MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 26 No. 37
Middlebury, Vermont
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Monday, November 24, 2014
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36 Pages
75¢
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By  JOHN  FLOWERS ADDISON  COUNTY  —  With  the  thermometer  now  consistently  dipping  below  the  freezing  mark,  Addison  County  residents  of  limited  PHDQV KDYH EHHQ ¿ULQJ XS WKHLU IXU- naces  and  wood  stoves  with  the  hope  that  they  won’t  run  out  of  fuel  before  WKH HQG RI WKH ZLQWHU $QG YDULRXV state  and  local  organizations  are  of- fering  programs  to  make  sure  frigid  temperatures  don’t  claim  any  victims  GXULQJ WKH IULJLG PRQWKV DKHDG
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Southern  migration GEESE  FLY  OVER  the  Dead  Creek  Wildlife  Management  Area  in  Addison  last  Thursday.  Thousands  of  geese  have  been  moving  through  the  area  over  the  last  few  weeks  as  they  make  their  way  to  warmer  climates  for  the  winter. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell
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New  sales  model  could  help artists  and  charities  alike By  ZACH  DESPART MIDDLEBURY  —  The  United  Way  of  Ad- dison  County  has  teamed  up  with  a  Lincoln  artist  for  a  new  kind  of  collaboration  that  will  EHQH¿W ERWK WKH FKDULW\ DQG WKH ORFDO DUW VFHQH Local  artists  said  it’s  a  model  that  could  help  WKHP DQG WKDW RWKHU FKDULWLHV VKRXOG DGRSW The  project,  said  the  county’s  United  Way  Development  and  Marketing  Director  Nancy  Luke,  came  from  a  desire  to  involve  more  lo- FDO UHVRXUFHV LQ IXQGUDLVLQJ GULYHV ,Q SUHYLRXV \HDUV WKH QRQSUR¿W ZRXOG VHOO FDUGV IURP WKH 8QLWHG :D\œV QDWLRQDO RI¿FH WKDW XVHG VWRFN SKRWRV RQ WKH IURQW /XNH VDLG
the  Addison  County  branch  staff  decided  to  reach  out  to  local  artists  to  use  their  art  on  the  IURQW RI WKH FDUGV “We  thought  it  would  be  really  fun  to  have  something  that’s  local  that  people  in  our  com- munity  could  relate  to,  and  it  just  snowballed  IURP WKHUH ´ /XNH VDLG The  United  Way  reached  out  to  Reed  Prescott,  a  painter  who  lives  in  Lincoln  and  owns  the  Verde  Mountain  gallery  on  Bristol’s  0DLQ 6WUHHW 3UHVFRWW DFFHSWHG DQG KH DQG WKH charity  worked  out  a  unique  arrangement  that  ZRXOG EH PXWXDOO\ EHQHÂżFLDO (See  Collaboration,  Page  23)
Middlebury  church  goes  ‘green’  with  pellet  boiler  system By  JOHN  FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY  —  It  was  around  1904  that  the  ODWH &RO 6LODV ,OVOH\ ² WKH &LYLO :DU YHWHUDQ ZKRVH name  graces  Middlebury’s  Ilsley  Public  Library  —  pledged  $75,000  to  erect  the  resplendent  Memorial  Baptist  Church  building  that  stands  proudly  at  97  6RXWK 3OHDVDQW 6W More  than  a  century  later,  congregation  members  have  invested  two-Âand-Âa-Âhalf  times  the  church’s  original  construction  price  in  order  to  endow  it  (See  Pellet  system,  Page  17)