Monday, August 20, 2018

MONDAY EDITION

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

Vol. 30 No. 17

Middlebury, Vermont



Monday, August 20, 2018

Kniffin stepping down as president of Porter Hospital

Doc eyes return to ED

Southern classic staged

• A youth ensemble is putting on the Tennessee Williams play “The Glass Menagerie.” See Arts Beat on Page 10 and Trent Campbell photos on Page 22.

MIDDLEBURY — UVM Health Network Porter Medical Center Board Chair Maureen McLaughlin has announced that Porter’s President, Dr. Fred Kniffin, will step down from his leadership role next spring. The search for a new leader for Porter will begin shortly.

“We will always be deeply grateful to Fred for answering our call two years ago and

serving in this role, first on an interim basis and then on a more permanent basis, at a time when Porter needed him most,” McLaughlin said. “Fred has led our organization through transformational change in many ways, significantly improved internal and external communication and engagement, remained focused on our community mission and has set us on a firm path forward as a member of the UVM Health Network,” she said.

(See Porter Hospital, Page 15)



40 Pages

$1.00

Rep. Van Wyck to seek re-election

Wages write-in campaign

By JOHN FLOWERS FERRISBURGH — Rep. Warren Van Wyck, R-Ferrisburgh, has decided to postpone his legislative retirement plans.

The three-term incumbent waged a successful, eleventh-hour write-in campaign leading up to Tuesday’s primary election, which will allow his name to appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot (See Van Wyck, Page 23)

County schools net safety grants • Awards of up to $25,000 will pay for security measures, including video cameras. See Page 3.

Get ready for Vergennes Day • Wagon rides, craft sales, soap bubbles and rubber duckies. See what’s on tap on Pages 17-19.

Rainbow fun Backstory explains athlete’s passion • Panther squash player and neuroscience major has a good reason for being interested in the brain. See Page 28.

KIDS PLAY UNDER a colorful parachute on the sod rolled onto Middlebury’s Main Street for last Wednesday’s downtown block party.

Around 700 people attended the event. For more photos see Pages 4 and 14.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Oscar winners, 100 films jazz up Midd Film Festival

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The town of Middlebury on Thursday will reprise its unofficial role as “Hollywood East” as it plays host to around 60 budding filmmakers and celebrates some of the best talent the movie industry has to offer.

It’s the fourth annual New Middlebury Filmmakers Festival (MNFF), a four-day extravaganza that will include the screening of more than 100 films and events to recognize the courage and accomplishments of some very talented people.

And for the first time, the festival will offer a special day of films and events for children, slated for Wednesday, Aug. 22 at the Marquis Theater. The MNFF will officially kick off the following day with its initial salvo of films, an opening event at the Town Hall Theater at

6:30 p.m., followed by a sold-out party.

“We have put together a truly excellent program of films and special events this year that we believe will really engage our audiences,” MNFF Producer Lloyd (See Film festival, Page 30)

PAGE 2 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 3

Several area schools receive safety grants Will use funds for security upgrades

Coding and creating

AVERY DEYO, 8, of Crown Point, N.Y., left, and Harper Hendy, 8, of Weybridge work together on a coding project during S.T.E.A.M. Girls camp at the Middlebury Recreation Center last Tuesday morning.

By JOHN FLOWERS ADDISON COUNTY — Thirteen area towns and school districts will receive school safety grants ranging from $959 to $25,000 to better protect their students from potential acts of violence.

The grants are being carved from a $5 million funding package recommended by Gov. Phil Scott and passed by the Legislature this past spring. In all, 239 Vermont schools will share around $4 million, which districts will use during the 20182019 academic year for such things as new interior and exterior door locks, indoor and outdoor public address systems and other infrastructure upgrades to boost safety.

In addition to the $4 million for building/campus safety improvements announced last week, the state will make another $1 million available this fall to support schools in developing emergency plans, training and safety exercises.

“Getting these projects started quickly will help students, staff and administrators focus on learning,” Scott said through a press release announcing the grants. “Looking ahead, we will continue to do all we can to enhance the safety of our schools for our children, parents, faculty and the community, including leveraging $1 million from the Homeland Security Grant Program to support planning and training, and working with the Legislature to fund additional infrastructure improvements and preparedness across the entire education system.”

Here, in alphabetical order, is the list of Addison County schools that

will receive school safety grants: • New Haven’s Beeman Elementary: $25,000.

• Bridport Central: $20,999.

• Bristol Elementary: $15,000.

• Leicester Central: $25,000.

• Lincoln Community: $15,000 • Middlebury’s Mary Hogan Elementary: $25,000.

• Orwell Village School: $959.

• Otter Valley Union Main Campus: $25,000.

• Otter Valley Union Middle and High Schools: $19,500.

• Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center: $21,677.

• Ripton Elementary: $6,591.

• Salisbury Community School: $25,000.

• Shoreham Elementary School: $23,042.

• Weybridge Elementary: $18,960.

Schools were eligible for up to $25,000 and will be responsible for a 25 percent grant match. The average school safety grant award was around $16,000.

Six Addison Central School District (ACSD) elementary schools made the list of safety grant recipients. ACSD Business Manager Brittany Gilman said Bridport, Cornwall, Salisbury, Shoreham, and Weybridge will get “access control systems” and exterior cameras, thanks to the money. Mary Hogan School will get exterior cameras.

Ripton Elementary already has cameras and will thus focus on getting an access control system, which Gilman said typically involve a keyscan being installed at entrances so (See School safety, Page 7)

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Bristol residents sue their town, Vt. Gas BRISTOL — Thirty-seven Bristol residents have sued their town and Vermont Gas Systems alleging that a recent agreement allowing the company to install a natural gas pipeline in Bristol violates a Vermont statute.

Their suit contends that the Bristol selectboard did not follow the rules for proper public notification before signing the agreement.

Attorney James Dumont, representing the plaintiffs in the suit filed in Addison Superior Court Aug. 9, said Vermont law forbids any selectboard from entering into such an agreement without issuing a formal notice informing the public of their right to petition for a binding vote.

“After being notified of this duty, the (Bristol) selectboard instead chose to immediately sign with VGS,” Dumont said in a press release. “Superior Court action has been filed to carry out the Legislature’s intent that the public be given an opportunity to vote.”

Sally Burrell, one of the plaintiffs, said the pipeline will affect the

safety, property values and environmental integrity of Bristol.

“Natural gas distribution lines, if damaged by forces of nature, digging or aging, can produce explosions with catastrophic effects on people and property,” she said in the release. “Such accidents occur 124170 times per year around the country. These lines will complicate the repair and maintenance of existing water pipes and other underground utilities in Bristol.”

In addition to the alleged public notification violation, plaintiff Alice Leeds raised the issue of natural gas and its affect on climate change.

“Once considered a bridge to renewable energy, natural gas is now known to be 30-100 times more damaging to our environment than oil,” she said in the press release. “The gas escapes into the atmosphere during extraction, processing, storage, transmission and distribution — not during burning.

When the gas company says it is a clean fuel, they are just comparing

the carbon released when burning gas with the carbon released when burning of oil, which ignores the scientific evidence.”

Burrell made the case against one of Vermont Gas’s selling point for its product, which is outside the scope of the alleged selectboard violation.

“While natural gas is currently less expensive than other heating fuels, there is no guarantee this advantage will last. State regulators control the cost of natural gas and are presently maintaining its low price tag,” she said in the release.

“State programs like Efficiency Vermont provide assistance with energy audits, weatherization and locally based sustainable energy alternatives, all of which are better investments, and better for our community, than natural gas.”

In response to a question about this lawsuit, Vermont Gas spokeswoman Beth Parent told Vermont Public Radio that the “company would support a public vote on the rights of way, if that’s what the town decides.”

LABOR DAY Deadlines & Office Hours Our Office will be closed on Monday, September 3, 2018 in observance of Labor Day. Advertising Deadlines will change as follows: Edition Thurs, Aug. 30

Deadline Monday, August 27 – noon

Mon, Sept. 3 & Wednesday, August 29 – noon Thurs, Sept. 6 Arts & Leisure Thurs, Sept. 6 A & B Sections

Friday, August 31 – 5pm

Have a safe & wonderful weekend!

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

VERMONT’S TWICE-WEEKLY L NEWSPA P PER Middlebury, VT 05753 • (802) 388-4944 • ww w.AddisonIndependent.com

PAGE 4 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

A D D IS ON INDE P E NDEN T

Editorial Well played, Mr. Sonneborn; Hallquist makes it a race Give Ethan Sonneborn, Bristol’s 14-year-old candidate for governor in the Democratic primary, a lot of credit. He entered the campaign because he thought it was important — crucial, even — to get involved and participate in the country’s democratic process. If individuals — each one of us — don’t care enough to learn about the issues, scrutinize the candidates running for office and cast an informed vote, then the system fails.

So Sonneborn not only entered the race, but he became an articulate champion of that need to become involved, and of the issues facing his peers. Surprisingly, 4,659 voters, or 6.9 percent, gave Sonneborn a thumbs up at the election booth, according the Secretary of State’s official count.

“It’s crucial no matter your age, no matter anything in your background, that you get involved in the process,” Sonneborn said. “If you’re 75 and you’ve never voted, it’s not too late, get involved in the process.”

In this era of hyper partisanship and what seems to be the crumbling foundations of our democracy, Sonneborn’s message may be the most important of all. Well said, well played, Mr. Sonneborn.

•••••••••• Christine Hallquist was the other big winner in last week’s primary election. She made history as the first transgender candidate to be elected by a major political party for governor, and she did it convincingly. In a four-way race, she garnered 27,619 votes, or 40 percent, according to the Secretary of State’s website late Wednesday afternoon, which counted 7,300 blank votes. Of those who cast votes for the four candidates, Hallquist garnered 48.3 percent, and Sonneborn earned 8.2 percent, while James Ehlers gathered 12,668 votes and Brenda Siegel, 12,259, for 22.1 and 21.4 percent respectively.

The convincing win will likely earn Hallquist money from national groups supporting women, gay, lesbian and transgender groups rights, and it also gives her candidacy needed credibility for independent and moderate Vermonters who will likely now be more attentive to her campaign as she faces off against Republican Gov. Phil Scott. We hope she now pivots away from some of the gender issues she emphasized in the primary campaign, however, and focuses on how her leadership style, background and experience could help boost the state’s economy, make the conversation around growth more forward thinking rather than reactionary, and demonstrate how she would work with the Legislator cooperatively rather than relying on late session vetoes to govern as Gov. Scott has too often done.

In his Republican primary, Scott garnered only 24,220 votes, for 67.5 percent of the vote versus 32.5 percent for pro-gun rights candidate Keith Stern — an indication that some Republicans remain miffed at Scott for his support of a modest gun control bill passed this past session.

Scott is still the heavy favorite to win a second term in office, but Hallquist’s victory margin and Scott’s loss of support among some Republicans — along with a do-nothing approach in policy initiatives — will make it a competitive race. Stay tuned, stay involved.

Angelo Lynn

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT Periodicals Postage Paid at Middlebury, Vt. 05753

Postmaster, send address change to Addison Independent, 58 Maple Street, Middlebury, Vermont • 388-4944 • Fax: 388-3100 • Web: www.addisonindependent.com E-Mail: news@addisonindependent.com • E-Mail Advertising: ads@addisonindependent.com Published every Monday, Thursday by the Addison Press, Inc. Member Vermont Press Association; New England Press Association; National Newspaper Association.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In State – 6 Months $36.00, 1 Year $50.00, 2 years $90.00: Out of State – 6 Months $44.00, 1 Year $60.00, 2 years $110. All print subscriptions include online access. Discounted rate for Senior Citizens, call for details.

802-388-4944. Online Only – 1 Week $3.00, 1 Month $6.00, 6 Months $25.00, 1 Year $44.00 The Independent assumes no financial responsibility for typographical errors in advertisements but will reprint that part of an advertisement in which the typographical error occurred. Advertiser will please notify the management immediately of any errors that may occur.

The Addison Independent USPS 005-380

Wednesday in the park with Nora

ALLISON SAWYER OF Middlebury sits with her 14-month-old daughter, Nora, on the grassy park created in the middle of Main Street for last Wednesday’s Middlebury Block Party. For more photos see Pages 1 and 14.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Letters to the Editor Local and national news both can affect us directly A local paper is for local news.

To borrow from Tip O’Neill, “The national scene is also local.” Thus, the following: If we could ask U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her boss, these might be among the questions: Why would anyone want a $40 million yacht? Especially if keeping track of the nine other yachts is distracting. Does obscene wealth disqualify one

from public service? Apparently not. If you believe a photo ID is required to buy groceries, are you disconnected from reality?

Probably.

Between opioids, climate change, income inequality, deregulation, plastic guns, privatizing, profiteering, intolerance, “Citizens United,” journalism as the enemy of truth and Trump’s self-adulating management style,

the country and its residents are pretty much doomed.

When voters bother to vote, they self-destruct, while Putin’s guys and “Q” frame it differently. Knowledge comes in a tweet.

There’s no future in any of this.

We should keep that in mind, when pondering the vote.

Alexander Lyall Middlebury

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 5

Beacon of democracy: Remembering who we are

By GEORGE JAEGER I hit a low point the other day.

Trump had just handed the NATO alliance to Putin on a platter, his cacophony of self-serving, untruthful tweets had reached a new crescendo and the persistent images of separated immigrant children had brought back memories of my own boyhood when I was forced to leave my parents in Austria to save my life from Nazi persecution.

In the years that followed I, like so many of us, served America with pride and deep conviction in World War II and, for decades after finishing my education, represented it as an American Foreign Service Officer. Of course, big mistakes were made.

But we reached compromises and moved forward and retained the

world’s respect as the beacon of And as I read, my spirit lifted — democracy. for, taken together, they recalled That was then. What is now the guiding principles which had going on is no longer the America formed us as a country and helped I knew. lead us out of the And then a strange morass before. thing happened.

Perhaps the most My renewed passport pertinent to our times arrived in the mail. I was a line from flipped through its pagAnna Julia Cooper, This week’s es, each empty except the famous Black Community Forum for a famous American Liberationist and is by George Jaeger, prominent American quotation in small print retired Senior at its head: Well-worn scholar, who wrote that quotations we all know, Foreign Service “the cause of freedom Officer and former from the Declaration is not the cause of a Diplomat-in-Resiof Independence, from race or a sect, a party dence at Middlebury or a class — it is the Washington, Jefferson College. and Lincoln and in cause of humankind, more recent times from the very birthright of people as diverse as humanities.”

Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, That, it struck me, should be Kennedy and Martin Luther King. the key thought for our time, so

Community Forum

Letters to the Editor Making childcare available is essential for businesses This summer we saw two studies about Vermont that appeared in contrast: One rated Vermont as one of the best places to live. The other paints Vermont as a hard place to find employees and run a business.

As a business owner and employer, I know both are true, but I believe a crucial piece of the conversation is missing: Why is it hard to recruit employees and, once we recruit them, what structures are in place to keep them here and help them thrive?

I own Bee’s Wrap, a sustainable food storage company, in Bristol.

Bee’s Wrap began in my kitchen six years ago and has grown into a thriving small business.

Our growth has been organic, but substantial. We doubled our sales numbers each year until 2017, when they tripled. We invested in machinery, rented new production and administrative space, and our staff increased from two to nine to twenty-four.

We are currently hiring and, although we are committed to looking within Vermont (we have built a robust team that includes neighbors), we are open to the opportunity to bring new qualified employees from out-of-state. Initiatives, like THINKVermont, aimed to attract new workers to Vermont are part of the solution to improving our workforce problems.

To grow my business, however, I also need to reduce absenteeism and retain the employees I do recruit.

The lack of quality, reliable child care has been a source of worry, and an inhibitor to regular attendance for my business since its inception.

There is nothing more distracting, and rightly so, than trying to work when you are worried about whether your child is safe or well cared for.

Like the rest of the state, parents at Bee’s Wrap struggle to find and afford child care. As a result, they often patch together care. Too often

that patchwork unravels, causing last minute stress for the employee and our team.

I believe that creating a healthy, supported work environment is crucial to my business’ success. But let me put this in terms based purely on numbers: I have six production employees. If one is absent, our ability to produce decreases by at least 15 percent that day. Over time, this absenteeism creates a real, financial impact on my company.

Some absenteeism is expected, but in our case, it is often attributable to child care falling through.

These absences would be largely avoidable if my employees had reliable child care. It is in my company’s financial best interest to ensure my employees can find and afford quality child care and it is in Vermont’s best interest to support this effort.

We cannot simply market Vermont as a great place to live. We need to implement solutions now

that support our current and future residents’ ability to stay in Vermont and in the workforce.

I am currently exploring what child care supports I can offer my employees and I hope to see state solutions that recognize child care as a fundamental support to our current and future workforce.

Through the combined resources in Vermont, and with the participation of employers, we can invest in efforts that help all families afford care and support the network of childcare givers to provide healthy, reliable care. In turn, this will give peace of mind to our working mothers and fathers, help our businesses become more positive and productive places, and make lasting change for the state’s economy.

Sarah Kaeck, Bristol, Vt. Editor’s note: Sarah Kaeck is the owner/founder of Bee’s Wrap in Bristol.

troubled by our current social and economic inequalities and rapidly shifting racial balances — troubles and insecurities which Trump’s demagoguery so effectively exploits.

Things are at a point where growing numbers feel that America’s drift to far-right “populism,” a new way of talking about nationalist authoritarianism, is actually the wave of our future — dividing us into irreconcilable camps, compromising our world standing and imperiling our freedoms.

Perhaps they are right.

But the country has pulled back from the brink before. If we

could just remember that we are all human and so “endowed with inalienable rights,” if we were to choose great, farsighted leaders who could bridge our angry divisions rather then deepen them and through far-reaching compromise lead us out of our current social and economic discontents.

If, in short, we could again reach back to our roots, we could, with luck, get through this too and right the American ship once more.

It’s a long-shot at this troubled point, but it’s our call — if we can remember who we are. The stakes are high.

Midd Summer

Music & Movies Series Presents

DEB BRISSON & THE HAY BURNERS Thurs, "VH 2 SE at :00pm Marble Works Park (by the falls)

Giant lawn games and American Flatbread pizza, beer & wine for purchase

free concert

New Haven, VT Homeowner Recommends Bristol Electronics Bristol Electronics designed and installed a photovoltaic system on our house in New Haven.

We could not be more pleased with the staff and the installation of our system.

Right from the start we understood what we were buying and what the installation process was about. The staff filled out all the necessary paperwork required by Green Mountain Power and the State of Vermont. This in itself made our experience with Bristol Electronics an easy and pleasant one.

The installation was professional and clean. The service did not end with installation. We were contacted to insure that everything was satisfactory and if we had any questions.

We highly recommend Bristol Electronics.

Mike and Helen Hanley – New Haven, VT

802 . 453 . 2500 BristolElectronicsVT.com FREE SITE EVALUATIONS

PAGE 6 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Ernest Turpin, 82, Shoreham

Obituaries

ADDISON COUNTY

Russell Spring, 92, Craftsbury Russell Mason Spring Jr. was born to Thelma and Russell Mason Sr. on June 22, 1926, at his paternal grandparents’ house in Sudbury, Mass. As a baby he was given the apt nickname Sparky, which stuck with him all his life. Immediately upon graduating from Lenox School he joined the Navy as World War II was drawing to a close. After returning from the service he went to Yale on the GI Bill and graduated in 1950. He made many wonderful friends there and kept in touch with them throughout his life.

After college Russell went to Austria working for the State Department’s Bureau of Displaced Persons re-settling refugees. In Europe he rekindled his deep love for skiing and ice hockey, which he played into his seventies. In 1953 he returned to the United States to help care for his two younger siblings. He then moved to Stowe, Vt., and began his career as a ski instructor where he met a vivacious and lovely fellow instructor named Janet Lauderdale. It was love at first sight and they were married shortly thereafter.

By 1963 they had three children and Russell had given up ski instructing for a more lucrative career as a stockbroker for FI DuPont in Burlington. In 1972, feeling that Stowe had become too much of a resort for their taste, Russell and Janet moved the family to Craftsbury. They started two business ventures there. They helped turn a former riding camp into Windridge

Tennis Camp, and then with the assistance of several old friends and investors, Russell and Janet set their sites on turning a defunct boy’s school into a sports center. The Craftsbury Outdoor Center is a thriving enterprise today because of the foundation they laid with their vision, creativity, and sheer perseverance. Russell and Janet’s love for nature as well as their avid enthusiasm for sports helped establish the Center as a destination for Nordic skiing, running and sculling — sports that put the participant in the natural environment.

Russell and Janet became valued members of the Craftsbury community as they raised their family there and became involved in town activities. Russell had great respect for local community members and often sought out their opinions.

It was important to Russell and Janet that local school children would have access to equipment and training in activities that would encourage lifelong fitness and recreation outdoors.

Because of this they adopted the policy that no community member would be excluded from using the Outdoor Center for lack of funds.

They created free programs for school children even during financially lean years at the Center.

Russell was a life long collector of books and rocks, both of which he generously shared with anyone who showed interest. He also had a colossal love for dogs and could often be spotted driving around town

accompanied by one or two canine sidekicks tossing out treats out to every dog he encountered along the way.

In 2008, when Russell began suffering from the effects of Parkinson’s related dementia, a decision was made to sell the Center.

Russell and Janet remained in their beloved house on Little Hosmer Pond under the care of friends, family and several wonderful caregivers until Janet passed away on their 62nd anniversary in 2016. Russell then moved to The Manor care facility in Morrisville, Vt., where true to his nature, he continued to make many friends and touch many lives. He passed away July 30, 2018.

Predeceased by his brother Jim, he leaves behind his sister Debbie Spring Reed and her two daughters; his three children and their spouses, Russell and Dannielle Spring, Ellen Spring and Louis duPont, and Abigail Spring and Steve Lacey; his grandchildren, Eliza and Iris duPont, and Ezra, Lila, Jesse, Nate and Galen Spring and their mother Cindy Spring Burak: his step-grandsons Tyler and Hunter West; and a great-grandson, August Fisher. He is also survived by his brother Jim’s three children.

Many wonderful friends and caregivers have helped Russell throughout his later years. The family extends their deepest thanks to them all especially his devoted Tara. A celebration of his life will be held in Craftsbury in the fall. ◊

SHOREHAM — Ernest John Turpin, age 82, died Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018, at Helen Porter Health & Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury.

Ernie was born in New Haven on March 11, 1936. He was the son of Edgar and Ruth (Naylor) Turpin.

He grew up in Shoreham, where he received his early education and had attended Shoreham High School. He served proudly in the United States Army. Following his Honorable Discharge in 1961 he returned home and worked the family farm. He retired from Shoreham Telephone Company in 1998 following 30 years of service.

In his earlier years, one of his passions was snowmobiling. He was a past president of Shoreham Snow Travelers. He also served as assistant director, then director, for Addison County VAST. He was a longtime member of the Shoreham Volunteer Fire Department and belonged to Brandon American Legion Post #55, where he served as a member of the funeral honors detail for many years.

He and his late wife enjoyed traveling. Their ocean cruises and trips to Hawaii were some of the highlights in their life. His beloved wife Mary Ann (Landon) Turpin, whom he married in St. Genevieve’s Catholic Church in Shoreham, on Oct. 21, 1961, predeceased him on Feb. 8, 2016.

He is survived by two daughters; Elaine Turpin of Williston and Jane Bishop and her husband Bill of Shoreham, and one son; John Turpin, also of Shoreham; three granddaughters, Tiffanie Myers and her husband Travis of Colchester, Stephanie Bishop and her fiancé Joshua Davis of Brandon and Ashley Bishop of



ERNEST JOHN TURPIN Bridport; three great grandchildren, Aiden, Adrian and Mikayla; and a brother, Joseph Turpin and his wife Maryanne of Vergennes. In addition to his wife he was also predeceased by three sisters; Arlene Smith, Shirley Bushey and Germaine “Polly” Hrydziusko and brother Albert Turpin.

The graveside committal service and burial with Military Honors will take place on Sunday, Aug. 19, at noon in the family lot at St. Genevieve’s Cemetery in Shoreham.

Friends may call at the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon on Saturday, Aug. 18, from 5-7 p.m.

Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made in his memory to the Shoreham Volunteer Fire Department or to Brandon American Legion Post 55. Condolences may be left at millerandketchamfuneralhome.com. ◊



Carolyn Benjamin, 72, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Carolyn J. Benjamin, 72, died early Thursday morning Aug. 16, 2018, at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury after a brief illness.

She was born Oct. 15, 1945, in Ticonderoga, N.Y. the daughter of Edward A. Bougor Sr. and Florence (Fortier) Bougor.

Carolyn worked as a custodian for Middlebury College for many years.

She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the V.F.W. and American Legion, both of Middlebury.

Carolyn enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, she was an avid bingo player and enjoyed crosswords, puzzles and listening to old time country music.

Survivors are her children; Howard

Bougor of Salisbury, Rodney Benjamin of Addison, Nardeth Thompson of Bristol and Jodie Desjadon and husband Michael Desjadon Sr.; by her seven grandchildren and her eight great-grandchildren; by her sister Dorothy Baker of Lake Placid, N.Y., and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by her parents and her siblings, Howard, Edward, William, Leonard, Alfred “Bud”, Ruth “Shirley”, Mary, Annette, Christine, Dottie and Alice.

A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at 11 a.m., in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Middlebury, with the Rev. Luke Austin officiating.

CAROLYN J. BENJAMIN Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Jude’s Children Hospital at P.O. Box 1000, Dept.

Online condolences at sanderson142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142. funeralservice.com.◊

Planning for your funeral, the smart thing to do...

Many people are planning for their funeral in advance in a sincere effort to ease the stress loved ones will face at an emotional time. It takes only a little time and can be handled in the privacy of your home or at Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home

Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home 117 South Main St. Middlebury, VT • 388-2311 sandersonfuneralservice.com

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 7

School safety (Continued from Page 3) employees can enter using an access card.

In some cases, an access control system also involves a video intercom station so visitors can hit a button at the front door to request entrance. Someone in the main office can see the visitors on a screen and communicate with them before pressing a release button that automatically opens the front door.

The ACSD applied unsuccessfully for a grant that would have funded a “greeter” to staff the front entrance of Middlebury Union High School. Also rejected was the district’s funding pitch for folding wall panels to separate the Middlebury Union Middle School gym and cafeteria. The MUMS wall panels would have included a pass-through area, auto closure and a keyed lock to help safeguard students in the cafeteria in the event of an incident, according to Gilman.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Two- and four-legged campers

HOMEWARD BOUND HOSTED Camp Whiskers & Wags for the third year in a row this month. Thirty seven area children ages 7-10 took part in the humane education camp at the Homeward Bound property off Boardman Street in Middlebury.

The humane society has plans to expand camp offerings during the 2018-2019 school year.

Above, Zeeke, an adoptable dog at Homeward Bound, pays campers Evan Gillett and Alden Sherry a visit during week 1 of Camp Whiskers & Wags. Below, Whitaker Raine and other campers provide a shelter cat with some TLC during post-lunch “Story Time Snuggles.”

TEARDROP CAMPER FOR SALE

Liked by Facebook follower

Michelle Clark McCoy ˝No matter where I live, I always gotta have the Addison Independent.˝ follow us

Explore the National Parks - Your Gear is Always Ready to GO Perfect Upgrade From Your Tent - Great Starter Camper Easy Tow - 1300 lbs. Fully Loaded w/Typical Gear - 13 Feet Long Plush Queen Bed - Air Conditioner - Inside Dry Storage AM/FM CD/DVD 19” LED TV Entertainment Center Kitchen Galley - Sink - LP Stove - Refrigerator/Freezer Wood Cabinetry - Many Convenience Features - No Hotel Needed Amish-Built Quality Construction and Very Practical Full details on request and it’s cute, too!

Richard and Kathy English (802) 759-2479 • renglish@wcvt.com

PAGE 8 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

communitycalendar

Music and Movies series in Middlebury. *RESCHEDULED from July 27* Thursday, Aug. 23, 6 p.m., Riverfront Park, the Marble Works. The Better Middlebury Partnership’s series continues with a free concert with Deb Brisson and the Hay Burners. American Flatbread by the slice and beer and wine for purchase starting at 6 p.m.

Aug

24

Bringing back the jam

BLUES JAM RETURNS to Middlebury on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at Rough Cut, 51 Main Street. Join musicians from all over the state, led by blues man Tom Caswell, right, as they revive the 51 Main tradition.

Photo/Alexis Caswell

Aug

20

MONDAY

Pie and ice cream social in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 20, 6-8 p.m., Vergennes City Park. Homemade pies topped with vanilla ice cream will be served with a cold beverage. The Vergennes City Band will provide entertainment. Cost is $6. Proceeds will benefit the Champlain Valley Christian School. Call Martha at 802-349-0229 for more information.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 20, 7 p.m., City Park.

“Forgotten Farms” on screen in Monkton.

Monday, Aug. 20, 7 p.m., East Monkton Church, 405 Church Rd. Co-hosted by the Monkton Museum & Historical Society and the East Monkton Church Association, this film examines class divides in our farm and food communities. Free and open to the public.

Aug

21

TUESDAY

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Tuesday, Aug. 21, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Meal of BBQ chicken thigh, mashed sweet potatoes, bakes beans, wheat bread, and apple crisp served at noon. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419.

Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided.

Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Nature journaling in New Haven. Tuesday, Aug. 21, 6-7:30 p.m., Treleven Farm, 164 Mitchell Dr. Enjoy time outdoors and learn specific ways to record data on our own property that can help you in future land planning and management. Join naturalist/artist/educator Clare Walker Leslie to explore the art and science of journaling. Bring a pencil, notebook,

binoculars, water bottle, bug spray and a few field guides if you have them. More info and registration contact Lisa Sausville at 802-8772777 or lisa@vtcoverts.org.

Experience virtual reality in Orwell. Tuesday, Aug. 21, 6-7:30 p.m., Orwell Free Library, 473 Main St. Take a VR journey to the bottom of the ocean, cruise our National Parks or try other immersive adventures. Drop in between 6 and 7:30 p.m. to experience this exciting technology. Questions? Local educator and tech guru Rod Batschelet will be on hand to assist.

“The Glass Menagerie” on stage in Middlebury. Tuesday, Aug. 21, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. THT’s Young Company performs one of Tennessee Williams’ most acclaimed plays. Tickets $15/$5 children 5 and under, available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-382-9222.

Aug

22

WEDNESDAY

MNFF Kids and Family Day in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Marquis theater, 65 Main St. Three family friendly films will screen at the Marquis Theater at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Activities run throughout the day including a free flipbook activity at 9 a.m. and a variety of games. Special kids menu in the Marquis Café. Tickets per screening $10 adults/$5 for kids 8-18/children under 8 free.

Seating first come, first seated.

“Music at the Riverbend” presents Hot Box Honey in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Brandon Town Band opens at 6 p.m. followed by Burlingtonbased swing & jazz supergroup Hot Box Honey, offering an eclectic mix of swing, latin, funk, reggae and soul rhythms to keep it groovin’. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@brandon.org.

Blues Jam in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m., Rough Cut, 51 Main St. The first

meeting of Middlebury’s monthly blues event.

Join blues musicians from around the state as they let is rip. Open to anyone wanting to hear great music. Jam will run the third Wednesday of each month. More info contact Tom Caswell at tomcaswellblues@gmail.com.

“The Glass Menagerie” on stage in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. THT’s Young Company performs one of Tennessee Williams’ most acclaimed plays. Tickets $15/$5 children 5 and under, available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-382-9222.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

Aug

23

THURSDAY

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, Aug. 23, 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 of cavatappi pasta with sharp cheddar cheese, broccoli, diced beets, wheat roll, orange gelatin with mandarin oranges served at noon. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 802-3771419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival opening night in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 23, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The film “Personal Statement” opens this year’s festival — a feature length, beautifully realized documentary that follows New York City students Karoline, Christine and Enoch through their high school senior year and into college. More info at middfilmfest.org.

FRIDAY

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 24, 11:30 a.m., Rosie’s, Route 7 South. Doors open at 11:30, meal served at noon of scalloped potatoes with ham, coleslaw, roll, and brownie parfait. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 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.

Spring birds and blooms slide show in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 24, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Enjoy a slideshow and lecture with Sue Wetmore, Audubon Society member and birder extraordinaire. Event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and social hour to follow. Fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220 or pryan@residenceottercreek. com.

Table of Grace community meal in Vergennes.

Friday, Aug. 24, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church, 30 S. Water St. Menu includes hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, another salad and dessert. Free.

Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 24, Town Hall Theater, Marquis theater, Dana Auditorium and other locations around town. The MNFF returns for its fourth year. More info at middfilmfest.org.

Street dance in Vergennes. Friday, Aug. 24, 7-10 p.m., Vergennes City Park. Kick- off Vergennes Day and dance the night away with music by the Hitmen.

Aug

25

SATURDAY

Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf Section hike in Addison. Saturday, Aug. 25, Snake Mountain. A moderate 3.5-mile hike with a gradual ascent of 980 feet. The summit offers great views of Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks. Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, a snack and hiking poles, if needed. More info contact Ralph Burt at rburt@gmavt.net or 802-355-4415. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org.

Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 25, Town Hall Theater, Marquis theater, Dana Auditorium and other locations around town. The MNFF returns for its fourth year. More info at middfilmfest.org.

37th Annual Vergennes Day in Vergennes.

Saturday, Aug. 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Vergennes City Park. Celebrate all things Vergennes with a pancake breakfast, crafters, music, children’s venue, horse drawn wagon rides, Lions Club chicken BBQ, rubber duckie race and more. Sponsored by the Addison County Chamber of Commerce and the City of Vergennes. More info at vergennesday.com.

Mount Independence-Hubbardton military road car tour in Orwell. Saturday, Aug. 25, 12:30-3:30 p.m., Mt. Independence Sate Historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. Jim Rowe leads the first leg of this tour of the 1776 Mount Independence-Hubbardton Military Road. Meet at the Mount Independence museum. The tour will end at the Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site.

Point CounterPoint final camper concert in Salisbury. Saturday, Aug. 25, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Monkton community day in Monkton.

Saturday, Aug. 25, 3-6 p.m. at Morse Park.

This community day will be filled with activities, fun, food, games and many big vehicles

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 9

communitycalendar

to explore! Plan on a feast at 6 p.m. with a potluck super and possibly some evening entertainment. Watch for more info as the date nears! Contact George Parker at 802-4535282 or e-mail pondbrook@gmavt.net for more information or to offer your services.

DaddyLongLegs in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Come hear this trio of seasoned Vermont musicians infuse 15th century French country dances and ‘oldtimey’ melodies with Celtic music and jazz pieces. Tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25.

Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info call 802-247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music.net.

Aug

26

SUNDAY

Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Middlebury. Sunday, Aug. 26, Town Hall Theater, Marquis theater, Dana Auditorium and other locations around town. The MNFF returns for its fourth year.

More info at middfilmfest.org.

“How We See Water” on screen with live accompaniment in Middlebury. Sunday, Aug. 26, at 1 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Award-winning filmmaker Robin Starbuck will present her newest film, an experimental documentary that explores the intersections of indigenous history and contemporary life in Chiapas, Mexico through the lives of two young women. A Vermont Symphony Orchestra ensemble will accompany the film, playing an original score by Matt LaRocca.

East Hubbardton Cemetery walk in Hubbardton. Sunday, Aug. 26, 2-4 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5695 Monument Hill Rd. Site interpreter Carl Fuller leads this walk in the East Hubbardton Cemetery to talk about the early settlers of Hubbardton, their roles in the 1777 Battle of Hubbardton, and life after the war. If inclement weather shorter inside program.

“Fest Noz” in New Haven. Sunday, Aug. 26, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Tourterelle, 3629 Ethan Allen Hwy. Scotland meets France in this ceilidh-style gathering based on a very old tradition from Brittany. Join dance instructor Mary Wesley, musicians Timothy Cummings, Jeremiah McLane and Alex Kehler, the talented team at Tourterelle, and Alysse Anton (Your French Connection) for a rare and special soirée. All ages welcome. Tickets $10 at the door to enjoy music and dancing or $25 in advance/$30 day of includes a crepe and a glass of Shacksbury Cider. More info at 802-453-6309.

Buffet dinner and variety show in Bristol.

Sunday, Aug. 26, 6 p.m., Bristol Federated Church, 37 North St. A benefit for the church’s Roof Repair Fund. Dinner at 6 p.m. with a suggested donation of $10. Variety show at 7 p.m., also with a $10 donation. Dinner/variety show package $15. Children under 10 free.

More info at 802-453-2379.

Aug

27

MONDAY

“The Art in Birding” in Middlebury.

Monday, Aug. 27, 3-4:15 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 Eastview Ter. Brian Machanic, author of “This Book is For the Birds,” draws from his extensive portfolio of wildlife photos to salute the beauty, grace and diversity of the avian community that surrounds us. No binoculars or bug spray needed, and bird sightings guaranteed. Free and open to the public.

Aug

28

TUESDAY

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Tuesday, Aug. 28, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour.

Meal of BBQ meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, wheat roll, and a blueberry cupcake will be served at noon. Bring your

Vergennes frolic

THE VERGENNES FIRE Department’s bubble pool is always a popular choice at Vergennes Day. This year’s celebration will be on Saturday, Aug. 25, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Vergennes City Park.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

own place setting. $5 suggested donation.

Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

“Understanding American Politics in the Age of Trump” in Middlebury. Tuesday, Aug. 28, 12:30-2 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Matt Dickinson, Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, delivers his final talk in this summer series of political discussions. Free and open to the public.

Aug

29

WEDNESDAY

“Music at the Riverbend” presents Locally Grown Music in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. An evening of local talent & Battle of the Bands winner. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@brandon.org.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 7-8:30 p.m., Town Green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

Aug

30

THURSDAY

AARP Smart Driver Class in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 30, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Get yourself up to date on changing driving abilities, cars, roads and laws. A 4.5-hour refresher course open to all drivers 50 years and older. No tests. Bring questions and concerns. $15 fee for AARP members, $20 for non-members. Advance registration required.

More info contact Chris at 802-989-7515 or the EastView concierge at 802-989-7500.

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes.

Thursday, Aug. 30, 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 cream of broccoli and chicken soup, crackers, Capri blend vegetables, wheat bread, and diced cantaloupe. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Parkinson’s Disease Support Group meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 30, 10-11:30 a.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Meetings fall on the last Thursday of each month. Anyone with other movement disorders is also welcome. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287.

Aug

31

FRIDAY

Environmental award celebration in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 31, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Vermont Coffee Company, 1197 Exchange St. Help Vermont Coffee Company celebrate being one of five recipients of the Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence, recognizing their renewable roastery initiative. The event will include refreshments and a facility tour as well as the award presentation.

Starline Rhythm Boys in New Haven. Friday, Aug. 31, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great music by Vermont’s beloved vintage country and rockabilly band. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

Dinoman in Rochester. Friday, Aug. 31, 6-8 p.m., BigTown Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Bob Lisaius, a paleontologist from Warren, thrills, entertains, and educates about the Age of Dinosaurs, fossils, and science. Joining Dinoman will be his life-sized prehistoric friends. Picnic style seating. Bring a blanket. First come best seat.

Wood-fired pizza for sale, $15 - $20, 4-6 p.m. & after performance. Tickets $10/children 5 and under free. Rain location Rochester School Gymnasium.

Point CounterPoint Faculty Concert in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 31, 7:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Come hear these talented musicians as they play chamber music. Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series.

Free-will donation. v

Sep

1

SATURDAY

Town-wide yard sale in Shoreham.

Saturday, Sept. 1, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Time for a treasure hunt. Maps available Saturday morning at the Halfway House Restaurant, Maplefields Mobile on 22A, Platt Memorial Library and Shoreham Congregational Church. TO get on the map call 802-897-5841.

Fireman’s Dinner in Shoreham. Saturday, Sept.

1 4-7 p.m., Shoreham Fire Station, Firehouse Rd. Stash those yard sale finds and enjoy barbecue beef and pork, baked potato with all the fixings, green salad, corn on the cob, dessert and beverage. The Kevin Brisson Band will play till 9 p.m. Tickets $12 adults/$10 seniors/kids 5-12 $6/4 and under free. Take out available. More info at 802-897-5841 for information.

Night Tree in concert in Ripton. Saturday, Sept 1, at 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community House, Route 125. Doors open at 7 p.m. Come hear Night Tree’s unique instrumentation and

repertoire. Refreshments available. The Ripton Community House is wheelchair accessible but the bathrooms are not. Call ahead for a slot on the open mic list. Admission $15 generous/$10 general admission/$3 children. More info at 802-388-9782.

Kosi performs in Brandon. Saturday, Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Come hear this New York City-based singer-songwriter with nappy hair and jazz roots switches styles more quickly than you can follow; from jazz, to rock, then folk, but never more than a few steps away from the blues. Tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802 247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music.net.

LIVEMUSIC Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 20, 7 p.m., City Park.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m., on the town green.

Brandon Town Band in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 6 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Hot Box Honey in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Blues Jam in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug 22, 7 p.m., Rough Cut. Deb Brisson and the Hay Burners in Middlebury. *RESCHEDULED from July 26* Thursday, Aug. 23, 6 p.m., Riverfront Park, the Marble Works.

The Hitmen in Vergennes. Friday, Aug. 24, 7-10 p.m., City Park.

Point Counterpoint final camper concert in Salisbury. Saturday, Aug. 25, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

DaddyLongLegs in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 7 p.m., on the town green.

Locally grown music in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Melissa Plett in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 7-9 p.m., Notte.

Starline Rhythm Boys in New Haven. Friday, Aug. 31, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard.

Point Counterpoint Faculty Ensemble in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 31, 7:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society.

See an extended calendar and a full listing of

O N G O I N G E V E NT S

on the Web at

www.addisonindependent.com

PAGE 10 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Young actors shifts through memory in ‘The Glass Menagerie’ Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater’s Young Company presents the great American classic play “The Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee Williams, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 21 and 22.

This classic play focuses on the Wingfield family: Southern matriarch Amanda and her children, the restless poet Tom and the damaged introvert Laura. The THT Young Company includes 11 actors which is rare for a four-character play.

“The play is a memory play,” says Lindsay Pontius, THT’s Education Director and co-director of the production. “Williams is such a brilliant writer and this is his most autobiographical play.

He has endowed each character with his memory and also part of himself, making it a brilliant and delicate tribute to humanity. As perspectives and memory shift so does the casting.” The actors range in age from 12 to 54 and are training together as an ensemble.

“The Glass Menagerie” was Tennessee Williams’s first great popular success and has been performed multiple times on Broadway.

Tickets are $15 adults/$5 for children 12 and under. Tickets are available at the THT box office: 802-382-9222, townhalltheater. org, or in person Monday-Saturday noon-5 p.m. THT is located at 68 South Pleasant Street in Middlebury.

MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL 2018 The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival returns to Middlebury for its fourth season from Thursday, Aug. 23, through Sunday, Aug. 26, with a new slate of outstanding films from all over the world.

The festival promises to be a terrific event. The word is getting out in the filmmaker community about the Fest and its true dedication

“THE GLASS MENAGERIE” will be staged by Town Hall Theater’s Young Company on Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 21 and 22, at 7 p.m. at THT, 68 S. Pleasant St. in Middlebury.

to first and second time directors.

Festival Pass $80/$50 students.

MNFF is receiving a bevy of high- The Festival Pass does not include quality work this season. And that’s admission to the Opening Night great news for the enthusiastic and Film and Party. knowledgeable audiences Day Pass $32/$20 who want to be entertained students.

Single and challenged at MNFF. screening $12 - tickets Opening Night Film sold only at the venue; Tickets $60 (wait list not available online. To only). Call Town Hall learn more, follow the Theater Box Office at Festival on Facebook,

by Greg Pahl Instagram, and Twitter.

802-382-9222 (MondaySaturday, noon to 5 p.m.)

All links are available at to be added to the list. middfilmfest.org.

Opening Night Tickets include both NEW FILM AND LIVE MUSIC the screening and the party. Please AT COLLEGE note that Opening Night Tickets In conjunction with the apply only to the events that evening Middlebury New Filmmakers and cannot be used during the Festival, award-winning filmmaker remainder of the Festival.

Robin Starbuck will present her

arts beat

“HOW WE SEE Water” will screen at the Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Road in Middlebury, on Sunday, Aug. 26, at 1 p.m., accompanied by live music.

newest film, “How We See Water,” at Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts on Sunday, Aug. 26, at 1 p.m.

This experimental documentary explores the intersections of indigenous history and contemporary life in Chiapas, Mexico, through the lives of two young women who work to gain education and independence. The film features live accompaniment by an ensemble from the Vermont Symphony

Orchestra, and an original score by Middlebury alumnus and composer Matt LaRocca.

Tickets are $12 at the door; no charge to MNFF pass holders.

Additional donations welcome. The Mahaney Center is located at 72 Porter Field Road in Middlebury, just off Route 30 south, on the campus of Middlebury College. Free parking is available curbside on Route 30 or in the Center for the Arts parking lot.

(See Arts Beat, Page 11)

SARAH KING SINGS her heart out at the Otter Creek Summer Music Festival at 5 p.m., on Thursday, Aug. 23, at the Otter Creek Brewery, 793 Exchange Street in Middlebury.

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 11

Cosmic Forecast For the week of August 20

DADDYLONGLEGS TAKES THE stage at Brandon Music at 62 Country Club Road in Brandon on Saturday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m.

Arts Beat (Continued from Page 10) DADDYLONGLEGS AT BRANDON MUSIC DaddyLongLegs will perform at Brandon Music on Saturday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 p.m. The trio of seasoned Vermont musicians — David Gusakov, Rick Ceballos and Matt Witten — infuse 15th century French country dances and “oldtimey” melodies with Celtic music and jazz pieces.

The convergence of these three musicians’ talents forms a highly original acoustic trio.

DaddyLongLegs “will take you on a musical journey around the world with their wonderful arrangements of traditional and original tunes,” according to The Ripton Community Coffee House. Between them, they play fiddle, viola, banjo, gourd banjo, piano, guitar and percussion, as well as sing, creating vibrant, sensitive and surprising 21st-century folk music.

DaddyLongLegs have played in many Vermont venues including the Tinmouth Firehouse Music Series, Bristol Best Night, Spice on Snow Music Festival, Burlington City Arts Noontime Concert Series and Lincoln’s Burnham Music Series.

Concert tickets are $20. A preconcert dinner is available for $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call 802247-4295 or e-mail info@brandonmusic.net for reservations or for more information. Brandon Music is located at 62 Country Club Road in Brandon.

BRANDON SUMMER CONCERT SERIES The Brandon Area Chamber of Commerce free summer concert series, “Music at the Riverbend,” located behind the Brandon Inn continues this Wednesday, Aug. 22, at 6 p.m., with classic band concert music provided by the Brandon Town Band. Then, at 7 p.m., Hot Box Honey, the Burlington-based swing and jazz supergroup takes to the stage. Hot Box Honey offer an eclectic mix of swing, Latin, funk, reggae and soul rhythms.

Join the folks who come out and relax with quality music, friends and neighbors. The kids have fun

running around the grounds next to the Neshobe River, and everyone enjoys free popcorn. Adult beverages are served up by the Brandon Inn, available in the outdoor lounge area, so you won’t miss a single note of the music.

For more information, contact the Chamber at 802-247-6401 or info@ brandon.org.

OTTER CREEK SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL The Otter Creek Summer Music Festival continues at 5 p.m. this Thursday, Aug. 23, with Sarah King at the Otter Creek Brewery, 793 Exchange Street in Middlebury.

Sarah King’s sound is bluesy, soulful and occasionally loud, and the songs range from old-school murder ballads to piano-based pop. Drawing heavily on Southern blues and soul, King is now based in Vermont.

The OCB Pub Space is open seven days a week, serving munchies, meals and fresh brews. Pub Space Hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., SundayWednesday, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday-Saturday.

For more information, call 802-388-0727.

BRISTOL BAND CONCERT The Bristol Band Concert Season continues this Wednesday, Aug. 22, at 7 p.m., on the town green.

Concerts are held every Wednesday evening through the Wednesday before Labor Day (Aug. 29). 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. It’s free.

There is often a fundraiser barbeque before the concert. Check bristolrec.org for details.

LIVE MUSIC AT NOTTE There will be one live musical performance this week at Notte Neapolitan Pizza Bar located downstairs at 86 Main Street in Middlebury. The Open Mic will be hosted at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 22, by the ever talented Mark Sikora.

Play solo or join Sikora and friends for a jamming good time. All talent levels are welcome. It’s free to enter and there is no cover charge. For more information, call 802-388-0002.

ARIES: March 21-April 20. Aries, something has been on your mind for awhile, so write down your thoughts and try to act on them. This will take the mystery out of the situation.

TAURUS: April 21May 21. Taurus, asking for assistance is not a sign of weakness. In fact, it is a true test of strength because it means getting help before situations turn worse. Accept help graciously.

GEMINI: May 22-June 21. Express your creativity every chance you get, Gemini. Sooner or later one of your ideas will appeal to another person, and this could just be the catalyst you need.

CANCER: June 22-July 22. Cancer, sometimes the first step to starting something big is just believing you can do it.

Then all you have to do is put all of the other factors in play.

LEO: July 23-Aug. 23. Stay focused on the journey and you will certainly get to the destination in record time, Leo. You have a passionate desire to see things finished through the end.

VIRGO: Aug. 24Sept. 22. Virgo, this week presents a perfect opportunity to focus on a project you have been meaning to revisit. It’s good to relax, but free time this week may be better spent working.

388-2800

Reward yourself with flowers... you’ve survived summer vacation!

Mon. - Fri. 9 - 5:30, Sat. 9-2 Rt. 7 South, Middlebury www.middleburyfloralandgifts.com

COME SEE WHAT’S NEW!

From Berroco, Plymouth, Brown Sheep & More!

See website or visit for details 25A Main St., Bristol 453-7799 • Mon & Wed–Sat 10-5:30; Sun 11-3 Yoga Schedule & Workshops: yarnandyoga.com

1428 Route 7 South. Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-3559 middleburysewnvac.com offer valid Aug. 1-31, 2018 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-1pm

LIBRA: Sept. 23-Oct. 23. Libra, you’re inclined to focus on others, but it may be time to carve out some time to care for yourself. If you burn out, everyone will pay the price.

SCORPIO: Oct. 24Nov. 22. It’s hard to run away from love and romance this week, Scorpio. Prioritize an existing relationship or devote more time to a budding one.

SAGITTARIUS: Nov. 23-Dec. 21. It is time to decompress between adventures, Sagittarius.

Try sticking closer to home this week and take a breather. There will be plenty of exploration down the road.

CAPRICORN: Dec. 22-Jan. 20. Capricorn, accept constructive criticism, which is a part of many successful endeavors. Take away important lessons and apply them now and in the future.

AQUARIUS: Jan. 21Feb. 18. Sometimes the best way to improve your bank account isn’t by racking up long hours, but by moving into a career you love, Aquarius. Now is a great time to explore your options.

PISCES: Feb. 19-March 20. You often put other people’s needs before your own, Pisces.

Others appreciate this and may attempt to express their gratitude in the coming days.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS AUGUST 19 - John Deacon, Musician (67) AUGUST 20 - Meghan Ory, Actress (36) AUGUST 21 - John Brotherton, Actor (38) AUGUST 22 - Dua Lipa, Singer (22) AUGUST 23 - Shelley Long, Actress (69) AUGUST 24 - Rupert Grint, Actor (30) AUGUST 25 - Tim Burton, Director (60)

PAGE 12 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

PUZZLES

Sponsored by:

help keep the mind independent and active throughout life.

This week’s puzzle is rated

In Conclusion

by Myles Mellor

Hard

Across

66. Author Bagnold

1. Where Pago Pago is

67. Unrestrained indulgence

6. “Giovanna d’___” (Verdi opera)

68. Pompous walk

40. Speedometer letters

Down

45. Making a profit from selling sacred things

1. Kind of vaccine

47. Symbol of authority

2. Berry

48. Table part

25

3. Bungle, with “up”

49. Lewis with Lamb Chop

31

4. Table scraps

50. Made, in a way

5. French clerical titles

52. Tibetan gazelle

6. Misbehaves

53. Nolte and Jonas

7. Ex-Yankee Guidry

55. Enthusiastic about

8. Rail supporter

57. Thin strip

47

9. Catch ___

58. Unit of pressure

54

10. Last letter

59. Biblical twin

11. Stands for

60. ___ Lake, MN

12. Good point

62. Young sheep

10. Saudi Arabia neighbor 14. Tart 15. Oil source 16. Phoenix neighbor 17. Position in line 20. Mouths, slangily 21. Polished 22. Low-income areas 24. Tobacco kilns 25. Presidents’ Day event 29. Jest 31. Genesis locale 34. Galway country 35. Turndowns 38. Conclusive evaluation 41. Caribou kin

18. Web browser entry 23. Breakfast cereals

43. Fish hawk 44. ___ Island National Monument 46. Engine attachment 47. Boito’s Mefistofele, e.g.

51. Peaceful gesture?

54. Orbit point

25. Kind of call

32. Air sacs 33. Follow

56. Wet

35. Student of Seneca

61. Ending soon

36. Kind of column

63. Blood’s partner

37. Eye affliction

64. Adolescent 65. Jewelry measurement

39. Recoverer

4

5

www.achhh.org

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

35

36

37

58

59

60

16

18

19 21

20 22 26

27

23

24

29

28 32

33

30 34

38

39

40

42

41

43

44 48

49

45 51

50

46 52

55

53

56

61

57

62

63

64

65

66

67

68

2 4 4

Down

Across

Where 1 Pago Pago is

This week’s puzzle solutions 1. Kind of vaccine can be found on Page 39.

6. "Giovanna d'___" (Verdi 2. Berry opera) 1.

6 10.

3

Saudi Arabia neighbor

14. Tart

9

15. Oil source

3.

Bungle, with "up"

4.

Table scraps

5.

French clerical titles

Sudoku

7 8 6 neighbor 16. Phoenix 6. Misbehaves Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that Guidry 7 1 17. Position in linehas been subdivided into nine smaller7.gridsEx-Yankee 6 2 of 3x3 20. Mouths, slangily 8. column Rail supporter squares. To solve the puzzle each row, and 4 1 box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9.

Puzzles 21. Polished 9. Catch ___ come in three grades: easy, medium and difficult.

5 8 22. Low-income areas 10. Last letter 9 3 24.

5 Tobacco 2 kilns Level: Medium.

11. Stands for 25. Presidents' Day event

12. Good point

29. Jest

13. Lane and Hale

hospice 31.“With Genesis localecare

PO Box 754, Route 7N, Middlebury, VT 05753 toll free: (800) 639-1521 • (802) 388-7259

6 15

17

8

27. Like young Abe Lincoln 30. Guesstimate phrase

3

Sudoku by Myles Mellor

26. Seed coat 28. Historic period

2

14

13. Lane and Hale 19. Female feline

42. Lab vessel

1

I am able to continue so much of18.our rou-browser entry Web tine in our daily lives in our own home which my husband and I built together. I am close to his side, helping to provide for his emotional and physical needs. Hospice care has helped me transition from a wife with 55 years of marriage to his caretaker while still able to be his loving wife.

We are home and can enjoy each day of our lives together with a sense of peace and contentment. We are able to have moments of laughter and share past memories.”

A testimonial from ACHHH care recipient Janet Seaburg

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 13

Brandon Reporter’s popular Lee Kahrs bids fairwell

the chaos, though. She took

By RACHEL COHEN good writer,” Kahrs BRANDON — In 2007, Lee J. hundreds of pictures, worked said of Hopkins. “It’s Kahrs was in between journalism 14-16-hour days. The mornoverwhelming, and jobs and had been house-painting ing after, she was on Center humbling.” when she came home to find a note Street and Conant Square at In Hopkins’ four years on her door from Polly Lynn, now first light alongside public on Brandon’s selectboard, the editor and co-publisher of The works officials, the town there was only one other manager, and the selectboard, Mountain Times in Killington. special day designated for The note said that Lynn’s father, marveling at the damage. the town of Brandon. The “The destruction left Angelo, the editor and publisher family of a woman who of the Addison Independent in behind scars on the town,” had been born in Brandon Middlebury, needed Kahrs’ help Kahrs said. “Emotional scars, 100 years before wrote with a new paper he had acquired, but it also left infrastructure in with memories, so the scars — all of Route 7 through The Reporter. town named a day after Kahrs started at The Reporter one downtown was completely her in celebration of her torn up for weeks.” week later. life.

The building that housed “I was so excited to have the Kahrs noted that some opportunity, and I was going to make The Reporter offices next friends have questioned to the Mobil Station also the most of it,” she said. what they should do on Despite initially filling a tempo- flooded, so Kahrs worked Lee J. Kahrs Day. rary position, Kahrs, now the manag- out of her truck until they “Roll up our sleeves ing editor, ended up staying at The moved the operation to the and go fishing?” Kahrs Reporter for 11 years. This was her Addison Independent offices suggested. last week working in Brandon, as she in Middlebury. The flood tore In Chittenden County, has taken a new job in Chittenden through town on a Sunday, Kahrs will continue advoand on Tuesday, Kahrs put the County. cating for community For Kahrs, the departure is paper out from Middlebury. journalism as a managing AFTER 11 YEARS leading The Reporter newspaper in Brandon, Lee Kahrs is leaving for editor. She said that she “We didn’t miss an issue. bittersweet.

“I wouldn’t change the last I’m really proud of that,” a new position. would not be ready for the Independent photo/Rachel Cohen 11 years for anything,” she said. Kahrs said. new job had it not been In her 11 years at The Reporter, addiction, to seek help.

“Brandon and the towns that I’ve “I’m the biggest advocate in the for her time at The Reporter. covered have been very good to me. Kahrs has not only covered tragedies, “I think it did,” Kahrs said about world for community journalism,” “I hope The Reporter continues to but also many stories of redemption, the impact of her article.

I’ve learned a lot.”

Kahrs said, “which is not dying, not fill the community journalism niche like that of Kyle LEE J. KAHRS DAY Kahrs reflected in Vermont, and not on my watch. that it always has,” she said.

Pinkham, a local Recently, Kahrs was celebrated The proclamation reflects that the with the Addison Kahrs said she appreciates all man who used to on a local level for her journalistic town feels the same way.”

Independent on of the notes and emails she has be a heroin addict. contributions. some stories that “I’m the biggest When Hopkins and selectboard received from readers. She would Pinkham, who at In late July, the Brandon select- Vice Chair Doug Bailey stopped by also like to thank her readership for she’s covered at The advocate in the time was still board unanimously approved a proc- The Reporter’s office in the Ayshire their support, for their tough quesReporter that have world for commu- the struggling with lamation in Kahrs’ honor, announc- Building, and Hopkins presented the tions, and for their demand for qualstuck with her. addiction, sat down ing Aug. 15, 2018, as “Lee J. Kahrs framed proclamation, Kahrs said she ity journalism.

In her first week nity journalism, with Kahrs twice Day in Brandon, Vermont.” was stunned. on the job in August which is not “I hope they feel like I rose to that to document his Seth Hopkins, the selectboard “It was very lovely; he’s a very occasion,” Kahrs said. of 2007, Kahrs, journey. chair, came up with the idea for the who sought to make dying, not in “He was brave proclamation, and regarded the news herself indispens- Vermont, and not enough to sit down of Kahrs’ departure as a “wake-up able, decided to on the record and call” that he couldn’t take Kahrs’ cover just about on my watch.” every meeting in — Lee Kahrs talk about it — that work for granted. took a lot of guts,” “What she’s done has been great town, bringing all of Kahrs said. for the community as a whole,” her journalism skills Pinkham’s story Hopkins said. to the table.

And he recognized that the success While that allowed her to familiar- put a face to the hyper-local probize herself with the town’s happen- lem of opiate addiction, and Kahrs of The Reporter has not happened ings and to meet prominent towns- hopes that it helped others, espe- accidentally — Kahrs has put a lot of people, Kahrs perhaps could have cially young people struggling with work into the paper. never prepared for covering the murder-suicide on Union Street in November of that very year.

“That was my first murder,” Kahrs said after describing the crime scene on Union Street. “Gratefully, it was also my last murder.”

Kahrs said the fact that kids were involved in the confrontation between two men over a woman made the situation that much harder to bear.

Still, Kahrs said, “You don’t carry these stories around with you or else you wouldn’t be able to get your job done, but you never forget them.”

The flood of 2011 after Tropical Storm Irene is one such event ingrained in Kahrs’ memory.

The flood left an especially deep impression because it affected the entire area of Brandon and the surrounding towns.

Kahrs says she remembers standing there and watching the Neshobe River rushing through the town’s center, not really believing what she was seeing.

Kahrs fulfilled her role amidst

PAGE 14 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Party in the street

A PORTION OF Main Street in Middlebury was closed last Wednesday for the town’s second annual Block Party and Midd Night Stroll. Sod was rolled out across the Battell Bridge and kids of all ages pranced across it and played lawn games. Fun food was provided, like cotton candy, right, spun by Larry Yarbrough. The Horse Traders with Deb Brisson, left, provided music and the rail/ bridge project construction team provided an excavator for kids to play on. Eli Masterson, 4, of Takoma Park, Md., top right, took advantage of that. At the end of the party a dedicated team, bottom right, of community volunteers and workers from Carpenter and Costin and the Saratoga Sod Farm got their hands dirty rolling up the sod and returning the street back to normal.

Photos by Trent Campbell & Andy Paluch

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 15

DR. FRED KNIFFIN

Porter Hospital (Continued from Page 1) Dr. Kniffin was appointed as the interim President of Porter in the spring of 2016 during a time of significant organizational disruption, following the hiring of CEO Lynn Boggs who “It’s time stayed on the for me to job less than move on, a year before receiving a turn the page, start vote of noconfidence a new by the board chapter. and resigning I’m doing s h o r t l y thereafter. this with Dr. Kniffin mixed i m mediately emotions.” focused on — Dr. Fred efforts to bring Kniffin the community together and reestablish confidence in the organization. He launched a tireless campaign of communication with both internal and external audiences, including the introduction of his “weekly message” to staff, which he has produced every Friday morning for his entire tenure as Porter’s leader.

“The weekly messages did more than provide updates and information, they demonstrated appreciation, respect and a leadership style that was open, transparent and respectful,” McLaughlin said. “Fred was just what we needed and his commitment to the mission of the organization and to this community

came through every week in his message to the staff and providers; and he always ended them with an acknowledgement to those who provide the hands-on care to our patients and residents who he often called the ‘real heroes’ of Porter.”

True to form, Dr. Kniffin announced his intention to step

away next spring in one of his weekly messages. It began with the words: “How do you leave a job that you love? Why would you leave a job that you love? These are the sorts of questions I’ve been mulling over for the last several months.”

He then went on to explain.

“It’s time for me to move on, turn the page, start a new chapter. I’m doing this with mixed emotions,” he wrote. “Serving as president of Porter Medical Center is the greatest honor of my career. It has been an amazing opportunity. I have learned more than I thought was possible about health care and

about myself. I’ve had the privilege to work with remarkable people.

All this in the service of caring for our community.”

Dr. Kniffin reminded his colleagues that he accepted this role initially as a short-term appointment simply to help Porter make a necessary leadership transition and that he always intended to return to emergency medicine and also spend more time on his outside passions of biking and hiking.

“My reasons for making this change are both personal and professional. On the professional side, as much as I have been honored to serve as president, I also like my old job of being a doctor. I can get everything I need to get out of work by caring for patients – mental stimulation, purpose, the opportunity to lead and communicate — all this comes with being a doctor,” he wrote.

Dr. John Brumsted, President and CEO of the UVM Health Network, shared his thoughts on Kniffen’s announcement as well.

“I know I speak for all of us at the UVM Health Network when I say it’s been a pleasure and a privilege to work with Fred. His open and thoughtful leadership, his strong belief in the value of our Network and his consistent advocacy for Porter have played a significant role in our work to improve access to health care and specialty services for the communities we serve. I look forward to working closely with the Porter Board, leadership and community to identify the individual who can continue Fred’s excellent work,” he said.

According to McLaughlin, the firm of Witt Kiefer will be engaged to assist with a nation-wide search for a new leader, which is expected to invite both internal and external candidates. That process will begin in earnest this fall.

PAGE 16 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Appeal forces Brandon-area mosquito district permit review

By LEE J. KAHRS The BLSG, which now also BRANDON, LEICESTER, includes Pittsford, has been using SALISBURY, GOSHEN, the same two insecticides to control PITTSFORD — The entire mosquitoes in the district for roughly Pesticide General Permit issued to 20 years, and the battle between the Brandon Leicester, Salisbury property owners who do not want Goshen Mosquito Control District in to be sprayed and the quality of life 2017 is reviewable per the Vermont issues for those who do has gone on Environmental Court. just as long.

The de novo The BLSG uses The BLSG gets treatment of the an organic larvicide permit (de novo $70,000 a year to treat the swamps is Latin meaning from the state in the area where “from the beginning” to treat 6,000 mosquitoes breed. The or “anew”) means acres, and BLSG appeal is challenging that the court may Board Chair Dr. the adulticide spraying look at all of the program, not the d o c u m e n t a t i o n Ben Lawton said larvicide program, The related to the permit that funding has adulticide, which kills application to make not increased fully grown, flying confirm that state and since 1990. mosquitoes, is applied federal regulations from sprayers mounted were followed. on the back of BLSG The Environmental Court permit trucks that follow certain routes review is the result of an appeal around Lake Dunmore, Brandon and of the BLSG permit filed by The Goshen.

Toxics Action Center and the The Vermont Agency of Environmental Natural Resources Agriculture is the sole permitter and Law Clinic at Vermont Law School regulator of pesticide application in on June 13. the state. The DEC’s main concern The permit allows the BLSG is waterways and water quality with to spray the pesticides Malathion regard to pesticides. and Permethrin along the district’s But officials from the BLSG say roadways to kill adult mosquitoes. that the de novo treatment of the

HEY THERE – MIDDLEBURY RESIDENTS!

Look in Your Mailbox – This Thursday, August 23rd

permit shows that the TAC and VLS pesticides to waters of the State” and the last two decades, although there are trying to shut down the district. that a pesticide “shall only be used if have been no fatal human cases. EEE “They want to make it as difficult all other measures are unreasonable was detected again in mosquitoes in as possible for us and bury us in and have been exhausted” where Whiting in 2013 and 2014, as well paperwork,” said the District’s Pesticide as in Grand Isle in 2014, but there BLSG Board Chair “It’s turning out to Discharge Management have been no other human EEE Dr. Ben Lawton. “I deploys adulticide cases since 2012. be a long, drawn Plan don’t know why, but spraying when Lawton said that while the BLSG the judge ordered out process. Who other integrated pest was originally formed in 1990 to that we’re starting knows what will management strategies combat nuisance mosquitoes in the all over. The hearing happen? We may are not sufficient area, the goal has shifted. will focus on the see additional to reduce mosquito “We feel the district has a three questions regulation placed populations to a responsibility in its program above raised.” manageable level. and beyond treating nuisance Those three on us and it cost DEFENSE COSTS mosquitoes,” he said. “It’s a public questions were filed the towns more Lawton said the health issue. We want to be proactive by the appellants on money, and we’ll money used to defend to prevent situations like EEE.” July 3, challenging have to do more the BLSG in this case Will Mathis is the BLSG District the permit documentation, is coming right out of Coordinator, one of the few authorization of the district’s mosquito paid employees of the district. which is man Intent for coverage abatement budget. The He appeared at the interview in awarded to the hours and cost.”

BLSG gets $70,000 waders, having just come from the — Jeff Whiting is a year from the state Whiting Swamp applying more BLSG in May by the vice-chair of the to treat 6,000 acres, larvacide.

Vermont Agency of Natural Resources.

“We just had a large hatch and BLSG Board and Lawton said that The questions are: funding we expect those 1.

Does the has not mosquitoes to be “We just had a Authorization comply with the increased since 1990. flying and biting now,” terms and conditions of the Permit The state did pay for large hatch and he said. “We’re doing where the Pesticide Discharge an aerial spraying of we expect those a lot of hand treatment Management Plan fails to document both the BLSG District mosquitoes to be with the larvacide to how the District evaluated each and the Lemon Fair flying and biting get the population management option considering Mosquito District, a now. We’re down and to tolerable impact to water quality in developing total of 16,000 acres, levels.” the Pest Management Measures? in 2012 following the doing a lot of THE PESTICIDES 2. Does the Authorization comply deaths of two area hand treatment Like most with the terms and conditions of men from Eastern with the pesticides, Malathion the Permit where the Pesticide Equine Encephalitis. larvacide to get and Permethrin are Discharge Management Plan fails They were the first two the population not without their to document how the District cases of EEE ever in drawbacks. According down and to evaluated each management option Vermont. to the National considering impact to non-target EEE is a rare but tolerable levels.” Pesticide Information — Will Mathis, Center, Malathion is organisms, including federal and often-deadly virus BLSG District highly toxic to bees, state threatened and endangered carried by a specific species in developing the Pest breed of mosquito Coordinator some fish and birds, Management Measures? but is considered lowly that was found in the 3. Does the Authorization comply Whiting swamp. Two toxic to mammals. with the terms and conditions of the area men died of EEE in 2012, and a Permethrin is more toxic to fish than Permit’s mandates that the District number of cases of West Nile Virus insects or mammals, according to must “minimize the discharge of have been reported in the area over (See Bug district, Page 39

A Message from Harvey Green, DDS

GRAB THE BENJAMIN MOORE COUPON & VISIT COUNTRYSIDE to SAVE BIG!

Dr. Hopper

Dr. Green

Dr. Fasoli

“I have retired after over 49 years of serving the Middlebury community and I have sold my practice to Middlebury Dental Group to take care of my patients. I feel Drs Hopper and Fasoli have the clinical skill and personality to serve my patients with the quality and compassion they have always received.

Thank you to all of my patients! It has been a privilege to be a part of your lives for so many years.”

16 Creek Road, Middlebury

388-6054

M - F 7:15 - 5:30, Sat. 8 - 3 www.countrysidecarpetandpaint.com

1330 Exchange Street, Suite 107, Middlebury

802-388-3553 • www.MiddleburyDentalVT.com

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 17

Vergennes Day Preview Vergennes Day to kick off Aug. 24

Annual celebration to feature street dance, food and family friendly activities VERGENNES — The 37th annual Vergennes Day slated for this Saturday, Aug. 25, will kick off a day early on Friday, Aug. 24, with a street dance on the City Green featuring the music of “The Hitmen” from 7 to 10 p.m. After Friday night’s dance party, activities on Saturday take place between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. and culminate at dusk with a lighting of the Otter Creek Falls.

The weekend’s activities, hosted and sponsored by the Addison County Chamber of Commerce, city of Vergennes and area businesses, is a celebration of city and community to be enjoyed by all ages.

Saturday begins with a pancake breakfast at the Vergennes Fire Station from 7 to 10:30 a.m.

For those more interest in exercise than in eating, the Little City Road Races start and finish at the Vergennes Elementary School, 43 School St., later in the morning.

Undoubtedly some will choose both.

Runners and walkers will choose between three distances: 5K, 10K and 15K. Race registration starts at 7:30 a.m. at the school, for those who have not pre-registered online (see story on Page 19). Runners in the 15K depart at 8:30 a.m.; the fun run (on school grounds) starts at 8:35 a.m. and the 5K and 10K distances start at 9 a.m. Spectators can cheer on several hundred runners and walkers as they race through the streets of Vergennes. More information is at RunVermont.org.

From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. City Green is also the site of more than 60 crafters’ and vendors’ booths offering fine handcrafts, locally made products, food and more. There will be free horse and wagon rides with pick up at the corner of School & Green Streets. Also, many downtown merchants will be offering sales and specials.

Musical groups serenading those taking part in the festivities will occupy the bandstand on the City Green throughout the day: • 10 a.m.: Vergennes City Band • 11:15 a.m.: Mark LaVoie • Noon: Joel Andersen • 1:30 p.m.: LC Jazz Always a favorite, the Vergennes Lions Club will be selling their barbeque chicken at half a chicken for $12, quarter-chicken for $8. Call 802-324-1758 to order ahead. There will be a reserved drive-in, pick-up parking spot on the corner of Main Street and Park Street.

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. kids can enjoy games and the ever-popular bubble pit at the Vergennes Fire (See Bubble pit, Page 17)

BATH TIME CAME early for many area kids when the Vergennes Fire Department followed up its Vergennes Day breakfast with fun in a makeshift pool filled with sudsy foam at Vergennes Day a few years back.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

OUIMETTE & RUNCIE ATTORNEYS AT LAW

James H. Ouimette James W. Runcie

Proud to be supporters of

Vergennes Day!

802-877-3118 257 Main St, Vergennes (802) 877-3372 office@orlaw-vt.com

“Serving the Champlain Valley Since 1887”

PAGE 18 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Vergennes Day wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of its sponsors: Dorchester Lodge 1 F. & A. M., Feed Commodities, Jackman Fuels Inc., JW & DE Ryan Inc., NECSEL Intellectual Property Inc., Small City Market and Vermont Gas Systems Inc.

Last Call for

Summer Styles!

Check out the remaining summer styles during our Sidewalk Sale on August 25 as you enjoy the Vergennes Day festivities!

$10 - $15 - $20 sale racks outside, other discounted racks inside.

Tribal, Woolrich, Carhartt and much more!

New Fall Fashions Arriving Daily!

Main Street • Vergennes 877-2320 Mon. – Sat., 9:30am – 5:30pm & Sun, 11am – 3pm

VERGENNES DAY

KIDS OF ALL AGES squealed with delight as they dunk each other and themselves into the clingy suds in the bubble pit at a recent Vergennes Day.

Bubble pit

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

(Continued from Page 17) below the falls. Rotarians will sell Department on Green Street. tickets at the Rotary’s booth on the At 1 p.m. Bixby Memorial City Green, numbers correspondLibrary will hold its “Building ing to the tickets will be marked on Better Readers” a huge batch of drawing at the rubber duckies, bandstand; then the duckies the drawing is will be launched sponsored by the into the river library and Verand race to the gennes Rotary finish line. The Club. Entries are person holding accepted until the ticket with Tuesday, Aug. the number 21, so head to co r r es p o n d in g the library and to the first-place check out the ducky wins!

Building Better For a full Readers contest schedule of today. events, visit VerCulminating gennesDay.com. the afternoon’s For more activities will be information call The Vergennes Rotary will sell the Vergennes tickets for the Rubber Ducky 8 0 2 - 3 8 8 - 7 9 5 1 Rotary’s beloved Race at its booth on the City or email info@ Rubber Duckie Green, then launch the duckies addisoncounty.

Race at 3 p.m. just below the falls at 3 p.m. com.

Saturday, August 25 • 10am - 3pm Little City Kids’ Fun Run

5K/10K/15K Races at 8:30 am at VUES Live Music on the Bandstand All Day 60+ Crafters in City Park Horse and Wagon Rides Pancake Breakfast at Fire Department Lion’s Club Chicken BBQ Activities for Kids and Families Rotary Rubber Duckie Race Merchants’ Sales Throughout Downtown

FREE

Friday, August 24 Street Dance Featuring “The Hitmen” 7-10pm

David E. Congalton, DDS New patients always welcome.

106 Main St., Vergennes, VT 05491 802-877-3534

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 19

RUNNERS WAIT AT the starting line of a previous race in Little City. The Vergennes Day 5K, 10K and 15K road races will start and finish near the elementary school this Saturday morning.

City to host road races on Aug. 25

VERGENNES — Whether you are fleet of foot or just enjoy getting out and toddling along, the Little City invites you to join the 5K, 10K and 15K races at Vergennes Day this coming Saturday morning.

The 37th annual Little City Road Races and Fun Run will kick off the Saturday morning activities. Hundreds of participants are expected to take part.

The 5K run and walk will take you through city streets, starting and finishing at the Vergennes Union Elementary School on School Street.

It’s a great opportunity for friends and family to get out and participate in a fun-filled and healthy event.

There will also be a 10K run for more serious runners, which includes a challenging hill climb on Route 66 at the 3-mile mark. For the most serious — a 15K. The exact route for the three races can be viewed online. To see them, go online here to see the 5K route (tinyurl.com/ybuk6q4a), 10K route (tinyurl.com/ybsz42cw) and 15K route (tinyurl.com/y7ao6gyf).

Organizers are hoping for a large turnout of runners and walkers this year, so those interested in taking part are urged to register online here: register.chronotrack. com/r/29838. The entry fee for adults for the 5K (3.1 mile), 10K (6.2 mile) and 15 K (9.3 mile) races is $25 for adults when registering online, for youths the fee is $10.

Add $5 if you register on race day.

Race day registration and packet pickup starts at 7:30 a.m. at the school.

The longer 15K starts at 8:30 a.m.; the kids’ fun run starts at 8:35 a.m. and the 5K and 10K races start at 9 a.m.

Racing begins and ends near the elementary school.

More information is at RunVermont.org.

See our next Spotlight on Vergennes Pages Sept. 3

Dr. Robert Austin, Optometrist

ARTS+LEISURE

EVERY THURSDAY IN YOUR ADDY INDY

Proudly supporting

Vergennes Day!

Find us on Facebook @eatonthegreen Instagram @VergennesPartnership

EMERGENCY & ROUTINE EYE EXAMS FASHIONABLE EYEWEAR • CONTACT LENSES Open Monday 8-4, Tuesday – Friday 8-5 • Call for an appointment today!

27 Main Street, Vergennes (802) 877-2422

www.vergennesdowntown.org/eatongreen

JACKMAN FUELS, INC. Serving Addison Chittenden Counties Since 1945 •Propane • Ultra Low Sulfur Fuel Oil & Kerosene • 24 Hour Emergency Service

877-2661

Celebrate Vergennes Day with us!

Receive 15% OFF of your dinner bill when you make a reservation for Vergennes Day. Visit vergenneslaundry.net or call (802) 870-7157

205 Main Street, Vergennes • jackmanfuels.com

PAGE 20 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Addison Central School District Bus Routes MIDDLEBURY - ACSD has released the bus routes for the 2018-2019 school year. All times are approximate. Times for bus routes can vary by several minutes depending on traffic, construction, weather, and ridership. Students should be at their bus stop at least five minutes earlier than the published time. For safety reasons, drivers will not wait for students to come to the stop. If you have questions about a route, please contact your school.

CORNWALL:

South Bus -Becky A.M. 7:10 Rt. 30 7:17 Douglas Rd. 7:19 Douglas & Delong Rd. 7:20 Delong Rd. 7:22 Carothers Lane/ Delong Rd. 7:28 South Bingham & Cutting Hill Rd. 7:32 South Bingham St. 7:40 North Bingham St. 7:45 At Cornwall School P.M. 2:50 At Cornwall School 2:55 Rt.30 South 3:14 Delong & Galvin Rd. 3:15 Carothers Lane/Delong Rd. 3:17 Douglas Rd. 3:19 South Bingham St. 3:21 North Bingham St. 3:30 To Mary Hogan -Drop 3:32 To MUHS P/U MUMS & MUHS 3:35-3:45 Rt.30 South 3:45 Delong Rd./Douglas Rd. 3:50 Park Hill Rd to Barnes Rd. 3:52 Wooster Rd. 3:58 South Bingham Rd. 4:00 North Bingham/ Sperry Rd. North Bus -Andrew A.M. 7:08 Clark Road 7:10 Rte. 74 7:12 South End of West St. 7:17 Cross Rd. 7:20 West St. & Rte. 125 7:22 Snake Mountain Rd. 7:23 Rte. 125 7:27 Ledgemont/Lemon Fair Rd. 7:30 Rte. 125 & Cider Mill Rd. 7:32 Cider Mill Rd. & Ridge Rd.

7:34 Rte. 30 North to turnaround 7:36 Rt. 30 South 7:45 At Cornwall School P.M. 2:55 Depart Cornwall School 3:00 Rt.30 North 3:01 Ridge Rd. 3:05 Lemon Fair Rd. 3:10 Cider Mill Rd. 3:12 Rt. 30 South 3:20 Rte. 74 3:22 West St. 3:27 Snake Mountain Rd. 3:29 Rt. 1.25-to MUHS-Drop Students in town 3:35 Load MUHS/MUMS 3:40 Rt. 30 South 3:42 Ridge Rd. 3:44 Lemon Fair Rd. 3:47 Cider Mill Rd. 3:50 Rte., 30 South 3:53 Clark Rd. 3:55 West St.

SALISBURY:

East Bus - Sue F. A.M. 6:50 Lake Dunmore Rd. 6:55 Smead Rd. 7:00 Maple St. & Smead Intersection 7:03 West Shore Rd. 7:06-7:18 Upper Plains Rd. 7:22 Wildlife Lane 7:25 Lower Plains Rd. 7:30 Rt. 7 North 7:40 At Salisbury School, Load MUMS & MUHS Students P.M. 2:45 At Salisbury School 2:50 Rt.7 2:52 Maple St.

2:55 Smead Rd. 2:58 Sullivan Ct. 2:59 Lake Dunmore Rd. 3:02 Upper Plains Rd. 3:05 Beaver Pond Rd. 3:08 Lower Plains Rd. To MUMS 3:20 Rt. 7 South to Rt. 53 3:25 Lake Dunmore Rd. 3:30 Smead Rd. 3:33 Maple & Smead Rd. 3:40 Maple St. 3:45 West Shore Rd. 3:50 Upper Plains Rd. West Bus - Karen R. A.M. 6:45 North on Middle Rd. 6:47 Columbus Smith Rd. 6:49 Shard Villa Rd. 6:51 Creek Rd. 6:54 Dewey Rd. 7:00 West Salisbury Rd.-Dewey-Leland Rd. 7:10 Morgan Rd. to West Salisbury Rd. 7:15 Rogers Rd. 7:20 Town Hall-North on Maple St. 7:25 Rt. 7 North to W. Salisbury Rd. to Kelly Crossroads 7:34 Holman Rd.-Cemetery to W. Salisbury 7:40 At Salisbury School P.M. 2:45 At Salisbury School 2:50 Kelly Crossroads/Middle Rd. 2:53 Columbus Smith Rd./N. Shard Villa Rd. 2:59 West Salisbury Rd. 2:57 Dewey Rd. 2:59 West Salisbury Rd. 3:05 Leland Rd.

3:09 Morgan/West Salisbury Rd. 3:12 Maple St to West Shore Rd. Rt. 7 To MUHS 3:25 Rt. 7 South 3:30 Kelly Crossroads/Middle Rd. 3:35 Columbus Smith Rd./N. Shard Villa Rd. 3:38 West Salisbury Rd. 3:40 Dewey Rd. 3:43 West Salisbury Rd. 3:47 Leland Rd. 3:50 Morgan/West Salisbury Rd. 3:55 Maple St to West Shore Rd.

BRIDPORT:

Doug Atwood’s Bus A.M. 6:50 Swinton Road 6:53 Basin Harbor Road 6:55 Crown Point Road 6:59 Heitman Road 7:05-7:17 Lake Street 7:21 Middle Road 7:24 Basin Harbor Road 7:26 Middle Road 7:30 Lovers Lane 7:40 At Bridport School 7:35 Depart for MUHS P.M. 3:15 At MUMS 3:20 AT MUHS 3:35 At Bridport School 3:40 Swinton Road 3:43 Basin Harbor Road 3:44 Crown Point Road 3:47 Heitman Road 3:54 Lake Street 4:02 Middle Road 4:05 Basin Harbor Road 4:06 Middle Road 4:09 Lovers Lane Hilary Thompson’s Bus A.M. 6:56-7:03 Rt. 22a from Pratt’s Store to Town Line Rd. 7:06 Town Line Rd. 7:10 Fiddlers Lane 7:17 Intersection Rt. 125/West Market Road 7:19 Rt. 125 7:22 Basin Harbor Road 7:30 Lovers Lane 7:40 At Bridport School Monday-Wed.-Friday 7:45 Depart for MUMS P.M. - Elementary 2:50 Basin Harbor Road 2:54 Rt. 125 3:00 Rt. 125/West Market Rd. 3:04 Rt. 22a to Rattlin Bridge Rd. 3:08 Fiddlers Ln. 3:15 Town Line Rd. 3:21 East St. 3:23 High St. 3:27 Market Rd. 3:33 Snake Mountain Rd. 3:35 Mountain Rd. 3:40 Back at Bridport School P.M. - High School 3:45 Rt. 22a-Pratt’s Store 3:49 Lovers Lane 3:54 Basin Harbor Rd. 4:05 Rt. 125 4:08 Fiddlers Lane 4:12 Rt. 22a Nerf’s Bus A.M.

6:40 Market Road 6:44 Market & Payne Dr. 6:45-6:55 Snake Mountain Rd. 6:58 Forest Rd. 7:05 East St. 7:10 High St 7:16 Rt. 22a 7:25 Hemenway & Orchard Dr. 7:40 At Bridport School Depart for MUMS - Tuesday & Thursday P.M. - Elementary 2:50 Rt.22a North 2:55 Lovers Lane 2:57 Rt. 22a South 3:10 Basin Harbor Rd. 3:12 Crown Point Rd. 3:15 Lake St. 3:25 Middle Rd. 3:35 Back at Bridport School P.M. - High School 3:40 Market Road 3:44 Market & Payne Dr. 3:45-3:55 Snake Mountain Rd. 3:58 Forest Rd. 4:05 East St. 4:10 High St 4:16 Rt. 22a 4:25 Hemenway & Orchard Dr.

SHOREHAM

Patsy Munson’s Bus A.M. 7:02 Rt.22a North 7:04-7:20 Rt. 74 East 7:26-7:35 Main St. 7:40 At Shoreham School P.M. 2:45 At Shoreham School 2:50 Cemetery Hill Rd. 2:52-3:05 Rt. 74 East 3:15 At MUHS 3:35 Quiet Valley Rd.-Meet other 2 buses 3:44-3:50 Rt. 74 west 3:50 D/O Tottingham Rd. 3:55 Main St. 4:00 Smith St. 4:05 Rt. 74-By the ferry Kathy Gill’s Bus A.M. 6:40 Rt. 74 West-Champlain Orchards 6:45 Rt. 73 South - Turnaround Sampson Rd. 6:55 Smith St. 6:57 Watch Point Rd. 6:57 White Face Ranch - Turnaround 7:00 Lake St 7:05 Torrey Lane 7:10 Bay View Ln.-Lapham Bay Rd. 7:15 Half Way Rest.

7:23 North Cream Hill Rd. 7:30 Basin Harbor Rd. 7:35 Watch Point Rd. 7:40 At Shoreham School P.M. 2:45 At Shoreham School 2:50 Watch Point Rd./Basin Harbor Rd. 2:55 Rt. 74 West-Champlain Orchards 3:00 Rt. 7 3 South - Turn around Sampson Rd. (See Shoreham buses, Page 21)

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 21

Shoreham buses (Continued from Page 20) 3:10 Smith St. 3:12 Basin Harbor Rd. 3:14 North Cream Hill Rd. 3:17 Lapham Bay Rd. 3:21 Torrey Lane 3:23 Lapham Bay Rd. 3:25 Right on Rt. 22a South Rt. 74 East to Quiet Valley Rd. 3:40 P/U MUMS & MUHS Students 3:47 Doolittle Rd. to Lapham Bay Rd. 3:49 North Cream Hill Rd. 3:51 Lapham Bay Rd. 3:56 Lake St./Torrey Lane-Bay View Lane 4:00 Lake St. to White Face Farm 4:10 Lake St to Smith St./Basin Harbor Rd. 4:15 Watch Point Rd. Mike Downey’s Bus A.M. 6:40 Rt. 22a 6:50 Barnum Hill Rd. 6:55 Brown Rd. 7:00 North Orwell Rd. 7:05 Shoreham Depot Rd. 7:10 Webster Rd. 7:15 Cutting Hill Rd. 7:19 Shoreham Whiting Rd. 7:22 Buttolph Rd. 7:30 Richville Dam Rd. 7:35 Rt. 22a 7:40 At Shoreham School P.M. 2:45 At Shoreham School 2:50 School St. to Barnum Hill Rd. 2:53 Rt. 22a-Woods farm-Turnaround 2:55 Rt. 22a North 2:57 Brown Rd. 3:00 North Orwell Rd. 3:06 Richville Dam Rd. 3:08 Buttloph Rd. 3:11 Richville Dam Rd. 3:15 Shoreham Depot Rd. 3:20 Richville Dam Rd. 3:25 Cutting Hill Rd. 3:28 Webster Rd. 3:40 Barnes Rd.-Rt.74 West-Quiet Valley Rd. Get MUMS & MUHS Students 3:45 South Bingham Rd 3:50 Cutting Hill Rd. 3:55 Richville Dam Rd. to Webster Rd. 4:00 Shoreham Depot Rd.

4:05 4:09 4:12 4:15 4:20

Richville Dam Rd. Buttolph Rd. Richville Dam Rd. Rt22a South Brown Rd.

WEYBRIDGE:

Tara’s Bus A.M. 7:10 Snake Mountain Rd. 7:14 Prunier Rd. 7:16 Weybridge Rd 7:18 Thompson Hill Rd. 7:20 Snake Mountain Rd. 7:24-7:40 Quaker Village Rd. 7:45 At Weybridge School P.M. 2:50 At Weybridge School 2:50 Right on Quaker Village Rd, Left on Rte. 17 3:10 Left on Rte. 23, Left on Prunier Mountain Rd 3:22 Right on Rte. 23 3:27 Center of town 3:35 Left on Sheep Farm, Right info/out of Terrace Heights, Left on Hamilton Rd 3:42 Turn around at Cave Rd., Left on to Hamilton Rd 3:49 Left on Morgan Horse Farm Rd, Turn around at bridge 3:57 Right on Pulp Mill Bridge Rd 4:00 Left on Perkins Rd, Right on James Rd Michael’s Bus A.M. 7:00 Morgan Horse Farm Rd. 7:06 Stop-Pulp Mill Bridge Rd./ Otter Creek Rd. 7:10 Weybridge Rd. 7:12 Sheep Farm Rd. 7:13 Terrace Heights Rd. 7:14 Sheep Farm Rd. 7:15 Hamilton Rd 7:20 Cave Rd. 7:25 Weybridge Rd. 7:30 Perkins Rd. 7:36 Weybridge Rd. 7:45 At Weybridge School P.M. 3:15 At MUMS-To MUHS-To Weybridge 3:25 Weybridge St. 3:27 Morgan Horse Farm Rd.-Turnaround 3:32 Harrison Rd. to Sheep Farm Rd.-Turnaround

3:35 Harrison Rd. to Cave Rd.-Turnaround 3:40 Harrison to Weybridge St. 3:45 Prunier Rd to Snake Mountain Rd. To Thompson Hill Rd. 3:48 Turnaround at Waterman’s Farm-Snake Mountain to Weybridge Rd. 3:55 Quaker Village Rd.

MIDDLEBURY:

Blue Bus A.M. 7:10 Start Rt. 116 N & Cady Rd. 7:10-7:26 Rt. 116 N-P/U East side 7:26 Turnaround-Top of hill on right past North 40 lane 7:26 Rt. 116 S-P/U West side 7:27 Right on Mead Lane-Onto Butternut Ridge 7:35 Right on Rt. 116 7:40 Right on Quarry Rd. 7:55 Mary Hogan

7:58 MUHS 8:05 MUMS P.M. 3:00 Mary Hogan 3:10 MUHS 3:15 MUMS 3:25 Rt. 116 N & Cady Road 3:25-3:40 D/O East side Rt. 116 3:40 Turnaround-Top of hill on right past North 40 lane 3:42 Rt. 116 S-D/O West side 3:42 Right on Mead Lane-onto Butternut Ridge 3:47 Right on Rt. 116 3:48 Right on Quarry Rd. Orange Bus A.M. From Rt. 7 N & Elm St. 7:05-7:10 P/U East side to River Rd. Right on River Rd. to Right on Halpin Rd. 7:12 Halpin Rd. 7:14 Left on Painter Rd.

7:18 Left on Munger St. (turnaround) 7:20 Right on Painter 7:24 Left on Painter Hills to Grey Ledge Rd. 7:30 Left on Painter Rd.-Turnaround- Road 18 7:31 Left on Washington St. Ext. to intersection of Peterson Terrace/ Gambrel Court 7:32 Colonial Drive & Washington St. Ext. 7:33 Happy Valley Rd 7:36 Left on Rt. 7, P/U West side 7:40 Woodbridge/Pine Meadows Apartments 7:44 Otterside/Seymour St. Ext. 7:47 Corner Lucas Shaw & Seymour St. Ext 7:55 Mary Hogan 7:58 MUHS 8:05 MUMS P.M. 3:00 Mary Hogan (See Middlebury buses, Page 25)

Thursday, Aug. 23rd, 5-7:30pm

PAGE 22 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Classic on stage

TOWN HALL THEATER’S Young Company will perform Tennessee Williams’ classic play “The Glass Managerie” on stage Aug. 21 and 22. The cast, seen here rehearsing last week, includes, clockwise from top left, Amanda Kearns, Theo Wells-Spackman and Jack DesBois; Abigail Stafford; Sophie Pope McCright; Kearns; Pope McCright and DesBois; Tim Hansen and Stafford; DesBois, Wells-Spackman, Kendra Gratton, Kearns, Pope McCright and Devyn Pratt. Tickets are available at the THT box office at 388-9222.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 23

Van Wyck (Continued from Page 1) in the race for one of the Addison-3 district’s two House seats.

Citing a desire to spend more time with family and a return to full-time status at his job as a computer analyst programmer with the University of Vermont, Van Wyck had announced in May he wouldn’t run for reelection to the House seat he had held since 2012. It was in February of that year that then-Gov. Peter Shumlin appointed Van Wyck to fill an Addison-3 vacancy created by the tragic death of Rep. Greg Clark, R-Vergennes. Van Wyck was elected in his own right during the 2014 and 2016 elections. His district-mate throughout his tenure has been Rep. Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes.

Van Wyck assisted county Republicans in their effort to recruit at least one candidate to challenge two Democrats — Lanpher and Matt Birong of Vergennes — who had declared plans to run in Addison-3, a district that includes Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes and Waltham.

But GOP recruiting efforts in Addison-3 failed as the filing deadline for major party candidates arrived on May 31.

“We talked to a dozen or 20 candidates,” Van Wyck noted. “The goal of me going into retirement was to clear the field to see who might be interested (in running).”

But all of the local GOP prospects took a pass for various reasons, mostly because the timing wasn’t right due to personal and/or professional circumstances.

It looked as though Lanpher — one of the county’s most tenured lawmakers — and Birong would get a clear shot at both seats in what has traditionally been a GOP stronghold.

State GOP leaders have been focused on at least retaining seats in a Vermont House in which they are vastly outnumbered by Democrats.

House Republicans were able to sustain two consecutive budget vetoes by Republican Gov. Phil Scott during the past biennium, and the

P ASTA Some of our long time favorites are...

• Chicken/Broccoli Alfredo • Meat Lasagna • Chicken Parmesan

Create Your Own Pasta with any of our topping choices!

7 Sauces to Choose From!

Lingiuni, Vermicelli, & Penne Served with Bread & Butter or Garlic Bread

Pizza • Pasta • Subs • Soups • Salads • Calzones

DINE-IN & TAKE-OUT 802-388-3164 Fresh, convenient and local since 1982 WASHINGTON ST • MIDDLEBURY GreenPeppersRestaurant.com

Disc drive

VERMONT YOUTH ULTIMATE Frisbee team Equinox finished sixth out of 16 teams in the mixed division of the U.S. Youth Club Championships, held over the weekend of Aug. 5 and 6 in Blaine, Minn. The team featured Middlebury Union High School graduate Cade Christner, third from right, back row, and MUHS teacher Michelle Steele, far left, back row, as one of the team’s three coaches.

Photo courtesy of Michelle Steele

party wants to prevent Democrats from securing a veto-proof majority in the aftermath of the November elections.

So holding onto Van Wyck’s Addison-3 post became a top priority for the GOP. Party officials and Van Wyck continued efforts this summer to recruit a candidate, who at this point would have to gather at least 26 write-in votes in the Aug. 14 primary in order to get on the general election ballot to face Birong and Lanpher.

Republican leaders ultimately

wooed Van Wyck to reconsider his retirement. He discussed the matter with his spouse, and together they agreed that seeking another two years in the House would be OK. He reasoned that several past Addison-3 representatives had put in more time than his six years. He said he was also able to recharge his batteries during a recent two-week family vacation to California.

Van Wyck on Aug. 13 reached out for write-in votes, and the Vermont Secretary of State’s website confirmed that he’d

15TH ANNUAL

SUNDAY

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

TRAIL RACE

9-16

2018

Event hosted by the Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT).

All proceeds help to maintain & improve the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM).

Middlebury Area

Land Trust

COURSE 19-mile & 10k timed runs, 2-mile family fun run/walk. All courses are loops on pristine trails through woods, farmland, meadow and river valleys, circumnavigating the town.

LOCATION Start & end at Wright Park in Middlebury, VT. Post-race celebration with refreshments, prizes & music. All welcome, any ability.

Registration open now at http://www.maltvt.org

accumulated a total of 105 write-ins in the Addison-3 GOP Primary in an unofficial report, with Bill Kipp garnering two write-in votes and 17 others garnering one each. While that’s more than enough to place his name on the Nov. 6 ballot, Van Wyck stressed as the Addison Independent went to press that the secretary of state’s office had yet to sign off on his election paperwork.

Van Wyck is now getting ready for a new campaign, instead of counting the days to the expiration of his current term. He pledged to serve

out an upcoming two-year term, if re-elected.

“We’re gearing up,” Van Wyck said, noting he had fortunately kept his old campaign signs.

Birong, the owner-operator of 3 Squares Café in Vergennes, wasn’t surprised to hear he’ll be facing competition this November after all.

“I expected it,” Birong said on Thursday. “I never thought there wouldn’t be someone on the Republican side of the ballot.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

PAGE 24 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

PETS IN NEED HOMEWARD BOUND

Addison County’s Humane Society Maya. 5 years, Lab mix, spayed female. Maya is a sweet, playful retriever mix who came to Homeward Bound because her guardian became too ill to care for her. She loves walks, playing with toys, and racing around the enclosed yards here at the shelter. Maya listens well, enjoys hugs and having her back scratched, and rolling around in the grass! We are unsure what her history is with cats and other dogs, but her interactions with both here at the shelter have been nothing but positive.

Maya is crate trained, too!

Zeeke. 11 years, Terrier mix, neutered male.

Imagine your guardian passing away, being taken to a shelter in Georgia with hundreds of other dogs, and being put on a bus and trucked up to Vermont to land in yet another shelter.

You’d probably be pretty bummed and confused, right? Well not Zeeke! This happy ol’ fellow has taken everything in stride and hasn’t let his bad luck bring him down. Zeeke is affectionate and loves nothing more than to snuggle on your lap and keep you company. He hasn’t met anyone here he doesn’t like- two-legged or four! If you are looking for a sweet, easy going gentleman, than Zeeke might just be your guy! If you are 55+ you can adopt Zeeke with a donation in lieu of his adoption fee through our Senior to Senior program.

Moby. 1 year, Black lab mix, neutered male.

Moby loves playing with toys, going for walks, chewing on bones, and snuggling with his family. He does have a bit of separation anxiety in that he tends to bark when left alone. Due to this, he would do best with a guardian who can take him to work with them, or with a family where someone is home most of the time.

Moby does great with other dogs in a play group setting and gets along GREAT with the cat in his current home, though he would prefer a home without young children. Once Moby settles in

he’ll be your permanent snuggle buddy!

Moby is currently is staying with his guardian while we help him find a new home. For more information or if you are interested in meeting Moby, please email Alexis at lexy.doria@gmail. com or call or text 802.349.5453.

Misty. 14 years, longhair Calico, spayed female.

Misty is the Grande Dame of the shelter. She is a gorgeous, long-haired calico who is used to the sweeter things in life. She is a strictly an indoor cat; why would a lovely lady like her want to get her paws muddy or wet? Misty is looking to be an only cat in a quiet home, where she will properly appreciated for her great beauty and great wisdom. And goodness sake, put down your cell phone when speaking to this lovely lady!

Scout. 1.5 years, shorthair brown tiger, neutered male. Scout has it all- he is adorable, gentle, and oh so handsome! He came to Homeward Bound from a NJ shelter (no accent though).

He loves to play, be petted and he even comes when called. How many cats have you had who have done that?! If you are looking for overall great cat, Scout is your little man.

Ethel & Lucy. 1 year, Parakeets, females. Ethel and Lucy are two bonded parakeets looking for a new home to fill with their sweet sound! This pair is not hand-tamed, however could be if their new guardians chose to train them. Chirp, chip!

Call or check our website. We may have a pet for you ...

388-1100 • www.homewardboundanimals.org 236 Boardman Street, Middlebury

Pet Pages Clinic offers free gelding service WEST TOWNSHEND — Gerda’s Equine Rescue will host a free gelding clinic for owners who might not otherwise be able to afford the procedure.

The clinic will be held at the rescue on Sept 8. Vt./N.Y. Veterinary Clinic (based in Dummerston, Vt.) and Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts

University students and veterinarians have all graciously volunteered their time and expertise to perform the gelding and microchipping. Patterson Veterinary has agreed to donate all of the medication needed for the geldings, which added to the collaboration making this service available to horses and their owners in our community in need.

Dog Obedience & Agility

Pet Cremation Services

We know how it feels to lose a pet.

For compassionate assistance with the cremation of your beloved companion, call Homeward Bound, Addison County’s Humane Society.

We offer a convenient, affordable way to ensure your pet is cared for in death as you did in life.

Call 802-388-1100 for more information or visit our website at www.homewardboundanimals.org

If you’d like to include your pet as “Pet of the Week” simply include your pet’s name, gender, approximate age (if you know it), along with comments about the pet’s favorite activities, your favorite activity with the pet, what the pet enjoys eating, and any particular

Pre-registration is required. GER also has a shipping scholarship fund available for horse owners who need additional assistance getting their stallions to the free gelding clinic.

There are still two spots available.

Funding for the clinic is provided in part by the Unwanted Horse Coalition’s Operation Gelding program. The program was developed based on a philosophy that the castration of a stallion will help prevent accidental or over breeding, thereby reducing the number of unwanted horses being born.

Castration also produces calmer horses that are more rideable, trainable, and saleable, possibly enabling them to have multiple careers.

To register call 802-847-7213 or e-mail gerdasequinerescue@gmail. com.

Hand-in-Paw stories or incidents you might like to share concerning your pet.

Send the photo and story to the Addison Independent, Pet Page, 58 Maple St., Middlebury, Vt., 05753, or email a high-resolution jpeg to news@addisonindependent.com.

Training & Boarding Kennel Route 74, Cornwall • 462-2992

You love your pets…

We do too

At Paris, we have everything you need for your pets and animals!

• Dry or Wet Dog & Cat food • Dog & Cat beds, toys, cleaning supplies & accessories • Fish, bird, rodent & reptile supplies — including live crickets • Wild bird & Squirrel supplies • Backyard animal feed & supplies • And friendly, knowledgeable service to help guide you!

1438 Route 7 South • Middlebury, VT • 802-388-3139

Cottages, Independent, Assisted & Memory Care

Good Times. Good Friends. Great Care!

350 Lodge Rd., Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-1220 • residenceottercreek.com

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 25

Middlebury buses (Continued from Page 21) 3:10 MUHS 3:20 MUMS 3:25 Woodbridge/Pine Meadow Apartments 3:30 Corner of Otterside & Seymour St. Ext. 3:31 Corner of Lucas Shaw & Seymour St. Ext. 3:32 Corner of Colonial Drive & Washington St. Ext. 3:34 Peterson Terrace/Gambrel Court (Sugarwood) 3:36 Road 18 3:38 Onto Painter Rd.-Left on Munger St. (Turnaround) 3:45 Right on Painter Rd. 3:47 Left On Painter Hills /Grey Ledge Rd. 3:56 Happy Valley Rd. Green Bus A.M. 7:05 Start South St. Ext. & Morse Rd.-head north on South St Ext. 7:10 Onto South St. 7:17 Weybridge St. 7:19 Weybridge & Jayne Court 7:20 Weybridge & Gorham Lane Left on Main St-onto Rt. 7 N-right on Seminary St.-onto Seminary St. Ext. 7:30 Seminary Ext. & Valley View Drive-Briarwood 7:34 Foote St. 7:38 Lower Foote St. Right on Rt. 7 N 7:45 Stonegate Dr. 7:49 Left on Creek Rd. 7:50 Village Green Circle 7:55 Mary Hogan School

7:58 MUHS 8:05 MUMS P.M. 3:00 At Mary Hogan 3:10 MUHS 3:15 Right on Creek Rd/Village Green Circle 3:20 MUMS 3:25 Stonegate Dr. 3:35 Lower Foote St. 3:37 Foote St. 3:40 Seminary St. Ext. 3:42 Valley View-Briarwood 3:50 Weybridge & Gorham Ln. 4:00 South St. onto South St. Ext. Turnaround at Morse Rd. 4:10 Corner of South & Chipman Park Purple Bus A.M. 7:00 Stonehill Apartments (428 Court St.) 7:05 Rt. 7 s-P/U West Side 7:10 Left on Rt. 125-Lower Plains Rd. 7:13 Right on Lower Plains-Turnaround 7:22 Left on Rt. 125-Fire Station 7:26 Right on rt. 116 N (Case Rd.) -P/U East Side-Airport Rd. 7:35 Turnaround at Carrara’s-P/U West Side Right on Rt. 125-P/U at Post Office-Right on Rt. 7 N 7:41 P/U East Side 7:55 Mary Hogan 7:58 MUHS 8:05 MUMS P.M.

3:00 Mary Hogan 3:10 MUHS 3:15 MUMS 3:17 Stonehill Apartments 3:18 Rt. 7 S-D/O West Side 3:21 Left Rt. 125-Lower Plains 3:25 Right on Lower Plains-Turnaround 3:35 Left on Rt. 125-Fire Station 3:40 Right on Rt. 116 N (Case Rd.) 3:42 D/O East Side-Airport Rd./ Turnaround at Carrara’s 3:50 D/O West Side Right on Rt. 125-Right on Rt. 7 N Yellow Bus A.M. 7:10 Munson Rd. 7:15 Burnham Rd. 7:16 Birch & Oak Dr. 7:17 Left on School House Rd. 7:18 Forest Ridge Dr. & Fred Johnson Cr.-Turnaround 7:23 Corner Rt. 125 & School House 7:24 Right on Rt. 125-Maple Ct. 7:25 Left on Ossie Rd. 7:30 Left on Rt. 7 S-Right on Three Mile Bridge Rd. 7:43 Left on Blake Roy Rd-Turnaround 7:44 Shard Villa Rd. 7:45 Creek Rd. 7:46 Halladay Rd. 7:55 Mary Hogan 7:58 MUHS 8:05 MUMS P.M. 3:00 Mary Hogan 3:10 MUHS 3:15 MUMS 3:18 Right on Halladay Rd. 3:20 Left on Middle Rd S to Rt. 7 to Rt. 116

3:29 Right on Munson Rd.-to Burnham Dr., Oak Dr., Birch Dr. 3:39 Left on Schoolhouse Hill Rd. Forest Ridge Dr. & Fred Johnson Cr.-Turnaround 3:54 Corner of Rt. 125 & Schoolhouse Rd. 3:55 Right on Rt. 125 to Maple Ct. 3:59 Left on Ossie Rd. 4:04 Right on Three Mile Bridge Rd. 4:06 Left on Blake Roy Rd. 4:08 Left on Three Mile Bridge Rd.-Turnaround 4:10 Left on Halladay Rd. RIPTON: A.M. 7:00 Bridge west of Dugway on North Branch Rd. 7:00-7:08 North Branch to Lincoln Rd. Turnaround at border 7:10 South on Lincoln Rd. 7:15 Left on Robbins Crossroad 7:20 Left on Natural turnpike 7:25 Intersection-Four Corners 7:28 Right on Peddler’s Bridge Rd. 7:30 Maiden Lane out to Rt. 125 West to Rt. 125-Right on Natural Turnpike 7:35 Right on Natural Turnpike Left on Robbin’s Crossroad 7:45 At School Students residing in the center of Ripton or on Lincoln Rd. between Rt. 125 and the school will be picked up and dropped off by the Hancock/Granville Bus 7:50 Ripton Bus will depart with the MUMS Students Hancock/Granville Bus will depart

with the MUMS Students P.M. 3:00 Depart school elementary students Robbin’s Crossroad-Natural Turnpike Left on Rt. 125left on Maiden Lane on to Peddler’s Bridge Rd. Left on Natural Turnpike Robbin’s Crossroad-Right on Lincoln Rd Turnaround at border-Down North Branch Rd 3:40 Back at Ripton School Meet Hancock/Granville bus MUMS/MUHS students take home HANCOCK/GRANVILLE A.M. 7:00 At JD Sunoco-Rt. 100 Turnaround-up Rt. 100 7:06 D’S Doghouse 7:10 Granville Store 7:10 Bowl Company-Turnaround 7:15 Hancock Inn Right on Rt. 125 7:19 Fassett Hill Rd. 7:40 Rt. 125 West of Natural Turnpike 7:45 At School 7:50 Depart to MUHS P.M. 3:10 At MUHS 3:15 At MUMS 3:40 At Ripton School 3:45 Rt. 125-West of Natural Turnpike 4:00 Fassett Hill Rd. Right on Rt. 100 4:05 JD Sunoco-Turnaround 4:10 Hancock Inn 4:15 D’S Doghouse 4:20 Granville Store 4:20 Bowl Company

PAGE 26 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Antlerless deer permits for muzzleloader season ends Aug. 29 MONTPELIER — The deadline to apply for an antlerless deer permit to be used during Vermont’s Dec. 1-9 muzzleloader deer season is Thursday, Aug. 29.

Antlerless deer hunting permit applications are on Vermont Fish & Wildlife’s website, vtfishandwildlife.com, and printed applications

are available from license agents statewide.

Hunters applying online for an antlerless permit will do so through the online license sales system as if they were purchasing a license or a tag using their conservation ID number, or CID#. Landowners who do not have a Conservation

ID number will need to create a profile through the online license sales system to apply for a landowner application even if they do not intend to purchase a hunting license.

The Dec. 1-9 muzzleloader season has 27,000 antlerless permits distributed in 18 of

Vermont’s 21 WMUs, which is estimated to result in 3,914 antlerless deer being taken.

Landowners who post their land may not apply for a muzzleloader landowner antlerless deer permit.

“Consecutive mild winters in 2016 and 2017 and a moderate winter in 2018 have allowed for

deer population growth throughout the state,” said Nick Fortin, deer project leader for Fish & Wildlife.

“The number of muzzleloader season antlerless deer permits was increased slightly this year to reduce deer populations in some parts of Vermont and to provide additional harvest opportunities.”

Black bear season to start early MONTPELIER — With the intent to slow the growth in Vermont’s bear population and to provide Fish & Wildlife Department biologists with data to better manage black bears in Vermont, Vermont Fish and Wildlife has announced that Vermont’s bear hunting season will begin with an early season, Sept. 1 through Nov. 18. and a late season from Nov. 10-18. Hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. A hunter may harvest only one bear per calendar year.

There is a separate “early season bear tag” required for those hunters who want to hunt bear prior to the beginning of the November deer rifle season. It costs $5 for residents and $15 for nonresidents. Hunters will continue to get a “late season” bear tag along with their deer tag on their general hunting license at no additional cost, valid during the first nine days of the November deer rifle season.

The additional tag will enable the department to gather essential information about hunter effort and success, as well as an idea of overall bear hunter numbers. The early season tag gives department biologists a better understanding of how many hunters are actively pursuing bears before the November rifle season.

Hunters who hunt with a permanent license (licenses for hunters 66 and older) do not need to buy an early season bear tag no matter when their license was bought, and they will not be charged for an early season bear tag. Their tag is valid for both early and late bear seasons every year in perpetuity.

Knowing the age of the bears that are harvested by hunters is a very important part of Vermont’s scientific bear management program. A pre-molar tooth is now required by regulation to be submitted by the hunter from every bear harvested in Vermont. Removing the bear’s pre-molar tooth is easy and does not affect the mounting quality of the bear. Ask the reporting station operator for a tooth envelope for you to insert the tooth in before placing in the tooth bucket found at the reporting station. Every tooth we receive from hunters helps the bear project.

We will publish the age information on our website in the spring.

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 27

SPORTS

PAGE 28 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Athlete’s volunteerng fueled by his backstory This article is courtesy of the Middlebury College Sports Information Department.

MIDDLEBURY — Rising junior Jacob Ellen is a key contributor at the top of the lineup on the Middlebury College men’s squash team. A neuroscience major from New York City, Ellen has joined forces with a Middlebury classmate to advocate for a deeply personal cause.

Ellen recently sat down with the Middlebury Sports Information Department for a question-and-answer session about his background and some of this activities off the squash court.

Q: Tell me about the One Life Club for brain cancer research, for which you are co-president with Panther men’s soccer player Fazl Shaikh.

Fazl created the One Life organization in high school after one of his best friends, Jack Reyna, passed away from a brain tumor while in high school. I also had a brain tumor in high school and Fazl is one of my (See Squash, Page 29)

MONDAY

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MEN’S squash player Jacob Ellen, shown here in a match last winter at MIT, saw his athletic career threatened by a brain tumor he suffered in high school.

Photo by Tim Carey, courtesy of Middlebury Sports Information

Camaraderie breeds horseshoe excellence Bristol Sodbusters club members have fun while winning big

80-YEAR-OLD ROGER FORGUES, keeping score during practices at the Bristol courts last week, helped found the Sodbusters back more than 50 years ago.

Independent photo/James Finn

By JAMES FINN BRISTOL — Horseshoe pitching, evocative of backyard family gatherings on warm evenings and hot afternoons spent at fairgrounds, is a favorite summer activity for many. For your average sports fan, though, it probably isn’t regarded as a traditionally competitive athletic spectacle.

Pay a visit to a Bristol Sodbusters Horseshoe Club practice and you might find yourself questioning that line of thinking.

The Sodbusters are a world-class competitive horseshoe pitching club sanctioned by the National Horseshoe Pitching Association (NHPA). Club members meet every Tuesday evening at their pristine Bristol facility, located off Airport Road across from Mount Abraham Union High School’s athletic fields, in preparation for showdowns with other clubs from around the Northeast. On a recent Tuesday evening, the facility’s 16 horseshoe pitching courts and per-

fectly clipped grass teemed with the women’s world championship activity as more than 30 pitchers in 2015, and Brian Simmons has honed their craft. earned three world titles, eight It wasn’t always that way, second-place finishes and several though. more third-place finishes.

“We probably had eight, 10 This year’s world competition people when we got was held in Florence, started, just a backyard S.C., from July 9-21, thing,” remembered “The year I and the Sodbusters Sodbusters co-founder won worlds I were well-represented: Roger Forgues, 80, 14 of the club’s pitchers while observing the was over here competed. Tyler Howpractice. “It’s abso- every day ard, who has won two lutely had its ups and pitching about world championships downs, but then you 100 shoes competing in the junior see this.” (under 18) division, the summer Forgues founded the placed third among all before.”

Sodbusters in 1966. participants in the adult — Deb Brown men’s division.

The club has since grown to make its mark “It was my first time on national, and even pitching the world international, stages of competitive men’s division,” Howard, 20, said. horseshoe pitching. The Sodbusters “I actually beat the number-one now consist of 37 people, and they guy twice ... First time it didn’t hit regularly dominate Vermont state me, but after the second time I got competitions and shine at the an- emotional. It was really special.” nual NHPA world championships.

According to the Sodbusters Pitcher Deb Brown took home (See Sodbusters, Page 29)

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 29

Squash (Continued from Page 28) best friends at Middlebury. We decided to continue his club and start raising money for brain cancer research at Middlebury.

One Life has raised over $40,000 for the Making Headway Foundation, which is an organization that provides support for patients’ families as well as providing money for brain cancer research. We raised over $2,000 this past spring, including events like a wristband sale.

The reason I decided to get involved with One Life was that I had a brain tumor during my freshman year of high school. The surgery took a lot out of me and I had to take a year or so away from squash. I started to regain a lot of my strength and started to play well again during my junior year. Fazl and I have taken on leadership roles in One Life that have taught us the ins and outs of effective fundraising.

Q: What are you doing this summer?

This summer I am working for a nonprofit called OurBrainBank, which is an app for glioblastoma (a type of brain tumor) patients to be able to report symptoms daily to track their condition and inform doctors about their progression. I am helping out analyzing all of the patient data coming out of the application.

Q: What brought you to Middlebury?

I chose to continue my education at Middlebury because some of my favorite weekends were when I visited my older sister Audrey, who is a 2017 graduate. She showed me around campus and I loved everyone I met at Middlebury, especially the squash team. Head coach Mark Lewis also solidified my decision to come here.

Q: What other activities are you active with here?

This past spring, I helped run the GrilleMe delivery service along with teammate Will Cembalest. GrilleMe is the campus delivery service at Middlebury that helps students to get food while studying or some fuel at other times. We learned a lot about the difficulties of running a business effectively and we made many mistakes along the way. Ultimately in the end, we grew from it and came out better in the end.

Q: What is your #MiddMoment?

My favorite moment happened this past year and was related to the One Life organization. We held a fun dance marathon that a large portion of the college attended. It felt amazing to see that so many Middlebury students cared about us and supported our cause.

THIS PAST TUESDAY evening, most of the Sodbuster’s Horseshoe Pitching Club’s 37 members practiced their craft on the 16 horseshoe pitching courts off Airport Road in Bristol. Horseshoes attracts participants young and old to a sport that offers a good dose of human fellowship along with regular activity and competition.

Sodbusters (Continued from Page 28) pitchers, there’s no surefire workout plan or training regimen to achieve pitching success: Some people pick up the sport in a matter of hours while others take years to hone their skills.

Horseshoe pitching excellence comes at no small price, though. To excel, a pitcher must approach pitching the same way that a basketball player

MCTV SCHEDULE Channels 15 & 16 MCTV Channel 15 Tuesday, Aug. 21 12 a.m. Vermont Media Exchange 4 a.m. Green Mountain Care - Public Comment 5:30 a.m. Green Mountain Care Rate Review Board Part 2 10 a.m. Selectboard 12:30 a.m. Green Mountain Care Board - Part 1 4 p.m. Congregational Church Service 5:30 p.m. Bulletin Board 7 p.m. Selectboard 10 p.m. Green Mountain Care Board Wednesday, Aug. 22 12 a.m. Green Mountain Care Board 7:30 a.m. Memorial Baptist Church Service 9 a.m. Sound Off - Aspire Together 10 a.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs 4 p.m. Borders & Walls 5:47 p.m. Bulletin Board 6 p.m. Public Affairs 8 p.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs Thursday, Aug. 23 5 a.m. Selectboard 8 a.m. Congregational Church Services 10 a.m. Eckankar 10:30 a.m. Lifelines 11 a.m. Here We Are 12 p.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs 6:15 p.m. Bulletin Board 6:30 p.m. Green Mountain Care Board 11 p.m. Energy Week Friday, Aug. 24 12 a.m. VMX - Through the Night 5 a.m. Here We Are 5:30 a.m. Green Mountain Care Board 10 a.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs 4 p.m. Memorial Baptist Church Service 5:30 p.m. Eckankar 6 p.m. Bulletin Board, VMX 7:15 p.m. Selectboard 9:30 p.m. Homecare Connection 10 p.m. Borders & Walls

Independent photo/James Finn

Saturday, Aug. 25 5 a.m. Green Mountain Care Board Rate Review MVP 10 a.m. Selectboard 12:12 p.m. GMC-Rate Board Review Pt 2 4 p.m. Memorial Baptist Church Service 5:30 p.m. Energy Week 6:30 p.m. Bulletin Board 7 p.m. Catholic Mass 7:30 p.m. Selectboard 9:42 p.m. Green Mountain Care Rate Board Review Part 2 Sunday, Aug. 26 6 a.m. Borders & Walls 8 a.m. Here We Are 9 a.m. Catholic Mass 11 a.m. Memorial Baptist Church Service 12:30 p.m. Selectboard 3 p.m. Energy Week 4 p.m. Congregational Church Services 5:30 p.m. Eckankar 7 p.m. Catholic Mass 7:30 p.m. Here We 8 p.m. Public Affairs Monday, Aug. 27 5 a.m. Bulletin Board 5:15 a.m. VMX 9 a.m. Vote for Vermont 10 a.m. Selectboard 12:15 p.m. Public Affairs 4 p.m. Vote for Vermont 5 p.m. Lifelines 5:30 p.m. Eckankar 6 p.m. Bulletin Board 6:30 p.m. Public Affairs MCTV Channel 16 Tuesday, Aug. 21 5:30 a.m. Vermont Media Exchange 8:30 a.m. Yoga 8:50 a.m. Tiny Houses 11 a.m. The World Fusion Show

practices free throws or a baseball player sharpens their hitting skills.

“The year I won worlds I was over here every day pitching about 100 shoes the summer before,” Brown said.

Though intense competition is a draw for some, for most of the Sodbusters the club simply presents a great chance to congregate with

friends and family on warm evenings to share small talk and enjoy what summer in Vermont has to offer. Simmons learned that after moving away a few years ago.

“I moved back here to Vermont for friends, family,” he said. “It’s one big horseshoe family. Once you leave your friends and family, you say, why’d I do that?”

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY TELEVISION: P.O. Box 785, Middlebury, Vt. 05753

Please see the MCTV website, www.middleburycommunitytv.org, for changes in the schedule; MCTV events, classes and news; and to view many programs online. Submit listings to the above address, or call 388-3062.

11:30 a.m. Osher Lecture Series 1:32 p.m. ACSD Board Meeting 4:10 p.m. Yoga 4:30 p.m. For the Animals 5 p.m. Bookstock 6 p.m. Poets Speak - Gary Margolis 7 p.m. Festival on-the-Green - Mokoomba Wednesday, Aug. 22 5 a.m. Osher Lecture Series 8 a.m. Yoga 8:30 a.m. Bookstock 9:30 a.m. Vermont State Board of Education 3:30 p.m. Vermont Media Exchange 4:15 p.m. Poets Speak - Gary Margolis 7 p.m. Yoga 7:30 p.m. Osher Lecture Series 9:32 p.m. Black Bears - Middlebury 11 p.m. Festival on-the-Green – Barbra Lica Thursday, Aug. 23 5 a.m. Bookstock 6:30 a.m. The World Fusion Show 7 a.m. Yoga 7:30 a.m. Black Bears - Middlebury 9 a.m. Osher Lecture Series 12 p.m. Vermont Media Exchange 3 p.m. ACSD Board Meeting 5:59 p.m. MUMS - Wild Scide 7:15 p.m. Poets Speak - Gary Margolis 8 p.m. Osher Lecture Series - Steve Levitsky 10:02 p.m. Festival on-the-Green – James Hill & Anne Janelle Friday, Aug. 24 1 a.m. VT State Board of Education 7 a.m. Poets Speak - Gary Margolis 7:45 a.m. Bookstock 8:30 a.m. Osher Lecture Series 10:32 a.m. Yoga 11 a.m. VT State Board of Education 5 p.m. For the Animals 5:30 p.m. MUMS - Wild Scide 7 p.m. Festival on-the-Green - Ballrooom Thieves 8 p.m. ACSD Board Meeting

10:43 p.m. Bookstock, VMX Saturday, Aug. 25 5 a.m. The World Fusion Show 5:30 a.m. Black Bears - Middlebury 7 a.m. For the Animals 7:30 a.m. Poets Speak - Gary Margolis, Bookstock 9:01 a.m. Tiny Houses 10:07 a.m. Yoga 10:24 a.m. ACSD Board Meeting 1 p.m. All Things LGBTQ 2 p.m. ACSD Board Meeting 5:30 p.m. Bookstock 7 p.m. Festival on-the-Green - Genticorum 8:24 p.m. John Goff on Tiny Houses 9:30 p.m. All Things LGBTQ Sunday, Aug. 26 5 a.m. Festival on-the-Green – Genticorum 6:30 a.m. Black Bears - Middlebury 8 a.m. Yoga 9 a.m. For the Animals 9:30 a.m. Festival on-the-Green - Mammals 12 p.m. All Things LGBTQ 1 p.m. Osher Lecture Series 4:02 p.m. Bookstock 5:30 p.m. All Things LGBTQ 6:30 p.m. Poets Speak- Gary Margolis, Bookstock 8 p.m. ACSD Board Meeting 9:30 p.m. Black Bears - Middlebury Monday, Aug. 27 5 p.m. Havana Fairfax Connection 6 a.m. Yoga 6:30 a.m. Black Bears - Middlebury 8 a.m. Vermont Media Exchange 10 a.m. ACSD Board Meeting 3 p.m. Osher Lecture Series 5:02 p.m. Yoga 5:30 p.m. Poets Speak - Gary Margolis 6:30 p.m. Festival on-the-Green - Barbra Lica 8 p.m. All Things LGBTQ 9 p.m. Bookstock 10 p.m. Black Bears - Middlebury

PAGE 30 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Film festival (Continued from Page 1) short documentary,” and “Audience Komesar said. “Every single time- Awards” in the “feature” and “short slot over the four days of screenings subject” categories. MNFF also is packed with outstanding films that offers multiple cash prizes and intake us all over kind awards to the world and feature and short inside the mind. film directors, We are confident such as the that whatever Hernandez/ someone’s tastes Bayliss Prize or interests, ($1,000), to ‘MNFF4’ will the feature film bring them director whose satisfaction.” work best The 106 chosen captures the films — culled triumph of the from almost 500 human spirit. submissions MNFF also from around the offers an annual world — will winter series of be screened at films at Town four separate Hall Theater, venues: Town screens short Hall Theater, the films for students, Marquis Theater, and tours an and Middlebury annual curated College’s Dana “Every single time-slot program of Auditorium and over the four days of festival favorites Twilight Hall. screenings is packed to Vermont towns A complete with outstanding and cities. s c r e e n i n g “We had a schedule and films that take us all record number of more festival over the world and films submitted details — inside the mind. We this year, just including ticket are confident that shy of 500 — prices — can whatever someone’s and based on be found at the strength of tastes or interests, middfilmfest.org. this pool, we T h e ‘MNFF4’ will bring them will screen more Middlebury New satisfaction.” films than in Filmmakers — MNFF Producer previous years Festival is a juried Lloyd Komesar with a greater competition overall diversity, and winning as well,” said filmmakers will MNFF Artistic receive prestigious VTeddy Awards Director Jay Craven. “The goal in the categories of “best Feature at MNFF remains constant — to narrative,” “best short narrative,” present the outstanding work of “best feature documentary,” “best first and second time filmmakers

presents the

with distinctive points of view whose films serve to illuminate underrepresented or little known communities.”

The festival will also boast a series of special parties, ceremonies and panel discussions with movie industry stars and insiders. This year, the MNFF’s list of honorees will include production designers David and Sandy Wasco, who recently received the Academy Award for their work on Damien Chazelle’s popular 2017 musical, “La La Land.”

David Wasco grew up in Bennington, Vermont where his father taught art at Mount Anthony Union High School. He and Sandy worked with Craven on his first feature film, “Where the Rivers Flow North.” They went on to design many other distinguished films — among them Wes Anderson’s “Bottle Rocket, “Rushmore” and “The Royal Tenenbaums”; Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Kill Bill,” and “Inglorious Bastards,” and other recent pictures, including “Collateral” and “Molly’s Game” that will be shown at the festival.

Other honorees this year will include: • Two-time Academy Award nominee Steve James, whose documentary film credits include “Hoop Dreams,” “The Interrupters,” and “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.” The Festival will also offer a Vermont premier of the first two episodes of James’ recent project, “America To Me,” a muchanticipated series that will debut on the Starz cable network later this year.

James will receive the MNFF’s “Sustained Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking Award.”

TWO-TIME ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE Steve James, who made “Hoop Dreams” among many other films, will receive the MNFF’s “Sustained Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking Award” and screen his new project, “America To Me.”

• Two-time Academy Awardwinner Barbara Kopple, who returns to MNFF this year to

show her newest film, “A Murder in Mansfield.” It tells the story of (See Barbara Kopple, Page 31)

2018 Garden Game

CATEGORIES & FRONTRUNNERS • Beets (circumference)-No entries yet • Broccoli (diameter)-No entries yet • Cabbage (circumference)- No entries yet • Cantaloupe (circumference)-No entries yet • Carrot (length x circumference)-No entries yet • Cauliflower (diameter)- No entries yet • Cucumber (length x circumference)-Ruby Barnard-Mayers 24” x 9” • Eggplant (circumference x circumference ) Gary and Maggie Miller 7” circ. x 31” circ.

• Green Bean (length)- Gary, Maggie and Daisy Miller 31 3/4” length • Onion (circumference)-No entries yet • Potato (length x circumference)-No entries yet • Pepper (circumference x circumference) David Quenneville 11” circ x 20” circ.

• Pumpkin (circumference x circumference)-No entries yet • Radish (circumference)-Pam Thomas- 19” circumference • Rutabaga (circumference)-No entries yet • Summer Squash (length x circumference) Pam Thomas- 19”circ x 13” length • Sunflower (diameter)-No entries yet • Tomato (circumference)-No entries yet • Turnip (circumference)-No entries yet • Zuchini (length x circumference) -Laura Asermily 17” x 14.5”

NEW CATEGORIES • Melon (circumference)- No entries yet • Winter Squash (length x circumference) Pam Thomas 19” circ. x 13” long • Leafy Greens (length x width)-No entries yet

Gary Miller with graddaughters Maggie and Daisy

brought in one heck of a string bean! When asked his secret for being so active in our Garden Game, he said “Just nuturing your gardens” and the secret ingredient is the help he gets from his granddaughters.

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

VERMONT’S TWICE-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Middlebury, VT 05753 • (802) 388-4944 • www.AddisonIndependent.com

Holy Cucumbers! Looks like “neglect” may be the secret ingredient if Ruby Barnard-Mayers’ cucumber results are anything to go by! “I sort of planted it and forgot about it.” She says of the crazy veggie. She’s also not sure how good it will taste!

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 31

Bread & Puppet bringing its circus to Rochester

THE HUSBAND-AND-WIFE film production design team of David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, who won a 2017 Academy Award for “La La Land,” will speak at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival later this week.

Barbara Kopple (Continued from Page 30) Collier Boyle who, after nearly 30 years, returns to his Ohio hometown where, as a 12-year-old, he served as a prosecution witness in the trial of his father, John Boyle, who was convicted of murdering his wife and Collier’s mother.

• Oscar-winner Peter Davis, who will show his epic documentary film, “Hearts and Minds,” which changed the conversation about the Vietnam War. Davis and other filmmakers will participate in several MNFF public discussions including one that explores how documentary filmmaking serves as a potent form of investigative journalism.

• Pakistani filmmaker, Mo Naqvi, who will receive the festival’s “Courage in Filmmaking Award.”

His film “Among the Believers” was a hit at MNFF several years

ago for its depiction of Pakistani jihad schools. He’ll show two films this year, including “Shame,” which details a miscarriage of feudal and patriarchal justice in a small Pakistani village that leads to a surprising and transformative outcome.

Participants at this year’s festival should give a nice financial bump for local lodgers and merchants.

This year’s festival will also feature a bonus day, Aug. 22, devoted to children’s themes and films at the Marquis Theater on Main Street. MNFF will screen three family friendly films that day: The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales” at 10 a.m., “Through The Windmill” at 1 p.m., and “Science Fair” at 4 p.m. And attention young science enthusiasts: Burlington’s Starbase will be at the Marquis at 3 p.m. to present some cool science gadgets

and experiments.

Along with the films, families will enjoy a host of fun activities throughout the day in the Marquis Cafe, including a variety of games donated by the Game Store. The Marquis Cafe will also present a special Kids Menu in addition to its featured Southwestern fare.

“We are so thrilled to be bringing this wonderful new component of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival to the local community,” said Komesar. “Our goal is to convey the excitement and the spirit of the Festival to families with children in a more concentrated way — a day devoted just to them.

We really appreciate the partnership we have formed with Ben Wells and his team at the Marquis for this new event at MNFF.” Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

ROCHESTER — Bread and one cry and revolution in order to Puppet Theater returns to BigTown draw the proper consequences from Gallery in Rochester on Friday, Sept. the 6,000 generations,” he concluded 7, with The 6,000 Generation Circus, Bread and Puppet’s performance a celebration of 6,000 generations at BigTown Gallery kicks off the of human revolution against human first weekend of a 14-week tour management.

The across the country show will feature and back with the giant dwarves “The organized 6,000 Generation and cardboard crime that is called Circus and The Basic grasshoppers and be politics continues Byebye Show. powered, as always, to devastate its Before the by the hot sounds of own kind as well performance the Bread and Puppet BigTown will have as the mountains Circus Band. their delicious Circus Director and the valleys of wood-fired pizza Peter Schumann is the original luxury for sale. After the excited about this planet; and ... The performance Bread year’s show. and Puppet will circus is one of “The circus started serve its famous the many human 6,000 generations free sourdough rye ago when a two- protests that must bread with aioli, and legged mythological unify into one cry Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” — beast invented and revolution.” posters, language and with it — Peter Schumann books, postcards, pamphlets claimed humanity,” and banners from the Schumann said. “The claim continues, but the humanity Bread and Puppet Press — will be is in question. The organized crime for sale.

Tickets are $10, children age 5 that is called politics continues to devastate its own kind as well as and younger are free. To RSVP call the mountains and the valleys of 802-767-9670 or e-mail at info@ the original luxury planet; and as bigtowngallery.com.

Anita For more information on the event, disparity grows the manufacture of visit bigtowngallery.com/bigtownthe planet’s doom accelerates.

“The circus is one of the many projects/bread-puppet-presents and human protests that must unify into breadandpuppet.org

MIDDLEBURY LIONS CLUB CASH CALENDAR WINNERS August 2018

Anita Huests, Jacqueline Atkins, Dean Bachand, Kim Ehritt, Mike & Diane Many, Donna Smith, Bradleigh Sabourin, Judy Fyles, Kelsey Coleman, Bob Fitzpatrick, John Coburn, Alison Joseph Dickinson, Chuck Greeno, Connie LaPlume, Nicole Laberge, Nina Stowe, Eunice Van Vleck, Mildred Longey, Joy LaFountain, Gordon F. March III, Don & Cindi Sweet, Betty Cousino, Cory Quenneville, Sophia Welch, Andre J. Bolduc, April Desabrais, Tim Holmes, Jim & Julie McDaniel, Lindsay Cunningham, Michelle Thompson, Ronald G. Payne

ADDISONINDEPENDENT.COM

Reader Comments

Here’s what one reader has to say about us!

One reader from Middlebury, VT writes: “You do an outstanding job. I appreciate the thorough coverage, and find your stories enhance life in Addison County. Thank you!”

MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS Festival Artistic Director Jay Craven, shown last year on the stage of Town Hall Theater with actor M. Emmet Walsh, said MNFF4 got a record number of films submitted for this year’s festival.

ARTS+LEISURE EVERY THURSDAY IN YOUR ADDY INDY

Quotes are taken from reader comments submitted with subscription renewals.

PAGE 32 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

SERVICES DIRECTORY David Walker Construction 298 Biddle Road Lincoln, Vermont 05443 802-453-7318 cell: 802-989-0320 email: dwconstruction@gmavt.net Residential - Remodeling Additions - Utility Buildings Garages - Doors - Windows

CONTRACTOR New Construction Remodels and Additions Window and Siding Installation Smaller Home Repairs

40 types of rental equipment to choose from

• material forklifts • excavators • bulldozers • mini-excavators • skidsteers

275 South 116 Bristol, VT116 05443 275 South 116 275 South Bristol, VT 05443 Bristol, VT 05443

• Man lifts up to 80’ • man basket w/crane

M ENDEZ Electric Service

Vergennes, VT

Service calls, residential & commercial electrical installation, licensed as a Master Electrician and insured.

Serving all of Addison County

No job too small!

(828) 550-9723 (828) 648-5865 brandonmendez17@aol.com

ENGINEERING 1438 S. Brownell Rd. • PO Box 159 • Williston, VT 05495 802-862-5590 • www.gmeinc.biz

Alan Huizenga, P.E., President Kevin Camara, P.E. Jamie Simpson, P. E. • Middlebury Brad Washburn, P. E. • Montpelier “INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS WITH A COMMON SENSE APPROACH DELIVERED TO OUR CLIENTS IN A PROFESSIONAL, COST EFFECTIVE AND PERSONAL MANNER”

 Long Beams

up to 188

Please give us a call.

Please give us a call.

We have the lift for you!

FIREWOOD We have the lift for you!

40’ to 80’ manlifts Scissor Lifts up to 32’ mini excavator Scissor Lifts up up to to 32’ 32’ Scissor Lifts excavator excavator excavator Skid Steer

Native Vermonter

1-800-880-6030 Fax:1-800-880-6030 (802) 453-2730 1-800-880-6030 Fax:(802) (802)453-2730 453-2730 Fax:

www.brownswelding.com oVer 40 LiFTS 275 South 116, Bristol, Vermont 05443 oVer 40 LiFTS oVer (802) 453-3351•40 CellLiFTS (802) 363-5619

40’ to 80’ manlifts manlifts 40’ 80’ 42’to material forklifts 42’ material forklifts 42’ material forklifts Fork lifts up to 15,000 lbs.

 Rough Lumber

• concrete compactors • backhoes

mini excavator mini excavator air Compressor air Compressor Compressor air

Pine Siding

 Open most nights & weekends

802-388-7828  End of S. Munger St.  Middlebury

To Advertise in the

MONDAY BUSINESS “Quality and Skid Steer Skid Steer SerVing VermonT & neW York AND SERVING VERMONT & NEW YORK FOR For OVER30 30YearS! YEARS! clean SerVing VermonThardwood” & neW York For 30 YearS! Green and Seasoned Firewood SERVICE DIRECTORY $225/cord delivered

Fork lifts lifts up up to to 15,000 15,000 lbs. lbs.

Fork

Cash/check/credit

ELECTRICIAN

LUMBER

EQUIPMENT RENTALS

CONSTRUCTION

call 388-4944 or email us at

Contact info (802)989-8180 orders@metcalfefirewood.com

ads@addisonindependent.com

FLOOR CARE

MASONRY Fine Dry Stone Masonry

Stripping - Waxing - Buffing Carpet Cleaning & Emergency Water Removal

802-759-2706 phone or fax or

802-349-6050 cell phone

email: cmulliss@gmavt.net 1900 Jersey St., S. Addison, VT 05491

LOCKSMITH

Green Mountain Safe LLC. • Safe Services • Repairs • Combination Changes Dennis Cassidy 989-3599 www.greenmtnsafe.com GreenMtnSafe@gmail.com

Jamie Masefield Certified by the Dry Stone Wallers Association of Great Britain

802-233-4670 jmasefield@gmavt.net

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Who Can I Trust to Manage My Property?

I need help with:

*Tenant Screening *Leasing & Budgeting *Property Maintenance *Marketing *ADA/FHA/Lead Paint Compliance

Call Jeff Olson 802-989-9441 jeff@acrevt.com Addison County Real Estate 2337 Rte.7 South Middlebury, VT 05753

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 33

SERVICES DIRECTORY RENEWABLE ENERGY Soak Up The Sun! Don’t spend your hard-earned money making the hot water or electricity that you use today– SOLAR IS MORE AFFORDABLE THAN EVER!

ROOFING

Middlebury Roofing Co. Slate Roof Specialists

We’ve been here for you for 40 years – Let us help you with your solar projects today.

Call for a FREE on-site evaluation

Go Green with us –

www.bristolelectronicsvt.com

Serving Addison County Call Us Today: (877) 777-7343 middleburyroofing.com middleburyroofingvt@gmail.com

RENT-A-SPOUSE

RUBBISH AND RECYCLING

The Pampered Home

Moose Rubbish and Recyling

Rent-a-Spouse/Home Economist

Stressed for time? • Chores piled up?

Home economist to the rescue!

I will...

Call Katie Grocery Shop 802-388-1254 Run Errands or Drive to appointments kbs10@comcast.net Light Housekeeping Do Laundry Let me make your Mend & Sew house tidy & cheerful Gift Wrap for you to come home to! & more!

BS in Home Economics Education • References Available

ROOFING

roofing Michael MichaelDoran Doran

as seen at Addison County Field Days!

• Standing seam • Standing seam • Asphalt shingles • Asphalt • Slateshingles

• Slate Free estimates • Fully Insured mpdoransr@gmail.com Free estimates • Fully Insured

Phone (802) 537-3555 Phone (802) 537-3555

RUBBISH AND RECYCLING

Serving Vermont for over 42 years!

BROWN’S TREE & CRANE SERVICE

FREE ESTIMATES FOR TREE SERVICES

WE HAVE THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT FOR THE RIGHT JOB – TO GIVE YOU REASONABLE RATES

The #1 Solar Hot Water Systems Installer in the state of Vermont for 2011.

BRISTOL ELECTRONICS 802-453-2500

TREE SERVICE

Dangerous Trees Cut & Removed Stumps Removed Trusses Set Trees Trimmed Land Clearing

Reasonable Rates • Year-round Service • Fully Insured

(802) 453-3351 • Cell (802) 363-5619 24 Hour Emergency Service 453-7014

Brownswelding.com

TREE SERVICE

Randall Orvis 25 Yrs Experience wood chipper available 60’ bucket truck Fully Insured Free Estimates

802-897-5637 802-377-5006 2744 Watch Point Rd • Shoreham, VT 05770 Email: BR213@yahoo.com

Brett Sargent

owner/operator

WOOD

STAMPS Self Inking & Hand Stamps

MADE TO ORDER Available at the Addison Independent in the Marble Works, Middlebury

388-4944

CLEANING SERVICES

Timberlane Distribution

Hard and softwood pellets $230/ton delivered • 2 ton minimum Cash/check/credit Contact info (802)989-8180 orders@timberlanedistribution.com

DENTISTRY

Want to advertise in our Business & Service Directory?

It’s easy! Call or email our sales team today! ads@addisonindependent.com • 802-388-4944

MASONRY

ENGINEERING

PERSONAL ERRANDS

PAGE 34 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Addison Independent

CLASSIFIEDS Notices

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

ART SHOW‑ For the Month of August Kay George ‑ A VT Pastel Society Member ‑ will be displaying her works of art at the Charlotte Senior Center, with a reception scheduled for Sunday, August 26th from 1‑4 pm. Kay finds painting in pastels a wonderful way to relax and express herself.

She enjoys Vermont’s beau‑ tiful landscapes and often paints en plein air, but she is also challenged by capturing the intricacies of the still life.

Charlotte Senior Center ‑ 212 Ferry Rd, Charlotte, Vt. 05445.

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.

ARE YOU BOTHERED BY SOMEONE’S DRINKING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednes‑ day at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs). Anonymous and confi‑ dential, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common problems.

Babysitting available.

A LC OH OLIC S A N ON Y‑ MOUS, 2 MONDAY. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Ripton, Rip‑ ton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Women of AA (Step/Speaker), Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd, 5:30‑6:30pm.

Big Book Meeting, Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. 7:30‑8:30pm.

Big Book Meeting, New Ha‑ ven, Congregational Church, Village Green, 7:30‑8:30pm.

Discussion Meeting, Brandon, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South, 7:30‑8:30am.

A LC OHOLIC S A N ON Y‑ MOUS, 3 TUESDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Daily Reflec‑ tion Meeting, Vergennes, Con‑ gregational Church, Water St. 7‑8pm. 12 Step Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, The Turn‑ ing Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 7:30‑8:30pm. Spiritual Awak‑ ening Meeting, Middlebury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30am.

A LC OH OLIC S A N ON Y‑ MOUS, 5 THURSDAY. 12 Steps and Traditions Meet‑ ing, Ripton, Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am.

Big Book Meeting, Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm.

Alternating Format Meeting, Ferrisburgh, Assembly of God Christian Center. Route 7, 7‑8pm. Speaker Meeting, Middlebury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30pm.

A LC OH OLIC S A N ON Y‑ MOUS, 7 SATURDAY. Dis‑ cussion Meeting, Middlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am.

Discussion Meeting, Mid‑ dlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 10‑11am.

Beginner’s Meeting, Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 6:30‑7:30pm.

Services

Services

Public Meetings ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders. Wednes‑ days, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery.

Bring a friend in recovery.

For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turning‑ pointaddisonvt.org.

Services

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMILIES and friends affected by some‑ one’s drinking. Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. Newcomers wel‑ come. Confidential. St. Ste‑ phen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednes‑ days, 9 am, held at The Turn‑ ing Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

A LC OH OLIC S A N ON Y‑ MOUS, 1 SUNDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am.

Discussion Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 4‑5pm. Women’s Meeting, North Ferrisburgh, United Methodist Church, Old Hol‑ low Rd. 6‑7pm. 12 Step Meet‑ ing, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 7‑8pm. AA 24‑Hour Hotline 802‑388‑9284, www.aavt.org .

Services

Services

OLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT Thank you to Olivia Brooks for helping us for the 2nd year stuff back packs for our annual Back To School Shop program! Olivia, age 14 of Vergennes has been volunteering for United Way of Addison County since 2016 when she helped collect school supplies for our Stuff the Bus event. She has continued to volunteer for our organization since then in a number of ways and most recently preparing back packs for students in Addison County. Thank you Olivia!

A LC OH OLIC S A N ON Y‑ MOUS, 4 WEDNESDAY. Big Book Meeting, Middle‑ bury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 7:15‑8:15am. Discussion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. 12 Step Meet‑ ing, Brandon, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South, 7‑8pm. 12 Step Meet‑ ing, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 7‑8pm.

RATES

Name: Address: Phone: Email:

Services

Ready for your close up?

United Way of Addison County is searching for mom/youth and dad/youth duos for filming of a professional PSA about substance use prevention. Children 10 or older.

If interested, please contact our Prevention Coordinator Jesse Brooks at 388-7044 for more details!

MAKING RECOVERY EAS‑ IER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facilitated group meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and discussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understanding of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

OPIATE OVERDOSE RES‑ CUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required.

For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turning‑ pointaddisonvt.org.

PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at The Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

CLASSIFIED ORDER FORM • 25¢ per word • minimum $2.50 per ad • 50¢/issue internet listing • minimum 2 insertions Cash in on our 4-for-3 rates! Pay for 3 issues, get 4th issue free! Example: A 20-word ad is just $5.00. An ad placed for consecutive issues (Mondays & Thursdays) is run 4th time free. Cost is $17.00 for 4 issues includes $2.00 internet charge. (Special 4 for 3 rates not valid for the following categories: Help Wanted Services, Opportunities, Real Estate, Wood heat, Attn. Farmers, & For Rent).

A LC OH OLIC S A N ON Y‑ MOUS, 6 FRIDAY. Spiritual Awakening Meeting, Middle‑ bury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30am. Discussion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Big Book Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 6‑7pm. Discus‑ sion Meeting, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 8‑9pm.

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

D E A D L I N E S Thurs. noon for Mon. paper Mon. 5 p.m. for Thurs. paper

CATEGORIES Notices Card of Thanks Personals Services Free** Lost & Found** Garage Sales Lawn & Garden Opportunities

Work Wanted Public Meetings** For Sale Help Wanted For Rent Want to Rent Real Estate Real Estate Wanted Vacation Rentals

Spotlight with large ✓$2

** No charge for these ads

Wood Heat Animals Att. Farmers Motorcycles Cars Trucks SUVs Snowmobiles Boats Wanted Adoption

ADDISON INDEPENDENT 58 Maple St., Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-4944

email: classifieds@addisonindependent.com

PLEASE PRINT YOUR AD HERE

The Independent assumes no financial responsibility for errors in ads, but will rerun the ad in which the error occured at no charge. No refunds will be made.

Advertisers will please notify us of any errors noted.

Number of words: Cost: # of runs: Spotlight Charge: Internet Listing: TOTAL:

$0.50

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 35

Addison Independent

CLASSIFIEDS Services

Services

Opportunities

C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, tap‑ ing, skim coat plastering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

VALLEY HANDYMAN SER‑ VICE: electrical, plumbing, carpentry. Resolve projects and that honey‑to‑do list to‑ day. Property management upon request. Mowing, land‑ scaping, snow removal. Qual‑ ity workmanship and refer‑ ences. 802‑458‑2402.

STOREFRONT LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. In the heart of downtown Mid‑ dlebury. Approved for seat‑ ing for 24. Plenty of parking, lots of possibilities. Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

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

PAINTING SEASON IS here.

Wet Paint, interior and exte‑ rior quality painting. 30 years experience. References and insured. 802‑458‑2402.

3

PROFESSIONAL PAINTING; interior/exterior, residential/ commercial, pressure wash‑ ing. 20 years’ experience.

Best prices. References.

802‑989‑5803.

1920’S HENRY F. MILLER upright piano with bench.

Mahogany finish, very clean.

Previously tuned by Hurlbert Pianos. 802‑758‑2354.

Garage Sales MULTI‑FAMILY YARD sale.

3143 Richville Rd., Shoreham.

Thursday 8/23, 4pm to 7pm and Friday 8/24, 8am to 2pm.

Many items that need a new home. Name brand adult and children’s clothes. Household items.

Garage Sales

$

Work Wanted

Free

EXPERIENCED CAREGIV‑ ER/ nanny. Will care for chil‑ dren in your home or mine.

Located close to Orwell el‑ ementary, walking distance. I offer an abundance of learn‑ ing, exploring, singing, play‑ ing, interacting, and most of all a safe loving environment.

Please call for references 802‑233‑9261 or email me at tc777pd@hotmail.com. Flex‑ ible Hours.

Help Wanted BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

Garage Sales

Garage Sales

It’s GARAGE

7

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Service Technician

HEAD TEACHERS WANTED

Clean Earth Technology, Inc. North Ferrisburgh seeks electromechanical service technician for troubleshooting, repair, phone field support, and production of groundwater remediation equipment. Must be organized, able to multi-task and work independently. Website: Cleanearth. biz. Resume to: info@cleanearth.biz.

WRVSU is seeking to fill head teacher positions in its afterschool programs at the Rochester and Stockbridge Schools. Head Teacher responsibilities include helping organize and oversee daily enrichment activities for K-6th grade students, lesson planning, administrative duties. Position is 18-20 hrs/week, $15-16/hr. Applicants must have 3+ years of experience working with school age children in educational setting. Send cover letter and resume to cmcdonnell@wrvsu.org.

NOW HIRING

Help Wanted

HUMAN RESOURCES GENERALIST

Basin Harbor is now hiring for pastry chefs, cooks, dishwasher, server attendants, boat driver, laundry attendant, and trash/recycling!

We will train the right person for the job.

If you are interested in the hospitality industry or starting a new career, we want to hear from you.

Basin Harbor, a seasonal resort on Lake Champlain, seeks an HR Generalist to work with our awesome team. The successful candidate has a background in the hospitality industry with experience recruiting, training and motivating the team. The company hires 275 seasonal staff members to augment the 30 year-round staff members, so there are many moving pieces. Must be a self-starter with experience in MS Office and Kronos.

Experience with H2B visas would be very helpful. Requirements include a BA/BS in human resources, and 5 years’ experience in a busy human resources office.

Kindly send resume to work@basinharbor.com.

Interested applicants please apply online at: www.basinharbor.com/jobs/.

Garage Sales

SALE Season...

Let us get the word out for you!

ONLY $7 PER RUN (up to 30 words) – includes a FREE internet listing.

Additional words are 25¢ per word / per run.

YOUR AD INFORMATION

TOWN:

Deadlines: Thursday Noon for Monday papers Monday 5pm for Thursday papers Mail in your classified ad with payment to : 58 Maple Street, Middlebury VT 05753 OR Email your ad to: classifieds @addisonindependent.com OR stop in and drop it off to Alicia at our office in the Marble Works, Middlebury

Is your total $12 or more?

If so, come get your FREE GARAGE SALE KIT!

7

$

DATES & TIMES: STREET ADDRESS: DESCRIPTION:

YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION NAME:

PHONE:

MAILING ADDRESS: E-MAIL:

7

$

x ___ # of runs

# of additional words x 25¢ x # of runs Total Payment Enclosed $

Buy it! Sell it! Find it!

Check the Classifieds twice a week in the Addison Independent.

PAGE 36 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Addison Independent

CLASSIFIEDS

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

OVER THE ROAD DELIVERY DRIVER needed for New York, primary route would be out Route 90 to the Finger Lakes with occasional overnights depending on weather. Class A CDL and two years’ experience required. Must have a clean driving record and be able to lift 50lbs repetitively. Taking loaded truck home at night could be an option. Pay based on experience, paid vacation and IRA available.

Stop by to fill out an application at Green Mountain Feeds Main Street, Bethel, Vermont or send resume to tlittle@greenmountainfeeds.com

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

BARISTA/BAKERY Counter Service ‑ Full time & part‑time openings. Join our terrific team serving our awesome loyal customer’s coffee, pas‑ try, lunch and lots of smiles.

Great opportunity to meet community members and find out what’s going on in town. Coffee is on us. Send as an e‑mail for more details. info@ottercreekbakery.com.

COSTELLO’S MARKET IS looking for an experienced person to wrap subs, do prep‑work, deep frying, dish‑ washing and other duties.

Please apply in person to Costello’s Market, Marble‑ works, Middlebury.

Diesel Mechanic Wanted Champlain Orchards, based in Shoreham, VT , is looking to hire an experienced Diesel Mechanic responsible for performing maintenance and repair of all types of motor vehicles, special equipment and tools at the Orchard.

This is a full-time position.

NOW HIRING AT HELEN PORTER REHABILITATION & NURSING!

Learn more about job opportunities at Walk-in Wednesday, when you can take a facility tour and interview on-the-spot!

Walk in at 30 Porter Drive, Middlebury any Wednesday between 9AM and 5PM.

Now offering sign-on bonuses of up to $1,000 for select LNA and up to $2,000 for LPN positions!

Please visit our website to see a detailed job description.

For more information about available openings, visit UVMHealth.org/PMC and click on “Careers.”

www.champlainorchards.com

To apply please send your resumé, a cover letter, plus three business references to

UVMHealth.org/PMC

email us:

hr@champlainorchards.com

news@addisonindependent.com

Have an opinion?

Email your letters to:

addisonindependent.com

Established Local Companies Want You!

Addison County Solid Waste Management District, Monument Farms Dairy and rk MILES Building Materials Supplier (with six locations), are a few of the local companies that are interested in hiring licensed graduates of a credible CDL training course.

• Training available for 72 hour Class B or 144 hour Class A licensing.

• Scholarship assistance available through VSAC, Dept. of Labor, Dept. of Voc Rehab, and others. $5200 for Class A, $3500 for Class B. • Classes are 6 hours a day. Earn endorsements such as Haz Mat, Tanker, or Combination Vehicles for even higher starting wages.

• Participants must have clean driving record and submit to random drug testing.

Call 388-1004 to register and for financial aid info. The Hannaford Career Center has teamed up with Giroux General Transport of Barre to offer classroom and behind-the-wheel CDL driver training in Middlebury.

This message generously sponsored by:

EASTVIEW AT MIDDLE‑ BURY seeks enthusiastic and experienced caregivers to pro‑ vide hands‑on care in our dy‑ namic retirement community.

Openings: full‑time evenings, part‑time weekends. Email acoyle@eastviewmiddlebury. com or call 989‑7502.

EASTVIEW AT MIDDLE‑ BURY seeks FT housekeeper who is friendly and detail ori‑ ented to provide quality clean‑ ing service in our retirement community. Email acoyle@ eastviewmiddlebury.com or call 989‑7502.

EXPER IEN C ED C OOK , FULL‑TIME. Noon to 8pm.

Position available immedi‑ ately. Halfway House Restau‑ rant, Shoreham, family‑style dining. Apply in person, morn‑ ings. 802‑897‑5160.

FULL TIME REGISTER clerk needed for busy fam‑ ily owned convenience store. Set schedule Mon‑Fri 2:15pm ‑ 10:15pm. Prior work related experience w/ refer‑ ences preferred. Higher than average compensation for qualified applicants. Apply in person at Small City Market in Vergennes or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101.

I HAVE A 9X12 carpet that needs to be shampooed.

References appreciated.

802‑453‑4597.

When You are a QUALIFIED, LICENSED CDL DRIVER (Class A & Class B)

STEP UP and SIGN-UP NOW for classes beginning SEPTEMBER 17th at Hannaford Career Center and Start Down the Road to a well-paying, rewarding career with a great company – where you can live and work locally!

D I S H W A S H E R / P R E P, Line cook/Sous chef.

E x p e r i e n c e n e c e s s a r y.

Please send resumes to: huntingtonhouseinn@gmail. com.

Regional Transportation Planner The Addison County Regional Planning Commission (ACRPC) is looking for a knowledgeable community planner to join our team. This position will support Addison County municipalities in a broad range of transportation-related planning projects, working closely with State agencies, Addison County’s Transportation Advisory Committee, Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR), the Walk-Bike Council of Addison County, as well as local municipalities and volunteer committees.

The candidate should enjoy working with the public, be self-motivated and have experience managing interdisciplinary planning projects. A minimum of 1-3 years planning experience, with an emphasis in transportation planning and a degree in planning, transportation planning, urban design or related field is required. For a full job description please go to: http://acrpc.org/about-acrpc/job-opportunities/ Please mail a resume and three references to: Adam Lougee, ACRPC 14 Seminary Street, Middlebury, Vermont or send via email to: alougee@acrpc.org. Position is open until filled. EOE.

Cleaning up?

Sell those valuables in the Addison Independent Classifieds.

HOME CONSTRUCTION ES‑ TIMATOR Connor Mill‑Built Homes is seeking an estima‑ tor to put together costing for wood frame construction and high‑end architectural detail‑ ing. A working knowledge of residential construction is re‑ quired. Previous experience as an estimator in the resi‑ dential building world would be most helpful, but others with relevant experience in wood framing and residential home construction should also apply. A custom esti‑ mating program is currently being used and can be taught and learned as needed. Con‑ nor Mill‑Built Homes is an equal opportunity employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Send resume to canderson@connormill‑built. com.

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 37

Addison Independent

For Rent

CLASSIFIEDS Help Wanted

Help Wanted

For Rent

MIDDLEBURY FITNESS SEEKS a part‑time mem‑ ber service representative to cover weeknight and week‑ end shifts. Must be extremely friendly, customer service oriented, dependable and self motivated. Fitness ex‑ perience is preferred but not required. Call 388‑3744, apply in person or email us at info@middleburyfitness. com for an employment ap‑ plication.

SEASONAL PRODUCT TESTER Do you enjoy working with outdoor power equipment? Are you look‑ ing for an opportunity where majority of your time is spent outside? Then DR Power Equipment has the job for you. Work with DR Power and competitor products to test functionality and durabil‑ ity. Though this position is home based in Vergennes, occasional travel to testing locations via company vehi‑ cles is required. This position works outdoors, testing prod‑ ucts on lawns, over‑grown grass fields, brushy areas and wooded areas. Apply on‑ line, www.drpower.com/ca‑ reers or email your resume to jobs@drpower.com.

1,800 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092.

PRODUCTION DESIGN‑ ER ‑ Millshop. Connor Mill‑Built Homes is looking for an architectural produc‑ tion designer to prepare shop plans for our home production shop. This job is an opportunity to work collaboratively with other designers at CMBH in the replication of historic design detail as applied to current framing methods and procedures. A practi‑ cal knowledge of standard wood framing methods is essential, while the com‑ pany is willing to teach his‑ toric architectural produc‑ tion details. Most design work is done in AutoCAD, however, an applicant with a good knowledge of fram‑ ing drawings done through traditional hand drawing can also qualify. Send resume to canderson@ connormill‑built.com.

PART‑TIME CAREGIVER FOR 18 year old disabled boy in Middlebury. Appli‑ cants must have child care experience, references and be reliable. Some lifting required. Flexible hours. Criminal background check. Send resume to: sstone7716@gmail.com.

PART‑TIME WORK avail‑ able. 10‑40 hours. Work when you want. Work where you can. Light work. Pay based on hourly work day. 802‑989‑4479. growneyconst@shoreham. net

Addy Indy Classifieds are online www. addisonindependent. com/classifieds

WAREHOUSE/CUSTOMER service assistant needed. If you want work that makes a positive difference in the community, come join our team. HOPE is looking for a warehouse assistant, 29.5 hours a week. Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds on a regular basis, stand and sit for periods of time, and have good customer service skills.

To apply, send resume to receptionist@hope‑vt.org, or mail it to us at 282 Boardman Street, Suite 1A, Middlebury.

No phone calls or walk ins please.

For Sale FOR SALE: GRAND pia‑ no with bench, Young and Chang excellent condition.

Walnut wood finish. Bought new 23 years ago, one owner. Asking $4,000. Call 518‑597‑3932.

3

KUBOTA B1750 TRAC‑ TOR with loader. 1585 hours. Rear grader attach‑ ment. Very clean. $3,500.

802‑758‑2354.

T@G TEARDROP CAMPER 13ft, 1,000lbs. Easy tow, queen bed, a/c, TV, dvd, AM/ FM. Galley kitchen. $9,800 obo. 802‑759‑2479.

U S E D R E S TA U R A N T EQUIPMENT plus chairs, tables, booths and commer‑ cial hood systems with ansul and roof fan. 802‑349‑8544.

2 BEDROOM, 2 story apart‑ ment. 10 miles from Middle‑ bury, quiet setting. Wash/dry‑ er hookups. Large kitchen, living, and baths. $1,100 per month plus utilities and de‑ posit. No smoking, no pets.

802‑897‑5447.

BRIDPORT: SUNNY, SPA‑ CIOUS 1/br. apartment.

Beautiful views, garden space. All utilities included except heat. Washer/dryer.

No pets. No smoking. $900 per month. 802‑349‑9624.

BRISTOL FAMILY HOUS‑ ING: $1,035 3 BD Apart‑ ment. Rent includes heat, hot water, trash and snow r e m o v a l . Wa s h e r d r y e r hookup & storage space.

Income restrictions ap ‑ ply. For further details call E.P. Management Corp at 775‑1100 Ext. #7 or e‑mail shelly@epmanagement.com.

Equal Housing Opportunity.

For Rent

For Rent

BRISTOL, 2 BEDROOM HOUSE. Newly renovated.

All new hardwood floors. Up‑ graded kitchen. Large 3 room bathroom. Nice porch and views. Private yard. Washer and dryer. Extra storage. 2 car carport. Snow removal included. Available Sept.

15. $985/mo. Security and references, credit check. No pets/smoking. 802‑352‑4266, please leave message.

CORNWALL QUIET COUN‑ TRY APARTMENT 5 miles from Middlebury. 2nd sto‑ ry, 2 bedroom, 1 full bath with washer/dryer hookup.

Includes everything plus satellite, storage included. $1,250 per month. 1st and last month’s rent and security deposit. No pets, no smok‑ ing. Available September 1st.

802‑462‑2924.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

For Rent

Newly Constructed Loft, One Bedroom and Two Bedroom Apartments in Downtown Middlebury Historic Building | Air Conditioning European Appliances, Quartz Countertops & Washer/Dryer Off-Street Parking | Pet friendly Walk to Middlebury College campus Short term leases available Contact: Christine Golden, Nedde Real Estate 802-373-5893 • battellllc@gmail.com www.BattellBlock.com

For Rent

For Rent

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. 802‑352‑4124, leave message.

LAKE DUNMORE: 2 bed‑ room winterized cottages available September/October to May/June. Comfortably furnished and applianced, turn key shape. Free wi‑fi, satellite TV, plowing, trash collection, recycling. Rates start at $800/mo. plus heat and electricity. 10 minutes to Middlebury or Brandon.

Smaller cottages available through Fall for shorter periods. 802‑352‑4236, karen@northcovecottages. com .

For Rent

For Rent

And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say.

The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944.

Talk to our sales professionals.

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

VERMONT’S TWICE-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Middlebury, VT 05753 • (802) 388-4944 • www.AddisonIndependent.com

FOR RENT: BRIDPORT, Commercial/retail office.

1,200 Sq. Ft. High traffic visibility. tbrought@middle‑ bury.edu.

MIDDLEBURY ‑ PROFES‑ SIONAL office suite. 1,205 sq. ft. office space. Conve‑ niently located in Middle‑ bury ‑ Court St./Creek Rd. 2 private offices, large re‑ ception area, large central open space for additional offices/cubicles or board‑ room. Private bathroom.

Ready to move in. Call Eric at 388‑6054.

Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

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.

FOR RENT: ADDISON two bedroom house on Lake Champlain. Private setting with great views, central air, one car garage. Lawn care included. References and security deposit re‑ quired. $1,500/mo. Call 802‑989‑1284.

LEICESTER; PRIVATE, NEWLY renovated 1 bed‑ room, 1 bath duplex apart‑ ment with second floor loft.

Available 9‑1, includes use of beach front on Lake Dun‑ more, in‑ground swimming pool. $800. plus utilities. Call Kathy 802‑349‑2948.

For Rent

It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing.

Vacation Rentals ADDISON: LAKE CHAM‑ PLAIN waterfront camp.

Beautiful views, gorgeous sunsets, private beach, dock, rowboat and canoe includ‑ ed. $600 weekly, or call for weekends. 802‑349‑4212, no texts.

For Rent

MIDDLEBURY 1 BEDROOM apartment. Close to college. $800/month plus deposit.

Some utilities included.

388‑0401.

C

ds (Pub lassified A

lished: 5/5

1) /1MIDDLEBURY 2 BEDROOM

near downtown. Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets. Real NetgManagement e. se to colle d. Clo802‑388‑4994. isheInc.

For Rent TMENT furb OM APAR 1 BEDRO Middlebury, newly re 00.

0 t, -0 e 0 e Main Str , includes heat. 00 th n MIDDLEBURY 3idBEDROOM o bury /m 0 5 $7 h of M dle 0Ranch house.

1 mile n2ortbathrooms.

0 -0000.

RTMENT, , 0 A h P t. is A si b o b M p ru e O plus d Spacious on 1 BEDRO udes heat, electric, , $595style onthhouse. /m cl ly upstairs, in Available immediate quiet street. Close to college . nce on Route 7 and closeeptoosischools.

Avail‑ t and refere e m D o h s. e E iti IL til B u O s . plu able September 1st. Par‑ OM M 2 BEDRO Private lot. $650/mo tially furnished (optional). No . ry u b lis a S in uired.

-0000. pets. No smoking. $1,500/ 0 0 0 . d e ir rences req requ ONDOmo. 1st band ent. Refedeposit. /C m E S security se U a O d H Garage an ets. 000-0000.

OM TOWN 2 BEDRO mons, Vergennes. he802‑382‑9283. p m d at. No o n C a y s Countr g utilitie in d lu er, xc e . tellite, wash letely $1,000/mo RN, comp i-speed internet, sa ry energy E D O M , H e OM 2 BEDRO ke Dunmore house. 85’ lake frontage. V rough June 67 La well, 009 th d 2 , lle 9 ri 2 d 802-352-6 , furnished st h u lus utilities. ened porc rental; starting Aug p . re o sc /m r, 0 e 0 ry d 1,0 th gotiable. $ or 10 mon efficient. F n-smoking. Pets ne o N .

26, 2010

PAGE 38 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018

Addison Independent

CLASSIFIEDS For Rent MIDDLEBURY OFFICE SPACE available; formerly Valley Voice. $500/mo.

802‑388‑4831.

MIDDLEBURY RETAIL ‑ great location. Ollie’s other place. 13 Washington St. next to The Middlebury Ba‑ gel and the Co‑Op. Across from Shaw’s. Great parking and visibility. Light and appealing space, easy to heat. 802‑425‑3400.

MIDDLEBURY‑ 2 BED‑ ROOM, 6 rooms, 880 sq. foot apartment for rent.

On Rte 7 south of town, second floor apt. Includes appliances, wifi, some heat, plowing and lawn care, trash. $1,000/month plus security deposit. No smoking or pets. Refer‑ ences required. Email ewaldewald@aol.com or call 247‑3702.

ed

.

t u! en k Yo

R han T

MIDDLEBURY, 2,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., central location, parking.

Can be subdivided. Re‑ al‑Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY: SHARE A home w/ busy profes‑ sional & teenaged son.

Reduced rent of $200/ mo. in exchange for help w/ housekeeping, pet‑care & snow shovel‑ ing; some help in the yard.

Shared bath. No smok‑ ing. No deposit. 863‑5625, HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refs, background check req. EHO. N E W LY R E N O VAT E D house in Middlebury for rent on dead end road ½ mile from downtown. Brand new inside‑must See. 2 bed,2 bath. Available Sept 1st. $2200/month includes most utilities. 758‑9202 leave a message or after 6pm.

R I P T O N : S PA C I O U S HOME to share w/ active woman in her 70s who enjoys travel, antiques and crafts. $400/mo, plus utilities, as well as light help in the yard. Private bath. Must be pet‑friend‑ ly. No deposit. 863‑5625, HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refs, background check req. EHO.

For Rent

Att. Farmers

ONE BEDROOM EFFI‑ CIENCY apartment. In‑ cludes heat, electric stove, refrigerator, trash removal.

Ample parking near bus route. Available immedi‑ ately. No smoking. No pets.

349‑7555 or 388‑4455.

FOR SALE: FIRST cut square bales. Grass, clo‑ ver mix. Certified organic. $3.75 per bale. Call Paul Seiler 462‑3140, Cornwall.

VALLEY VIEW APART‑ MENTS is currently ac‑ cepting applications for 1 and 2 BR apartments in Vergennes. All income/ assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. Elderly or disabled only. W/D on‑ site. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website w w w. s u m m i t p m g . c o m .

Equal Housing Opportu‑ nity.

Want to Rent

HAY FOR SALE Small square bales. First cut and mulch. Call 802‑349‑9281.

WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Cars

3

2008 BUICK ENCLAVE 83,600 miles, one owner, great condition, $9500.00.

Call (802)465‑8065.

PROFESSIONAL FE‑ MALE wishes to do home share in Middlebury area. 872‑243‑1497 or 872‑227‑0191.

CORVETTE 1988 COUPE. Good tires, 8 rims, car cov‑ er. Removable top. Navy blue, tan leather interior. $6,500. 802‑388‑9603.

Wood Heat

FOR SALE: 2007 Toy‑ ota Corolla LE, 208,000 miles. 6 CD changer. Re‑ mote starter. 4 studded Firestone Winterforce tires. 4 summer tires. In‑ spected until Aug. 2019.

New battery Feb. 2018.

Runs great. Asking $4,900 obo. Call Tom or Sue at 802‑643‑2125.

EVERYDAY LOW PRICES Free, fast delivery and free kindling. Click: www.MID‑ DMENFIREWOOD.com.

FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green. 802‑282‑9110.

Real Estate NEW 2018 ENERGY Star display models, modular, doublewides and single‑ wides. Open 7 days a week.

Beanshomes.com. 600 Rte. 7, Pitts for d, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflan‑ ders@beanshomes.com.

R E A L E S TAT E F O R SALE. The building sea‑ son is upon us. If you’re considering a new home you should look at our two remaining lots on East Middlebury’s Daisy Lane.

This is an established residential development with town water, nearby tennis courts, playground and only minutes away from the Snow Bowl and Lake Dunmore. Call Jack at 388‑2502 or 388‑7350.

Att. Farmers FOR SALE‑PINE SAW‑ DUST. Picked up or deliv‑ ered. 802‑623‑6731.

P U B L I C A U TO A U C ‑ TION: Saturday, August 25 @9am, Register to bid from @7:30am. 300+/‑ Re‑ pos, trades & donations.

Williston, VT. Online bid‑ ding lane 3. 802‑878‑9200.

THCAuction.com.

Wanted DONATIONS WANTED for Town Hall Theater’s September 15 Fabulous Flea Market. Accepting household goods, col‑ lectables, jewelry of all kinds, antiques and unique items may be dropped off at The Diner next to Town Hall Theater on Friday and Saturday, August 31, Sep‑ tember 1 and September 7 and 8 between 9am and 12pm. Call 345‑1596 for more information.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer specializing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique col‑ lectibles, etc. Visit bittne‑ rantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527.

Consulting/appraisal ser‑ vices available. House calls made free of charge.

Monkton MONKTON — The Monkton Museum and Historical Society and the East Monkton Church Association will cohost a showing of the documentary “Forgotten Farms” on Monday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m. at the East Monkton Church.

The event is free and open to everyone.

Dairy farmers remain the backbone of agriculture in New England, but they are fighting for survival. “Forgotten Farms” examines class divides in our farm and food communities. The dairy farmer seems left out of the celebration of local food.

Dairy farmers tend 1.2 million acres of farmland and produce almost all of the milk consumed in New England.

Often overlooked are the farmers at the

Public Notices can be found on this Page 38.

Have a news tip?

Call Liz Pecor at 453-2180 NEWS

foundation of the region’s agricultural economy. There is much to learn from dairy farmers, who have been managing most of the farmland and sustaining the farm economy for so many, many years.

Through conversations with farmers and policy experts, the documentary reconsiders the role of these vital but forgotten farmers. “Forgotten Farms” provides a glimpse into the past and a vision for a future regional food system. The documentary shows the cultural divide between the new food movement and traditional farming, highlighting the need to examine differences, develop mutual understanding, and find common ground. A truly sustainable local food system that benefits

everyone will rely on all our farmers.

This documentary is very interesting and truly thought provoking. Join us on Aug. 20. All are welcome.

The church is located at 405 Church Road in Monkton. Parking will be along Church Road. Note that portable restroom facilities will be available at the church. Also, there are a few stairs at the entrance to the church. If assistance is needed, pull your vehicle onto the grass and up to either side of the church near the steps. We would be happy to provide assistance with the stairs.

For further information and questions, contact call Gill Coates at 802-482-2277 or monktonmhs@gmail.com.

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY REQUEST FOR BIDS FENCING AT CHIPMAN HILL RESERVOIR

The Town of Middlebury is requesting bids for new fencing at the water reservoir on Chipman Hill. Bid packets are available at the Public Works Building, 1020 S. Route 7, Middlebury, VT 05753 or requested through PublicWorks@townofmiddlebury.org. A mandatory pre-bid inspection of the work site is scheduled for August 24 at 8:30a.m. This meeting will begin at the Public Works Building. Bids are due at 11:00am on August 29th at the Middlebury Public Works Building, 1020 S. Route 7, Middlebury, VT 05753. Mailing address is 77 Main Street, Middlebury. 8/16

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 64-4-17 ANCV WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. v.

JUSTIN JACKMAN A/K/A JUSTIN P. JACKMAN AND JENNIFER JACKMAN A/K/A JENNIFER L. JACKMAN OCCUPANTS OF: 56 Pine Street, Bristol VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered November 4, 2017, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Justin Jackman and Jennifer Jackman to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated August 1, 2008 and recorded in Book 127 Page 481 of the land records of the Town of Bristol, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at sold at Public Auction at 56 Pine Street, Bristol, Vermont on August 29, 2018 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Justin P. Jackman and Jennifer L. Jackman by Warranty Deed of Heath G. Jackman dated September 4, 2007, of record in Volume 124, Page 396 of the Town of Bristol Land Records and being more particularly described as follows: Kristen O. Jackman dated June 10, 2004 and recorded in Volume 111, Page 433 of the Town of Bristol Land Records and being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Heath G. Jackman and Kristen O. Jackman by Warranty Deed of James M. Srendsen dated May 23, 1997 and recorded in Volume 85, Page 246 of the Town of Bristol Land Records, as reconfigured per reciprocal Quit Claim Deeds between Heath G. Jackman and Jackman’s Inc. dated January 4, 2007 and recorded in Volume 122, Page 80 and Volume 122, Page 82 of the Town of Bristol Land Records.

Being a parcel of land of 0.87 acres, more or less, with improvements thereon as shown on a plan of lands entitled, “Jackmans, Inc. (formerly known as Jackman Coal & Coke Co., Inc.), Pine Street, Bristol, Addison County, Vermont,” dated 2/17/06 and prepared by Ronald L. LaRose, revised 11/1/06 and identified as H. Jackman, and recorded as Map Slide 57 in the Town of Bristol Land Records.

Reference is hereby made to the aforementioned instruments, the records thereof and the references therein contained, all in further aid of this description.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : July 5, 2018 By: /S/Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Rachel Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 8/6, 13, 20

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FUEL OIL AND PROPANE 2018 – 2019 SCHOOL YEAR

The Addison Central School District is accepting bids for the supply of Fuel Oil and Propane for the 2017-2018 School Year.

For more information, call Eric Warren at 802-349-8869.

Bids must be received no later than 2:00 pm on August 29, 2018.

The Addison Central School District Board of Directors reserves the right to reject any or all bids in accordance with Vermont Statutes.

8/20

TOWN OF LINCOLN PUBLIC NOTICE

The Town of Lincoln Planning Commission will hold a Sketch Planning Hearing for Application #18-041 for a 2-lot subdivision proposed by Christopher Nezin for parcel #24070213.2 located at 410 Murray Road. Said hearing will be held September 6, 2018 at 7:05 pm at the Lincoln Town Office.

Information regarding said hearing may be seen at the Town Office during normal business hours. Any persons interested in participating at the hearing must be present or express interest in a letter.

8/20

ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD VACANCY: WEYBRIDGE RESIDENT

The unified board of Addison Central School District (ACSD) is seeking an individual from the Town of Weybridge who is interested in serving on the thirteen (13) member ACSD Board. The term of this position runs to Town Meeting Day on March 5, 2019, at which time the appointed board member could file a petition for a threeyear term.

The ACSD Board will be appointing a qualified person to fill this vacancy. If you are interested in serving, please submit a letter of interest by August 31, 2018 to pconlon@acsdvt.org.

8/16

Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018 — PAGE 39

Bug district (Continued from Page 16) the National Pesticide Information Center, Malathion is highly toxic to bees, some fish and birds, but is considered lowly toxic to mammals. Permethrin is more toxic to fish than insects or mammals, according to the National Pesticide Information Center. Neither pose known cancer risk to humans, and the risk to pregnant women is considered low as well.

Woody Little is the Vermont and New Hampshire Community Organizer for Toxics Action Center, a Boston-based environmental action non-profit that addresses air and water pollution issues across New England.

In a press release accompanying the original appeal, Little wrote that “Neighboring areas have developed successful programs to reduce mosquitos that do not include spraying chemical pesticides, and Toxics Action Center is calling on the DEC to force the (BLSG) District to consider safer alternatives instead, as is required by the law.”

Little cited the neighboring Lemon Fair Insect Control District, which comprises Bridport, Weybridge and Cornwall as an example of a district that only uses the organic larvacide that the BLSG uses, and does not spray any pesticide to kill adult mosquitoes.

However, the BLSG district is not only a larger district, but also a more populated one, with thousands of visitors flocking to Lake Dunmore and Fern Lake at this time each year. “(The appeal) is not going to lead to the BLSG not using adulticide,” Little acknowledged, “but based on talking to folks in the area, there are lots of things the DEC can do to improve the impacts.”

Little said that the appellants would also like to see a more thorough evaluation of impact the pesticides have on non-target organisms, meaning other insects that are not mosquitos, and fish and wildlife, as well as public health.

Currently, there is a BLSG policy for property owners to opt out of spraying, creating “no spray zones” near organic farms or near property owners with health problems that may be exacerbated by the adulticide. They must submit their request in writing, and requests must be submitted each year.

OFFENSE VS. DEFENSE When the appeal was first filed, it was filed against ANR, which the district thought would defend the case and pay the legal costs on the district’s behalf. But ANR attorney Hannah Smith said in a phone interview Monday that that was never the case.

“The state will participate in this

case,” she said. The object is to ensure that the court interprets our regulations the way we interpret them.”

When asked if ANR would have ever fought the case and funded the defense on the BLSG’s behalf, she said no.

“We wouldn’t be able to do that,” she said. “We’re not able to fund private litigation. We don’t have the budget or the ability to provide funding for the defense of a permit.

The state has entered a notice of appearance.”

SUPPORT The BLSG is slowly trying to inform the paying member towns in the district about the litigation.

Lawton said they are hoping the towns will issue letters of support on the district’s behalf.

Jeff Whiting is vice-chair of the

BLSG Board.

“It’s turning out to be a long, drawn out process,” he said. “Who knows what will happen? We may see additional regulation placed on us and it cost the towns more money, and we’ll have to do more documentation, which is man hours and cost.”

Mathis agreed.

“A lot of people are saying, ‘I wish they’d follow the law,’” he said, “and we are following the law. Everything is documented, documented, documented” There is a conference call scheduled in this case with the Environmental Court on Aug. 27,at 9 a.m.

The BLSG meets on the third Thursday of each month at the Stephen A. Douglas House in Brandon at 7 p.m.

TOWN OF STARKSBORO SELECTBOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED TOWN PLAN

Real Estate 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.

Wallace Realty 48 Mountain Terrace Bristol, VT 05443 PH: 802-453-4670 • Fax 802-453-5898 Visit our websites at: www.wallacere.com www.greenbuiltvermont.com

Kelly

Claire

Tom

Please call Kelly, Claire, or Tom

The Starksboro Selectboard will hold a public hearing at the Robinson Elementary School multi-purpose room on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. The purpose of the hearing is to receive public comment on the proposed final draft of the Town Plan. The public is invited and encouraged to attend. The hearing of the Town Plan will be held pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4384. This notice is provided pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §4444.

The Town Plan is used as a basis for guiding planning efforts in Starksboro. The plan will also be used as review criteria in Act 250 and other State regulatory proceedings. All areas in the Town of Starksboro are affected.

Topic areas for discussion to include: 1. Introduction – overview, vision, goals 2. About the Plan – planning, compatibility, consistency 3. About Starksboro – history, community resources, natural resources 4. Community Plan – housing, education, land use, and more 5. Energy Plan (new appendix) Copies of the proposed Town Plan are available for review at the Town Clerk’s office and on the town’s website: www.starksborovt.org. Comments can be submitted in advance via mail to PO Box 91, Starksboro, VT 05487. Interested persons are invited to attend the hearing and submit comments. For further information, please contact the Selectboard Chair Koran Cousino at kcousino@starksborovt.org or Zoning Administrator Rebecca Elder at rebecca@starksborovt.org or (802) 453-2639.

Rebecca Elder Administrative Officer Dated: August 15, 2018

August 20 Puzzle Solutions

6 4 5 1 7 9 2 3 8

8/20

TOWN OF FERRISBURGH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT

A public hearing before the Zoning Board of Adjustment of the Town of Ferrisburgh will be held at the Town Clerk’s Office on Wednesday September 5, 2018 to consider the following applications and other business: 7:00 PM Open meeting.

7:05 PM Application # 18-081 (Moore) for approval for short-term rental of condo; property ID # 14/01/36.1B; 1335 Sand Road; RA-5 and CON-25 district; conditional use permit in the RA-5 and Conservation District.

7:15 PM Application # 18-084 (Knights) to renovate a dock; property ID # 07/01/02; 122 Trails End; conditional use permit in the Shoreland District.

7:30 PM Application # 18-086 (Kowalski) to roof and screen a deck; property ID # 13/01/40; 242 Button Bay Lane; conditional use permit in the Shoreland District.

7:40 PM Application # 18-089 (Lackey) to enclose part of a screened porch to add a bathroom; property ID # 99.99.99.078; 108 South Road; conditional use permit in the Shoreland District.

7:50 PM Application # 18-091 (Palmer) to increase size of shed; property ID # 99.99.99.011; 114 Annex Road; conditional use permit in the Shoreland District.

8:00 PM Other Business.

The above applications are available for inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office.

Persons wishing to appear and be heard may do so in person or be represented by an agent or an attorney.

PLEASE NOTE: Participation in the local proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

Communications about the above applications may be filed in writing with the Board or at such hearing.

8/20

1

S

14

2

9 3 2 5 8 6 4 7 1 3

8 1 7 4 3 2 9 5 6

4

A M O

5

C

E

R

B

L

A

S

T

B

K

I

S

S

20

25

S

31

26

A

27

L

28

E

A

R

A

R

F

I

N

A

E

L

K

38 41

47

B

54

48

A

49

S

E

R

S

S

O

S

L

22

32

A V

I

E

L

D

R

A W

I

D

I

T

55

I

21

23

U M S

29

P

33

A

L

N

18

L

42

E

E

9

U

T

E

I

S

S

E

A

L

L

I

V

S

39

51

A

N G

34

62

45

S

56

I

O

E

N

O R G

Y

T

67

E

1 5 9 3 2 8 6 4 7

11

12

O M A

16

13

N

M E

S

A

L

E

A

S

T

I

G N

E

E

O

A

T

S

19

24

O N

S 35

36

E

S

S M E

N

T

O

S

R

E

Y

H O

S

E

43

52

53

G N A

I

40

P

46

57

S

N O

37

R

M O

T

64

30

4 7 8 9 6 5 3 1 2 10

C O T

O

E

8

N O

S

G O R

R

T

H

66

15

7

2 6 3 7 1 4 8 9 5

U

P

63

A

5 9 6 2 4 1 7 8 3 N

A

61

3 2 1 8 9 7 5 6 4

C O R

44 50

6

A

A

17

7 8 4 6 5 3 1 2 9

58

T

59

E

S

60

N

C

L

O

S

E

K

A

R

A

T

S

T

R

U

T

65 68

PAGE 40 — Addison Independent, Monday, August 20, 2018