MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 26 No. 32
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Fake  tickets  to  cost  Field  Days  thousands   By  EVAN  JOHNSON 1(: +$9(1 ² ,Q WKH ÂżQDO GD\V of  the  Addison  County  Fair  and  Field  Days  this  past  August,  Ken  But- ton,  one  of  the  fair’s  directors,  was  counting  the  tickets  that  had  been  collected  that  week.  He  was  trying  to  get  a  sense  of  how  many  people  had  come  through  the  gates.  On  the  table  in  front  of  him  lay  stacks  of  exhibi- tor  day  passes  and  season  passes  ar- ranged  by  type  of  ticket.  But  when  he  looked  closely  at  the  stacks  of  tickets,  something  didn’t  look  right.  “I  had  been  counting  and  bundling Â
them  all  week  and  it  wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  until  later  in  the  week  that  I  realized  when  they  were  stacked  up,  they  didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t  line  up  the  same  way,â&#x20AC;?  he  said. Some  of  the  day  passes  and  season  passes  appeared  to  be  poorly  repro- duced  with  a  similar  paper  and  ink.  The  season  passes,  valid  for  the  en- tire  week,  required  the  holder  to  tear  off  one  ticket  per  day,  yet  Button  observed  some  of  the  tickets  lacked  a  perforated  edge,  where  the  holder  should  have  ripped  them  off  the  card. 0,''/(%85< $77251(< $1' $GGLVRQ &RXQW\ )DLU DQG )LHOG 'D\V It  was  clear  â&#x20AC;&#x201D;  someone  had  been  %RDUG &KDLU %HQM 'HSSPDQ VLWV EHKLQG VWDFNV RI FRXQWHUIHLW WLFNHWV WKDW passing  counterfeit  tickets  at  the  2014  ZHUH XVHG WR JDLQ HQWU\ WR WKH IDLU WKLV SDVW $XJXVW 7KH IDNH WLFNHWV DF- FRXQW IRU DURXQG LQ ORVW UHYHQXH (See  Tickets,  Page  18) ,QGHSHQGHQW SKRWR 7UHQW &DPSEHOO
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Welch talks Ebola, ISIS, dysfunction in Congress By  JOHN  FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY  â&#x20AC;&#x201D;  Peter  Welch  is  running  in  more  ways  than  one.  The  four-Âterm  Democrat  took  some  time  out  before  a  jog  in  the  Middle- bury  area  last  week  to  discuss  some Â
foreign  and  domestic  issues  dur- ing  his  run  for  another  two  years  as  Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s  lone  representative  in  the  U.S.  House. Welch  is  running  for  re-Âelection  against  Republican  Mark  Donka, Â
Liberty  Union  Party  candidate  Mat- thew  Andrews  and  independents  Cris  Ericson  and  Jerry  Trudell.  Welch  currently  serves  on  the  House  Committee  on  Energy  and  Com- merce,  and  the  Committee  on  Over-Â
sight  and  Government  Reform. Congress  has  been  carefully  mon- itoring  some  critical  developments  on  the  international  front,  Welch  noted,  including  the  alarming  spread  (See  Welch,  Page  39)