly in the second half of Monday’s game in Vergennes. Wagner stopped six shots in Monday’s 10-3 Commodore victory, but made 19 saves in Tuesday’s losing effort.

Independent photo/Steve James

Lacrosse (Continued from Page 1B) evidence early in Monday’s win, in which the Commodores scored four times in the first 7:14.

Freshman attacker Ryley Olsen started the scoring after the Commodores patiently worked the ball for more than two minutes. She spotted an opening and cut in from the right side and finished low at 22:36.

At 21:41 Harvey dodged in from the top and finished with her left hand, and at 20:13 sophomore attacker Marley Keith cut through the fan and converted a feed from Kelly. At 17:46 junior attacker Siobhan Eagan found the right side to make it 4-0.

At 14:36 Stowe converted its first shot on goal, with Mackie Eagan spinning to find the left side past Commodore goalie Ashley Tierney.

The Commodores answered less than a minute later, when sophomore attacker Sophie Davis and buried a feed from Keith.

Stowe began to tighten up on defense, but the Commodores still added two more goals before the half, Olsen from Keith and a transition strike from Harvey set up by Olsen.

After the Commodores won seven of nine draws in the first half, Stowe won three of six in the second and also continued to be more aggressive on defense. Keith scored and set up a Cook goal for VUHS, and Cook assisted Olsen. Sierra Anderson added a pair for Stowe. Tierney faced only three more shots and

STOWE DEFENDERS CAN only watch as Commodore captain Jalen Cook scores one of 10 goal for the home team in the first half of Monday’s game in Vergennes.

Independent photo/Steve James

stopped one of them, while Stowe goalie Annika Wagner finished with six saves.

Stowe continued its tougher defense at home on Tuesday, and Wagner had a big game with 19 saves as the Commodores were more limited offensively.

But Harvey’s three goals and a goal and an assist apiece from Keith and Konczal-Doherty were enough offense with the VUHS defense —

junior Emma Beauchemin, Scrodin and freshman Elena Bronson all did good work on Monday — and Tierney (seven saves) playing well.

Kelley also said the defensive ability of her midfielders — including Cook, Harvey, KonczalDoherty, Croke, Laurent — played a major role, with Harvey scooping a dozen ground balls.

“The Stowe goalie had a great game and we had trouble finishing.

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The girls hung tough on defense and did a good job redefending and keeping possession to come up with the win,” she said. “(It) wasn’t pretty, but good to see they can find a way to win a close one despite being unable to find the back of the net.”

So, can this team make a run at a title?

Kelley said they would have to keep focusing on getting better and playing as a team.

“If they keep working hard and we keep making adjustments, I think … that we could contend,” Kelley said.

Cook has played on two championship teams and knows not to look too far ahead.

“That’s always the end goal, so we’ll see where it goes,” Cook said.

“We’re kind of one game at a time.

We’ll just win every game we can and work from there.”

ADDISON COUNTY — Otter Valley won in high school softball play earlier this week, but Mount Abraham suffered its first two losses of the season, while Middlebury and Vergennes also came up short.

OTTERS On Monday OV took advantage of 18 walks to defeat host Fair Haven, 22-9. The Slaters took a 2-0 lead in the first, but OV erased that on seven runs in the second on six walks, a hit batter, and RBI singles from Mia Politano and Shayla Phillips.

The Otters added seven more runs in the fifth to make it 16-5, with Carolynn Lafountaine’s RBI double the big hit.

Bella Falco doubled twice for OV and drove in in two runs, Renee O’Connell doubled twice and singled, and Phillips singled twice and scored four runs.

OV hurler Morgan LaPorte earned the complete-game win as the Otters improved to 3-2. The Slaters dropped to 3-2.

EAGLES In a Monday matchup of unbeaten teams, visiting Missisquoi toppled the Eagles, 14-4. Winning pitcher Sarah Harvey limited the Eagles to five hits and struck out nine, while Ruby Ball took the loss.

Molly Murray, Shaelyn Layn, Jess Murray, Sam Rathbun and Camilienne Masse poked the Eagle hits.

On Tuesday host BFA-Fairfax (60) stunned the Eagles, 9-8, on Faith Orton’s two-out, two-run home run in

the bottom of the eighth inning.

Bridget Hamel earned the victory in relief of Taylor Mitchell, who struck out 13 in seven innings. The Eagles trailed by 6-1 entering the seventh, but took a 7-6 lead as Ball, Abby Hoff, Addy Harris and Erika Tracey all doubled. But the Bullets tied the game in the bottom of the inning, and then responded again when the 4-2 Eagles took the lead in the eighth.

COMMODORES On Monday visiting Randolph hung on for a 12-9 victory at VUHS after taking a 9-0 lead. The Commodores rallied and had the bases loaded with one out in the ninth, but winning pitcher Becky Johnson retired the next two batters to work out of the jam.

Felicia Poirier sparked the comeback with a three-run homer, a double and a single, and Sidney Tarte tripled and singled. Losing pitcher Sierra Bertrand went the distance, allowing five earned runs while striking out four.

On Tuesday Missisquoi pounded out an 18-3 win over VUHS. Cheyenne Jewett doubled and scored two runs for VUHS (0-6).

TIGERS On Tuesday host Mount Anthony (2-2) took a 9-3 lead after four innings and held on for a 9-7 victory over the Tigers (2-2). Carly Larocque counted a homer among her three hits for the Tigers, and Katelyn Stearns also finished with three hits. Gwen Stafford took the pitching loss.

Panther women’s tennis seeks title MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s tennis team closed out its regular season with a pair of wins this past weekend and a 15-1 record overall, 7-0 in NESCAC play.

The Panthers will host the NESCAC tournament his weekend, with matches to be played on the Proctor tennis courts. Two quarterfinal matches will be played on Friday, and the Panthers will play either the No. 4 or 5 seed on Saturday. Middlebury, Wesleyan (8-1 NESCAC) and Bowdoin (7-2 NESCAC) will be the top seeds.

On this past Saturday the Panthers defeated visiting Amherst (11-4, 5-3 NESCAC), 9-0 in the Nelson

Recreation Center.

At No. 1 doubles, Heather Boehm and Ann Martin picked up an 8-4 victory. At No. 2, Katharine Hughes and Skylar Schossberger prevailed, 8-1, and at No. 3 Christina Puccinelli and Maddi Stow won, 8-5.

The Panthers won all the singles matches in straight sets. Prevailing were Boehm at No. 1, Hughes at No. 2, Puccinelli at No. 3, Schossberger at No. 4, Stow at No. 5, and Emily Bian at No. 6.

On Sunday the Panther defeated Skidmore (11-6), 8-1. Skidmore picked up only three doubles games, the Panthers won the Nos. 2-5 singles matches in straight sets, but Boehm at No. 1 dropped her match.

Addison Independent, Thursday, May 2, 2019 — PAGE 3B

Men’s lax nets upset, advances in tourney

Baseball (Continued from Page 1B) Colby Lathrop keyed the Eagle offense.

On Tuesday the Eagles topped host BFA-Fairfax in nine innings, 3-1. Silas Burgess doubled home the winning run in the top of the ninth, and Nolan Whitcomb earned the win, allowing seven hits and fanning 13 in eight innings. Max Breault tossed a scoreless ninth for the save.

Parker Hines doubled home the tying run in the fifth for Mount Abe, which improved to 3-4 with the two wins.

OTTERS On Monday the Otters moved to 5-0 with a 6-2 victory at Division I Mount Anthony. Josh Beayon earned the pitching win, allowing one earned run and whiffing 11 batters.

Kollin Bissette’s two hits and Patrick McKeighan’s two RBIs sparked the Otter offense. OV was set to host Windsor on Wednesday.

TIGERS The Tigers nipped host Fair Haven on Tuesday, 3-2. Simon Fischer scored the tie-breaking and winning run in the seventh, singling, stealing second and scoring on an error. The Tigers had successfully defended a Slater suicide squeeze attempt in the bottom of the sixth.

Wyatt Cameron earned the win, allowing five hits and fanning five as the Tigers improved to 2-2. Aubrey Ramey was the tough-luck loser, allowing four hits and whiffing nine.

COMMODORES On Tuesday the Commodores shrugged off an early 3-0 deficit and defeated host Missisquoi, 9-4. Tucker Stearns notched the complete-game win for VUHS, striking out eight and surrendering five hits while walking one. Cooper O’Brien, Jarret Muzzy, Tucker Stearns and Jeff Stearns all had multi-hit games as the Commodores improved to 5-1.

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — The Middlebury men’s lacrosse team, seeded seventh in the NESCAC tournament, on Saturday upset second seed Wesleyan, 11-7, as Panther sophomore goalie Tyler Bass made a career-high 17 saves.

The Panthers improved to 8-8 with the victory over the 12-3 Cardinals, who had been ranked No. 5 among NCAA Division III programs.

Middlebury advanced to the NESCAC final four and will play at 17-1 Tufts, the nation’s No. 3 team and tournament top seed. The Panthers will look for another upset at noon this Saturday. The Jumbos pulled away in the late going to defeat the visiting Panthers, 23-14, on April 20.

The other semifinal will pit No. 3 seed Williams and No. 4 seed Amherst. The winners will play at noon on Sunday for the league playoff title and the league’s automatic NCAA tournament bid.

The Panthers took charge this past Saturday with a 4-0 second-quarter

SENIOR MILES MEIJER shoots out of the water barrier while junior teammate Theo Hendrson prepares to take the plunge during the 3,000 meters steeplechase at Saturday’s NESCAC championship meet in Middlebury. Henderson won the race and the Panther men won the team title.

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(Continued from Page 1B) In other strong efforts, Jonathan Perlman took second in the 1,500 meters (3:58.01), while Nathan Hill was third (3:58.48); Hill took second in the 800 meters (1:53.40); Klein finished second in the shot put (47-1).

Third-places showings were posted by the 4x800-meter relay team of Hill, Liam Hoagland, Sawyer Tadano and James McGaugh in 8:03.37, Max Memeger in the long jump (22-6.25) and Alfred Hurley in the javelin (168-3).

The Panther women won four events. Katherine MacCary won the 10,000 meters (35:58.49) while Rory Kelly took the 5,000 (17:47.74), with teammate Abigail Nadler in second (17:52.10).

The 4x800-meter quartet of Katie Glew, Meg Wilson, Anna Willig and Nicole Johnson posted a winning mark of 9:34.62, and Rebecca Gorman won the javelin (135-3).

The 4x400-meter relay team of Lucy Lang, Ava O’Mara, Julia Munz and Gretchen McGrath finished second in 4:00.51, while Kreager Taber was the runner-up in the pole vault in 11’-7.75”

Scoreboard (Continued from Page 1B)

DETERMINATION IS WRITTEN across the face of Panther junior Meg Wilson as she runs her leg of the women’s 4X800 in the NESCAC Championships at Drogone Track on Saturday. The Middlebury quartet won the race.

Middlebury Campus photos/Benjy Renton

Third-place finishes came from Nadler in the 1,500 meters (4:39.57) and Cassie Kearney in the 800 meters (2:15.83).

Former Mount Abraham Union High School standout Lydia Pitts performed well for the Bowdoin women: The freshman took second in the triple jump (36-8.25) and fifth in the 100 hurdles (15.45).

Dickerson (Continued from Page 1B) In many places through this region of Texas, escaped exotics have become a big problem, displacing native animals including whitetail deer and damaging crops. The spotted axis deer in particular — also known as chital deer, which are usually somewhat smaller than whitetail, but sport more impressive antlers — now roam freely in several Texas counties, where they have overpopulated, not having to contend with their natural predators: the Bengal tigers, leopards, crocodiles and even pythons that would have hunted them in their native forests.

Eventually our drive took us past the last trickle of water that marked the headwaters of the Guadalupe River, over a small divide, and down toward the headwaters of the Rio Frio. Like the upper Guadalupe, the upper Frio usually carries only a small amount of water compared to a typical Vermont river. Yet as it flows through deep limestone canyons with sheer walls, it tumbles over a series of manmade dams eight to 10 feet high, each creating a deep pool — some a quarter-mile long or more — of clear, emerald water full of bass, catfish and turtles.

My destination, a retreat center where I was attending a writers’ retreat, lay down in one of those box canyons on the Rio Frio, with the balcony of the main lodge leaning out

over the river from the edge of a bluff.

Looking down off the balcony, I could see big black catfish swimming below me, perhaps waiting for morsels of table crumbs.

Soon, though, my attention was diverted elsewhere. Though I’ve been going to Laity Lodge for more than a decade, I’d never been there so late in the year when temperatures had reached the 80s. So I was startled to see the air above the river thick with cliff swallows, circling, darting, diving, in swarms of hundreds that reminded me of a murmuration of starlings. They arrive in mid spring every year, when the last danger of frost is past. Mating season, in fact, and I soon realized that their flights also included some unmistakable mating tumbles. After some more time watching, I also realized that many of the cliff swallows had forsaken the cliffs that gave them their name, and were instead building mud nests against the vertical concrete joists holding up the balcony of the lodge.

I’ve often thought of built environments and their impacts. This week my newest book was released, titled “The Voices of Rivers.” Those rivers whose voices I had spent several years listening to and writing about were all wild, cold, northern rivers, mostly in Maine, Montana and Alaska, and mostly flowing out of rugged moun-

run to take a 7-3 lead at the half.

A.J. Kucinski scored the first two in the burst, while Will Brossman and Tyler Forbes capped it with goals eight seconds apart.

Middlebury extended the lead to 9-4 after three periods, and Wesleyan came no closer than 10-7 with 4:42 remaining in the game.

Kucinski led all players with four goals and two assists, while Forbes added three scores. Chase Goree chipped in with two goals, while Jack Gould added two assists. Goree also scooped up six ground balls, Jake Madnick controlled 18 of 21 faceoffs and scooped a game-best 14 ground balls, and Laurence Jackson caused three turnovers. Bass, who recently won the starting job, improved to 4-2 with his 17 saves, including 12 in the second half.

The Panthers held advantages of 48-38 in shots and 45-35 in ground balls and they avenged and earlier 12-6 setback to the Cardinals. Cardinal goalie Otto Bohan made 14 saves.

tains off melting snow and glaciers.

Those are the sorts of places I’m usually drawn.

In Texas, by contrast, I spent several days by a slow-moving southern river warm enough to swim in even in April.

The only reason the water was deep enough to swim in was the dam that ran wall-to-wall across the canyon. In that sense, it was far from wild. Nor could the Texas Hill Country be called “mountainous.” Although the lodge was surrounded by thousands of acres of rugged, undeveloped land, with only a few hiking and biking trails and even fewer dirt roads, the human impact on the region was unmistakable, including the variety of large exotic mammals roaming the area.

And yet, over the course of a decade, I have fallen in love with that lodge, that canyon, that river. Every year I discover something new: a different wildflower in bloom, or a new species of bird or animal. I’ve been there when turkeys were roosting in the trees along the river. I’ve been there during turtle mating season. The plaintive echoes of mourning doves off canyon walls has become as familiar as the ever-present shadows of circling vultures high up the cliff walls.

This year it was the cliff swallows.

Also, a pair of grunting javelinas (a pig-like mammal) that startled my wife and me on our last hike, and

fortunately decided to bolt away from us instead of toward us. And hummingbirds that showed up four, five, six and even seven at a time at the feeder on the deck. But mostly it was the delicate swallows with a patch of blue-green on their backs not unlike the color of the water below them. It was one of the first times in my life that I could have spent all day watching two-foot long fish swimming in a river, and yet I chose instead to watch swallows.

It was also a good reminder that mountains and cold wilderness rivers are not the only beautiful places in the world, and that built human environments, especially when the architecture respects the land around it, can also be peaceful, beautiful and hospitable. I’m also thinking next year I need to bring my fly rod, just in case the swallows haven’t arrived.

Baseball 4/27 Wesleyan vs. Midd...........................4-2 4/28 Midd. vs. Wesleyan..........................5-2 4/28 Midd. vs. Wesleyan..........................8-4 4/30 Midd. vs. Union...............................12-3 5/1 Keene State at Midd.........................Late

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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse 5/3 VUHS at U32............................. 4:30 PM 5/3 Mt. Mansfield at MUHS.............. 4:30 PM 5/6 MUHS at Mt. Anthony................ 4:30 PM 5/8 South Burlington at MUHS........ 4:30 PM 5/9 VUHS at Lamoille...................... 4:30 PM 5/11 MUHS at CVU.......................... 4:30 PM Boys’ Lacrosse 5/2 Mt. Mansfield at MUHS................... 4 PM 5/2 St. J at Mt. Abe.......................... 4:30 PM 5/2 GMVS at OV................................... 4 PM 5/6 MUHS at Woodstock...................... 4 PM 5/6 OV at Mt. Abe................................. 4 PM 5/7 MUHS at Colchester....................... 4 PM 5/8 Mt. Abe at Lamoille......................... 4 PM 5/8 Montpelier at OV............................. 4 PM 5/10 Essex at MUHS............................ 4 PM 5/10 OV at Hartford......................... 6:30 PM 5/11 Mt. Abe at Harwood.....................11 AM Baseball 5/2 Spaulding at VUHS.................... 4:30 PM 5/2 Fairfax at MUHS........................ 4:30 PM 5/2 Milton at Mt. Abe........................ 4:30 PM 5/3 OV at Rutland................................. 5 PM 5/4 VUHS at Milton............................... 3 PM 5/6 Mt. Abe at VUHS....................... 4:30 PM 5/6 Spaulding at MUHS................... 4:30 PM 5/7 VUHS at Harwood..................... 4:30 PM 5/7 Mount Abe at Spaulding............ 4:30 PM 5/7 Springfield at OV....................... 4:30 PM 5/7 MUHS at Missisquoi.................. 4:30 PM 5/9 Milton at MUHS......................... 4:30 PM 5/9 VUHS at Fairfax......................... 4:30 PM 5/9 Mt. Abe at OV............................ 4:30 PM 5/11 Richford at VUHS........................11 AM 5/11 MUHS at South Burlington...........11 AM Softball 5/2 Spaulding at VUHS.................... 4:30 PM

5/2 Milton at Mt. Abe........................ 4:30 PM 5/2 Fairfax at MUHS........................ 4:30 PM 5/3 OV at Bellows Falls................... 4:30 PM 5/4 VUHS at Milton............................... 3 PM 5/6 Spaulding at MUHS................... 4:30 PM 5/6 Mt. Abe at VUHS....................... 4:30 PM 5/6 OV at Mt. Anthony..................... 4:30 PM 5/7 VUHS at Harwood..................... 4:30 PM 5/7 Mount Abe at Spaulding............ 4:30 PM 5/7 MUHS at Missisquoi.................. 4:30 PM 5/9 Milton at MUHS......................... 4:30 PM 5/9 Mt. Abe at OV............................ 4:30 PM 5/9 VUHS at Fairfax......................... 4:30 PM 5/10 Springfield at OV..................... 4:30 PM 5/11 Mt. Mansfield at Mt. Abe..............10 AM 5/11 MUHS at South Burlington...........11 AM Tennis 4/30 MMU at MUHS Girls................ 3:30 PM 5/3 MUHS Boys at Harwood............ 3:30 PM 5/3 Harwood at MUHS Girls............ 3:30 PM 5/6 Spaulding at MUHS Boys.......... 3:30 PM 5/6 MUHS Girls at Spaulding........... 3:30 PM 5/8 MUHS Boys at St. Albans.......... 3:30 PM 5/8 St. Albans at MUHS Girls.......... 3:30 PM 5/10 MUHS Boys at U-32................ 3:30 PM 5/10 U-32 at MUHS Girls................. 3:30 PM Ultimate 5/3 Montpelier/Rice at MUHS....... 4/7:30 PM 5/6 Rice at MUHS................................. 4 PM 5/9 Vermont Commons at MUHS......... 4 PM Track & Field 5/7 MUHS et al at Mt. Abe............... 3:30 PM COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse NESCAC Final Four at Tufts 5/4 #7 Midd. vs. #1 Tufts...................... Noon 5/4 #4 Amherst vs. #3 Williams............ 3 PM 5/5 Final................................................ Noon Women’s Lacrosse NESCAC Final Four at Midd.

5/4 #1 Midd. vs. #4 Amherst................. Noon 5/4 #2 Tufts vs. #3 Wesleyan............... 3 PM 5/5 Final................................................ Noon Baseball 5/3 Midd. at Amherst............................. 4 PM 5/4 Midd. at Amherst (2)................ 12:30 PM 5/5 Castleton at Midd. (2)..................... Noon Late games were played after deadline.

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Zeno Mountain films to screen at Holley Hall BRISTOL — Zeno Mountain Farm is beloved locally for its spirited Fourth of July Parade spectacle, its ebullient summer musical, and its joyful community integrating people with and without disabilities. This integrated community also makes films.

To explore Zeno’s philosophy and enjoy a delightful film experience, the public is invited to “Zeno Mountain Farm: Inclusion in Filmmaking” on Thursday, May 9 at Holley Hall from 7:00-8:30 p.m.

This event is sponsored by One World Library Project. It is free and handicapped accessible. The Deaf community is encouraged to attend, as there will be an ASL interpreter and

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the films are captioned.

The program will include Zeno’s 30-minute film “Bulletproof” as well as a short sizzler for “The Homecoming,” a feature-length Zeno-produced film to be released in September this year.

Following the screenings, a panel of Zeno community members will offer a brief presentation, and the audience will be engaged in a conversation about inclusion in filmmaking. Time will be available for questioning the panel.

Zeno Mountain Farm is a

Lincoln-based nonprofit whose goal is to ensure that people from marginalized groups have access to a community in which they are valued, contributing members. Zeno runs camps and retreats throughout the year for people with disabilities and other marginalized communities.

Zeno’s annual filmmaking camp, which has been running for over fifteen years, includes a fully integrated cast and crew. Disabled individuals comprise 20 percent of the U.S. population but represent less than

2 percent of people seen in media, television and movies.

Zeno’s 2012 film “Bulletproof” received increased exposure after the 2014 documentary “Becoming Bulletproof” explored its backstory.

“Becoming Bulletproof” toured national and international film festivals and debuted on Showtime.

Homecoming is the first featurelength film ever created with 50 percent disabled talent. Filmed in Lincoln and Bristol, townspeople were invited to join the cast as extras. As Zeno co-director Ila Halby points out, “At Zeno, our experience is that our movies are better and more dynamic because of the diversity in our cast and crew. It makes the process more complex at times, but this is part of the richness of filmmaking at Zeno.”

Participants in the Zeno community explain it best. According to AJ, a long-time Zeno member, “At Zeno I feel significance, dignity, and purpose.”

Presenters will include Zeno community members Ila Halby, Hannah Gallivan and Krista Siringo.

Ila Halby is an occupational therapist and the co-founder and co-director of Zeno Mountain Farm. She has BOBBY BIRD ACTING in the Zeno film “Bulletproof.” “Inclusion in created and led integrated programs Filmmaking at Zeno Mountain Farm” will be presented at Holley Hall on for the disabled community at Zeno May 9 from 7:00-8:30. The event is free, fully accessible and will include for 19 years. Halby cares deeply about an ASL interpreter. community and the inherent value of Photo Courtesy Zeno Mountain Farm

GEORGE DOKOV AND TURNER Jumonville work on the Zeno set. “Inclusion in Filmmaking at Zeno Mountain Farm” will be presented at Holley Hall on May 9 from 7:00-8:30. The event is free, fully accessible and will include an ASL interpreter.

Photo Courtesy Zeno Mountain Farm

each individual.

Hannah Gallivan is a 7th grader at Mt Abe Union Middle School, a Zeno participant, and a disabled advocate.

She is active in theater, chorus, and Community Council at Mount Abe and also enjoys cooking, reading, and spending time with friends. “My whole world has changed because of Zeno. It’s where I can really be myself, and I’ve met so many amazing people in the community. After a while, you stop feeling sorry and start being inspired.”

Krista Siringo is a Zeno parent and disability advocate. She is a Bristol representative to the Mount Abraham

Unified School Board and is also an active volunteer at the elementary school. “Our entire family, and I would argue the Five-Town Community at large, has benefited from having Zeno in our lives. The integration of Zeno into our small corner of Addison County is a model for the way all communities should embrace people with different abilities.”

For more information about this event or One World Library Project, contact the Lawrence Memorial Library at 453-2366 or go to OneWorldLibraryProject.org or the One World Library Project Facebook page.

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IRVINE, Calif. — Benjamin Brisson, son of Kathleen and Randall Brisson of Shoreham, and Emily Mulvihill, daughter of Tim and Lori Mulvihill of Shelby, N.C., became engaged in March at the Poppy at Walker Canyon, Calif. They met at St. Lawrence University and are now both Ph.D. candidates; Ben at UC Irvine studying Political Theory and Emily at UC Riverside studying English. They live in Irvine, Calif., with their cat Sheeba. A summer 2021 wedding is planned.

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A letter arrived from Wales and I never opened it. That was my one luxury, before the cherry blossoms opened in the park. It was the spring I had a broken heart and a neighbor who played Greensleeves every night on her violin.

I dyed my hair blue, then bluer. I think of Wales as a country of sailors and shepherds.

My ancestors came from there, long ago, and once I visited: a castle on the edge of the Irish Sea. Very delicate cups of tea. The sheep were so shy on the hillsides: I think I am generalizing. I don’t even know for sure that it was a letter. I thought of the bells and the pints of beer. The sailors.

The envelope was thin and white as a petal, a blossom from a distant tree. My one luxury: it was enough it was addressed to me.

— Karin Gottshall

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Karin Gottshall received her MFA can be enough to make our minds in writing from Vermont wander to distant places.

College. Her first book, In the case of spring, “Crocus,” won the Poets maybe it is in the wanting Out Loud Prize in 2007 and desiring that can well and was published by up this time of year. It is Fordham University a time of rain, of awakenPress. Her second book, ing, of imminent change.

“The River Won’t Hold But a season or a landYou,” won the Ohio State scape can also carry for University Press/The us whatever we’re carryJournal Wheeler Prize ing — joy, lament, loss, in 2015. She has also or possibility — making published three chapbooks it all the more complex. and in 2015 received In the poem, a surprise a Fellowship in poetry arrives for the speaker,

By Susan Jefts to Bread Loaf Writers’ one that seems to be too Conference. Karin teaches much to take on amidst writing at Middlebury College and a broken heart. It sounds odd at first, directs the Young Writers’ Project at to not open a letter (or whatever it Bread Loaf. might be) from so far away, in this case Wales. Such an unexpected arrival could contain anything, and perhaps it’s better to stay in the not knowing, When I first read the poem “Luxury” in the possibility, the mystery. Instead in Karin Gottshall’s book “The River of opening it, she dyes her hair blue Won’t Hold You,” I was at my friend’s and goes on extended mind travel. house, which perches on a ledge look- Her journey is full of romanticized ing down over Vermont’s forests, tour book images of Wales, but they fields, a few farms, and off to the are what she needs: castles by the sea, Adirondacks in the west. The land- sheep on the hillside, “very delicate scape is all pre-spring beige, brown, cups of tea.” and gray, except for small isolated pine I admire how each tercet is a groves and silvery patches of wetlands complete scenario and experience we reflecting the sky. It is not unlike that of are invited into. I feel the presence of Wales this time of year, a land we are sailors and shepherds. I hear bells and taken to in the poem’s first few words. taste the beer, not because of excesSometimes a change of season alone sive use of adjectives, but because of

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the clear choice of nouns and the deep feeling of lament and longing that comes through. The speaker’s memories become almost our memories via the tight particles of words she weaves.

And near the end appears the gift of a most evocative image:

the envelope was thin and white as a petal, a blossom from a distant tree.

Something unexpected has been bestowed upon the speaker, and so us too. It no longer matters if there was a letter and what it might have said.

She has been taken, transported by the mysteries of mind and imagination, and in that process she has been gifted something unlikely. And she seems to have returned a bit readier for receiving spring, for receiving even, perhaps, something as magnificent as cherry blossoms.

Susan Jefts is a poet and educator living near Middlebury, whose work has been published in various regional and national literary journals. She is currently finalizing a book of poetry and offering workshops using poetry to move into the energy of spring. For more info, contact her at sjefts7@gmail.com. Her website is manyriverslifeguidance.com.

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Man with gun cited for assault

Planners ready for Memorial Day parade VERGENNES — Every year Addison County residents make the trip to Vergennes on Memorial Day for one of the state’s largest parades to honor those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Parade organizers, the American Legion Post 14 of Vergennes, have announced that the 2019 theme the Parade is “Now & Forever, We Remember.”

Following the parade, the annual remembrance will be held on the park in Vergennes.

American Legion Department of Vermont Senior Vice- Commander and American Legion Commander of Bristol Post 19 Ron LaRose will serve as the Parade Marshall.

LaRose served his nation in the U.S. Army and Vermont Army National Guard for 39 years and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Married to his wife Connie for fifty years, LaRose and his family — sons Kevin and Brett and their wives Megan and Erin and three grandchildren are longterm residents of Bristol. Serving as the Commander of Bristol American Legion Post 19 for the past fourteen years, LaRose will take on the position of American Legion Vermont State Commander in June.

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BRISTOL’S RON LAROSE will serve as Parade Marshall at the Vergennes Memorial Day Parade this year.

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for the past forty-nine years and in business with his son Kevin for the past thirteen, LaRose has worked with generations of local Vermonters and has watched the community he proudly calls home grow and change over time. During his career LaRose has continued a long-standing relationship with youth as Scoutmaster for 15 years, Trustee of Bristol Recreation Club and Legion Baseball Coach.

For Commander LaRose understanding Memorial Day is critical because it is to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation. “No matter the size of the celebration and tribute,” shared Commander LaRose. “The last Monday in May marks a solemn time to reflect on who we are as a nation because of the sacrifices of millions of men and women who have put service above self.” LaRose will mark the day not

MATTHEW KEAGLE, CURATOR at Fort Ticonderoga will give the keynote address at this year’s Memorial Day Parade in Vergennes.

only by attending the festivities in Vergennes as Parade Marshall, but being a part of the ceremonies in Bristol as well.

Fort Ticonderoga Curator Matthew Keagle will serve as the Key Note Speaker. Having spoken on the subject of 18th century military history across the U.S., Canada and Europe, Keagle is a Vergennes resident and is a doctoral candidate. He holds a Masters from the Bard Graduate Center, an M.A. in American Material Culture Studies from the Winterthur Museum Program at the University of Delaware, and a B.A. from Cornell University.

Passionate about bringing history to life, Keagle will speak to the conditions, sacrifices and struggles of the 18th century military in our area and how events in that time shaped our modern lives and freedoms of today.

Bristol man cited for disorderly conduct

BRISTOL — On April 16, Bristol police arrested Timothy J. Clodgo, 53, of Bristol and cited him for disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace by telephonic or electronic means, stalking and resisting arrest.

Clodgo was issued a citation to appear in court later that day.

Between April 8 and 21, Bristol police assisted the Bristol Rescue Squad twice and South Burlington police once.

Officers in the Bristol department completed 21 foot patrols and 50 minutes of car patrols in various parts of town, some of which were part of the Governor’s Highway Safety Program.

Bristol officers checked security at Mount Abraham Union High School 10 times, conducted four business checks, secured one unsecure building, processed at least eight requests for fingerprints and verified two vehicle identification numbers.

In other recent activity, Bristol police: • On April 8 assisted with a death investigation. The death was determined to have been from natural causes.

• On April 8 facilitated a resolution after receiving a report of harassing phone calls.

• On April 9 facilitated the return of property that had been lost.

• On April 9 recovered found property and planned to contact the owner.

• On April 10 received a

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LEICESTER — Green Up Day is Saturday, May 4. Green Up bags and some gloves are available at the Town Office. A trailer will be available at the Town Shed all day Saturday for placing your filled bags. If you drop off bags Saturday morning, be sure to pick up a ticket for a free lunch (also doubles as a raffle ticket). A free hot dog lunch with soda, water, brownies and chips will be served Saturday, May 4, at the Senior Center from noon until 1:30 p.m. For more info or to find out about a road segment that could use attention, please call Diane Benware at 247-3786.

The Leicester Historical Society is sponsoring Prize Bingo on Saturday, May 18, at 1 p.m. This is one week later than usual due to scheduling conflicts. All are welcome and refreshments served.

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complaint about tobacco possession.

• On April 11 responded to a juvenile problem.

• On April 11 responded to a minor car and motorcycle crash.

• On April 12 helped someone contact the U.S. Postal Inspector’s office regarding ongoing mail delivery issues.

• On April 12 investigated a threat complaint.

• On April 13 investigated a refund dispute, but the party left prior to police arrival.

• On April 15 responded to an alarm at a local business, which appeared to have been activated by employee error.

• On April 15 responded to a minor two-car crash. A report is forthcoming.

• On April 15 assisted a motorist whose vehicle was damaged by roadway debris.

• On April 16 conducted a welfare check and observed no issues.

• On April 16 investigated an alleged violation of a relief-fromabuse order.

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police cited Douglas Wiggins, 60, of Middlebury for aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, driving under the influence, disorderly conduct and unlawful restraint, following an incident in The Centre parking lot at around 5:30 p.m. this past Saturday, April 27.

Police said they were called to the scene on a report of a man allegedly driving under the influence.

A witness told police the driver opened his car door and struck a parked vehicle in the lot. The witness further alleged that Wiggins left the area and returned a short time later in possession of a weapon that he allegedly pointed at the witness, as well as at a passenger in his car.

Police said they stopped Wiggins’ vehicle on Court Street extension, near McDonald’s Restaurant, and cited him for the alleged offenses mentioned above. Police said Wiggins was lodged at the Marble Valley Correctional Facility for lack of bail.

In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Served a no-trespass order on April 22 on a person who wasn’t wanted at a Duane Court residence.

• Received a report on April 22 about a potential sexual assault in the Middlebury area. The matter is under investigation.

• Searched, in vain, for an injured deer that a caller alleged having seen off East Main Street on April 22.

• Responded to a report of a man and woman arguing in front of a Jackson Lane Apartment on April 23.

Police said the couple had left upon their arrival.

• Responded on April 23 to a reported argument between an estranged local couple about the use of a mutually owned vehicle.

• On April 17 responded to a two-vehicle crash on East Street. A report is forthcoming.

• On April 19 investigated a report of a violation of conditions of release but observed no violations.

• On April 20 helped a resident.

• On April 20 issued a notrespass order to a resident.

• On April 21 recovered methadone pills that had been found at a local business and disposed of them in the medication drop box.

• On April 21 facilitated the return of a dog that had been running loose on Main Street.

Orwell ORWELL — The Orwell Free Library will host several events during the month of May. First on the docket is an update on the Galick Site Excavation on Wednesday, May 15, at 7 p.m. at the library. Members of the South Champlain Historical Ecology Project will be on hand to talk about their project, started in 2016, to investigate long-term humanenvironmental interactions around the southern end of Lake Champlain.

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• Were informed of the theft of an inspection sticker from a car parked off Court Street on April 23.

• Called a tow truck to remove a vehicle that was stranded in high water on Creek Road on April 23.

• Received a report on April 23 about a potential sexual assault allegedly occurring in the Middlebury area. The matter is under investigation.

• Spoke with a group of people who had allegedly been littering on Court Street Extension on April 24.

• Asked a man to leave the Charter House warming shelter on April 24.

• Investigated a report of someone almost being hit by a bottle originating from an upstairs apartment on College Street on April 25. Police said it appears the bottle fell from a window sill and wasn’t thrown.

• Returned a wallet that had been found on Washington Street by a good Samaritan on April 25.

• Received a report of an unspecified amount of cash being stolen from a Rogers Road home on April 25. The complaint remains under investigation.

• Cited Ethan Dragon, 21, of Middlebury for driving under the influence, following an incident at r.k.

Miles on Exchange Street in April 25.

Police said r.k. Miles had complained of a drunken person refusing to leave the premises.

Dragon refused to submit to a breath test, according to police.

• Cautioned a driver who had allegedly been tailgating another vehicle on Quarry Road on April 25.

• Received a report of a vehicle leaving the scene of an accident on Main Street on April 25.

• Responded to a noise complaint at a Washington Street home on April 26.

• Investigated a fraud complaint in the Schoolhouse Hill Road neighborhood on April 26.

• Responded to a noise complaint at a Washington Street home on April 26.

• Received a report of a vehicle leaving the scene of an accident on Court Street Extension on April 26.

• Mediated a dispute between two Water Street neighbors who were arguing over possession of an iPad on April 27.

• Served a no-trespass order on a man in the East Main Street area on April 27.

• Responded to a report of person having a mental health issue at the Residence at Otter Creek on April 27.

• Investigated an unlawful mischief complaint at the South Village Green development on April 27.

• Cited Kenneth Marcelle, 20, of Bristol, for felony unlawful trespass of an occupied dwelling, following an incident at a Cobble Road home on April 27. The homeowner reported finding Marcelle — bleeding, disoriented and unresponsive — inside their bathroom, according to police.

• Responded to a dog complaint in the Seminar Street Extension area on April 28.

• Got mental health counseling for a man who walked into the police station on April 28 and reported feeling suicidal.

• Checked on the welfare of a Lindale Circle resident on April 28.

Police said the woman reported being OK.

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Call the Addison Independent at 388-4944 NEWS

Over the past three summers, excavations have helped researchers learn more about life at a pre-contact campsite and historical farmstead first occupied more than 11,000 years ago. Come and learn more about the project, including work done with local elementary school students and the new 3D scanning initiative. The project is looking for volunteers to help again this summer.

The Library’s annual plant, book and

bake sale is set for Saturday, May 25, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Plants of all kinds — annuals, perennials, houseplants, herbs, vegetables, shrubs, container gardens, and hanging baskets — will be for sale, as well as books, DVDs, home baked and canned goods, soups, and breads. All proceeds go directly to the Orwell Free Library for purchasing books, providing programming, updating technology and serving the Orwell community.

We Know What We Grow!

Come Visit Our Greenhouses • Organic Vegetable & Herb Plants • Annuals, Perennials & Hanging Baskets Addison County’s Premier Organic Farm • Organic Fertilizer & Potting Mix • Compost, Johnny’s Seeds, Onion sets, Organic seed potatoes Open daily 9-5 • Decorative Pottery & Supplies 1329 Lapham Bay Road, Shoreham, VT 802-897-7031 • GoldenRussetFarm.com

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Apple Computers

DIRECTORY • appliance repair • auto glass • business cards • carpentry/contractors • consignment • computers

Flooring

Carpentry/Contrators

• plumbing

• insulation • laughter • livestock • lumber • masonry • painting

• engineering • equipment rentals • firewood • flooring • hay • heating & ac

Painting

Quaker Village Carpentry 802.453.5570

Steven M. L’Heureux, Pres.

The Mac Doctor, Inc. 5 Mountain Street, 3 West Bristol, VT 05443

Steve@themacdoctor.com Steven L’Heureux, Pres. www.themacdoctor.com Experience 5 Mountain Street,303Years West Bristol, VT 05443 802.453.5570

Siding, Windows, Garages, Decks & Porches New Construction, Renovations and Repairs

Maurice plouffe

802-545-2251 1736 Quaker Village Road Weybridge, VT 05753

Heating & AC

Steve@themacdoctor.com The Mac Doctor, Inc. Remodeling • Additions www.themacdoctor.com Painting • Roofing 5 Mountain Street, West Experience 303 Years WINNER of “Best Local Contractor” 30 Years Experience Bristol, VT 05443

Ductwork Design • Sealing Fabrication • Installation Insulation • Replacement Plasma Art • Torches • Welding Plasma Table • Duct Cleaning H.R.V. / E.R.V. Installation Ductwork Video Camera

FOUR CONSECUTIVE YEARS by READERS CHOICE AWARDS!

802.388.0860 MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT

Washers Refridgerators Dishwashers Disposals

Cell: 802-989-5231 Office: 802-453-2007

Specializing in Ductwork for Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning Systems

Commercial/Residential . Owner Operated . Fully Insured . Neat & Clean

COMPASS TREASURE CHEST

GAS OR ELECTRIC

Dryers Ranges Microwaves Air Conditioners

We sell and consign collectibles, antiques, dishes, tools, furniture, re-usable, re-purposed, art/craft/jewelry items and so much more!

982 Briggs Hill Road • Bristol

Computers

The PC MediC of VerMonT

Desabrais Means Glass & Affordable Service

Photography

Advertising - Catalogue - Marketing - Website

802.233.9155 BalfourStudios.com

333 Jones Drive, Brandon, VT 05733 802-465-8436 • compasstreasurechestconsign@gmail.com

• Windshield Repair • Insulated Glass • Plate Glass • Window Glass • Plexiglass • Safety Glass • Mirrors • Auto Glass • Storm Windows • Screen Repairs • Custom Shower Door Enclosures Vinyl Replacement windows and Complete Installation

Kim or Jonathan Hescock hescock@shoreham.net

Our photography makes your product sell better.

Insulation

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Jack Alexander

462-3737 or 989-9107

Fully Insured

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References

HOME IMPROVEMENTS LOCAL CONTRACTOR

Alexander Appliance Repair Inc.

A friendly, professional, and affordable family business.

Free Estimates

MARK TRUDEAU steve@themacdoctor.com www.themacdoctor.com 802.453.5570GENERAL CARPENTRY Steven M. L’Heureux, Pres.

Appliance Repair

HESCOCK PAINTING

Over two decades experience!

Dense Pack Cellulose • Blown In Insulation Complete Air Sealing

Plumbing

802-545-2251 • Maurice Plouffe 1736 Quaker Village Road, Weybridge, VT 05753

COMPUTER APPOINTMENTS IN YOUR HOME OR OFFICE

Are you still using a Windows 7 PC?

Insurance Approved discounts

Middlebury, VT 05753 • 388-9049

Landscape/Gardening

Microsoft’s Windows 7 support ends in January. No support also means no security updates. After January, Windows 7 will not be safe online.

Carpentry/Contractors

CLOVER STATE

Let The PC Medic help you upgrade to a fast Windows 10 PC.

WINDOW & SIDING CO., INC

For an appointment, please call 802-734-6815

Windows • Vinyl siding • Garages Roofs • Additions • Decks

Waste Management – Roll-off container service

Fast, friendly, reliable service & competitive rates.

– Aiding you in your stewardship goals –

Terra - SancTuS

Organic – Sustainable Landscape Design Installation and Maintenance

“30 years in the heart of Vermont”

Mason Wade 802-349-3970 (text) TSI, Inc., 262 Pine Gap Road Rochester, VT 05767

“It’s pruning season – let’s get started!”

Engineering

802-877-2102 Toll Free: 888-433-0962 mlbrunet@gmavt.net

www.cloverstate.com

1438 S. Brownell Rd. • PO Box 159 • Williston, VT 05495 802-862-5590 • www.gmeinc.biz

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Lumber

Alan Huizenga, P.E., President Kevin Camara, P.E. Jamie Simpson, P. E. • Middlebury Brad Washburn, P. E. • Montpelier

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Bristol, VT116 05443 275 South 116 275 South Bristol, VT 05443 Bristol, VT 05443

Fork lifts lifts up up to to 15,000 15,000 lbs. lbs.

Fork

802-233-4670

Property Services

jmasefield@gmavt.net

“Where Peace of Mind is Everything”

Nurse

Offering a Full Range of Services for Second Home, Vacation, and Rental Properties to Out-of-State and Absentee Homeowners

Private Duty Nurse Practitioner

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SerVing VermonT & neW York SERVING VERMONT & NEW YORK FOR For OVER30 30YearS! YEARS! Scissor Lifts up up to to 32’ 32’ Scissor Lifts excavator excavator excavator Skid Steer

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40’ to 80’ manlifts Scissor Lifts up to 32’ mini excavator

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Professional Installation • Heating Systems • Plumbing Supplies • Bathroom Design • Water Treatment Great Advice

Jamie Masefield

• concrete compactors • backhoes

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Fine Dry Stone Masonry

• Man lifts up to 80’ • man basket w/crane

www.brownswelding.com

Owned and operated by: Bill Heffernan, Jim & David Whitcomb

Masonry

40 TYPES OF RENTAL EQUIPMENT TO CHOOSE FROM

New Construction Remodels and Additions Window and Siding Installation Smaller Home Repairs 275 South 116

Fuel Delivery 185 Exchange Street Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-4975 champlainvalleyfuels.com

Serving all your plumbing and heating needs.

802-388-7828  End of S. Munger St.  Middlebury

Equipment Rentals • material forklifts • excavators • bulldozers • mini-excavators • skidsteers

Plumbing • Heating 125 Monkton Road Bristol, VT 05443 802-453-2325 cvplumbingheating.com

I am a Nurse Practitioner, I have over 27 years experience in Geriatrics.

I have worked with quadriplegic, paraplegics, amputees, hospice, Respite, dementia Alzheimer’s stroke victims, Critical Care TBI...just to name a few.

References upon request.

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tim@chipmanhillpropertyservices.com

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DIRECTORY

Business Service

• plumbing • real estate • renewable energy • roofing

Storage

Roofing

Real Estate

Jack Associates

• septic & water • siding • storage • surveying

Surveying

AIRPORT AUTO

Short Surveying, inc.

Serving Addison County Since 1991

Timothy L. Short, L.S.

Self Storage • Low Rates

Also a good selection of used vehicles

Experienced Teamwork Makes The Difference!

44 School House Hill Road, E. Middlebury

388-0432 • 388-8090

REALTOR

Susan Burdick

REALTOR

BROKER

Sean Dye

Nancy Larrow

CAMPUS MOVE OUT RATES

BROKER

Lynn Jackson

Battell Block

Climate Controlled Storage Units

86 Main Street, Vergennes, VT 05491 (802)877-2134 - C21VT.COM

Renewable Energy Soak Up The Sun! Don’t spend your hard-earned money making the hot water or electricity that you use today– SOLAR IS MORE AFFORDABLE THAN EVER! We’ve been here for you for 43 years – Let us help you with your solar projects today.

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Phone (802) 537-3555

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Best of Best Roofers on Angie’s List

Celebrating 31 Years

Environmental Consultants – Licensed Designers Steve Revell CPG, LD#178 BW Jeremy Revell LD#611 BW • Tyler Maynard LD#597 B • Water Supply - Location, Development and Permitting • On-Site Wastewater Design • Single & Multiple Lot Subdivision • Property Development & Permitting • State and Local Permitting • Underground Storage Tank Removal & Assessment

Peaceful Road Self Storage • Located at the intersection of Old Hollow Road and Route 7 in North Ferrisburgh • 1% of net profits to be donated to United Ways in Vermont

Units Available: 5’x10’ - $50, 10’x15’ - $90 10’x10’ - $70, 10’x20’ - $110

425-4114

peacefulstorage.com

STORAGE 4 Sizes ~ Self-locking units Hardscrabble Rd., Bristol

Toll-Free: 800-477-4384

802-453-4384

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Fax 802-453-5399 • Email: jrevell@lagvt.com 163 Revell Drive • Lincoln, VT 05443

6’x12’ $30 • 8’x12’ $45 10’x12’ $55 • 12’x21’ $75

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FOR SEPTIC TANK PUMPING & DRAIN CLEANING SERVICE,

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LAROSE SURVEYS, P.C. Ronald L. LaRose, L.S. • Kevin R. LaRose, L.S.

Land Surveying/Septic Design “We will take you through the permitting process!”

25 West St. • PO Box 388 Bristol, VT 05443 Telephone: 802-453-3818 Fax: 802- 329-2138

larosesurveys@gmail.com

Tree Service BROWN’S TREE & CRANE SERVICE

Randall Orvis

Septic & Water

Property Line Surveys • Topographical Surveys FEMA Elevation Certificates

Serving Vermont for over 42 years!

Recycling

2744 Watch Point Rd • Shoreham, VT 05770 Email: BR213@yahoo.com

Roofing

1-802-349-9901

• 6’X5’ = $50 • 6’X7’= $55 • 6’X11’= $65 • 8’X7’=$95 • 10’X5’=$115 • 11’X5’= $135 • Bike storage $10/month

Rubbish & Recycling 802-897-5637 802-377-5006

Call for a FREE on-site evaluation

Call or Text Alice to set up a showing or to learn more!

• tree services • window treatments • wood services

FREE ESTIMATES FOR TREE SERVICES

WE HAVE THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT FOR THE RIGHT JOB – TO GIVE YOU REASONABLE RATES Dangerous Trees Cut & Removed Stumps Removed Trusses Set Trees Trimmed Land Clearing Reasonable Rates • Year-round Service • Fully Insured

(802) 453-3351 • Cell (802) 363-5619 24 Hour Emergency Service 453-7014

Brownswelding.com

Trucking RED CEDAR TRUCKING 802-989-8430 - robertgaboriault@yahoo.com

Rob Gaboriault 3130 Mountain Rd Addison, VT 05491

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Towing

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Surveying

HAULING & REPAIR

Orwell, Vermont

24 hr Heavy Towing & Recovery Heavy Truck Repair Trucking & Towing, Oversize Local & Long Distance

110 Mt. Independence Rd., Orwell Call Jeff 802-989-0832

Window Treatments

Siding

TEL.(802) 459-0085 CELL.(802) 236-6065

Marcel Brunet & Sons, Inc. Windows & Siding Vergennes, VT

LOOK HERE FIRST!!

Siding • Windows Additions • Garages • Decks 800-439-2644 • rbrunet1@myfairpoint.net • 877-2640

Premium window treatments, retractable screens and awnings.

298 Maple Street Middlebury, VT 802.247.3883 vtshadeandblind@gmail.com VermontShadeandBlind.com

Call today to list YOUR ad in our Business & Service Directory

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CLASSIFIEDS Notices

AUCTION: VERMONT state surplus vehicle/ equipment auction; 150+ Lots. Saturday, May 11, 2019; 10:00AM. Inventory preview/pre‑registration: Friday, May 10, 2019; 11:00AM‑ 3:00PM Central Garage, 1756 US Route 3 0 2 , B e r l i n , V T. C a l l 1‑800‑536‑1401, Ext. 110.

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Public Meetings ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders.

Wednesdays, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery.

Bring a friend in recovery.

For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turningpointaddisonvt.org.

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Services

AL‑ANON FAMILY GROUP ‑ For families and friends of problem drinkers. Anony‑ mous, confidential and free.

At the Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

7:30‑8:30 PM Friday eve‑ nings.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 2 MONDAY. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Rip‑ ton, Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am.

As Bill Sees it Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Women of AA (Step/Speaker), Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd, 5:30‑6:30pm.

Big Book Meeting, New Haven, Congregational Church, Village Green, 7:30‑8:30pm. Discussion Meeting, Brandon, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South, 7:30‑8:30pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 3 TUESDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Daily Reflection Meeting, Ver‑ gennes, Congregational Church, Water St. 7‑8pm.

CORNWALL CENTRAL C E M E T E RY A N N U A L budget meeting. 7 p.m., Friday, May 10th at Corn‑ wall Town Hall. For info call 802‑324‑9499.

HANDYMAN ‑ LIGHT carpentry, insulation, yard clean up, junk removal, dump trailer services. Call Eugene 802‑453‑8546.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑ LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking.

Members share experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve common problems.

Newcomers welcome. Con‑ fidential. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

NA (JUST IN TIME) Mon‑ days, 6:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 1 SUNDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am.

Discussion Meeting, Bris‑ tol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 4‑5pm. 12 Step Meet‑ ing, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 7‑8pm. AA 24‑Hour Hotline 802‑388‑9284, aavt.org.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 5 THURSDAY. 12 Steps and Traditions Meeting, Ripton, Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. Big Book Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Alternating Format Meeting, Ferris‑ burgh, Assembly of God Christian Center. Route 7, 7‑8pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 6 FRIDAY. Spiritual Awakening, Middlebury, St. Stephes Church, 3 Main St., 7:30‑8:30am. Discus‑ sion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm.

Discussion Meeting, Ver‑ gennes, St. Paul’s Episco‑ pal Church, Park St. 8‑9pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 7 SATURDAY. Discussion Meeting, Mid‑ dlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am. Discussion Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, Beginner’s Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 6:30‑7:30pm.

ARE YOU BOTHERED

BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (en‑ ter side door and follow signs). Anonymous and confidential, we share our experience, strength and hope to solve our com‑ mon problems. Babysitting available.

PHONE:

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NARCAN KITS are avail‑ able at the Turning Point Center of Addison County FREE of charge. Narcan (Naloxone) is a nasal spray used to reverse an opi‑ oid overdose in progress.

These kits are specifically intended for public distri‑ bution and can be used by anyone to save a life.

Easy training is provided at Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, and takes approximately 10 minutes.

Wednesdays between 9 a.m. ‑ noon, or call for an appointment (802) 388‑4249.

PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am.

We meet at The Resi‑ dence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

REFUGE RECOVERY ‑ TUESDAYS 6‑7 p.m. A non‑theistic, Buddhist‑in‑ spired approach to recov‑ ery from addictions of all kinds. Dedicated to the practices of mindfulness, compassion, forgiveness, and generosity, this recov‑ ery meeting uses medita‑ tion and kindness to heal the pain and suffering that addiction has caused. Turn‑ ing Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. (802) 388‑4249.

Services C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, taping, skim coat plas‑ tering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

CONSTRUCTION: ADDI‑ TIONS, RENOVATIONS, new construction, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All as‑ pects of construction, also property maintenance. Ste‑ ven Fifield 802‑989‑0009.

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Services

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Garage Sales

Garage Sales

GLASS STUDIO SALE: buy at wholesale prices and see how kiln glass is made. May 3 to May 5 from 10:00 to 4:00. Something for everyone. 2257 Fuller Mtn Rd., N Ferrisburgh.

Call 802‑425‑3034. Com‑ missions welcome.

MAY 4 & 5, 9a.m., storage unit at Bristol Stor‑Mor, Bur‑ pee Road. All items $1.00 or less. Tee shirts, fabric, books, beads, jewelry dis‑ plays, dishes. Make a pile, we’ll make a deal.

Free YOUNG ASPEN TREE, free. Call 802‑877‑3783.

Help Wanted

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Counseling Service of Addison County

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATES CSAC’s developmental services program seeks human service professionals committed to the values of inclusion, choice and respect.

Service Coordinator: This position develops, implements and monitors all aspects of supports in a multidisciplinary program that covers intellectual disabilities/mental health/public safety/TBI/geriatric services. Extensive training and mentoring is provided, but candidates must have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a related field and a B.A. degree. Basic schedule is 8-4pm M-F with some flexibility. Strong supervisory, organizational, inter-personal and documentation skills required. Fast-paced and team-oriented work environment.

Community Support (2): Provide 1:1 support to adults with developmental disabilities in community settings. Help them increase independence and foster the development of communication, social, and behavioral skills. This job requires dependability, the ability to think on your feet and set clear boundaries. Prior experience with working with people with disabilities and implementing behavior support plans preferred. M-F daytime hours.

Good driving record, use of personal vehicle, and clean background required.

Comprehensive benefits with ample paid time-off, health/dental/vision insurance and FSA, retirement plan, disability and life insurance, on-site gym membership.

To apply, submit resume to apply@csac-vt.org, or visit www.csac-vt.org.

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OLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT Munyaradzi Munyati, a Middlebury College student from Zimbabwe, has been volunteering with the Charter House Coalition for the past two years. Munyaradzi shares, “After volunteering there over the course of my freshman summer, I was the Sunday Grille Coordinator with the Charter House Coalition for the duration of my sophomore year. I have enjoyed meeting the many people who come in and getting to be a bit closer to the community. It’s important to me to give back to the community that has hosted me thus far.”

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BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

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CARPENTERS ‑ LOOK‑ ING FOR honest, hard‑ working people to help with busy 2019 season. Call Mark at Pleasant Valley Inc. 802‑343‑4820 in North Ferrisburgh.

Cost Accountant WhistlePig LLC continues to grow, and would like to hire an experienced Cost Accountant for its Shoreham, Vermont location. This person would also spend some time at our Moriah, New York warehouse facility.

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Skills that are needed for this position • A friendly, professional and enthusiastic attitude.

• Able to work flexible hours including nights & weekends.

• Skilled at storytelling and creating an excellent guest experience.

• An interest in distilling, craft spirits, and cocktails, a plus.

• Past experience in hospitality, bartending, guiding, and guest relations also beneficial.

• Must be 21 years of age or older.

BOTTLING OPERATOR WhistlePig is dedicated to crafting a premier whiskey and is looking for passionate, dedicated people to help us grow.

16 Creek Road, Middlebury, VT Phone: 802-388-6054 fax: 802-388-3307

WhistlePig is the most decorated rye whiskey in the world and is located on our 500-acre Shoreham, VT. Currently, we are looking for hospitality folks that have the skills to create a guest experience equal to the premier status of our whiskey and our beautiful state of Vermont.

HOPE HAS A full time opening for a warehouse helper. Duties will include pickups and drop‑offs, as‑ sisting customers, prepar‑ ing merchandise for sale, and more. Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds on a frequent basis, stand for prolonged periods of time, and have excellent commu‑ nication skills. 40 hours a week, with benefits. To ap‑ ply, email resume to HOPE, 282 Boardman Street, Suite 1A, Middlebury, or email to receptionist@hope‑vt.org.

No phone calls or drop ins please. EOE.

Knowledge of SAP Business One Software or very similar Strong foundation in inventory, production, and costing processes and how they flow through software system Good understanding of how to extract relevant and accurate reports from the software system Knowledge of spirits industry preferred Preparation of monthly internal financial reporting and analysis Compliance with and enhancement of internal controls, policies, procedures, and process definition and improvement

See website for full description www.whistlepigwhiskey.com/careers/ Send resume and 3 references to jobs@whistlepigrye.com

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Sales Associate / Customer Service Why Work Here?

“Join a great team of highly motivated people. A well established company with a great reputation, in offering excellent service.”

Here at Countryside Carpet & Paint we are looking for a Customer Service / Sales Associate who will join us in our mission to provide our customers the product selection and service that they deserve for their homes and offices, while offering a friendly atmosphere to shop and make decisions. The ideal team member will back us in this mission and provide service and a smile that will exceed our customer’s expectations.

If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply!

Responsibilities: • Present and sell company products and services to new and existing customers • Engage with customers in a professional and personable way that demonstrates your passion for the product • Resolve customer inquiries and complaints • Set follow-up appointments to keep customers aware of latest developments • Demonstrate design layouts and communications with customers

See website for full description www.whistlepigwhiskey.com/careers/ Send resume and 3 references to: jobs@whistlepigrye.com

Qualifications: Previous experience in sales, customer service, or other related fields Proficient computer skills and the ability to learn new programs

No phone calls, please.

Please email resume and cover letter to: customerservice@countrysidecarpetandpaint.com

Bottling Team - Shoreham VT To meet our growing demand we are looking for quality, detail oriented team members for our bottling line.

Hours: 7:30 am - 3:30 pm.

Must be able to be on your feet for those hours and lift 25 pounds unassisted.

Benefits include health care package, 401K, wellness benefits and more.

For a list of current openings and how to apply: www.whistlepigwhiskey.com/careers/ Send resume and with references to: jobs@whistlepigrye.com

No phone calls, please.

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The Addison Independent is hiring a dynamic individual with boundless creative energy and an optimistic desire to help local business thrive to join our marketing team.

A successful candidate would have: • Knowledge of advertising and/or marketing strategies.

• A tenacious drive to support and grow an existing account list.

• An outgoing personality eager to meet and help develop effective marketing plans for area businesses.

• Excellent communication skills and comfort conducting business over email, phone, and in-person.

• Familiarity with social and digital media and various marketing tools and capacity to help clients navigate the field of options effectively.

This is a full-time position offering a flexible schedule and a lot of room for self-direction. Requires functioning vehicle and drivers license.

Benefits include health care package, 401K, optional gym membership and the opportunity to join a cheerful, familyowned company in Middlebury.

IF THIS IS YOU, LET US KNOW! Christy Lynn, Director of Sales 58 Maple Street | Middlebury, VT 05753 christy@addisonindependent.com

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FARM EMPLOYEE Monument Farms Dairy has a full-time job opening for the night-time milking position. Applicants must have desire to work with animals and recognize herdhealth symptoms. We have a Strong Team Environment. Good Salary and Benefits.

802.545.2119 Please stop by the Dairy in Weybridge to fill out an application.

At the Aurora Preschool, we believe play is the work of children.

We are looking to hire both a full and part time teacher to join our dynamic and expanding preschool program for the 2019 academic school year.

Our ideal candidate will be naturally curious, inspire wonder, love the outdoors in all seasons and weather, and have prior experience working with groups of young children. We are looking for a teacher who has a deep respect and love for the natural world, enjoys working with other adults and has an excellent knowledge and understanding of child development and developmentally appropriate practices.

We offer a competitive salary, sick/vacation/ professional development paid time off and a copacetic work environment.

Please send a cover letter and resume to auroralearningcentervt@gmail.com Aurora Preschool 238 Peterson Terrace, Middlebury

Delivery Driver neeDeD

Class A CDL and two years’ experience required. Must have a clean driving record and be able to lift 50lbs repetitively. Pay based on experience. Paid vacation, Health Insurance and IRA available after probationary period.

Taking loaded truck home at night could be an option for the right candidate. Occasional overnights depending on weather. Stop by to fill out an application at Green Mountain Feeds, Main Street, Bethel, vermont, or send resume to tlittle@greenmountainfeeds.com.

LANDSCAPERS ‑ LOOK‑ ING for honest, hardwork‑ ing people to help with busy 2019 season. Call Mark at Pleasant Valley Inc. 802‑343‑4820 in North Ferrisburgh.

LOOKING FOR A qualified cow feeder to handle feed‑ ing duties for herd. Must be good with numbers. Expe‑ rience welcomed, espe‑ cially with the handling of large equipment. Family friendly farm. Competitive wage packages available.

For more information call Chase at 802‑989‑8848.

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TOWN OF NEW HAVEN Town Administrator Zoning Administrator

The Town of New Haven is seeking to fill the positions of Town Administrator and Zoning Administrator. These can be combined to be a full-time position or two part-time positions. Salary, wages and benefits dependent upon experience and position(s) applied for. The Selectboard is seeking an individual or individuals with strong interpersonal, business, financial, grant writing, planning and zoning skills.

The ability to oversee and manage a small town and its employees. Knowledge of State Statutes and municipal experience are must. Related experience and/or a bachelor’s degree in administration or business; Planning and Zoning experience preferred.

Please send letter of interest, salary requirements, resume and three references to: Town Administrator C/O Town of New Haven by May 20th.

Positions(s) to be filled ASAP. Draft job description available by request and at newhavenvt.com

TOWN OF STARKSBORO ROAD CREW FOREMAN The Town of Starksboro is searching for a full-time Road Crew Foreman.

Under the direction of the Selectboard this position is a working supervisor role that plans and oversees all municipal highway operations in order to advance the safe and effective functioning of the highway department, including municipal construction projects and maintenance of municipal roads, sidewalks, vehicles, and equipment.

The full job description and required application form is available at www.starksborovt.org.

Please mail applications to the: Starksboro Selectboard Rebecca Elder PO Box 91, Starksboro, VT 05487 or email to rebecca@starksborovt.org Applications will be accepted until position is filled. Job will start after July 1.

The Town of Starksboro is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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CITY OF VERGENNES FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

The City of Vergennes is seeking a qualified person to work with the Public Works Department.

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Valid drivers’ license required.

Experience in operation and maintenance of vehicles and equipment used, snow plowing, lawn care, landscaping, concrete, building construction, facilities maintenance preferred.

Duties require the ability to withstand extreme weather conditions and work long hours.

Compensation $16.00-18.00 per hour with excellent employee benefits.

Mail cover letter and resume to: Matt Chabot - Box 35 Vergennes, VT 05491.

For additional job details contact: Jim Larrow, at jlarrow@vergennes.org The City of Vergennes is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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DRIVER

Locally owned Lumber company seeks a mature, responsible, reliable driver to deliver our flooring and wood products. Clean driving record and knowledge of truck care are essential; even more importantly, we’re looking for someone who will be courteous, considerate and helpful while making deliveries to our customers. Hours are approx. 20-40+ per week and an occasional overnight distant delivery may be required.

For an interview please call Tom at: (802) 453-2897 (ext. #2) Lathrop Maple Supply, LLC Route 116, Bristol VT

Help Wanted LOOKING FOR EXPE‑ RIENCED carpenter/ construction worker. Mini‑ mum 2 years’ experience.

Must be willing to do all aspects of construction work. Must have reliable transportation. Pay based on experience. This is a full‑time year‑round po‑ sition. Contact Chris at Summit Up Construc‑ tion, 802‑558‑0784 or send resume to: summitupconstruction@ gmail.com.

PAINTERS ‑ LOOKING FOR honest, hardwork‑ ing people to help with busy 2019 season. Call Mark at Pleasant Valley Inc. 802‑343‑4820 in North Ferrisburgh.

PAINTERS WANTED ‑ Acorn Painting is now hiring for the 2019 exterior sea‑ son. Experience preferred but willing to train. Please have a valid drivers license, your own reliable transpor‑ tation, good work ethic and good attitude. 453‑5611.

PART TIME DELI posi‑ tion. Saturday’s 5:30am ‑ 1:00pm. Prior work experi‑ ence with food preparation in a commercial kitchen/deli required. Applicants should apply in person at Small City Market or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101.

PART TIME REGISTER clerk. Set hours Satur‑ day and Sunday 6:30am ‑ 1:30pm. Prior work related experience preferred. Appli‑ cants should apply in per‑ son at Small City Market or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101.

PART TIME SEASONAL deli position. May 6th ‑ Sept. 27th. Set hours Monday ‑ Friday 7:30am ‑ 2:15pm. Prior work with food preparation in a com‑ mercial kitchen/deli re‑ quired. Applicants should apply in person at Small City Market or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101.

THE SUBWAYS IN Middle‑ bury and Vergennes are looking for sandwich artists to join our team ‑ full‑time, part‑time. Must be reliable, good with people and enjoy a fast‑paced environment.

Apply in store or online at mysubwaycareer.com.

Help Wanted

WOMANSAFE ADVO‑ CATE/ Educator – Full time position to provide direct services to survivors & prevention education in schools and the community.

Strong advocacy & orga‑ nizational skills required.

Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover let‑ ter information about how they will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the organization. Letter of interest and resume to: cg@womensafe.net or Hir‑ ing Committee, Women‑ Safe, PO Box 67, Middle‑ bury, VT 05753.

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WOMENSAFE OUTREACH Advocate – Full time position to provide direct services to survivors & outreach to under‑served populations.

Strong advocacy & orga‑ nizational skills required.

Bilingual (Spanish/English) skills desired. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will con‑ tribute to the diversity and excellence of the organiza‑ tion. Letter of interest and resume to: cg@womensafe. net or Hiring Committee, WomenSafe, PO Box 67, Middlebury, VT 05753.

ZERO TURN OPERATORS. Looking for honest, hard‑ working people to help with busy 2019 season. Call Mark at Pleasant Valley Inc. 802‑343‑4820 in North Ferrisburgh.

For Sale 9’ 6”, 38LB Dagger Kayak.

Comfortable seat & back rest. Comes with a medium adult preserver and a pad‑ dle. $425. Call Kathy at (802) 465‑4249.

COMPLETE SET OF kitchen cabinets. All oak front with particle boxes in great shape. 13 base cabinets and 11 wall cabi‑ nets and we are including the countertops and sink. $1000.00 for all. Can not piece out. Delivery available for extra fee. 802‑352‑6678 802‑349‑7431.

Lake Camp For Sale

Lake Dunmore, Rustic camp on 1.4 acres of land on a hillside overlooking the lake across the road from 320 feet of the best swimming on the lake. Big deck with dock on the water and beautiful sunsets and views from the camp across the road.

FSBO for $234,500.00 cash only.

Call 802-352-6678 or 802-349-7431 and leave a message please.

For Rent BRISTOL 2+3 BEDROOM apartments. Heat, lawn care, snow removal, park‑ ing, small storage space included. 802‑453‑2566.

BRISTOL VILLAGE, HIGHLY visible retail/of‑ fice street level space on the Main Street. Approx.

1,800 SF plus basement storage. Available March 1, 2019. $1,370 mo. Call Tom at Wallace Realty 453‑4670 or Tom@WallaceRE.com.

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.

PEACEFUL ROAD SELF STORAGE Rt. 7 North Fer‑ risburgh. peacefulstorage. com, 425‑4114. Units are $50, $70, $90, & $110.

PROFESSIONAL FEMALE WISHING TO share new and beautifully furnished two bedroom apartment.

All hardwood floors. Rent $575. including utilities.

978‑489‑5810.

SMALL OFFICE SPACE, 656 Exchange Street, Middlebury. $500/month.

802‑388‑4831.

PRIVACY HEDGES ‑ spring blowout sale. 6ft. Arborvitae ‑ reg. $179, now $75. Beau‑ tiful, nursery grown. Free Installation/Free delivery.

Limited Supply. Order now: 518‑536‑1367, lowcosttreef‑ arm.com.

MIDDLEBURY, UPSTAIRS, SPACIOUS 2 bedroom apartment. Close to down‑ town. $1,300/month. All utilities included. Security deposit and references re‑ quired. Available June 1.

Call 759‑2169 evenings.

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MIDDLEBURY, 2,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., cen‑ tral location, parking. Can be subdivided. Real‑Net Man‑ agement Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

ONE BEDROOM apartment.

Available June 1st. $925 month, heat and electricity included. Private and quiet.

No pets, no smoking. New Haven, 802‑377‑7024.

Real Estate EAST MIDDLEBURY, DAI‑ SY Lane Lot #11. Beauti‑ ful, level 1/2 acre building lot with good southern ex‑ posure on a private lane.

Town water, power and cable hookups at curbside. Site approved for four bedroom home with conventional (no mound necessary) septic system. $68,000. Call Jack Brown 388‑7350.

Att. Farmers BRIAN’S FARM SUPPLY, net wrap, bale wrap, baler twine and bunker covers.

802‑355‑2076.

FIRST CUT, SMALL square bales for sale. 802‑759‑2135 or 802‑349‑8515.

FOR SALE: JOHN DEERE 4850, 4wd. Also, BB940 New Holland big square baler and a Claas 650 twin ro‑ tary rake. All in excellent condition. 802‑759‑2135, 802‑349‑8515.

HAY FOR SALE. Small square bales, first cut + mulch. 802‑349‑9281.

W H I T N E Y ’ S C U S TO M FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Cars 1969 DODGE DART. Cus‑ tom 4 door, 6 cylinder. In great condition. 68,000 original miles. Blue. Asking $5,800. Call 802‑352‑6678 or 802‑349‑7431 and leave a message.

MIDDLEBURY 2 BED‑ ROOM near downtown.

Appliances, off street park‑ ing, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY 3 BED‑ ROOM ground floor apart‑ ment with deck and parking, in the center of town. $1,800/ mo. all inclusive. No pets.

802‑349‑8544.

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MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ ROOM, fully furnished apartment, all inclusive, W/D. $1,250/month.

802‑349‑8544.

FOR SALE: 2008 Kia Spec‑ tra. 82,273 miles. New bat‑ tery, all season tires, clean, good condition. $3,500.

802‑388‑2634.

BRANDON: PARK VIL‑ LAGE is now accepting applications for 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. Rents starting at $700, includes heat and trash. No pets.

Laundry on site. Income restrictions apply. Call Sum‑ mit Property Management Group at 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website, summ‑ itpmg.com.

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Trucks 2001 MAZDA PICKUP V6, 2wd, standard, 5spd., B3000. 157,000 miles. Ex‑ cellent condition. One owner. $3,000. 802‑377‑0280.

Wanted Wood Heat FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green.

802‑282‑9110.

Real Estate 2 0 1 9 E N E R G Y S TA R homes, modular, dou‑ ble‑wides and single‑ wides. Open 7 days a week. Beanshomes. com. 600 Rte. 7, Pitts‑ ford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflanders@beanshomes. com. Down payment assis‑ tance now available.

LIONS CLUB NEEDS ‑ stuff for their annual auc‑ tion. Please no appliances or electronics. Call for pick up, 388‑7124. Help us, help others.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer specializing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique collect‑ ibles, etc. Visit bittneran‑ tiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. Consulting/ appraisal services available.

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ProsPect cemetery AssociAtion AnnuAl meeting Public notice

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, 13th of May at 7:30 P.M. for the following purpose.

1. To hear the reports of the officers.

2. To hold election of 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 4/11, 4/25, 4/29, 5/2, 5/6

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 26-2-18 ANCV U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST v.

KEVIN W. RACINE AND ALETA P. RACINE F/K/A ALETA P. KEISMAN OCCUPANTS OF: 2 Booska Court, Vergennes 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 January 31, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Kevin W. Racine and Aleta P. Racine to Champion Mortgage, a division of KeyBank, National Association, dated June 16, 2006 and recorded in Book 63 Page 300 of the land records of the City of Vergennes, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Champion Mortgage, a division of KeyBank, National Association to Beneficial Homeowner Service Corporation, dated January 24, 2007 and recorded in Volume 64 Page 449 a and (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Beneficial Homeowner Service Corporation to U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, dated March 6, 2015 and recorded in Volume 78 Page 120, both with the Land Records of the City of Vergennes for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 2 Booska Court, Vergennes, Vermont on May 8, 2019 at 2:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OF LAND IN VERGENNES, IN THE COUNTY OF ADDISON AND STATE OF VERMONT, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, VIZ: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN BOOSKA COURT, PRESENTLY NUMBERED 2 BOUSKA COURT, IN VERGENNES, COUNTY OF ADDISON AND STATE OF VERMONT, SAID PARCEL BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 260, BLOCK 491, AS MORE PARTICULARLY BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED IN A DEED DULY RECORDED WITH THE LAND RECORDS IN AND FOR VERGENNES, COUNTY OF ADDISON, STATE OF VERMONT IN VOLUME 51 AT PAGE 145, TO WHICH DEED REFERENCE MY BE HAD FOR A MORE SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION OF THE PREMISES HEREBY CONVEYED. TAX ID: 260491.9 Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

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

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : April 4, 2019 By: ___/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren_________ Rachel Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 4/18, 4/25, 5/2

Administrative Rules for Barbers, Cosmetologist, Estheticians & Nail Technicians.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 19P035 AGENCY: Secretary of State, Office of Professional Regulation CONCISE SUMMARY: By Act 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 12, eff. Jan. 1, 2019, the General Assembly converted the regulatory model governing the cosmetology-related professions from board-based regulation to advisor- based regulation by the Director of Professional Regulation. Act 144 recalibrated educational requirement to reduce barriers to marketplace entry. Act 144 also recognized that demand for cosmetology-related services exists outside traditional shop settings. These rules implement the Act by setting necessary qualifications and standards, and by anticipating entrepreneurial demand to provide services in unconventional settings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Gabriel Gilman, Secretary of State, Office of Professional Regulation, 89 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Montpelier, VT 05620-3402 Tel: 802-828-2492 Email: gabriel. gilman@sec.state.vt.us URL: https://www.sec.state.vt.us/professional-regulation/list-of-professions/ barbers-cosmetologists/statutes-rules.aspx .

FOR COPIES: Jennifer Rotblatt, Secretary of State, Office of Professional Regulation, 89 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Montpelier, VT 05620-3402 Tel: 802-828-2191 Email: jennifer.rotblatt@sec.state.vt.us.

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By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record. The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/SOS/rules/.The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

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Rule on Alternative Preparatory Path for Funeral Directors.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 19P036 AGENCY: Secretary of State, Office of Professional Regulation CONCISE SUMMARY: This rule establishes a program of apprenticeship and study for aspirants to funeral director licensure who have not attended a school of funeral service.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Gabriel Gilman, Secretary of State, Office of Professional Regulation, 89 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Montpelier, VT 05620-3402 Tel: 802-828-2492 Email: gabriel. gilman@sec.state.vt.us URL: https://www.sec.state.vt.us/professional-regulation/list-of-professions/ funeral-service/statutes-rules.aspx .

FOR COPIES: Jennifer Rotblatt, Secretary of State, Office of Professional Regulation, 89 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Montpelier, VT 05620-3402 Tel: 802-828-2191 Email: jennifer.rotblatt@sec.state.vt.us.

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Troopers seek pickup truck after hit-and-run in Leicester ADDISON COUNTY — At around 7:16 a.m. this past Friday, April 26, troopers from the New Haven barracks of the Vermont State Police responded to the intersection of U.S. Route 7 and Leicester-Whiting Road in Leicester for a report of a two-vehicle crash.

Police report that a Chevy or GMC pickup was travelling westbound on Leicester-Whiting Road, stopped at the intersection with Route 7, turned on their left-turn signal, and proceeded to enter Route 7 heading southbound.

The driver of the pickup did not yield the right of way to a northbound tractor-trailer driven by David Macmurtry, 60, of Brooksville, Fla., police report.

The tractor-trailer struck the driver’s side rear end of the pickup, causing it to momentarily exit the southbound lane of Route 7, but the pickup drove back onto the highway and proceeded southbound on Route 7.

The vehicle was described as a maroon or grey GMC or Chevrolet, full-size pickup truck, with a wooden rack. Later on Friday, state police said they had located the truck and its driver but did not give any more information other than to indicate that the investigation continued.

Anyone with any information on the crash is asked to call the New Haven barracks of the Vermont State Police at 802-388-4919. People may also submit and anonymous tip online at vtips.info.

Meanwhile, Vermont State Police and other local law enforcement agencies will set up sobriety checkpoints around Addison County, over the next two weeks. This will be done in an effort to monitor the flow of traffic along Vermont’s highways to detect and arrest anyone driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to Sgt. Matthew Daley of the New Haven state police barracks.

In other recent activity, Vermont State Police:

• On April 25 at a little before 1 p.m. responded to a report that a car had struck a pedestrian on Weybridge Road in Weybridge. As reported in Monday’s edition of this newspaper, police report that 9-year-old Matilda Boulanger entered the road unexpectedly and was struck by a car driven by 36-year-old Garrit Smits of Ferrisburgh. Troopers determined that neither alcohol nor drugs were contributing factors. Boulanger was rushed to Porter Hospital and then airlifted to UVM Medical Center, where she died on April 27. This accident remains under investigation; anyone with information regarding this crash is strongly encouraged to contact the Vermont State Police’s New Haven barracks at 388-4919.

• On April 25 at a little after 10 p.m. investigated a noise complaint at a Leicester residence. During the investigation, troopers say they determined that Mildred Martin, 36, of Leicester, had assaulted a 36-year-old Leicester woman. State police cited Martin for simple assault.

• On April 29 at a little before 6 a.m. looked into some suspicious activity at the Shoreham Service Center (Maplefields) on Route 22A in Shoreham. During the course of the investigation troopers learned that Travis Norris, 20, of Shoreham had allegedly been in possession of heroin.

Troopers took Norris into custody and transported him to the New Haven barracks and cited him for possession of heroin.

• On April 29 at a quarter past 11 p.m. were dispatched to Delorm Road residence in Leicester to look into a reported assault. Police said they determined that Joshua Tracy, 28, of Leicester had assaulted someone, so they cited him into court to answer the charge of simple assault.

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MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for April 25th & April 29th, 2019 BEEF Deer Valley P’ship Riverhill Farm T. Correia P. Parent Monument Farms Blue Spruce Farm Nop Bros & Sons

Tom Broughton Auctioneer • Home • Estates • Commercial • Consignments Bridport, VT • 758-2494 tombroughtonauctions.com

Lbs. 1335 1410 2070 1825 1195 1725 1635

CALVES Lbs. R. Allen 114 M. Churchill 112 B. Hanfield 84 Clifford Farm 109 Champlainside Farm 100

Costs per lb .72 .715 .64 .62 .605 .60 .60 Costs per lb 1.55 1.45 1.40 1.30 1.225

Dollars 961.20 1008.15 1324.80 1131.50 722.98 1035.00 981.00 Dollars 176.70 162.40 117.60 141.70 122.50

Total # Beef: 242 • Total # Calves: 286 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

For pickup and trucking, call 1-802-388-2661

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PUBLIC NOTICE ShOrEham_VT - B

Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless is proposing to construct a new 140-foot monopole at N. Cream Hill Road, Shoreham, Addison County, VT. Public comments regarding the potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30days from the date of this publication to: Maggie Klejbuk – CBRE, 70 West Red Oak Lane, White Plains, NY 10604, whiteplainsculturalresources@cbre.com or (914) 694-9600.

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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.

802-388-1966 To publish a legal notice, email information to legals@addisonindependent.com or fax it to (802) 388-3100.

TOWN OF MONKTON REQUEST FOR BID The Town of Monkton is now accepting bids for painting the Town Hall. The bid is to include service prep, caulking, prime and final paint coat for all exterior wood surfaces. Bids also should include replacing of skirt board on South side of the building. The successful bidder must follow the approved paint containing lead practices and show proof of insurance.

Submit a sealed bid to the Town of Monkton, Box 12, Monkton VT 05469 c/o Monkton Selectboard by May 13, 2019.

04/29, 05/02

Public Notices STATE OF VERMONT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION

on Pages 10B & 11B. VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. 169-9-18 ANCV

NEW ENGLAND FEDERAL CREDIT UNION - Plaintiff v.

CORY L. BODETTE, KELLY A. BODETTE and OCCUPANTS of 33 NORTH MAPLE STREET, VERGENNES, VERMONT - Defendants

NOTICE OF JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE SALE

By virtue of the Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure by Judicial Sale entered on March 15, 2019, and the Power of Sale contained in a Mortgage given by Cory L. Bodette and Kelly A. Bodette to New England Federal Credit Union dated June 27, 2008, and recorded on July 7, 2008, in Volume 67, Pages 163-171 of the City of Vergennes Land Records, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, the undersigned will cause to be sold at public auction (“Sale”) at 11:00 a.m. on the 30th day of May, 2019, the lands and premises located at 33 North Maple Street in the City of Vergennes, Vermont (“Mortgaged Property”) described as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Kelly A. Bodette by Warranty Deed of Tammy Jean Cram dated October 6, 2014 and recorded in Volume 77 at Pages 460-461 of the City of Vergennes Land Records, and being more particularly described therein as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Tammy Jean Cram by Warranty Deed of Kelly A. Bodette dated October 6, 2014 and recorded in Volume 77 at Pages 322-323 of the City of Vergennes Land Records.

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Kelly A. Bodette by Quit Claim Deed of Cory Lee Bodette dated August 20, 2012 and recorded in Volume 74 at Page 198 of the City of Vergennes Land Records.

Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Cory Lee Bodette and Kelly A. Bodette by Warranty Deed of Alice W. Ringer dated February 26, 2007 and recorded in Volume 64 at Page 413 of the City of Vergennes Land Records.

A lot of land with buildings thereon, situated on the westerly side of Maple Street, the dwelling house being known and designated as No. 33 North Maple Street, Vergennes, VT Subject to and benefitted by all rights of way, easements, permits, rights and conditions of record.

TERMS OF SALE: The sale will be held at the Mortgaged Property. The Mortgaged Property shall be sold AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND subject to all easements, rights of way, covenants, permits, reservations and restrictions of record, title defects, environmental hazards, unpaid real estate taxes (delinquent and current), current and delinquent assessments in favor of homeowners associations, and municipal liens, to the highest bidder for cash. At the Sale, the successful bidder, other than the Mortgagee, shall pay $10,000 of the purchase price in cash or bank treasurer check. The successful bidder shall execute a purchase and sale agreement requiring payment of the balance of the purchase price within ten days of entry of the court order confirming the Sale. Before being permitted to bid at the Sale, bidder shall display to the auctioneer proof of the ability to comply with these requirements. The successful bidder, other than the Mortgagee, must sign a NO CONTINGENCY purchase and sale agreement satisfactory to Mortgagee at the Sale. Title will be transferred by the order confirming judicial sale. The person holding the Sale may adjourn the Sale for a period of up to thirty (30) days, from time to time until it is completed, by announcement of the new sale date to those present at each adjournment, or by posting notice of the adjournment in a conspicuous place at the location of the sale. Notice of the new sale date shall also be sent by first class mail postage prepaid, to the mortgagor at the mortgagor’s last known address at least five days before the new sale date. The public sale may be adjourned for a period of time in excess of 30 days by agreement of the mortgagor and mortgagee or by order of the Court. Other terms to be announced at the Sale, or contact Robert Prozzo at (802)236-5628.

Cory L. Bodette and Kelly A. Bodette, their successors or assigns, may redeem the Mortgaged Property at any time prior to the Sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including post-judgment expenses and the costs and expenses of sale.

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 24th day of April, 2019.

New England Federal Credit Union By: Herbert J. Downing, Esq. Kolvoord, Overton & Wilson, PC 6 Joshua Way, Suite B Essex Junction, VT 05452 (802)878-3346

ANWSD BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS

PUBLIC NOTICE TOWN OF ADDISON

The Addison Development Review Board will convene a public hearing on Monday, May 20, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Addison Town Clerk’s Office on VT RTE 17 W to address the following application: Please note date and place changes.

1. Application (#19-03) Jorge Martin for conditional-use approval of the mixed use of his residential property located on Mountain Road (tax map ID# 16-00-18.100) as an inn and an occasional venue for wedding parties and other special events in accordance with the provisions of S. 2.4, Table 2.2 (C) and S. 5.7 of the Town’s Zoning Regulations.

The application is available for inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office during normal office hours. Interested parties who wish to appeal or to be heard at the hearing may do so in person, or may be represented by an agent or an attorney. Communications relating to the application may be filed in writing with the Board either before or during the hearing.

N.B.: Participation in a hearing is necessary to establish status as an “interested person” and the right to appeal a decision rendered in that hearing, according to the provisions of 24 V.S.A. 117 S.S.4464 (a) (1) (C), 4465(b) and 4471 (a). Participation consists of offering, through oral or written testimony, evidence or a statement of concern directly related to the subject of the hearing.

Respectfully Submitted, John Spencer, Chair Starr Phillips, Board Secretary E. W. Hanson, Administrative Officer 05/02

The following schedule of the Board of School Directors’ meetings is announced for the month of MAY, 2019.

Friday, May 3

Monday, May 13

7:30 AM

7:30 AM 6:00 PM

Tuesday, May 14

5:30 PM

Monday, May 20

6:00 PM

Facilities Committee Meeting At the ANWSD Office Strategic Planning Committee Meeting ANWSD Conference Room ANWSD Regular Board Meeting At Vergennes Union High School Community Engagement Committee Meeting At Vergennes Union High School ANWSD Regular Board Meeting At Vergennes Union High School

The purpose of each meeting is to transact regular business, including a review of correspondence, reports, approval of bills, and any other business proper to be brought before said meetings, unless otherwise specified.

ANWSD VISION STATEMENT We envision a kind, collaborative, and creative community for all that nurtures a diverse and accessible learning environment. Students will flourish as critical thinkers and productive citizens, cultivating resilience in an ever changing world.

05/02, 06

PUBLIC HEARING FOR SHOREHAM ZONING REGULATIONS AMENDMENT The public hearing date is May 8th at 6:00 PM at the Shoreham Town Office, 297 Main Street, Shoreham Shoreham Village Commercial Design Overlay District and Village Park District The Shoreham Selectboard hereby provides notice of a public hearing, pursuant to Title 24, section 4444 of the Vermont Statutes, to make the Village Commercial Design Overlay District a permanent part of the Shoreham Zoning Regulations and to establish a new Village Park District (VPD). The purpose of the Village Park District is to preserve an unimproved parcel of land for the use and enjoyment of the residents and guests of the Town of Shoreham for recreational purposes. The VPD lies adjacent to, and within easy walking distance of, most of the Village. This proposed district consists of municipally owned land with severe physical limitations for development.

A copy of the full proposal may be found on the Shoreham Town website www. shorehamvt.org, or a copy may be obtained from the Town Office.

Persons wishing to be heard at this public hearing may do so in person, or may be represented at the hearing by a licensed Vermont Attorney or an authorized agent.

Please note that in accordance with Chapter 117, Section 4464, of the Vermont Statutes, participation (by testimony) in this public hearing is a prerequisite to the right to make subsequent appeal.

4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY AD HOC PLASTIC BAG ORDINANCE COMMITTEE

Public Notices NORTH FERRISBURGH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION

The North Ferrisburgh Cemetery Association will hold it’s annual meeting on May 4, 2019 at 9:30 am in the Bixby Library in Vergennes.

04/29, 05/02

ETHAN ALLEN HIGHWAY STORAGE NOTICE OF SALE

Sarah Larocque unit #186, Charles Jacien unit #O004 and Joe Duffy unit #160. To be sold at public auction on May 11, 2019 at 9:00 am to the highest cash bidder. All sales are final.

Unit must be broom cleaned. 4/12

on Pages 10B & 11B. CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, May 20, 2019 at 7:00 P.M. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by Edward and Tina Booska to demolish an accessory building (garage) at 77 Green Street. The request will be considered under Section 1604 of the Zoning and Subdivision Regulations.

A copy of the application is available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office.

April 23, 2019 Peter Garon, Administrative Officer

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The Middlebury Selectboard is seeking applications for appointment to a newly-formed ad hoc committee of diverse community stakeholders that will develop a first draft of a Town ordinance regulating single-use plastic bags, for consideration by the Board. The creation of the Plastic Bag Ordinance Committee follows on Middlebury voters’ approval of Article 12 by Australian ballot at the 2019 Annual Town Meeting, which advised and encouraged the Selectboard to “enact an ordinance that no retail establishment shall provide a SingleUse Carry Out Plastic Bag, defined as a bag with a thickness of less than 4 mils, to a customer at the check stand, cash register, point of sale or other point of departure for the purpose of transporting food or merchandise out of the establishment.”

The Plastic Bag Ordinance Committee will comprise five members and will meet as necessary to craft a first draft of the ordinance, with an anticipated commitment of sixto nine-months. As part of its work drafting the ordinance, the committee will identify and seek input from local stakeholder groups who may be impacted by the proposed regulations.

Candidates should submit a letter of interest summarizing any relevant work background and/or other experience to the Middlebury Selectboard, c/o Kathleen Ramsay, Town Manager, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 No later than 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8, 2019.

04/29, 05/02

TOWN OF SHOREHAM - NOTICE OF TAX SALE

The resident and non-resident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of the real estate in the Town of Shoreham, in the County of Addison, and State of Vermont are hereby notified that real estate taxes for the 2017 and 2018 tax years assessed by the Town of Shoreham remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid upon the following described real estate in the Town of Shoreham as indicated below, to wit: Thomas E. Clayton and Sally C. Dunn: Delinquent 2017 and 2018 Property Taxes Being 2.20 acres of land, more or less, with any and all improvements thereon, located off Route 73, Shoreham, Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Thomas E. Clayton and Sally C. Dunn by Warranty Deed of Barbara May Quenneville dated July 26, 2000, and recorded in the Shoreham Land Records in Book 52 at Page 153 (Parcel I.D. #12-01-30.000).

Amanda Sayers: Delinquent 2018 Property Taxes Being that certain leasehold interest, with any and all improvements now thereon, located at 30 Lake View Lane, Shoreham, Vermont, conveyed to Amanda Sayers by Assignment of Lease and Sale of Levi S. Fullam dated November 30, 2016, and recorded in the Shoreham Land Records in Book 84 at Page 575 (Parcel I.D. #20-01-52.000).

Estate of Pauline Warner and Sharon Bortell: Delinquent 2018 Property Taxes Being 2.25 acres of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and all improvements thereon, located at 263 Doolittle Road, Shoreham, Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to George Warner (deceased) and Pauline Warner (deceased) in a Decree of Partial Distribution in the Estate of Joan Davis, late of Shoreham, VT, dated February 10, 1993, and recorded in the Shoreham Land Records in Book 41 at Page 588A. Reference is made to a Final Decree of Distribution in the Estate of Pauline G. Warner to Sharon Bortell dated April 8, 2019, and to be recorded in the Shoreham Land Records. (Parcel I.D. #02-01-05.002).

And so much of said real estate will be sold at public auction at the Shoreham Town Clerk’s office, a public place in said Town on the 25th day of June, 2019 at 9:00 o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with costs and fees, unless previously paid.

Any questions or inquiries regarding the above-referenced sale should be directed to the following address: Carroll, Boe & Pell, P.C. ATTN: James F. Carroll, Esq. or Wanda M. Murray, Paralegal 64 Court Street Middlebury, Vermont 05753 Telephone: (802) 388-6711 Carroll, Boe & Pell, P.C. and the Town of Shoreham do not give any opinion or certification as to the marketability of the title to the above-referenced properties as held by the current owners/taxpayers.

The only acceptable forms of bid payment at the day of tax sale are: bank check payable to Carroll, Boe & Pell, P.C., Real Estate Trust Account; letter of credit from bank followed by bank check payable to Carroll, Boe & Pell, P.C., Real Estate Trust Account; and/or cash. No personal checks will be accepted.

Dated at Shoreham, Vermont this 22nd day of April, 2019.

Kathleen Brisson, Town of Shoreham Delinquent Tax Collector 4/25, 5/2, 5/9

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Case of fraud under investigation

May Day

MORE THAN 20 people celebrated springtime at the Waterworks Property in Bristol on Sunday with the raising of a May Pole in a traditional Beltane gala. Also known as May Day, Beltane marks the return of greenery and abundance. In the celebration, which is sponsored annually by the Watershed Center, people danced around a large pole braiding it with colorful ribbons while an accordion played. Snacks and drinks followed.

Photos by Jonathan Blake

VERGENNES — Vergennes police on Sunday referred to the FBI the Internet fraud case of a Sunset Drive resident who discovered an unknown third party was trying to sell her home.

Police said they called the phone number listed on the ad and quickly determined it was a fraud, but that the case was out of their jurisdiction and thus they referred it to federal authorities.

Between April 22 and 28 Vergennes police also conducted a number of foot patrols, some focusing on the area around Main and South Water street and Macdonough Park, about which they had received complaints.

They also operated five directed traffic enforcement patrols around the city, issuing three tickets.

Between April 22 and 28, city police also: On April 22: • Checked a complaint that a man was with a child on Hillside Drive with whom he was not supposed to be, and determined it was a case of mistaken identity.

• Helped the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad deal with an attempted suicide; police said the

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woman was taken to the UVM Medical Center and was expected to be OK after drinking bleach.

• Ticketed a truck on Monkton Road for being 3,500 pounds overweight and for traveling on the road without an overweight permit.

On April 23: • Ticketed a tractor-trailer truck for speeding on Main Street.

• Checked a report of a tractortrailer unit with a flat tire on Main Street, but could not find it.

• Took a complaint at the station from a woman who said she was being harassed by texts from another woman who was jealous about a relationship; police advised her to block the number and report any further harassment.

• Checked a report of a fire behind Vergennes Union Elementary School and discovered an outdoor cooking grill in use.

• Helped a motorist get into a locked car on Monkton Road.

• Secured an unlocked door at

Lincoln LINCOLN — The Revenants will be playing as part of the Burnham Music Series on Saturday, May 11, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Burnham Hall.

Bluegrass Gospel Project alums Taylor Armerding, Andy Greene, and Kirk Lord have come together to present original, time-honored, and contemporary Americana music to venues throughout New England. Showcasing compelling, intricately braided vocals and richly textured instrumental work, the three band members bring decades of performing experience to the stage. Tickets are $10 for adults, teens and kids are free.

Lincoln’s 30th Annual TownWide Yard Sale to benefit Weathervane United, Inc. will be held Saturday, May 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. rain or shine. Just $15 to have your own sale at your

the Bixby Library after an alarm sounded.

On April 24 helped VARS with an uncooperative patient on Walker Avenue.

On April 25 dealt with a minor accident in the Vergennes Animal Hospital parking lot.

On April 26: • Heard from a Main Street tenant that his landlord had entered his apartment without permission; the landlord, who police said has filed an eviction notice, told police he did not enter the apartment.

Police determined this was a civil issue.

• Were told an antique motor had been stolen from a storage shed at a Main Street business.

On April 27: • Accepted what police described as enough medications to fill a large box on National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. • Went to a Creekview Apartment to check out what has been a series of unfounded reports of an odor.

On April 28 conducted a background investigation on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security.

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home, the library lawn, or the Weathervane walkway. If you are interested in having a sale, there is a signup sheet at the Lincoln General Store. Call Jodi Gale at 453-2785 for more information. If you’re not able to have a sale this year, please consider making a donation to the Lincoln Historical Society and/or Weathervane Housing. Thank you for your support.

The Lincoln Library will once again have their Plant and Book Sale on Saturday, May 25, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Volunteers are needed to help organize the books and plants on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday before the sale. The library is also looking for people to donate garden plants. If you need help digging them up or want them to be picked up, they can do that.

Book donations will be accepted starting Saturday, May 18. Please

no wet, moldy or mice infested books. If you have questions and/ or want to help, email Sally at sallybaldwin@mac.com.

As part of the town wide yard sale festivities, the Lincoln Fire Department will also be serving up their yummy sausage, hot dogs and fries. Join us for a day of fun, finds, friends and food. See you there.

SAVE THE DATES Tuesday, May 7, is an early release day for MAUSD students.

Dismissal will be at 11:45 a.m.

Come support the Lincoln Library on Saturday, May 18, for their Community Work Day as they prepare the outside space for the summer.

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BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

hen Vogue calls your folk opera the “next musical theater obsession” you know you’ve done something right. When that musical makes it to Broadway, that’s another clue… Yeah, Addison County native Anaïs Mitchell and her show “Hadestown” has made it — big time.

Star struck? Yes, most definitely. This is one of those awesome stories of a local New Haven kid makin’ it big on Broadway. But this star hasn’t forgotten where she came from.

Mitchell, 38, graduated from Mount Abraham in 1999 and then Middlebury College in 2004 (with none other than a poli-sci degree). She collaborated with Michael Chorney of Lincoln on her first two albums, as well as on the folk opera “Hadestown,” which played in its earliest form at the Vergennes Opera House, at Middlebury College and at the Old Labor Hall in Barre in 2006 and 2007. (Spoiler alert: Chorney is now one of two arranger-orchestrators for the Broadway play and is playing guitar in the show every night).

More than a decade ago, “Hadestown” was just one of the things Mitchell was working on. She spent most of her 20s driving around (in a Subaru, of course) playing guitar and singing for whoever would have her. She worked with a couple indie labels early on and then started her own record label for her songwriter indie/ folk/rock/pop albums.

Fast forward to April 17, 2019, and “Hadestown” opens on Broadway in New York City. Mitchell, writer of the music, lyrics and book, took a break from the red-carpet SEE HADESTOWN ON PAGE 8

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IN TOWN Cellist and friends to perform May 10 FINAL CONCERT OF THE 2018-2019 PERFORMING ARTS SERIES AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE TO INCLUDE WORKS BY MOZART, DVOŘÁK, OFFENBACH AND MORE

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perennial Middlebury favorite, cellist Sophie Shao has been praised by the World News for her “sensitive, stylistic playing, with great finesse, emotion, and gorgeous tone,” and she has amassed an extensive collection of talented musical friends. Shao returns to the Mahaney Arts Center on Friday, May 10 for her 11th consecutive season with an exciting new ensemble including violinists Zachary DePue and Arnaud Sussmann, violist Matthew Lipman, and Nathan Farrington on double bass.

Together they will perform selected duets by Mozart, Penderecki, and Meyer, plus rarely heard double-bass quintets including Dvořák’s Op. 77 and Offenbach’s Divertimento über Schweizer Lieder in celebration of the composer’s 200th birthday.

Professor of Music Larry Hamberlin will give a free pre-concert lecture at 6:30 p.m. in Mahaney Arts Center Room 221.

SOPHIE SHAO A native of Houston, Sophie Shao began playing the cello at age six and enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at age 13. She continued her cello studies at Yale University, eventually receiving an M.M. from the Yale School of Music, where she was enrolled as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. Shao received an Avery Fisher Career Grant at age 19, was a major prizewinner at the 2001 Rostropovich Competition, and a laureate of the XII Tchaikovsky Competition in 2002. She has given the world premiere performances of Howard Shore’s Mythic Gardens — a concerto written for her — and Richard Wilson’s Concerto for Cello and Mezzo-Soprano with

Violist Matthew Lipman is a top prizewinner of the Primrose, Tertis, Washington, Johansen, and Stulberg International Viola Competitions, and won a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He was featured on WFMT Chicago’s “30 Under 30” list of the world’s top classical musicians. A native of Chicago, Lipman received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, and is on the faculty at Stony Brook University.

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Cellist Sophie Shao and Friends will perform at Middlebury College on Friday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Mahaney Arts Center.

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Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart, made recital and chamber music appearances with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and Chamber Music Northwest, and recently released a double-CD set of the Bach Cello Suites. She is on the faculty of Vassar College and the Bard Conservatory of Music.

ZACHARY DEPUE Zachary DePue, first violinist with the Indianapolis Quartet, became one of the youngest concertmasters in the country when he was appointed to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in 2007, where he served for more than a decade. He was a founding member of Time for Three, and a former member of the Philadelphia Orchestra. DePue graduated in 2002 from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he served as concertmaster of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.

Winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Arnaud Sussmann has performed at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, major festivals around the U.S., and internationally in Saint Petersburg, Germany, Israel, and at the Louvre Museum in Paris. He regularly appears with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York and on tour, including performances at London’s Wigmore Hall.

NATHAN FARRINGTON Nathan Farrington is a bassist, singer, and composer living in Los Angeles. He regularly appears in the bass sections of many of America’s top orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic. Farrington was recently named the Principal Bass of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra under James Conlon and Placido Domingo.

This performance is sure to impress you, don’t miss on Friday, May 10, 7:30 p.m. Reserved seating tickets are $28 for adults; $22 for Middlebury College faculty, staff, emeriti, and alumni; $10 for youth; and $6 for Middlebury College students; and are on sale at 802443-MIDD (6433) or middlebury. edu/arts/tickets.

Film series hosts final film of season The Hirschfield International Film Series will host its last screening of the academic year (don’t worry, they’ll be back in September) on Saturday, May 4, with “The Farewell.”

Screenings will take place in Dana Auditorium on the Middlebury College campus at 3 and 8 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual lie, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, NaiNai (grandma), has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds there’s a lot to celebrate: a chance to rediscover the country she left as a child, her grandmother’s wondrous spirit, and the ties that keep on binding even when so much goes unspoken. With “The Farewell,” writer/director Lulu Wang has created a heartfelt celebration of both the way we perform family and the way we live it, masterfully interweaving a gently humorous depiction of the good lie in action with a richly moving story of how family can unite and strengthen us, often in spite of ourselves.

(98 minutes).

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IN TOWN Opera deity captured on film SCREENING OF ‘MARIA BY CALLAS,’ TOM VOLF’S 2018 DOCUMENTARY, TO BENEFIT THE MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL AND THE OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY

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he Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival and the Opera Company of Middlebury will co-present the electrifying documentary “Maria by Callas” on Monday, May 6, at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. This special screening will be a benefit event for the two non-profit organizations and will be part of the lead up to OCM’s much anticipated presentation of Massenet’s opera “Cendrillon” beginning May 31 at Town Hall Theater.

Conceived as a highly personal look at the life of Maria Callas, first-time director Tom Volf has constructed a thoroughly engrossing film that reveals much about this globally revered opera diva. As Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described the film and its star, “Closer to a deity than a singer to her devotees, Maria Callas was an extraordinary opera star who brought dramatic intensity and emotional intelligence to her roles, not to mention an off-stage life that included a much-publicized love affair with one of the world’s wealthiest men, fellow Greek Aristotle Onassis. Everything she did made newspaper headlines. But who was she, and what was it like to be in her presence?

“Director Volf initially planned to do a conventional documentary to answer these questions, and in fact spent a year interviewing some 30 friends of the great diva, who died in 1977 at age 53,” Turan continued. “Instead, Volf decided it would be more intimate and revealing to do a film on Callas almost entirely in her own words, using performance footage, TV interviews and home movies as well as letters and unpublished memoirs movingly read by contemporary opera luminary Joyce DiDonato.”

“The Opera Company of Middlebury is looking forward to hosting this benefit screening of ‘Maria by Callas.’ It’s a great addition to the events during opera season here in Middlebury,” said Chip Malcolm, OCM Board Chair. “And we

“Maria by Callas” will screen at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater on Monday May, 6, at 7 p.m.

appreciate having the opportunity to collaborate with the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in making this happen. It’s a film I am intending to see and I hope that all the opera lovers in town will do likewise.”

Doug Anderson, OCM’s Artistic Director, added “the Callas story is unbelievable — not only the artistic life but also but her complicated personal life. Her triangle with Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy is the stuff of grand opera, so I can understand why people are really so excited to see this film.”

“We are thrilled to partner with the Opera Company of Middlebury in bringing Maria by Callas to the community,” noted Lloyd Komesar, MNFF Producer. “The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival continues to look for singular ways to present striking work by first and second time filmmakers and tying in with the pleasure and passion of opera season is exactly this kind of opportunity.”

See what all the fuss is about and come watch “Maria by Callas” on Monday, May 6, at 7 p.m. Tickets to this benefit screening are $25 and available at the Town Hall Theater Box Office, either in person (Mon.Sat., 12-5 p.m.), by phone at (802) 382-9222 or online at townhalltheater.org/calendarand-tickets.

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CALENDAR

ACTIVE

GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB WILDFLOWER HIKE IN LEICESTER. Friday, May 3, Leicester Hollow.

Moderate hike out and back on Leicester Hollow Trail via Minnie Baker Trail, with hope of spring wildflowers. Moderate difficulty, about 5.5 miles round trip from Minnie Baker trailhead with 800foot elevation gain. Bring water, snack/lunch, and appropriate clothing. More info contact leader David Andrews at vtrevda@yahoo.com or 802388-4894. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org.

SPRING WILDFLOWER WALK IN ADDISON. Thursday, May 9, 5:30-7 p.m. Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, 966 Route 17. Vermont Fish & Wildlife botanist Bob Popp will lead the group looking for spring wildflowers. Dead Creek includes one of the largest remaining clay plain Forests in the state, with many unique plant species found here as a result. Meet at the visitor center and go on an easy walk looking for flowers and other unique plants.

ARTS

ART OPENING RECEPTION IN BRANDON. Friday, May 3, 5-7 p.m., Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St. Opening reception for BAG’s exhibit “The Art of Wood.” The show features pieces from the BAG’s exhibiting members, who work in diverse media including paint, fiber, glass, ceramics, collage – and wood. Exhibit continues through June 27.

MAUSD FINE ARTS FESTIVAL IN BRISTOL. Tuesday, May 7, 5-8 p.m., Wednesday, May 8, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., and Thursday, May 9, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Mt. Abraham Union High School, Airport Rd. District Art Gallery will be open in the MAUHS Gym from 5-8 p.m. District Elementary and Middle School Chorus Concert Featuring Moira Smiley with Stefan Amidon and Corey DiMario from 6:30-8 p.m.

“A TOAST TO THE ARTS” FUNDRAISER IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Town Hall Theater’s first-ever fundraising gala event will highlight 28 top artists and their carefully selected works. Half the proceeds go to THT’s performing arts and educational programs. Live entertainment, hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer.

Tickets $25/raffle tickets $5 each or $20 for five, available at townhalltheater.org, by calling 802-382-9222, in person at the THT box office Monday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., or at the door one hour before the event. Preview for ticket holders Wednesday, May 8, noon-5 p.m.

CRAFTS

QUILT AND FIBER GUILD ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING IN VERGENNES. Thursday, May 2, 10 a.m.-noon, St. Peter’s Parish Hall, 85 South Maple St. Come to this meeting aimed at building a community of friendship and a love of our craft. Feel free to bring any show and tell and handwork and your thoughts and ideas for this new guild. Ongoing meetings every first and third Thursdays beginning May 2. More info at stacie. ayotte@yahoo.com or 802-453-7709.

TWIST O’ WOOL SPINNING GUILD ANNUAL AUCTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 2, 6 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Rd. Preview begins at 6 p.m. Auction starts at 7 p.m. All are welcome. Questions? Call 802-453-6919.

MARKET BASKET WEAVING WORKSHOP IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, May 4, TBD, BUNDLE @ 60 Main St. Come to the Middlebury’s new PopUp event space for this half-day basket weaving intensive workshop. Everyone will make and leave with their own Garden Harvest Basket – a small basket with a long leather strap perfect for wearing to the market or foraging for berries.

Cost is $75 available at alexarivera.com. All materials included.

POTTERY SALE IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, May 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Middlebury Studio School, 2377 Route 7. Pottery by Kathy Clarke, Ken Martin, instructors, local potters, studio assistants and students. Find wonderful handmade gifts for Mother’s Day at affordable prices. Also handmade books, cards, jewelry, paintings and some surprises. Everything is made locally and proceeds supports the school and its artists.

MAKE ZANY ZINES AND COMMUNITY MAGAZINE IN MIDDLEBURY. Begins Tuesday, May 7, 3:30-5:3- p.m., BUNDLE @ 60 Main St. Come to the Middlebury’s new Pop-Up event space to create your own mini-magazine about something you love and contribute art, poetry, comics, you name it, to a one-of-a-kind magazine to share with the community. For ages: 8-100. Cost $80. Register by emailing Claire Tebbs at weewren@gmail.com. Continues on May 14, 21 and 28.

DANCE

IMPROVISATION COMPOSITION IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m., Dance Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd.. *NOTE NEW DATE* An ensemble of dancers and

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musicians demonstrates the ability to compose engaging and coherent pieces “in the moment” after a semester-long study of improvisation as a performing art. Directed by Lida Winfield with music by Deborah Felmeth and Ron Rost. Free 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts.

FILM

“THE FAREWELL” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, May 4, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, 356 College St. In this funny, uplifting tale based on an actual life, Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai (grandma), has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. Free.

“MARIA BY CALLAS” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, May 6, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. at Town Hall Theater.

A benefit screening for non-profit organizations the Opera Company of Middlebury and the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Tickets $25, available at the Town Hall Theater Box Office, Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m., at 802382-9222 or online at townhalltheater.org/ calendar-and-tickets/.

“EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, May 8, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life has been less widely understood.

Part of THT’s Great Art Wednesdays film series.

Tickets $13 adults/$8 students (includes a $1 preservation fee).

“ON THE WATERFRONT” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 9, 6-8:30 p.m., Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Middlebury Community Classic Film Club’s third film this spring pits the power of a violent organization against one imperfect man. Can this lone dockworker stand up to the crushing force of a corrupt union boss and his gang? A story of love, power, ethics and personal crisis starring the young Marlon Brando. Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb and Karl Malden make career-defining performances.

“ZENO MOUNTAIN FARM: INCLUSION IN FILMMAKING” IN BRISTOL. Thursday, May 9, 7-8:30 p.m., Holley Hall, 1 South St. Explore

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Zeno’s philosophy and view their 30-minute film “Bulletproof” as well as a short sizzler for “The Homecoming,” a feature-length Zeno-produced film to be released in September 2019. A panel of Zeno community members will offer a brief presentation and Q&A following the screenings.

This One World Library Project event is free and accessible. The Deaf community is encouraged to attend, as there will be an ASL interpreter and the films are captioned.

JOIN IN

STARGAZING OPEN HOUSE IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 3, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman Observatory, Bicentennial Hall, Bicentennial Way, weather permitting. Get a closer view of Mars, a variety of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae through the Observatory’s telescopes.

Free and open to the public as long as the sky is mostly clear. To confirm go to go.middlebury. edu/observatory/ or call the Observatory at 802443-2266 after 7 p.m. on the evening of the event.

to all who seek it. A reception follows the performance to celebrate MCMC’s 5th birthday!

More info at mcmcvt.org.

GYPSY REEL IN BRANDON. Saturday, May 4, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Gypsy Reel has been perfecting their eclectic blend of Celtic and original music for over 20 years. Gypsy Reel plays high energy, stirring music rooted in the Celtic tradition but garnered from the whole world. Tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. ORDINARY ELEPHANT PERFORMS IN RIPTON. Saturday, May 4, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, 1305 Rte. 125. Come hear the International Folk Music Award winner’s when they appear at The Ripton Community Coffee House. 7:30-open mic followed by featured performers $10 general admission/$15 generous admission/$3 kids under 12. Note that the concert marks the return to its Ripton location. Doors open

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Green Up Day is Saturday, May 4. Join the 49-year tradition of communities working together, walking the roads and picking up trash.

GREEN UP DAY IN VERMONT. Saturday, May 4, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Towns across Addison County. Join the 49-year tradition of communities working together, walking the roads and picking up trash. Call your town’s coordinator for details or look for Addison County Information in the Addison Independent.

WARBLER WARM-UP IN BRISTOL. Sunday, May 5, 7:30-10:30 a.m., Bristol Waterworks, Plank Road, east of North St. Ron Payne and Chris Runcie will lead a search for newly arrived spring migrants. Hone your birding identification skills before leaf-out. Call Ron at 802-388-6019 if in doubt about the weather.

MUSIC

THE THREATLES SING THE BEATLES IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 3, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Bistro, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Come hear this young family trio as they entertain with energy, performing a wide variety of the Beatles’ repertoire and other favorites of theirs (and ours). Free and open to the public.

MCMC BENEFIT CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, May 4, 1-3 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Middlebury Community Music Center students and faculty perform a variety of styles sharing lots of great music after a terrific year of learning. All proceeds support MCMC and their goal to offer high quality music instruction

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JAZZ SHOWCASE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m., Lower Lobby, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. This special edition of the Showcase features an array of instrumentalists and singers swingin’ some great jazz! Several members of the class of 2019 will be making their final jazz appearances.

Celebration the music that’s been called America’s National Treasure. Free and open to the public. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts.

POETRY

POETRY READING IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, May 6, 11 a.m.-noon, Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 Eastview Ter. Poet Gary Margolis will read from his newly published collection. Free and open to the public.

THEATER

“AMERICAN IDIOT” ON STAGE ON MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 2, Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4, 7:30 p.m., Wright Memorial

22,000 VOLUNTEERS PARTICIPATE 56,000 GREEN UP DAY TRASH BAGS DISTRIBUTED 200-300 TONS OF TRASH COLLECTED ANNUALLY 6,000 TIRES COLLECTED ANNUALLY 13,087 MILES OF TOWN ROADS CLEANED ON GREEN UP DAY

at 7 p.m. More artist info at rcch.org. Open mic sign up at 802-388-9782 or rcchfolks@gmail.com.

MIDDLEBURY SHAPE NOTE SINGERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 5, 1-3 p.m., Mitchell Green Lounge, McCullough Student Center, Old Chapel Rd. Community singing of traditional songs, anthems, and hymns from the Sacred Harp Song Book, in 4-part, a capella harmony. Loaner books are available. Free and open to all. More info at FaceBook/Middlebury Shape Note Singers or contact David, rosenber@middlebury.edu.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE COMMUNITY CHORUS SPRING CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 5, 3 p.m., Robison Concert Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Jeff Rehbach conducts the 90-voice choir, with Tim Guiles at the piano and special guest Damascus Kafumbe on percussion. Guests include MUHS student Romy Munkres, 2018 Young Tradition Vermont contest winner, who will perform Celtic and Norwegian tunes in special arrangements for fiddle and chorus. Free.

PIANO RECITAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, May 6, 7:15-8:30 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Diana Fanning’s Middlebury College piano students return to EastView for a recital featuring their most recent work.

More info at greenupvermont.org

Theatre, 96 Chateau Rd. The Middlebury College Department of Theatre and Dance presents this musical adaptation of Green Day’s 2004 concept album, featuring The Grift. Tickets $15 general public/$12 Middlebury College faculty, staff, alumni, emeriti, and other ID card holders/$6 Middlebury College students. More info at 802-443-MIDD (6433) or go.middlebury. edu/arts.

“THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE” ON STAGE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 2, Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 5, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Winner of two 2005 Tony Awards, this musical puts audiences front and center at one of the quirkiest competitive events of the school year.

Six awkward middle-school spellers try to keep their cool and win the bee while three wellintentioned adults run the show. Tickets $17, available at Town Hall Theater Box Office.

“HOW TO SIT WITH YOU” ON STAGE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m., Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Rd. In this compilation piece featuring selected playwrights, epic women pursue varied forms of self-realization and liberation. An exercise in yearning, solitude, and finally, healing. Tickets $6. More info at 802443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts.

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Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org Preservation Fee: $1-$2 per ticket

Thu 5/9 5:30-7:30pm $25

A TOAST TO THE ARTS

EXHIBITS 50/50: FIFTY YEARS OF COLLECTING FOR MIDDLEBURY. On view Jan. 25-Aug. 11, featuring one piece of art from every year Middlebury College has formally been acquiring art for its permanent collection.

Middlebury College Museum of Art at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

ART SALE & CELEBRATION

Join THT at this amazing new event – art sale, gala and raffle. Meet some of the best visual artists from our area and have an exclusive opportunity to purchase their works for the benefit of Town Hall Theater.

Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, live music and libations.This gala exhibits carefully selected works from 28 top artists. Half of the sale proceeds fund THT’s performing arts and educational programs.

Thu–Sat 5/2–5/4 @ 8pm; Sun 5/5 @ 2pm; Thu 5/2 $15; Fri–Sun $23/$18 Students w/ ID PRESENTED BY THE MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Winner of two 2005 Tony Awards, this musical comedy puts audiences front and center at one of the quirkiest competitive events of the school year! Six awkward middle-school spellers try to keep their cool and win the bee while three well-intentioned adults run the show.

ALTERED REALITIES. On view April 11-May 4, featuring approximately 35 images for exhibition in the gallery, and 35 for our Online Gallery Annex selected by photographer Brooke Shaden. PhotoPlace Gallery, 3 Park Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-4500 or photos@photoplacegallery.com.

ART OF WOOD. On view May 3-June 25, featuring pieces from the BAG’s exhibiting members, who work in diverse media including paint, fiber, glass, ceramics, collage — and wood. This is part of a series of themed exhibits honoring our planet and celebrating the BAG’s 20th anniversary. The Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

PRESENTED BY MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER

AS IT WERE. On view for the month of May, featuring new works by Vermont painter Kathryn Milillo. An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 10, from 5-7 p.m. Edgewater Gallery on the Green, 6 Merchants Row, Middelbury. (802) 989-7419 or edgewatergallery.co.

Celebrating its 5th Annual Benefit Concert, students and faculty of the Middlebury Community Music Center will perform a variety of styles sharing lots of great music after a terrific year of learning.

ERIC NELSON PHOTOGRAPHY. On view March 29-May 5, featuring images whose common themes are pattern, rhythm, and the interaction of color and light in nature. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

Sat 5/4 1pm (reception to follow) $10 General/$20 Generous

5TH ANNUAL MCMC BENEFIT CONCERT

Mon 5/6 7pm $25

MARIA BY CALLAS

PRESENTED BY MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL AND OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY

A special benefit screening for OCM & MNFF. This highly personal look at the life of Maria Callas is a thoroughly engrossing film that reveals the globally revered opera diva. As noted in the LA Times, Maria Callas was “closer to a deity than a singer to her devotees.”

Wed 5/8 11am & 7pm $13/$8 Students GREAT ART WEDNESDAYS

EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames is widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from modernism to the computer age is revealed.

Fri 5/10 7pm $13 MNFF WINTER/SPRING SCREENING SERIES

WILDLIFE

Based on the Richard Ford novel and marking the directorial debut of Paul Dano, this New York Times critic’s pick is a “domestic drama both sad and terrifying.” Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and with a remarkable performance by Carey Mulligan, The NY Times also notes that “the entire cast does exceptional work” and that “Dano’s direction is meticulous in every respect.”

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ICE SHANTIES: FISHING, PEOPLE & CULTURE. On view through the summer, featuring the structures, people and culture of ice fishing seen through the lens of Vermont-based Colombian photographer Federico Pardo — with audio reflections from the shanty owners drawn from interviews conducted by the Vermont Folklife Center.

Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St., Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org.

KEEP IT SIMPLE. On view April 4-May 31, featuring paintings with one subject by Salisbury artist and cheese maker Hannah Sessions. An opening reception will be held on April 19, from 5-8 p.m. During the opening reception Sessions will speak about her process and this body of work. Greg Bernhard, her husband and co-owner of Blue Ledge Farm, will read excerpts from his new poetry anthology “Goats & Those Who Live By Them.” Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St., Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com.

NATURE IN FLIGHT. On view through May 11, featuring works inspired by birds, butterflies, insects and other airborne creatures by Alison Parsons, Kileh Friedman, Kathy Mitchell, Marsha Chase, Karen Emerson, Annemie Curlin, Georgia Heise, Phoebe Stone, Meg Walker and others.

Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main St., Vergennes. (802) 877-3850 or creativespacegallery.org.

POETRY ON AND OFF THE PAGE. On view through the summer, featuring “Object Poems” by Vermont-based poet and translator Jody Gladding along with fine press poetry broadsides and manuscripts by poets such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and William Carlos Williams.

Middlebury College Special Collections, Atrium, Lower Level, and Special Collections, Davis Family Library. (802) 443-3028.

WORKING WITH WOOD AND WATER. On view in May, featuring a solo show of woodblock prints in the traditional Japanese manga method by Matt Brown over the past 20 years. An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 10, from 5-7 p.m. Edgewater Gallery at The Falls, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. (802) 458-0098 or edgewatergallery-vt.com.

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MUSIC WalkOver concert room hosts final show of the season

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or the last concert of the 2018-2019 series, the WalkOver concert room will hosts a traditional ensemble with wide geographic origins on Friday, May 10, at 8 p.m. Come hear fiddler Ryan McKasson from Tacoma, Wash., guitarist and vocalist Eric MacDonald from Boston, Mass., and Vermont’s Jeremiah McLane on accordion in an intimate evening of traditional tunes.

All three are masters of tradition who purposefully explore the dark corners floating on its edges. Their individual artistry on fiddle, accordion, guitar and vocals combine in a complex blend, full of spontaneous musicality.

Pulling from many strands of influence, they create a swirling level of intensity that traverses darkness and light.

An air of mystery pervades a sound compelling enough

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Hilton Park plays their unique folk music in Brandon Hilton Park is an Americana/folk trio with a unique sound from southern Maine made up of father, Bruce Hilton, youngest son Connor and close musical partner, friend and neighbor Gregg Pannier, a classically trained organist and piano virtuoso. The trio is making the return trip to Brandon this coming Mother’s Day weekend to perform once again at Brandon Music on May 11.

The WalkOver concert room in Bristol will host Vermont’s Jeremiah McLane on accordion, fiddler Ryan McKasson, and guitarist and vocalist Eric MacDonald in an intimate evening of traditional tunes on Friday evening.

to transcend boundaries and appeal to music lovers of all stripes.

Their live performances are full of organic banter and good humor to go along with the music. They create an environment of their own

design, drawing in listeners without pretense.

See ya at 15 Main Street in Bristol next Friday. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 day of. To make reservations or get more info, email walkover@mac.com.

live music THE THREATLES MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 3, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

MCMC BENEFIT CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, May 4, 1-3 p.m., Town Hall Theater.

GYPSY REEL IN BRANDON. Saturday, May 4, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

ORDINARY ELEPHANT IN RIPTON. Saturday, May 4, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

THE GOOD PARTS IN BRISTOL. Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m., Hatch 31.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE COMMUNITY CHORUS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 5, 3 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

DIANA FANNING PIANO STUDENTS’ RECITAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, May 6, 7:15-8:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

JAZZ SHOWCASE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

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Although the trio started out writing and playing music together for their own enjoyment, within a very short time (eight months to be exact) they found themselves recognized by the New England Music Awards (NEMA) as one of the best roots acts in New England and by the Boston Examiner as the band that has “reinvented acoustic.”

Today Hilton Park is renowned for being virtuoso musicians, styling traditional folk/country instruments with fresh and original tunes.

Their stage show includes up to 10 acoustic instruments, (six and 12 string guitars, dobro, mandolin, bouzokki, Weissenborn and dulcimer) played skillfully by the father and son duo with musical partner playing virtuoso piano.

Hilton Park has a beautifully crafted melodic voice. Their harmonic finesse, likened to Crosby, Stills and Nash, authentic lyrics and good song craft continues to enthrall audiences, putting many listeners on the edge of their seats. “Every song tells a story, and there’s a story behind every song” is their mantra. And they continue to weave stories into classic melodies and lyrics.

Since the Hilton Park sound was established in 2013 the trio has continued to release albums and win awards. In 2015 they won the NEMA for “Best in State: Maine” and in 2017 their third album “Moments” was nominated for “Album of the Year” (their fourth nomination to date) and their song “Stupid Game” won the Academia Award for “Best Song” in the Folk Singer / Songwriter category 2017.

See for yourself, and bring Mom, on Saturday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m. Concert tickets are $20. A pre-concert dinner is available for an additional $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295, email edna@brandon-music. net or visit brandon-music.net for more info.

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The workers chorus sings and stomps on stage in “Hadestown” written by New Haven native Anaïs Mitchell, and now playing on Broadway in New York City.

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life to tell the Addison Independent all about “Hadestown.”

If you were to sum up “Hadestown” in a sentence or two, how

would you describe it?

“Hadestown” is based on Greek mythology and tells two intertwining love stories — the young love story of the musician/poet Orpheus and his bride Eurydice, and the older story of the ancient, crumbling marriage between Hades (King of the Underworld) and Persephone (Queen of nature and the season).

How did you come up with the idea for this folk opera?

The very beginning of the thing was just some lyrics that came into my head that seemed to be about the Orpheus and Eurydice story. “Wait for me, I’m coming / In my garters and pearls / With what melody did you barter me / From the wicked underworld.” (Those lines, by the way, never ended up in any production, but the melody became the song “Wait for Me”.) Once I got into it I was inspired by the idea of this artist character who goes up against the machine and tries

to change the rules of the world for love.

Why did you choose the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as the baseline of this story?

I think the story chose me, and not the other way around. It’s a curious, mysterious, generous myth that keeps giving and refracting light in different ways — an ancient story that really speaks to our present day.

What was the journey like taking “Hadestown” from a small town stage all the way to Broadway?

It’s been a long road, and every step of the way has just been one foot in front of the other, feeling my/our way in the dark. I’m so grateful for all my collaborators at every part of the journey, and I’m grateful that Broadway audiences seem ready to embrace this unconventional, romantic, political piece, seem hungry for new approaches to storytelling via music.

I’m so proud that this piece didn’t originate in some producers meeting in Manhattan, but really grew organically out of the wild woods of Vermont.

What was the show like the first time it was performed in 2006, compared to the show now on Broadway?

The early shows in Vermont were directed and

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designed by a radical theater artist named Ben T. Matchstick. Ben’s stamp is still in the DNA of the sho and he is still credited in the Broadway program as a “co-conceiver” of the piece. Local musical hero Michael Chorney, one of our two orchestrators who plays guitar in the show every night, was working on the arrangements from the moment the first songs were written, and it was he and his band playing at those performances. The show back then was shor and more abstract, but it was beautifully staged; in addition to the songs, there were long sequences o instrumental music and visual storytelling.

The Broadway show is a quite different animal... twic as long, and much more text-driven. There is a narr (Hermes) guiding us through the story, and charact speak to each other (in rhyming verse) between an the middle of songs in underscored recitative scen These are meant to help us track the storytelling an the arc of our characters in a moment-to-moment w rather than a sort of “portraiture” way. And there are think, the kind of thrilling visual “spectacle” momen that make it feel “Broadway.”

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ery rarely do you witness a work of art or a performance so fresh, so vital, so extraordinary that you think, “Wow, this might be just be a game changer.”

But that’s exactly what I thought as I exited a Broadway theatre a couple weeks ago after seeing Anaïs Mitchell’s “Hadestown,” which was still in previews.

BY ANDREA CHESMAN

Reeve Carney as Orpheus and Eva Noblezada as Eurydice.

Amber Gray as Persephone and the Broadway cast of “Hadestown.”

“Hadestown,” has at its core the story of Orpheus who journeys to the underworld to rescue his fiancée Eurydice, whose hunger has led her to make a pact with the devil. That story of young love is blended with the mature and complex love story of Hades, ruler of the Underworld, and Persephone, who spends half the year with Hades and half year on the surface of the Earth, causing the seasons to happen.

Patrick Page as Hades and Amber Gray as Persephone.

director of “Hadestown”? What influences did she have on the show?

I met Rachel in 2012 after I saw her direction of “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812” at a tiny offBroadway theater called Ars Nova. I was blown away by her work on that show and the way a show that unconventional could be so delightful and accessible. I began working with Rachel on “Hadestown” in 2013.

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In addition to being a visionary director, Rachel has been a very loving, aggressive dramaturgical partner to me for the last six years. I’ve had to write and rewrite the show fairly constantly between workshops and productions to try to take it from what was initially a more abstract, poetic version of the story, toward what is hopefully a more clear and dramatically satisfying piece that still works at the level of music and poetry.

Rachel’s tough, smart, relentless, and she loves her work and those she works with. It’s been an inspiration to watch a woman lead a room full of people with fearlessness and grace.

Do you feel like your original conception for “Hadestown” is still alive in the show now?

I believe there is a spirit about this show that has

André De Shields as Hermes.

been there from the beginning — a way in which the show and its themes and images are bigger than any of us who’ve ever worked on it, and it carries us on its back. And there’s a spirit of collective music-making and the joy and hope and togetherness feelings of that that still feels really alive to me. I’m gonna sound like a hippie but I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that singing together with other people makes us feel less alone in the world.

How has “Hadestown” changed you? What lessons do you hope audiences will take with them after the show?

I’ve been working on this show, or at least living with it in some form, for a third of my life! So it’s been a constant companion and really given meaning to my life for a long time. I think at every stage of the game — whether it was easy or hard — it’s been a reminder that collaboration is worth the struggle, that when artists come together fruitfully it is possible to make something that is truly a sum greater than its individual parts.

All my love to Addison County! xo, Anaïs

You might have seen an earlier iteration of this long-in-development production (it started as community theatre in 2007) and not been overwhelmed. Or perhaps you are scared off by the idea of a “folk opera.” Or maybe you are uninspired

by Greek mythology. I am offering this review to say that I have seen this work of art evolve into a masterpiece of theater.

You can call it an opera because there is little in the way of spoken dialogue, but the music is grounded in the folk tradition with nods towards dustbowl ballads, blue-collar rock, honky Southern soul, gospel and New Orleans jazz, with a trombone that underscores that funky sound.

Michael Chorney, of Lincoln, was responsible for the orchestration, along with Todd Sickafoose, and their contributions are evident, with a band consisting of the trombone, drums, keyboard, bass, cello, violin and guitar remaining on stage.

The leads are all played by outstanding award-winning SEE REVIEW ON PAGE 11

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the movie AMAZING GRACE — RUNNING TIME: 1:29 — RATING: G Amazing Grace is a documentary that presents Aretha Franklin singing with a choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.

Here it is after being shelved for 38 years because of a complex mess of problems. One non-fixable block was the failure of director Sydney Pollack to understand how to sync images with sound. Back then, that could not be fixed. Add to that Aretha Franklin’s own refusal to allow release of the film that has now been released after her death at 76.

This documentary is intriguing on every level. With her career of multiple hits and gospel stardom secure, Franklin came to the making of this twoday documentary wrapped in quiet dignity and serious determination to record her musical career in two sessions. The two days unfold in an absorbing mix of confusion, talent and emotion.

Reverend James Cleveland is the in-scene director while also playing the piano accompaniment for Franklin. We watch the extraordinary singer unleash the gospel winners of her career while the backup singers, spectators, and performers themselves express their appreciation and astonishment with great enthusiasm as they listen to their star.

On these two days in 1972, Franklin sings the songs she made famous in her youth. Even if you stand at a huge distance from this talent and the culture, just try to stop being moved as you watch it. Then ask yourself if what you are feeling isn’t a deeply genuine expression you never expected.

On both nights, the woman who reaches us wears flowing floor length dresses in beautiful colors and patterns that cover every inch of her except her face. What a contrast to the singers of today who stand stiffly in almost-no-clothes — the compulsory uniform for performers in our

Aretha Franklin and James Cleveland star in “Amazing Grace” (2018).

time. Franklin delivers her gift as she stands quietly behind the mic and we are both riveted and contained as we marvel at what we see and hear.

Though her stillness and dignity surprise us, the whole room is electrified every time she sings. Be sure to watch her hands when she plays the piano. The feeling is that this woman is an instrument of delivery for the inexplicable talent and rhythm that were part of her from childhood.

Watch her father as he reminisces about the trip they took together when she was 11 years old.

As the camera shifts often among those assembled on screen — chorus, spectators, speakers — we watch the room full of individuals reacting with a heap of differing personalities. Some sing, some collapse, some swirl, and while they do, they are reflecting the rising excitement being generated by Franklin. She is a woman with deep natural dignity who sings from her heart with the voice she was given and learned how to use.

Anyone who sees “Amazing Grace” will feel grateful to those who rescued it from the oblivion where it rested for 38 years.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

the book

MEDICAL MEMOIRS

THE VALEDICTORIAN OF BEING DEAD: THE TRUE STORY OF DYING TEN TIMES TO LIVE — BY HEATHER B. ARMSTRONG

When Breath Becomes Air,

by Paul Kalanithi

(Gallery Books)

Brain on Fire, by Susannah Cahalan Heather Armstrong, otherwise known as dooce or Our Lady of Perpetual Depression, is a writer with an unmistakable voice and an ability to mix pathos and humor in such a way as to induce simultaneous crying and laughing. She is the de facto originator of mommy blogs and her blog, dooce.com, has received numerous awards, including a lifetime achievement award. Hints of a troubled side were always evident in her dark humor and she has always been almost ridiculously candid, but the severity of her mental illness and struggle with depression is now fully uncovered in her new book, as well as her remarkable treatment successes. This open and sincere account describes, in excruciating detail, a controversial experimental procedure, conducted through a clinic at the University of Utah School of Medicine, which mainly consisted of Heather being put into a medically-induced coma (yes, 10 times) in order to overcome her severe clinical depression. There is no subterfuge. She is literally brain dead for 15 minutes at a time, and as she so bluntly puts it, for someone who actually wanted to be dead, this was the next best thing. You will not soon encounter another story quite like this told in quite this manner. It’s a must-read.

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

The Bright Hour, by Nina Riggs How to Be Loved,

by Eva Hagberg Fisher Everything Happens for a Reason,

by Kate Bowler Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8,

by Naoki Higashida Sick: A Memoir,

by Porochista Khakpour I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, by Maggie O’Farrell A Really Good Day, by Ayelet Waldman

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performers. Patrick Page as Hades doesn’t so much sing as growl; his menace as an exploiter of people and resources is palpable. Hermes, the Greek messenger of the gods and narrator is played brilliantly

by André De Shields, who brings a sense of mischief to the role. In this iteration of the play, his role is expanded and he provides much needed context for those unfamiliar with the Greek backstory. Amber Gray as Persephone is a raucous yet tragic figure, making you aware of both her love of Hades and her despair over the cost of that relationship. Eva Noblezada as Eurydice is world-weary yet innocent, her powerful voice embues the story with tragedy.

The biggest surprise in this production is how much the role of Orpheus, played by Reeve Carney, has been strengthened. In earlier productions, his innocent tenor voice appeared as weakness and his appeal to Eurydice was somewhat incomprehensible.

Now the song he is composing to save the world echoes in my mind daily.

As impressive as the cast is, as brilliant as the staging is, in the end it is Mitchell’s music — both tunes and lyrics — that resonates so strongly. With characters embedded in Greek mythology, Mitchell manages to touch

on out-of-control capitalism, deadly climate change, and fear of immigrants. Act I ends with a spine-tingling song composed more than 10 years ago that could have been written this year it is so relevant. Hades asks, “Why do we build a wall, my children, my children?” and the workers, who function as a Greek chorus answer, “Because we have and they have not/ Because they want what we have got/ The enemy is poverty/And the wall keeps out the enemy/And we build the wall to keep us free/ That’s why we build the wall/We build the wall to keep us free.”

And, when Eurydice cries out to her lover, “Orpheus, I’m hungry.” Hades is there with an offer that mocks Orpheus’s promises: “Hey little songbird, let me guess/He’s some kind of poet, and he’s penniless/Give him your hand/He’ll give you his hand/to mouth/He’ll write you a poem when the power’s out.”

The tale, as Greek tragedies are wont, doesn’t end well. As Hermes also says, “It’s an old tale from way back when.” But for the cast the night I saw the show, who were besieged by fans and flowers at the backstage door, as well as for Mitchell, it seems like it was a new beginning. I advise getting a ticket soon, before the price and availability goes out of reach, as with “Hamilton,” that other show that joined a different musical style of brilliant lyrics.

Ripton-based food writer and author of many cookbooks Andrea Chesman has followed both Anaïs Mitchell’s and Michael Chorney’s careers for a long time.

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Rotate veggies for best yield

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hen you’re planning your veggie garden layout, avoid planting members of the same plant family in the same spot that they were in last year, or even the year before. This is called “crop rotation.” Members of the same family are susceptible to the same diseases and insect infestations, and utilize the same nutrients. Planting crops from the same family in the same bed, year after year, can deplete soil nutrients, even with proper fertilizing.

BY LEONARD PERRY

For example, avoid planting members of the tomato family (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and eggplant) in the same place year after year. Likewise, the cucumber family contains this and melons and squash; the onion family has, in addition, leeks and garlic; the cabbage family has this crop and many others such as broccoli, cauliflower, kale, radishes and turnips.

There are various other crop rotations you may read or hear about, but a simple one revolves around nutrient use. Leafy crops (lettuce, spinach, cabbage for instance) need lots of nitrogen, so start them out in beds that are new or enriched well with compost and manure. The next year, in this same bed, planting fruiting crops such as tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, and peppers. They don’t want much nitrogen, but lots of phosphorus.

The third year, in that same bed, plant root crops such as onions and carrots. These mainly need potassium, and grow fine if there is less nitrogen and phosphorus from the previous years. Finally, in year four, plant legume crops such as beans and peas that actually put nitrogen back into the soil. Add lots of compost and manure the fall of that fourth year, with other nutrients, and you’ll be ready to restart your rotation the following spring.

Leonard Perry is a Horticulture Professor Emeritus at the University of Vermont.

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Eva Noblezada stars as Eurydice in “Hadestown,”, which opened on Broadway April 17 in New York City.

Anaïs Mitchell of New Haven wrote the play over a decade ago with the help of Michael Chorney of Lincoln. They’re both still involved with the show every night on Broadway.

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real estate awesomely easy landscaping projects It’s your yard — yours to do with as you wish.

And while that’s great, that doesn’t mean you have to be one of those people who spends every spare moment in their yard, sprucing it up.

But, still, your landscaping could use a little something. But something easy.

Here are three totally doable projects that your budget will barely notice, but your neighbors definitely will.

#1 ADD SOME (TOUGH) EDGING Tell your grass who’s boss with edging that can stand up to even the crabbiest of all crabgrasses.

But don’t make the mistake that many homeowners make of buying the flexible plastic stuff, thinking it will be easier to install.

It’ll look cheap and amateurish from day one.

Worse, it won’t last. And before you know it, you won’t be able to tell where your garden bed ends and your “lawn” begins.

Instead buy the more rigid, tough stuff in either fiberglass, aluminum, or steel.

#2 CREATE A BERM A berm is a mound of gently sloping earth, often created to help with drainage. You can also build them to create “island beds,” a focal point of textures and colors that are so much more interesting than plain ol’ green grass.

Plus, they’ll give you privacy — and diffuse street noises. What’s not to like about that?

Especially if you live in more urban areas.

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For most yards, berms should max out at 2-feet high because of the space needed to properly build one.

They need a ratio of 4-6 feet of width for every foot of height.

That’s at least 8 feet for a typical 2-foot high berm. So be sure you have the room, or decrease the height of your berm.

Popular berm plantings include: • Flowering bushes, such as azaleas • Evergreens, such as blue spruce • Perennials such as periwinkle • Tall, swaying prairie grasses • Lots of mulch to keep weeds away

#3 MAKE A FLAGSTONE WALL Aim to build a wall no more than 12 inches tall, and it becomes a super simple DIY project — no mortar needed at all.

How to build an easy flagstone wall: • Dig a trench a couple of inches deep and wide enough to accommodate the flagstones.

• Fill with pea gravel and/or sand and tamp to make level.

• Lay out the flagstones to see their shapes and sizes.

• Stack the smaller stones first.

• Save the largest, prettiest flagstones for the top layer.

• Backfill with gravel.

• Choose a stone of consistent thickness.

• Flagstone might be limestone, sandstone, shale — any rock that splits into slabs.

For more tips and tricks visit houselogic.com.

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did you know?

OXYGEN IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE ROOTS OF GRASS TO BREATHE AND GROW STRONG ENOUGH TO SUPPORT HEALTHY LAWNS.

According to the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, compacted soil can produce a decrease in oxygen content that can make it hard for roots to thrive. Soil compaction can result from a number of activities, including walking on grass or driving or parking vehicles on grass. When soil is compacted, it breaks into small particles that reduce the amount of pore space in the soil. That makes it hard for water, oxygen and nutrients to get through, threatening the strength of the roots and putting the grass in jeopardy. Aerating a lawn can help homeowners foster strong root growth and healthy grass. When to aerate may be contingent upon local climate, so homeowners who suspect the soil in their yards is compact should consult with a local landscaping professional to determine the best time to aerate their lawns. — Metro Creative

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