Thursday, June 27, 2019

Reflections

Legion victory

‘Hams’ unite

Nature writer Matthew Dickerson talks about the varied influences on his work. See Arts + Leisure.

The AC baseball team romped on Sunday to get back into the win column. See Sports, Page 1B.

Amateur radio operators met in New Haven to talk to enthusiasts around the continent. Page 2A.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 73 No. 26

INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont

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Berries got slow start but finish up sweet

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS ADDISON COUNTY — It might have seemed to the casual observer that this year’s strawberry crop, after enduring cold, wet and all-around gross spring weather, had hunkered down in the mud, crossed its proverbial arms and petulantly refused to grow.

But fear not. The strawberries have arrived.

“The weather delayed our crop by over a week, but the plants still look super healthy and are loaded with fruit,” said Sarah Cook, co-owner of Full Belly Farm in Monkton.

Full Belly is hoping to harvest about 40,000 pounds of organic strawberries this year, half of which will be sold through their farm stand and half through wholesale to grocery stores and restaurants.

“Yields should be up this season,” Cook predicted. “A lot of our varieties are still flowering, which means we could be looking at an extended season of picking — maybe into mid- to late July if we’re lucky. We’re picking a brand new field, which doesn’t hurt.”

And word is getting out.

“Last weekend was our best pick-your-own turnout ever,” she said.

Farther east in Monkton the story was the same.

“We were about 10 days late,” said Eugenie Doyle of Last Resort Farm. “It was too cold (See Berries, Page 12A) JENNIFER KIEWIT OF Bristol came to the Full Belly Farm in Monkton on Tuesday with her children to buy strawberries and came away with plenty for luscious desserts and jams.

Independent photo/Steve James

In Cornwall, some neighbors of 339 Parkhill Road are upset over a proposal to operate an “event space” on the property on the south end of town. We’re told that the applicant for the event space permit withdrew his application after getting unfavorable reviews from neighbors at a May 1 Cornwall Zoning Board meeting, in part complaining that it is Low Density Residential (LDR) zone. Now the selectboard is going (See By the way, Page 12A)

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City budget plan draws criticism

Police cuts decried as tax hike looms

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — Faced with opposition to proposed cuts in the Vergennes Police Department from most of the roughly 40 people gathered at their Tuesday meeting, the Vergennes City Council tabled city budget discussions to a Friday meeting at which its members will have to set spending and a municipal tax rate for the 20192020 fiscal year.

Council members on Tuesday looking at City Manager Matt Chabot’s proposed $2.426 million spending plan were also dealing with a deficit from the current fiscal

year and a $94,000 increase in the cost of providing health insurance to Vergennes employees.

But the city received a little bit of good news on Wednesday.

Chabot said it came in the form of an increase in the Vergennes grand list of taxable property, a change that will increase tax revenue in the coming year and probably shrink what on Tuesday was described as a $90,000 deficit.

“I anticipate less of a deficit than was anticipated last night,” Chabot said Wednesday.

Chabot was still working through (See Vergennes budget, Page 3A)

County enjoys rise of clean energy jobs

But growth slower than initial boom

By CAROLINE KAPP BRISTOL — When Dave Cobb started Bristol Electronics back in the early 1980s, he was installing TV satellite dishes — those big ones that looked like they could fly you to the moon and back. In those days, it was just Dave running the entire show — chief cook and bottle washer, as they say.

He added an employee, his sonin-law in 2000, and his daughter, Chris Marion, in 2003.

But in 2010, Bristol Electronics saw a new opening and switched gears to installing solar panels on rooftops and in area residents’ yards.

And business, relatively (See Energy, Page 11A)

Parent-child center class helps expand world views

By the way Maybe you saw on WCAXTV a story about the Charter House Coalition homeless shelter on North Pleasant Street in Middlebury has expanded its services into summer for the first time in it’s 10-year existence. is expanding past the winter months.

Of course you read it first in the Addison Independent last month.

Samantha Kachmar, co-director of the Charter House Coalition, said they have two-thirds of the $62,000 the shelter is raising to remain open over the whole summer, but there is still more fundraising that needs to be done.

Kachmar told WCAX that the shelter has been at its 16-person capacity every night since April and has had to turn some away.

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By MEGAN JAMES injustice throughout American MIDDLEBURY — “To look history, but also encouraged at Farhad, if you would know participants to look inward at this Vermont Muslim, you must their own experiences with look at him long.” So begins a inequality, racism and identity. poem by Morgan Edgerly, an They visited the Rokeby 18-year-old Addison County Museum in Ferrisburgh resident, about Middlebury to learn about Vermont’s Selectman and business connection to the owner Farhad Khan. underground railroad.

Edgerly is a They attended a Hear the “Ghosts of participant at performance at Middlebury’s Parent- Our History” podcast by Burlington’s Flynn Child Center, where clicking on this story at Center called young adult parents addisonindependent.com. “Beyond Sacred, earn high school credit Voices of Muslim while working jobs and receiving Identity.” They read about onsite childcare. Last fall, she Matthew Shepard and Emmett was part of a class there led by Till, both victims of intolerance.

Deirdre Kelly and Marianne All the while these “Ghosts of Doe called “The Ghosts of Our Our History” participants wrote History.” The interdisciplinary their reflections on the things class explored big questions of (See Moms, Page 9A)

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PARTICIPANTS IN THE “Ghosts of Our History” project met with Independent reporter Megan James at the Parent-Child Center end-of-the-year appreciation ceremony earlier this month. Pictured, from left, are Marianne Doe, Ylexeus Palacio, James, Morgan Edgerly and Deirdre Kelly. Palacio and Edgerly took their academic work a step further by creating a podcast with James.

Innovative educator leaves legacy at VUHS Shorey made impact in, out of classroom

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — Trying to get in a quick word with longtime Vergennes Union High School special educator Lee Shorey after the school’s June 14 graduation ceremony is like approaching Beyoncé at the Met Gala — you wait your turn.

Several students, many of them graduates from years past, hugged Shorey, asked her how she is doing, and, importantly for some, reassured her they are doing well — “I own my own business now!” said one who returned from the Midwest. One also told her about another former student of hers who is also making his own way successfully.

Those interactions help explain

why Shorey, who has just retired, stayed at VUHS for 40 years.

There she worked not only as a special educator, but also as the founder of the school’s Response Resource Center, an innovative discipline system designed to keep students in the classroom, and as a driving force behind many of the school’s defining activities — the annual senior walkathon; Back to Your Roots, in which seniors visit their former elementary schools; and the annual Peace One Day celebration.

Although Shorey’s family has for generations had roots in the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard (her parents met there while in line waiting for a movie), (See Shorey, Page 9A)

AFTER 40 YEARS serving students and building community at Vergennes Union High School, Lee Shorey, shown with her therapy dog Commodore, has retired. Many former students have come forward to tell Shorey how much she’s meant to them.

Independent photo/Colton Paquette

PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, June 27, 2019

New Haven hires 1st town administrator

New position includes zoning duties

KEVIN EMILIO, LEFT, and Bruce Burgess receive a call inside the tent set up in New Haven this past Saturday. They were there with other ham radio enthusiasts to call stations across the continent in a 24-hour ham radio blitz.

Independent photo/Nora Peachin

‘Hams’ go coast-to-coast honing radio skills Enthusiasts talk to others on continent

By NORA PEACHIN NEW HAVEN — This past weekend ham radio enthusiasts, affectionately nicknamed “hams,” holed up for 24 hours in sites across North America, working non-stop to operate as many stations as possible simultaneously and learn about using ham radio in emergency situations.

Five members of the Addison County Amateur Radio Association gathered in a friend’s backyard in New Haven for the occasion.

Tucked away behind an abandoned red barn and surrounded by the Green Mountains, the cohort spent the day calling stations across the continent, with adequate breaks set aside for enjoying the views and sunny weather.

The hams arrived at 9 a.m. — “probably should have been 8,” participant and Middlebury resident Brett Wilhelm joked — on Saturday morning to get organized.

The men set up two generators, a radio tower, a tent filled with radio equipment, a desk overflowing with computers and cables and a maze of wires running all over the lawn, all of which would be taken down Sunday at 2 p.m.

They huddled around monitors with headsets on, repeating “CQ Field Day November 1 Foxtrot Sierra,” into microphones. N1FS, or November 1 Foxtrot Sierra, is the Addison County club’s call sign, issued in honor of Frank Somers, former Middlebury resident and charter member of the club.

When Somers passed away, the organization adopted his initials for their call sign. “Sort of like a vanity license plate, but instead it’s a vanity call sign,” founding member Bruce Burgess commented.

Soon responses came in — jumbled voices answering with their respective signs, the tent filled

with nonsensical combinations of a century later, participants from numbers and words. Middlebury nearly every country worldwide resident Kevin Emilio was at the continue to communicate via helm, fielding a call from “Ohio or Amateur Radio Bands and take part Michigan, based on the call sign.” in frequent events like Field Day. Emilio and Wilhelm began Emilio caught onto the trend in communicating with the man, and high school. He got his license in figured out he was calling from 1996, but when he started college Michigan. The pair he was inactive for struggled to receive years. Last year, the call. “You’re “If we ever Emilio regained getting wrecked,” lose power or interest when he broke Wilhelm laughed. “Is resources for his leg on duty as a this why it’s called Middlebury police amateur radio?” a long period officer and was out of time, we are of work. “Brett and Burgess contributed.

When they finally still able to I were neighbors… succeeded, they communicate when we realized we logged it on their were both licensed computer. “Today is a worldwide amateur operators, he competition, so points using a helped me get back are awarded for each generator. on the air.” successful contact,” “I like being able — Kevin Emilio Wilhelm clarified. to contact people all Every June for over the world. When approximately the past 25 years, you can do it with a small piece of the Addison County team has wire and an electronic box on your competed with over 40,000 users desk, it’s exciting,” Emilio said. from all across North America. Emilio also enjoys the local ham Participants come together for radio community. “We get together Field Days to share in their passion once a month for breakfast; we’re and expand their knowledge of good friends.” ham radio operation.

But Amateur Radio is more than Enthusiasm for amateur radio just a fun hobby. Ham radio is also began growing in 1910. Now, over used to provide communication in

ADDISON COUNTY HAM radio club member Brett Wilhelm troubleshoots with the digital components at the Field Day event in New Haven on Saturday.

Independent photo/Nora Peachin

emergency situations, because it does not rely on the Internet or any cell phone networks to operate.

“If we ever lose power or resources for a long period of time, we are still able to communicate worldwide using a generator, a car battery or a solar panel,” Emilio explained. For months following Hurricane Maria, communication with Puerto Rico was done strictly by amateur radio operators.

“In case of disasters or inclement weather, often it’s only the ham radio operators who can still communicate. We work with police and other rescue people to pass information along,” Burgess added.

So, hams use Field Days as an opportunity to simulate an emergency, in preparation for a real one. “There’s always roadblocks [during Field Days],” Emilio said, “but you improvise, and that’s what’s preparing you for an actual emergency.”

Burgess lamented the effect of modern technology on the ham radio experience. “The advent of cellphones has really taken away some of the excitement of trying to see who pops up on your receiver,” he said. Burgess’ daughter would tease her dad for his technological ineptitude, but “part of the excitement of radio is making a call and seeing who answers it. It could be anybody. You don’t have that with cellphones.”

Despite advancements in technology, the Addison County club appears to be going strong. Whether it is the thrill of competing, the love of local community, or the conversations with people all across the world, there seems to be something for everyone. At least, Wilhelm, Burgess and Emilio certainly seemed to think so.

For those interested in obtaining a ham radio license or attending a club meeting, reach out to Kevin Emilio at cqke1vt@gmail.com.

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS time no formal job description had NEW HAVEN — The town of been created. “New Haven only New Haven has hired its first ever has about 1,700 residents and not town administrator. a large commercial base to support Aaron Brown, a New Haven the additional cost of this proposed resident, will begin work in that position.” position on July 9.

Later in the post, Walsh “I’ve lived in New Haven for two predicted the new position would and a half years and look forward add $50,000 to $70,000 to the to working with its citizens, town office payroll every year and selectboard, Planning Commission encouraged residents to attend and Development Review Board future selectboard meetings, ask to promote a vibrant community,” questions and share their opinions.

Brown said in an email to the On April 2 a few of them did just Independent. that, echoing Walsh’s concerns, but Brown stood out among 15 the issue at subsequent meetings candidates for the job, said Steve inspired sparse attendance.

Dupoise, chair of the New Haven Over the next three months, selectboard.

Walsh voted against motions “Our planning commission related to creating the position and fully looked into Aaron’s resume excused himself from discussions and contacted his references as and meetings related to potential well as talking to his current candidates. employer, Charlotte, At a May 28 where he is the “I have not joint meeting of the zoning administrator. selectboard and the cast a single Everyone gave planning commission, high praise to his yes vote to Walsh distributed a qualifications.

The spend time letter and then left. planning commission and town “I have not cast gave 100 percent a single yes vote to backing to the money in spend time and town recommendation for the efforts to money in the efforts the selectboard to create this to create this job,” hire.” he pointed out in the job.”

According to the “Personally, — Jim Walsh letter. posted job description, since joining the some of Brown’s selectboard four years duties as town administrator will ago I have completed over two include: dozen projects. Our problem in my • acting as town and selectboard opinion is we do not as selectboard liaison officer. members, paid town employees • overseeing the operations of and elected officials commit town departments. the needed hours that would • serving as the town’s human accomplish the tasks and projects resources department. that are identified.”

• preparing and posting meeting Walsh estimated that the town agendas and warnings. administrator portion of the new • managing proposals, bids and position would add an additional contractors. $30 in taxes per year for every • acting as Emergency single New Haven resident. Given Management Director. recent financial developments — • writing grants, negotiating town the town wasn’t anticipating such a insurance and assisting with budget steep final education tax bill, which management.

Walsh pegged at “1/3 million,” • overseeing use and maintenance and had to take out its largest ever of public buildings and properties. tax anticipation line of credit, at What makes Brown’s job $950,000 — he was convinced a different from that of a typical new town administrator was “not a town administrator is that he wise expenditure.” will also be responsible for “I personally harbor no ill zoning administration, including feelings for any of the applicants assisting the New Haven Planning for this position, but I must at Commission with writing zoning this time excuse myself from the and town plan components. board’s discussion in regards to Combining the two sets of duties this proposed new position.” into one full-time job was the The contract for the position New Haven selectboard’s answer specifies a $48,000 annual salary, to zoning administrator retention Dupoise told the Independent in an issues. email on Tuesday.

Three previous zoning In a phone conversation last administrators have quit in the past week he acknowledged that some two years. Hoping that more robust people are worried that New compensation would lead to less Haven doesn’t have enough money turnover, the New Haven Planning for the new position, but he’s Commission asked the selectboard confident that because the zoning to consider beefing up the part-time administrator position has been position’s hours, which did not vacant for so long, there will be qualify it for benefits. more than enough money to cover After what it said had been years the rest of 2019. of on-and-off discussion about “It’s possible that the town might creating a town administrator even save money next year,” he position, the selectboard began added, though he declined to go exploring the idea in a focused way into personnel-related issues over back in March. the phone.

Not everyone was on board with In the meantime, New Haven’s the idea, however. new town administrator has gotten “I voted NO to advertising for a the thumbs-up in the town office. new position,” wrote selectboard “He’s a great guy,” said town member Jim Walsh in a March 31 clerk Pam Kingman. “I’m looking Front Porch Forum post. At that forward to working with him.”

Addison Independent, Thursday, June 27, 2019 — PAGE 3A

Food and more

THE FIFTH ANNUAL Foodaroo in Middlebury’s Marble Works district this past Sunday fed and entertained hundreds and hundreds with more than two dozen food trucks and a beverage tent complemented by various performers, including three musical acts. It was expertly organized by Middlebury Underground.

Above, the ArtsRiot food truck takes another order for a 400 burger; right, Alganesh Michael of BTV Ethiopian dishes up some delicious food from the Horn of Africa; left, a kid gets the best seat in the house to view a performance of an act called “Her Majesty’s Secret Circus,” two humorous “secret agents” who combined a high-rise unicycle with target practice at a toilet seat.

Independent photos/Colton Paquette

Vergennes budget (Continued from Page 1A) numbers that morning and could not offer specifics on all details, which he said would be available to the council and public when the council meets at 6 p.m. on Friday.

One detail he could offer: The larger grand list will result in a higher figure for how much money a penny on the tax rate would raise.

Previously, he and the council had operated on the assumption that a penny would raise $22,500.

Thus, the cost of retaining the two police officers ($140,758) would have been 6.25 cents on the tax rate.

Now, Chabot said, a penny will raise about $26,000, and the same cost would be 5.4 cents on the tax rate.

Likewise, the impact of $94,000 of new health insurance costs drops from about 4.2 cents to roughly 3.6 cents.

The current municipal-only tax rate is 83.5 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value. It is now difficult to estimate how that rate could increase, although it almost certainly will. On Tuesday the council was looking at a 12.5-cent increase with the police cuts and a 19-cent increase without the police cuts.

Chabot on Wednesday said the council still will face a difficult decision: On Tuesday officials also said they expect the Vergennes school tax rate to increase by about 9 cents.

CASE MADE FOR CUTS Tuesday’s budget deliberations began with Mayor Jeff Fritz making an opening statement that outlined the rationale for cutting two officers from the police department, which currently has nine officers. He cited the council’s “years of deferred action” on infrastructure needs and citizen priorities such as a recreation facility upgrades, a recreation coordinator, and sidewalk repairs.

Chabot had said the week before that Vergennes is spending far more on its police as a percentage of its budget than neighboring towns, and Fritz said a smaller department would be capable of meeting the city’s needs.

“I regret that reductions must be made in our police department budget,” Fritz said. “However, whether it be 36, 38.5 or 41 percent of the city budget total, that number is not sustainable without a significant increase in our municipal tax rate. Our police department has an outstanding reputation statewide, and suggesting that a staffing adjustment will cripple their ability to serve and protect our city is an insult to their professionalism and tantamount to fear-mongering.”

Fritz also said he is proposing a sewer rate increase of $76 per year to be effective in January that he said would raise $55,000 per year and allow Vergennes to start building a small capital reserve fund

to prepare for what city officials PUSHBACK Police Chief George Merkel and said could be a $30 million to $35 million sewer system fix in the most of those who attended did foreseeable future. The user-fund- not agree. Merkel, who was there ed sewer system is not included with his entire force, offered a in the taxpayer-funded budget the lengthy and passionate defense of his department, including effusive council sets every June.

Chabot said the budget did not praise for its officers’ dedication and performance. include money for such His talk also includpriorities as the city “There are ed an offer to work as pool, paint for the city crazy nuts the recreation director; salt shed, the sewer outside. I don’t to take a cut in pay; system’s Macdonough an insistence that is Drive pump station, or know why was not safe to have more than “pennies” you would officers work alone; a for sidewalk repair. cut the police statement of his belief “It tries to balance department.” that officers would the needs of my four — citizen speaker leave the department departments against at city if cuts were made; a the revenue,” he said. council meeting description of how Chabot said he long it takes to invesbelieved if the police department was in a position to of- tigate assault cases, many of which fer services to neighboring towns, he said occur at Northlands Job as it had, it had “capacity above Corps; and an introduction of and and beyond for our one-square- invitation to applaud the victim mile city.” Nor did he see potential of a recent brutal domestic assault police revenue streams “that would halted when a police officer used a Taser on the alleged assailant. be able to offset costs.”

Almost all of those who spoke Chabot said the “practice has ended” of the department making opposed the cuts. Many referred 452 trips to Ferrisburgh in the past to the department’s troubled past, four years by that town insisting on how professional and competent it better service from Vermont State is now under Merkel, how safe they Police and the Addison County felt, and how expensive it might be to rebuild the force if officers left.

Sheriff’s Department.

Sample comments were: Without the cuts, he said, police • “I’d like to say I’d be willing to spending would “choke off everything else we want to accomplish.” spend a few cents on my tax rate to

keep them.”

• “There are crazy nuts outside. I don’t know why you would cut the police department.”

• “We can’t afford to go back …

We want to keep our police funded.”

• “I’m willing to walk on some jagged sidewalks if I feel safe doing so.”

• “I have a 15-year-old daughter who knows the chief on a firstname basis … They’re a presence.”

• “I do fear if we make a cut today we’ll pay down the road.”

• That $140,000 could save someone’s life.”

A few supported Chabot and Fritz: • “I agree with you 100 percent.

For a one-square-mile town, it is over-staffed … I choose not to live in fear.”

• “There’s a misconception the council is anti-police … The question is when you can’t raise the tax rate any more.”

Planning commission and recreation committee member Tim Cook also supported the police reductions. He said the police department had a solid foundation under Merkel.

“I don’t believe they can ever go back to the dark days,” Cook said, and then emphasized the city’s many other infrastructure and recreation priorities: “We do not have the budget to maintain what

we have.”

COUNCIL WEIGHS IN Council members also spoke.

Bill Benton suggested the cuts were too deep. “I think two is too much too fast,” he said.

Lynn Donnelly said she did not want to return to the poorly run department of the past, adding she believed residents and council members anticipated the current size of the force when they voted in favor of the new police station.

“We need to pay the piper … and get the police department we paid for and planned on,” she said.

Mark Koenig said the issue is “a lot more complicated” than most probably realize. A higher budget would set a “standard” for future increases,” he said, with the sewer bond looming, expensive work on the city pool needed within a few years, and an aging city infrastructure that requires attention.

And, he said, the council is receiving mixed messages: “We keep hearing if you keep raising taxes you’re going to drive people out.”

David Small sounded a similar

theme on a decision he called “difficult and painful.”

“Everyone kept saying to me why did you move to make the tax rate so high? That’s why we’re struggling as a council,” he said, adding he had also heard from some the department was “too large.”

Small also said he found “no conclusive studies” that linked police department sizes to crime rates, and added that crime rates vary “because of economic conditions as well,” which he said could be affected by many factors, such as a good infrastructure, and a favorable tax rate, and a functional sewer system.

“I don’t want to trivialize infrastructure by talking about sidewalks,” Small said.

Lowell Bertrand suggested finding cuts elsewhere in the budget to preserve the police department, and then Donnelly spoke just before the budget was tabled until Friday.

“I think the idea of looking at the whole budget and saying everybody takes a hit is more rational,” she said.

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A D D I S ON INDE P E NDE NT

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Too many fiefdoms hurts state’s economic development plans

By Bill Schubart Vermont has no long-term, well-articulated economic development strategy, nor the funding capacity to execute one.

It’s not that we don’t spend money on economic development. There are many earnest people working hard to generate economic activity in Vermont, although we often confuse economic and community development; a Greensboro Pride Parade or town green replanting is not “economic development.”

The modest state budget we do have for economic development is doled out and jealously guarded by small fiefdoms operating regionally and, to some extent, statewide. Each time there is an executive or legislative attempt to implement a broad, strategic, statewide economic development plan — one that acknowledges regional, and international realities — it’s opposed by existing beneficiaries that assail the legislature to protect their mission. What’s left is inadequate to fund a statewide strategic initiative.

Complicating the lack of funds to develop and implement such a strategy are several negative socio-economic indicators that inhibit our growth: • Demographics. Vermont’s annual birth rate in the last 20 years has dropped from 7000 to some 5400. Our median age is five years older than the national average. Our work force, markets, and population are shrinking. Urbanization is propelling our once thriving rural communities into our few urban centers for employment. There are more jobs than qualified people to take them.

• Broadband deployment. A modern economy requires ubiquitous and affordable broadband access. In the past, the federal government took the lead on rural electrification and universal phone service but has punted on broadband access, leaving it to the impoverished states and municipalities.

Vermont is a patchwork.

• Affordable housing. Vermonters cannot afford to live where they work and there’s not enough public transportation buildout to allow them to easily commute.

• Childcare. One clearly documented problem for workers — and therefore employers — is the lack of affordable, quality childcare statewide.

The business community itself, when recently polled, has a dominantly negative view of near-term business prospects.

Because we have no overall strategy, our priorities for business growth and our message to potential partners is unclear. I attended a recent Grafton Conference on the Arts and Humanities, which focused on their ability to tell a story, bring to life the human impacts our challenges pose, and dream large about solutions. A big take-away for me was about our tra“Imagine if our vision ditional definition of a “Vermonter,” of a “real Vermonter” to which — not being one — I had always subscribed … a white man or were someone of any woman probably with agrarian roots age or color who chose whose family dates back at least sevVermont for its opporeral generations. Wow! — there’s an exclusionary definition. Imagine tunities, lifestyle, and if our vision of a “real Vermonter” values.” were someone of any age or color who chose Vermont for its opportunities, lifestyle, and values.

A feasible strategy must start with an in-depth assessment of all of Vermont’s businesses, from convenience stores to major employers. It would include the non-profits, which account for 20 percent of jobs. (Of the four largest Vermont employers, three are non-profits: UVM Medical Center, the State of Vermont, Global Foundries, and UVM.) This database would include a core business descriptor, the number of employees, and gross sales. It would also accommodate employer-option inputs for enterprise goals, challenges, and sought partnerships. It would be open to research by businesses or non-profits seeking partners, products, acquisition, or new markets.

Productive economic policy would also maintain a similar network of significant regional research entities and colleges that could partner with existing businesses to solve challenges or entrepreneurialize intellectual property assets. A business is a practical laboratory. By way of example: a grass-fed beef farmer might find the answer to a specific challenge in research being done by a soil scientist at Cornell, UVM, or Sterling College.

How do we rise above “business as usual” and develop a statewide strategy and communications plan for economic development? It will necessitate some reallocation of current resources which will, no doubt, trigger a defensive response from legacy recipients.

What if, instead of just annually allocating money across a dozen entities, a central economic development authority were to use its resources to fund development projects based on their intrinsic worth, measurable outcomes, and their consistency with a Vermont strategic plan?

There’s a model for this. Some years back, the then-Chittenden County United Way recognized it couldn’t continue to fund all of the non-profits requesting money. It laid out a county-wide list of challenges and invited non-profits to apply for grants that would remediate the outlined challenges and then held them accountable for outcomes. It was radical at the time but it reallocated scarce resources with much greater efficiency and effect. We must do the same in economic development if we are to ever make a dent in our economic well-being.

Some have suggested we move economic development out of the government sector. I struggle with this. Our socio-economic challenges usually end up being solved cooperatively between the business, non-profit, and government sectors. To simply abandon a manifest government function and toss it to the non-profit sector or privatize it is no solution.

Good news is … a growing economy will address many of the socio-economic problems that bedevil us.

Bill Schubart is a Vermont-based author and commentator.

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A PINT-SIZE CUSTOMER gets a height assist from the counter of the Evolution Kitchen food truck at Foodaroo5 at the Marble Works in Middlebury this past Sunday evening.

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Of drawing and inherent biases I have been thinking a lot lately about why people draw. Partly it is because every year in June I teach a drawing workshop in my studio. People from far and near come to draw in my studio for all kinds of different reasons. “I want to learn how to draw — I mean really draw.” “Drawing scares me, but I have always imagined it being part of my life.” “Now that I am retired, I want to get back to drawing, which I haven’t done since I was a kid.” “When I travel, I’d like to be able to record what I am seeing.”

Humans have been drawing since earliest times.

The clay and charcoal drawings

By Kate of animals, figures and hands on Gridley the rock walls of caves are thousands of years old. The drawings bend with the rocks; the cracks and holes in the walls become part of the closely felt animal forms.

Children draw with whatever makes a mark as soon as they are old enough to hold a pencil or crayon and make scribbles, with sticks in the sand or dirt, with crayons and pencils on paper.

Why do we draw? To communicate, to record, to describe, to explore, to question, to remember, to see.

Drawing is a universal language. Perhaps it was our first.

When we look at other people’s drawings, we learn how they see, and what they are thinking about. Sometimes we can tell how they are feeling. Sometimes their

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drawings make us see something differently. Drawings can be a window into another person’s world.

How do we know what we are seeing?

Bias infects how we see things. We already know that bias, assumptions, and preconceived ideas affect how we see our fellow human beings, how we treat them, how we decide whether or not to let them into our circle. If there are five witnesses to a hold up in a grocery store, as happened a couple years ago to a friend, there will be five different stories, five completely different impressions, five different memories — all influenced by previous life experiences.

Likewise bias infects how and what we see when we draw.

When we have a preconceived idea of what we think something “looks like,” it’s hard to see what is actually in front of us. While all of us can draw the symbol of a pear, or a nose, or a flower from our imagination by the time we are 7 or 8, if I place a particular pear, a real person with a nose, a specific flower in front of you, at a particular time of day, in a specific light, will you be able to see the one in front of you? Or will you simply inscribe the preconceived picture (symbol) already in your mind’s eye?

As we were drawing in the studio last week, one of my students, a retired elementary school teacher and librarian exclaimed, “This is just like the story in (See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

Trump makes empty cancer-cure promise At his campaign’s kickoff rally in Orlando, Fla., earlier this month, President Trump said that, if he is re-elected, “We will come up with the cures to many, many problems, to many, many diseases, including cancer.” This statement is worth unpacking on several levels.

First, there is no simple, one-size-fits-all “cure” for cancer. Cancer is many different, although often related, diseases. As Philip Kantoff, M.D., the chair of medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York told Kaiser Health News, “One cannot rightfully say, ‘In the next five years, we’re going to cure cancer,’ because cancer is so many different diseases.”

Individual cancers mutate differently, sometimes due to the nature of the cancerous cells themselves, sometimes due to differences in By Eric L. Davis the individuals in which those cancerous cells are present. The best therapy for one person’s cancer may not work in another person with pretty much the same disease.

So, with cancer such a complex biological phenomenon, one would expect that a president who wants to “cure cancer” within five years would be supporting substantial increases in federally funded scientific research, both to explore the processes leading to the development and growth of cancers, and to support a wide range of experimental treatments. The record of the Trump Administration’s budget proposals indicates exactly the opposite.

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In March, President Trump’s proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2020 included a 12 percent decrease in funding for the National Institutes of Health. The budget for the National Cancer Institute for 2020 would be cut by 19 percent under Trump’s proposal. In fact, all of the budgets President Trump has submitted to Congress since he was inaugurated have included substantial cuts in federal health research spending.

There is wide support for the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute on Capitol Hill, among Republicans as well as Democrats. While the Congressional budget process has been messy for the past three years, none of the budgets passed in that time have included the cuts in health research spending that the Trump Administration proposed. However, because this spending is appropriated on a year-to-year basis, scientists working on cancer-related research projects face continual uncertainty regarding the extent and duration of federal support for their activities.

One of the best ways of reducing the incidence of cancer and complications resulting from it is to encourage early detection and treatment. This requires that the persons being screened have health insurance coverage. While the number of Americans with health insurance coverage increased in most states following the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, that trend has reversed itself since Trump took office. In (See Davis, Page 5A)

Recently, a key Senate panel has given bipartisan approval to a modified version of President Trump’s $4 billion-plus request to care for tens of thousands of migrant refugees on the southern U.S. border. I was pleased to hear this approval, particularly after Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy and others described the condition of the federal facilities holding migrant refugees as terrible and overcrowded.

Indeed, as the most powerful nation on earth, the United States needs to allocate more aid to improve the living conditions for people suffering in abject poverty locally and globally.

Global poverty is an imminent issue with countless success stories of improved conditions for individuals through foreign aid.

Unfortunately, for the second year in a row, the budget proposed by the present administration makes no funding for the State Department and USAID through the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO). OCO funds make up approximately one-third of the international aid budget.

Meanwhile, the budget proposes an increase to the already abundant military and defense budget. Of the $700 billion that is proposed to be spent on defense per annum, if $30 billion was spent to solve world hunger, The Borgen Project states that it would be eradicated.

Indeed, less than 0.7 percent of all federal expenditures can save lives. Alleviating global poverty is in the country’s best interest.

By lifting people from poverty to consumers, more jobs will be created, and economic improvement will be seen nationally.

Let us take action by supporting our Senate members, such as Vermont Senators Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, who have requested a reduction in funding for defense to channel into international aid and let us urge others to do the same.

Monique Tania Santoso Middlebury

Closing schools worsens equity

School consolidation in ACSD moves forward. One goal of consolidation is greater equity and opportunity for all of the students in the district. But there is another goal: reducing the future expense of education. It is probable that these savings will come by closing one or more schools, reducing the number of teachers and service providers, and increasing the number of students per classroom and per teacher.

Consolidating Vermont’s school districts has been a state initiated impetus, top down to the People.

The People, however, have not expressed interest in school consolidation. I was a participant in the RED committees that each town assembled to consider school consolidation in 2012. Ripton was not interested. None of the towns in ACSU were interested.

It is not clear that closing down a small-town school will result in greater equity or opportunity for the students. For example, Ripton School provides after school supervision and activities for their kids until 4:30 M-Th. Will this be available to Ripton students if they are bused to Mary Hogan?

Outlying middle and high school students who are bused into Middlebury have always lacked equity and opportunity in terms of after-school activities such as athletics, theatre, and clubs due to a lack of transportation. Unless parents can arrange to transport their children home in the late afternoon, the outlying students cannot equally participate in after-school activities.

Students who live in Middlebury therefore have an advantage, and this inequity has never been addressed. There is no reason to think that it will be in the future.

The way the ACSD Board is constituted makes it likely that our small towns can lose the right to educate their children in their own school. Each small town in ACSD has one representative on (See Letter, Page 5A)

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Agency handles phishing scam

NEW HAVEN —- Addison County Home Health and Hospice (ACHHH) announced Tuesday that it is mailing letters about an email phishing incident to patients whose information may be affected.

On April 26, 2019, ACHHH learned that an unauthorized person gained access to an employee email account on February 19, 2019.

ACHHH immediately secured the account, began an investigation, and a leading cyber security firm was engaged to assist in determining what happened and what information may have been contained in the email account.

The investigation was unable to determine whether the unauthorized individual actually viewed any of the

emails in the account. However, in an abundance of caution, ACHHH reviewed all emails and attachments in the account to find information that may have been accessible to the unauthorized person. The investigation determined that some patient information was contained in the email account, including patient names, clinical information, and in some instances, medical record numbers and Social Security numbers.

Addison has established a dedicated call center for patients to call with any questions, at 833800-0020, from 8 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. For those patients whose Social Security numbers were included in the email account, ACHHH is offer-

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ing a complimentary membership of credit monitoring and identity protection services. ACHHH also recommends that affected patients review statements they receive from their healthcare provider. If they see services they did not receive, they should contact the provider immediately.

To help prevent something like this from happening in the future, ACHHH required a password change for the email account, is implementing additional technical security measures, and is reinforcing employee training on how to detect and avoid phishing emails.

More information may be found on ACHHH website at achhh.org/ emailnotice.html.

News item from The N.Y. Times: “Joe Sestak, a former Navy admiral and congressman from Pennsylvania, said he was joining the crowded field of Democratic candidates running for president in 2020 … Mr. Sestak became the 24th Democratic candidate running for president.

“His announcement came later than those of the other Democratic candidates. He said the delay was because he had wanted to spend time with his daughter,” who had been ill.

Never heard of Sestak?

You’re not alone. His major political accomplishment was to beat a popular U.S. senator in the primary and then lose the general election — thereby costing the Democrats a crucial Senate seat.

Nonetheless, I am inspired by Joe Sestak’s brave, albeit extremely late, entry into the race.

So today I’m announcing that I, too, am running for President.

If it’s good enough for the average Joe, it’s good enough for me.

I had actually been planning to announce my candidacy much earlier. But the bunion on my left foot has been bothering me.

I’ve already worked out my campaign slogan, which will be a good answer for any snippy questions from voters: “I’ve got a plan to come up with a plan for that.”

Of course I’ll be running as a favorite son of the state of Vermont. Because nobody from Vermont ever runs for president, right?

Along with perennial presidential candidate Pat Paulsen, I see myself as a common ordinary savior of America’s destiny.

My plan is to tour the nation listening to voters and ignoring their concerns. I’ll be driving a large Bet-Cha Transit school bus I’ve named the BS Express.

With a name like that, no one will be surprised by any of my positions. They can’t say they weren’t warned.

But first we’ll kick off the campaign with a big rally in Fenway Park. I’m sure the Red Sox won’t mind altering their schedule to accommodate me.

For one thing, the stage for my kickoff speech will be right in front of the Green Monster.

On the Monster itself will be a huge banner that reads, “Yan-

Paid-leave bill good for Vermont When the Vermont House passed do not have access to TDI through H.107, an act relating to paid fam- their employers, leaving them ily and medical leave vulnerable when they insurance, this past need to take time off to April, 92 people voted take care of their own to support the bill with serious health needs. an additional 5 people Moreover, an overabsent who would whelming majority of likely have voted in low-income workers favor. It was a strong cannot take paid leave bill for many reasons. to address their serious In this piece, I want health needs: nationto focus on one key ally, over 80 percent component: medical of those in the bottom leave, also known as quarter of earners and temporary disability nearly 90 percent of insurance or TDI. those in the bottom Why is TDI so tenth of earners lack important?

Paid access to short term This week’s medical leave protects Community Forum disability insurance workers with serious is by Robin Scheu, through their employhealth needs for whom state representative ers. Further, 85 percent limited sick time is not for the Addison-1 of part-time workers enough. It provides District and the lead lack access to TDI and extended time off to sponsor of H.107.

75 percent of part-time deal with acute condiworkers lack access to tions such as cancer or any paid time off for major surgery, chronic conditions their own health. like diabetes, or to recover from a So the people who suffer most by serious accident or injury. not having access to TDI are those Many workers — especially at the lower income levels who can low-income workers — currently least afford to take unpaid leave. do not have access to adequate paid People shouldn’t have to choose leave to deal with their own serious between their health and getting a illness. According to the Bureau of paycheck. It is regressive to not offer Labor Statistics, nationwide, about TDI to our workers. three in five private sector workers TDI is a benefit to employers too.

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Keeping quality workers on the job saves employers money by reducing turnover. The Center for American Progress reports that the cost to replace a worker is about an additional one-fifth of that employee’s annual wages.

TDI is also another tool for employee recruitment and retention.

TDI has been a mandated program in several states since the 1940s. Rhode Island was first, requiring TDI in 1942. California, New Jersey, and New York followed later that same decade. In fact, in all four of these states, TDI was the foundation upon which a paid family leave program was built. TDI came first. Closer to home, New York requires both TDI and family leave. In Massachusetts, Republican Governor Charlie Baker last year signed a comprehensive economic development package of legislation that included both family care and TDI. Vermont, which we already know has a huge need for more workers, should be jumping on this bandwagon now.

A strong, statewide paid leave insurance program that includes TDI will help level the playing field for small businesses and help foster a strong workforce and healthy economy. It is important for the health, vibrancy and economic security not just for all of us, but also for future generations.

Ways of Seeing (Continued from Page 4A) ‘Seven Blind Mice’ by Ed Young!”

Based on an ancient Indian parable that appears in Buddhist and Jainist texts, the seven blind mice come across a large mysterious object in the garden. One by one they venture out to explore it by touch and come back with a report: “It’s a fan.” It’s a lance.”

“It’s a rope.” “It’s a column.” “It’s a snake.” “It’s a cliff.” With six (subjective) points of view, based on six (limited) experiences, each feels strongly that they “know” what they have “seen.”

The seventh mouse goes to explore and comes back to explain that each of the mice is “right” since there are parts of the large

object that are similar to what they have described, but each has missed the whole, which is an elephant. And the moral of the story is “Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from the seeing the whole.”

When my students draw a chair that I have hung upside down on the wall, they make far more accurate renderings of the chair than when they draw the chair right side up. What they know about chairs — more particularly what they know about sitting in chairs — throws them off. To more truly sight it, they learn to draw not the chair, but rather the shapes of the spaces inside the arms and legs, the shape of the seat, the shapes of

spaces outside the chair.

To find the thing you think you know, go outside it and inside it.

All the shapes matter, including the shadows and the spaces between.

Our eyes can see things our busy word-filled brains cannot.

What’s most amazing to me is that when we settle in to make a drawing, and sit quietly communing with, honoring, respecting, and responding to what’s before us, it is forever etched inside our memory as well as on the drawing surface. When I pull out drawings I made forty years ago, I am instantly transported back to the time and place in which I made them.

“curing cancer” that the President made in his campaign speech. Is this at all surprising?

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

Davis (Continued from Page 4A) 2018, 700,000 more Americans were uninsured than in the preceding year.

Trump also wants to roll back expansions in Medicaid that were part of the ACA. Research in those states that have expanded Medicaid in the last seven years indicates that the number of people screened for breast and colon cancers, in particular, has substantially increased due to the expanded Medicaid coverage.

President Trump and Attorney General Barr are also supporting a challenge to Obamacare that is pending in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas. The Administration’s position in this lawsuit would eliminate almost all of the protections that have been available to persons with pre-existing conditions — including cancer — since the ACA went into effect. While Trump has said he wants insurance to cover pre-existing conditions, the Administration has not given any indication that it plans to develop a substitute for Obamacare, should the pre-existing conditions protections be struck down in court.

In sum, the Trump Administration’s actions — on the budget and in the federal courts — are not at all consistent with the claims about

kees Suck!” (See what I mean? Canada will pay for it!

How could the Sox resist that?)

Unlike other border walls, A few ignorant skeptics — this one will truly work: After the kind of people who always all, Vermont has thousands of try to bring a good man down maple trees and very few people — have said I have no chance of seem to want to move here. winning. But when For more proof Donald Trump just look a couple came down that eshours north. Do calator to announce you see Canadians his candidacy, even pouring across our he didn’t think he border of maple would win. trees to seek asylum Besides, there’s in Vermont? I rest nobody else like me my case. in the race.

Along with this Bernie Sanders is impenetrable border known for being naswall, I’m thinking ty to the media. I’m of issuing an exhappy to answer any ecutive order that reporter’s questions bars Hindus from so long as they don’t entering the country. expect an honest Trump has been answer. And I’ll be targeting Muslims nice about it. (Note by Gregory Dennis and Mexicans and to media: Try me!) other brown-skinned Unlike Joe Biden, people. I’m worried I haven’t spent the past 45 years the Hindus may feel left out. serving my country as an electWASPS, too. They might end ed official. up on the banned list. What In fact, I hold the distinction have they done lately to make of having lost two elections, America great again? in one year of high school, for Better yet, maybe we should class president and Student ban any human immigration Council president. (Not to wor- and limit the inflow just to anry. After years of therapy I’m imals. That’ll make it official: over it. Mostly.)

The country is going to the Nonetheless, I have for some dogs. years been a fence viewer for I’ve also given a lot of thought the town of Cornwall. No other to diversity in our armed forces. candidate can make that claim.

My first assignment for I’m neither gay nor female, so the defense secretary — I’m right there I stand out from Pete thinking of appointing Stephen Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Amy Colbert because the Pentagon Klobuchar and that awful New needs a few more laughs — will Yorker who ran Al Franken out be to figure out what LGBTQIA of the Senate. And in contrast stands for. to Gov. Jay Inslee, I have no Regarding foreign policy, I convincing plan to slow climate promise never to invade a counchange. try until a majority of Americans You’ll be able to donate to can locate it on a map. my campaign just as soon as I As for climate change, Amerset up my Go Fun Me page. No icans will upon my election donation is too large. be required to call it “global So exactly what does my weirding.” And when the next campaign stand for? super-hurricane hits? I pledge First and foremost, I pledge to to continue Trump’s policy of give each and every American arriving on the scene days later an annual lump of coal in his/ to toss rolls of paper towels to her/their Christmas stocking. the survivors.

That will accomplish two And Russia, if you’re listenthings. First, it will again be OK ing, please send me my oppoto say “Merry Christmas” after nents’ emails.

President Obama made it illegal.

I also need some large suitAnd second, it’s the best way to cases stuffed with cash. This bring back the great American campaign is getting expensive. coal industry since President Greg Dennis’s column appears Trump had failed to do that. here every other Thursday and is I’m also planning to build archived on his blog at gregdena beautiful wall along the nis.wordpress.com. Email: gregMexican border of maple trees dennisvt@yahoo.com. Twitter: imported from Vermont. And @GreenGregDennis.

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Letter (Continued from Page 4A) a thirteen-member board. What this means for a small town like Ripton is that the board can vote our school out of existence, even though Ripton citizens have borne all of the cost of building their own school, have maintained it for decades, and Ripton has never voted down our school’s budget.

The consolidation process has improved district governance, making for greater efficiency.

But now the ACSD Board is

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making plans to move to phase two, a consolidation of the student population across the district. The small towns in ACSD (Bridport, Cornwall, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge) risk having their schools closed and their children bused out of town each day. If Mary Hogan is to take in the outlying students, it will have to be renovated at a cost of at least $5.8 million. All of the towns in the district will share in the cost of the Mary Hogan renovation,

even as their own schools are possibly closed.

The small towns in ACSD need to begin acting if they want to save their schools. We in Ripton have already started to act. Join us. We have formed a citizens’ group. We are planning a meeting of people from all the small towns in the district. Watch for it, come to the meeting, and let’s act to save our schools.

Millard M. Cox Ripton

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Obituaries

Stephen Weber, 79, Weybridge

Donald C. (Duffy) Dolliver Jr., 66, lumberjack, sugarmaker, woodsman he had great success with perhaps a dozen different sawing partners over his 40-year career, and with his super-modified chainsaw, where he made the finals of the World Championships many times. Later in his career, he worked for Granite State Lumberjack Shows, Inc. producing lumberjack competitions nationally and serving as head judge in many events. In this capacity, he was able to travel to nearly every state in the country and work with competitors from around the world.

To say he was a great champion would diminish his role in the sport.

His gift to the sport was his integrity as a competitor and judge, his friendly nature, and his intelligent input into the structure and fairness of competition. To seasoned competitors, he was a trusted friend.

To newcomers he was a sage, a historian, and a mentor. He was still competing in the sport and planning for this summer’s events.

Duffy was an avid, ungreedy hunter who enjoyed the time spent afield with hunting friends nearly as much as the harvest. Always the first out of camp and the last one in regardless of the weather. And always the first to congratulate you on your successful day.

He was also a passionate racquetball player, and spent many mornings in the early bird league at The Edge for over 30 years. He was well liked, and had many partners over the years in the doubles league. He was a constant figure, always ready to play as hard and fast as he could.

He was a staple there and will be tremendously missed by the 30-plus players that continue to battle in the early mornings.

Duffy wandered into a sugar maker’s woods in the fall of 1990, introduced himself and said that he was interested in sugaring. He was buying a woodlot in Starksboro. He had a Pepperidge Farm bread route, but was looking into getting into something that had been a childhood passion, having grown up just north of Montpelier, and sugaring with Stanley Morse. He loved the woods and woods-work, and he approached maple with a dual sensibility, combining his passion for the woods with making a good

and meaningful living for decades.

Duffy carefully, methodically and lovingly thinned his woods, and designed his tubing system.

That first summer was particularly memorable and meaningful, as father and son, Duffy and Don, spent the summer together building the sugarhouse.

Within a few years, with a lot of work, research and passion he became immersed in maple. He networked with other elite sugarmakers in Vermont and throughout the Northeast, toured sugarhouses in Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Quebec, and quickly absorbed the best of what he saw, making numerous and enduring friendships along the way.

Duffy became active in the maple community, volunteering on the county and state level. He was the guy in the corner of the Addison County Sugarhouse at Field Days who cheerfully made and handed you your annual milkshake when it was humid and 88 degrees. And behind the scene, he always did the little necessary things that made the Addison County Sugarmakers Association the strongest in Vermont.

He became the Addison County Director for the Vermont Maple Sugarmakers Association. As a state Director, he wasn’t happy just occupying a seat at the table,

he wanted to make a difference, and he did. While always friendly and humorous, he cared enough to stand up for what he believed, even if he knew his view or opinion was not popular. This is rare, and Don did it naturally and repeatedly, and was known and respected for it. Sugarmakers throughout the state counted on Duffy to have a thoughtful, clear, humorous, strong, sometimes contrarian voice. His combination of humor and clarity made his opinions count. His voice and presence were greatly appreciated and will be sorely missed in the maple world.

Duffy’s clarity and moral sense was always respected. He didn’t waiver. He didn’t cut corners.

He always helped his friends. He looked at life with a twinkle in his eyes.

Duffy met Chris Marion in November of 2016. They had many adventures, and spent time together doing the things that matter. He became an integral and loved member of Chris’s immediate and extended family, including becoming “Grand Duff” to his cherished Ophelia Rose. They will take the lessons offered by this incredible man and carry them in their heart forever.

Duffy will be sadly missed by all who were lucky enough to have had a chance to be near him while he was here.

Those giving thanks for Duffy’s life, and mourning his passing, include his sister and brother-inlaw, Debbie and Frank DeVolder, beloved Chris Marion, her children Stephen and Michelle Cobb, Cassie Marion, and Jake Mahoney, numerous cousins and many dearly-loved friends. He was pre-deceased by his parents, Don and Charlotte, and his cousins, Patrick Sheehan and Andrew Marshall.

A celebration of life will take place on July 7, at 11 a.m., in the first field on the right, on Brown Hill West, Starksboro, Vt. All who knew him are welcome and encouraged to stay for a potluck meal following the service. Duffy’s ashes will be placed in a favorite spot amidst the maple trees that he tended and cherished.◊

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STARKSBORO — Duffy often quipped that each of us has an invisible bar code on our foreheads with an expiration date — Duffy’s code read May 16, 2019. He died while working in the woods in the spring sunshine surrounded by the smell of the firewood he was splitting and the sounds of the birds.

Duffy was born in 1952, the son of Donald C. and Charlotte Sheehan Dolliver. His father, a Vermont state employee, had various postings, and during Duffy’s early years the family lived in Fair Haven and Springfield before settling in Calais. Duffy’s love of nature and the Vermont way of life began in childhood. Summers were spent swimming and fishing on the shores of Lake Champlain near Thompson’s Point with his family and Sheehan grandparents.

Duffy also spent considerable time at Stanley Morse’s farm in Calais, where he learned agricultural skills and became interested in maple sugaring. He was a proud graduate of UVM and a U.S. Army veteran.

Few people have a chance to pursue a hobby so extensively and passionately that it guides the course of their life toward interesting people and cultures around the globe. Duffy was introduced to lumberjack competitions as a teen visiting local Vermont competitions with his family. In 1974, after serving in the Army, he took up the sport himself as a member of the UVM Woodsmen’s Team, and soon entered local contests at county fairs and regional events. As his skill in the sport grew, he teamed up with others to travel to larger competitions, first around New England, then across the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

An excellent storyteller in his own right, he especially enjoyed the Aussie woodchoppers whose storytelling skills and exceptional humor equaled his own. When Duffy visited Australia, he was welcomed by these Aussie friends and stayed in their homes experiencing Australian life differently and more fully than most tourists.

His greatest wins were typically in the sawing events, both with traditional crosscut saws where

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WEYBRIDGE — Stephen William Weber of Weybridge passed away on May 28, 2019, surrounded by his family. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1940, the first of three siblings, his father was an obstetrician and his mother was a ballroom dance instructor.

Steve graduated from Dartmouth College in 1962 with a B.S. in botany and went on to earn a master’s degree from Yale’s School of Forestry in 1964. In 1966, Steve landed a career forestry job with International Paper Company moving with his first wife, Margot, and their young family deep into the Maine woods, 75 miles from the nearest town. In 1969 they relocated to East Middlebury, where in 1978 Steve would become Middlebury College Forester, responsible for mapping and managing several thousand acres of forest and farmlands.

During his 31 years at the college, Steve oversaw leases of farmland, ran logging jobs, helped open up new slopes at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl and build bridges for Rikert Nordic Center trails, was involved with the college’s sustainable energy initiatives and advised students on ecology and land use issues. Steve was an advocate of multi-use forest stewardship: managed responsibly, forests are resilient and able to provide resources and recreational opportunities, as well as animal habitat.

From an early age, Steve was drawn to the woods, mountains and hard work. He honed his backcountry skills as a camper and counselor at Camp Pinnacle in Lyme, N.H., and in woodsmen’s competitions and backcountry activities at Dartmouth.

During summers, he paid his college tuition logging in New Hampshire, Alaska and Vermont. As a forester, he preferred to be in the trenches — not managing loggers, but working side-by-side, chainsaw in hand.

For years, Steve sold firewood on the side, cutting and splitting two or three cords by hand in a day. He was animated by a rugged, pioneer spirit.

Steve loved to pole upstream against a swift current, standing strong in the stern of his 20’ Maine guide canoe.

He would ski up Camel’s Hump and Mt. Abraham. He took his family on numerous backcountry canoe and backpacking adventures, teaching his children to bushwhack and make a fire in the rain.

Steve was an accomplished classical and ragtime pianist, dazzling everyone who heard him play. He served as his church pianist for 50 years, accompanied numerous stage productions and solo performances, performed in local restaurants, and delighted family and friends with sing-alongs at home. He had a dry sense of humor and loved playing pranks on unsuspecting family members.

He was a skilled mimic, conversing at length with crows and loons, and once talking briefly to a tiger.

Steve was deeply moved by the

STEPHEN WILLIAM WEBER songs of Canadian folksinger Stan Rogers. He loved to read aloud to his children and was an imaginative storyteller. He enjoyed meeting people and taking in the beauty of the earth, whether on family bike rides, visiting national parks, or traveling in France, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Thailand, Singapore and Bali.

Steve was a dedicated community member, serving as a volunteer fireman in East Middlebury and Weybridge for 47 years, and helping to organize their events, along with his second wife, Grace. He served as town lister and helped with community suppers and at Teen Center events. Steve was an active longtime member of Middlebury’s Christian Science Society, serving variously as Reader, pianist, and treasurer.

His family and friends will always remember Steve, out in the woods until dusk, at the piano, cracking a joke, hiking up mountains, dancing happily with Grace or accompanying her on the piano as she sang, and being a generous and hardworking man.

Steve is survived by his children, Joan Weber (Bridport), Tom Weber (Gloucester, Mass.) and Nancy Weber (Bridport) from his first marriage, and Lucy Weber (Somerville, Mass.) from his second marriage. He is also survived by his stepchildren Gianandrea Borriello (Missoula, Mont.) and Iris Oxford (Somerville, Mass.), his grandchildren, Casey Vanacore (Burlington), Joseph Vanacore (Burlington), Rosie Vanacore (Bridport), and Jackson Weber (Gloucester, Mass.), and his sister, Ann Benson (Tucson, Ariz.), and many other extended family members. He is pre-deceased by his second wife, Grace, and his brother, Andy.

There will be a service celebrating Steve on July 27 at 11 a.m., in Mead Chapel, at Middlebury College, to be followed by a reception. All are welcome. In lieu of flowers, please feel free to make a donation in his name to the Weybridge or East Middlebury Fire Department.◊

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Addison Independent, Thursday, June 27, 2019 — PAGE 7A

Obituaries

Caleb Axelson, 37, Middlebury native

John (‘Jed’) Deppman, 52, Emily Dickinson scholar, Middlebury native OBERLIN, Ohio — John Erickson Deppman (“Jed”), age 52, died peacefully on June 22, 2019, with his beloved family at his side.

Jed was born June 13, 1967, in Washington, D.C. He grew up in Middlebury, Vt., graduated from Amherst College and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It was there he met the love of his life, Hsiu-Chuang.

Early in their careers as professors, Jed and Hsiu-Chuang lived and taught in Kentucky and Texas.

Together they had two wonderful daughters, Formosa and Ginger. In 2003, the family moved to Oberlin, Ohio, where they had secured ideal positions at Oberlin College.

Jed was appointed Director of the Comparative Literature program in 2003.

A prominent Emily Dickinson scholar, he published his monograph “Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson” with UMass Press in 2008 and coedited “Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Poetics” (Johns Hopkins University Press 2008) and “Emily Dickinson and Philosophy” (Cambridge University Press 2013). He also translated and coedited “Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-Textes” (University of Pennsylvania Press 2004). He recently completed a novel “Taking Chemo with Nietzsche.”

Jed was a dynamic and innovative teacher. In 2014, he was awarded Oberlin’s Excellence in Teaching Award and, in 2015, the Professor Props “Instructor of the Year.” He taught many popular cross-listed courses: Introduction to Comparative Literature, European

and Dying with Emily Dickinson” forthcoming in Oxford Handbook (eds. Cris Miller and Karen J. Sanchez-Eppler), Jed concluded with a quiet encouraging note for those now mourning his death: “We can identify impressive moments we have witnessed or imagined, work them into dynamic images, and use them to organize our attitude toward life and death. Similarly we can always rethink the limits of who and where we are. We have always been connected to so much — our loved ones, people who have died already, our childhood, our past and future selves, our past and future places — that we can always think about new ways to belong to them.”

JOHN ERICKSON “JED” DEPPMAN Modernism and the World, and Itineraries of Postmodernism, French Joyce, Introduction to Literary Translation and Advanced Translation Workshop: Prose and Drama. He was also known for teaching a sought-after first-year seminar Ars Moriendi: Death and the Art of Dying, which included community service components and exemplified experiential learning.

Jed lived a full life. He was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2008, but nonetheless taught full time, travelled the world, lived abroad, and made significant contributions to the academic community. He appreciated life’s every moment and will be remembered for his deep love of his family and friends, dedication to his students, fierce intelligence, sharp sense of humor, and for his exhortation to us all to live.

In his final essay “Coda: Living

Perhaps they do not go so far As we who stay, suppose.

Emily Dickinson, 1877.

In addition to his wife and two daughters, Jed is survived by his mother; Elizabeth A. McLain and her husband, John H. Fitzhugh, of West Berlin, Vt.; father John C. Deppman, and his wife Clara Yu, of Fort Myers, Fla.; sister Ann A. Deppman (Vance DeBouter) of Oberlin, Ohio; brother Benjamin H. Deppman (Lesley Deppman), of Cornwall, Vt.; aunt Lynn McLain of Chestertown, Md.; cousin Joseph Cook, of Baltimore, Md.; and seven nieces and nephews: Victor, Kent, Alden, John, Jack, Lydia and Calvin.

In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to the Program of Comparative Literature at Oberlin College in Jed’s memory or to the Colon Cancer Alliance, 1025 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 1066, Washington, DC 2005. ◊

Alice Kustra, 93, formerly of Vergennes SHELBURNE — Alice Patricia (Hamel) Kustra, 93, passed away on June 12, 2019, at The Arbors in Shelburne, Vt. Alice (or Pat as she was called in Vt.) was born to Stephen Joseph Martin and Julia Walsh Martin on January 29, 1926, in New York City.

Pat was married to Aubert J. (Bill) Hamel and raised their three children after moving to Vergennes.

She worked first as an L.P.N., then returned to school to get her R.N. and subsequently her B.S. in nursing from Trinity College. Nursing became her focused career with experience in all phases of nursing.

Alice decided to further her education by getting her Master’s in Social Work from Adelphi University.

She worked at DeGoesbriand and Mary Fletcher and Porter hospitals, and as a school nurse at Vergennes Union High School, as well as for PSRO and as a nursing home administrator.

She loved being a nurse but found liberation in her artwork. For decades, her children’s and grandchildren’s birthdays were enriched by her watercolor paintings on the birthday cards she composed.

Alice was known in the family as Gaga, and her special recipe for relish carries that moniker. In

more recent years, Pat worked for SRS in Vermont and then for DCF and hospice in Florida. She then dedicated her talents to creating paintings of religious scenes that ultimately became the stained glass windows in the church she attended, and went on to complete a yet larger project on a second church.

That part of her work as an artist lasted nine years, during which she referred to it as “The Lord’s Work.”

Pat is survived by her husband Joseph Kustra of Zephyrhills, Fla.; and children Patricia (Hamel) Austin, Stephen J. Hamel and his wife Barbara, and Michael J. Hamel and his wife Deborah. Gaga is survived by her grandchildren Julia Austin and husband Jeffrey Chapman, Alice Austin and husband Ross Johnson, Alison Hamel, Erika Hamblett and husband Marcus, Adam Hamel and Heather Kehler, Jennifer Jarvis and husband Chris, and Robert Hamel. She is also survived by her great-grandchildren Chase Hamblett, Chelsea and Michael Jarvis, and Eleanor Hamel.

Alice also leaves a number of cherished nieces and nephews.

Alice Patricia was predeceased by husband Aubert (Bill) Hamel, her parents and her siblings Vincent, Ellen, Robert, Julia, George and

ALICE PATRICIA (HAMEL) KUSTRA Jane.

Alice’s family is profoundly grateful to the wonderful Arbors staff for their loving care of our beloved Alice.

A celebration of her life will be held on Saturday, July 6, at 2 p.m., at the Brown McClay Funeral Home, 48 South Maple Street, Vergennes, Vt. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Alice’s memory to the Alzheimer’s Association.◊

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CASTLETON — Caleb Comire Axelson, 37, of Castleton, Vt., died due to natural causes from an undiagnosed heart condition. He passed peacefully on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, at the Jack Byrne Hospice Center in Lebanon, N.H. with his family, beloved Thor, and dear friend Inza by his side.

Caleb was born March 30, 1982, in Middlebury, Vt., the son of Ellen Scranton and Mark Axelson.

He grew up in Castleton and Middlebury and graduated from Middlebury Union High School in 2001 and then graduated from Wyoming Technical College. He spent his early years practicing stunts on his dirt bike and perfecting his car’s sound system. He was a natural with a wrench in his hand as well as a talented gardener.

Caleb loved the outdoors, had a passion for fishing and camping and a bond like no other with his dog, Thor. Caleb enjoyed bicycle

riding with Thor, the History and Discovery channels, and sitting by the water. He also enjoyed gathering wildflowers to give out as bouquets and was always eager to lend a helping hand. Caleb was a hard worker and was employed in the construction field for several area companies.

Caleb leaves behind his mother and father both of Castleton, two brothers Levi Norton of Winooski and Ira Norton and his partner Emma Mason, both of St. Johnsbury, sister Rachel Axelson and brother-in-law Justin Bayles, and two nieces, Madeline and Evelyn of Rhode Island, as well as aunts, uncles, cousins and many friends who became family.

A celebration of his life will be on CALEB COMIRE AXELSON Sunday, July 21, from 2 to 4 p.m., at Durfee Funeral Home in Fair donations in his honor to the Rutland Haven.

Caleb had a deep compassion for County Humane Society would be animals without homes, therefore greatly appreciated.◊

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New Rokeby exhibits highlight old ‘stuff’ & art FERRISBURGH — Rokeby Museum announces new exhibits and programs for 2019. Three new gallery exhibits are planned, as well as a series of workshops, lecture programs, and special events, in addition to guided tours and the museum’s multi-media exhibit “Free & Safe: The Underground Railroad in Vermont.” The museum is now open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Oct. 27.

“Amassed and Up-ended: Decoding the Legacy of Stuff,” on view July 15-Oct. 27, gathers objects, artworks, and documents

representing four generations of the Robinson family, who lived at Rokeby from 1793 to 1961. The exhibit explores how what we save over a lifetime gives voice to some of our stories, and silences others.

Two exhibits featuring the work of contemporary Vermont artists are featured in “Rokeby Through the Lens,” on exhibit now through June 16, and “Structure”, an exploration of the built environment, Aug. 24-Oct. 17, make connections between the Museum’s historic collections and landscape, and the vision of contemporary artists.

Workshop and lecture programs transport Rokeby’s history to the 21st century by way of contemporary scholarship and practice.

Workshops range from spoon carving and a naturalist-led investigation of century trees, to caring for endangered bats and learning to engage across differences when having difficult conversations.

Lecture programs feature the authors of new books, including Emily Bernard (“Black is the Body”), Teresa Mares (“Life on the Other Border”), and Ross Conrad (“The History of Beekeeping in

Vermont”). Other talks will explore the history of tourism in Vt. (Blake Harrison), working with slate (sculptor Kerry O. Furlani), and “When the Church and Republicans were Radical” (Elise Guyette).

Family friendly festivals feature Rokeby’s 35th annual Pie and Ice Cream Festival on Aug. 18, with string music by the Meatpackers and the Fiddleheads, and new this year, ArtRokeby, a festival of art and art-making on Aug. 24.

For more information and a complete list of programs and events, visit rokeby.org.

5-Town silent auction to be held on Bristol Green, July 4 BRISTOL — Along with all the other July 4 activities in Bristol this year, 5-Town Friends of the Arts are holding a silent auction on the green. The auction will feature an large array of items and original art.

An added attraction is the “Chairity” part of the silent auction — six local artists have painted chairs, all works of art. It takes place all day with bids closing at 2 p.m.

5-Town Friends of the Arts is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Bristol, Lincoln, New Haven, Monkton, and Starksboro, area residents by providing opportunities for all commun i t y members to participate in and appreciate the arts and

cultural heritage of our region.

All proceeds from the silent auction, along with annual donations to 5-TFA, support scholarships for three Mount Abraham Union High School seniors who plan to pursue the arts in college, community grants, an instrument rental and group lessons program, arts and cultural education programs, and special events for the community. In addition, these efforts support 5-TFA’s affiliates, Art on Main and the Bristol Historical Society.

Get ready to bid.

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BARBARA OUIMETTE, A volunteer from Ferrisburgh, stands with the new volunteer banner at the recent night of volunteer appreciation at The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes.

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Boys and Girls Club gives thanks to local volunteers VERGENNES — The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes recognized their volunteers on Friday, June 7, at the club. Director Jill Strube and volunteer coordinator Janet Gibbs hosted them with handmade pastries and gave then each a gift from Danforth Pewter.

A new volunteer banner, made by a

volunteer and featuring their names and photos, was also revealed.

Members remarked that the Boys and Girls Club has a fine core group of dedicated volunteers who help in various ways to keep the organizaFLOWERS CHAIR PAINTED by artist Cynthia Kling is one of the tion running smoothly. The event’s chairs in the 5-Town Friends of the Arts “July 4 Chair-ity” silent aim was to show these volunteers auction. how much they are appreciated.

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milestones births

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Alison Lussier and Mathew Portzer of Benson, June 18, a girl, Adalyn Grayce Portzer.

Tiffany Kennett and Seath DeCelle of Salisbury, June 20, a boy, Colton Dennis DeCelle.

Jennifer (Carrier) and Justin Stone of Brandon, June 21, a girl, Derrlynn Chevelle Stone.

Helen Hill and Codey Corse of Vergennes, June 24, a girl, Evelyn Louise Corse.

Thank you, Eleanor

ON FATHER’S DAY, 90-year-old Eleanor Scully was honored by the Lincoln Fire Company. Since 1990, Eleanor has served the Lincoln community as a first responder. Eleanor also worked for the Bristol Rescue, which serves Bristol, Monkton, New Haven, Starksboro, and Lincoln. Before moving to Lincoln, she and her husband, Bud, were EMTs in New Jersey for 17 years.

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Roman Mayer wins first Walter S. Burnham Award LINCOLN — Mount Abraham Union High School graduating senior Roman Mayer of Lincoln, has been chosen to receive the inaugural Walter S. Burnham Award. Walter Burnham’s 1919 will allocates funds for “rewards of merit to school children” through academics and involvement in community service.

Mayer understands the importance of citizens taking care of one another. His experiences in the Lincoln community and beyond have taught him the value of giving of himself and in contributing to make Lincoln a great place to live. He befriended a neighbor battling cancer and helped the neighbor’s wife with snow shoveling and chores around the house

as well as helping to pack over 20,000 meals for people in need in Haiti.

Mayer has won a state wrestling championship and has been involved with the Eagles Youth Wrestling Team, inspiring young wrestlers to be good sports and work hard. An honor student all four years of high school, Mayer will attend college on a wrestling scholarship and plans to study business and compete in collegiate wrestling.

Because of his enthusiasm and activism, Mayer is well deserving of the award and a check for $500.

For students interested in applying for the 2020 Walter S. Burnham Award, check the Lincoln Town website.

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Moms (Continued from Page 1A) they were learning about, and reflected on their own lives.

“You can’t honestly look at American history and not wrestle with questions of justice and inequality,” says Kelly.

As part of the class, they invited Khan to speak about his experience as a Muslim man in Vermont. Khan has done plenty of interfaith work.

He has served as vice president for the nonprofit Kids for Peace Vermont, which hosts a summer camp every year for Muslim, Jewish and Christian kids from Israel, Palestine and Vermont. He used to be president of the Islamic Society of Vermont. He has done workshops with Vermont’s border patrol, teaching them how to

handle cultural differences they might encounter on the job.

He told me that he isn’t a great public speaker. So he was nervous.

But, he says, “the moment I walked in, I saw their faces and I felt so comfortable.” The participants seemed to connect to him immediately.

“I liked how he talked about his family and his whole face lit up,” Edgerly told me. “It was so easy for him to talk about his emotions.”

“It was such an honor to see him and participants really present,” says Kelly, “doing something that I think our country needs desperately, which is both to listen to each other and to tell these vulnerable stories.”

The class culminated with a book

of participants’ writing. But two of the writers, Edgerly and Ylexeus Palacio, wanted to take the project one step further.

Over the winter they worked with me on creating a podcast about the class. We were all new to the medium. We sought a quiet recording space in the basement but forgot to account for the scampering of toddler feet.

We built a blanket fort in their classroom and laid in it on the floor to try and get good sound. We read their words over and over again.

In the finished podcast, they each read their work, which is raw and personal and moving.

Visit our website, addisonindependent.com, to listen to their work.

Shorey (Continued from Page 1A) as a youngster her nuclear family had moved from state to state, from California and eventually back East.

Shorey, who recently turned 65, said she and her husband Phil, a stonemason who died in 2013, and their three children eventually found a home in Ferrisburgh and at VUHS. “I found community by my career here. I moved so much. And for Phil and me there has been a sense of community that we never felt we would experience, through both our work and through our kids,” Shorey said.

Truthfully, it was also about her students and what they meant to her, and she meant to them. Shorey, for instance, remembers all too well the night her husband was stricken at their home and died. A former student she had once had to discipline but had gone on to become a Vergennes Area Rescue Squad EMT, was first on the scene.

He comforted her, put a hand on her shoulder and told her she had done a good job for Phil, but VARS could take over now. Shorey remembered the contrast from his early school years.

“I put him in detention. I made him repaint a picnic table at the elementary school. He had graffitied it and left his initials there. And I hunted him down,” Shorey said. “And he marched over there and met with the custodian and sanded it down and re-shellacked it. And he told me senior year it was the best thing I could have done. And he was the first one through the door to try to save Phil. How can I even tell you that how meaningful that is to me?”

Another time, even earlier, another VARS EMT and former student showed up when her daughter was in a car accident — even though he wasn’t on call.

Shorey had to pause for an occasional deep breath as she related those incidents, or discussed the students approaching her at graduation, or her receiving other signs of respect and affection as she approached retirement.

A letter to Shorey from a sophomore concluded: “Every day I’ll try to follow in your footsteps and inspire others, because of how much it meant to me when you did it. Thank you, Lee.” Shorey, typically seen at VUHS with her certified therapy dog,

LEE SHOREY AND her ever-present companion, Commodore, stroll down a VUHS hallway. Commodore is a certified therapy dog, and one thing Shorey will do now that she has left VUHS after 40 fruitful years both inside and outside the classroom is take Commodore to visit other schools.

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Commodore, summed up, “I’ve found community in this school, and I want to give it back to them any way I can.”

FINDING VUHS Shorey did not come immediately to VUHS after completing her undergraduate education; she and Phil first headed to Woodstock.

But before long the Shoreys and more than two-dozen friends bought Ecole Champlain, once an exclusive summer camp on Kingsland Bay in Ferrisburgh. It is now Kingsland Bay State Park.

They accepted troubled students from around the Northeast into what they renamed as the Kingsland Bay School. Eventually they contracted solely with the state of Vermont, and ultimately sold the property to the state, which transformed the property into the park. Shorey and others briefly ran the school in Vergennes. But by 1979 most of it was absorbed into VUHS. The VUHS program served what Shorey called “high-risk” area students who needed extra attention.

What Shorey and others who came along to VUHS offered was the Tutorial Assistance Program, or TAP. She denies having any official leadership position, although she coordinated eight other teachers while teaching three subjects; she settled on “lead teacher.”

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By 2001 the program had a new acronym, ACT, for Alternative Collaborative Team. It served grades 7 through 9 with an alternative to typical classroom education that included the first VUHS boat-building collaboration with the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Nick Patch.

“We would work on them (students) on the mountain. We would work on them in canoes, on the water, just really great wonderful stuff,” Shorey said.

“What we would do with horseback riding, I don’t think an insurance company would even consider doing that now. We were out and about all the time.”

RESPONSE RESOURCE CTR Maybe a decade ago Shorey and planning room mainstay Laurie Steadman were discussing Steadman and teachers’ frustrations with the VUHS disciplinary system.

The planning room was where teachers would send disruptive students to chill out, which allowed (See Looking ahead, Page 11A)

MIDDLEBURY — On June 19 at around 1:30 a.m. Middlebury police were called to Maple Street to assist Middlebury Regional Emergency Medical Service (MREMS) with a woman who was injured and needed help.

The woman told police that she and an acquaintance had been drinking and each had consumed five or six tall boys (cans of beer).

She said they were yelling at each other and she slipped and fell, but said there was no physical fight.

The woman said she hurt her leg or ankle and could not walk, so she was transported to Porter Hospital and the other person walked.

In other recent activity, Middlebury police: • On June 17 at a quarter past midnight looked into a report of an assault on Court Street.

• On June 17 went to Porter Hospital to investigate a traffic accident. The officer found that the motorcycle had crashed on Route 30 in Hubbardton. Vermont State Police continue the investigation.

• On June 17 caught two dogs found running down Cady Road and turned them over to Homeward Bound animal shelter.

• On June 17 responded to South Street to a report of a domestic disturbance in a vehicle but could not find the vehicle or its occupants.

• On June 17 assisted fire department officials in locating the owners of a Weybridge Street house.

• On June 17 helped out a female having a mental health issue.

• On June 17 looked into a report that a vehicle had hit a mailbox on Case Street but could not find the vehicle.

• On June 18 at 2:04 a.m. received a report of a suspicious person near Porter Hospital.

• On June 18 assisted a female having a mental health episode.

• On June 18 helped MREMS get a female who may have overdosed to the hospital.

• June 18 at a little before noon took a report from a person working on a construction project at the Middlebury Inn, who reported that he was in the parking lot, telling a woman she should not be driving through to get to the Charter House when she hit him with her car in the

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front of the knees, just below the knee cap, and he fell on the hood of her car.

The man told police that it hurt, and he has some swelling and pain now in his right knee. He had a picture of the vehicle and gave a description matching one of the owners of the vehicle. The officer cited Louise White, 71, of Middlebury for assault and gave her a no trespass notice for the Middlebury Inn. • On June 18 assisted MREMS with a medical call in the Cottage Lane neighborhood.

• On June 18 began investigating a harassing letter sent via U.S. Mail to a woman at her work on Main Street.

• On June 18 investigated a dog bit in the Evergreen Lane neighborhood.

• On June 18 cited Anny Jenkins, 35, of Middlebury for retail theft on Court Street Extension.

• On June 18 looked into a report that large farm machinery had caused property damage on Munger Street.

• On June 18 at 6:52 p.m. found an intoxicated transient passed out in the gazebo on the town green and took the person to detox.

• On June 19 collected a knife found on the town green.

• On June 19 investigated a report of a stolen key and phone.

• On June 19 took a report from a man who said he returned home and saw several juveniles on his property get into a vehicle and flee.

He unsuccessfully tried to stop them, so he followed the vehicle to Mead Lane. Police made contact with the vehicle in question, and the officer said the juvenile driver of the vehicle was argumentative. A passenger in the back seat (apparently the boyfriend of the driver) told the officer that he had his paycheck mailed to the address of the original call and he showed the officer the check to explain why they had been at the house. The driver said she had permission to have her boyfriend’s check mailed to the house.

Another officer talked with the resident who called in the incident.

That resident said the juvenile was not allowed to be with the other juveniles and asked police to bring her to him, which they did. Case closed.

• On June 20 checked the gorge swimming area during a period of high water.

• On June 20 assisted Vermont State Police with an investigation.

• On June 21 at a little after midnight logged a 911 call of a “woman screaming for help” outside, possibly near the green.

Police checked the area, including downtown parking areas, but found nothing suspicious or concerning.

• On June 21 at around 5:20 p.m. got a 911 call from the Case Street neighborhood; the caller said she heard 15-20 gunshots to the north of her and just wanted to make sure “it was safe.” An officer went to the location and spoke with the caller who said she thought the shots came from near the airport. The officer checked Airport Road and heard shots coming from near Burnham Drive. The officer spoke with local residents who the officer said were safely shooting at targets.

• On June 21 at around 9 p.m. responded to a report of a fight between two residents at the Charter House shelter. One had been asked to leave the shelter and got into a fight with another resident. Police interviewed subjects and witness, took official statements, and sent the case to the state’s attorney for review. No weapons were involved.

• On June 22 looked into a report of a panhandler at the entrance to the Centre Shopping Plaza. The man moved on without incident.

• On June 23 stopped a vehicle on South Street Extension after receiving a request to be on the lookout for an erratic driver. Police did not report any citations being issued.

• On June 23 made arrangements for a person experiencing a mental health crisis to return to their group home in Burlington.

• On June 24 at around 7 a.m. looked into a report of a person quite close to traffic at the Court Square who was standing, sitting and acting very strange.

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Business News Wyer named CEO at Connor Homes ADDISON COUNTY

MIDDLEBURY Connor Mill-Built — Connor Mill- “I am thrilled to Homes. “Skip is Built Homes LLC join Mike Connor a seasoned leader (CMBH) recently and the rest of the with significant announced the team at CMBH. The financial and hiring of Skip o p e r a t i n g company is driven experience with Wyer as its chief executive officer. by its exceptional start-ups and Wyer, a 1983 design expertise growth stage Middlebury College and has earned businesses. We are graduate, will take a reputation for lucky to have him on the day-to-day beautiful homes as CEO during the leadership of the next phase of our company and will of the highest growth.” join CMBH’s board quality.”

Wyer brings — Skip Wyer with him years of managers.

“I’m delighted of experience to have the opportunity to work investing in, and advising, fastalongside Skip as we build and growing businesses in the real grow Connor Mill-Built Homes,” estate, construction, agriculture and said Mike Connor, founder of technology sectors. He’s a partner

SKIP WYER, LEFT, has taken the reins as chief executive officer of Connor Mill-Built Homes. Mike Connor, right, founded the Middlebury company.

in Vermont Works Management Company, a Burlington-based, social-impact investment firm that supports job growth and job creation in Vermont.

“I am thrilled to join Mike Connor and the rest of the team at CMBH,” said Wyer. “The company is driven by its exceptional design expertise and has earned a reputation for beautiful homes of the highest quality. As a pioneer in the development of off-site or ‘millbuilt’ technologies, we believe the company to be well-positioned to benefit from the growing national trend toward off-site construction.”

Going forward, Mike Connor will focus his efforts on building strategic relationships with homebuilders, residential developers and design partners such as the Winterthur Museum.

He’ll also chair CMBH’s Design Review Committee.

In 1992, Mike Connor established Connor Homes, which specialized in colonial reproduction “kit” homes. The company moved into the 119,000-square-foot former home of Standard Register in 2007 in response to growing demand for its products. He sold most of his interest in the company in 2012, and in early 2017 the new owner laid off all 65 of the company’s employees.

Later that year, Mike Connor got together financing to re-establish the business under the new name, Connor Mill-Built Homes.

CMBH is made up of designers and builders who work out of the company’s mill shop in Middlebury’s industrial park. The company specializes in classic American architecture and offsite or “mill-built” construction methods.

CMBH homes are built by master craftsmen in a controlled environment and are shipped to home sites nationally.

LEAH KELLER AND Brian Carter are continuing the tradition of Bud’s Beans, a small coffee company based in the Marble Works complex in Middlebury. Pictured here are Keller and Bud’s Beans founder and former owner William “Bud” Smith.

Independent photo/John Flowers

New owners take over Bud’s Beans

Keller and Carter take the reins, find new home for the coffee roster

By JOHN FLOWERS years ago that Keller became a MIDDLEBURY — Leah Keller coffee enthusiast. Her passion for and Brian Carter are always on the java further intensified seven years lookout for a good cup of coffee. ago after having tried a cup made They found one so good, they with Bud’s Beans. bought the company.

“That was one of the first really It’s called Bud’s Beans, good cups of coffee I’d ever had,” established in 2000 by Middlebury’s she recalled. “And that was a real William “Bud” Smith. Smith grew eye-opener on how good coffee the tiny enterprise in his own home could be.” and successfully They decided courted a group “Ninety-eight not to tinker with of local stores to Smith’s formula percent of what carry and sell what for success. Smith are seven varieties we sell is probably has stayed on to of expertly roasted within a 5-mile show Keller and beans.

Carter the ropes, radius of where Smith decided to we’re roasting. It’s do occasional sell the business in a really comfortable roasting, and make 2017, and he found deliveries. two very willing size where it is The new owners now. As long as it buyers. have added another Keller and Carter pays the bills and Nicaraguan blend hail from the is sustainable, and a darker roast Sunapee region of we’re happy to to the Columbian, New Hampshire. uatemalan, keep it at this size.” G Leah worked in the Ethopian, Bali — Leah Keller New Hampshire and French Roast Department of varieties that Smith Health’s dairy inspection division, developed during his 17 years while Brian toiled as a carpenter. helming the business. But unlike Keller said she and her husband Smith, Keller and Carter decided to grew weary of the Granite State’s give Bud’s Beans its own address. political situation around seven They found what they believe is the years ago and began looking perfect spot in the Marble Works for a more progressive, pastoral shopping complex in Middlebury. environment in which to reside.

“Since it’s a very small business, That led them to Middlebury, we needed an affordable space,” where they did some house hunting, Keller said. “At the time, there ultimately agreeing to buy a home were a couple of affordable spaces offered up by the aforementioned in Middlebury, and this was the Bud Smith. best option.”

It was a real estate transaction It’s the perfect size for their that blossomed into a friendship, 3-Kilogram Diedrich roaster, which and eventually, a business can handle 5.75 pounds of beans at agreement. a time. Each batch dwindles to a “We were settling in and little under five pounds at the end waiting to see what developed,” of the roasting process, according said Keller, who had accepted an to Keller. The trusty Diedrich heats early retirement offer from the the beans to the target temperature.

Department of Health. “Bud was Roasting coffee isn’t just a saying that he wanted to retire matter of pushing buttons and from the coffee business, and at monitoring gauges; there’s an art to that point, I’d been not working it. Roast the beans too long, and the for long enough that I was ready to coffee tastes flat. If you don’t roast take on something new.” it long enough, you don’t get the It’s their first coffee-related special flavor notes buried within venture. In fact, it was only a dozen the beans.

“The different coffees have different properties, in terms of how long it takes them to roast,” Keller noted. “Some are better on a shorter roast, some on a longer roast. A lot of it is being able to look at the color of the beans as they’re roasting, the sound of them, and then the flavor. It depends on the particular coffee and getting (the roasting) just right to bring out the best in the coffee.”

The couple sources its coffee beans through a few trusted brokers.

“As truly a micro roaster, we work closely with specialty green coffee brokers to buy small quantities of single-origin coffees from around the world,” reads an entry on the Bud’s Beans website. “We buy mostly organically grown coffee and, as much as possible, fair trade so that the farmers growing the green coffee are provided with a sustainable, living wage for their work.”

Keller and Carter have no plans, at this point, to make Bud’s Beans a booming business. They want to keep it a small, three-person operation supplying a combined total of roughly 150 pounds of coffee per week to just a handful of loyal outlets that include the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op, the Middlebury Bagel & Deli, the Otter Creek Bakery, Shafer’s Market, The Daily Grind, Wood’s Market Garden in Brandon and Vermont Marketplace in Bristol.

“Ninety-eight percent of what we sell is probably within a 5-mile radius of where we’re roasting,” Keller said. “It’s a really comfortable size where it is now.

As long as it pays the bills and is sustainable, we’re happy to keep it at this size.”

Roasting’s rewards go beyond dollars and cents, according to Keller. She said the favorite part of her job is “having people say, ‘I really like your coffee,’ It’s nice to know you’re doing something right, and that people appreciate what you’re doing.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

National Bank of Middlebury names promotions lending.

Meaghan McLaughlin has been appointed vice president.

Prior to her appointment, she served as assistant vicepresident and Middlebury and South business market manager, a position she will continue to hold in addition to Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) MCLAUGHLIN officer.

DOBSON Amy Piasecki has been named retail loan operations manager.

With a 13-year tenure at the bank, Piasecki has worked as a teller, loan services representative and, most recently, a retail community lender. She has also been made a bank officer.

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Looking ahead

Energy (Continued from Page 1A) speaking, boomed.

Over the next two years he and Marion, who would become the business manager and solar engineer for the installations, hired three employees focused on outdoor installations, and another two people inside the store to handle the office work and design — and today, with Cobb moving into retirement, Marion is looking to add another outdoor installer and indoor person to help continue the business’s growth.

It’s been a good ride.

“We’ve grown our business and added employees, had fun and still expect solar installations to continue,” Marion said recently in a brief interview crammed within a busy day. She noted, though, that CHRIS MARION OF Bristol Electronics, shown at one of her solar future growth is not without its installations last year, said the boom days of solar expansion are concerns. over but the industry is still growing nicely in Vermont.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell A specific state rate incentive on a kilowatt-per-hour basis for solar “I’m not expecting booming CEAC board member and New power is to be cut in half, from growth” like in the early years of Haven resident Spence Putnam. two cents to one cent, and a federal clean energy, Perchlik said. Rather The report also found a mismatch investment tax credit of the initial he predicts the sector will continue between available clean energy jobs purchase of a solar unit is to be cut to grow steadily at about the same and those seeking employment, a from 30 to 26 percent starting Jan. rate as the past few years. problem which is common across 1, 2020 — which means, Marion Sen. Christopher Bray, D-New many industries in the state. said, that while buying solar “is Haven, who is chair of the Senate Clean energy employers indicated still a smart choice, the return Energy Committee, nonetheless, still increased difficulties in hiring on investment will take slightly sees lots of room for growth in the experienced and qualified workers. longer.”

This is likely partially due to sector.

STATEWIDE GROWTH “As we continue to build out our Vermont’s low unemployment rate The growth at Bristol Electronics energy programs we’re going to hire of 2.35 which is well below the over the past decade more and more people, national average. But, Vermonters mirrors the growth almost exclusively without a high school degree have an in renewable energy, Vermonters,” he above average unemployment rate as a business sector, said, adding that by of 9.5%. The report recommends throughout the state. producing energy support for training and educational Vermont currently within the state Vermont programs as a way to improve has the nation’s highest is able to pump a lot of the match between the needs of per capita employment new money into the employers and potential employees. rate in clean energy The Addison County Economic local economy. at 5.7 percent of its Corporation “Every time we Development workforce. According start supplying energy (ACEDC), headed by Executive to the recently released for ourselves in-state, Director Fred Kenney, is working 2019 Vermont Clean “Every time we we stop exporting our with the Addison County Workforce Energy Industry energy dollars out of Alliance to ensure that the training Report, the sector start supplying state,” he explained, and education employers need is employs nearly 18,900 energy for thus supporting the being offered in Addison County, workers with 782 ourselves inor is available to residents in other state’s economy. of those employed state, we stop locations.

CHANGES IN THE in Addison County. exporting our NEW EMPLOYMENT DATA INDUSTRY Growth boomed in For the first time since the annual While the wellenergy dollars the early years, about report started in 2014, the report established solar a decade ago, and has out of state.” provides information about the industry in Vermont — Sen. settled down as the clean energy employment in each needs fewer part-time Christopher Bray industry has matured. employees than it did county.

Director of Vermont’s Addison County is home to 4.1 in its early stages, both Clean Energy Development Fund Sen. Bray and Perchlik see this percent of the state’s clean energy Andrew Perchlik explained that as a call for the state to focus on employees with clean energy the maturity of the sector has more other types of renewable energy, jobs making up 3.9 percent of people working in clean energy particularly thermal energy and employment in the county. full-time with fewer part-time the electrification of transportation Chittenden County is a clear employees. In the past year, the (See chart Figure 5). frontrunner with 8.5 percent of its number of overall clean energy Bray also believes the state must jobs related to clean energy. Rutland employees grew by 126 workers continue to increase the size and has 4.5 percent, Bennington 4.7 (which includes all aspects of scope of Vermont’s clean energy percent, Washington 6.9 percent renewable energy from manufacturer programs to meet the growing and Essex 7.2 percent. Clean energy to installation to lawyers), while the threat of climate change. That call employment in Addison County has number of full-time workers rose by has been taken up by the Climate grown approximately 1.8 percent 3,424 employees.

Economy Action Center of Addison over the past year, according to the Construction remains the County (CEAC). The CEAC’s goal data researcher for the Department cornerstone of clean energy is to use carbon reduction as a way of Public Service. employment, making up 44 percent to improve the local economy and “As a rural county one of the of the 18,900 jobs, while wholesale envisions a local economy that does things we’re seeing is that we’re trade is in second with 22 percent not rely on fossil fuels. home to a lot of energy generated,” of workers. (See charts below.) But “If we really move quickly in that Bray said. But most of the expectations are for the industry direction, Addison County would companies, and their workers, are to see more modest growth going be at the forefront of what would located in more populous areas. forward.

Companies such as SunCommon basically be a new economy,” said are based in Washington County, but frequently build in Addison County.

“We get the benefit of a solar array, but the jobs are counted towards a different county,” explained Kenney.

Kenney, Putnam and Bray all see room for improvement in Addison County’s ability to create jobs in the sector, particularly in weatherization and other energy efficiency upgrades.

Meanwhile, Chris Marion is looking toward a future with substantial upside in the solar market still in her sights. “Solar is not dead at all,” she said, adding that it may no longer be the boom days, but steady growth is still on the horizon.

close friend.

(Continued from Page 9A) “In 2009 I lost Beth Houskeeper classrooms to function.

But Shorey said those students’ to breast cancer. Her daughter, behavior wouldn’t change, and Kate, was like my fairy godthey were missing valuable daughter,” Shorey said. “We had lost Beth in the spring and I saw classroom time.

The solution took many forms. Kate in the corner with a vacant VUHS created a mid-day callback look in her eye and I thought, time where students could meet ‘How could I get through to her?’ with teachers to catch up on missed And I turned to the whole class and work, and a morning meeting I asked, ‘How many of you have system that allowed advisors to been affected by cancer in your communicate with students who lives?’ Over half of them raised their hands, and I go, ‘So, what are needed to be called back.

And Shorey, colleague Ralph we going to do about it?’”

That moment sparked a Bernardini and Steadman came up with another idea, to use techniques discussion that led to the first from Shorey’s programs and apply walkathon. The senior class walked them to discipline throughout from VUHS to Porter Hospital, the school. Soon the Resource part of the way over each of three Response Center — or RRC — was days, raising pledges for aid to women in financial need for free born to replace the planning room. mammograms.

“It was responding The class raised in a way that was “I found $4,500, and the walks having kids understand have since become an through teaching what community annual fall fixture. The they need to change in by my career order to keep learning,” here. I moved senior class decides Shorey said. so much. And on a cause, typically connected to a class or In the new system for Phil and community member, Steadman would still collects pledges, and get the call, but an RRC me there has stages a walkathon. member — they include been a sense Counseling Service of community This past fall senior of Addison County that we never raised about $4,000 for members and school felt we would the Love Your Brain foundation in honor of a employees — would experience, classmate. respond. The RRC The fall walkathon member could cover the through both class and allow teachers our work and occurs while younger students are taking to have a conversation through our standardized tests. in a hallway or private kids.”

Shorey thought about location, or remove the — Lee Shorey sending seniors back student if necessary. Or to their elementary if the issue was more widespread among the students in a schools during spring testing. By room ask them to circle up with the combining service projects and teacher and the counselor and work mentoring, she said several goals could be accomplished, including out an answer.

“It would happen so quickly that reinforcing the class’s bonds.

Projects have including planting student could continue with the class if we were good with what trees, mulching playgrounds, we wanted to do in the situation,” and creating time capsules. This Shorey said. “There were all these year, Shorey asked seniors to different things RRC could do to give advice to sixth-graders, keep learning going and enhance it something she said meant not only a lot to younger students, but also on some level.” crystallized for older students how EXTRACURRICULAR Many will remember Shorey’s far they had come.

“They talk about who they extracurricular efforts even more.

Her work to create the first senior are, where they’re going, what class walkathon came in the fall memory they have,” Shorey said. of 2009 after a mutual tragedy in “It brought tears to all of our eyes, Shorey’s life and in that of one what those seniors said to all of of her student’s — the death of a those sixth-graders.”

Those tears came mostly from teachers, who were able to reconnect with students they had not seen for much of six years.

“I want teachers to know the impact they have on students,” Shorey said. “Back to The Roots was all about that, to have teachers see how students have grown through the system, and each of them have had a piece of it.”

Teachers appreciate any such feedback, Shorey said.

“You do it all day long through 185 days teaching in front of a class … They’re raising up a student from grief or sadness and they’re still getting that German lesson out. It’s that all-encompassing role that they play,” she said. “And the amount of feedback a teacher gets is minimal, minimal. And what keeps them going, what drives them, is the response from the students and what they get back from the students. That’s what we feed off of.”

LOOKING AHEAD Three years ago Shorey retired as a special education teacher, but administrators persuaded her to remain fulltime and run a leaner RRC operation.

“I was gung ho to keep that going. I wasn’t finished with that yet,” Shorey said.

But she said she has plenty to keep herself busy in retirement, including with Commodore.

“I get a posting every month where you can bring your therapy dog. And I’ve gotten invitations to go the schools after the school shootings. After the Parkland shooting I couldn’t go, and there’s post-traumatic stress that’s going on now. I can go with Commodore,” Shorey said. “Everything I’ve done here … and I say, ‘Not on my watch. Not on my watch.’”

She also intends to travel and meet at least one of her idols, the Pakistani activist Malala, but also to finish what she and Phil hoped to do at their house.

“Our plans were when we both retired that Phil would work on his own home, and that is something I’m determined to do,” Shorey said.

But she also hints VUHS might not have seen the last of her.

“I just feel there’s a lot I can do and maybe come back as a resource for this school,” Shorey said.

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By the way (Continued from Page 1A) to meet today — Thursday, June 27 — at 7 p.m. at the town hall to consider changes to the zoning and subdivision regulations that they fear will make it easier to set up an “event space” in an LDR zone. Incidentally, the meeting was warned on June 10. We’re told that there may be a turnout at a type of meeting that is typically a bit of a snoozer.

Folks in the Little City passed on to us the message that St. Peter’s Closet, 85 South Maple St., in Vergennes is now opened.

The resale shop has lightly used clothes for all ages and household items. Store hours are Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

The Vermont Community Loan Fund recently announced that it had lent $522,000 last quarter to small local businesses and economic development projects. Among those getting financing was Full Belly Farm in Monkton (yes, the same one mentioned in our story on strawberries in this edition.). In 2018 Stephen and Sarah Park purchased this long-operating berry and vegetable farm, which operates as a “pick your own” destination, as well as selling to wholesalers, restaurants and farmers markets. Loan Fund financing will help with soil building, greenhouse and farm stand improvements and more. VCLF said the loan preserves 12 jobs.

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(Continued from Page 1A) and too wet. But our strawberries were in the ground already — they didn’t have to be planted, so at least it wasn’t a question of having to go out and work wet soil.”

The key word for this season, she added, is “patience.”

“Organic local strawberries are something people wait for all year and they’re happy to wait a little longer,” she said.

And many of them are loyal customers.

“We’ve been doing this for many, many years. We have the same people coming to pick as we did 30 years ago, and now they’re bringing their kids and grandkids.”

In Middlebury, Marblerose Farm off Route 116 is producing halfdollar-size organic strawberries, said owner Tom Kruk.

And eager customers are taking them away as soon as they ripen.

“Last week I posted on Front Porch Forum about our weekend U-pick hours,” Kruk said. “It was STRAWBERRY PICKING SEASON began a little late because of the poor spring weather, but Stephen so busy, I had to get someone to Park, who runs Full Belly Farm on Davis Road in Monkton, still expects to produce 30,000 to 40,000 help me just with the parking. We pounds of berries this summer.

Independent photo/Steve James were picked clean before Sunday.”

On Tuesday morning, before premier strawberry growers in the Farm to Plate Network — which the strawberry season. another round of rain set it, one region. The Independent wasn’t launched a statewide radio “You get the perfect day, like Marblerose customer picked three able to reach them for this story, campaign encouraging consumers we had last weekend, and you go quarts in about 10 but the farm has been to head out to their local strawberry out into the field and you overpick, minutes, Kruk said. keeping its customers patches, farm stands and markets. right? Maybe your eyes are bigger Predictably, sales “Organic local updated through its “We wait all year to buy these than your stomach and you say to at established retail strawberries are Facebook page. berries,” said Annie Harlow, who yourself, ‘What am I doing? This stores are also off to something people Wood’s Market works with ACORN, Rooted in is crazy!’ But you keep picking a slow start. picked its very Vermont and other local food anyway because it’s a perfect wait for all year “I’ve been the and they’re first strawberries organizations. “But the weather day and these strawberries are so buyer here for 11 happy to wait a if 2019 on June really matters. Thankfully, this beautiful and juicy.” years and this is the 18. Five days later spring the rain ended up being What to do with all those extra latest season I’ve little longer.” they were picking good — the plants had a strong strawberries?

— Eugenie Doyle of the Sable variety vegetative state. But then the ever experienced,” “Flash freeze them. Or make Last Resort Farm of strawberries and question becomes, ‘Where’s the jam. Or pack them into the freezer said Kira Winslow, produce manager offering them up — sun?’ The worst-case scenario is for future smoothies, so that when at the Middlebury Natural Foods along with biscuits and cream — at when the berries are ripe and then winter comes you can think back to Co-op. their farm stand. it rains and no one wants to come that beautiful June day when you Strawberries have been “We are a few days into the pick them.” picked them.” “dribbling in so far,” she said, summer season on berries,” they Even as she checks and rechecks Reach Christopher but the Co-op was expecting to informed one customer Monday the weather, Harlow has been Ross at christopherr@ get quarts this week from Wood’s morning. “The past few years thinking about ways to “extend” addisonindependent.com.

Market Garden, an organic grower we’ve extended our season with in Brandon. ‘everbearing’ strawberries as well, Jon and Courtney Satz of Wood’s which ripen later in the summer and Market are considered among the into the fall. We will have those at the farm stand after summer berries.”

The spring weather hasn’t stopped local strawberry festivals, either. Around the county, three were scheduled for this week — June 24 in Vergennes, June 27 in Shoreham and June 30 in Monkton.

“Sunday’s festival in Monkton will end up coming at about the peak of our season, so that’ll be nice,” said Doyle of Last Resort.

According to the 2019 Local Food & Farm Guide put out by the Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN), the Champlain Valley boasts at least 21 farms that grow and sell strawberries. Sadly, after more than four decades in the business, Douglas Orchards in Shoreham decided that 2018 would be their last year selling strawberries (but they still have cherries).

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THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2019

MATT DICKERSON

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Collecting stories about the outdoors As I write this column, the Arkansas River is plowing past outside my hotel window, carrying 100,000 cubic feet of water per second — roughly double its normal volume for this time of year, but only a fifth of what it was carrying just a couple weeks earlier. Some of that water has come all the way down from the Rocky Mountains (where it was once fantastic trout water), flowing across Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and into Arkansas. But much of it fell from the sky within the state in the hills of the Ozark and Ouachita National Forests.

The river will probably rise before it goes down. Arkansas has had a very wet winter and spring. Last night, as I sat in conference talks, a stunning display of lightning flashed outside the window. The thunderstorms brought a night of pounding rain. Flash flood warnings appeared on my cell phone. The mud, which has colored the river like a mocha latte, and which was once soil on some farmland or riverbank upstream, will flow on down into the Mississippi River and get deposited into the Gulf of Mexico.

I’ve spent most of the past three days in this hotel in Little Rock at the annual conference of the Outdoor (See Dickerson, Page 3B)

Tiger track athletes vie in decathlon BURLINGTON — Two Middlebury Union High School track and field athletes competed in the 44th annual Jerry Jasinski Vermont State Decathlon Championships, which were held at the University of Vermont in Burlington on June 17 and 18.

In a field of 72 male high school competitors and four open contestants, Essex High School 10th-grader Wyatt Lamell won the two-day, 10-event competition by amassing 5,639 points.

Gabe Cason, who just finished his junior year at MUHS, earned 26th place with 3,965 points. His Tiger classmate Peter Wolosinski garnered 3,321 points to secure 50th place. Points are awarded to an individual for his performance in each event based on a system created by the International Association of Athletics Federations.

Cason’s scoring with points in parenthesis was as follows: 100 meters, 12.48 seconds (560 points); Lon jump, 16 feet-10.75 inches (411) Shot put, 30’-05” (442); high jump, 4’-05”, (283); 400 meters, 57.12 seconds, (516); 110 high hurdles, 20.05 seconds, (345); discus toss, 68’-04”, (288); pole vault, 10’-06”, (406); javelin throw, 101’-08”, (313); 1,500 meters, 5:29.68, (401).

Wolosinski’s scoring was: 100 meters, 12.89, (487); long jump, 15’-09” (345) shot put, 33’-06.5”, (499); high jump, 4’-07”, (317); 400 meters, 59.86 seconds, (418); 110 high hurdles, 23.54 seconds, (124); discus toss, 75’-01”, (327); pole vault, 7’-00.5”, (169); javelin throw, 98’-06”, (299); 1,500 meters, 5:43.42, (336).

Sports BRIEFS Youth basketball camp scheduled

RYAN WHITCOMB DROPS down a perfect bunt single during Addison County American Legion baseball’s 11-run fourth inning on Sunday. AC topped visiting Montpelier, 14-2, in the team’s first home game to improve to 2-5.

Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy

Legion nine puts away Montpelier

AC win in first game at home sets mark at 2-5

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The Addison County American Legion baseball team finally played a home game on Sunday — their first of the season. It paid off with a 14-2 victory over Montpelier that snapped a five-game skid that included a 10-1 loss at South Burlington three days before.

AC, now 2-5, will have a chance to play again at home this weekend, when the local nine hosts Barre at 5:30 p.m. on Friday and then South Burlington for a doubleheader on Saturday at 11 a.m. Next up will be two games vs. Colchester, on the road on Sunday at noon and at home on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

AC Coach Cameron Curler said Sunday’s five-inning win, fueled by an 11-run fourth-inning, should give his team a lift.

“We needed that game. It helped that they were playing their fourth game in three days, but a lot of teams are going to find themselves in that situation at some point during the summer, ourselves included,” he said.

Curler was particularly happy that the team took to heart some of the points he and the coaching staff emphasized in a practice the

JEFFREY STEARNS RAISES his arms to tell teammate Nolan Whitcomb he can score standing up during the Addison County American Legion baseball team’s 11-run fourth inning on Sunday. AC defeated Montpelier, 14-2.

Photo courtesy of Suzanne Whitaker

day before.

“The things that we talked about at practice on Saturday and the things that we realized we needed to do to score runs we did some of those things, being more aggressive on the basepaths, stealing more bases, putting more pressure on the other team, that sort of thing,” he said. “Guys that can run, we’ve got

to start running.”

The stats backed him up. Curler said in AC’s first six games the team managed only five extra-base hits and four stolen bases. With help from Montpelier’s depleted pitching staff, AC on Sunday cranked five extra-base hits, two doubles apiece from Tucker Stearns and Dustin Whitcomb and a Wyatt Cameron

triple. And the team stole six bases. “(Without extra-base hits) that means it takes three hits to score a guy just about every time, and we’re a decent hitting team, but it’s not easy to get three hits in an inning,” Curler said on Monday.

“Good teams score runs with less than that, and that’s what we’ve got to figure out AC Coach how to do, Curler was and that’s what we did particularly happy that yesterday.”

Montpe- the team lier took a took to 1-0 lead in heart some the first inning off AC of the points starter Jarret he and the Muzzy on coaching a walk and staff H a y d e n emphasized R o b e rg e ’s in a practice two out the day double.

A C before. responded in the bottom of the inning when the first two batters, Tucker Stearns and Jeffrey Stearns, reached base on a walk and infield single, respectively, and scored. Tucker Stearns reached second on a passed ball and came around on an error on Jeffrey Stearns’ hit, and two wild pitches by Montpelier starter Nick (See Legion baseball, Page 3B)

MIDDLEBURY — The annual Mayhem youth basketball camp will be held in the Middlebury Recreation Center from July 22 to 26.

Instruction will be offered by Mayhem Coach Randy Stockwell and by local high school players and, typically, high school and college coaches and local college players.

Morning sessions that will run from 10 a.m. until noon daily will be offered to children who will enter grades 3 through 6 this fall. The cost for the morning sessions will be $110 for residents and $120 for non-residents.

Afternoon sessions that will run from 1 to 4 p.m. daily will be offered to students who will enter grades 7 through 9 this fall. The cost for the afternoon sessions will be $135 for residents and $150 for non-residents.

All proceeds will be put toward area basketball programs.

To register or learn more contact Dustin Hunt at 802-458-8104 or Stockwell at 802-989-9715.

Two pairs prevail at Ralph Myhre MIDDLEBURY — The teams of Dale White and Robert Cameron and Bert Phinney and Richard Wheeler were the top finishers in Ralph Myhre Golf Course’s annual Member-Member Tournament this past weekend.

White and Cameron were the White Tee Flight First Place Gross winners, with Brent Raymond and Luther Tenny taking second.

Steve Maier and John Myhre were the First Place Net winners in the White Tee Flight.

Phinney and Wheeler were the Gold Tee Flight First Place Gross winners, with Tom Maxwell and James Rubright in second. Robert Kirkpatrick and Jim Johnston earned First Place Net honors in the Gold Tee Flight.

In regular weekly play, in the June 19 Wednesday Evening Men’s Scramble the team of Steve Myhre, Larry Provencher, Kris Kelton and Brian Dodd prevailed.

Rain washed out Thursday’s action. In the Friday Night Mixer, the foursome of Bryon Emilo, Julia Emilo, Tony Kinson and Mary Kinson triumphed.

Flack’s victory leads locals in Lake Dunmore Triathlon SALISBURY — Thirty-twoyear-old Kyle Flack of New Haven, winner of the Lake Dunmore Olympic Triathlon, led a contingent of Addison County men who garnered impressive finishes in this past Saturday’s season opener in the Vermont Sun Triathlon Series.

Flack’s winning time was 2:30:53 in the longer of the two swim-bikerun triathlons contested at Branbury State Park in Salisbury on June 22; and Middlebury’s Steve Hare, 62, placed fourth overall in that race in 2:35:28.Vergennes’s Cory Coffey claimed third place in The Vermont Sun Sprint Triathlon in 1:07:51; and Salisbury’s Jeff Schuman, 63, was fourth overall in 1:08:53.

The Olympic Triathlon is a (See Triathlon, Page 2B)

RACERS DASH INTO Lake Dunmore at the start of a Vermont Sun Series triathlon on Saturday morning. Olympic-distance racers swam 1,600 yards, while Sprint-distance racers swam 600 yards.

Photo by Pat Hendrick Photography

PAGE 2B — Addison Independent, Thursday, June 27, 2019

Triathlon

OTTER VALLEY’S JOSH Beayon, playing for the Vermont team, retired nine straight batters, striking out five, vs. New Hampshire in the nightcap of the 2019 Twin State Baseball Classic this past Saturday in White River Junction. Beayon was named Vermont MVP.

Photo by Gino Johnson

Locals excel in all-star games

Vermont does well vs. Granite State

ADDISON COUNTY — A number of recent graduates from local high schools helped Vermont post solid results this past weekend against New Hampshire in annual Twin State senior all-state games.

On Friday, June 21, three Mount Abraham athletes helped Vermont defeat New Hampshire, 3-0, in the Twin-State field hockey game at St. Anselm College in Manchester.

Evan Laurent and Casondra Dykstra helped Vermont control midfield play and not allow New Hampshire to put a shot on either of two Green Mountain goalies, one of whom was their teammate

Chessley Jackman.

On Saturday the 22nd the TwinState girls’ and boys’ lacrosse and baseball games were played.

The girls’ lacrosse game tilted New Hampshire’s way, 23-8.

Middlebury’s Emily Laframboise, an attacker, scored one of the Vermont goals, and midfielders Lacey Greenamyre and Ada Anderson also took the field for Vermont in Lebanon, N.H. The boys’ lacrosse game went the other direction — Vermont rolled to a 21-5 victory. Otter Valley goalie Alex Stevens played half the game and stopped six New Hampshire shots, and OV’s Hayden Gallo netted one of the goals for the winning side.

Vermont and New Hampshire

split a baseball doubleheader played in White River Junction.

In the opener, New Hampshire prevailed, 4-1, and Vermont rolled to an 11-3 win in the nightcap.

OV’s Josh Beayon earned Vermont MVP honors after tossing three scoreless innings and striking out five in the second game; he retired nine straight batters to earn the win as Vermont rallied from an early 3-1 deficit. In the opening game he also doubled and singled.

Middlebury’s Wyatt Cameron also made an impact, singling home the only Vermont run in the opener and then rapping a two-run single to spark a four-run third as Vermont took the lead in the nightcap.

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School senior Wyatt Cameron delivers a pitch at the 2019 Twin State Baseball Classic this past Saturday in White River Junction.

Photo by Gino Johnson

Make-A-Wish hockey games on tap

BURLINGTON — The Annual All-Star Hockey Classic to benefit Make-A-Wish is set for this Saturday at the University of Vermont’s Gutterson Field House, and each of the two senior all-star games will feature Middlebury Union High School graduates.

Tiger alum Aleta Mathers will skate in the women’s game, which will beginning at 4:30 p.m., and Tiger graduate Kolby Farnsworth will take the ice in the men’s game, which follows at 6:45 p.m.

Both games pit Vermont’s top senior skaters against their New

Hampshire counterparts.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for students. Children ages 6 and younger are admitted free. All proceeds go to fulfill special wishes for children with life-threatening medical conditions through Make-AWish Vermont and New Hampshire.

(Continued from Page 1B) 1,600-yard swim in Lake Dunmore followed by a 28-mile bike ride around Dunmore and Fern Lake and finishes with a 6.2-mile run.

The Sprint Triathlon is a 600-yard swim, 14-mile bike and 3.1-mile run. 2019 is the 34th season for the racing series, which started in 1986.

The Lake Dunmore Triathlon started at 8 a.m. Hare finished the swim in third place, but the veteran triathlete made the transition from swim to bike much faster than the leaders and was in first overall heading out on the bike. Flack came out of the water in 4th, 1:26 behind Hare. Flack passed the first two racers in front of him on the road and caught Hare toward the end of the first loop of the bike course. The two traded the lead back and forth before Flack opened up a minute gap on the final climb up “Fish Hatchery Hill.”

Flack had the day’s fastest Olympic bike split (1:14:43, Hare’s was second best) and fourth-best swim.

His 7th-best run (47:35) allowed Bill Boben of Lancaster, Pa., with the fastest Olympic run (41:42) to close within 45 seconds to take second in 2:31:37. Third place overall (2:33:12) went to Chris Prescott of Thompson, Conn., who had the second-best run (42:14).

Hare settled for fourth two minutes and 16 seconds back.

Flack is not your usual triathlete.

He was an all-state football player at Mount Abraham Union High School, weighing 240 pounds and playing for Vermont in the 2005 Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl Team.

“I got up to 275 pounds playing college football, and I considered running around the field an endurance workout!” Flack said.

“My swimming and biking keep improving. My body fat is really low now but, by dropping 10 to 20 pounds of bulk could really help my run times.”

Hare, the race director and founder, is three decades Flack’s senior.

“I felt really good in the water and the bike, but, out on the run my body reminded my mind that I’m not 35 anymore,” Hare said. “It was a great day for all who raced.

Beautiful weather, spectacular setting and great camaraderie.”

Meanwhile, 34-year-old Mariana Wingood of Waterbury, Vt., used the day’s fastest women’s bike and run to move up from 7th place after the swim in the Olympic Triathlon to claim the women’s title in 2:38:14. Montreal’s Sandrine Tirode (33) finished second in 2:43:58.

Kirston Coe of Addison was 5th overall in 2:52:03. Debra Huber of Bridport won the women’s 45-49-year-old age group (3:36:56). Daniel Huber of Bridport placed 5th in the men’s 45-49 age group in 3:32:16.

For 2020, USA Triathlon (the national governing organization) has designated the June 27 Lake Dunmore Triathlon as the Vermont State Championship.

Taylor Sylvester from Middlebury.

Earning Honorable Mention from the MVL were Isabella Falco, Stephanie Palmer and Shayla Phillips from OV, and from the

Lake Division Cora Funke and Cami Willsey from Mount Abe, and Sierra Bertrand, Cheyenne Jewett and Felicia Poirier from VUHS.

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The Vermont Sun Sprint Triathlon began at 8:30 a.m. Past winner Cory Coffey, 42, had the fastest sprint bike time (35:04), which allowed him to get within 30 seconds of the leader Sean Fleming of Charlotte, who was the first sprinter out of the water in 8:39.

Fleming had the second-fastest bike time (36:04) and third fastest run (18:57) to clinch the win in 1:05:08. Second place went to Zane Fields of Charlotte, who had the best sprint run of the day (17:36) and finished in 1:06:24.

Schumann was second after the swim and had the fourth-fastest bike ride (36:30). He posted a 22:15 run to hold onto fourth place. Race organizers called it a

“very impressive performance” for the 63-year-old retired school superintendent.

On the women’s side in the Sprint Triathlon, Liv Herdman, 36, of Middlebury was the top local finisher earning fifth overall in 1:27:43.8. Twenty-one-year-old Kathryn Talano of Middlebury won the women’s 20-24 age group in 1:28:25. Wendy Puls of Bristol won the 65-69 group and was 17th overall. For complete results, splits and information on upcoming events go to vermontsun.com.

The July 14 Vermont Sun Sprint Triathlon is the next series race and is the 2019 USA Triathlon Vermont State championship. All ability levels can enter.

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ADDISON COUNTY — Many members of the Mount Abraham, Otter Valley, Middlebury and Vergennes union high school softball teams earned postseason recognition from the Lake Division or Marble Valley League B Division, as did the OV coaching staff.

Making the Lake Division First Team were Erika Tracey, Molly Murray, Addy Harris and Sam Rathbun from Mount Abe, and Carly Larocque, Gwen Stafford and Aby LaRock from Middlebury.

Earning MVL B Division First Team nods were Livia Bernhardt and Josie Cone. Co-Coaches Kelly Trayah and Toni Poalino were named the league’s coaches of the year.

Making the Lake Division Second Team were Cami Masse, Shealyn Layn, Abby Hoff, Jess Murray and Ruby Ball from Mount Abe; Sydney Tarte and Audrey Tembreull from Vergennes; and

NEW HAVEN’S KYLE Flack was once a 240-pound football player for Mount Abraham Union High School; but after trimming down and improving his times, he was able to win the Lake Dunmore Olympic Triathlon at Lake Dunmore this past Saturday.

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Barrows picks up first win at Devil’s Bowl

Legion Baseball

WEST HAVEN — Middlebury’s Jake Barrows became a first-time winner at the Devil’s Bowl Speedway to highlight local drivers’ efforts on Sunday.

Barrows, a third-year racer, took the lead from Panton’s Mike PresJAKE BARROWS OF Middlebury was all smiles after his first Mini ton three laps into the 20-lap Mini Stock win at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Sunday; he was joined in Stock division race and left every- Victory Lane by representatives from Heritage Family Credit Union.

Photo credit: Bill McGaffin/Devil’s Bowl one behind with a convincing run.

Milton’s Shawn Moquin finished The winners and local finishers second ahead of Winooski’s Craig took second, Brandon’s Matt Bilodeau finished third, and Orwell’s were: Kirby in the event.

• Pepsi Sportsman Modified In the main event, the annual James Hanson was fourth.

West Rutland Driver Scott Fitz- “Topless” Feature (30 laps): 1. “topless” race, New York driver Kenny Tremont Jr. picked up his Gerald rebounded from an early Tremont; 4. Palmer, Salisbury; third topless win in four years multi-car crash to win the 20-lap 5. Comes, Middlebury; 7. Vince by prevailing in the 30-lap Pepsi Super Stock feature. Rutland’s Quenneville Jr., Brandon; 10.

Sportsman Modified feature. Kevin Elliott and Andrew FitzGer- Jimmy Ryan, Shoreham; 11. Brent Tremont used the bottom, middle, ald — the winner’s son — both Warren, Salisbury; 12. Tim LaDuc, and top grooves to slice through the recovered from the same crash to Orwell; • O’Reilly Auto Parts Limited field from his 16th starting position officially take second and third, respectively. Orwell’s Garrett Given Sportsman “Topless” Feature on the 29-car field.

Salisbury’s Mike Palmer paced was scored in fifth place; Given (20 laps): 1. Boisclair; 2. Piper, the field from the pole position, but was the second car across the finish Leicester; 3. Bilodeau, Brandon; 4.

Tremont made his move on Palm- line but was penalized for failing Hanson, Orwell; 10. Dave Snow, er’s to take command at lap 14 and to comply with an official directive Brandon; 15. Anthony Warren, Shoreham. never looked back. East Corinth’s during an early restart.

Thirteen-year-old rookie Evan • Super Stock Feature (20 laps): Adam Pierson came from the 19th starting position to finish second, Roberts was a first-time winner 1. FitzGerald, West Rutland; 5. and Bennington’s Hector Stratton in the 500cc Mini Sprint division. Given, Orwell; 7. Ronnie Alger, drove from 11th to get past Palmer The fourth-generation racer from Orwell.

• Mini Stock Feature (20 laps): late in the race and take third, with Fletcher ran a smooth line in a Palmer settling for fourth. Mid- rough-and-tumble race and es- 1. Barrows, Middlebury; 10. Mike dlebury’s Justin Comes moved up caped a full-contact body slam at Preston, Panton. lap 10 to keep control of his car.

• Friend Construction 500cc from 28th to finish fifth.

Seventeen-year-old David Bois- Due to excessive crashes and cau- Mini Sprint Feature (15 laps – clair copped his first-ever Devil’s tion periods, and the race was cut shortened to 10 laps by time limit): Bowl win in the 20-lap topless short from 15 laps to 10; Roberts 1. Roberts, Fletcher; 4. Kevin feature in the Limited Sportsman was in the lead at the time and is Smith, Brandon; 6. Alyza McKeighan, Brandon. division. Leicester’s Adam Piper credited with the victory.

Dickerson (Continued from Page 1B) Writers Association of America, or OWAA. In some ways, the view out the north-facing windows has been very appealing, during the day as well as during the nighttime lightning show. A multi-use trail wanders along the river’s edge below: a little green belt of parks dotted with some majestic trees, attracting a variety of birds along with the walkers, joggers and bikers. A short walk down that trail is a fun nature center run by Arkansas Game and Fish. If I lived in Little Rock, I imagine I would make good use of that trail, and make regular visits to the nature center to look at the cool fish in the aquarium and the very cute baby alligator. Even the architecture of the bridges draws my eyes, when my gaze wanders from the speakers in front of me, or when I take a break and return to my room.

I’m currently serving on two OWAA committees that met at the conference: an educational committee that decided some writing awards, and a committee helping to plan next year’s conference, which will take place in my home state of Vermont! (I’m quite excited to help with that planning, and looking forward to having some nationally known and award-winning outdoor writers, photographers and video producers visiting Addison County on their way up to Jay Peak where the conference will be held.) The conference also provided some contacts and venues for me to research, write and publish future outdoor stories in some interesting places including Arizona, Colorado and Arkansas.

Mostly, however, I spent my time listening to a variety of interesting talks and panel presentations, including a keynote address from Carolyn Finney on “Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors.” Her talk on diversity in the outdoors, and in outdoor communications, generated much conversation over the weekend. Finney has spoken at Middlebury College in the past, and after hearing her speaking I was even more excited that she will be spending more time at the college in the future.

Another presentation was on the impacts of climate change on wildlife. The opening speaker, from the Environmental Defense Fund, who also has done work with the NOAA, addressed changing oceans and the range of projected impacts of climate change on marine fisheries. He noted that we are beyond the point where we can stop climate change, even if we dramatically cut greenhouse emissions immediately.

It will take years to slow and stop.

But he did present various scenarios for how bad it might get depending both on how we respond to the inevitable changes in our management of fisheries, and also on how quickly we do take the steps to dramatically cut global emissions.

The best case scenario if we make wise choices is not nearly as bleak as the worst case.

The next speaker on the panel worked for Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, though he was speaking as a private citizen and avid duck hunter, and not as an official representative of any state organization. Which brings me back to our opening paragraph. He spoke about the dramatic — and mostly negative — impact of climate change on the rivers of his home state. All the while he spoke, as if to provide a visual example of his points, out the window behind him the Arkansas River continued to flood past at five times its normal volume. These sorts of prolonged periods of flooding have become increasingly common in Arkansas,

he noted. And, along with another of the panelists, he mentioned the rising levels of the Gulf of Mexico, the eroding and vanishing coastline of Louisiana, and the dead zones in the Gulf resulting in part from the raging floods pouring into the Mississippi.

The tone of the room was somewhat somber, but the writers weren’t hopeless. “Keep telling the stories,” somebody said. Politics so often clouds the issues and prevents dialogue. “I can’t talk about ‘climate change’ to my readers,” one writer noted, “but I can talk about rising sea levels.” And while notions like “climate change” may be abstract or even politicized to many people, those who spend time outdoors paying attention to trees, ducks, fish, deer, migrating birds, or blossoming plants, can’t help but notice the changes — and bemoan them. The specific examples speak loudly. And for those who care, they are also the most motivating. Look around. Listen. Pay attention. Then live well.

Good advice, I thought.

(Continued from Page 1B) Beavin and a catcher’s throwing error on the second one plated the second run.

AC added another run in the second when Beavin hit Nolan Whitcomb with a pitch and Tucker Stearns dropped a ball into right field that went for a double when the outfielder dove for it and missed, allowing the ball to get past him. In the game, Whitcomb scored three runs after also walking twice.

Beavin walked and came around to score in the third to make “We’ve it 3-2. He fallen prey stole second, to giving moved to third up the on a fly ball and trotted big inning home on a in some ground ball to of those second base. games.

Muzzy threw Sometimes a scoreless the score at fourth and finished allowing the end of four hits and the game two walks hasn’t with four shown that strikeouts. we’ve had And when a chance to he left the mound the beat them score was still because 3-2 entering we’ve given the bottom of up that big the fourth. In inning and that frame, AC’s first let it get six batters away from reached and us a little scored. Nolan bit.”

Whitcomb — AC Coach walked, and Curler brother Ryan Whitcomb reached on a perfect bunt single down the third-base line. Tucker Stearns walked to load the bases, and Jeffrey Stearns followed by hitting the ball back up the middle. It went off Beavin’s glove far enough to score Nolan Whitcomb, and Ryan Whitcomb followed him home when Beavin threw the ball away.

Cameron followed with a booming triple to left center, and suddenly it was 7-2.

It got worse for Montpelier.

Cooper O’Brien walked, but was erased when Hale Hescock hit into a fielder’s choice off a reliever. Then singles by Nicholas Kaufmann, another walk to Nolan Whitcomb, a Ryan Whitcomb single, a Tucker Stearns double that plated two runs, a Jeffrey Stearns RBI single and a Dustin Whitcomb RBI double completed the carnage and made it 14-2.

After the long inning Dustin Whitcomb threw a 1-2-3 fifth with three groundouts to finish the five-inning win.

Things were not so rosy the previous Wednesday, when AC managed just six hits in the 10-1 loss at South Burlington. Casey Kimball and Dustin Whitcomb had two hits apiece, and Kimball singled in O’Brien, who reached on a single and advanced on a wild pitch, for the AC run in the fifth.

By that point SB had taken a 9-0 lead with three runs in the first, two in the second and four in the fourth off starter Nolan Whitcomb. Whitcomb allowed eight runs on nine hits and five walks and fanned four in four innings, while AC made five errors behind him. SB added a run in the fifth off O’Brien, while Ryan Whitcomb tossed a scoreless sixth.

Despite the 2-5 record, Coach Curler sees reason for optimism. In a couple of losses one bad inning has allowed opponents to pull away, for example.

“We’ve fallen prey to giving

up the big inning in some of those games,” he said. “Sometimes the score at the end of the game hasn’t shown that we’ve had a chance to beat them because we’ve given up that big inning and let it get away from us a little bit.”

Curler also noted that the team will have more home games coming up, Hale Hescock is ready to join the mound rotation, former Otter Valley standout Payson Williams has joined the team to bolster the pitching staff, and that the team remains upbeat.

“It’s a good group of kids,” he said. “They’ll be all right.”

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The Great Brandon 4th of July Street Dance Under the Stars. Friday, July 5, 6-10 p.m., Seminary Park (just around the corner and up the hill from Town Offices. Family friendly street dance with music for all ages by DJ Jam Man Entertainment, food vendors. Fun for all ages. Off street parking available with free shuttles.

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Age Well senior luncheon in Vergennes. Tuesday, July 2, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Meal served at noon of meatballs in garlic parmesan sauce, mashed potatoes, carrots, wheat roll, and berry crisp. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced notice 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 to inquire.

Otter Creek Wetlands Complex public conversation in Salisbury.

Thursday, June 27, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, Maple St. The Salisbury Conservation Commissions invite the public to attend one of two upcoming conversations to learn about the value of the Otter Creek wetlands and its possible reclassification from a Class II to “Best of the Best” Class I wetland.

Cinema Italiano in Brandon.

Green Mountain Club Breadloaf Thursday, June 27, 7 p.m., section hike in Keene Valley, N.Y. Brandon Town Hall, One Conant Saturday, July 6, Noonmark Mountain. A Sq. Explore the best Italian films strenuous 5.6-mile hike round trip — with subtitles — while enjoywith an elevation gain of 2,175 ing BYOB refreshments, all for M I D D L E B U R Y S T U D I O S C H O O L — N e w S u m m e r feet. Approximately two hours free, each week through August.

Classes: Working with Colored Clay, Digital Photography, Coptic each way, with great panoramic Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the Stitch Bookbinding, Basket Making, Watercolors, Oils, Daytime Clay views. Meet at the Crown Point movie begins promptly at 7 p.m.

This week’s film is “Il Postino.”

Hand Building & Wheel Classes. KIDS: Colored Pencil Drawing, Clay bridge to carpool for the 45-minute Contact leader Morris Earle Wheel & Hand Building. ART CAMPS: Art is Delicious! Art of Israel, drive. at morrisearle@gmail.com or Nature Art, Welcome to the Zoo! 5 Days of Fun, World of Color, 802-734-0984 for more inforArt is Everywhere. REGISTER ONLINE at middleburystudioschool. mation and meeting time. More Dr. Gavin Noble org or studioschool2377@gmail.com or call Barb 247-3702. activities at gmcbreadloaf.org. lectures in Saint Stephen’s Peasant Middlebury.

Friday, Market in Middlebury. Saturday, June 28, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, “Understanding American Politics in the Age of July 6, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., town green. A fun family festi350 Lodge Rd. Dr. Noble specializes in cardioTrump,” in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 2, 12:30-2 val day filled with food and bargains of all kinds vascular disease, general and consultative cardip.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, — good food, music, and shopping for treasures. ology, and non-invasive cardiac testing. He plans 100 Eastview Ter. Middlebury College Professor Something for everyone: Silent auction, garden, to address exercise and the heart, the benefits Matt Dickinson returns to Eastview for the third in a art, jewelry, kids clothes, toys and books, linens, of exercise for prevention and after diagnosis of series of six biweekly, lively and engaging “Political furniture, household, white elephant, antiques, heart disease. Free, open to the public and fully Luncheon” talks. Free and open to the Public. sports and kids carnival. Paddle Board Raffle accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220, or Black hole talk in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 2, 7 Drawing at 1 p.m. Proceeds support local charities. pryan@residenceottercreek.com. p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. As part of Free. More info at ststephensmidd.org. our “Universe of Stories” summer reading program, Battle of Hubbardton Revolutionary War encampMiddlebury College Professor Eilat Glikman will be ment in Hubbardton. Saturday, July 6, 9:30 giving a talk at on black holes, from how scientists a.m.-5 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic posit their existence to the first direct image of one.

Site, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. A living history Green Mountain Club bike ride in weekend encampment honoring the 242nd anninorthern Addison County. Saturday, versary of the July 7, 1777, Revolutionary War June 29. A Moderate 20-mile loop through battle. Reenactors portray the American, British, Vergennes, Ferrisburgh and Panton, mostly flat with and German soldiers. Tactical military and other Age Well Senior Luncheon in a few small hills. The ride will take about two hours. special demonstrations, guided camp and interacMiddlebury. Wednesday, July 3, 11:15 Rear bike light and helmet required. Bring water tive battlefield tours, 802-273-2282. a.m., Middlebury Rec Center, 154 Creek Independence Day Celebration in Brandon. and snacks if desired. Contact leader Ginny Heidke Rd. Doors open at 11:15 a.m. Meal served at noon at ginnypots@comcast.net or 802-989-7272 for Saturday, July 6, 10 a.m.-dusk, Park Village, 1 mile of broccoli onion quiche, green beans, wheat bread, details. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org. north of town. Parade begins at 10 a.m., followed and sliced apples. Bring your own place setting. $5 Vermont Gran Fondo in Addison County. by a huge variety of foods, music, activities, silent suggested donation. 72 hours advanced notice Saturday, June 29. Road cycling over Addison auction, and fireworks at dusk. Free shuttles. More required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419.

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Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Lincoln. Choose from three courses. Details at any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at vermontgranfondo.com.

July 6, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Community Center, 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Hope for TomorROW row-a-thon in Ferrisburgh.

Route 7. The evening begins with a sandwich Saturday, June 29, Lake Champlain Maritime Vermont Philharmonic Pops concert and firesupper and then on to the games. King Pede is a works in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 3, 7:30 Museum, 4427 Basin Harbor Rd. A row-a-thon to unique game that involves “trick-taking” techniques p.m., behind Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field benefit Project HOePpnEr, a community organizasuch as in Hearts and Spades or Pitch. A game of Rd. The Sheldon Museum’s annual Pops Concert. tion that works to prevent teen suicide. More info at fun and skill. Come prepared to use your strategic Lou Kosma conducts the Vermont Philharmonic 802 475-2022. thinking. in a medley of contemporary music, light classics, Broadway and film favorites. The event features a raffle of picnic baskets painted by local artists and filled with local foods, gift certificates, and picnic Champ’s Challenge in Ferrisburgh.

Battle of Hubbardton Revolutionary items. Grounds open at 5:30 p.m. for picnics; Sunday, June 30, 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Basin War encampment in Hubbardton.

Concert begins at 7:30. Bring chairs, blankets, and Harbor Club, Basin Harbor Rd. Ride, walk Sunday, July 7, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., flashlights. Tickets adults $30, $25 if purchased or run for a good cause, helping people with Cystic Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 5696 before June 25/youth $10/children under 12 free, Fibrosis. There will also be a raffle, giveaways, and Monument Hill Rd. A living history weekend available at 802-388-2117, henrysheldonmuseum. a BBQ lunch overlooking the Lake. 100 percent encampment honors the 242nd anniversary of the org or in person at the museum, 1 Park St. of proceeds raised go towards funding recreation Fireworks in Bristol. Wednesday, July 3, dusk.

July 7, 1777, Revolutionary War battle. Reenactors grants that are awarded to people with cystic fibro- Fireworks in Vergennes. Wednesday, July 3, dusk, portray the American, British, and German soldiers. sis across. More info and registration at tinyurl.com/ Tactical military and other special demonstrations, VUHS athletic fields, Monkton Rd. Get a head start cfchamps-challenge. guided camp and interactive battlefield tours, camp on Independence Day with fireworks. Park at the 22nd Annual Challenge Race in Ferrisburgh. life activities, children’s activities, sutler’s row shopelementary or high school. Wherever you park, Sunday, June 30, 9 a.m., Lake Champlain Maritime ping, and illustrated talks. Food stand on site. More look up to the sky; there is no bad seat in the area.

Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Rd. Rowing and Stargazing info at 802-273-2282. open house in Middlebury. paddling enthusiasts take to the water for a threeWednesday, July 3, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman mile race open to all human-powered boats. The Observatory, Bicentennial Hall, Bicentennial Way. triangular course crosses Lake Champlain from Get a closer view of Jupiter, a variety of interestVermont to New York and back and covers some of ing stars, star clusters, and nebulae through the Rik Palieri brown bag in concert in the most beautiful scenery in the region. Registration Observatory’s telescopes. Free and open to the Middlebury. Monday, July 8, noon, on at 9:30 a.m., race begins at 11 a.m. $25/participant public as long as the sky is mostly clear. To confirm the green. Rik Palieri is a talented singer, fee, includes gift bag and lunch. More info at lcmm. go to go.middlebury.edu/observatory/ or call the songwriter, multi instrumentalist, storyteller and org or LisaP@lcmm.org.

Observatory at 802-443-2266 after 7 p.m. on the member of “The Mythical Order of The Rose Flea market in Middlebury. Sunday, June 30, 9 evening of the event.

Tattoo”, who lives the musical life to the fullest. Part a.m.-2 p.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. Middlebury’s of the Festival-on-the-Green. Free.

VFW will hold this indoor/outdoor event. Items for Windborne on stage in Middlebury. Monday, July sale include NASCAR collectibles, antiques, crafts, 8, 7 p.m., on the green. Internationally acclaimed tools, household items, clothing and much, much July 4th celebration in Bristol. vocal ensemble Windborne is a group of vocal more. Free admission. The VFW kitchen will be Thursday, July 4, locations around town. chameleons who specialize in close harmony singselling food.

Paradee road race, 7:30 a.m.; outhouse ing, shifting effortlessly between drastically different Chicken barbecue in Cornwall. Sunday, June 30, races, 9 a.m.; parade at 10:30 a.m., themed “Music styles of traditional music within the same concert. noon-3 p.m., Cornwall Fire Station, Route 30. Join of the ‘60s.” Activities on the green — food, music, Their musical knowledge spans many continents the Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department for their crafts Silent, etc. to follow the parade. More info at and cultures, but they remain deeply rooted in annual barbeque and fundraising event. Meal bristol4th.com.

American folk singing traditions. A Festival-on-theincludes a half-chicken, salad, baked beans, roll, Green concert. Free. drink and dessert, all for $12. Take-outs available.

Vergennes City Band concert in Vergennes.

Monday, July 8, 7 p.m., City Park.

Bon Débarras in Middlebury. Monday, July 8, 8:30 “What to the Negro is the 4th of p.m., on the green. Bon Débarras brings together Frederick Douglass “Speaks” in July?” in Ferrisburgh. Friday, July 5, a fusion of Quebecois folk music, traditional stepMiddlebury. Monday, July 1, 11-11:45 3 p.m., Rokeby Museum, 4334 Route 7. A dancing and global influences for a show that is a.m., Community Room, EastView at unique opportunity to experience history by reading full of fun and inventive energy. On guitar, banjo, Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. EastView residents aloud Frederick Douglass’s most famous speech, violin and harmonica, the trio opens a door to their will read aloud sections of Douglass’ speech, originally delivered on July 5, 1852. Douglass recollections of America and their music is at the “What, to the Slave, is your Fourth of July?” All are castigated the United States for decades of slavintersection of various traditions. A Festival-on-thewelcome. ery and injustice. Come and add your voice to this Green concert. Free. statewide public reading sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council, and learn about when Frederick Douglass gave a speech in Ferrisburgh in 1843. Free.

Blood pressure and foot care clinic Lyn Elder performs in Middlebury. Friday, July Age Well Senior Luncheon in in Brandon. Tuesday, July 2, 9:30 a.m., Vergennes. Tuesday, July 9, 10 a.m., 5, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury, 100 Brandon Senior Center, 1591 Forest Dale Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane EastView Ter. Multi-instrumentalist, tune and songRd. The cost of the foot clinic is $10. No appointSenior Housing 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at smith, and long time entertainer Lyn Elder returns ment necessary.

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monthly meeting at 11:30 am. Meal served at noon of sweet and sour chicken, rice pilaf, oriental sugar snap blend, wheat bread and oatmeal raisin cookie. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced notice 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 to inquire.

Jon Gailmor brown bag concert in Middlebury.

Tuesday, July 9, noon, on the green. Music for humans prenatal through prehistoric, spanning the entire emotional spectrum. Humor and audience involvement are integral parts of any Jon Gailmor performance. A Festival-on-the-Green concert. Free.

“Inspired By Nature” presentation in Middlebury.

Tuesday, July 9, 2:30 p.m., Middlebury Rec. Center, 154 Creek Rd. Middlebury Garden Club hosts Jaga Smiechowski, a floral designer who has recently opened her own business, “My Flowers for All Events.” She will do several arrangements with a summer theme. These will be auctioned off at the end of the meeting to help cover the cost of the flowers. Free and open to the public.

“America Alone: A Winning Strategy?” talk in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 9, 3-4:30 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Join former diplomat George Jaeger when he discusses how America’s role in the world is changing at a breathtaking rate.

Concerned ACSD citizens meeting in Middlebury.

Thursday, July 9, 6-7:30 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. A group formed to explore options, directions, and constructive responses to the state’s pressure for local boards to close their small, outlying schools. Citizens from all ACSD towns — Ripton, Middlebury, Salisbury, Shoreham, Bridport, Salisbury, and Weybridge — are invited to join the effort.

The Small Glories in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 9, 7 p.m., on the green. The Small Glories is a partnership that could almost make you believe in fate. With a stage banter striking a unique balance between slapstick and sermon, these veteran singer-songwriters have a way of making time disappear, rooms shrink, and audiences feel as they are right there on the stage with the band — writing the songs, living the songs, performing the songs. A Festival-on-the-Green concert. Free Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio in Middlebury.

Tuesday, July 9, 8:30 p.m., on the green. The Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio features Shawn Nadeau on upright bass and Davy Sturtevant on, as Heather often puts it from stage, “everything else” — guitar, mandolin, dobro, fiddle, cornet, etc.

In their able hands, these three veteran musicians have catapulted Heather’s live performances of her deep well of Americana originals — folk, jazz, blues — with intricate instrumental arrangements and stirring three-part vocal harmonies. A Festivalon-the-Green concert. Free.

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Tai Chi in the Park in Vergennes.

Begins Wednesday, July 10, 9:3010:30, City Park. The first in a series of Wednesdays. Curious about Tai Chi and Qigong?

Come give it a try in Vergennes City Park. Rain location, under the dome at Bixby Memorial Library.

“Klimt and Schiele: Eros and Psyche” on screen in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 10, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. This film recounts the start of the Vienna Secession, a magical art movement formed in the late 1890’s for art, literature and music, in which new ideas are circulated, Freud discovers the drives of the psyche, and women begin to claim their independence. It was a movement that marked a new era outside the confines of academic tradition. A Great Art Wednesday film. Tickets $13/$8, includes a $1 preservation fee, available at townhalltheater.org, 802-382-9222, or at the THT Box Office MondaySaturday, noon-5 p.m.

Age Well senior luncheon in Shoreham.

Wednesday, July 10, 11 a.m., Halfway House, Route 22A. Doors open and meal served at 11 a.m. until all are served. Chipped beef gravy on toast with mashed potatoes, vegetable, and dessert. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle to reserve 802- 377-1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. Meeting of the Bridport Senior Citizens, Inc. will follow.

No Strings Marionette Company ​in Middlebury.

Wednesday, July 10, noon, on the green. The creativity of puppeteers Dan Baginski and Barbara Paulson reaches into every aspect of the production from script writing and puppetry to costumes, soundtracks and set production. They perform in full view of their audience, having found that children are as interested in how the puppets work as they are in the stories unfolding before them. A Festival-on-the-Green event. Free.

Middle Grade Book Club in Middlebury.

Wednesday, July 10, 5-6 p.m., The Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. A summer book club for kids ages 8-12 that reads fun, engaging books. Read

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“A Pup Called Trouble,” by Bobbie Pyron, prior to the meeting and come prepared to talk about it … and eat Nino’s pizza. Fans of classic animal stories will howl over the heartwarming adventures of a coyote pup lost in New York City. Led by Jenny Lyons. Parents are welcome (but not required).

More info and RSVP to jenny@vermontbookshop. com.

Brandon Town Band in Brandon. Wednesday, July 10, 6 p.m., Behind the Brandon Inn. Classic band concert music.

The Handy Men in Brandon. Wednesday, July 10, 7 p.m., Behind the Brandon Inn. Come hear this Vermont trio play the blues, classic rock and New Orleans “Pictorial History of Silver Lake” in Salisbury.

Wednesday, July 10, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Meeting House, 853 Maple St. The Salisbury Historical Society present this lecture by Williams Powers. Free.

Joe Davidian Trio featuring Amber deLaurenti in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 10, 7 p.m., on the green. The Joe Davidian Trio performs a mix of original works and jazz standards. They have been touring internationally since 2000, presenting concerts and giving master classes on improvisation and ensemble playing. A Festival-on-theGreen concert. Free.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, July 10, 7 p.m., on the green. The Bristol Band has presented outdoor summer band concerts in the gazebo on the Town Green every Wednesday evening in the summer since shortly after the Civil War. Bring a lawn chair, blanket or picnic dinner and enjoy an evening of small town entertainment.

There is often a fundraiser barbecue before each concert. Call 802-453-5885 for details.

Matt Flinner Trio in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 10, 8:30 p.m., on the green. Matt Flinner Trio has been exploring new pathways and setting new standards for the bluegrass trio sound all around the U.S. and Europe. Their music is guaranteed to be fresh and original, and definitely something you’ve never quite heard before. A Festival-onthe-Green concert. Free.

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Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon. Thursday, July 11, all day, Basin Rd. Lots of events, activities and above all, music. Day and weekend ticket prices.

Celebrate all things Bluegrass in the Basin. More info at basinbluegrassfestival.com, 802-247-3275 or basinbluegrass@yahoo.com.

Age Well Button Bay picnic in Ferrisburgh.

Thursday, July 11, 10:30 a.m., Button Bay State Park, Button Bay Rd. Music by Deuces Wild starts at 11 a.m. BBQ served at noon of BBQ chicken, cheeseburger sliders, baked beans, broccoli salad, pasta salad, watermelon and cookie. Milk and ice water also served. Music, 50/50 raffle and door prizes sponsored by Vergennes Area Seniors Association. No early birds. Advanced tickets only by Monday, July 8. Park admission free with Green Mountain Passport, otherwise entry free of $4/person. Call Michelle to arrange 802-3771419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided.

Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Chris Yerlig: Mimealot! in Middlebury. Thursday July 11, noon, on the green. Yerlig has traveled the world with his funny, consummate mime routines.

A Festival on the Green event. Free.

OKAN performs in Middlebury. Thursday, July 11, 7 p.m​., on the green. Taking its name from the word for heart or soul in the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria, OKAN fuses Afro-Cuban and other global rhythms with jazz, folk and classical forms.

Embracing genres and roles that have historically been dominated by men, co-leaders, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne bring a fresh perspective to Latin and world jazz fusion through their powerful vocals, incredible musicianship and potent lyrical content. A Festival on the Green concert. Free.

“Jumanji” on screen in Bristol. Thursday, July 11, between 7 and 8 p.m., on the green. The first film in Bristol’s summer of Movies in the Park.

LowDown Brass Band in Middlebury. Thursday, July 11, 8:30 p.m., on the green. LDB brandishes a powerful brass frontline of trumpets, trombones, saxophones, with a funky backline of drums and sousaphone. Combining the poetic ferocity of Billa Camp with stellar vocal harmonies, adventurous improvisation, movement, and grooves, LDB creates an infectious and diverse sound that has something for every listener. A Festival on the Green event. Free.

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Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon. Friday, July 12, all day, Basin Rd. Lots of events, activities and above all, music. Day and weekend ticket prices. Celebrate all things Bluegrass in the Basin. More info at basinbluegrassfestival.com, 802-247-3275 or basinbluegrass@yahoo.com.

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Bristol. Friday, July 12, 11:30 a.m., Mary’s, Route 116. Doors open at

SALISBURY’S ANNUAL ICE Cream Social will happen for the 45th year running on Thursday, July 4, 1:30-4:30 p.m. at the Salisbury Congregational Meeting House. Stop in for an afternoon of cones, sundaes and homemade desserts, rain or shine.

11:30 a.m., meal served at noon of watermelon feta salad, turkey burger with cranberry orange relish, potato salad, coleslaw and strawberry shortcake.

72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Middlebury Community Music Center House of Rock Campers in Middlebury. Friday, July 12, 11:30 a.m., on the green. Come hear what these campers are up to.

Magician Tom Verner in Middlebury. Friday, July 12, noon, on the green. Addison County based magician Tom Verner’s Magicians Without Borders performs magic shows for children in refugee camps, orphanages and hospitals around the world — often in war torn places where love, laughter and magic are desperately needed. A Festival on the Green event. Free.

Artist’s reception in Brandon. Friday, July 12, 5-8 p.m., Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr. Opening reception for “Carolyn Shattuck: Into My Space.” Shattuck presents a selection of her still life paintings, several of her skillfully colored, patterned and layered prints and textured collages, and her meticulous and sculptural Book Art. The exhibit runs July 12 through Sept 7.

Tatiana Lukyanova, carillon, in Middlebury.

Friday, July 12, at 6 p.m., Mead Chapel, 75 Hepburn Rd. Lukyanova is the carillonneur at the Congregational Church, New Britain, Conn., and Former Associate Carillonneur, St. Petersburg, Russia. The sounds of the carillon bells are a staple of summer life on the Middlebury campus.

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

Soule Monde in Middlebury. Friday, July 12, 7 p.m., on the green. Soule Monde is avant funk erupting from the syncopated minds of power drummer Russ Lawton and B3 wizard Ray Paczkowski.

This is fluid funk, crafted for the dance floor but supported by an extensive grasp of jazz improvisation. A Festival on the Green concert. Free.

Big Night in Middlebury. Friday, July 12, 8:30 p.m., on the green. Inspired by past and current music and dance from southwest Louisiana and Texas, and dedicated to the idea that every person deserves an opportunity to two-step, Big Night is a group of Burlington-based musicians playing a mix of Cajun, western swing, Zydeco and classic country. Come out and dance to one of the hottest new bands making it’s way through New England.

A Festival on the Green concert. Free.

ONGOINGEVENTS Point Counterpoint Faculty Ensemble in Salisbury. Friday, June 28, 7:30 p.m. Salisbury Congregational Meeting House.

Caroline Cotter in Brandon. Saturday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Middlebury Chamber Music Festival in Middlebury. Saturday, June 29, 7:30 p.m., Congregational Church of Middlebury.

Rick Klein & Peter Macfarlane in New Haven.

Sunday, June 30, 2-4 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery.

Heliand Consort in Rochester. Sunday, June 30, 4 p.m., Federated Church of Rochester.

Vergennes City Band concert in Vergennes.

Monday, July 1, 7 p.m., City Park.

Vermont Philharmonic pops concert in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 3, 7:30 p.m., behind Middlebury Arts Center Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, July 3, 7 p.m., on the green.

Gumbo YaYa in Brandon. Wednesday, July 3, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Lyn Elder in Middlebury. Friday, July 5, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

Sergei Gratchev, carillon, in Middlebury. Friday, July 5, 6 p.m., Mead Chapel.

Atlantic Crossing in Salisbury. Friday, July 5, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Meeting House.

David Rosane & the Zookeepers in Rochester.

Saturday, July 6, Rochester Public Library.

Moira Smiley in concert in Ripton. Saturday, July 6 at 7:30 pm, Ripton Community House.

Keith “Papa Grey Beard” Williams in New Haven.

Sunday, July 7, Lincoln Peak Winery.

Sam Reider and the Human Hands in Middlebury.

Sunday, July 7, 7-9 p.m., on the green.

Rik Palieri in Middlebury. Monday, July 8, noon, on the green.

Windborne on stage in Middlebury. Monday, July 8, 7 p.m., on the green.

Vergennes City Band concert in Vergennes.

Monday, July 8, 7 p.m., City Park.

Bon Débarras in Middlebury. Monday, July 8, 8:30 p.m., on the green.

Marguerite Schenkman Memorial Concert in Rochester. Sunday, July 7, 4 p.m., Federated Church of Rochester.

Jon Gailmor in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 9, noon, on the green.

The Small Glories in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 9, 7 p.m., on the green.

Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio in Middlebury.

Tuesday, July 9, 8:30 p.m., on the green.

Brandon Town Band in Brandon. Wednesday, July 10, 6 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. The Handy Men in Brandon. Wednesday, July 10, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn Joe Davidian Trio featuring Amber deLaurenti in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 10, 7 p.m., on the green.

Matt Flinner Trio in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 10, 8:30 p.m., on the green.

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LowDown Brass Band in Middlebury. Thursday, July 11, 8:30 p.m., on the green.

Middlebury Community Music Center House of Rock Campers in Middlebury. Friday, July 12, 11:30 a.m., on the green.

Tatiana Lukyanova, carillon, in Middlebury.

Friday, July 12, at 6 p.m., Mead Chapel Soule Monde in Middlebury. Friday, July 12, 7 p.m., on the green.

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Vergennes Police Log VERGENNES — Vergennes police dealt with a variety of incidents between June 17 and 23, including underage drinking, motor vehicle accidents, a stolen bicycle, and a referral to Vermont State Police that led to a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol.

In that week police also operated five directed traffic-safety patrols throughout the city, during which they warned two motorist, and: On June 17: • Investigated a report of a bicycle stolen from Vergennes Union High School.

• Helped state police at the scene of a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Route 7 and Monkton Road.

On June 19 called AAA on

behalf of a motorist with a disabled vehicle near the city police station.

On June 20: • Checked the welfare of an elderly South Maple Street resident, who proved to be OK. • Were told that one resident of a Main Street apartment building had threatened another.

• Alerted state police that an Addison family had told them a family member had driven away from a home while intoxicated and could be headed north to Burlington via Ferrisburgh. City police said troopers ultimately found the man and cited him for DUI. • Heard from a North Maple Street resident that a man had knocked on his door and asked to

buy marijuana; police could not find the man.

On June 21: • Helped a motorist get into a locked vehicle on South Water Street.

• Issued a verbal no-trespass order to a man who was an unwanted presence at Valley Vista on Alden Place.

• Dealt with minor two-car accidents on Main Street and New Haven Road.

• Took a report of a loose peacock on Main Street; police said the bird had escaped from the Comfort Hill Kennel.

• Cited Northlands Job Corps student George Sanders, 21, of Brockton, Mass., for providing alcohol to minors and issued court diversion paperwork to two

underage Northlands students for consuming alcohol, actions taken after responding to a report of possible underage drinking in the South Water Street area.

On June 22: • Helped state police with an accident on Tuppers Crossing in Ferrisburgh.

• Dealt with a minor two-car accident on South Maple Street.

• Checked out a report of a suspicious person near Champlain Farms on Main Street.

On June 23: • Helped a motorist get into a locked vehicle on South Water Street.

• Directed traffic while the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad responded to a Main Street incident.

Suspended license draws citation in Bristol BRISTOL — On June 9 Bristol police cited Cory J. Obrien, 31, of Middlebury for driving with a criminally suspended license after he was stopped for a motor vehicle violation.

Obrien was released with an order to appear in Addison Superior Court, Criminal Division, on July 22.

Between May 27 and June 9 Bristol police completed 19 foot patrols, more than six hours of car patrols in various parts of town, some of which were part of the Governor’s Highway Safety Program, and on May 28–31 participated in the Click It or Ticket campaign. Officers checked security at Mount Abraham Union High School 10 times, conducted five business checks, secured two unsecure buildings, processed at least nine requests for fingerprints and verified two vehicle identification numbers.

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Middlebury police once, the Addison County Sheriff’s Department once and the Addison County Unit for Special Investigations once.

In other recent activity, Bristol police: • On May 27, with Vermont State Police, assisted participants of the Bristol Memorial Day Parade.

• On May 27 investigated a motor vehicle complaint but did not locate the vehicle.

• On May 28 helped resolve a disagreement between a juvenile and an adult.

• On May 31 conducted a welfare check and determined that no further action was required.

• On June 1 investigated a reported dispute and determined that no action rose to the level of

an offense.

• On June 1 attempted to locate the owner of a wallet found in New Jersey, but the individual no longer lives in Bristol and there was no forwarding address.

• On June 2 assisted a citizen who was locked out of their vehicle.

• On June 3 facilitated the return to its owner of a dog that had been caught loose in the park.

• On June 3 an officer attended a hearing at Addison Superior Court.

• On June 3 served court paperwork to two people.

• On June 5 conducted a welfare check and observed no issues or concerns.

• On June 5 checked a local business for possible unlawful entry but found no evidence of forced entry or access.

• On June 6 responded to a report of a juvenile problem. The situation was resolved.

• On June 6 facilitated the return of a cooler that had been found on

Mountain Street.

• On June 6 installed a child safety seat and instructed a Bristol resident on same.

• On June 6 helped locate a child who had missed their ride.

• On June 7 found a wallet and returned it to its owner.

• On June 7 received a report of a missing child. The child was located.

• On June 7, at 11:48 a.m., responded to Main Street, where a green Subaru station wagon had struck a parked car while backing out of a parking space. Police ask anyone with information to call 453-2533.

• On June 7 facilitated the return of a cellphone that had been found in the area of Mountain Street.

• On June 8, assisted by Vermont State Police, investigated a dispute and found that no action rose to the level of an offense.

• On June 8 investigated a report of a vehicle being operated with switched plates but could not locate the vehicle.

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Ilsley summer reading will study black holes on July 2 MIDDLEBURY — As part of Ilsley Public Library’s “Universe of Stories” summer reading program, Middlebury College Professor Eilat Glikman will be giving a talk on black holes on Tuesday, July 2, at 7 p.m.

Glikman says, “The idea of a black hole — a region of space whose gravitational pull is so strong that even light cannot escape from it — was proposed just over a century ago. Fifty years later, the discovery of quasars provided circumstantial evidence that black holes may actually exist in the centers of distance galaxies. This past year, an international team of astronomers revealed to the world the very first direct image of a black hole residing in an enormous galaxy 50 million light years away.

How did we go from a hypothetical idea to definitive proof in just a century?”

In this talk, Glikman will present the many ways astronomers infer the presence of supermassive black holes residing at the centers of galaxies, how they think they

EILAT GLIKMAN grow to such extreme masses, and how they might influence their host galaxies and cosmic environments.

She will also explain how the very first direct image of a black hole was taken and what it tells us about the nature of black holes in the universe.

Benefit chicken barbecue on tap in Cornwall Sunday CORNWALL — The Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department will hold its famous chicken barbecue on Sunday, June 30, from noon to 3 p.m., at the Route 30 station.

Full meals include a halfchicken, slow cooked over coals and basted with the CVFD secret sauce, two salads, roll, drink and

dessert. The cost is still only $12.

All proceeds benefit the work of the fire department, but the fire department hopes the bigger benefit is a nice community gathering.

Hamburgers and hot dogs are also available. Eat in or take out, it will be a great meal and a great time.

Man cited for DUI and assault in Ferrisburgh ADDISON COUNTY — At around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 20, troopers from the New Haven barracks of the Vermont State Police received a report to be on the lookout for a possibly intoxicated driver on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh.

Troopers located the vehicle and stopped it on Ferrisburgh’s Old Hollow Road.

While speaking with the driver, identified as Edward Curavoo, 58, of Burlington, state police said they detected several signs of impairment. Curavoo was ultimately placed under arrest for the suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and transported to the Vergennes Police Department for processing. State police alleged that while at the city police station, Curavoo assaulted a trooper.

State police cited Curavoo for driving under the influence, second offense, and for assault on a law enforcement officer, and then released him.

In other recent activity, Vermont State Police: • On June 18 at 10 p.m. a concerned motorist called 911 to report a red car travelling northbound on Route 7 in New Haven at a high rate of speed and passing cars unsafely. Troopers were in the area and saw a red Scion TC matching the description speeding northbound on Route 7 and passing another northbound vehicle. Police report that they recorded the vehicle’s speed at 85 mph in a posted 50 mph zone.

Troopers stopped the Scion and cited Christopher LaCroix, 33, of Rutland for speeding.

• On June 19 at 8 a.m. responded to the old Wildflower Farm property on Route 7 in Charlotte to investigate the theft of a large number of expensive tools from a locked construction trailer at a Middlebury Fence Company/RenoVaTe Construction. Police said someone went onto the construction site and stole approximately $10,410 worth of tools from a locked trailer.

The tools belonged to multiple laborers, including men from Salisbury, Vergennes and Shoreham.

Police published a list of 40 stolen pieces of construction equipment that ranged from a Makita Power Planer (blue) to a Honda 1,000watt generator (red) to a large Milwaukee Sawzall Large (red).

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the tools is asked to contact Cpl. Andrew Leise at the Williston state police barracks at 1-802-878-7111.

• On June 19 at five minutes until 11 p.m. were at Porter Hospital in Middlebury on an unrelated matter

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when they observed Justin Stover, 45, of South Burlington operating a motor vehicle on South Street and into the hospital parking lot.

Knowing that Stover’s driver’s license was criminally suspended, troopers stopped Stover and cited him for driving with a suspended license.

• On June 20 at approximately 8:30 a.m. looked into a complaint of domestic assault that morning.

Police said their investigation showed that James Payne, 29, of Cornwall prevented the victim from contacting emergency services during the incident. After further investigation troopers arrested Payne for domestic assault and interference with access to emergency services.

• On June 20 at approximately 4:22 p.m. responded to Route 116 and Varney Hill Road in Starksboro for a report of a single-vehicle crash. Police report that Benjamin Kelley, 25, of Milton was driving a 1996 International flatbed truck northbound on Route 116 when his truck’s front, left wheel seized up, causing the vehicle to drift to the left and strike a guardrail. No injuries were reported.

• On June 22 at approximately 4:40 a.m. responded to a one-car crash on Route 17 east of the intersection of Forrest Drive in New Haven. Troopers’ preliminary investigation indicated that the 19-year-old Chase Emilo-Gibbs was driving eastbound on Route 17 when police said he fell asleep and his Subaru Impreza traveled off of the road and into a ditch, colliding with a power pole before coming to an uncontrolled position of rest facing east. Neither alcohol nor drugs played a factor in the collision, police said.

Emilo-Gibbs, who was wearing a seatbelt, reported no injuries.

Police issued him traffic tickets for bad driving on a laned road, not having car insurance with him and a lapsed inspection.

State police were assisted on scene by the New Haven Fire Department, Bristol Rescue Squad and Green Mountain Power.

• On June 23 at around 3:30 p.m. received a report of a vehicle driving erratically on Route 7.

Troopers located the vehicle in New Haven and stopped it. Police cited Joseph Burke, 18, of Middlebury for negligent driving, though they officers did not provide details on how Burke was driving.

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ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders.

Wednesdays, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery. Bring a friend in recovery. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turn‑ ingpointaddisonvt.org.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑ LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking.

Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. New‑ comers welcome. Confiden‑ tial. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 2 MONDAY As Bill Sees it Meeting, Ripton, Ripton Firehouse, Dug‑ way 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, New Haven, Congregational Church, Vil‑ lage Green, 7:30‑8:30pm.

Discussion Meeting, Bran‑ don, St. Thomas Episco‑ pal Church, Rte 7 South, 7:30‑8:30pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 3 TUESDAY 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Daily Reflection Meeting, Ver‑ gennes, Congregational Church, Water St. 7‑8pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 5 THURSDAY 12 Steps and Traditions Meeting, Ripton, Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. Big Book Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Alternat‑ ing Format Meeting, Fer‑ risburgh, Assembly of God Christian Center. Route 7, 7‑8pm.

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 Middle‑ bury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkin‑ soninfo@uvmhealth.org.

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, Bris‑ tol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 4‑5pm. 12 Step Meet‑ ing, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 7‑8pm. AA 24‑Hour Hotline 802‑388‑9284, aavt.org.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 7 SATURDAY. Discussion Meeting, Mid‑ dlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am. Discussion Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, Beginner’s Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 6:30‑7:30pm.

ARE YOU BOTHERED

BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs).

Anonymous and confiden‑ tial, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common prob‑ lems. Babysitting available.

NARCAN KITS are avail‑ able at the Turning Point Center of Addison County FREE of charge. Narcan (Naloxone) is a nasal spray used to reverse an opioid overdose in progress.

These kits are specifically intended for public distri‑ bution and can be used by anyone to save a life. Easy training is provided at Turn‑ ing Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, and takes approximate‑ ly 10 minutes. Wednesdays between 9 a.m. ‑ noon, or call for an appointment (802) 388‑4249.

FREE CAMP WOOD. You haul away. Monday ‑ Wednesday pick up.

453‑2897.

REFUGE RECOVERY ‑ TUESDAYS 6‑7 p.m. A non‑theistic, Buddhist‑in‑ spired approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds.

Dedicated to the practices of mindfulness, compas‑ sion, forgiveness, and generosity, this recovery meeting uses meditation and kindness to heal the pain and suffering that ad‑ diction has caused. Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. (802) 388‑4249.

Services C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, taping, skim coat plas‑ tering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

CONSTRUCTION: ADDI‑ TIONS, RENOVATIONS new construction, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All as‑ pects of construction, also property maintenance. Ste‑ ven Fifield 802‑989‑0009.

HEAVY DUTY SCHWINN exercise bike w/ tension control, speed and fitness setting. Adjustable seat w/ backrest and book holder.

Available until July 29th.

Call for p/u date and a pick‑up truck will be needed for transport. 802‑545‑2193.

Ask for Chuck. OK to leave message.

Help Wanted DO YOU WANT a job with a competitive wage, predict‑ able schedule, paid time off, top notch medical insur‑ ance, and a fun, lively work atmosphere where you can do something that makes a difference? If so, we want to talk with you. HOPE is seeking a few dedicated, hardworking, team mem‑ bers who have good com‑ munication skills, and an eye for details. Mechanical ability, cash register experi‑ ence, and customer service skills are a plus. To apply, send resume and brief letter of interest to receptionist@ hope‑vt.org, or mail to or drop off at 282 Boardman Street, Middlebury.

Help Wanted

CONSTRUCTION WORK‑ ERS NEEDED Looking for dependable hardworking individuals with a valid driv‑ er’s license for concrete & carpentry construction.

Experience a plus but will train. Wages based on ex‑ perience. Paid holidays. Call Donnie at 802‑453‑6426.

Help Wanted JOIN THE 2020 CENSUS team and get paid to help ensure our communities are properly represented in Congress. To learn more and apply, visit 2020census. gov/jobs.

FIRE DISTRICT #1 OF EAST MIDDLEBURY

Water System Operator (Class 2) Fire District #1 of East Middlebury is accepting applications for a part time Water System Operator.

The operator will be required to perform tasks related to the operation and maintenance of the water system. Minimum requirements are: High School diploma or equivalent, a clean driver’s license and reliable transportation, effective communication skills, strong work ethic, basic math and computer skills.

Ideal candidates will possess a Vermont Class 2 Water Operator’s license or have water operations experience. A maximum thirty minute emergency response time to East Middlebury is preferred.

For questions please contact, Jason Larocque at 802-236-3387.

Please send resume to: EMFD#1 PO Box 306 East Middlebury, VT 05740 Fire District #1 of East Middlebury is an equal opportunity employer.

Garage Sales INSIDE TAG SALE 97 Elm Street, Pittsford. 6/29 and 6/30, 9‑5. 7/6 and 7/7, 9‑5.

Household items, small furniture, old records, old bottles (no labels), books, dining room sets, hutch, hoosier cabinet, electric chainsaw, electrified doll house, vintage linen and jewelry, new Armstrong 11‑piece 0/E wrench set, 3‑piece glass punch bowl set, miscellaneous small tools, clothes (from baby ‑ adult). All sales cash.

MULTI‑FAMILY LAWN SALE. Something for ev‑ eryone. 6466 VT Rte 125, Addison. Friday, June 28th 9am‑6pm and Saturday, June 29th 9am‑3pm.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 6 FRIDAY. Spiritual Awakening, Middlebury, St. Stephes Church, 3 Main St., 7:30‑8:30am. Discussion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Discussion Meeting, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 8‑9pm.

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RSVP of Addison County connects volunteers age 55 and up with the people and organizations that need them the most. RSVP provide a wide range of opportunities - serve as a reading mentor or classroom assistant with children, deliver meals or providing rides to community members, assist in a local museum, and much more. We help community members find just the right volunteer opportunity to fit with their interests, schedule and goals. If you would like to learn more about our programs, please visit our website at www. volunteersinvt.org or contact us at 388-7044 orrsvpaddison@volunteersinvt.org.

The Addison Independent newspaper is looking for a substitute driver to cover Monday & Thursday deliveries on an “as-needed” basis.

Must have: valid driver’s license, ability to lift bundles of newspapers and customer service skills.

Please email resume to lisar@addisonindependent.com For additional info, call 388-4944, M-F 8am-5pm.

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Att. Farmers Motorcycles Cars Trucks SUVs Snowmobiles Boats Wanted

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FLORAL MERCHANDISER P/T Middlebury area morn‑ ing hours. Fun, creative, flexible position ideal for a candidate who can work independently with honesty and integrity. Please sub‑ mit resume to: Claudette at simplyreadyflowers@gmail. com.

Shard Villa

American Legion Post 50 in Castleton

To assist with flooring and lumber manufacturing. Must be able to lift heavy material at times.

Lathrop’s Maple Supply and Vermont Wood Products LLC Call Tom for an appointment (802) 453-2897 (ext #2)

OTTER VALLEY

UNION HIGH SCHOOL is actively seeking coaches for the following positions:

Fall 2019

Junior Varsity/Varsity Football Assistant Coach Varsity Golf Head Coach

Hiring for Caregiver positions.

Seeking a full time Post Manager. The duties include forecasting, planning and managing all orders, employees, buildings and finances. The ideal candidate should have excellent organizational and computer skills in MS suite, internet and accounting programs.

Offer is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.

If qualified, mail your resume, cover letter and three references to 2nd Vice Commander, PO Box 355, Bomoseen, VT 05732 or drop it off in a sealed envelope at the Post.

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Junior Varsity Boys Basketball Head Coach Middle Level Boys/Girls Basketball Head Coach Junior Varsity Girls Basketball Head Coach

Spring 2020– To Be Announced *It is Otter Valley’s intent to establish long-term commitments from all Varsity coaches, allowing the successful candidateto build and develop strong feeder programs.

Applicants must be able to develop a solid rapport with student athletes, work cooperatively with the athletic program, provide positive leadership, and model the ideals of good sportsmanship. A strong knowledge of coaching principlesis required. Previous coaching experience preferred. Position opened until filled.

If interested, please send resume and references to:

Steven Keith, Activities Director skeith@rnesu.org Otter Valley High School 2997 Franklin Street | Brandon, VT 05733 EOE

Goodro Lumber Co. seeks a

CDL Truck Driver

Join the Parent/Child Center Team

VAN DRIVER/ CHILDCARE WORKER

We are seeking a van driver/childcare worker who will transport children and their parents as well as provide childcare at our Center. Strong candidates must have knowledge of child development, family systems, adolescent development, mental health issues, and excellent judgment.

This is a full- time position with generous benefits, total hours negotiable. A clean driving record and experience with children and families a must.

Contact Info: Please contact Donna Bailey at dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org Deadline July 1, 2019

Full-time position open for a delivery truck driver. CDL Class B license required. We are looking for a positive, hard-working, dependable individual with good customer service skills to join our team.

We offer competitive wages and benefits including health insurance.

Please email your resume to: goodrolumber@goodrolumber.net or stop in and fill out an application.

Find it!

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(Part-Time / Full-Time)

Middlebury Transportation Group, a provider of luxury ground transportation with offices in Middlebury, Stowe and Burlington is looking for a team player to assist with sales, reservations, and dispatch.

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Serving a global client base, this is a fast paced, public facing position that requires a strong sales and customer service orientation. Other responsibilities include providing support to other operational functions as required.

Middlebury Transportation Group is an equal opportunity employer

KENMORE FRONT LOAD‑ ING WASHER, 3 years old, like new. Steam option. $300. 802‑453‑3842.

REFRIGERATOR, KEN‑ MORE 2 years old, top freezer, black stainless, runs perfect. 30” wide. New $800.

Asking $400. 802‑989‑5773, leave message.

ADDISON: LAKE CHAM‑ PLAIN waterfront camp.

Beautiful views, gorgeous sunsets, private beach, dock, rowboat and canoe included. $600 weekly, or call for weekends.

802‑349‑4212, no texts.

This is currently a part time position in the Middlebury Operations Center.

(32 hours per week with benefits) May become full time in the near future.

This position can include a flexible week- day schedule.

Some weekend hours required.

Apply in person, Monday through Friday - 10:00AM to 2:00PM 1396 Route 7 South (across from Greystone Motel) 802-388-3838

THE VERGENNES CON‑ GREGATIONAL CHURCH UCC, an open and affirming, progressive Christian com‑ munity is seeking a Coordi‑ nator of Children and Family Ministries. This part‑time position carries an expec‑ tation (on average) of 15 hours/week. The successful candidate will be a person of faith with experience in working with children and/ or youth, who will coordinate a program of stimulating and nourishing faith forma‑ tion. For more information, including the Job Descrip‑ tion, please contact Skip Masback, Faith Formation Committee, Vergennes Con‑ gregational Church at skip. masback@gmail.com.

Vacation Rentals

The candidate should be a detail oriented, self starter with the ability to work both alone and on a team. Excellent sales and communication skills and experience with Microsoft Office required. Experience in the luxury transportation and hospitality industry a plus.

If you thrive in a multitasking environment, and would enjoy the challenges of helping us with the operation of Vermont’s largest luxury transportation company, we would like to meet you.

SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS WANTED Bridge School Preschool is looking for substitutes for the summer or year round. Experience and degree in early child‑ hood education or related field preferred or willing to get required training. $15 per hour. Send cover let‑ ter, resume, and three writ‑ ten references to Bridge School, 1469 Exchange St, Middlebury, Vt., 05753 or via email to jenne@ bridgeschoolvermont. org. For more information, contact Jenne Morton at 388‑3498.

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Employment Opportunity

Sales and Reservations Associate

Help Wanted

Graphic Designer needed

The Addison County Independent is currently hiring a full-time graphic designer.

Experience required. This gold-star individual will work with our team of award-winning designers 32-40 hours a week, creating advertising and page layouts.

Health care and other benefits offered. Excellent organizational skills and creativity necessary, as is a good command of spelling and grammar. Proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite for print and web required.

Must be able to work well under the pressure of weekly and daily deadlines.

Please send cover letter and resumé to Sue Leggett, production manager: suel@addisonindependent.com.

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Freedom Publications is hiring for a temporary advertising sales position. Territory within Rutland County, Vermont.

July through September. Commission-based compensation — the more you sell, the more you make! Send letter of interest & resume to Angelo – angelo@addisonindependent.com.

For Rent 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT. Fully furnished. Court Street, Middlebury. All inclusive ex‑ cept TV/internet. $1,600/mo.

802‑349‑8544.

3 BEDROOM, RECENTLY remodeled home in Ver‑ gennes. W/D, mowing, plowing included. Year lease required. $1,950/mo.

802‑382‑9191.

5,000 SQ. FT. AVAILABLE. Retail, light industry/com‑ mercial, office space, food operation. Route 7, Middle‑ bury. 802‑349‑8544.

For Rent

For Rent

Sunny Downtown Middlebury, 1 bedroom, all utilities included.

FERRISBURGH, 5 BED‑ ROOM, 2 BATH farmhouse, large garage, 6 miles west of Vergennes. $1,300/mo.

802‑475‑2176.

Very Convenient 1 bedroom apartment.

Upstairs in renovated, charming, historic cottage. Located literally steps from downtown shops and restaurants, The Marbleworks, two blocks from Middlebury College. All new, top of the line appliances (washer, dryer, range, dishwasher). Private entrance, off street parking. All utilities included. No pets.

References and credit report required. Call for showings. 802-9892234. $1200 a month.

BRANDON, 3 BEDROOM apartment log home. 1‑1/2 bath. $1,400. nothing in‑ cluded. 802‑417‑5334.

BRANDON: PARK VIL‑ LAGE is now accepting applications for 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. Rents starting at $700, includes heat and trash. No pets.

Laundry on site. Income restrictions apply. Call Sum‑ mit Property Management Group at 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website, summ‑ itpmg.com.

BRISTOL 2 BEDROOM HOUSE Private with views.

Extra storage, lots of clos‑ ets, hardwood floors. Un‑ der cover parking. Security deposit, credit check and references required. Avail‑ able September 1. $985/ month. 802‑352‑4266, leave message.

BRISTOL VILLAGE, HIGHLY visible retail/of‑ fice street level space on the Main Street. Available now. $1,370 mo. Approx.

1,800 SF. Basement space also available. Call Tom at Wallace Realty 453‑4670 or Tom@WallaceRE.com.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease.

The entrance door measure‑ ments are 8’ wide by 7’ high.

For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

E A S T M I D D L E B U RY ‑ FURNISHED rooms to rent. All included in a lovely, classic home. Shared kitch‑ en, shared bath. Includes: utilities, wifi, cable, w/d and parking. Clean. Serene. $450‑$500/mo. Call/text Susan 802‑989‑8941.

EAST MIDDLEBURY, SPA‑ CIOUS 3 bedroom, 2 bath house, quaint neighborhood.

W/D hookup, yard space, screened porch. New carpet, paint. Lawn care and trash removal included. First, last plus deposit. Credit refer‑ ence. 1 year lease. $1,200/ mo. Available June 1st.

802‑352‑4124, leave mes‑ sage.

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 as amended which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or persons receiving public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.”

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-424-8590. For the Washington, DC area please call HUD at 426-3500.

FORESTDALE UNFU RNISHED apartment for rent. $750/mo. 2 bedroom.

Clean. No smoking. No pets. Utilities not included.

247‑9111.

MIDDLEBURY 2 BED‑ ROOM near downtown.

Appliances, off street park‑ ing, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY, 2 BED‑ ROOM apartment available July 10, 2nd floor. Off‑street parking. Heat, hot water, garbage and recycling in‑ cluded. Walking distance to stores, bank and down‑ town Middlebury. $1,200/ mo. 802‑989‑1171.

MIDDLEBURY, 2,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., central location, parking.

Can be subdivided. Re‑ al‑Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

SMALL OFFICE SPACE, 656 Exchange Street, Middlebury. $500/month.

802‑388‑4831.

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VERGENNES STUDIO APARTMENT available August 1. Includes heat, hot water, garbage, recy‑ cling, snow removal. Tenant responsible for electricity. $850/mo. Call Amber at 349‑5564 or email amber. bragg@grcsu.org.

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Wood Heat FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $220./cord green. 802‑282‑7906.

Real Estate 2019 ENERGY STAR homes, modular, dou‑ ble‑wides and single‑ wides. Open 7 days a week. Beanshomes.com.

600 Rte. 7, Pittsford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflan‑ ders@beanshomes.com.

Down payment assistance now available.

EAST MIDDLEBURY, DAI‑ SY Lane Lot #11. Beauti‑ ful, level 1/2 acre building lot with good southern ex‑ posure on a private lane.

Town water, power and cable hookups at curbside. Site approved for four bedroom home with conventional (no mound necessary) septic system. $68,000. Call Jack Brown 388‑7350.

Att. Farmers GOT MUD? NEED GRASS? Custom no‑till drill‑ ing for pasture rehab and renovation in Central Ad‑ dison County. Call 989‑2341.

HAY FOR SALE. Small square bales, first cut + mulch. 802‑349‑9281.

802‑453‑4481.

WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Wanted LIONS CLUB NEEDS stuff for their annual auction.

Please no appliances or electronics. Call for pick up, 388‑7124. Help us, help others.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer specializing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique collect‑ ibles, etc. Visit bittneran‑ tiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. Consulting/ appraisal services available.

House calls made free of charge.

It’s against the law to

discriminate

when advertising housing Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law. Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944.

Talk to our sales professionals.

Addison Independent, Thursday, June 27, 2019 — PAGE 11B

MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

Auctions

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for June 20th & June 24th, 2019 Ethan Allen Farm Vorsteveld Farm Champlainside Conant’s Riverside H. DeGraaf Farm Jonathan Hill Monument Farms P. Lussier Farm

Lbs.

1740 1540 1335 1480 1640 1395 1335 1120

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CALVES

Lbs.

Cost /lb

BEEF

Deer Valley Farm H. DeGraaf Farm J. Townsend Farm Champlainside P. Parent Farm Kayhart Bros Farm

Home • Estates Commercial Consignments Bridport, VT 758-2494

tombroughtonauctions.com

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Total # Beef: 220• Total # Calves: 333 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

For pickup and trucking, call 1-802-388-2661

Check out the Auctions every Monday & Thursday in the Addison Independent

ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

FARM AUCTION HILLTOP FARM COMPLETE DISPERSAL PAUL & KAREN PARENT WHERE: 59 RT 73 SHOREHAM VT 05770 WHEN: JULY 24, 2019 – 9 AM SHARP

700 HEAD!

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Addison Probate Court (4) Addison County Superior Court (1) Albertson’s (1) Bridport (1) Vergennes (4) CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, July 15, 2019 at 7:00 P.M. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by D&T Clark, Trustees, owners, and Daniel and Rebecca Hassan (Grand Senior Living), applicants to demolish the existing structure at 40 North Street.

The request will be considered under Section 1604 of the Zoning and Subdivision Regulations.

A copy of the application is available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office.

Peter Garon Administrative Officer 6/27

CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, July 15, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes, for site plan review to change the use at a portion of the structure at 20 Armory Lane from an office to a community center. The request will be reviewed pursuant to Article VII of the zoning and subdivision regulations.

A copy of the application is available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office.

Peter Garon Administrative Officer 6/27

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 272-6-19 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF THOMAS A. MENCEL NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Thomas A. Mencel of Starksboro, 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 21, 2019 Craig S. Mencel c/o Langrock Sperry & Wool, PO Drawer 351 Middlebury, Vt., 05753-0351 wmiller@langrock.com

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 258-5-19 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF STANISLAVA MORONE NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Stanislava Morone 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 22, 2019 Joseph G. Morone, James A. Morone Jr.,Peter M. Morone Dinse P.C. 209 Battery Street Burlington, Vt., 05401 mlangan@dinse.com •802-864-5751

Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: June 27, 2019 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court,7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753

Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: June 27, 2019 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 6/27

CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, July 15, 2019 at 7:45 P.M. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by James and Nancy Larrow for subdivision review to join 103 Panton Road and 105 Panton Road into one lot, conditional use review for construction of a 100 feet by 200 feet building on the new lot, and Local Act 250 review.

The request will be considered under Article IX and Section 1611 of the Zoning and Subdivision Regulations.

A copy of the application is available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office.

Peter Garon Administrative Officer 6/27

To publish a legal notice in The Addison Independent email information to legals@ addisonindependent.com or fax it to (802) 388-3100.

Deadline for the Monday edition is the previous Thursday at noon.

Deadline for the Thursday edition is the previous Monday at 5pm.

PUBLIC NOTICE – TOWN OF ADDISON The Addison Planning Commission will hold a monthly meeting on Monday, July 15, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. at the Town Clerk’s Office.

To consider the following: 1. To approve the meeting minutes of the June 17, 2019 meeting.

2. To transact any business found necessary before the board: 3. To allow time for public comment interaction at beginning of meeting.

4. We are working on the Zoning Regulations for discussing a future presentation of the (2013 copy) of regulations. This continues as a work in progress. We are working on the “Zoning” Regulations page by page & section by section. We need to work on updating & referencing correctly according to VSA 24 Chapter 117. We will make a new list for the cross referencing #’s to be corrected for the rough draft.

5. Continue working on items that are considered to be projects in progress.

6. We will continue working on Zoning Regulations (2013 copy) & Subdivision Regulations to bring them into compliance with the revised Town Plan. We will review the revised copy of the PUDS section on rearrangement of the sequence order. We need to implement a rough draft of everything.Plans are to present the Subdivision and Zoning Regulations at the same public hearing.

Frank Galgano, Chair Starr Phillips, Secretary Addison Planning Commission 06/27

PUBLIC NOTICE – MOUNTAIN FRESH CLEANERS

Please take notice that Mountain Fresh Cleaners, located at 10 Washington Street, Suite #4, Middlebury, Vermont 05753, is no longer in business at this location.

Many items of clothing, left behind after Mountain Fresh Cleaners’ closure, have been secured by its landlord, Shaw’s Supermarkets. If you were a customer of Mountain Fresh Cleaners and would like to recover your items, you are notified to contact Brittany Hall at (802) 388-0930. Any items not recovered by July 15, 2019, will be donated to a local charity.

PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse

The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos.

REGULAR HOURS Monday-Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated but not necessary.

802-388-1966

CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, July 15, 2019 at 7:45 P.M. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by Shenandoah, LLC for Local Act 250 review for an adaptive reuse project at 1 & 2 Canal Street (Haviland Shade Roller Mill and Annex). The request will be considered under Article XI of the Zoning and Subdivision Regulations.

A copy of the application is available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office.

June 25, 2019 Peter Garon Administrative Officer 6/27

TOWN OF BRIDPORT ZONING NOTICE

Residents and non-resident property owners of the Town of Bridport are hereby warned to appear at the Bridport town office at 7:05 pm on 17th July 2019 to hear the application of Philip & Bonnie Gridley.

The applicant requests a waiver of setback requirements for application 19-28 which may be seen at the Bridport Town offices.

Interested person(s) may forfeit the right to appeal the decision of the Town of Bridport Board of Zoning Adjustment or Planning Commission if they fail to participate by; attending and speaking, submitting a signed letter of concern or are represented by an authorized person.

Steven DeCarlo Acting Zoning Administrator 6/27, 7/1

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE (1108 Vermont Route 149, West Pawlet, Vermont)

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage, Assignment of Rents and Security Agreement dated July 21, 2006 (the “Mortgage”), given by CRE JV Mixed Fifteen NE Branch holdings LLC (“Mortgagor”) to UBS Real Estate Investments Inc. (“Mortgagee”), which was recorded on August 15, 2006 in Book 88 at Page 453 of the Pawlet Land Records, of which Mortgage the undersigned is the present holder by virtue of (i) an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgagee to LaSalle Bank, National Association, as Trustee for the registered holders of LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2006-C7, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-C7, as recorded on May 5, 2011at Book 101, Page 348 of the Pawlet Land Records, (ii) the merger of LaSalle Bank, National Association into Bank of America, N.A., by which Bank of America, N.A. became the successor in interest to LaSalle Bank, National Association with respect to the Mortgage, and (iii) an Assignment of Mortgage from Bank of America, N.A., as Trustee for the registered holders of LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust 2006-C7, Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-C7, to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, recorded on October 16, 2017 at Book 115, Page 404 of the Pawlet Land Records, which mortgage is the subject of the Chittenden Superior Court’s Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure By Judicial Sale, Docket 342-4-18 Cncv, dated March 14, 2019 (“Decree”), for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, there will be sold at Public Auction at 11:00 A.M., on the 17th day of July, A.D. 2019, at the location of the mortgaged premises, 1108 Vermont Route 149, West Pawlet, Vermont, all and singular the premises described in said Mortgage, To wit: A certain piece of land lying and being in Town of Pawlet, County of Rutland and State of Vermont and situate on the north side of the highway leading from Granville, New York to Blossoms Corner, Vermont and described as follows: Commencing at a point located in the center of the intersection of the said highway leading from Granville, New York to Blossoms Corner, Vermont and the highway known as the Bullfrog Hollow Road leading from said first mentioned highway northerly to Lake St. Catherine; from said point of beginning westerly along the center of said highway a distance of one hundred forty (140) feet; thence northerly and parallel with the said Bullfrog Hollow Road a distance of one hundred fifteen (115) feet to a point located about twenty-five (25) feet east of the driveway; thence easterly on a line parallel with the first mentioned boundary to a point in the center of the said Bullfrog Hollow Road and which boundary is estimated to be about one hundred forty (140) feet; thence southerly along the center of said Bullfrog Hollow Road 115 feet to the place of beginning.

Being the same land and premises conveyed to Citizens Bank, N.A. by deed from Charter One Bank, National Association dated May 3, 2005 and recorded in Book 84, Page 188 of the Pawlet Land Records.

All as more particularly described in the Decree (the “Mortgaged Premises”).

Terms of Sale: The above described property will be sold to the highest bidder, subject to all unpaid real property taxes or other liens in favor of the Town of West Pawlet, Vermont, on said premises. The disclosure that the sale will be subject to municipal liens and mortgages is not a representation as to the state of the title to the premises to be sold, as to which the mortgagee and its representatives make no representations. The high bidder will be required to make a $50,000 deposit in guaranteed funds at the time of sale, and a total deposit of 10% of the purchase price. The balance owed shall be paid within the time specified in the purchase and sale agreement that the highest bidder will be required to execute at the time of auction.

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 or inquire from Andre D. Bouffard, Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, P.O. Box 190, Burlington, Vermont. (802) 8632375.

A copy of the Mortgage may be examined by any interested person at Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, 199 Main Street, Burlington, Vermont during regular business hours. To make such examination or for further information regarding the Mortgaged Premises, contact the undersigned.

June 13, 2019 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, A NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS FOR LB-UBS COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE TRUST 2006-C7, COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-C7 By its attorneys, DOWNS RACHLIN MARTIN PLLC By: /s/ Andre D. Bouffard 19221873.1

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ADDISON COUNTY

School News

Three students from northern Addison County received their degrees from Norwich University at the May 11 commencement ceremony held in NU’s Shapiro Field House in Northfield.

Zachariah Mlcuch of New Haven received a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Nicholas B. Myers, also of New Haven, received a Bachelor of Science cum laude in Mechanical Engineering.

Christopher H. Leach of Vergennes received a Bachelor of Science cum laude in Computer Security — Information Assurance with a concentration in Information Assurance Management.

Of the 837 students named to the Plymouth State University president’s list for the spring 2019 semester, six were from Addison County.

They include: William Huntington of Middlebury, majoring in Exercise and Sport Physiology major; Baily Ryan of Middlebury, majoring in Elementary Education; Sawyer Ryan of Middlebury, majoring in History; Lauren Scott of Vergennes, majoring in Music Education (K-12); Audrey Shahan of North Ferrisburgh, also a Music Education (K-12) major; and Allison White of Weybridge, who is majoring in Management.

To be named to Plymouth University’s president’s list, a student must achieve a grade point average of 3.7 or better for the spring 2019 semester and must have attempted at least 12 credit hours during the semester.

Brandon resident Kyla DodgeGoshea, a Fashion Communication & Promotion major at Lasell College in Newton, Mass., was named to the spring 2019 Dean’s List. Dodge-Goshea achieved a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher with at least 12 completed credits to merit this accomplishment.

A number of local students garnered dean’s list honors for the spring 2019 semester at Tufts University on Medford, Mass.

Among them are four graduating seniors Ryan Biette of Middlebury, Kiley Pratt of New Haven and Julia Rosenberg of Cornwall.

Andrea Boe, Tobias Broucke, Molly Campbell, Lucas Pyle and Douglas Sandler, all of Middlebury, were also named to the list. Dean’s list honors at Tufts University require a semester grade point average of 3.4 or greater.

In recognition of his hard work, Timothy Patrick Shea of Ferrisburgh was named to the dean’s list at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Mass., for the spring 2019 semester.

Congratulations to MaryKatherine Clark of Bristol and Patricia Burkins of Bridport.

Both were named to the dean’s list at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. for the spring 2019 semester. Clark is a Clinical Health Studies major and Burkins is majoring in Psychology.

Congratulations to Alexis Ouellette of Middlebury, who has been named to the dean’s list at Emmanuel College in Boston, Mass., for the spring 2019 semester.

To earn a spot on the dean’s list, Emmanuel students must achieve a grade point average of 3.5 or higher for a 16-credit semester.

Sophie Saunders, daughter of Katie and Tom Saunders of Middlebury, was recently named to the dean’s list at Tufts University’s School of Engineering, weighing in with a 3.93 GPA. Layla Paine of Bristol was recently named to the dean’s list at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., for the spring 2019 semester.

Paine achieved a GPA of at least 3.5 to earn this honor.

Lauded letter writers

BRIDGE SCHOOL STUDENTS won first, second and third place in the recent Letters About Literature Contest sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Vermont State Library. The contest asks students to write a letter to an author whose work impacted their understanding of themselves or the world. The students in the Amanda Warren’s Language Arts class all wrote letters and submitted them to the contest as part of this year’s curriculum and swept the contest. The three traveled to the State House to receive their awards.

Winners Axel de Boer, 3rd, left, Allegra de Boer, 2nd, and India Danyow, 1st, pose with their awards and Vermont State Librarian Jason Broughton. Danyow read her letter aloud and it was sent on to the national contest.

Photo courtesy of Amanda Warren

Local students receive degrees from Vt. Technical RANDOLPH CENTER — Nearly 500 students received degrees from Vermont Tech in three ceremonies on May 18 and 19. The following local students earned degrees: Brandon: Chad Eddy, Associate of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering Technology; Jade Morgano, Associate of Science in Nursing; Josef Scarborough, Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering Technology; and Seth Widli, Associate of Engineering in Civil & Environmental Engineering Technology.

Bristol: Emma Budine, Bachelor of Science in Dental

Hygiene; Daniel Emmell, Associate of Applied Science in Automotive Technology; Jonathan Menzel, Associate of Science in Respiratory Therapy; and Hailey Sayles, Associate of Science in Dental Hygiene.

Ferrisburgh: Heidi Stearns, Associate of Science in Nursing and Shawnna Vander Wey, Associate of Applied Science in Dairy Farm Management.

Hancock: Harrison Heist, Bachelor of Science in Electromechanical Engineering Technology.

Lincoln: Sara Cousino, Bachelor of Science in Business Technology & Management.

Middlebury: Elhadji Ba, Bachelor of Science in Construction Management; Derrick Dubois, Bachelor of Science in Professional Pilot Technology; Ashlynn Foster, Associate of Applied Science in Dairy Farm Management; Relief Quinn, Associate of Applied Science in Agribusiness Management Technology; and Megann Watkins, Bachelor of Science in Business Technology & Management.

New Haven: Mary Meyer, Associate of Science in Nursing and Aaron Seymour, Bachelor of Science in Electromechanical Engineering Technology.

North Ferrisburgh: Kaylee LeCompte, Bachelor of Science

in Dental Hygiene; Sarah Thut, Associate of Applied Science in Veterinary Technology.

Starksboro: Eric Gifford, Bachelor of Science in Electromechanical Engineering Technology.

Vergennes: Nathaniel Cannon, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology; Sarah Clark, Associate of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering Technology; Ashley Forrest, Bachelor of Science in Business Technology & Management; and Leslie Scribner, Associate of Science in Nursing.

Congratulations to all the graduates.

Rivait earns Land Trust stewardship award VERGENNES — Since 2005, the Vermont Land Trust has been recognizing outstanding high school juniors and seniors who are dedicated to agriculture and forestry. This year, Tianna Rivait of Addison received one of seven Land Stewards Awards presented by the land trust, along with a check for $250.

Rivait was nominated by Bill Van Der Weert, her agricultural educator at Vergennes Union High School. “Like many people who work closely with the land, Rivait has a firm grasp of reality and takes necessary steps to accomplish her goals,” Van Der Weert shared.

Rivait has worked on three farms. Nearly seven days a week after school, she has worked at Nea Tocht Farm in Ferrisburgh, where she milks about 250 cows.

But during lambing season, she also helps with sheep at the Thompson DuClos Farm in Weybridge. “When she commits to an employer, she is all in and will make her job a top priority,” Van Der Weert said.

Rivait’s passion for agriculture carries over into the classroom.

She has studied Animal Science, Natural Resource Management, and Small Business and Entrepreneurship, where she wrote a business plan to start a horse farm in Vermont. She has been an

AL KARNATZ OF the Vermont Land Trust presents one of its seven 2019 Land Stewards Awards to Tianna Rivait of Addison.

Photo courtesy Nadine Berrini

active member of Future Farmers of America and was part of the chapter’s parliamentary procedure that competed nationally in 2017.

“The Vermont Land Trust is thrilled to honor these students and to recognize the importance of

technical and vocational schools,” said Nick Richardson, president of the Vermont Land Trust.

“Talented agricultural and forestry professionals are vital to the careful management of Vermont’s farms and forests.”

Middlebury teen to study in Tajikistan MIDDLEBURY — Julian Roy, a 17-year-old Middlebury resident, is studying Persian (Tajiki) in Tajikistan for the summer through a National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) scholarship.

NSLI-Y is a program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Roy, competitively selected out of over 3,300 applications from across the United States, is one of approximately 660 students who will study Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Russian or Turkish overseas this coming year. While in Tajikistan, Roy will receive formal language instruction, live with a host family, and experience the local culture as part of an immersion environment.

Roy is a rising senior at Vermont Commons School. He

JULIAN ROY left last week for the six-week program.

NSLI-Y is part of a multiagency U.S. government

initiative launched in 2006 to improve Americans’ ability to communicate in select critical languages, to advance international dialogue, and increase American economic global competitiveness. Many NSLI-Y alumni go on to pursue education and careers vital to U.S. national security and credit the program experience with helping them improve their academic, leadership, and cross-cultural communication skills.

Applications for 2020-21 NSLI-Y programs are expected to be available at nsliforyouth. org in the late summer. The Department of State conducts study abroad programs for more than 1,000 American high school students and approximately 3,000 foreign high school students each year. Visit exchanges.state.gov/ highschool for details.

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June 27, 2019

The Addison Independent

MATTHEW DICKERSON Local author reflects on writing

D

o you count yourself an avid Addy Indy reader? Then no doubt you recognize Matthew Dickerson’s name — after all, he’s been writing an outdoor column for the paper for 21 years. You might even know this angler recently published “The Voices of Rivers,” a book about his experiences on rivers in Arcadia and Glacier national parks and watercourses scattered around Alaska.

BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

But odds are, a few things might still surprise you about Dickerson. First of all, he’s a professor of computer science at Middlebury College and a scholar of the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien and the Inklings. Yup, environmentalfantasy scholar, pretty neat. Dickerson, father of three, is also a musician and has played bass and guitar with local blues bands for the past few decades; now he’s getting more into roots Americana (aren’t we all). And, oh, this Middlebury resident also keeps bees and has a sugarbush on his 62.5-acre property in Bristol.

Yes, this is a wide-ranging, seemingly random collection of skills and hobbies, but believe it or not, Dickerson says all of it informs his writing.

“There’s the outdoor and fly-fishing strand, then also an environmental and scientific strand, a personal strand and a nature, place-based strand,” he said, reflecting on his most recent book and writing style over a Haymaker Bun earlier this month. “I weave them all together and emerge into my voice.”

Matthew Dickerson battles a large rainbow trout in a river in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, shared with the brown bears, while looking for rainbow trout and Dolly Varden char that are also competing with the bears in search of salmon eggs.

PHOTO / DEBORAH DICKERSON

In practice, it’s not as complicated as it sounds.

When Dickerson was working on “The Voices of Rivers” he drew on writings and experiences he had as an Artist in Residence at Glacier National Park in Montana (2017), and Arcadia National Park in Maine (2018). He described his typical days during the month-long stays.

“I’d make coffee and take a small hike,” he remembered. “I’d plop down by the water — listening, looking and observing. I’d hear the insects, the songs of the birds, the way the air moved through the trees… I was quiet for about an hour or two, just sitting there. Then I’d begin to write.

“My initial writing is personal; a conscious firstperson narrative,” continued Dickerson, who earned his undergrad degree in English from Dartmouth and his Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a secondary area of study in English, from

Cornell. “I’m not yet formulating a story arc; I’m just writing my observations. I’d write my first drafts while sitting there, and then wait for a day that was too rainy or cold to be outside and I’d pull out what I’d written and ask: ‘What have I learned? What did that tree tell me?

What did that bird-song teach me?’”

Upon reflection, Dickerson’s essays began to take shape. He intentionally wrote in the first person to keep the sense of immediacy.

Add to these two National Parks stays a couple fishing trips to Alaska, and Dickerson had more than enough material to furnish the pages of his latest book. He estimated that only about 50-60 percent of all of his work went into this volume. “‘The Voices of Rivers’ is all placed-based nature writing,” he said. “I use science, SEE AUTHOR ON PAGE 3

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ART “Great Northern Pike” by Mike Mayone, watercolor.

BAG’s new exhibit opens the creative floodgates

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here’s something in the water at the Brandon Artists Guild as the gallery continues its Earth-themed 20th anniversary celebration with a new exhibit. “The Art of Water” will run from June 28Aug. 27. The public is invited to the free opening reception on Friday, June 28, from 5-7 p.m.

The all-member, all-media show features pieces linked by the common theme of water, and includes ceramics, collage, watercolor, oil, photography, glass and more.

“We’re drawing from a deep well of creativity for this exhibit,” says photographer and BAG member Lowell Klock. “The water theme lets our

imaginations flow. Like the previous shows in the series, there’s a lot of diversity and energy.”

“The Art of Water” is the third in a series of four themed shows honoring our planet. This 20th-anniversary year for the BAG is also the Chinese Year of the Pig, which recognizes nature’s elements, Earth, Wood, Water, and Fire.

The BAG is devoting four exhibits to these elements.

“The Art of Water” exhibit closes in late August and will be followed by “The Art of Fire,” the final exhibit in the series.

The BAG is located at 7 Center Street in Brandon. For more information call (802) 247-4956 or visit BrandonArtistsGuild.org.

“Oval Platter with Fish” by Stacey Stanhope Dundon, stoneware.

“Thermal Stream, New Zealand” by Lowell Klock, photograph.

“Overboard” by Hallie Monroe, stained glass.

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history, my own personal CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 narrative and careful observation to reach my goal of being present. I’m trying to tell the stories — not just of what I’m learning but what I’m seeing.”

AUTHOR

Dickerson is aware, however, that nature writing — especially those essays that are published in academic journals — may not always be compelling reads.

This is where his skills as an angler come in handy.

“I have a love of rivers and spending time in rivers,” he said. “They are the highways that tie together so many ways of life… To capture it briefly: We all live downstream. I’m more aware of this when I’m by rivers… The activity of flyfishing helps sharpen my awareness, but is also a vehicle for people who aren’t going to read an essay. I think writing creatively helps people see these things and bring them to life. I want my writing to be enjoyable and fly fishing is a natural way for me to share that delight.”

Matthew Dickerson gives fly-fishing lessons to Orwell resident Monica Connor, who lands a grayling in the Tanalian River in Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park. Connor had a summer job at the Farm Lodge in Port Alsworth in 2018, where she returned in 2019 along with her younger brother Joseph.

PHOTO / BRANDEN HUMMEL

Dickerson is a writer who only writes things that delight him. And he has that luxury because of his full-time gig as a professor.

“I write because I love to write,” he said. “Because I’m not writing to put food on the table, it gives me the flexibility to write what I think is important and worthwhile.”

Dickerson begins to worry about who’s going to publish his work after it’s pretty much done.

“I don’t want to do it the other way around,” he said.

“That feels like selling out and chasing dollars.”

Word. “The Voices of Rivers” definitely is no “sellout.” Once again we can count on Dickerson to take us wading into the wilderness, pause for a moment and then return to reality.

Editor’s Note: “The Voices of Rivers” is available at The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

A female Yellow Rumped Warbler snatches a dragonfly off a lily pad on a small pond near Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park.

PHOTO / MATTHEW DICKERSON

A brown bear chases a sockeye salmon in a river in Katmai National Park and Preserve, where the spawning run has brought the salmon 90 miles upriver and about 1,800 feet gain in elevation from Bristol Bay.

PHOTO / MATTHEW DICKERSON

Matthew Dickerson paddles his Wenonah ultralight Kevlar canoe looking for “salters” (anadromous brook trout) in a little estuary below a beaver dam up Bass Harbor Marsh in Acadia National Park.

PHOTO / DEBORAH DICKERSON

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IN TOWN Solstice inspired performance shines in summer

J

une 21 was the summer solstice for the northern hemisphere. That means the Earth’s North Pole had its maximum tilt toward the sun, bringing us the longest period of daylight. Now that we’re after the summer solstice, days are getting shorter.

But don’t fear. The folks who bring us Night Fires each year will present “After the Solstice:” a marathon for rooted hope, fierce joy and percolating braveries of the heart will be singing a strong and passionate song on June 29, 7:30 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. It’s a benefit for KIND (Kids In Need of Defense).

KIND is an organization offering legal help, protection, comfort and safe passage for children who have arrived alone (yes, some do arrive alone) or been separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexican border.

Night Fires regulars will offer beautiful and inspiring words, and a whole lot of really terrific music. One of the feature singers is Night Fires’ own blues/jazz/rock/world music diva, Annie Voorhees, and her musical compadres.

Tickets are on a sliding scale of $20, $50

Annie Voorhees and Lou Carrig from Night Fires rehearse for their performance in “After the Solstice” taking place at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on June 29, at 7:30 p.m.

PHOTO / HALEY RICE

or $100 and all proceeds go to KIND (supportkind.org). Purchasing tickets in advance is encouraged; they’ll be available at

the door if not sold out. Visit townhalltheater. org or call (802) 382–9222 to reserve your ticket or for more information.

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IN TOWN Pops, fireworks, it’s Fourth of July

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he Henry Sheldon Museum invites everyone to celebrate Independence Day at a Pops Concert on Wednesday, July 3, featuring the Vermont Philharmonic. This popular family event takes place on the spacious, manicured grounds of the Middlebury College athletic fields, nestled between and with views of the Adirondack and Green Mountains. There is plenty of free parking adjacent to the fields.

The grounds open at 5:30 p.m. for picnics; the concert begins at 7:30 p.m.; and the spectacular fireworks display begins at dusk.

Should the weather interfere, the concert will be held in the Kenyon Arena of Middlebury College’s Peterson Family Athletic Complex.

Fireworks are rain or shine.

The evening will include a raffle for seven one-of-a-kind picnic baskets painted by local artists: Gayl Braisted, Deborah Holmes, Woody Jackson, Warren Kimble, Kathy Mitchell, Danielle Rougeau and Ashley Wolff. Baskets are filled with local foods, gift certificates, and picnic items. The drawing will be at the Pops Concert. Tickets are available through the evening of July 3. You do not need to be present to win, though we do hope you will attend the concert.

The Pops Concert and Fireworks event is the Sheldon Museum’s biggest annual fundraiser.

All net proceeds go toward funding the Museum’s youth education programs.

The concert will feature contemporary music, light classics, Broadway and film favorites that will appeal to all ages and musical tastes.

Musical selections will include “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” and songs from “Mary Poppins.” The celebrated Vermont Philharmonic is led by energetic Director Lou Kosma who has spent his career specializing in musical education for children.

Every year, the performance features a stellar vocal soloist and this year is no exception. The guest soloist is jazz vocalist Holli Ross. Over the last several decades, Ross, a jazz singer, music educator, and voice specialist, has been a vibrant force in the jazz world. Alongside her career as a member and co-founder of the celebrated vocal trio String Of Pearls (25 years and counting), she has garnered fans and praise as a swinging, intensely musical solo singer with

Sheldon Museum’s annual Pops Concert and fireworks will be held once again on the grounds of Middlebury College’s athletic fields on July 3. Grounds open at 5:30 p.m., music begins at 7:30 p.m. and fireworks start at dusk.

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a deep knowledge of the jazz tradition.

This year the Sheldon Museum will recognize Gayl Braisted as the honorary chair of the concert. Braisted, who has served as a trustee of the Sheldon, is an accomplished artist who has contributed her talent to many Sheldon events including the Pops Concert, Garden Tour, annual Train Exhibit, Antiques Auction, Tour of Middlebury Churches, Celebration of Middlebury’s Bell Towers, and this year, Braisted painted one of the picnic baskets being raffled at the Pops Concert.

Adult tickets are $30, youth 12-18 are $10, and

children under 12 years of age are free. Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, flashlights, picnic dinners.

Small-batch Farm-to-Cone ice cream will be available from Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream of Fisher Brothers Farm in Shelburne. Inspired by their three daughters, Farmer Bob and Becky created Sisters of Anarchy Ice Cream. Unique, vibrant flavors are the name of the game.

Tickets for the concert and the Picnic Basket Raffle are available at the Sheldon Museum, online at henrysheldonmuseum.org, or by calling (802) 388-2117.

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CALENDAR ARTS

INFORMAL GALLERY TALK WITH PHOTOGRAPHER JIM BLAIR IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, June 28, 1:00 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Join Blair for a free informal talk on his exhibition, “Being There: Photographs by James P. Blair.” on display through Aug. 11.

ARTIST’S OPENING RECEPTION IN BRANDON. Friday, June 28, 5-7 p.m., Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St. The Guild’s ne show “Art of Water” opens with a reception for the artists. The allmember, all-media show features pieces linked by the common theme of water, and includes ceramics, collage, watercolor, oil, photography, glass and more. Free and open to the public.

ARTIST’S OPENING RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, July 5, 5-7 p.m., Edgewater On The Green, 6 Merchants Row. Opening reception for mixed media artist Duncan Johnson’s solo exhibition, on view for the month of July. More info at 802-989-7419 or Edgewatergallery.com.

ARTIST’S OPENING RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, July 5, 5-7 p.m., Edgewater At The Falls, 1 Mill St. Opening reception for mixed media artist Homer Wells’ solo exhibition, on view for the month of July. More info at 802458-0098 or Edgewatergallery.com.

FILM

“THE SONG AND THE SORROW” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, June 30, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. This documentary about music and mental illness features singer Caterhine MacLellan, the daughter of Canadian singer/songwriting legend Gene MacLellan, who committed suicide when she was 14. The film follows her as she tries to come to terms with her father and his legacy while facing her own struggles with mental health. Tickets $10/$8 seniors plus fees, available at townhalltheater. org, by calling 802-382-9222, at the THT box office Mon-Sat, noon-5 p.m., or at the door one hour before show time. MacLellan will be appearing live at Town Hall Theater Sept. 12.

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VERMONT PHILHARMONIC POPS CONCERT AND FIREWORKS IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, July 3, 7:30 p.m., behind Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. The Sheldon Museum’s annual Pops Concert. Lou Kosma conducts the Vermont

Philharmonic in a medley of contemporary music, light classics, Broadway and film favorites.

The event features a raffle of picnic baskets painted by local artists and filled with local foods, gift certificates, and picnic items. Grounds open at 5:30 p.m. for picnics; Concert begins at 7:30.

Bring chairs, blankets, and flashlights. Tickets adults $30, $25 if purchased before June 25/ youth $10/children under 12 free, available at 802-388-2117, henrysheldonmuseum.org or in person at the museum, 1 Park St. FIREWORKS IN BRISTOL. Wednesday, July 3, dusk.

FIREWORKS IN VERGENNES. Wednesday, July 3, dusk, VUHS sports fields, 50 Monkton Rd. JULY 4TH CELEBRATION IN BRISTOL. Thursday, July 4, locations around town. Paradee road race, 7:30 a.m.; outhouse races, 9 a.m.; parade at 10:30 a.m., themed “Music of the ‘60s.” Activities on the green — food, music, crafts Silent, etc. to follow the parade. More info at bristol4th.com.

“WHAT TO THE NEGRO IS THE 4TH OF JULY?” in Ferrisburgh. Friday, July 5, 3 p.m., Rokeby Museum, 4334 Route 7. A unique opportunity to experience history by reading aloud Frederick Douglass’s most famous speech, originally delivered on July 5, 1852.

Douglass castigated the United States for decades of slavery and injustice. Come and add your voice to this statewide public reading sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council, and learn about when Frederick Douglass gave a speech in Ferrisburgh in 1843. Free.

THE GREAT BRANDON 4TH OF JULY STREET DANCE UNDER THE STARS. Friday, July 5, 6-10 p.m., Seminary Park (just around the corner and up the hill from Town Offices. Family friendly street dance with music for all ages by DJ Jam Man Entertainment, food vendors. Fun for all ages. Off street parking available with free shuttles.

INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION IN BRANDON. Saturday, July 6, 10 a.m.-dusk, Park Village, 1 mile north of town. Parade begins at 10 a.m., followed by a huge variety of foods, music, activities, silent auction, and fireworks at dusk.

Free shuttles. More info at brandon.org.

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STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL IN SHOREHAM. Thursday, June 27, 5-7 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Enjoy strawberry shortcake, strawberry pies (with or without ice cream or real whipped cream),

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strawberry sundaes, the works, or just plain strawberries. Prices vary according to the items purchased. All servings are made to order.

A limited number of whole strawberry pies available for purchase. Bring a non-perishable food or personal item for the Food Shelf.

STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL IN MONKTON. Sunday, June 30, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Monkton Volunteer Fire Department, 3747 State’s Prison Hollow Rd. 45TH ANNUAL ICE CREAM SOCIAL IN SALISBURY. Thursday, July 4, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

Salisbury Congregational Meeting House, 853 Maple St. An afternoon of cones, sundaes and homemade desserts. Rain or shine.

MUSIC

POINT COUNTERPOINT FACULTY ENSEMBLE IN SALISBURY. Friday, June 28, 7:30 p.m. Salisbury Congregational Meeting House, 853 Maple St. This Chamber music concert kicks off the 40th Annual Summer Performance Series in Salisbury.

Free-will donation.

MIDDLEBURY CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL OPEN REHEARSAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 29, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Unity Hall, Congregational Church of Middlebury, N. Pleasant St. entrance.

Middlebury Chamber Music Festival guest artists Olivia Hajioff, Marc Ramirez, Miho Weber, and Jon Weber will offer a public open rehearsal. The program will include works by Prokofiev, Ravel, Toru Takemitsu and the Beethoven. Free.

CAROLINE COTTER IN BRANDON. Saturday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Concert tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info contact Edna at 802-247-4295 or e-mail edna@brandon-music.net.

RICK KLEIN & PETER MACFARLANE IN NEW HAVEN. Sunday, June 30, 2-4 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery, 142 River Rd. Part of The Sunday Sessions at Lincoln Peak Winery. Relax on the porch with wine and live music. Wine available by the glass. Free music is rain or shine on the covered porch (we’ll move indoors if it’s pouring).

HELIAND CONSORT IN ROCHESTER. Sunday, June 30, 4 p.m., Federated Church of Rochester, North Main St. Katie Oprea, oboe; Rachael Elliott, bassoon; Cynthia Huard, piano, will present a concert of Galbraith, Clara & Robert Schumann, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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Lily Boulanger, and Newsome. Admission by donation. More info at rcmsvt.org or 802-767-9234.

VERGENNES CITY BAND CONCERT IN VERGENNES. Monday, July 1, 7 p.m., City Park.

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC POPS CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, July 3, gates open at 5:30 p.m., behind Middlebury Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. The Henry Sheldon Museum’s annual Fourth of July celebration features the Vermont Philharmonic playing on the spacious, manicured grounds of the Middlebury College athletic fields. Concert begins at 7:30. Fireworks display begins at dusk. Rain location, Kenyon Arena. Fireworks rain or shine. Tickets Adult $25 ($30 after June 25,)/youth 12 – 18 $10/under 12 free. Evening includes a raffle for seven one-ofa-kind picnic baskets — filled with local foods, gift certificates, and picnic items — painted by local artists. More info at Sheldon Museum at 802-388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

BRISTOL TOWN BAND IN BRISTOL. Wednesday, July 3, 7 p.m., on the green. The Bristol Band has presented outdoor summer band concerts in the gazebo on the Town Green every Wednesday evening in the summer since shortly after the Civil War. Bring a lawn chair, blanket or picnic dinner and enjoy an evening of small town entertainment.

There is often a fundraiser barbecue before each concert. Call 802-453-5885 for details.

GUMBO YAYA IN BRANDON. Wednesday, July 3, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. The kick-off of Brandon’s free summer concert series, Music at the Riverbend, Gumbo YaYa plays a rock and roll stew, cooking up soul calypso, ska, reggae and world funk. More info at brandon.org/events Free Summer Concerts. Brandon Town Band opens at 6 p.m.

SERGEI GRATCHEV, CARILLON, IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, July 5, 6 p.m., Mead Chapel, 75 Hepburn Rd. Gratchev is the carillonneur for the Middlebury Summer Russian Language School and also for the city of Hulst, Netherlands. The sounds of the carillon bells are a staple of summer life on the Middlebury campus. Free. More info at go.middlebury.edu/carillon.

ATLANTIC CROSSING IN SALISBURY. Friday, July 5, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Meeting House, 853 Maple St. Come hear this folk ensemble. Free-will donation.

DAVID ROSANE & THE ZOOKEEPERS IN ROCHESTER. Saturday, July 6, Rochester Public Library, 22 S Main St. Come see Dave Rosane and the Zookeepers on their tour to support Vermont libraries and to shine a light on their pivotal role in our communities.

MOIRA SMILEY IN CONCERT IN RIPTON. Saturday, July 6 at 7:30 pm, Ripton Community House, Route 125. Doors open at 7 p.m. Addison County native Moira Smiley is a musical polyglot

and vocal shape-shifter, her voice — and composing — are heard on feature films, BBC and PBS television programs, NPR and more than 60 albums. When performing solo, she accompanies herself with banjo, accordion, piano, and percussive movement. Refreshments available.

Wheelchair accessible. Call ahead for a slot on the open mic list. Admission $15 generous/$10 general/$3 children. More info at 802- 388-9782.

KEITH “PAPA GREY BEARD” WILLIAMS IN NEW HAVEN. Sunday, July 7, 2-4 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery, 142 River Rd. Relax on the porch with wine and live music. Wine available by the glass. Music is rain or shine on the covered porch (we’ll move indoors if it’s pouring).

MARGUERITE SCHENKMAN MEMORIAL CONCERT IN ROCHESTER. Sunday, July 7, 4 p.m., Federated Church of Rochester, North Main St. Mary Rowell, violin; Paul Reynolds, viola; Emily Taubl, cello; and Cynthia Huard, piano, will play a concert of Schumann, Carolyn Shaw, Beethoven, and Nico Muhly, Admission by donation. More info at rcmsvt.org or 802-767-9234.

SAM REIDER AND THE HUMAN HANDS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, July 7, 7-9 p.m., on the green. The 41st Annual Festival on-the-green begins with this American accordionist, pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter. He’s been featured at Lincoln Center and on NPR and collaborated with pop stars, jazz and folk musicians around the world.

THEATER

“MOBY DICK” ON STAGE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, June 27, 7:309:30 p.m., Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, 1197 Exchange St. Gare St. Lazarre Ireland returns with this distillation of Herman Melville’s great American novel. Adapted by Judy Hegarty Lovett, performed by Colin Lovett and accompanied by Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh. Tickets $20, available at Eventbrite.com. More info at VermontCoffeeCompany.com.

“HAVEL: THE PASSION OF THOUGHT” IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, June 28, 6 p.m., Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. See a workshop of this New York-bound production by Middlebury affiliated, off-Broadway theatre company PTP/ NYC. The show includes plays by Vaclav Havel, Harold Pinter, and Samuel Beckett. Free. More info at middlebury. edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS AUDITIONS IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 29, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Mary Hogan Elementary School, Mary Hogan Dr. Come audition for “HONK!” The classic story of the Ugly Duckling

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comes to life in this musical, a heartwarming tale of being different and the lessons we can all learn.

Registration at 9:30 a.m., auditions begin at 10 a.m.

Auditions also held Wednesday, June 26. Aspiring performers invited to audition either date. More info at info@middleburycommunityplayers.org.

“DOGG’S HAMLET, CAHOOT’S MACBETH” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 29, 1p.m., Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. See a workshop of this New Yorkbound production by Middlebury affiliated, off-Broadway theatre company PTP/NYC. Tom Stoppard’s play features. Three schoolboys who speak only Dogg confuse a lorry driver who speaks only English. Free. More info at middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

“AFTER THE SOLSTICE: A BENEFIT FOR KIND” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 29, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. A marathon of rooted hope, fierce joy and percolating braveries passionately spoken and sung to benefit KIND (Kids In Need Of Defense), a nonprofit organization that offers legal support, protection, comfort and safe passage for children arriving at the border between U.S and Mexico. Tickets sliding scale of $20, $50 or $100, available at townhalltheater.org, 802-3829222, or THT box office (Mon-Sat, noon-5PM). All proceeds go to KIND.

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GARDEN JEWELS OF MOUNT DESERT ISLAND

Thuya Gardens are home to many colorful flowers. These gardens are just 10 miles from Bar Harbor in Maine. Don’t miss them on your next northern gettaway.

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very summer crowds of visitors flock to Maine’s Mount Desert Island to hike the beautiful windswept hills of Acadia National Park and enjoy the bustling seaside town of Bar Harbor.

But few are aware that, only 10 miles along the coast from Bar Harbor in the little village of Northeast Harbor, WITH PHOTOS BY a trio of exquisite hidden gardens, now owned and maintained by the Land and Garden Preserve, await your discovery.

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DICK CONRAD

Two of these gardens, Asticou and Thuya, just two miles apart, were created in a one frenetic year

by Charles Savage, a native of Northeast Harbor using the plants from the nearby property of the famous landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand. But the gardens could not be more different.

I have yet to visit the third garden, the Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Garden. A study in formality it was originally designed by Beatrix Farrand between 1926 and 1930. Two years ago the Rockefeller family bequeathed it to the Land and Garden Preserve, and now it is open to the public three days a week although advance reservations are required.

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home of Joseph Curtis, a Victorian landscape architect.

In creating Asticou, Savage was inspired by the rugged Maine coast he loved, which he interpreted through Japanese design ideals.

Visitors approach on foot, climbing the spectacula rocky staircase known as the Asticou Terraces.

The formal gateway to the garden marks the transition from the bustle of the outside world to the quiet serenity within, with a meticulously raked gravel pathway edged with magnificent carpets of pincushion moss. We watched, almost in disbelief, as an attendant gently brushed the soft green carpets to remove any stray pine needles that might have dropped the previous night.

At the top a pair of grand carved gates announce your arrival at Thuya Garden. (For people unable to make the climb, there is handicap parking available at the Lodge).

Throughout the garden, raked sand paths, following the meandering brook strewn with weathered Maine boulders, took us past beautiful azaleas and rhododendrons. Eventually we reached the Great Pond surrounded with mature azaleas and evergreens all reflecting in the water.

As you stroll south raised beds edged in massive blocks of local pink granite are home to more flowers, while a small pond evokes the wilder landscape of Acadia.

Finally, on our return, we discovered a traditional Japanese sand garden with carefully positioned rocks set in raked sand, symbolizing the Acadian islands set in a shimmering sea.

THUYA GARDEN Thuya Garden is set high on an enclosed hilltop, surrounding Thuya Lodge that was the longtime

At the north end, formal beds filled with colorful perennials are reminiscent of the preeminent English designer, Gertrude Jekyll.

Finally at the southern tip of the garden look for the hidden gate in the wall. This leads to a rustic mountain path that takes you to Eliot Mountain with a spectacular view across the sea and nearb islands. I wonder — was this the view that inspire Charles Savage as he created the Japanese Sand Garden at Asticou?

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a garden adds immeasurably to our enjoyment of the garden itself. This is certainly the case with the gardens of Mount Desert Island. It is the story of Charles Savage and his three special friends, and the incredible events that connected them.

CHARLES SAVAGE Charles Savage was a life-long native of Northeast Harbor and innkeeper of the family-owned Asticou Inn. By all accounts he was a dapper man who mingled comfortably with the well-heeled visitors to Northeast Harbor — people who resided in Boston for most of the year but, during summer’s heat, retreated to Mount Desert Island.

Savage was also a self-taught but very skilled landscape designer. And among his very special summer friends he counted two well-known and respected landscape architects, Joseph Curtis and Beatrix Farrand.

JOSEPH CURTIS Back in 1880 Joseph Curtis purchased the steep rocky hillside across from Northeast Harbor known as the Asticou Terraces and created the Asticou Terrace Trail. This beautiful stone staircase interspersed with scenic pavilions, runs from sea level to the upper reaches of his property where he built a rustic retreat called Thuya Lodge (for Thuya occidentals, his beloved native white cedars).

Then, as a gift for future generations, in 1905 he bequeathed his entire property to become “a public preserve for the quiet recreation of the people of Northeast Harbor and their summer guests.”

Finally, to ensure his wishes would be honored, he created an endowment trust and named his great friend, Charles Savage, as sole trustee.

BEATRIX FARRAND Beatrix Farrand was a pioneering woman landscape architect who, during her long career, designed an array of noteworthy properties, including the famous Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C. Her parents owned a large estate on Mount

Desert Island known as Reef Point, and it was here she would design her own extensive gardens.

The gardens were designed in part to showcase many very special trees and shrubs given to her by Charles Sargent, her former teacher and mentor and director and plant breeder at Boston’s famous Arnold Arboretum.

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the only son of Standard Oil founder J.D. Rockefeller, Sr., had a successful business career. At heart however he was a philanthropist who supported a vast array of social, scientific and artistic causes.

JDR, Jr. and his wife Abby were also true garden lovers, and in 1926 commissioned their neighbor Beatrix Farrand to design a beautiful garden for their Mount Desert Island property.

Also it would not be long before Charles Savage also counted JDR, Jr. as one of his special summer friends.

And, because of this relationship, as we shall see, he also financed the creation of both Asticou and Thuya Gardens.

TWO GARDENS ARE BORN Suddenly, in 1955, out of the blue, everything changed. A disastrous wildfire on the island resulted in sudden increases in taxes. Beatrix, realizing she no longer had the means to properly maintain her home, decided to sell Reef Point.

She also knew she could not bear to witness her beloved gardens descend into decline. So, in a single determined move, she resolved to destroy everything, including all the rare plants that had been given to her by Charles Sargent.

After hearing about Beatrix’s precipitous decision to destroy all her beautiful plants, Savage was utterly devastated.

Then his thinking side took over. He approached his good friend, JDR, Jr., suggesting that he should purchase the entire Reef Point plant collection. Furthermore, Savage proposed

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transforming the swampy land he owned at the head of the Northeast Harbor inlet into a brand new garden as a home to these special plants.

Amazingly JDR Jr. agreed to finance everything.

For almost a year Savage worked obsessively on the mammoth undertaking that resulted in Asticou Azalea Garden. First he oversaw the extensive site preparation — draining the swampy land, creating rocky waterways and finally excavating what would become the Great Pond.

Then he supervised as hundreds of full size trees and shrubs — evergreens, azaleas and more — were dug at the Farrand property and replanted at Asticou.

As the year wore on Savage realized that, with Farrand’s extensive perennial collection, he needed additional land. So he turned to the Curtis estate (where fortuitously he was the trustee), developed the new design and oversaw the remaining planting of what was to become the new Thuya Garden.

Thus the strange turn of events in 1955 resulted in the creation of two beautiful new gardens as a home for Farrand’s plant collection. And today, along with the personal garden she designed for John and Abby Rockefeller, all three gardens are now lovingly maintained by the Garden and Land Preserve.

So, whenever you have occasion to visit the beautiful Maine coast, plan an extra day to visit the very special gardens of Mount Desert Island.

You will not be disappointed.

Judith Irven and Dick Conrad live in Goshen where together they nurture a large garden. Judith is a Vermont Certified Horticulturist and teaches Sustainable Home Landscaping for the Vermont Master Gardener program. You can subscribe to her blog about her Vermont gardening life at northcountryreflections.com. Dick is a landscape and garden photographer; you can see more of his photographs at northcountryimpressions.

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Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org Preservation Fee: $1-$2 per ticket

Sat 6/29 7:30pm $20–$100*

A BENEFIT FOR KIND

AFTER THE SOLSTICE

Brought to you by the folks who bring you Night Fires, please join us for inspiring words plus passionate, rocking song rooted in hope, fierce joy and bravery.

*Proceeds from event go to KIND (Kids In Need of Defense), a nonprofit organization providing protection, legal support, safe passage, and comfort for children arriving alone or separated from their families at the border. Only $10 from each ticket of whatever price goes toward production expenses. Please contribute all that you feel you can. Thank you!

Sun 6/30 2pm $10/$8 Seniors PRESENTED BY TOWN HALL THEATER

THE SONG AND THE SORROW

Musician Catherine MacLellan — the daughter of Canadian singer/ songwriting legend Gene MacLellan— grew up surrounded by her father’s music. He committed suicide when she was 14. Two decades after his loss, Catherine is finally ready to confront the hurtful mystery of her absent parent and embrace his musical legacy.

Mon 7/8 – Fri 7/12 9am – Noon Ages 12+ $120* MODERN DANCE

SUMMER DANCE CAMP

A focus on modern dance (concentrating on Martha Graham’s technique) as well as elements of ballet and jazz dance, while learning one full modern dance piece of original choreography that will be presented to the public. *Scholarships available through a generous grant from Middlebury Community Players: education@townhalltheater.org

Wed 7/10 11am $13/$8 Students GREAT ART WEDNESDAY

KLIMT & SCHIELE: EROS AND PSYCHE

An in-depth examination of images of extraordinary visual power: from the eroticism of Klimt’s mosaic-like works, to the anguished and raw work of the young Schiele.

In the Jackson Gallery Now through Sun 8/4 SCORED PAINTINGS

KARLA VAN VLIET

This artist/writer’s creativity flows through myriad genres, informed by sensitivity, curiosity and passion for experiences and interconnections. Her creations display a unique and thoughtful perspective – from careful crafting of poetry through the gesture of wordless writing, to the marking of the blank canvas of her textured scored paintings.

EXHIBITS 50/50: FIFTY YEARS OF COLLECTING FOR MIDDLEBURY. On view Jan. 25-Aug. 11, featuring one piece of art from every year Middlebury College has formally been acquiring art for its permanent collection.

Middlebury College Museum of Art at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

FANTASY CREATURES. On view through Sept. 1, featuring the briar burl sculptures of Andrew Marks. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

GEORGE B. TODD EXHIBIT. On view May 28-June 30, featuring the work of George B. Todd, Professor Emeritus of Music at Middlebury College. Upon his retirement in 1997, he decided to shift his compositional energies from the aural to the visual arts, a transition he made with surprising ease as many of the issues confronting a composer also challenge the painter. Free. Open to the public.

Fully accessible. The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road, Middlebury. RSVP required for the reception to Suzanne Bennett at (802) 377-3393 or sbennett@residenceottercreek.com.

HOME: A COMMUNITY ART SHOW. On view through July 4, featuring over 40 Addison County artists in this non-juried community exhibit including painting, photography, textiles and more. Art on Main, 25 Main St., Bristol. (802) 453-4032 or artonmain.net. Walkover Gallery, 15 Main St, Bristol. (802) 453-3188.

INTENTIONAL SPACES. On view June 20-July 13, featuring 35 images for the gallery and 35 more images for the online gallery selected by juror Laura Moya. This exhibit shows a variety of spaces all that evoke an emotional response. PhotoPlace Gallery, 3 Park Street, Middlebury.

(802) 388-4500 or photos@photoplacegallery.com.

KARLA VAN VLIET: SCORED PAINTINGS. On view June 2-Aug. 4, featuring Karla Van Vliet’s unique scored paintings that look and feel like etchings. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

NATURAL GRACE. On view for the month of June, featuring a group show of paintings by Hannah Bureau and Jill Matthews. Edgewater Gallery at The Falls, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. (802) 458-0098 or edgewatergallery-vt.com.

NEW GROWTH. On view June 1-July 14, featuring featuring new work from Anna Dibble, Anne Cady, Bonnie Baird, Hannah Morris, Hannah Secord Wade, Julia Jensen, Pamela Smith, and Susanne Strater.

Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St., Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com.

Fri & Sat Evenings – Now through 10/4

SPINNING PLATES FOOD TRUCK ADVENTURE This Summer & into early October, visit the alley beside Town Hall Theater on Merchant’s Row on scheduled Friday & Saturday evenings for a taste treat from Tourterelle and Evolution Kitchen. Go to townhalltheater.org for more info.

THE ART OF WATER. On view June 28-Aug. 27, featuring pieces linked by the common theme of water, and includes ceramics, collage, watercolor, oil, photography, glass and more. An opening reception will be held on Friday, June 28, from 5-7 p.m. The Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

THE ENDURING LANDSCAPE. On view for the month of June, featuring a solo exhibition of Jim Westphalen’s paintings. Edgewater Gallery on the Green, 6 Merchant’s Row, Middelbury. (802) 989-7419 or edgewatergallery.co.

FIND OUT WHAT TO SEE AND WHERE TO SEE IT. LOOK HERE EVERY THURSDAY.

WHIMSICAL WONDERS: FAIRY HOUSES FROM NATURE. On view May 14-Sept. 1, featuring a selection of fairy houses created by environmental artist Sally J. Smith. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

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MUSIC Cotter takes the Brandon stage

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ear the captivating honeyed voice of Caroline Cotter at Brandon Music on Saturday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m.

Cotter grew up in Providence, R.I., and attended college in Maine before setting off on what has become a global quest for adventure and education set to music and she’s not slowing down anytime soon. With a captivating honeyed soprano voice Cotter’s travel inspired folk songs take her listeners all over the world and into the depths of the human heart.

Since her debut album, “Dreaming as I Do,” released and reached No. 5 on the Folk DJ Charts in 2015, Cotter has performed over 700 shows in 45 states and 13 countries. She’s currently touring

July 7-13, 2019

her second major release, “Home on the River.”

“The real thread is the peace with being on a journey and carrying my home with me, rather than finding comfort from home in the traditional sense,” said Cotter of her newest album.

Cotter’s back from another successful European tour and is stopping in Brandon — don’t miss it.

Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. Concert tickets are $20. A pre-concert dinner is available for an extra $25.

Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Contact Edna at (802) 247-4295 or info@brandon-music.net for reservations or for more information, or visit brandonmusic.net.

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Caroline Cotter will perform her travel inspired folk songs at Brandon Music on Saturday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m.

41st annual

2019 Schedule

Sunday, July 7 7p.m. Sam Reider and the Village Green Human Hands Middlebury, VT Monday, July 8 Noon Brown Bag: Singer/ storyteller Rik Palieri 7p.m. Windborne Featured Artist Featured Artist 8:30p.m. Bon Débarras Tuesday, July 9 Noon Brown Bag Vermont Monday, July 8th 8:30p.m.

Tuesday, July 9th 8:30p.m. troubadour Jon Gailmor 7p.m. The Small Glories 8:30p.m. Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio Wednesday, July 10 Noon Brown Bag No Strings Marionette Company 7p.m. Joe Davidian Trio featuring Amber DeLaurentis 8:30p.m. Matt Flinner Trio Thursday, July 11 Noon Brown Bag Mime Chris Yerlig Bon Débarras brings together a fusion of Québécois “If you’re one of those people who likes any style done 7p.m.

OKAN folk music, traditional step-dancing and global influences, well-old-school jazz, folk, pop and classical, you’ll love this 8:30p.m.

Lowdown Brass Band for a show that is full of fun and inventive energy. On prodigiously talented threesome. Keyboards, brass, all guitar, banjo, violin and harmonica, the trio opens a sorts of strings, and beautiful singing make for a dynamic Friday, July 12 door to their recollections of America and their music is show packed with energy and surprises.”

11:30a.m. MCMC House of Rock at the intersection of various traditions. Bon Débarras’ -Sarah Craig, Caffe Lena Campers energy taps into the rhythms of today and ventures boldly “Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio is like two great acts in Noon Brown Bag: Magician Tom on the multi-faceted road to tomorrow’s dreams, in an one, sliding from sweet acoustic Appalachian old-timey Verner vibe with Patty Griffinesque lyrics to brassy New Orleans atmosphere that transcends boundaries and ages. blues piano with a bone thrown to Bessie Smith.”

7p.m. Soule Monde -Lone Star Music Magazine 8:30p.m. Big Night To see the full schedule, visit www.festivalonthegreen.org Saturday, July 13 or “Middlebury Festival on the Green” on Facebook.

7p.m. Vermont Jazz Ensemble Info: 802-462-3555 Street Dance

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the movie APOLLO 11 — RUNNING TIME: 1:33 — RATING: G Watching an American crew landing on the moon 50 years ago stirred a complex mix of emotions in those of us who were alive and watching on our relatively new TV sets. We earthlings watched in deep curiosity as three men undertook a mission that riveted our world back then in 1969.

That perfect white ball of a moon had been a mystery for all the centuries we earthlings had loved its glow and suddenly we were watching three modern astronauts shuffle through moon sand. The fact that three capable men were chosen to fly to the moon on the wings of the new technology of the ’50s is as absorbing now as it was then. As you watch, imagine what’s going on in the minds of Commander Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins and the crowd of experts bent over computers on the ground.

What “Apollo 11” gives us is the whole picture in graphic detail. We follow the three from countdown to their final landing, to the planting of the flag, to their return. The most astonishing thing is that the return seems even more of a miracle than the initial flight. Their capsule takes off from the moon and must meet and couple mechanically to the other part they had left behind in space. At 82 miles in the air, the parts of their separated ship must recouple for the return to Earth. Hundreds of assembled parts controlled so carefully by the men in the space headquarters all work exactly as designed.

The human side shows us the hundreds of men in suits and ties bent over their machines as they went over every detail of the flight.

Everything seemed impossible and everything went perfectly. The complexity of why and how that worked is astonishing even today.

Nothing in the construction, the design or the testing went wrong.

During a flight of 240,000 miles, the complex rocket did exactly what it was built to do.

Buzz Aldrin in the documentary “Apollo 11” (2019).

Those of us who watched them do this a half-century ago thought of it as step one in the exploration of space. Who would have thought 50 years would pass without further major spatial accomplishment? Who imagined their success would stand as the major realization of John Kennedy’s proposal to go to the moon? He never lived to see his hope accomplished.

The complexity of the process and the excitement of the victory are delivered to us in beautiful detail and color, thanks to modern techniques used to spruce up the quality of the old photography. It’s so well done that we realize that going to the moon was a fantasy that became a dream and then a reality in the hands of the hundreds of people who worked on it along with the three men who risked their lives. Together, they flew to the moon 384,400 kilometers from Earth and not one thing went wrong.

the book

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

GREAT SUMMER YA READS

THE REST OF THE STORY — BY SARAH DESSEN

Lovely War, by Julie Berry The Next Great Paulie Fink, by Ali Benjamin

(Balzer + Bray)

It’s easy to slip into the “summer at the lake” mood created by Sarah Dessen, the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen novels for teens, and see what unfolds. Emma, known as Saylor to her late mom, unexpectedly finds herself at her mom’s family establishment on the lake for three weeks. And while everyone seems to know her and her story, she only feels a vague sense of familiarity, but yet also comfort. She encounters the dueling contingents of wealthy yacht club people and locals, i.e. her family and the other families who run the businesses that support the tourist community. It turns out there’s a lot she doesn’t know about her mom’s life. His dad, now newly married, shielded Emma from details to protect her from the realities of her mom’s addiction, the addiction that eventually caused her death. But her extended family is happy to fill her in, and they embrace her with open arms, well, most of them.

And when she reconnects with the boy who she was fast friends with as a little kid, the summer gets a lot more fun and a lot more interesting. A satisfying summer read perfect for ages 13 and up.

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

Five Feet Apart, by Rachael Lippincott This Time Will Be Different, by Misa Sugiura Aurora Rising,

by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Hope and Other Punchlines,

by Julie Buxbaum How It Feels to Float, by Helena Fox Two Can Keep a Secret,

by Karen M. McManus I Have Lost My Way, by Gayle Forman Leah on the Offbeat, by Becky Albertalli

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553 WITHERELL ROAD, SHOREHAM $575,000

A LOOK INSIDE ADDISON COUNTY HOMES FOR SALE.

Farm-to-table life in Shoreham with orchard Welcome to apple country! This picturesque homestead is surrounded by Shoreham orchards with its own 20 acres of Mac, Empire, Cortland, Macoun and Honey Crisp expertly maintained by a local orchardist. The updated, neat-as-a-pin Cape style farmhouse and detached two-car garage are sited beautifully along a quiet country road. The well-maintained barn is ready for many potential uses (studio/workshop/ and all the storage an orchard-keeper might need) and includes a small kitchen, ¾ bath and large open finished room on its second floor. Thirty-eight-plus acres of story-book landscape in every direction, and a large open field at the top of the hill behind from which to survey it all.

This farm-to-table lifestyle property is wrapped up in a picturesque nostalgia.

This week’s property is managed by IPJ Real Estate.

More info at middvermontrealestate.com.

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Why you need a hammock or hanging chair

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unny days and warm weather beckon us to the great outdoors. A day spent in the pool or lounging around the patio is a great way to embrace the relaxing spirit of summer. But those who want to go the extra relaxing miles should consider adding a hammock or swinging chair to their backyard oasis.

Hammocks and swinging chairs make great investments. Outdoor enthusiasts can take them on camping trips, and they’re equally at home right in the backyard. People on the fence about these symbols

of relaxation can consider these benefits of hammocks or swinging chairs.

NAP COMFORTABLY OUTDOORS Who needs an excuse to catch up on missing sleep? If the time presents itself, the sun and the fresh air can induce a deep sense of relaxation. Lying on a hammock or floating in a hanging chair provides that additional soothing rocking motion that can make a cat nap even more enticing.

USE IT INDOORS OR OUTDOORS Create a retreat in any corner of your

yard or home. A hanging chair can be hung in the corner of a bedroom to provide a spot to curl up with a good book or rock a baby to sleep.

The same chair can be brought to a covered deck or patio so people can swing with the breeze when the weather allows.

SUPER STARGAZING RETREAT Hammocks and swinging chairs can make it easier and more comfortable to stargaze at night.

With a double hammock or chair, bring a romantic partner along to snuggle and watch the cosmos.

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 as amended which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or persons receiving public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.”

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate which is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-669-9777.

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Go ahead, put your feet up.

Let our real estate section do the work for you.

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constellations in the night sky.

BE INCONSPICUOUS AMONG NATURE Lying on the ground disturbs the lawn and other outdoor components. Being

suspended several inches above the ground in a chair or a hammock can help a person blend in with the natural environment. Birds, small animals and insects may not even know you’re there, and that can make them easier to observe.

Everyone can appreciate the opportunity to sit back and relax. Hammocks and swinging chairs can help a person feel lighter than air and recharge in the warm summer air.

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Independence Day

CELEBRATION! July 5-6, 2019

Seminary Hill Park & Park Village

Friday - July 5th

5-10 pm - Street Dance at Seminary Hill Park • Music For All Ages w/ DJ Jam Man • Food Vendors • Dance Party • Off Street Parking Available

• Free Shuttles Every Half Hour from Rite Aid, Post Office & American Legion

Saturday July 6th

Park Village Complex with events all day long!

9-10 am - Annual Silent Auction-Fabulous array of items donated by local businesses.

10 am - The BEST INDEPENDENCE PARADE IN THE STATE LIVE CONCERT with Moose Crossing after the Parade 11am-3pm - Annual Silent Auction continues 11am-3pm - Free Family Activities • Wide selection of Kids’ games • Giant Kerplunk • Bounce House • Mini Pond Fish • Giant Pong • And Much More!

• Dunk Tank

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4th Annual Lil’ Debbie Swiss Roll Eating Contest– FREE 12:30pm Karaoke with Tenacious T after the concert 1:30–3pm DJ Jam Man spinning family favorites 6pm– Fireworks!

Fireworks display Saturday at dusk

Any questions contact Bill Moore - bmoore@townofbrandon.com or 802-247-3635