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One district to rule them all Passing of Act 46 transforms CSSU into Champlain Valley School District Geeda Searfoorce THE CHARLOTTE NEWS

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hether voters in Charlotte, Hinesburg, Shelburne, St. George and Williston knew it or not when they voted on June 7 to consolidate under one unified district, they became part of the largest statewide education reorganization in the past 125 years. Act 46, which passed in all five towns of CSSU to create the Champlain Valley School District, is designed with an overarching goal to reduce the number of Vermont’s existing school districts by half.

The impetus for the change, which has been actively supported by Shap Smith, Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, is ostensibly to offer students from smaller communities more access to programs in neighboring larger communities and to provide tax relief in the face of declining enrollment and increasing costs.

In Charlotte, which had the highest voter

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participation of all five towns, proponents tout the savings that a streamlined structure will impart, along with enhanced student opportunities. Detractors caution that unification jeopardizes local control and leaves CCS vulnerable to closure.

Some community members deride the tactics with which the state has rolled out the initiative. “I do not like to be bribed or bullied,” Charlotter Jorden Blucher wrote on Front Porch Forum, in response to the incentivized pitch that the state has made for Act 46, through which communities can vote yes to unification and get tax breaks or say no and lose a portion of their school funding and risk being assigned into a merger by the state.

By voting yes and meeting the state’s July 1, 2016, deadline for maximizing state financial incentives, homestead taxpayers will receive a 10-cent reduction per $100 of assessed value. Then it would drop to 8 cents, 6 cents, 4 cents and 2 cents in subsequent years. In addition, the state will make available a grant of $150,000 to help pay for transition costs.

On July 7, 2017, the new governance structure of the Champlain Valley School District will become fully operational, and the seven boards of CSSU will be replaced with one 12-member board overseeing the unified district, with one blended tax rate adjusted for Common Level of Appraisal see Act 46, page 5

The forgotten history of mass shootings in America Rev. Dr. Arnold Isidore Thomas CONTRIBUTOR

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he most recent tragedy of gun violence in America occurred early Sunday morning, June 12, 2016 at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Most of the 49 victims were gays and lesbians of Latino/ Latina heritage. The incident was an act of terrorism, homophobic hatred, and ethnic bigotry, and has been listed as the worse mass shooting to date in American history.

But, however tragic it may be, it is not the worst mass shooting in our nation, and to record it as such underscores the tendency of our nation to ignore or forget the many mass shootings it has directed against minorities in defense of its own racial and ethnic policies of white supremacy.

How quickly we forget the three-day

draft riots of New York City in July of 1863, where working class whites, initially rallying against a law that allowed affluent white men to pay for black substitutes to fight in their place during the Civil War, turned their anger against the black population of the city killing at least 120 people.

How quickly we forget the Massacre at Wounded Knee where soldiers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry surrounded and indiscriminately killed at least 150 men, women and children of the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890.

How quickly we forget the week-long Rosewood Massacre in which the entire see MASS ShootingS, page 7

Scott stops in at Spear’s

Lieutenant Governor and Gubernatorial Candidate Phil Scott visited Charlotte on Tuesday, June 14, to talk about his vision for the state with community members.

He discussed the importance of the economy and how the state need a culture change around business development. “We have a bit of a reputation for being anti-business and I don’t think that needs to be the case,” he said. “There could be a balance between business and the economy and our way of life. We certainly need to protect our traditional [land] uses whether they be agricultural or forestry. We need to protect our way of life, but at the same time recognize we need manufacturing and other sectors of economic growth. It’s about becoming better partners.” From left to right: Carrie Spear, Adam Spell, Phil Scott, Moe Harvey, Steve Mack and Robert Mack. PHOTO: ALEX BUNTEN

New day and time for library book sale This year’s Friends of the Charlotte Library book sale will move to Sunday, July 10, with expanded hours.

You’ll find our usual tent on the renovated Town Green with a wonderful assortment of books at great bargain prices. Various food vendors will join us on the green to provide sustenance for hungry book browsers.

As always, your donations of books make the book sale the success it is.

To help us uphold our reputation for having the best quality used books around, please follow the guidelines below. More info on page 18.

*Party, people!* Save the date: The Charlotte Community Beach Party is on Saturday, July 16 at 5 p.m. Local food, music, paddleboards and neighbors! More info on page 18.

Dear Charlotters, My resignation from the Charlotte Central School Board of Directors will take effect at midnight on the date of distribution of this issue of The Charlotte News: June 16, 2016.

The reader should not interpret this as some sort of protest. Had I been going to resign in protest over something or other that would have happened a couple decades ago. This is a simple acknowledgement of the marked disparities between my perspective on education and the perspective which will determine the course of events going forward.

A somewhat humorous footnote: I’m not really sure what I’m resigning from. Neither is anyone else. The consolidated board and our local board will co-exist for some time with respective duties to be determined.

Whatever those duties may turn out to be, directors Beal, Martin, McDermott and Nostrand will attend to the details of transition well.

Thank you for allowing me to have been part of the process for so many years.

Sincerely, Clyde E. Baldwin

Extensive Seguin Bridge repairs set to close Roscoe Road crossing until November

Mel Huff CONTRIBUTOR

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istoric bridges require maintenance, and the Seguin Bridge— the “upper” covered bridge on Roscoe Road in Charlotte—is no exception. The most recent work on the bridge was in

2014 after a VTrans assessment found extensive insect damage along the entire length of the top chord of the downstream truss. The town authorized treating it for carpenter ants and powder post beetles.

Although this helped contain the damage to the exemplary kingpost Burr Arch bridge, larger structural issues were yet to be addressed.

This week, Blow & Cote, Inc. of Morrisville, which won the bid, plans to begin repairs that will close the bridge and part of Roscoe Road until mid-October or November 2016. The reconstruction

will cost $431,048, but the town’s share, according to Selectman Fritz Tegatz, will be only about $2,000. That’s because the bridge is enrolled in the Vermont Historic Bridge Program, a partnership for preserving and maintaining the invaluable structures.

But what’s the problem with it? It looks fine.

Joseph C. Nelson, president of the Vermont Covered Bridge Society and author of Spanning Time: Vermont’s Covered Bridges, noted “recent damage” to the bridge in 2011. “At least three knee

braces were broken out, and all of the rest had damage of some sort, ranging from cracks to paint transfer from an apparently over-height vehicle,” he wrote in a Wikipedia entry.

In addition to the extensive insect damage documented in 2013, VTrans also reported a fracture in the bottom chord of the downstream truss and said the floor beams, flooring and siding appeared worn.

The repair plan VTrans developed will be implemented over the next six months. see Seguin Bridge, page 8

Crossword & Sudoku 13 • Senior Center News 16 • Library News 17 • Community Events 18 • Around Town 19

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“This, too, shall pass.”

Kali Adams OUTGOING OUTWATER INTERN

The lapse of time is something we assume we can measure. We build seconds into minutes, collect minutes into hours, somehow forming days, months, years.

You can’t measure time as the conglomeration of satisfaction.

Last October, I began my internship at TCN. As a freshman, I was overjoyed to have been chosen for the position. Writing, having grown from a hobby to a passion, is a career path I wish to pursue. Journalism seemed like a natural extension of that interest. Little did I realize that there is considerably more than writing in producing a newspaper.

A few days into my internship, I joined the staff for a consultation meeting. Within a few hours my knowledge of how a newspaper functioned broadened substantially.

I was handed a pack of Post-it notes and given the job of note keeper. I had to hastily digest production schedules, task management and labor assignments. When we finished, a relatively cohesive spread lay in front of us, diagramming the working fundamentals of TCN. I remember looking at it, amazed at the complex world of journalism that I had just been drawn into.

Here was the biweekly schedule, planned out in front of me, that would become the constant rhythm of my internship.

Though writing was what drew me to The News, there was plenty more to fuel my interests, mainly the Archive Project.

If anything, I am a history nerd. When I arrived, the archive was hardly more than a few boxes scattered in the back room and an aspiration in Alex’s mind. I acquainted myself with the ramshackle physical archive, along with the existing digital copies. Right at my fingertips, I had a comprehensive history of modern Charlotte. It was through the archive that I began to understand the dynamics of the town, political and social. Not only that, but a loyalty and compassion for a town I had barely acknowledged before my internship grew within me.

To say it was entrancing is a mild statement. The first time Alex proposed a published archive page, I spent the afternoon holed up in the back room pulling pieces for the paper. I spent more than the afternoon there, actually. When I checked a clock many hours later, afternoon had turned into evening and I had long completed my shift at TCN. I had been so intrigued by all the history that I had forgotten there was a world outside of my little archival retreat.

As the archive progressed, I found myself amidst a flurry of PDFs, storage dilemmas and indexing. We had to decide what our goal for the archive was, other than making it accessible to the public. Did we want to cooperate with the Charlotte

Are you passionate about learning?

Do you enjoy writing?

Are you interested in journalism?

Tips for TCN interns 1. InDesign may be a confusing program, but on production day it’s much more interesting than proofreading. Learn it well and use it wisely.

2. There is no better place to meet Charlotters than at Town Meeting. I recommend attending it, even if it means skipping school.

3. Editorial meetings rarely go as planned. Be prepared for amusing digressions.

4. The office plants are to be doted upon. So are the dogs.

5. Yes, photos for the website may take five minutes to load. Have patience with the poor computers…

6. …except when they completely screw up Dropbox. Then feel free to bang your head in agony.

7. When proofreading, learn the style guide well. Be conscious that some of it is still up for debate and may change at any moment.

8. Chocolate pie will likely never come. I commend you if you’re there for that achievement.

9. If you start asking a billion questions outside the office, you’re well on your way to becoming a journalist.

10. Of course I have to end this with the archive. The project itself teaches you many valuable skills, and I recommend you get involved with the endeavor.

Library to form a greater archive? Where would we store the newspapers once we acquired all of them? How could we build support for the project?

Archival work was hardly my only task at TCN. Among others, I’ve managed to learn how to update the website without sending Facebook into a tizzy, proofread for hours on end, re-format articles for editing and layout the paper without getting too hung up over color schemes.

Writing, oddly, ended up being less of a focus than I had originally thought. Still, I’ve acquired many useful journalism skills, including conducting interviews, forming coherent sentences that mostly match the style guide and tracking down obscure personas (Thanks, Charlie Lotz).

Being an intern taught me that a primary characteristic of a journalist is fearlessness in approaching people, a challenge for an introvert. TCN has helped to kindle that trait in me, something I believe will be useful for the rest of my life.

One of my last days consisted of, naturally, working with the archive. As I reviewed our PDF collection, I noticed that the profile or political pieces that usually interested me weren’t catching my attention. Instead, I consciously read through the farewell articles other TCN staff members had composed.

It hit me then, all my experiences at TCN tumbling back. I abruptly realized that I would soon be formulating my own farewell address. My own words would one day be the ones that someone would casually find in the archive.

“This, too, shall pass.”

I had grown up taking that proverb cautiously, feeling that change was something to be feared rather than embraced.

My experiences at TCN altered that.

Change, I now realize, is what has helped me grow from a girl who preferred figuring out problems for herself to actively asking people for help. Change has

brought along someone who’s confident in her writing abilities but also assured that she has skills to apply to whatever field interests her. It brings along compassion for a community and for its diligent local newspaper, surpassing even that of her own town. It’s what takes those disordered archive boxes into organized binders and is what will hopefully bring the completed archive online for all to enjoy. Change is, after all, what runs a newspaper—for if nothing ever changed, what would we have to write about?

Here’s to a changing of the guard, to the next intern who will hopefully take away all that I have from this experience.

If you answered YES to any (or all) of these questions, The Charlotte News wants YOU to be the next Outwater Intern.

Be inspired to...

• Explore local history • Meet new people • Learn about community journalism • Think outside the box The Charlotte News is looking for a motivated, news-savvy fall semester intern with strong writing skills and a natural curiosity about the local area. Candidates should be creative, outgoing, dependable and comfortable in a fast-paced environment. A driver’s license and access to a car

are highly desirable.

This is a 10-15 hour per week position that will start at the end of July and run through the end of December.

Interns who finish their working commitments will be paid a modest stipend on a per issue basis. The position can be extended for suitable candidates. The position will be open until filled. Email a letter of motivation to Alex Bunten at news@thecharlottenews.org.

Stipends for this internship were made possible by a generous donation from Alice D. Outwater, and in memory of her husband, John Outwater.

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Editorial Staff news@thecharlottenews.org / 425-4949 Editor in chief: Alex Bunten Assistant editor: Geeda Searfoorce Contributing editors: Edd Merritt, Ruah Swennerfelt, Jorden Blucher, John Hammer Copy editors: Beth Merritt, Leslie Botjer, Vince Crockenberg, Carol Hanley Outwater intern: Kali Adams

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Board Members President: Vince Crockenberg Secretary: John Hammer Treasurer: Patrice Machavern Board members: Bob Bloch, Carol Hanley, Gay Regan, Louisa Schibli

Contributors

Clyde E. Baldwin, Elizabeth Bassett, Stephen C. Brooks, Nicole Conley, Larry Hamilton, Mel Huff, Jeff Martin, Alice D. Outwater, Ph.D., Kerrie Pughe, Rev. Dr. Arnold Isidore Thomas, Lee Wiseman, M.D., Margaret Woodruff, Mike Yantachka

On the Cover

A bove: CVU graduates let their mortar boards fly at graduation.

Photo: Josh Flore M iddle: Rick and Rik at The Little Garden Market had some interesting visitors last week.

Rik said of the occasion:“When Ben and Jerry opened their first ice cream store in the old gas station in downtown Burlington, I had a waterbed store called Emerald City a block away. In conjunction with Crispin Leather on College Street, we sponsored summertime weekly films projected on the wall of the building next door. It set a standard. When they visit the Little Garden Market on the Ferry Road, it’s always a splendid reunion—friends and neighbors for 40 years.”

Photo: Courtesy bottoM: CCS Jazz Band takes a bow outside Burlington City Hall after their hour long concert at the Discover Jazz Festival on June 7. Photo: Nan Boffa

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After Orlando By now, you’ve been inundated with photos and information about the gruesome events in Orlando, Florida. You’ve heard the terrifying accounts, about the man who “pledged allegiance to ISIS,� about the man who hated so deeply that he chose to end 49 lives and injure countless others, taking his place at the top of the “mass shootings in America� list.

More so than the fact that this is so easily possible in the U.S.—a civilian buying an assault rifle—what shakes me is that it happens so often. (See New York Times list here: goo.gl/ekYqYZ.) If it were rare, we might be able to grieve and move on. But it’s not. Looking over the list, mass shootings happen with alarming frequency— one or more every year.

It would be easy to blame ISIS/terrorism and forces of evil beyond our control, but looking down the list of mass shootings over the last 10 years, connections to terrorism are infrequent at best. Many seem to want to blame Islam. But that would be like judging the peaceful nature of Christianity

by the actions of the KKK—small groups of barbaric sociopaths shouldn’t define entire belief systems.

It’d also be easy to blame guns. But as residents of a state with one of the highest gun ownership rates in the country and one of the lowest gun violence rates, Vermonters embody the complicated nature of the argument. However, in reading both sides, I’ve come across the “well-armed populace� angle from the pro-gun lobby a few times and have to wonder: has there ever been an incident where an armed civilian has shot, or stopped, an active shooter?

I don’t have the answers, but really want to know what is so wrong in our society that this happens so often.

Our thoughts are with the family and friends of those affected by this tragedy.

Alex Bunten Editor in Chief

Letters to the Editor Regarding cheese Editor: On occasion, it occurs to each of us that we have become possessed of some news or intelligence worthy of broadcast. This steak, egg and potato eater promises that carnivores and most other type diet devotees will not be disappointed with the following report.

The story begins with Vermont Creamery proprietors Allison Hooper and Bob Reese (pictured right). Not many years ago, while attending a conference with colleagues, they discovered a Greek goat-milk feta recipe that compelled them to incorporate it into their product line.

Notably, it requires absolutely fresh goat milk and very low-salt brine. You will be interested to know that it is available in Vermont.

However, discovery and availability of this remarkable product is no small matter for its likely customers. First, it is the only product in the Vermont Creamery line that is not end-packaged for retail stores. It is available only in wholesale six-pound tubs filled with brine. This means that most Vermont Creamery product retailers skip it on their stocking orders so as to forego the labor-intensive task of further packaging.

Second, because the delicate nature of goat feta requires an ongoing brine bath, the retailer’s task is all that more onerous.

Net result: you don’t know about it and you can’t find it. A tragedy!

The good news is that the people in

charge at The Old Brick Store are attentive listeners. Lo and behold, there lies the heavenly product in translucent, sealed-top, round containers, including the specialty brine, behind display glass in the refrigerated deli case. “Heavenly� is the correct characterization. You’ll dispense the usual proclivity to stop eating after a few bites of a fine, rich food. This Vermont Creamery Goat Milk Feta is so astonishingly light and sweet (not from sugar) that you will likely witness an uncontrollable number of arcs-through-the-air of your little sterling appetizer fork sending petite bites to your mouth. Right-out-of-the-tub.

Better than ice cream, English muffins, smoked trout or anything collected in the woods by hand. And never mind about the cost; of more serious consequence is that you will never again be happy in the world of feta‌unless it is this one.

Stephen C. Brooks Charlotte

Legislative Report

by Representative Mike Yantachka

The veto-override session When the Legislature adjourns at the end of the session it sets a date for a return, if needed, to consider any vetoes the governor might make. The decision to consider overriding a veto is at the Legislature’s discretion. This year, Governor Shumlin vetoed two bills, H.518, which added four members to the Clean Water Fund Board, and S.230, which provided a process for towns to obtain “substantial deference� for siting energy projects and tasked the Public Service Board to develop sound standards for large wind projects and use emergency rule-making to set temporary standards in the interim. The governor had four reasons for vetoing S.230, based in part on legal opinions from the PSB and his staff regarding several parts of the bill: Emergency rule-making is only used when there is imminent threat to public health or safety. The original intent of the language was to create an expedited rule making process, but it was never intended as a statement regarding a threat to public health or safety.

The criteria specified for the temporary sound standards stated that they should be no higher than the lowest level in any existing Certificate of Public Good (CPG).

We believed the Lowell standard of 30-dba indoors and 45-dba outdoors to be the lowest level. However, a backyard 100 kw turbine in Vergennes has a sound-level limit in its CPG that no larger turbine could ever meet, effectively creating a moratorium on all wind projects in Vermont.

The CPG for each renewable energy project would need to be filed with the municipal clerk as part of the deed to the property. This would require municipalities as well as thousands of property owners with small solar to incur an unnecessary expense.

Finally, $300,000 had originally been in the bill to be used to assist regional planning commissions and towns to implement the planning process to get their “substantial deference� by the PSB for energy projects. This section was inadvertently left out of the final bill during negotiations between the House and Senate on the last day of the session.

Senator Chris Bray, chair of the Senate Natural Resources Committee, quickly drafted a substitute bill that addressed the

Sunset on Vermont’s legislative session.

PHOTO: ALEX BUNTEN

Governor’s objections. This bill, S.260, kept the expedited rule-making process but disconnected it from the “emergency� standard. It also created two classes for wind projects—one below 500kw and one above—and made the “no higher than� requirement based on the lowest level set for each class. Third, it limited the requirement for recording the CPG with the deed to systems greater than 15 kw. Finally, it restored the missing $300,000 for energy planning purposes. The Senate quickly passed S.260 on a bipartisan vote of 27 to 2. After a very long day and many failed attempts to suspend rules and take action, the bill passed on a voice vote in the House just after 9 p.m.

I can be reached by phone (802233-5238) or by email (myantachka. dfa@gmail.com), and you can find this article and past articles at my website: MikeYantachka.com.

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Act 46

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in each town.

During the year of transition, the newly formed board will begin working on the budget for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. A single budget for the operations of a coordinated Pre K–12 system will be presented to voters on Town Meeting Day in March of 2017. “We are definitely figuring things out in anticipation of the work ahead of us,” CSSU Superintendent Elaine Pinckney wrote in an email to all of the districts’ principals and current board members.

Pinckney will assume the same role in the consolidated district.

How this statewide restructuring will ultimately affect Vermont’s schools, which are some of the smallest and have the lowest student-to-teacher ratio in the country, remains to be seen. Ensuring that local input can be actively heard in a newly consolidated district will be an issue in the coming months and years. Whether or not a system is developed during this transition year or after the new board begins meeting next July, community members are hesitant to embrace this shift fully, though they’re not without hope.

cSSU Act 46 vote reSUltS by town: Charlotte: 403 Yes, 244 No Hinesburg: 257 Yes, 122 No Shelburne: 533 Yes, 91 No Williston: 404 Yes, 223 No St. George: 64 Yes, 19 No

chAmplAin vAlley School DiStrict boArD memberS by town: (2) Charlotte: Erik Beal, Mark McDermott (2) Hinesburg: Colleen MacKinnon, Keith Roberts (3) Shelburne: Dave Connery, Russ Caffry, Tim Williams (1) St. George: Kelly Bowen, alternate Eric Hunter (4) Williston: Kevin Mara, Karen Maklad, Jeanne Jensen, Gene McCue

cvSD ADminiStrAtion Elaine Pinckney (Superintendent) Bob Mason (COO) Megan Roy (Student Services) Sandy Raymond (Executive Assistant, Board Secretary)

Charlotte Beach park has new trees Larry Hamilton

Contact: geeda@thecharlottenews.org

CONTRIBUTOR

Watch out for dry hydrant work The Charlotte Fire Department will be out this summer and fall maintaining the dry hydrants in town. The maintenance will include flushing and drafting, clearing trees, grass and brush from them so they are visible and accessible and painting and color coding them by size. If you have a dry hydrant on or near your property, the

fire department would like to ask for your help in keeping it clear and accessible by cutting trees and branches and/or clearing brush from them so they are visible from the road and accessible.

As always, if there are any questions or concerns, please call the fire station at 425-3111.

A more welcoming and pleasant environment for kids and parents alike at the children’s playground has been created recently with the planting of nine shade trees. This project was suggested by Selectboard member Carrie Spear, who was concerned about the heat factor of the playground equipment and lack of shade except close to the woods. Thanks to this, a shade tree project was conceived, and funds were found in the form of a generous gift by Alice Outwater to the Charlotte Tree Fund. Alice (the same wonderful person supporting interns at The Charlotte News) was delighted with the project proposal.

This gift enabled the Tree Team to use larger trees than normal in order to obtain shading sooner. Susan Smith, deputy tree warden, did most of the implementation.

On Tuesday late afternoon, the last day in May, a small dedication ceremony was held next to a sycamore planted to shade a park bench (the other eight trees are native

red maples). The ceremony, conducted by Larry Hamilton, was intended to honor the three women who played such key roles in the project and turn over the stewardship of the trees to the Charlotte Recreation Commission. Unfortunately neither Carrie nor Sue was able to attend. Participants (pictured above) included Alice Outwater, Lane Morrison (Selectboard chair), Dean Block (town administrator), Bill Fraser-Harris (chair of the Recreation Commission), Greg Smith (Recreation Commission member), Linda Hamilton (Cemetery Commission), Mark Dillenbeck (deputy tree warden) and Larry Hamilton (tree warden) .

Symbolic ladles of water were given by all to the sycamore (above right) with the instructions to “grow and thrive.” One of the beach park attendants, Emma Slater of Charlotte, has volunteered to water the trees through this critical dry period.

Thanks to all tree huggers concerned!

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Knit one, purl peace World Wide Knit Day is June 18, and Peace Pod-Shelburne has its skeins at the ready. From 10 a.m. until 12 noon, on the lawn of the United Methodist Church on Church Street in Shelburne, across from the Farmer’s Market, the group welcomes the public to its gathering. In addition to people knitting and crocheting together, tables will showcase samples, feature finger hand knitting instruction for children and host a raffle of an item donated by Jabo and Belles: Handmade.

Formed in January at the Pierson Library, Peace Pod-Shelburne gathers to make things for Knitting4Peace, a grassroots organization dedicated to crafting hope, healing and peace one stitch at a time through nonviolent compassionate action. Begun by Susan McKee in 2004, Knitting4Peace is committed to the well-being of women, children and families. The members consider themselves nonviolent revolutionaries—armed with the power of prayer, the skills of their hands and the care in their hearts—united in a compassionate fight for hope, healing, justice and peace.

Contact Bradie Hansen at bradiehansen@gmail.com for more information about Peace Pod-Shelburne and find info about Knitting4Peace at knitting4peace.org.

highway Matters

Easement facilitates Preston expansion, permits allow for bike and swim races John Hammer THE CHARLOTTE NEWS

Charlotte Conservation Fund

Lexi Hall (above top) wears her handiwork at the recent Peace Pod-Shelburne gathering. Displaying some of the crafts she has made, Jennifer Fielder (above bottom) can’t help but grin. (below) Members of Peace Pod-Shelburne enjoy doing what they love for a good cause.

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The June 13 Selectboard meeting was packed with important and work-aday items. The most interesting of these was the allocation of $90,000 from the Charlotte Conservation Fund. This money will be used for a conservation easement on 101 acres at the NW intersection of Guinea and One Mile Roads. The easement will facilitate the purchase of the parcel by Ward and Dylan Preston who will use the land to establish and expand their hay and beef cattle business. The cost, totaling $599,400, will be covered by a number of sources including the Vermont Housing Conservation Board, the Charlotte Land Trust, The Town of Charlotte, and a healthy ‘value donation’

by Clark Hinsdale, the seller. Successful sale will be contingent on VHCB approval of funding and includes a trail easement.

This property is an agricultural project containing up to 97% of prime and excellent soil types and is designed to get more young farmers started in Charlotte. The sale allows for the continuation of generations of the Preston family involvement in the town. Selectman Spell, speaking in support of the deal, encouraged Dylan to become involved in the town, as he represents the future. The action met with wide approval and applause from the audience.

The Selectboard went on to formally approve the allocation of $10,000 from the Conservation Fund to cover the application for conservation of the clay plain forest portion of the Burns property. The conservation of this land was approved at the May 23 Selectboard meeting. This will leave approximately $450,000 in the Conservation Fund, sufficient to cover any anticipated conservation land deals for the coming year.

In another Burns Property action, the Selectboard granted Mack Farms, Inc. a five-year agricultural lease in exchange for a payment of $375 a year. The lease had been agreed on in principle at the May 23 meeting and required some additional modifying language.

The FY 2017 paving bid was accepted from Pike Industries for the price of $56.40 per ton.

Dan Morris was granted a Highway Access permit for a new residential driveway at 904 Mount Philo Road. This is on the west side of the road just south of its intersection with Lime Kiln Road.

Permission was granted for the running of the Juvenile Diabetes Ride to Cure to be held on Saturday, July 9. The ride will include about 200 riders who will be working their way from the Burlington Hilton to Middlebury and back along a route following North Greenbush to Lake, thence on Ferry to turn south on South Greenbush. The ride will have a rest stop at the Charlotte Town Beach Ball Field. It will be the 7th year that they have ridden through Charlotte.

In a not-so-related action, the Selectboard gave restricted permission to use the town beach for the Lake Champlain Open Water Swim Race on Sunday September 11 with a rain date of September 18. This will be the third race run from Essex, NY to the Charlotte Town Beach. Officials are expecting from 60 to 80 swimmers who will swim from approximately 10:30 a.m. to between noon and 2:30 p.m. The race gives grants to the Lake Champlain Clean-up Fund and the organizers agreed to donate $100 in the name of the Town. They also agreed to pay for the fuel costs of the CVFRS rescue boats that will be used. Permission to use the beach was made contingent on the race organizers complying with all US Coast Guard guidelines.

adMinistrative aCtions A plethora of administrative actions flooded through, taking only minutes apiece. Among them was the waiving of penalties for late filers of the Homestead Declaration, the approval of Sullivan, Powers & Co. to conduct the FY 16 town audit, renewal of a $600 contract with Comfort Hill Kennels for handling and housing stray dogs, placing the Vermont State Police on the preferred vendor list and finally, signing the FY 17 contract with the Vermont State Police to provide $30,210 in policing and traffic enforcement services.

Among other matters, Fritz Tegatz was authorized to review bids for the Town’s wastewater system that serves the town offices and buildings. A number of actions have accumulated over the years and $1,200 was assigned to them in the FY 16 budget.

The next scheduled Selectboard meeting will be held on June 27 and the following meeting will be held on Thurs., July 14.

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What’s new around these parts?

Out-Doors Elizabeth Bassett CONTRIBUTOR

It wasn’t hard to find a frigid day in May, but the morning I met Lynn McNamara at Raven Ridge was March-like. Cold, damp wind cut through our jackets, and tiny rain droplets stung our cheeks. Volunteers planting gray dogwoods in the marsh shivered beneath hats and scarves.

I had come to see a new 900-foot boardwalk that will be the new access to the 365-acre preserve owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy. “One year ago this entire wetland was submerged under several feet of water,” McNamara said.

“We had to put a beaver baffle upstream of the culvert that runs beneath Rotax Road.”

The beavers have relocated to a nearby pond, and today water sluices through the culvert.

“Timber & Stone, based in East Montpelier, is building the boardwalk across the wetland,” McNamara told me, “and Vermont Youth Conservation Corps will continue trail building on higher ground this summer.” For the past few summers VYCC has built stone steps and re-routed trails at Raven Ridge.

Timber & Stone specializes in low-impact trail design and construction.

Principal Josh Ryan was hammering planks onto uprights that had been driven 3.5–4 feet into the wetland. “We used a pneumatic jack hammer with no hydraulic fluids,” Ryan said. “The cedar was salvage-logged in West Haven after an ice storm. Cedar is rot resistant so there is no need for chemicals. And of course we routed the boardwalk to avoid rare plants.”

Community generosity made these improvements to Raven Ridge possible: CVU students built a new information kiosk and UVM students collaborated on interpretive panels and maps. Donors contributed nearly $40,000 to the project.

“We have had questions about handicapped access,” McNamara said. “The preserve straddles Rotax Road, and the wetland on both sides of the road is protected. The only location for a parking lot is across the road from the bulk of the preserve. It might be possible, if we could raise the money, to build a boardwalk and viewing platform on the south side of Rotax Road that would be accessible from the parking area.”

Keep in mind, if you visit Raven Ridge, the main trail is closed from March 1 to June 15 to protect denning bobcats

and nesting ravens.

After you’ve worked up an appetite at Raven Ridge, consider a long, lazy farmto-table Italian dinner at Agricola Farm (agricolavermont.com). The 65-acre Panton farm is the vision of Italian-born Alessandra (Ale) Rellini, who breeds, raises and butchers pigs. Rellini’s specialty is charcuterie—prepared meats that begin as a pig and end up as coppa, pancetta and prosciutto, to name a few. Rellini partners with chef and forager Richard Witting to prepare monthly farm dinners year round.

Bring your barn boots if you want to see from whence your dinner comes. Our evening began in the grassy barnyard where chickens pecked around two sows suckling some 20 piglets. Inside the barn a young shearer was relieving a flock of Icelandic sheep of their winter coats, and more chickens roosted among the pipes, beams and haymow of this former dairy barn. Farm fragrances mingled with our lilac-infused sangria as Rellini showed us the porcine “maternity ward” and “love nest” and introduced us to some of her favorite mothers and Agricola’s boar, Zeus.

Back at the table we smeared dandelion and lilac butter on August First breads and opened our wine bottles (it’s BYOB at Agricola). Antipasti included grilled

zucchini-wrapped ricotta flecked with fresh mint; a bowl of olives, almonds and house-made coppa; homemade cheese that incorporated sunflowers and lemon zest; deviled eggs with orange yolks; and a plate of Vermont cheeses served with poached pears: Blue Ledge Middlebury Blue, Rowan Farm Storm, and an Italian-type cheese from Fairy Farm.

Fortunately, the meal was paced with plenty of time for conversation and digestion! I could see Rellini in the kitchen as she rolled out dough before running it through a pasta maker. While she wrestled the pasta into submission, we sipped cold Spanish bread soup garnished with sliced grapes. After another pause we sampled cannelloni stuffed with pheasant’s back mushrooms in a cream sauce. Another interlude before we cleansed our palates with a green salad before, my goodness, the main course: Agricola pork Wellington accompanied by steamed asparagus and lamb’s quarters, the latter an abundant weed in my vegetable garden. Chocolate cannelloni was the final touch.

As she delivered coffee, Rellini beamed.

“While you were dining one of our sows farrowed. After all that you have eaten tonight there are 11 more piglets at Agricola Farm than when you arrived!”

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black community of Rosewood, Florida was destroyed by racist whites in January of 1923. The unofficial death toll reached as high as 150 in some accounts.

These reminders are not attempts to diminish the atrocity of the Orlando shootings, but rather to rouse an otherwise uninformed nation out of its complicity in an age-old act of war against itself based on prejudicial fear that continues to the present day and will not end until we learn to trust and appreciate each other as equals.

It seems obvious to me that the shooter at the Orlando nightclub was motivated less by religious extremism than by homophobia, or at least by a religious extremism that incites homophobia. However, such extremism and prejudice infects many faith traditions including my own.

As an African American Christian minister, I am well aware that extremist groups who claim to be Christian (including the Ku Klux Klan) have committed crimes of mass violence on par with those of ISIS and extremists of other faith traditions, but we must not let the extremism of the few define the faith and decency of the rest of us.

I also believe that if we wish to promote decent behavior, regardless of our moral and ethical persuasions or stance on gun control, we must acknowledge that we cannot continue on the same irreconcilable path we have traveled thus far. All parties and points of view must convene to enact legislation and encourage behavior that will minimize the threat of future mass shootings among us and further the vision of the prophet Isaiah in which people will “beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they study war anymore.”

(Isaiah 2:4) Reverend Dr. Arnold Isidore Thomas is the interim senior minister at the Charlotte Congregational Church in Charlotte, Vermont.

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Scheduled renovations will address some area. The “Sequin” spelling first weight concerns. Pictured, a box truck appeared in 1974, when the bridge getting stuck in Seguin Bridge. PHOTO: VTRANS was entered in the National Register of Historic Places. Since then others Seguin Bridge have copied the misspelling.

What’s not in dispute is that the kingcontinued from page 1 post Burr Arch bridge is a masterpiece.

Gilbert Newbury, a structural engiSeguin or Sequin? neer and timber bridge expert, has noted that intricate “keys,” especially visible in Agreement about the Seguin Bridge, the Seguin Bridge, are used in the tension which was built around 1850, is hard to come connections in the bottom chords, and by, starting with its name. It’s “Seguin,” that “the elaborate roof framing systems for the Seguins who owned land in the include ‘birds-mouth’ notches in the rafters and beams. Nelson also writes, citing Newbury, “the top lateral braces are set in an elliptical shape, very difficult to do, and not copied elsewhere.”

reStoration planS Within VTrans, a Historic Bridge Preservation Committee evaluates restoration plans according to a Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Plan. The plan’s priorities are, first, “to maintain the historic use of these bridges as part of Vermont’s network of roads. The second is a desire to preserve the structural integrity of historic members of these bridges to the maximum extent possible” (historicbridges.vermont.gov/covered-bridge).

As Robert McCullough, a faculty member in the University of Vermont’s historic preservation program—and formerly the VTrans Historic Preservation Coordinator—says, “That’s the objective, to try to keep the bridge as original as you possibly can.”

The current restoration plan, designed

by John Weaver, calls for replacing both top chords with new ones an inch wider, and replacing and strengthening the floor. The plan also includes repairing the south abutment, replacing the siding and

applying fire retardant and a wood preser- term in office. vative to the untreated lumber and timber.

“There was the discussion of…what The plan was approved by the Historic those repairs would mean for the rating,” Bridge Preservation Committee. he said, “and they said the way it is right now, we would have to rate this really low trouBled water so that almost nothing could go through.

They came up with a plan for how to get the As it was in the past, the bridge is again rating higher. a locus of disagreement.

“My impression was we weren’t shootJan Lewandoski is a highly regarded ing to make it hugely different,” Russell Vermont timber framer who in 1994 did said, adding, “Mark Sargent was great— what Nelson calls “authentic” repairs to thinking outside the box!” the Seguin Bridge and in 2009 served as a The Seguin Bridge restoration is a consultant on the restoration of the Thorpe labor of love for Sargent, a seventh generbarn. ation Vermonter who grew up on the For Lewandoski, the repairs proposed Connecticut River in Fairlee. After doing

by VTrans present the potential for damage a site visit to the bridge and seeing the to the unusual overhead bracing when the carpenter ant damage, he contacted his upper chords are replaced. Lewandoski federal counterparts, got money for the expressed another concern: that raising engineering and had the bridge designed the weight limit will increase “the danger by VTrans for about $23,000—work that from those who think the bridge can now would ordinarily cost 10 times as much. take any size vehicle after its repairs.” “If it weren’t for my efforts,” he said, “this Even more serious is the risk to the roof, covered bridge would have probably been itself. “If the entire top chord is being closed by now, or within a couple of years. replaced, I expect the entire roof is coming And it would be a lengthy time until it was off.” When anything so old is taken apart, Lewandoski says, there’s a risk of damage.

Marc Cote, Blow & Cote’s president, confirmed that the plan is to remove the roof and lay it on the ground. “All we can hope now,” Lewandoski said, “is that anything doesn’t get broken, or changed for no reason. What it all comes down to is I just hope they’re The artistry of the rafters and bracing in careful.”

Seguin Bridge. PHOTO: MEL HUFF

You’ve got to carrY that weight rehabilitated.”

Mark Sargent, the project manager, says VTrans increased the weight limit at the town’s request and notes that the change from 5 to 7 tons is not an “appreciable amount.” (For context, a Prius with no passengers or luggage weighs a little more than 1.5 tons. The lightest Type C school bus—the type CCS uses—weighs around 9.75 tons. The Quinlan Bridge is rated for 16 tons.)

The idea of increasing the weight limit emerged at a meeting of Sargent and the Selectboard at the bridge. Charles Russell remembers it took place late in his last

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Sargent is confident there will be no damage to the bridge when the top is removed. He said, “John Weaver (the designer) and I are a pretty good team. We hold the contractors’ nose to the grindstone. We’re both passionate about covered bridges.”

But Lewandoski is less sanguine about the risk to the rare example of craftsmanship and early engineering imagination.

The Seguin Bridge “is one of the most intact and beautiful, oldest, well-built and sophisticated bridges in the state,” he declares. “I just fear what this upgrading will result in.”

The CharloTTe News •JuNe 16, 2016 • 9 A kayaker paddles past Charlotte Beach on a summer’s day.

Rec News by Nicole Conley

Camp hoopla! let’S put on a Show!

Charlotte BeaCh The Charlotte Beach is now open and the docks are in! The beach will be staffed from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Season passes are available to residents for $20 and to nonresidents for $40. Day passes are $3 for residents and $6 for nonresidents.

Activities at the beach include pickle ball, tennis, volleyball and soon-to-be disc golf.

Our town Beach Party will be taking place July 16 at 5 p.m. Local BBQ items will be donated for this free community event.

There will be live music, and Outdoor Gear Exchange will be present with demo kayaks and paddleboards. Please consider bringing a potluck item to complement our delicious menus items. Save the date.

Youth Summer CampS Full and partial scholarships are available for all youth recreation activities.

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Looking back at the 20152016 CCS school year Jeff Martin CCS SCHOOL BOARD

Looking back over the 2015-2016 academic year at CCS, it seems impossible to capture, even in broad strokes, all that was accomplished. Students from pre-school through 8th grade acquired experience and knowledge significantly affecting their growth and development in ways that we can only wish to comprehend.

Parents, teachers, staff, administrators, community members and, most important,

the students themselves were all integral to that process.

Of course, sustaining and improving a rich learning environment does not happen by chance. Recently, I discussed with Barbara Anne Komons-Montroll, lead principal who is completing her first year at CCS, her vision of the kind of school environment that best enhances personal growth and academic excellence. Toward this end, and in addition to other initiatives, Ms. Komons-Montroll identified three core areas in which she has been devoting significant attention: student engagement, staff engagement and engagement of the wider Charlotte community.

In the realm of student engagement, Ms. Komons-Montroll emphasized that building a strong K-8 community, fostering student leadership and building upon successful programs already in place are some of the essential elements necessary to increase student investment in their schooling experience. Examples of new

opportunities this year for students have included mixing kids of different ages and grades in hands-on exploratories that promote project-based learning, adding support to junior and senior leadership councils, and growing community-based service learning projects through local sites in Charlotte, such as the Children’s Center, the Food Shelf and the Senior Center.

In her desire to support staff engagement, Ms. Komons-Montroll pointed to goals such as creating additional opportunities to increase teacher leadership and voice, investing in professional development, staying mindful of staff morale and improving communications.

A number of new and existing opportunities were carried out this year in an effort to welcome and increase community engagement with CCS. Efforts to expand communication from the school to the wider community included regular postings on school events in Front Porch Forum, updating the school website and the increased use of blogs. Open-house events were also offered, such as the PTO Family Fun Run and Potluck BBQ, and the Grand Friends Day. There was stronger coordination and recruitment

of parent and community volunteers for a variety of tasks, including classroom participation, serving on CCS committees, mentoring students and involvement in specialized programs such as “Reading to End Racism.” In collaboration with our hard-working PTO, informational evening programs were offered on topics such as curriculum overviews, volunteer opportunities for PTO events and school consolidation.

And to engage the community in the process of envisioning where CCS is going as the future unfolds, Principal KomonsMontroll and Stephanie Sumner, CCS’s instructional leader/principal, held an evening working forum titled “Hopes and Dreams for CCS,” which garnered a wide range of exciting proposals. Those ideas, in turn, were shared with students and staff in a process that both endorsed community recommendations and generated further possibilities. While more information on this process will be forthcoming, Ms. Komons-Montroll said, “The collective vision of community, students and staff enriches our process of moving forward.

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Edd Merritt Sports Roundup Tennis, lacrosse and track – how sweet it is!

Three state championship trophies for CVU will be added to the school’s trophy case this year, competing for space the ones already there. Women’s tennis, men’s lacrosse and men’s track took top team honors for the Redhawks in Vermont’s Division I. Playing on its home courts in Davis Park, Shelburne, the Redhawk women tennis players were stretched to the limit by South Burlington. Saving the best for last, Kathy Joseph, three-time singles champ, did not take the court until six previous matches had been played, and she proceeded to place her shots hard, low and just inside the lines, wearing out her opponent who had to continually move side to side. Joseph won the match 6-1, 6-1, securing a state title for CVU, 4-3, and continuing its win streak.

The victory marks the eighth year running that the Redhawks have reached the state final. Charlotte’s Meara Heininger and her doubles partner, Erika Barth, won the number two doubles match. Leading up to this set of matches, CVU blanked Burlington in the semi-finals, 7-0.

Men’s lacrosse will not let head coach Dave Trevithick cut his beard for another year. The Redhawks won a thrilling contest in the last seconds over South Burlington to capture their fourth state championship in a row. In a season that saw only one loss, that to Salmon River from upstate New York, CVU and the Rebels went back and forth against each other on Buck Hard Field in Burlington. It took Charlotte’s Walter Braun to hit the net in the waning minutes of the first period for CVU to get on the board. They still trailed 3-1. The Rebels scored first in the second stanza to increase their lead to 4-1, but CVU came back with three unanswered goals. Matt

Palmer scored, scooping off the artificial turf for a 7-5 lead with three minutes left in the third. South Burlington, however, came back to within one goal and then tied things with a minute left in the game.

Not looking forward to overtime, Palmer scored his fourth goal with 10 seconds on the clock, ending things for the Rebels at 12-11 in favor of the Hawks. Palmer and Owen McCuin each scored four times.

Dylan Schaefer added a hat trick and Griffin DiParlo had five assists.

CVU men’s track team has been a thorn in its opponents’ sides all season. And the thorn finally broke through the material as the Redhawks won the state Division I title. It was the first time ever for CVU who managed to edge out South Burlington by 6 points.

Forced to hold off until the brutal heat of midday, the Redhawks secured five first-place finishes to capture the tournament. As he has been doing regularly, Tyler Marshall crossed the finish line first at 800, 1,500 and 3,000 meters. The day began on the right note for CVU as well, when Eliot Eastman and Charlotte’s Somer MacKillop took first and second in the pole vault (above right), each clearing 11 feet, 6 inches. Considering that Somer only took up vaulting a month ago, he can certainly be called a quick learner. He also saved his best for the states, clearing his previous high by 18 inches. Another Redhawk, Max Rieley, won the shot put.

For the women’s track team, the sprints proved to be the bastion of their point scoring. Charlotte’s Sadie Otley won the 100-meter dash and finished third at 200 meters. Her mate Sierra Morton was first at 400 meters and just ahead of Otley in second place at 200 meters. They both ran on the winning 4X100 relay team, which also included Megan Mahoney and Marley Olson. Charlotte’s Annabella Pugliese tossed the discuss over 103 feet for fourth place. The team finished behind St. Johnsbury and Essex in the overall standings.

Above: CVU’s men’s lacrosse team revels in their fourth state championship in a row.

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Below: Somer Mackillop vaulted 11’6” and secured second place in the pole vault at the CVU men’s track team’s first state championship win. Mackillop just started vaulting a month ago and this was his third meet. PHOTO: CARRIE FENN

their semi-final women’s lacrosse game hits, finishing their season with a 14-win, at midfield, with Mount Anthony finally 4-loss record. prevailing in the final period, as they held CVU golfers finished fifth out of the the Redhawks scoreless, despite Emma top six teams in the state high school golf Owen’s four goals early in the game. The Decathlon and Twin States championships played on the Ralph Myhre Patriots won by a single tally, 11-10.

Baseball have CVU faces Course in Middlebury. CVU medallist Will Ryan hit 85 strokes, 12 off the pace Emily Ray won the discus event in the set by Rutland’s Logan Broyles. North Bats cool versus 41st Vermont decathlon at UVM last week.

Country came in with the lowest team Burr and Burton Doing so placed her among the top-ten score. point scorers out of 63 women competitors.

Burr and Burton traveled to Hinesburg Two familiar names from the Redhawk to face CVU’s baseball team in the baseball team, pitcher, infielder and Women’s lacrosse Division I quarterfinals. Errors at critical outfielder, Andrew Bortnick joins gives Mount Anthony times led to the Redhawks’ downfall. teammate Sam Mikell, also a pitcher and a run for its money Andrew Bortnick, who has had a strong infielder, on the Vermont Twin-States season on the mound, took the 2-1 loss. Baseball Team. They were two of 18 players Number two ranked Mount Anthony and CVU waited until the sixth inning to score statewide who will face New Hampshire at number three ranked CVU played much of its single run. They swung for only five Lyndon State College, June 18.

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Taking Care Alice D. Outwater CONTRIBUTOR

Somehow I feel bound, constantly having to remind myself how old I am.

I long to be doing more in my life, I’m feeling stuck and in need of adventure.

Something needs to be disentangled, but what and where is it? How do I reach this place deep inside that holds the wisdom and answers?

So I jotted down some calculations that seemed inspirational: Why couldn’t I change my thinking, then one by one incorporate new behaviors until my brain accepts each as my new norm?

Initiating one change once a week

Sparking new behaviors would mean 52 improvements at the end of the year…but no, I’d be out of breath attempting that. Fifty-two is no small number for someone who thinks they are losing resilience. Let’s be more practical and start with 12, once a month.

Organization and priorities are a must with me. Instead of lolly-dollying around, I’ll begin with small increments. The easiest areas could ensure early success: cleaning my desk and paying all bills on Mondays. That would eliminate losing anything in piles of paper work and letting frustrations build, while I frantically search for something while someone waits for the answer at the other end of the phone. After all, I ALWAYS change the bed sheets every Monday.

Vermont is blessed with four seasons.

And certain chores follow these. Now we’ve rolled into spring. My winter snow tires are still on, so I better hustle down to the gas station and have Charlie rectify

that.

Miscellaneous items have piled up in my garage—which could qualify for the messiest in our enclave.

Gardening is arriving momentarily.

Did I clean the trowels and shovels before putting them in their places last November? Or just pile them haphazardly? Better spend a few hours checking that out and bring order into the rumpus.

Next, I better assess the closets and look at summer clothes. I vaguely recall spending time arranging them last fall—now it’s time to reverse the process and take a few piles to the churches, Goodwill or SCHIP. At last, I’m on a roll, and I think my brain is adjusting to a more organized routine. This approach feels like progress rather than a bunch of chores. I don’t need old copies of National Geographic and Audubon magazines; I will take them to the hospital waiting rooms rather than have them loiter around in unruly mounds

in my house. Every weekend I do a sweep of newspapers before Sunday’s New York Times makes its grand entrance.

Friends and I share a merry-go-round, lending books to each other. Fortunately, I’ve been meticulous about returning these to their owners—at least in a few areas I’ve not lapsed into bad habits.

Now how many of the above adjustments can I count toward one behavior change? Or should I call them several?

I know I’ll want to continue these regularly. I sense a powerful push behind the changes, as if other areas are clamoring to be included for my efforts. Everyone needs them. There’s a movie to see and museum exhibits to visit. Or friends I could invite to brunch at the Inn at Shelburne Farms.

I must create a frivolous category in the mix of changes I’m making. As my days roll along more smoothly, room for adventure will surely find its place. Change happens often in our later years—and plenty is unwanted. It’s empowering to launch and perpetuate even the smallest changes—it puts you back in charge.

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Lee Weisman, M.D. CONTRIBUTOR

Want to save money in your healthcare budget and stay healthier as well? Here’s how.

First, stop buying vitamins. You don’t need them. (See ods.od.nih.gov/ factsheets/MVMS-HealthProfessional.)

They won’t make you healthier, just poorer. Don’t be fooled by vitamins aimed at things like “Men’s Health” or “Silver Seniors.” Those labels are examples of clever marketing of ineffective products by innuendo and false science. Over-thecounter vitamin sales is an unregulated billion-dollar industry, with no routinely enforced quality standards, no uniformity of vitamin levels, no need to prove they work. Some products have frighteningly high levels of vitamins, some none at all, some are made from rancid oils. Most of them are probably safe and harmless.

Those who choose to take them can be assured that their septic system will also not suffer from any vitamin deficiencies.

Second, stop buying cold remedies.

There is nothing for sale at the pharmacy that works better than mom stroking your forehead and refilling your ginger ale.

A medical study demonstrated that the fat in hot chicken broth actually worked better than plain steam to break up mucus congestion. Can it cure a cold? Only your Jewish grandmother knows for sure. (See Chest. 2000; 118:1150-7). But neither high-dose vitamin C, zinc extracts, Echinacea tea, nor infinitely dilute homeopathic preparations will cure a cold. If you’re convinced that one of these remedies works for you, then it probably does. Physicians refer to this medicine as “vitamin P,” aka the placebo effect, and it’s by far the best medicine money can’t buy. No side effects, inexpensive, no prescription needed.

Over-the-counter multisymptom cold remedies juggle a small handful of the exact same, mostly inappropriate ingredients. There’s Dayquil (5 versions) and Nyquil (6 versions). (When will we get Afternoonquil?) Here’s the Nyquil

breakdown: For the aches and pain there’s acetaminophen; it’s safe and helps ease discomfort and fever. It also causes liver damage if you take too much (see below). For a cough there’s dextromethorphan, a codeinelike cough suppressant. It can safely help lessen an irritating cough in proper doses. In big doses, with the accompanying big dose of acetaminophen, this drug is also known to cause liver failure. (goo.gl/CNK9La) Next, for sinus pressure and stuffy nose acetaminophen—just in case your sore there’s pseudoephedrine, a decongestant. back is due to an allergy rather than from It gives you cotton mouth, jittery hands stacking firewood all day. So now we and a racing heart. That’s why it’s kept have “Advil AM” and “Advil PM” (both behind the counter now. An alternative gluten free). You pay a lot extra and, is phenylephrine, which has its own set more important, lose the ability to of side effects and when tested works no independently adjust the dosages of better than a placebo. Still not feeling either medicine. better, coughing up some phlegm? Some The bottom line? Be educated brands add an “expectorant” to the mix and proceed with caution when called guaifenesin. If you look hard at taking any medication, OTC or the evidence, it helps a little to alleviate a otherwise. Get beyond the hype cough, but not much, and has its own set of and know specifically what you’re side effects. buying, and why. It’s not safe just But you can’t sleep, being both sick and because it’s nonprescription. It’s hopped up on Dayquil, so Nyquil adds a important to know the correct dose sedating antihistamine to knock you out. of any medication and how often There is no allergy, no need for an antihis- to take it. For example, Tylenol tamine, except to make you drowsy, and give you a dry mouth.

To me, it’s hard to believe that millions of people intentionally drink these drug concoctions—especially when they’re sick! Ah, the power of drug advertisers, the gullibility of ill consumers, the lack of FDA oversight!

If you have a cold and want to try an OTC remedy, pick a specific symptom to Providing Repair, Refinishing, address, then pick a singleagent product to try out (read Restoration and Transport the ingredients). You can decide whether it actually helps and if there are side effects. The most important thing about a cold? Please P.O. Box 32 don’t pass it around! Here’s a third money-saving strategy: Ferry Road, Charlotte, VT Never buy any OTC medication with the suffix “PM” (e.g. Advil PM, Tylenol PM).

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comes in various strengths with various correct dosing. (It’s called merchandising.) Always read the label! Tell your doctor you won’t be disappointed if you leave the office without a prescription. Avoid buying products that say “multisymptom,” “extended relief,” “***PM,” etc.

Avoid buying pseudo-medical “food supplements” that make unsubstantiated health claims. You can use all the money you’ll save to invest in a good pharmaceutical stock. Or not.

Lee F. Weisman, MS, MD, is formerly of the Charlotte Family Health Center and emeritus from the University of Vermont Department of Family Medicine. He lives in West Ferrisburgh.

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Senior Center News

Mary Recchia CONTRIBUTOR

Are you ready for an active summer?

Ginger Lambert will continue Fitness for Everybody on Friday mornings from 9:15–10. We all have different body types and fitness experience but know that being strong and fit helps us to live our lives to their full potential. Using timed intervals and a series of stations, this class will incorporate body weight, light weights and other cardio/strength building tools to boost strength, cardiovascular fitness, agility and flexibility. Some active games will be included to make this a fun and interesting workout. Joint and ligament issues will be taken into account. Every exercise can be modified for any ability or level of fitness. If you have been looking for a class that challenges you but doesn’t

leave you in the dust, then this is for you.

Registration required. Limit 10. Fee: $10 per class.

The Center will be partnering with the Charlotte Library, the Vermont Humanities Council, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and The Charlotte News to offer a collection of activities surrounding the 2016 Vermont Reads books: Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World, by Jennifer Armstrong, and Caroline Alexander’s The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition. A full schedule of offerings is available at the Charlotte Library.

Welcome aboard! Explore a shipwreck— without getting wet! On Tuesday, July 5, meet Martha and Joe Barton-Rivera at the Center to carpool to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum for a Shipwreck Tour. Did you know that there are over

300 historic shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Champlain? Take a tour boat to the site of one of these wooden wrecks and go for a “dive” using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). This robotic camera sends real-time video to an on-board monitor as the vessel’s dramatic story is shared. We will gather at the Center and carpool to the museum where we will meet our tour guide for the one-hour trip. Afterward, feel free to eat the bag lunch you brought or grab a bite at the Red Mill Restaurant, and plan to spend the afternoon strolling the grounds, since your ticket includes admission to the museum.

Don’t miss this incredible experience!

Registration required. Maximum: 25. Fee: $15.

Do you love theatre? Do you appreciate the spoken word? Led by Sean Moran, All the World’s a Stage meets once a month and is for people who enjoy reading plays aloud or listening to others perform. No experience is needed for either the reader or the audience. On June 23 from 1–3:30 the group will read Love Letters by A. R. Gurney. Parts have been assigned for this read, but please let us know if you would like to come listen this month and be on the cast list for July. Sean Moran re-located to Charlotte from Los Angeles where he spent 35 years in the TV, film and theater business and promises a good time for anyone interested. No fee.

Adventures in Acrylic with Lynn Cummings will run on Tuesdays from 9:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Dates: July 12, 19, and 26. We’ll explore the wonderful and versatile world of acrylic paints and acrylic mediums, using them in many different ways, in a supportive and creative environment. You’ll learn how to use fluid acrylic paints so that your paintings have the spontaneous look of watercolor but with very intense color. You’ll use heavy body

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The Senior Center construction project is moving forward, with slab work scheduled for this week.

The addition will give the Center an air-lock entry, office space for its two employees, a better working space for daily hosts, some added storage, a coat closet space and a little more breathing room. acrylics to create works that look textured and 3D, like oils. Trying out several acrylic mediums with your paints will give you additional tools to create varied surfaces with different looks. You’ll have so much fun you’ll wonder why you didn’t try this before! Please register early and be sure to ask for the materials list. Questions: Lynn.Cummings@uvm.edu. Registration required. Fee: $72.

Book Review: The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths Georgia Edwards CONTRIBUTOR

The Woman in Blue is the eighth novel in Elly Griffiths’ “Ruth Galloway series” set in rural Norfolk, England. The story centers around the nearby medieval village of Walsingham, known as “England’s Nazareth.”

Its shrine, which depicts the Virgin Mary as an Anglo-Saxon, blue-eyed blonde, has been the site of several pilgrimages and apparitions. One night, a young woman in a blue cloak is spotted in the shrine’s cemetery

by Cathbad, the local druid and mystic who is cat-sitting at a nearby cottage. The next day, a beautiful blonde model wearing a blue bathrobe is found dead.

Enter Harry Nelson, head of criminal investigations and former lover of Ruth Galloway.

Ruth is an archaeologist, crime consultant and single mother to five-year-old Kate, her daughter from a one-night stand with the married Nelson. They’re both still a little in love with each other but can’t admit it. In this latest book, they peacefully co-parent and respect each other’s investigatory skills, leaving the focus on good crime-solving rather than romantic entanglements.

Just after the murder, Hilary

Smithson, an old friend of Ruth’s, comes to Norfolk to attend a conference of Anglican female priests. She also wants Ruth’s opinion on several threatening letters she’s received decrying women in the priesthood. When one of the conference attendees, another young blonde, becomes the second victim, Nelson believes the murders and letters are connected. Ruth becomes involved in the investigation, and what follows is an intricate yet fast-paced search for the killer.

Griffith’s eclectic and credible characterizations put her at the forefront of mystery authors. Ruth is an independent woman whose acerbic edge in the series’ earlier novels has softened since she’s become a mother. She is more an observer than a player in this latest

book, but her maternal evolution doesn’t make her character any less interesting. Her subtle sense of humor is conveyed through some great one-liners. When Nelson’s assistant makes yet another tactless remark, Ruth thinks, “That’s the thing about Clough. Just when he’s being human, he says something that reminds you what a Neanderthal he can be.”

Nelson plays a larger role in this book.

Devoted to his work, he is a man of few words and many self-doubts.

He’s flawed and makes his share of mistakes, but he’s a good cop trying to be a better husband.

The reader cannot help but like Cathbad, Nelson’s eccentric druid friend and unofficial co-detective.

Cathbad leads a fairly ordinary life with his policewoman wife, Judy, their children and “Thing,” the family dog who wears a bandanna on his head.

The killer is eventually caught but not before a denouement set against Walsingham’s yearly Easter Passion Play—replete with Nelson’s officers disguised in biblical robes and tea towels.

The Woman in White is a great murder mystery, enhanced

by Griffith’s masterful use of religious history. It is subtle and serious where it needs to be and clever and humorous at the right moments.

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UPCOMING AT THE CHARLOTTE LIBRARY Margaret Woodruff CONTRIBUTOR

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 7 p.m.: VERMONT READS EVENT: A History of the World in Six Boats. Mike Smiley, director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, uses maritime architecture as a lens for looking at the past. A perfect introduction to the Endurance and Shackleton’s adventure.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1 p.m.: Summer Reading Kick-Off: On Your Mark, Set, Read! The Vermont Institute of Natural Science brings live raptors to the library as we learn about the sport of falconry. Sign up for our summer reading offerings at the same time.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 7 p.m. & THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 10:30 a.m.: VERMONT READS EVENT: Book Discussion with Alex Bunten. Whether

you’ve read one or both of the Vermont Reads titles or haven’t yet delved into the adventure, join us for an informative and engaging conversation. Alex Bunten, veteran sailor and editor of The Charlotte News, shares his insights and video clips from the PBS series and background information on the Endurance history and its famed leader, Sir Ernest Shackleton.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 10 am: Babies @ the Library. A new group sponsored

by Building Bright Futures to get all the littlest ones and their families together at the library. No registration required.

SUMMER READING @ THE LIBRARY: “On Your Mark, Get Set‌Read!â€? Check out the full menu of programs listed on our website (charlottepubliclibrary.org). Highlights include a raptor visit from the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, a CSI camp for grades 4 to 8 and sports challenge camps for grades K to 2 and 3 and up respectively. Don’t miss our night at the ballpark on Saturday, August 6. Tickets available at the circulation desk.

Carolina; eloping to Edinburgh, with his fourth wife, Chase; and driving a sunset orange metallic Hummer down Alaska’s Seward Highway.

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics, by David Goldblatt, tells the epic story of the Games from their reinvention in Athens in 1896 to the present day, chronicling classic moments of sporting achievement from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comăneci, the Miracle on Ice to Usain Bolt. He goes beyond the medal counts to explore how international conflicts have played out at the Olympics, including the role of the Games in Fascist Germany and Italy, the Cold War, and the struggles of the postcolonial world for recognition. He also tells the extraordinary story of how women fought to be included on equal terms, how the Paralympics started in the wake of World War II, and how the Olympics reflect changing attitudes to race and ethnicity.

Hiking through History New England: Exploring the Region’s Past by Trail by Johnny Molloy. Imagine hiking along a wooded trail in New England and stumbling upon the stone foundation of a crumbled building, the wooden slats of the walls caved in, the ironwork of the hinges

ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, READ TITLES FOR ALL AGES ADULT BOOKS Voyager by Russell Banks. A lifelong explorer, Banks shares highlights from his travels, including interviewing Fidel Casto in Cuba; motoring to a hippie reunion with college friends in Chapel Hill, North

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Community Events

Upcoming pUblic meetings Selectboard: June 27 and July 14, 7 p.m.

Planning Comm.: June 23 and July 7, 7 p.m.

Conservation Commission: June 16 and 28, 7 p.m.

Zoning Board: None Cemetery Com.: June 21, 11:30 a.m.

We make every effort to give correct meeting times, however they are subject to change. Check the town website for more info: charlottevt.org.

Have yoUr say | Selectboard MeMberS | Chair, Lane Morrison, 425-2495 Matthew Krasnow, 922-2153 Carrie Spear, 425-4444 Jacob Spell, 425-6548 Fritz Tegatz, 425-5564

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Do you have a Charlotte event or an event close by that features a Charlotter? Send description, date, time and cost to Ruah Swennerfelt at calendar@ thecharlottenews.org. If it’s a public event, share what’s happening with your neighbors!

SATURDAY, JUNE 18 event: Peace Pod-Shelburne. The public is welcome to gather at the lawn of the United Methodist Church on Church Street in Shelburne, across from the Farmers Market, and join in World Wide Knit in Public Day and learn about Peace Pod-Shelburne, a group that knits together to support Knitting4Peace, a grassroots organization united in a compassionate fight for hope, healing, justice and peace for all women, children and families. 10 a.m.–12 noon.

Rain location: Pierson Library. Info: bradiehansen@gmail.com.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 playgroUp: Shelburne Playgroup.

There are lots of fields to play in and playgrounds for all levels; all ages and towns are welcome. Bring your own snack. Shelburne Community School playgrounds. 9:30 a.m. each Wednesday through the summer. Info: kbosley@ shelburnevt.org.

MONDAY, JUNE 20 playgroUp: Charlotte Playgroup. All ages and towns welcome. Bring your own snack and a friend if you’d like!

SATURDAY, JULY 9 cHarity ride: The 6th Annual Motorcycle Ride for Camp Ta-KumTa. This ride supports Vermont’s camp for kids who have or had cancer. All starting locations will ride to R.R. SUNDAY, JUNE 26 Charlebois in Milton for an escorted performance: Vermont History ride up to Camp Ta-Kum-Ta, where through Song. Singer and researcher there will be a barbecue lunch, door Linda Radtke will be joined by pianist prizes and a 50/50 raffle! All participants Arthur Zorn as she brings Vermont history to life with commentary about the receive a T-shirt and commemorative pin or patch. There will be starting points songs found in the Vermont Historical across Vermont and New York. Bikers Society’s collection of sheet music. She and passengers are encouraged to collect will be dressed in period costume and use music published and sung in Vermont donations to support their ride and the magical year-round programming that communities. Light refreshments. 7 happens Camp Ta-Kum-Ta. Riders who p.m. The Little Red Schoolhouse in St. collect additional donations will be George. Info: 878-4875. entered to win great prizes! Register online at takumta.org. Bikers can also MONDAY, JUNE 27 register the morning of the event at event: Strawberry Festival. one of the five starting locations. The Homemade strawberry shortcake and registration fee is $40 per rider and $60 beverage, $5. The Vergennes City Band for rider and passenger before June 15 will provide entertainment. Proceeds and $50 per rider and $75 for rider & benefit Champlain Valley Christian passenger after that. Info: (802) 372-5863 School. Vergennes City Park, 6–8 p.m. or lindsay@takumta.org.

Info: 802-759-2980.

Charlotte Central School playgrounds.

9:30 a.m. each Monday through the summer. Info: bbfcharlotteplaygroup@ gmail.com.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28 playgroUp: Babytime at The Charlotte Library. Bring a blanket if you’d like to lay your baby down and come meet other caregivers and littlest ones in our area (any towns welcome). We’d like this to be a recurring event. Come and help us plan for the future! 10–11 a.m. Info: (802) 425-3864.

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To avoid rejecting pounds of books and adding to the already labor-intensive sorting process, please recycle unsaleable books before dropping off your donations at the library.

Donations for the book sale: Bring saleable books to the library when the library is open.

Check in with library staff to find out where to leave your donations and to preview for suitability if you are uncertain.

Request a donation receipt from library staff. Please do not leave donations outside the door when the library is closed.

We will be accepting donations from Wed., June 22, until Thurs., July 7. If you have a large number of books to donate, please call the library at 425-3864 to make drop-off arrangements.

We cannot accept: * Damp, moldy or mildewed books * Books in poor condition (missing pages/covers, underlined, yellowed, etc.)

* Textbooks, encyclopedias, Reader’s Digest condensed books * Travel books older than 2010 * Magazines Throw out damp, moldy, mildewed or smelly books with your trash.

Recycle other unsaleable books): Paperbacks—Recycle with your other recyclables or drop off at a Chittenden Solid Waste (CSWD) drop-off site.

Hardcovers cannot be recycled with your regular recycling but can be dropped off at a CSWD drop-off site.

Goodwill (open every day) on Shelburne Road takes donations of most books, including textbooks, encyclopedias and old books.

Following these simple guidelines will make this year’s sale the best ever! We thank you for your continuing support.

SUNDAY, JULY 10 event: Friends of the Charlotte Library Book Sale. Find a wonderful assortment of books at great bargain prices. Various food vendors will be set up to provide sustenance for hungry book browsers. Charlotte Town Green. 10 a.m.

– 3 p.m. Info: 425-3864.

SATURDAY, JULY 16 event: Charlotte Community Beach Party. Fat Cow Farm burgers and dogs, Misty Knoll Chicken, Stony Loam greens, Adams Berry Farm sorbet, OGE stand up paddleboards, Suncommon solar bounce house, Mystic Party Band tunes.

5 p.m. Info: 425-3663. event: Soccer Tournament Benefit.

This event is to honor Stefan Pierson and others we have lost or who are courageously living with cancer and to provide funds so our foundation can help local young adult cancer patients, ages 18-26, by providing resources to pursue activities cut short by cancer and its treatments. Those in this age group are too old for pediatric cancer nonprofits, are just beginning their lives and generally have no savings.

The tournament will host competitive 7 v. 7 games for U10-12 boys, U10-12 girls, U14-16 boys, U14-16 girls, Adult Competitive and Adult Fun. Invitational Metro Division I High School Alumni games at night. University of Vermont Virtue Field Athletic Complex. 8 a.m.–9 p.m. $15 per player—$150 per team.

Alumni teams $250.

Info: conquertheday.org.

Selectboard Regular Meetings are usually at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall on the second and fourth Mondays of each month. If you would like to bring an issue to the attention of the Selectboard, contact the board chair or administrator Dean Bloch at 425-3071, ext. 205.

| ccS School board | Chair, Mark McDermott, 425-4860 Vice Chair, Erik Beal, 425-2140 Clerk, Jeff Martin, 425-4319 Kristin Wright, 425-5105 Clyde Baldwin, 425-3366 Susan Nostrand, 425-4999

| cVU School board-charlotte | Lorna Jimerson, ljimerso@wcvt.com Lynne Jaunich, lmjau@gmavt.net

| Planning coMMiSSion | Zoning Administrator & Deputy Health Officer, Joe Rheaume, jrheaume@townofcharlotte.com Town Planner, Daryl Benoit, dbenoit@townofcharlotte.com Chair, Jeffrey McDonald, 425-4429 Vice Chair, Peter Joslin Members: Gerald Bouchard, Paul Landler, Charlie Pughe, Donna Stearns, Marty Illick

| Vt goVernMent | vt senate (cHittenden district) Tim Ashe, D/P-Burlington, 318-0903, tashe@leg.state.vt Philip Baruth, D-Burlington, 503-5266, pbaruth@leg.state.vt.us Virginia “Ginny” Lyons, D-Williston, 863-6129, vvlyons@leg.state.vt.us Diane Snelling, R-Hinesburg, 482-4382, dsnelling@leg.state.vt.us Michael Sirotkin, D-South Burlington, 999-4360, msirotkin@leg.state.vt.us David Zuckerman, P/D/W-Hinesburg, 598-1986, dzuckerman@leg.state.vt.us vermont HoUse Mike Yantachka, D-Charlotte, 425-3960, myantachka.dfa@gmail.com

| U.S. goVernMent | U.s. senators Patrick Leahy, 863-2525, leahy.senate.gov Bernie Sanders, 862-0697, sanders.senate.gov Us congressman Peter Welch, 652-2450, welch.house.gov

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”

—Ivan Turgenev

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to Larson and John Berkey of Charlotte on the birth of their son, Henry, who was born April 20, 2016.

faculty and service to the community: Sage Alpeter, Caroline Breen, Emma Hudziak and Anna Schibli.

to Cassie Oliver who graduated with high honors from the VAST Program at Vermont Technical College. Cassie will be attending Emory and Henry College in the fall.

to two students from Charlotte whose work appeared in the Burlington Free Press Young Writers Project on June 3 and June 10. Responding to the challenge to write something “humbling,” Innogen Naylor describes her response to being “Wrong!” She thought she knew the answer, but she was incorrect. She wants to disappear, run away and not come back, now or never. Keira Yardley describes her early attempts at ski racing in her piece, “Ski Racer.” She goes from fearing it and hating it to loving it. Her first race at age 6 got her heart pounding and “happiness running through her blood.”

On June 10, another piece by Keira titled “Into the Storm” appeared. Writers were asked to describe a circumstance that made them slip out of the gate and run.

It was not the writer who slipped out of the gate in Keira’s tale; it was her dog, Coco. No matter how loudly Keira cried, Coco did not return, triggered through the gate by thunder and lightening. Blackness surrounded the author.

is extended to family and friends of Sabin (“Sabe”) Clark Abell, Jr. of Vero Beach, Florida, who passed away June 1 at the age of 83. After graduating from Dartmouth College, he and his wife, Karen Vail Abell, lived in Shelburne for much of his career in the sporting-goods business. Sabe’s brother-in-law was Burr Vail, a former Charlotte resident. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, those wishing to remember Sabe do so through a donation to the Dartmouth Club Ski Team, Robinson Hall, 6 North Main Street, Hanover, NH 03755, or to the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, P.O. 1511, Stowe, VT 05672, or to the Phillips Exeter Academy, 20 Main Street, Exeter, NH 03833.

to Andrew Oliver who made the Dean’s List both semesters at The University of Colorado, Boulder. Andrew completed his freshman year and is majoring in mechanical engineering and minoring in Computer Science. to former resident Becca von Trapp who was married to Rye Muller on May 28, 2016. Becca and Rye live and work on Fully Belly Farm, a certified organic farm in Guinda, California. Becca is the daughter of Jane von Trapp of Redding, Conn.,T and Chris von Trapp of Waltham, VtT. Rye is the son of Dru Rivers and Paul Muller, who own the farm. More than 250 people attended the magnificent ceremony and reception in the farm’s walnut grove. to the following students from Charlotte who attend Rice Memorial High School and who were recently inducted into the Reverend Raymond A. Adams National Honor Society for their high gradepoint averages, positive reviews from

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to James Vogler whose exhibition of abstract oil paintings titled “Who Turned on the Light?” appears through June 30 at the White River Gallery at BALE (Building a Local Economy) in South Royalton.

PROPERTY TRANSFERS with dwelling, 692 Church Hill Road, $540,000.

May 26. Jeffrey and Sarah Fuller to Robert Stein and Kathryn Milillo, seasonal cottage, 117 Lane’s Lane, $225,000.

Kerrie Pughe CONTRIBUTOR

thank you The 24th Annual Letter Carrier’s Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive was Saturday, May 14. We appreciate all who left nonperishable food for the letter carriers to collect. And thank you to our local letter carriers! In addition, thank you to Elizabeth Vigil for the gift in living celebration of Anne Doris.

donations We are a volunteer organization so all donations you make to the Food Shelf go directly for food and assistance to our local neighbors in need. Thank you so much for considering donating today. Checks may be mailed to: Charlotte Food Shelf & Assistance, P. O. Box 83, Charlotte, VT 05445

nEw facEbook PaGE “Like” us at our new Facebook page, Charlotte Community Food Shelf and Assistance, to see photos and get updates on all Food Shelf activities.

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is extended to family and friends of Louis L. Laberge of Charlotte who passed away June 9 at the age of 78. The son of Charlotte farmers, Raymond and Marie Laberge, he grew up on the family’s farm. A hunter-safety instructor and fine gunsmith, Laberge helped custom design rifles for the U.S. Olympic Biathlon Team competing in the world championships in Norway. He is survived by his wife, Judy, and many members of his family, including Amie Laberge, and Mark and Terri Laberge of Charlotte. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the National Rifle Association (NRA) at P.O. Box 420648, Palm Coast, FL, or to the Michael J. Fox Foundation, P.O. Box 5014, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5014.

May 16. Donna and David Spielman to John and Christina Helzer, 0.9 acre with dwelling, 632 Hills Point Road, $800,000.

May 16. Jennifer L. Peck 2008 Trust to 22 Common Way LLC, 0.11 acre, land only, 22 Common Way, $77,500.

May 23. Elizabeth Danyew to Mark Nash, 25% interest in 30.31 acres with dwelling, 205 Roscoe Road, $70,000.

May 25. Cyrus Moore and Christine Rushforth to David Yergeau and Deborah Kehoe-Yergeau, 3.75 acres will need your support now more than ever. Donations of healthy snacks such as granola bars, raisins, dried fruit, crackers, peanut butter and cereal are much appreciated. In addition, we need sunscreen and children’s insect repellent. Thank you!

Donated food drop-off locations: All nonperishable food donations may be dropped off at the Charlotte Library, the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church (main entrance) or at the Food Shelf during the distribution mornings. We request that all fresh foods be dropped off at the Food Shelf by 7:30 a.m. on the Thursday distribution mornings or before the Wednesday distribution hours. The Charlotte Food Shelf is located on the lower level of the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry.

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May 31. Marlys Beck Revocable Trust to Richard and Kelly Davisson, 14.01 acres, land only, 1161 E. Lime Kiln Road, $285,000.

June 1. Bruce and Stella Palmer to Melissa Marcello and Eric Sturm, 4.8 acres with dwelling, 436 Claflin Farm Road, $635,000.

June 2. Virginia McLoughlin to Cynthia Toombs, 5.01 acres with dwelling, 7108 Spear Street, $310,000.

June 3. Richard and Jennifer Zubarik to Henry and Natasha Withers, 10.87 acres with dwelling, 102 Lucy’s Lane, $915,000.

Distribution days/times are posted in this newspaper and on the bulletin board in the Charlotte Congregational Church Hall.

You may also call the Food Shelf number (425-3252) for a recording of the distribution times.

We are open to all community residents.

Privacy is very important and respected in our mission of neighbor helping neighbor.

For emergency food call John 425-3130.

For emergency assistance (electricity, fuel) call Cindi at 425-3234.

For more information call Karen at 425-3252 or visit our website at https://sites. google.com/site/charlottefoodshelfvt/.

The Charlotte Food Shelf is located on the lower level of the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry.

Important Upcoming 2016 Charlotte Food Shelf Distribution Dates Wednesdays, June 22, July 13, 27, August 10, 5–7 p.m.

Thursdays, June 23, July 14, 28, August 11, 7:3– 9:30 a.m.

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