Thursday, June 21, 2018

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In a new film François Clemmons talks about how Mr. Rogers changed his life. See Arts+Leisure.

Four schools graduated and eight alums tell their stories. Read about them all in Section C.

The Legion baseball team opened its season this week. See what happened on Page 1B.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 72 No. 25

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Two Democrats share priorities in their House bids

Birong seeks support for small businesses

By JOHN FLOWERS VERGENNES — The table appears set for 3 Squares Café owneroperator Matt Birong of Vergennes to join the Vermont Legislature.

Barring a write-in campaign or a minor party candidate entering the race later this summer, Birong and incumbent Rep. Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, will run unopposed on

Nov. 6 for Addison-3’s two Vermont House seats representing Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes and Waltham.

It would be the first time ever that two Democrats held both seats in what has traditionally been a Republican stronghold.

Incumbent Rep. Warren Van Wyck, R-Ferrisburgh, is not running

for re-election.

Birong, 41, a lifelong Vermonter, is pleased to have been granted a direct path to the House, where he wants to become a voice for his constituents — including those like him who run small businesses.

“Vermonters deserve solutions, and I am ready to get to work,” Birong (See Birong, Page 13A)

Shoreham’s Wilson urges health reforms

By JOHN FLOWERS SHOREHAM — Barbara Wilson loves tending to her crops at the Solar Berry Farm in Shoreham. And along with harvesting berries these days she’s planting the seeds for what she hopes will be a successful run for the Addison-Rutland seat in the Vermont House that represents the towns of Benson, Orwell, Shoreham

and Whiting.

Wilson, 62, grew up on a dairy farm in Portland, Mich. She and her siblings spent many long days tending to the herd and other agricultural chores.

“When you had a small dairy farm, your family was your workforce,” she said with a smile.

Wilson enjoyed agricultural

Welch sees kids fenced at border

By MICHELLE MONROE St. Albans Messenger TEXAS — “Appalling” and “un-American,” those are the words Vermont Congressman Peter Welch used to describe conditions in a processing center in southern Texas where children have been separated from their parents.

Welch spoke with the St. Albans Messenger by phone Sunday evening after visiting a processing center known as “the Icebox,” while en route to the Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, where teenagers are being held.

At the Icebox, a converted warehouse, Welch described children as young as three or four separated into groups based on gender and age by chain link fence. Above their heads was more of the fencing, he said.

“It’s like a big, windowless warehouse, that has, in effect, (See Welch, Page 16A)

Technology no obstacle to language education

By JAMES FINN MIDDLEBURY — Lillian Stroebe, who founded the Middlebury College Language Schools in 1915, said Middlebury was an ideal location for an immersive language program because of the degree of isolation it offered.

“Middlebury was actually chosen because at the time, it was in the middle of nowhere and students would come here and there wouldn’t be a lot of distractions and you could create the kind of isolation that would allow them to do that full immersion,” said Stephen Snyder, current dean of (See Education, Page 14A)

pursuits, but had a mind for figures.

She enrolled at Michigan State University, where she would earn a degree in mathematics.

She assumed she would become a teacher, but advances in technology during the 1970s were creating new opportunities for people with solid math skills.

(See Wilson, Page 13A)

New startup puts down roots in Middlebury

VCET propels a new outdoor clothing brand

VERGENNES UNION HIGH School Principal Stephanie Taylor is all smiles as senior Dakota Spear celebrates after receiving his diploma at commencement last Friday night.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

VUHS graduates showered with love Keynote speaker emphasizes emotion

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — The members of the Vergennes Union High School Class of 2018 this past Friday, June 15, took their final group bow and walked out into their futures. They did so after being showered in a steamy gym by confetti cannons; advice from several sources, including their peers; and, according to graduation speaker Chris Sheehan, the love of not only their families and friends,

but also their teachers.

The 65 members of the Class of 2018 had developed a bond with Sheehan, now teaching elsewhere, when he taught them in middle school five years before. Even after he was a victim of downsizing at VUHS he spoke to them at their 8th-grade step-up ceremony.

Class of 2018 President Mason Charlebois introduced Sheehan and said the class decision to invite him back was almost unanimous.

Charlebois said Sheehan always “made learning enjoyable” and showed the class the “impor-tance of dialogue in changing the world.”

He also “continues to inspire” the graduates.

Sheehan said it was hard to give advice to the class because they didn’t need it.

Sheehan said he learned while attending the annual senior charity walk two weeks earlier that the members of the class were already ambitious and had made plans for their futures, they were not afraid

to leave the state and challenge themselves, and were already committed to making a difference in the community, as evidenced by the successful walk that raised $4,500 for the John Graham Shelter.

Realizing that he was running out of advice to give, Sheehan said he simply ditched the challenge of offering a speech with memorable guidance: “Problem solved.”

Instead, he drew inspiration from an 8th-grade assembly in which teachers each addressed the class.

(See VUHS, Page 15A)

Farmers do their part to reduce food waste

ELMER FARM CO-OWNER Spencer Blackwell, shown with his daughter Ida at their on-farm CSA pick-up in Middlebury, said his farm donates thousands of pounds of produce that could not be sold.

Independent photo/Rachel Cohen

By RACHEL COHEN may be lost each year in Vermont, ADDISON COUNTY — 2014 according to new research from was a great year for cabbage in Salvation Farms of Morrisville Vermont. Spencer Blackwell’s and the Johns Hopkins Center for cabbages on Elmer a Livable Future.

Farm in Middlebury This food is either “It’s difficult to grew to be around 12 left unharvested in the put much effort pounds each. fields, or is harvested It was amazing to into something but neither sold nor see, but he knew he you’re not getting donated. wouldn’t be able to sell any money This estimate the especially heavy for. There’s no of food loss is heads of greens to any substantially higher of his usual markets. return … (and) than Salvation Farms’ He ended up “turning it’s slim profit previous estimate that under” two-thirds margins in the 2 million pounds of of the cabbages, not food business to all crops are lost in harvesting them so begin with.”

Vermont each year. that the nutrients from “On-farm food — farmer the germinated crops loss,” stated the 2018 Hank Bissell could be recycled into report, “happens when the soil. farmers can’t harvest, While this was an anomaly for donate or sell everything they’ve Blackwell, it happens regularly on grown — which has substantial farms throughout the state. environment, economic and An estimated 14.3 million pounds nutritional costs.”

(See Farmers, Page 12A) of edible vegetables and berries

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of profiles of new businesses launching through the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, a business incubator in Middlebury.

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By ABAGAEL GILES MIDDLEBURY — Eva Shaw grew up ski racing in Vermont, so she knows a thing or two about being cold. That was the inspiration for the Middlebury College student’s start-up, Overeasy, a new outdoor clothing brand that grew out of the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies’ and Middlebury College’s Entrepreneur program.

VCET is a statewide nonprofit that promotes entrepreneurship in Vermont by providing mentorship, counseling and education to residents who want to create startups or expand their existing business.

Skida, a Burlington-based company that makes fashionable but technical winter accessories is a notable alum of the program.

The Middlebury Entrepreneurs program is a January Term course for students who want to start a business or nonprofit organization. Students (See VCET, Page 12A)

By the way The Bristol selectboard is seeking candidates to fill the one-year term of Tree Warden to oversee the care and maintenance of shade and ornamental trees on public property, such as those found on the town green and within public street rights-of-way, and to enforce laws relating to trees in public ways and places. Duties may include organizing and carrying out tree pruning, maintenance and protection programs. This is a voluntary, one-year appointment made by the selectboard annually.

A more detailed description can be found at bristolvt.org. Interested citizens should send Town Administrator Valerie Capels an e-mail (townadmin@bristolvt.org) (See By the way, Page 16A)

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Vt. sugarmakers still lead the nation in production of sweet maple syrup

And red all over

MIDDLEBURY ROTARIANS BILL Kernan, left, and Rex Stratton volunteer their skills as they paint Printer’s Alley in Middlebury Saturday morning. The red paint matches that used on all other crosswalks in the downtown area to indicate that Printer’s Alley is a pedestrian walkway during the rail bridges construction project.

Photo by Max Krause

HOPE exceeds its goal for building repairs

By JOHN FLOWERS ital campaign since the organization MIDDLEBURY — Helping Over- built its Community Services buildcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) has ing 19 years ago. The structure hosts exceeded — by almost $100,000 — a food shelf, the annual holiday gift its original goal of raising $600,000 store, the RetroWorks retail store, to make a series of improvements to and several non-profit social services its Community Services building at agencies that are tenants.

282 Boardman St. in Middlebury.

While the HOPE building has The building is a place where low-in- abundant space, it isn’t ideally come Addison County configured for the families go to get food, ever-changing way in housing, clothing and While the HOPE which human services other critical services. building has are provided. HOPE HOPE Executive Di- abundant space, now serves around rector Jeanne Montross it isn’t ideally 3,000 low-income on Monday reported individuals each year. contributions totaling configured The average number $691,607, fueled in for the everof people served each large part by foundation changing way month at the HOPE grants and gifts from in which human food shelf has soared some of the nonprofit’s services are from 150 back in 1999 most ardent supporters. to more than 650 in provided.

In all, more than 200 in2018. dividuals, foundations “We do a lot, and we and businesses have given to the do it well; we could do it even better “Building HOPE” campaign, rang- if our facilities allowed,” HOPE offiing from a few dollars to a $250,000 cials wrote in a fundraising pitch this challenge grant through the Hoehl past winter. “Our offices, food shelf, Family Foundation. entrances, and waiting room are “We are delighted,” a smiling crowded and cramped. Fortunately, Montross said of the campaign har- there is a significant amount of vest, which could eventually exceed underutilized space in our building. $700,000 as additional gifts trickle The time has come to put this space in before the drive officially closes to use serving low-income families. out on June 30.

Our plans will add 442 square feet to This was HOPE’s first major cap- our food shelf, and will increase the

amount of usable office space in our building by 10 percent.”

The new construction project, expected to get under way next month, will, among other things, result in some knocked-down walls and a re-design of existing space. This will create a more efficient area for the very busy food shelf and ensure more privacy for clients, according to Montross.

Specifically, the construction project will provide: • More food shelf space for storage, shelving, refrigeration and work areas, allowing HOPE to manage inventory in a more accessible and cost‐effective manner.

• A dedicated food shelf waiting area to reduce crowding and stress at reception.

• Improved, safer access for bulk deliveries to warehouse receiving areas.

• A shower room where homeless people can bathe in privacy.

Workers have already completed some related upgrades.

The Addison County Transit Resources bus stop has been moved from the HOPE lot to Boardman Street, thus freeing up several parking spots. The Middlebury Rotary Club has built a bus shelter at the stop.

A loading dock equipped with a

wider ramp leading to the outside food shelf door is now in place.

More sidewalk has been added to the property to make it more pedestrian friendly.

HOPE officials estimate the project will take four months to complete.

This means construction would end in early November, a time when HOPE will be setting up its holiday gift store. Plans call for a temporary food shelf to be established in the agency’s large conference room while work is under way.

Montross gave major kudos to HOPE’s capital campaign committee and Heather Potter, the organization’s development director.

Potter called the capital committee “an all-star team. From day one, they rolled up their sleeves and pitched right in. Without their enthusiasm, dedication and guidance, we would not have been as successful.”

Potter estimated foundations came through with 60 percent of the total raised by HOPE. “Early and generous support from numerous foundations sent a message that ‘Building HOPE’ is a sound project with a strong base of support,” Potter said. “We simply would not be where we are today without the generosity of the foundation community and the responsiveness of local supporters.”

By NICK GARBER with a big hole in the middle for us,” ADDISON COUNTY — The he said. “It was really good, and then United States Department of it was nothing for three weeks in the Agriculture’s final tally of maple middle, and then it was really good sugar production is in and Vermont at the end.” is, once again, the nation’s top Folino explained that strange producer. weather patterns may be responsible But even as they mark the Green for such extremes in productivity.

Mountain State’s preeminence, But, he noted, this season’s weather local sugarmakers wasn’t particularly reported a strong 2018 “February’s volatile — instead, season overall despite weather was it was essentially “wobbly” weather and almost like inverted. “splotchy” production.

“February’s weather March, then According to a recent was almost like report from the USDA, March’s weather March, then March’s Vermont produced was more weather was more like 1.94 million gallons of like February February usually is,” maple syrup this year usually is. Then he said. “Then April — a slight decline from April was also was also way colder last year’s total of 1.98 than normal. We didn’t million, but still good way colder get seesaw weather, we for 46.6 percent of the than normal. just got flip-flopped nation’s syrup product. We didn’t weather.”

This season was also get seesaw This cold snap notable for its length: weather, we just reduced maple sap sugarmakers produced flow in certain areas got flip-flopped for an average of 52 — something of an days this year, a week weather.” irony, given that recent — Dave Folino attention has been longer than in 2017.

The state’s earliest focused mainly on reported maple sap flow was Jan. 12, unseasonable warmth. while the latest sap was collected on “Going into the season, what was May 3. on a lot of people’s minds was a Dave Folino, co-owner of concern about abnormally warm Hillsboro Sugarworks in Starksboro, temperatures,” said Mark Isselhardt, said he experienced a “very early a maple specialist at UVM start,” followed by an unproductive Extension. “A spike of temperature period, and capped off by a strong sustained over many days without finish. “It was almost like a doughnut (See Maple season, Page 3A)

Ferrisburgh boards rule against rescuer

McGregor to fight health, ZBA verdicts

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — Two Ferrisburgh boards have ruled against Sand Road dog rescuer Sheila McGregor, whose harboring of up to 30 dogs in her ranch home and attached garage over the years has generated complaints from neighbors about noise, odors and loose animals.

On Tuesday the Ferrisburgh Board of Health — which is the town’s selectboard acting in that capacity — imposed conditions on McGregor related to a rat infestation at her 2512 Sand Road property, conditions including that she must reduce the number of dogs she keeps at her home to five by the end of September.

On June 12 the Ferrisburgh Zoning Board of Adjustment upheld an April 17 notice of zoning violation issued to McGregor by zoning administrator Bonnie Barnes.

McGregor’s attorney, Lesley

Deppman of Middlebury, indicated she would appeal both of those decisions.

Deppman said on Wednesday morning she had not yet been able to confer with McGregor, but it was “safe to say” she would also be appealing the Ferrisburgh Board of Health ruling to the State Board of Health before the 30-day deadline.

McGregor has maintained at public meetings there have been no rats on her property for months.

Deppman also confirmed that McGregor, whose rescue operation is called Heidi’s Haven, would be appealing the zoning board decision to Environmental Court within that 30-day window.

Deppman said that McGregor has already take steps to reduce the number of dogs at her home, and there were already fewer than the 22 cited as of April 17 in Tuesday’s re(See McGregor, Page 3A)

ACSD panel suggests ways to battle intolerance in schools

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central School District can effectively fight racism, bias and discrimination within its schools by confronting those issues head-on, by incorporating more diversity education within its curriculum, and by involving students and families of color in the sometimes difficult discussions about intolerance.

Those were among the key suggestions in the ACSD Task Force on Racism, Bias and Discrimination, a

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panel formed by the district last mate within the district, which September in wake of trouincludes schools in Bridport, bling testimony delivered by Cornwall, Middlebury, Riplocal residents of color about ton, Salisbury, Shoreham and some racially insensitive Weybridge. incidents — both subtle Read the full report of the Co-chaired by Miand overt — targeting ACSD Task Force on Racism, guel Fernandez, the their children on school chief diversity officer Bias and Discrimination grounds and on buses.

Middlebury College, with this story at The flying of the addisonindependent.com. and Middlebury Union Confederate flag at two Middle School Principal Middlebury residences last August Kristin Holsman-Francoeur, the prompted ACSD officials to seek a task force was broadly charged with better understanding of the racial cli- recommending ways of creating a

more racially sensitive educational program and campus environment for local students. The task force met monthly in compiling a report that ACSD officials praised mightily upon officially receiving it on Monday, June 18.

Holsman-Francoeur said the task force did a lot of research, compared notes on their own experiences, and spoke with students and Rebecca Haslam of “Seed The Way.” Haslam is a former educator who advises school districts on professional

development, resources for anti-bias curricula, and equity literacy.

Seven members of the committee provided the board with an overview of the report. It includes a series of recommendations cobbled from the larger premise that education and communication are the most effective weapons in combatting racism, since racism is largely born out of ignorance.

“This has been a challenging topic, you have all volunteered hours and hours and frankly, the report we

received was extremely comprehensive, very easy to follow and has great detail,” ACSD board Chairman Peter Conlon said. “It went above and beyond.”

And task force members noted ACSD is well-positioned right now to incorporate tolerance and diversity teaching within its schools, as the district is transitioning to an International Baccalaureate (IB) program, which at its core seeks to transform students into world (See ACSD, Page 3A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, June 21, 2018 — PAGE 3A

Maple season it to enter the U.S.,’ that could have a (Continued from Page 2A) a freeze in the season can usually lot of effect on us,” he said. “Shortcause tap holes to lose productivity. term it would be great, because But this year it was actually that Vermont syrup would become more things were just too cold in certain valuable, and long-term it would be completely disruptive to markets, parts of the state.”

In Addison County, the effects of so it would be a negative. I think the cold weather were particularly it would shrink markets and then noticeable at high-elevation sites, things would go crazy.”

Isselhardt raised the same and at sites facing north, according to Folino, whose sugarbush stretches concern, noting the potential cost to up the western slope of the Green consumers.

“If those products cost more, then Mountains. people will go with a “The county cheaper alternative, production was very which tends to be corn splotchy; it was as “It’s not like a syrup-based, and that highly variable within top spinning would be unfortunate,” a small area as I can nice and ever remember it,” smoothly, with he said.

Despite the maple Folino said. “It could the weather sugaring season’s be exceptionally good coming out of u n p r e d i c t a b i l i t y, or exceptionally poor Isselhardt noted that within 10 miles, mostly the west, and the product, in the end, having to do with how winter being seemed as good as ever. steadily cold. cold it was.”

“I try to keep track It’s difficult to separate It’s more like of reports of problems such unusual patterns a top that’s with syrup quality, and from the ongoing threat slowing down, I really haven’t heard of climate change, which hardly any reports of Folino said has caused and it’s about problems — I think increased inconsistency. ready to tip that the crop that was “It’s not like a top over. We’ve spinning nice and been in wobbly made was really good quality,” he said. smoothly, with the weather.”

“That’s a really weather coming out of — Dave Folino positive thing for the west, and winter consumers, and makes it being steadily cold,” he said. “It’s more like a top that’s easier for producers,” who can sell slowing down, and it’s about ready their high-quality product for retail to tip over. We’ve been in wobbly as table syrup.

Looking toward 2019, Folino, weather.”

Second on the list of potential like other sugarmakers, accepts that dangers to the industry is President some unpredictability is inevitable.

“I want to do everything just like I Trump’s burgeoning trade dispute with Canada. In May, the Canadian did this year next year,” Folino said. government announced a set of new “We’re always getting ready for last tariffs on imports from the United season, but it never happens twice in States, including a 10 percent a row the same.”

And Isselhardt noted that a bit duty on maple sugar and syrup, in response to Trump’s tariffs on of unpredictable weather doesn’t necessarily prevent a successful Canadian steel and aluminum.

The majority of Canada’s maple sugaring season.

“Sap flow is not a steady process imports come from Maine, with only a small amount originating that starts on day one and ends on in Vermont. Accordingly, Folino day 40, or 50, or 60, or however long downplayed any immediate threat, the season is — it’s made up of a few but noted that things could change if very discrete sap runs,” Isselhardt the dispute grows from a “skirmish” said. “Things can be looking pretty bad, and then the weather turns into a true trade war. “(If) Canada says, ‘Well, the real around, and within a very short leverage we have is we’ll just keep period of time you can make up for our syrup here and charge a tariff for a lot.”

McGregor (Continued from Page 2A) port — although without consulting with McGregor, Deppman could not provide an exact up-to-date number.

“She’s not taking in new rescues, and she is actively looking for foster homes for dogs that are now in her care,” Deppman said.

McGregor’s attorney was also asked why McGregor would appeal the zoning violation notice to Environmental Court, a process that is expensive and typically takes about a year-and-a-half, if she intended to stop rescuing.

“As you’ve read in the Board of Health decision, the Board of Health is now limiting her to five dogs total,” Deppman said. “Certainly she could reduce operations, but that wouldn’t reduce her number to five.”

BOARD OF HEALTH The Tuesday, June 19, order was addressed from the “Selectboard and Local Board of Health” to both Sheila McGregor and her brother, James McGregor, who owns the home she occupies, which according to town records is 912 square feet with an attached garage plus

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attached and detached sheds on a little less than an acre.

Two other homes are close by, and the owners of those properties, Lauren and Ricky Fisher and Scott and Lisa Brace, have been Sheila McGregor’s most persistent critics.

The board of health order acknowledged that “Ms. McGregor’s efforts have produced a positive change in the situation in the property with respect to the presence of rats … compared to the conditions as initially found and reported in the (town health officer’s) Emergency Health Order” dated on April 10.

Those efforts included setting out bait traps; cleaning up much of the dog feces, which rats can use as a food source; cooperating with most of the steps recommended by pest control companies; cleaning most of debris away from interior and exterior walls; storing pet food in sealed containers; and taking steps to seal the garage and its attached room from rat infiltration.

But it also alleges areas in which McGregor has fallen short: old dog feces still on the property; failure (See Property, Page 7A)

Thank you

ABOVE, WEYBRIDGE ELEMENTARY school Principal Christina Johnston presents Mike Newkirk with a signed photograph from all the students for his work designing and building, with community members, the school’s new playground castle structure.

The castle was officially opened during a ceremony last Thursday.

Right, Johnston shares a laugh with Librarian Megan Sutton, left, teacher Joy Dobson and students after cutting the ribbon (red yarn) on the new castle structure.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

ACSD (Continued from Page 2A) citizens. The report recommends creating a five-year strategic plan to measure the district’s performance in promoting open-mindedness, “with key benchmarks that align with IB.” “There’s a natural harmony between that international mindedness … and the equity literacy we talk about in the report,” Fernandez said.

RECOMMENDED ACTION The task force is specifically recommending, among other things, that ACSD: • Pursue “cultural competence” for its students and educators. The panel defines cultural competence as “the ability to work effectively with, and advocate for, the success of people from a variety of cultural, economic, ethnic and religious backgrounds.

(It) is present when all members of the school community consistently and intentionally honor, respect and value diversity not only in theory, but in practice in all contexts, from board meetings and community outreach, to classrooms and school hallways.”

Task force members noted that achieving and sustaining cultural competence will be an “ongoing, intentional and transparent process requiring concrete tools and training, unwavering commitment, and continuous cycles of monitoring, critical reflection, and improvement.”

• Denounce Nazism, racism and hate in the schools, community and country, while educating students —at all grade levels — about the historical and current-day reality of

racism in the United States.

• Conduct an “Equity Audit.”

Performed by an outside consultant, an equity audit can inform a school district if its programming provides equal access, treatment and outcomes for all students — regardless of race, gender, national origin, disability or socioeconomic status.

Members of the task force recommend the district “use results of equity audit(s) to inform universal training that includes school board, central office, school administrators, faculty and staff, so that our learning community is all on the same page.”

• Form a “District Equity Team” or create a “district equity coordinator” position to support and consult with staff members when anticipating or confronted with a challenging situation they’re not sure how to address.

“This resource must provide demonstrated expertise in equity literacy, anti-bias practices, and cultural competence and be characterized by timely access and responsiveness,” the report states.

• Look for a more diverse pool of applicants for district job openings.

Ruth Hardy, a former ACSD board member, said the district could make an immediate impact assembling a more diverse faculty and staff.

The district has been searching for several new teachers in wake of the

retirement this month of more than a dozen educators.

“Unless there’s actually shared experiences with diverse people, it’s not going to stick,” she said of conventional training efforts. “It seems to me that hiring has to be something we focus on in making sure our students have diverse teachers, administrators and role models.”

• Ensure administrators are “clear and consistent” about acceptable conduct and the handling of individual incidents involving intolerance, bias and/or racism. Officials should analyze individual incidents and set up prevention/response strategies, according to the report.

“Right now, it’s building by building,” task force member and Weybridge Elementary Principal Christina Johnston said of the current ACSD process for dealing with complaints of intolerance. “It’s actually a fine-tuned, time-consuming process. For as much training as we get, we don’t have enough training or time to do that. The idea was to develop a team to get involved in investigations and have the expertise.”

• Create a structure and budget for semi-annual forums on “critical identity issues” relevant to students and families. The district should also consider forming support groups for families who feel marginalized in what is a very heterogeneous state of

Vermont, according to the report.

• Foster transparency and communication when it comes to dealing with issues of intolerance.

For example, the report suggests information be readily available on conduct expectations, resources that are available when inappropriate conduct occurs, and the expected response from the ACSD when an incident occurs.

“It’s making sure we’re not only doing great work, but that the communication is happening to the broader community so they get a sense of confidence and understanding about how the districts handles those things … and so they know in advance what conduct is expected and what conduct this district believes is unacceptable,” said task force member Karen Guttentag, the ‎associate dean for judicial affairs and student life at ‎Middlebury College.

Peter Burrows, ACSD superintendent, promised the task force’s report won’t simply sit on a shelf.

He said recommendations will be incorporated during the coming years through the district’s strategic plan and the transition to IB. To do nothing would send a negative message, according to task force members.

“If we don’t talk about it, the perception is (intolerance) is acceptable,” Fernandez said.

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Letters

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to the Editor

The America the world sees is of a once great nation falling When candidate Donald Trump was running for the presidency, the nation’s worst fear was that, if elected, he would rule as the demagogue he has become.

That he would lie continuously as a way to confuse and confound his supporters, that he would lash out at all opponents with unsubstantiated criticisms for the sake of sullying everyone (as he did in the Republican primary) so that his supporters would believe all politicians are as bad (no, worse) than he, and that—having suckered his most loyal supporters—he would rule as the tyrant he has always fancied himself to be.

The genius behind Trump’s reign, so far, is his ability to keep the faithful from fleeing. The Republican Congress and party leadership have tossed in the towel. Trump is the party, and party members are aligned with what Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, called “a cult of personality.” Equally guilty are Trump’s supporters, who have all too often turned their backs on values dear to Americans of all political stripes: human rights, civil rights, a proclivity to support our democratic allies and stand firm against Fascist dictators; the expectation that government wouldn’t abandon those most in need; and reasonable compassion toward immigrants who seek asylum as a matter of life or death.

Trump keeps his faithful hoodwinked by a steady stream of falsehoods and misdirection. He rarely stands still long enough for the public to seize on an issue, figure it out and rebel; and he constantly changes his tune when things go awry.

Such is the case of the damning optics of small children being separated from parents who were seeking access into a country which has, for most of our history, been willing to accept cases of hardship. For years now, the vast majority of asylum seekers are not accepted, but there is an organized process and those who knocked on our borders were treated humanely and with respect.

Not so under Mr. Trump. His behavior and his policies have shamed America.

In the eyes of the world, we are becoming a pariah nation; a nation that would rip crying children away from heartbroken and fearful mothers; a nation that embraces the most ruthless dictators as friends, while treating our allies as foes; a nation who goes back on its word, rejecting the Paris Climate Accord, the Human Rights Commission, the Iran Nuclear Arms agreement (and others) — not for any clear policy objective, but to toss out any prior achievements of others to create a world order of his choosing, all the while subjecting this country to a more dangerous future with fewer friendly allies than ever before. That is Trump’s America, and yours, if you support him.

Trump will pivot on his policy to separate terrified children from their anguished parents. He’ll suddenly discover he’s had the power all along, and like Presidents Obama and Bush before him, he’ll issue an executive order that directs the nation to be humane. Shamefully, he will try to take credit for alleviating a crisis he caused, and blame others for his flawed judgment.

But this incident won’t fade soon. It projects an ugly image of Trump’s America into the world’s conscientious as few other policies could. As political columnist Frank Bruni wrote this week: “Few aspects of American policy define us in the eyes of the world as sharply as our treatment of immigrants … We can be tough, yes. But cruel? That’s not in our interests, not if we care to maintain the global sway that we have. Not if we want to hold on to who we are or mean to be: people of generosity and mercy.

Not if we’re invested in that ‘shining city on a hill’ that Ronald Reagan so poetically evoked. “(Reagan) and other presidents, both Republicans and Democrats, saw America as a beacon. They trafficked in inspiration. Trump traffics in fear.” *********** Know, too, that Europeans and allies around the world watch news reports of American politics much more closely than Americans do of those countries — and those reports seek to reveal how Trump is governing and whether he has the public’s and Congress’ support. To that end, it’s instructive to reflect on this report from Vermont’s congressman, Rep. Peter Welch, who took a trip to the Texas-Mexico border to inspect Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy and see first-hand what all the fuss was about.

“Last weekend,” he wrote, “I traveled to the Texas-Mexico border to investigate the administration’s unconscionable family separation policy...

• I saw dozens of children penned in chain link cages silently staring straight ahead. No smiles, no laughter. None of the joy characteristic of children.

• I toured a government-run migrant processing facility aptly dubbed the “ice box.” Children wrapped in foil-like blankets huddled on floor mats to stay warm. I witnessed three young brothers clinging to each other, as if for dear life.

• I met with a group of mothers just separated from their children. When the first began to speak of the pain she was enduring not knowing where her daughter was, the others began to sob as if on cue. One woman told me, ‘With God’s help, I will be reunited with my baby soon.’

• Inside a windowless former Wal-Mart converted into a cavernous shelter, I saw 1,500 boys warehoused and alone. There was not a parent in sight. They were allowed outside for two hours each day.

• I was barred from visiting any of the detention facilities housing girls, or infants and very young children who, in an Orwellian twist, are labeled by the government as “children of tender age.”

“Contrary to the president’s tweet storms,” Welch continued, “they were not criminals, rapists, or gang members. They were not “animals” as he has asserted. They simply seek a safe haven for their kids free of gang violence, human rights abuses, domestic violence and desperate poverty.

“The president’s shameful decision to criminalize the act of seeking asylum and separate innocent migrant children from their parents is an atrocity that flies in the face of everything we stand for as Americans: ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.’

“Until Wednesday, President Trump blamed Congress for his policy, claiming he was merely enforcing existing law and that only Congress could change it. That was a lie. Despite his apparent retreat, I have no doubt he remains intent on using these innocent children and their parents, as well as the Dreamers, as leverage to get his way on extreme immigration proposals, including spending billions of taxpayer dollars on an unnecessary border wall that he promised us would be paid for by Mexico.” ********** That’s the vision of Trump’s America the world sees. It’s not a vision of strength or greatness, but of cruelty and weakness by a narcissistic leader who is morally bankrupt. It’s a moment that presages the fall of America’s greatness in the eyes of many across the world, and here at home.

Angelo Lynn

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Trump fans lose with his policies It is strange to see that those who will greatly suffer from Trump policies are leading the charge to support him. Trump is trying to kill health insurance programs. Talking about killing Social Security. Killing the climate saving agreement.

Making it hard for poor people to vote. Starting a trade war where our workers will loose jobs and things will get more expensive.

Lowering the morality of the nation by his example. The harmful list is too long. Praising our enemies and stepping on toes of our foreign friends. Is there an explanation for this self immolation?

Peter Grant Bristol

Nonprofit helps with pregnancies

Happy times

VERGENNES UNION HIGH School senior Kaitlyn Brace applauds as she waits to receive her diploma during the school’s graduation ceremony last Friday night.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Children can be lost in digital era Years ago, before I’d even held a flip phone, we were headed on a family hike with friends. One of them quipped as he climbed into our van, “I hope you don’t mind if I bring my cell phone.” This was spoken with some pride; he was an early adopter.

I said (nervously), “We don’t believe in those phones.

They are not allowed in our van.”

He said, “In that case, I’ll just turn it off,” which he did, pressing a button and then pocketing the phone.

Never mind nine hours later, hike completed, and the van full of hungry children, the only way to find a restaurant with room in it for eight people, was to use that phone.

“You know,” he said, “they can be useful in an emergency.”

Fast forward twenty-five years to 2018 as cell phone companies devise apps to help users discern what their daily (or hourly) cell phone usage is

By Kate since talk of addiction to cell phones Gridley runs rampant; little handles are sold to prevent muscle spasms in hands from over use of hand-held devices; and talk of radioactivity from phone batteries and brain cancer is on the rise.

Cell phones are called “smart” because, well, they are useful.

Email is referred to as “my memory.” This tiny computer not only wakes you up with specially curated beeps, it tells you where to be and when to be there; it both takes dictation and turns sounds into printed word; it transcribes book lists and shares them after researching titles online; it enables us to look up anything and everything we have forgotten or want to know while mapping routes, counting steps, piping in curated music

Ways of Seeing

lists and news along with announcing weather alerts and incoming missiles; it helps soothe a child in the back seat of the car with a game or video.

Think of it: no longer do our children have to be bored and gaze out the window at passing scenery — even in beautiful places — while daydreaming.

Holding this opium of the masses in our hands, altering our brains and way of being — with ourselves and with each other — we are in the process of turning ourselves into a nation of cyborgs, slowly, inexorably.

I hate it while I love it.

And then there’s this: Six weeks ago, on a long weekend in New York City, where spring was in full flush while Vermont still slumbered in a longer than usual cold spell, we walked ten miles (yes, recorded on our smart phones) of sidewalks and paths through Central Park in one day. The cherry trees were in full bloom, the grass beneath freshly green; daffodils, primulas, tulips and a myriad other bulbs striped next to the paths, in and under the blooming azaleas and rhododendrons; conifers were tipped with bright green; dogwood trees flashed pale cream, magnolias pale pink.

Preening, cooing, strutting, birds were all a twitter, in a craze of hormones in the longer day-length. Birdwatchers in search of warblers gathered in clusters, binoculars skyward, and necks craning. And the Central Park Reservoir was covered with diving ducks and mallards poking through the weeds at the edge.

Every runner had an earpiece and a monitor. Every (See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

It pays off to shop with legal tender “Keep the change.”

(OK, “freewheeling” is a too negative term. Let’s go with That’s something I can say, because I’m one of those “furtively irresponsible.”) people who still carry cash. But for most Americans, But once I set an amount based on a realistic average especially the young ones, cash is a thing they’ve only cost of groceries, gas and a few sundries, I found that heard about, like phone booths or dial-up internet. with the proper oversight — opening my wallet and They don’t know what they’re missing. checking how much money I had left — I could make Every Friday, I take a week’s worth of cash out of the it through most weeks with no trouble, often with a few bank and use it for most face-to-face transactions: at the bucks to spare. grocery store, at the gas station, at yard sales, for poker Financially savvy people laugh at my quaint ways. night (I don’t play, but if I ever get “I put everything on the credit card,” invited, I’ll be ready to ante up). My they say. “For the miles.” grandkids are getting to the age where I’m not a frequent flier.

I might want to slip them a dollar or Or “to earn points. Then I get cash two, and they don’t take plastic. rewards.” Fair enough, if you’re good Don’t get the idea that I’m a Ludat playing the game. dite who has failed to keep up with I was not. the notion of a cashless society; I was I commend anyone who comes out at the forefront. At one time, I lived ahead on miles, money or free gas.

By Jessie Raymond But here’s a little secret I learned the by the debit card, that instrument of great power — and great danger — hard way: If you carry a balance on that allows you to spend and spend your card, the interest charges will until there’s no money left for your car insurance or outweigh your rewards. electric bill. (There may be more practical ways to use Credit card companies loved me. After all, my laziness a debit card, but that’s the only method I was familiar helped pay for the rewards their more conscientious with.) customers enjoyed.

Then, about a decade ago, a friend mentioned how seBut now, whenever possible, I stick to cash for retail. cure it made her feel knowing there was tangible money It’s simpler. And while I don’t earn any points, I like in her wallet. I decided to give it a try. that it denies some major bank even the possibility of It took a few months to settle on a good weekly assessing service charges. Every time I pay with cash, amount. At first, I set my limit unreasonably low — “I I imagine a credit card company executive wincing in don’t see why we can’t get by on $40 for groceries, as pain. long as I buy the generic pasta” — virtually guaranteeing This makes me smile. that I’d run out of cash before midweek. At that point, I’d I don’t recommend cash for big-ticket purchases, go back to the debit card and my old freewheeling ways.

(See Raymond, Page 5A)

Around the bend

Because I began the Middlebury Planned Parenthood clinic in 1970, I feel obligated to respond to those Vermonters and Americans who wish to defund the organization.

The primary goal of P.P. is to provide help to people who wish to control their childbearing. This help includes education regarding methods of contraceptives, their efficacy and side effects, as well as various tests related to reproduction and cancer.

Only when family planning programs fail is an abortion necessary.

Only when Planned Parenthood fails is abortion an option.

Another goal of “International” Planned Parenthood relates to global population growth. This goal is to help couples in foreign nations to have the number of children that they desire. This information is especially needed in the third world; Africa, the Mideast, India and China are populations that come to mind. An estimated 1.5 billion women currently don’t have the contraceptives necessary to achieve their desired family size.

The annual global number of abortions is about 45 million. The elimination of 45 million abortions would lead to 45 million more births, which would add to the current annual 80 million population increase.

Every four years the world now adds a population equal to the current U.S. population. We cannot possibly create enough jobs, water, food, educational and health facilities, etc. in order to support that increase. Overpopulation is obviously the planet’s biggest problem, leading to many environmental symptoms, including global warming and rising oceans.

Depletion of oil and water will decrease food production, leading to massive starvation.

Is it more immoral to abort a tiny embryo or allow that embryo to grow to a child or adult who will then starve? As time passes, that choice will become less and less academic.

David Van Vleck Cornwall

Library officials seek feedback

In striving to make Ilsley and Sarah Partridge libraries the absolute best libraries possible, it is essential that the library trustees and staff work with Middlebury residents to have a shared understanding of what the library is — and can be — to all of us. In order to align library services to support local community goals we are kicking off our “Tell Me! Tour,” and we want to hear from you.

Starting in June the trustees and I will be holding a series of focus groups to solicit input about the community’s values, needs, and hopes for the future. Ilsley’s mission is, and will always be, to reflect our community’s goals and to meet their needs. What are the unique factors that define Middlebury? What kind of community do we want? How is that different from what we have now?

What we learn from these focus groups will help determine the services and resources the library provides, inform our long term planning, and guide us as we pursue a renovation. At the end of these focus groups the trustees will hold a public meeting to share what we have learned.

We are committed to engaging and hearing from the entire community (See Letter, Page 5A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, June 21, 2018 — PAGE 5A

When the hippies took over Vermont I’m going up the country, babe, don’t you wanna go?

I’m going to some place where I’ve never been before.

Now baby, pack your leaving trunk, you know we’ve got to leave today, Just exactly where we’re going I cannot say.

I’m going where the water tastes The broad scope of Daley’s book like wine. is captured by chapters covering We can jump in the water, stay commune life, higher education drunk all the time.

(Goddard and Middlebury), the food — “Going Up the Country,” revolution including the Middlebury written by Alan Wilson and made co-op, hippie-style entrepreneurship, famous by Canned Heat the flowering of the arts (Bread and Puppet Theater), drugs, political transformation (Bernie Sanders) and Yvonne Daley didn’t set out to the women’s movewrite about the counterment. culture. She set out to live I wish Daley had it. also included a chapter She came to Vermont on music. It would in 1967 when she and her have been fun to read first husband bailed out about those cold winter of graduate school. They nights when Peter Isaasoon found themselves cson played at Mr. Ups living in Goshen, paying and Road Apple rocked $75 a month to rent a The Alibi.

200-year-old farmhouse Much of the fun beneath Hogback Mounof this book is in the tain. wacky, synchronistic Daley grew flowers and tales that brought hipvegetables, ran a food pies, dreamers, draft co-op, made yogurt and dodgers and crunchy cheese, had goats named outdoors people to a Moonbeam, Rainbow state that in 1965 was and Waterfall, and shared by Gregory Dennis most notable for its meals, cars, books and Republican politics, music with other newaging population and comers to the Land O Goshen. dying small towns.

Just reading about it made me What was it that inspired them to want to get stoned. form art collectives, new political Between 1965 and 1975, an esti- parties, women’s groups, men’s mated 100,000 Baby Boomers came groups and food co-ops? “The right to Vermont. They came to escape to be different is what attracted the the riot-torn cities and the anger that counterculture kids to Vermont,” split the nation during Vietnam, to Daley says. find utopia in a commune, to live off But founding a new way of life the land, to create a new progressive in Vermont wasn’t easy. Those kids political order. from the suburbs had little idea how Now Daley has chronicled the to grow food or cut and cure the right invasion that changed Vermont in wood. A longtime member of the “Going Up the Country: When the Quarry Hill commune in Rochester Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks and Rad- recalls often being hungry because icals Moved to Vermont.” Her new there just wasn’t enough food to go book recounts the renaissance that around. revived the Green Mountain State, It’s always been hard to make drastically altered its politics, and a good living in Vermont, and the made it the mixing bowl it is today.

Sixties and Seventies were no excepIn a talk she gave last week at the tion. Turning a favorite song of their Vermont Book Shop, Daley said she parents’ generation on its head, the spent three years interviewing more new arrivals found that “moonlight than 300 people for the book. in Vermont” sometimes meant workEvery one of them had a story. ing two or more jobs to put food on Many of those stories came out the table. of the communes that sprouted like A lot of local readers will find dandelions in May. They had names someone they know in this book. I like Total Loss Farm, Red Clover enjoyed reading about Sas Carey Collective, Wooden Shoe, Free State and her many contributions, Woody of the Arc, Earth People’s Park, Pie Jackson’s reference to living in Adin the Sky and Rockbottom Farm. dison at Snake Mountain commune, I’m gonna leave this city, got to and the reminiscences of my old get away. activist colleagues Steve Early and All this fussing and fighting, man, Torie Osborne. you know I sure can’t stay.

Torie transferred to Middlebury

Between The Lines

College expecting it to be “an intellectual hotbed of leftist radicalism.” Instead she found a lot of kids content to listen to the Grateful Dead and throw the Frisbee. She added a new dimension, marching into the dean’s office with a group of freshmen women to demand better access to birth control, then helping establish an underground railroad to Canada for students seeking a legal abortion.

Steve Early led the student strike in the wake of Kent State, provided the intellectual heft for those of us who were viscerally opposed to the war, and organized marchers for the Washington, D.C., May Day protests in 1971.

Torie eventually became the executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, among other milestones. Steve has spent decades as an influential union leader, journalist and author.

I came away from Daley’s landmark book with two big lessons: First, native Vermonters were with few exceptions surprisingly friendly to the long-haired, often unwashed masses that descended upon their state. Many of the new arrivals came here briefly and then left. For those who remained, the help and friendships of native Vermonters were essential.

They offered advice that was sometimes lifesaving. And they helped out in a pinch. Daley recalls that one winter night when she was home and about to give birth, several longtime locals pitched in to plow her out so she could make it to the hospital just in time to deliver.

Second, while the counterculture radically changed Vermont, Vermont also changed the people of the counterculture. They learned the old ways of the farms and woods. They integrated into their local communities, volunteering for church suppers and school boards. In short, they grew up and were profoundly shaped by their adopted home state.

Nancy Edwards, one of many people who crashed at Goddard College along the way, recently moved to Cornwall after years in Old Bennington. She told Daley that Vermont is something of a Buddhist place: “It’s not only nurturing but you learn soon enough that you can’t control outside elements like the weather. You learn to slow down, to think, to accept, to appreciate.”

Gregory Dennis’s column appears here every other Thursday and is archived on his blog at www. gregdennis.wordpress.com. Email: gregdennisvt@yahoo.com. Twitter: @greengregdennis.

Ways of Seeing half a block from the Guggenheim Museum. A father, rocking a stroller back and forth, while talking on his phone, seemed to be unaware that his toddler in the front of the stroller out of his line of vision was having a complete melt down. And so was he — with whomever he was speaking through the slender box in his hand — though not with the same intensity as his little daughter.

His wife must have gone to check on the line into the Café, because as she walked back toward husband and child we saw her startle and take a mental snapshot: child thrashing and screaming, tethered to the stroller by a safety harness, father rocking the stroller back and forth with one hand while looking in another direction, oblivious, absorbed in a conversation elsewhere.

We watched her run up to him, point at the front of the stroller; he blinked and seemed not to take it in; she grabbed his phone out of his hand and threw it into the diaper bag on top of the stroller; outraged, he reached into the diaper bag for his phone; she stomped off, back towards the café while he dialed up to resume his conversation.

We didn’t hear their words. It was a brief film with no soundtrack.

And the child, still screaming and pulling at the safety harness, was unattended — howling in a jungle where there was no real sound.

I can’t shake this image. And I don’t know what to think.

I do know that without eye contact between parent and baby, without the sharing of sounds, babble, then words, and without touch, baby humans shut down.

Or grow up stunted, like plants deprived of water and sunlight. In-person human connection — verbal and non-verbal — is nourishment.

My friends who teach kindergarten say many of their tiny students have no social skills.

And of course this is not only about cell phones….

But what are we doing with our cell phones and our children, and what does it portend for the future?

Kate Gridley is an artist residing in Middlebury. She is currently working on a new series of paintings, “An Iconography of Memory.”

However, although the believer Editor’s note: This is the 19th in crisis, which brought him to the a series of essays about political verge of despair of the value and is prohibited from taking revenge, liberalism and conservatism and relevance of the philosophical and even advised to do good to ideas that were the basis of his his enemy, he is consoled by the the two-party system. assurance that God will not fail upbringing and education.

By Victor Nuovo However, after gazing into the to get even with the wicked. The In this essay, I turn from Mill to Coleridge, and from liberalism abyss of disillusionment, he drew desire for vengeance is placated, back and persisted not removed. The Bible, is, after to conservatism. as a champion of all, human, all too human.

For an account of Bentham’s utilitarian In contrast to the liberal Coleridge’s social rationalism. Yet, he commitment to objective philosophy, the best came to see liberalism reason and truth, Coleridge was available one was and conservatism more attuned to what might be written by John not as hostile camps, described as the subjectivity of Stuart Mill, and I but complementary traditions, which could only be shall draw mostly modes of thought, and imperfectly translated into clear from him. although he found it transparent discourse. As Mill It is more usual still necessary to take put it, the liberal is in search to think of Samuel sides, and to stand of truth, the conservative its Taylor Coleridge with the liberals, he inner meaning. The meaning (1772–1834) as a poet was still able to look of ancient laws, customs, and than a philosopher. towards the other practices was recoverable not by Many of my readers Liberalism vs for intellectual reducing their content to a rational will recall having Conservatism side nourishment. In this scheme, but, rather, by immersing read The Rime of way, he represents oneself in their long histories and the Ancient Mariner An essay by a way of thinking experiencing their purpose and in high school or Victor Nuovo worth adopting in efficacy, of patiently reading and college, or remember Middlebury College our divisive times, rereading ancient documents until the haunting opening professor emeritus perhaps even as a way they were made to reveal their lines of Kubla Khan, to detoxify them. meaning, which is a way of life his unfinished poem of philosophy ********** now forgotten. whose inspiration Mill praises “With Coleridge, the very occurred in a druginduced dream. Its beginning Bentham for his rationalism fact that any doctrine had been and objectivity.

By these believed by thoughtful men and lines open the imagination. means, Bentham succeeded in received by whole nations or transforming the study of law from generations of mankind” may be In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree, an uncritical review of traditions taken as a proof of its validity, Where Alph the sacred river, to a rigorous science. And there although not its truth. This applies were great social benefits from not only to their literary remains, ran Through caverns measureless to this endeavor, especially with but also to their institutions as respect to penal laws. aristocracy, learned man For example, Bentham professions, priestDown to a sunless sea asked: What should “As Mill put craft, the realms of Mill regarded him as a be the social aim of it, the liberal sacred and profane, and even grim practices, philosopher and represented him punishment? His answer is in search capital punishment. sympathetically and succinctly was that it must be of truth, the like We may learn to in an essay entitled, fittingly, reparative, restorative, Vengeance conservative understand them, even “Coleridge,” which is still the curative. if we cannot justify finest introduction to Coleridge was a primitive and its inner them rationally. Thus, as philosopher. It was one of a destructive passion that meaning.” conservatives are better complementary pair of essays— had no place in civilized cultural historians, or the other is about Jeremy society. The desire for Bentham—and together they revenge is an irrational passion, archeologists of cultural artifacts provide an insightful comparison a relic of outmoded supernatural and institutions, even those that of liberal and conservative fantasies. It should be noted, that a have been purposively cast off, similar conclusion is drawn in the because their cast of mind is thinking.

It has been observed that in Mosaic Law—see Deuteronomy poetic and not prosaic.

Historically, Mill describes the these essays Mill writes more 32: 35 (paraphrased by St Paul in sympathetically of Coleridge than Romans 12:17–19): “Vengeance thought of Coleridge, or as he of Bentham and that this may, is mine says the Lord, I will terms it “the Germano-Coleridgian in part, reflect his earlier mental repay.”

(See Nuovo, Page 7A)

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) and making these focus groups as diverse as possible. If you want your voice to be heard in this process, please consider participating in a focus group. Being a library user is

not a prerequisite for participating; if you’re a member of the community, we want to listen to what you have to say. The groups will be about eight people large and will last an hour. We will host as many groups and take as much time as is needed

to make sure we’re heard from everyone. If you are interested in participating, please email me at dana.hart@ilsleypubliclibrary.org.

Dana Hart Ilsley Public Library Director Middlebury

I know I’m resisting progress.

The time will come when cash is no longer accepted as a form of currency. What doesn’t go on a debit or credit card will be handled through smartphone apps and, eventually,

telepathy, although I’m not sure how fees will be assessed.

I shouldn’t fight it. I mean, in theory I agree with people who say change is good.

I just prefer the kind that jingles.

Raymond (Continued from Page 4A) however, if only because lugging a suitcase around is hard on the lower back. But a little cash on hand comes in handy. Without it, you can’t get into a high school sporting event or buy into a back-alley craps game.

And if you don’t have change in your pocket, what do you do when you come across a fountain? Make a wish and throw in your Visa card?

Lots of people tell me they can’t use cash; it just “flies out of their hands.” I have the opposite problem.

In my mind, a debit card is like a magical wish-fulfillment talisman; as long as there’s money in the account, there are no limits to what a debit card can buy.

Cash, on the other hand, is real, finite and very hard for me to part with. Separating a $20 bill from my fingers is a job for a cashier with a soothing voice and a rock climber’s grip strength.

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(Continued from Page 4A) walker was on a phone, talking and gesticulating. Folks in their lawn chairs, with books and picnic blankets were online. Photos were being snapped, and folks reaching to take selfies stood under the blossoms.

And parents were wheeling children in strollers and prams — you know, the kind where the baby faces the parent. Some of these babies were sleeping. But many of them were awake, looking up at the faces of Mummy or Daddy, making little chirping noises, or blowing bubbles, or trying on a smile, or raising their eyebrows and waving their arms.

At first I thought I was imagining it — then I felt foolish, a provincial luddite from Vermont observing hip, beautiful young urbanites with their fresh tiny progeny — to whom they were not talking, with whom they were not connecting even non-verbally. Could it be? We started counting. It was a beautiful day, so a lot of people were out in the park.

And every parent of a small child in a stroller or pram was on a cell phone.

Every. Single. One. The main event was in the line outside the Heavenly Rest Café,

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Obituaries

Suzanne Rice, 84, Lincoln

Gregory Sharrow, 68, Pittsford PITTSFORD — Gregory Lew (Greg) Sharrow, 68, died April 2, 2018, at his second home in Liberty, N.C., after a twelve-month struggle with multiple myeloma, a form of bone marrow cancer.

He is survived by his husband Robert Hooker and their close friend and caregiver Brian Moulton, both of Pittsford; daughters Madeline Sharrow of Northfield and Olivia Sharrow of Burlington; stepdaughters Elizabeth Henry-Hooker and Siobhan Henry-Hooker (m. Dave Tomlinson), granddaughter Slade Tomlinson & step-grandsons Jack & Taige Tomlinson, all of Burlington; his former wife Jessica Wright of Braintree; Brother-in-law George Hooker (m. Cheryl) of Rutland; and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents and his brother Douglas.

Gregory was born in Angola, Ind., on March 26, 1950, to Marjory and Earl Sharrow. He graduated from Angola High School in 1968 and from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1972. After moving to Vermont in 1974 and marrying Jessica in 1979, he received his Masters degree in Education from the University of Vermont and taught fourth grade in Braintree for a number of years.

In 1983 he returned to school at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned his Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife. During this time his first daughter, Madeline, was born (1984). Upon returning to Vermont, his second daughter, Olivia, was born

GREGORY LEW SHARROW and he was also hired at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury as the Director of Education (both in 1988). He then set out on a 30-year journey exploring and documenting the people and places around him, using the audio interview process, in his positions as Director of Education and, years later, as Co-Executive Director at the VFC. He met his husband Bob in 1996 and they have been together ever since, being legally joined with a civil union in 2001 and by marriage in 2010. For Greg, family was central to his identity. He was a wonderful father who adored spending time with his children and a loving husband.

Greg grew up surrounded by his mother’s flower gardens and was himself an avid gardener. He was also a genealogy enthusiast, a collector of a vast array of vintage and unique household objects, and had a natural curiosity about people. He believed that everything and everyone had a story to tell.

He was a member of both the School Board and the Historical Society in Braintree, the Board of Directors of the Samara Foundation in Vermont, and the Board of Directors for the Maclure Library in Pittsford, and a member of the Pittsford Historical Society. In addition he served as advisor and collaborator on numerous projects with the Vermont Arts Council, the Maine Arts Council, The Vermont Humanities Council, the Smithsonian Institute, numerous local historical societies, and with the American Folklore Society.

Greg affected many lives deeply and positively and will be deeply missed by the many who loved him.

There will be a memorial service at the Pittsford Congregational Church on U.S. Route 7, on Saturday, July 28, at 3 p.m., followed by a potluck meal.

Memorial donations may be made to the Greg Sharrow Fund at the Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753.

For a more extensive description of Greg’s life and legacy, or to make an on-line memorial gift, visit the Folklife Center’s website at vermontfolklifecenter.org.◊

Eva Shafer, 89, formerly of Middlebury MILTON – Eva M. Shafer, 89, formerly of Middlebury, passed away on Saturday, June 16, 2018.

Eva was born on June 7, 1929 in Willimantic, Conn., the daughter of Charles and Hazel (Jones) Rayhall, and sister to four siblings. On Oct. 14, 1948, she married William E. Shafer. For 69 years, they had a lifelong journey of raising five children and being involved in multiple business ventures.

Eva lived an extremely active life, from owning and managing two dairy farms, one in Connecticut and one in Cornwall, grocery stores in Wardsboro, South Londonderry and Jeffersonville, a motel in Morrisville, and a clothing store and restaurant in Middlebury. She retired to Maine for 18 years, returning to Vermont in 2017 to be close to family.

Eva is survived by her son William Shafer Jr. of Middlebury, and her

daughter Stephanie Adams and her husband Gordon of Milton, along with nine grandchildren, 18 greatgrandchildren and one great greatgrandchild. She was proud to be the foundation of her five generations.

In addition, Eva is survived by her only special sister, Jeanne Reid from Connecticut.

Eva was predeceased by her husband William, her son Vincent Shafer and daughters Janette Shafer and Linda Roberts.

Eva was the rock in all of our lives and will be forever missed by everyone she ever touched. Her spirit will always be with us.

There will be no visiting hours. A graveside service will be on Saturday, June 23, at 11 a.m., at the Evergreen Cemetery in Cornwall, Vt. EVA M. SHAFER In lieu of flowers, donations are welcome to a charity of your choice.

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LINCOLN — Suzanne “Sue” Belden Rice, 84, passed away peacefully on June 14 at UVM Medical Center in Burlington, surrounded by the love of her husband Randy and three generations of family.

Sue was born in Niagara Falls, N.Y. in 1934 to Willard Neil Belden and Hazel Gardener Belden. She attended Niagara Falls High School and loved family summers with brother Willard, Jr. on beloved Deer Island near Severn River, Canada. Sue attended Saint Lawrence University, was a faithful member of the Kappa Kappa Gammas, and even attended her 60 year reunion in 2016.

In 1956 Sue married her high school sweetheart Walter Ransom “Randy” Rice, and for over 61 years of marriage they walked together in deep companionship, humor, and service.

Sue’s deep sense of call and love of adventure led to a life full of surprises. In 1966 she and her pastorhusband took their four young children to Seoul, South Korea to serve as missionaries with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Over 16 years, becoming fluent in Korean, Sue shared the joys and sufferings of the Korean people — with university students; at House of Grace with unwed mothers; with Koreans struggling for justice in a time of military dictatorship.

She co-founded the Monday Night Group, a story told in the book she co-authored, “More than Witnesses: How a Small Group of Missionaries

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SUZANNE BELDEN RICE Aided Korea’s Democratic Revolution.” In 2003, Sue, Randy and other missionaries were honored in Seoul by the president of South Korea for their service to the Korean people.

After leaving Korea and gaining a Masters of Social Work from the University of Oklahoma, Sue started the Transcultural Family Counseling Center in Oklahoma City, working with Vietnamese refugees and the foreign wives of American soldiers, including many Korean women.

In 1989 Sue and Randy moved to Lincoln, Vt., where she served 30 years as a social worker with

Counseling Service of Addison County. Four years ago, in her 80’s, Sue began volunteering for one month every year in Costa Rica with the Sarapiqui Conservation Learning Center, living with a Costa Rican family, learning Spanish, teaching children the ukulele, and working with the women’s group.

Sue’s life bustled with activity and creativity — cross country skiing, raising goats, spinning and dying yarn, pottery, Korean brush painting, and playing with the Vermont Ukulele Society. Sue’s energy, compassion, and indomitable spirit were an inspiration to the many lives she touched, most of all, to her family.

She is survived by husband Randy; brother Willard “Binx” Belden Jr. and his children; her four children Rick, Chris, Mark, and Elizabeth; their spouses and partners Donna Mae Rice, Donna Wheeler Rice, and Yanine Chan Blanco; her five grandchildren Benjamin, Talia, and Christopher Rice, and Tarek and Mona El-Malah; and her godchild Emma Brewer.

Sue was a faithful member of United Church of Lincoln where Randy served as associate pastor — the family is grateful for their care and love. A memorial service will be held at the church on July 1 at 2 p.m., reception to follow. Cards can be sent to 321 E. River Road, Lincoln, VT 05443. In lieu of flowers or gifts, memorial donations can be sent to Walter Rice (note “for Sue Rice Memorial Fund”).◊

Albert Lunna celebration of life BRISTOL — Al Lunna’s life will be celebrated on Saturday, June 23, with calling hours from 9 a.m.noon at Brown McClay Funeral Home, Bristol. A memorial service at the New Haven Congregational Church on the Green will follow at 2 p.m. Internment in the Greenwood Cemetery, Bristol, and a reception following at the NHCC Fellowship Hall.

Contributions in lieu of flowers may be made to a scholarship trust to Mt. Abraham Union High School in Bristol, or North Country Union High School in Newport, Attn. Linda Lunna 1946 Lower Notch Road, Bristol, VT 05443.

To send online condolences to his family visit brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com.◊

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Deborah A. Stearns, 55, native of Ferrisburgh RUTLAND — Deborah A. Stearns passed away unexpectedly on June 16, 2018, in Rutland at the age of 55.

She was born August 12, 1963. Deb, a native of Ferrisburgh, graduated from Vergennes Union High School and attended Johnson State. After college, Deb lived in Florida for a time but moved back to Vermont where she worked in Burlington and Middlebury for many years.

Deb most enjoyed long walks, bike rides and any time spent at the beach listening to her favorite music, including her longtime favorites, “Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens, and “Hold On” by Wilson Phillips. Those who loved Deb will miss her fierce wit, sense of humor

and larger than life spirit … “sail on silver girl, sail on by, your time has come to shine. All your dreams are on their way”.

Deb is survived by her mother Kathleen (McNulla) Stearns, her brother Rick Stearns, brother Robert Stearns and his wife Michelle, niece Allyson, and nephews Jordan, Jeffery, Tucker and Jack Stearns, and many cousins including her lifetime friend and cousin Kelly. She was predeceased by her father, Sonny Stearns. Deb will be missed.

There will be a visiting hour from 5 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 23, with service immediately following at Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Vergennes. ◊

JOHN BIRCHARD

John Birchard, 81, graveside service

DEBORAH A. STEARNS

SHOREHAM — The graveside committal service and burial, with military honors, for veteran broadcaster and writer John Birchard, age 81, who died August 22, 2017, will be held on Thursday, June 28, at 11 a.m., at the East Shoreham Cemetery, Shoreham, Vermont.

A reception will follow the ceremony, at The Middlebury Inn, from noon until 2 p.m.

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GEORGE AND LAURAINE WARFIELD

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George and Lauraine Robert Duclos Warfield service celebration of life VERGENNES — A service remembering George and Lauraine Warfield will take place on Monday, July 2, 2018, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. at Sunset View Cemetery in Waltham.

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MIDDLEBURY — Family and friends are invited to a celebration of the life of Robert J. Duclos (19292018), on Sunday, June 24, from 2-4 p.m. at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.◊

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Treverton Ketcham, 93, Whiting WHITING — Treverton “Ted” D. Ketcham, 93, died Tuesday morning June 19, 2018, at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury. He was born August 13, 1924, in Sudbury, the son of Dighton and Gladys (Johnson) Ketcham.

Ted was a United States Marine Corps Veteran serving during WWII. He saw combat at Roi Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. He received wounds on Saipan and Iwo Jima and was awarded two Purple Hearts. On Iwo Jima under heavy fire when his Lieutenant was wounded he assumed command of the platoon and led them to successful completion of their mission.

For this he was awarded the Bronze Star.

After his Honorable discharge from the Corps he married Annabelle Mallory. They raised two sons and he embarked on many vocations; farmer, IGA store owner, state worker, dump truck operator, and school

bus driver.

His hobbies were hunting, trapping, fishing, gardening, logging, watching auto racing, spending time with his grandchildren and having coffee with his friends in Brandon.

He was an avid New England Patriots fan.

Ted is survived by his son Shaun Ketcham and his wife Vanessa of Sudbury; by his brother Thomas Ketcham and wife Judy of Brandon; by his grandchildren Ethan, Allison, Mallory and Caitlyn; his daughter in law Patricia; and also by numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was predeceased by his parents, by his wife Annabelle, by his son Dr. Brock Ketcham and by his siblings Gordon, Wayne (John), Robert, Sylvia, Elizabeth and Irene.

There will be no visiting hours or funeral service. Friends who wish to share memories with the family are invited to visit the home of Shaun Ketcham 147 Fiddle Hill Road, Sudbury, VT from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday,

TREVERTON D. KETCHAM June 23.

Memorial contributions may be made to The Whiting First Response.

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(Continued from Page 3A) to properly deploy rat bait boxes, including allowing dogs to move them and to use bait recommended by experts; failure to fully remove debris that can provide homes for rats and cover for their movements; and failure to allow inspectors to look inside her home, especially the basement, which “would be appropriate to ensure that basement is not a potential support to rats.”

And the board alleges the presence of so many dogs is an issue: “The Board finds that the number of dogs on the property is a direct cause of the rat infestation and that future infestations cannot reasonably be prevented unless the number of dogs is reduced to a manageable level.”

Issues cited are the ongoing volume of “fresh feces” and “supply of dog food, cat food and water” that is “regularly available” to rats around the property.

The board ordered McGregor to: • Retain a pest control firm and follow all its recommendations, including on bait selection; allow

the town’s health officer or assistant health officer to attend all pest control visits to the property; and provide all pest control reports to the town.

• Remove all old feces within 10 days and continue to do so promptly on an ongoing basis.

• Keep all fence lines and interior and exterior walls clear of debris.

• Wind down the rescue operation and reduce the number of dogs to five “personally owned” animals

by Sept. 30. Any increase in the number of dogs would require approval by the town health officer.

The appeal of the order would mean a hearing “de novo,” according to the order. According to cornell.edu, when a judiciary body hears a case de novo, “it is deciding the issues without reference to any legal conclusion or assumption made by the previous court to hear the case.”

ZONING ISSUE On the zoning question Barnes, the zoning administrator, ruled that the McGregor needed a conditional use permit because Heidi’s Haven

rescue operation is a home occupation in a residential zoning district.

In a May 23 hearing in which the zoning board heard McGregor’s appeal of the violation notice she and Deppman maintained Heidi’s Haven is grandfathered based on more than 15 years of dog rescue work at the site. McGregor said Ferrisburgh was aware of the operation because her operation had interacted with the town’s animal control officer.

In upholding Barnes’ violation notice the board’s decision stated McGregor filed no dog licenses with the town before 2011, and that a report of 19 dogs at the home in 2007 appeared to be the first time the rescue operation came to the town’s attention.

Therefore, the board concluded in its “that the Notice of Violation was issued well within the 15 year statute of limitations.”

Deppman said the appeal will contest that point.

“It’s a grandfathered operation,” Deppman said.

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

Beryl Wiley Saunders, 89, Bristol BRISTOL — Beryl Wiley Saunders of Bristol, Vt., age 89, passed away peacefully on Friday, June 15, 2018, at The Arbors at Shelburne in Shelburne, Vt., She was born on January 4, 1929 in Ipswich, Mass., to Elmer A. and Ruby (Patterson) Wiley. She graduated from Ipswich High School and married William Elwell Saunders in 1948. They soon moved to Vermont and purchased a farm in New Haven, where they lived for many years.

They later resided in Bristol.

She is survived by her husband William; seven children, Lee,

William Dean (Gertrude), Alan (Diane), Thomas (Sibylle), Hal and Todd (Barbara) Saunders and Cheryl (Daniel) Heath; twelve grandchildren, Mary Ann Wood, Danielle Dygert, Stacy Sherman, Adam Heath, Miranda Rickert, Amanda, William Michael, Jason, Ross, Liz, Molly and Sophie Saunders; and eight great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her grandson, Hal Saunders Jr. Beryl worked for twenty years for Farm Credit until her retirement in 1991. She was an avid reader, devoted many years to researching

her family genealogy, and will be remembered by all who knew her for a gentle spirit, quiet sense of humor and extreme kindness.

The family would like to extend our gratitude to the staff at The Arbors for the care and kindness shown to Beryl in the past months.

The family will hold a celebration of her life at a later date. Contributions in Beryl’s memory may be made to Addison County Home Health & Hospice. To send online condolences to her family visit brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com.◊

social and economic progress, and who looked upon it with suspicion, condescension and contempt.

Now, there is no doubt that recovering and conserving the past is an indispensable activity in any civilized society. Our civilization and culture would be perilously diminished if all connectedness to the traditions that have fed into it were lost. Clearly, the best way to preserve the past is by studying ancient law and customs, and by learning ancient languages and poring over the literary remains of the past, listening to its music, viewing its art and setting them all in the rich historical context in which they were created.

The study of these things is labeled the humanities and scholars who promote them as humanists, whose aim is to conserve the past and recover it if it is lost. But, it should be noted, the humanities are only a part of the “liberal arts,” which also included logic, mathematics and physics. So, it may be that our notions of higher education are well suited to bring liberal and conservative together.

and Mill. They are available in a Penguin Classics paperback, which include a bit of Bentham: John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarianism and other Essays. It has an excellent introduction to the theme of this series. See your local bookstore.

Nuovo (Continued from Page 5A) doctrine,” as a reaction against the Enlightenment. The German aspect of it is the influence on Coleridge of German romantic philosophy of the early 19th Century.

“It was metaphysical, because that [Liberalism] was experimental; conservative, because that was innovative and progressive; religious, because so much of that was infidel; concrete and historical, because that was abstract and philosophical; poetical, because that was matter-of-fact and prosaic.”

In Aids to Reflection, Coleridge presents the life of the mind as one of progressive self-transcendence whose goal is eternity. That is exemplified by the desire for the immortality of the soul, and the reality that the “eye cannot see, nor ear hear.” In this respect, the proper end of life is supernatural; mere nature is not enough; true being must be sought elsewhere.

Mill had no sympathy for supernaturalism. What interested him most was the rich historical understanding that tended to prevail more among conservatives than among liberals, who were often too ready to discard the past whenever it seemed to be an impediment to

Postscript: I recommend reading Mill’s essays on Bentham

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Dump the Pump Day in Addison County.

Thursday, June 21, all day. ACTR and its route partners, Green Mountain Transit (GMT) to the north and Marble Valley Regional Transit (MVRTD) to the south, will offer FARE-FREE rides for all passengers who ride the bus. ACTR will also offer free umbrellas to its morning commuters while supplies last.

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, June 21, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Spaghetti & meatballs, WOOD CARVER GARY Starr will broccoli florets, Italian bread and fresh fruit salad will present an illustrated talk, “A Life be served at 12 noon. Bring your own place setting. $5 Among Birds: Carved and Flying” suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. at the Sheldon Museum in MiddleCall Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. Open to anyone bury on Wednesday, June 27, at age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride noon. Starr is a world-class selfmay be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287. taught carver whose decorative ACTR feedback session in Middlebury. Thursday, decoys and birds are on display June 21, 5:30 p.m., Community Transportation Center, at the Sheldon Museum through 297 Creek Rd. Addison County Transit Resources Nov. 11. seeks feedback from riders and other community Photo courtesy Henry Sheldon Museum members on proposed schedule changes for its in-county services at this public meeting. If transportation is needed to attend the meeting, rides can be provided. Call ACTR at least 48 hours in advance at 802-388-2287 to arrange.

Writer Yvonne Daly and writers’ open mic in Brandon.

Thursday, June 21, 6-9 p.m., Book and Leaf Bookstore, 10 Park St. Daley will read from her book “Going Up the Country: when the Hippies and Dreamers, Freaks and Radicals Moved to Vermont.” All writers are encouraged to share the open mic. Come and enjoy this celeMIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — Adult Classes: Clay: Raku, bration of Vermont history, conversaWheel and Hand building, Block Printing, Paper Making, Watercolors, Social Media Seminar tion, book signing, complimentary tea Painting, Pastels, Plein Air Painting Kids: Colored Pencil Art, Clay in Vergennes. Tuesday, or coffee and sweets.

June 26, 8-9:30 a.m., Vermont Civil War historian Howard Wheel & Hand Building Classes, Art Camps-Tree Houses, Birds Kennedy Brothers. The Addison Coffin in Bristol. Thursday, June on the Wing, Whirligigs, Rainbow Paper, Dragons, Weird & Wacky County Chamber of Commerce pres21, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West St. Art, Fairies & Friends, Art of Thailand. middleburystudioschool. ents this seminar will teach you top Join Coffin and The Bristol Historical org Contact Barb 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com strategies for successful Facebook Society, in cooperation with the and Instagram accounts for business.

Vermont Humanities Council, for a Learn how to make the most of social discussion of “Vermont’s Remarkable Basin Harbor Road. Get an Abenaki perspective on media to drive business growth. More info at addisonSharpshooters.” Free and open to the public. More info life in the Champlain Valley from past centuries to the county.com. call Steve Ayotte at 802-453-7709. present day. Dancing, singing, drumming, storytelling, Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Tuesday, wampum readings, craft and cooking demonstrations June 26, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory are presented by members of Vermont’s Abenaki Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 tribes. Shop the marketplace or take in the gallery talk a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Dime Fair at 10:30 a.m. on the special clothing exhibition. All fees included with Junior Fishing Derby in Vergennes. with the drawings directly after lunch. Meal of BBQ museum admission. More info at www.facebook.com/ Friday, June 22, 5 a.m.-9 p.m., Otter Creek. beefsteak, baked beans, coleslaw, wheat bread and AbenakiHeritageWeekend/, lcmm.org, or 802-475Bring your kids aged 3-15 to Otter Creek for a applesauce will be served at 12 noon. Bring your own 2022 ext. 107. day of fun, and the hope of catching the biggest fish. Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf Section Young place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reserRegister at tinyurl.com/ybozx6rd. vations required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377Adventurers Club hike in Orwell. Sunday, June Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury. Friday, June 1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse 24, Mt. Independence State Historic Site, 472 Mt. 22, 11:30 a.m., Rosie’s, Route 7 South. Doors open of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at Independence Rd. While the pace is geared towards at 11:30, meal served at Noon. Meal includes turkey 802-388-2287. younger adventurers (ages 4-8), everyone is welcome. salad cold plate with coleslaw, fresh fruit, roll and Each outing is tailored to the individual participants, and Info session on video surveillance and sexual cookie. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle violence in Middlebury. Tuesday, June 26, 5:30will be fun for the whole family. Bring cost of admission to reserve 802-377-1419. $5 suggested donation does 6:30 p.m., Unity Hall, The Congregational Church of or Green Mountain Passport. Find park fees online: not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and Middlebury, 30 North Pleasant St. WomenSafe invites historicsites.vermont.gov. More info contact Lauren their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. anyone affected by recent cases involving video surveilBierman at 802-349-7498 or laurenbierman1218@ Call ACTR at 802-388-2287. lance and sexual violence to participate in an inforgmail.com. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org.

Preschoolers at the Point in Addison. Friday, June 22, Strawberry festival and book sale in Monkton. mation session by local providers from WomenSafe, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, Vermont Legal Aid, and the Counseling Service of Sunday, June 24, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Monkton Volunteer 31 Route 17. Bring your preschooler to enjoy story and Addison County. More info contact WomenSafe at Firehouse, State’s Prison Hollow Rd. Russell Library’s craft time. Topics relate to the history of Chimney Point, 802-388-4205 or info@womensafe.net. annual benefit will feature a wide selection of books, and may include archaeology, bridges, boats, clocks, locally grown strawberries, cake and ice cream, lemon- Bird walk and talk in Middlebury. Tuesday, June 26, post offices and lighthouses. A parent or other respon7-8:30 p.m., College Park, between College St. and ade and hot dogs. The Vermont Ukulele Society will sible adult must be with the child. Ages 3 to 5. WellMain St. Ron Payne of Otter Creek Audubon will lead a provide musical entertainment and there will be a silent behaved siblings welcome. Bring snacks if you like. free evening bird walk. Learn about some of the beautiauction of local goods and services More info call Call (802) 759-2412 for the topic. Suggested donation ful natural resources in Middlebury. All ages and abili802-453-4471. $5 per family. ties are welcome. Bring binoculars if you have them.

Champlain Valley Fiddlers in Middlebury. Sunday, Artists’ opening reception in Vergennes. Friday, June The first of a series of walks and talks offered by the June 24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. Enjoy 22, 5-8 p.m., Northern Daughters Gallery, 221 Main Middlebury Conservation Commission. an afternoon of music. Jam session form 11 a.m.-1 St. Come meets the artists and view their work at the p.m. followed by music and dancing. Refreshments opening reception for “Blades will Sprout,” featuring the available. All fiddlers welcome. Donation $3. work of: Anne Cady, Julia Jensen, and Jessica Smith.

Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department Chicken Table of Grace community meal in Vergennes. Friday, Barbecue in Cornwall. Sunday, June 24, noon-3 p.m.

Children’s Revolutionary Morning Camp June 22, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Cornwall Fire Station, Route 30. Eat in or take out. One in Orwell. Wednesday, June 27-Friday, June Church, 30 S. Water St. Menu includes cold ham, price gets a full meal with sides, salads and drinks.

29, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Mount Independence salads, bread and dessert. Free.

Hamburgers and hot dogs also available. Proceeds State historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. Children Bixby Gala in Vergennes. Friday, June 22, 7-11 p.m., benefit the CVFD. will enjoy Revolutionary times learning about Mount Bixby Library, 258 Main St. Get out the fancy clothes Military road hike in Hubbardton. Sunday, June Independence, archaeology, and more, with walks and and Bixby Gala is “Sail to Summer” at this annual 24, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5696 new hands-on activities. Attendees will make special fundraiser for the library. Delicious food and plenty of Monument Hill Rd. Walk in the footsteps of history items to bring home. Ages 6 to 11. Limited space. dancing local favorite The Grift. Tickets available now along a section of the 1776-77 military road that ran Pre-registration required. More info at 802-948-2000. at bixbylibrary.org. from Rutland through Hubbardton on the way to Mount Quickbooks workshop in Middlebury. Wednesday, Independence. Site interpreter Bob Franzoni is your June 27, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., 1590 Route 7 South, Suite guide for this hike, rugged in places. Dress for the 8. Hands-on training if you are new to QuickBooks or weather and wear boots, as one section may be wet. want to refresh or build on your current skills. Each “Roomers” auditions in Brandon. Sunday, June 24, participant receives a complete QuickBooks manual.

3 p.m., Brandon Senior Center, 1591 Forest Dale Rd. Junior Fishing Derby in Vergennes.

Space is limited. More info and registration at info@ The Brandon Town Players will be holding open audiSaturday, June 23, 5 a.m.-9 p.m., Otter addisoncountyedc.org or 802-388-7953. tions for this play by Jerome McDonough, a comic Creek. Bring your kids aged 3- 15 to Otter farce about an overcrowded, rundown boarding house Age Well Senior Luncheon in Shoreham. Wednesday, Creek for a day of fun, and the hope of catching the June 27, 11 a.m., Halfway House, Route 22A. Meal filled with a variety of zany characters. Many roles for biggest fish. Register at tinyurl.com/ybozx6rd. includes soup of the day, sandwich, coleslaw, dessert both male and female.

Ferrisburgh Hollow town-wide yard sale in Foodaroo in Middlebury. Sunday, June 24, 4-8 p.m., and beverage. Advanced reservations required. Call Ferrisburgh. Saturday, June 23, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. $5 suggested in the Marble Works. The fourth year of Middlebury Ferrisburgh Hollow and other locations. Lists of particidonation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone Underground’s food festival. Sample more than 20 pants and maps available at nfumchurch.org. age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride Vermont food and beverages, hear great music, watch Two triathlons in Salisbury. Saturday, June 23, 8:30 may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287. street performers, participate in a baking competition a.m., Branbury State Park, 3570 Lake Dunmore Rd. Teddy bear picnic in Bristol. Wednesday, June 27, and more. A family-friendly event. Free entry.

The “Lake Dunmore Triathlon” is 0.9-mile swim, 28-mile Opening and artist talk in Rochester. Sunday, June 24, noon, on the town green. Ted E. Bear of the Vermont bike and 6.2-mile run. The “Vermont Sun Triathlon” is Teddy Bear Company is coming for a picnic. Bring 4-5 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. New show of a 600-yard swim, 14-mile bike and a 3.1-mile run. Both your favorite bear and meet at the Veterans Memorial work by Alison Weld. More info at bigtowngallery.com. are nestled against the Green Mountains. Bib pick up Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series in for a parade to the playground for stories, songs, and 6:40-7:30 a.m. More info and registration at vermontgames. Free lunches for the first 30 children. Rain Rochester. Sunday, June 24, 5-8 p.m., Big Town suntriathlonseries.com. location Holley Hall.

Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Come hear authors Michael Beginners bird walk in Middlebury. Saturday, June 23, Collier and Char Gardener read from their work. More “A Life Among Birds: Carved and Flying” in 9-10:30 a.m., Seymour St. Ext. A great opportunity for Middlebury. Wednesday, June 27, noon, Henry info at bigtowngallery.com. aspiring birders. Cosponsored by Otter Creek Audubon Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St. Self-taught carver Gary Society & MALT. More info call Carol Ramsayer at Starr will present this illustrated talk discussing his 802-989-7115. childhood amidst a premier decoy collection, his introTown-wide lawn sale in Bristol. Saturday, June 23, 9 duction to carving, his change of careers, and a birding a.m.-3 p.m., locations across town. Treasures abound passion shared by his wife Kathy. Free with museum Storymatters meeting in Middlebury. in what has become a Vermont tradition. admission. More info at HenrySheldonMuseum.org.

Monday, June 25, 4 p.m., Ilsley Public Abenaki Heritage Weekend in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, “Country Mouse/City Mouse and The Princess & The Library, 75 Main St. Gather with other storytellJune 23, all day, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Pea” on stage in Brandon. Wednesday, June 27, ers for “Your Choice”; the floor is open to all kinds of 4472 Basin Harbor Road. Get an Abenaki perspective 3:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Backpack stories and ideas. Always open for stories. on life in the Champlain Valley from past centuries to Creating housing training in Middlebury. Monday, Theater, 20 young actors ages 6-17, will present these the present day. Dancing, singing, drumming, storytellthis production, which melds these two iconic fairy June 25, 5:30-6:30 p.m., the Addison County Regional ing, wampum readings, craft and cooking demonstratales into one. Tickets adults, $4/seniors and students, Planning Commission, 14 Seminary St. ACRPC will tions are presented by members of Vermont’s Abenaki $3/Children 5 & under accompanied by an adult free. provide training concerning planning to create more tribes. Shop the marketplace or take in the gallery talk History of Waterhouses talk in Salisbury. Wednesday, housing opportunities in the Region. Presented by on the special clothing exhibition. All fees included with June 27, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, Adam Lougee, the ACRPC executive director. All are museum admission. More info at www.facebook.com/ 853 Maple St. Waterhouses is one of the longest welcome and encouraged to attend. More info contact AbenakiHeritageWeekend/, lcmm.org, or 802-475running businesses on Lake Dunmore. And members Adam at 802-388-3141. RSVP to alougee@acrpc.org.

2022 ext. 107. of Jean Edgerton’s family have been there for all of Strawberry festival in Vergennes. Monday, June 25, 6-8 King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, June it. Don’t miss Jean’s presentation at the Salisbury p.m., City Park. Homemade strawberry shortcake and 23, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community Congregational Church. It is free, open to the public. beverage, $6. The Vergennes City Band will provide Center, 3279 Route 7. Hosted by the Ferrisburgh Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, June 27, entertainment. Proceeds benefit Champlain Valley Grange. A sandwich supper followed by an evening of 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since Christian School. More info call Alisa at 802-759-2144. fun and card games.

1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, June 25, town or bring a picnic.

7 p.m., City Park.

Volunteer bat monitoring training and presentation “Roomers” auditions in Brandon. Monday, June 25, in Ferrisburgh. Wednesday, June 27, 7:30-9:30 p.m., 7 p.m., Brandon Senior Center, 1591 Forest Dale Rd. Rokeby, 4334 Route 7. Count bats at Kingsland Bay The Brandon Town Players will be holding open audiState Park this summer. Receive training after a brief tions for this play by Jerome McDonough, a comic Abenaki Heritage Weekend in presentation by biologist Alyssa Bennett. Bring warm farce about an overcrowded, rundown boarding house Ferrisburgh. Sunday, June 24, all day, layers and mosquito protection. Folding chair optional. filled with a variety of zany characters. Many roles for Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 More info contact Alyssa Bennett at alyssa.bennett@ both male and female.

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Music and Movies series in Middlebury. Wednesday, June 27, 8 p.m., College Park, across from Shafer’s.

The Better Middlebury Partnership’s series kicks off with a free viewing of the movie “Ferdinand.”

Stargazing open house in Middlebury. Wednesday, June 27, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Route 125. Jupiter and Saturn will be in the evening sky on many of these dates. A variety of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae will also be visible through the Observatory’s telescopes. Free and open to the public, weather permitting. Check the Observatory web site at go.middlebury.edu/observatory/ or call 802-443-2266 after 7 P.M. on the evening of the event.

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Artist’s opening reception in Brandon.

Friday, June 29, 5-7 p.m., Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St. Come meet the artist Deborah Goodwin and view her show “Fabrications in Clay.”

Middlebury Chamber Music Festival in Middlebury.

Friday, June 29, 7-8:30 p.m., Unity Hall, Congregational Church of Middlebury, N. Pleasant St. Community players and participants in the Middlebury Music Festival Chamber Music Workshop will join together to read chamber orchestra pieces including Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 and Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 3, No. 6 among others. Jon Weber will conduct.

Point Counterpoint Faculty Ensemble in Salisbury.

Friday, June 29, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Come hear these talented musicians as they play Popper’s Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano; Faure’s Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 15; and Schubert’s String Quartet in D Minor “Death and the Maiden.” Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Free-will donation.

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2018 Vermont Gran Fondo in Middlebury. Saturday, June 30, 6:30 a.m.-7 p.m., Woodchuck Cidery, 1321 Exchange St. Want a challenge? Here’s an opportunity to bike four Vermont gaps, clocking up to 114 miles and climbing 10,736 feet in this annual Gran Fondo ride. Shorter rides — the Medio, Facile and Piccolo Fondos — are an option for those less ambitious. Après-ride party at Woodchuck Cidery 2-7 p.m. Live music, food, locally produced beverages and farm-to-spoon ice cream.

More info at vermontgranfondo.com.

Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf Section hike in Middlebury. Saturday, June 30, Abbey Pond Rd., off Route 116. Moderately difficult. 4.6 miles round trip with 1260’ elevation gain; the trail steeply climbs 1000 feet in the first mile with stream crossing, followed by easier terrain. Trails ends at Abbey Pond with an unobstructed view of Robert Frost Mtn. Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, lunch and hiking poles, if needed.

More info contact Ruth Penfield at ruthpenfield@gmail. com or 802-388-5407. More activities at gmcbreadloaf. org.

“Coco” on screen in Shoreham. Saturday, June 30, 1 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, Main St. Bring your lunch to the library and enjoy a hit movie in our air-conditioning. Free.

“The Adventures of Prince Achmed” on screen in Brandon. Saturday, June 30, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Taken from ‘The Arabian Nights,’ the first full-length animated feature tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse, sending him off to a series of wondrous and romantic adventures. Silent film aficionado Jeff Rapsis provides live accompaniment. Free.

Donations accepted, with proceeds to help continuing preservation work.

Middlebury Chamber Music Festival in Middlebury.

Saturday, June 30, 7-8:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Middlebury Music Festival visiting artists Arturo Delmoni, violin and Peter Sanders, cello will perform a program of duets as well as a string quartet with violinist Emily Sunderman and violist Elizabeth Reid and virtuosic solo pieces accompanied by pianist Cynthia Huard. *RESCHEDULED FROM JULY 7* Gypsy Reel in Brandon. Saturday, June 30, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. A Celtic band that rocks, Gypsy Reel plays high energy, stirring music rooted in the Celtic tradition but garnered from the whole world.

Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email info@brandon-music.net to reserve.

Mount Abraham/Vergennes alumni football game in Bristol. Saturday, June 30, 8 p.m., Bristol Rec Field.

The Eagle football alumni group will stage its fourth annual flag football game with live blocking to benefit MAUHS and VUHS’ cooperate football program.

Suggested $20 donation for participants. Register starting at 7 p.m. the night of the game or contact Hartman at ehartman34@gmail.com or 802-771-7567.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes.

Thursday, June 28, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Senior Paint & Sip - Dragonfly 10 a.m.- noon (must be signed up in advance) A roast beef dinner with cheddar mashed potatoes, green beans with red peppers, wheat roll and pineapple tidbits will be served at 12 noon by students from the Champlain Valley Christian School. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required.

Call Michelle to reserve 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.

Parkinson’s support group in Middlebury. Thursday, June 28, 10-11:30 a.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. A group for those suffering from Parkinson’s or any other movement disorders and their caregivers. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. Continued meetings will run on the last Thursday of each month.

Strawberry Festival in Shoreham. Thursday, June 28, 5-7 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Feast on strawberry shortcake, strawberry sundaes, strawberry pie, ice cream with strawberries, just plain strawberries or the works. Prices vary depending on the items purchased. A limited number of whole strawberry pies will also be for sale. Make strawberries your dessert or your entire meal that night and enjoy the fun and good food.

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CHRISTOPHER BALFE, 2, of Bridport shows off his strawberries last summer at Douglas Orchard in Shoreham. Strawberry lovers have three different strawberry festivals to choose from in the coming week — one in Monkton on Sunday, June 24, from 10-2, at the Monkton Volunteer Firehouse, one in Vergennes City Park on Monday, June 25, from 6-8 p.m., and the annual Shoreham event on Thursday, June 28, from 5-7 p.m., at the Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Road.

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Community Room, EastView at Middlebury. 100 Eastview Ter. The Fiddle Club, led by Scottish Fiddler Peter McFarlane, performs a concert of traditional Scottish fiddle music. Free and open to the public.

“What to the Negro is the 4th of July?” in Ferrisburgh.

Sunday, July 1, 3 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 Route 7.

Experience history when participants read aloud Frederick Douglass’s most famous speech, originally delivered on July 5, 1852. Come and add your voice to this statewide public reading sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council. Free.

Middlebury Chamber Music Festival in Middlebury.

Sunday, July 1, 7-8:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Olivia Hajioff, Marc Ramirez, Miho Weber and Jon Weber will offer a program to including Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68, Overture: Moderato con moto and Kodaly, duet for Violin and Cello Alfred Schnittke “Moz-Art” duet for Two Violins, among others.

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Fireworks and Pops Concert in Middlebury. Monday, July 2, grounds open at 5:30 p.m., behind Mahaney Center for the Arts 72 Porter Field Rd. The Henry Sheldon Museum’s annual Pops Concert with the Vermont Philharmonic.

Lou Kosma will conduct a medley of contemporary music, light classics, Broadway and film favorites, and WWI patriotic songs. New this year — vintage cars and a raffle of picnic baskets painted by local artists.

Concert begins at 7:30. Bring chairs, blankets, and flashlights. Tickets, $25/youth $10/children under 12 free/ prior to June 26 adult $20, and more info available at Sheldon at 802-388-2117, online henrysheldonmuseum.org or in person at the museum, 1 Park St. Rain site: Kenyon Arena.

Music tech playground in Shoreham. Monday, July 2, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Come play with some cool tech this summer. Explore MakeyMakeys, Incredibox, and simple circuits. For ages 14-adult only.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, July 2, 7 p.m., City Park.

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Blood pressure and foot care clinic in Forest Dale. Tuesday, July 3, 9:30 a.m., Brandon Senior Center, 1591 Forest Dale Rd. Independence Day fireworks and party in Bristol.

Tuesday, July 3, 6 p.m.- dusk. Bristol Recreational Fields, Airport Rd. DJ Jam Man will be on hand to spin tunes. Food and craft vendors, games, raffles tickets and fireworks at dusk. More info contact Cecil Foster at 802-453-4877 or cecil@gmavt.com.

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July 4th celebration in Bristol.

Wednesday, July 4, 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Main St., the town green, and other points around town. A road race, the Great Bristol Outhouse Race, parade, and a party on the green. Join the fun. For the comfort of those around you, we ask that you please leave your pets at home. More info contact Cecil Foster at 802-453-4877 or cecil@gmavt.com.

July 4th Parade in Bristol. Wednesday, July 4, 10:30 a.m., Main St. Come see the oldest continuously run parade in Vermont.

43rd annual ice cream social in Salisbury. Wednesday, July 4, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Visit with neighbors and enjoy ice cream with a wide range of toppings and homebaked pie or cake. The quantities are large, the prices are reasonable. Rain or shine.

“Music at the Riverbend” presents Big Hat, No Cattle in Brandon. Wednesday, July 4, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. With guitars, fiddle, steel guitar, upright bass, drums. and vocals, Big Hat, No Cattle swings out western style. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@brandon.org.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, July 4, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

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Senior meal in Bristol. Thursday, July 5, noon, First Baptist Church of Bristol, Park St. Menu includes homemade baked beans, potato salad, broccoli salad, cottage cheese, homemade rolls and ice cream with berry sauce. Suggested donation is

$4. To be on the list call Nancy at 802-453-5276. Come early and talk with friends and make new ones.

Music and Movies series in Middlebury. Thursday, July 5, 7 p.m., Riverfront Park, the Marble Works. The Better Middlebury Partnership’s series continues with a free concert by Quinn and the Confluence. American Flatbread by the slice and beer and wine for purchase starting at 6 p.m.

“The Birds of Summer” lecture in Salisbury. Thursday, July 5, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Bridget Butler, Salisbury Conservation Commission and the Lake Dunmore/Fern Lake Association will give this free talk.

Middlebury Macintosh User Group (MiddMUG) in Middlebury. Thursday, July 5, 7-8:30 p.m., community room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Come teach and help each other use Apple computers and devices. All levels of skills are welcome. There are no dumb questions. Demonstration of Apple Wallet iPhone photography, along with questions, answers and problem solving. More info at MiddMUG2018@mail.com.

“National Treasure” on screen in Bristol. Thursday, July 5, dusk, on the town green. The first of Bristol’s movies in the park for 2018. Bring a chair, a blanket and some popcorn for plein air movie viewing. Rain location Holley Hall.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury.

Friday, July 6, 11 a.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. Menu includes Yankee pot roast, vegetable gravy, mashed potatoes, summer blend vegetables, broccoli slaw, wheat dinner roll, and pecan pie. $5 suggested donation. Advanced tickets required. Call Michelle Eastman at 802-377-1419. Bring your own place setting. 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.

Street Dance in Brandon. Friday, July 6, 6-10 p.m., Seminary Park, around the corner and up the hill from Town Hall. A family-friendly gathering with music for all ages by DJ Jam Man Entertainment & food vendors.

Off street parking available with free shuttles. Part of Brandon’s Independence Day festivities.

Mellow Yellow in New Haven. Friday, July 6, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great music for the golden era of top 40 hits. Free. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

Sergei Gratchev carillon in Middlebury. Friday, July 6, 6 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns, Middlebury College. Gratchev is the Carillonneur for the Middlebury Summer Russian Language School and also for the city of Hulst, Netherlands. Come hear this a staple of summer life on the Middlebury campus.

Free. More info at go.middlebury.edu/carillon.

Twangtown Paramours in Salisbury. Friday, July 6, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Come hear this Nashville/Austin acoustic duo. Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Free-will donation.

L IV E M U S I C Sabouyouma in New Haven. Friday, June 21, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard.

Joan Hutton Landis Memorial Concert in Rochester.

Friday, June 22, 7 p.m., Rochester Federated Church Onion River Jazz Band in Brandon. Saturday, June 23, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

Renee Dion Trio in Brandon. Saturday, June 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, June 25, 7 p.m., City Park.

Rio County Line in Middlebury. Saturday, June 26, 9:30-12:30 p.m., Notte.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, June 27, 7 p.m., on the town green.

Point Counterpoint Faculty Ensemble in Salisbury.

Friday, June 29, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

Kai Stanley in Middlebury. Friday, June 29, 7-9 p.m., Notte.

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

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, July 2, 7 p.m., City Park.

Vermont Philharmonic in Middlebury. Monday, July 2, 7:30 p.m., behind Mahaney Center for the Arts.

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LEXI ORLEANS OF Orwell is all smiles as she takes her horse through its paces at the skills showcase at the 2018 Orange County 4-H/Open Horse Clinic, June 1-3 in Tunbridge. Orleans was one of 26 youths and nine adults to attend the clinic to work on their riding skills and take part in equine-related activities and workshops.

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Tour around town on summer walks MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Conservation Commission has created a series of summer walks around town to highlight its natural resources. The first of these walks will take place on Tuesday evening, June 26.

On that night, Ron Payne of Otter Creek Audubon Society will lead a bird walk beginning at 7 p.m. from College Park. Participants in the walk can learn new birds, see familiar old ones and enjoy a stroll with other community members.

The walk will make a loop of the village.

The series is free and open to all ages and abilities. Anyone who has binoculars should bring them.

For those who don’t, there will be extras to share.

Vt. residents asked not to interfere with loons ONTPELIER — The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is asking boaters and anglers to give loons a hand this summer by enjoying them from a safe distance.

Loons were removed from Vermont’s endangered species list in 2005 following decades of recovery effort. But one of the main threats still facing loons as they continue to recover is human disturbance during the breeding season.

“Most areas where loons are nesting on Vermont’s lakes are surrounded by signs reminding people to give loons the space they need, but not all nesting areas are marked,” said John Buck, a wildlife biologist with Vermont Fish & Wildlife. “We’re asking people to enjoy loons from a distance using binoculars, whether they are in a motor boat, canoe, or a kayak.”

Buck also reminds people to avoid lead fishing tackle. Loons sometimes swallow stray fishing tackle and suffer the effects of lead poisoning. Lead sinkers weighing one-half ounce or less are illegal in Vermont, but larger tackle still has the capacity to slough off lead into the environment over time. Buck also recommends that

anglers be careful to not attract loons to their bait and lures, and especially don’t leave any fishing line behind as fishing tackle does kill loons.

Eric Hanson oversees the Loon Conservation Project for the Vermont Center for Ecostudies in partnership with the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. He and his colleagues monitor Vermont’s loon population and have even put out game cameras around loon nests to monitor the behavior of people around them.

Hanson says that most people are respectful of nesting loons and give them space, but people sometimes inadvertently harm loons without meaning to.

“Loon chicks can be difficult to see, so we ask motorboaters to note where loon families are and to avoid those areas,” Hanson said. “We also ask that motorboaters obey ‘no wake’ laws within 200 feet of shorelines because boat wakes can flood and destroy shoreline loon nests.”

As Vermont’s loon population continues to increase and canoeing and kayaking continues to become more popular, there is greater potential for people to come into conflict

MONKTON — The Nature Conservancy has closed the boardwalk at its Raven Ridge Natural Area in Monkton for the summer while it builds a new universallyaccessible boardwalk in its place that can accommodate visitors with a spectrum of needs. The project will be completed in August by contracted trail builder, Timber & Stone. A ribbon cutting to celebrate the trail’s re-opening will be scheduled for September.

The wider boardwalk will span 950 feet with an additional 600 feet of accessible trail that will end at an observation platform overlooking a beaver pond. Viewing platforms and benches will also dot the boardwalk, where visitors can sit and enjoy the beautiful wetland that provides habitat for birds, wildlife, and rare flowers. Just last year, winged loosestrife, a flower thought to be extinct in Vermont, was rediscovered at this site.

Timber & Stone was chosen as the trail builder due to their reputation as ecologically sensitive and sustainable trail developers, who will honor the natural integrity of the environment while expanding access to all.

Vermont Youth Conservation Corps will be constructing the benches and helping us develop a connector trail between our new access and current network of paths at Raven Ridge.

“The Nature Conservancy is committed to connecting people with nature and we understand that accessibility can be a real challenge for some. This is our second universally accessible project. We installed a 460-foot boardwalk at our Eshqua Bog Natural Area in Hartland a few years ago so that visitors of all physical abilities could enjoy the rare orchids that bloom there,” said Lynn McNamara, Director of Stewardship for The Nature Conservancy.

Universally accessible boardwalk projects require significant investment. The Raven Ridge project is estimated to cost $320,000. The Nature Conservancy is still actively fundraising for what is sure to

NATURE LOVERS WILL have a new universally accessible boardwalk at Monkton’s Raven Ridge Natural Area from which to observe wildlife in late August of this year.

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become a valuable community asset for local residents and all who visit this spectacular 365-acre natural area that is home to nesting ravens and bobcats.

Contact The Nature Conservancy’s Development Director Catherine

Newman at 229 4425, x120 if you are interested in learning more about how you can support the project.

More information about the September ribbon cutting will be forthcoming later in the summer.

with loons. Hanson reminders boaters to avoid pursuing loons in a canoe or kayak, especially loons with young.

“Occasionally a loon will be curious and approach people and if that happens, just enjoy it,” Hanson said.

“However, loons that are constantly swimming away from you are stressed and may abandon their young if they feel they are in danger.”

Hanson also urges shoreline property owners to maintain appropriate habitat for loons, including a forested area along shorelines where loons can nest.

Volunteers interested in monitoring loons for the Loon Conservation Project should contact Hanson at ehanson@vtecostudies.org. Volunteers can monitor lakes all summer long with a focus on lakes with loon pairs and nesting.

Volunteers can also survey one or two lakes on Loonwatch Day, being held on July 21 this year, between 8 and 9 a.m. The goal is to survey all lakes greater than 20 acres at the same time, which provides a population count and checks on small lakes that MONKTON’S RAVEN RIDGE Natural Area boardwalk is closed this summer while it is replaced with a new are surveyed less often during the rest universally accessibly boardwalk. of year.

Photo courtesy The Nature Conservancy

Addison Independent, Thursday, June 21, 2018 — PAGE 11A

CYCLISTS ROLL ALONG IN the 12th Annual Kelly Brush Ride in September 2017. The annual ride, which starts and finishes in Middlebury and winds through the Champlain Valley, drew more than 800 cyclists and 40 adaptive athletes. The event raised more than $500,000 for adaptive sports and ski racing safety. This year’s ride is slated for Sept. 8.

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13th Kelly Brush Ride is set for Sept. 8 BURLINGTON — The 13th annual Kelly Brush Ride powered

by VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 8, in Middlebury. Participants can register online to ride 100, 50, 20 or 10 miles, and/or play a round of golf at the Ralph Myhre Golf Course at Middlebury College.

The Kelly Brush Ride, which rolls through Vermont’s beautiful Champlain Valley with views of the Adirondacks across Lake Champlain to the west and Vermont’s Green Mountains to the east, was voted “Best Century Ride” by Vermont Sports in March 2018. There are some new additions to the event this year, with a beer tent serving Switchback and the option to play golf.

The Kelly Brush Ride is a charity fundraising ride, with proceeds supporting the Kelly Brush

Foundation’s mission to inspire and empower people with spinal cord injuries to live active lives. The Kelly Brush Foundation awards Active Fund grants to individuals with paralysis to help buy adaptive sports equipment such as handcycles and monoskis. The ride also supports the foundation’s ski racing safety program.

The Kelly Brush Ride is the organization’s largest fundraiser of the year, and the majority of Active Fund grants are made possible by riders who fundraise.

“The Kelly Brush Ride has become an iconic New England event because of the incredible community that has built up around it” said Zeke Davisson, executive director of the Kelly Brush Foundation. “This community has driven the growth of the Kelly Brush Foundation and made it possible to

award over 620 grants in 47 states to people with spinal cord injuries to purchase the expensive adaptive sports equipment that allows them to get outside and reclaim their active lifestyles.”

Timo Shaw, president of title sponsor VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations, is deeply committed to the Kelly Brush Ride and the organization’s mission.

“We feel strongly about the work done at Kelly Brush Foundation, and have been title sponsor of the ride for seven years,” said Shaw.

“It is very special to see over 800 bicyclists, handcyclists, families, ski teams, and community members all coming together to get outside and support a great cause.”

Registration and additional information can be found online at kellybrushfoundation.org/kellybrushride.

‘Tell Me Tour’ seeks ideas for Ilsley MIDDLEBURY — Have some thoughts you’d like to share about the present and future of Middlebury’s Ilsley Public Library?

Library staff and trustees want to hear from you.

Library Director Dana Hart has announced a “Tell Me Tour,” during which she and Ilsley trustees will conduct feedback sessions with small focus groups to get a sense of residents’ priorities for the Ilsley and Sarah Partridge libraries.

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Hart is prepared to hold weekly feedback sessions through November, if demand is strong.

She’d like to keep participation at each meeting to eight people or fewer to allow for a comprehensive exchange of ideas. Any Middlebury-area residents interested in participating in the Tell

Me Tour should email Hart at dana. hart@ilsleypubliclibrary.org. She’ll respond with some potential meeting dates and times.

The focus groups will be facilitated by Barbara Doyle-Wilch, a library consultant who is working with Hart and the trustees.

At the end of the Tell Me Tour, library officials will review the findings and hold a large public meeting to share how that feedback will inform library resources, services and the renovation.

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Farmers

VCET

One of the most robust gleaning (Continued from Page 1A) The United Nations Food and programs in the county is run by Lily Agriculture Organization estimated Bradburn at the organization known that around 42 percent of North as HOPE (Helping Overcome America’s food supply is wasted, Poverty’s Effects).

Last year, 30 farms in Addison and on-farm food waste represents County donated food to HOPE’s around a third of that.

The new study presents the first Local Food Access Program through empirical data on farm-level food regular donations or gleaning, and around 15 farms donated regularly loss in New England.

Salvation Farms asked 58 throughout the season.

Golden Russet Farm in Shoreham vegetable and fruit farms throughout has hosted gleaners through HOPE Vermont four questions: • What percent of the vegetables multiple times.

“HOPE makes it so easy for us and/or fruits, berries and nuts (henceforth crops) that grew on because they weigh everything those (planted) acres did you and give us the report at the end of the year,” farmer Will Stevens of harvest?

• What percent of the crops left Golden Russet said. “(Bradburn) in the field (i.e., that you did not manages the crew, which is nice for me. It’s something I don’t have to harvest) were edible? do.”

• What percent of Yet, not every the crops that you “There’s so situation is suitable for harvested did you sell? much food in gleaning.

• What percent of “Gleaning doesn’t the crops that you did this county, work for tomatoes not sell did you donate? so much highbecause we harvest The results showed quality food them for five to six that 85 percent of available. weeks, so I don’t available vegetables always know in and fruits were There’s advance,” Stevens said. harvested and 15 absolutely no Farmers often percent were not interest in lowneed gleaners to harvested; 16 percent come on short notice, of vegetables and quality food.”

— local farmer, and organizations 15 percent of fruits Hank Bissell cannot always supply that were considered sufficient volunteers in salvageable were time. crops that were either “There’re only particular harvested, but not sold or donated, circumstances where that works or were unharvested, but edible.

When farmers like Spencer out,” Bissell of Lewis Creek Farm Blackwell do not harvest their crops said.

Additionally, 92 percent of it is usually because the produce is blemished or they are not confident farmers said they did not claim the that they can sell the produce, federal tax deduction for donations that was extended to all farms in according to the study.

It’s often not worth putting in the December 2015.

“It’s not an added incentive. labor to harvest crops that can’t be We’re doing it regardless,” said sold.

Another local farmer, Hank Spencer Blackwell, who donated Bissell of Lewis Creek Farm in around 9,000 pounds of produce to Starksboro, said, “It’s difficult to HOPE last year.

Still, 62 percent of those surveyed put much effort into something you’re not getting any money for. in the study expressed interest in having the state of Vermont develop There’s no return.”

“It’s slim profit margins in the a program to provide additional food business to begin with,” financial compensation to farms for donating food.

Bissell added.

With such an incentive, farmers When farmers harvest their crops but cannot sell them, the lack of sales might be able to harvest crops they is usually due to a lack of demand, would otherwise turn under, and oversaturation of the market, or donate them.

While the study acknowledged blemishes on the produce.

“There’s so much food in this that not all food grown on farms county, so much high-quality can be recovered, it did note that food available. There’s absolutely the “quantities of farm-level loss no interest in low-quality food,” suggested in this research indicate there might be great potential to Bissell said. prevent crop losses and to scale up GLEANING LEFTOVERS Volunteer gleaning, or collecting food recovery efforts from farms.”

If you would like to get in touch leftover crops from farmers’ fields before or after harvest for donation, with Lily Bradburn about volunteer is one solution that many local gleaning or potential donations, farmers employ to deal with food you may reach her at lbradburn@ hope-vt.org. they are unable to sell.

(Continued from Page 1A) spend 40 hours a week working with start-up professionals and professors from VCET to develop their nonprofit or business idea. At the end of the class, they pitch their idea to a panel of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry leaders.

This year’s course was taught by VCET’s David Bradbury and Sam Roach-Gerber.

According to Roach-Gerber, VCET director of innovation, the first thing students learn to do in the Middlebury Entrepreneurs program is pitch their product or idea. For Shaw, this was easy. In her many years of wearing ski gear, the Green Mountain Valley School (GMVS) graduate noticed that warmth often came at the cost of style. She was determined to make warmth look good — on the hill and off.

BIRTH OF THE HOODE Shaw entered the program as an avid backcountry skier and seamstress, thanks to a home economics class she took as a 7thgrader in Norwich. Over a break from college, she experimented with making an over-the-helmet hood for herself. The result was a faux-fur creation, called a HoodE, that rests on top of a skier’s jacket and can be pulled up and over the helmet while skiing or sitting on a chair lift. The garment has drawstrings that let you pull it snug against a helmet so it stays on while you ski. When the hood isn’t needed, the drawstrings can be loosened so the HoodE inconspicuously falls to the wearer’s shoulders to look like a fluffy tube scarf. There are also fleece-lined flannel patterns available for the less fashion-forward.

“I wore it over my helmet at the mountain on a few really, really cold days, and people kept asking me where I’d gotten it. I thought, ‘Wow, maybe there’s a market for this,’” Shaw said.

With just her sewing machine and a few yards of faux fur, Shaw launched an Instagram account in 2016 and started taking orders for HoodEs. Soon she was scrambling to keep up.

“I made over 175 HoodEs last winter with the help of two GMVS students,” Shaw said. “At our best, we could make four or five in an hour.”

Each HoodE takes about 40 minutes to construct, start to finish, she said. Shaw continued like that, balancing orders and sewing with school at Middlebury College, until this past January, when she enrolled in the Middlebury Entrepreneurs January Term course.

After hearing Shaw’s pitch, Bradbury, VCET president and seed fund manager, and Roach-Gerber advised that she go all in, hire seamstresses and launch a website.

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OVEREASY CO-FOUNDERS AND Middlebury College students Eva Shaw, left, and Meg Collins sell their HoodEs at the Middlebury Snow Bowl this past winter.

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In its first day, overeasy.co did $1,300 in ecommerce sales.

“We just had one seamstress and we didn’t even really have all the materials in hand,” said Shaw, who promptly hired more seamstresses and brought in classmate and family friend Meg Collins.

This summer, Eva is focused on creating prototypes for new styles, sourcing fabrics and continuing to improve the HoodE’s design. She plans to integrate more technical fabrics into her line. She’s been talking with Vermont Teddy Bear Company about moving her operation to their Shelburne factory.

She said she plans to keep the business in Addison County for her remaining five semesters of school at Middlebury College. Shaw is majoring in Economics and recently wrote a paper about the American textile industry. “Did you know that 97 percent of clothing in the United States is imported?” she asked. “This

is a fading industry, but it’s a great source of supplementary income for many women,” Shaw said.

Among other things, her local employees have taught her a thing or two about production.

“It’s been really humbling to work with local seamstresses,” she said. “I’ve always loved sewing and making my own clothes, and I’ve learned a lot from them.”

And the age difference has also been noticeable — and educational.

She said that she’s learned a lot from working with more experienced seamstresses.

“A lot of (my more experienced seamstresses) don’t do Venmo. You can’t just shoot them a text,” Shaw said. “There’s an expectation that you’ll pick up the phone, have an interaction face to face. When I pay them, we usually meet at their homes.”

She said the opportunity to participate in an intergenerational exchange of skills and knowledge

has been professionally rewarding for her.

As a small company, Overeasy has to rely on middlemen to buy fabric.

They’re still too small to purchase in the volumes mills expect. Shaw said most of her fabrics are made overseas, but that she’s hoping to integrate Massachusetts-based Polartec into next year’s line.

“Manufacturing domestically comes at a cost, but it’s well worth it,” Shaw said.

As for balancing running a startup with being a college student, Shaw said it helps to have a partner. “If Meg has a test, I go to the meetings.

If I have a test, she goes to the meetings,” she said. “It’s pretty much like taking an extra two classes. But I think it’s made me a better student.”

For now, HoodEs can be purchased online at overeasy.co. Look out for them in Vermont outdoor retail shops in the next year, or on the slopes at the Middlebury Snow Bowl.

Addison Independent, Thursday, June 21, 2018 — PAGE 13A

Birong (Continued from Page 1A) said through a recent statement confirming his candidacy. “I’m stepping into this race to make change that supports a healthy economy and thriving local communities. I believe that by investing in infrastructure, addressing local environmental challenges, and improving our tax structure, we will begin to move in the right direction.”

Birong took some time out from his 3 Squares Café duties late last week to talk about his background, reasons for seeking office, and what he hopes to accomplish in Montpelier during the next two years.

“I’ve always been interested in politics; I’ve always watched from the sidelines and from the couch,” Birong said with a smile.

But that changed around five years ago, when Birong decided to get involved — first, with the Main Street Alliance of Vermont (MSA), a business association that advocates for small enterprises and the communities in which they’re based. Birong initially helped the organization by passing out surveys to other small business owners along Vergennes’ Main Street.

He joined the MSA’s lobbying effort for “paid sick days” legislation at the Statehouse. Birong provided input to Democratic leadership to tailor the bill to small businesses, many of which survive on a thin margin.

According to the new law, workers qualify for three days of paid sick leave after one year of employment.

That bumps up to five day after two years.

“Everyone agreed it was the right thing to do for employees,” Birong said.

His direct exposure to the political process whetted his appetite for more.

Birong joined the MSA board, which began exploring family leave policy. He also was a strong advocate for the Green Mountain Secure Retirement plan. Signed into law in 2017, the new plan provides a retirement savings option for businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

He got a taste of statewide and national politics in 2016, first as a Vergennes delegate at the Vermont Democratic Convention, then as a state delegate for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Birong called that experience an “incredible honor.”

Since 2016, he’s continued to work with MSA advocating for such issues as equal pay, family leave, and clarifying and simplifying state permitting processes for small businesses. He believes progress on these issues will be key if the state is to retain its younger citizens and provide them with job opportunities.

A vast majority of enterprises in the state employ fewer than 100 workers.

It’s in Vermont’s best interest to support and grow its smaller, homegrown businesses, according to Birong. He noted 3 Squares Café has some longtime employees who’d

like to lay down roots in the area. It’s also a dream shared by many natives who have left.

“A lot of my friends want to move back to Vermont and they’d like to live a comfortable life,” Birong said.

“But they’re struggling to find those middle-income jobs.”

The current state economy is too dependent on the retail, food service and tourism sectors, Birong believes.

“We need to cultivate and nurture the entrepreneurial spirit we have in this state, instead of looking outside of our borders to bring people in who might divert resources, job training money and access to capital,” he said.

BIGGER TAX BASE Birong is bullish on Addison County — and Vermont in general — in terms of the potential to increase the tax base. He noted the county’s close proximity to the entrepreneurial hub of Chittenden County. The railroad and road infrastructure linking the two counties could make Addison County a logical extension of Burlington-area business growth.

“We need to find ways to facilitate logical growth,” Birong said.

Other issues important to Birong include workforce development, devising a “livable wage” standard and making progress on the federally mandated cleanup of Vermont’s waterways.

He’d like to see more business partnerships with tech centers to expose high school students to more lucrative fields — such as engineering — that are looking for

workers. He also wants to see lower in-state tuition rates for Vermont’s college system.

Birong looks forward to participating in a renewed call for reforming the way public education is funded in the state, and addressing people’s concerns about high property taxes.

“Property taxes are already too high,” he said. “I don’t want to see residential and non-residential taxes go up.”

And like a lot of Vermonters, Birong wants to see lower health insurance costs.

“My monthly premium for just my wife and I is $400 more a month more than my first mortgage,” Birong said.

“We have to take a look at shifting away from a for-profit health care system.”

He supports the concept of universal primary care, adding that a larger transition to a universal health care system would have to come from the federal level.

Birong’s wife, Danelle, is a broker with the Real Estate Company of Vermont. Together, they have supported such local nonprofits as the Vergennes Opera House, the Bixby Memorial Library and the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes.

He vowed to campaign as if he had an opponent. And he wants to hear Addison-3 residents’ top concerns leading into the next biennium.

“If you’re not listening, you’re in a bubble,” Birong said.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Wilson continues to believe Vermonters should have universal access to doctors’ visits, mental health services and for substance abuse treatment.

“I’m very passionate about the health care issue,” Wilson said.

She took her advocacy to Montpelier last legislative session, providing testimony to the Senate Health & Welfare Committee and House Committee on Health Care.

“It was a wonderful learning experience to see (the legislative process) in operation on a day-to-day basis,” Wilson said of the legislative process. “I saw some really positive things.”

But a comprehensive universal primary care bill failed to advance this past session. So Wilson, a Democrat, has decided to run for the House in an effort to advance that cause, along with other initiatives she believes are important to struggling working families and seniors.

She held her campaign launch party on June 19 at the Shoreham Inn. “You look at our rural landscape and see the number of folks who are trying to survive and raise a family,” she said. “When you look at health care, child care, being able to have family leave — I personally don’t see how they do it. If we want to keep folks in this state, it’s critical we help by providing some services

that are going to enable them to focus on making a living and know their children are safe, know they can go to the doctor when they need to.”

Wilson is hoping to break a historic drought for Democrats running in the Addison-Rutland House district. Republicans held the seat for many years until Rep. Will Stevens of Shoreham won election as an independent in 2006 and served through 2014. His two successors have also been independents: Former Rep. Alyson Eastman of Orwell, and now Rep. Terry Norris of Shoreham.

Gov. Phil Scott appointed Norris to the post early last year after having selected Eastman as his deputy secretary of agriculture.

“I thought long and hard about it,” Wilson said of her House bid. “I had folks encourage me to run.”

RUNNING ON EXPERIENCE She believes her background in farming, crunching numbers and running a small business would be an asset in the Statehouse.

“I know how to develop spreadsheets and really question numbers,” Wilson said.

“You have to do your own research to discern if what you’re being told is really true.”

Wilson has ideas on how to attract businesses and workers to the state.

Those ideas include providing affordable housing and some basic support services to increase the pool

of workers for the business sector.

“I believe what would really help to attract employers would be a partnership with them to ensure we were preparing students to qualify for the positions that they would require, both now and in the future,” she said. “It could be a joint partnership where we work together, even offering unpaid or minimal paid internships that would go toward a student’s required graduation credits.

When I was working, I found my best employees by first hiring them as interns. This would also help to

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Wilson (Continued from Page 1A) “It was back in the days when the workforce was growing and they needed folks in the computer science world,” she recalled.

Bell System offered Wilson a job analyzing how the big phone company could match its telephonerelated services to customer needs.

She accepted the job, which meant moving to New Jersey. She moved up the ladder during a 35-year career with Bell, ultimately managing a team that created software to manage the network.

Wilson retired from Bell in 2012, having qualified for her pension at age 55. But the company — which at this point had been acquired by the Swedish corporation Ericsson — continued to value her skills, so she agreed to continue working with Bell on a freelance basis until 2016.

There were no tears shed on her part when she cut ties with Ericsson.

The company, according to Wilson, seemed totally consumed with profit margins at the expense of its workers. Layoffs had become a common occurrence.

“They off-shored my remaining team to the Ukraine,” she said.

Meanwhile, Wilson and her spouse, George Gross, had already begun the next chapter in their lives — one that brought Wilson’s career full circle.

They moved to Shoreham in 2008.

And instead of juggling numbers and solving equations, Wilson returned to farming. Their Solar Berry Farm yields the raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and peaches for Wilson’s line of jams and chutneys.

She sells her products at farmers markets and specialty food stores.

It began as a solo operation, but surging orders have prompted Wilson to hire a few part-time workers.

Running a business gave Wilson first-hand knowledge of the challenges facing employers and employees, meeting a payroll, health insurance and marketing.

Wilson in 2016 became involved with Rights & Democracy, a nonprofit group operating in New Hampshire and Vermont that is rallying people behind such causes as a livable wage, access to affordable health care, racial justice and an “equitable” tax system.

HEALTH CARE “One of the issues that has affected me personally is health care,” Wilson said, explaining she and her husband are part of a demographic in Vermont that’s having a tough time affording health insurance. They’re not quite old enough to qualify for Medicare, and their income is a bit too high for them to qualify for health care subsidies. So they’re stuck with high insurance policy premiums as they await relief through Medicare (at age 65) or for the state or feds to enact new health care reforms.

“We are fortunate to have a pension and some retirement savings, but I can’t imagine how hard it is for others,” Wilson said.

That’s why Wilson supports universal, publicly funded primary care, an initiative that earned some discussion in the General Assembly this year.

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keep young folks in Vermont.”

Wilson was an opponent of the Addison Natural Gas Project pipeline, which at one point included a spur to International Paper in Ticonderoga, N.Y. That spur plan, which was scuttled, called for part of the pipeline to go through Wilson’s and Gross’s property. She did spreadsheets analyzing Vermont Gas’s claims about the financial benefits of the pipeline. She believes the company over-promised savings for consumers.

“I’m a stickler for facts,”

Wilson said.

If elected, Wilson promised to involve her constituents in her representation of the district. In July she’ll send out an “issues survey” to district residents. She also wants to form some “focus groups” within Addison-Rutland to help her research issues on which she would be voting.

“If I get to do this, I’m going to do it right,” she said of her goal as a lawmaker.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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Cornwall Volunteer Fire Dept. to hold chicken BBQ Sunday CORNWALL — The smell of delicious simmering chicken will waft through the air of Cornwall Sunday as the volunteer fire department puts on its annual barbecue on June 24 from noon to 3 p.m.

The chicken simmers slowly during the morning hours, repeatedly flipped and basted a secret sauce until golden and perfect. Meanwhile, the bays of

the Route 30 station are set up with tables and a buffet of salads, sides and drinks to go along with the chicken. Diners can join the conversation at the tables or take out and enjoy the food at home.

There will be hotdogs and hamburgers for the non-chicken eaters. One price gets you a full meal. The barbecue benefits the Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department.

Local realtors participating in the statewide food drive ADDISON COUNTY — Members of the Addison County Board of Realtors (ACBOR) will take part in a statewide Realtor Food Drive, June 18-29. The drive aims to help food shelves across Vermont.

Food and cash donations will support the towns where they are collected.

“We’re very excited about this event and the chance to help Vermonters throughout the state,” said Helen Hossley, CEO of the Vermont Association of Realtors.

“Realtors truly care about making a difference and are committed to making their communities a better place to live.”

ACBOR is providing food collection bags for anyone who wants to participate in the food drive.

The collection bags can be picked up at Addison County Real Estate, at 2337 Route 7 South, Middlebury.

Non-perishable food and cash donations can be dropped off at the same location or at IPJ Real Estate at 34 Main St. in Middlebury.

“ACBOR is pleased to be participating in the statewide food drive,” said President Jeff Olson.

“All donations will be going to the Food Shelf at HOPE, which provides much needed food throughout the county. We’d love to get the community involved as well — people should feel free to get in touch with me or any Realtor they know to find out how they can help.”

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Education (Continued from Page 1A) — those little white boxes with black the Language Schools. vertical lines or little squares that you Now, that isolation is challenged often find on product packaging — to by students’ near-constant proximity provide students with opportunities to social media, news, music and to engage in quick language-study phone conversations afforded by “interactive moments,” as Snyder smartphones. calls them. Students can scan a “We’ve realized for a number of barcode with their smartphone and years that students — everybody — enjoy mini-lessons and interactive are much more connected to their exercises in their language of study family, their environment, and to while exploring campus. their devices,” Snyder said.

Over the past three years, new The summer 2018 Language technology has also provided School sessions, which begin this Language School administrators the Friday, will implement an array of chance to innovate “pre-immersion” new instructional approaches that study opportunities. In one instance, have been developed over the past students who will be studying several years in consideration of languages that rely on alternative the role that technology has come writing systems, such as Korean, to play in the program’s immersive Russian, Japanese, Chinese and experience.

Hebrew, have the opportunity to The Language Schools’ learn or brush-up on the writing educational mission is based on a systems required for their language “total-immersion” of study prior to their philosophy: Students “We engage one arrival. take a pledge to speak of the instructors According to only their language of Snyder, the Russian to meet with study for the duration school recently of their program, and the beginning implemented online failure to comply with students so pre-immersion this pledge can lead to that they feel resources through expulsion. In order to a little less of collaboration with achieve success, this the immersion the college’s Digital approach relies on Learning Office a significant degree anxiety, and that include virtual of isolation from they teach tours of campus and E n g l i s h - s p e a k i n g basic greetings interactive lessons relatives and media and everyday with professors.

— which has become management “We engage one of increasingly difficult the instructors to meet techniques.” to achieve in the with the beginning — Stephen Snyder students so that they smartphone era.

But rather than ban feel a little less of smartphones and other technology, the immersion anxiety, and they the Language Schools are working teach basic greetings and everyday within the new technology-laden management techniques,” Snyder environment. said.

“What we’ve been trying to do is Middlebury College student Evan instead of prohibiting those devices, Mercer, who studied Arabic last which isn’t practical and obviously summer at the Language School’s has no long-term possibility, we’ve program at Mills College, felt been trying to use those devices to that most students in his program enhance learning,” Snyder said. were conscientious of the role that Scrolling through Facebook, technology played in their respective Instagram and Snapchat in English immersive experiences. can present a brief but nonetheless “I felt that people were very aware profound disruption to the full- about how technology has changed immersion experience the program the idea of an immersive language seeks to provide. experience,” Mercer said. “Through “At convocation, I tell students switching my phone to Arabic, and that they really should switch their restricting ourselves to our preoperating system to their language downloaded Arabic music, everyone of study, and if possible, to switch brought the outside world into the as much of their social media stream program. Staying immersed became to sites that are in the language of a very individualized task.” study,” Snyder said.

Amelia Pollard, a college student At the same time, instructors have who will attend French Language used devices to which students have School in Middlebury beginning on near-constant access to present fun, June 29, hopes to use social media engaging learning tools. to the benefit of her immersive For example, this summer the experience.

Japanese school will post around “I think with discipline, campus Quick Response (QR) codes technology and social media will

STEPHEN SNYDER, DEAN of the language schools at Middlebury College, has helped implement changes to the curriculum at the schools over the last year or two. Some of the changes involve the recognition that technology, like smart phones, has changed drastically over the last decade.

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be positive contributions to my summer,” she said. “The two can be wielded to fit the needs of an immersive language student in a way that increases exposure to the given language. I’m hoping to download apps for French news media sites, and am even looking forward to watching the World Cup through French broadcasting networks online.”

Although technology can be use to students’ advantage, at the end of the day the foundation of the Language Schools’ immersive curriculum is human communication.

“It is important to acknowledge that the Language Schools’ success rests on a place-based, face-to-face pedagogy,” said Per Urlaub, associate

dean of the Language Schools.

“Therefore, we are always looking for technological innovations that have the potential to support our model. We are not interested in the development or implementation of technologies that disrupt or replace our successful pedagogy.”

Language programs begin between June 22 and July 3 and last between six and eight weeks, depending on language of study. Shorter threeweek programs begin in late July.

Programs are offered at the college in Spanish, French, Korean, Chinese, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian and Japanese.

Immersive Arabic programs are offered through a program at Mills College in Oakland, Calif.

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VERGENNES UNION HIGH School seniors listen to their graduation speaker during the school’s commencement ceremony last Friday night.

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VUHS (Continued from Page 1A) “My turn came, and I got up, and I said, ‘We love you guys,’” Sheehan said. “It’s something you don’t hear from teachers very often. But I’ve thought about that moment a lot as I’ve gone through my teaching career, this idea of loving students. I’ve realized it’s totally true. Teachers love their students.”

He explained how that love is demonstrated.

“Love isn’t some abstract idea.

It isn’t something in the air. It’s moments,” Sheehan said, citing teachers helping students with a math problem to prepare for a test, or working to revise papers repeatedly, or even letting them nap in a class if they really need it. “That’s all love, all of these moments.”

Then he drew the loudest cheers of the night.

“I just want to take a moment, right now here in this gym, with all of these people, to just experience this love together. So if you love somebody in this gym, and you love one of these graduates up here, I want to hear you make some noise right now,” he said, adding after sustained applause and

shouting, “That’s that I’m talking about. Do you guys feel that? There’s so much love for you in the gym right now. We want you to have amazing futures.”

Certainly, members of the class have already distinguished themselves in the classroom, on the stage, in the school band or choir, in community service, and in gymnasiums, on playing fields and at track meets.

Eleven earned GPAs of 93 or higher, 15 belong to the National Honor Society, seven to the National Technical Honor Society, and two to the National Arts Honor Society.

There was overlap: One senior, Norah Deming, earned all four of those distinctions.

Valedictorian Ally Atkins said in her address she was sure the members of the class would continue to do great — and different — things.

“The mark we leave here in this world can be left in a variety of ways and does not need to follow traditional paths, whether it is a viral video, being successful in our careers, continuing our education, traveling; whatever it is, the impacts and inspiration we have on others is what should truly

be remembered and cherished, not necessarily the materialistic wealth gained,” Atkins said.

And she also said the class has already made a mark in its high school years, citing, for example, the charity walk.

“Raising money for the John Graham Shelter best exemplifies how we, as ordinary people, are already taking extraordinary measures, motivating ourselves to make a difference in our community, and it’s only the beginning,” Atkins said.

In his welcoming address, Salutatorian Lance Bergmans looked back on the positives — and some of the negatives.

“We have encountered many experiences, accomplished things, learned, succeeded, made unforgettable memories, formed everlasting friendships, and grown on both an individual and class level,” Bergmans said. “Now don’t get me wrong, high school hasn’t been all fun and games. The bright points have been accompanied by many bumps in the road, things that you don’t want to happen but do anyways. We have lost, failed and made countless mistakes,

INVITED GUEST SPEAKER Chris Sheehan delivers his message of love to the class of 2018 at Vergennes Union High School graduation on Friday, June 15.

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yet we have ultimately bettered ourselves based on these stumbles.”

Of course, no graduation would be complete without a little advice, and outgoing Addison Northwest Supervisory Union Superintendent JoAn Canning stepped to the plate.

First, Canning joined the student speakers in thanking families, teachers, support staff and administrators for the “loving support” they had given the class of 2018, and she said how proud she and all of those people were of the graduates.

Canning, who also said “Addison Northwest School District will always have a very special place in my heart,” offered advice she said was based on a graduation speech given by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

“Planning cannot prepare you for the twists and turns that are coming your way … Don’t be so focused on your plans that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected,” Canning said, adding the graduates should “figure out who you are and what is important in your life,” and “be willing to fight for what you believe in.”

And Megan Tarte, who earned third honors in the class, had the job of delivering the last speech, the annual challenge to the class of 2019 — that task, by its nature, also means offering advice. She told the class to “make the most of senior year,” calling it “a time to act” and seize opportunities.

“Embrace the moments with your friends, engage in your school work, be present and branch out. Try new things you never thought you would,” Tarte said. “Get involved here at VUHS and around the community, whether it be performing at Peace One Day, volunteering at the elementary school, or participating in spirit week.

High school is your opportunity to live, learn, and make mistakes.”

But arguably Sheehan had the true last word, when he spoke immediately after the cheers he sparked in the packed gym.

CLASS OF 2018 Salutatorian Lance Bergmans gave the welcoming address to family members and friends of the seniors at Vergennes Union High School graduation last week.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

“I want you to take the feeling that you just felt right now, all of those people making noise for you,” Sheehan said. “And I wanted you to let it launch you out of this gym into

the future.”

See more photos, a full list of VUHS graduates and a profile of a couple past VUHS grads in Section C of today’s edition.

PAGE 16A — Addison Independent, Thursday, June 21, 2018

Welch

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(Continued from Page 1A) cages. Chain link fence with a chain link ceiling,” Welch said. “It’s appalling. It’s un-American and it’s unnecessary.”

Despite their youth, the children were not playing, but sitting and staring. “It was surprising to me to see so many kids sitting quietly, staring blankly,” Welch said.

Although the building is known for being cold, the detainees, including children, are given only Mylar blankets.

Among them were three brothers.

Welch estimated their ages as between five and eight. They were lying on a mattress, huddled beneath their blankets. “They were holding onto each other for dear life,” Welch said.

According to a report from the Guardian newspaper, which had a reporter along on the Congressional fact-finding trip, the facility holds 1,100 people, not all of them children.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed last week that it has separated 1,995 children from their parents or guardians over the last six weeks.

“It also appears evident that a lot of the crisis is a manufactured one,” said Welch.

President Donald Trump has said the family separations are the fault of Democrats who need to “change the law.”

“There’s no evidence for it, and Trump is simply asserting it, despite the fact that it’s blatantly untrue,” Welch said when asked about the President’s statements.

“He did this. He said we’re going to start prosecuting a family that comes to this country asking for help,” said Welch. “This is Trump policy.”

Historically, those who ask for asylum receive a hearing. While awaiting that hearing families remain together, explained Welch.

Granting the hearings is not just policy, it’s a treaty obligation. The United States is a signatory to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, under which it agreed to consider of the claims of those who report being persecuted or endangered in their native countries.

While most asylum requests are ultimately denied, Welch said,

previously families would remain together while awaiting a hearing.

However, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has chosen to treat those seeking asylum as criminals, according to Welch. When parents or guardians are charged with a crime, they are separated from their children.

“Don’t make it a crime to knock on the door and ask for help,” said Welch.

Most of these families are from Central America and have been traveling for weeks, even months to reach the U.S. By making it difficult for people on foot to reach the Port of Entry in Hidalgo, Texas, where they can present themselves to officials and formally request asylum, DHS has made it more likely families will try to cross elsewhere, according ON SUNDAY, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and a U.S. Border Patrol agent face the Mexican border at the to Welch. “If in frustration, they Hidalgo Port of Entry, where migrants who are seeking asylum must present themselves. basically walk down the road and cross the Rio Grande, they get been separated have no way to not smuggled in,” Welch said. have as a result of the trauma charged with a crime, even if they communicate. When asked how “They’re asking for help. Trump is of being separated from their are asking for asylum,” Welch said. families would be reconciled, saying that’s a crime.” parents and caregivers, Welch ASYLUM SEEKERS “officials are saying “It has nothing to do with prior said. Nationally, the policy has Although the ‘It’s in our computer,’ presidents. This is all a discretionary drawn fire from physicians and members of Congress and ‘We’ll know,’” decision by this President and this psychiatrists groups such as the on the tour were not said Welch. attorney general.”

American Psychiatrists Association supposed to speak with “It’s hard to imagine The policy, said Welch, is and the American Academy of the asylum seekers, how anxious these unnecessary. “There is no need for Family Physicians.

Welch said he spoke families are,” he added. this. It’s doesn’t make our border “This is a mean-spirited tactic with two women, both Murders of safer,” said Welch. that’s doing real damage to from Guatemala. women in Guatemala Sessions has argued that if people innocent children,” Welch said.

In Guatemala, as well increased 34 percent know they’ll be separated from Asked about changing the policy, as Honduras and El between January their children when they arrive in Welch said that theoretically Salvador, gang activity 2017 and January the U.S., they will be less likely to Congress could pass a law ending has pushed murder 2018, according to come here. the practice, but he didn’t see that rates to record highs, the Mutual Support The President has also indicated as likely. “We’ve got a president according to “Mafia of Group, a humanitarian he might be willing to end the family who essentially is calling the shots the Poor: Gang Violence o r g a n i z a t i o n . separations and re-instate protections for my Republican colleagues in and Extortion in Central “There is Guatemala’s own for the so-called Dreamers, the House.”

America,” a report from nothing Human Rights immigrants brought illegally into Although he intends to request the International Crisis legitimate about Ombudsman reports the U.S. by their parents when they that the House oversight committee Group. holding hostage that 5,635 minors in the were children, in exchange for on which he sits hold hearings, The gangs secure country were victims concessions on other border issues, Welch believes that the true funds by using threats of the fates of of violence or sexual such as his desire for a wall on the solution is for Americans to know violence to extort money innocent kids … abuse in 2017.

Mexican border. what’s happening, as only public from small businesses You don’t harm Another woman “There is nothing legitimate anger will convince the majority to and individuals. innocent people who fled the country’s about holding hostage the fates of act.

One of the women to get your epidemic of violence innocent kids,” Welch said. “There’s Indeed, House Republicans told Welch she fled gave birth during her a breakdown of the political process have been touting a bill they claim way.” just such extortion and journey, said Welch. and a lack of restraint. You don’t will end the separations. It does murder threats with her — Rep. Peter Welch She had not been harm innocent people to get your so by ending the requirement 13-year-old daughter. separated from her way.” that children be kept in the least They have now been separated. She infant, but they were being kept at IMPACT ON CHILDREN restrictive environment possible, has “no idea where her daughter was the Hidalgo Port of Entry, which is One of those on the border trip making it possible for children to or when she would see her,” Welch not an area designed or intended for with Welch was a pediatrician. be incarcerated with their parents. said. people to live in, he noted.

He shared his concern about the President Trump has said he Parents and children who have “They’re not sneaking in. They’re lifelong impacts children might opposes the bill.

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This was the subject of a frontpage story in the June 14 issue of the Independent, but the message from state and local officials “bears” repeating: Don’t feed — either intentionally or unintentionally — the family of bears that has been looking for handouts or easy pickings in the Buttolph Acres and Petersen Terrence neighborhoods in Middlebury. A mama bear and her three cubs have been roaming around some of Middlebury’s residential neighborhoods during the past three weeks. Vermont Fish & Wildlife officials have warned people not to approach the bears or provide them with any sustenance.

Residents have been asked to secure their garbage cans and temporarily bring in their bird feeders in order to cut off the bears’ possible food supplies and send them foraging for munchies where they belong: deep in the woods. Officials warn they might have to trap the bears — or even destroy the mama as a last resort — if they can’t be induced to leave the neighborhoods.

The Henry Sheldon Museum invites you to celebrate Independence Day at its annual Pops Concert with the Vermont Philharmonic on Monday, July 2. This popular, familyfriendly event draws hundreds to picnic while enjoying music and fabulous fireworks. The concert will take place at Middlebury College in the field behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts, with a fallback of the Kenyon Arena in case of rain.

The grounds open at 5:30 p.m. for picnics; concert begins at 7:30 p.m.

Fireworks at dusk. Bring chairs, blankets and flashlights. New this year will be a display of vintage cars and a raffle for six one-of-a-kind picnic baskets painted by five local artists: Robin Kent, Warren Kimble, Kathy Mitchell, Danielle Rougeau and Ashley Wolff. Baskets are filled with local foods, gift certificates, and picnic items valued at over $100. The drawing will be at the Pops Concert.

You do not need to be present to win.

ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

B Section

THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2018

ANDY KIRKALDY

SPORTS

ALSO IN THIS SECTION:

• School News • Legal Notices

• Classifieds • Police Logs

World Cup looks to be wide open; time for Spain?

This is a football column. No, not what we in the USA call football.

Those who want to discuss whether the Giants should sign Odell Beckham Jr., whatever the heck Ben Roethlisberger was saying about his contract this weekend, or why the Patriots drafted a running back in the first round should look elsewhere, at least for today.

Because it’s time for the Copa Mundial de Futbol, the Coupe du Monde de Football, the World Cup of Football.

Wonder strikes — hello, Nacho and Coutinho!

Spain’s tiki-taka.

England’s inevitable failure.

Yellow cards.

Drama queens acting like they’ve taken sniper fire after being tripped. National pride resting on the feet and foreheads of fit young men with prodigious amounts of hair product. Fans singing and dancing non-stop for 90 minutes.

I’ve heard all the jokes about paint drying. The lack of action and goals. And yes, the play-acting and time-wasting, melodrama that, yes, we could do with less of and FIFA could easily get rid of by timing its game rather than keeping time a mystery and tacking on vague (See Kirkaldy, Page 2B)

ADDISON COUNTY’S WYATT Cameron tags an Essex runner out at second base during American Legion baseball action in Middlebury Tuesday evening.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

Sports BRIEFS

Legion nine comes up short Addison County drops home openers as bats stay silent

Tiger skaters set for all-star game

BURLINGTON — Four members of the Middlebury Union High School girls’ hockey team are set to take the ice for Vermont against New Hampshire on Saturday, June 30, in the annual Make-A-Wish All-Star Twin State Hockey Classic. The girls’ and boys’ games will be played in Gutterson Fieldhouse at the University of Vermont.

Tiger senior forwards Helen Anderson and Andi Boe and defenders Abby Gleason and Satchel McLaughlin will all skate for a Vermont team that will be coached by MUHS Coach Matt Brush.

The girls’ game is set to begin at 4 p.m., with the boys following at 6:30 p.m. The event is now in its 26th year for the boys and the 21st year for the girls.

Tickets are available at the door and cost $10 for adults and $5 for students. Admission is free for children ages 6 and under.

The Granite State is coming off a 7-5 victory in the girls’ game a year ago, narrowing Vermont’s all-time lead in the series to 9-8-3. The Green Mountain State pulled out a 3-2 win in the boys’ game; New Hampshire leads that series, 16-8-1.

Local lax players to play vs. N.H.

HANOVER, N.H. — Three senior all-stars from each of the Middlebury Union High School girls’ and boys’ lacrosse teams and one member of the Mount Abraham-Vergennes collective boys’ squad were picked to represent Vermont this Saturday in the annual Twin-State games, which will be played at Hanover High School.

Chosen for the Vermont girls’ team were defender Keagan Dunbar, attacker Satchel McLaughlin, and goalie Raven Payne.

Tiger boys asked to take on New Hampshire were attacker Jackson Donahue, defender Fyn Fernandez and midfielder Sam Hodges. Representing the Eagles will be long-stick middie Sam Paradee.

The Twin State doubleheader, sponsored by the Hanover Lions, is set to start with the girls’ game at 12:30 p.m., with the boys’ game to follow at 3 p.m. Admission is free but donations are encouraged.

New Hampshire swept the 2017 showdowns, with the girls prevailing, 26-14, and the boys securing a 14-11 win.

JEFF STEARNS SINGLED for Addison County during Tuesday’s American Legion game against Essex. Addison County lost the game, 8-3.

By ANDY KIRKALDY might ask the team to spend some MIDDLEBURY — The season more time in the batting cage after did not begin exactly the way the AC managed just four hits in each Addison County American Legion game. To an extent, he said the probbaseball team had lem will solve itself hoped, as despite some once AC players who flashes of promise AC “We’re going to didn’t participate in opened with losses on hit. I just told high school or college Monday to South Bur- them, though, baseball this spring lington and Tuesday to we played a knock off the rust.

Essex in games played great game at But with three on the Middlebury more home games the end of last College field. coming up this week On Monday South year because we — defending Vermont Burlington rallied wanted to spoil playoff champion in the fifth and sixth Essex’s summer Franklin County visits innings to erase a 2-0 and knock Thursday at 5:30 p.m. deficit and win, 7-2, them out of the and 2017 Northern and on Tuesday Essex Division playoff team pulled away late for an tournament, But OEC Kings comes to right now we’ve 8-3 victory. town for an 11 a.m.

AC got a strong got to play with Saturday doubleheadouting from starting that passion, that er — Estey said AC pitcher Adam Whit- heart to get a can’t wait to play with comb on Monday and more urgency. He win.” a respectable effort cited the final game — Coach Mike Estey of 2017, when AC from starter Hunter O’Connor on Tuesday defeated Essex to dash and overall played well defensively, Essex’s playoff hopes. although there were a couple break“We’re going to hit. I just told downs. them, though, we played a great But Coach Mike Estey said he game at the end of last year because

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Pattie Candon steps away from softball Coach decides 33 years is enough

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRANDON — After 33 years, Otter Valley Union High School softball coach Pattie Candon has stepped down, a decision she announced last week.

In deciding to leave the post Candon cited the length of her tenure and the fact there are many good young players on a team that finished this past season strong after a slow start.

“I just feel this program is in a good place, and 33 years is a long time,” said Candon, who waited until after the season to tell her athletes about a decision she said she had made earlier.

“I felt it was the right time. Whoever is coming in is coming into a wealth of talent.”

Her final team got off to a 1-6 start this spring that included a 41-1 loss to Fair Haven, but bounced back to finish the regular season at 7-9 and won a rematch at Fair Haven. The Slaters, who later lost

in the final, won the rubber match in the D-II quarterfinal round, 8-3, pulling away late from a 3-3 tie in what proved to be Candon’s final game.

Candon, whose athletes routinely sing her praises, concludes her softball coaching career with a 347-236 record and four Division II championships, in 1994, 1995, 2009 and 2014.

The Otters in 2009 also ended Lyndon’s record 79-game winning streak, and OV’s softball field is named after her.

Candon also recently retired from her position as an OV physical education teacher, but plans to continue to officiate high school field hockey games and to announce OV basketball games.

Candon has been inducted into the Castleton University Athletic Hall of Fame, the Vermont Principals’ Association Hall of Fame and the Northeast Women’s Hall of Fame.

we wanted to spoil Essex’s summer and knock them out of the tournament,” Estey said. “But right now we’ve got to play with that passion, that heart to get a win.”

On Tuesday maybe Essex was fired up about last summer’s finale and struck for two runs in the first inning off O’Connor. Rider Thornton tripled and scored when Nick Fitzgerald bounced a single over the drawn-in infield. O’Connor then momentarily lost his control, walking two and tossing a wild pitch to allow Fitzgerald to score.

Meanwhile Essex starter Maverick King was perfect through three innings, while Essex made it 4-0 in the third with two unearned runs.

Thornton singled and O’Connor walked King, but then struck out two batters and induced a ground ball that should have ended the threat. But AC’s only error of the night allowed both runners, who had advanced on a double steal, to come home.

O’Connor tossed a scoreless fourth, ending his night because of a high pitch count with four strikeouts, three walks, four hits and two earned runs.

(See AC, Page 2B)

OTTER VALLEY COACH Pattie Candon gives Otter senior Samantha Hansen a piggyback ride after the team won the Division II state softball title in 2009 — one of four championships Candon’s teams won during her 33-year career.

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MIDDLEBURY — The team of Bert Phinney, Dale White, Josh Newton and Ric Wheeler prevailed in June 13 Wednesday Men’s Scramble League play at Ralph Myhre Golf Course.

Taking second was the foursome of Jeff Stetson, Matt Myers, Franklin Dean-Farrar and Rick James.

The group of Tom Caliandro, Chris Lacey, Brian Buteau and Don Kenny was third. White and Mark Lewis won the closest-to-the-pin competitions.

In Bill Davidson Thursday Men’s Golf action the quartet of Hogan Beazley, Mike Davis, Russ Leng and Deem Schoenfeld came out on top, with the team of Steve Maier, Don Dayton, Tom McGinn and Marsdin Van Order in second. Mike Adams, Joe Thilbourg and Stetson finished third, and Adams posted the day’s low net score.

Winning the Friday Evening Mixer was the foursome of Leng, Nicole Laberge, Frank Broughton and Kurt Strassner, with the threesome of Jill Jesso-White, Dale White and Jim Craig finishing second.

PAGE 2B — Addison Independent, Thursday, June 21, 2018

Many high school baseball players are named all-stars

ADDISON COUNTY — Sixteen Eagle senior Jared Forand.

Three Otters were named MVL members of the Otter Valley, Middlebury, Mount Abraham and Ver- B Division all-stars, senior Payson gennes union high school baseball Williams and junior Josh Beayon and Reilly Shannon. OV teams earned postseason recognition from the Lake Eagle senior junior Patrick McKeighan was named to the second Division or the Marble Dustin team.

Valley League B Division.

Whitcomb From MUHS senior Eagle senior Dustin Whitcomb was named was named Skyeler Devlin, sophomore Hale Hescock and the Lake Division Player the Lake junior Aaron Larocque of the year, while MUHS Division made the Lake second Coach Charlie Messenger, Player of team, as did Commodore whose team tied for the the year. senior Casey Kimball and Lake title and won 11 sophomores Ethan Bissongames a year after winning just once, was named the league’s ette and Jeff Stearns.

Earning Lake honorable mention coach of the year.

Two Tigers, junior Wyatt Cameron were two juniors, Tiger Jordy Steaand senior Brian Foote were named rns and Eagle Parker Hines.

Lake first-team all-stars, as was

Maple Run supports area groups MIDDLEBURY — Rob Carter, president of The Addison County Chamber of Commerce, had the honor of awarding grants from the proceeds of the Middlebury Maple Run to well-deserving community organizations.

Six local non-profits received a total of $4,500 in grants as a result of the very successful Maple Run, which hosted over 800 runners on May 6. Recipients include Dinners with Love, MiddSummer Lunch and Recreation Program, Hospice Volunteer Services, Open Door

Clinic, Special Olympics of Addison County, and The Turning Point Center of Addison County.

In addition, the Maple Run was able to provide a donation to Middlebury Regional EMS and the Middlebury Police Department as thanks for going above and beyond with their support of the event, keeping runners healthy and safe.

Over the past 10 years the Middlebury Maple Run has donated over $63,000 to deserving organizations in the area.

FOSTER MOTORS

AC (Continued from Page 1B) AC broke through for a run in the bottom of the inning. Chris Wood lined a single and Dustin Whitcomb reached on an infield hit. The Essex catcher tried to pick Wood off second; instead he stole third, and he scored when King threw the ball away trying to pick Whitcomb off first base.

Essex got that run back off reliever Nolan Whitcomb in the top of the fifth, when Fitzgerald tripled and scored on King’s RBI grounder.

Then AC rallied in the bottom of the inning. With one out, King hit Jeff Stearns and Keion Correll with pitches and walked Cooper O’Brien. Wood hit a shot back up the middle off King that bounced behind the mound for a hit. King then threw wildly to first, allowing both Stearns and O’Brien to score and make it 5-3. But on a Dustin Whitcomb grounder Essex third baseman George Goldsworthy threw out Correll at home on a close play, and King struck out the next batter to end the threat.

Estey said he thought Nolan Whitcomb threw well, but in the top of the sixth Essex used three hits, including RBI singles by Greg Cram and Fitzgerald, to score three runs and, with King throwing well, take an insurmountable five-run lead.

King retired six of the final seven batters, striking out five of them and allowing only a Jeff Stearns single.

Dustin Whitcomb threw a 1-2-3 seventh for AC. In all, King struck out 11, allowed four hits, walked one batter and hit two. “He threw with some pop. He established that fastball early, and then got us with the curve ball,” Estey said.

On Monday vs. South Burlington AC took the lead with solo runs in the second and fourth innings. In the second Wyatt Cameron singled

ADDISON COUNTY AMERICAN Legion pitcher Hunter O’Connor struck out four and gave up two earned runs in four innings of action against Essex Tuesday.

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and reached second on the play, advanced on a Pat Messenger ground ball and scored on an O’Connor sacrifice fly. In the fourth Messenger reached on an error and came home when a ball O’Connor hit was misplayed.

SB tied the game in the fifth after Adam Whitcomb had apparently struck out the third batter to end the frame with AC still up, 2-0. But the pitch was dropped, and even though almost everyone, including the batter and Stearns, the catcher,

initially thought the inning was over.

The batter eventually took off for first base and two runs scored on throwing errors on the play. SB then roughed up Cameron and reliever Dustin Whitcomb for five runs in the sixth to snap the 2-2 tie.

Adam Whitcomb, who came out because he was on a pitch count for his first start, went 4.2 innings and did not allow an earned run on four hits and two walks while striking out two. Estey said infielders Dustin Whitcomb, Wood and Cameron all

made good plays.

“Defensively we’re very good. I really like our infield,” Estey said.

“We did some good stuff (Monday) night defensively.”

And he said the members of the team have positive attitudes.

“I think we’re good that way,” Estey said. “They come in and they work. In (batting practice) they’re working hard. We’re just looking for runs.”

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

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(Continued from Page 1B) and unexplained “stoppage time.”

Just stop the clock for substitutions and injuries and display the time.

At least they have a partial video replay system now. Welcome to the 20th century, FIFA, one more to go.

Anyway, I digress. The larger point is give me face paint and tri-color wigs and flags in the stands and Chicharito full speed on the counterattack with a wing on either flank against two German defenders and the possibility of something amazing about to happen.

So a few days in, what have we learned? Most matches are well officiated. And then there is Brazil-Switzerland, in which the referee allowed the Swiss to treat Brazilian standout Neymar like a piñata, looked the other way when the Swiss pushed off for their tying goal, and then failed to award Brazil a penalty kick after an obvious foul. This official will be working youth matches in Siberia for the

next month. Unless he was just following Putin’s orders, always a possibility.

As for picking a winner, those people with Germany in their office pools are probably feeling a little anxious right now after the Mexico upset. On the other hand, Brazil, Argentina and Spain did little better, all tying in their opening matches.

Belgium, another betting favorite, looked good, but, well, they’re still Belgium, which has never won a major tournament.

It’s been noted that only eight teams have ever won the World Cup: Brazil (five times), Germany/West Germany and Italy (four apiece), Argentina and Uruguay (two each) and Spain, France and England (one apiece). Only England does not share a land border with at least one of the other countries, but who’s going to quibble with 35 kilometers of the English Channel … oh, sorry, got carried away with the international stuff, 19 miles.

As of Sunday night sports analysis site fivethirtyeight.com put the chances of one of those teams (even with Italy absent) winning again at 68 percent.

So, which? Brazil showed flashes of brilliance, but the Swiss did make the Brazilian midfield look ordinary. Mexico was certainly a little lucky, but offered a way to frustrate the German side through careful defending and quick countering.

France barely got past Australia and once again struggled to make its talent mesh.

Argentina looked dangerous, but Messi still doesn’t appear well integrated into the team, and the Argentines, for all their possession, rarely got deep into Iceland’s defense. Uruguay didn’t impress in a 1-0 win vs. an Egypt team playing without its best player. England hasn’t figured out a way to win since 1968 on its own turf.

Spain? There’s an interesting case. Spain’s 3-3 draw with

Ronaldo, er, Portugal, was clearly the best of the early matches. The Spaniards have brought new blood, such as Nacho, Diego Costa and the dynamic Isco onto the team that dominated the international scene a decade ago and won the 2010 World Cup. But Spain also retained some of the key players, such as Gerard Pique, Andres Iniesta and Jordi Alba. It’s an intriguing combination. While the defense at times looked vulnerable vs. Portugal, all three goals were eminently preventable — two unnecessary fouls and a goalkeeper error.

And Spain also looks more assertive on offense. Maybe Spain can make another run. For sure, Spain, along with Brazil, Germany, Messi and Ronaldo will provide the most viewing excitement.

At least if you like this sort of thing. If not, NFL rookies report to their teams between July 19 and 27.

Addison Independent, Thursday, June 21, 2018 — PAGE 3B

It’s the time of the year to remember poison parsnip

Cool moose

DALE COCKRELL OF Lincoln snapped this female moose trying to keep cool in the beaver pond on Downingsville Road in Lincoln on Monday, June 18.

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Keeping chickens means taking precautions VERMONT — Keeping a small people to keep their birds contained flock of chickens at home to pro- inside electric net fencing and to vide eggs and meat has become make sure any wire fencing is seincreasingly popular, but many cure. Using one quarter inch hardfirst-time small-scale poultry ware cloth, especially along the farmers are discovering bottom of an enclosure, that several species of will block most small wildlife like the taste of “Electric net predators. Weasels can chicken as much as we fencing, secure get through a one-inch do. The Vermont Fish housing and opening. & Wildlife Department a few other The electric netting, urges poultry owners however, is good extra measures can protection even outto use electric fencing and follow other pre- help protect side the wire netting cautions to protect their back yard — especially against birds from predation. chickens from black bears, which are “We have had a most wildlife strong enough to break dramatic increase in the predation.” into most unprotected number of complaints of chicken coops. Several — Colonel Jason types of electric net bears, foxes, raccoons, Batchelder, fencing are available. fisher, coyotes, skunks, Vermont’s chief The netting is portable and bobcats preying on game warden chickens,” said Colonel and can easily be used Jason Batchelder, Verwith chicken tractors mont’s chief game warden. “Many and other moveable pens. of the calls are coming from people Here are additional tips to help who are new at keeping chickens keep your chickens safe: and who do not provide sufficient • Apply bacon grease or peanut butter to a spot on the electric fencprotection for their birds.”

“Electric net fencing, secure ing as an added deterrent. housing and a few other measures • Cover the tops of pens with can help protect back yard chick- wire or plastic netting to guard ens from most wildlife predation,” against attacks from avian and climbing predators. he added.

• Bury galvanized hardware cloth Protecting free-ranging chickens is impossible, so Batchelder urges or netting 12 inches deep around

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Entertainment will feature the Vermont Ukulele Society. They meet in Bristol twice a month and have developed a repertoire of songs from “The Great American Songbook” and popular tunes as well.

Our event has traditionally held a silent auction of local goods and services, again donated by restaurants, golf courses, and craftsman.

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the perimeter of the pen to prevent access by digging predators.

• A motion-activated light to illuminate the coop after dark will discourage some predators. Motion-activated alarms also can deter them.

• Store poultry feed in a secure indoor location in tight containers,

and only feed poultry the amount that can be consumed in one feeding.

Batchelder, who has chickens at home, says having your own back yard flock is fun, but that knowing how to protect them is essential for success.

BURLINGTON – State Health and Agriculture officials want Vermonters to steer clear of a common weed often seen along Vermont roadsides.

The so-called “poison parsnip” packs a punch that can leave you with the equivalent of a second-degree burn.

Formally known as wild parsnip, these plants grow along roadsides and unmaintained areas throughout Vermont, with flowers that look like a yellow version of Queen Anne’s lace.

The plant produces a sap that contains chemicals called psoralens that react to sunlight. Skin that comes in contact with the sap becomes hyper-sensitive to ultraviolet light, and can result in redness, burns similar to a second-degree sunburn, painful rashes and raised blisters. Reactions to the sap and sunlight usually begin 24 to 48 hours after contact.

Wild parsnip is the same plant as the common garden parsnip we eat in soups and stews. The flower heads are the second-year growth from the carrot-like roots. The plant is a close relative of carrots, parsley, angelica and giant hogweed, all of which can cause similar skin reactions in sensitive individuals.

The good news is that in order for a reaction to occur, your skin has to come into direct contact with the sap.

This is different than plants such as poison ivy or stinging nettles, which can spread their chemical defenses on you just by your brushing up against the plant itself.

If you get wild parsnip sap on

POISON PARSNIP HAS become a common roadside hazard in Vermont.

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your skin: • Wash the skin thoroughly with soap and water as soon as possible.

• Protect the exposed skin from sunlight for at least 48 hours.

• Call your health care provider if you experience a skin reaction.

If you need to work with or among the plants: • Wear clothing that covers your arms and legs.

• Be careful of exposure when mowing or weed whacking.

• Work with the plant on cloudy days.

• Wash your skin immediately if you come in contact with the sap.

• Wash clothes that may have been exposed to the sap.

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Abenaki heritage event this weekend FERRISBURGH — Join the The event opens with an Abenaki Abenaki community on June 23 and Greeting Song each day. Enjoy 24 at Lake Champlain Maritime traditional storytelling by Chief Roger Museum for a weekend of family fun Longtoe Sheehan and music from and cultural sharing that is deeply the Nulhegan Abenaki Drum Group rooted in local Native American or join in a Round Dance. Activities heritage. for the kids are offered all weekend: Organized by the Vermont Abenaki making a bracelet of glass wampum Artists Association with members beads, identifying animal tracks, of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe, the and fire making with flint and steel.

Nulhegan Band of Sign up for a special the Coosuk, Koasek Activities for the workshop on making a Traditional Band of the kids are offered gourd rattle (register as Koas Abenaki Nation, you arrive, first-come, all weekend: Missisquoi Abenaki first-served).

Tribe and guest artists, making a Don’t miss the the event is designed bracelet of glass storytelling and book to give visitors an wampum beads, signing with Brian Indigenous perspective identifying Chevenert, author on life in the Champlain animal tracks, of “Azban’s Great Valley both past and Journey,” and “Abenaki and fire making Animals,” co-authored present.

Activities include with flint and with Francine Poitras drumming, storytelling, steel.

Jones. craft and cooking The Native Arts demonstrations, an Arts Marketplace provides Marketplace, and presentations by opportunities to browse for traditional guest artists including Black Hawk and contemporary artwork, jewelry, Singers Drum Group, and Jesse and regalia and meet some of Bruchac telling stories in Abenaki the artists featured in the special and English, accompanied by flute exhibition “Contact & Continuity.” and drum.

The exhibition features garments and On Saturday, Abenaki scholar regalia by contemporary Abenaki Frederick M. Wiseman introduces his artists together with cherished new book “Seven Sisters: Wabanaki photographs of earlier times. A Seeds and Food Systems” at an gallery talk with the curators and afternoon book signing. On Sunday, artists will provide insights into how Wiseman discusses new directions in Native identity finds expression in the consideration of Indigenous art by different ways with each generation. collectors, investors, museums and Chief Shirly Hook and Doug Bent galleries, in “Who Owns the Past?” of the Koasek Traditional Band of the

Koas Abenaki Nation will be doing a fire pit cooking demonstration. They will begin digging the fire pit on Friday and the turkey and beans will be cooking all day on Saturday. Chief Hook, an avid gardener who prepares foods that she grows herself, will have a display table with photos and seeds from the tribal garden. Her young gardening apprentices will be selling some of the plants that they have grown under her guidance. Proceeds of the sales will benefit Koasek youth group and children’s activities at the Abenaki Heritage Weekend.

Throughout the weekend, take the opportunity to talk with the Native Interpreters about the history and culture of the Champlain Valley’s first navigators. Then walk over to the Native American Arts Marketplace and watch demonstrations of traditional Abenaki art forms such as quillwork, wampum, twined bags and ash basketry.

On-site lunch will be available from noon-2 p.m.; beverages, ice cream and snacks are available all day at the Museum Store; or bring a picnic for your family and spread a blanket on the green where you can watch and listen.

The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is located at 4472 Basin Harbor Road, (adjacent to historic Basin Harbor Club) in Ferrisburgh.

Admission is $14 for adults, $12 for seniors, $8 for youth 6-17, and free for children five and under. Active service members and their families are free, Veterans $7.

A slow start for snapping turtles

Snap the snappers

SNAPPING TURTLES ARE now leaving their ponds and rivers for a few hours and traveling overland to lay their eggs in open, sunny, places with minimal vegetation. One report came in last week of six snappers laying their eggs at the same time at a boat access in Coventry. This is the ideal time get a photo from one of the four Addison County towns (Goshen, Granville, Waltham and Whiting) from which this very common species has still not been photo-documented. Reports can be made either through the Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas website, vtherpatlas.org, or by e-mail directly to Jim Andrews at jandrews@vtherpatlas.org.

By BRETT AMY THELEN One moonless May evening, my husband and I walked down to our local pond, flashlights in hand, to look for toads. We were delighted to discover hundreds of them, floating, darting, and jockeying for position in an explosion of courtship. Their surround-sound trills left our ears ringing.

The toads were frenzied, focused only on each other, and highly concentrated in one small, shallow section of the pond, which prompted my husband to wonder if they weren’t awfully vulnerable to predators that way.

I’d barely had time to contemplate his question when I spied a snapping turtle lurking beneath a cloud of toads.

Then, a quiet clap and — just like that — a toad had disappeared into the turtle’s gaping maw. For fifteen minutes, I watched, mesmerized, as the stealthy snapper noiselessly gulped down four more unsuspecting toads. It barely made a ripple.

I consider myself a Toad Person, but I’m a Turtle Person too, and I felt like I’d been given a secret glimpse into The World of Things That Happen When Humans Aren’t Around.

Over the next few days, I excitedly recounted my turtle tale to anyone who would listen, but not everyone found it so enchanting. To some, my experience only served to underscore the snapping turtle’s reputation as a ruthless killer, slayer of brook trout and baby ducks.

Given their primeval appearance, impressive armor, and signature bite, we tend to think of snapping turtles as predators, not prey. As adults, snapping turtles can weigh upwards of 50 pounds and grow to more than three feet in length, with saw-toothed tails, thick carapaces, and powerful jaws, so it’s true that mature snappers have few natural predators aside from humans.

The first year of their lives, however, is an entirely different story.

Each year, from mid-May through early July, female snapping turtles lumber out of the mire in search of sandy soil in which to lay their eggs.

They don’t travel far — nests are typically located within 80 feet of the water’s edge — but they often select nest sites along sandy road shoulders,

SNAPPING TURTLE HATCHLING.

making road mortality a clear danger to adult females and hatchlings alike.

Less obvious, perhaps, is the threat posed by predators who thrive in the presence of human development.

Raccoon. Fox. Coyote. Crow.

All have benefitted greatly from access to trash, agricultural fields, and other food sources provided, intentionally or not, by us. Where these “mesopredators” thrive, turtle hatchlings struggle to survive.

In northern New York, raccoons destroyed 94 percent of all snapping turtle nests identified in one turtle nesting study. During a six-year study on the reproductive and nesting ecology of snapping turtles in southeastern Michigan, predation rates averaged 70 percent, with two years experiencing losses of 100 percent.

The majority of nests were devoured by raccoons within 24 hours of egg deposition; foxes made short work of the remaining nests later in the season, when the eggs were close to hatching. Recent research in Ontario’s Algonquin National Park found that nest predation by canids, especially red fox, peaked just two weeks before turtle hatchlings were expected to emerge. Ravens, crows, and wild turkeys were also documented feasting on snapping turtle eggs.

How do predators find their way to turtle nests, months after the eggs have been tucked away underground?

The

Illustration by Adelaide Tyrol

In Ontario, raccoons and coyotes have been observed following the tracks of early-emerging hatchlings back to their nests and consuming what eggs and young remain in the nest cavity. Canines may also smell their way to nests, guided by the scent of embryonic fluid or the errant rotting egg.

Another intriguing possibility: although freshwater turtles have long been seen as the silent movie stars of the reptile world, Brazilian researchers recently documented giant South American turtle hatchlings vocalizing from inside their eggs, and also after hatching but while still in the nest. The fact that these turtles were thought to be silent until relatively recently may be due to the low volume, pitch, and amplitude of their vocalizations. (In other words, humans can’t easily hear them without specialized equipment.)

Could our snapping turtles be calling from inside their nests too — only to be answered by the hungry fox?

Whether they’re led to turtle nests by their eyes, ears, or noses, it’s clear that predators affect the recruitment of young turtles into the population. According to one study, the probability of a snapping turtle embryo surviving to sexual maturity, which typically happens at 15-20 years of age, is less than one tenth of a percent. Such slow recruitment makes these seemingly invincible creatures particularly vulnerable to habitat loss, road mortality, illegal harvesting, pollution, and other human-induced peril.

So, the next time you see a sizeable snapping turtle plodding across the road or lying in wait beneath your canoe — craggy, stinky, and shorttempered though she may be — consider, for a moment, what it took for her to make it to that particular moment in time. Appreciate that she overcame incredible odds. Admire her tenacity, her resilience. And forgive her, perhaps, for the baby ducks.

Brett Amy Thelen is Science Director at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock, New Hampshire (harriscenter.org).

The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited

by Northern Woodlands magazine, northernwoodlands.org, and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation: wellborn@nhcf.org.

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Gun fire was to scare the bears MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Natural Ag Products on Foote Street police responded to a report of a on June 13. gunshot in the Sugarwood Court area • Served a no-trespass order on June on June 17. Police said a neighbor had 13 on a man who wasn’t wanted at the fired a gun in an effort to Patricia A. Hannaford scare off a black bear.

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As previously reported • Responded on by the Independent, a June 14 to a report Police Log black bear and her three of a vehicle hitting a cubs have been foraging pedestrian on Court for food in the Buttolph Acres area for Street, near the north intersection the past few weeks. Also on June 17, of Mary Hogan Drive. Police said one of the bear cubs was spotted in a the pedestrian — 35-year-old James tree in the Sugarwood Court area.

Benway of Middlebury — was taken In other action last week, Middlebury to Porter Hospital for treatment of police: injuries that included a head laceration.

• Returned, to its owner, an Benway was eventually transferred to iPhone that had been turned into the the University of Vermont Medical Middlebury Police Department on Center, according to police. Authorities June 11. said Benway was using a crosswalk at • Received a report of a vehicle the time he was struck. Police said the allegedly leaving the scene of an incident is still under investigation. accident on Weybridge Street on June • Were informed of the theft of a 11.

Bluetooth speaker from a Main Street • Served a no-trespass order on residence on June 14.

June 11 on a man not wanted at a • Responded to a report of a Willow Drive residence. disorderly patient at Porter Hospital on • Investigated a report of yelling June 14. and swearing coming from a Court • Investigated a report of some Street apartment on June 11. Police people sleeping in front of a closed said the resident was upset about his business on Court Street on June 14. television.

• Assisted Middlebury Regional • Received a report of a vehicle EMS with a drunken man on Seymour allegedly leaving the scene of an Street on June 14. accident on Washington Street on June • Helped Middlebury Regional 11.

EMS with a woman believed to have • Began an investigation on June overdosed on drugs near Shaw’s 12 into a possible theft from Kinney Supermarket off Washington Street on Drugs. Police are looking at store June 15. Police said the woman was video of the alleged incident. taken to Porter Hospital.

• Received a report of a vehicle allegedly leaving the scene of an accident on Rogers Road on June 12.

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• Helped Middlebury Regional • Consignments EMS with a suicidal woman in the Kings Row area on June 13.

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Break-ins, thefts keep city police busy VERGENNES — In the twoweek period between June 4 and 17 Vergennes police dealt with a variety of calls, including handling two more car break-ins, aiding Vermont State Police by detaining three suspects from a New Haven theft case, and responding to several incidents at the Northlands Job Corps.

In those 14 days, Vergennes police: On June 4: • Calmed a man on Walker Avenue who was suicidal and persuaded him to go with a family member to meet with the Counseling Service of Addison County. Police visited him the next day to make sure he was OK. • Looked into an allegation that a man threatened a woman sitting in a car on Panton Road.

• Detained until VSP could arrive three suspects at a traffic stop at the intersection of Monkton Road and Route 7 who had reportedly fled north after an alleged theft at the New Haven Jiffy Mart. Police said the three had tried to re-enter the store but were locked out by employees before the suspects left the scene.

On June 5: • Stopped a truck towing a modular home north on Route 7 after taking a call from a motorist that a tire on the home had been damaged while on Route 22A; police informed the driver of the damage, and repairs were made on the scene.

• Took a report from a cab driver that a person he took from the city as far north as Sheldon was suspicious; police passed on the tip to state police and the Border Patrol.

On June 6: • Cited Valerie L. Forest, 33, of New Haven for driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a civilly suspended license, actions taken after responding to a report of two cars parked in Falls Park after hours.

• Took a report that a 9mm handgun was stolen from an unlocked car parked on New Haven Road.

• Went to the Ferrisburgh town office to pick up a wallet that had been turned in there that belonged to a city resident, and then went to Northlands Job Corps to return the wallet to the resident.

• Spoke to a landlord and a tenant in a case involving an alleged threat.

On June 7: • Helped a motorist get into a locked car on Main Street.

• Looked for a suspicious car on South Maple Street that was gone when police arrived.

• Responded to a report of a suspicious man hanging around Vergennes Union High School and told him to move along.

• Dealt with a minor two-car accident on Green Street.

• Investigated an allegation that conditions of a relief-fromabuse order had been violated and determined they had not.

On June 8: • Investigated the theft of a pocketbook with cash and a credit card from an unlocked car on New Haven Road; police said significant charges reaching four figures were made on the credit card.

• Calmed a woman threatening to harm herself at a Monkton Road residence.

• Checked a report of a suspicious vehicle at the Eagles Club on Monkton Road and found no problem.

• Looked unsuccessfully for a vehicle reported to be tailgating on New Haven Road.

On June 9: • Dealt with a minor two-car accident in the Champlain Farms parking lot.

• Helped a motorist get into a locked car on Main Street.

• Aided state police at a Panton Road DUI stop.

Vergennes Police Log

• Looked into a report of gunshots behind a West Main Street home; police found nothing, but alerted Fish & Wildlife officials.

On June 10: • Were told of an accident in the Kennedy Brothers parking lot in which an excavator backed into a smaller vehicle.

• Dealt with a minor two-car accident in the Shaw’s Supermarket parking lot.

• Responded to a driver leaving the Small City Market without paying for gas.

On June 13: • Dealt with two incidents of vandalism at Northlands. In one students turned over furniture, tore posters off walls, and urinated and spread talcum powder throughout a dorm; police said there was not enough evidence to file charges against specific students, but several were terminated from the program.

In the other case Northlands officials reported damage to a sprinkler head in the room of another dorm.

• Helped a motorist get into a locked car on Main Street.

On June 14: • Spoke to two people sleeping in a car parked near Small City Market and determined they were OK. • Called a tow truck to remove a disabled tractor-trailer truck on West Main Street.

• Picked up a dog running loose on Main Street and returned it to its owner.

On June 15: • After a tip told the owners of an unregistered dog on Walker Avenue to register it, but contrary to information provided, determined the dog was healthy.

• Dealt with a two-car accident at the intersection of Main and Green streets.

• Responded to a fire alarm triggered when a student set off a smoke bomb in a Northlands dorm.

On June 16: • After receiving a complaint from a woman that two former friends were harassing her by phone told all parties to stop contacting one another.

• Helped the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad at a Main Street call.

• Determined that a dog left alone in a vehicle parked on Main Street was fine because windows were down and the sunroof was open.

• Helped a motorist by jumpstarting a car on Green Street.

On June 17: • Responded to Ferrisburgh on behalf of VSP to a complaint about a dog trying to bite its new owner; the dog was returned to its previous owner.

• Dealt with two women expressing suicidal thoughts; police calmed one themselves and persuaded the other to meet with Counseling Service of Addison County.

• Investigated a false fire alarm at a Northlands dorm; police said charges against a student are possible, and the student could also be terminated.

AUCTIONS

• Cautioned some people who had been target practicing in a field off Shard Villa Road on June 15. Police said a South Street Extension resident had complained of the group’s bullets hitting close to his home. Police said the men promised not to shoot in that direction again.

• Assisted a local woman who was having mental health issues on June 15.

• Located the owners of a dog that had been left in a hot car parked off Washington Street on June 16.

• Assisted Vermont State Police with a drunken man in the Smead Road area of Salisbury on June 16.

Police said the man was taken to Porter Hospital.

• Assisted Middlebury firefighters with an out-of-control campfire off Abbey Pond Road on June 17.

• Removed a small doe that had been killed by a car while trying to cross Quarry Road on June 17.

MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for June 14 & June 18 BEEF Kayhart Bros.

T. Correia Monument Farms Bartholomew Bros.

Deer Valley Vorsterveld Farm

Costs Lbs. per lb 1800 .70 1120 .70 1265 .705 1235 .65 1240 .63 1835 .62

Dollars 1260.00 784.00 891.83 802.75 781.20 1137.70

CALVES Kayhart Bros. Farm Barnes Bros.

Champlainside Deer Valley Gosliga

Lbs. 105 106 99 104 102

Costs per lb 1.40 1.05 1.025 1.00 1.00

Dollars 147.00 111.30 101.48 104.00 102.00

Total # Beef: 247 • Total # Calves: 289 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

For pickup and trucking, call 1-802-388-2661

AUCTION Having sold the property, we will sell the following at public auction located at

Valley Motors on 207 Pleasant St, Bethel, VT 05032

MONDAY – JUNE 25, 2018 • STARTING @ 9:00 AM.

SELLING SHOP EQUIPMENT, LIFTS, GM SPECIALTY TOOLS, TRACTOR & IMPLEMENTS. Approx. 100 GM specialty tool kits, 2-Rotary 2 post 12,000# lift, Magnum 4 post 12,000# lift , Gray QL90 2 post 9,000# lift, 2-Gray TNT-550 air jacks(11,000# & 14,000#), Rotary 2 post lift, Millermatic 135 115v wire feed welder, Thermal Arc 140 wire feed welder, Airco 180 dip/stick welder, Hobart Begga mig 200 wire feed welder, Dual wheel lift, Norse telescopic trans jack, 2-OTC 12t jack stands, 6’ jack stands, 2-5’ jack stands, engine hoist, engine stand, 5hp Vertical air compressor, Champion 5hp horizontal air compressor, ATD 5hp air compressor, 2-Kent-Moore strut compressors, Kent-Moore J41413-200 emission tester, Kent-Moore trans flow flush system, Genisys scan system, Tech 1 & Tech 2 GM scan systems, Hunter TCX500 rim clamp tire machine, John Bean VPI system 2 wheel balancer, Visualine 5 alignment system, air power porta power, Pro Cut on car brake lathe, Ammco 4000 brake lathe, Solar 20/40 am plasma cutter, Clean Burn CB1800 waste oil furnace, Graco air waste oil pump, 4 waste oil tanks, Napa 25T shop press, Impala 30T shop press, drill press, ACR 2000 A/C refrigerant and charge system, 275 gal bulk oil tank w/air pump (1/4 full), gas & diesel caddy, engine support cradle, Rockwell ¾” air impact, quantity of floor jacks, bottle jacks & vises, FMC 7600 tire machine, Napa wall cabinets, oil drain pans on wheels, Blackhawk 10T frame puller w/floor mount, Guy Ehart DDC frame gauges, CM 1T elec hoist, All source 100# sand blaster, tape dispenser, DeVilbiss 507 14x26 paint booth w/exhaust blower & fresh air supply, baking light, sand paper & grinding wheels, paint supplies & cabinet, vintage specialty tools, 4 bolt on car dolly’s, vintage parts books (1940-80’s), Chevy service repair manuals (1974-2000), Motor & Chilton repair manuals, Steck Unimate frame puller, frame measuring trams, brake bleeder, 90 weight grease pump, set of torches & cart, B&D valve grinder, 1970-90 GM sheet metal, JD elec pressure washer, Craftsman gas powered pressure washer, Grade 8 bolt cabinet w/bolts, bolt cabinet w/bolts, Key machine & blanks, cabinets of vintage hardware, many sets of good used tires, Fischer snow plow parts, push plates & wiring, new running boards and vent shades, several cabinets of roll pins, lock nuts, fittings and O-rings, cabinets of body shop hardware, large quantity of heavy duty steel shelving, assortment of truck u-bolts and hardware, Strick van storage body and more Tractor, Implements & Special Interest Items NH 1920 4WD tractor w/loader, 996 hrs (bought new), Q/A forks, 3pth rock rake, JD 3pth blade, Woods Dixie cutter rotary mower, 3pth 5’ roto tiller, White LT1850 lawn tractor w/mower, VT Castings gas grill, Louis Chevrolet poster in frame (1911-1986), Morris/Ireland 2 door safe (says Benson Chevrolet), Benson Chevrolet Co wooden sign, Valley Motor Sales lighted sign, Hi-Lo Camping Trailers lighted sign, traverse sled, runner sleds, Crystal Spring water jugs, small kitchen wood stove, 20x20 canopy, Fischer plow sign, Good Wrench Parts lighted sign, GM parts sign, 1960-70 exhaust parts and more Office Glass display wall cabinet, approx. 15-4 drawer file cabinets, 8-2 drawer file cabinets, several desk, coke machine, refrigerator and more.

NOTES: This has been a Chevy dealer since the 1930’s.

There will be a preview Friday – June 22 from 9:00-1:00 Owner: Valley Motors, Dennis Wood • 8:00 to 5:00 pm 802-234-9968 Terms: Cash or Good Check Lunch by Wright’s Catering

AUCTIONEERS: C W GRAY & SON’S, INC.

EAST THETFORD, VT

802-785-2161 • VT LIC # 128 Email address: cwgray2161@gmail.com Web address: www.cwgray.com

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ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders. Wednes‑ days, 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.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMILIES and friends affected by some‑ one’s drinking. Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. Newcomers wel‑ come. Confidential. St. Ste‑ phen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 2 MONDAY. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Ripton, Rip‑ ton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Women of AA (Step/Speaker), Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd, 5:30‑6:30pm. Big Book Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. 7:30‑8:30pm. Big Book Meeting, New Haven, Congregational Church, Vil‑ lage Green, 7:30‑8:30pm.

Discussion Meeting, Bran‑ don, St. Thomas Episco‑ pal Church, Rte 7 South, 7:30‑8:30am.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 3 TUESDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Daily Re‑ flection Meeting, Vergennes, Congregational Church, Wa‑ ter St. 7‑8pm. 12 Step Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, The Turn‑ ing Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 7:30‑8:30pm. Spiritual Awak‑ ening Meeting, Middlebury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30am.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 4 WEDNESDAY. Big Book Meeting, Middle‑ bury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 7:15‑8:15am. Discus‑ sion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. 12 Step Meeting, Brandon, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South, 7‑8pm. 12 Step Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 7‑8pm.

MAKING RECOVERY EASI‑ ER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turning Point Cen‑ ter (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facilitated group meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and discussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understanding of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

CONSTRUCTION: ADDI‑ TIONS, RENOVATIONS, new construction, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All aspects of construction, also property maintenance. Steven Fifield 802‑989‑0009.

BRISTOL TOWNWIDE yard‑sale. Pleasant St. Look for balloons. Saturday June 23rd 9am‑3pm. Rain or shine. Featuring over 60 Danbury mint, Franklin and Fairfield mint die‑cast cars and trucks from per‑ sonal collection. A sample of the selection includes 1905 through 1960’s vehicles, 1957 Chevy Corvette Convertable, Al Capone’s 1930 armoured Cadillac, Ford model A’s and T’s as well as many other 1913 to 1949 Fords, 1929 Rolls‑ Royce Phantom Cab‑ riolet DeVille, 1927 Ford open cab Coca‑Cola delivery truck., 1925 Ford model T Paddy Wagon, and 1990’s HUM‑ VEE. Extremely reasonable prices.

LAKE DUNMORE FERN Lake community yard sale.

Sunday June 24th, 2018 from 9am ‑ 1pm. Rain or shine. Lake Dunmore and Fern Lake in Salisbury ‑ par‑ ticipating properties will be listed on a map provided outside Kampersville store.

Proceeds will benefit Lakes Alive. To learn more visit ldfla.com/lakesalive.

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.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 1 SUNDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am.

Discussion Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 4‑5pm. Women’s Meeting, North Ferrisburgh, United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd. 6‑7pm. 12 Step Meet‑ ing, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 7‑8pm. AA 24‑Hour Hotline 802‑388‑9284, www.aavt.org .

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Big Book Meeting, Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm.

Alternating Format Meeting, Ferrisburgh, Assembly of God Christian Center. Route 7, 7‑8pm. Speaker Meeting, Middlebury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 6 FRIDAY. Spiritual Awakening Meeting, Middle‑ bury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30am. Discussion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Big Book Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 6‑7pm. Discus‑ sion Meeting, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 8‑9pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 7 SATURDAY. Dis‑ cussion Meeting, Middlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am.

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NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. OPIATE OVERDOSE RES‑ CUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required.

For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turningpointaddisonvt.org.

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) big book meet‑ ing. Thursday’s, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) Monday’s at 5:30pm. Located at the Bris‑ tol Federated Church in the conference room, 37 North St., Bristol. Enter the church from Church St. PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at The Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

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VALLEY HANDYMAN SER‑ VICE: electrical, plumbing, carpentry. Resolve projects and that honey‑to‑do list to‑ day. Property management upon request. Mowing, land‑ scaping, snow removal. Qual‑ ity workmanship and refer‑ ences. 802‑458‑2402.

Garage Sales 35 SEYMOUR STREET, MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 23, 9am‑4pm. House‑ hold goods, furniture, cur‑ tains, small rugs, kitchen ap‑ pliances, dishes, toys, games, magic cards, dvds. Men’s, women’s, children’s clothes.

Books, jewelry.

BRISTOL‑ SAT. June 23rd.

Meadow Lane, 9‑3. American Girl dolls and acces., McCoy pottery, Breyer horses, doll houses, vintage items, furni‑ ture, Cub Cadet rider.

GARAGE SALE, RAIN OR SHINE. 3 Upper Plains Road, Salisbury; across from Kam‑ persville ball field. Sat., June 23 9am‑2pm, Sun,. June 24 9am‑noon. Portable dish‑ washer, piles of scrap lumber and plywood, commercial stone cutting saw, couch.

Boating accessories includ‑ ing new boat docks. Misc. kitchen and household stuff.

Large selection of Vera Brad‑ ley handbags and earrings.

Tarps including huge 35’x45’ 12 mil industrial tarp, $250. new $100. firm.

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STOREFRONT LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. In the heart of downtown Mid‑ dlebury. Approved for seat‑ ing for 24. Plenty of parking, lots of possibilities. Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

Help Wanted ADMINISTRATIVE PRO‑ FESSIONAL/ Paralegal.

WhistlePig Whiskey Distill‑ ery is growing and needs an administrative professional/ paralegal to work at our lovely farm location in Shoreham, Vermont. Applicants must be organized, proficient with Ex‑ cel and Word. The individual will be working with finance and our CEO to support our regulatory and shareholder reporting requirements. Our employees enjoy our infor‑ mal surroundings and vari‑ ous benefits, including 401k and medical benefits. Send resume and 3 references to: info@whistlepigrye.com.

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BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

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Wet Paint, interior and exte‑ rior quality painting. 30 years experience. References and insured. 802‑458‑2402.

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OLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT Alice Munson, of Weybridge, and Hannah Magoun, of Middlebury, have been volunteering for RSVP for almost 20 years! They donate their time as RSVP Advisory Council Members and also help to honor members each year at the annual recognition event. Alice and Hannah are generous with their time and willing to lend a hand wherever needed. Both are very active in the community, exemplifying the spirit of service and volunteerism. Thank you for your contributions, Alice and Hannah!

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EXPERIENCED MECHANIC NEEDED. must have own tools. Wrecker rotation is in‑ volved. Pay comparable with experience. Apply in person or send resume to: Mike’s Auto and Towing, Inc. 19 1/2 Elm St., Middlebury.

FARM MARKET MANAG‑ ER ‑ Champlain Orchards.

June‑November; should be willing to commit to the full duration of the market sea‑ son. Full‑time, most week‑ ends expected. Outgoing, enthusiastic, self‑motivated, dedicated and dependable with an interest in working with people. An interest and knowl‑ edge of local foods desirable, work with team and as leader, enjoy retail and multitasking.

Coordinate orchard tours and serve customers on a daily basis. Maintain the beauty of the landscaping around the market. Manage Farm Market inventory. Keep all items stocked – displays full and interesting, oriented to sales. Help organize Pick Your Own and other on site events. Visit our website for a more comprehensive de‑ scription champlainorchards. com. Please email your re‑ sume and 3 references to: hr@champlainorchards.com.

BASIN HARBOR IS now hiring for dishwashers, cooks, front desk, night audit, and an HR Coordinator! We will train the right person for the job.

If you are interested in the hospitality industry or start‑ ing a new career, we want to hear from you. Interested applicants please apply online at: basinharbor.com/jobs/.

BUSY LANDSCAPING FIRM seeking skilled, motivated and reliable person to join our lawn care team. Must have commercial mowing experience and valid driv‑ er’s license. Wage based on experience. Mail or email resume: Tom Bodette Land‑ scaping, 6 Lower Plains Rd., Middlebury, VT 05753, tombodettelesinc@gmail.com or call 802‑388‑4529.

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FIVE CORDS OF cut split fire‑ wood to be stacked inside, in New Haven. Pay negotiable.

Call 388‑7088. If no answer please leave message, thank you.

FULL TIME ‑ YEAR ROUND deli position. Set hours Mon‑ day ‑ Friday 6am ‑ 2pm. Prior work experience with food preparation in commercial kitchen/deli required. Appli‑ cants should apply in person at Small City Market or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101.

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Accountant Needed WhistlePig is growing and needs an accountant with good analytical skills. Experience with SAP Business One or similar ERP software and/or manufacturing process/COGS/inventory experience preferred. Would also help with GL reconciliations, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and expense account audits and general office tasks.

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HELP WANTED: FULL time position general farm labor.

Work week is Thursday‑Mon‑ day, includes every weekend with Mondays and Tuesdays off. Must be extremely reli‑ able for this position. Inquire in person at Maple Meadow Farm in Salisbury.

K.A. BAGLEY, INC. is hiring for lawn care maintenance and landscaping. Need to be honest, reliable and motivat‑ ed. Must have a valid driver license. Wage based on ex‑ perience. Call 802‑352‑9088 to apply.

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CHEESE LINE OPERATOR Are you interested in working in a team-oriented environment where “The World’s Best Cheddar” is made?

Then we have the perfect career opportunity for you!

Cabot Creamery has full-time immediate openings for THIRD SHIFT (8pm4am) Cheese Line Operators. Flexible work schedule required, including rotating weekends, and working scheduled holidays.

FAMILY LUMBER OPERATION

Seeks To Fill The Following Positions: MACHINERY OPERATOR for skilled lumber mill positions due to employee retirement. You must be in good physical condition, have a desire to learn, be reliable, have a strong safety awareness and work well with others. We will teach you the skills you need to use the technology investments we are putting in place. Mill work has a production bonus.

SKILLED FORKLIFT OPERATOR to run large forklifts at our operation in Bristol. Other work includes light construction, planing, lumber stacking. Must be reliable, energetic, work well with others and have good safety awareness. Previous experience operating heavy machinery is a plus but not required, we will teach you the skills you need.

Responsibilities: • Planning and scheduling farm-based outdoor activity programs and products for different groups • Leading/instructing individuals or groups on a particular activity (e.g. hiking, kayaking, biking, etc.)

• Driving groups and equipment to the activity site • Cleaning, maintaining and preparing equipment and vehicle • Assisting with catering and housekeeping duties Requirements: • Sound knowledge of the area • Must be 21+ year of age • High school diploma or equivalent • Current driver’s license and excellent driving record • Excellent leadership, group management, and communication skills • Reliability and time-keeping skills • Excellent physical fitness • Passion for the outdoors • High level of customer service and the ability to build rapport • Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office Compensation: • Hourly wage $18 per hour Please send resume’ and cover letter to info@whistlepigrye.com No phone calls, please.

Position provides 40+ hours per week, paid leave and holidays. We offer a competitive starting wage and excellent benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), pension plan, and much more. Apply in person, by email to ajacobs@agrimark.net or send your resume with cover letter to:

Agri-Mark Attn: Ashley Jacobs 869 Exchange Street Middlebury, VT 05753 EOE M/F/D/V For more information about this position or other employment opportunities at Agri-Mark / Cabot Creamery, please visit our website at www.cabotcheese.com.

MAINTENANCE MECHANIC Are you interested in working in a team-oriented environment where “The World’s Best Cheddar” is made?

Then we have the perfect career opportunity for you!

Agri-Mark/Cabot Creamery has full-time immediate openings for SECOND SHIFT (4pm-12am) and THIRD SHIFT (12am-8am) Maintenance Mechanics.

Flexible work schedule required, including rotating weekends, and working scheduled holidays.

Mill Production Specialist Do you enjoy learning new and challenging skills in an active production environment? Would you like to be part of a dynamic team for a company that is a leader in its industry? If so, we want you to join our team. Phoenix Feeds & Nutrition, Inc. is a manufacturer of conventional, organic, and non-GMO livestock feed in New Haven, Vermont.

Our ideal candidate must be able to lift 50+ lbs.; work 10-hour shifts, be active for extended periods of time, have attention to detail, be able to function independently and as a member of the team, have good organizational and basic computer skills. Forklift/ tractor/front end loader experience a plus Compensation and Benefits: • Competitive hourly compensation based on experience.

• Health care.

• Vacation, sick, and personal days, with most major holidays off.

• 401K plan.

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).

WhistlePig Straight Rye Whiskey is looking for a part time Activities Guide for WhistlePig Farm Stay. WhistlePig Farm Stay is a tailored program including guided tour of the farm and distillery, superb meals, and outdoor adventures for our brand advocates. The objective of this program is for our visitors to establish a deeper sense of the Vermont lifestyle by experiencing everything our farm and community has to offer. This highly energetic and positive person will oversee all activities and curate a one-of-a-kind experience on our farm in Shoreham, Vermont.

You must be willing to work an irregular schedule over a seven-day week, however you will be given varying days off during the week/weekend. Having an interest and knowledge in craft whiskey and farm-to-bottle movement is favorable.

This position works as part of a team, operating various pieces of machinery in the manufacture and packaging of bulk cheese, meeting or exceeding quality specifications while ensuring accurate records are completed & maintained.

Must have high school diploma or GED.

Call 802-453-4884 or visit The A. Johnson Co., 995 S 116 Rd, Bristol VT 05443 for an application.

We are seeking a Building and Grounds Maintenance Supervisor to assist our Shoreham Operations team with special projects and ongoing upkeep around the farm. This position can be part time, but full time includes a generous benefits package, paid time off, and 401K.

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Driver-Relief Schedule covers open routes/vacations and sick calls. Position delivers product to stores on scheduled route. Requires Lifting 20-45lbs, pushing/pulling product.

Basic Qualifications: 21 Years or older Valid CDL A or Permit upon hire Pass DOT physical and DOT Road Test Please Apply by visiting www.pepsijobs.com

Maintenance Supervisor

Interested individuals, please email your résumé and three professional references to info@whistlepigrye.com No phone calls please.

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Pepsi Beverages Company has immediate openings for CDL Class A Drivers or Class A Permit in South Burlington, VT

Please send resume and three professional references to: info@whistlepigrye.com with the subject line “Accounts Position”.

A member of the WhistlePig Operations team is reliable, flexible, and industrious. The successful applicant is an assertive identifier and solver of problems, and an effective communicator and leader. He or she must also have a keen eye for aesthetic and practical detail, and be willing and able to contact and work with outside agents. Practical knowledge of hand and power tools is necessary, as is knowledge and experience in construction and maintenance of all manner of structures.

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Check us out at www.phoenixfeeds.net. Please apply in person at 5482 Ethan Allen Highway, New Haven, VT. Our Office is open from 7am to 5pm Monday through Friday. You may also call 802-453-6684 or email shannon@phoenixfeeds.net to request an application be sent to you.

Production Workers Needed:

We are growing rapidly in all areas of the business and are excited to bring on enthusiastic and knowledgeable team members to support our growth. We are seeking Production workers for our Packaging and Filling department.

Production Assemblers: Ensuring quality of secondary packaging is within acceptable limits as defined by standards. Constructing packaging components such as liners and cartons. Communicating and recording process deviations and noncompliant materials to the Packaging Lead and QC department as they occur. Any other duties may be assigned to the job holder within reason.

This might include training new staff, stepping in for staff in other departments, etc.

Filling Line Operators: Responsible for following hygiene & safety protocols, product specific work instructions, SOPs and Good Manufacturing Practices at all times.

Ensuring quality of primary packaging is within acceptable limits as defined by standards. Ensure machinery is maintained and daily checks are documented. Communicating and recording all process deviations and non-compliant materials to Production Supervisor and QC as they occur.

Any other duties may be assigned to the job holder within reason. This might include training new staff, stepping in for staff in other departments, etc.

Full time positions: Monday – Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm.

Competitive wage and benefit package.

Send Resume to: Jobs@tataharper.com

• The preferred candidate on second or third shift will be well versed in PLC & VFD’s.

• The other position/s on second shift and third shift will be well versed in pneumatics, hydraulics, servicing motors, gear boxes and other general equipment maintenance.

Mechanical background is a must. Excellent troubleshooting with a strong safety record and awareness. There is a wide variety of work to do. Willing to train the right candidate on the specific equipment. Must have ambition to learn and be willing to work both independently and as a strong team member.

Position provides 40+ hours per week, paid leave and holidays. We offer a competitive starting wage and excellent benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), pension plan, and much more. Apply in person, by email to ajacobs@agrimark.net or send your resume with cover letter to:

Agri-Mark Attn: Ashley Jacobs 869 Exchange Street Middlebury, VT 05753 EOE M/F/D/V For more information about this position or other employment opportunities at Agri-Mark / Cabot Creamery, please visit our website at www.cabotcheese.com.

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ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, AND SAFETY 2018-19 ANWSD is seeking an ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, AND SAFETY to join our team! This role is responsible to maintain the District’s building and grounds by assisting the Director to keep these resources in top condition to make certain full and productive use.

The Assistant Director will act in the absence of the Director and provide supervision of direct reports and provide general oversight to custodial and maintenance workers. This role carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the District’s Policies and Procedures and/ or applicable laws. Responsibilities include assisting with interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance and addressing complaints and resolving problems.

If you are an experienced professional in the field of Building Grounds and Safety who is committed to providing team-focused services, we encourage you to apply to our opening on www.schoolspring.com with your letter of interest, resume, and three letters of recommendation.

“Serving the Champlain Valley Since 1887”

** Experienced Service Technician ** ** Master Plumber **

We currently have an opening and are seeking a licensed service technician with experience troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining plumbing systems, heating systems (oil/propane/natural gas), and air conditioning systems including air source and water source heat pumps. Sign-on bonus for qualified candidate.

We Offer: Competitive pay and full benefits package including: • Health Insurance • 401k with company match • Dental Insurance • Paid time off • Vision Insurance • Paid holidays • Life Insurance • Training/Education • Short and Long Term Disability • Company Vehicle Interested candidates may call 802-877-3118 or email tscuteri@jwderyan.com

NURSING & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES JOB FAIR

Explore RN, LPN, LNA, Housekeeping, and laundry opportunities at Porter Medical Center!

Sign-on bonuses for select LNA positions available!

10–11am & 5–7pm Tuesday, July 10 115 Porter Drive, Middlebury For more information on available job opportunities, visit UVMHealth.org/PMC and click on “Careers.”

Basin Harbor is now hiring for cooks, dishwashers, servers, massage therapists, front desk, reservations agent, and maintenance!

We will train the right person for the job. If you are interested in the hospitality industry or starting a new career, we want to hear from you.

Interested applicants please apply online at: www.basinharbor.com/jobs/.

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Responsible for completing tasks on the Organic Farm. The crew works together and independently to complete daily objectives assigned by the Herbal Production Manager.

Responsibilities: • Care for gardens by mulching, weeding, trimming, and edging around plant beds.

• Trim and harvest flowers/ herbs.

• Manually process dried flowers/ herbs.

• Water gardens and plant containers.

• Ability to resolve problems and maintain good communication among crew.

• Application of Organic fertilizer.

• Physical labor to manage garden beds.

• Attention to detail: with directions, quality control of plants and herbs.

• Initiative – willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

May - September Must be 18 years or older Send Resume to:

Jobs@tataharper.com

serving families and children is seeking HR Manager to oversee, coordinate and implement human resources efforts. Energetic, friendly work environment, this new position is in an organization that has grown beyond its administrative capacity. Position responsibilities include the oversight of recruitment, hiring, scheduling, performance management. Flexible schedule. 25-30 hours.

Requirements: B.A./B.S., or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Please send letter of interest/resume to:

Search MARY JOHNSON CHILDREN’S CENTER 81 Water Street; Middlebury, VT 05753 or e-mail office@mjccvt.org EOE employer

PART TIME ‑ DELI position.

Set hours Saturday 5:45am ‑ 12 noon. Prior work experi‑ ence with food preparation in commercial kitchen/deli required. Applicants should apply in person at Small City Market or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101.

2007 WRANGLER 5TH wheel 28ft, good awning, over all fair condition. $1,000.

802‑503‑4447.

THE LARGEST, FAM‑ ILY owned, Commercial Cleaning Company in Ad‑ dison County is continuing to grow. We are looking to hire independent, self moti‑ vated and reliable individuals who are able to work nights.

All applicants must pass a background check. Applica‑ tions are available online at mrmikescleaningservicevt. com or in person at Mr. Mike’s Cleaning Service, Mon‑ day‑Friday from 9am‑3pm. $1,500 Sign on Bonus to eli‑ gible individuals.

THE TOWN OF New Ha‑ ven is looking for a part time office assistant. Must be self‑motivated, and a team player. Attention to detail while multitasking a must; some bookkeeping required. Call for more information, will‑ ing to train the right person.

Please send cover letter, resume and references to: newhavenclerk@gmavt.net or 78 North St., New Haven, VT 05472.

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WE HAVE IMMEDIATE opening for a Land Survey‑ ing Professional to work in our office in Bristol. Profes‑ sional will perform data col‑ lection, CAD, and fieldwork for topographic, boundary, construction, and septic de‑ sign surveys. Preferred ap‑ plicants will have a BS or AS and/or related experience.

We offer a competitive salary, paid time off, and retirement plan. Please send resume to l arosesurveys@gmail.com.

HELP WANTED ADDISON RUTLAND SUPERVISORY UNION

EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION VACANCY 2018-2019

EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER (ECSE) needed to provide special direct instruction, assessment and case management for Early Education students ages three through five in various school, home and community environments. Supportive environment and collaborative team exists. ECSE certification required. Start date August 2018.

For additional information contact Kris Benway, Director of Special Services at 802-265-4905 or by mail at kbenway@arsu.org.

All applicants must apply on www.SchoolSpring.com.

Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union 49 Main Street Fair Haven, VT 05743 Position will remain open until filled EOE

Pre-K Teacher/Mentor Part-time position for Early Childhood Educator with VT Early Childhood Teaching License; working with 4 programs on Pre-K goals. School year, flexible schedule. For more information and to send resume:

sunhinecc@myfairpoint.net

Mary Johnson Children’s Center Established, growing social service agency

For Sale

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Seasonal Garden Field Hands

Human Resources Specialist

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HOPE has openings for the following positions.

Resale Store Associate, 29.5 hours per week. Solid cash handling and customer service skills required.

Warehouse Associate, 29.5 hours per week.

Solid communication skills, ability to multi-task.

Duties include answering phone, assisting donors, cleaning, repairing, and more.

Holiday Shop Coordinator, 20 hours per week. This new year-round position will include a variety of tasks, beginning this summer with assisting at HOPE’s reception desk, as well as holiday program prep, including soliciting items needed for the Holiday Shop. In the fall, the job will shift to focus solely on managing the setup and implementation of the Holiday Shop.

Strong interpersonal and organizational skills required.

Want to Make Difference in Your Community? Come Join our Team!

To apply for one of these jobs, send resume and cover letter to: receptionist@hope-vt.org or mail to 282 Boardman Street, Ste 1A, Middlebury.

Be sure to clearly indicate the position for which you are applying.

Experienced Millwork Finisher

Rutland County based high end custom millwork company is looking for an experienced finisher. This is not an entry level position, a minimum of 5 years’ experience with spray finishing lacquer, paint, and glaze is required. Our ideal applicant will have the ability to match colors, develop colors, understand production timelines, communicate effectively with the team, and abide by safety procedures required by OSHA. Additional requirements include; ability to work overtime as needed, ability to lift minimum of 50lbs, valid driver’s license.

If you are a highly motivated individual interested in joining a team oriented company that offers a competitive compensation package, please email your resume to millwork.applicant@gmail.com.

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For Rent

L A R G E C R A N B E R RY COLOR chaise chair. Good condition. $50. 518‑546‑8622.

T‑30 FERGUSON tractor (snow blade, dirt scoop, row cultivator and chains) $3,000.

John Deere 335 garden trac‑ tor. $1,500. 802‑349‑8972.

TERRA COTTA COLORED, food grade 55 gallon pickle barrels with spin‑off covers.

Hundreds of uses. On sale for $25. each. 802‑453‑4235.

Vacation Rentals ADDISON: LAKE CHAM‑ PLAIN waterfront camp.

Beautiful views, gorgeous sunsets, private beach, dock, rowboat and canoe included. $600 weekly, or call for week‑ ends. 802‑349‑4212, no texts.

LAKE DUNMORE ‑ studio cottage. Full‑size bed in main room, well equipped kitchen, twin futon on en‑ closed porch, bathroom with shower. Available until Aug. 4th. Free wifi, picnic table, grill, al North Cove Cottages amenities. Rates start at $319/week. 802‑352‑4236; karen@northcovecottages. com.

For Rent 1,800 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092.

BRANDON ‑ IN THE VIL‑ LAGE, large 2 bedroom du‑ plex. Sunny three level living.

South facing deck. Washer/ dryer. $1,150/mo. Includes heat, water and sewer. batesproperties@yahoo. com.

BRIARWOOD APART‑ MENTS is currently accept‑ ing applications for 2 BR apartments in Middlebury.

All income/assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income to‑ ward rent. NS/NP, onsite laundry. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg.com. Equal Housing Opportunity.

BRIDPORT MOBILE HOME on quiet road. $900. month incl. water, elec. and heat.

No smoking, no pets. 1 month rent + security deposit. Ref‑ erences. Available June 22.

802‑758‑2369.

BRIDPORT: SUNNY, SPA‑ CIOUS 1/br. apartment. Beau‑ tiful views, garden space. All utilities included except heat.

Washer/dryer. No pets. No smoking. $925 per month.

802‑349‑9624.

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 measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

Looking for an apartment you can afford?

Want something clean, safe and secure?

Subsidized 2 and 3BR apartments in Brandon available. Affordable, attractive, well maintained and managed. Heat and hot water, off street parking, and 24 hour emergency maintenance included.

No smoking; no cats or dogs.

Application and income information required.

Call 775-3139 or visit www.HousingRutland.org for more information.

Make your move today!

For Rent MIDDLEBURY 2 BEDROOM near downtown. Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY 2,500 SQ.FT. Formerly food processing plant on Exchange Street.

Loading dock, overheard and passage door. 802‑388‑4831.

10 CORDS OF poplar wood for sale. $150/cord. Can be delivered. 802‑558‑1069.

FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green.

802‑282‑9110.

Real Estate

MIDDLEBURY 3 BEDROOM house, 1 1/2 bath, full base‑ ment, spacious garage, deck.

Close to schools. $1,550. per month. Available July 1.

802‑462‑3373.

AFFORDABLE FOREST‑ DALE, VT 14x70 2 bedroom mobile home in very nice small park. Willing to finance with down payment and good references. $25,900. Gene at 802‑917‑5460 or Dolly at 802‑733‑8018.

MIDDLEBURY RETAIL ‑ great location. Ollie’s other place. 13 Washington St. next to The Middlebury Ba‑ gel and the Co‑Op. Across from Shaw’s. Great parking and visibility. Light and ap‑ pealing space, easy to heat.

802‑425‑3400.

NEW 2018 ENERGY Star display models, modular, doublewides and single‑ wides. Open 7 days a week.

Beanshomes.com. 600 Rte. 7, Pittsford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflanders@beanshomes.com.

MIDDLEBURY, 2,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., central location, parking. Can be subdivided. Real‑Net Man‑ agement Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY: ONE BED‑ ROOM apartment, within walking distance of downtown and college. Second floor, above professional office.

No smoking and no pets. Off street parking. $1100.00 per month, includes heat and rubbish removal. References and deposit required. One year minimum lease. Con‑ tact: 388‑7268.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. The building season is upon us. If you’re considering a new home you should look at our two remaining lots on East Middlebury’s Daisy Lane.

This is an established residen‑ tial development with town water, nearby tennis courts, playground and only minutes away from the Snow Bowl and Lake Dunmore. Call Jack at 388‑2502 or 388‑7350.

Att. Farmers HAY FOR SALE Small square bales. First cut and mulch. Call 802‑349‑9281.

NEW HAVEN, QUIET 1 bedroom, furnished, base‑ ment apartment. $650/month plus deposit, utilities includ‑ ed. No smoking, no pets.

802‑453‑3183.

WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK. Pond agitat‑ ing, liquid manure hauling, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whit‑ ney.

STUDIO APARTMENT for rent on a quiet dead end street. No pets. No smoking.

Rent includes heat, electric and trash removal. $650 per month. Call 388‑4147.

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WEST ADDISON: 2 STORY, furnished house on lakefront.

Washer, dryer. No smoking.

Available September through May. 860‑878‑9580.

BID TO BUY your summer ride at auction. Saturday, June 23 at 9am (Register at 7:30am). Repos, trades, donations & more. Willis‑ ton, VT. 1‑800‑474‑6132.

THCAuction.com.

Wanted OLD LICENSE PLATES. If you have very old Vermont plates that the new genera‑ tion does not cherish, why not sell to a life long collector.

Cash buyer. Conrad Hugh‑ son, Putney. 802‑387‑4498.

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Troopers apprehend suspects at burglary site with tools and cash ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police troopers responded to a burglary in progress at the Halfway House Restaurant on Route 22A in Shoreham this past Saturday, June 23, at around 10 p.m.

Troopers report that when they arrived they found Mark Currier, 30, of Salisbury and Nicole Swank, 35, of Vergennes on the restaurant property.

Police said that after investigating they determined that Currier and Swank had broken into the restaurant with a hammer and tire iron, and

stole cash from the register. Police recovered the cash on the scene, and reported that the duo tried to deflect investigators by giving them false information.

State police took Currier and Swank into custody and cited them for burglary, possession of burglar’s tools and providing false information to police. Currier was lodged at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility with bail set at $25,000; Swank was released after being cited.

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TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT EQUIPMENT BID INVITATION TO BID

Public Notices Index

Sealed competitive bids for a HYDRAULIC TILT DECKOVER TRAILER will be received at the office of the Town Manager, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 until 11:00 a.m., July 11, 2018.

Information for Bidders and Bid Forms can be obtained without charge at the Municipal Building at 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, or can be accessed on the Town’s webpage at www. townofmiddlebury.org. Please contact Beth Dow at 388-8100 ext. 202 for additional information.

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TOWN OF WEYBRIDGE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE PLANNING COMMISSION

A public hearing before the Weybridge Planning Commission will be held at the Town Clerk’s Office on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, at 7:00 PM, to pursue the following business: To hold a public hearing to review a subdivision request submitted by Laurie and Margaret Borden to subdivide their land at 4550 Snake Mountain Road. The purpose is to create a separate building lot.

Persons wishing to be heard at this Public Meeting may do so in person or may be represented at the meeting by a licensed Vermont Attorney or an authorized agent; please note that in accordance with Chapter 117, Section 4464 of the Vermont statues that participation in the Public Meeting is a prerequisite to the right to take subsequent appeal.

The full application and survey can be viewed at the Town Clerk’s Office during regular business hours.

Jeff Olson, Chair Weybridge Planning Commission 6/21

VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION Addison Unit Docket No. 51-3-18 Ancv NATIONAL BANK OF MIDDLEBURY, Plaintiff v.

NORMAN W. STRICKHOLM, ET AL. Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Norman Strickholm to National Bank of Middlebury and recorded in Book 148, Pages 227-232 of the Bristol Land Records, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 338 Rockydale Rd, Bristol, VT 05443, at 11:00AM on the 19th day of July, 2018, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, TO WIT: Schedule A - property description 338 Rockydale Road, Bristol, VT Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Norman Strickholm by Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure from Phyllis Strickholm, Successor Trustee of the Ruth G, Strickholm Revocable Trust, dated May 7, 2015 and recorded in Book 147 at Page 132 of the Bristol Land Records, and being more particularly described therein as follows: “Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Ruth G. Strickholm, Trustee of the Ruth G. Strickholm Revocable Living Trust u/t/a dated March 28, 2007 by Quitclaim Deed of Ruth G. Strickholm dated March 28, 2007 and recorded in Book 123 at Page 567 of the Bristol Land Records, and being more particularly described therein as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to George E. Stricklholm and Ruth G. Strickholm dated April 21, 1971 and recorded in Volume 41, Page 64 of the Bristol Land Records and being more particularly described therein as follows: A portion of the same lands and premises conveyed to the here-in Grantors by Warranty Deed of Frank and Midred Lee dated March 25, 1964, and recorded in Book 37, Page 513, of the Bristol Land Record and more particularly described as follows: A parcel with apartment house thereon located on the southerl side of State Route 116 at the westerly end of that potion of the property conveyed to the Grantors by Frank and Mildred Lee as aforesaid and located on the south side State Route 116, said point of beginning being the northeasterly corner of lands of Lee; thence proceeding in a general southerly direction along the easterly edge of land of Lee following the north bank of the river 210 feet to a point at the southernly edge of the right of way of Route 116 which point is 110 feet from the point of beginning; thence proceeding westerly along the southerly edge of the highway right of way 110 feet to the point of beginning. Also conveyed herein, but by quit-claim only, arc any rights of the Grantors between the 210 foot southerly boundary line of the premises herein conveyed and the centerline of the river.

Reference is further made to a Corrective Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure from Phyllis Strickholm, Successor Trustee of the Ruth G. Strickholm Revocable Trust to Norman Strickholm dated September 2, 2015 to be recorded in the Bristol Land Records.

Terms of sale: The Property will be sold in its entirety to the highest bidder as a single unit. It is up to each bidder to perform its own due diligence with respect to the property prior to the public sale that a bidder deems sufficient.

The public sale of the Mortgaged Property will be AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, with the purchaser taking all defects and risks associated with or connected to the property being sold, and subject to all easements, rights of way, covenants, permits, reservations and restrictions of record, title defects, superior liens, environmental hazards, unpaid real estate taxes, municipal liens, and matters of any kind and every nature which may take precedence over the lien of the mortgage being foreclosed.

The high bidder is responsible for the payment of the property taxes and municipal assessments, and any fire district taxes (delinquent and current, with all penalties and interest as of the date of closing on the sale of the property after confirmation of the sale by the Vermont Superior Court).

In order to qualify to bid at the public sale, at the time of sale, interested persons, other than from the mortgagee, must present to the auctioneer a deposit of $10,000 in the form of cash, a bank treasurer’s check, or certified funds. The deposit is subject to forfeiture. The mortgagee has the right to credit bid at the sale without producing any deposit. The remaining balance of the purchase price shall be paid in good funds at closing, to occur within thirty (30) days of the public sale or within ten (10) days of Court Confirmation of the Sale by the Vermont Superior Court, Addison Unit, Civil Division, whichever is later. The sale is subject to confirmation by the Vermont Superior Court, Addison Unit, Civil Division. The successful bidder, other than the mortgagee, will have to sign a purchase and sale agreement at the conclusion of the public sale. The purchaser at the sale shall pay in good funds by cash or certified funds or bank treasurer’s check or wired funds to the person holding the sale. If the Plaintiff makes the highest bid, Plaintiff shall be required to pay cash or certified funds only to the extent that its bid is in excess of the sum due it by the Defendant Mortgagor up to the date of sale under the Judgment and Decree and the costs and expenses of the sale.

The person holding the public sale may, for good cause, adjourn the sale one or more times for a total time not exceeding 30 days, 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.

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. Inquiries to auctioneer or mortgagee’s counsel.

Sale to be conducted by the Thomas Hirchak Company.

By: Elijah R. Bergman Dated: June 19, 2018 Elijah R. Bergman Lynch & Foley, P.C. 7 Washington Street Middlebury, VT 05753 (802) 388-7933 Attorneys for Mortgagee/Plaintiff 6/21

Vt. State

Police Log

State Police: • On June 12 at a little before 12:50 p.m. received a report of a two-car crash at the intersection of Route 22A and Richville Road in Shoreham.

Police report that the first car was being driven by a 17-year-old juvenile, who claimed she had been stopped on Richville Road, then collided with the second vehicle as she traveled through the intersection. The driver of the second car told police that as she drove south on 22A through the intersection of Richville Road, the first car failed to stop at a stop sign and proceeded to collide with her. The crash totaled both vehicles, but no injuries were sustained and no alcohol or drugs appeared have been involved.

A civil complaint is pending.

• On June 12 at around 2:20 p.m., responded to a two-car crash in Bristol at the intersection of Stoney Hill Road and Lovers Lane. The driver of the first car, identified as 64-year-old Lorraine Kayser of Panton, told police that as she turned left from Stoney Hill Road onto Lovers Lane, the sun was in her eyes and she didn’t see another car stopped on Lovers Lane.

Kayser’s car clipped the second car, which was driven by Dale Woods, 65, of Bristol. Both vehicles sustained minor damage, but no injuries were

sustained and no alcohol or drugs appeared to have been involved. A civil complaint is pending.

• On June 14 at around 4:40 a.m., stopped a car for speeding at Cady Road in Middlebury. Police said the driver, Jeremy Kaveckas, 36, of Merrimack, N.H., was driving 74 mph in a 40 mph zone and cited him for speeding.

• On the afternoon of June 15, conducted a Saturation Patrol on Route 22A in Orwell, Shoreham, Bridport and Addison, eventually stopping 10 vehicles and issuing seven traffic tickets and three written warnings. These patrols will continue throughout the 22A Safety Corridor and the Addison County area.

• On June 16 at 1:35 a.m., stopped a car driven by Patrick Dahle, 30, of Farmington, Conn., on Shellhouse Mountain Road in Ferrisburgh.

Troopers detected signs of impairment as they spoke with Dahle, screened him for driving under the influence and cited him for DUI. • On June 16 at around 10:25 a.m. stopped a car driven on Route 116 in Bristol by Alara Bourgeois, 24, of Bristol, who was known to have a suspended license. Police cited Bourgeois for driving with a criminally suspended license.

• On June 17 at around 2:32 p.m., responded to a two-car crash on Route 116 in Bristol. The 16-year-old driver of the first car told police that he had been driving north on Route 116 when he lost control of his car

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 238-6-18 ANPR

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 25-1-18 ANPR

STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS.

STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS.

IN RE THE ESTATE OF JOEL A. KILBOURN

IN RE THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM D. NASS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Joel A. Kilbourn of Ferrisburgh, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: June 20, 2018

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of William D. Nass, late of Middlebury, Vt. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: June 13, 2018

Lauris K. Chamberlain 16 High Street Bristol, Vt 05443 (802) 343-3694 laurisc@hotmail.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: June 21, 2018 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 6/21

Vaughn S.P. Comeau PO Box 1323 Enosburg Falls, VT 05450 802-933-2115 attorney@comeaulaw.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: June 21, 2018 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 6/21

TOWN OF GOSHEN NOTICE OF TAX SALE

The resident and non-resident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of the real estate in the Town of Goshen, in the County of Addison, and State of Vermont are hereby notified that real estate taxes for the 2017 tax year assessed by the Town of Goshen remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid upon the following described real estate in the Town of Goshen as indicated below, to wit: John Melanson: Delinquent 2017 Property Taxes Being 1 acre of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and all improvements thereon, located at 521 Dutton Brook Road, Goshen, Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Carolyn McGowan Ferris and John Melanson by Quit Claim Deed of Carolyn McGowan Ferris dated November 30, 1994, and recorded in the Goshen Land Records in Book 19 at Page 349.

And so much of said real estate will be sold at public auction at the Goshen Town Office, a public place in said Town on the 14th date of July, 2018 at 10:00 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: Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP ATTN: Fritz Langrock, Esq. P. O. Box 351 Middlebury, VT 05753-0351 Telephone: (802)388-6356 Langrock, Sperry & Wool, LLP and the Town of Goshen do not give any opinion or certification as to the marketability of the titles to any of the above-referenced properties as held by the current owner/taxpayer.

The only acceptable forms of bid payment at the day of tax sale are: bank check payable to Town of Goshen, VT or cash. No personal checks will be accepted.

Dated at Goshen, Vermont this 1st day of June, 2018.

Vickee P. Whiting, Town of Goshen Delinquent Tax Collector 6/7

NOTICE OF SALE BY THE TAX COLLECTOR STATE OF VERMONT COUNTY OF ADDISON, SS.

The resident and nonresident owners, lien holders, and mortgagees of the land and property in the city of Vergennes in the county of Addison are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by the City of Vergennes for the year 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid on the following described property in the City of Vergennes, to wit, being the mobile home located at 16 First Street, Vergennes, Vermont, and being all and the same mobile home conveyed to Timothy J. Flynn and Erica L. Flynn by Town & Country Homes dated June 19, 2000, and recorded at Mobile Home File #3 in the Vergennes Records, and so much of such lands will be sold at public auction at City Hall, a public place in the city of Vergennes, on the 16th day of July, 2018 at four o’clock p.m. as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with costs and fees, unless previously paid.

DATED at Vergennes, Vermont, this 18th day of June, 2018.

MEL HAWLEY Collector of delinquent taxes for the City of Vergennes 6/21

NOTICE OF SALE BY THE TAX COLLECTOR STATE OF VERMONT COUNTY OF ADDISON, SS.

The resident and nonresident owners, lien holders, and mortgagees of the land and property in the city of Vergennes in the county of Addison are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by the City of Vergennes for the year 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid on the following described property in the City of Vergennes, to wit, being the mobile home located at 3 Second Street, Vergennes, Vermont, and being all and the same mobile home conveyed to Brenda Badger, formerly known as Brenda Carr by Uniform Bill of Sale from Robert P. and Kay M. Denno dated June 28, 1996, and recorded at Mobile Home File #2 in the Vergennes Records, and so much of such lands will be sold at public auction at City Hall, a public place in the city of Vergennes, on the 16th day of July, 2018 at four o’clock p.m. as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with costs and fees, unless previously paid.

DATED at Vergennes, Vermont, this 18th day of June, 2018.

MEL HAWLEY Collector of delinquent taxes for the City of Vergennes 6/21

while traveling a curve, colliding with another car driving south. No injuries were sustained in the crash, no alcohol or drugs appeared have been involved and no charges have been reported.

State police operating out of the New Haven barracks release a daily log of a selection of their activities.

In Addison County, those activities included: • June 9, directed patrol, Route 22A, Shoreham.

• June 9, welfare check, McKnight Lane, Waltham.

• June 9, alarm, Route 17 West, Addison.

• June 9, a suspicious person/ circumstance, intersection of Routes 7 and 22A, Ferrisburgh.

• June 9, suspicious person/circumstance, Richville Road, Shoreham.

• June 9, DUI, Routes 7 and 22A, Ferrisburgh.

• June 9, DUI, Panton Road and Slang Road, Panton.

• June 10, 911 hangup, Jersey Street, Panton.

• June 10, suspicious person/ circumstance, Route 125 and Cider Mill Road, Cornwall.

• June 10, agency assist, Tyler Bridge Road, Starksboro.

• June 10, citizen assist, Mason Highway North, Starksboro.

• June 10, citizen assist, Route 74 East, Shoreham.

• June 10, motor vehicle disturbances, West Salisbury Road, Salisbury, and Route 30, Whiting.

• June 11, driving with criminally

WARNING TOWN OF SHOREHAM NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Zoning Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing on Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 7 pm at the Shoreham Town Office to consider the review of application #18-13 in accordance with provisions of Section V of the Town Zoning Regulations. The applicant, Christopher Hill, requests to construct an accessory dwelling at 262 Delong Road (Parcel ID# 04-01-15.000). A site visit will be held at 6:00 pm on the night of the hearing. The application is available at the Town Office for review.

Participation in this proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to make any subsequent appeal.

John Kiernan, Chair Applicant and Property Owner: Christopher Hill 24 Hoover Street Burlington, VT 05401 6/7

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.

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suspended license, Route 7, Leicester.

• June 11, welfare check, Crosby Heights, Waltham.

• June 11, motor vehicle disturbances, Carlstrom Road, Bristol.

• June 11, non-reportable traffic crash, Richville Road, Shoreham.

• June 12, accident, Route 22A and Richville Road, Shoreham.

• June 12, non-reportable traffic crash, Stoney Hill Road and Lovers Lane, Bristol.

• June 13, mental health assistance, Forge Hill Road, Lincoln.

• June 13, motor vehicle disturbances, Leicester-Whiting Road, Leicester.

• June 14, non-reportable traffic crash, Tyler Bridge Road, Starksboro.

• June 14, citizen assist, Jersey Street, Panton.

• June 14, phone offenses, Upper Plains Road, Salisbury.

• June 14, larceny from building, Sanford Road, Orwell.

• June 14, motor vehicle disturbances, Route 22A, Shoreham.

• June 15, lost or found property, Lower Notch Road n Bristol.

• June 15, alarm, Valley View Drive, Monkton • June 15, alarm, Southwick Road, New Haven.

• June 15, suspicious person/ circumstance, Upper Plains Road, Salisbury.

• June 16, DUI, Shellhouse Mountain Road and Dakin Road, Ferrisburgh.

• June 16, driving with a criminally suspended license, South 116 Road, Bristol.

• June 16, motor vehicle disturbances, Main Street, Waterbury.

• June 16, welfare check, Douglas Road, Cornwall.

• June 16, directed patrol at the intersection of Vermont Route 22A and North Cream Hill Road, Bridport.

• June 16, motor vehicle disturbances, West Street and Main Street, New Haven.

• June 17, directed patrol at the intersection of Short Street and Route 22A, Bridport.

• June 17, directed patrol, Route 7, New Haven.

• June 17, citizen assist, Old Hollow Road, Ferrisburgh.

• June 17, citizen assist, Lake Dunmore Fish and Wildlife boat access, Salisbury.

• June 17, motor vehicle disturbances, Monkton Road, Bristol.

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 143-4-18 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF RALPH JOHN TEITSCHEID NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Ralph John Teitscheid, late of Cornwall, Vt. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: June 11, 2018 Anne-Marie Pinamonti 16075 Angela Court Valley Center, CA 92082 802-349-4230 apinamonti@gmail.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: June 21, 2018 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 6/21

NOTICE OF SALE BY THE TAX COLLECTOR STATE OF VERMONT COUNTY OF ADDISON, SS.

The residents and nonresidents owners, lien holders, and mortgagees of the lands in the city of Vergennes in the county of Addison are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by the City of Vergennes for the year 2015, 2016, and 2017 and sewer charges for years 2016, 2017, and 2018 remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid on the following described lands in the City of Vergennes, to wit, being lands and premises located at 20 Maple Manor and being all and the lands and premises conveyed to Janet O. Funk and Sally Anne Barrett, Trustees of the Janet O. Funk 2002 Trust Dated November 6, 2002 by Warranty Deed of Holly C. Waller dated June 7, 2006 and recorded at Book 63 Pages 129-130 in the Vergennes Land Records and so much of such lands will be sold at public auction at City Hall, a public place in the city of Vergennes, on the 16herth day of July, 2018 at four o’clock p.m. as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with costs and fees, unless previously paid.

DATED at Vergennes, Vermont, this 18the day of June, 2018.

MEL HAWLEY 6/21 Collector of delinquent taxes for the City of Vergennes

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT-ENVIRONMENTAL DIVISION FIRST BRANDON-LEICESTER-SALISBURY-GOSHEN INSECT CONTROL DISTRICT NPDES PESTICIDE GENERAL PERMIT #PGP_01_2017 NOTICE OF APPEAL

Pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 8504(c)(2) and Rule 5(b)(4)(B) of the Vermont Rules for Environmental Court Proceedings, notice is hereby given that on June 13, 2018 Toxics Action Center appealed to the State of Vermont, Superior Court – Environmental Division the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources’ decision dated May 15, 2018 authorizing the First Brandon-Leicester-Salisbury-Goshen Insect Control District’s Notice of Intent for coverage under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Pesticide General Permit #PGP_01_2017. This appeal involves the discharge of chemical larvicides and adulticides, including malathion and synthetic pyrethroids, into Vermont state waters. The mosquito control spraying occurs in and around the towns of Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury, Goshen, Pittsford, and Proctor—located within Rutland and Addison counties. The District’s office is located at or near Brandon, VT 05733. Appellant may bring this action as an aggrieved person because it submitted a written comment during the comment period.

The District’s discharges into waterways within the Pest Management Area will affect Toxics Action Center’s members’ particularized interests. 10 V.S.A. §§ 8502(7), 8503(a)(1)(E), 8504(a), 8504(d)(2)(A). In accordance with Rule 5(b)(3)(A) of the Vermont Rules for Environmental Court Proceedings, Appellant hereby advises all interested persons that they must enter an appearance in writing with the Court within 21 days of receiving this Notice of Appeal, if they wish to participate in this appeal. By: Mason Overstreet, Esq., Attorney for Toxics Action Center.

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RFD serves up meals and fun to children in Starksboro

Lincoln

STARKSBORO — Since 2014, the Rural Fun Delivery (RFD) program has provided free, nutritious meals and engaging activities every weekday during the summer to youth ages 18 and younger in underserved communities in Starksboro.

This summer, RFD will serve at least 85-90 youth every day across three mobile home communities — Lazy Brook, Hillside and Brookside.

The program will run Monday through Friday, June 25-Aug. 10, except July 4th. Additionally, RFD offers afternoon programming once a week at each of the three sites.

Free lunches will be served at the following times: Brookside, 11:20 a.m.; Lazy Brook, 12:10 p.m.; and THE MONSTER FEST at last year’s Rural Fun Delivery program in Starksboro not only provided free summer Hillside, 12:50 p.m. lunches, but also offered fun activities like face painting.

Special weekly afternoon activities are tentatively scheduled for Hillside on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., Brookside Alexander, director of the Mount on Wednesdays at 1:45 p.m., and Abraham Union School District Lazy Brook on Thursdays at 1:30 Food Service Cooperative, has played a crucial role in shaping the p.m.

Anne Gleason, School-Age program by offering her nutritional Programs Coordinator at Mary expertise and working to prepare daily lunches across Johnson Children’s Addison county.

Center, started the Each summer, the program to serve The program program is run by two remote locations in will run Monday program managers, Addison County. She through Friday, envisioned the program June 25-Aug. 10, one of whom is a Middlebury College as an opportunity to except July 4th. interning bring healthy meals to Additionally, RFD student through Middlebury kids without the ability college’s Privilege to travel to a food offers afternoon and Poverty academic distribution center, programming cluster. This summer, to facilitate social once a week at connections, and, most each of the three Claiborne Beary, a rising junior at the importantly, to allow sites. college, will be serving kids to be kids. She as one of the program notes that RFD has continually changed and adapted managers. She is a native of New over the past five years and is excited Orleans who studies International to see where the program managers Global Studies, French and Arabic, and volunteers with the Page One will take the program this summer.

Since its inception, RFD has Literacy Project. Beary is looking partnered with a number of forward to engaging kids in summer local service organizations to reading, group art projects and achieve its goals. St. Stephen’s classic outdoor summer games.

Anyone interested in learning Episcopal Church in Middlebury has generously donated a portion more about the RFD program or you of its annual Peasant Market would like to find a detailed schedule A YOUNGSTER AT the Rural Fun Delivery program in Starksboro last proceeds to the program for the go online to ruralfundelivery.org or summer tries out the “smoothie bike,” which uses his muscles to power past five years. Additionally, Kathy check out RFDVT on Facebook. a blender.

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LINCOLN — Congratulations to the LCS Class of 2018 on your promotion to seventh grade. I wish you the best of luck at Mt. Abe. Work hard, do great things, have fun and enjoy it all.

My sincerest thanks to teachers Kaela, Lindsey and Justin for all you’ve done to enrich the lives of our children at LCS. We will miss you and wish you well. To all the teachers and staff: enjoy your break.

It’s almost time for Bristol’s annual 4th of July celebration. On Tuesday, July 3, there will be food and craft vendors, games, raffle tickets for sale and plenty of live music starting at 6 p.m. at the Bristol Rec Field. The fireworks display begins at dusk.

Festivities on Wednesday, July 4, include the outhouse races at 9 a.m. followed by the parade at 10:30 a.m. This year’s parade theme is Broadway Musicals and will feature one member of each of the five towns serving as Grand Marshal.

Lincoln will be represented by

Hattie Brown. After the parade enjoy live music by Mango Jam on the town green. Food and craft vendors will also be available.

Community Movie Night at the church is taking a break for the summer, but I just wanted to thank all those who put this together. Jacob enjoys watching the movie with his friends and I love the company and the buttery popcorn. Thank you, ladies!

Looking for something to do this summer? Did you know that you can check out passes at the library for area museums? Passes are available for Vermont State Historic Sites, Shelburne Farms, Shelburne Museum, Echo Museum, American Precision Museum in Windsor and the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. Stop by the library for more information or check out their website at lincolnlibraryvt.com.

Until next time ... Every Moment Is A Fresh Beginning. Enjoy The Outdoors. Read A Good Book.

Salisbury

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SALISBURY — Happy First Day of Summer.

The Salisbury Historical Society is sponsoring several programs this summer about historical events in the area. The first will be on Wednesday, June 27, at 7 p.m., at the Salisbury Meeting House located in the village. Jean Edgerton will speak on the “History of Waterhouse’s Boat Dock & Marina on Lake Dunmore”. The program is free and open to the public.

On Friday, June 29 the first of the church’s Summer Series will be a musical program presented by the faculty from Camp Point Counterpoint. They will perform “Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano” by Popper, “Piano Quartet

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in C Minor, op. 15” by Fauré and String Quartet in D Minor, “Death and the Maiden” by Schubert. All Summer Series events are held at 7:30 p.m. in the Meeting House and are free and open to the public.

On Wednesday, July 4, the church will host its annual Ice Cream Social from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Cones, sundaes and homemade desserts will all be available rain or shine.

There will be a hazardous waste collection on Saturday, June 30, at the landfill from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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June 21, 2018

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François Clemmons did not want to play a police officer on “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood,” but that’s how Fred Rogers cast him, in order to change children’s perceptions of police and of African Americans. In once notable 1969 scene, recreated here 25 years later, Rogers and Officer Clemmons sat next to each other with their bare feet in a small pool as they sang, which gently prompted discussion of racism and integration in America.

François remembers his ‘guru’ – Mr. Rogers

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rançois Clemmons was 24 years old and midway through his first year of graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University when he first met Fred Rogers. Clemmons sang as a tenor soloist at Third Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, where he stood right next to Joanne Rogers, an alto. The two joked between songs and enjoyed each other’s company. After the Good Friday service that year, Joanne’s husband, Fred, came up to Clemmons backstage and told him that he had never been more moved or touched by a service.

hot shot,” recalled Clemmons, who is now 73.

“He had like a London fog coat on, he was very soft spoken. The thing I remember, though, is that he was very sincere. There was something about him that was very sincere and it caught me a little off guard.”

“For me he was very boring, I was a 24-year-old

After accepting a gig to be in a couple episodes

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Rogers asked Clemmons to lunch, and later to come by WQED-TV Studios, where he introduced the young man to all of the characters on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” Fred’s children’s show.

“What is this grown man playing with all these puppets for?” Clemmons wondered in a recent interview with the Independent.

of the show because he needed the money, Clemmons received a phone call from Fred Rogers telling him that people responded very well to his performance. Rogers wanted him to do more, and while Clemmons initially kept wondering which episode would be his last, he ended up staying on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” for almost 30 years.

It was a life-changing experience for Clemmons in numerous ways, some of which surfaced during interviews for a new documentary, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

The documentary, directed by Morgan Neville, examines the impact of Fred Rogers and his long-running children’s show. Clemmons, who first watched the documentary at the Mercer SEE CLEMMONS ON PAGE 3

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ART Women artists stage group show at Edgwater

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dgewater Gallery in Middlebury celebrates women in art with its June exhibit “The Way We See It,” a group show on view at both Middlebury locations and featuring four artists whose mediums include photography, woodworking, painting and mixed media.

Edgewater Gallery at the Falls (1 Mill St.) is showing the bold work of abstract, mixedmedia artist Jane Davies and painter Alexis Serio, who creates vast, dream-like landscapes. At Edgewater Gallery on the Green (6 Merchants Row) photographer Kirsten Hoving is exhibiting a collection of photographs of flowers she has taken using her macro lens and Michele Kishita is showing works in painted wood. Each of these dynamic artists has found the medium by which she can best express and explore her ideas.

“The Way We See It” presents four very different perspectives and celebrates the freedom women in art have today to present their ideas through their work.

EDGEWATER ON THE GREEN Middlebury College art history professor Kirsten Hoving’s collection of work for the June exhibit is from a series she has titled “Persephone’s Herbarium.” She writes: “I combine ancient myths of the seasons with the photographic study of flowers. Using a macro lens, I offer the privileged view of bees and bugs and goddesses.” Hoving

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piece and is juxtaposed with sharp angles of intersecting lines of color. The viewer sees the history and beauty of the tree through the polished surface of the wood but the interruption in this surface, that the lines of color provide, create exciting contrasts. Kishita states: “I strive to tease out the landscape that is inherently a part of each panel, while expressing the visual contrasts and harmony where man-made structures and nature intersect.”

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Two Little Feet (to carry me away) by Alexis Serio

chooses not to use the traditional recording methods of photography to capture the beauty and drama of her subject but instead in her close observations of flowers, she creates images that are not only rich, colorful and textural compositions but they also transform from an observed reality to photographs that suggest dreams, memories and suggestions.

Exhibited with Hoving’s floral studies are a series of paintings done on wood sheets by Philadelphia artist Michele Kishita. The natural beauty of the grain of the wood shows in each

Edgewater’s Mill Street location features the abstract art of Jane Davies and a collection of landscapes from Alexis Serio. Rupert resident Davies’ abstract canvases, panel pieces, and works on paper are studies of color relationships, line, scale patterning and texture. She is equally comfortable working on a 36-inch-by-36-inch canvas as she is creating a 4-inch-by-4-inch mixed-media panel. Each piece whether large or small has an energy that comes from the dynamic relationships between color, shape, line and layering.

Davies writes about her work: “I see these pieces in terms of landscape. They don’t start out that way in my mind; I just start painting and see what happens. My conversation with the canvas always ends up in an unexpected image, and sometimes the image suggests a specific place SEE ARTISTS ON PAGE 4

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Arts Center in New York City, thought Neville did a superb job.

“I liked the pacing. The pacing was very important because Fred didn’t do anything fast. I thought that was a very important way of showing something integral about his personality,” Clemmons said.

While revisiting old scenes may make some nostalgic for a more slow-paced form of entertainment, the documentary also shines a new light on the social importance of “Mister Rogers.” Rogers chose to cast Clemmons, an African American, as a police officer on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” in the late 1960s. Clemmons, who grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, did not have a positive view of police officers.

“They were the enemies.

They were abusive,” he said.

For these reasons, Clemmons told Rogers that he did not want to play a police officer. When he got scripts in the mail and saw “Officer Clemmons” scribbled across the top, he was slightly disappointed.

But Rogers was persistent; he told Clemmons that he could have an impact on children and change their perception of police officers.

In one especially notable scene from 1969, Rogers and Officer Clemmons sat next to each other with their pants rolled up, the skin on their legs exposed, and placed their feet in a small kiddie pool as they sang. This scene, which aired during a time when black children were often prohibited from swimming in the white neighborhood pools, has become an emblem of the

François Clemmons, retired Twilight Artist in Residence at Middlebury College, appeared as “Officer Clemmons” opposite Fred Rogers in the seminal kids TV show “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.” In a new documentary called “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Clemmons talks about how the role changed his life.

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fact that Mister Rogers’ was not merely an ordinary children’s program, but one that discussed significant social issues.

“It was no longer a black and a white man. It was about integration and racism in our country. It suddenly took on this otherworldly flavor. For me, it became spiritual,” Clemmons said of the pool scene, which was reconstructed for his last appearance on the show in 1993.

Clemmons has been reflecting on his time on the show and on its creator for quite awhile.

“I haven’t stopped thinking about him since 15 years ago when he died because I loved him very much. He was an important part of my life.

So when he died it was like a stab in my heart,” Clemmons said of Rogers.

Many have wondered why the two, separated by 25 years in age, were so close.

Clemmons said it was their belief in god, their shared spirituality — Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister, Clemmons is well known for his performance of traditional spirituals — that brought the two together.

“I was black, gay, and poor, but he chose me. Our bond was spiritual. He was my guru, he taught me,” Clemmons said.

Beyond the personal impact, Clemmons’ tenure as Officer Clemmons on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” greatly shaped his career as a singer.

Millions of people all around the world — from Germany to Austria to Korea — have heard Clemmons’ voice in the Harlem Spiritual SEE TV ON PAGE 5

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OUT OF TOWN Tales of India on stage at Bald Mountain Theater

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part of its “Stories You Should Know” series, Bald Mountain Theater this week presents “Tales from India” this Friday through Sunday at Spice Studio in Rochester. “Stories You Should Know” showcases classic stories from a far-off corner of the world.

They evoke the familiarity of stories you grew up with as a child with the flavor and magic of another culture.

This year, the theater company’s tales are drawn from all over India — from sandy desert dunes to thick jungles to towering mountains.

Bald Mountain promises to provide captivating stories about a misanthropic princess, a couple fighting over an imaginary cow, a boy who sells wisdom, the dangers of a tiger choosing a bride for his adopted human son, and a demon who’s really handy around the farm until he’s bored and drama ensues.

Addressing his inspiration, story curator and performer Ethan Bowen

says, “I was drawn to these stories from India because they have a vibrancy, a thrilling energy that you don’t find in their European counterparts. The language of these stories is so rich and steeped in its culture … and there are no tales about getting lost in the snow.”

Bowen reads hundreds of stories every year, and, as in past years, he has carefully chosen a few that fascinate him and prepared them for the stage to share with audiences.

Bowen will deliver a sumptuous

performance as “The Reader,” accompanied by the evocative tones of steel-tongued drum and shruti box. With a running time of one hour, these family-friendly tales have the strong subject matter (death, love, revenge, humor) that makes for great stories.

There will be evening performances on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday.

Tickets at the door are $15 for general admission and $10 for children under 10. Spice Studio is at 482 South Main St. in Rochester.

Shelburne exhibit ‘Playing Cowboy’ on tap

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helburne Museum this weekend will open a new show of paintings and artwork called “Playing Cowboy.”

Before movie legends like John Wayne galloped across the silver screen, real live cowboys and Indians entertained audiences in dramatic performances that traveled the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. William “Buffalo Bill”

Cody (1846-1917) helped generate the growing public interest in the vanishing Wild West by acting out the exploits of his life as a scout and Indian fighter in this uniquely American form of entertainment.

At the same time, painters and sculptors such as Frederic Remington (1861-1909), N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), and Carl Rungius (1869-1959) ventured west in search of artistic inspiration, translating their experiences into romantic portrayals that continue to influence

contemporary understandings of life on the open range.

“Playing Cowboy” investigates the formative ways in which turn-ofthe-century performing and visual arts mythologized cowboys and villainized Indians. Popular forms of mass media and entertainment, including dime novels, live stage performances, traveling exhibitions, illustrations, paintings, and sculpture all perpetuated the myth of the cowboy and stereotyped Native

Americans, based on racialized perceptions of the time. An opening reception will take place this Saturday, June 23, 4-5 p.m. The show runs through Oct. 21.

The show is in the museum’s Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education. Located in the heart of Shelburne, the museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. More information is at shelburnemuseum.org. Admission runs from free for children younger than 5 to $25 for adults.

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or feeling. Oddly, the ones with the bright, warm reds remind me of snow and lava, freezing cold and deadly fire in the same breath. The more neutral, muted pieces (the works on paper) suggest coastal environments of rocks, sand and

seaweed. I leave them open to interpretation by the viewer.”

Serio, a professor at the University of Texas at Tyler, is a graduate of Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, and received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts. The artist paints large, dreamlike landscapes. The works are vast vistas of layered opaque

and transparent color. Though recognizable as landscapes the line between reality and the imagined is blurred through Serio’s use of color and tonal relationships and her ability to play with light and shadow. She describes her pieces for Edgewater as “metaphors for memory.”

These are women who have taken the traditional and formal elements

of landscape, color relationships, shape, line and pattern and have expanded on and explored each element to create art that is expressive and exciting.

For further information call the Merchants Row Gallery at 802989-7419 or the Mill Street Gallery at 802-458-0098, email info@ edgewatergallery-vt.com or visit edgewatergallery-vt.com.

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IN TOWN Starr to share his carving life

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ary Starr is a world-class, selftaught carver whose decorative decoys and birds are coveted by some collectors, and appreciated by lovers of art and nature. On Wednesday, June 27, at noon, the Weybridge artist will present the illustrated talk “A Life Among Birds: Carved and Flying” at the Sheldon Museum in downtown Middlebury.

Starr’s sculptures are on display at the Sheldon Museum through Nov. 11. In the talk, he will discuss his childhood amidst a premier decoy collection, his introduction to carving, his change of careers, and a birding passion, shared by his wife, Kathy. The talk is free with museum admission.

colorful birds including a puffin, American oyster catcher, belted king fisher, Baltimore oriole, wood duck, and lilac breasted roller.

Gary and Kathy Starr travel the world seeking inspirational birds that become stunning carved replicas when Gary returns to his Vermont studio.

The Henry Sheldon Museum offers a diverse, in-depth look at the history and art of the Mid-Lake Champlain region of Vermont. The museum is located at 1 Park St. in Middlebury across from the Ilsley Library. Museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m. Admission is $5 adults; $3 youth (6-18); $4.50 seniors; $12 family; $5 research center.

For more information call 802-388-2117 or visit HenrySheldonMuseum.org.

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Ensemble, a group he founded in 1986 that specialized in American Negro Spirituals. He said this would not have happened had it not been for his role on Fred Rogers’ TV program. “There was no place I could go where people didn’t know Officer Clemmons from ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,’” Clemmons said.

He travelled to Pittsburgh to film the show around 10 times each year, when he was not performing worldwide. Later, in 1997, Middlebury College President John McCardell invited Clemmons to Middlebury, where Clemmons mentored students in the art and business of the theater industry.

He served as the Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence until his retirement in 2013.

Clemmons still lives in Middlebury, and his house is adorned with mementos of his remarkable career. Posters from his Harlem Spiritual Ensemble tour hang next to framed photographs of him on set with Rogers, and others of him in some of his many customdesigned gold costumes. Clemmons recently received a new poster in the mail — a larger than life copy of the movie poster for “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” that he plans to get framed.

Following an education at the Cornell University School of Hotel Management, Gary Starr first worked for ITT Sheraton Corporation, including an assignment at Universal Studios in Hollywood. A position as Director of Food Services at Middlebury College lured him to Vermont. While growing up in Duxbury, Mass., Starr had been exposed to the worldclass antique decoy collection of his father, Dr. George R. Starr, who was also a wood carver and hunter. Dr. Starr introduced Gary to carving, but not until Gary had spent 20 years at Middlebury College did he decide to leave food services to reinvent himself and take on wood carving as a career.

He has become a world-class carver whose decorative decoys and birds are on display at the Sheldon: from three magnificent oversized shore birds — one standing, a second running and a third feeding — to a variety of life-sized

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There’s a lot, after all, that we can learn from “Mister Rogers” today, he says.

“This world needs love. There’s a spiritual hunger in this land. They’re hungry for Fred,” Clemmons said.

Gary Starr left a career in food services and reinvented himself as a wood carver. Shown outside his Weybridge studio, Starr has become a world-class carver. His decorative decoys and birds are on display at the Sheldon Museum.

You can see “Wont You Be My Neighbor?” when it opens in Burlington on June 29 or in Montpelier on July 6.

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The fourth year of Middlebury UndergrounD (MUD) will host its “Foodaroo” food festival — 2-8 p.m. at the Marble Works in Middlebury.

Sample more than 20 SUNDAY JUNE Vermont foods and beverages, hear great music, watch street performers and participate in a baking competition and more. Entry to this familyfriendly event is free; there is a charge for the food.

Ted E. Bear of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company will host a picnic on the Bristol Town Green beginning at noon. Bring your favorite bear and WEDNESDAY JUNE meet at the Veterans Memorial for a parade to the playground for stories, songs and games.

Free lunches for the first 30 children.

If it rains, meet across the street in Holley Hall.

Train to be a volunteer bat monitor and count bats at Kingsland Bay State Park this summer.

Biologist Alyssa Bennett will teach you how it’s done WEDNESDAY JUNE at Ferris– burgh’s Rokeby Museum, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Bring warm layers and mosquito protection. Folding chair optional. More info: email alyssa.bennett@ vermont.gov or call Amy Dohner at 802-4347245.

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JUNIOR FISHING DERBY IN VERGENNES. Friday and Saturday, June 22 and 23, 5 a.m.-9 p.m., Otter Creek. Bring your kids aged 3-15 to Otter Creek for a day of fun, and the hope of catching the biggest fish. Register at tinyurl.com/ybozx6rd.

TRIATHLONS IN SALISBURY. Sunday, June 23, 8:30 a.m., Branbury State Park, 3570 Lake Dunmore Road. The “Lake Dunmore Triathlon” is a 0.9-mile swim, 28-mile bike and 6.2-mile run, and the “Vermont Sun Triathlon” is a 600-yard swim, 14-mile bike and a 3.1-mile run. Both are nestled against the Green Mountains. Bib pick up 6:40-7:30 a.m. More info and registration at vermontsuntriathlonseries. com.

June 26, 7-8:30 p.m., College Park, between College and Main streets. Otter Creek Audubon’s Ron Payne will lead a free evening bird walk. Learn about some of the beautiful natural resources in Middlebury. All ages and abilities welcome. Bring binoculars if you have them. The first of a series of walks and talks offered by the Middlebury Conservation Commission.

ARTS ARTISTS’ OPENING RECEPTION IN VERGENNES. Friday, June 22, 5-8 p.m., Northern Daughters Gallery, 221 Main St. Come meets the artists and view their work at the opening reception for “Blades will Sprout,” featuring the work of: Anne Cady, Julia Jensen, and Jessica Smith.

BEGINNERS BIRD WALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 23, 9-10:30 a.m., Seymour St. Ext. A great opportunity for aspiring birders. Cosponsored

by Otter Creek Audubon Society & MALT. More info call Carol Ramsayer at 802-989-7115.

OPENING AND ARTIST TALK IN ROCHESTER. Sunday, June 24, 4-5 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. New show of work by Alison Weld. More info: bigtowngallery.com.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB BREAD LOAF SECTION PADDLE IN FERRISBURGH. Saturday, June 23, Little Otter Creek. Canoe and/or kayak on Little Otter Creek. Moderate paddling on flat water. Bring your own canoe or kayak, paddles, sunblock and required PFD. More info contact David Andrews at 802-388-4894 or vtrevda@yahoo.com. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org. Rain date Friday, June 29.

“A LIFE AMONG BIRDS: CARVED AND FLYING” IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, June 27, noon, Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St. Self-taught carver Gary Starr will present this illustrated talk discussing his childhood amidst a premier decoy collection, his introduction to carving, his change of careers, and a birding passion shared by his wife, Kathy. Free with museum admission. More info at HenrySheldonMuseum.org.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB BREAD LOAF SECTION YOUNG ADVENTURERS CLUB HIKE IN ORWELL. Sunday, June 24, Mt. Independence State Historic Site. Pace is geared towards younger adventurers (ages 4-8), everyone is welcome. Each outing is tailored to the individual participants, and will be fun for the whole family. Bring cost of admission or Green Mountain Passport. Find park fees online: historicsites.vermont.gov. More info contact Lauren Bierman at 802-349-7498 or laurenbierman1218@ gmail.com.

MILITARY ROAD HIKE IN HUBBARDTON. Sunday, June 24, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. Walk in the footsteps of history along a section of the 1776-1777 military road that ran from Rutland through Hubbardton on the way to Mount Independence. Site interpreter Bob Franzoni will guide this hike, rugged in places.

Dress for the weather and wear boots; section may be wet.

BIRD WALK AND TALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday,

BOOKS JOAN HUTTON LANDIS SUMMER READING SERIES IN ROCHESTER. Sunday, June 24, 5-8 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Authors Michael Collier and Char Gardener will read from their work.

More info: bigtowngallery.com.

STORYMATTERS MEETING IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, June 25, 4 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Gather with other storytellers for “Your Choice”; the floor is open to all kinds of stories and ideas. Always open for stories.

FILM MUSIC AND MOVIES SERIES IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, June 27, 8 p.m., College Park, across from Shafer’s. The Better Middlebury Partnership’s series kicks off with a free viewing of the movie “Ferdinand.”

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THEATER “PROOF” ON STAGE IN MIDDLEBURY. ThursdaySaturday, June 21-23, 8 p.m., and Sunday, June 24, 2 p.m., Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, 1197 Exchange St. Middlebury Community Players’ Company Be stages this David Auburn play, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play. Tickets $10 cash or check at the door. More info at middleburycommunityplayers.org.

“TALES FROM INDIA” ON STAGE IN ROCHESTER. Friday and Saturday, June 22 and 23, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, June 24, 2 p.m., Spice Studio, 482 South Main St. Bald Mountain Theater presents “Stories You Should Know,” classic stories from a far-off corner of the world: stories about a misanthropic princess, a couple fighting over an imaginary cow, a boy who sells wisdom, the dangers of a tiger choosing a bride for his adopted human son, and a demon who’s really handy around the farm, until he’s bored… Tickets $15 adults/$10 children under 10, available at the door. More info at baldmountaintheater.org.

“COUNTRY MOUSE/CITY MOUSE AND THE PRINCESS & THE PEA” ON STAGE IN BRANDON. Wednesday, June 27, 3:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Backpack Theater, 20 young actors ages 6-17 meld these two iconic fairy tales into one. Tickets adults, $4/seniors and students, $3/ Children 5 & under accompanied by an adult free.

“PLEVNA” ON STAGE AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Thursday, June 28, 8 p.m., Seeler Studio Theater, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Play by Howard Barker is a one-person meditation on the aftermath of the Siege of Plevna, a Turkish town taken by the Russians in 1877. Performed by Alex Draper and directed by Richard Romagnoli.

Free. More info at middlebury.edu/arts or 802-4433168.

“THE POSSIBILITIES” AND “THE AFTER-DINNER JOKE” ON STAGE AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Friday, June 29, 2 p.m., Seeler Studio Theater. “The Possibilities,” directed by Richard Romagnoli, is a quartet from an evening of parables. In “The AfterDinner Joke,” directed by Cheryl Faraone, a young idealist determines to do good and avoid the political; chaos ensues. Free.

“WORKS IN PROGRESS: BRECHT ON BRECHT” AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Friday, June 29, 6 p.m., Seeler Studio Theater. A theatrical collage of writings and songs of Bertolt Brecht. Free.

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MUSIC SABOUYOUMA IN NEW HAVEN. Friday, June 22, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great music. Free. Wine by the glass and hot food available for purchase.

JOAN HUTTON LANDIS MEMORIAL CONCERT IN ROCHESTER. Friday, June 22, 7 p.m., Rochester Federated Church, 15 N. Main St. The Rochester Chamber Music Society presents Choong-jin Chang, viola, and Cynthia Huard, piano, who will perform Schumann’s “Fairytale Pictures for Viola and Piano, Op. 113”; Hindemith’s “Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 31, No. 4”; and Brahms’ “Sonata Op. 120, No. 1 in F minor.” Freewill donations gratefully accepted. More info at 802-767-9234 or rcmsvt.org.

RENEE DION TRIO IN BRANDON. Saturday, June 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Dion’s music is a beautiful blend of soul, R&B, and contemporary jazz. Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-2474295 or email info@brandon-music.net to reserve.

ONION RIVER JAZZ BAND IN BRANDON. Saturday, June 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. For more than 30 years the seven-piece Onion River Jazz Band has been presenting traditional New Orleans Dixieland Jazz. Brandon’s own Gene Childers plays trumpet. Tickets adults, $8/Seniors and Students $6.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FIDDLERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, June 24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. Enjoy an afternoon of music. Jam session form 11 a.m.-1 p.m. followed by music and dancing.

Refreshments available. All fiddlers welcome.

Donation $3.

POINT COUNTERPOINT FACULTY ENSEMBLE IN SALISBURY. Friday, June 29, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Hear these talented musicians as they play Popper’s Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano; Faure’s Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 15; and Schubert’s String Quartet in D Minor “Death and the Maiden.” Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Free-will donation.

JUST FOR FUN BIXBY GALA IN VERGENNES. Friday, June 22, 7-11 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. Get out the fancy clothes, the theme for the Bixby Gala is “Sail to Summer” at this annual fundraiser for the library.

Delicious food and plenty of dancing local favorite The Grift. Tickets available now at bixbylibrary.org.

FOODAROO IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, June 24, 4-8 p.m., in the Marble Works. The fourth year of Middlebury Underground’s food festival. Sample more than 20 Vermont food and beverages, hear great music, watch street performers, participate in

a baking competition and more. A family-friendly event. Free entry.

STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL IN VERGENNES. Monday, June 25, 6-8 p.m., City Park. Homemade strawberry shortcake and beverage, $6. The Little City Jazz Band will provide entertainment. Proceeds benefit Champlain Valley Christian School. More info call Alisa at 802-759-2144.

BRISTOL TOWN BAND IN BRISTOL. Wednesday, June 27, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a preconcert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

STARGAZING OPEN HOUSE IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, June 27, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Route 125. Jupiter and Saturn will be in the evening sky on many of these dates. A variety of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae will also be visible through the observatory’s telescopes. Free and open to the public, weather permitting. Check the observatory web site at go.middlebury.edu/ observatory/ or call 802-443-2266 after 7 p.m. on the evening of the event.

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STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL IN SHOREHAM. Thursday, June 28, 5-7 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Feast on strawberry shortcake, strawberry sundaes, strawberry pie, ice cream with strawberries, just plain strawberries or the works. A limited number of whole strawberry pies will also be for sale. Make strawberries your dessert or your entire meal that night and enjoy the fun and good food.

LECTURES VERMONT CIVIL WAR HISTORIAN HOWARD COFFIN IN BRISTOL. Thursday, June 21, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West St. Join Coffin and The Bristol Historical Society, in cooperation with the Vermont Humanities Council, for a discussion of “Vermont’s Remarkable Sharpshooters.” Free and open to the public. More info call Steve Ayotte at 802-453-7709.

HISTORY OF WATERHOUSE’S BOAT DOCK & MARINA TALK IN SALISBURY. Wednesday, June 27, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Jean Edgerton will give a talk on this Lake Dunmore institution for the Salisbury Historical Society. Free.

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Bikers take to new pump tracks BRISTOL AND GOSHEN UNVEIL NEW BIKE PARKS

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ormer professional mountain biker Ali Zimmer was excited to see more kids and adults get a chance to get on their two-wheelers and pedal around a new “pump track” that was recently constructed on the Bristol Recreation Field adjacent to Mount Abraham Union High School. A pump track is a dirt trail on which mountain bikers roll up and over little hillocks and banked turns designed in such a way as to enable the rider to create momentum by pumping their body up and down and thus keep forward momentum with little pedaling.

BY ABAGAEL GILES

“A pump track (offers) a way to work on gaining and maintaining momentum on a bike without pedaling,” said Zimmer, who was project coordinator for creation of the track. The Bristol Recreation Club track’s construction was completed in early May, and before it was even officially kicked off with a popsicle party this past Saturday, it had already become a gathering place for local kids and adults looking to work on bike skills, the Lincoln resident said.

Pump tracks seem to be growing in popularity in these parts. Goshen also saw a new one installed this spring.

On June 2, the Addison County Bike Club hosted a barbecue to celebrate the grand opening of the Moosalamoo Flow Trail and Pump Track, located at the Moosalamoo Campground in the Moosalamoo National Recreation Area. According to Jacob Grossi, director of events and outreach for the Vermont Mountain Bike Association, 28 volunteers turned out to put the final touches on the trails with rakes and mountain bikes.

Holly Knox, recreation program

manager for the Rochester and Middlebury U.S. Forest Service Ranger Districts, said the project was funded by revenue from use fees collected at other recreation sites.

Addison County Bike Club President Eric Berg said his organization hopes to build a 1.5-mile connector trail between the new 1.5-mile-long flow trail and pump track and the existing Leicester Hollow and Chandler Ridge trails near Silver Lake.

“This project is a tricky area and one we have explored before to try and find a connector trail that is not exceptionally wet or requiring significant infrastructure such as a large bridge,” said Knox of the site where the connector trail has been proposed. Knox said any proposed new trail on National Forest land is subject to a review process, with opportunity for public input.

For now, the Addison County Bike Club will maintain the new trail and pump track, both of which were constructed by trail builder Tom Lepesqueur of L&D Trailworks in Canterbury, N.H. The project had been in the works since 2016 and took about a year to build.

The pump track back in Bristol was built by Kyle Ebbot, a Vermontbased trail designer who codesigned Burke Mountain’s Knight Slayer Trail and the Catamount Outdoor Family Center Bike Park.

This project cost about $4,400 and was funded almost entirely by grants secured by Porter Knight of the Bristol Recreation Club. Among the grants was a $1,500 award from Burlington’s Outdoor Gear Exchange. Ben and Jerry’s, Neat Repeats and the Bristol Recreation Club supplied additional funds.

Grossi of the Vermont Mountain Bike Association cheered the arrival of the new pump tracks in the area.

“This is huge for kids or anyone who wants to learn about mountain biking,” he said. “In terms of

Calliope Beck of Lincoln tests out the pump track at the Moosalamoo Campground in Goshen. Th

mountain biking, these pump tracks are like the BMX track of today,” he added, referring to the pre-mountain bike form of outdoor racing on dirt roads and tracks.

The Forest Service receives numerous requests for new trails or alterations with Vermont’s National Forests every year, Knox said. She offered a set of guidelines her agency distributes to groups who want to propose new trails. The document points out that the Forest Service relies heavily on volunteers to maintain existing trails.

Any new trail or facility has to be maintained, and the agency will be more likely to approve a proposed new trail or facility if a user organization steps forward and demonstrates a willingness to take on responsibility for its upkeep.

“We are interested in trail connectivity and developing projects that serve the greater good if we can balance resource protection in a sustainable manner,” Knox said.

A young rider works his way around the new Mo and Vermont Mountain Bike Association.

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EXHIBITS PETER WILDEY’S LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY ON DISPLAY AT ILSLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY. Beautiful, one-of-a-kind scenes from Vermont and beyond by the former Cornwall resident and 1982 MUHS graduate are on display at the library on 75 Main Street in Middlebury through July 7. (802) 388-4095 or ilsleypubliclibrary.org.

WATERFOWL WONDERS AND AMUSING ANIMALS BY THREE SELFTAUGHT ADDISON COUNTY VERMONT CARVERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Work by three carvers with very different styles — Chuck Herrmann, Bill Holway, and Gary Starr — on display at the Sheldon Museum of Vermont History through summer 2018. On Wednesday, June 27, at noon, Gary Starr will present an illustrated talk, “A Life Among Birds: Carved and Flying” at the museum. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

THE NEW PAINTINGS OF DAVID FIFIELD: HEAD IN THE CLOUDS. On view May 4-June 26 at the Brandon Artists Guild. Fifield, who grew up in Vermont, says he is fascinated by the infinite possibilities of abstract art, believing it is more about discovery than creation. The BAG is at 7 Center St., Brandon.

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“BLADES WILL SPROUT” AT NORTHERN DAUGHTERS GALLERY IN VERGENNES. This summer show features the work of Anne Cady, Julia Jensen and Jessica Smith — three artists who use familiar landscapes as an entrance point to creating art, but otherwise have very little else in common. On view June 14 through July 29 at 221 Main St. Opening reception on Friday, June 22, 5-8 p.m. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters. com.

BIRDS, BEES AND BUTTERFLIES IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY. An exhibition of paintings by Klara Calitri at the Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, June 1 to July 8. Jackson Gallery is on the lower level of Town Hall Theater, open Monday through Saturday noon to 5 p.m., and an hour before any public events in the building. 802-382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

THE LAST OF THE HILL FARMS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD BROWN. On display April 10-June 23, this exhibit offers the chance to experience the Vermont that Brown entered and began to photograph in the 1970s. Fifty years later, the lives, landscapes and time period he so lovingly captured are available for viewing through these large-format, finely detailed, photographic prints. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St., Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org.

OUR TOWN OUR TOWN: LOVE, JOY, SADNESS AND BASEBALL — 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SHELDON MUSEUM. On view March 20-July 8, featuring three dozen photographs from the museum’s Research Center curated by James Pease Blair. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

“FISH AND FEATHER: THE WILDLIFE ARTISTRY OF PAINTER NICK MAYER AND CARVER GARY M. Starr.” This exhibit at Art on Main in Bristol reflects the exceptional artistry and technique of a master carver and an awardwinning painter, and reveals their passion about the natural world. On display until July 1. 25 Main St. (802) 453-4032.

AMERICAN WOOD SCULPTOR JOHN CROSS: A CONTEMPORARY FIGURATIVE FOLK ARTIST. On view March 20-July 8, featuring the whimsical wood carvings of folk artist John Cross. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early 15-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

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MUSIC Foodaroo to feature food trucks and music

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istening to music during the summer you often get the added benefit of getting to be outside while you soak up the sounds.

In Middlebury’s Marble Works district this Sunday you can get an additional bonus of good food to munch on while listening to music in the fresh air. Add in a few more goodies and it’s starting to sound like a festival. And that’s just what it is — the 4th Annual Foodaroo Festival will take place a beautiful spot overlooking the Otter Creek falls this Sunday, June 24, 4-8 p.m.

Produced by Middlebury UndergrounD (we call it “MUD”), Foodaroo 2018 is a family-friendly festival that celebrates Vermont’s culinary artisans and beverage makers, with an emphasis on Addison and Chittenden county vendors

and farms. From food trucks to brick-and-mortar operations, this event is dedicated to showcasing creative, farm fresh cuisine.

Attendees taste their way through the festival while enjoying leading local bands, internationally acclaimed street performers, kids activities, a fortuneteller, baking competitions and much more. The cover charge is $3, but kids 12 and younger get in absolutely free. Food and beverages are available for purchase.

Foodaroo 2018 will features the familiar foods and the brand new flavors to provide a delicious taste of the farmto-table lifestyle that is a hallmark of our state. Among the more than two dozen food and beverage vendors lined up The Skinny Pancake; Taco Truck All Stars; BTV Ethiopian; Thai @ Home; Broccoli Bar and LuLu. New this year, organizers said they will offer a format for you to taste your way

Foodtrucks with more than two dozen food and libations vendors will be set up, along with tents and a performance stage, in the Marble Works in Middlebury this Sunday, 4 -8 p.m., for the fourth annual Foodaroo.

through the festival by enjoying a small bite for a modest price from a variety of vendors — or simply go all in and enjoy full portions of decadent dishes.

Craft beverage makers Woodchuck Cider, Stonecutter Spirits, WhistlePig Whiskey,

live music Sabouyouma in New Haven. Friday, June 22, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard.

Halyard Brewing and Drop-In Brewing will offer drinks for those 21 and older.

Back to the music part: Foodaroo goes beyond just eating, and is a feast for all the senses with performance that exhilarate and engage all ages. The Grift will rock a specially designed performance, including an appearance by special guest star Laura Thomas. This year’s festival welcomes internationally acclaimed identical twin street performers the Kif-Kif Sisters, a hilarious vaudeville-

style duo. Plus a fortuneteller will unveil great mysteries and keep an eye out for fire, interactive games, activities, raffles and creative pop-ups.

To top it all off, there will be two King Arthur Flour Baking Competitions this year — one for children and one for adults. For contest rules, prizes and to enter go to middunderground.org/ kingarthur. A Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op kids’ cooking class will also feature beloved local chef Suzanne Young from Mary Johnson Children’s Center.

Joan Hutton Landis Memorial Concert in Rochester. Friday, June 22, 7 p.m., Rochester Federated Church Onion River Jazz Band in Brandon. Saturday, June 23, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

Renee Dion Trio in Brandon. Saturday, June 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, June 25, 7 p.m., City Park.

Rio County Line in Middlebury. Saturday, June 26, 9:30-12:30 p.m., Notte.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, June 27, 7 p.m., on the town green.

Clint Bierman, Peter Day and the rest of The Grift, shown at last year’s Foodaroo, return for another performance this Sunday, with a special guest star.

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the movie BOUNDARIES — RUNNING TIME: 1:44 — RATING: R Boundaries” is a family story shot through with smiles and a bucket of eccentricity. With lesser actors, this movie could have fallen flat. But the truly good cast makes it jump alive to the point that we roll between feeling sadness and affection.

Laura (Vera Farmiga) is the mother of Henry (Lewis McDougall). They live together in a house full of the dogs Mom acquires whenever she sees one who needs a home. Henry is an isolated student at school because he is an oddball artist who draws family and friends in their naked states and doesn’t mix with other students in any way.

Laura’s father, Jack (Christopher Plummer), has been kicked out of the old folks’ home and arrives to live with Laura and Henry. But Laura, with sore memories of her father, puts Jack and a few favorite dogs in the car to drive south to Los Angeles to deposit him with her sister. The road trip is the gut of the movie and by the time it’s over, we know three generations of this family well.

Christopher Plummer unfolds his bizarre character quietly while using the road trip for his illegal drug deliveries. He enlists grandson Henry in his illegal doings. Oddly, that is perfectly credible because young Lewis McDougall creates Henry in such an original way that everything that unfolds makes perfect sense. He and his oddball grandfather convince us of their eccentricity (to put it politely).

When I asked myself why I was feeling a bit sad for Mom, I began to understand she loves both her father and her son even though she is no match for either of them. Add to that the fact that she cannot turn away from any dog who needs loving. She takes care of all of them.

Vera Farmiga does a fine job of thinking she is delivering her Dad to her sister and pulls us along with a smile as she, in her innocence, doesn’t understand what her guys are up to. If any of us had five dogs in the

Lewis McDougall plays the oddball teenager Henry in “Boundaries” (2018).

car for that long trip, every one of us would start to come unglued. She creates a fine thoroughly rattled mother.

Christopher Plummer never overacts as the oddball grandfather. He simply creates a quiet, reserved, nut who reveals little of what goes on in his head. In spite of his character’s illegal ways, he makes Grandpa a criminal, but still a slightly lovable one.

It is Lewis McDougall’s Henry who is a genuine original. He lifts us into the world he inhabits as he draws his comic pictures, quietly helps his grandpa, and loves his mom. This is a young actor so right for his zany part that we wonder how on earth he can ever play another character.

“Boundaries” is an eccentric movie about a family of crazies. Some of you will love it. Others will dismiss it. I left the theater with a nagging curiosity about the personality of director Shana Festa.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

the book THE GREAT BELIEVERS — REBECCA MAKKAI

MORE TO REMEMBER THEM BY And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts Angels in America by Tony Kushner

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Rebecca Makkai has launched herself into a whole new category of literary achievement with this flawlessly written third novel, a lovingly told saga about the immediate toll of the AIDS epidemic on the gay community and the long-term impact on its survivors and their families.

Set in mid-1980s Chicago and Paris in 2015, “The Great Believers” features characters whose lives have been indelibly marked by the virus. In 1985, Yale Tishman is the development director of a university art museum whose life consists of dual dramas. Privately, there is the turmoil of an unfaithful partner, an ever-present threat of being infected himself, and mounting losses among his friends; professionally, he must negotiate the contested bequest of a very personal and promising art collection, as well as various complicated interpersonal dynamics. At the center of the Paris chapters is his old friend Fiona, who has come to the city to find and reconcile with her estranged daughter, herself the collateral damage of Fiona’s consuming grief over the loss of her brother to AIDS decades earlier. It’s a vast fictional landscape of both time and location, but Makkai works magic with themes of art, illicit love and family bonds to braid it all together into a rich, cohesive and deeply affecting narrative.

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

Tell the Wolves I’m Home

by Carol Rifka Brunt Push by Sapphire City Boy by Edmund White The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

by Paul Monette When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

by Cleve Jones

Rebecca Makkai will appear in conversation with Stephen Kiernan at The Marquis Theater on Wednesday, July 11, at 6 p.m.

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GARDEN Mulch! How to win the battle of the weeds

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BY BEA COLE

ou may have considered a garden but dismissed the idea because you didn’t have the time to weed.

Or maybe you’ve had a garden in the past but found weeding to be too much work. Mulching can address this problem.

Mulching your vegetable garden not only cuts down on weeding but also cuts down on water evaporation. It will encourage helpful soil organisms and reduce soil compaction. Mulch can heat up or cool down your soil temperature depending on the type that you use.

Many kinds of mulch add organic

matter to the soil and help with erosion. Mulch also prevents disease by keeping soil fungus from splashing up onto the plants.

Grass clippings add nitrogen to the soil so use them early in the season.

In late summer mature plants don’t need more nitrogen.

There are many different mulch materials that can be used in the vegetable garden to greatly reduce the amount of time spent weeding.

Here is a list of the some of the popular choices:

• Leaves add nutrients to the soil as they break down. Chopping them up with a lawn mower makes them less likely to blow around. Leaves should be aged for nine months before being used. Put them in a pile and leave them for a season. Be careful when importing leaves from other locations as they could contain invasive snake worms or other invasive weeds or insects that you don’t want

• Straw or hay. Straw is the best choice of the two but can be expensive to buy. Hay should be seasoned so that you don’t end up with weed seeds from the hay.

• Grass clippings are something that almost everyone has. Use thin layers or let the clippings dry slightly before using. They will shrink as they dry so you may have to add a second layer.

in your garden.

• Black plastic in sheets can be fitted around plants but make sure that it doesn’t limit the water supply to your plants. This product will heat up the soil so anything in the same family as tomatoes will like it, such as peppers and eggplants. It will have to be removed in the fall as it is not biodegradable.

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A variety of mulch options can be used in the garden depending on the needs of different plants. So try using some mulch this season especially between rows. You will spend less time weeding and more time enjoying your garden.

For answers to gardening questions, call the University of Vermont Extension Master Gardener Helpline toll-free at 800-639-2230 or 802656-5421. Or sign up for the Master Gardener course this fall at uvm.edu/extension/ mastergardener.

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Where are they now? &

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH SCHOOL Class of 2018

OTTER VALLEY UNION HIGH SCHOOL Class of 2018

uring the high school graduation season we tell the graduates to look forward to the future with hope and optimism, while those of us who have seen a few seasons come and go often look back to our own years in high school and just beyond.

The new grads look forward to the next stages of their lives: moving away from home, perhaps seeing the world, getting that first post-graduation job, figuring out what life is all about. It is a time full of promise and a fair measure of apprehension.

Look for those familiar faces in the photos inside from the Middlebury, Mount Abraham, Otter Valley and Vergennes union high school graduation ceremonies this month.

At the same time, parents and alumni see the fresh, young faces and can’t help but look back at how their own lives and those of their friends and acquaintances have progressed over the years.

We join in the reminiscing and asked graduates from these four local high schools to tell us a little about where life has taken them in the years since graduation. Inside you’ll find profiles of a handful of Vermont natives in their mid-to-late 20s — people you may have known when you were in high school. We chose a selection of people who graduated between six and 10 years ago in the hopes that this year’s high school graduates will be able to see something of their own generation in the profiles.

You’ll find a variety of vocations and avocations represented in the profiles, but they barely scratch the surface of the diversity that can be found among the young people produced in Addison County.

Enjoy the stories and the photos and wish a graduate well.

VERGENNES UNION HIGH SCHOOL Class of 2018

MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION HIGH SCHOOL Class of 2018

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Recent Middlebury Union High School Graduates

EMERSON CONLON 2010 Hometown, current residence, age: Cornwall, Chicago, 26.

Family: Parents: Mary and Peter Conlon; siblings: William Conlon MUHS class of 2012 and current 1L at Stanford Law School, Silas Conlon MUHS Class of 2019, fiancée: Rachel Tornquist. We met in college in 2011. Our wedding date is June 21, 2018!

What I am up to: I currently teach high school Spanish at Waukegan High School, a far north suburb of Chicago. This past year I taught Spanish 1 and AP Spanish to about 125 students.

How I got to where I am now: I attended Cornell College, a small school in Iowa, upon graduating from MUHS in 2010. While in college I made lifelong friends and met my fiancée. College helped me discover

my love of education and gave me the chance to meet new people with a wide variety of life experiences.

MUHS Principal Bill Lawson gave me the chance to substitute teach at MUHS at the end of my college career, which reinforced my love of teaching and gave me valuable experience before moving to Chicago.

Adults to whom I can attribute my current success: My parents have always supported me. Whether it was the decision to move to Chicago, or the decision to go back to school for a master’s degree, they have always been the people I turn to for advice, for encouragement or just to celebrate good news. Even now, I send them resumés, cover letters and other important documents to ensure I am making sense and not making silly grammar mistakes.

How my Vermont roots have influenced who I am today: I only buy Vermont maple syrup at the supermarket and insist that all my friends call soft-serve “creemees.” In all seriousness though, Vermont gave me a great sense of community and how important it is to find one wherever you may end up. I have carved out a great community of friends in Chicago and serve a great community in Waukegan.

My memories of high school: High point: Travelling to New York with AP Spanish to see a play, participating in the senior play, most of senior year. Low point: Getting strep throat right before the premier of the senior play.

My advice for this year’s crop of graduating seniors: Travel, and learn a new language!

s n o i t a l tu a r g n o C s! e t a u d Gra

Congratulations Class of 2018!

KRISTEN DEGRAFF 2009 Hometown, current residence, age: Grew up in Middlebury and currently live in New Jersey. 27 years old.

Family: Lyn Muller DeGraff and Peter DeGraff. Grandmother: Lorrie Muller. Sister: Alison DeGraff Ollivierre (MUHS ’06). Brotherin-Law: Vendol Ollivierre. Fiancé: Nathan Rudd (Middlebury College Class of 2013) What I am up to: I am currently working as a counselor for students studying Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) at Bergen Community College in New Jersey. In this role I provide advice to students regarding their academics, transferring to a bachelor’s program, and their future career opportunities.

How I got to where I am now: After graduating from MUHS, I took a semester off to volunteer and explore Ecuador before starting as a Feb at Middlebury College. At Middlebury, I majored in Psychology partially because I did not know what I wanted to do, and partially because I loved seeing how people think and act. While completing my degree, I also took quite a few archaeology courses. Although I will never be the

first female Indiana Jones, I loved learning how past people lived and even did a senior project classifying, dating and identifying usage of Vermont arrowheads. During my time at Middlebury, I participated in many extracurricular activities including orientation, residential life and being a tour guide. After that I was hooked!

Before attending college, I was unaware that there were careers working with college students (beyond the obvious professor roles), but with the guidance of some fantastic mentors at the college, I discovered my interest and passion in helping college students be successful.

In 2014 I began my master’s program in Student Affairs in Higher Education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania while holding two assistantship roles as the Orientation Graduate Assistant and as a Disability Support Services Advisor.

Throughout my program I worked as a Career Development Intern and as a First-Year Experience Intern where I taught the Freshman Seminar. Once I had completed my degree, I moved to New Jersey, where I worked at Stevens Institute of Technology as a Career Advisor of Experiential

Education before transitioning to the Counselor role at Bergen Community College.

Adults to whom I can attribute my current success: I would like to thank my mentors at Middlebury College, who showed me that a career in student affairs is possible and for encouraging me to follow this path. I am beyond grateful for your support!

My advice for this year’s crop of graduating seniors: Try new things in college. Whether you think you know exactly what you want to do “when you grow up” or if you have no clue; when you explore different courses, activities and ideas, you may surprise yourself on what interests you and where your path may lead.

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MUHS Class of 2018 MIDDLEBURY — The following seniors received their diplomas from Middlebury Union Middlebury Union High School Commencement on Saturday, June 9, 2018, at Memorial Sports Center: Josephine Abbott, Lydia Alberts, Jonathan Alger, Jordan Allen, Helen Anderson, Rebekah Anderson, Bridget Audet, Deric Bacon, Benjamin Balparda, Janet McIntosh Barkdoll, Sierra Barnicle, James Baroz, Ella Beattie, Olivia Beauchamp, Guy Beck, Kathryn Billings, Andrea Boe, Tre Bonavita, Brennan Bordonaro, Jacob Brookman, Sarah Broughton, Cooper Bullock, Leigah Burbo, Joe Burke, Jarod Bushey and Anna Buteau.

Also Arden Carling, Robert Carter, Rebekah Chamberlain, Alyson Chione, Cade Christner, Kourtney Cota, Brianna Cotroneo, Duncan Crogan, Tucker Cummings, Hunter Cummings-Washburn, Cassidy Cushman, Dustin Davio, Paul Deering, Jack Deppman, Skyeler Devlin, Dylan Disorda, Jackson Donahue, Henry Dora, Keagan Dunbar, Ciara Eagan, Thomas Eastman, Fyn Fernández, Santiago Fernández, Brian Foote, Mercedes Forbes, Ashlynn Foster and Alexander Friedlander.

In addition, Wyatt Galipeau, Tyler Giorgio, Abigail Gleason, John Goettelmann, Krystian Gombosi, Lauren Greig, Colin Grier, Lucy Groves, Margreta Hardy-Mittell, Scherina Havens, Polly Heminway, Tulley Hescock, Samuel Hodges, Anna Hodson, Brianna Hogan, Lanelle Hogan, Jane Holmes, Justin Holmes, Tyler Hotte, William Huntington, Thomas Hussey, Alexandria Johnson, Emma Jones, Chloe Kane, Nikolaus Kaufmann, Olivia Kayhart, Brynn

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Also Ella Nagy-Benson, Matthew Ouellette, Bethany Palmer, Nicole Palmer, Jason Paquette, Addy Parsons, Raven Payne, Mercedi Pelkey, Jaro Perera, Bastiaan Phair, Jebadiah Plouffe, Victor Pomainville, Brandon Porey, Hailey Quenneville, Ryan Quenneville, Allison Raymond, Isabel Rosenberg, Meilena Sanchez, Jared Schauer, Julian Schmitt, Nick Scott, Lane Sheldrick, Gaia Sheridan, Anthony Shores, Camden Simpson, Autumn Sird-Hughes, Arianna Slavin, Justine Smith, Spencer Smith, Jay Smits, William Stanley, Blair Stone, Gabrielle Sullivan, Shannon Sunderland and Brandon Sweeney.

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Mt. Abe Class of 2018 BRISTOL — Mount Abraham Union High School graduated its class of 2018 on Saturday, June 9. To follow is a list of those graduates.

Sophie Judith Alderman, Emily Ann Aldrich, Aine MacLeod Alexander, Bailey Michael Allard, Robyn Kathryn Arena, Megan Jean Aube, Jamee Lea Barnum, Kyle Lee Bartlett, Kyle D. Beatty, Tracy Merrill Bedell, Elyzabeth Mae Bennett, John Henry Bennett, Madeline Anne Bernoudy, Renee Ashley Bolduc, Ryan Levering Bonar, Christopher David Boyer, Martha Jane Bruhl and Toby Stephen Bunch.

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In addition Katelyn Elise Gebo, Caroline Lydia Gibbs, Jasmin Mara Gile, Isaac Anthony Giles, Addison Todd Goodyear, Hannah Mae Gratton, Taylor Ann Gurney, Bradley Robert Hill, Dylan Michael Hill-Quintin, Allyson Claire Hoff, Anna Igler, Samuel Gordon Jackman, Derek Anthony Jackson Jr., Jonathan James Jennings, Eli Taft Jensen, Renata R. Khusyainova, Phoenix Fire King, Jessica Vivian Kleptz, Bryson Alexander Knight and

Adam Benjamin Kuhns.

Also Jakub RC Landon, Emma Hayley LaRose, Alexander Herman Leavitt, Christian Paul Little, Lucas Adam Livingston, Logan Lee Loftus, Courtney Lynn Loomis, Emily Spring Lowell, Isabella May Lucarelli, Chloe A. Lyons, Mariah Rose Malloy, Abigail Grace Mansfield, Conrad Joseph Marsano, Hannah Beth Martin, Aidan McCauley May, Jenna Louise McArdle, Kayla-Ann Alice McCoy, Greta Rose Meyer and Benjamin Mikhail Murray.

Abigail Catherine Clara Nezin, Hunter Makenzi Norris, Julia Megan Norris, Kameryn Leeann Norse, Joseph Lincoln Norton, Casey Keefer Ober, Katelynn Marie Ouellette, Samuel Chase Paradee, Reann Elizabeth Pecor, Timothy Robert Pecor Jr., Abigail Fawn Perlee, Brooke Amber Perlee, Cori Taylor Pike, Lydia Rae Pitts, Brandon Poquette, Emma West Radler, Ian Jaret Reynolds, Sascha Elizabeth Alta Richter, Eli Krin Rickner, Chandler Daniel Robideau, Gilliane Riley Ross and Maria Eugenia Sanchez Rondan.

And William Max Schoenhuber, Audrey Kate Shahan, Carley Morgan Sherwin, Betty Grace Snide, Sebastian Anthony Szczecinski, Isaiah Riley Taylor, Kaela Maria Thurber, Mitchell Merlin Romeo Tierney, Delana Rose Tow, Brianna Rose Trayah, Georgia Ried Tricou, Cecilia Jane Vichi, Lohak Wschimuin VonAtzingen, Dustin Jacob Whitcomb, Brittany Ryan White, Brice Donald Winchester, Mason Daniel Wood and Olivia Joy Young.

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VUHS Class of 2018 VERGENNES — Vergennes Union High School celebrated its class of 2018 in graduation ceremonies held on Friday evening, June 15. The following VUHS students received their degrees at the ceremony: Philip Armell, Ally Atkins, Lance Bergmans, Anneke Lynn Boelens, David Bowen, Kaitlyn Rose Brace, Lillian Shea Brinkman, Guinevere Moira Brownell, Sierra Chamberlain, Mason Marcel Charlebois, Lillian Kate Clark, Adelaide Morgan Cushman, Rudy Davis, Ashley Gayle DeSmit, Norah Palmer Deming, Allysha Devoid, Camden Dieterle, Tucker Dike, Malcolm Donovan-Cook, Jayna Michelle Duffy, Peighton Marie Duprey and Ryan Emmons.

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Kayla Mae Hoffman, Emma Ryan Husk, Chelsey Elizabeth Jerome, Michael Jewett, Kristina Faith Jochum, Samir Kadric, Benjamin Daniel Kayhart, Casey Hunter Kimball, Brody King, Erin Reilly Lawrence, Abigail Emily Loven, Chloe Alexis Martin, Munro Gates McLaren, Matthew Norton, Hannah Paquette and Judith Jane Portugal-Dunne.

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OVUHS Class of 2018 BRANDON — The following students received their diplomas at Otter Valley Union High School’s graduation on Saturday, June 9: Daniel Allen, Henry Bart, Michael Beauregard, Austin Billings, Sabrina Brown, Storm Brown, Zachary Bruce, Samantha Carroll, Ashley Clark, Robert Cook, Kathryn Coolidge, Madison Coombs, Cameron Corey, Michael Daly, Brittney Danforth, Bryan Desabrais, Savannah Diaz, Jared Disorda, Kyla DodgeGoshea, Hunter Eddy, Cody Fox, Olivia Gaissert, Tristanna Goodwin and Jacob Gorton.

Also Calysta Hayes, Sawyer Heath, Sarah Hobbs, Carson Holmquist, Alyssa Hutchins, Katlin Iffland, Brandon Jankosky, Tricia John, Isaia Johnson, Lucas Jones, Dylan Kapitan,

William Kelly, Brian Kilpeck, Owen Kulp, Alexandra Lear, Courtney Lee, Brandi Leno, Joshua Letourneau, Logan Lewis, Garrett Little, Benjamin Markowski, Jonathan McKeighan, Ian McRae, Jacob Miner, Jessica Mischanko and Peyton Mitchell.

And Eric Notte, Vincent O’Brien, James O’Neil, James Perlee, Emily Perry, Gabriela Poalino, Houston Pratt, Chelsea Reed, Colby Reynolds, William Ringey, Jacob Saylor, Cameron Silloway, Wesley Smith, Matthew Snow, David Soulia, Brittany Stewart, Justin Tremblay, David Whitney, Michael Whitney, Maxwell Williams, Payson Williams, Christa Wood, Wilson Worn, Ashley Wright and Cody Young.

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Recent Otter Valley Union High School Graduates

NINA GAGE 2011

BRETT LERTOLA 2010 Hometown, current residence, age: I grew up and currently still live in Pittsford. I am 26.

Family: My parents: David and Dyanne Lertola What I am up to: I am currently a high school math teacher at Rutland High School. I teach a variety of math courses, including AP Calculus, am a class advisor, and serve on several different school committees.

How I got to where I am now: I graduated summa cum laude from Castleton University (then Castleton State College) in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and a secondary education teaching

license. I will also receive a Master of Arts in Education from Castleton in August of 2018.

Adults to whom I can attribute my current success: My parents, definitely. They have been very influential and supportive of me throughout my entire life. All of my teachers that I’ve had over the years have also helped me grow into the person that I am today.

How my Vermont roots have influenced who I am today: I think there are so many benefits that come with growing up in Vermont.

Nature, agriculture, recreation and education are just some of the opportunities that this state offers

that a lot of people may take for granted. I’ve had the privilege of being able to partake in many of these things and they have shaped me into someone that enjoys being outdoors, meeting new people and helping out others.

My memories of high school: I really enjoyed all parts of high school but I would have to say that the lifelong friendships that I made are the most important.

My advice for this year’s crop of graduating seniors: Be observant, be resourceful, and take time to appreciate all of the opportunities you’ve had and will continue to have in the future.

Hometown, current residence, age: Hometown, Brandon, currently reside in Burlington, 24 years old.

Family: My parents live in Brandon.

Mother, Sue Gage, is the Town Clerk and Treasurer of Brandon. My father, Robert Induni, is a carpenter.

What I am up to: I am an Agricultural Water Quality Specialist with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets in the Water Quality Division. I have been in this position since March of 2017, working to support state efforts to reduce nutrient loading from agricultural operations and improve Vermont farm economic and environmental viability.

How I got to where I am now: UVM B.S in Environmental Studies in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. I worked at the Skinny Pancake all through college.

I also worked in a variety of environmental jobs including the Vermont ANR/DEC Waste Management and Prevention Division, Keewaydin Environmental Education Center and the Intervale Gleaning Program then the Intervale Conservation Nursery.

I moved abroad for a period of time, lived in Oaxaca, Mexico, learning about food and farms systems of the central Oaxacan region. Then lived in Santa Marta, Colombia, teaching English at a public high school. Returned home to commit my time and career to my fellow Vermonters, our landscape and the future of our state.

Adults to whom I can attribute my current success: It takes a village to raise a child. I attribute my success to my community of friends, family,

colleagues, professors, employers.

Thank you especially to my parents and teachers for believing in me throughout the years! Shout out to a few amazing teachers in my life, Valerie Dawson, Larry Marzec Gerrior, Michael Dwyer, Bruce Perlow, Jim Avery, Pat Roberts and many more! You don’t realize the impact you have on children, but by believing in students and inspiring them you are rewriting history every day!

How my Vermont roots have influenced who I am today: I grew up eating healthy local food, enjoying the open lands and recreation of Vermont.

I took this all for granted, and it took me a long time, and a lot of traveling to understand this. I consider myself

an environmentalist and I have a deep respect for people, especially those who work incredibly hard every day to grow food and farm the land.

My memories of high school: High school is a formative time, so there were lots of highs and lots of lows, but they all made me who I am today!

My advice for this year’s crop of graduating seniors: Travel, explore and learn about the world. There are lessons you can only learn by leaving your comfort zone, understanding other ways of doing things, being open to other’s beliefs, and most importantly, make connections and relationships because that is the most important thing in life!

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Recent Vergennes Union High School Graduates

MEGHAN O’DANIEL 2009

Hometown, current residence, age: I grew up in Vergennes, currently live in Burlington, and am 26 years old.

What I am up to: I’m currently working for the Burlington Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Department as the Community Garden Outreach Coordinator — managing 14 community gardens around the city. Along with making sure that the season runs smoothly, I also focus on our New American gardeners to make sure that they have what they need and that their voices are being heard.

How I got to where I am now: I went to the University of Vermont and majored in Anthropology with a focus on Food and Culture. After I graduated I moved to Boston for a while and worked in the corporate sector but realized it wasn’t really for me. When I moved back to Burlington, I became an AmeriCorps member with the Parks & Rec Department. After that I convinced them that the position should be formalized as a part-time position and eventually was hired full time.

For the past two school years I have also taught an afterschool cooking and nutrition class and taken teams to the Jr. Iron Chef competition. and this year they won!

Adults to whom I can attribute

MICHAEL PRIME 2007

my current success: Sue O’Daniel, the band director at Vergennes High School and my Mom, has been my No. 1 supporter from day one (along with my Dad, Mike, of course). Those two helped me believe that I could do anything and have always been there for me throughout the good and the bad. Without the support system that they provided me with, I don’t know where I would be today.

How my Vermont roots have influenced who I am today: My Vermont roots definitely helped me find my way back when I needed to

be here the most. After living out of the state for a while, I realized how amazingly wonderful Vermont really is. Nowhere else is quite like it. The sense of community, both on a small and large scale, is absolutely incredible and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

My advice for this year’s crop of graduating seniors: My advice would be to not worry too too much about what the future holds — you’ll get to where you’re meant to be when the time is right, so just enjoy the journey and soak it all in!

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Hometown, current residence, age: I grew up in Addison, Panton and Bridport with my loving mother and father, Marc and Heidi Prime.

Family: I have three sibling: Alicia, Cody and my twin sister, Kimberly. They have all become very successful and have built beautiful families.

I want to give a very big thank you to my beautiful wife, Jacquelyn Prime, who our first year of marriage stuck by my side through a deployment to Afghanistan with all her love and support. I want to thank my children, Jocelyn and Jonathan, who have made a huge transition in their lives by uprooting all they have known and moving 2,000 miles south receiving a huge culture shock but adapting and making friends through the year. I am beyond proud of you and I love you

both with all my heart. I am also so very pleased to announce the newest member of our family, Oakley Aaron Prime, who will be gracing us with his presence in July.

What I am up to: I am currently residing in Texas with my family serving in the U.S. Army. I will be ETS (expiration of term of service) in July to return home back to Vermont Adults to whom I can attribute my current success: There are more people than I can count on one hand that have helped me along the way to where I am now. There is one man who I really want to say thank you to, and that is my father, Marc Prime, from giving me advice from prior military experience to tough love when needed and molding me into who I am today. Thank you, Dad, I love you.

My memories of high school: In high school it’s like any job or any other obstacle you will face in life — there will be great times and bad times that seem like they will never end but always remember nothing lasts forever! Transitioning from middle school to high school was a rough spot for me, you go from being a big fish in a little pond to a little fish in a big pond; it can be a tough time. Walk tall and carry a big stick and you will be just fine.

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KATE BROWN 2011 Hometown, current residence, age: I grew up in Bristol. I am 24 years old. My current town of residence is Cambridge, Mass.

Family: My mom, Betsy Meinhardt, and my dad, Kevin Brown, are still living in Bristol.

My older brother, Connor, Mount Abe class of 2008, just completed his second year of medical school at Columbia University in New York City. Before that he completed a master’s degree in Public Health from Columbia.

What I am up to: This May I completed my master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in the Higher Education program. My coursework focused on topics like college access, equity and inclusion in higher education and education policy. I also worked in the program’s admissions office, focusing on marketing and recruitment.

I am working as an alumni advisor for the Campus Kitchens Project, a national organization that works to alleviate food insecurity, find sustainable solutions to poverty and hunger and reduce food waste.

I volunteered with the Campus Kitchens Project for all four years of college, eventually acting as president my senior year. Recently, the national organization reached out to former

leaders to help advise other chapters throughout the country. It has been wonderful to remain involved with such a fantastic organization.

I help manage four different chapters of Campus Kitchens across the United States.

How I got to where I am now: After Mount Abe, I attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, majoring in government, with a double minor in education and African studies. I graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2015.

While at St. Lawrence, I had the amazing opportunity to study abroad in Kenya.

I first developed my passion for the field of higher education as an undergraduate, working as an admission ambassador in the admissions office for three years. I found that I loved working with prospective students and families, and decided to go into the field of college admissions after graduation.

I worked for two years as an admissions counselor at a small liberal arts school outside of Cleveland and eventually decided to enroll in graduate school.

Adults to whom I can attribute my current success: My parents. They have been so incredibly supportive over the years and

I definitely would not be where I am today without them. I also feel so lucky to have had such amazing teachers throughout my educational career, from high school to graduate school.

How my Vermont roots have influenced who I am today: Growing up in Vermont made me appreciate the importance of having a strong community. I am so grateful to have come from a community that supported me and my classmates.

Vermont is also the reason for my love of hiking and the outdoors.

And I will never use fake maple syrup.

My memories of high school: Some of my favorite memories from high school are the Fall Musical, singing in Sweet Transition and playing softball. Taking AP history with Mr. Ross and American studies with Mr. Desorda and Ms. Stultz-Backus were also definite high points as well.

My advice for this year’s crop of graduating seniors: Be open to new people, places and experiences.

Though it can be scary or uncomfortable to try new things, some of my favorite moments have come from pushing myself to try something new.

Have an open mind and be accepting of those who are different from you.

MICHAEL PIERATTINI 2010 Hometown, current residence, age: I’m from Monkton, currently live in Tacoma, Wash., and am 26.

Family: My mother, Elizabeth, my dad, Bob, and my sisters, Anna and Catherine.

What I am up to: I’m currently a sergeant in the Army, and am applying to become a federal agent.

How I got to where I am now: I spent a couple of years at Rochester Institute of Technology, studying Game Design and Animation. I was unable to support myself financially, and ended up doing some VIP security at local conventions. I enjoyed it immensely, and decided to make it a career. I enlisted in the Army, and have since worked as

a counter-narcotics investigator, criminal investigator and have been a member of multiple security teams for celebrities, including Gen. Mark Milley and Gary Sinise.

Adults to whom I can attribute my current success: All of the teachers in the school had an impact on my life that got me where I am.

I’d like to thank the music department and Mr. Thomas Tailer for everything they did for me. I also want to thank the adults who guided me through my adventures in the Boy Scouts for teaching me valuable life skills and helping to develop my moral compass.

How my Vermont roots have influenced who I am today: One of

my favorite things about growing up in Vermont is how willing people are to stop and help each other. This has definitely stuck with me, and I try to do the same wherever I go. Everyone is fighting a battle, and a little help can make a huge difference.

My memories of high school: My high points in high school mainly involved the friends I made and the experiences we had. They always helped me through the low points, which, thanks to them, I can barely remember.

My advice for this year’s crop of graduating seniors: My advice is to not be afraid of failure. Learn from your mistakes, make improvements, and try again.

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