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Major Repairs at CCS Could Mean Major Spending School Board discusses repairs and renovations that could total over $6 million Tour of building and public meeting to discuss issue Nov. 5 Brett Sigurdson

The charloTTe News At an Oct. 9 meeting of the CCS School Board, members were given an update by its Facilities Committee on the current condition of the school building.

The prognosis: not good.

The Facilities Committee, chaired by Mark McDermott, has spent two years examining maintenance and structural issues at CCS. At the meeting McDermott shared a list of recommendations that indicate the board—and Charlotters—

face some difficult, expensive decisions about repairing or replacing certain parts of the building, including the wing from 1939—Charlotte’s former town hall— which may have to be torn down.

According to the committee, total cost for renovations could amount to over $6 million.

Necessary repairs

Throughout the presentation, McDermott discussed some of the most pressing issues facing each section of the school facility, which is a patchwork of

additions and renovations constructed intermittently since 1949, when a building was constructed next to the then town hall to provide a central school for Charlotte’s children.

The most significant work needs to be done to the 1939 portion of the building, McDermott said, which houses the kitchen, cafeteria and library. The committee found the wing requires a new roof, mechanical and plumbing upgrades, complete electrical wiring replacement, improvements to thermal efficiency, and emergency and exit lighting systems.

The kitchen needs renovation and equipment upgrades, and the library carpet needs replacement.

“The 1939 is a well-used, wood-frame building,” said McDermott. “It’s been around a long time. It’s time to look at doing something to bring it up to date.”

The issues present in the 1939 building also carry over to other sections of the school, including inefficient insulation in the 1969 addition and the 1987

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Brothers in Business Jamie and Nick Frick have big business ideas. The first is already a success: Auto Detail to You Brett Sigurdson The charloTTe News

Jamie (left) and Nick Frick pause for a picture while cleaning a car. The brothers started Auto Detail to You to raise capital for their Chaga Tea Company.

James and Nick Frick are big fans of Muhammed Ali. Their computer’s wallpaper is a pale shade of green save for a quote by the legendary boxer: “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have the change it.”

Both of the brothers trade off talking about the quote and what it means to them. As they talk, it’s easy to think that even if they weren’t brothers, one could mistake James—who goes by Jamie—and Nick for family.

Both lean, soft-spoken and clean-shaven, the Frick brothers have an uncanny resemblance.

Like brothers, they also fall into certain roles:

In the Land of the Midnight Sun Charlotter Jim Squires shared his experiences exploring the Arctic Circle to a packed library in Bristol recently Emma Slater THE CHARLOTTE NEWS

Before displaying his portfolio of photos from a recent trip to the Svalbard Peninsula in the Arctic Circle above Norway, Jim Squires prefaced his presentation with a series of confessions to the packed room at Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol.

“One, I’m not a professional photographer, I know how a camera works, and I try to be in the right place at the right time,” he said. “My second confession is that I’m not an expert scientist. And finally, I’m not Norwegian.”

Despite Squires self-professed lack of official training, his passion for the environment when united with an interest in photography provided viewers

Jamie, 31, is the more talkative one, the brother with big ideas, the driven one. Nick, 27, is softspoken, a doer, the grounded brother who is no less driven.

Together, they’re trying to make their passion for local food, healthy herbs and sustainable agriculture into first a tea company and, eventually, an indoor farmer’s market in Chittenden County.

For two brothers whose resumes largely consist of work in grocery stores, these could be big dreams. But impossible? Not if you judge them by their first business venture: a direct-to-thecustomer car wash business called Auto Detail to You, which has already proven a success bigger than they expected.

Their business model is simple: Jamie and Nick travel to a customer’s house with their

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Bond Vote for CVU Fields Nov. 5 Voters asked to approve $1.5 million to meet demand for more playing fields

with a breathtaking view of this remote area of the world.

This presentation was part of the One World Library project, an initiative to share community members’ experience of foreign cultures and environments. Squires is a Charlotte resident who serves as both a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University and a senior diving instructor at Burlington’s Waterfront Diving Center. He is also an award-winning underwater photographer.

Squire’s was first invited to explore the Svalbard Peninsula aboard a National Geographic ship by his friend David Wright, an Emmy Award win-

In a tweet from early September that showed a picture a of field of clumped mud and grass, a photographer with Vermont Sports Images wrote, “Is there a school in Vermont that needs a turf field more than CVU?” Voters in CVU’s district towns, including Charlotte, will have their say about this on Nov. 5, when they will go to the polls to vote on contributing to a proposed turf field project with a $1.5 million bond.

The proposed $2.6 million project calls for two synthetic turf fields at a cost of $850,000 each, lighting, as well as bleacher seating for up to 1,000 at each new field. The bond, if passed, would be offset by $1.1 million in private donations. As of publication, $431,785 has been raised toward that amount, $150,000 of it from the school’s construction account.

While the less-than-appealing state of CVU’s fields has been illustrated anecdotally by muddy athletes and canceled games due to field conditions, a 2011 report CVU commissioned from Gale Associates,Inc., a regional consulting and engineer-

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In U.S. Relationship with Iran, Reasons for Hope and Cynicism Barrie Dunsmore CoNTriBuTor

There have been many meetings between Iran and a group of six world powers that includes the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, over international concerns about Iran’s nuclear program.

In the past, these meetings have gone nowhere.

But this latest one seems different. For one thing, there was a rare joint statement issued describing the discussions as “substantive” and “forward looking.”

The talks will resume on Nov. 7 and 8.

While the two sides have agreed for now to keep details of the negotiations confidential, we did learn that new Iranian positions were contained in an hourlong PowerPoint presentation, which Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif delivered—in English. U.S. officials are not saying if Iran had broken new ground or if differences had been narrowed. But one senior State Department official did say, “For the first time, we had very detailed technical discussions.”

That’s good, but the issues nevertheless are daunting. Iran wants the right to continue reprocessing uranium—for peaceful purposes it says. And it wants the economic sanctions, which have crippled its economy, to be lifted. The world powers want Iran to prove its claim that it is not trying to make nuclear weapons by virtually throwing open the doors to international inspectors to all of its vast nuclear facilities. A big part of the negotiations will deal with timing, especially who and what comes first.

This was the first full negotiating session since the moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani was elected Iran’s president in June. Rouhani has since been on what critics call a “charm offensive.” During his visit to the United Nations last month, he certainly came across as moderate and was rewarded with a 15-minute telephone call from President Barack Obama.

That was the first time in 34 years the presidents of the U.S. and Iran had actually talked to each other.

One analyst compared Obama’s call to Rouhani to Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972, which ended decades of hostility between the two nations.

Perhaps.

But at that time neither President Nixon nor Chinese Chairman Mao had to worry about significant domestic opposition to changing the nature of the Chinese-American relationship.

That is not the case with either presidents Obama or Rouhani, who both face very tough opposition to concessions on their home fronts. The powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps publicly insists that Iran must have nuclear weapons. For his part, President Obama has to contend with Israel, whose leaders say a nuclear-armed Iran is an existential threat.

That’s one reason why many in Congress, including senior Democratic leaders, are adamantly opposed to easing any sanctions on Iran until it accedes to virtually every American demand. And Congress has the power to keep key sanctions in place.

This could lead to serious problems down the road, bearing in mind that if the Iranian nuclear issue can’t be resolved diplomatically, the only other option appears to be a major Middle East war.

Barrie Dunsmore is a journalist who covered foreign affairs for ABC News for 30 years. This commentary was featured on Vermont Public Radio on Oct. 17, 2013. His commentaries also appear in the Rutland Herald/Montpelier Times Argus. He lives in Charlotte.

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Selectboard Regular Meetings are usually at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall on the second and fourth Mondays of each month. Sometimes they begin earlier; check online at charlottevt.org or with the Town Clerk (425-3071). Chair: Charles Russell (425-4757), Ellie Russell (425-5276), Winslow Ladue (425-2275), John Owen (425-4632),Lane Morrison (425-2495).

CCS School Board Regular Meetings are usually at 6:30 p.m. in the CCS Library on the third Tuesday of each month. Clyde Baldwin (425-3366), Edorah Frazer (425-4937), Kristin Wright (425-

5105). Erik Beal (425-2140) Mark McDermott (4254860). Planning Commission Regular Meetings are usually at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Chair: Jeffrey McDonald (425-4429), Vice Chair: Jim Donovan, Gerald Bouchard, Peter Joslin, Paul Landler, Linda Radimer, Ellie Russell.

Committee meetings are listed on the town website.

Check times and agendas online or by phone; for the town: charlottevt.org, Town Hall, 425-3071 or 4253533; for CCS: ccsvt.us, CSSU office, 383-1234.

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Letters Support turf field bond vote Nov. 5

‘Comedy on the Brain!’ a success thanks to many

I am writing in support of the CVU Turf Fields Project. I am an interested community citizen. My kids are long gone from school, but I continue my involvement in helping kids through some coaching and community board involvement. Through time I have coached hockey, baseball, basketball and football at a variety of levels, skills and gender. I also grew up in a family that, for generations, has been educators and coaches.

Through those experiences I have come to understand the value of the athletic experience as a critical element in the overall development of the person. Now, as a corporate leader, I see the strengths that those who have had athletics as a part of their educational upbringing bring to their employ. A sense of team, coaching skills, communication skills, commitment to a cause and competitiveness are a few of the elements that add to their overall performance and benefit to a company or cause.

CVU has been adversely impacted by the inability of its teams to have regular and healthy practice time due to the lack of consistent availability of its practice fields. This is because the fields are unable to hold up to virtually any level of wet weather, and once they are wet, they are quickly unplayable and in quick disrepair.

In athletics, wins or losses sometimes mask the true value of what goes on in the development of the athlete and the team. The overall quality of the training and development process is paramount. I would venture to guess, as has been my experience, that most coaches have fonder memories of a particular player and their growth than some of their big wins. This is how programs grow, the players grow as individuals and as teammates, and we as the educational community reap the full benefit of the experience. For coaches the field is the classroom, and no one would tolerate or accept classrooms in this state of condition.

We hope that your support will help bring an athletic classroom deserving of our young people to reality.

I extend a huge thank you to all of the people who attended the recent “Comedy on the Brain!” show at the Old Lantern and to the many local and regional merchants and craftspeople who contributed their services, goods and talents to the silent auction.

The total funds raised for the past three shows have now passed $20,000.

Once again, every penny from tickets and the auction goes to finding a cure for cancer.

Funds from this recent show have gone to the UVM Cancer Center to support the extraordinary work of Dr. David Krag and his team.

Thanks to Lisa and Roland Gaujac for the lovely venue, Ken French for sound, my daughter Rose and boyfriend Patrick for their help in ticketing, Judy Rowe for greeting, and Stephen Wisbaum, Jonathan Freese and Laura Lomas for help at the auction. A special thanks goes to Jesusa Krag for her timely help in setting up the auction tables with style.

Thanks also to the Vermont Comedy Divas, who had everyone smiling, most laughing and many in hysterics!

And a heartfelt thanks goes to my partner in magic, Rita Murphy, who took a chance by learning and performing the two very physical illusions with me.

Finally, thanks to the many others who, while not in attendance, contributed by sending checks.

You can see all the shows on my YouTube channel, “Neon Savage.”

Kevin B. McCarthy Shelburne

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Recognizing a talented photographer Thanks to the Charlotte News for last week’s article on our band, Abraxas.

I want to point out that the excellent photographs were taken by a very talented photographer, also from Charlotte, Jonas Powell, and pass along our gratitude to him. There are more cool photos on our Facebook page, facebook. com/abraxasvt.

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CorreCtions In the Oct. 10 issue of the Charlotte News, we mistakenly noted that Maddie Turnau was the goaltender in the CVU-North Country match. Charlotter Michaela Floury was actually in goal for the game. We apologize for the error.

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CVU Brings ‘Spamalot’ to Stage

CVU’s theater program presents the wildly hysterical smash Broadway musical Spamalot Oct. 24 through Oct. 27, one of the first high school productions in Vermont.

“Lovingly ripped off” from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Tony Award-winning musical is a parody of Arthurian legend. King Arthur, his squire, Patsy, and his knights go on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Along the way they encounter the Trojan Rabbit, Killer Bunny and other wacky Monty Python characters.

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Performances of Monty Python musical run Oct. 24 through Oct. 27

A scene from the Theatre Program’s upcoming performance of the musical Spamalot.

A number of Charlotte students are involved in the production: Benjamin Recchia, Maggie Haesler, Maya Townsend, Sabrina Davis, Carly Alpert, Meg Young, Emme Hardy, Hadley Menk, Lucy Pappas, Noa Urbaitel and Minxie Franz.

Spamalot hits the stage Oct. 24 through Oct. 26 beginning at 7:30 p.m.

On Sunday, Oct. 27, the performance begins at 2 p.m.

General admission tickets are $8. Student and children’s tickets are $6. To order tickets, visit https://sites.google. com/a/cvuhs.org/cvu-theater/home/ticket-order-form-spamalot.

(From left) Anna Cataldo (Dingo), Maggie Haesler (Zoot) and Lucy Pappas (Piglet) in a scene from Spamalot.

Seamus Buxton (right) plays King Arthur, who travels in search of the Holy Grail with his squire, Patsy, played by Katie Garra.

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Get ‘Lake Wise’ at Library Nov. 6 Charlotte WatershED, a partnership involving several local organizations and entities, will hold a presentation about Vermont Lake Wise at the Charlotte Library on Nov. 6 beginning at 6 p.m.

Vermont Lake Wise is a new program that is offering free technical assistance for lake property owners—or anyone living along a stream, pond or wetland—on how to manage shoreland property to prevent erosion and runoff.

A property can earn the Lake Wise Award for representing a “model”

shoreland. The award certifies that a property is well managed, using best management practices, and is protecting lake water quality and habitat. Most of the property improvements can be done by landowners themselves.

Visitors to the Lake Wise presentation can enter to win a native landscape consultation with Nate Carr of Church Hill Landscaping.

For more information on this and other WatershED events, visit yellowladyslipper.org/watershed.

Police Investigate Attempted Breakins on Prindle, Greenbush Roads Two homes in Charlotte may have been the target for burglaries late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, this according to Vermont State Police, who are investigating the suspicious incidents.

According to Senior Trooper Mark Magnant, the first incident occurred during the night of Saturday, Oct. 19, on Prindle Road. A homeowner called to report an unknown suspect had entered the residence’s back porch and then attempted to open an interior door.

Although persons from the residence and state police checked the area, the individual was not located, nor was evidence of a vehicle found.

The second incident occurred during the early morning hours of Sunday, Oct. 20, along Greenbush Road. A home-

owner there reported that two unknown males had approached the back porch of the residence. After shining a flashlight on the back of the house, they then attempted to open the porch door.

According to Magnant, a dog inside the residence may have scared off the two males, who fled on foot. Officers from the Shelburne Police Department and the homeowner checked the area but were not able to locate the individuals. No vehicle was seen or heard in the area.

There are no suspects at this time for either incident.

Police are encouraging Charlotte residents to lock their homes and report any suspicious activity or individuals to Vermont State Police at 878-7111.

Calendar 2.0 Proposal Put on Hold Superintendents in Champlain Valley agreed in a meeting earlier this month that there is not enough community support for the proposed Calendar 2.0 schedule for 2014-2015.

The action came after three public forums indicated there is not broadbased community readiness at this time for the proposal. The decision came just prior to the fourth and final public forum at CVU that had been scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 10.

Based on the Vermont Superintendents’ Association (VSA) Education Quality Framework and the VT WorldClass Education Agenda, Calendar 2.0 would have preserved the current 175 student days while building in blocks of times, or intersessions, that could be used for multiple purposes for multiple stakeholders.

Over 1,000 people attended the public forums, which also took place in Essex, St. Albans and Burlington.

“It has been an exciting two weeks,” said Elaine Pinckney, superintendent of Chittenden South Supervisory. “The

energy and interest exhibited at the community forums is testament to the importance our communities have in providing the very best educational opportunities for all of our students.

We are grateful for the level of participation at the forums, on blog posts, and the many smaller groups who met over the course of the last nine months—all of which will be given serious consideration.”

The goals now are to continue to engage communities in a conversation that looks at time as a variable in student learning, noted Jay Nichols, superintendent for Franklin Northeast Supervisory Union, and to capture the energy around community engagement in education from the discussions at the forums.

“We want the community to stay involved as we move through this discovery process, and we plan to communicate our discussions and opportunities for engagement along the way,” said Nichols.

The superintendents will review the feedback from the forums in November.

They expect to bring more answers and ideas back to the community.

For more information on the proposed regional calendar, visit schoolcalendar2.blogspot.com.

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wing, both of which house classrooms.

The 1996 wing, which contains the gym and the multipurpose room, needs new roofing, especially over the art room, where there is currently a leak, McDermott noted.

Contacted about this after the meeting, CCS art teacher Alice Trageser explained that a leak in the art room and art atrium over the students’ art space was fixed last May. She attributed the difficulty of addressing the problem to the angles of the roof and skylights in the two art areas. However, a small leak

is still present.

“There is still one problem area that affects bulletin boards where I’d like to hang student art work,” said Trageser.

“The custodial staff has been responsive and plans to keep tracking down the notso-simple leak.”

Upgrades to the ventilation system and HVAC controls are also needed throughout the building, said McDermott, as are a new fire alarm system, a building-wide sprinkler system, and disposal of the Quonset hut, which could be replaced with a smaller maintenance building.

At the end of McDermott’s PowerPoint presentation, he summed up what the growing list of issues in the building increasingly suggested: the

scope of the work is too great to complete within a school-year budget.

According to cost estimates supplied

by Tom Barden, who served as a project manager on the most recent renovation to CCS (2010-2011), the entire cost of the necessary fixes totals nearly $5.1 million. The cost of addressing the issues in the 1939 building alone are roughly $3 million, noted McDermott.

In an interview after the meeting, School Board Chair Kristin Wright explained that the 1939 building was an issue in 2008, when Dore & Whittier completed a feasibility study on addressing maintenance issues at the school. “[The renovations] were seen as critical then,” she said. “If we keep pushing it off, it could hurt us more in the long run.”

Two plans

A rendering of the Facilities Committee’s first of two options for addressing the maintenance issues at CCS. It calls for demolishing the 1939 portion of the building (at the far left) and building a new wing on the southeast side of the school for the library and cafeteria. This is the committee’s recommended proposal.

As the Facilities Committee analyzed the current maintenance issues with CCS, it also developed two plans that could address them.

Both of the options McDermott presented involved tearing down the 1939 building.

Both options ring in at a price of over $6 million The first plan McDermott shared calls for tearing down the 1939 building and replacing it

with a new kitchen, cafeteria and library on the southeast side of the building.

There would be a new entry on the west end of the building and a new traffic flow around the building for picking up and dropping off students. This option would be the most preferable, McDermott said, as it would be the cheapest option and provide the least interruption to the school day.

The second plan would be to demolish the 1939 building and build a new structure featuring new library and cafeteria facilities on that building’s footprint. However, because the 1939 building features essential services like the kitchen and cafeteria, a significant issue this plan presents is where to feed students during the estimated 18-24 month construction period.

“It has an impact that spreads around,” said Lee Dore of Dore & Whittier, who was present at the Oct. 9 meeting.

“There’s a cost associated with that.

There’s an inconvenience associated with that. So, those things need to be reviewed.”

The first option—tearing down the building and constructing a new facility on the southeast side—would cost an estimated $6,221,023; this figure includes the repairs to other portions of the building. It would bring the entire building’s square footage to 86,444.

The second option would come in at an estimated $6,870,662 and would add slightly more space at 87,093 square feet.

“Those are big numbers,” said McDermott of the cost, adding, “the 1939 building, it’s not going to last forever.”

Based on the cost alone, the committee recommended the first option to the School Board, necessitating a conversa-

The Charlotte News • October 24, 2013 • 7 Given the potential of the building to fall into further disrepair without the necessary fixes, she’s hoping the community will help the School Board be methodical in dealing with the facility’s failings.

The first step will be a special walkthrough of the building on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 6 p.m., followed by a meeting regarding the issue at 6:30 p.m. in the CCS library. Wright is hoping to get feedback and ideas from the public about how to move forward with the Facilities Committee’s recommendations. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

tion about how to fund such a project.

“This being what we came up with as a recommendation, it’s obvious it would have to be put up as a bond,” said McDermott. “But we have to discuss timing. Is this something that has to get done this year? The next couple years?”

The Facilities Committee did not discuss or recommend a timeline for such an undertaking in its report. At the meeting, Principal Greg Marino mentioned that some of the issues, particularly the roof, are beyond repair. There is money in the school’s budget for repairing some of the problems, he explained, but the need is greater than the funds available

any bond passed right now, it would be challenging.”

She pointed to the last time Charlotters were asked to support a $2.8 million bond vote for the construction of the wing built in 2011 to replace the 1949 portion of the building, which was torn down because of many of the issues that still face the school, including a leaky roof and poor insulation. The town narrowly passed that article in November 2009, giving it the green light by a mere four votes.

Wright noted that the terms of that bond allowed the school to borrow money at very little cost. In fact, $62,708 remained of the $2.8 million bond—nearly $33,000 of which is still available and could be used to offset any new projects, said Wright.

However, such terms will likely not be available this time around, she added.

“If we’re borrowing money at [a higher rate] it only further makes this a hard pill to swallow,” she said.

Wright admits that the needed renovations come at a tough time to get such a large bond passed, especially because of declining enrollment and a history of the school receiving less budget support than requested.

However, she added, “It makes me worried to do nothing.”

At whAt cost?

“It’s a huge number,” said Wright at the close of McDermott’s presentation, “but we have a responsibility for the health and safety of our kids and giving them a good learning environment.”

Herein lies the challenge the School Board now faces: asking the town to support a potentially large municipal bond or taking a piecemeal approach to fixing the building’s issues at the expense of the health and safety of students.

“It makes me worried,” said Wright of asking voters to approve more funding. “To get

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Picture and renderings courtesy of dore & Whittier

An image of the second option the Facilities Committee proposed, which shows a new library and cafeteria built atop the footprint of the 1939 wing.

A picture of computer lab in the 1939 wing of CCS. The space is cramped, said Rani Phillip of Dore & Whittier, and the exposed data wires are not ideal around kids.

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Order of Eastern Star Holds Open House Organization looking for new members Laura Cahners-Ford Contributor The Order of the Eastern Star (OES) needs new recruits. Like many fraternal organizations in the U.S., membership is declining.

In the beginning of October the Hinesburg OES chapter held an open house to showcase who they are and what they do. The Hinesburg OES has 88 members, including members from Hinesburg, Charlotte and Richmond.

The OES meet in their “lodge,” a white clapboard building adjacent to Hinesburg Elementary School. At the open house, the evening consisted of opening ceremonies, the introduction of officers, an explanation of current projects, a presentation board showing the charities and youth projects OES supports, all followed by many sweet and savory refreshments.

OES is the largest coed fraternal organization in the world. Worldwide there are over 2 million members in 15 countries. In Vermont there are over 50 chapters with a membership of over 4,000.

Eastern Star is a social order that strives to make good people better, to “take good people and through uplifting and elevating associations of love and service…build an Order…dedicated to charity, truth and loving kindness.” The organization does this through numerous acts of philanthropy. Nationwide, OES has raised millions of dollars to support Eastern Star Training Awards for Religious Leadership, cancer research, arthritis funds, heart funds, Shriner’s hospitals and many more causes. Each year the Worthy Grand Patron (the OES’s head in Vermont) selects a particular project for charitable giving.

Over the years the Vermont OES has sup-

ported many worthy causes, such as Vermont Respite House, American Diabetes Association, heart funds, the Visiting Nurse Association, the American Lung Association, Head Start funds, the Vermont Association for the Blind, Families First, the Vermont National Guard Charity Fund, Camp Thorpe, Camp TaKumTa and the Make a Wish Foundation.

Besides money the Hinesburg OES has provided labor and materials to build buildings and beds at these camps.

This year’s main charitable focus has been to support the Vermont Masons’ Comprehensive Assessment and Recovery Effort Program, or C.A.R.E. The C.A.R.E program trains teachers and administrators in methods to work with and support children at risk.

A good portion of the money the Hinesburg chapter raises comes from quilt raffles, statewide food sales, spaghetti dinners, hunters breakfasts, dues and monthly collections at their meetings. There is always some money set aside to give help where it is needed locally.

Charlotter Dick Preston, a past grandmaster and a 50-year OES member, said, “We will always listen to what anyone has to say.” There is an application form for requests. Some specific requests OES has fulfilled have been for hearing aids, fuel oil and dental work.

This year the organization is also awarding scholarships to send boys and girls to Vermont conservation camps. The Hinesburg OES is open to suggestions about small ways they can contribute to our local communities Rob Morris, a lawyer and educator from Massachusetts, originally founded the OES in the 1850s. He wanted to form a female branch of Freemasonry, but, as there was much opposition, he founded a completely autonomous group in which females could be members. Today Easterm Star is affiliated with the Masons but is a totally separate organization. This affiliation helps them to expand their outreach worldwide.

The OES meets ten times a year; in one of the off months they have a “Game Night” where they play card games, board games and have a potluck dinner. Not to be forgotten is the OES’s infamous musical group “The Unpredictables.” Maybe you have heard these 8 to 14 people perform sometimes raucous and always humorous songs and music at senior centers and retirement communities in the area.

For more information about OES contact Dick or Wilma Preston at 425-2643.

Stealing from Work Presents New Sketch Comedy Oct. 31–Nov. 3 Show features Charlotter Geeda Searfoorce The Stealing from Work gang is back with a full show of original sketch comedy written by Angie Albeck and Marianne DiMascio called Stealing from Work: Episode II—Son of the Bride of the Shadow Goes to Camp, in 3D! Join actors Chris Caswell, Kevin Christopher, Marianne DiMascio and Charlotter Geeda Searfoorce for a fastpaced evening of lunacy and lampoonery. With each sketch the actors deftly transform into a different set of extraordinary characters, alternately spoofing contemporary film and culture and the political issues of our time.

Stealing from Work’s Actors appearing in Stealing from Work’s sophomore produc- Episode II—Son of the Bride of the Shadow tion takes on familiar Goes to Camp, in 3D are (from bottom) and new topics, all Marianne DiMascio, Chris Caswell, Geeda with a local flavor.

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Brothers continued from page 1 big green bin full of car wash gear and environmentally friendly cleaning supplies and detail a car inside and out. They have a system. Both move around the car clockwise, one washing mats, shampooing carpets and steaming the seats while the other dusts the dash and cleans the doorjambs.

“We’re meticulous,” said Nick. “We get it in every crack. Some people say the car looks better than the day they bought it.”

The Fricks began the business in August, advertising their services mostly through posts on Front Porch Forum. Otherwise, they’ve received business largely via word-of-mouth, which has been “contagious,” said Jamie.

“We were just overwhelmed with the response,” said Jamie, adding the brothers have just started taking days off.

In total, Jamie and Nick have detailed 62 cars. Fifty-six of them have been in Charlotte. They appreciate the grassroots support from Charlotters, as they are former residents themselves.

Jamie and Nick hail from the Boston area, but grew up apart for a time as Nick moved to England with his mom and Jamie to Florida with his dad after their parents divorced. The brothers settled together in Charlotte with their mom and stepfather in 2000 after Jamie convinced them to move to Vermont.

Often, Jamie and Nick will end up spending time talking to the car owner— sometimes longer than they spend cleaning cars, said Nick—and the conversation will sometimes turn to the business they

are in the process of building, the Chaga Tea Company.

The brothers started Auto Detail to You as a way to build capital for their Chaga Tea Company, a business built around the chaga mushroom. Known for its high levels of antioxidants and nutrients, the chaga mushroom was at one time considered a folk medicine. It has been known to boost immunity, support digestion and contain natural anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties.

Chaga Tea Company is the product of the brother’s working relationship. The idea came from Jamie, who gained a passion for herbs and spices while working for Healthy Living in Burlington. Nick, who also worked at Healthy Living and took business classes at the Community College of Vermont, worked with Jamie on a business plan.

Jamie (left) makes a cup of chaga tea for his brother and business partner Nick in their While they both work on home kitchen. every aspect of the Chaga Tea Company, they tend to fall into roles: Jamie develof hot Chaga tea ready for distribution in And when they get there, Jamie and ops the ideas and Nick helps them figure December.

Nick want to be able to help eager entreout how to do them.

If the Chaga Tea Company proves preneurs, those who also have big dreams “We compliment each other with our as successful as Auto Detail to You has about starting a business. strengths,” said Jamie. been, Jamie and Nick will begin to focus No doubt they’ll have the rest of the At the moment, Jamie and Nick are on their ultimate goal: a year-round indoor Muhammed Ali quote on their lips: figuring out the nuances of large-scale farmer’s market in Chittenden County. “Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a buying, brewing, bottling and distribut- They’d like to make local, organic food dare.” ing—they’ve made some productive con- available at cheaper prices year-round, to For more about Auto Detail to You or nections with local businesses for these— cut out inefficiencies in the system and Chaga Tea Company, visit their pages and are considering what flavors they help out local farmers. on Facebook, or write autodetailtoyou@ could offer in a potential ice tea blend.

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CSSU Contract Negotiations Have Begun Edorah Frazer CONTRIBUTOR

It is contract negotiations time for the teachers and school boards of Chittenden South Supervisory Union. This round of negotiations will be somewhat different in process than in the past. Last spring, CSSU and the Chittenden South Education Association agreed to a one-year contract, along with the formation of a joint task force made up of school board members, association members and administrators to review recent negotiations and to develop a more collaborative process for the future. The task force worked for most of a year to develop a set of recom-

mendations. As a result, the current negotiation teams are already operating in some new ways, including scheduling meetings farther in advance and involving more participants in discussions, rather than communicating through attorneys and professional negotiators. We have met with a professional facilitator and drafted ground rules that will help establish an atmosphere of respect.

Contract negotiations for the next contract formally began on October 22. Meetings will take place on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month (breaking for holidays) through the negotiations process. We hope to exchange proposals in early November.

Negotiation meetings are not open to the public. We will continue to share information about the negotiations process as it is feasible to do so.

On Sept. 11, the combined school boards of CSSU held a Negotiations 101 training session that can be viewed on the RETN website at retn.org/show/cssu-school-board-meetingseptember-11-2013. The Negotiations 101 portion of the meeting begins one hour and five minutes into the video with a PowerPoint presentation by Cindy Koenemann-Warren, director of human resources for CSSU. Edorah Frazer is the vice chair of the CCS School Board.

require taking one field out of commission, putting the school at three fields short of its needs. The life span of the proposed synthetic turf fields, continued from page 1 however, is 10-15 years, depending on use and maintenance. ing firm, found that the demands on The Turf Project committee sees all seven of the school’s fields “cur- the proposed new fields as a boon to rently exceed the level at which it is not just student athletes, but to the possible to sustain safe, high-quality community of Hinesburg as well. athletic facilities.”

Citing the town’s “renaissance” with “The level of use will eventu- new businesses and restaurants, the ally become unsustainable regardless committee notes on its fundraising of the maintewebsite that the nance effort community will In BrIef expended,” the benefit from an report states. influx of spectaAccording to What: CVU Turf Project Bond Vote tors from games, the Gale Report, When: Nov.5, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. camps and tourtwo more fields Where: CCS multipurpose room naments. are needed at Why: The $1.5 million bond will “Thus, installCVU in order to contribute to the total $2.6 million ment of state-ofaccommodate Turf Project, which aims to build two the art turf fields, the demand on and spectator the sports facili- synthetic turf fields, along with light- seating have outty at the school, ing and bleachers for both, at CVU. standing potential one of the larg- Proponents of the project say the cur- to improve the est in the state. rent fields are overused and in poor overall wellness While the condition. To find out more about the of our commutwo turf fields project, go to http://www.cvuhs.org/ nity, and to raise would meet home values,” the the demand, cvu-turf-project. website states. they would also A ten-year bond allow the current fields to be taken would cost taxpayers in Charlotte, offline when necessary to avoid wear Shelburne, Hinesburg and Williston and tear from overuse. $4.50 to $4.90 per $100,000 of tax“If we secured two turf fields, this assessed value. A $400,000 home in would enable us to play most of our the CSSU school district would pay games on the turf,” said Kevin Riell, $20 a year for the project. The comCVU’s athletic director, “thereby mittee notes, however, that because saving our natural turf fields from of significant reductions in existing the most brutal competitive play.” bond payments, the total CVU bond According to the project’s com- payments will be less than the current mittee, fixing the current natural level of bond payments. turf fields would provide a tempoIn Charlotte, voting will take place rary solution at an estimated cost of at the CCS multipurpose room. Polls $300,000 for five fields for a total will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. cost of $1.5 million. This would also

Bond Vote

‘Paint the Pastures’ for Turf Field Project Oct. 26 Join a color-fueled run to benefit the CVU Turf Field Project on Oct. 26 at CVU in Hinesburg.

Part of “Make a Difference Day,” this fun family 5K run along CVU’s cross-country trail will see participants finishing in a rainbow of colors, as they can expect to get splattered with paint along the course route.

Participants will therefore want to wear old clothes and a pair of cheap sunglasses or goggles.

Race Day Registration will be open from 7:15 – 8:15 a.m. Check-in will take place in the breezeway behind CVU. The cost of race-day registration is $35 for adults, $25 for students, and $15 for children ten and under. The first 200 to register for the race will receive a t-shirt. Prizes will be awarded to the top three male and female finishers.

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The Schoolhouse Debuts Farm, Food, Forest Program Tuesday mornings you might expect to find kindergarteners shredding kale in the kitchen, 1st and 2nd graders finding funky fungi in the forest, or 3rd, 4th and 5th graders hauling hay at Bread and Butter farm. In September, The Schoolhouse and Bread and Butter Farm launched a joint effort—the new Farm, Food, Forest program, an integrated curriculum that engages elementary students in learning where food comes from, how to prepare food into healthy meals, and Lily Mae Siedlecki, 4, of Charlotte and her classmates show off their enjoying, exploring sunflower wreath birdfeeders in the school garden as part of The and learning about Schoolhouse’s Farm, Food and Forest Program. nature.

“I liked making sunflower wreaths preschool director, and Corie deeply engaged in farming, in in the garden,” said Lily Mae Pierce, co-owner of Bread and the natural world and in their Siedlecki, 4, of Charlotte.

Butter Farm in Shelburne and local food systems,” Shayne Every Tuesday the elemen- South Burlington put their explained. “The kids—and tary classes go to one of three heads together to dream up a their teachers—have been havplaces: to Bread and Butter partnership.

“The School- ing a blast. Their smiles and Farm to learn and work on house’s Farm, Food and For- engagement are contagious.” the farm with co-owner Corie est program is amazing and Partial funding for the Farm, Pierce; to the forest on the unique,” Pierce explained, “It Forest, Food program at The farm property to learn and is a farm-to-school program Schoolhouse is being provided explore with Katie McEachen, that truly engages kids and gets by a grant from the Vermont an experienced outdoor educa- them involved and connected Children’s Trust Foundation. tor and Schoolhouse preschool deeply.”

The Schoolhouse is a co-director; or into the school Pierce continued, “This type licensed childcare center and kitchen with Tessa Holmes, a of deeper educational program- independent elementary school Schoolhouse parent and food ming on our farm is what I have that celebrates children’s services director, and Emily been dreaming about since I unique talents and nurtures Johnson, an Americorps was in high school, long before children’s intellectual and VISTA member, to learn culi- I even knew I would have a emotional growth. Programs nary skills and help prepare the farm.” include preschool, elementary day’s lunch.

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After his wife’s death, he became lonely so he decided that he wanted to buy a dog.

Dennis went to the pet shop to find a companion. He ended up finding a little black dog that he decided to name Blanchard.

He loved his dog dearly.

Little Blanchard came every time that Dennis went fishing.

Dennis created a system where there was a pulley with a bone on the end of it, and Blanchard would pull up the nets.

This had been working great for years until one day. It was a stormy night and the waves were high. Dennis was driving the boat. Blanchard was pulling up the pulley when— swoosh!—a wave came crashing over the side of the boat and Blanchard was swept into the ocean.

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Dennis saw the waves so he went to go check on Blanchard.

He didn’t see Blanchard, so he started calling his name.

“Blanchard, Blanchard!” He heard nothing back. He threw a buoy overboard just in case. He started to panic, so he grabbed a spotlight and started searching for Blanchard. He saw nothing.

He searched and searched until he fell asleep with the spotlight in his hand.

He woke up the next morning with a warm breeze and the smell of the ocean. But Dennis remembered the loss of his dog. Dennis got up and realized he was on the deck with a spotlight in his hand.

Dennis walked into the cabin and clasped the steering wheel.

He began to sob for what felt like hours, thinking about how he had lost both his dog and his wife.

He heard barking and looked up. He saw a little black dot out in the middle of the ocean.

He picked up his binoculars and looked closer, realizing it was Blanchard. A jolt of happiness flowed through him. He increased the speed of the boat and met Blanchard in minutes.

He realized that Blanchard had a buoy with him. He picked Blanchard up and out of the water, gave him a huge hug, and spun him around.

To celebrate, he decided to bring Blanchard to La Grande Jatte. It was a beautiful Sunday on La Grande Jatte. The wind was perfect to sail or go motor boating. There were many people at La Grande Jatte that day, every different type of class of person. There were the very rich people, the middle class and the poor. There were people fishing right nearby, and he saw them catch some very large fish. There, little Blanchard had tons of fun running around while Dennis relaxed lazily, eating his picnic on the edge of the river.

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NASCAR Ain't Nothing Compared to East Charlotte Tractor Parade Edd Merritt The CharloTTe News

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f you were hay farmer Dave Nichols and were awakened to the growl of tractors heading into your field on a Sunday morning, you might wonder what prompted this occasion. Well, it started 13 years ago when Spear’s Corner Store owner Carrie Spear decided that October was an excellent time to celebrate the end of harvest and the burning golds and reds of fall colors with a parade of farm machines through East Charlotte, the village that many residents feel still serves as the agricultural end of town. She gathered some friends to help plan the event, which drew mostly neighbors on the 15 or so machines in the parade that year.

Well, hold your horses, because 13 years later 135 tractors cruised north on Spear Street from Nichols’ farm to the field behind Steve Denton’s barn. The machines were of many shapes sizes, ages and models—with some still powered by steam, others whose cabs would befit a living room on Super Bowl Sunday. Several thousand people lined the street to watch them pass in single file, drivers tooting horns and waving to the many children gathered along the way.

The tractors now come from the rest of New England and New York as well as Charlotte, and the day’s activities have expanded to include opportunities for children to pet a variety of animals, throw hoops and beanbags, savor some delicious local foods from Tenney’s Market and others, and load their pockets, scoops and trucks with corn kernels from the “corn” (not sand) box across the street from the store.

The field south of Sheehan Green was filled with cars of the onlookers, demonstrating just how many people

felt this was a wonderful way to celebrate a beautiful early fall afternoon.

Dave Nichols chuckled as he watched the tractors turn into Denton’s field, saying he was quite certain that the weight of this year’s parade had lowered Spear Street a good inch or two.

Maintaining tradition, the grand marshals riding in the lead tractor were again church heads Will Burhans from the Charlotte Congregational Church and Father David Cray of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The Boy Scouts and flags and the parade music of the Silver Leviathan Band followed them, while John Daly serenaded the crowd and the ever “Unpredictables” awaited their cue from Dick Preston.

Carrie Spear said she and Margaret Rhoddy left a Vermont State trooper scratching his head the following day as they wound up the miles of orange tape outlining the parade route.

Recycler that she is, Carrie will save the tape for next year’s parade as she begins the planning for 14/14.

Parents and kids alike enjoyed the corn—not "sand"—box, where kids could scoop corn kernels with toy tractors and trucks.

Dale Hyerstay gives a big smile as he drives his tractor down the parade route.

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Tractors begin the parade route as they take off from Nichols' farm off Spear Street.

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Robin Reid (left) and Mary Provencher of the Mystic Party Band entertain tractor drivers on Nichols' farm before the start of the parade.

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A Sense of Belonging Bradley Carleton Contributor

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ther than food, shelter and warmth, one of the human organism’s most life-sustaining requirements is the need to belong.

From the moment we are born we need to attach to another life support system to thrive. As we mature, we seek to explore our world, but never so far as to lose our connection to our “pack.”

In my adolescence, I had a strong need to connect to something greater than myself (at that age it is difficult to even admit that there is any such thing).

I was an exceptionally poor ballplayer, so organized sports did nothing to help me build a genuine self esteem.

At 13 years old my father bought me a .22 caliber rifle for Christmas and signed me up for a hunter education course. Having taken the prerequisite course, I was turned loose in the large backyard to hunt squirrels and rabbits.

I do not endorse such freedom at this age, but I somehow managed to sur-

vive, teaching myself about the ethics and feelings of remorse when I took an animal’s life.

I remember sitting down on a log after having successfully shot my first squirrel and feeling like I may never do this again. And yet, as I held the limp rodent in my hands, I prayed for forgiveness.

I felt the cold trail of my tears rolling down my cheek. When the tears finally dried on my skin, a feeling of gratitude surfaced. It was as if some higher power had forgiven me and told me that I was now a part of the woods that surrounded me. I looked around at the fallen leaves—some bright red still clinging to the staghorn sumac—and noticed a drop of blood staining a golden maple leaf. This was irreversible. I was now a hunter.

I looked up into the steel grey sky and noticed a single pillar of light coming down on the distant ridge. The north wind grazed my cheeks. The smell of apples rotting on the ground mixed

with the fragrance of wood smoke from a nearby neighbor’s chimney. I was suddenly acutely aware of my surroundings. My senses were piqued. I could smell and see and feel and hear like never before. As I sat on my mosscovered log, for the first time in my life I felt like I belonged. I belonged among the gray-barked ash and deep-cut locust.

I belonged with the musky earth below my feet. I was at one with this squirrel that I held in my hands.

I quit football and baseball, gave up trying to seek the approval of my peers and coaches. I had found what I needed

I quit football and baseball, gave up trying to seek the approval of my peers and coaches. I had found what I needed to support my journey through childhood. to support my journey through childhood.

Years later, I discovered another shade of belonging.

My father took me to his childhood home in Grampian, Penn., to hunt deer.

We drove all night through a raging snowstorm, stopping at a truck stop for sustenance. I walked into the dining area fearing that I would be persecuted for wearing a fluorescent orange jumpsuit with big leather boots. Surely I would be the laughing stock of the place. To my surprise, there were perhaps 40 to 50 other men and boys dressed in orange and palavering enthusiastically about the big buck they hoped to see in just a few hours.

Two hours later we arrived at deer camp, smashing through a big snow-

bank and trudging through two feet of powdery snow to the door. The camp was nothing fancy. The door was heavily worn with a crack in the middle, sealed by some sort of gray putty. The frame of the door was rough-cut hemlock.

Again, I was nervous. Here I was, a 16-year-old boy entering the world of grown men—men with tempers, bad habits and no apologies. These were men who were escaping civilization and all the manners and etiquette that their gentrified lives required. The door creaked wildly, and the wind whisked snow off of the door jam and swirled into the kitchen.

There was a fire burning brightly in an old stone chimney across a living room. The propane lamps glowed golden, carving out the details of these men as if their faces had been chiseled from stone. I smelled cigar smoke, bacon, whiskey and wood smoke. My senses were assaulted by a multitude of aromas with which I was not familiar. I felt my knees shaking.

Then someone’s voice boomed out from behind an old wingback chair.

“Welcome, men! We thought you’d never make it! Come on in!” We were sitting at a rickety wooden table when someone brought us a bowl of venison stew.

One of the older men, whose face was grizzled and whose eyes looked like the corners had been cut out with a dull knife, smiled at me and said “So, young man! How does it feel to be one of the boys?”

I grinned back and knew that, just as the woods had encircled me with this feeling, here, too, I belonged.

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Want to be first on the list for the latest work by your favorite author? Adopt the author, and when we order the book you will be number one for check out. You agree to pay the discounted library price for each of the newly published books. We then order the book, let you know the cost, and when you come in to pay, you get to be the first to check out the book. Please ask at the circulation desk for more information.

upcoming At the librAry Friday Free-for-All Preschool Story Time, Friday, Oct. 25, and Friday, Nov. 1, at 10:30 a.m.

Lunch Box Story Time for Kindergarteners, Monday, Oct. 28, and Monday, Nov. 4, at 12:15 p.m.

“Fractured Fairytales” Writing Group, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 3:15 p.m. Our exploration of fairytales, folklore and creative writing continues.

Suggested for grades 5 and 6. CCS students can take the bus from CCS with a parent note. Please call the library at 425-3864 or email youthservices@ charlottepubliclibrary.org to sign up.

Wednesday Night Knitting, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 5:30 p.m. Bring your needles, yarn and latest project. Share and compare knitting tips and news.

Barrie Dunsmore, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m. Barrie is a former ABC foreign correspondent whose work at the Harvard Kennedy School was described as a “balanced, thoughtful and probing analysis” of international affairs. He brings his knowledgeable

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lens to the library, focusing on recent events around the world. Coffee, tea and Bristol Bakery treats served during the evening.

Halloween Trick or Treat, Thursday, Oct. 31. The Library Board of Specters will be on duty, handing out treats and greeting all who visit the library porch.

“Appy Hour” at the Library, Monday, Nov. 4, 5:30 p.m. Love that home décor app? Want to learn about the latest travel app?

Bring your favorite apps and discover some new ones with Susanna Kahn, our tech librarian. Enjoy some (non-alcoholic) “appy hour” refreshments, too.

Charlotte WatershED Lake Wise Program, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 6 p.m.

If you live along a lake, pond, stream or wetland then this workshop is for you.

Join us for food, refreshments and a lively presentation about “Lake Wise,” a program that awards lake-friendly shoreland properties. Learn about how you can use best management practices to prevent erosion and runoff and to protect lake water quality and

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Questions? Let us know via Facebook, stop by the Charlotte Library or email charlottevtcc@gmail.com.

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Charlotte artist and resident Elizabeth Bunsen grew up in the Midwest and traveled, lived and taught art all around.

“I am a sensualist,” she says. “I love tuning into all my senses. Process, the imperfect, the impermanent and the unfinished sing to me. Along with wood and stones, I stack words.”

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We’ve got info on our latest books, activities and programs. We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions.

Library Board meeting, Thursday, Nov. 21, at 5:30 p.m. Board members are Bonnie Ayer (member-at-large), Bonnie Christie (chair), Vince Crockenberg (treasurer), Emily Ferris (ViceChair), Dorrice Hammer (secretary).

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ning filmmaker and photographer. The trip took place during the six months of summer available in the Arctic, when the land is illuminated by the omnipresent midnight sun.

The slideshow presentation brought viewers step by step through both Squires’ experiences of the rich Nordic culture in civilization, as well as the diverse wildlife of the untamed regions of Norway.

Highlights included images of the brightly colored homes of maritime villages, as well as a luminous arctic fox scampering down a cliff side, the fluke of a humpback whale, and a shot of a venomous snake crouching among the vivid hues of flowers and lichen.

The pinnacle of his Arctic experience, though, was sighting the polar bears— enormous predators who appear almost like a ghost in some of his early photographs.

“I fell in love with polar bears when I saw them,” Squires said. “To see this species which is so magnificent in its natural habitat, I just can’t describe it.”

Despite the glacial majesty of the Arctic, there is also a peripheral awareness of the dramatic climate changes that have occurred even within the past ten years, he explained. Referring to the calving of glaciers, Squires noted that it was “not an uncommon sight, the retreating glaciers were evident throughout our

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travels.” Other photographs revealed a thin layer of black soot, pollution that further accelerates the ice melt by trapping heat with its darker shade.

However, even a powerful zoom lens is unable to capture an image of the industrial chemicals that collect in the food chain’s top predator, the polar bear, according to an audience member.

Squires added that statistics now show that only one out of every two polar bear cubs will survive until adulthood, as they must swim farther and farther between shrinking ice floes.

He did not suggest any reasoning behind these climate shifts, only insisting in the undeniable fact that the Arctic and it’s inhabitants are in the midst of radical change.

At the same time, Squires also remains an “eternal optimist” in the power and resilience of the planet.

A polar bear exploring the water near the Svalbard Peninsula in the Arctic Circle.

This is one of many pictures Jim Squires shared at a recent discussion of his trip there.

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Melting water from a glacier pours into the sea. Aside from the wildlife he photographed, Squires was struck by visible evidence of human's affect on the environment.

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by Mary Recchia, Activities Coordinator The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works from The Great Courses Collection continues on Tuesday afternoons from 1:45–-3:15 p.m. on Oct. 22 and 29, and Nov. 5, 12, 19 and 26.

Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances takes you on a sumptuous grand tour of the symphonic pieces he counts among the greatest ever written, inviting you to an in-depth contemplation of what makes these works so memorable and why they live at the center of our musical culture.

These 30 masterworks form an essential foundation for any music collection and a focal point for understanding the orchestral medium and deepening your insight into the communicative power of music.

Details of each lecture are available at the host desk. Registration required.

No Fee. –––– Please note: the play reading for All the World’s a Stage has moved from Thursdays to Fridays. Come enjoy a reading of Ethel and Albert Comedies

by Peg Lynch on October 25 from 1–-3 p.m. Casting for the Nov. 22 reading will be determined at the end of this session.

–––– Linda Le Compte, M.A., R.N., from the Visiting Nurse Association will give a presentation titled “Starting the Conversation” on Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 9:15–-10:15 a.m.

Planning for end-of-life care before it becomes a worry is as important as all the other life plans you have made.

Having a plan in place in advance makes it easier for you, your doctor and your loved ones. Every moment is precious—especially at the end of life.

Spend it doing what you most enjoy and not making last-minute decisions. Starting the conversation early can ensure that your choices are heard.

Please join Linda for this most important presentation. Registration required. No fee.

–––– Pastel Painting with Shirley ReidThompson will run Thursday afternoons from 1–-3:30 p.m. on Oct. 31 and Nov. 7, 14 and 21.

Our emphasis will be on pastel painting techniques. Color theory will be explained and used in your paintings.

We will work from real-life setups, except for one afternoon when we will use photographs. We can do mixed media, watercolor and pastel if you want. If requested, we can do individual contrast composition with color layering. Special help for beginners is available. All levels of skill are welcome.

Call Shirley (860-0666) for a materials list. Registration necessary. Limit 10.

Fee: $100.

–––– Building on the fun and excitement that has developed over the years with our Poem in Your Pocket readings, Jim Lovejoy invites you for an afterlunch Poetry Reading on Monday, Nov. 4, from 1––3 p.m.

This opportunity will provide a regular time for listening, reading, writing and discussing this wonderful form of literary expression. Pack a poem in your pocket and join Jim as he guides a wonderful afternoon of poetry reading.

Registration required. No fee.

–––– The Block Print Party class with Elizabeth Llewellyn has changed from four classes to two and will be held Tuesday, Nov. 19 and 26, from 10 a.m. to noon for a fee of $42.

Block printing is one of the oldest types of printmaking and has been around for thousands of years. Essentially, block printing is using a carved material covered in ink to transfer an image onto paper or fabric. Block print-

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ing can be done with wood, linoleum, rubber and many other materials.

In this class we will use Speedball Speedy Carve blocks, made of a soft, rubberlike material, to carve our designs. Our design will be printed on a variety of papers, notecards and fabric—just in time for the holidays.

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Events following the Wednesday luncheon. For those who do not share lunch with us, you are welcome to drop in around 1 p.m. to enjoy the after lunch offerings: Oct. 30: Ethel Atkins Fudge Fest.

How she made 450 pieces of fudge for the children of Charlotte every year we’ll never know, but the Senior Center would like to carry on the tradition.

Not to be outdone, Mrs. Williams’ Best Ever Popcorn Balls will be in full assembly as well!

We will supply the ingredients for you to mix up a batch of fudge at home, and then all are welcome to come to the Center around 1 p.m. and spend the afternoon telling stories and wrapping up fudge and popcorn balls for the children.

Nov. 6: Annual Meeting with the Friends of the Charlotte Senior Center. This is an opportunity for everyone to become better acquainted with the workings of our organization and to consider how they can become more active as volunteers. An update of our financial position will be given, questions will be answered and the election of board members will take place. We hope to see you there.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30: Greekstyle fish, rice, homemade dessert.

MONDAY, NOV. 4: Stuffed lentil soup, fall salad surprise, gingerbread.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6: Pichelsteiner Eintopf (Bavarian pork stew), birthday cake and ice cream.

Senior LunCheonS are held every Wednesday at noon. Reservations are necessary in advance and can be made by calling the Senior Center at 425-6345. A $4 donation is requested. Reservations are not required for the Monday Munch.

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Crandalls are Ready to Become the First Family on Albert's Way

Rec N e w s Kristin Hartley Contributor

Amanda and Wayne Crandall, along with their three sons will move into the first Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity house on Albert's Way in Charlotte this month.

As Habitat home owners they are required to contribute 400 hours of sweat equity into its construction. They have done that already and will purchase the home with a 0% interest mortgage, no down payment and a price based on the actual cost, made reasonable by the amount of volunteer labor and contributed materials.

Wayne had been supporting his famly through a regular job when he was severly injured by

a drunk driver. Unable to work, he was releasd by his employer and the family moved into a substandard rental house without insulation and with singlepane windows. Icicles formed on floor and walls during the winter.

Learning of Habitat, the Crandalls applied to become a "partner family" and were accepted. Wayne said he enjoyed working with volunteers to mix and pour cement, unload roof shingles and pound nails. Amanda feels having their own house will allow their sons "a safe place to live and play."

What an amazing fall season we have had! Our recreation soccer program was bursting at the seams and the Charlotte Jamboree was a huge success.

I would like to say thank you to all the coaches, volunteers and players who made it such a great year. Time to put the cleats away and get ready for basketball!

Basketball early registration begins The Charlotte recreation basketball program provides a venue for athletes to learn and master basketball skills in a fun, positive environment.

Winning is not the primary objective but rather development of sportsmanship, teamwork, respect for others and discipline are all part of the program.

First and 2nd graders will have training practices one to two times a week (depending on coaches and gym space) throughout the season. Third through 6th grade teams will practice twice weekly with games mostly on Saturday

mornings between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Their games will be against teams from other towns.

Any 6th–8th grader who attends CCS tryouts and does not make a team may sign up for recreation basketball.

We will have a 7th-8th grade rec team if there are enough players and a volunteer coach.

Coaches are always needed and welcome! Please call the recreation office today if interested. You don’t have to be a parent to coach.

Now through November 15: early basketball registration is $40 (subtract $5 if you don’t need a T-shirt).

After November 18: registration fee is $60 (unless 6th8th grader).

More fall programs Here are other programs that we currently have open for registration. Come participate!

We are lucky to have Heather Morris back again this year to teach Celtic dance. She will introduce the fundamentals of Irish step and Scottish Highland technique in a creative and enjoyable environment. The classes will take place at the Congregational Church vestry, Saturday mornings beginning Oct. 26.. Classes are from 8–9 a.m. for ages eight and above and 9–10 a.m. for those 10 and above.

Heather has also added preschool and kindergarten Celtic dance and movement classes.

These classes will have dancers explore Celtic theme and

movement to Irish and Scottish music in this fun intro to Celtic dance. Classes are Saturday mornings from 10–10:45 a.m. for preschoolers and 10:4511:30 a.m. for kindergarteners.

Afterschool percussion lessons for 1st–8th graders are now being held at CCS through the Recreation Department. Lessons will be taught by the accomplished Andrew Gagnon. Whether you are just starting out or have been playing for years, Andrew has the knowledge and experience to help you take your playing to the next level. A six-week session begins Thursday, Nov. 7.

For preschoolers there is now a mini-camp offered by Lisa Hadley. In this four-week, one-morning class, preschoolers will read a new story and build a fun craft around the theme as well as learn new songs and socialize with fellow preschoolers. The first morning is Tuesday, Nov. 5, from 9–10:30 a.m.

Mark your calendars! With the new year we will be holding an early morning adult boot camp at CCS on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6–7 a.m. Come get in shape!

For more information on all programs and registration forms go to charlottevt.org or stop by our town offices.

As always, if you are in need of a scholarship for your child for any of these programs please contact me through email at recreation@townofcharlotte.com or at 425-6129, ext. 204.

CSSU Hurricanes Wrestling Sign Ups Nov. 19 Seventh and 8th grade students are invited to sign up for Hurricane Wrestling Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 6:20-7:30 p.m. in the cafeteria at Hinesburg Community School.

Open to 7th and 8th graders in the CSSU district, Hurricanes Wrestling is a great opportunity to be a part of a sport that’s been around since the Roman era, to learn strength, balance, speed, agility and teamwork, and meet new friends and build new bonds. The team has had 29 state champs and 35 runners up in its 15-year history.

Wrestlers will compete in local tournaments against other teams on Saturdays. There will be some dual meets scheduled for evenings and a state finals tournament at the end of the season. Wrestlers practice three evenings a week—Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays—from 6:20 p.m. until around 7:50 p.m.

Hurricane Wrestling coaches have over 25 years on the mat, have earned state championships and collectively were the 2005 recipient of the Connecting Youth “Awe Shucks” award in the CSSU school district.

This program is totally free of charge, and all gear is provided.

Kindergarten through 6th grade signups will be on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, at the same time and place.

For more information, contact head coach Wayne Ring at hurricaneswrestling@gmail. com or at 482-3747.

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SPORTS

by Edd Merritt

Redhawk Teams are Ones to Beat This Fall With the women’s soccer team finishing the regular season allowing only one goal in 14 games, their sister crosscountry runners vying for a top spot in New England, men’s soccer achieving number one ranking in the Free Press Power Rankings, football outscoring its last two opponents 63-6 to gain third seed and home-field advantage in the playoffs, field hockey women remaining one of several top contenders with an 8-2-4 record, and men’s cross country placing second in the Northern Vermont Metro Championships, fall teams and individuals are ready to show a prowess seldom demonstrated by one school.

Charlotte’s Haliana Burhans and Mackenzie Kingston have led the soccer offense all year, while goalies Maddie Turnau and Michaela Floury have been strong in the net when called upon.

The team’s control of the ball coupled with an aggressive midfield and able movement side to side has kept the play in the opponents’ zone for much of every game.

Burhan’s quickness and speed plus her ability to place herself well in front of the goal has helped account for her high scoring count. Kingston’s height and quick feet plus her speed down the

wing have made her an offensive threat.

Catherine Cazayoux has assisted her forwards on several occasions and helped give the Redhawks their first undefeated season since 1996.

Despite the fact that it took the men’s soccer team two overtimes to oust Mount Mansfield 1-0 in mid October, CVU followed with shutouts of Essex and BFA St. Albans to gain top seed in the state pairings. Charlotte midfielder Tucker Shelley and goalie Brandon O’Connell have played pivotal roles CVU running back Jason Cora edges around the BFA St. Albans defense. CVU was victorious in the in the team’s success. game, defeating St.Albans 35-6.

Running back Jason Cora has demcarrier, running play after play without process, for two of the team’s touchonstrated a degree of downs in the second quarter. stamina seldom seen in a high school benefit of a rest in between.

In its most recent game, a 35-6 vicWith Autumn Eastman leading the football player. The Redhawks often move their offense without a huddle, tory over BFA St. Albans, Jason gained pack and Charlotte’s Sophia Gorman and Cora has been the primary ball 149 yards on 20 carries, running, in the close on her heels, the women crosscountry runners captured the Metro Conference championships at Swanton by 14 points over second place St. Johnsbury Academy. This Vermont title came shortly after Eastman took second place in the Manhattan Invitational run on New York City’s Van Cortland Park trails in mid October.

Field hockey ended the regular season on an unfortunate note, falling 2-1 to Middlebury, bringing its record for the year to 8-2-4 as it heads into a crowded field of teams for the playoffs.

Goalie Eva Dunphy has been a strong backstop all year for the Redhawks.

Her 21 saves against Essex in a 0-0 tie in mid-October earned her a “Top Performer” rating by the Free Press.

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Food Shelf News

by Kerrie Pughe

Volunteers needed Save the date: we will be looking for volunteers to help us set up the Thanksgiving baskets Friday, Nov. 22. We start about 8 a.m. and need only about an hour of your time. Just come on by the Charlotte Congregation Church that morning and join the food basket prep festivities! We are also looking for several volunteers who could substitute now and again to help with the Wednesday evening distributions.

thank you Thank you to Roberta Whitmore and to all who responded to the clean jar

request. Thank you to Jeanie MacDonough for two large bags of eggplant from her garden and for starting the birthday gift bag idea for the children during their birthday month. We appreciate Jeanie’s creativity and thoughtfulness. Thank you to Charlotte Organic Coop and Shelburne Supermarket for their continued support.

Wish list We are running low on kids’ cereals (Cheerios preferred), low-sodium soups, crackers and tissues.

Children’s Clothing driVe We are still collecting children’s clothing donations for our neighborhood friends in need. From now through the fall we will be collecting good, clean children’s clothing for sizes infant to teenager. Adult clothing suitable for teens will be accepted as well. Please— no stains or holes.

We are also accepting clean winter coats, winter boots, rubber boots, sneakers (must be in good condition) and other shoes. Drop these items in the basket at the food shelf at the Charlotte Congregational Church or email Heather at happyvters@comcast.net to

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What Does a Psychiatric Diagnosis Really Mean?

A psychiatrist looks at the new DSM-5 The hope was that this level of consistency would improve our ability to understand the nature of these conditions because, when we studied, let’s say, people who experienced a certain subset of anxiety symptoms, we would be more likely to be studying the same thing in each of these individuals. A related hope was that this consistency would lead to more effective treatments.

When a person loses a loved one and is subsequently distraught, unable to sleep or eat, unable to work and even harbors thoughts that life is no longer worth living, is it helpful to give that condition a diagnostic label?

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ast May, the American Psychiatric Association published the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM-5. For those of you not connected to psychiatry and related fields—and even for many who are— this process and discussion can seem confusing. In this article I will try to put this in some context.

The modern version of the DSM is considered to be volume III, published in 1981. It was an attempt to codify the kinds of problems that people have—be it sadness, worry, hearing voices, having confused thoughts. The hope was that this codification would improve consistency between clinicians so that when I used a label such as “schizophrenia” to characterize a patient’s symptoms, I had a good chance of matching the label a colleague would use with the same patient.

about genetics than we did back then, we still do not have clear linkages between particular genetic abnormalities and conditions in the DSM. Psychiatry is a field fraught with controversy. Some thought, many years ago, that giving people labels would reduce the stigma associated with these types of problems. We tend to blame people for being depressed

I knew then and I know today that this classification system was in many ways somewhat arbitrary. Giving someone a diagnosis did not and still does not signify that I have a deep understanding of what is wrong with the person.

Many people have been disappointed with the DSM and its multiple revisions. The hope in the 1980s, the year the DSM III was published, was that this clarity of diagnosis would lead to some fundamental understanding of the nature of these conditions, but this has not been realized. Although we know far more about the brain than we did 30 years ago, we still have no discrete biomarkers for any of the conditions in the DSM. Although we know more

more than we blame them for, let’s say, having pneumonia. The notion of telling people that they have some diagnosable condition was thought to relieve them of the sense that they were “just lazy” or “weak-willed.”

But some argue that there are also unintended consequences of using these labels. When we say that people are experiencing symptoms that signify an underlying illness, we may be telling them they are victims of a process over which they have no control. That state of mind, some argue, may actually hinder recovery.

There is also the criticism that the DSM pathologizes normal responses to life experiences. When a person loses

a loved one and is subsequently distraught, unable to sleep or eat, unable to work and even harbors thoughts that life is no longer worth living, is it helpful to give that condition a diagnostic label?

Finally there is a concern that at least some disorders are created to fit the needs of drug company executives.

This is a serious concern for all of medicine, not just psychiatry.

So what do I tell my patients about diagnosis? I try to explain what a diagnosis is and what it is not. It is a label that reflects that the person has reported certain symptoms—that it is a label for the symptoms, not the person. It might indicate what treatments could be helpful. It does not explain to me why the person has those symptoms. It does not tell me if the person can or cannot get well. It does not tell me that there is some permanent defect in that person’s brain. It does not tell me about the person’s resiliency, family or life experiences—all factors that can be critical to a person’s recovery.

A DSM diagnosis is, at best, just the start of a much longer conversation that hopefully will lead to an indivdual’s recovery.

Sandra Steingard, M.D., is the Medical Director of the HowardCenter. She lives in Charlotte. Visit her blog at madinamerica.com/author/ssteingard.

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Regular Church Services SATURDAYS

St. Jude, 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: 4822132.

Charlotte Congregational Church, Worship, 10 a.m., Sunday School, 10 a.m. Information: 4253176.

Lighthouse Baptist Church, 90 Mechanicsville Rd., Hinesburg, 10:30 a.m., Evening Service, 6 p.m. Information: 482-2588.

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

St. Jude, 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, Relocated to the Brown Church on Route 7, Ferrisburgh. Worship, 11 a.m.

Information: 425-3625.

Assembly of God Christian Center, Rtes. 7 and 22A, Ferrisburgh, Sunday worship, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., Sunday School, 9 a.m. Information: 8773903.

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.

United Church of Hinesburg, 10570 Route 116.

Sunday service 10 a.m. September through June; 9 a.m. July through August. Sunday School during services. 482-3352

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 CCS PTO Annual Book Fair, 7:45 a.m.–4 p.m. Also Friday, Oct. 25. See story on page 23 for more information.

Spamalot, 7:30 p.m., CVU’s theatre program presents the wildly hysterical Broadway smash musical lovingly ripped off from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. You won’t want to miss the Trojan Rabbit, the Killer Bunny or other wacky Monty Python antics. One of the first Vermont high school productions. Tickets: $6 for students and children; $8 for general admission. Order at: https://sites. google.com/a/cvuhs.org/cvu-theater/home/ticketorder-form-spamalot. Shows also Friday, Oct. 25, and Saturday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, show at 2 p.m.

Vincent, 7 p.m., Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center Black Box Theater, Burlington. The passion, the love and the tormented beauty of the life of Vincent van Gogh is dramatized in this intimate oneman play, adapted by Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek’s Mr. Spock) from letters between Vincent and his brother, Theo. Matinee tickets: $12.50 for students and seniors; $16.50 for adults. Evening tickets: $17.50 for students and seniors; $19.50 for adults.

To purchase tickets or for more information, contact the Flynn Regional Box office at flynntix.org, (802) 86-FLYNN, or at 153 Main Street, Burlington.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 Haunted Happenings on Ferry Road, 7–10 p.m., Lake Champlain Waldorf High School, Charlotte.

Don’t miss out on this year’s big scare! Dare to enter the Big Top of evil clowns, creepy performers and frightening effects. Not for the faint of heart! The perfect pre-Halloween activity for ages 12+. Tickets: $10 at the door, $7 in advance. More info: lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org/haunted-house/.

Places To Go & Things To Do Paint the Pastures 5k Run, 8:30 a.m., CVU. Join this “color-fueled” run (or walk) to support the CVU Turf Fields Project. Sponsored by the Burlington Free Press and Make A Difference Day. Register early for a free T-shirt and one color packet. Additional color packets and sunglasses will be available for purchase at the event. Register today at racevermont. com.

Town Hall Theater Halloween Bash, 8 p.m., Middlebury. Top Hat Entertainment DJ will spin everyone’s favorite dance tunes; prizes will be awarded for best costume, funniest costume, and best couple. THT is cooking up some great surprises, including an old-fashioned photo booth. A cash bar and snacks will be provided. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at 802-382-9222, at townhalltheater.org, at the THT Box Office (noon–5 p.m., daily except Sunday), and at the door.

2013 Vermont Arts Summit: Connect Animate Lead, 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m., Vermont State House, Montpelier. The Vermont Arts Council and the Office of Creative Economy present this day-long convening of artists, arts administrators, teaching artists, art enthusiasts and digital arts technologists. Sessions will focus on artists, teaching artists and arts organizations, as well as digital arts and animation.

Registration: $80. More info: vermontartscouncil.org.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 Harvest Potluck Lunch, 11 a.m., Charlotte Congregational Church. Bring sandwiches, soup or salad to share and stay for fellowship and celebration of the harvest season. All are invited.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 Selectboard Meeting, 7 p.m., Town Hall TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve film screening, 6 p.m., Champlain College, Burlington. Watch a feature-length documentary about the Federal Reserve made by a team of AFI, Sundance and Academy Award winners. Current and former top economists, financial historians, and investors and traders provide unprecedented access to the debate on the future of the world’s most powerful financial institution. A panel discussion and Q&A with Champlain faculty and knowledgable community members will follow the 104-minute screening. For more information contact Director of Champlain’s Center for Financial Literacy John Pelletier at jpelletier@champlain.edu,or Greg Morgan at morgan@champlain.edu.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 Abraxas: Tribute to Carlos Santana, 9 p.m., Nectar’s, Burlington. Check out six of Vermont’s finest musicians, including Charlotters Ken French and Cobey Gatos, for a night of songs from the legendary band’s catalog. Tickets: $5–10. More info: livenectars.com.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 Stealing from Work: Episode II—Son of the Bride of the Shadow Goes to Camp, in 3D! 8 p.m., Off Center for Dramatic Arts, Burlington. Join sketch comedy group Stealing from Work for a night of comedy. Features Charlotter Geeda Searfoorce.

Turn to page 8 for more information.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Songs of Passion and Remembering, 7:30 p.m., The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Episcopal, Burlington. The Heliand Consort celebrates All Saints Day with a concert of chamber music by

Telemann, Glinka, Engebretson and others. The featured work, Five Songs of Passion, is described by composer Engebretson as movements “written from my musical heart and soul” that are meant to communicate “directly, immediately, without getting too complicated.” Each instrument takes a turn as soloist, culminating in a fifth movement ensemble finale.

Admission $15; students/seniors $10; children free.

Annual Meeting of the League of Local Historical Societies and Museums, 8:30 a.m., Barre Opera House. Day-long conference will feature a national perspective on how local history organizations complement the work done at the national level.

Keynote speaker Terry Davis understands that most history organizations are small and volunteer-led with limited budgets and staff resources. Following his address, attendees will choose from workshops and tours, including: Walking Tour of Barre, Maintaining Your Historic Property, Capturing the Present, Funding Opportunities, Creating Exhibits, Cataloguing, Large Format Objects, Essential Online Tools, and a Tour of the Vermont Heritage Galleries.

Registration: $35 for Vermont Historical Society members, $50 for non-members. More info: vermonthistory.org.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5 CVU Turf Field Project Bond Vote, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.

CCS Multipurpose Room. See story on page 1 for more information.

School Board Meeting, 6 p.m., CCS. Attend this meeting and tour of the school to find out more about the need for building repairs. See story on page 1 for more information.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Lake Wise presentation, 6 p.m., Charlotte Library.

Join Charlotte WatershED to find out more about this state program. See story on page 5 for more information.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Can We Talk? Understanding Yourself and Understanding Your Children! 5:30 p.m., Charlotte Congregational Church. This “Things that Matter” evening centers on learning personality type and temperament tools to reduce conflict and bring greater harmony to ever-changing family dynamics. Shelburne residents Randy and Ginny Rowland lead the discussion and explore how cognitive processing plays into the scripts of our lives and those of our pre-adolescent and teenage children. They bring years of experience in management leadership, career counseling and communication training to the table. The evening begins with a soup supper served at 5:30 p.m. Suggested donation: $12.

Reservations required by email to Jenny Wright at ucccharlotte.net. More info: 425-3176.

Girl Rising film screening, 7 p.m., Merrill’s Roxy, Burlington. Girl Rising spotlights the stories of nine unforgettable girls born into unforgiving circumstances like Sokha, an orphan who rises from dumps in Cambodia to become a star student and an accomplished dancer or Suma, who composes music to help her endure forced servitude in Nepal and today crusades to free others. Tickets are available at the Girl Rising website: girlrising.com. Advance ticket purchase is required.

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ONGOING EVENTS MONDAYS Senior Center Café, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Featuring soup, salads, homemade bread and dessert. No reservations necessary.

Charlotte Multi-Age Coed Pickup Basketball Open Gym, 7–9 p.m. at the CCS gym. High school students welcome. Call 425-3997.

WEDNESDAYS Charlotte/Shelburne Rotary Club, 7:30–8:30 a.m., Parish Hall, Trinity Episcopal Church, Shelburne.

Newcomers Club of Charlotte, Shelburne and surrounding area meets once a month on the third Wednesday from September to June. Variety of programs, day trips and locations. Information: Orchard Corl, president, 985-3870.

AA Meeting, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 7 p.m.

Senior Luncheon, Senior Center, noon. For reservations, call 425-6345 before 2 p.m. on previous Monday.

Volunteer Fire Dept. Mtg., 7:30 p.m., Fire Station.

Charlotte Multi-Age Coed Pickup Basketball Open Gym, 7-9 p.m. at the CCS gym. High school stu-

dents welcome. Call 425-3997 for information.

THURSDAYS Food Shelf, open from 7:30-9:30 a.m. Oct. 24 and Nov. 7. Lower level of the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry. Information: Karen at 425-3252; for emergency food call John at 425-3130.

FRIDAYS AA Meeting, Congregational Church Vestry, 8 p.m.

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Around Town to Vicki (Denton) and Donald Morgan on the birth of their son, Kenneth Floyd Morgan, born Sept. 21 at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington. to Patricia Coleman and Shawn Coyle, who were married Oct. 19 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in East Charlotte. The service was followed by a reception at the Senior Center. The couple will make their home in Charlotte. to Katherine Russell, who earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Arabic Studies from the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y. to George “Spin” Richardson, DDM, of Charlotte, a retired pediatric dentist and founding member of the Timberlane Medical Group, who was awarded the Peter F. Taylor Award for exemplary service to the oral health of Vermonters at the society’s annual meeting in September. to Tad Cooke and Erick Crockenberg, Charlotte students in the UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, who were once again featured in an article in the Burlington Free Press (Oct.10, 2013) describing their use of a mix of 15,000 pounds of cow manure and unused straw bedding to generate heat and nutrients for the University’s greenhouse near the Horticultural Center off Shelburne Road.

Tad and Erick were previously noted for their project that aims to restore the former Moran Heating Plant on the Burlington waterfront using green energy to turn it into sustainable commercial space. At the greenhouse their

to Lisabeth and David Sewell McCann, who were featured in the Oct.16 issue of Seven Days for the development of their website, Sparkle Stories, on which they broadcast David’s stories on a weekly basis. Begun in December 2010, they have now generated over 450 stories. They say they count 1,000 paying subscribers from around the world. Stories run approximately 20 minutes, and have generated enthusiasm captured on their iTunes reviews. A number of the stories grew out of ones David would tell to the couple’s two kids, now eight and 11. Lisabeth says that she would like to see what has become the “family business” expand, becoming a “platform for alternative media,” joining other artists, perhaps musicians, to become part of the Sparkle Stories family. According to Megan James, the article’s author, both Lisbeth and David are “media-cautious parents (who) still find it hard to wrap their heads around the fact that they’ve created a worldwide community of followers online.”

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piles of waste can generate temperatures of up to 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Their work on the Horticultural Farm has been supported through $56,000 in grants from UVM’s studentsupported Clean Energy Fund, According to the Free Press article, they have been helped as well by UVM graduate student Jason McCune, a consulting engineer at Forest Enterprises, LLC in Richmond. McCune says that compost density is a critical factor that needs to be monitored regularly. Hence, the infrastructure that supports the system is an important element of Cooke and Crockenberg’s work.

Tad and Erick will graduate in December and say they will be moving on from the project with which they have been involved for two years. McCune hopes their work will encourage others to become involved.

Lighthall Celebrates 90th at Charlotte Museum Mary Greene Lighthall held court at the Charlotte Historical Society Museum on the occasion of her 90th birthday. Lighthall was one of the committee of folks who were responsible for producing the Charlotte book Around the Mountains.

‘Haunted Happenings’ at Waldorf Oct. 26 Dare to enter the Big Top of evil clowns, creepy performers and frightening effects during the Lake Champlain Waldorf High School’s sixth annual Haunted Happenings: Haunted Circus Tour on Oct. 26 from 7-–10 p.m.

The event, located at the Waldorf School campus along Ferry Road, is a fundraiser for the 12th grade trip and the school’s high school yearbook.

Advance tickets are $7 if purchased by Oct. 24. They can be picked up at the high school front desk until 3 p.m. For advance orders by credit card (minimum of two tickets), email requests to Alice Lissarrague or call (802) 425-6195, ext. 28.

Otherwise, tour tickets cost $10 at the door. The event is suitable for ages 12 and up.

Meg Smith submitted this photo of fog floating along the top of the water near Cedar Island.

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Annual PTO Book Fair Oct. 24 & 25 The CCS PTO will hold its annual book fair on Thursday, Oct. 24, and Friday, Oct. 25, in the school’s multipurpose room from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.

There will be an abundance of new and used books for purchase, with prices beginning at $.50. Used books will be $1 per bag during the last hour of the sale on Friday. Free coffee and muffins will be available both mornings.

Donations of used books will be accepted throughout the fair, and volunteers are still welcome. For more information, contact Lisa Beal at lbeal@cssu.org.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the CCS library.

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