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Unemployment rate decreases in Vermont MONTPELIER—The Vermont Department of Labor announced Dec. 20 that the seasonally adjusted statewide unemployment rate for November was 5.3 percent, a decrease of thr ee-tenths of a percent from the October rate.

Compared to a year ago, the rate is lower by five-tenths of a per centage point. The curr ent comparable national rate is 8.6 per cent which r eflects a decr ease of four tenths of a per cent fr om the previous month.

Over the past three months, V ermont’s seasonally-adjusted statewide unemployment rate has declined by sixtenths of a percent.

“This is obviously good news for Vermont as one measur e of our economic health. This is the 3rd consecutive month reporting a decline in the unemployment rate,” said Labor Commissioner Annie Noonan. “We may, however, see an increase in unemployment claims during the upcoming winter months fr om seasonal layof fs. Ther e has also been some delayed hiring in the ski industry due to the warm weather this season.”

“Vermont businesses in many industries ar e hir ing, particularly in manufacturing, computer and web d esign, h ealth c are, engineering, r etail, food services a nd h ospitality.

Vermonters who ar e unemployed or looking to change jobs shou ld come into a Department of Labor r egional of fice and work with our staf f for employment assistance...

Our goal at the Department of Labor is to find a job for every unemployed and under-employed Vermonter,” said Noonan.

Dec. 28-29 snowstorm delivers the goods

By Lou Varricchio

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Henry Hunsdorfer, 8, of Shoreham, Vt., joined his grandfather and brother for an afternoon of skiing at the Middlebury Snow Bowl.

He has been skiing for two years and loves every minute of it.

HANCOCK — A simple change in the weather makes all the dif ference in the world of skiing.

That change in the weather occurr ed Dec. 2 8-29 a nd t he s taff o f M iddlebury College’s Snow Bowl wer e almost dancing in the snow.

The popular V ermont alpine destination is located atop the Gr een Mountain range a few miles east of Middlebury , along Route 125.

Peter Mackey, the Snow Bowl’s veteran general manager , was smiling after the snowstorm p assed t hrough Addison County.

“We opened Dec. 6, but this was our first significant snowfall of the season,” he said. “We’ll sure take it. And it’s only about a week late than most years.”

More than 10 inches of white stuf f helped transform the Snow Bowl from a tawny November m ountainside into an alpine wonderland bedecked by snowcovered spruce, pine and fir trees.

Photo by Lou Varricchio

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Local historical societies, museums to receive training

By Lou Varricchio

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MIDDLEBURY—Vermont’s local historical societies and museums are getting a shot in the arm during the new year thanks to a program started by the Vermont Historical Society. The Barre-based statewide organization announced that its V ermont Collections Car e Mentoring Program will provide local volunteers, and paid staffers, with high-level training.

According to Mark Hudson, executive dir ector of the Vermont Historical Society , “Vermont’s local historical societies and museums play a critical ro le as the stewards of the cultural fabric of our state.” And that most townbased historical gr oups r ely on dedicated volunteers.

With specialized training in how to present and preserve Vermont history, the local gr oups can impr ove and enhance their various cultural offerings “While these or ganizations do a r emarkable job with Jackie Calder, museum curator of the Vermont Historical Societybased in Barre, provides advice on prelimited resources, the dedicated staf f and volunteers ofserving and handling fragile textiles. VHS’ Vermont Collections Care Mentoring Program will provide loten lack the specialized training, experience, and cal volunteers, and paid staffers, with high-level training when it is rolled out statewide starting in 2012.

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RHS’ Norman will lead Vt. Shrine football team

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tals. The 2012 game will be played Satur day, Aug. 4, on Dartmouth College’s Memorial Field. newmarketpress@denpubs.com In announcing the Head Coaches, W ayne Shepar d, the game’s General Chairman, said "We welcome both Coach BeRUTLAND—It’s eight months befor e str ong legs r un so that weak legs maysomeday walk, but plans for the 59thAn- liveau and Norman to our elite team for 2012. The Board of Governors appr eciates the selfless time and commitment nual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl ar e well underway with the announcement of the head coaches for the two Shrine teams. that this position requires as they prepare their teams for another challenging game."

Mike Beliveau from Souhegan High School will serve as Both coaches have been a part of the Shrine Bowl befor e.

Head Coach for New Hampshire while Mike Norman ofRutCoach Beliveau was Head Coach for New Hampshir e in 2000 land High School will lead the Vermont Shrine team.

The summer classic brings together the finest high school and was involved in the highest scoring game in Shrine Bowl history. His team scored 40 points, while Vermont scored 47. football players in New Hampshire and Vermont in a game On the Vermont side, Coach Norman is no stranger either where the real winners are the children in the Shrine Hospi-

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Coach Beliveau graduated from Bridgewater State where he played four years of varsity baseball. He came to New Hampshire in 1987 as Recr eation Dir ector for the town of Amherst and as assistant football coach at Milfor d High School. He became an assistant coach Souhegan in 1992 and took over as Head Coach in 1995. In the last 14 years, his teams have been involved in 10 state championship finals and have won four state titles.

Coach Norman has a bachelor’s degree and masters in education from Norwich University. He began his coaching career in 1987 at Dartmouth as an assistant under Buddy Teevens. He returned to Norwich in 1988 for a five year stint as an assistant and offensive coordinator. He took over the reigns as head coach at Rutland in 1994 and over a span of 18 seasons has had seven state championships. Today he is both head coach of football and athletic dir ector for Rutland.

Over 200 players fr om Vermont and New Hampshir e, all graduating high school seniors, have been nominated by their respective head coaches. Screening committees, chaired by the two head coaches, will select the two 36-man teams. The two teams will be announced in February.

Formal practice for the summer classic will begin July 26 at Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H. The Shrine Game has raised over 4.5 million for the Shrine Hospitals in 58 years. The hospitals which benefit from the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl ar e the Shrine Childr en’s Hospitals in Springfield, Mass., and Montr eal, Que., and the Shrine Burns Institute in Boston.

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Add a touch of Florida to your garden It’s never too late or too early to plan for your backyar d garden in Vermont. This new year, we look at New England’s distinctive tr ees and shr ubs that ar e Cary Award winners.

Named for a Massachusetts nurseryman, and administer ed by the Tower Hill Botanic Gar den, the awar ds are given to several winners each year as judged by a panel of pr ofessionals.

These ar e either new plant intr oductions, or others that aren't new but deserve wider use in landscapes. The two winners for this year include a ose r and a yucca—shrubs, but which are often grouped under perennials even though their tops generally don’t die back to the ground in winter.

Adam’s needle yucca or Little Spanish Bayonet plant Yuc( ca filamentosa) has an interesting and different habit, consisting of long swor d-shaped leaves with sharp tips (use eye protection when working ar ound them, and keep childr en away). Flowers in June and July ar e on stalks to 7 feet high above the basal leaves, which are only up to 2 feet high. The large and creamy white bell-shaped flowers are held in large open clusters of several dozen flowers, making quite the show. The sweet scent of flowers attracts a pollinator in native areas—the small yucca moth.

Although evergreen in winter, in colder climates such as much of Vermont, the leaves may get quite a bit of br owning from winter injury. This damaged growth dies back the next season in these climates as new growth emerges. It will grow to USDA zone 6 in the north and in pr otected sites in the warmer part of zone 4.

Adam’s needle has been used medicinally and the leaves, with their white curly threads or filaments along the edges,

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They ar e r eliably har dy to USDA zone 5 (-10 to -20 degr ees F minimum in winter).

Use Knock Out roses in masses, in borders, or in a ro w to form a hedge.

They combine well with pinks ( Dianthus), daylilies, per ennial salvia, ornamental blue fescue grass, and lamb’s ear ( Stachys) among other perennials. For annuals, consider combining them with petunias, sun-loving coleus cultivars, licorice plant ( Helichrysum), the silver plectranthus, and spider flower (Cleome) among others.

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have given rise to the species name. Native peoples used the str ong leaf filaments to weave into fabrics.

This species of yucca, with its dark green leaves, is native to Florida, while similar species ar e seen in Mexico and the U.S. southwest. It has gained popularity with the intr oduction of several cultivars (cultivated varieties) with variegated leaves. ‘Color Guard’ has bright yellow centers in leaves, ‘Gold Heart’ has cr eamy yellow centers, while ‘Bright Edge’ has wide yellow edges to the shorter leaves. ‘Golden Sword’ also has bright leaf edges, only with larger leaves. ‘Variegata’ has white leaf edges.

With such striking habit, it lends itself to a specimen in borders. It is a perfect choice for Mediterranean, Spanish, Southwestern, and contemporary style gardens. It is a good choice for urban gardens as well, tolerating poor soils, soil compaction, pollution, and winter salt spray from roads.

Give well-drained soil and full sun, although it will tolerate a few hours per day of shade. Once established, the long tap root makes it quite drought tolerant. This means too, that you should place it where it will stay as it resents moving. It is difficult to get all the roots, and those left will resprout to form new plants. In fact, root cuttings are a main method to propagate this plant.

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What ever happened to the three-legged stool?

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n a now pretty much vanished Vermont, it was the practice of politicos to explain (slowly, of course, with an analogy even we could handle with some effort) that the state’s economy was like a three-legged milking stool, blissfully unaware, apparently, that the stool had gone out when vacuum-pump milking came in, quite a few terms-in-office (and no time-inthe-barn) earlier.

The three legs were agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism: A-M-T. There was, during the Hoff years, an effort to make education an economically serious fourth leg. It was aborted.

There are still occasional, and now quite inaccurate, references to the A-M-T economy, but mostly, the new intelligentsia now prefers a Venn diagram to a wood stool.

Now the three overlapping circles are E-S-E or environment, society, and economy.

The Federal Bureau of Economic Analysis isn’t yet into such Venn diagrams or such tripartite subdivisions of Gross State Product, and its 2010 breakdown of Vermont’s $26 Billion GSP (50 of the 50 states in total GSP, 34 of the 50 in GSP per capita) suggests a new three-legged stool. You might call it G-M-R. First, at over $3 billion, the state and local government category, now the largest leg.

Second, in durable- and-non-durable categories, totaling near $3 billion, is manufacturing.

Third, well below $3 billion, is real estate.

If you take the tourism as the sum of the present accommodations and food services plus arts, entertainment, and recreation, that now non leg is near $1.5 billion.

Vermont agriculture, now a non leg at less than $.4 billion, is now a smaller fraction of GDP at 1.6 percent than administrative and waste services (no comment by your Humble Scribe on that pairing) at more than $.4 billion and 1.9 percent.

Two governmental or quasi-governmental categories not counted withinsState and local government are health care and social assistance at over $2 billion and 9.4 percent, and educational services at almost $.5 billion and 2.1 percent.

Not shown as a BEA category is eEducation, which, at well over $2 billion on the

www.usgovernment.com website; this would be a new fifth leg after the BEA amounts for government, manufacturing, real estate, health care and social assistance.

As both supporters and critics of the Gross Domestic Product template agree, it includes both internal transfers (think both Napoleon and Adam Smith for their “nation-of-shopkeepers” comments) and external earnings from external sales (think ag, manufacturing or services) and yes, tourism (think the “keep-Vermont-green-bring-money” slogan) even though real economists deny it the favored primary-sector label as a source of wealth generation.

Amateur economists like your Humble Scribe argue—heretically—that $20 previously earned out-of-state and brought in to spend by a visiting tourist is just as primary as a hundredweight of milk produced inState and sold to, say, a Boston bottler-distributor with an urban-consumer customer destination.

By that logic, Vermont’s GDP should include the out-of-state revenues brought in from out-of-state sources by Vermont’s rapidly growing passive-income sector, the incoming (pun intended) funds composed of dividends, interest, and capital gains inflowing to trust-funders and retirees.

To keep the comparison clean, we’ll exclude government-mandated tax outflow or transfer-payment inflow from the measure.

Let’s just posit that mostly out-of-statesourced dividends, interest, and (capital) gains (but not in-state rents) if counted as a primary sector of the state economy would be, at about $4.5 billion or almost 18 percent of total state income, by far larger than any component of the BEA analysis. The new 1 stool leg: D-I-G. Former Vermonter Martin Harris lives in Tennessee.

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Greetings for one and all

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ay “Happy Christmas” as a holiday greeting. That’s how I greeted folks this season since David Warner, an accomplished English actor I worked with this fall, signed “Happy Christmas” for my sister on an autographed “A Christmas Carol” video case.

In the now classic 1984 CBS-TV production, Mr. Warner plays Bob Cratchit and George C. Scott plays Scrooge. It’s my favorite take on the Dickens classic. Dickens crew goes about Happy Christmasing throughout the piece. I like how it sounds.

Saying Happy Christmas mingles Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, so the folks who don’t like Merry Christmas are getting the Happy part of Happy Holidays and losing the Merry part of Merry Christmas.

That should do it, right? That should satisfy those folks who think Christianity is problematic. That should make them happy— course, far as I’m concerned they all can pound sand.

I could care less some folks and organizations want “Christmas” dropped in the season’s greeting. I’ll enjoy the events as I will.

Merry, Happy Christmas, whatever, it’s not the words—it’s the feeling, no?

Then there are those who harp and stew over Christmas being “too commercialized”. Is that good reason to slide over being filled with joy these last couple of weeks in December? I say, nope.

You want to be a Scrooge, you want to go against the uplifting feelings this time of year offers to infuse us with, go ahead. But don’t blame it on commercialism. Blame it on yourself. Blame all things on yourself.

Blame all low feelings, low blood sugar, low testosterone on you, cause all lows are your fault mister and missus man and women who loath this time of year.

Santa has a bad little girl and bad little boy list, right? Right. I say it’s too late for this year, but next year, do away with any copy or graphic connected with Santa and Christmas that shows the bad little girl and little boy lists, cause there’s no such thing as a bad little girl and boy. All kids are

good. It’s the adults who suck. Many of us anyway.

Joy is your fault, and sadness is your fault. Period.

End of thought, but, not end of column.

We can take a pass on being bitches the rest of the year, but not Dec. 10 through Jan. 6. We should not get passes for being negative during that stretch, because whether you’re Christian, or agnostic, or atheist, or Jewish, or any one of the other sects one can be; we need to see the ending of the year as glorious, if only because, we made it to the end of the year.

Don’t follow the Dow Jones. Don’t wake to CNN or FOX. Don’t think back, think ahead. Don’t like only Newt or only Obama, like ‘em both. Don’t get angry at the person ahead of you at the grocery store who for five minutes has watched the check-out kid tally their haul, all the while knowing they have to pay, yet haven’t even thought of getting their wallet out let alone swiping their credit card, thus taking an extra three minutes completing their transaction (give me strength) Do don’t all the many things and more that allow us to make excuses for our feeling stressed, depressed and ill dressed.

Do enjoy life's final weeks of the year. Or not. And if you don’t enjoy them, please understand, you’re the doer of the don’t.

I know it’s not always easy rejoice in life.

The thing is, it should be.

I shouldn’t put my wanting you to have a great time this last week of the year on you, you feelings are generally none of my business. Thing is, my business is to assure my time is great, and you making sure your time is great, will help with my making my time great. We’re very closely connected … us humans are, don’t you think?

Happy Christmas and New Year, ‘til your heart finally stops, which it will. And just before it does, you want to be remembering a life of fine Christmases.

Rusty DeWees tours Vermont and Northern New York with his act “The Logger.” His column appears weekly. Reach him at rustyd@pshift.com.

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News of the Week Middlebury welcomes 2012 MIDDLEBURY—Addison County’s biggest New Year ’s Eve event was held Saturd ay, Dec. 31, at the MUHS athletic fields on Creek Road.

The annual fir eworks display, sponsored by the Middlebury Recreation Department, started at 6:30 p.m.

Following the festivities, public skating was held at the town’s Memorial Sports Complex. Both events were free to residents and non residents.

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A salute to firefighters

Summer start for Painter Hills construction

MIDDLEBURY—The Town of Middlebury will begin the Painter Hills water line and road improvement project this summer , accor ding to the Middlebury Select Board meeting held Dec. 20.

A decision was also made to award the job to low bidder, Phelps Engineering.

The cost of the project is estimated at $22,076.

According to the pr oject plan, the Painter Hills water main and related hydro valves and fire hydrants will be replaced.

In addition to the water system, neglected culverts will be replaced and in some cases cleaned.

The project will also include a Juniper Lane cul-de-sac, and better grading at the Gr ey Ledge and Painter Hills Road area. The Board has also asked Phelps Engineering to recycle the existing paving material.

Police investigate Monkton camp break in

MONKTON—Vermont State Police detectives ar e investigating a burglary which took place in Monkton. An unknown individual or individuals for ced entry into a secured c amp an d p ump h ouse o wned b y J ohn P. L avigne, 66, of Charlotte.

Two hasps were damaged while breaking into the camp which ar e v alued a t ap proximately $ 15. N othing w as stolen from the camp.

It is suspected copper pipes were the target as cabinets in the kitchen near the kitchen sink wer e left open. The pump house was entered which also contains piping. The owner said he had plastic piping in his camp and not copper pipe.

Anyone with information or leads is asked to contact VSP New Haven at 1-802-388-4919.

Middlebury Fire Dept. calls

MIDDLEBURY—The Middlebury Fire Department r esponded to the f ollowing calls during t he month of December: Dec. 26: Fire alarm at Mary Johnson Daycare Dec. 20: T echnical r escue assist for man down in the woods in Salisbury Dec. 19: Car and pedestrian accident on Court Street.

Dec. 18: Transformer fire at 139 Chateau Rd. Dec. 15: Electrical fire at 23 S. Gorham Ln. Dec. 15: Person stuck in elevator at 30 South V illage Green.

Dec. 14: Fire alarm at 75 Main St. Dec. 6: Four car MVA with roll over on College Street.

Dec. 4: Illegal burn at 30 Ossie Rd. Dec. 4. One car MVA with injuries 4863 Case St. Dec. 4: Fire in the bag house at the Middlebury College bio mass plant.

Dec. 2: Assisted at a controlled fire.

Dec. 1: Fire alarm at 66 Main St.

Vergennes man stopped on Route 7

CHARLOTTE—A V ermont State Police tr ooper stopped Edward Wildasin, 26, of Vergennes on U.S. Route 7 in Charlotte Dec. 11. Police said Wildasin was traveling at 92 miles per hour in a posted 50 miles per hour zone.

Police also said Wildasin was operating his motor vehicle while intoxicated.

Wildasin's BAC Level was .085 per cent, accor ding to the police report.

Wildasin was issued a citation to appear in Chittenden County Court on Dec. 27.

Car stop nets marijuana

NEW HAVEN—A Vermont State Police tr ooper conducted a motor vehicle stop of Dylan Racine, 21, of Bristol on Plank Road in New Haven for defective equipment Dec. 7. During the stop, police said Racine was found to be in possession of marijuana. Racine was cited into the Addison Criminal Division for possession of marijuana and subsequently released.

Police investigating Bridport grand larceny

BRIDPORT—Vermont State Police are currently investigating the theft of approximately $1,800 U.K. pounds, the equivalent of $2,814 U.S. fr om the residence of Nicola M. Hayes-Allen, 63, in Bridport.

Hayes-Allen initially noted the money was missing on Oct. 24, 2011 but did not notify authorities until Dec. 20.

The victim felt she may have misplaced the money which had been hiding in her residence.

After having looked through her house thoroughly she realized she had not misplaced the money and it was most likely stolen.

The case is active and T roopers ar e pursuing leads.

Anyone with information is asked to contact VSP New Haven at 1-802-388-4919.

SALUTE TO VOLUNTEERS—During the new year, the Addison Eagle will salute local volunteers performing their assigned tasks and mco munity service activities. For January, we salute all the firefighters, staff and families of the Middlebury Fire Departmentunded fo in 1808.

Pictured are Michael Farnsworth and Sean Sullivan demonstrating the proper use of firefighting gear for students at St. Mary’s School.

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Stander named head of Rural Vermont RUTLAND—The Rural Vermont Boar d of Dir ectors announced it has named Andrea Stander as the or ganization’s new dir ector.

Stander is a long-time central Vermont community or ganizer and political activist.

Prior to being named Director for Rural V ermont, Stander served for a year as the executive director of the Vermont League of Conser vation V oters after having helped organize the Get Out the Gr een V ote initiative during the 2010 election cycle.

From 2007 to 2010,Andrea helped lead the development team at the V ermont

Public Interest Resear ch Group as well as coordinate member communications such as the VPIRG newsletter and Annual Reports.

A Vermont r esident since 1997, Stander has also worked with the Northern Forest Alliance as media coordinator and with the V ermont Arts Council as communications dir ector. She will officially begin her work with Rural Vermont on Jan. 2.

Rural V ermont is a nonprofit advocacy gr oup founded b y f armershat a dvocates, activates, and educates for living soils, thriving farms, and healthy communities.

Andrea Stander

GOP blame one-party rule in Vermont

By Lou Varricchio

newmarketpress@denpubs.com MONTPELIER—The Vermont Republican Party held its annual organizational meeting in Montpelier last month.

Pat McDonald was r e-elected to the post of Party Chair , and the Vermont Republican State Committee members also chose the following Vermonters to serve as Vermont GOP officers: Paul Carroccio, vice-chairman, Mark Snelling, treasurer, Steve Webster, assistant treasurer, Rob Roper, secretary, State Sen. Randy Brock, at-large delegate, and Mary Daly, atlarge delegate.

Prior to voting, delegates were energized by remarks from Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, Auditor Tom Salmon, Senator Bill Doyle,

Learn ham radio operations RUTLAND—The Gr een Mountain Wireless Society and members wi ll teach entry-level amateur radio also known as “ham radio”. The course is open to residents of Rutland, Windsor, and Addison counties.

The course will include pr eparation for the FCC Technician Class license as well as cover material required for the FCC General Class license. Topics covered include basic electr onics, entry-

Representative Don Turner, and McDonald.

National Committeewoman Susie Hudson and National Committeeman George Schiavone gave an update on the national political scene.

New Executive Director Mike Bertrand also addressed the audience. Bertrand indicated that a key message for the party in 2012 will be r eturning balance to the V ermont State House and ending one-party rule.

“We have got to return some sense of balance to Montpelier,” said Bertrand. “The simple tr uth is that V ermonters want elected leaders to act in the best interests of all Vermonters, and to develop sound policy solutions to our shar ed problems. One party rule is not what Vermont needs at this critical time.”

level radio theory , operating guidelines, safety, rules and regulations.

There will be live demonstrations each class night.

The classes start Monday, Jan. 2, and ends with the FCC license exam (all levels) on Monday , Mar ch 5. The text for the technician level is “Ham Radio License Manual Revised” 2nd edition available for purchase on the first night of the course for $27 or fr om at www.arrl.org for $29.95.

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ARRL General Class License Manual, 7th edition’ also available for $27 at the first class. Newly licensed operators at the end of the course will be enter ed into a drawing for a Kenwood THK20A two-meter handheld transceiver.

Students will me et at th e R ed Cross Building on Strongs Avenue in Rutland.

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January 7, 2012

Top 5 racing stories of 2011 at Devil’s Bowl

By Justin St. Louis

WEST HAVEN—The 201 1 stock car racing season was one with many important moments in Devil’s Bowl Speedway. The West Haven track closes out one era as another begins, but not before a look back at the top five stories of the year.

5. W eather abbr eviates racing: Mother Natur e wreaked havoc on V ermont in 201 1, and Devil’s Bowl wasn’t spared as seven races were lost including the final four events. T rack management has of fered Thor , the Greek god of thunder, a 2012 season’s pass in exchange for taking racing season off.

4. Spring Gr een is an instant classic: The American-

Canadian Tour Late Models had a spectacular Devil’s Bowl debut at the Spring Green, and fans were treated to a thriller. Eleven lead changes highlighted the race including a 40-lap slugfest between Craig Bushey and eventual winner Brian Hoar.

ACT opens the 2012 Devil’s Bowl season with the 1 2-lap Spring Green on May 6.

3. Youth movement at the Bowl: Watch out, veterans.

Hunter Bates was a two-division star , scoring a midyear Modified victory two weeks before his 16th birthday and later locking up the Late Model championship.

Sixteen year -old Jessey Mueller and fourth-generation racer Bobby Hackel

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2. Proctor cleans house at NASCAR banquet: Devil’s Bowl was sanctioned by NASCAR in 2011, and Modified veteran Ron Proctor was the chief beneficiary .

The Devil’s Bowl Speedway and Vermont State Champion picked up nearly $1 1,000 in prize money and a tr uckload of tr ophies, helmets, and other goodies at the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Awards Banquet in Charlotte, N.C. 1. A new era begins at Devil’s Bowl: Devil’s Bowl Speedway founder C.J. Richards and family guided the track to success for over 40 years, but Devil’s Bowl was sold in October to local business owners and former racers Mike and Alayne Bruno. Devil’s Bowl will remain an asphalt half-mile with NASCAR sanction, but changes include a switch to Friday night racing during the summer months and the return of the iconic “358” Modified class.

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Teacher is State of the Union essay contest judge RUTLAND—U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) launched his second annual State of the Union essay contest to engage V ermont’s high school students on the major issues facing the country.

“I hope this essay contest will provide an opportunity for Vermont’s students to explore current issues in depth and help develop their critical thinking about some of the problems we face as a nation,” Sanders said.

Last year , mor e than 225 Vermont students fr om 20 different schools wr ote about issues such as the declining middle class, climate change and health car e r eform in Sanders’ State of the Union essay contest.

The contest asks V er-

mont’s high school students to write an essay of 250 words to 500 wor ds about their view of the “state of the union” while the pr esident prepares his State of the Union speech for delivery in late January to a joint session of Congress.

The U.S. Constitution calls for the pr esident to “give to the Congress information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measur es as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” Sanders’ essay contest asks Vermont high school students: If you were president, what would you present to Congr ess in your State of the Union address?

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the essays. The winning and finalist essays will be entered into the Congressional Record and posted on the senator ’s website. The winner will also have the opportunity to have Sanders visit his or her school to hold a student town meeting to discuss the state of the union and what can be done to address major pr oblems the country faces.

“We need our young people to be engaged. W e need their passion and their ideas to help solve the pr oblems that confront us. That’s what democracy is all about,” Sanders said.

“This wa s a g reat w ay t o get kids to think outside of their ‘teenage bubbles’ as I call them—to look at their

families, their communities and beyond and really think about the pr oblems facing our country ,” Jennie Gartner, a social studies teacher at Rutland High School, said after serving as one of the four judges who r eviewed essays for the senator ’s first essay contest.

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The size and age of the Milky Way Before we can contemplate the scale of our universe, we must first come to grips with the sheer magnitude of our home galaxy, known to us as the Milky Way. The Milky W ay Galaxy is thought to be either a barred spiral or spiral or whirlpool type galaxy—mor e or less disk shaped with swirling or tightly cocked arms composed of interstellar gas, dust, stars, planets and other celestial objects.

It’s by no means simple to determine what our galaxy would look like when viewed fr om above (or below) it, especially since our solar system is embedded within it. But astronomers have extrapolated the size and general shape of the Milky W ay based upon our edge-on view of the galaxy’s center as seen from Earth.

So, based upon these extrapolations, astronomers believe the vast disk of the Milky W ay to be appr oximately 100,000 light years or 30 kiloparsecs in diameter (you can figure out the Milky Way’s metric length based upon the formula of one light year equaling 9.5 x 1,015 meters). While the Milky Way’s disk is gigantic is scale, it’s only about 1,000 light years thick which is surprisingly very thin in comparison.

If you constr ucted a scale model of our galaxy, it would closely resemble—at least in basic concept though not in flavor—a pizza pie.

Within our galactic pizza-pie is a topping and cr ust composed of interstellar dust, gases, 200 billion stars, mor e or less, various celestial objects, and 50 billion planets—with 500 million being Earthlike.

We haven’t factor ed-in the number of rogue planets adrift in the Milky W ay.

There may be twice as many of these fr eefloating, sunless/solar system-less planets as there are stars.

Based upon deep space images in both the visible and infra-red realms of the electromagnetic or EM spectr um, most of the Milky Way’s stars appear situated within the disk of the galaxy. Also, some stars orbit below, above, and alongside the galactic plane. On the edges, galactic boundaries ar e not so neatly defined.

In a ddition t o e xtrapolating how many stars are in our galaxy, astrophysicists have figur ed out the age of the Milky Way, too.

Physicists first calculated the abundance of the radioactive elements thorium232 and uranium-238 in the galaxy (an educated guess), then back-tracked the original abundance of these elements. The r esulting age— more or less—of the Milky Way ranges up to 16 Ga or Gya, a whopping long time ago.

That’s all well and good, but what’s a “Ga” or “Gya”, you ask? Suf fice it to say that “Ga” is astr onomical shorthand for what’s known as a Giga annum, and “Gya” is short for Giga years ago, a unit of time.

Identical to “Gya” is “Bya” ( Billion years ago) to make it easier . Ann less confusing terms—that is, if millions and billions ar e less confusing—the age of our galaxy is somewhere b etween 8 00 m illion a nd 1 3.5 billion years old, possibly much higher as noted in the “Ga” shorthand.

Since the 1990s, r esearch in the United States has revealed that certain isotopes of the element beryllium may provide an even more accurate way of determining the age of the Milky W ay. Mor e about beryllium abundance in our early galaxy in a futur e column.

Lou Varricchio, M.Sc., lives in Middlebury, Vt. and was a science writer at the NASA Ames Research Center in California.

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January 7, 2012

Guest Viewpoint

A bright spot for Vt.’s working families While working families str uggle to make ends meet in this sluggish economy, there is a bright spot on the horizon for V ermont’s lowest-paid workers: On Jan. 1, the state’s minimum wage incr eases 31 cents to $8.46, raising wages for 23,000 low-wage workers.

The modest bump in pay is the result of forward-thinking state policy that adjusts the minimum wage upwar d each yea r to keep pace with the rising cost of living.

As a r esult, Vermonters who do the har d work of cleaning and securing of fice buildings, pr oviding day car e and serving food will not fall further behind as prices for food, gas and utilities continue to rise.

The increase not only helps hard-working Vermonters pr ovide for their families, but also boosts the overall economy. When Franklin Roosevelt first established the federal m inimum w age d uring t he G reat D epression in 1938, he emphasized that a strong wage floor is "an essential part of economic recovery." The same is true today.

When low-wage workers have more money in their pockets, they have little choice but to spend it immediately on basic necessities like gr oceries, clothing and school supplies. And as demand for goods and services grows, businesses expand and hire; the incr eased spending r esulting fr om the minimum-wage bumps in Vermont and seven other states on Jan. 1 will lead to an additional $366 million in economic output and create the equivalent of more than 3,000 jobs, accor ding to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. That’s a shot in the arm our economy desperately needs.

The minimum-wage increase is especially important when so many better-paying jobs in sectors like constr uction, manufacturing and finance have disappear ed, and many families are left supporting themselves with lower-paid service-sector jobs. An analysis by the National Employm ent Law Pr oject

finds that while the majority of jobs lost during and after the re cession were in mid-wage occupations, r oughly thr ee-quarters of the jobs added since job growth resumed are in low-wage occupations.

And things ar en’t going to impr ove any time soon: The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that seven of the 10 occupations with the most job growth between 2008 and 2018 will be low-paying positions. While we know our economy will have an incr easing number of positions in home health car e, food pr eparation and customer service, these jobs don’t have to pay poverty wages.

At one time, the manufacturing jobs that we now yearn for wer e danger ous, low-wage and undesirable. But we turned them into good jobs, with safer work places, higher pay, and a voice for workers.

Vermont and seven other states have taken a step in the right dir ection by indexing the minimum wage t o keep up with inflation. But while more than 1.4 million workers will see their wages increase Jan. 1, millions more must depend on the stagnant federal minimum wage of just $7.25, or $15,000 a year for full-time work. TheAmerican people know this isn’t right:A national poll conducted in November found that mor e than two-thirds of Americans support raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour. It’s a deeply popular idea that can help boost the economy while not adding to state or federal budget deficits.

It’s time for politicians in W ashington, D.C., to take a cue from the people of Vermont and raise and index the minimum wage.

Christine L. Owens National Employment Law Project Montpelier

Winter 2011-12: What’s in store, weatherwise?

By Alex Sosnowski

newmarketpress@denpubs.com AccuWeather reports while we are still a few weeks away fr om the of ficial start of winter, unusual warmth in the Central and Eastern states has people wondering what the winter will be like, now that the new year is nearly upon us.

Some people in the East ar e saying it will be like the 1989 when a mild November was followed by wicked December cold. Others are saying it may be a year without a winter in the East. Folks in the Northwest may already have their answer.

With Old Man Winter and La Nina giving some early signs, ther e ar e some changes coming to the AccuWeather.com W inter Forecast. However, some aspects of the original forecast will likely remain unchanged.

The pr ojection of a weaker La Nina this year compared to last year is on targ et so far.

However, the La Nina is even weaker than originally thought. This October La Nina has been rated at a magnitude 8.3 while during October 2010, La Nina was rated at 18.2 magnitude.

La Nina is a cooler- than-average tongue of sea surface temperatures in the southern Pacific O cean. W hen t his o ccurs, i t c auses a northward bulge in the storm track over the northern Pacific Ocean. Corr espondingly, the storm track dips over the United States.

Where this dip occurs is critical and depends, in part, on the intensity of La Nina and other weather patterns. A str ong La Nina may override most of the other patterns and have mor e definitive r esults. A weaker La Nina is mor e likely to be influenced by other weather patterns, yielding a wide variety of potential outcomes for different parts of the country.

One of the key players thus far this fall has been the lack of a Greenland Block. This is a northward bulge in the storm track over Greenland that produces a southward dip in the storm track over the Eastern U.S. According to Long Range Weather Expert Paul Pastelok, "Without this block, the dip in the storm track would be in the western U.S. rather than the eastern U.S. The Northwest would be cold and stormy , the East warm and the Ohio Valley stormy."

This has generally been the case so far dur-

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ing November with some exceptions.

Pastelok feels the Greenland Block is still a potential wild card for the winter.

"A lack of Arctic sea ice and the warm surface it pr oduces could cause the Gr eenland Block to show up for a several-week period with little notice."

Such a visit could drive arctic air the storm track southwar d for multiple weeks in the Midwest a nd E ast, t ipping t he b alance to ward more snow.

Without the Gr eenland Bock storms ar e more likely to "cut" northwar d towar d the Great Lakes with only limited opportunities

snow in the I-95 Northeast. This would mean bouts of severe weather in the south-central U.S. "The idea of cutting storms would have a good side too, bringing rain to needy ar eas in eastern and central T exas and the southcentral U.S. in general," Pastelok said.

Unfortunately, much of the Southwest would still be drier than average.

As for the W est, the nasty cold alr eady showing up inAlaska and the storms that are kicking into high gear in the Northwest ar e signs of a typical La Nina pattern.

One thing Pastelok suspects will happen

is that Arctic cold will continued to pr ess southward in the west, driving the storm track southward as the winter progresses.

This will tend to drive powerful, moisture-rich storms into Or egon and northern California for one or more periods this winter. A pattern such as this could deliver a month's worth of rain (or snow) during a single week.

Winter 2011-12 officially arrived Dec. 22 at 12:30 a.m. EST. Alex Sosnowski is senior expert meteorologist for AccuWeather.com.

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Wednesday, Jan. 4 MIDDLEBURY — Trivia Night at Two Brothers Tavern at 7 p.m. $2 per person goes to winning team.

Friday, Jan. 6 MIDDLEBURY — Shake up the intimate Byers Studio at Town Hall Theater in the first THT Cabar et of 2012 with Loose Change at 7 p.m. Cash bar. Tickets, $10, available by calling 802-382-9222 or at the box of fice Monday-Saturday, noon–5 p.m.

MIDDLEBURY — Jam Man Entertainment at T wo Br others Tavern at 10 p.m. Free MIDDLEBURY — Welcome in the new year with an Olde Tyme Yankee Pot Roast at the VFW on Exchange Street at noon. Suggested donation is $4. Bring your own place setting. Open to all age 60 and over, reservations required. Call Mary at CVAA 1-800-642-5119 x607.

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Saturday, Jan. 7 MIDDLEBURY — In the Pocket (r ock, blues, r eggae covers) at Two Brothers Tavern at 10 p.m. $3.

Sunday, Jan. 8 MIDDLEBURY — “Faust” Live in H.D. television at the Town Hall Theater at 1 p.m. Tickets are $24 and available by calling 802-382-9222, or at the box of fice Monday-Saturday noon–5 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 9 MIDDLEBURY — Addison County Right to Life will meet at 7 p.m. St. Mary's Parish Hall. V isitors ar e welcome. For information call 802-388-2898 Tuesday, Jan. 10 NEW HAVEN — Tai Chi Class, 11:30 a.m.12:15 p.m. at the Lincoln Library. Fr ee (donations ar e appr eciated) Open to anyone 50 and up. Call Cindy 1-800-642-5119 ext. 1028.

MIDDLEBURY — Karaoke Night at T wo Brothers Tavern at 9 p.m. Free.

Wednesday, Jan. 11 MIDDLEBURY — Trivia Night at Two Brothers Tavern at 7 p.m. $2 per person goes to winning team.

Thursday, Jan. 12 MIDDLEBURY — D.J. Dizzle at Two Brothers Tavern at 10 p.m. Free Friday, Jan. 13 MIDDLEBURY — Russian pianist Rustem Hayr oudinoff returns to the Middlebury College PerformingArts Series at 8 p.m. in the Mahaney Center for theArts Concert Hall. Tickets are $25 for the general public; $20 for Middlebury College faculty, staff, alumni, emeriti, and other ID card holders; and $6 for Middlebury College students. For more information, call 802-443-6433 MIDDLEBURY — Happy Hour with the Benoits (folk & blues covers) at Two Brothers Tavern at 4:30 p.m. Free.

MIDDLEBURY — Reggae Night with D.J. Dizzle at T wo Brothers Tavern at 10 p.m. Free Saturday, Jan. 14 MIDDLEBURY — Karaoke Night at T wo Brothers Tavern at 9 p.m. Free.

Religious Services ADDISON ADDISON COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH Addison Four Corners, Rts. 22A & 17. Sunday Worship at 10:30am, Adult Sunday School at 9:30am; Bible Study at 2pm on Thursdays. Call Pastor Steve @ 759-2326 for more information.

WEST ADDISON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday, 9am HAVURAH, THE JEWISH CONGREGATION OF ADDISON COUNTY - Havurah House, 56 North Pleasant St. A connection to Judaism and Jewish life for all who are interested. Independent and unaffiliated. High Holy Day services are held jointly with Middlebury College Hillel.

Weekly Hebrew School from September to May. Information: 388-8946 or www.addisoncountyhavurah.org BRANDON BRANDON BAPTIST CHURCH - Corner of Rt. 7 & Rt. 73W (Champlain St.) Brandon, VT • 802-247-6770. Sunday Services: 10a. Adult Bible Study, Sunday School ages 5 & up, Nursery provided ages 4 & under. Worship Service 11am * Lords supper observed on the 1st Sunday of each month. *Pot luck luncheon 3rd Sunday of each month. Wednesdays 6:30pm, Adult prayer & Bible study, Youth groups for ages 5 & up LIFEBRIDGE CHRISTIAN CHURCH - 141 Mulcahy Drive, 247-LIFE (5433), Sunday worship 9am & 10:45am, www.lifebridgevt.com, LifeGroups meet weekly (call for times & locations) BRIDPORT BRIDPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Middle Rd., Bridport, VT. Pastor Tim Franklin, 758-2227. Sunday worship services at 10:30 am. Sunday School 9:30am for children ages 3 and up.

HOPE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP - Meets at Bridport Community Hall. Bridport, VT • 759-2922 • Rev. Kauffman. Sunday 9am, 10:30am, evening bible study.

ST. BERNADETTE/ST. GENEVIEVE - Combined parish, Saturday mass 7:30pm Nov.1-April 30 (See Shoreham) BRISTOL BRISTOL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP - The River, 400 Rocky Dale Rd., Bristol. Sunday Worship 9:00am. 453-2660, 453-4573, 453-2614 BRISTOL FEDERATED CHURCH - Sunday service at 10:15am FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BRISTOL - Service Sunday, 10am ST. AMBROSE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Saturday service 6:30pm, & Sunday 8am BRISTOL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 839 Rockydale Rd. - Saturday Services: Bible Studies for all ages-9:30am to 10:30 am, Song Service, Worship Service at 11am. Prayer Meeting Thursday 6:30pm. 453-4712 THE GATHERING - Non-denominational worship, second & fourth Saturday of the month, 7pm Sip-N-Suds, 3 Main St. • 453-2565, 453-3633 CORNWALL FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF CORNWALL - Sunday worship 9:30am EAST MIDDLEBURY/RIPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday worship, 9am VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH - Rev. Ed Wheeler, services on Sundays: Sunday School for all ages at 9:30am, morning worship at 10:45am (nursery provided), and 6:30pm on Wednesdays; Youth Group and AWANA meet on Thursday evenings at 6:30pm ESSEX CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE ESSEX ALLIANCE CHURCH - 36 Old Stage Rd., Essex • 8788213

ESSEX JUNCTION CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH - 61 Main St., Essex Junction - 878-8341 FERRISBURGH/NORTH FERRISB. FERRISBURGH METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday worship 9:30am NORTH FERRISBURGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 227 Old Hollow Rd., North Ferrisburgh, VT 802425-2770. Rev. Kim Hornug-Marcy. Sunday worship 10am, Sunday School 10am, Nursery Available. www.nfumchurch.org CROSSROADS CHAPEL - 41 Middlebrook Rd., Ferrisburgh, VT 05456. (802) 425-3625. Pastor: Rev. Charles Paolantonio.

Services: Sunday 10am.

FERRISBURGH CENTER COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH - Rt 7, Ferrisburgh - next to the Town Offices / Grange Hall. New Pastors Rev. John & Patrice Goodwin. Worship time is now 10:45am.

HINESBURG LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH - 90 Mechanicsville Rd., Hinesburg. Sunday Service at 10:30am. Pastor Hart, info: 482-2588.

ST. JUDE THE APOSTLE - 10759 Route 116 Hinesburg.

Masses: Sat. 4:30pm; Sun. 9:30am UNITED CHURCH OF HINESBURG - 10580 Rte. 116, Sunday Worship & Sunday School 10am. Pastor Michele Rogers Brigham - 482-3352.

LINCOLN UNITED CHURCH OF LINCOLN - Sunday worship service 9:45, Church school 11:15am, united Student Ministries for grades 7-12, 6:30pm Sunday evenings. 453-4280 MIDDLEBURY CHAMPLAIN VALLEY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY - Sunday service & church school, Sunday 10am CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY - Middlebury.

Middlebury Community House, Main and Seymour Sts, Sunday Service and Church School-10am; Wednesday-7:30pm.

THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MIDDLEBURY (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) Sunday 10am worship service THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTERDAY SAINTS - Sunday Sacrament 10am-11:15am EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN WORSHIP Service in Middlebury area: call 758-2722 or 453-5334.

HAVURAH, THE JEWISH CONGREGATION OF ADDISON COUNTY - Saturday morning Shabbat services, 388-8946 MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH - 97 South Pleasant St., Middlebury. Sunday morning worship & church school 10am, Wednesday evening Bible Study, 6:30pm. 388-7472.

MIDDLEBURY FRIENDS MEETING - (Quakers), Sunday worship & first day school 10am (meets at Havurah House) SAINT MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Saturday, 5:15pm, Sunday 8am, 10am ST. STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - (On the green in Middlebury). Reverend Terence P. Gleeson, Rector.

Sunday Eucharist 8 & 10:30am Child care & Sunday school available at 10:30am service. Wednesday at 12:05pm Holy Eucharist in the chapel. www.ststephensmidd.org or call 3887200.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 10am Grades K-5: Activities, Grades. 6-8 & 9-12: Church School Classes, Refreshments & fellowship time: 10:45am-11am. Sunday morning worship service 11am. Nursery provided both at 10am & 11am.

MONKTON MONKTON FRIENDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday service & Sunday school, 8:45am NEW HAVEN ADDISON COUNTY CHURCH OF CHRIST - 145

Campground Rd., 453-5704. Worship: Sunday 9 & 11:20am; Bible classes: Sunday 10:30am, Tuesday 7pm. Watch Bible Forum on MCTV-15 (Middlebury) or NEAT-16 (Bristol) NEW HAVEN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Church services 10am on Sunday. All are welcome.

NEW HAVEN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH Sunday services, 10am & 7pm ORWELL FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Sunday worship service, 10:00am. Contact: Rev. Esty, 948-2900 SAINT PAUL’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Sunday services 10:30am Mass, 468-5706 RICHMOND RICHMOND CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - 20 Church St., Richmond • 4342053. Rev. Len Rowell. Sunday Worship with Sunday School, 10am; Adult Study Class, Sunday 8:30am RIPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 388-2510 SALISBURY SALISBURY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sun. worship svc., 10am SHELBURNE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SHELBURNE - 127 Webster Road, Shelburne • 985-2848 TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 2166 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. 985-2269 Sunday Services: 8am & 10am. Bible Study 9:00am • Sunday School: 9:50am.

The Reverend Craig Smith ALL SOULS INTERFAITH GATHERING - Rev. Mary Abele, Pastor. Evensong Service and Spiritual Education for Children Sun. at 5pm. 371 Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne. 9853819 SHELBURNE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 30 Church St., Shelburne • 985-3981 • Rev. Gregory A. Smith, Pastor, 8:00am - Holy Communion Service • 9:30am - Family Worship Service with Sunday School SHOREHAM ST. GENEVIEVE/ST. BERNADETTE - Combined parish, Saturday mass 7:30pm, May 1-Oct. 31. (See Bridport) SHOREHAM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHUCC - Sunday worship and Sunday school 10am. Pastor Gary O’Gorman. 897-2687 STARKSBORO THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STARKSBORO - 2806 Route 16, Starksboro. Sunday worship 11am. Chat, Chew & Renew, a pre-worship fellowship and discussion time 10am-10:45am. Sunday mornings in the Fellowship Hall on the accessible first level. All are welcome. First Baptist is an American Baptist church yoked with The Community Church of Huntington for support of its pastor, The Rev. Larry Detweiler revdets@gmail.com; 802.453.5577.

SOUTH BURLINGTON NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH SBC - 1451 Williston Rd., South Burlington. 863-4305 VICTORY CENTER - Holiday Inn, Williston Road, South Burlington • 658-1019 BURLINGTON UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH - Pastor Paul Lyon • 860-5828. Sundays: 10am & 6pm. Wednesdays: 7pm. at 294 North Winooski Avenue.

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Snow Bowl from page 1 Mackey said a similar snowfall had occurr ed just before Thanksgiving but the Snow Bowl was still closed at the time.

“We lost 15 inches of the November snow thanks to rain and warmer temperatures,” he said. “But we made up for lost time this week.”

On Dec. 30, the Snow Bowl had thr ee trails and one lift open for its enthusiastic customers.

On top of the still-closed Allen Trail, snow guns were erupting to get the trail ready for January skiing.

Water fr om two artificial ponds, located behind the main lodge, are siphoned via pumphouse equipment and forced, through hoses, to the Snow Bowl’s array of snowmaking gear.

More than 500 skiers and snowboarders rushed to the Snow Bowl to take advantage of the fr esh Dec. 28-29 snowfall.

On Thursday morning, the parking lot was packed with vehicles.

ACTR’s Snow Bowl-edition shuttle van also appeared bearing skiers to the main lodge—the carless or those who simply prefer to leave their vehicles in town seem to like the no-fuss bus service with its storage space for skis and snowboards.

Mackey said news of the snowfall traveled up and down the Eastern Seaboar d. His of fice r eceived a telephone call fr om a Maryland woman wondering

if ther e was enough snow; she was planning a 10hour drive just to ski at the Bowl.

As Mackey pointed out the snowmaking guns on the ridge top behind the lodge, young people wer e lining up for a ski lesson while adults, and accomplished youngsters, were queuing up for lift chairs.

Everyone seemed cheerful and strangers wer e talking to strangers about the near-perfect skiing conditions.

“The Snow Bowl is small enough to feel likea community,” he said. “We have many locals but also college alumni and other visitors. They like it her e.

Prices are reasonable and the skiing is terrific. Parents feel secure with their children here.”

Mackey said snowmaking is key for survival in many East Coast ski resorts.

The technology of making snow works best when the humidity is below 50 per cent, he said. “The drier, the better,” for making fake snow, he said.

But the snowmaking process does not come cheap.

Compressed air adds to the cost of faux snow, but the Snow Bowl’s twin ponds—now fr ozen—have ample juice, liquid H 2 O below the ice caps. Obviously, water is the main ingredient of both natural and man-made snow.

“Overall, I am happy with the snow we’ve r eceived,” Mackey said. “The for ecast is if fy thr ough New Year ’s Day. But we’ll see how it goes.”

In the ski world, unlike the world of commuting by car to work, the good news is always cold temperatures and bad weather—lots of snow that is.

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Training

from page 1 technical skills needed to addre ss issues associated with cultural heritage collections,” Hudson noted.

The new mentoring pr ogram will make pr ofessional mentors available to volunteers with oversight fr om VHS and the local historical group or museum.

“Local historical societies and museums are encouraged to identify their most critical need or challenge r elating to collections management and care. They may then apply for help from a mentor who is trained and experienced in their area of need, ” according to Julie Nelson, VHS’ marketing and community relations coordinator.

Nelson said mentors conduct visits to the historical society or museum. Ther e they meet with paid staf f and volunteers, and get to better understand the needs.

“Their on-site observations, accompanied by a follow-up written report, will provide expert guidance to that organization,” she said.

Nelson said that several challenges face local historical groups.

“Typical issues associated with collections care can include registration and cataloging, storage, environmental controls, security, exhibitions, emergency planning, and conservation,” she added.

Nelson said that for a group or museum to be eligible for the program, it must be a member of the V ermont Historical Society. Only institutional membership qualifies for the mentoring assistance.

Applications are considered on a first-come, first-served basis and organizations may apply once per year.

For mor e information or to r equest an application, contact Lisa Evans at 802-479-8522 or send an e-mail inquiry to lisa.evans@state.vt.us.

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