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CCS bond project likely to cost less than expected Brett Sigurdson The CharloTTe News

Pictured receiving quilts from the Quilts of Valor organization are (from left to right) Irv Rose (Air Force), Bob Titus (Air Force), Ray Vincent (Air National Guard), James Gray (Marines), Lee Steadman (Air Force), Russ Partridge (National Guard), Larry Stoneking (Army), Vaughn Willis (Air Force and Army), Jed Hornung (Air Force), Denis Biron (Navy), George Whitney (National Guard) and Andre Emmell (Army and Navy).

Quilts of Valor celebrates local veterans On Memorial Day, the Quilts of Valor organization presented 11 quilts to veterans in the North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church. Ferrisburgh resident Andre Emmell, a local quilter and veteran of both the Navy and the Army, is very active with the organization and was able to invite Lynn Carrier, the state coordinator of Quilts of Valor, to be with the church.

Quilts of Valor was begun to help recognize Vietnam veterans and has expanded to honoring all veterans.

Nationwide the organization has now

given out over 169,000 lap quilts. Each quilt given out at the ceremony was unique, and some of the quilts were made by local quilters.

“I was amazed at how big and beautiful it was and how many they have given out!” said one veteran.

All of the veterans, including Charlotter Bob Titus, were honored to be remembered and thanked for their service. Some of those receiving quilts are still on active duty, so it was a very meaningful thank-you for their ongoing service.

Disc what?

There will soon be a 9-hole disc golf course at the Charlotte Beach.

For those of you only familiar with conventional golf, let Rich Steele, one of the project leaders, take you through a few strokes

Alex Bunten THE CHARLOTTE NEWS

Disc golf seems to be growing in popularity, when did it start?

The true origin of disc golf is not exactly known, but it started to become more organized in the 1960s and 1970s. It has grown in popularity throughout the country and in recent years has become increasingly popular in Vermont.

How do you play it?

Disc golf is similar to ball golf in that the player follows a course of “holes” in the effort to complete the course in the lowest number of shots.

Instead of an actual hole in the ground a metal target basket catches the disc to complete the “hole.” The rules of play and etiquette are similar to ball golf.

Do you use the same discs for every throw or is it actually like golf with different “clubs”?

Like “clubs” in golf there are different discs for different types of shots. The terminology is also borrowed from ball golf. A driver is a disc that is designed to fly a long distance, while a putter disc flies straight and slow. There are mid-range discs in between. Some players use only a few discs, while others carry many.

Can it be a team sport?

While generally an individual sport it can be played in team format.

Again, the comparison to ball golf format can be made.

How long does it usually take to play a “round”?

Typically it takes 45 minutes to an hour to complete an 18-hole course.

The course at Charlotte beach will be nine holes in length.

Are there other courses in Charlotte or is this the first of its kind?

There are a couple of privately owned courses in Charlotte. This will be the first one open to the public.

Disc golf continued on page 4

The CCS School Board on May 19 voted to accept four bids to repair portions of the school’s ailing roofing system, its elevator, and interior lighting—projects that will be funded by a $409,000 bond passed by voters on Town Meeting day.

The combined costs of the projects will be roughly $265,000, about a third less than projected.

According to Board Chair Mark McDermott, a big part of that savings extends from the bid for the limiteduse elevator, whose cost to repair was estimated at $150,000 prior to the start of last year’s budget discussions. At the meeting, the school board accepted a bid of $52,122 from All Ways Accessible, of Concord, N.H., to fix the elevator.

The board used this savings to spend more on a lighting system for the 1969 wing than the $62,000 estimate school officials originally made. It awarded Philo Electric, of Charlotte, a bid of $116,400 for LED pendant lighting.

While Philo Electric, the only company to respond to the bid, also offered a $61,900 base bid to match the original estimate, the cost would have funded ceiling LED lights that are harder to work under, explained Co-Principal Greg Marino.

The school will also receive a $10,000 rebate from Efficiency Vermont for the pendant lighting system.

Finally the board accepted a bid from Bannister Custom Exteriors in Burlington to fix the shingles on three portions of the school roof at a cost of $60,800. Rodd Roofing of St. Johnsbury was given a roof membrane repair project at a cost of $84,150.

The repairs will fix the gymnasium roof, shingles on a portion of the 1996 addition, and the roof over the art atrium, which has allowed water to leak into the art room and fifth-grade classrooms.

According to McDermott the cost overestimates are due to a “myriad of reasons,” including lower-than-expected material and labor costs.

“We were pleasantly surprised,” he said, “particularly with the elevator.”

McDermott said the bond money has not been loaned yet. While school officials are able to spend the full $409,000 bond amount, they will likely plan for a small spending cushion above the bid estimates in the event of unforeseen costs, though that amount has not been determined. Any unnecessary money will not be borrowed.

School officials will declare the full cost of the project once it finishes this summer. Work on the repairs will begin after the semester ends later this month.

Behavioral issues oN The rise During budget talks last December, Marino told the board that school administrators had seen “an increase in intensity of student behaviors, and increase in complexity in the needs of some students and behaviors.” It was a big reason he and co-principal Audrey Boutaugh asked for funding for a full-time behavior specialist, a request that was ultimately denied.

According to a report by Marino, since September 2014, the school has recorded 528 referrals, a 43-percent increase

School board continued on page 8

Bay Foley-Cox wins statewide essay competition Bay Foley-Cox, an 8th grade stu- ments that influence religious belief, dent at CCS, was recently named the which range from the Kalām cosmologiwinner of the 2015 Hildene Lincoln cal argument—a syllogism that asserts Essay Competition. His since something essay, which ponders the exists it must have a existence of God, was creator—to intelligent chosen tops out of 236 design, even to math. statewide entries.

But, he writes, these Bay accepted the firstare matters of faith, place award of $1,000 at not fact.

Hildene, in Manchester, “In discussing God, the former home of people talk less about Robert Todd Lincoln, reason and rationalAbraham Lincoln’s only ity than about faith,” surviving son. There he writes. “It is a Bay read his essay to a profoundly personal group of students, famiexperience, often lies, teachers, adminisbased on their traditrators and judges. tion or upbringing.

Students who submitThat form of opinionBay Foley-Cox ted to the essay commaking is alien to me, petition were required one based not on evito respond to the following prompt: dence but emotion.”

“Choose an important, often divisive, Through the process of examining the issue about which you have a strong existence of a higher being, Bay writes opinion. Put yourself in the shoes of that he’s learned to look at both sides someone on the other side of the issue. of an issue carefully. He writes, “By Identify at least three reasons this indi- acknowledging and expecting differing vidual would give to support her/his opinions, as Abraham Lincoln did, it position. Describe how this exercise not only encourages people to listen to has—or has not—affected how you will alternate views, but can improve one’s think about and discuss divisive issues.” own perspective.”

In his essay, Bay examines the argu-

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Barrie Dunsmore CONTRIBUTOR

“I am running because I think the world is falling apart,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said this past week. Senator Graham is not alone among the many aspiring Republican presidential candidates. Not only do they want us to believe the world is falling apart. They also want us to believe it’s not their fault.

As Robert Costa wrote in The Washington Post, “One by one, nearly a dozen GOP hopefuls took the stage (in Des Moines, Iowa) for a Lincoln dinner, each different in style and stature but all joining a rising Republican chorus that lays blame for the Islamic State terrorist group squarely at the feet of President Barack Obama.” Senator Lindsey Graham said to cheers, “If you fought in Iraq, it worked. It’s not your fault it’s going to hell. It’s Obama’s fault.”

The Islamic State is but one of the Middle East’s problems of recent years. The hopes for a more democratic region, engendered by the Arab Spring, have been dashed. Egypt is now more of a military dictatorship than it was under President Hosni Mubarak.

Without dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is now awash with weapons, without a functioning government and ruled by tribes. Syria is still in the throes of a three-year unresolved civil war, with an estimated 150,000 dead.

As Iran and Saudi Arabia violently vie for dominance in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, indisputably the Middle East is more unstable than it was seven years ago.

Yet just as the world economy was in a deep depression after the market crash of ’08 when Obama took office, so too was the Middle East in turmoil—mostly because of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq.

As they seek to shift the blame of Iraq, which just last year conservative

pundit George Will wrote was “the worst foreign policy decision in U.S. history,” Republicans are asking us to forget the past. I don’t doubt that some already have. In the era of Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, seven years may seem like an eternity. But not everyone will forget.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush found this out on a recent campaign stop, when Ivy Ziedrich, a Nevada college student, confronted him with the charge, “Your brother created ISIS.” Bush’s response was, “ISIS didn’t exist when my brother was president.”

It is accurate that the name Islamic State was not in use during the George W. Bush presidency. But the movement that later became ISIS was a direct result of the American invasion. That group called itself “al Qaida in Iraq.”

It was led by the fanatic Abu Musab al- Zarqawi and was responsible for hundreds of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings—yes, beheadings—in a reign of terror that made Zarqawi the most wanted man in Iraq. His goal was to rid Iraq of foreign forces and to provoke sectarian conflict between Iraq’s Shiite majority and his own Sunni Muslim sect.

Zarqawi was killed in an American bombing raid in 2006. But nine years ago, The Washington Post reported, “Analysts warned that his death may not stem the tide of the insurgency and violence. … Zarqawi set up numerous semi-autonomous terrorist cells across Iraq, many of which could continue after his death.”

Indeed they did. And joined by numerous bitter Sunni officers from Saddam Hussein’s army, al-Qaida in Iraq eventually morphed into the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS.) Its current leader is an Iraqi named Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, who claims to be the caliph (supreme leader) of the new Islamic State.

But ISIS is by no means the only by-product of the American invasion of Iraq. When Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his Sunni-dominated regime were overthrown by American military might, there were no happier people than the Shiite mullahs of Iran.

Saddam had initiated the bloody eightyear Iran-Iraq war. Without Saddam on its border to worry about, Iran was now free to encourage the Iraqi Shiite majority to assume power over their Sunni and Kurdish minorities. Thus a Shiite-led Iraq became a major ally of

Iran in its power struggle with Sunni Saudi Arabia. And that Sunni-Shiite battle for regional domination is at the root of most of the current sectarian violence in the Middle East.

(This reminds me of the credibly sourced story that surfaced years ago.

Evidently after meeting with the president on the eve of the Iraq invasion, one of the Iraqi exiles who strongly encouraged American intervention was nevertheless shocked that Mr. Bush did not seem to understand the difference between Sunnis and Shiites.)

But let’s set aside all this troublesome history. What is it that Republicans want to do in the future to resolve the problem of the Islamic State?

Most of them apparently feel that, in 2016, American voters will want their president to get really tough with ISIS. So far the rhetoric has been overblown, and viable alternatives seem in short supply.

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FLA), when speaking to the Freedom Forum of South Carolina, used a line from the movie Taken, in explaining what he would do with the terrorists: “We will look for you. We will find you. And we will kill you.”

Former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said at a recent meeting in Iowa, “They want to bring back the 7th century of jihad. So here’s my suggestion: We load up our bombers, and we bomb them back to the 7th century.”

Senator Graham and most of the other candidates seem once again to be under the sway of the same neoconservative, tough-guy thinking that gave us the Iraq War. Presidential wannabes might want to take a closer look at that war: eight years of fighting, at one point with 162,000 U.S. troops on the ground, and substantial air and naval support nearby. The cost was at least $2 trillion, nearly 4,500 Americans killed and hundreds of thousands seriously wounded.

Yet with all that military might and its enormous costs, the United States did not prevail.

This column originally appeared in the Rutland Herald and Montpelier (Barre) Times Argus on May 24. Barrie Dunsmore is a journalist who covered foreign affairs for ABC News for 30 years. His commentaries are also featured on VPR. He lives in Charlotte.

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Legislative Report

by Representative Mike Yantachka

A look at what worked this session As a final installment of my 2015 Legislative Reports, I thought it would be good to highlight some of the best work the Legislature did as well as point out some areas where we need to do more.

Water quality With cooperation and input from Vermont’s agricultural community, we passed legislation that will help prevent agricultural runoff from small farms by controlling discharges that could violate our water quality standards. New farmer education and training requirements have been adopted. Accepted Agricultural Practices (AAPs) will become Required Agricultural Practices (RAPs) that all farms must follow. The Agency of Agriculture will provide technical assistance to help farmers comply and access financial resources to support necessary alterations.

Public safety The Legislature made considerable progress in fortifying the safety of our citizens this year. We strengthened the sex-offender registry requirements, ensuring that convicted sex offenders report updated information to the Department of Public Safety prior to release from a correctional facility. Our groundbreaking “Revenge Porn” bill made it a crime

OutTakes Commentary

by Edd Merritt

Re-cycle West Get your motor runnin’ Head out on the highway Looking for adventure In whatever comes our way “born to be Wild,” stePPenWolf Well, I was having some munchies with my friend Pati Naritomi the other evening, and we were catching up on family activities. There seemed to be a lot going on in her family. Her son, Taka, a surgical resident in Philadelphia, was active in caring for the injured from the recent train wreck. Her husband, Stuart Bennett, decided that playing Dennis Hopper (aka Billy the Kid) doing a reverse run of Easy Rider—the late 1960s movie that hooked a large number of us from that generation into sex, drugs and rock and roll—was something his life had been leading up to, a tribute to the hairy tribes of his younger years. Unlike the lead characters in the movie, who earned their travel pay by selling drugs and heading east, Stuart has

to disseminate sexually explicit photographs or videos of individuals without their consent and with the intent to harm.

We helped law enforcement combat drug trafficking by modifying rules related to the forfeiture of assets used in perpetrating certain crimes. While we failed to require background checks for all firearms purchases in Vermont, we did manage to prohibit under Vermont law violent felons from owning firearms, and we required courts to submit the names of those whom a judge has deemed to be a danger to themselves or others due to mental illness to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

child Protection The deaths of two children because of abuse last year required an effective response by both the administrative and legislative branches. In the past year, prosecutors and the judiciary have seen an increase in the number of petitions filed for both children in need of supervision and termination of parental rights. No single agency or system can keep all children safe from harm. Child protection is a community responsibility requiring collaboration among the various departments within DCF, families, the courts, treatment providers, other stakeholders and the public. Legislation that we passed this session requires better communication between these stakeholders, clarifies and strengthens the mandatory child-abuse reporting law, focuses on the best interests of children rather than a rigid placement hierarchy, and enhances the penalties for those who harm children with death or

serious bodily injury resulting.

energy transformation Over the past decade, Vermont has led the nation with its energy efficiency programs, lowering both electricity costs and rates. With this year’s Renewable Energy Standard law, we will help Vermonters transform their energy use in the heating and transportation sectors. The law will encourage a shift in these sectors from fossil fuels to clean electricity, reduce carbon emissions and save Vermonters money.

As envisioned under this law, homes will be well insulated and tightly sealed; appliances and heat sources, such as air source heat pumps, will be highly efficient; electric vehicles will harness local sources of clean energy and reduce carbon emissions in transportation. Solar and other forms of renewable electricity will provide the clean power to replace fossil fuel energy and reduce transmission and distribution costs for all Vermonters.

education Vermont’s public schools enrollment has declined for nearly two decades.

Since 1997, public schools in Vermont are down more than 24,000 pupils, but staffing levels have remained relatively constant, and education spending and taxes have continued to climb. The Education System Reform legislation passed this year attempts to address the problem of student population decline and rising costs by promoting district consolidation while improving student access to the education they need to succeed in tomorrow’s economy.

Another focus of cost reduction is teacher health insurance. A working group led by the director of health care reform will be formed to consider alternatives available to school districts, supervisory unions and their employees to address the high cost of health care and recommend options that will avoid triggering the

turned the handlebars on his Hopper cycle times? My hunch is that he is not wearing to face west and is currently heading from a cowboy hat and buckskin jacket with an Charlotte to Park City, Utah. And I doubt Indian necklace of animal teeth. Nor does that drug sales finance he have a Department of his excursion.

Defense ID attached to Peter Fonda, his sleeve—but I could “Captain America” be wrong.

Maybe his trip (aka Wyatt Earp) in the If I drove past Stuart, needs to be done movie, helped Hopper would I hear the tunes and his co-writer, now when he can of today covering him Terry Southern, creacross Kansas, as we did take data from a ate a film that Fonda’s while Fonda and Hopper father, movie mogul cruised the desert? Back lifetime, bring it Henry, could not faththen the music was as forward to his fron- important to the movie as om, much as he tried.

Buying dope, man, to the story. tal lobes, sift its pay your way from The Band, Dylan, Mexico to Florida?

Carol King and Gerry meanings while Who planted that seed Goffin, the Holy Modal in his son’s head? driving the Midwest Rounders, Fraternity Where did these guys of Man, Jimi Hendrix, plains and then come from? Whose Roger McGuin, the dump it between sons were they? And Seeds, Electric Prunes, who was this wackedthe Flying Burritos and the peaks of the out ACLU lawyer Thunderclap Newman all named Old George contributed chords to the Rockies.

Hanson they picked era in which the riders up along the way, who hung out on a commune wore a sport coat and for a day, discovering shiny helmet and danced on the back of that the communal dwellers were mostly a bike? (Of course, it was a young Jack city folks having trouble growing their Nicholson in one of his early great roles.) own crops, “making a stand” and planting So, is Stuart traveling on a low slung “simple food for simple taste.” (Maybe Harley with silver wheels, flame-painted they’d been better off eating rather than stars and stripes on his gas tank and ape- smoking their dinners.) hanger bars? More important, what is Somehow, I can picture Stuart parahe doing to show his rebel-hood in our phrasing Hopper when the latter is asked troubled society of the Iran/Iraq era that to stick around the commune because Billy and Wyatt were doing in Vietnam “the time is now.” He replies that he’s

federal tax on high-cost employer-sponsored insurance plans (referred to as the “Cadillac tax”). Among other options, the director is required to consider the possibility of transitioning to plans offered through Vermont Health Connect, the Vermont Education Health Initiative and other means. While these moves are in the positive direction, the property tax burden of funding education has not changed.

Several proposals for alternative funding are still being considered, but these will have to wait until next year.

budget reform While the Legislature always passes a balanced budget, the approach the budget committee took this year was a significant step toward bending the growth in state spending and creating long-term budget sustainability. This session we made significant progress in reducing the rate of increase in corrections, buildings and general services, and public safety budgets. Continuing reductions in federal support, growing demand for services and investment in public infrastructure and slower economic growth have spurred the Legislature to adopt five new fiscal goals: • reduce reliance on the use of “onetime” money, • move toward budgeting less than 100 percent of projected revenue, • include assessment of future year costs as part of assessing programs and budget proposals, • explore moving to a two-year budget process, and • expand the use of results-based accountability measurements throughout state government.

I can be reached by phone (233-5238) or by email (myantachka.dfa@gmail. com). You can find this article and past articles at my website: MikeYantachka. com. I wish you all a wonderful summer.

“hip about time . . . but I just gotta go.”

Talking with Pati, I got the impression that Bennett may, too, have awakened one morning, grabbed his helmet and goggles, gloves and chaps, and staunchly declared that the time was now.

And maybe Stuart is right in doing so, not only because he still can physically but because his mind needs the pure Kansas breeze of collective memory. (Just stay out of Waco!) Maybe his trip needs to be done now when he can take data from a lifetime, bring it forward to his frontal lobes, sift its meanings while driving the Midwest plains and then dump it between the peaks of the Rockies. One collects many bushels of memory—chips worth in today’s parlance—that can be clarified and given meaning while sitting in the saddle.

Given what I read in the news about Bernie Sanders’ current run for the presidency, and the age and political proclivity of a number of followers who attended his announcement on the waterfront, I would ask whether we’re seeing the semblance of a rebirth of Wyatt and Billy. If so, I may have to dig up (literally now) my old cycle. Being the good gardener that she was, and one who harbored a strong social conscience, my mother would surely want it to remain planted. As with a number of plans these days, we elders can only say, “I dig it,” and “Please turn up the volume.”

Maybe it’s time for wheelies down Church Street, Bernie.

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In full bloom Nancy Severance was busy tending the colorful array of creeping phlox in front of her home in East Charlotte last week. Like many Charlotters, she was out during the warmth and sunshine at the end of May preparing her lawn for the summer. In Severance’s case, she’s hoping to one day create a no-mow lawn through landscaping. Until then, she said she’s concerned with the smaller parts of the yard—in this case, promoting the growth of her colorful violets alongside the road. Thankfully, it’s been a good growing season so far, she said.

A map of the Charlotte Beach 9-hole disc golf course to be finished this summer.

Disc golf

from page 1

Who was in charge of building it?

Last summer I proposed the idea of a course to the Charlotte Recreation Commission with the old dump site on Plouffe Lane in mind. After further consideration it was determined that the beach, with its existing amenities, would be a better choice of sites. With the support of the Rec Commission the proposal went before the Selectboard, which voted unanimously in favor with the understanding that funding and labor for construction be donated and therefore not cost the town anything.

Beginning last fall I have worked alone clearing brush to make way for the course and establish a layout that fits the available space. I estimate that I have worked in excess of 150 hours to

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Having fun with your friends and the challenge of the game. Like regular golf, the desire is always to make the next shot better.

Anything else people should know about the sport?

Disc golf is not an expensive sport to play. A starter set of three discs can be had for around $30. If you get more serious about it, there are clubs to join and tournaments for the competitive minded. For the novice, there are lots of tutorial videos on YouTube to aid in learning how to throw. The technique is somewhat different to that used in playing toss and catch with a Frisbee.

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Taking Care Alice D. Outwater, Ph.D.

Financial fandango When a wife is in the dark after a husband’s death My husband, John, had recently died and my mind was still whirling in outer space. I had taken a sheaf of papers to the accountant. In my frustration I’d almost tossed out half of them. I was in tears: “Please, please don’t tell anyone how stupid I am.� “Don’t worry,� she comforted me, “You’re in the middle group; we have women who’ve never even written a check.�

Money is an important issue in our lives and never more so than in our 80s.

Many don’t know what their assets are.

They may have scant or no savings or a number of odd bank accounts and policies scattered here and there. Perhaps they’ve never added them up. They have no idea how to make out a plan.

There are formulas to help with this.

Some people wish to include wider plans such as travel or going south for a few weeks in winter. These expenses must be factored in.

Sally, a friend of mine, became seriously ill. Close friends rallied around her all year, driving her to doctors’ appointments and treatments, hours away. Two children nearby did not feel inclined to help, nor were they urged to assist.

In her last year, Sally wanted to go into a nursing home but thought she couldn’t afford the expense. It turned out she had ample assets. Her last year would have been far more comfortable in a facility.

Gertrude, another friend, shared, “My husband refused to discuss financial matters. I felt like a child and had no idea whether we were poor and scraping along or well off. What was this big secret about? It ate into our relationship. He gave me spending money each month and said I didn’t need a bank account or credit card. Then he unexpectedly died and I didn’t know where to begin.�

Some people are comfortable with Gertrude’s arrangement; others find it humiliating. Jane angrily said, “I’m exhausted arguing with him about money.

He says: ‘I earn it so it’s mine.’ I don’t even know how to make out a check, but he’s generous enough to me and assures me he’ll take care of me‌to the end.â€?

Jane told me, “Sometimes I wonder if he gambles or has a mistress. He returns late at night and won’t explain what he’s been doing. All of a sudden he tells me we’re in dire circumstances and must refinance the house. Once we had to sell to pay off debts and move to a less desirable neighborhood. I have no money to pay the basic bills. Where’s it going and

why won’t he explain that to me? I have none of my own, yet he doesn’t want me to work. It’s so dismal.�

Then the husband dies and the wife doesn’t know if there is a will or where the bank accounts are: “Will I have enough to carry me through? What should I do?

I’m scared and have no idea where to start.�

I have seen many people fall into this predicament.

Numerous widows have asked me the same questions.

In your family don’t be afraid to be unconventional. In some countries such as Thailand and Japan, the women handle the finances.

The men give them their paychecks. Money management is considered a woman’s responsibility. Of course the best choice is balanced.

I’m proud of Sheila and Bill who have always worked together on money matters. As a young couple they attended a workshop on finances and agreed how to handle their resources, including savings. They budget, save a percentage and plan for their three children’s educations as well as for luxuries. They feel like equals and recognize they live well. They approach life with confidence and the pleasure of knowing the amount in the bank. This is done step by step with thoughtful decisions and honesty with each other.

Many good books are easy to understand; Suze Orman has written several.

Her weekly columns are syndicated. It’s best to get your information together now, make a plan and enjoy the fruits of your efforts. You’ll find yourself considerably more relaxed.

Money is an important issue in our lives and never more so than in our 80s.

Many don’t know what their assets are.

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Lessons from the druid Larry Hamilton is turning 90, but the town tree warden still has much to learn—and teach Brett Sigurdson THE CHARLOTTE NEWS

Larry Hamilton sits at his desk among wide windows in his East Charlotte home putting the finishing touches on Mountain Protected Areas Update, a newsletter mailed to some of the top mountain scientists in the world. But if he had it his way he’d be doing something else right now.

He’s edited the newsletter, published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), since 1992, and he’s working on convincing a colleague to take it over. So far, no one has taken the bait.

“People say, ‘Nobody can fill your shoes,’” he sighs. Hamilton sits slightly hunched in his chair, dressed comfortably in the environmental academic’s standard uniform of a hiking shirt and slacks.

About to turn 90 on June 5, Hamilton labors slightly when he moves—largely due to a knee replacement—but his mien exudes a youthful vigor.

Classical music plays behind him on the stereo, which sits among souvenirs from his travels all over the world, to Micronesia, the Philippines, Australia. A table near his desk is stacked with papers and books. Among them are Nature: Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times

by Peter Coates, For the Health of the

Land by Aldo Leopold, and At Home in Nature by Rebecca Neale Gould.

At home in nature is a good description of Hamilton, who shows little sign of slowing down, as much as he’d like to step back from the myriad roles he has: editor of the newsletter, board member of the Vermont Nature Conservancy (he’s the longest-serving member), Charlotte’s tree warden, and all-around defender of causes that are vital to him.

But Hamilton also can’t help himself.

On the floor is a pile of folders with documents detailing a town-tree issue at Thompson’s Point he will attend a meeting to discuss. Selectboard Chair Lane Morrison calls that morning wanting to discuss something. There’s still an article to write for The News at some point.

“I really love it,” says Hamilton. “I love all these things. I don’t want to retire—you retire, you die.”

His work ethic is admirable for any age. And at his age, he could be forgiven for slowing down. But Hamilton, a longtime educator, still has something driving him: a need to teach.

was a moment of awakening. “They had not entered my consciousness until then,” Hamilton recalled.

He discovered cloud forests were being mismanaged, left prone to development.

Hamilton began what he dubbed the Cloud Forest Campaign. He wrote a paper and co-edited a book on the management of cloud forests. In 1993, he planned a conference on the subject. From his efforts, others have carried on the campaign, bringing awareness of this unique and important ecosystem.

“There’s now a great awareness of this, and a lot of cloud forests have been protected around the world,” said Hamilton, who has since been dubbed “the father of cloud forest awareness.”

Hamilton’s curriculum vitae reads in miniature like a blow-by-blow narrative of similar passionate work on behalf of wild places and natural resources.

It shows doctoral education in natural resources at Michigan and the University of California-Berkeley; work as a professor of natural resources conservation at Cornell University; employment as a research associate and senior fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii, where he focused on watershed planning and management and protected areas and mountain development, among others; and positions with titles as commanding as director of the Tropical Forest Task Force for the International Environmental Program of the Sierra Club. His CV also boasts over 345 published papers.

Among his published works is one of his greatest accomplishments. In 1992, Hamilton was part of the self-described Mountain Mafia, a group of five international scientists and educators who lobbied for considered treatment of mountain ecosystems at the historic Earth Summit

in Rio de Janeiro. For years mountain climates, despite their unique, dynamic topographical, ecological and cultural needs, had been managed according to lowland techniques. The result was The State of the World’s Mountains: A Global Report, a chapter of which was placed on every desk at the conference and later distributed worldwide. The effort led to mountains receiving key consideration in Agenda 21, a sustainable development action plan created by the UN. Hamilton points to his post-doctoral study at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley as the impetus for his passion for global issues. There he focused on watershed management, particularly watersheds associated with mountains, which he calls the “water towers of the world,” without which there would be no power or agriculture, let alone human civilization, in some parts of the world.

He brought this interest in worldwide ecological issues to Cornell in 1954, where he taught forest conservation and forest ecology and helped establish a multidisciplinary program in environmental studies. Begun in 1956, it was one of the first programs to encourage students to think outside of ecology, to also consider history, economics and anthropology in any environmental planning decision.

In a sense, the program he created was meant to open students’ eyes to the stories nature could be telling them about a place in front of them—stories they would need to hear properly in order to care for a place.

Many of his students took the program’s lessons to heart, for many have gone on to great things, he said. This is perhaps his greatest accomplishment.

“It’s my immortality,” he said. “They’re doing all good stuff.”

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One day in 1976, Hamilton was riding horses with IUCN Director General Dr. Gerardo Budowski on the slopes of Mt. Avila in north-central Venezuela. They paused for a snack and to rest their horses when Budowski began to describe the unique ecology of the landscape before them: cloud forests. Hamilton, whose career focused on protecting mountain watersheds, was entranced by the unique ecosystems in which moisture from fog is harvested by vegetation, feeding the water supply.

For Hamilton, it

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The CharloTTe News • June 4, 2015 • 7 ———— In his role as Charlotte’s tree warden, Hamilton once caught Thompson’s Point resident William Rutter cutting down a tree without permission. Hamilton called him on the offense, but instead of fining him, Hamilton told Rutter he should be cutting other trees to improve his property. Rutter appreciated Hamilton’s approach and offered to give the town funding for a project to plant more trees in Charlotte. Since 2006, Hamilton and the town have planted 453 trees through the Rutter Tree Fund, beautifying the town with trees for years to come.

As Charlotte’s first and only tree warden, Hamilton has brought his global desire to make environmental change to the local level, and the success of the tree fund project is the most obvious reflection of this. But his success in working with those caught cutting town trees is a more subtle sign of his successful teaching.

Hamilton, as the tree warden, has the capacity to fine people between $50 and $500 for injuring or cutting down townowned trees, but he’s never levied a fine.

Instead, he’s made them plant trees to replace those cut down. It’s a process people have come to respect.

“You do make friends, and you do it in being firm,” he said.

Through talking with residents, writing articles for The News and holding special events—there will be a tree appreciation event during this year’s Town Party— Hamilton is continuing a task he started long ago.

“I believe that education is the function of the tree warden,” he said.

“He is an exceptional individual and has done so much for the town,” said Sue Smith, who has worked with Hamilton as a volunteer tree caregiver. She recalls the time he took to educate volunteers to care for the trees they planted through the Rutter Fund. “What a legacy!” she said.

“Imagine what these trees will be like in 30 years!”

Educating. Learning. These are what keep Hamilton going despite a desire to slow down.

“In most of them, I’m learning something,” Hamilton said of his undertakings. “I think the passion is from learning and from helping other people to learn.

That is a passion. It must be because I’m too damn busy.”

There’s little Hamilton wants to accomplish now, he says, getting ready to escort a reporter out the door of his home. Rather, he says, he wants to continue traveling—to Stockholm, to St. Petersburg, and elsewhere—and spend more time with his family.

“Well, I am working on a book about fences,” he says suddenly and opens his computer to display another labor of love and learning.

Celebrate Hamilton’s 90th on June 7 On June 7, community members are invited to stop by the Charlotte Senior Center to wish Larry Hamilton a very happy 90th birthday. There will be an open-invitation reception from 4-6 p.m.

Music, cake and hugs!

Contributions are welcome to the Charlotte Tree Fund and toward the planting of a tree at the Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge in Larry’s honor.

Cash or checks payable to the Town of Charlotte (marked for Tree Fund) can be left at the June 7 reception for Larry at the Charlotte Senior Center or with the Charlotte town clerk.

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528 referrals, a 43-percent increase in reported behavioral issues since the previous school year, when the school recorded 342.

While the numbers are up, the trends over the last two years are similar: the months of September and October both showed a rapid rise in referrals, which are generally defined as a disruptive behavior repeated at least three times or a more serious issue infraction like fighting or bullying, Marino explained.

The big difference—this year, there are many more. One reason Marino cites is a change to the referral system, which administrators standardized before the school year, giving teachers a uniform understanding of referral expectations.

The school also implemented an online referral system, making submitting and processing them easier. The combination of these likely created an overzealous teaching body, Marino surmised, as there were 100 referrals this past September.

The biggest rise in referrals this year was among fourth-grade students, who have received nearly 180 behavioral referrals this school year compared to just over 80 the previous year. More interest-

ing, this year’s fourth graders recorded roughly 30 referrals when they were third graders in 2013-14.

“It prompts us to ask more questions,” said Marino about the uptick. He noted the fourth-grade students have a different teacher, different classrooms and different hallway from last year, yet, like the previous year, they still represent the highest portion of referrals.

Only 17 of the total 41 students are responsible for the referrals in fourth grade, Marino explained, and these extend predominantly from defiance/noncompliance issues.

Sarah Scranton, a parent of a fourthgrade student, told the board the behavioral issues have created a poor learning environment.

“In my opinion I don’t think the current system is working,” she said. “I think for every incident that rises to a referral there’s probably 10 interruptions before it rises to a referral. I think we’ve reached a point where it’s harming all the kids and its interfering with a positive learn environment, an environment where kids can learn in.”

Marino defended the school’s learning environment but admitted addressing behavioral issues is always going put a school on defense.

“We’re never going to be good enough at it,” he said. “When we look at this data, it is something we’re concerned about, it’s

This chart shows the number of referrals by grade level over the past two years.

Fourthgrade students accrued the most in the past two years.

This chart shows the increase in referrals at CCS this school year over last year. something we spend a lot of time on. It’s something we have to get better at every single year.”

Despite the fact that the 2013-14 referral numbers represented a 16-percent increase over the two prior years, Mike DiNicola, a behavioral specialist, stated he didn’t see a trend for the worse in student behavior.

Finally, the overall numbers of referrals this year revealed that 93 percent were given to boys.

“We consider that a pretty dramatic difference,” said Marino of the disparity, especially in comparison to other CSSU

schools, he added. Boys have received 80 percent of referrals at Williston Central School and 88 percent at Hinesburg Community School.

“All the schools have heavy-duty boys versus girls, but ours is the most dramatic,” said Marino.

In order to address the problem, Marino said administration will try to stay in front of the problem by working individually with students, reviewing and responding to data trends, and working closer with teachers on the data and referral process.

The next regular meeting of the school board is June 23.

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CVU Grad Challenge 2015 Seniors at CVU had one big event to finish before graduation: the annual Graduation Challenge. On May 22, students presented their work to educators, parents, peers, and members of the community.

Several Charlotters showed off their work, which ranged from cake decorating to music composition to rug weaving. Here’s a selection of Charlotte students and their projects.

Natalie Franklin designed a unique pair of skis for her grad challenge project. The skis, with a maple and ash core in fiberglass, took her about 50 to 60 hours to research, design, and create.

152 East Thompson’s Point Road, $3,000.

April 24. Cameron Wesson and Megan Kehoe to Peter and Nancy Richardson, 1.4 acres with dwelling, 1410 Church Hill Road, $420,000.

April 16. Colin and Abby Rehkugler to Anthony and Christine Cowart, 10.10 acres with dwelling, 1290 Carpenter Road, $575,000.

April 17. Nigel and Claudia Mucklow to Scott S. Andrews, 1 acre with dwelling, 2545 Greenbush Road, $425,000.

April 20. Richard G. Laboeuf Family Trust to Vermont Agency of Transportation, .60 acre easement, 4425 Ethan Allen Highway, $8,200.

April 23. Otto Engleberth and Stefan Gunlock to Vermont Agency of Transportation, .51 acre easement,

Nathan Comai’s project resulted in a wildlife photography portfolio. Through research and field time he learned how to operate the camera as well techniques for capturing wildlife.

For her project, Audrey Allegretta made glass plates and a bowl, which took a long time to make, she noted. “I enjoyed making glass plates and bowls,� she said. “I had to be very patient creating them.�

May 4. Patricia Bidinger, Trustee, to Vermont land Trust, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board and Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets, 74.6 acres, 3022 Hinesburg Road, $300,000.

May 4. Patricia Bidinger, Trustee, to Twin Oaks Dairy Farm LLC, 74.6 acres, 3022 Hinesburg Road, $109,500.

May 4. Bayview Loan Servicing to Kristian and Jessica Young, 1 acre with dwelling, 139 Wesley Drive, $165,900.

May 5. Bank of New York Mellon to Jay R. and Paula J. Stewart, .54 acre with dwelling, 5665 Ethan Allen Highway, $165,500.

May 7. Bonnie Destakasi to David McNally and Julianna White, 10.10 acres with dwelling, 749 One Mile Road, $335,000.

May 7. Mary Thornton to Vermont Agency of Transportation, .57 acre easement, 4205 Ethan Allen Highway, $5,000.

May 7. Champlain Valley Co-Housing and Vermont Land Trust to Vermont Agency of Transportation, 1.28 acre easement, 27 Common Way, $9,500.

May 13.

CitiMortgage Inc. to Shauna T. and Argirios T. Moustakas, 10.16 acres with dwelling, 198 McGuire Pent Road, $439,000.

Trotter, trustees, to Andrew Comeau, 23.4 acres with dwelling, 1035 Bean Road, $667,000.

May 20. Tim A. and Martha A. Hunt to Champlain Housing Trust, dwelling only, 2572 Hinesburg Road, $219,250.

May 20. Champlain Housing Trust to Richard A. Jr. and Katie J. Keach, dwelling only, 2572 Hinesburg Road, $320,000.

May 26. Nancy Kelly to Lee and Zach Macik, 10 acres, land only, 955 Orchard Road, $289,000.

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I often spend my mornings on the lake with my friend, Chris Thayer, and his UVM school chum, Jimmy Groves from Manchester. We meet in the predawn darkness and trailer his boat to the Converse Bay access. Then we launch as the pale green and blue dawn begins to crest Pease Mountain. The wake of the boat throws spray into the sunlight and forms rainbows over the gunwales.

Heading toward Split Rock we careen across the glass surface, the wind rushing through our hair.

Arriving at Split Rock, Chris rapidly throttles down and the boat’s bow plows Bradley Carleton into the surface. We attach lures with CONTRIBUTOR funny names that only a lake fishermen could appreciate—“sausage and gravy,” A well-known outdoor writer I idolize, “Michael Jackson” and “cop car.” We Gordon MacQuarrie, once titled one of lower the downriggers to 14 feet, then his stories “Now in June.” I think of this attach cheaters that will follow the arc of line every year when June rolls around the line to the center and wiggle back and because there is so much to do. Mr. forth like a crippled smelt six feet behind MacQuarrie gives the bowed line. eloquent discourse Jimmy is at on the dilemma of the wheel and house chores like adjusts the speed screen windows to a palatable 2.6 needing washing, miles per hour. gardens needing The motor hums tilling, and lawns quietly and we needing mowing. go about pouring But the story starts the first coffee of when the depths of the day. The sun the lake call to his is rising over the outdoor soul. mountain now and There are fishpainting a swath ing derbies, like of gold across the the Plattsburgh lake like a wide Rotary Derby in paintbrush on a early June as well textured canvas. as the renowned We are lost Lake Champlain in reverie when I n t e r n a t i o n a l Jimmy Groves of Manchester holds up a one of the rods Derby over 7.98 pound salmon he caught near Split springs up toward Father’s Day Rock, Lake Champlain. This fish won him the blue sky. weekend, which fourth place in the recent Rotary Derby.

“Fish on!” we all attract nearly yell at the same 6,000 optimistic time. Who’s up? anglers. Not only We haven’t setare there close to $200,000 in prizes to tled that yet! be won, but the fishing in June is nothing Chris grabs the rod and sets the hook. short of spectacular.

The fish rockets out of the water 80 feet Bass are coming off of their spawning behind the boat. Its silvery skin glistens in

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the sunlight. It is clearly two feet above the surface and giving us a show. “Did you see that?” I shout. “That’s a nice salmon!” Jimmy belts out.

Chris hands the rod off to Jimmy to fight the beautiful salmonid.

He jumps again and Jimmy bows to the fish, loosening the taught line that connects the two. The bow is a technical piece of fishermanship that allows the fish to thrust itself from side to side without ripping the lure out of his mouth. To me, the bow is an act of respect for this prized piscatorial presence.

He jumps twice more and makes several runs that cause the reel to whine, like when we used to put straws inside the spokes of our bicycle wheels. The faster the wheel spins, the louder the whine.

After a long three-minute battle the fish tires and comes to the stern.

Chris deftly slides the net under him,

Ways for water An update from Ahead of the Storm Ahead of the Storm is a water quality stewardship group, whose purpose is to address the deterioration of our public waters through both community education and the installation of optimal storm-water management practices for all property owners. Based in Charlotte, the organization includes representatives from state and county government, as well as municipal, school, church and civic organizations from Charlotte, Shelburne and Hinesburg.

Just after we introduced ourselves to the public this past winter (The Charlotte News, February 26), we were invited in March by the Lewis Creek Association to participate in the Leahy Environmental Summit at ECHO: “Climate Change Resilient, Storm-water Smart.” Twenty-five Vermont watershed groups came together to share projects aimed at reducing flood-related damage to property, businesses, infrastructure, water bodies and the general health of communities. We came home from the summit with new ideas and resources for our group.

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and Jimmy lifts the rod to accommodate.

Soon the fish is in the boat and we are admiring its massive size.

“He’ll go eight pounds I bet!” says Jimmy as he holds the fish for a picture.

“This here is a Derby Dog for sure! Let’s run him to the weigh station quick!”

Later that day, we learn that the 7.98 pound salmon brings in enough points to take a fourth place finish in the Rotary Derby and pays out a nice prize.

Now let me tell you about the one that got away!

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We will also provide engineer consultation for those properties with more complex storm-water problems. All of the properties will have signage marking them as Ahead of the Storm demonstration sites.

Ahead of the Storm is also planning a community-wide education event to showcase methods for managing storm-water runoff from driveways and parking areas made of semipermeable or impermeable materials. Rainfall is not well absorbed by these surfaces and simply drains off to the side, often eroding gullies and entering local streams. Optimal management practices can reduce the speed, volume and turbidity of this runoff and help prevent further degradation of waters flowing into Lake Champlain. Watch your local newspaper for the location and date of the event.

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Charlotte Conservation Currents How to make the birds stay A family of gardeners creates a Mecca for wildlife Mel Huff CONTRIBUTOR

“We started keeping an official list years ago when we realized how many we were seeing,” Kim Keyes says. “There was a towhee the other morning on the path by the garage. We’ve had wood ducks on the pond repeatedly. We don’t even have to go anywhere to see these things.”

The road to the Keyeses’ home on Upper Old Town Trail leads through woods to a Vermont-style Garden of Eden. In the 10 years Kim and her husband, Jim, have owned their 10-acre property, they have managed it with the goal of creating a wildlife-friendly habitat. The results speak for themselves— they have identified some 76 species of birds around their home.

The land invites catbirds, gold finches, red-breasted grosbeaks, meadowlarks, Baltimore orioles, grouse and woodcock.

For the past three years pileated and redbellied woodpeckers have been in residence. “We can see 50 hawks, or more, on any day as we’re out gardening,” Kim says. They were recently visited by more than 60 turkeys. And for the past three years, hundreds of robins have gathered on their lawn during fall migration. She adds, “They’re here one afternoon and gone the next morning.”

Kim attributes the property’s appeal to the fact that it has woods, open space and a pond. But the abundance of birds is not just happenstance.

The Keyeses provide seed cake, fruit and nuts, meal worms, sunflower seed, suet and thistle seed in a variety of feeders. They’ve planted chokeberries, elderberries and highbush cranberries,

and they leave the fruit for the birds.

They have modified their fall cleanup practice to ensure that birds have food and shelter during the winter. They rake seeds fallen from the birdfeeders into the beds around the house and push leaves over them for white-throated sparrows to forage in. And rather than cutting down the tall, straw-colored grasses, Russian sage and coneflowers they have planted around a gazebo, they leave them standing throughout the winter.

Bluebirds remain on their property year-round. Putting up bluebird houses made a real difference in attracting them, Kim says, and adding a heated birdbath was important in getting them to stay.

The couple feed the bluebirds dried meal worms during the winter months. One Christmas they saw two bluebirds perching on the wreath on their front door.

To attract a variety of birds, Kim provides sources of fresh water at different heights (she notes that the water should be shallow). One birdbath sits on the ground near the feeders. Another, mounted on a pedestal, stands nestled in foliage in a nearby bed.

Kim likes to use native plants in her flower gardens, although she’s not a purist; she has a kiwi vine and two enormous William Baffin climbing roses. She grows drifts of beebalm, four-foot-tall masses of brown-eyed Susans—she has found them to be showier and hardier than the blackeyed variety—and in a sunny border, clumps of a goldenrod cultivar called “Fireworks.” “It has arching branches and looks like fireworks going off,” she says, “and it attracts tons of bees.”

Kim considers Eastern red cedar to be the single most valuable wildlife planting.

(Cedars provide protective cover for animals, food for caterpillars and butterflies, and cones for fall migrants and overwintering birds.) She and her husband dig up seedlings and grow them in garden beds until they’re big enough to transplant in the landscape.

Before the Keyeses bought their property, the woods had been maintained in the style of an English park. But wildlife like privacy, and the Keyeses have adopted a more naturalistic style of gardening.

They let brush grow in the woods to provide shelter for small animals. They leave prickly ash for caterpillars to feed on and dead trees for nesting sites for birds.

They knew woodcock were in their woods because they heard the birds’ distinctive calls. When they identified

Brown-eyed Susans bloom in Kim Keyes’ garden. Kim leaves flowers and tall ornamental grasses standing through the winter to help birds survive and waits until spring to clean up the garden. Photo: Mel huff the area where the ground-nesters were tending their chicks, they stopped going into it. Their neighbors cooperated by keeping their dogs out. “Now we hear more and more woodcock,” she said, “and we get a chance to see them occasionally.” The Keyeses and their neighbors also delay their mowing schedules to give ground-nesting bobolinks time to raise their young.

Both Kim and her husband grew up gardening. Their twin sons, David and Jared, now at Middlebury College, provided a lot of physical labor for the family project.

In transforming 10 acres into a wildlife Mecca, the Keyeses have shown

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SportS May against Middlebury when he pitched a shortened (five-inning) perfect game and went 3-for-3 at the plate.

Over the net and into the record book

Cassie Franklin scoops the ball in a recent game against South Burlington.

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Redhawks rule in many parts of catamount country June is upon us, which means we’re nearing the end of the spring sports seasons. Turning alliterative this year, CVU is looking toward track and tennis as a couple of major individual and team talents. Behind some strong pitching and hitting that has led to a single-loss record, the baseball team is also top seeded, winning the Metro Conference title and picked to do the same in the state Division I championship.

Last Thursday, Redhawk pitcher and shortstop Rayne Supple was named Gatorade’s Vermont high school ball

player of the year. Rayne had a 4-0 record on the mound, including a nohitter, with a 0.72 earned-run average and was named one of the eight top pitchers in the state by the Burlington Free Press. He was equally strong at the plate, hitting for a .480 average with 21 runs batted in.

Two other names that appeared frequently in reports of the season were Sam Mikell (another strong three-way player) and Charlotte’s Will Potter. Will sent out four hits in the team’s last two wins over Essex and North Country, bringing the Redhawks’ record to 15-1 for the season. His major accomplishment this year, however, happened in mid-

courts 6-1, moving them on to a semi-final berth.

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Between freshmen and upperclassmen, the Essex Invitational Track Meet ran two weekends. Once again, the Redhawk relay teams showed up the field. Among the upper class, Charlotte’s Malina Carroll and Sadie Otley ran as half of the winning 4x100 quartet relay after they placed fourth and fifth as individuals in the 100-meter sprint. The previous weekend, the younger CVU runners had also won at 4x100 and placed fourth among 11 teams.

The freshmen men came in at 4th place with a twelfth school added to the field. Charlotte’s Zaq Urbaitel won the 110-meter hurdles, with his teammate Nathaniel Mick following close behind in second. Zaq took second in the 300-meter hurdles. The 4x100 relay of upperclassmen, Akey, Baccei, Cote and Tomasi, also won. Charlotte’s Richard Tegatz’s throw of 44 feet 10 inches fell less than two feet short of the winner, giving Rich second place in the shot put.

Tegatz is one of the top performers in the state in this event. He had won the event in an earlier five-team meet at South Burlington, in which he also placed second in the discus.

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High school tennis in Vermont gives teams and individuals an opportunity to excel at the end of the season. CVU did both. The number-one singles player, Kathy Joseph, defeated St. Johnsbury Academy’s Ayame Yazawa 6-3, 6-3 to defend her women’s crown. The two have been top rivals since Yazawa topped Kathy for the state title in 2013.

Joseph arrived at the finals by besting Rice’s Paige Hauke, and Yazawa defeated Kathy’s younger sister Stephanie, 6-1, 7-5 in their semifinal match. CVU blanked Stowe and Middlebury to reach the team quarterfinals where they defeated Burlington 6-1.

On the men’s side of the ledger, Redhawk George Lomas reached the quarterfinals before losing in a five-game set to his Essex opponent. Charlotte’s Ethan Leonard won his opening match in the round of 32 before losing at the 16-player level. The CVU doubles team of David Huber and Stephen Asch lost in the finals to an Essex duo by a score of 6-2, 6-0. Despite their number-9 ranking, the boys as a team blanked number-8 Middlebury 7-0 before topping number-16 Rice on the Shelburne

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SportS Fore!

Despite what many of us think, it has not been too cold or wet for high school golfers to hit the links swinging—not too many swings they hope. Last week Rocky Ridge Golf Course hosted the Division I North Sectional meet, and the Northern Vermont Athletic Conference (NVAC) held its championship at the Williston Country Club. CVU men placed third in both tournaments behind South Burlington and North Country. Carter Knox’s 76 tied him for medalist honors in the North Sectional, and he led the Redhawk team in the NVAC with an 83.

Men’s LAX is sneaking up on the field

Having won its last four games, outscoring its opponents 62-19, the Redhawk men’s lacrosse team may be peaking just in time for the state tournament. As Alex Abrami noted in the May 31 Burlington Free Press, Charlotte’s Elliot Mitchell is a strong midfielder with good hands and a quick shot, things not often found in one as big as Elliot. In the team’s recent win over Mount Mansfield by a score of 15-2, he hit three goals and contributed an assist. Another Charlotter, Noah Kiernan, scored twice. Mitchell helped make May a banner month, scoring five goals against Middlebury and four against Rutland.

Claire Potter is one of few bright spots for softball team

With only three wins under its belt this year, the CVU softball team has to look for individual bright spots. Charlotte’s Claire Potter seems to be one. A junior, Potter went three-for-three in a 22-3 loss to North Country after driving in two runs in the previous game, an 11-8 loss to Milton.

Enman finishes tops in Vermont City Marathon

Kasie Enman of Huntington, assistant track coach at CVU, won the Vermont City Marathon for the second year in a row. Most notable for her, however, is that she did so beating her husband, Eli, a CVU grad and a pretty good runner in his own right. She finished at 2:49 and he finished at 3:16.

In another CVU element to the race, Redhawk Carly Neeld was part of a team that included Olympic bronze medalist Deanna Kastor.

Rec News by Kristin Hartley Currently The Charlotte Beach is now open!

The dock and rafts will soon be in, and we are now staffed 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Our resident beach passes are available for $20; nonresident passes are $40. Day passes are $3 for residents and $6 for nonresidents. There is a lot to do at the beach! We have organized pickle ball on Mondays at 5 p.m. and Thursdays at 6 p.m. Come join us even if you are new to the game! Pickup tennis is on Tuesday evenings at 6. Our new volleyball court will be ready for use this week. And keep an eye out for disc golf. We have a course but need donations for baskets. Please contact Bill Fraser Harris at billandeva@ gmavt.net if you are able to help. Our town Beach Party will take place July 11 from 5 to 8 p.m., with live music, demo kayaks and paddle boards from Outdoor Gear Exchange, and food. Feel free to add your suggestions.

I would like to say a big thank you to all of the volunteer coaches who make our programs work: to Sarah Minkler, Mimi Comeau, Lillian Oates, Chris Kogut, Rich Sturim, Ray Gillian, Pete Cahn, Jim McEnaney and Lee Fox, for a great lacrosse season, and to Jeff Albertson and Elizabeth Hunt for our kindergarten soccer program. We couldn’t do it all without you!

place at CCS and is for 5-year-olds through rising 5th graders. June 22–26 and August 3–7. Days filled with gardening tasks, art projects, free play, tastetesting, outdoor exploration, sprinkler play and garden-to-plate cooking.

Tim Serrell Tennis Clinic is a free tennis clinic to be run by Amy deGroot.

This is a Charlotte tradition made possible by a generous trust set aside by Tim Serrell. This program takes place June 22–26.

Camp Hoopla! will be held at Charlotte Central School the week of June 29 to July 3. Develop talents in music, theatrical clowning, juggling and improvisation with Mr. Smith and Woodhead.

Summer Sailing Camp takes place at Burlington’s Community Sailing Center the week of July 6–10.

Three soccer camps will be held in Charlotte this summer: the British Challenger Soccer Camp July 13–17, the Tetrabrazil Soccer Camp July 20–24 and the Voltage Soccer Camp August 17–21.

Charlotte residents can enjoy Summer Horseback Riding Camp at the Livery Stables in Hinesburg July 27-31 and August 10 – 14.

adult programming Mat Pilates is a great way to start your week. Class is held Friday

mornings from 6 – 7 in the MPR room at CCS. Come flow through a series of dynamic movements that restore balance to core muscles of the lower back and abdominals. There are four class sessions, but you can join class at any time.

Adult Early Morning Boot Camp is the place to be 6 o’clock Tuesday and Thursday mornings at CCS. Come out and join us and make a commitment to fitness. There are eight class sessions, but you can join at any point. Classes take place outdoors (MPR rain back-up); bring a mat, something to drink and a smile.

This summer Charlotte will be hosting a Puppy Workshop and a Basic Dog Obedience Workshop on Saturday, June 20. These classes are two hours in length and run by Lori Bielawa of Waggles.

The Recreation Department now has a Facebook page for program updates and action photos. Check it out at Charlotte VT Recreation Dept.

Registration forms for all programs and more information can be found at charlottevt.org or at the Town Offices.

Partial and full scholarships are available for all recreation programs. If you have any questions about any of our programs contact Kristin Hartley at recreation@ townofcharlotte.com or 425-6129 ext.

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Summer programming Registration is open for the following programs: Track and Field, which is shared with Hinesburg and Williston, will continue its affiliation with the Parisi Speed School. Participants will learn the basics of running, jumping, throwing and relays. This program is for ages 7 to 14 and begins June 17 at the CVU track.

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by Mary Recchia, Activities Coordinator Join Hank Kaestner on Wednesday morning, June 10, for another Birding Expedition as we try to record 100 species of birds in one year! Please meet at the Mt. Philo parking lot a little before 8 a.m. This excursion will be a bit more difficult as the group will be hiking up the mountain to see as many early morning species as possible. Please register for this event—if we have to change the date due to bird migration or weather, we will call you. No fee.

Spanish Conversation with Maria Acosta will continue this summer on Tuesdays from 11 – noon. Challenge your brain! With an eye toward speaking and understanding the language better, this group comes together to “chat” about the week’s activities or interests with a goal of improving their fluency through listening and speaking. A fun, no-pressure way to meet some new folks, sharpen your mind and practice your Spanish. No fee.

Not ready for a conversation just yet?

Bernice Wesseling is offering Beginning Spanish Tuesdays from 10–11 a.m.

Dates: June 2–August 25. Learn some basic vocabulary and simple sentence structures and attempt basic communication. The class will be extended for 15 minutes for anyone who wants to fill huecos in the language they already have.

No fee.

Do you Play Cribbage but can’t find anyone to play with? Are you just a bit rusty from those college days? A growing number of cribbage enthusiasts are joining Jerry Schwarz after the Wednesday luncheon around 1 p.m. for a friendly game of cribbage. All are welcome. No fee.

Get Your Bike Ready for Summer, with Sojourn Bicycling and Active Vacations, on Tuesday, June 9, at 10

Monday, June 8 Soup–chefs’ choice Salad Homemade dessert

Wednesday, June 10 Cajun chicken and mushroom salad Homemade dessert

Monday, June 15 Strawberry romaine salad Curried quinoa Chocolate orange surprise

Wednesday, June 17 CVU Singers performing at the Senior Center to an after-lunch crowd on May 20, celebrating the end of their school year and the beginning of summer. a.m. Kick off the season by getting your bike ready to roll during a spring tuneup session. Learn how to clean and lube your chain, inflate your tires properly and adjust your shifters. A few simple tricks will make your cycling more enjoyable.

Sojourn will provide the necessary supplies. Bring your bicycle and your enthusiasm! Space is limited to 20 people and their bikes. Registration required. No fee.

Then, Let’s Ride! with Sojourn Bicycling and Active Vacations on Tuesday, June 16, beginning at 9 a.m.

Get outdoors, meet some folks and enjoy yourself! Join Charlotte-based Sojourn for a fun, recreational ride along some of the best cycling roads in the region. Our ride will range from 15–25 miles, and you will enjoy the camaraderie of Sojourn tour leaders as well as a support van. Snacks and refreshments are provided. The ride begins from the Senior Center at 9 a.m. and returns to the center by noon. If you would like to come along but don’t have a bike, let us know, and for $15 Sojourn will provide you with a properly sized bicycle. Registration required. No fee.

Are You Ready for an Active Summer? Ginger Lambert will continue

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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. Fee: $10 per class.

An AARP Driver Safety Class with Baird Morgan, AARP volunteer instructor, will be held on Thursday, June 25, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. A classroom refresher course for drivers age 50 and over, this highly effective defensive driving course (which may enable you to receive an auto insurance discount)

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Website update Quick! Grab your smart phone, tablet or other e-device and type in charlottepubliclibrary.org. Behold the brand-new, “responsive design” version of the library website, now readable and usable on all kinds of electronics. A big thank you goes to the Vermont Department of Libraries for facilitating the Vermont Digital Economy Project Grant from the State of Vermont. And much appreciation to our tech librarian, Susanna Kahn, for putting the pieces together. Without the funding and expertise, we’d still be chasing text around!

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Monday, June 8, All Day: 6x6 Reading Challenge Celebration! Share your reading success and pick up your prize. Congratulations for making Charlotte a community of readers.

Monday, June 8, 10 a.m. Mystery Book Group. Our continental mystery tour continues as we read Maigret and the Hotel Majestic

by Georges Simenon. Copies available at the circulation desk to check out for reading before our meeting. Coffee and refreshments provided.

Tuesday, June 9, 10 a.m. Tech Tuesday: eReaders, Audiobooks & More. Susanna Kahn, our tech librarian, explains how to access the wealth of reading and listening materials available online through the library’s resources.

Saturday, June 13, 8:30 a.m. Library @ the Grange. The library and the Charlotte Grange are joining forces to bring “Every Hero Has a Story” summer reading to East Charlotte. Drop in at the Grange for breakfast and stories as well as a chance to get your library card and borrow books to take home.

We’ll be back every two weeks so you can update your books throughout the summer.

Summer Reading @ the Charlotte Library: “Every Hero Has a Story.” Join us for stories, exploring, crafts and more to celebrate heroes of all kinds. Check the library website: charlottepubliclibrary.org for a full list of programs.

upcoming at the Library Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday Night Knitters.

Thursday, June 4, 7:30 p.m. Library Friends Book Group. Join us to discuss the Thomas Hardy classic, Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Copies available for check out at the circulation desk.

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CONCERT: Aaron Flinn, local singer/ songwriter. Shelburne Vineyard for a “First Thursday” performance. 6 p.m.

Free. Outdoors, weather permitting.

Food and wine offered. Contact Gail Albert at galbert@shelburnevineyard. com. or shelburnevineyard.com.

JUNE 5 fRiday

EVENT: Shelburne Museum Classic Auto Festival, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Vermont Auto Enthusiasts returns to the grounds of the museum. Contact Nicole DeSmetndesmet@shelburnemuseum. org, 802-985-3346 x3318.

JUNE 6 SatuRday

EVENT: Champlain Area Trails (CATS) Celebrate CATS Day. 4 to 7 p.m. Barn at Block House Farm, Essex.

Speaker is author Tony Goodwin, Adirondack Train Pioneer. Reception following talk. Children’s hike for all ages. $15 per person, $30 per family with pre-registration. $20 and $40 at the door. Tickets at app.etapestry.com/ onlineforms/ChamplainAreaTrails/celebrate.html.

JUNE 7

to benefit the Leukenia & Lymphoma Society. Refreshments, bar, and Latin dance demo. Tickets in advance $20 at springintosummervt.com or $25 at the door. 3–6 p.m. at the Train Station, 1 Main St., Burlington.

BIRDING: Birds of Vermont Museum early birders morning walks, Sundays in June, 7–9 a.m. 900 Sherman Hollow Road, Huntington, VT 05462. Contact: 802-434-2167, museum@birdsofvermont.org, birdsofvermont.org.

JUNE 8 monday

GARDEN PARTY: Vermont Arts Council’s annual meeting and 50th anniversary garden party in Montpelier.

Annual meeting at 3:30 p.m. room 11, Vermont State House, 115 State St. and party at 4:30 p.m., Vermont Arts Council Sculpture Garden, 136 State St. Contact Kira Bacon kbacon@vermontartscouncil.org, 802-828-5422.

JUNE 9 tueSday

CHILDREN’S EVENT: Birds of Vermont Museum offers Storytime in the Nestlings Nook. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free with admission. 900 Sherman Hollow Road • Huntington, VT 05462.

Contact: 802-434-2167 or museum@ birdsofvermont.org, birdsofvermont. org.

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CELEBRATION: Open-Invitation Reception Charlotte Senior Center 4:006:00 p.m. Come Wish Happy Birthday to Larry Hamilton. Youngest 90 Year Old You’ll Ever Know! Join Him for Music, Cake, and Hugs!

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CONTRA DANCE: Queen City Contras at Shelburne Town Hall, 8 p.m.

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EXHIBIT: American Moderns, 19101960: From O’Keeffe to Rockwell.

Members opening 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Museum Dirctor Tom Denenberg gives short talk at 2 p.m. Pizzagalli Center, Shelburne Museum. shelburnemuseum. org.

FISHING: Vermont State Parks “Vermont Days” free fishing day, no license required. vermontvacation.com/ vermont-days.

JUNE 14 Sunday

CONCERT: Middlebury Community Music Center Benefit Concert. 1 p.m. reception (Jackson Gallery), 2 p.m. performance. Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Tickets $10-$20 at 802382-9222, townhalltheater.org.

JUNE 18 thuRSday

CONCERT: It’s About Time, with Stephen Rainville, Cathy Walsh, and Tim Guiles, at Town Hall Theater’s main stage, 68 S. Pleasant St., Middlebury at 7:30 p.m. $15. Tickets 802-382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

Where to find a local Farmers Market Enjoy the abundance from Vermont’s farms at nearby Farmer’s Markets all summer—the taste of fresh-picked vegetables and fruits, locally raised meats, baked goods, preserves, and even some cooked foods.

SHELBURNE: Saturday from 9 a.m.–1 p.m. May 30 through October 10 on the Parade Ground in Shelburne center on Route 7 & Church St. Contact Tod Whitaker at 482-4279 or sbpavt@ gmail.com.

HINESBURG: Thursdays 3–6:30 p.m. June 4 through September 24 at the United Church on Route 116. Contact Marge Sharp 482-2651.

SOUTH BURLINGTON: Sundays 10 a.m.–2 p.m. June 7 through October 11 at South Burlington High School, 550 Dorset St. Contact sbfm.manager@commonroots.org.

BURLINGTON: Saturdays 8:30 a.m.

–2 p.m. May 9 through October 31 at City Hall Park on College St. Contact 802-310-5172 or info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org.

VERGENNES: Thursdays 3–6:30 p.m. June 12 through September 24 at the Vergennes City Park in the city center.

Contact rhondawilliamsvt@gmail.com.

RICHMOND: Fridays, May 29–Oct. 16, 3–6:30 p.m. Volunteers Green in Richmond. richmondfarmersmarketvt. org.

And if you can’t get to one of the markets, you can still enjoy local farmer’s produce by shopping at Charlotte’s own yourfarmstand.com. Pre-order your selection and pick it up at a convenient location.

—Ruah Swennerfelt

Renowned naturalist and wildlife tracker to host workshop June 18 Who are the non-human neighbors we share the land and water with? Where in our town do these critters live? What kind of habitat and how much habitat do they need to find food, raise their young and thrive? How can we grow communities that will include them? Why is it even important?

If you have ever wondered about these questions, you now have a rare and wonderful opportunity to find out. Come join Sue Morse, an expert naturalist, one of the top wildlife trackers in the United States and founder of Keeping Track, Inc., for a free slide show workshop on June 18 to learn the answers. Her talk, “Wildlife Habitat in the Champlain Valley,” will be from 7–9 p.m. at the new Lake Champlain Waldorf High School building on Bostwick Road in Shelburne.

This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about wildlife in the Champlain Valley.

To keep your energy up, refreshments, courtesy of Shelburne Farms and the Lewis Creek Association, will be offered. There will also be a raffle of Woody Jackson art in support of the Monkton wildlife-habitat connectivity project.

The event is sponsored by the Lewis Creek Association in conjunction with the Lake Champlain Waldorf High School, Shelburne Farms and town conservation commissions.

Compiled by Ruah SwenneRfelt Send youR eventS to newS@ChaRlottenewSvt.Com with EVENT in the SubjeCt headline.

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Around Town Congratulations to Benjy Mason and his wife, Katrina Moorehead, of Houston, Texas, who welcomed the arrival of their son Dashiel Edwin Mason on April 17. The delighted grandparents are Nan and Ben Mason of Charlotte. to the following students at the University of Vermont from Charlotte who earned placement on the dean’s list for the spring term 2015: Madeline Hudziak, first year undeclared major; Lindsay R. Mick, sophomore history major; Elizabeth Richards, sophomore civil engineering major; Shawn Roberts, senior nutrition and food sciences major; Donna Waterman, senior anthropology major; Jordan Weith, senior psychology major; Kyla Williamson, sophomore mathematics major; Addison Zinner, first-year studio art major. to the following St. Lawrence University students from Charlotte who received bachelor degrees at commencement exercises May 17: Sarah Burns, bachelor of arts degree cum laude with a major in government; Leynah McGarghan, bachelor of arts degree with a major in history; Marissa Minkler, bachelor of arts degree with a major in anthropology. to the following Middlebury College students from Charlotte who earned baccalaureate degrees at commencement exercises on May 24: Nicholas P. Spencer and Sarah Holden Briggs. to Ian Meier of Charlotte, who earned placement on the dean’s list at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, for the spring semester. Ian is majoring in political science. to U.S. Air Force Airman Grace Delisle for completing her basic military training at Joint Base San AntonioLackland in San Antonio, Texas. Grace is the daughter of Mark Delisle of Charlotte and Susan Enos of Hinesburg and a 2013 graduate of CVU. to Susan Ohanian, who contributed a chapter to a recently published book, Re-imagining the Public Intellectual in

Education: Making Scholarship Matter.

Susan’s chapter deals with her experience of what happened when the New York Times called asking for a contribution and is titled “When a Public Intellectual Speaks Out but No One Hears Her, Does She Exist?” The book addresses the issue of who gets heard on matters concerning education policy when self-styled experts with axes to grind dominate media coverage. to Sumru Tekin of Charlotte, who was interviewed recently for an article in the May 20 Seven Days. Sumru talked about her artistic sound-and-video installation in the Burlington City Arts Center titled “One Day,” which will run through June 20. The show is based on responses from 65 people she asked to tell her what they were doing one day between April 14 and 16, 2014 —“down to the second.” From their responses she has created audio and video loops plus images of text that she calls “fables,” which scroll down a wall of the BCA second floor gallery. She has not painted pictures for this show, only sound and text. A part of her thought behind the exhibit goes back to her birth and early upbringing in Turkey. Sumru explains she is interested in discovering “what remains unrealized” through memory and what is transmitted as history over time about the Armenian genocide. to Abbie Bowker, art teacher at CCS, for work by her students called the “Memory Project,” in which they painted portraits of youngsters from Ghana living in orphanages. The project earned CCS the “Cool School” award by Fox 44 News on May 21. to Jim and Eric Lampman of Lake Champlain Chocolates, who were invited to speak about the formation and development of their business for the Vermont Chamber Business and Industry Exposition 2015. Jim launched the company over 30 years ago, and he talked about its “controlled growth.” His son Eric has taken over for his father and is pointing the company in a slightly different direction. Having always used Belgian chocolate as the base ingredient, now Champlain is developing sources in Guatemala for cocoa beans, “working directly with small-scale

Regular Church Services SATURDAYS St. Jude Catholic Church, Mass, Hinesburg, 4:30 p.m.

SUNDAYS Community Alliance Church, Hinesburg, Gathering Place, 9 a.m., Sunday School, 9 a.m., Worship, 10:15 a.m. Information: 482-2132.

Charlotte Congregational Church, Worship, 10 a.m., Sunday School, 10 a.m. Information: 425-3176.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mass, 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. Information: 425-2637.

St. Jude Catholic Church, Mass, Hinesburg, 9:30 a.m. Information: 482-2290.

North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church, Hollow Road, Worship, 10 a.m., Sunday School, 9:45 a.m. Information: 425-2770.

Cross Roads Chapel, Ferrisburgh Ctr. Rt. 7, Sunday Worship 10 a.m.

Information: 425-3625.

Assembly of God Christian Center, Routes 7 and 22A, Ferrisburgh, Sunday worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Sunday School, 9 a.m.

Information: 877-3903.

All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Bostwick Farm Road, Shelburne.

Sunday Service 9 a.m., Evensong Service 5 p.m. 985-3819 Trinity Episcopal Church, 5171 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. “Space for Grace” (educational hour), 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist (with child care and Sunday School).

985-2269.

Volunteers plant library garden On Saturday, a happy group of eight volunteers like Deirdre Holmes (right) filled the library grounds with potatoes, tomatoes, green beans, lettuce, carrots, leeks, scallions, peppers and flowers. farmers.” to Dan Boardman of Charlotte, an executive with Hickok and Boardman insurance, real estate and financial planning companies. The companies earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Way of Chittenden County for their “exceptional campaign management, engagement and company participation,” according to an article in the May 29 Burlington Free Press.

Sympathy is extended to family and friends of Elizabeth and Robert Slater, M.D., husband and wife who died within a month

of each other, both at the age of 91. Their surviving family includes their son Brian Slater of Charlotte. In lieu of flowers, the family encourages donations to the Lund Family Center, 140 Mansfield Avenue, Burlington, VT 05401. is extended to family and friends of Marselis Parsons III, of Shelburne, who passed away May 27 at the age of 70.

His surviving family includes his daughter, Susan, her husband, Will Amidon, and their daughter, Pippa, now living in Cornwall. The son of Ed Amidon and Louise McCarren of Charlotte, Will grew up here. The family asks that those wishing to make contributions consider doing so to the Cancer Patient Support Foundation, the Visiting Nurse Association or Vermont Respite House.

Classifieds The Charlotte News classifieds: Reach your friends and neighbors for only $7 per issue (payment must be sent before issue date). Please limit your ad to 35 words or fewer and send it to The Charlotte News Classifieds, P.O. Box 251, Charlotte, VT 05445 or email us ads@charlottenewsvt.com.

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