Notes on pain
Middlebury arts
Rusty examines his body’s history with back pain and possible remedies.
‘March Madness’ of the arts planned for college this month
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Miss Vermont will meet Bristol teens BRISTOL — Miss Vermont 2011, Katie Lavasseur, will meet teens at the Bristol Hub, Feb. 28, 3-4 p.m. The 20-year-old will talk about her Miss Vermont platform, which stresses community involvement, political involvement, and civic leadership. Local teens are invited to attend the event. Katie Levasseur is a 20-year-old senior at the University of Vermont in Burlington, where she majors in Political Science and minorsin both Economics and Business Administration. Miss Vermont grew up in Lyndonville and Waterford and is a graduate of St Johnsbury Academy. Although she grew up in Caledonia County, she is a proud eleventh generation Vermonter in the East Barnard community in Windsor County. While attending high school, Miss Vermont participated in many activities and held several leadership roles, including serving as the director-at-large position for the Saint Andrew's Highland Dancers of Vermont, was a student leader in the Graham Highlander's Bagpipe Band, and was a National Honor Society member.
Miss Vermont, Katie Lavasseur, will meet teens at the Bristol Hub, Feb. 28, 3-4 p.m. Photo courtesy of Miss Vermont
Orwell sugar maker appears on television
Sugar maker Mike Christian, representing Village Sugarworks in Orwell, prepared Vermont maple ground beef stew on a Vermont Public Television program that will air in March.
ORWELL — When they’re not in the sugarbush or surrounded by clouds of sweet steam in their sugar shacks, Addison County maple syrup makers are pretty handy in the kitchen. Take Mike Christian, owner of Village Sugarworks in Orwell. He demonstrated his unique culinary talents while appearing as a guest in Vermont Public Television’s studio kitchen. Christian appears with host Sean Buchanan and other Vermont syrup makers. “It’s a mad time of year for maple producers, but sugar makers and other home cooks took time out from boiling to join us at VPT on a live special,” said Buchanan. “Mike and the others shared their recipes and we had a lot of sweet fun.” Buchanan’s show, “VPT Cooks: Maple Madness”–with special guest Christian–will be broadcast Saturday,
March 3, from 2 to 4 p.m. The program will also be webcast on vpt.org. Buchanan and his guests demonstrate favorite recipes featuring Vermont’s signature flavor. Christian prepared his special Vermont maple ground beef stew recipe which is bound to be a hit. Along with Christian was Ann Rose of Ludlow, her daughter Jessica Oberg and granddaughter Jacquelyn Oberg of Poultney, representing Green Mountain Sugar House; they prepared maple pecan pie with maple whipped cream Also on the show is Ethan Ward of Poultney who prepared maple rosettes. A booklet of recipes demonstrated in the show and others from local cooks will be offered as a thank you gift for contributions made during the program.
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MONTPELIER — Vermont’s congressional delegation, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) and Rep. Peter Welch(D), has introduced legislation to extend a U.S. taxpayerfunded safety net that helps dairy farmers ride out downturns in milk prices. Without action, the legislative trio claim, dairy farmers could face a severe drop in support from the MILC safety net by Sept 1. The MILC Continuation Act of 2012 would extend for one year the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) program at current support levels, which helps dairy farmers when the price of milk falls below $16.94 per hundredweight. Once triggered, farmers receive 45 percent of the difference between that price and the current price of milk, which also takes into account feed costs as a factor in triggering program payments. The Farm Bill, which authorizes many programs under the purview of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including the dairy safety net, is set to expire Oct. 1. For the last month of the Farm Bill, after Aug. 31, the MILC program support levels for dairy farmers drop significantly. That would leave dairy farmers exposed without a sufficient safety net. Although the delegation is committed to passing a Farm Bill with dairy reforms this year, with prospects for that bill uncertain, this legislation would ensure there is no lapse in the safety net for dairy farmers. When milk prices plunged in 2009, the MILC program was a critical lifeline for many Vermont dairy farmers.
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