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Story by Joe Milliken - Editor Photos by Donald Dill In Ludlow, Okemo Mountain Resort is gearing up to celebrate the changing of the seasons with another weekend packed with events and activities for skiers and riders of all ages and skill levels. On Above are photos from last year’s Slush Cup and Splash for Cash Saturday, April 3, the popular Slush Cup event will events at Okemo Mountain Resort. commence.

Of course the object is to ski or snowboard down a trail and then skim across the 80-foot slush pond without falling into the chilly water.

The entry fee is $20 for the first 120 participants, with many great prizes given in several categories We’re committed to providing the including best costume, finest hearing aids at the lowest who can stay the driest prices. If you’re considering a hearing and who commits the best aid for the first time or if you need to wipe out! Registration replace the old ones, we’re the place starts at 8 a.m. and the to go for the best service and prices.

Slush Cup skimming Judi, Shawn & Paige Jarvis begins at 11 a.m.

Also on Saturday will be the new "Splash For Cash" event, beginning at 1 p.m.

With a huge kicker placed at the edge of the Slush Cup pond, contestants get one chance to "go big and get wet!"

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News, Notes & Announcements for the Ludlow Region Market in Ludlow on Tuesday, April 6 Ludlow Garden Club from 10 a.m.-noon.

Purchase ready made Easter Baskets First Meeting of Year The Ludlow Garden Club will hold its first meeting of the 2010 year on Thursday, April 8 at noon at the United Church of Ludlow on Pleasant Street.

It will be a business meeting where plans for our visits to various nurseries and garden centers, for guest speakers and for a craft program will be discussed.

Members should bring a sandwich and hostesses will provide desserts and beverages. Guest are always welcome.

For details call 672-4041.

Easter Sunrise Service and Community Breakfast Rev. Jon Bliss of the Old Parish Church will conduct a Sunrise Service at the Walker Bridge, just north of Weston Village on Route 100, on Easter Sunday, April 4, at 7 a.m.

Following the service, from 7:30 to 8:30 the men’s Cooking Crew of the Old Parish Church will serve their annual breakfast to the community at Weston’s Rod and Gun Club, also on Route 100, approximately one mile north of the Green.

Breakfast will consist of orange juice, blueberry pancakes with Vermont maple syrup, sausages, coffee, tea and hot chocolate. The cost is $5 for adults, $3 for children 6–12, and free to children under 6.

In the event of bad weather, the Service will be held at the Rod & Gun Club at 7 a.m.

Tyson Ladies Aide Easter Bake Sale at Shaw’s Tyson Ladies Aide will be holding an Easter Bake Sale outside of Shaw’s

filled with delicious cupcakes, cookies, bars and more! These treats are homemade by members of the Tyson Ladies Aide which owns and operates the Tyson Library in the hamlet of Tyson between Ludlow and Plymouth.

The Library was established in1887 as part of the Tyson Ladies Aid and it now includes a collection of books from the Plymouth free Library which was disbanded in the 1940’s when no place could be found to house the books.

Ladies Aid uses the funds raised to support the Tyson Library, Scholarships, and to help support other local non-profit charities.

We are known as one of Vermont’s smallest libraries. Our book collection is extensive for our size and is open during the summer on MondayThursday and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon. Our funding comes from; membership, donations, events, our annual Chicken Barbeque and Bazaar in August.

We are conducting a fund drive to make the building useable for more time in the year. A furnace and small addition are currently being added to the building.

Open House at Weston’s The Little School The Little School, located in Weston, invites families interested in enrolling their children to visit their early education program during the months of March and April.

To make an appointment or for more information call 824-3405 or email littleschool@myfairpoint.net.

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Ludlow Raises Funds for Fireworks

Above, fireworks fundraiser Easter egg soaps donated by Summit Soapworks on sale for $4.

The Ludlow Village Merchants are very happy to report the status of fundraising efforts for the upcoming 4th of July celebrations.

The collaborative 2010 Ludlow Winter Carnival efforts of the merchants, Gill Odd Fellows Home, Ludlow Streetscapes, Okemo Mountain Resort with additional sponsor and participation support from businesses and individuals netted almost $2400 for the fireworks fund.

Additional donations from the 2009 Zucchini Festival along with contributions from fund raising collection jars have raised this amount to over $3000.

With a minimum need of $5,500, fundraising efforts are on-going.

Raffle prizes include a Patriot Fleece Throw valued at $55 donated by Summit Soapworks and a fun and fanciful Patriot Ballet Tutu Set created

by Pitter Pater Tutus valued over $30.

Tickets are on sale now, $1 for one

or six for $5 at The Book Nook, Summit Soapworks and Chapter XIV in downtown Ludlow. Keep in mind your winning ticket could assist your civic, non-profit or church organization to promote a cause or event. In an additional effort to raise money for the fireworks show, Summit Soapworks is holding a special Easter Egg Hunt.

Seventy-five Easter egg soaps in a variety of colors and scents were specially produced for this event and are being sold at $4 each. Gift certificates as well as a $100 cash prize have been hidden in some of these.

A huge congratulation goes out to Dominica D’Ottavio for winning the cash prize on March 20. Additional prizes have not yet been claimed and the soaps will be sold until April 3. For more information call 228-3238.

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Spring Skiing & End of Season Specials in Full Swing at Okemo Mountain Resort

Theatre Company Receives $5K Grant

The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company received a $5000 grant through the Berkshire Bank “Join the Excitement” contest .

The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company won the Heather Brown. "It’s a real testament to our vast and coveted Berkshire Bank “Join the Excitement” contest dedicated community of friends and supporters. It in southern Vermont and has received a generous took everyone coming together to make this happen."

The $5,000 grant will support the WPTC's entire grant from their foundation. This special grant was awarded to the non-profit organization in Southern 2010 season, reaching an audience of more than 20,000 Vermont that received the most votes. The WPTC with seven productions; education, outreach and received 1113 votes from friends all over the country access programs; and the development of new work.

For further information about the Education and to secure the grant.

"We are thrilled to receive this grant from Berkshire Outreach programs and the Playhouse’s 74th season, Bank," commented WPTC Director of Development visit www.westonplayhouse.org.

News from the Rutland County Humane Society – Buy a Brick Campaign Fund The Rutland County Humane Society (RCHS) is launching a campaign to help raise funds and build a walkway to your new best friend. Brick by brick our walkway will be built!

Bricks are ideal gifts to commemorate a special event, honor a special person or pet, dedicate the memory of a loved one, celebrate a milestone, holidays and more! 4" x 8" bricks are $50 and 8" x 8" bricks are $200. To order your brick or for more information please contact RCHS at 483-9171 or visit www.rchsvt.org. Together we can build a pathway to a brighter future for the homeless animals in Rutland County.

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“I seem to like other dogs but I do get excited around them so a proper introduction and supervision will be necessary and I may be too much for all but the most confident and dog-savvy cat.”

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Okemo Mountain Resort is planning to offer skiing and snowboarding through mid-April, so there’s plenty of time to enjoy the spring snow, sunny skies and numerous on-snow events like Splash for Cash and Okemo’s annual Slush Cup pond-skimming competition.

Savvy skiers and riders know that this is also the best time to purchase next year ’s season pass. In the same way sugar season lasts for a short time in the spring, Okemo’s best deal on season passes ends April 30.

Okemo offers seven-day passes, five-day passes, midweek passes and even a Sunday One-Day Pass.

Most passes include skiing and riding benefits with Okemo’s sister resorts, Mount Sunapee, NH and Crested Butte Mountain Resort, CO - and Okemo’s partnership continues with Stratton Mountain, Vt., as well.

Okemo’s Ultra Pass is just $1,299 ($1,019 for ages 13-18 and $799 for ages 7-12) when purchased before April 30. In addition to all the added-value benefits that come with the Ultra Pass, Okemo is sweetening the deal for early birds.

This pass is valid seven days a week with no restrictions for adults, young adults and juniors who can ski or ride every day of the 2010/2011 season at Okemo, Mount Sunapee, Crested Butte and Stratton. When purchased before April 30, skiers and riders receive two free companion days at Okemo loaded onto their Ultra Pass and a bonus companion day at Okemo valid on or after Monday, March 7, 2011. Okemo will also activate each pre-April 30 Ultra Pass purchased with a preloaded $25 resort credit.

With a little planning, skiers and riders can combine some sweet spring snow sliding with their purchase of next season’s pass and a visit to a local sugarhouse to see how sap from sugar maples gets boiled down to make pure Vermont maple syrup.

The Green Mountain Sugar House, located on Rt. 100 N, just a couple of miles from the slopes of Okemo, welcomes visitors anytime throughout the maple sugar season.

Vermont is the nation’s leading producer of maple syrup with annual production of approximately 500,000 gallons. Vermont’s high concentration of sugar maple trees is also one of the reasons it consistently offers the nation’s most vibrant fall foliage.

More information about Okemo Mountain Resort’s celebrations of spring is available by calling 228-1600, or by visiting www.okemo.com.

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The Outlook On Local History Therapeutic Riding Open House Success Editor,the Outlook: On behalf of Nick Mercede, Bevin Dugan, and all of the folks at Winchester Stables and the Southern Vermont Therapeutic Riding Center, I’d like to thank everyone who came out to our stables on River Road in Newfane, learned a bit about therapeutic riding, and made our very first open house a huge success.

The turnout was much more than we had dared to hope for, and the many kind words of encouragement and thanks were appreciated more than the givers will ever know.

We’ll be scheduling more events shortly. In the meantime I’d be happy to schedule informal tours of the facility, schedules permitting (our spring session’s have just begun so time may be a little tight). Please call 365-9434 to arrange a visit, and learn more about SVTRC and therapeutic riding at winchesterstables.com.

Lorna Young, SVTRC Program Director Newfane

Meals on Wheels Thanks Voters Editor, the Outlook: Meals on Wheels of Greater Springfield wishes to thank the voters of Springfield, Chester, Andover, Weathersfield and Windham for their generous support in passing our funding appropriation requests at the 2010 Town Meetings.

In your communities, Meals on Wheels either already delivers, or is available to deliver daily, hot, nutritious meals, as well as offering a congregate meal each weekday in Springfield.

Thousands of meals are served every year, and this funding assures that no one in need is denied a meal.

Your funding approval is greatly appreciated.

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Text and Photo courtesy of Ralph Pace and the Black River Academy Museum The building above was constructed as a fire house in 1875. In 1833, the first fire society in Ludlow was established.

In 1834, a small engine house was constructed near the extant fire house. In 1854, a new engine house was constructed in an unknown location, and then in 1864 was moved to a small space behind the village schoolhouse, which was located between what are now 110 and 112 Main Street.

In 1867, when the Village of Ludlow was incorporated, the fire society disbanded. The engine house was moved again in 1871, probably to the location of the extant station.

When the fire house was constructed in 1875, it was also used as the village hall and jail, which was not uncommon for fire houses at the time. In 1880, the first paid firemen were hired.

Prior to that, service was voluntary and was compensated with exemption from the local poll tax. In 1891, local fire services included a hook and ladder company, two hose companies, and a steam engine company.

In 1894, a Ludlow Village water system was established and hydrants were installed. In 1977, the fire house closed and was replaced with a new fire house on Pond Street. The building is now used by the Black River Good Neighbors Service, who operate a thrift shop and food shelf there.

OVRCC Welcomes VT Apple Pie

North Carolina fiber artist, Peg Gignoux, recently completed a week-long Arts Residency with Cavendish Town Elementary School’s Kindergarten, First and Second Graders.

The textile arts residency was designed to get students Marji Graf, excutive involved in an integrated arts activity in which they celedirector of the Okemo brate the multiple ways that Healthy Bodies = Healthy Vally Regional Chamber Minds, a theme being featured at CTES this year. The stuof Commerce, left, dents, under Peg’s guidance, each created a beautiful quiltwelcomes Cheryl and ed fabric place mat that shows a plate filled with their faCharles James, owners of vorite healthy foods.

Vermont Apple Pies The residency began with Peg presenting the students Breakfast Bake Shoppe with a large, fabric book that was created by her students into the Chamber at this at Elon College for CTES. The fabric in the book was hand ribbon cutting last week. dyed, cut and pieced together into delightful pages illustrating the original story Finishing Touches. The story is set in the Vermont landscape, in a garden in which Can you say "Goof-ball?" Well, that Herbi, a chive, is anxious to about describes this sweet, big hearted sprout from the earth to galumph of a dog named Gibbs. Gibbs nourish the growth of huis only 2 years old and has already had mans as a finishing touch on five homes. a baked potato.

In just over a month’s time he has Upon viewing this, the learned to heel, not yank you all over students were then inspired the field, sit for a treat and even stop to design and create their barking. He is happy, happy, happy, own fabric place mats. Each and full of energy. He just wants some child was given a fabric mat people to love! He must go to a home and chose a fabric plate on with active people who will give him which they could place their the daily exercise he needs. favorite fabric vegetables, Call the Shelter at 885-3997 or visit fruits and cheese they chose Wed-Sat noon-4:30. from the “market” set up in the classroom.

Peg and the students also discussed what vegetables and fruits grow in our area and read books about how daily exercise plus good eating habits make children strong and ready to learn.

The Healthy Bodies = Healthy Minds theme sprouted from the Farm-toSchool program that is being initiated at CTES.

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GPR Radar To Locate Chester Academy, Once And For All Story by Joe Milliken - Editor Photo courtesy of Ron Patch Originally built in 1814, Chester Academy was once considered one of the most prestigious private schools in New England, with a strong curriculum and advanced music department.

During the mid-1800's the academy drew students from all over the east coast, and graduated the likes of governors, state senators, civil war generals, doctors and other community leaders.

The Academy building occupied a location on the Green in Chester, before it was legislated out of existence in 1876 and subsequently torn down.

In 1881 the new high school was built farther back from the road and is now the location of the Chester Historical Society.

However, the original location of the Acadeny was much closer to the road and it's complete footprint is unknown.

Enter former Chester resident and Springfield High School graduate Shawn Patch, a visiting archeologist who now works for New South Associates in Greensboro, NC. Using 21st century technology, Patch will conduct a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey at the Chester Academy.

GPR is a remote sensing technique frequently used by archaeologists to locate and identify buried objects.

It is fast, accurate, efficient and non-evasive

technique used in areas where traditional excavation is not possible.

Patch's survey will cover the area where the original academy foundation is suspected to have existed, buried beneath the current ground surface.

The hope is that the foundation or cellar will still exist and be detectable in the GPR data because of it's high contrast with the surrounding soil.

If all goes well, the Chester Historical Society will apply to the Division of Historic Sites for a Chester Academy site marker, which would Above, archeologist and former Chester resident Shawn Patch. using the GPR radar equipment also mark the first official site marker of this type in can be solved.

This project is sponsored by the Chester Masons, the Town of Chester.

Patch will also be looking to investigate an old who partially funded the original academy building Chester mystery involving Brookside Cemetery, in and used the third floor of the building for their which a tall marble obelisk sits on a mound near the meetings.

Other contributors included Mr. And Mrs. Tom rear of the cemetary.

The only marking on the stone is "Susie". It is Bock and an anonymous donor.

Ron Patch of the Chester Historical Society also believed this is the burial site of perhaps a horse, and the GPR could provide data for which this mystery contributed information to this article.

News & Notes for the Chester Region Whiting Library Downloadable Books Chester's Whiting Library has expanded its services with audiobooks available to download from the Listen Up Vermont website. Library card holders can check out and download anytime, anywhere by visiting www.listenupvermont.org and choosing the Whiting Library account.

You will need your library card number to download audiobooks.

With hundreds of popular fiction and non-fiction titles to choose from, you can download best-selling novels, well-known classics, self-improvement guides, and much more.

Users may browse the Listen Up Vermont website, check out with a valid Whiting Library number, and download to a PC, Mac, and many mobile devices. Users will need to install free software on their personal computers: for audiobooks: OverDrive Media Console. Titles can be enjoyed immediately or transferred to a variety of devices, including iPod or MP3 player. Some audio titles can also be burned to CD to listen on-the-go. Titles

will automatically expire at the end of the lending period with no late fees.

This new service, powered by OverDrive, is free for Whiting Library patrons with their library card number.

Whiting Library is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Preschool Story and Art Time is held every Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. For details call 875-2277 or email whitinglibrary@yahoo.com.

It’s Springtime At Gallery 103

Chester Rotary’s Easter Egg Hunt The Chester Rotary Club will host their annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 3 at 9 a.m. at the Chester Andover Elementary School in Chester and will feature the Easter Bunny in person.

Everyone is invited to join the Easter Bunny for this once a year chance to collect chocolate Easter Eggs and other prizes for those who find the "Special" Easter Eggs.

For details call 875-1149 or visit chesterrotary@gmail.com.

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Bolaski Wins Garden Club Scholarship The Springfield Garden Club has awarded a continuing scholarship of $1000 to Ben Bolaski of Springfield, who is a sophomore attending Plymouth State University in New Hampshire and is enrolled in Environmental Studies.

He also received scholarship help from the Springfield Garden Club (SGC) during his Freshman year.

The SGC offers scholarship help to area students who are studying in the fields of horticulture, landscape design, forestry, natural resources, conservation and environmental studies.

Through the wonderful community support of their successful fundraising event, the Festival of Trees, held last November at the Fullerton Inn in Chester, where it will be held again next November, the club has doubled its commitment to their scholarship fund for next year.

Ben Bolaski, left, receives a check for $1000 from the Springfield Garden Club Treasurer, Therese Burton and Margery Collins, Scholarship Committee.

Students from the wider Springfield area are encouraged to apply. The scholarship field area, not just technical school students, are eligible of the courses of study listed above may contact Marita Johnson, the SGC Scholarship Committee Chairperson, has always been available to area youth, mainly from the to apply.

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Cub Scout Pack 258, chartered by VFW Post 771, Robert L. Johnson Post, enjoyed the sweet smell and taste of maple syrup during a visit to Moore's Sugar House. They send their thanks to Linda and Ray Moore for hosting Pack 258.

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Susy's Little Peanuts Preschool recently took a field trip to Gallery at the VAULT. While there, board director, Melody Reed suggested they work with their art teacher, Amy Jones and create a special exhibit for display. After completing a unit on the artist Vincent VanGogh students created their own renditions of Sun Flowers.

Their work is now on display at the VAULT through the month of April in the Open Wall room. Students and their families attended an opening reception for the young artists. This summer VAULT will host a special art camp, Camp II, July 26 - 30 with Amy Jones. Camp II is for preschool-age children ages 3 - 5 years old. For more information see www.galleryvault.org. Gallery at the VAULT is a Vermont State Craft Center located at 68 Main Street in Springfield. Regular gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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News, Notes & Announcements for the Springfield Region Information Program on Bicknell Thrush On Wednesday, March 31 from 7-8 p.m., Chris Rimmer from The Vermont Center for Ecostudies will lead an informative program about the Bicknell’s Thrush, a land bird species of highest conservation concern in North America.

This free program at the Springfield Public Library, 43 Main Street, is co-sponsored by the Museum, Springfield Library, Ascutney Mountain Audubon Society, and partially funded by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.

Call the library at 885-3108 if the weather seems doubtful.

For information about other Museum programs, please visit www.nature-museum.org or call 8432111.

New Thought Vermont April 3 Service New Thought Vermont, a spiritual group offering a practical path for health, prosperity and serenity will offer a service on Saturday, April 3 at 10:30 a.m. in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Springfield.

The title of the message by Rev. Peter Miller is “New Life.” There will be special music to support the message.

New Thought Vermont is an open and affirming congregation including individuals from various religious backgrounds, focusing on the divinity inherent in each person and all of creation.

For information, email newthoughtvt@yahoo.com or call 384.-3845.

Make a Kaleidoscope at the Library Kids ages 5 and up are invited to make a kaleidoscope at the Springfield Town Library Wednesday, April 7 at 3:30 p.m. This program is generously supported by the Friends of the Springfield Town Library. For more information call 885-3108.

Parent Child Center Book Fair The Springfield Area Parent Child Center has announced the return of the buy one, get one free Scholastic book fair to the 17th annual Celebrate Young Children Family Festival. The festival will be held on April 17 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Riverside Middle School gymnasium in Springfield.

The event is held in recognition of the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s annual ‘Week of the Young Child.’

The festival offers an opportunity for families, early childhood professionals and diverse community members to come together. Families peruse local preschools, early care and education programs, businesses, organizations and other services while children play. Approximately four hundred people attended the festival last year.

To learn more about the array of services offered by the SAPCC visit www.sapcc-vt.org.

Family Center Hosts Annual Meeting The Springfield Family Center at 365 Summer Street in Springfield will hold its Annual Meeting on Thursday, April 15 at 5 p.m. at the center.

A light buffet supper will be served.

The Guest Speaker is John Sayles, CEO of Vermont Foodbank on the topic “What more can We do to help feed our community.”

Make a Garden Journal at VAULT Come make a Garden Journal out of an altered book at with Robyn Lantz on Saturday, April 17 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at Gallery at the VAULT, 68 Main St., Springfield. A sample book is available so you can see how much fun it will be.

Students must preregister for the workshop. Cost is $15 for members, $20 for non-members. A materials list is provided. Please call or visit the VAULT at 885-7111 for registration and more information. Visit the VAULT website at www.galleryvault.org.

Applications Being Accepted for Scholarship Applications are now being accepted for the 5th annual Eileen Neal Nursing Scholarship of $1,000.

This scholarship is open to any Springfield-area high school student who is planning a career in nursing and who has been accepted into a nursing program of study. Applicants will be judged on interest in and commitment to the field of nursing. Determination will be based on merit and need.

Application forms are available in school guidance offices. Deadline is May 17.

For more information, contact Larry Kraft, Director, Springfield Hospital Foundation, 885-7644 or lkraft@springfieldmed.org.

Eileen Austin Neal was a registered nurse at Springfield Hospital for 64 years, retiring in 2005.

Upon her death in Feb. 2006, at the request of Neal’s family, Springfield Hospital Foundation established a nursing scholarship fund in her name with the gifts received in her memory.

ChildBirth Center Visiting Hours The ChildBirth Center at Springfield Hospital is announcing plans to resume its normal visiting hours effective April 1. Immediate family members are welcome to visit anytime, remembering to consider and accommodate the patients’ needs for rest.

Visiting hours for friends and relatives will be 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m daily. To help prevent infection and maintain a safe environment for newborns, with the exception of siblings, children under the age of 12 are asked not to visit the ChildBirth Center, and to

plan their visit to the new family after they have arrived home.

The ChildBirth entry will be locked at all times for security, and visitors will be asked to use a security button located next to the door.

For more information or to tour the center, contact Holly Trail, RN, IBCLC, Nurse Manager, at 885-7342 or email: htrail@springfieldmed.org.

Springfield Area Churches Easter Service The annual Association of Springfield Area Churches sponsored Easter Sunrise worship service will be held at 6:30 a.m. at the North Springfield Baptist Church.

The church is located at 69 Main Street off of Route 10. Pastor George Keeler will preside and other area clergy will be invited to participate.

Free Community Dinner in N. Springfield A free Community dinner will be hosted by the North Springfield Baptist Church on Friday April 2, from 5 to 7 p.m.

This is a pot luck style dinner that includes casseroles, baked beans, salads, desserts and beverages. Everyone is welcome to attend. Take out is available.

The church is located at 69 Main Street in North Springfield.

For more information call 886-8107.

“Two Coots in a Canoe” at Library Meeting David E. Morine will be the guest speaker at the Friends of the Springfield Town Library Annual Meeting on Wednesday, April 14 at 7 p.m.

Morine is the author of the book “Two Coots in a Canoe”, the story of two retired men who take a month to canoe the Connecticut River but instead of camping they decide to “…rely on the kindness of strangers.”

It was a journey of whim, humor and self-discovery for the author and his fellow canoeist, Ramsay Peard.

Staying with a different family every night, they delved into such issues as farming, manufacturing, gay rights and Wal-Mart versus Main Street from the Northeast Kingdom to the Long Island Sound.

The public is welcome and refreshments will be served.

Easter Egg Hunt at Health & Rehab Center There will be a community Easter egg hunt at the Springfield Health & Rehab Center on Saturday, April 3 at 2:30 p.m. Children 2-10 are welcome.

The egg hunt will be outside weather permitting, otherwise it will be held in the activity room and surrounding areas.

Refreshments will be served. Please bring your own baskets.

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New Life for an Elegant Hotel

This past week the Windham Hotel on The Square in Bellows Falls was given new life when the Woodstone Company of Westminster installed a new entryway into the hotel’s street level restaurant space. At left, the old entry has been removed, and at right, expert glaziers from Woodstone work at installing the glass in the new entry way. Ryan and Sarah James of Harvest Moon are planning a June opening for the restaurant .

Story and Left Photo by Robert F. Smith – Editor apartments.

Right Photo by Pam Crowley – Outlook Staff But the building that dominates The Square is the Windham Hotel, and it has After lying nearly dormant for decades, a grand old lady of a hotel in downtown long been felt by local officials that bringing the hotel back to life will be a huge Bellows Falls is getting a facelift and a new life. factor in the future life of downtown Bellows Falls. Seeing the new windows The Windham Development Group LLC of Tony Elliott, Jay Eshelman and Erik installed and the interior being renovated brings a lot of welcome hope for the Leo is renovating the historic Windham Hotel to create retail, restaurant and future to the community this spring. eventually a fully operating hotel. Originally WDG consisted of Tony Elliott, Jay Eshelman and David Broganer. David sold his share to Tony and Jay and Erik in the fall of 2009.

WDG was formed in 2007 to buy the hotel building from the Town of Rockingham, which purchased it out of foreclosure in the mid-1990s. While the town owned it, the lobby space of the hotel had been used as offices for the Greater Falls Regional Chamber of Commerce and for a time as a recording and performance space.

General contractor Weatherby & Associates of Alstead, NH has been working for weeks now to upgrade and provide basic space, utilities and fire protection throughout the building. Each space will be fitted to the specifications of the tenant.

The new front of the former coffee shop and the new true divided light insulating glass window sash on the second and third floor are being built by The Woodstone Company of Westminster, to match the original design in 1932. Last week the pre-built 22-foot wide coffee shop entry was installed – minus the glass.

Glaziers from Woodstone spent the rest of the week adding the glass to the impressive entryway.

A Community Supported Restaurant group (CSR) will be formed to lease the restaurant and kitchen space and outfit it for commercial use.

“This will help to insure the use as a restaurant will continue into the future,” said Elliot, “without putting the high capital cost on the proprietor. The model came from Preservation Trust of Vermont who helped to establish Claire's in Hardwick.”

Fund raising for the CSR will begin in April. Community members interested in helping should email Tony@Woodstone.com or call 721-3214. Completion is planned for the summer of 2010.

Harvest Moon Catering, owned by Ryan and Sarah James, is planning on leasing the space to operate the kitchen and restaurant and will also help manage the adjacent event space in the dining room and sun porch, which will be available for parties, weddings, business meetings, conferences, and special events beginning this summer.

“The menu will consist of local and sustainable ingredients as much as possible,“ Sarah said. “Some dishes might be chilled farmstand fire roasted gazpacho or fresh pea and basil soup with lemon zest creme fraiche, Korean barbeque short ribs, grilled mussels with coconut green curry sauce, local cheese plate, and home made potato chips with smoked sea salt served with a creamy roasted onion dip.”

The restaurant will be open from Wednesday thru Monday from 5 to 10 p.m. for dinner, and the bar could be open as late as 2 a.m.

“We are hoping to open this June,” Sarah said, “though we have no actual opening date at this time.”

The owners are contemplating a mixed use of the second and third floor of the building in the future. Plans include hotel rooms and extended stay suites as well as business offices and meeting rooms. A 2011 completion is planned.

The exterior will be landscaped and a new entrance driveway will be built using access in cooperation with the town as agreed upon when the building was purchased. WDG will lease 30 parking spaces in the Bridge Street parking lot.

Over the past decade or more, several downtown Bellows Falls buildings have been given a new life, including the Exner Block on Canal Street, which was renovated to house several apartments with studio space for artists as well as several street level retail spaces, and the burned out Howard Block, which 60503 includes several retail spaces as well as a number of second and third floor

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News, Notes & Announcements for the Rockingham Region The First Baptist Church of Bellows Falls announces the observance of Holy Week.

Palm/Passion Sunday will be observed on March 28.

Worship with Blessing and Distribution of Palms at 10 a.m.

Thursday, April , Maundy Thursday White Supper with Communion will be celebrated at 6 p.m. in the Church dining Room.

Easter Sunrise Service will be celebrated on April 4, at 6:27 a.m. at the Gazebo in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Pastor Kaye Hult of the United Church will conduct the service. Empty Tomb Breakfast for participants at 7:15 a.m. in the Church Dining Room.

The Celebration of Easter Service will be held at 10 a.m. in the Sanctuary. Pastor Chuck Friedman will lead the Service.

Services are open to all so please join us in worship. The First Baptist Church of Bellows Falls, 9 Church Street, Bellows Falls.

For information call Pastor Chuck at 869-2364.

RFPL Annual Book Sale The Rockingham Free Public Library will hold its Annual Book Sale on Saturday, April 10 from 9 a.m.2 p.m. The sale will continue through the week during library hours, ending on Saturday, April 17.

This year ’s harvest includes an abundance of audio books, DVDs, music cassettes and CDs, magazines and of course, lots of books for adults, young adults and children.

There will be a preview for members of the Friends of the Library on Friday, April 9 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

To become a Friend of the Library, and for more information, call or stop by the library.

The library will be accepting donations prior to the sale. Books, audios, DVDs of all kinds are welcome except for Reader ’s Digest books, technical or textbooks, or musty books.

April Programs at Nature Museum Upcoming programs from the Nature Museum at Grafton include: April 8, Thursday, 4-6 p.m. Inquiry Field Investigation Workshop for Educators. Meet in Hanover, NH. Free. Pre-registration required. Judy Silverberg, Wildlife Education Supervisor of NH Fish and Game, will focus on how to use the outdoor environment to foster student learning of the scientific process. Teachers will receive a certificate of completion for two hours.

April 16, Friday, 7 p.m. Astronomy Night. Meet at Grafton Ponds, 783 Townshend Road. Museum and SoVerA members free; non-member adults $10, children 18 and under $5, family maximum $25. A 45-minute SoVerA (Southern Vermont Astronomy) talk will be followed by a star party, if weather permits.

April 17, Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Felting Frogs Workshop: Fiber Arts with Nicole Chazaud Telaar of Festive Fibers. Ages 9 and up. Meet at The Nature Museum, 186 Townshend Road, Grafton, VT. Members $15; non-members $25; $8 materials fee.

Pre-registration required. Minimum: 6; maximum:

8. Make cute, colorful frogs by wet-felting and handforming the shapes.

April 18, Sunday, 1-3 p.m. Fairy House Slide Show.

Meet at The Nature Museum, 186 Townshend Road, in Grafton. Members free; non-members $5. All ages welcome. Get inspired with slides from past fairy house tours here and elsewhere. Then, weather permitting, go outside and test some new designs.

VA Presents Jim Cooke’s Cranky Yankees On Friday, April 9 at 9:15 a.m., Vermont Academy presents Jim Cooke's Cranky Yankees: All Together, Now in the Horowitz Performing Arts Hall on its Saxtons River campus.

Cooke is best known for "Calvin Coolidge: More Than Two Words", a one-man show that has changed popular perceptions and challenged scholarly misperceptions of Vermont’s only elected president.

Cooke now combines this characterization with other one-man performances based mainly on New England characters, Daniel Webster and John Quincy Adams, joined by Ethan Allen, James Whitcomb Riley, Samuel Sewall, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Joseph P. Kennedy, to name but a few.

This lecture/performance features Jim?s cranky process of giving actuality to the past.

For more information, contact 869-6298.

SEVCA Financial Security Workshops Southeastern Vermont Community Action announces that it has space available in their upcoming free financial literacy workshops. The 8part workshop will begin on Wednesday, April 7 from 6 to 8 p.m., and continue each Wednesday night (except May 19) through June 2 at SEVCA at 91 Buck Drive in Westminster.

This eight part series helps participants discover how to use the money they have and take steps towards prosperity. Participants will learn to improve their relationship with money, increase cash flow and experience financial security. Topics covered include; saving, spending, credit, paying for college, purchasing a home, insurance and retirement.

Class discussions will include how to take steps to build healthy credit or resolve credit issues. This financial coaching will help participants develop strong financial habits.

Call to register at 722-4575, ext. 151, or email kperlberg@sevca.org.

Charles Andros Beekeeping Workshop Charles Andros, former NH/VT Apiary Inspector, will hold a beekeeping workshop from 1-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 24 at 18 MacLean Road, in Alstead, NH. Look for the "BEE" sign on the south side of Walpole Valley Road.

Topics of discussion will be early spring management: locating apiaries, equipment, handling bees, feeding syrup and supplements, making nuclei, reversing, and requeening. Bring a veil, if you have one, as we shall be opening some colonies. We'll be inside if it is a rainy day.

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BFUHS Fundraiser Spaghetti Dinner The Bellows Falls Union High School Class of 2011 is hosting a Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser at the Moose Family Center in Bellows Falls on Saturday, April 3 at 6 p.m.

Bring the whole family for $20, $8 adults, seniors and children are just $6.

Wool Fest & Free Wool Give-A-Way Vermont Shepherd farmers, David and Yesenia Major, have between 1500-2000 pounds of wool that they would love to give bags of away for free.

Major and Post Oil Solutions see an opportunity to perhaps strike a creative spark in the community for the development of a local industry. The Windham Farm Bureau is interested in doing whatever it can to support local agriculture.

Together, the three are co-sponsoring a Community Wool Fest & Free Wool Giveaway on Sunday, April 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m, at David and Yesenia's farm at 268 Patch Farm Road in Westminster. Admission is free, refreshments will be available, and Lerna (an area spinner) will be providing music on her hammered dulcimer.

Several fiber arts guests will showcase the possibilities of this wool.

United Church Holy Week Services The United Church of Bellows Falls will offer the following services of worship and events during Holy Week: Maundy Thursday, April 1, Potluck Supper and Worship combined at 6 p.m. in Fellowship Hall, accessed through the rear of the building. Please do not bring a dessert.

Good Friday, April 2, Worship at 5:15 p.m. Easter Sunday, April 4 Sunrise Service at Oak Hill Cemetery Gazebo, 6:27 a.m., Rev. Kaye Hult preaching.

Easter Breakfast at First Baptist Church, 9 Church Street, 7 a.m.

Easter Worship with Communion at The United Church, 10 a.m.

The United Church of Bellows Falls is located at 8 School Street, across the street from the Bellows Falls Middle School.

For more information, contact the Rev. Kaye Hult at 463-4323 or ucbf@sover.net.

Strategy Games at VSB Yu-Gi-Oh duels and Strategy Games at Village Square Booksellers in Bellows Falls on Saturday April 3, 1-4 p.m. Ages 7-adult, younger players learn from older players.

Players trade cards, then duel, with quarterly tournaments. Light refreshments are served.

Village Square Booksellers sells Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, Huntik, plastic sleeves, album pages, albums. Village Square Booksellers also sells Dungeons & Dragons books and miniatures.

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Ronnie Friedman, director of Westminster Cares since 2001, was named Westminster Citizen of the Year by the selectboard at Westminster ’s Town Meeting.

“We greatly appreciate the many years of dedicated service that Ronnie has given to Westminster Cares and to the senior citizens in town,” said Paul Harlow, chairman of the selectboard.

Before Friedman began working for Westminster Cares, she was nutrition director at the Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont for more than 25 years. In 1974, she moved from New York City to Westminster West, where she lives with her family.

“The award is actually for all the volunteers who spend lots of hours working for Westminster Cares – they are the ones who really make me look good,” Friedman said.

This is the fourth year that the Citizen of the Year Award has been given o u t . P re v i o u s h o n o re e s w e re S a m S t re e t e r, H a n k A n d e r s o n a n d Wa l t Jennison.

The selectboard asks for nominees for the award in the fall. Award winners receive a plaque, a clock and their names are engraved on a large plaque in the town hall.

Westminster Cares is a local organization that c re a t e s o p p o r t u n i t i e s f o r s e n i o r s a n d d i s a b l e d adults to live with independence and dignity in the community.

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GREEN MOUNTAIN OUTLOOK - 11

Compass Students Visit Ecuador Story and Photo Submitted by Beth White and Liz Jackson The Compass School junior class recently returned from the annual Global Connections Expedition, an international immersion experience for the whole 11th grade class. After traveling to Mexico the past three years, this year ’s trip involved a fourteen-day service-learning project in Ecuador—a land of majestic landscapes with pointed hills, lush green farmland, and high cheek boned, wonderful people with the biggest hearts.

Students experienced connections with a wide range of perspectives beyond their borders as they completed farm work, which included a 4 a.m. milking of Brown Swiss Cows, sheering llamas, haying, and making yogurt and cheese as well as numerous building projects within a variety of communities.

Living and working with indigenous families challenged each 11th grader to use their Spanish speaking skills and participate directly in day-to-day chores which ranged from quinoa and potato harvesting to preparing meals over an open fire. And the group learned from locals about the economic and environmental issues caused by globalization that impact lives in South America.

As the students adjust to traditional Vermont life, they cannot help but think how our amazing Ecuadorian adventure has forever changed their lives. Everyday at school students reminisce about Compass School students harvesting quinoa with their Ecuadorian host "mothers." making adobe tiles with Vicente, one of the rural village elders, bonding with elementary-aged capture the essence of what was experienced. They towards the end of March and welcome requests from children over art projects, tunneling through are eager to share their stories and learning with the schools or civic organizations who are interested in Ecuador ’s cavernous water systems guided by greater public. learning more about this valuable program to increase headlamp, and how the many other learning experiThey plan to begin presenting tales of our journey global understanding. ences have changed their lives.

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by Robert F. Smith – Editor Bottom Photo by Mary Moeykens – Outlook Staff Despite a few days where temperatures have dropped back down to winter levels, the spring season is certainly with us.

This past weekend area sugar houses, like Sweet Maple Alpacas in Westminster, shown here in the top two photos, opened their doors for some 500 visitors. Owners and operators Tom and Brenda Lawrence said that, while the alpacas were friendly and curious, there probably wouldn’t be too much sugaring activity on the weekend, as the season is pretty much over.

Despite the warm days and cold nights, Lawrence said, it was a poor sugaring season in this part of Vermont at least.

“The cold nights were too cold,” he said, “and the warm days were too warm. We got about half the syrup that we did last year, and some operations got even less than that.”

Another sign of spring are the kayakers that the Outlook’s Mary Moeykens spotted in the cold waters of the Black River in Cavendish. The water might be frigid, but spring run off and rains create ideal whitewater kayaking conditions for experienced paddlers.

In photos, from the top, just a few of the many alpacas at the Sweet Maple Alpacas farm in Westminster. Sweet Maples owner Tom Lawrence in his sugar house at the farm; and a kayaker braves the frigid waters of the Black River in Cavendish.

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Mar. 31-Apr. 6, 2010

Tennis Anyone? West River Tennis Is That And Much More

Story by Joe Milliken Sports Editor Photos courtesy of West River Tennis Located at Route 100 in South Londonderry and under new management, West River Tennis has been transformed into a new and improved tennis and fitness center, conveniently serving the Okemo, Stratton and Bromley ski areas.

Greg and Beata Hasaj took over the long-time tennis facility in the spring of 2009, completely renovating the entire building and then re-opening last November.

"We want to create a social hub atmosphere at West River Tennis for our

members and for people visiting in the area," Greg Hasaj stated in a recent interview.

"We want this to be the kind of establishment where people can get together for a fun workout or a relaxing rest in the shade on a summer afternoon."

Some of the many wonderful renovations include new common areas, viewing lounge and locker rooms, as well as two, indoor tennis courts complete with T8 energy-efficient lighting and two, outdoor har-tru surfaced courts to accommodate matches of all levels including private lessons, clinics, club tournaments and

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West River Tennis also offers fitness classes, personal training, community events, private parties, junior programs and summer tennis camps.

"We are also excited to offer 'cardio tennis’ classes with our tennis pro Billy," Greg added.

“This class combines aerobic exercise with tennis. It's a great way to exercise as well as also improving your tennis skills. " To learn more about West River Tennis and the many programs they have to offer, call 8243688 or visit online at westrivertennis.com.

In left photo, the West River Tennis facility in South Londonderry, and above, new owners Beata and Greg Hasaj.

News, & Notes for the Londonderry Region celebration will begin at 7 a.m. at the Peru Town Wild Apple Tree Pruning Workshop Center. A potluck breakfast will follow.

On Saturday, April 3 the Londonderry Conservation Commission will be holding a Wild Apple Tree Pruning Workshop on the Town's Sharp property in Londonderry. We will meet at the Londonderry Historical Society building (Custer Sharp House) on Middletown Road just off Route 11 at 8 a.m.

This will be a morning workshop and will illustrate pruning after release on apple trees that were overgrown by taller trees. This will be a rain or shine event and all are welcome.

For more information, contact Aaron Hurst at 885-8888.

Meeting on Underage Drinking A town hall meeting on underage drinking prevention has been planned by The Collaborative Thursday, April 29 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at MEMS. The focus will be on the value of parents’ discussing the issue with their children.

SAMHSA reports that children and teens are less likely to abuse alcohol if parents are involved in their children’s lives, make and enforce clear rules, and are positive role models.

For additional information, contact Tara Shannon at 362-3770 or e-mail tara@thecollaborative.us.

Peru Church Easter Services The Peru Congregational Church invites you to join us at our Easter morning services. Our sunrise

The second service will be held at 9:30 at the church and will feature special music by trumpeter Garry Sharon and guitarist Bob Ray. The liturgy will begin with a presentation by our Spirit Dancers. Pastor Margaret will preside.

For further information, call 379-1438.

Janeway Named Susan G. Komen Affiliate’s Executive Director On behalf of the organization’s entire board, Deborah Peretz, President of the Vermont-New Hampshire Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is pleased to welcome Anne Janeway as the Affiliate’s first Executive Director.

For more information, visit www.vtnhkomen.org or call 362-2733.

Holy Week Services at First Baptist Holy Week services in Londonderry will be on Thursday, April 1 at 7 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in South Londonderry. This is the Maundy Thursday Service and will be led by First Baptist's new ministers, Chris and Kathleen Blackey.

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SCOTT J. MORGAN'S "WORLD VIEW" PAINTINGS ON VIEW AT BURDICK'S

Local Artist Profile Profile by Joe Milliken - Editor Photos courtesy of Scott J. Morgan Currently on display through April 25, Southern Vermont artist Scott J. Morgan is exhibiting his new series of paintings titled “World View", at the restaurant of L. A. Burdick's in Walpole, NH.

Above, the Morgan original Over Our Heads, 2007, oil on canvas

Originally from New York, the artist lived in Florida for over two decades before moving to Seattle. After 20 years in the Pacific Northwest, Morgan now resides in Chester with his wife, Laura and daughter Fiona.

His many travels throughout America and around the world- China, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean - clearly influence his art through his broad and bold color schemes.

"I met my wife in Seattle and loved it there, but wanted to raise our daughter in a small town environment and around more family.

“Laura's family owns the Hugging Bear Inn and Teddy Bear Shoppe in Chester and we've always enjoyed the community and sharing of resources, so we have created that Above, “Sienna Dreamin, I & II' taken from the corporate collection of a law office in Orlando, Fl. intuitive approach requiring a versatile medium such here.

“Plus I am really enjoying the local art scene, the as oils, providing not only a flexibility to explore support and comraderie are not often easily accessed various ideas before arriving at the final design, but also building layers of texture and color. in a larger, urban environment."

"I've done a lot of networking since moving to the Morgan's other experiences as both a landscape architect and musician, have also especially area, which is critical for an artist's success," Morgan influenced his latest works, which depict "impres- said.

"I met a wonderful Bellows Falls artist named Ailyn sions of life and landscape" through both narrative and lyrical qualities; sweeping gestures, flowing lines Hoey who has been very instrumental in introducing of color, bold compositions and spacious landscapes. me to the arts in New England, as well as putting me "As a landscape architect spanning nearly 30 years, in touch with Great River Arts Institute also in it has certainly had a major influence on my painting," Bellows Falls, where I rented space.

"I met Chris (Sherwin of Sherwin Art Glass) early Morgan said in a recent interview.

"I learned how to draft, draw, sketch and do on and we became friends, he has also become one of perspective drawings, but also how to 'design', to my greatest supporters. He is not only a pillar of the work with line, space, form, proportion, while also local art scene, but has allowed me to carve out a space in his studio to set up shop. The comraderie and developing my own style."

His "World View" are created in the tradition of support has been great."

Morgan's "World View" works will be on view at the short stories or passages of music, designed to evoke dynamic forms that are interesting and accessible, Restaurant at L. A. Burdicks, located at 47 Main Street created with his preferred medium, non-toxic in historic Walpole, NH., through April 25.

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To register contact Cathy Bagwell Marsh, WPTC Director of Community Services, at 824-8167 ext. 105 or email cbmarsh@westonplayhouse.org. Additional information and registration forms are available at www.westonplayhouse.org.

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A longtime friend of the Weston Playhouse, Lloyd will offer insights to the play and will star in the production on the Weston stage beginning in August.

Lloyd will be a special guest in a morning lecture session with WPTC Producing Director Steve Stettler, who will direct the company’s Fall 2010 production of Death of a Salesman. The workshop will also feature morning discussions on the creation, development and conceptualization of the play with Rhode Island College assistant professor Dr. Susan C.W. Abbotson, past president of the Arthur Miller Society.

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A Sound Review Joe’s Joe’s take take on on New New Music Music

Review by Joe Milliken - Editor For any fan of Charlie Farren, the new Retrospective Live At The Regent Theatre DVD/CD package is truly a gem, as many of his past musical friends gathered together on this night to celebrate Charlie's rich musical legacy.

This included the members of Balloon, Beatlejuice and of course, Farrenheit. Also along for the ride were special guests Candy O'Terry and Alizon Lissance.

Charlie begins this night though, as a stand alone just Charlie and his guitar - for "Nobody's Somebody," co-written with old friend Barry Goudreau of Boston

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Special guest Alizon Lissance then joined Charlie for a little ambiance, creating an old-world atmosphere with her subtle accordion accents on "Old & Young", the title track of Charlie's 2006 solo release.

Next up to join Farren were his old friends from Beatlejuice - a great band featuring David Mitchell on guitar, Steve Baker on keyboards, Joe Holaday on bass and John Muzzy (“Muzz”) on drums - to perform "Love Street", (for which Mitchell’s guitar solo is smoking) "Deja Blue" and the down-and-bluesy "Whose Going To Carry You Home?".

From there it was back to the solo entity for an acoustic version (“and less angry than the original”) of the old Balloon song "Afraid To Fly,” Charlie next invited on stage, said Balloon, his first significant band which enjoyed regional success and radio air play in Boston, featuring Ken Kalayjian on guitar, Joe Black on bass and Bob Sutton on drums.

Balloon proceeded to plow through the powerful "Too Far Gone" and "Lies, Lies, Lies," before contrasting into the ballad "Woman In My Life," which Farren also recorded for his aforementioned Old & Young solo release.

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Mar. 31-Apr. 6, 2010 together as if they never stopped, while Kalayjian unleashes a couple of blistering guitar solos.

Charlie was next joined by the lovely Boston singer and radio personality Candy O'Terry, whom he had teamed up with last year to record a remake of his solo song "You Are The Only One," for which the duo enjoyed success on the national, adult contemporary charts. Indeed, their duet was smooth as silk.

Next up, Farrenheit, the 80's entity that garnered Farren's most commercial success, featuring the thunderous David Hull on bass and Muzz on drums.

The garage-rocking trio ripped through "Signal In The Noise", "Bad Habit", "Lost In Loveland" (for which Hull’s bass lines are amazing!) and their biggest hit "Fool In Love", which cracked the charts back in the day.

The Farrenheit set really got the house jumping and primed as Balloon rejoined Charlie, Hull and Muzz on stage for the rockin' grand finale of "Listen To The Rock" and "East Coast, West Coast" from Charlie and Hull’s early 80’s stint with The Joe Perry Project.

All complete with a rumbling, double-low end from Hull and Black, another great Kalayjian solo and of course, front man Farren as the smooth-cool ring leader.

Charlie would finally come full circle for his encore, just he and his guitar once again, for the heart-felt "You And Me", rounding out a many textured performance that touched upon every aspect of the FMan’s musical legacy.

And what makes this package even better? After you have enjoyed the DVD, you can also take the accompanying CD in the car as to enjoy the show during your travels. Now that is cool!

Indeed, Charlie Farren is one of those unique artists that, although surely developing quite a loyal following for himself over the years, I still can’t help but feel never got the recognition he truly deserves.

A fantastic song writer, vocalist, guitarist and front man that has stood the test of time, all for the love of his craft.

Southern Vermont Arts & Entertainment In Brief Drawing and Perspective Workshop Robert O’Brien AWS NWS will give a three hour intensive workshop at the United Church at 8 School Street in Bellows Falls on Monday April 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., sponsored by the Saxtons River Art Guild, which will focus on drawing with an emphasis on perspective.

Students will learn one point, parallel and three point perspective. All abilities are welcome.

This class offers a great foundation for those who wish to continue with their study of art. To register call (603) 835-2387

Traditional Mbina Concert in Guilford Direct from Zimbabwe, musical virtuoso Musekiwa Chingodza will be at Wendy Redlinger ’s in Guildford on Friday, April 2 at 7 p.m. performing pieces on the traditional instrument of his Shona culture, the mbira. Commonly known as a "thumb piano", the mbira's complex polyrhythmic and polyphonic patterns have a profound effect on listeners.

This is a rare opportunity to hear this beautiful, haunting music played by a Zimbabwean master.

There will be a potluck at 6 p.m. followed by the concert at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door

Walpole Church Community Chorus The Walpole Community Chorus formed by the Walpole Congregational Church Choir with an additional 17 singers from the area will perform John Rutter's "Requiem", a well known and loved choral work in seven movements. on Good Friday evening, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. at a public concert, under the direction of Gladys Johnsen.

Gladys Johnsen, Ph.D is retired as Professor Emeritus of Music from Keene State College. She was the founder and conductor of the Youth Chorus at Keene State College for ten years.

The concert will take place at the First Congregational Church of Walpole on the common.

The building is wheelchair accessible. In lieu of an admission charge, donations will be collected to benefit the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

For further information call 603-756-9221.

The Nature Museum Is Seeking “Pale Blue Dot” Art For Exhibit The Nature Museum is looking for works of art to exhibit during its “Pale Blue Dot” event (See below for more information about the event.) The theme of this year ’s event is “Endings and Origins”. We are looking to display several pieces of art that are based on this theme. The artwork will be part of a

series of exhibits that are also based on this theme.

Please contact Betsy Stacey at The Nature Museum if you have a piece you would like to enter. Entries must be submitted by April 15th. Please call 802843-2111 if you have questions, otherwise email betsy@nature-museum.org with a photo of your work, contact information and a short paragraph about how you feel the artwork relates to the “Endings and Origins” theme.

Laredo Signs New Contract with VSO The Vermont Symphony Orchestra has announced that music director, internationally acclaimed violinist Jaime Laredo, will continue to serve as artistic leader of the orchestra though the 2011-2012 season. Laredo has led Vermont’s professional orchestra as musical director since 2000.

Laredo, a resident of Guilford, is known as one of the greatest violinists and chamber musicians in the world. Over the years, he has drawn worldrenowned guest soloists to perform in Vermont, including André Watts, Leon Fleisher, Lang Lang and Peter Serkin. Laredo and his wife, cellist Sharon Robinson, have celebrated more than 30 years with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. He is also a highly respected conductor and teacher and serves on the faculty of the Indiana University School of Music.

RAMP Hosts Spring Artists Town Meeting Creators, artists, artisans, local food growers and supporters, it is time for RAMP to host the Spring Artists Town Meeting on Thursday, April 1 from 68 p.m.

The evening will include a potluck dinner.

Agenda to catch up, eat well and discuss the Vermont State Craft's Memorial Day Open Studio Weekend on May 29, 30 and how we can participate.

We will host the meeting at the Exner Blk, 9 Canal Street in downtown Bellows Falls.

RAMP will provide beverages and chili.

Please RSVP to 463-3252 or ramp@sover.net, put in subject line “ATM April 1.”

Author Walt Schnabel at VSB Join Village Square Booksellers in Bellows Falls on Saturday, April 3 from 2-4 p.m. in welcoming Dublin, NH author Walt Schnabel who will be signing his new mystery.

Set in New Hampshire, the book features Brian Barrett, a man intent on saving his marriage and escaping his romance with the bottle. When Brian intervenes in an altercation, he realizes that the quaint town of Barlow has it's own secrets - some worth killing to keep.

Call 463-9404 for book and event reservations or check out the book at www.villagesquarebooks.com/event/waltschnabel-blood-club-43-2pm.

African-American Experience in Vermont On Tuesday, April 6 at 2 p.m. at the Nolin Murray Center next to St. Mary's Catholic Church on Pleasant Street in Springfield, Cyndy Bittinger will present the next Osher Lifelong Learning program titled, "The African American Experience in Vermont: Reaching for Equal Citizenship."

She will share many "firsts" for African Americans which occurred in Vermont.

Alexander Twilight was the first African American to earn a bachelor's degree at an American college and was the first African American to be elected to public office as a state legislator.

She will tell of Lucy and Abijah Prince of Guilford.

Lucy is acknowledged as the author of the first poem by an African American woman in the late 1700s.

11th Roots Festival Lineup & Tickets This year ’s 11th Annual Roots on the River Music Festival is June 10-13, and includes headliner Canadian Fred Eaglesmith and his band of course, and area favorites Mary Gauthier and Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams. The event this year will kick off with a concert at the Bellows Falls Opera House on Thursday night featuring what has been termed by many as the world’s best Cajun bands, BeauSoleil.

With over a dozen Grammy nominations thus far, BeauSoleil won this prestigious award in 1997 for Best Traditional Folk album, and again last year in the Zydeco/Cajun category.

On Friday, a free concert at the Bellows Falls Farmers’ Market will feature The Travelers. Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles will entertain the crowd at the Everyday Inn, as will Joanne Shaw Taylor, warming up the audience for the first appearance of the weekend by Eaglesmith and his band, a Friday night tradition.

On Saturday, the lineup includes a return performance of the popular Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams. The Ginn Sisters, the Roger Marin Band, Audrey Auld, and Vermont’s own Starline Rhythm Boys, help fill out the offerings before Eaglesmith’s band takes the stage.

Mary Gauthier will return to the festival once again joining Eaglesmith in the all-acoustic show at the historic Rockingham Meeting House on Sunday, the event that concludes the musical weekend.

Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased on line at www.vermontfestivalsllc.com or at 463-9595.

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This is Your Artery, & This is Your Artery Clogged with Fat

Story and Photos by Robert F. Smith – Editor Despite being one of the most medically advanced nations on the planet, the United States remains one of the unhealthiest.

Why? There are two overwhelming factors affecting the health of Americans – we eat too much of the wrong foods, and we don’t exercise nearly enough. The result?

Seventy-five percent of Americans are either overweight or obese, and that includes our children.

We are becoming an obese nation at an ever younger age, and that leads to serious health problems. Obesity is a huge factor in diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, cancer, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, abdominal hernias, varicose veins, bladder disease, respiratory problems and liver malfunction.

The huge uproar surrounding the recent healthcare legislation passed by Congress centered around the conflicting scenarios of just how much a national healthcare program is going to cost.

But there is no controversy around the fact that three simple steps would slash the costs of healthcare in this country to very manageable levels: 1. Get people to eat a healthy diet.

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In the left photo, a visusal aid shows what a pound of body fat looks like, at top, and how, through a poor diet and lack of exercise, plaque builds up on the walls of your arteries, leading to heart disease and stroke. Above, volunteer Larisa Demos, right, works preparing a healthy meal with a couple of the students.

3. Get people to exercise strenuously on a melted into a big glob. That’s what you’re carrying around. daily or several times a week basis.

The students were shown some of the effects of the As we are all well aware, while eating right and exercising are the simple parts, it’s the “getting people extra fat from poor eating habits, most notably what bad fats do to the body’s arteries, clogging them with plaque to do it” that is complicated.

In Bellows Falls, the University of Vermont Extension that builds up on the sides of the arteries, leading to high is working on at least one aspect of that through the blood pressure, stroke and heart attacks.

Chambers noted that one slice of traditional Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.

EFNEP’s Jennifer Chambers, its educator for Windham pepperoni pizza has a staggering 18 grams of unhealthy and Windsor counties, is teaching a free weekly cooking fat, and that even a healthy salad can be a diet disaster program for young people at the Our Place Drop in if it’s covered in dressing with a lot of unhealthy fat in it. Making small, healthy choices like eating frozen Center.

Each week several young people from 11 to 14 come yogurt instead of ice cream, plain pizza instead of to Our Place after school where they not only get pepperoni, eating a regular burger instead of a Big Mac, education about healthy cooking, snacks and planning can dramatically reduce the number of calories and the meals, but they also get to do hands-on work in the amount of fat a person eats every day.

The students then created their own whole wheat kitchen preparing the meal they’ve been talking about, and they bring home a bag of healthy foods to practice pizzas with healthy toppings, and made a salad and their own dressing for it based on healthy oils and what they’ve learned at home.

In a recent class, the students learned about the effects vinegar. Assisting the students with the cooking were of unhealthy fats on their bodies, and were shown what Our Place chef Matt Gowell and volunteer Larisa a mere extra pound of fat looks like on their bodies - Demos.

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Nature Museum’s Renewed Mission: Educational Outreach

Story and Cover Photo by Robert F. Smith – Editor There are a lot of indications that science education in the US is in trouble, and the Nature Museum at Grafton is renewing its efforts to do something about it. For instance: • Non-scientists on the Texas Board of Education rewrote the state’s science standards last year to fit their religious and political views and rejected the standards originally proposed by Texan scientists and educators.

•There is essentially no controversy in scientific literature about global climate change, and there is a consensus that recent global warming is mostly attributable to human activity. Still, a 2009 poll by the Pew Research Center published last July found that "while 84 percent of scientists say the earth is getting warmer because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels, just 49 percent of the public agrees."

The poll also found that 76 percent of scientists feel that a major problem is that junk science is often given as much attention in the media as is credible science.

This situation has moved the Nature Museum at Grafton to reconsider it’s educational work in over 40 area towns.

“The Museum has excelled at delivering natural history education to children and the broader public for over 20 years,” said Lillian Willis, Executive Director, “but in 20 years things have changed, and the museum feels compelled to address the rapid pace of change that is now occurring on planet Earth.”

While still focusing on natural history education, “the Museum will complement that core skill with increased programming for adults and teenagers to

The new gray treefrog logo for the Nature Museum at Grafton. address environmental change and its effect on homo sapiens, and the implications for lifestyle choices that can promote the health of the biosphere.”

To emphasize its expanded focus, the museum has created a new logo, a gray treefrog, which is indigenous to the area and a key indicator species of environmental change.

The museum is also launching a new signature event, The Pale Blue Dot, on Memorial Day weekend, May 28 and 29. The Pale Blue Dot is a phrase coined by the late astronomer Carl Sagan upon seeing a photograph of the Earth taken by Voyager One from a distance of 3.7 billion miles.

The Pale Blue Dot event will be a celebration of the earth featuring speakers, workshops, exhibits, fun hands-on activities, art, music and entertainment with an exceptional finale.

“It is an acknowledged fact that America needs more scientists and that science education has been

underemphasized and underfunded,” Willis said.

“For years The Nature Museum has been helping to fill science needs in schools. Our lives depend upon the Earth’s resources. So we need to understand how the Earth and all its complex systems work, our relation to all parts of it, and new ways to work with nature to mutual advantage and a sustainable future.

“That means expanding earth science education to older students and adults. Making it be a part of their lives, rather than a course at school; creating an environmentally literate citizenry that is knowledgeable, personally motivated, and empowered to act to protect the world we love.”

To attract older students the museum is setting up opportunities where scientists will come in, discuss what they do in their profession, and show students techniques that will encourage citizen science – such as identification of the Woolly Adelgid and other insects harmful to forests.

"We are especially excited right now to be starting a number of initiatives that will engage people even more in the natural sciences,” said Betsy Stacey, Director of Education at the museum. “We are planning more of a focus on hands-on, skill-building workshops and classes. For instance, this spring we are offering programs related to raising chickens, keeping bees, garden design for water conservation, and felt-making.”

Check www.nature-museum.org or call 843-2111 for information on the Pale Blue Dot, programs, ways to volunteer, and opportunities to sponsor activities.

News, Notes, Announcements & Events for the Brattleboro Area Sports Card Collector’s Club Events Presentation on William Henry Jackson The Tri Town Coin, Postcard and Sports Card Collector's Club announce two free upcoming events.

The group will hold its scholarship fund-raising committee Collectible Egg Hunt at Brattleboro High School on Saturday, April 3 at 10 a.m.

This is followed by an auction of over $2000 worth of coins, cards, antiques and other interesting items.

This scholarship effort is in memory of Mark Bennett who passed away in March 2009.

The event begins at 9 a.m. with a club business meeting during the auction preview.

The next meeting and show is Sunday, April 11 at the Keene, NH Best Western Sov. Hotel. for details, call 297-1274 or e-mail Pepsijoseph@yahoo.com.

Dave Usher will present a slide presentation and talk on the life and work of William Henry Jackson on Thursday, April 8 at 7 p.m. at the Vermont Center for Photography at 49 Flat Street in Brattleboro.

Jackson spent part of his childhood in Rutland before he left to photograph the fantastic landscape of the of the American west. Many people in the East did not even believe the descriptions of western landmarks circulating at the time. It was Jackson's photographs of Yellowstone that helped convince the U.S. Congress to make it the first National Park in March 1872.

For details, call 251-6051 or visit www.vcphoto.org.

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Individuals can register and we will try to match you up to form teams.

Teams cost $100 and individuals are $35 and help raise funds for the Brattleboro Arts Intiative.

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Get In The Game A View On Sports By Editor Joe Milliken

NCAA Tournament "Yes, March Madness" continues to be an understatement in the Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament, as the upsets continue to pile up.

At the East Regional at Syracuse, the numberfive seeded West Virginia Mountaineers knocked off another number-one seed, beating Kentucky, 73-66, to reach their first Final Four since the legendary Jerry West pulled it off back in 1959.

With the Kentucky loss, Duke remains the only number-one seeded team still standing.

Led by coach Bob Huggins, who returns to his alma mater after having brought Cincinnati to a Final Four appearance, West Virginia played a flawless game in beating the number-two overall seeded Wildcats.

--------------------------In another upset, but then again, are they really upsets at this point, the number-five seeded Butler knocked off number-two seeded Kansas State in the West Regional Final, sending

the Bulldogs to their first-ever Final Four appearance.

Butler had the lead for nearly the entire game, but a late, K-State run tied the game late, but the Bulldogs didn't fold, scoring the games' last eight points to become the first true, mid-major school to reach the Final Four since 2006's George Mason improbable run.

Gordon Hayward was a monster for the Bulldogs with 22 points, while Shelvin Mack added 16 points and six rebounds in the win.

--------------------------In the Midwest regional, which was full of upsets (Number-one seeded Kansas, gone.

Number-two seeded Ohio State, also gone.

Number-three seeded Georgetown, also gone) number-five seeded Michigan State outlasted number-six seeded Tennessee, 70-69, to advance to the Final Four.

Michigan State's Raymar Morgan hit a free throw with less than two seconds left to clinch the win.

However, Michigan State is certainly no surprise, as coach Tom Izzo has led the Spartans to 13 straight NCAA Tournament appearances, seven Elite Eight appearances, five Final Fours, two championship-game appearances and one national championship in 2000. I

believe coach Izzo knows what he is doing.

--------------------------In the South Regional, Duke remains the only number-one seed left standing after beating number-three seed Baylor to reach the Final Four.

Ironic that many brackets had Duke as the least-likely number-one seed to reach the Final Four (this sports editor included), but here they are once again, led by perhaps the best coach in college hoops today in Coach K. The man can coach millionaire NBA players to Olympic gold, or the Duke-ies to yet another Final Four appearance.

Paul Pierce Power In the NBA, I was recently watching the Celtics tangle with Tim Duncan and the Spurs, and after watching a particularly gutsy move to the paint by Paul Pierce, I was for some reason reminded how dangerously close the Celtics family came to losing their captain.

It was the night of September 25, 2000 when Pierce was nearly stabbed to death at the Boston dance establishment called Buzz Club, even with an entourage of friends around him that night. That is how quickly something bad can happen.

Pierce was stabbed 11 times in the face, neck and back and also had a

beer bottle broken over his head.

Doctors said that one of the stab wounds was a sliver away from killing the all-star Celtics legend. (yes, Paul Pierce is already a legend!)

Thank God Pierce turned out to be okay and you know the rest of the story, eight all-star appearances, one NBA championship and one Finals MVP, however something else stood out to me while watching this game.

Pierce was young at the time of his brush with death, however he was also smart enough to learn from it and realized how lucky he was.

For since that “night in the club,” I cannot recall one negative incident involving Pierce, unless you want to count that playoff meltdown he pulled against the Pacers in 2003. (we won't get into details) But at least that was something related to the court and a game situation.

No, I am talking about staying out of trouble with the law, being a good citizen, setting a good example for the kids and also working in the community and with his own charities.

I simply do not think Pierce gets enough credit for his talents on the court, or his many talents off the court. He is the true Celtics leader.

Red Sox Nation News Spring Training is

finally over and the Red Sox are ready to come north and start the season at Fenway Park… against the Yankees?

Can't get more over the top than that can you?

I am not so sure I like the rivals facing each other in the first game of the season… you gotta give the two baseball power-houses a chance to get loosened up a bit before they beat the crap out of each other for another season don’t you?

The concerns for the Red Sox heading into the season have been clearly noted by many.

How will Boston score enough runs and where is the home run production going to come from?

I don't necessarily think the Sox will have trouble scoring runs, it just might not be via the long ball.

The Sox have plenty of guys at the top of the order who can hit, get on base and score runs in Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia, Victor Martinez, Kevin Yukilis, David Ortiz and JD Drew, it will be a matter of the bottom half of the order being able to chip in enough.

Newcomers Adrian Beltre , Mike Cameron and even Jeremy Hermida should be able to each reach doublefigures in home runs if they stay healthy, and scrappy Marco Scutaro is capable of raking some havoc at the bottom of

the order and is a great shortstop.

Another interesting aspect of the 2010 edition of the Sox will potentially be their bench. It is beginning to look like Mike Lowell is going nowhere, and if he can stay healthy as a bench player, that is one heck of a right hander pinch hitter and defensive replacement late in games. Lowell can also be that right handed-hitting DH when Big Papi "needs a break."

Jason Varitek is also big. Granted he can't play full time anymore with Victor Martinez in town, but name a better back up catcher than V-tek? Heck, name any backup catcher for that matter!

Of course the strength of this team, and the aspect that will decide how far this team goes is the pitching staff and more specifically, the starting rotation.

If healthy, this is the best and deepest rotation in baseball with at least six legitimate starting pitchers.

The bullpen doesn't appear to be as deep this season, as compared to the previous two, but Papelbon remains the anchor and along with Okajima and Delcarmen, the young, flamethrowing Daniel Bard will be expected to step up his performance to the next level.

Especially if they are considering him as the future closer in case Papelbon flies the coop.

Mt. Holly's Farrow Captures Revolution Tour Halfpipe Title Story by Joe Milliken-Sports Editor Photo by Paul Larochelle Mount Holly and former Okemo Mountain Snowboarder Benjamin Farrow, 18, recently won the U. S. Revolution Tour halfpipe competition, held at Mount Hood Meadows Ski Resort in Oregon.

Okemo's superpipe has evolved into one of the top training grounds for many a successful winter athlete, as well as hosting a number of top competitions.

The Ross Powers Superpipe, named for the Olympic Gold medalist and Resort Snowboard Embassador, the Powers Superpipe is recognized as one of the best half pipes on the entire East coast.

After having fallen

during his first run, Farrow bounced back

strong in his second run to overcome the competi-

tion and wind up at the top of the podium,

beating out J.D. Dennis of Bend, OR and Cody Tyler

Above, Mt. Holly-native and former Okemo Mountain Resort Snowboarder Benjamin Farrow wins Revolution Tour title event.

Weselis of Park City, UT. "I actually had to take my second run, go back and calm down a little," Farrow told reporters after the competition. "In the second run, I had to give it something I could really land.”

It has to be especially satisfying for Farrow, who last year finished in second place behind Tyler Troy at Sugarbush.

Before capturing this title, Farrow's best finish was second place in the Open Class men's Slopestyle at the 2009 USASA National Championships.

According to the Swatch TTR World Snowboard Tour web site, Farrlow, who has been riding since the age of six and competing since 12, is currently ranked #79 in the world.

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