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Rotarians hope to see green this Christmas.

Local Army General deployed for combat exercises.

CSC’s Chadburn is named to New England First Team.

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Merchants Row is decked out for the holidays!

RUTLAND — No matter what your family’s tradition, Christmas is a time for gifts as well as lights, action, and cameras.

Thanks to holiday photographer Debby DuBay of Limoges Antiques, located at 62 Merchants Row in downtown Rutland, we have lots of colorful lights to help grace this week’s Rutland Tribune.

The center of Rutland looks like a storybook image of olde London Town during this holiday

See DOWNTOWN, page 6

A variety of businesses along Merchants Row in downtown Rutland “stole the show” as part of this year’s festive Holly Days Lights. The window decorations are reminiscent of the Christmas holiday in old London, England, taken from the pages of Victorian author Charles Dickens.

Photos courtesy of Debby DuBay/Limoges Antiques

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Religious Services RUTLAND All Saints Anglican Church An orthodox Anglo-Catholic Christian Community. Mass & Liturgy offered every Sunday at 4:00p.m. Childcare available. Handicap Accessible. Christian Education. 42 Woodstock Ave., Rutland (Services at Messiah Lutheran Church) 802-282-8098.

Email: AllCelticStaintsRutland@comcast.net Alliance Community Fellowship Howe Center, Sunday Worship 10:30a.m.

Phone: 773-3613 Calvary Bible 2 Meadow Lane & Grove Street, 775-0358.

Sunday Worship Service 9:30a.m. & 11:00a.m. www.cbcvt.org Christ the King 66 South Mail St. - Saturday Mass 5:15p.m., Sunday Masses 7:30, 9:30 & 11a.m.

Church of the Nazarene 144 Woodstock Ave., Pastor Gary Blowers 483-6153.

Sunday School for all ages at 9:30a.m. Morning Worship at 10:30a.m., Evening Worship at 6:00p.m. & Wednesday Prayer at 7:00p.m., Children’s Church available during Worship Service.

Church of Christ 67 Dorr Dr., Sunday Worship 10:30a.m.

The Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints North Strewsbury Rd., 773-8346. Sacrament 10a.m.

Church of the Redeemer Cheeney Hill Center, Cedar Ave., Sunday Service 10a.m.

First Baptist Church 81 Center St., 773-8010 - The Rev. Mark E. Heiner, Pastor. Sunday worship 10:30a.m., Sunday school 9:00a.m.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Hillside Rd. Saturday Worship 5:30 p.m., Sunday Worship 10:30a.m.

Grace Congregational United Church of Christ - 8 Court St., 775-4301.

Sunday Chapel Service 8:30a.m., Worship 10a.m.

Green Mountain Baptist Church 50 Barrett Hill Rd. , 747-7712.

Sunday Worship 11a.m., Evening service 6p.m.

Green Mountain Missionary Baptist Church - 98 Killington Ave., 775-1482 • Sunday Worship 11a.m. & 6p.m.

Immaculate Heart of Mary - Lincoln Ave. Saturday Mass 4:30p.m., Sunday Mass 8 & 10:15a.m.

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses Gleason Rd. - Public Meeting 10a.m.

Messiah Lutheran Church 42 Woodstock Ave., 775-0231. Sunday Worship 10a.m.

New Hope in Christ Fellowship 15 Spellman Terrace, 773-2725. Sunday Worship 10:15a.m.

Pentacostals of Rutland County Corner of Rt. 4 and Depot Lane, 747-0727.

Evangelistic Service 6p.m.

Roadside Chapel Assembly of God Town Line Rd., 775-5805. Sunday Worship 10:25a.m.

Rutland Jewish Center 96 Grove St., 773-3455. Fri. Shabbat Service 7:30p.m., Sat. Shabbat Service 9:30a.m.

Salvation Army - 22 Wales St. Sunday Worship 11a.m., Praise Service 1:30 p.m.

Seventh-Day Adventist 158 Stratton Rd., 775-3178. Saturday Worship 11a.m.

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church 8 Cottage St. - Sunday Service 10a.m.

St. Peter Church Convent Ave. - Saturday Mass 5:15p.m., Sunday Masses 7:30 and 11:30a.m.

Trinity Episcopal Church 85 West St., 775-4368. Sunday Eucharist 8, 9 & 10a.m., Wed. 12:05p.m., Thurs. 9a.m., Morning Prayer Mon.-Sat. at 8:45a.m.

True Vine Church of God 78 Meadow St., 775-8880 or 438-4443. Sunday Worship 10:30a.m. • Training for Reigning, Wednesdays at 7p.m. Nursery available during Sun. & Wed. services.

J.A.M. Sessions for teens bi-weekly Fridays at 7p.m.

Women’s Bible Study Tuesdays at 10:30a.m.

Unitarian Universalist Church 117 West St., 775-0850. Sunday Services 10:30a.m.

Rev. Erica Baron United Methodist Church 71 Williams St., 773-2460. Sunday Service in the Chapel 8 and 10a.m.

United Pentecostal Church Corner of Rt. 4, Depot Lane, 773-4255. Sunday Services 9:30a.m. and 6p.m., Evangelical Service 5p.m.

Wellspring of Life Christian Center 18 Chaplin Ave., 773-5991. Sunday Worship 11a.m.

BRANDON Brandon Congregational Church Rt. 7 Sunday Worship 10a.m.

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Brandon Baptist Church, Corner of Rt. 7 & Rt. 73W (Champlain St.) Brandon, VT 802-247-6770. Sunday Services: 10a.m. Adult Bible Study, Sunday School ages 5 & up, Nursery provided ages 4 & under. Worship Service 11a.m. *Lords supper observed on the 1st Sunday of each month. *Pot luck luncheon 3rd Sunday of each month. Wednesdays 6:30p.m., Adult prayer & Bible study, Youth groups for ages 5 and up Grace Episcopal Church Rt. 73, Forestdale February-April: 9am, Holy Eucharist; 9a.m. Sunday Morning Program for children preschool and older.

247-6759, The Rev. Margaret (Margo) Fletcher, Priest-inPartnership LifeBridge Christian Church - 141 Mulcahy Drive, 247-LIFE (5433). Sunday Worship 9a.m., www.lifebridgevt.com, LifeGroups meet weekly (call for times and locations) Living Water Assembly of God 76 North Street (Route 53), Office Phone: 247-4542.

Email: LivingWaterAssembly@gmail.com. Website: www.LivingWaterAOG.org. Sunday Service 10a.m.

Wednesday Service 7p.m. Youth Meeting (For Teens) Saturday 7p.m.

St. Mary’s Parish - 38 Carver St., 247-6351, Saturday Mass 4p.m., Sunday Mass 9:30a.m.

St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church - Rt. 7, Brandon Village. February-April services will be held at Grace Church, Rt. 73 Forestdale: 9a.m., Holy Eucharist; 9a.m. Sunday Morning Program for children preschool and older. 247-6759, The Rev. Margaret (Margo) Fletcher, Priest-in-Partnership United Methodist Church Main St., 247-6524. Sunday Worship 10a.m.

CASTLETON Castleton Federated Church Rt. 4A - 468-5725. Sunday Worship 10:30a.m.

Church of Christ Bible study & services Sunday 10:00a.m. All are cordially welcome. Contact Jim Jackson, 683-9748 or 273-3379.

Faith Community Church Mechanic St., 468-2521. Sunday Worship 10:45a.m.

Fellowship Bible Church Rt. 30 North, 468-5122. Sunday Worship 10:45a.m. & 6p.m.

Hydeville Baptist Church - Hydeville, Rt. 4A Sunday Worship 9:30a.m. • 265-4047.

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Saturday Mass 4p.m., Sunday 8:30a.m.

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church - Main St. Sunday Worship 10:45a.m. third Sunday of the month.

CHITTENDEN Church of the Wildwood United Methodist Holden Rd., 483-2909.

Sunday Service 10:30a.m.

Mt. Carmel Community Church - South Chittenden Town Hall, 775-4832. Sun. Worship 5:30p.m.

St. Robert Bellarmine Roman Catholic Church - Saturday Mass 4p.m.

Wesleyan Church North Chittenden, 483-6696.

Sunday Worship 10a.m.

CLARENDON Clarendon Congregational Church Middle Rd. 773-5436. Sunday Worship 9:30a.m.

Reformed Bible Church Clarendon Springs, 483-6975. Sunday Worship 9:30a.m.

FAIR HAVEN First Baptist Church South Park Place, Sunday Worship 11a.m.

First Congregational Church Rt. 22A Sunday Worship 10a.m.

Our Lady of Seven Dolors 10 Washington St. Saturday Mass 5:15p.m., Sunday 8 & 9a.m.

St. Luke’s - St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Sunday Worship 10:45a.m.

United Methodist Church West St., Sun. Service 8:30a.m.

FORESTDALE Forestdale Wesleyan Church Rt. 73 Sunday Worship 11a.m.

St. Thomas & Grace Episcopal Church Rt. 7, Brandon village: 8 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite 1 (traditional language). 9:30 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite 2 (contemporary language), with music. “Sunday Morning Program” for children preschool and older (during school year). Telephone: 247-6759, The Rev. Margaret (Margo) Fletcher, Priest-in-Partnership Grace Church Rt. 73, Forestdale - part of St. Thomas & Grace Episcopal Church: May-July services held at St. Thomas, Brandon village (corner of Rt. 7 and Prospect): a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite 1 (traditional language.) 9:30 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite 2 (contemporary language), with music. “Sunday Morning Program” for children preshcool and older (during shcool year.) Telephone: 247-6759, The Rev. Margaret (Margo) Fletcher, Priest-in-Partnership.

Living Water Assembly of God 76 North Street (Route 53), Office Phone: 247-4542.

Email: LivingWaterAssembly@gmail.com. Website: www.LivingWaterAOG.org. Sunday Service 10a.m.

Wednesday Service 7p.m. Youth Meeting (For Teens) Saturday 7p.m.

HUBBARDTON Hubbardton Congregational Church Sunday Worship 10a.m. • 273-3303.

East Hubbardton Baptist Church The Battle Abbey, 483-6266 Worship Hour 10:30a.m.

IRA Ira Baptist Church Rt. 133, 235-2239.

Worship 11a.m. & 6p.m.

LEICESTER Community Church of the Nazarene 39 Windy Knoll Lane • 9:30a.m. Worship Service, 11:00 a.m. Bible School, 6:00p.m. Evening Service.

Wed. Evening 7:00p.m. Dare to care and Prayer.

3rd Sat. of the month (Sept.-May) 8:00a.m. Men’s breakfast St. Agnes’ Parish - Leicester Whiting Rd, 247-6351, Sunday Mass 8a.m.

MENDON Mendon Community Church Rt. 4 East, Rev. Ronald Sherwin, 459-2070. Worship 9:30a.m., Sunday School 11:00a.m.

PAWLET Pawlet Community Church 325-3716.

Sunday Worship 9:30a.m.

St. Francis Xavier Cabrini Church West Pawlet. Sunday Mass 9:30a.m.

The United Church of West Pawlet 645-0767. Sunday Worship 10a.m.

PITTSFORD Pittsford Congregational Church Rt. 7, 483-6408. Worship 10:15a.m.

St. Alphonsus Church Sunday Mass 9a.m.

POULTNEY Christian Science Society 56 York St., 287-2052. Service 10a.m.

St. David’s Anglican Church Meet at Young at Heart Senior Center on Furnace St., 6451962. 1st Sun. of every month, Holy Eucharist 9:30a.m.

Poultney United Methodist Church Main St., 287-5710. Worship 10:00a.m.

St. Raphael Church Main St. Saturday Mass 4p.m., Sunday Mass 10a.m.

Sovereign Redeemer Assembly 287-4435 • Sunday Worship 10a.m.

Trinity Episcopal Church Church St., 2872252.

Sunday Holy Eucharist 10:45a.m.

United Baptist Church On the Green, East Poultney. 287-5811, 287-5577. Sunday Worship 10a.m.

Welsh Presbyterian Church Sunday Worship 10a.m.

PROCTOR St. Dominic Catholic Church 45 South St. Sunday Mass 9:15a.m.

St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church Gibbs St. Sunday Worship 9a.m.

Union Church of Proctor - Church St., Sun. Worship 10a.m.

SHREWSBURY Shrewsbury Community Church Sun. Service 10:30a.m.

SUDBURY Sudbury Congregational Church On the Green, Rt. 30, 623-7295 Open May 30-Oct. 10, for Worship (No winter services) & Sun. School 10:30a.m.

WALLINGFORD East Wallingford Baptist Church Rt. 140, 259-2831. Worship 11a.m.

First Baptist Church -School St., 446-2020.

Worship 11a.m.

First Congregational Church 446-2817.

Worship 10a.m.

St. Patrick’s Church Sat. Mass 5p.m., Sun. 10:30a.m.

Society of Friends (Quaker) Rotary Bldg., Rt. 7 Sunday meeting for worship 10a.m.

South Wallingford Union Congregational Church Sunday Worship 9a.m.

WEST RUTLAND First Church of Christ, Scientist 71 Marble St., Sunday School & Service 10a.m., Wednesday Evening Service 7:30p.m.

St. Bridget Church Pleasant & Church Streets Saturday Mass 5p.m., Sunday 9a.m.

St. Stanislaus Kostka Church Barnes & Main Streets, Saturday Mass 4:30p.m., Sunday 9a.m.

United Church of West Rutland Chapel St., Worship 10a.m.

Throughout our lives, people and animals often become important to us and make a great impact. There are many ways to remember or honor these special individuals. One way is to make a donation in their name to Rutland County Humane Society (RCHS).

For animal lovers, a terrific holiday or birthday gift might be a donation to RCHS. A donation is a great way to remember a favorite pet or family member who meant a lot to you. Joyous occasions, such as birthdays and weddings, are other reasons to donate.

When someone asks you what you want as a gift, suggest a donation to RCHS. So next time you're thinking about the "purrfect" gift for a loved one, please remember the homeless animals at RCHS. Your donation can really make a difference. If you have any questions about donating to RCHS please call us at 483-9171 or visit our website at www.rchsvt.org.

Bear 1 year old. Neutered Male. St. Bernard mix.

I am a loveable lug. I enjoy affection and I am happy to meet new people. All in all, if you are looking for a happy-golucky dog to be an enthusiastic companion in your adventures, please visit me. P. S. I know “sit”, “shake”, and “down” already.

Chloe 9 month old. Spayed Female. Rottweiler mix.

I am a sweet and affectionate puppy who is ready for a loving family ready to make a lifetime commitment. I should fit well into most households—I will be on the big side when all is said and done.

I know sit and shake.

Dempsey 1.5 year old. Neutered Male. Domestic Short Hair Black and White.

I’m a loving, affectionate and all around good kitty. When you come to visit I will be the first to say hi when you enter my room.

I like to play all the silly games that cats do and I absolutely love cat nip.

Happy 3 year old. Neutered Male. Domestic Long Hair Orange and White.

I was abandoned at the shelter on November 26, yes that’s right, Thanksgiving Day. My friends here at shelter say I am sweet guy. I am very playful and affectionate and I need a nice warm lap where I can take a nap.

The humane society is located at 765 Stevens Road, Pittsford,VT Hours of Operation: Wed. - Sun. 12 noon to 5 p.m.

Closed Monday and Tuesday. For more information call 802-483-6700 or visit www.rchsvt.org

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Rotarians hope to see green this Christmas Rotary’s largest fundraiser of the year

By Angela DeBlasio Bright and early a few weeks ago, volunteers of the Rutland City Rotary helped unload approximately 1,000 trees for the holiday season that has once again arrived.

The fresh evergreen trees are on sale to the public at the corner of West and Main streets in Rutland.

Rutland City Rotary is selling trees this holiday season in order to continue to do good work for the community at large and following one of their guiding principles, ”to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.”

Whinn Thomas and Tom

Donahue explained that this is the largest fundraiser of the year. The proceeds help with various Rotarian community projects throughout the year. Last year, some of the money went to agencies and organizations like Rutland Area Visiting Nurses Association (RAVNAH), Rutland County Humane Society and the Killington Music Festival to name a few.

This year they Rotary had to obtain trees from Canada because their Vermont suppliers were unable to keep up with the demand. However, next year they are hoping to return to the Vermont roots.

Donahue and Thomas also discussed the generosity that they have encountered already this holiday season with individuals giving

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Finding fellowship L

oomdog, K-Man, Wiser, Plow, Sambo, Golden, the Bear, and even a guy called Hubba Bubba.

No, this is not the list of characters in a Hollywood movie about a casino heist—although if anyone could confound a casino, these guys could. Said nicknamed men were part of my college cross-country team.

It seemed that everyone had a nickname. At best, it was a variation of your last name. At worst—well, it could, and did, get a lot worse.

Every Labor Day weekend, those that are able return to our old running ground and proceed to run a little and hang out a lot.

Of all the reunions I get invited to, this is the one I want to attend the most.

Those guys were and still are great friends. In part we can pick up where we left off, even after over a decade apart. Yet, in many ways, we are so very different from what we once were. After all these years, why would I still feel close to those guys?

When we ran together, day after day for four years, our collective goal was to get faster. Real simple. Fellowship is more than friendship in that fellowship has a purpose.

That shared purpose to get faster was enough to form

lasting fellowship.

In our places of worship, are we purposeful enough, focused enough, and passionate enough about the glory of God, that despite our differences, we have deep and lasting fellowship? Our agenda in church is God’s glory. As we surrender to that purpose over all else, fellowship occurs.

If you were to move away from your church, would you seek to be reunited with them, if only for a weekend because of the fellowship bonds in glorifying Christ? My alumni reunion weekend is but a shadow of what God intends our fellowship as Christians to be. Philippians 2:2 says “Then make my (Paul’s) joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.”

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can tell you that the differences between teammates were night and day, yet the purpose set before us gave us unity and fellowship. If that can be the experience of the world, how much more ought it be the expectation and experience in the Church?

Seek fellowship within the church that has the common goal to glorify Christ while “running” On His Course.

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Rev. Erron Hubbell is pastor of Alliance Community fellowship Church located in the Howe center in Rutland.

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Life, death and peanuts

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unt Laura, born in 1910, died Thanksgiving night 2009.

Pretty good run of years.

Laura lived to be 99; my dad lived to be 93. Paying Aunt Laura my last respects, I couldn’t help having the selfish thought that, if I live to my potential longevity, I’m not yet even half-way dead.

Dad and Laura died in the same nursing home, one I’ve been visiting for five years.

I’ll visit less now that Aunt Laura is gone, but I’ll still go to play guitar and chat with the other residents from time to time, especially a few I’ve come to befriend like Dottie, Aunt Laura’s roommate.

Dottie is feisty in a Warren Beatty, Mae West, Madonna type way. Most everything you say to her she can take and turn back at you as a sexy quip. She makes me laugh, and she makes the nurses blush. I don’t think I have to tell you it takes a bit to make most elder care nurses blush. Believe me, I’ve had fun trying.

They say deaths come in threes. After having spent five years regularly visiting a nursing home, I’ve become able to recognize certain signs that someone is nearing their end. During a recent late afternoon visit, I recognized a few of the signs in Dottie.

The night I speak of, Dottie and I chatted for a good long while, but unlike most times when Dottie makes eye contact when we visit, she kept her head straight, her eyes staring at the ceiling, as she searched for each breath more intently.

Dottie wasn’t saying much, though she did mention her kids, as always, and how they’d brought her from Florida so they could watch over her. “I want to go back,” Dotty said, separating each word with a breath or two.

There was a dish of peanuts on her bedside that I was picking at while we visited. I wanted to leave to go eat dinner, but the more time passed, the more I felt I should stay, I felt it might be the last I’d see of Dottie. As we chatted and I nibbled Dottie’s dish of nuts, the minutes turned to hours, and I finally felt I needed to leave.

I bent over a still, staring straight ahead Dottie, kissed her forehead like I always do, and said, “Dottie, I gotta go.

I’ll drop by again.”

Dottie didn’t answer.

As I turned to leave, I noticed I’d eaten all of Dottie’s nuts. “Dotty, I’ve eaten all of your peanuts, I’ll be right back, I’m going to the kitchen to refill your bowl.”

I hadn’t made another step when Dottie’s breathing rate increased while she lifted her right arm ever so slightly from the bed and pointed it toward me. She seemed just about up against her last bit of strength when she said, “Oh don’t worry hun, I just suck the chocolate out of them anyway.”

Rusty DeWees tours Vermont and Northern New York with his act “The Logger.” His column appears weekly. He can be reached at rustyd@pshift.com. Listen for The Logger, Rusty DeWees, Thursdays at 7:40 on the Big Station, 98.9 WOKO or visit his website at www.thelogger.com

WEDNESDAY December 16, 2009

Ed and Fed: an empirical evaluation

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f all the non-constitutional governance empires in the U.S. today, two are of particular interest to this scribe.

One is public education, particularly in Vermont, where the K-12 establishment has managed over the last generation to create once-unimaginable costs producing no significant student achievement gains; the other is the U.S. Federal Reserve system which has managed, during its 95-year life-span since 1913, to evaporate 95 percent of the purchasing power of the dollar.

Both empires have skillfully maneuvered to evade empirical evaluation of their actual performance. Quite unlike your quintessential private-sector widget sales-and-service guy— who lives or dies, economically, from the end-user evaluation of his product and/or service—both Ed and Fed are pretty much immune to competition.

Those parents, who choose a non-public alternative for educating their children, must pay for both the public system they don’t want as well as the private one they do. Those who would compete with the Fed, in fiat money creation, will be dealt with by a platoon of Secret Service agents sporting dark suits and sunglasses and tasked to terminate all arbitrary, non-value based paper money creation—except when their client, the Fed, does it. But surprisingly, these days, Ed and Fed are on the defensive.

In Vermont, it’s the combination of a down economy and a concurrent rise in the state property tax for schools (even Keynesians know better than to raise taxes during an earnings-dip) as the background to the educrat-created phenomenon of costs growing mostly because of staffing increases (even as enrollments shrink, which is causing the current angst.

So far, parents have seemed (at least to me) strangely unconcerned with their school denying responsibility for producing any particular level of proficiency in the students it’s paid to teach.

Nationally, I’d guess it’s the rise (more like a quantitative explosion, where the word ‘trillions’ has replaced mere ‘billions’ in the casual language of politicians) which has generated a new grassroots awareness of national debt and deficit levels—plus a surprising new grassroots opposition to what the Fed, egged on by Congressional and Executive branch bosses, has historically been doing. There have been lots of end the Fed signs visible at those conservative-populist tea parties so disdainfully dismissed by the blindered liberal-left majority.

Neither Ed nor Fed will willingly address the empirical evi-

dence of the (in)effectiveness of its respective missions. In a recent Rutland newspaper story, superintendent Mary Moran wrote glowingly of “Our excellent public schools” without mention of the actual student proficiency rates: according to NAEP test scores, Vermont (of which Rutland is a not-unusual part), students are posting scores in the low 200s out of 500—meaning that well over half of vermont’s students can’t make proficient which means they can’t function at grade level. This is excellent?

Similarly for the Fed, which won’t go near its 95-year-old track record, the empirically observed long-term pattern of diluting currency value out of 95 percent of its purchasing power, so that debt incurred now can be cheaply repaid later with inflation-devalued dollars by government, which is of course the unspoken motivation for Fed economists who clearly knew better in past years and know better now.

The present Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said blithely to CNN on Nov 28 that “America needs a strong, non-political, and independent central bank [that’s his Fed and his job, of course] with the tools to promote financial stability and to help steer our economy to recovery without inflation.”

Stability, eh?

Just how and why Vermont educators can straight-facedly declare that their empire has produced “achievement excellence” and Federal Reserve economists can similarly assert that their empire has produced “currency stability” in stark contrast to all the empirical evidence against them, I know not. I do know, that during my years at a 30-student-averageclass-size probably non-excellent junior high school, we learned, almost as an English side-bar, that “empire” and “empirical” come from different Romance-language word roots. Don’t quiz your recent grad on that. Likewise, the history shows that, in the 124 years of no-Fed monetary management before 1913, private banking caused a currency devaluation of only 12%. It takes a lot of chutzpah for the ed and Fed folks to declare otherwise, and to assert that they’ve earned and deserve continuing citizen loyalty, trust, and support. Etymology clue: chutzpah comes from non-Romance-language roots.

Retired Vermont school architect Martin Harris watches the fur fly in the north from his fortress of solitude in Tennessee.

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as this ever happened to you? You finish filling your cart with the week’s groceries, head to the checkout lane and place your items on the conveyor belt. The cashier announces the total and you hand over a nice stack of coupons. Then, the cashier pauses. You hear the words, “I don’t think we take coupons from the Internet.” The cashier hands them back to you and you ponder what to do next.

While most of my shopping trips run smoothly, occasionally even your Coupon Queen encounters a cashier issue or two.

So what do we shoppers do?

One of our biggest tools to deal with checkout problems is the store’s coupon policy. Most stores have a written policy that states exactly how they handle coupons presented in the checkout lane. Many stores post the policies on their Web sites and others have a copy at the customer service counter in the store itself. What’s in a coupon policy? Information that shoppers can use to better plan our shopping trips! Coupon policies state specifics such as, We accept Internet coupons, We accept expired coupons or We accept competitors’ coupons.

Everything we need to know about what kinds of coupons our stores should accept is spelled out for us right in the store’s policy.

Armed with this knowledge, well-informed shoppers know exactly what coupons our stores should accept! The most commonly heard issue with cashiers does involve the store’s acceptance of printable Internet coupons. If you’re told that the store does not accept them, ask to see a copy of the store’s coupon policy. Most grocery stores and supermarkets do accept Internet coupons that are legitimately printed and are not photocopies.

Unfortunately, due to the rise in coupon fraud, stores are getting more stringent about the kinds of Internet coupons that they will accept. Most legitimate Internet coupons contain a unique ID or barcode identifier and several other key features that stores use to ascertain a coupon’s validity. And any time the Coupon Information Corporation, a nonprofit organization that monitors coupon fraud, identifies a new, counterfeit coupon, it sends stores an alert to watch for coupons known to be fraudulent or counterfeit.

However, when a fraud alert goes out, sometimes it has a ripple effect. Our stores learn a new counterfeit coupon has been spotted in circulation. Instead of homing in on the specific coupon mentioned in the alert, some cashiers may find it easier not to accept any Internet coupons. This not only hurts shoppers, it hurts stores, too, since the large number of Internet coupons are legitimate and perfectly fine for the store to accept. Marketers reimburse stores for the full value of every coupon shoppers redeem, whether the coupon ran in the newspaper, appeared in newspaper inserts, was found on a product package or was printed legitimately from the Internet.

Would you like another piece of the cashier/coupon policy puzzle? I’ve heard from many cashiers that they get very little training on their store’s coupon policy. This puts couponsavvy shoppers in an unusual situation. It’s possible that you may be more familiar with a store’s coupon policy than the cashier is. If you find yourself in this situation, never force the

issue. Simply ask the cashier to check the store’s policy with the manager. You can politely let the cashier know that you’ve read it to make sure that all of the coupons you’re presenting are acceptable.

A cashier issue most likely stems from a little confusion that isn’t the cashier’s fault at

By Jill Cataldo all. A cashier who questions your coupons may simply be trying to protect the store and do what they believe is right.

We’ll continue to discuss commonly heard cashier coupon issues in the weeks ahead.

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© CTW Features Jill Cataldo, a coupon workshop instructor, writer and mother of three, never passes up a good deal. Learn more about couponing at her Web site, www.super-couponing.com. E-mail your own couponing victories and questions to jill@ctwfeatures.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Helping Rutlanders in need To the editor: The Self Advocates Becoming Empowered –Rutland, a group of adults living with developmental disabilities, are adopting a family for Christmas to give presents to. Our group meets monthly to learn how to speak up for our needs, to learn how to be active committee members, and to learn how to set goals and take actions to reach them.

We have a training that helps the community learn about accepting people with disabilities, it’s called Disability Awareness training, call us to schedule one for your meeting/group. Mainly the group wants to get out the message that people with disabilities are just like people without disabilities, such that they too have hopes, dreams and feelings and contribute to the community.

We adopted a family with three children and two parents, have bought hats, coats, mittens, clothes, toys, food and wrapped them all. We delivered them to the connection point—the Boys and Girls Club.

Lisa S. Lynch, Executive Director ARC Rutland Area Rutland

Palin book To the Editor: We enjoyed the article about the Sarah Palin children's book. As a a result, Santa Claus will be bringing this educational book to our kids this Christmas!

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Power back on for 12,800 customers RUTLAND – Overnight crews made good progress Dec. 10, restoring service to 12,800 customers, as CVPS prepares to flood Addison and Bennington counties with fresh line, tree and contract crews this morning.

“Crews made steady progress through the night as winds died down, but the storm did tremendous damage in particular areas of Addison County right around dark,” CVPS spokeswoman Christine Rivers said. “We have 14 contract crews from Connecticut, as well as other Vermont contract crews and line crews from Green Mountain Power and Burlington Electric assisting CVPS crews in the restoration effort.”

On Dec. 10, 4,200 customers were without power. CVPS expected to have power restored to most customers in Bennington County and Rutland County by Dec. 11. Customers in the Lincoln, East Middlebury and Bristol area lost power until Dec. 11. While most customers should have had power restored by Dec. 10, there were some scattered outages carrying into Dec. 11.

More than 17,000 CVPS customers are estimated to have lost power after a large winter storm with high winds wreaked havoc on New England last week. Bennington, Rutland and Addison counties were hardest hit, as high winds brought down trees and power lines along the western slopes of the Green Mountains.

“We have at least 20 broken poles across the state,” said Manager of Field Operations Geno Balestra. “We have some major damage in East Middebury and Lincoln – large trees came down everywhere. We had crews working all day and night clearing trees and limbs from 10 sections of line with five broken poles in Lincoln. Restoration efforts are also being slowed by roads that still may be blocked off.”

High winds also brought down trees and caused a large transmission pole to burn up in a swamp in Pownal, affecting about 1,000 customers. Crews worked to replace that pole and reattach lines.

CVPS offered several safety tips for coping with the outages: •Treat any downed line as if it is live. Report the line to your local utility and fire department, stay at least 30 feet away from the line, and keep children and pets away as well.

•If using a generator, read and follow the owner ’s manual before starting the generator. Never operate a generator inside any structure or near a structure. Use a transfer switch to ensure electricity is not accidentally fed onto a line where line crews must work.

•Keep freezers and refrigerators closed as much as possible to prevent food spoilage.

•If power goes out, turn off all electrical appliances except one light so you’ll know when service returns. Then, turn equipment back on slowly.

Police, eyewitnesses speak during Rutland murder trial RUTLAND — At Jonathan Bruno’s murder trial in Rutland this week, the jury heard from former Castleton Policeman Aron McNeil. The former police officer told jurors about threats Bruno allegedly made to victim John Baptie.

The trial’s prosecuting attorney alleges that Bruno murdered Baptie in a parking lot in downtown Rutland Nov. 1, 2007.

Joining McNeil on the stand were also several Rutland City law enforcement officers.

A witness, Christopher Heck, told the jury that Bruno, a friend at the time, told him he planned to kill Baptie. The conversation, which took place on the telephone, occurred just a week prior to Baptie’s violent death outside downtown Rutland’s Wal-Mart store.

Other eyewitnesses also claimed they saw the fatal blow that severed Baptie's artery.

The trial will continue.

Pico to donate 100% of lift ticket proceeds to U.W. Pico Mountain announced a partnership with United Way of Rutland County for the weekend of Dec. 18-20. United Way will receive 100 percent of all donations made.

If skiers donate $20 or more to United Way you will receive a free Pico Express card, a $26 value. Express card holders receive $10 to $18 savings on lift tickets every day of the season, and will enjoy direct-to-lift access - no waiting at the ticket window.

Donations will be accepted at the Pico Mountain ticket office throughout the weekend.

Lift hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Friday, and 8 AM to 4 PM weekends and holidays. The express card will help United Way achieve its $560,000 2009 campaign goal.

HOW DO YOU SPELL J-O-Y? Christ the King School students in grades 2 and 4 practice for the Dec. 17 musical titled, "The Christmas County Spelling Bee". The play will be performed at 1:15 p.m.and 6:30 p.m, in the school's Moroney Hall basement theater. The private Roman Catholic elementary and middle school is located at 60. S. Main Street in Rutland. The shows are free and open to the public.

Photo courtesy of Kathi Scaralia

U.S. Army Nat’l Guard general deployed to Japan Brig. Gen. McCoy lives in Poultney POULTNEY — Vermont Brig. Gen. Matthew A. McCoy of Poultney joined fellow soldiers from the N.Y. Army National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division and supporting commands deployed here to northern Japan for the annual bilateral command post training exercise Yama Sakura alongside partners from the Japan Ground Self Defense Forces.

The JGSDF Northern Army hosts the exercise, which includes representatives of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Army Reserve and Army National Guard units from more than a dozen states besides New York.

McCoy, is assigned to the 42nd Infantry Division Headquarters. McCoy lives in Poultney and is the deputy commander of the operation.

"This exercise proves the strength of the long-standing relationship between the U.S. and Japan," said Lt. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, commanding general, U.S. Army, Pacific.

"In order to further improve our bilateral response capabilities," said Lt. Gen. Takeshi Sakai, commanding general of the JGSDF Northern Army, "I request that you all make coordination between our forces and make bold, daring attempts to meet new challenges without fear of mistakes."

"We will prepare ourselves for future threats and enhance our relationship, as well as gain a greater understanding of civil-military operations," said McCoy. More than 5,700 personnel will participate in the exercise.

Yama Sakura, which means "Mountain Cherry Blossom," is an annual joint and combined full-spectrum training exercise. Supporting the 42nd Infantry Division in Japan are approximately 120 Soldiers with an additional 50 Soldiers deployed to Fort Lewis, Wash. for exercise support.

Since its start in 1982, Yama Sakura has focused on the re-

ALL ABOARD!

This festive photo collage was made using images taken at last week’s Santa Train event in downtown Rutland.

The event was sponsored by a local radio station. The train made the trip from Rutland to the North Pole and back in just a few minutes. This event was sold-out with several hundred families eagerly in line. Youngsters and their parents boarded the train and were welcomed by Santa's elves. All visitors were treated to hot chocolate and cookies during the trip. Live Christmas caroling added to the warmth of the season.

Photo art by Shawn Pemrick

Vermont Brig. Gen. Matthew A. McCoy of Poultney joined fellow soldiers from the N.Y. Army National Guard deployed to Japan for an exercise alongside Japan forces.The 42nd Division Commander, Brig. Gen. Steven N. Wickstrom (left), and Lt. Gen. Hiroshi Yamamoto, commander of the 7th Division, Japan Ground Defense Forces, pose with a Red Sox T-shirt Wickstrom had just given Yamamoto.

Photo by Staff Sgt. Raymond Drumsta

finement of bilateral planning, coordination, and interoperability.

Members of the unit were expected to return to their homes to New York and Vermont Dec. 15.

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BRISTOL BRISTOL — The First Baptist Church of Bristol announces that its doors will be open each Thursday starting in November from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for anyone in the community that would like to use their sanctuary to pray.It was noted that most churches’ doors are locked during the week in the daytime and we felt that there might be a need for a quiet place to pray in the community.

CHARLOTTE CHARLOTTE — American Red Cross Blood Drive hosted by the Charlotte Senior Center on Ferry Road from 2:00 - 7:00 p.m. Please consider giving the ultimate gift during the holiday season in a comfortable atmosphere with good snacks.

425-6345 for more info.

FAIR HAVEN HAVEN — The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at Appletree Apartments at 9:30 a.m. There is a suggested donation of $2.00 for blood pressure screenings and $5.00 for foot care. For more information, please call 775-0568.

RUTLAND — Big Bad VooDoo Daddy’s Wild & Swingin Holiday Party at the Paramount Theatre, 8 p.m., 30 Center St., $24.50 - $34.50, call 775-0903.

WEST RUTLAND — West Rutland Town Hall 6:30 pm. Marble Valley Players' open auditions for their March 2010 production of Noel Coward's comedy Blithe Spirit. Roles for 2 men, 5 women. No prep needed.

Info call director Martin Bones at 3535932.

Friday, December 18

BRANDON — The Vermont Symphony Orchestra performs concert at Congregational Church, 7:30 p.m., adults $18, seniors and students $144, for tickets call 802-2470050.

MIDDLEBUR Y — TaeKwon Do MIDDLEBURY K.I.C.K.S. Promotional Testing and Demonstration.Watch students show off their skills which includes board breaking and self defense as they test for their new ranks at Middlebury Fitness. Kids ages 3 - 8 testing at 4:15 p.m. and Kids 9 - adults testing at 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. For more information please contact Master Kellie Thomas at 877-1022 or at kbdanyow@myfairpoint.net.

MIDDLEB URY — Joe URY Levesque's Big Band Christmas Ball.

Joe Levesque's awesome big band returns to Town Hall Theater for a holiday dance at 7:00 pm Tickets, $15/$5 children 12 & under, are available through the THT Box Office by calling 802-382-9222, online at www.townhalltheater.org, or in person on Merchants Row, Middlebury (Mon-Sat, noon-5 pm).

RUTLAND — Volunteer Recognition and Open House! All are welcome to visit the Boys & Girls Club of Rutland, Merchants Row, as we recognize our volunteers from summer

and fall of 2009 from 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Dinner, awards ceremony, and club tours. See why the BGCRC is Rutland County's positive place for kids and meet the many volunteers who contribute to our quality programs!

Call 747-4944 for info.

SOUTH BURLINGT ON — The BURLINGTON Logger’s Holiday Variety Show at the South Burlington High School on Dec 11,12,18,19 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 20th at 7 p.m. Tickets $20. Call 888-8838 or check out thelogger.com.

VERGENNES — Friday Night Flicks at the Vergennes Opera House at 7:30 pm. "Scrooge" (1970). This musical presentation of Charles Dickens classic "Christmas Carol" stars Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge and with guest appearances by famed British actors Alec Guinness and Dame Edith Evans.

Color. 113 minutes. Rated G. Tickets $5 each or $15 family of four available at the door.

Saturday, December 19

MIDDLEB URY URY — Les Contes D'Hoffman Live in HD from the Metropolitan Opera, at Town Hall Theater. With superstar Anna Netrebko.

Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher directing and maestro James Levine in the pit. Broadcast live on 12/19 at 1 pm. Tickets, $22, are available through the THT Box Office by calling 802-382-9222, online at www.townhalltheater.org, or in person on Merchants Row, Middlebury (Mon-Sat, noon-5 pm) SOUTH BURLINGT ON — The BURLINGTON Logger’s Holiday Variety Show at the South Burlington High School on Dec 11,12,18,19 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 20th

at 7 p.m. Tickets $20. Call 888-8838 or check out thelogger.com.

VERGENNES — "The Bluegrass Gospel Project" - six of the Northeast's finest bluegrass, country and folk musicians at 7:30 p.m. Their music is solidly based in the American bluegrass tradition while paying homage to the beautiful and inspirational message of gospel lyrics.Their concerts include classic and original tunes carefully selected to showcase the band’s textured vocal harmonies and instrumental virtuosity. Tickets available through the Flynn Regional Box Office at flynntix.org or 86FLYNN, Classic Stitching on Main Street or at the Vergennes Opera House. Adults $15, seniors and students $12.50 and children under 12 are free.

Sunday, December 20

BRIDPORT BRIDPORT — The sermon topic at Hope Community Fellowship is “Silent Night ... Sleep in Heavenly Peace.” If you find yourself never satisfied, wondering if peace could ever exist in your life … join us this Christmas and consider the peace offered in Jesus Christ. Pastor Jeff Kauffman will lead us to look at the necessity of

“Christmas” and the evidence that allows us to trust Christ to bring peace to our lives. Hope Community Fellowship meets in the Community Hall at 52 Middle Road. The Christmas service begins at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call 759-2922 or email hcfpastor@yahoo.com.

BRISTOL BRISTOL — Musical Christmas Play at 4 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Bristol invites you to the children’s musical Christmas play, ‘Bethlehem Project’ by C. Barny Robertson & Carter Robertson. Enjoy the Christmas songs with a different beat, a talking donkey, an innkeeper who makes you laugh and the peace that a tiny baby brings to Bethlehem. The play will be followed with Christmas Caroling around Bristol and refreshments. Admission fee is a donation to the local Food Shelf.

BRISTOL BRISTOL — Bristol Federated Church -The Sunday School will present their Christmas Pageant at Morning Worship followed by a Soup Luncheon 10:15 a.m. For additional information contact Pastor Bill Elwell at 453-2321 or website at www.bristolfederatedchurch.org.

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Downtown businesses were encouraged to embellish their buildings and premises using lights and other holiday decorations.

And of special brilliance are the nostalgic and creative displays along Merchants Row—the heart of Rutland’s classic shopping district.

The decor was encouraged as part of the Downtown Rutland Partnership’s Holly Days Lights contest.

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The Rutland Catholic School Board and Mt. St. Joseph Acadmy officials did the right thing recently when they decided to petition the Vermont Principal’s Association to move their football team from Division I to Division III. I know this decision has upset some folks; I understand the proud tradition and history that MSJ has built playing in Division I. But times have changed: For such a small school to compete against much larger ones successfully, it must recruit players and the present economic situation makes such a task difficult, if not impossible.

When recruitment was possible, the best players in the state could be brought to Rutland to play for MSJ, thus putting them on an even keel with the larger schools, who by nature of their size had a larger pool of potential players from which to choose their teams.

Remove recruitment from the equation you are left with a school that has 86 students trying to compete against those who have two to three times that number in each grade. That is asking an awful lot from anyone, let alone a group of young boys.

Despite being beaten badly week after week, the players on this past year’s MSJ team never quit. They kept working hard during the week, and played hard on the weekend.

Not an easy thing to do, but it serves as a testament to their character, and the pride they feel being part of the Mounty tradition.

The MSJ community owes these young men. They are obligated to provide them a fair playing field. To put them up against a level of competition that challenges them, yet also gives them a decent chance of winning football games if they put in the proper work.

Without a strong recruitment program that is in a division with schools that match there size. That is exactly what this request will provide if approved and adopted, and like I stated at the start of this column, those making it should

be applauded.

To those who still oppose this move I can only ask that you stop thinking of yourselves and start thinking of the athletes who are the Mounties of today. If you can truly do that I think you too will see this is the right thing to do.

Raiders Smoke Lakers Taylor Porrier score four goals, and Taylor Boot added two more as the Rutland Raiders rolled over the Colchester Lakers 8-1 in high school hockey last Saturday in Rutland. tephen Hamilton and Nico Roy added single goals to round out the Raiders scoring. In the net Andrew Boyle made 22 saves for Rutland, who improved to 2-0-1 with the win. Andrew Boyle Matt Porter scored the lone Lakers goal.

The MSJ Mounties were in action last Saturday too, though not nearly as successful. Jacob Audet-Ricker registered a hat trick and an assist to lead the Northfield Marauders to a 9-0 win over MSJ in Northfield. Falcons Loren Lahart added two more goals to Northfields tally, and Alex Green contributed a goal and an assist to the one sided affair. Pat Barret, Jerry Passalacqua and Gavin Porter each added a goal for the Marauders, who improved to 3-1 with the win. Ben Albury and Grayson Lavigne needed to make just three saves between them to earn the combined shutout. If it wasn’t for the effort of the Mountie goalies Seth Lachance and Colton Aines things could have been much worse. The duo combined to make 45 saves for the Mounties in their season opener.

The girls squad from MSJ didn’t do much better last Saturday at Middlebury. Emily Hassock (four goals) and Saige Twombly (three goals) yielded seven goals between them to lead their Tigers to a 14-1 thumping over the visiting Mounties. Jen Beloin and Marie Ploof contributed two scores each, while Theresa Huestis, Sarah Boudah and Kayla Quesnel-Cousino scored single goals to round out Middlebury’s scoring.

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Ashley Howlett made nine saves for the victorious Tigers, who improved to 2-1 with the win.

Collen Shouldice scored the lone Mounties goal while Kaitlyn Robertello made 28 saves for MSJ, who fell to 0-2 with the loss.

In other girls action last Saturday Jennifer Coppin scored three goals and Hannah Corcum added two more to lead the Burrr and Burton Bulldogs to a 6-2 win over the hometown Rutland Raiders. Megan Miskovsky scored the Bulldogs remaining goal. Chelsea Hill and Sarah Hamilton scored for Rutland who fell to 2-1 with the loss.

Lake Monsters and the Spirit of Christmas The Vermont Lake Monsters and COTS (Committee On Temporary Shelter) are teaming up this holiday season to host a “Wish List” drive at the Lake Monsters Waterfront Store through Dec. 23 where donated items for COTS means 10 percent off Lake Monsters merchandise.

The Lake Monsters waterfront store, at the top of the King Street Ferry Dock, will serve as a drop point for several of the items on the COTS wish list for the holidays.

Anyone who donates desired items will receive 10 percent off any one Lake Monsters merchandise item per donated item (excluding previously discounted items/packages, beverages and LCT merchandise).

COTS provides emergency shelter, services, and housing for people who are ho or who are homeless or marginally housed in Vermont. COTS advocates for long-term solutions to end homelessness.

The goal of drive is to collect any and all items on the COTS “Wish List” to be donated to those in need in Vermont.

Those items include: Baby Needs: Baby bottles, pacifiers, teething toys, baby formula, diapers.

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Meg Gearin of Westfield State picked up Offensive Player of the Year honors. The senior forward scored 19 goals and tallied four assists for 42 points while leading her team to an NCAA Tournament berth. Defensive Player of the Year went to Middlebury's Lauryn Torch.

Torch helped the No. 12 Panthers to an NCAA berth. She had a NESCAC leading eight shutouts, with a 0.81 goals against average. Nichols freshman Samantha Abro nabbed Rookie of the Year honors. Abro had an impressive collegiate debut, scoring 22 goals and five assists for 49 points.

This year's first team forward selections put up impressive numbers, with two players eclipsing the 60-point plateau. Lesley's Jodi Fralick led the charge with 32 goals and four assists for 68 points. The senior led her squad to an undefeated conference record, and an ECAC Championship berth. MCLA's Jess Tietgans was not far behind, tallying 30 goals and four assists for 64 points, also leading her squad to an ECAC Championship berth. Rounding out the forward selections is Castleton's Courtney Chadburn with 23 goals and six helpers for 52 points. Midfielder selections were Westfield State's Kate MacLellan, with eight goals and 15 assists for 31 points, Emmanuel's Kate McKenna with 21 goals and six assists for 48 points and Eastern Connecticut's Sarah Swann with 14 goals and five assists for 33 points.

Joining Torch as first team defensive selections are William's Kara Duggan, Wheaton's Lyndsey McManus, and Springfield's Courtney Price. Duggan helped the secondranked Ephs hold opponents to a NESCAC best 0.45 goals per game. McManus helped the Wheaton College defense become the best in the NEWMAC, while also contributing seven goals and nine assists. Price led Springfield to the second

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BELLOWS FALLS, VT. South St. Housing Newly remodeled apartments located in the heart of town. 3 bedroom ($875/mo), 4 bedroom ($975/mo) apartments now available.

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Income limits do apply BELLOWS FALLS, VT. William St. Housing Newly remodeled apartments located in the heart of town. 1 bedroom ($639/mo), 2 bedroom $750/mo), 3 bedroom ($875/mo) apartments are now available. Includes heat, hot water, rubbish & snow removal, and laundry facility available. Off-street parking available.

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Call 800-510-0784 www.CenturaOnline.com ATTEND COLLEGE ONLINE from home.

Medical, Business, Paralegal, Accounting, Criminal Justice. Job placement assistance.

Computer available. Financial aid if qualified.

Call 800-494-3586 www.CenturaOnline.com DIRECTV - $26 off/mo! 150+ Channels & Premium Movie Channels ONLY $29.99/mo.

FREE SHOWTIME - 3 mos. New customers only. 1-888-420-9472 DISH TV. $19.99/mo., $600 Sign-up Bonus!

FREE 4-Room Install. FREE HD-DVR! Call now. 1-800-915-9514.

DONATE YOUR Car! Breast Cancer Research Foundation! Tax deductible/Fast free pick up. 1-800-379-5124, www.cardonationsforbreastcancer.org

Service You Want & Deserve.

6 ways to place a

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Free DVR/HD Upgrade! Other Packages Start $29.99/mo! Details Call DirectStarTV 1800-620-0058 EARN COLLEGE DEGREE ONLINE *Medical, *Business, *Paralegal, *Accounting, *Criminal Justice. Job placement assistance.

Computer available.Financial Aid if qualified.

Call 800-510-0784 www.CenturaOnline.com Electric Service Panel Meter Pan Breakers and GFI outlets on P.T. Pedestal $350 O.B.O. 518-494-7150 FREE VACATION for Donating vehicles, boats, property, collectables, merchandise to Dvar Institute. Maximize IRS deductions while helping teens in crisis. Quick Prompt Service. 1-800-338-6724 GET DISH - FREE Installation - $19.99/mo.

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Holiday Dishes-NEW, service for 8, w/4 serving pieces. Ivory w/holly design $45 A great gift 518-585-6255 LONG BLACK Leather Coat, Size 16-18, $50. Like New, Call Ticonderoga 518-5854425

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Trains “NScale” many extra track, MRC power, sound system, turnouts ( Atlas) $300 518-585-7242

GUNS/AMMO Walther semiautomatic pistol, P22, Cal 22LR. $300. 802-434-3107

HORSES/ACCESS. HORSE TRAILER For Sale. New floor, wiring, tires, and brakes. Good condition.

Ready to roll! $500 (518) 873-2152

MUSIC BEAUTIFUL BALDWIN Parlor Organ with Bench.\’ca Primer included.\’caGreat\’cafor Christmas.\’ca Bargain. $250.\’ca 518-6367125.\’ca Essex CLARINET, FLUTE, VIOLIN TRUMPET, Trombone, Amplifier, Fender Guitar, $69. each. Cello, Upright Bass, Saxophone, French Horn, Drums $185. each. Tuba, Baritone Horn, Hammond Organ, Others 4 sale. 1-516-377-7907.

GUITAR, “Jay Jr.” Dreadnaught, in original box-never been played! (Great Xmas gift) $75 Call 802-459-2987 GUITAR, LIKE NEW. Denny Zager steel, sunburst, with hard case. Rarely played. $250. 802-446-3919.

OLD GUITARS WANTED! Fender, Gibson, Martin, Gretsch, Prairie State, Euphonon, Larson, D\’92Angelico, Stromberg, Rickenbacker, and Mosrite. Gibson Mandolins/Banjos. 1930\’92s thru 1970\’92s TOP CASH PAID! 1-800-401-0440

PETS & SUPPLIES

NASCAR #3 odds & end, race cars different drivers in original boxes, all for $100 518623-4152

MALINOIS X puppies, Hybrid German Shepherd. Ready now or will hold for Christmas. $350 firm. 518-963-8592.

Photo Printer HP Photosmart A610 with extra photo paper and color cartridges.

Perfect condition. $50 518-494-3182

SPORTING GOODS

REACH OVER 30 million homes with one buy. Advertise in NANI for only $2,795 per week! For information, visit www.naninetwork.com RECIEVE $1000 in Groceries! Real relief program helping people just like you! Pay only $4.90 for your grocery voucher. Use on your favorite brands! Consumer Advocate Response introductory price. 1-800-4309507 STOP PAYING too much for TV! 120 channels, $19.99/month.1-800-998-DISH, Ext.307642, Promo Code: A10.

Wood Stove New Condition. 26”H 28”W 17”D $350.00 518-696-5259

HOCKEY PADS, pants, helmet, bag and Easton Aluminum stick- women’s small. $100 OBO. 518-523-3153 (518) 523-3153

WANTED COMPLETE SNOWPLOW set up to fit 1996 Ford F150. 524-8377 PROMOTE YOUR product, service or business to 1.4 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS throughout New England. Reach 4 million potential readers quickly and inexpensively with great results. Use the Buy New England Classified Ad Network by calling this paper or 877-423-6399. Do they work? You are reading one of our ads now!! Visit our website to see where your ads run cpne.biz

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North Country Telephone Exchange Directory (518) 236.............Altona/Mooers 251.................North Creek 293.......................Saranac 297...............Rouses Point 298...................Champlain 327.................Paul Smiths 352..............Blue Mt. Lake 358...............Ft. Covington 359................Tupper Lake 483........................Malone 492.................Dannemora 493.................West Chazy 494................Chestertown 497.................Chateaugay 499.....................Whitehall 523..................Lake Placid 529...........................Moria 532..............Schroon Lake 543..........................Hague 546.......Port Henry/Moriah 547........................Putnam 561-566...........Plattsburgh 576....Keene/Keene Valley 581,583,584,587 ..............Saratoga Springs 582....................Newcomb 585................Ticonderoga 594..........Ellenburg Depot 597.................Crown Point 623...............Warrensburg 624...................Long Lake 638............Argyle/Hartford 639.......................Fort Ann 642......................Granville 643.............................Peru 644............Bolton Landing 647.............Ausable Forks 648..................Indian Lake 654.........................Corinth 668...............Lake George 695................Schuylerville 735.............Lyon Mountain 746,747..........Fort Edward / Hudson Falls 743,744,745,748,761,792, 793,796,798. . . .Glens Falls 834....................Keeseville 846..........................Chazy 856.............Dickerson Ctr. 873....Elizabethtown/Lewis 891..............Saranac Lake 942......................Mineville 946..................Wilmington 962......................Westport 963...........Willsboro/Essex

WANTED

TOOLS

EDUCATION

WANTED: DRUMMER and bass player for Roots Rock band. Covers and originals.

Greater Bellows Falls area. Call 802-3765543.

Radial Arm Saw Commercial 10” Asking $150, 518-546-8287

AVIATION MAINTENANCE/AVIONICS. Graduate in 15 Months. FAA Approved; financial aid if qualified. Job placement assistance. Call National Aviation Academy Today!

1-800-292-3228 or NAA.edu

WANTED TO BUY ****WANTED TO BUY**** Diabetic Test Strips. Cash paid up to $10/box. Call Wayne at 781-724-7941.

U.S. SILVER COINS or entire collections.

Call 1-877-857-7850. Littleton Coin Company, trusted since 1945. Visit us on the web at www.LittletonCoin.com/SELLYOURCOINS. Reference B8Y100 WANTED DIABETES TEST STRIPS Any Kind/Any brand Unexpired. Pay up to $18.00 per box. Shipping Paid. Call 1-800-267-9895 or www.SellDiabeticstrips.com

963...........Willsboro/Essex

VERMONT (802) 247.......................Brandon 372....................Grand Isle 388...................Middlebury 425......................Charlotte 434....................Richmond 438...............West Rutland 453.......Bristol/New Haven 462......................Cornwall 475.........................Panton 482....................Hinesburg 545...................Weybridge 655......................Winooski 658....................Burlington 758........................Bridport 759.......................Addison 654,655,656,657,658,660, 860,862,863,864,865,951, 985....................Burlington 877...................Vergennes 769,871,872,878,879 ..................Essex Junction 893...........................Milton 897....................Shoreham 899......................Underhill 948..........................Orwell 888....................Shelburne 16898

1994 HONDA Accord LX, good body, runs well. 4 snow tires. Std. transmission. Steal this car at $1,200. 802-775-6174.

2004 4WD Jeep Grand Cherokee. 6-cyl. Very good condition. Snow tires available. Reg. serviced. Silver. $7,200. 802-869-1090.

AUTO ACCESSORIES 15” Goodyear Tires Snow & Ice $150 Call 518-494-2097

IF A Loved One Underwent Hemodialysis and received Heparin between January 2007 and May 2008 and died after the use of Heparin, you may be entitled to compensation. Call Attorney Charles Johnson 1-800535-5727.

INVACARE WHEELCHAIR Model #WC9000XT. Brand new, never used.

Excellent condition. $475. 802-438-2525.

NEW FEATHER-Weight Motorized Wheelchairs - AT NO COST TO YOU IF ELIGIBLE!! WE COME TO YOU!!ENK MOBILE MEDICAL 1-800-693-8896 ONLINE PHARMACY - BUY Soma, Ultram, Fioricet, Prozac, Buspar, $71.99 for 90 Qty. and $107 for 180 Qty. PRICE INCLUDES PRESCRIPTION! We will match any competitor’s price! 1-866-632-6978, or www.trirx.info

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VIAGRA-CIALIS $2.47 per pill, 40 Pills $99.00!

Hablamos Espanol!

Newhealthyman.com1-888-735-4419 credit card required

FORD JOHN C. STEWART & SON, INC. CUTTINGSVILLE, VT 05738 (802) 492-3332 (800) 842-1448 Fax (802) 492-3311

Gary Patch Parts And Service Director jcstechs@vermontel.net 38289

Fords Since 1915

L OANS A VAILABLE NO CREDIT? BAD CREDIT? BANKRUPTCY?

Hometown Chevrolet Oldsmobile 152 Broadway Whitehall, NY • (518) 499-2886 • Ask for Joe

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Automotive

Need an auto? Need someone to take that auto off your hands?

Find what you’re looking for here!

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FOUR P215/65R17 Blizzaks snow tires mounted on 17”x7” 5-spoke alloy wheels.

Used 1 season. Ford Freestyle. \’caNew $900; $450/OBO. (802) 259-2786 NOKIAN SNOW Tires. Hakkapeliitta 2. Used 800 miles on 2004 CTS. 225/55R16 95T. $195 Pair. (518) 891-5514

CARS $7,000-$8,999

HEALTH

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4 SNOW tires set used 2 seasons Dunlop 215/50R17 91q. Excellent (518) 293-8077

CARS $1,000-$2,999

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SET OF 4 Mounted Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires, 205/55R16. $190 OBO. 8912871.

Tires(6), 8.75x16.5LT on Dodge wheels under 500mi, $600/OBO 4-225x15LT Michelin X-Radial $175, 4-235/75R15 Liberator M+S on Ford 4x4 Alloys 518-4947150

SET OF 4 Blizzak P195/55R 15 BK snow tires mounted on wheels (4 lug) for Honda Fit.\’ca Excellent condition.\’ca $450.\’ca Call 518-793-1862 WHEELS/RIMS for Ford Escape 225/75R15; original rims not used in winter; $300 OBO (518) 648-5337

AUTO WANTED

AAAA Donation. Donate your car, boat or real estate. IRS tax deductible. Free pick up/ Tow any model/ Condition. Help underprivileged children Outreach Center. 1-800-8836399 DONATE YOUR CAR. FREE TOWING. “Cars for Kids”. Any condition. Tax deductible Outreach Center. 1-800-597-9411

CARS FOR SALE

AAAA ** DONATION Donate your Car Boat or Real Estate. IRS Tax Deductible. Free Pick-up/Tow. Any Model/Condition. Help Under Privileged Children. Outreach Center.

1-800-928-7566

1997 CHEVY Blazer, fair condition, 150K, $950. Also 2003 Ford F-150, standard, 2WD, 103K. Good condition. $1950. Must sell. 802226-7863.

DONATE YOUR CAR- Help families in need!

Fair Market Value Tax Deduction Possible Through Love Inc. Free towing. Non-runners OK. Call for details. 800-549-279

2002 HONDA Accord EX, auto, 89,000 miles, sun roof, leather seats, car starter, 2 sets tires, maint. records, excellent $7,800, Saranac Lake 518-891-0023

MOTORCYCLE/ ATV 2005 360 Kawasaki\’ca4-wheeler,\’ca4wd, Red, $2500. 518-962-2376 WANTED JAPANESE MOTORCYCLES KAWASAKI,1970-1980, Z1-900, KZ900, KZ1000, H2-750, H1-500, S1-250,S2-250, S2-350, S3-400. CASH PAID. 1-800-7721142. 1-310-721-0726.

AUTO DONATIONS DONATE YOUR CAR - HELP CHILDREN WITH CAMP AND EDUCATION. Quickest Towing. Non-Runners/Title Problems OK. Free Vacation/Cruise Voucher. Special Kids Fund 1-866-448-3865

To Place Your Service Directory Ad Call 1-802775-4221

Service Directory HAMPTON VALLEY MOTORSPORTS

Quality Repair At A Price That’s Fair Rt. 4A • Box 411 Bomoseen, VT 05732-0411 Tel & Fax:

(802) 468-5595 35617

Jewelry Repair Custom Work

WE BUY GOLD & SILVER (Now Is The Time!)

Jewelry Restoration Starting at $10

126 Main St., Whitehall, NY • 518-499-900167404

York Coach Works, Inc. Quality Collision Repairs Since 1978 Servicing the Lakes Region 67157

1075 Vermont Route 30 North, Poultney, Vermont 05764 802-287-9897 • Fax: 802-287-9230 • 1-800-974-9877

ATV’S, MOTORCYCLES & SNOWMOBILES 2753 ST. RT. 22A Hampton, NY 12837 • 518-282-9947 • 802-989-1338 www.hamptonvalleymotorsports.com RON POIRIER / OWNER

Bradley Berryhill, MD H. Peter Diercksen, MD Julie Foster, MD Stephen Rosmus, MD Stephen Kornbluth, MD

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J. Andrew Gorton, PA-C Jill Read, PNP Jennifer Lager, DO Mark Mueller, MD Judith Ellwood, NP Luis Bauzo, MD

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Castleton Family Health Center 275 Route 30 North, Bomoseen, VT 05732

802.468.5641 • 802-468-2923 fax We accept VT & NY Medicaid Patients!

DONATE YOUR CAR-To The Cancer Fund of America. Help Those Suffering With Cancer Today. Free Towing and Tax deductible. 1-800-835-9372 www.cfoa.org

TRUCK OR VAN FOR SALE 1988 FORD Ranger ext. cab. V6, 2WD, standard. For parts or fix. $450 OBO. 518-8349296.

The Classified Superstore (802) 460-1107

Four Wheel Drive C o m p a c t Tr a c t o r s a t REALISTIC PRICES!

FORE Check with us BE re! he ew els you buy

~Sales & Service~ Moore’s Corners 518-642-1720 Jct. Routes 22 & 149, 8626 State Rt. 22 Granville NY

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Howard’s Garage

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF

DONATE YOUR CAR! Breast Cancer Research foundation! Most highly rated breast cancer charity in America! Tax Deductible/Fast Free Pick Up. 800-771-9551 www.cardonationsforbreastcancer.org

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PENDABLE

OVER 40 YEARS

SERVICE

24 HR. WRECKER SERVICE

Complete Mechanical & Body Work

River St., Fair Haven, VT 05748 Day: (810) 265-7975 • Night: (802) 265-8152 or (802) 265-3678 35632

CALL ON THESE AREA SERVICE BUSINESSES, HERE TO HELP YOU!

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