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Vol 48 No 52

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Clockwise from upper left: Ariel Rudiakov, Artistic Director of the Manchester Music Festival invites you to take a chance on winning an iPod Nano! ...details on page 23 That’s Knox Divoll of Manchester on left and Jeremy Murphy of Dorset serving up appetizers at last year’s Men Who Cook ...story on page 34 New Leo Club founder, Pam Nichols; Daniel Colson, treasurer; Marykate Hancock, president; Colin O’Leary, senior leader board of directors; Justin Dillman, vice president; Alex Jones, secretary; Christian Hunter, web designer and board of directors member ...details on page 35

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OUR READERS’ LETTERS ...blanket donations...

I would like to thank all of our residents who so generously donated warm goods during Backroad Discovery Tours’, “Blanket Operation 2008”. We received 95 blankets/ quilts/comforters and an assortment of woolen socks and sheet sets. Donations were collected from Sunday, November 30 through Friday, December 5 at the Shaw’s parking lot in downtown Manchester, VT. Distribution of the blankets took place from 101 on Saturday, December 6 and Sunday, December 7 at the Price Chopper lot. By 1 p.m. on Sunday, every donated item had been distributed to people in need. There is clearly a need for such a service. Please save your gentlyused blankets for the next years’

“ Blanket Operation” during the first week of December 2009! — Sharon O’Connor Backroad Discovery Tours Manchester, VT

...vote on cash awards...

In early November as part of its customer appreciation program, Berkshire Bank sponsored a contest in which customers at their local branches were able to vote on cash awards to be given to local non-profits that provide food, fuel or housing assistance to low and moderate income people. The Community Food Cupboard received the highest number of votes at both of Berkshire Bank’s Manchester branches. On December 3, CFC was presented with a check from the Greater Berkshire Foundation in the amount of $4,600.00! These funds will be

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extremely helpful to us through the long winter ahead. Our deepest thanks go out to the staff at Berkshire Bank for including CFC in this event and to all of the customers who chose CFC to receive this generous donation. Sincerely, —Martha Carey Administrator

...legislative notebook ...

The fat lady has sung and a recount confirmed my loss to Jeff Wilson, who will become Manchester’s new Representative to the Vermont Legislature in January. Lest anyone doubts their value in the democratic process, the final tally — a difference of 6 votes — shows how much you really count. In leaving the office I’ve enjoyed for 14 years, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to all who have supported me through this quite remarkable experience. Although many of you do not count yourselves as Republicans; some are Democrats and others, a kind of independent political animal in the middle, you have supported my candidacy, and it didn’t seem to matter much. But in Montpelier, it does. I consider myself a Republican, but as a fis-

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Antiques & Auctions...........46 Automotive.........................67 Classifieds...........................61 Creatures/Environment.......44 Entertainment.....................49 Fine Arts/Crafts...................48 From my Corner..................18 GNAT-TV Schedule............. 12 Mind & Body.......................41 Restaurants.........................50 Service Directory.................59 Sports.................................40 Job Connection...................70 Weekly Almanac.................50 Worship..............................56

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OUR READERS’ LETTERS cal conservative and social moderate— which so many of you are, too. Logic suggests there should be a party of moderates. Just a thought. Last year, after a particularly trying session, I had decided it was time to retire. Most legislative careers last 8-10 years, and I had overstayed. But I loved the job and it fit my vague guidelines of things to do: perform some good for somebody, learn something, and have fun doing it. But I had to accept the fact that the “good” part was questionable. So patience worn by the strain of great frustration over the years finally bested idealism. The job of Representative is clear: prioritize needs of the people and figure out how to pay for it. But I came to think that “needs” were a creation of the legislature and not really coming from the voters. We only have to remember the cry “Property tax reform, now!” back in the 90’s. The press picked it up and bumper stickers appeared everywhere. Result? Act 60 - a previously designed taxing mechanism waiting for a cause. Didn’t we think that “reform” meant lower, not higher taxes? Last biennium’s expensive “reform” centered on health care. Catamount Health may be doing some small good, but not the panacea promised. It was a vehicle to levy heavy fees on employers, though. And what about the (constitutionally illegal) campaign reform bill? That took considerable legislative time, and was it due to a public outcry? Nobody ever called me about it. So under the guise of mom and apple pie, and all that’s good for our children, our state legislature continues to “create” issues in order to gain votes and raise taxes, fees and hidden surcharges - all spent without the benefit of sufficient public understanding. Is that doing good for anyone but December 17, 2008

politicians? I voted against it all. Did I forget the joys of serving the public? The satisfaction of putting together effective legislation with bi-partisan help; the high of solving a problem for a constituent; the fun of visiting Burr and Burton’s government class or hosting the 5th grade at the Statehouse; chatting about politics in the post office - these things I will sorely miss. No more calls about trash by the road; land squabbles; tax inequities; global warming; biased divorce judges; bad U.S. Presidents; child visitation tragedies; incarcerated felons with TV’s and computers; incarcerated felons without TV’s and computers; hungry incarcerated felons; hungry and mad non-incarcerated felons at the back door threatening to shoot someone; grocery stores giving coupons (or not); marauding fisher cats; low-flying military planes; cell towers we want are the same ones we don’t want; etcetera, etcetera. Whew! But I will miss those, too. In the end, I decided to run again - not simply because I love the job, but also due to the precarious veto situation. We sustained the Governor’s veto last year by one vote. It’s gone. There are no more checks and balances in Vermont state government - the same situation that spawned Act 60 in 1997. So, between heavy party opposition and the Obama and Bush factors, I feel pretty good about losing as well as I did. Six votes - a respectable loss! As my father loved to announce as he headed off to bed “It’s time to quit this heady clime”. Thank you Manchester folks for being such great friends and citizens of Vermont. — Judy Livingston, Manchester Village, Vt.

...Grace’sCause...

There was magic in the air for Grace’sCause on December 7th as many families joined in a wonderful evening sponsored by Amy Chamberlain and her great team at “The Perfect Wife Restaurant and Tavern”. Tom Joyce, magician extraordinaire,

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OUR READERS’ LETTERS (Letters, cont.) entertained the young (and not so young) with his fun and funny magic show and it was indeed a magical evening of great food and friends coming together in support of Grace’sCause. While the roads were a bit slick, everything inside “The Wife” was warm and inviting… just the antidote to our first taste of Vermont winter. The silent auction was brimming with great items from far and wide and the entire Committee wishes to thank all the generous friends and neighbors who helped make the night a fitting way to start the holidays. There are too many names to list here but suffice it to say that each of you who helped…the many volunteers, merchants, artists, friends and Amy Chamberlain’s amazing crew know who you are and you have our eternal thanks. And to all who attended, we send

extra thanks for coming out on a snowy night…you warmed our hearts, that’s for sure! If you missed out on the event and want a great holiday gift, stop by “Real Sports” or “The Podium” and ask for a Grace’sCause t-shirt. Long-sleeved shirts are also available via email at grace’scause@gmail.com, or via mail order at “Grace’sCause”; PO Box 1052; Manchester, VT 05254. Happy Holidays, one and all. —The Grace’sCause “Perfect Wife” Dinner CommitteeManchester Vt.

...take a moment to think...

In keeping with the spirit of Christmas, I would like us all to take a moment to think of the devastation caused by not only the fires in California but also fires in our own Southern Vermont . With these fires, many

people have been faced with the possibilities of losing their homes, property, and everything else that they own. Furthermore, along with the fires, the American Red Cross is faced with countless emergencies on a daily basis. With all of this, it is no wonder that our American Red Cross is now under funded and struggling to provide the services that so many require. Our community now has an excellent opportunity to step forward and support the Southern Vermont Chapter of the American Red Cross and what better time than between Thanksgiving and Christmas to realize the greatest needs for our own community. Recently, at a great meeting with Bruce Pollock from the American Red Cross’ Brattleboro office, we learned about the many needs of our local and national American Red Cross. We all

know that everyone is experiencing life differently these days. The American Red Cross has survived mostly by Planned (giving) Trust Funds and generous elderly people who have no relatives whom give to the American Red Cross. They have long needed a regular program that would keep their services “at the ready”, with all that is needed. In an effort to accomplish this, the American Red Cross has established a new plan called “Adopt A Day Of Disaster!!!”, which is easy and affordable. You or your company will receive recognition for your DAY or WEEK of giving. Simply put, each day you chose to sponsor your designated disaster relief will cost you or your company $246.58. What a great feat! Not much compared to what it means to those who get an immediate debit card for their

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OUR READERS’ LETTERS needs at once. In addition to the monetary relief, each family is taken care of and then put in touch with Medical and Social Services. But it is the American Red Cross who is there, as soon as possible, with volunteers who leave their homes immediately. Above all, we ask that in this spirited time of year that you take a moment and pray for this organization and form your own way to pay or split A Day Of Disaster! We have taken January 1st, in the Village Country Inn’s

name, as our family’s contribution. Please join us in giving to our community. By you, an individual, a family, a business, friends, and relatives all wanting to help “Make that Difference”, you are encouraged to come together for our Red Cross Chapter. Call Bruce or Deb at 802-254 2377 God bless you and our community, — Lizanne & Jay Degen, Manchester, Vt.

Martha Canﬁeld Library Holiday Hours

The Martha Canfield Library will be closed Wed. Dec. 24 and Thurs. Dec. 25 for Christmas. We will also be closed Thurs. Jan. 1, New Year’s Day. Our regular hours are Tues. & Thurs. 9-5 & 6:30-8; Wed. 9-5; Fri. 2-5; Sat. 10-3, closed on Sun. and Mon. The Russell Vermontiana Collection is open Tues. only 9-5, or by appointment. Please call 3756153 with any questions.

Meals on Wheels

Suggested donation of $3.00 per meal For reservation or cancellation in Manchester: 362-3714 Wednesday, December 17 Chicken ‘n Noodles w/Alfredo Sauce, Zucchini, Stewed Tomatoes, Fresh Fruit and Milk. Thursday, December 18 CHRISTMAS DINNER Baked ham w/Rasin Sauce, Sweet Potato Bake, Green Bean Casserole, Bread Pudding and Milk. Friday, December 19 New England Clam Chowder w/Oyster Crackers, Broccoli, 1/2 Turkey Sandwich, Fruit Cocktail and Milk. Monday, December 22 Macaroni & Cheese, Brussel Sprouts, Carrots, Apple Sauce, and Milk. Tuesday, December 23 Chicken Stir-Fry, Herbed Rice, Oriental Veggies, Mandarin Oranges, Bread and Milk. __________________________________________

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A typographical error occurred in out Letters to the Editor of last week’s issue in the letter regaring hot dog carts. The word ‘who’ was mistakenly typed ‘why’. printed below is the correct sentence. ...why not just leave all the conditions the same as before and say … no hot dog TRAILERS allowed, period.

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Mrs. Audrey R. Percey

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Mrs. Audrey R. Percey, 84, widow of Ralph W. Percey, a long time resident of Ledgely Drive, Shaftsbury, Vt., died Tuesday, November 25, 2008, at the Centers for Living and Rehabilitation in Bennington. She was born in Bennington, Vt., on June 10, 1924. She was the daughter of the late Wallia and Helen (Senecal) Rowe. she received her education in Bennington. In earlier years, Audrey was employed in local mills including the EZ Mill and Tansitor. She was a member of the Shaftsbury Methodist Church and loved to play bingo. Survivors include a son, Herbert “Herb” Percey and his wife Dee of Bennington; 11 grandchildren and several greatgrandchildren; three sisters: Helen Baker of Bennington, Phyllis Rowe of Bennington, and Marie Ayers of Wells, Vt.; a brother, Harold Rowe of Shaftsbury; a special friend, Charles Gabrus of Shaftsbury, and several nieces, nephews and cousins. She was pre-deceased by a son, Ralph “Skip” Percey; four brothers: Forrest, Eugene, Chester and Carl Rowe; and an infant sister, Mary Jane Rowe. If friends desire, contributions in memory of Mrs. Audrey R. Percey may be made to either the Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center or the Second Chance Animal Center through the office of the Mahar and son funeral Home, 628 Main Street, Bennington, VT 05201. ____________________

Christmas Pageant at Federated Church

All are welcome on this fourth Sunday of Advent to the Christmas Pageant, on Sunday morning, December 21, at 10 a.m. at The Federated Church of East Arlington on Ice Pond Road. The pageant will be an intergenerational event coordinated by the High School Youth Group. This Sunday we will light the fourth candle of the Advent wreath with the theme of love. After the worship service all are invited to Bailey Hall for refreshments and fellowship, which includes a birthday cake for Jesus. A basket for voluntary contributions will be on the refreshment table for the Eat for Heat fund to help meet the fuel needs of our neighbors and friends. On Christmas Eve, Wednesday, December 24, there will be two services. At 4 p.m., there will be a festive service of Lessons and Carols. This will be followed by cookies and cider in Bailey Hall. The 8 p.m. Candlelight Service will include the Service of Holy Communion along with Lessons and Carols. In addition, the Federated Church Choir will offer special music of the season. Senior Meals are served on Tuesday and Thursday at noon. For information about the RideShare Program and the Living the Questions series, which resumes on Wednesday, January 7, call the church office 802-375-2548. Additional information may be viewed at our Web site, www. earlingtonfedchurch.org ____________________

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J.K. Adams Awarded the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody Certiﬁcation

J.K. Adams was awarded, this week, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody certification. The FSC is the leading forestry stewardship system in the world with the mission to ensure forestry practices that are environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable. “We have been working on obtaining this certification for over a year,” said John Rodrigues, Vice President of J.K. Adams. “The FSC Chain-ofCustody certification allows us to put the FSC label on our products certifying that our products are tracked from the forest where the wood is harvested through the manufacturing process and that each step of the way meets rigorous environmental impact guidelines. We believe that through the FSC we can help create a marketplace that demands well-managed forestry practices.” According to Rodrigues, consumers now have a choice. “It’s like reading the ingredients on a food label - you know what you’re buying and you’re making an educated decision. Because of the FSC labels, consumers can now make knowledgeable purchase decisions when buying wood or paper products. They can purchase products that come from environmentally responsible practices or purchase products from companies that cannot account for the environmental and social impacts of their lumbering.” “ We have worked hard to raise the bar and set new standards in our industry, both in terms of design and in environmental practices and are thrilled to be the first in the kitchen products category to receive the FCS Chain-of-Custody certification,” added Malcolm Cooper, President of J.K. Adams. J.K. Adams will debut new products in January 2009 that will all carry the FSC label. These include cutting boards, servers and kitchen accessories.

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Hildene Winter History Series

The 2009 Hildene Winter History Series will be decidedly focused on Abraham Lincoln in this 200th anniversary year of his birth. With Lincoln bicentennial celebrations ongoing across the nation, The Lincoln Family Home is pleased to be presenting four thematically unified lectures that look at the complexity and character of the 16th president of the United States. In the 2006 Hildene Winter History Series entitled: “Who is Our Greatest President?” Lincoln earned the majority of attendee’s votes to capture the title over George Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and “sleeper candidate,” John Polk. On the fourth Thursday of each month, January through April, each Winter History Series session will begin at 7 in the Beckwith Room at the Welcome Center. The 45 minute presentations will be followed by a 30 minute question and answer period and all are free and open to the public. On Thursday, January 22, Hildene Executive Director, Seth Bongartz, will present Lincoln the Leader. Thursday, February 26, Retired U.S. Naval Academy Professor, Craig Symonds, will speak on Lincoln as Commander in Chief. Anderson University Professor, Brian Dirck, will focus on Lincoln the Lawyer in his Thursday, March 22 lecture. The final lecture in the series entitled Lincoln; A Study in Character will be delivered by Connecticut College Professor Emeritus, Michael Burlingame, on Thursday, April 23. Hildene’s Museum Store will be open for a cup of coffee and a snack before the event and plentiful parking is available. For further information please call Hildene at 367-7960 or email carrie@hildene.org.

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Burr & Burton Academy Inducts New Members into National Honor Society

Twenty-six Burr and Burton students were inducted as new members of the National Honor Society in a special ceremony recently held at the school. Receiving their National Honor Society pins were Madeleine Aborn, Christopher Antonez, William Black, Faryn Borella, C. Tanner Bowden, Natalie Boyle, Ye Byun, Lauren Charnow, Ethan Edson, Colin Henderson, Dunja Jovicic, Kelsey Kelleher, Megan Lavalley, Stephen Mull, Sarah Munoz, Christopher Murray, Benjamin Pierce, Matthew Rosenthal, Charlotte Salsgiver, Grace Schwartz, Nancy Seem, Kerry Sullivan, Eleanor Turner, Molly Vey, Jody White, and Leah Wulfman. They join current members Anthony Boucher, Michael Cassidy, Michael Cifor, Alexander Evanczuk, Michael Grossfeld, Campbell Halligan, Charlotte Hogan, Zachary Jenkins, Devin Johnson, Cale Kochenour, Ruby Madden, John Marino, secretary, Dana Midura, Devin Midura, president, Kristen Palmer, Ellen Parent, Trevor Pollock, Lucy Prouty, treasurer, Stephanie Riker, vice-president, and Paige Woodward. Both current National Honor Society members and the new inductees will work together on several Service Learning projects, including a winter clothing drive, supporting the Food Cupboard, and peer tutoring. In addition, two NHS members serve on the Student Council. Students are admitted into the National Honor Society based on their exceptional academic achievement, character, service, and leadership. They are selected from a list of faculty-recommended nominees by a five-member faculty council in consultation with the headmaster and the assistant headmaster. Founded in 1921, the National Honor Society is one of the country’s leading educational groups. The purpose of the National Honor Society, according to the words of its constitution, is: “To create enthusiasm for scholarship, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote leadership, and to develop character in the students of secondary schools.”

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Blues Concert to Beneﬁt Ski for Heat 2009

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The stage is set for a cool blues concert on January 9, 2009 to ben�� efit Ski for Heat 2009. “Downtown” Bob Stannard and Chris Kleeman are reuniting for the first time in two years to rock the blues for this �� special event. What promises to be an extraordinary evening will be �� taking place at Burr and Burton Academy’s Riley Center for the Arts �� at 7:30 p.m. and is being presented by Northshire Bookstore and Write Solutions. Burr and Burton Academy is donating the use of its facility. “Ski for Heat is very fortunate to have the support of the community for this local endeavor. We are so grateful to Bob and Chris and everyone involved in making this concert and Ski for Heat happen,” said Ski for Heat event founder Martha Robertson. “What better way to get excited about skiing for heat than to see Bob and Chris on the stage together?” A hot blues duo in their own right, Stannard and Kleeman have also shared the stage with performers such as BB King, Maria Muldaur, The �� Fabulous Thunderbirds, Susan Tedeschi, Chris Smithers, Buddy Guy, �� and John Hammond. “Having them play locally, to benefit a local fundraiser, is huge!” added Robertson. Ski for Heat is a cross-country skiing (or snowshoeing) fundraiser that benefits low-income families and individuals in the area with heating fuel assistance. Clark’s Quality Foods in Londonderry is the title spon�� sor for the event, which is Sunday, January 25. Wild Wings Ski Touring �� Center in Peru generously donates the use of its trails to participants in the event. Skiers seek pledges, either on a per-mile basis or as a �� set dollar amount, and then x-c ski �� to earn their donations. “We make �� it easy and fun to take part,” said �� Robertson. “The trails are beautiful �� and offer something for skiers of �� all abilities. Participants can show up when it is convenient for them �� to do so and stay for as long or as little as they like.” T-shirts will be given to the first 40 to register with pledges of $35 or more. A suggested donation of $20 is �� being asked for tickets. For more �� information on this special per�� formance benefit blues concert �� or Ski for Heat, contact Martha Robertson at 802.824.3558 or skiforheat@vermontel.net.Concert and Ski for Heat registration, donation, and general information is also available at www.skiforheat. �� org. ��

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Zion Christmas Eve, Christmas Day Services

Zion Episcopal Church, Manchester Center, invites the community to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services. All services include Holy Eucharist (Communion). On Wednesday, December 24, Christmas Eve, there will be services at 5 p.m., at Zion Church, including the Christmas Pageant at 7 p.m. at St. John’s Chapel, Manchester Village, and at 11 p.m. at Zion Church. The 11 p.m. service at Zion will include the choir with Christopher Lewis as organist and choir director and will end at around midnight. On Thursday, December 25, Christmas Day, there will be a service at 10 a.m. at Zion Church. Zion Episcopal Church is located at 5167 Main Street/Route 7A between Candeleros and Ye Olde Tavern and St. John’s Chapel is located at 3512 Main Street/Route 7A, just across the street and south of the Equinox Resort. For more information, contact Zion Church at 802362-1987, e-mail: rlewis@zionchurchmanchester.org or check the website at www.zionchurchmanchester.org _______________________________________________

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Maple Street Students Make District Chorus

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Maple Street School students Erin Cournoyer, Sierra Janik, Sam Kratzer, Madison Stanwich, and Annelies van Breen, were all chosen for the Green Mountain District Chorus. Each of these students scored at least 96% at the District Chorus try-outs, but music teacher Jared Shapiro was thrilled when he was notified by the Chorus that Sierra Janik had scored 100%. “Not only did Sierra score 100%, but 100% of our tested students made the chorus. I am so proud of these talented and dedicated students.” In March, these students will travel to Green Mountain College to join about 100 other students for the all District Chorus Festival performance. ________________________________________________

Students Send Good Wishes and Help Out Right Here at Home

Kindergarten through 6th grade students at Mettawee Community School recently created over 140 holiday greeting cards during their breakfast advisory on Dec. 3. The cards are being sent to “Holiday Mail for Heroes”, a campaign sponsored by The American Red Cross. The campaign will distribute the holiday cards to service members and veterans both in the United States and abroad. “Holiday Mail for Heroes” is a follow-up to the 2007 effort that resulted in the collection and distribution of more than 600,000 cards to hospitalized service members. This year’s program will expand its reach to not only wounded service members but also veterans and their families. The goal is to collect and distribute 1 million pieces of holiday mail. Paraeducator Linda Maness, who suggested that the school participate in the holiday card campaign, said, “Contributing to ‘Holiday Mail for Heroes’ is a fitting way for all of us at Mettawee to follow-up our November Veterans Day Dessert Social. Many past and present school families have immediate, as well as extended, family members who have served our country. This is one small way we can say thank you to them by acknowledging their fellow service members.” Also in the spirit of giving, students and faculty are taking part in the area’s annual Community Share Project by contributing non-perishable food items that will help make up 15 food baskets that will be distributed to area families in need of assistance. December 17, 2008

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Green Mountain RSVP Receives Stratton Foundation McCarty Grant

This fall the Stratton Foundation chose Green Mountain RSVP & Volunteer Center as the recipient of a McCarty Grant to expand their Bone Builders program in the Northshire. The Bone Builders program of weight bearing exercises can play a major part in arresting and reversing the effects of osteoporosis. With regular attendance at a Bone Builders class, attention to diet and appropriate medical care, some Vermont seniors are achieving bone mineral density gains in excess of two percent a year. For the individual, regularly attending a Bone Builders class translates into greater confidence and mobility, an improved sense of well-being and a reduced likelihood of falls and disabling fractures. Bone Builders is free to all participants and the classes are openended. Green Mountain RSVP invests in its Bone Builders program by providing qualified training for volunteer class leaders, administering the program’s growth, negotiating the donation of suitable exercise space, and pursuing funding for equipment and related materials. Ed Glazer, a member of the Board of Directors of the Stratton Foundation and Patricia Palencsar, Executive Director of Green Mountain RSVP visted a Bone Builders class that takes place each Monday and Wednesday at the Israel Congregation Synagogue in Manchester. There are also classes at the Manchester Town Hall, the American Legion in Arlington, and the Federated Church in East Arlington. Thanks to the generosity of the Stratton Foundation, a new class is in the works in Winhall with another possibility in Weston. If you would like to participate in any of these classes, or be trained as a leader, please call the RSVP office in Bennington, at 447-1545.

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When local business owners June and Mark Alspaugh opened their dry cleaning business in Manchester 24 years ago, they understood the importance of good customer service, a smile and a “can do” attitude. They provided a service that folks needed and in return those friends and neighbors became loyal clientele, providing the Alspaughs a livelihood as well as jobs for their family and many others over the years. So it was that nearly two decades ago as a way of showing their gratitude for this good fortune, they came up with the idea of giving something back to their customers at holiday time. As December arrives each year, customers notice something new on the familiar counter where countless pounds of items in need of cleaning are left daily. It is a Holiday Drawing display, complete with a list of prizes that may be garnered with a simple drop of a signed slip of paper into the basket each time you drop off or pick up. This year’s gifts, redeemable for, of course, dry cleaning, range from $10 to $100. Customers can enter between December 5 and December 31, 2008, when the drawing will be held. Past winners are eager to attest to the joy felt when you pick up your cleaning without the need to reach for your wallet, instead using your cleaning “holiday line of credit.” At the time of year when warm clothes are coming out of closets all over Vermont and the economy may feel as challenging as the cold winter winds outside, the folks at J and J Cleaners are providing an opportunity to “cash in on a clean deal.” They invite you to become a part of the tradition this holiday season. You will find them open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Green Mountain Shops Plaza on Route 7A. ________________________________________________

Sixth Annual Community ‘Messiah Sing-Along’ in Arlington

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St. James Episcopal Church will host the sixth annual “Messiah SingAlong” on Sunday, December 28th, at 3:00 p.m., under the direction of Linda Hueckel. Singers of all levels and abilities are invited to participate in the informal sing-along which will include the Advent and Christmas section of Handel’s choral masterpiece, as well as the Hallelujah Chorus. There will be several soloists, including Mark Madison, Katie Beck, Patti Cody, and Rev. Scott Neal. The chorus/audience will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra comprised of very talented local musicians. Even if you don’t know the whole piece but want to sing or hum during your favorite part, we’d love to have you. Just show up and bring your voice, enthusiasm and holiday spirit! A limited number of copies of the score will be available to singers, and those who have their own copy are encouraged to bring it. Light refreshments will be served in the church hall following the event. Please join us! St. James Episcopal is located on the village green on Historic Route 7A in the center of Arlington, Vermont. For directions or additional information, call the parish office at 3759952 or go to http://www.stjameschurchvt.org.

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Children’s Christmas Party

A Christmas Party for children ages infant to 12, will be held on Sunday, December 21, from 2 to 4 p.m., at the American Legion Post #69 in Arlington, Vt. Bring a gift for your child to put under the tree. Santa will arrive to hand them out. Join in singing Christmas carols and enjoy refreshments to follow. ____________________

Christmas Eve in Londonderry

The Second Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in Londonderry invites the entire community to the Christmas Eve Service, Wednesday, December 24 at 5:30 p.m. The service will be a traditional Service of Lessons and Carol, and candlelighting. All are welcome! For directions or inquiries, please call the Church Office at 824-6453.

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— Susan J. Coons ...playing dress up.... I never played dress-up when I was a kid. It didn’t interest me. I just wanted to play outside and it didn’t matter what I was wearing. I had to wear clothes that could withstand tree-climbing, fenceclimbing, and baseball. We also played cops and robbers in and out of my folk’s car, a 1938 Chevy. It was great fun standing on the running boards, hanging onto the door, and pretending like I was the bad guy rat-a-tat-tatting the feds, who were always in hot pursuit behind the car! I had to dress ‘nice’ for school, church and Sunday school. Shoes were polished on Saturday night for Sunday, and Oxfords (saddle shoes) were polished on Sunday night for Monday. My dad wore a sport jacket to work. He managed lumber yards and had to be presentable in front of those who worked for him, and customers and contractors. Grandma always dressed very nicely. She worked at Carson-Pierie-Scott, a very upscale department store in Chicago. In fact, everyone who worked dressed up. There were no slouches. Grandpa was the only one in the family who didn’t dress up for work, and that was because he was a carpenter and wore overalls. He wore a clean tee-shirt every day, and clean socks. Even though he worked in a hot and sweaty environment, he washed up and changed clothes when he came home from work. We lived in LaGrange, a suburb of Chicago. We always dressed for the occasion when my mom and I took the train downtown to the Loop to go shopping. Ladies wore hats and gloves, and at Christmas time, they wore lovely corsages or colorful jewelry and pins. Men wore hats and tipped them slightly as they greeted

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women. It was a nice thing to do. Sort of an acknowledgment of the woman’s presence. It’s ingrained in me to dress for work; for church (when I go!); for a party; any special occasion. I’ve been through the White House a couple of times, and just out of reverence, have always dressed presentably when taking the tour. I’d never think of walking through in a pair of shorts and halter top. My daughter and I have our hair done at the same time at the same salon, and make the whole day a lunch/shopping trip. And we dress for the occasion. I’m glad she’s not a slouch! We both dress appropriately and feel good. Even if we’re wearing jeans and a sweater, they’re clean. It was disheartening seeing shoppers on television tearing into the malls on Black Friday. (A Wal-Mart store clerk was trampled to death trying to save a pregnant woman who had been knocked down. She lost her baby.) Their bedlam behavior was only amplified by the sloppy sweats and inappropriate clothing most of them were wearing. They were disgusting to look at. Good behavior starts with a kind of pride in one’s self. It doesn’t take money. All you have to do is be clean, fold your clothes or hang them up. Iron them if necessary, and behave as if you have a brain. Think about what you’re saying. Think about the language you’re using. Think about how your actions and December 17 , 2008

appearance are being observed by others. Are you displaying the true reflection of your inner self? I’m not sure just where all this sloppiness started. It certainly isn’t politically correct! It isn’t correct at all. The mass appeal of baseball caps has pretty much eliminated the courteous act of removing ones hat when indoors. I would be willing to gamble that there are few people under 40 who are even aware of that courtesy. It’s just nice to be polite to yourself and others. Give yourself a break and dress up once in a while. Act like you’re someone special for you! I wouldn’t think of playing cops and robbers in my Sunday best. And I wouldn’t think of wearing my jeans to church! ____________________

Christmas at First Baptist Church

The Christian Education Department at First Baptist Church of Manchester will celebrate the Christmas season with a living Nativity, December 20, on the steps of the church between 1 and 2 p.m. There will be live animals and music. Come and celebrate this wonderful season by taking a moment to reflect on the spirit of Christmas. The traditional candlelight Christmas Eve service, December 24, will be held at 7 p.m., and will feature a service of lessons and carols. The music director has planned special music for this evening and the church is beautifully decorated to add to the joys of the season. Come and join the church family at this special worship service. For further information call Pastor Bob at 362-1555. The church is located on the corner of Main and Bonnet Streets, Manchester. December 17, 2008

Gingerbread House to Beneﬁt Special Olympics

Mandy Mayer, of Rupert, has made six gingerbread houses over as many years and has given away three of them. But three, including this year’s, she has raffled off. This year’s proceeds will go to the Vermont Special Olympics. VT Special Olympics provides opportunities to children and adults with intellectual disabilities, and offers to them the excitement and feeling of accomplishment awarded to other athletes. Mayer has taken part in four Penguin Plunge events, which also benefit VT Special Olympics, raising about $3,000 altogether. “It took me 27 hours to make this gingerbread house,” Mayer said. “Every ingredient used, from the gingerbread bricks to the miniature bench and stained glass windows are edible. There is a bulb, not edible, inside the house so it can be lit up.” The gingerbread house is currently on display at the Chittenden Bank in Manchester and the sale of raffle tickets has been extended through December 15th. The drawing will take place on Monday evening, Dec. 15th. Raffle tickets are $2.00 for one, or $5.00 for three. “I’m really excited for my 5th Penguin Plunge (at the 14th Annual Burlington Penguin Plunge on February 7th),” Mayer said and she hopes to raise at least $2,000.00 this year through donations and from the raffle. Mayer invites everyone to stop by the Chittenden Bank to view the house, “ and purchase a raffle ticket or two for a good cause.” If you have questions,, call in the evening at 394-0013. Additional information may be found on www.PenguinPlunge.org.

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Peru Resident Carolyn Tobia has been making Gingerbread houses ever since she moved to Vermont in 1999. Every year she enters the annual Gingerbread contest at the Flood Brook Union School. For the past two years, Carolyn has made a reproduction of a Peru building. Last year she did the Peru Post office. Two years ago she did the Peru Church. This year, Carolyn recreated JJ Hapgood’s country store in Peru. The house came in First Place in the contest and was donated to owner Sam Johnson and his store. The house is on display for all to see this Holiday Season at JJ Hapgood’s store.

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Cookie Carnival at Stratton Mountain Resort

Sponsored by the Stratton Foundation, this popular event took place in the East Wing of the Stratton Base Lodge on Saturday afternoon, the 6th of December. 200 huge gingerbread cookies were, once again, generously donated by Mother Myrick’s Confectionery of Manchester, Vermont. This donation was especially appreciated by the more than 100 kids, big and small, who spent a couple of hours decorating the cookies. Laura Megroz and Sherry Clark, long time supporters of the Stratton Foundation, ran the event for the umpteenth time, mixing glaze in rainbow colors, pouring out sprinkles, candy canes, etc. for the kids to use for their imaginative cookie decorations. Thanks to Laura, Sherry and Mother Myrick’s, this long time tradition continues. The Stratton Foundation raises funds and distributes grants to nonprofit organizations in community, covering fire and safety, health and social services, recreation and the environment, community and arts, and education. Over $500,000.00 has been given for special projects to date, benefiting over 140 grass roots efforts. Please visit www.strattonfoundation.org for more information.

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“The Banner Over The Road Program”

The Manchester and the Mountain’s Regional Chamber of Commerce announces the 9th year of its Banner Over the Road program on Monday, January 19, 2009. Manchester Chamber members are invited to participate. The banners are hung across historic Main Street on Route 7A in Manchester Center for one week between Mid-March and Mid-November. Those organizations with a Non-Profit 501(C)3 designation will be given first priority. Second priority will be given to member businesses and organizations hosting events for the benefit of (FBO) a non-profit. There is a $250.00 fee for displaying your banner, half of which goes to support the Manchester Fire Department. Sign up is in person, on a first come first serve basis, at the Manchester Chamber’s main office, 5046 Main Street, Manchester Center, on January 19 at 9 a.m. Enjoy a cup of coffee and donuts on the chamber as you wait to sign up for your banner opportunity. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about other marketing opportunities available through chamber membership. This program has proven to be a valuable chamber member benefit providing an effective marketing tool for bringing greater visibility to our chamber businesses and their events in Manchester’s downtown. If you are not currently a chamber member this is a great opportunity to join the chamber and take advantage of this and other member benefit opportunities. To receive guidelines and registration forms please contact Beth Meachem at the chamber 362-6313 extension 15, e-mail bmeachem @manchesterchamber.net, visit our Web site at www.manchestervermont.net/enhanced_images/Banner_Application.pdf or stop in at the Manchester and the Mountains Regional Chamber main office to pick up information about the banner program and/or membership information. ____________________

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Toastmasters Tall Tales Dinner Rescheduled

Because of last Thursday’s storm, this Thursday, December 18, at 6 p.m., your local Toastmasters club meets for a rescheduled special no-host dinner and a hilarious evening at the Sirloin Saloon, Manchester. The gathering features “tall tales” by Dottie Sundquist and Julie Robertson of Sandgate, and Bill Munson of Sunderland, and impromptu rejoinders led by Cathy Gettel of Rutland. Guests are welcome. Contact Dick Scribner, 3627352, or check the Web site at www.equinoxvalleytoastmasters. org, for further details and our regular meetings location. December 17, 2008

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Teresse deRahm Earns Honors

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has announced that Teresse deRham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abbott B. deRham of Dorset, a senior majoring in biology and biotechnology, was named to the university’s Dean’s List for academic excellence during the Spring 2008 semester. ________________________________________________

Candlelight Service in Dorset

There will be a Candlelight Service on Wednesday evening, December 24, at 7 p.m., at the East Dorset Congregational Church. The choir will sing carols and pastor Larry Jenny will lead the service. All are welcome.

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The D’Olivo family (Annie Sr., Annie Jr. and daughter Jenna) invite you to attend Opera Theatre of Weston’s (OTW) performances of Hansel & Gretel in January. Jenna will join fifteen select local youth singers performing in the H&G Gingerbread Children’s Chorus for performances at the Paramount Theatre in Rutland (January 4) and at the Weston Playhouse (January 10 and 11). The D’Olivos recently attended OTW’s annual holiday vocal recital at the Equinox Terrace where Annie Sr. is a resident.

Circus Camp Returns to Maple Street this Spring!!

Save the date! Last year’s hugely popular Circus Camp will be returning to Maple Street School over the upcoming April break. The camp will be held April 13-17, 2009 from 8:30-3:30 and is open to all K - 8 students. Circus skills will be taught by Troy Wunderle, Ringmaster of the nationally renowned Circus Smirkus, and will include instruction on a variety of circus equipment. Students will become skilled in the art of juggling, participate in clown workshops, learn gravity-defying human stunts, and perform dazzling magic tricks. Adrian Sweeney will lead the arts and crafts component of the camp. The art teacher at North Bennington Graded School since 1992 and director of numerous area camps, Adrian will help students create a variety of circus-themed art that will be used in the performance on the final day of the camp. The cost for the camp will be $40 per day, and students may sign up for specific days or for the entire week. Sibling discounts and scholarships are available. Look for sign-ups in February or contact Jen Samuelson at 362-5843 for more information. Vermont News Guide

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Manchester Music Festival is giving away an iPod Nano, the winner to be announced at its December 28th Evening concert at First Congregational Church in Manchester Village. Those responding will automatically be entered to win the iPod by dropping by the MMF office and filling out a form allowing us to place your email address on our e-newsletter list. The E-newsletter is a great, “green” way to find out about all MMF’s concerts and other events through convenient email. Those interested may also call the MMF office to give an email address and so be entered to win: 362-1956, or email MMF with “Email List” in the subject line to enter: mmfvt@comcast.net. The MMF will never sell or rent email addresses to anyone else, and will only email those who have given us permission to do so - one may opt out of receiving our emails at any later date. _________________________________________________

The gift of creativity is one that lasts forever. To purchase a gift certificate for just such a special gift this holiday for a loved one or a good friend is just perfect. There are 30+ Winter-Spring courses available followed by more than 140 summer Arts and Crafts offerings scheduled for the summer months. Something for everyone. To inquire about or to purchase a gift certificate call 228-8770 or go on line at www.fletcherfarm.org. Stopping by the School at 611 Route 103 South, Ludlow, VT 05149 is welcomed as well.

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Candlelight Service in Arlington

Members of the Chapel on The Green in West Arlington invite members of the public to their an annual Candlelight Service. It will be held this year on the Sunday before Christmas, December 21, at 7 p.m. The service will be led by Pastor Key Mann with music provided by Kevin Bishop, organist. Kevin and choir members will be pleased to welcome anyone who wishes to join them as part of the choir. Those who wish to participate should be there at 6:30 to practice. Fellowship and refreshments will be served in the annex at the conclusion of the service. The Chapel on the Green is located on Route 313 West, through the covered bridge. Visit with old friends and make some new ones. For further information, call Helen at 375-2775 or Amy at 375-2736. Join us for our last birdwalk of the year!

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Cookie Decorating Party

A Cookie Decorating Contest will be held at The Second Congregational Church, Londonderry, Vt, on Sunday, December 21, from 2 to 4 p.m. Decorating cookies is always a fun way to get creative and festive this holiday season. Bring someone you love to share in the fun. Participants will get to decorate the cookies and take a plateful home. We ask all children and parents who come to participate to bring a cash donation or some nonperishable items to donate to the Neighbors Pantry. We hope to see you there. Please RSVP by December 19 to marisapowers@hotmail.com. _________________________________________________

Veterans VA Beneﬁts Outreach

Please mark your calendars and come to this benefits outreach. Any Veterans who wish to talk to the VFW Service Officer about disability and or medical benefits a Veterans outreach will be conducted on January 11, 2009, at the Castleton American Legion Post located on route 4A from 10 a.m. till noon. This outreach is sponsored by all the VFW Posts within District 1. Please bring a copy of your VA ID if you are already enrolled in VA health care and everyone must have a copy of your discharge papers and your DD-Form 214. If you are a Veteran, and you even think something has gotten worse since you got out you should talk to the VFW service officer. If you know any Veteran near you, even if they are not a VFW member, you should bring them so they can get assistance from the VFW service officer. An 81 year old from VFW Post 6471 thought it was not worth trying because he was turned down in 1946. He now gets 100% VA disability compensation as of 1996 after he went and reapplied. You simply won’t know if you don’t try. _____________________

Christmas Eve Service in Peru

The Christmas Eve service at the Peru Church will be at 6 p.m. Kermit Reilly will offer a reflection and the message will be given by Pastor Margaret. Our community choir will sing under the direction of Dr. Roger Fox and be accompanied by Lindsay Dyett, Garry and Annette Sharon, and Daniel Timmermans. This service is very well attended so please arrive early to ensure seating. 24

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The ‘Bone Tree’ in the Spirit of Giving

Black Dogs Wines & Spirits, located at 63 West Main Street in Cambridge, NY, invites you to join in their “Pet” project. In the Holiday spirit of giving to others, a “Bone Tree” has been created at Black Dogs. A one dollar donation gives you a “bone ornament” to place on the tree. There are larger “bone ornaments” for those wishing to make a $5 contribution. All proceeds will be given to Second Chance Animal Center in Shaftsbury, VT. Second Chance is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of companion animals in the communities of our immediate and surrounding areas. Their web site is www.2ndchanceanimalcenter.org. Spirit and MacGregor (the Black Dog mascots) and Deets and Greta (the owner’s real black labs) pledge to match the donations given dollar for dollar! You may donate a “bone ornament” when you are shopping at the store or you can go in just to donate and help trim the tree. Children are invited to donate also. It’s a good way of teaching them the spirit of giving. Thank you for your support and Happy Holidays from Black Dog and Second Chance. ________________________________________________

Pancake Breakfast

The Battenkill Grange #487, located on Route 313 West at the covered bridge in West Arlington, is offering a Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, December 21, from 8 to 10 a.m. The menu will include pancakes and sausage, real Vermont maple syrup, biscuits and sausage gravy, home fries, coffee, juice and milk. Cost is $6 for adults; $3 for children under 12. ________________________________________________

New Year’s Eve Dance

The Dorset Sportsmen’s Club will hold a New Year’s Eve Dance on Wednesday, December 31, starting at 8 p.m. Cost is $10 per person. Bring a “snack” dish to share. Essence-Brian LaRose, DJ, will be spinning the tunes. For further information, call Nancy at 362-4547.

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On behalf of all of us at Second Chance Animal Center-especially the animals!--thanks to everyone in the community who attended our Open House holiday party on Dec. 6th. We had a record turnout! Tina Wheeldon, our in-house “elf,” gave non-stop tours of the shelter for children and adults, showing off such seldom-seen areas as the intake room, the kennels and our surgical suite, where so much of our work with the animals is done. Santa came by to hear what kids had on their wish lists, and there were balloons, refreshments and holiday music throughout the building. Board member Claudia Dalton worked with guests to design ornaments commemorating or honoring pets and people; their creations are hanging on our two holiday trees. Lynne Fonteneau-McCann again crafted keepsake stockings as doorprizes; Carlen Scherer of Manchester won the cat stocking, while our own Dana Gilbert, humane education director, won the dog stocking. Annie Glendenning of Wallingford was the winner of our beautiful dog quilt, designed by Marjorie Rhyne and made and donated to the shelter by Jane Wright of Cambridge, NY. The dog-quilt raffle raised more than $1,000 for Second Chance, and we are grateful to everyone who bought tickets throughout the year. We wish there could have been more than one winner! A special sleigh-load of thanks go to Bennington photographer Irene Goyette, who got our holiday season off to a great start by hosting two sessions of pet and child portrait photography in late November, with all of the proceeds going to SCAC. What a thoughtful gift! The best news of all is that, thanks to a steady stream of animal-loving visitors to the shelter on the 6th, six cats and five dogs have found new, loving homes for the holidays! So, thank you one and all, for participating that day and for supporting our programs and our mission all year long. May you have a joyous, peaceful and bountiful season! Sincerely, — Nancy Boardman, president of the Board

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All 115 students at Currier Memorial School made a holiday letter to send to a soldier who is serving our country during the holiday season. The students worked with a big friend, Kindergarten with 6th, 1st with 5th, 2nd with 4th and 3rd graders with each other, to accomplish this wonderful gift as a way to say thank you for serving our country.

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Festival of Trees Grand Finale Gala at Bennington Museum The Bennington Museum hosts its 12th Annual Festival of Trees Grand Finale Gala on Friday, December 19 from 7 to 10 p.m. This fabulous evening wraps up weeks of holiday excitement and events of the Festival of Trees “Traditions”. Celebrating traditions both old and new, this event is the final opportunity to bid on exquisite gifts that have been generously donated as part of the museum’s silent auction, and for the first time, participate in a live auction held during the Gala. The museum is pleased to have Mary Anne Lukas of Southern Vermont Auction Gallery in Dorset as our auctioneer for the live auction portion of the celebration. The Grand Finale Gala is an evening to enjoy delicious catered hors d’oeuvres, signature drinks, wine and champagne, live music and friends. The beautifully decorated museum, along with the live music from the several groups provides holiday ambience you are sure to enjoy. We wrap up the evening with spirited live and silent bidding. Join in the fun and it could be your name that is called! Tickets for the Gala are $35/person or $60/ couple and can be purchased by calling the museum at 447-1571. Reservations are suggested. ____________________

Women Business Owners Network Opens Chapter

The new Manchester Chapter of Women Business Owners Network will have a Business Card Swap reception on Wednesday, January 14th from 6-8 p.m. at Ye Olde Tavern on Route 7A. Mark your calendars to meet and mingle with area women business owners. For more information, contact Chapter Coordinator Kathy Williams, 779-4721 or kathy@willvt.com, or wbon.org. Established in 1984, WBON is a nonprofit professional group offering business networking and education to women.

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Get into the Holiday Spirit: Become a Fresh Air Host Family This November, many families in the Dorset, Vt., area are thankful for something special: the gift of their friendship with a New York City child. Through The Fresh Air Fund’s Friendly Town program, local families open their hearts and homes to inner-city children as volunteer hosts for up to two weeks during the summer. By volunteering as a host family for summer 2009, the spirit of Thanksgiving can continue in your home throughout the year. One child recounts the activities she tried in Friendly Town during her visit. “I went horseback riding for the first time even though I was scared. Now I love it, like swimming in a lake!” Since 1877, The Fresh Air Fund, an independent, not-for-profit agency, has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities. Nearly 10,000 New York City children enjoy free Fresh Air Fund programs annually. In 2008, close to 5,000 children visited volunteer host families in suburbs and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and into Canada. Additionally, 3,000 children attended five Fund camps on a 2,300-acre site in Fishkill, New York. For more information on hosting a Fresh Air child next summer, please contact Geralyn Manning at 867-5944 or The Fresh Air Fund at 800-367-0003. You can also visit The Fund’s Web site at www.freshair. org.

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WBTN Live and Worldwide!

Radio station WBTN AM, which prides itself as being “Live & Local,” is now live and worldwide as well. Although tests had been under way for some time, the station, 1370 officially began live streaming of its broadcasts Friday, December 12, at 3 p.m. This means that anyone with a computer now can listen to WBTN AM programming even if they’re thousands of miles away from the station’s Harwood Hill base. “We have students from the North Bennington Graded School who often do broadcasts,” said Brian Dempsey, the station coordinator. “Now their grandparents in Florida, can hear them live.” Not only grandparents in Florida but anyone anywhere now can listen to WBTN programming simply by going to the station’s web site, which is “wbtnam.org” between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. The hope is not only to gain additional listeners but also to generate additional revenue from advertising that will be posted on the web site. WBTN was launched in Bennington in 1953. It was bought by Bob Howe of North Bennington about a decade ago, and later donated by him to Southern Vermont College. The college, saying it was losing money operating it, put it up for sale, and it was bought recently by a newly-formed non-profit group — Shires Media Partnership — whose goal is to keep it locally-owned and focused on local content. The station’s mission statement says that “The task of this station is to provide the greater Bennington community with a voice for itself. We will accomplish this mission by doing things that are creative, innovative, positively influential, and alive with music and laughter.” For more information, contact Brian Dempsey by phone at 442-6321 or by e-mail at brian@wbtnam.org.

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On Tuesday, November 18, the Historic Salem Courthouse Preservation Association (HSCPA) in Salem, New York conducted its seventh annual meeting. The evening’s agenda started at 6 p.m. with a potluck dinner in the Courthouse hallway. The meeting commenced with a tribute to Peter Sauer, the outgoing president. Sauer served as president of the HSCPA for two-and-a-half years, and his vision and leadership were integral in helping to advance the mission of the organization. A strong proponent of the arts, Sauer’s support was instrumental in establishing the Courthouse Pottery Studio. Sauer’s generous donation of a pug mill used to recycle clay will ensure the continuation of the pottery program by helping to control studio costs. Sauer continues to play an active role by mentoring new Courthouse leaders who benefit from his experience. Dorothy Schneider, whose term as president starts on January 1, provided the membership with a current view of the organization. Executive Director Donna Faringer provided a detailed overview of the events and programs of 2008. After reports provided by the secretary, treasurer and committee chairs, the meeting was adjourned and the new board members and officers were elected. Schneider was elected president and Herb Perkins vice president for one year to fill the remainder of a two-year term. The new directors elected for the class of 2011 are Karen Sheldon, Jonathan Fine, Dorothy Schneider and Herb Perkins. Many new services offered to the Salem area, including the recent H.E.A.P. and food stamp application days, will help to ensure the continuation of the Courthouse as a true community center. New members and volunteers are always welcome and appreciated. For more information, call 518-854-7053. ________________________________________________

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Circus Smirkus Residency at Mettawee Community School

Christine Landon is leading a two-week Circus Smirkus Residency, now through December 18, at the Mettawee Community School in West Pawlet. Landon, left, began teaching the first graders, including Bryan Ferguson, right, how to juggle scarves. An All-School performance (free and open to the public) is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 18 at 7 p.m. Vermont News Guide

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Fisher Elementary Honor Roll Fisher Elementary School in Arlington, Vermont has completed its first academic quarter and announced its honors for fourth and fifth grade students. To receive honors, students must meet grade-point average requirements. The following students were named: Grade 5 High Honors: Alex Farley, Brandon Gamble, Shivang Patel, Andrew Spencer; Honors: Michael Caggiano, Madeline Gutbier, Austin Hawley, Emily Lampron, James Macksey, Nathan Mattison; Grade 4 Honors: Allana Forti, Evan Rogers, Micaela Secoy, Maggie Smith, Wally Hynds. Academic honors were also given to students for achievement in math, science and literacy: Pythagoras Math Award: Grade 5, Shivang Patel; Grade 4, Maggie Smith; Grade 3, Ricky Davis; Young Einstein Science Award: Grade 5, James Macksey; Grade 3, Sofie Pedemonti; Dorothy Canfield Fisher English Award: Grade 5, Shivang Patel; Grade 4, Evan Rogers; Grade 3, Katie Berger. The Arlington School District mission is to create a safe, caring and respectful environment of academic excellence where students are uniquely challenged to reach their potential at the K-5, 6-8 and 9-12 levels. ________________________________________________

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SVC’s Upward Bound Seeks High School Applicants

Need a leg up for college? Upward Bound at Southern Vermont College (SVC), a federally funded program through the Department of Education, is currently seeking applications from eligible high school students in grades nine, ten and eleven. The Upward Bound program helps students to develop the skills, motivation and self-confidence necessary for success in high school and college. Students attending the target schools served by Upward Bound are invited to apply: Arlington Memorial High School, Berlin High School, Cambridge High School, Hoosick Falls Central School, Mount Anthony Union High School, Salem High School and Mount Greylock High School in Massachusetts. Upward Bound provides fundamental support to participants in their preparation for college entrance. The program provides opportunities to participants to succeed in their pre-college performance and ultimately in their higher education pursuits. Upward Bound serves: high school students from low-income families; high school students from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor’s degree; and lowincome, first-generation military veterans who are preparing to enter postsecondary education. The goal of Upward Bound is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary education and enroll in and graduate from institutions of postsecondary education. For more information and eligibility guidelines, call 447-4665. December 17, 2008

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Christmas Worship at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Chester Advent and Christmas services at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church welcome visitors and worshipers who seek to renew their Christian faith and perhaps find a deeper meaning to Christmas. Advent is the season of preparation for the birth of Christ. On Sunday, December 21, Advent IV, Rite I at 8 a.m., and Holy Eucharist Rite II at 10 a.m. are celebrated. Then at 4 pm a traditional service of lessons and carols is performed, followed by a pot luck supper in Willard Hall. On Wednesday, December 24, Christmas Eve at 6:30 p.m., there will be carol singing immediately followed by The Festival Holy Eucharist Rite II at 7:00 p.m., with care available. Finally, at 11:00 p.m. the Festival Holy Eucharist Rite I will be celebrated. On Christmas Day, December 25, The Nativity of Our Lord, Holy Eucharist Rite II will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m.,. and on the following Sunday, December 30, the Holy Eucharist Rite I will be celebrated at 8:00 a.m., and Rite II follows at 10:00 a.m. as usual. St. Luke’s Church was established in 1868, and the building consecrated in 1871. The Rev. H. Paul Brannock-Wanter is the fifteenth rector to serve a continuing and mainline Episcopal tradition here. A complete listing of Christmas services can be found on the church website at www. stlukespeiscopal.org. ___________________

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Happy New Year on Girls Night Out!

Join Toney Lee ON LOCATION with her guest Chef Brian Molino at Marche at 74 State in Albany, NY on January 5! What Fun! Chef Brian is the “talk of the Hudson Valley”, named one of the top 5 chefs of the area! He is also one of Girls Night Out “Top Chef ” picks for 2008! Brian works his culinary magic at Marche, the restaurant at 74 State, a wonderful boutique hotel in the heart of downtown Albany. Marche was just named the best new restaurant by Hudson Valley Magazine and won the Hospitality Spirits award from Sante Magazine. Albany Times Union has praised Brian as “practically perfect in every way”. Can you say, “Everyone Loves Brian”? Brian’s specialty is thinking outside of the box while preparing simple yet elegant offerings using as many local and seasonal ingredients as possible. Brian has fond memories of growing up helping his dad (who was a pharmaceutical chemist) in the kitchen. He said his dad made fabulous lasagna with fresh noodles and a terrific Bolognese sauce that always made him happy when he smelled it in the oven. Brian and his family moved from Hatfield, PA to Albany, NY during his senior year of high school, where Brian got an internship working alongside Chef Sean McElroy at the Normanside Country Club in Delmar. Seeing his talent, Chef McElroy encouraged him to go to the CIA. Which is exactly what Brian did….and before long he was sous-chef at Manhattan’s Craft, the trendy eatery that was the brainchild of Tom Colicchio (who is now best known as the head judge on the TV hit Top Chef). And then, of course to his current position as Exec. Chef at Marche, the chichi eatery at the boutique hotel 74 State in Albany! Girls Night Out will be taped on location at 74 State in Albany, NY on January 5. If you would like to be part of the audience the cost is $25 per person in advance (due to the overwhelming response) - reservations are a must! You’ll get to “sample” the fabulous food, take the recipes home and have a great time too! Please book well in advance. Reservations must be made no later than the Wednesday prior to the show you wish to attend by calling GNAT-TV in

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The Stratton Foundation Presents MEN WHO COOK Save the date for a great night of dining and an outstanding silent auction. Numerous area businesses and individuals have been very supportive of the silent auction with donated goods and services. Men Who Cook and the Silent Auction is a key fundraiser in the Foundation’s ability to help non-profit organizations; this year the emphasis is on food, fuel and health services in the 16 towns we serve in Southern Vermont. Every year “Men Who Cook” features dozens of favorite recipes for appetizers, entrees and desserts prepared by local notable and quotable amateur chefs and presented exclusively for

your epicurean adventure. Join the feasting and fun and support the Stratton Foundation’s community grant program, a key part of our efforts in “Building a Better Community” Our volunteer cooks, (95% are not professional chefs) prepare their dishes at home and bring them to the Stratton Base Lodge to serve you and compete for prizes and your acclaim. Each year they manage to put their best food forward for this grand tasting extravaganza. Home cooking at the Stratton Base Lodge and all for a good cause. The January 17 fundraiser, which is the best entertainment value on the Mountain, starts at 7

p.m. Tickets are $28.00 for adults (with a cash bar), and $25 when pre-purchased online at Active. com. Tickets for children aged 12 to 6 years old are $10.00, aged 5 and under free. A space for kids, with entertainment and supervision is available. For more information, call or e-mail Sandy MacKinnon at 2971187 mackinnonsandy@hotmail. com or Gun Burns at 297-2096 strattonfndn@yahoo.com The Stratton Foundation distributes grants to non-profit organizations in our area communities covering fire and safety, health and social services, recreation and the environment, community and arts, and education.

arriving at the 74 State at 6 p.m. on the day of the show. See you there! Girls Night Out is seen on GNAT-TVs’ CH. 15 at 8 am/pm & 4 a.m./p.m. daily and on other cable public access television stations throughout the state of Vermont, New Hampshire, Williamstown, Pittsfield & Cape Cod, MA, Schenectady, NY, & Mid-Coast TV in Half Moon Bay, California! Please check your television schedule for times in your locale. Girls Night Out can also now be “seen” on the internet - visit us at our Web page at website www.gnat-tv.org.

Out of Aunt Bonnie’s Kitchen.... — by Bonnie Chandler

Hi Friends!! I’m glad to see you all made it through Turkey Day, Black Friday, the New Moon, and the first week of the last month of the old year just before the new year and three and one half weeks prior to the end of the year ringing in the new year or two weeks and one day before Santa’s arrival. Got that? Well, good. So here we are entering into that old familiar season of “Hurry up and procrastinate until December 24 and panic!” You are not alone. Let’s all have a good little laugh over our selves. Those of you who this does not apply to and are laughing at everybody else – we will get you back! He who laughs last laughs best! Let’s keep on keepin’ on having some fun!! MOCK LASAGNA This meal is so E-A-S-Y! It will satisfy all members of a ravenous household. This recipe has all the ingredients of a “real” lasagna only waaay faster and easier. Other than being easy, this meal has a seven star rating ******* Easy, Cheap, Easy Clean-up, Good, Hearty, Satisfying, and Easy Clean-up *******. There is definitely no mistake in the list of stars. Can you guess which one I consider to be at the top of my list? Let’s get started. 3-4 packages of frozen ravioli (depending on how large your lasagna pan is and how high to overflowing you make it.) 1 jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce 1 16 oz. package of shredded mozzarella cheese or 2 cups of your own if you are not as lazy as I am when I get really tired – the Cold Molasses in February Syndrome (CMFS or the abbreviated version, C’mon Mom!) will have started to kick in at full force.

2 tsp. oregano 2 tsp. basil Sneaky spinach – fresh or frozen if you have it you can sneak in some greens here. 1 cup cooked chopped sausage (optional) *you can use turkey or chicken sausage for a very tasty substitute.* Paprika Parsley Parmesan Cheese Take your spaghetti sauce and line pan with about 1⁄4 of the jar. Then line your pan with a single layer of the ravioli. Add more sauce, and top with some of the cheese. Sprinkle with the oregano and basil for a bit of extra ﬂavor. Repeat process and end with the cheese. Decorate with the paprika and parsley to make dinner look pretty – you eat with your eyes. Bake covered at 425° 35-45 minutes until hot and bubbly. Uncover for about 5 minutes to brown the cheese. Top with parmesan cheese. Enjoy and turn up that Italian dinner music because the bistro is at your place tonight.

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Vermont Reading Partners Receives Grant

In June of this year, Vermont Reading Partners (VRP) was awarded a McCarty Grant from the Stratton Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is to enhance the quality of life and create a sense of community in Southern Vermont. To this end they award grants to nonprofit organizations in the community for education, fire and safety, health and social services, recreation and the environment and community and the arts. The VRP grant award was given to fund VRP’s Book Plate Project. This project assures that each book placed in one of its Book Swaps displays a bookplate on the inside cover of each book to inform the book’s recipient that free literacy help is available by calling 362-2323. The book plate also carries the message that the Stratton Foundation has made this outreach possible. At nine community book swaps in Bennington County, Vermont, one in Rutland County, Vermont and two in-house school swaps, Fisher and MEMS, gently used books that have been donated by residents of Bennington County are given away seven-days a week. These Book Swaps provide easy access to free books for anyone in the community, especially those needing books in their home. There is no limit to the number of books a child or young adult can take home and enjoy. Over 30,000 books have been given away since the inception of the Book Swap/free books program.

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Manchester Leo Club Formed The Manchester Lions Club proudly announces their new volunteer club, “The Manchester Leo Club”. With the cooperation of Burr & Burton Academy’s Learning Department and the inspiration and hard work of Dorset resident, Pam Nichols, The Leo Club was formed. On November 10, 2008, The Leo Club was chartered by Lions Club International. There are many active Leo Clubs through-

out the United States as well as the world. However, this is the only active Leo Club to be chartered in New England in the past ten years, thanks to Pam Nichols. “I am very excited about the formation of The Leo Club in our community,” commented Pam, “I believe it will be a positive addition for our young people as well as our entire community.” The goal of The Leo Club is to foster leadership and volunteer-

ism with young people in the community as well as helping those in need. The first serviced project of the new club and its first ten members is to collect used cell phones. The cell phones will be filled with minutes donated by various telephone companies, and sent to our military personnel on active duty throughout the world. The phones will enable our men and women overseas to call home (Continued on page 36)

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Champion Fire Company # 5 Recieves Stratton Foundation Grant

Combating fires over the last decade has had dramatic changes in methods, safety and communication standards. As we know from the events of 9 - 11, communication is the key to all emergency situations. To this end Champion Fire Company # 5 has taken leading steps in the area of interior firefighter communications. We have upgraded to the use of bone microphones that are now integrated into the helmets of our interior fire fighting teams. Our teams can communicate more efficiently and effectively enabling the job at hand to be completed safer

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with improved results. We have decided to purchase additional radios so our interior attack teams have a radio that is solely dedicated for use with the integrated bone mic system charged and ready at all times. First it is key that our interior teams start out with a fully charged radio. Second, changing over from a hand mic or other device to the bone mic on the way to an incident causes too much loss of time when every minute counts. The additional radios will help insure that our teams are ready and vital communication equipment is at full charge and correctly attached at all times. This will further saves lives and property Tools are necessary to do our job. Doing our job effectively and efficiently increases the safety factor for all while performing our duties. The Stratton Foundation has supported our organization through the years through their grant process and this fall have awarded Champion Fire Company # 5 a $ 1000 grant to help us achieve our goal of providing portable radios dedicated for use by our interior fire fighting teams. The continued support of the Stratton Foundation is greatly appreciated by all the members of our organization. Your help allows us to purchase equipment that could save property and lives, possibly our own. (Leo Club, cont.) free of charge. If you have a cell phone to donate, please call Pam Nichols at 362-3504. One of The Leo Club’s long-term goals is to find a location to have a teen center in our community that will provide our young people with a safe place to meet. The teen center will enable local teens to meet other teens, plan community service projects, and have fun, in a safe and positive environment. Any helpful ideas or suggestions as to an appropriate location are appreciated. The Leo Club is open to all teenagers in 9th through 12th grades. Please call Pam at 362-3504 if you are interested in joining this new and exciting club and for further information. The Manchester Lions Club is very excited about The Leo Club and wishes them a long and successful future. Congratulations to the new members of The Manchester Leo Club and to Pam Nichols.

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Stratton Foundation Establishes Urgent Needs Fund

Maple Street Teaches Computer Ethics to Students

Maple Street School launched a six-week computer ethics class to help students develop 21st century skills on internet safety and the ethical use of technology. Fran Bisselle, Head of School, states, “Our rigorous academic program necessitates the use of many technologies. Therefore, it is critical to address the moral responsibilities connected to the use of technology, and how respect for others and cooperation extend to the web world.” The program seeks to address how information and communication technologies affect young people’s behavior. It looks to develop students’ decision-making strategies and understanding of issues such as cyber-bullying and plagiarism. “These are important issues to address head on,” Bisselle states, “and we want to create a transparent partnership with our students and families so that we can be the healthiest and safest learning environment possible.” Maple Street School is an independent, day school serving children in grades Kindergarten through eighth grade. For more information about the school, please call 362-7137 or visit on the web at www. maplestreetschool.com

The Stratton Foundation in Southwestern Vermont has established a special grant program to meet increased demand for basic services such as food, fuel and healthcare. The Stratton Foundation Board has allocated up to $25,000, with as much as $2,500 for each proposal. The board will make immediate grants of $1,500 with an additional $1,000 available on a dollar for dollar matching basis. Priority will be given to grant proposals representing fresh ideas that foster self-reliance. The intent of the matching grant component is to stimulate local support for the initiative, providing organizations with additional funds to address urgent needs. Larger grants will be considered if several nonprofit organizations develop an approach that will serve people in two or more of the towns in the Foundation’s service area; Arlington, Danby, Dorset, Jamaica, Landgrove, Londonderry, Manchester, Peru, South Londonderry, Stratton, Sunderland, Townshend, Wardsboro, Weston, Windham and Winhall, Vermont. Applications are due by January 1, 2009 and can be downloaded from www.strattonfoundation.org. The Urgent Needs Fund was made possible through the generosity of area resident, Antoinette Stafford, who made a bequest to the Foundation. The board felt the Urgent Needs Fund was a perfect way to honor Antoinette Stafford’s intention to do something special for the community she loved so much. For more information, call 802-297-2096.

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Long Trail School Wins Four Awards at Model UN Conference Eleven students from Long Trail School in Dorset, Vermont traveled to Montreal, Quebec on November 6 to participate in The Secondary Schools’ United Nations Symposium (SSUNS). This three-day symposium is Canada’s premier high school conference, bringing together over 1,000 students from around the globe. In the school’s fifth

year of participation, its students represented the countries of Germany, India and Indonesia. Long Trail’s delegation brought home four awards from this event. Senior Braxton James won the Nellie McClung Best Delegate Award for Advocacy. Fellow senior Marah Bragdon received the Lester B. Pearson Best Delegate Award for

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Peacekeeping. Junior Oren Cook was awarded the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Best Delegate Award for Diplomatic Finesse. Additionally, the Long Trail School delegation won the Best Small School Delegation Award for schools with enrollment under 400. In addition to the students who received individual awards, the delegation included Elena Loveday, Robin Rainwalker, Dylan Pilcher, Cerridwen MoserBertsche, Corey Olsen, Wylie Caras, Grace Insogna, and Matt Rosenthal. Sean Sonderman teaches Model UN as a semester offering in social studies for juniors and seniors. He commented that “this was one of the most solid groups I’ve ever taken to a Model UN conference, as evidenced in the number of delegate awards received.” ____________________

Mitten Tree at Chittenden Bank

Cathy Van Wagner, assistant manager of Chittenden Bank, Manchester Center, and employees of that bank would like to remind everyone that Mitten Tree donations will be accepted through Christmas. Mittens, hats and scarves are needed. Plan to stop in on Friday, December 19, from 3 to 5 p.m. to visit with Santa and enjoy some holiday goodies. Everyone at Chittenden wishes all of you a very happy holiday season. �� 38

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Christmas Eve Services at First Baptist Church, Bennington

You are invited to attend Christmas Eve services at the First Baptist Church on December 24, at 7:00 p.m. The service will feature traditional carols, the reading of Luke’s nativity story, and the singing of “Silent Night” as part of a beautiful candlelighting. The Rev. Jerrod H. Hugenot, coordinating minister, will offer the homily, “Searching for Home”. Christmas Eve draws the holy season of Advent, the time of watching, waiting, and preparing for the Nativity of Jesus. For the past four Sundays, Christians have lit candles each week, drawing themselves closer to the holy day of Christmas. First Baptist has spent part of its Advent journey continuing its winter project of donating winter clothing to Molly Stark Elementary School and celebrating the holy season through congregational events each weekend. The First Baptist Church is located at 601 Main Street in downtown Bennington, Vermont. An American Baptist congregation, First Baptist provides a place for grace where all persons are welcome. The Rev. Jerrod H. Hugenot serves as coordinating minister. Questions may be directed to 442-2105 or fboffice@sover.net. To learn more about First Baptist, visit http://www.fbcbennington.org.

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Topics & Tangents at Equinox Terrace

Do-it-yourself projects and handcrafts, whether undertaken by themselves or by others, were discussed most recently by Equinox Terrace residents in Manchester, Vermont. One resident, an engineer, has painted artistic works in addition to practical projects such as walls and woodwork. He has also carved many duck decoys. Another resident took art lessons when she was in grade school and also served as a model for her art teacher’s group when she was eight or nine years old. She has preserved a portrait of her younger self from those days, wearing a quaint straw hat with flowers and holding a stuffed animal. Milking cows was a skill one resident learned quite early, though she was kicked a few times and ordered to stop milking until she was older and stronger. Two cows produced more than enough milk for her family. The surplus went to a poor family that lived nearby, whose children arrived daily with a pail for fresh milk to take home. Like many of us, one woman knitted during several decades of a very busy life. She had been taught to knit as a Camp Fire Girl when Mrs. Walter Hard was the leader, and she later knitted for her two children and for other relatives. She sent wool from her own sheep to Maine to be dyed and spun. A few years ago, she knitted a sweater for her daughter, who never wore it. She then asked for the sweater back and began to remake it. But then it was time for a major decision. She determined that she had knitted enough for one lifetime, and gave the partly finished sweater to the Terrace knitting group which continues to be active after many years, supplying afghans and other warm things to the Veterans’ Home and the homeless.

Three New Board Members Join the Battenkill Conservancy

The Battenkill Conservancy has announced that Cambridge, New York residents Marianne Vernon and Darryl Caputo and Shushan, New York resident Heather Smith have been unanimously elected to the executive board of the Battenkill Conservancy. The three new board members bring with them an enthusiastic approach to the Battenkill Conservancy’s mission of preserving and enhancing the Battenkill Watershed and a deep respect for the river and its surroundings. For more information, call 518-677-2545.

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SPORTS Dean Goodwin ‘Comes Home’ to Bromley

Dean Goodwin, who first skied Bromley alongside his Ski Patrolling dad, Charles, at the age of three, has come full circle - Dean’s been part owner and employee of the Norse House, in Bondville, for the past 41 years - and joined the technical staff of the Bromley Ski Shop. “First, we were very fortunate to find somebody with Dean’s vast experience. It’s a rare thing,” says Bromley Ski Shop manager, Gary Bokenkamp. “Second, you can’t help but love the connection. Dean’s father was the head of the Bromley Ski Patrol in the 1950s and 1960s. Dean grew up on Bromley, he probably knows the mountain as well as anyone and better than most, and now, years later, he’s back, and on staff.” The Bromley Shop, in the Base Lodge, is a full service winter sports outfitter specializing in state-of-the-art ski and snowboard equipment and the latest winter sports apparel from Burton, Rossignol, Salomon,

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Atomic, K2, Arbor and Head. Bromley Mountain is located on Route 11, six miles east of Manchester; shop hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., and from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. weekends. For more information, call 824-5522, ext. 326.

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Bennington Project Independence December caregiver support group meeting: Families Together will be meeting on Dec. 30th at 1:00 p.m. at the Old First Church Barn, Bennington. Call Beth Newman, Bennington Project Independence at 442-8136 for more information. ________________________________________________

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VPT Special ‘Money-Wise Seniors’

Vermont Public Television’s “Public Square” call-in special for this month, airing Thursday, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m., offers practical advice for seniors who are facing hard financial choices. The program continues VPT’s efforts to help people cope with tough economic times. Health care, housing, home heating and transportation will be among the topics, with emphasis on the challenges of living on a fixed income. Viewers will be invited to participate with questions and comments at 1-866-424-LIVE during the program. Host is Kristin Carlson. Panelists will be John Barbour, executive director, Champlain Valley Agency on Aging; Judy Petersen, president, Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice; Joan Senecal, commissioner, Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living; and Nancy Eldridge, executive director, Cathedral Square. Anyone with access to a computer or other device that can display Web-based video may see a live webcast of the program at www.vpt. org.

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mous donation, scholarships are available. For more information call 440-4060 or integrativethera pies@phin.org Diabetes Self-Management: Newly diagnosed with diabetes? Want to learn how to better manage your diabetes? We can help. Individual sessions available daily by appointment only. Group sessions two Tuesdays per month, 1:30–3:30 p.m. Insurance carriers, Medicare, and Medicaid cover sessions. Call for information: 447-5315. Quitting One-on-One: Trained smoking cessation counselors will help you create an individual program that will help you quit the tobacco habit. Free. Call Gwen, (802) 447-5508. B.E.A.T/F.E.A.T: (Babies Extremely Against Tobacco/ Families Extremely Against Tobacco): Kelly Davis, RN & Jacqui Truex-Greenslet, RN. Helps pregnant women and new moms quit smoking. Call 447–5219. Deerfield Valley Walkers: Join a group of regular walkers in Wilmington. Call Lynn for dates and times: 802-464-7392 People with Arthritis Can

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Green Mountain Club, Manchester Section Snow Shoe Hikes:

Please remember: no cotton clothing – wear layers – bring extra layers, lunch and snacks, fluids, basic safety equipment, snow shoes – always contact the trip leader so that person knows you are coming and, if the trip needs to be cancelled due to weather, you can be contacted. Sunday 12/21 – snowshoe up the Bucklin Trail to Killington summit, lunch at the summit building and return down the Bucklin Trail 8 miles - moderate – if carpooling from the Manchester area, meet at the parking lot for the RK Miles Doors and Windows store at 8 a.m. – for everyone else meet at the Hannaford parking lot, south end of Rutland at 8:40 a.m. - trip leader Marge Fish, 824-3662, mail to: marge. fish@gmail.com Tuesday 12/23 - Mt. Equinox lookout point by way of Beartown Rd. We will meet in the Equinox parking lot on Union St. (across from the golf course club house and behind the 1st Congregational Church) at 9:00 a.m. and carpool to the trailhead due to limited parking space. - 7 miles, moderate - trip leaders Steve and Alyson Grzyb, 362-6108 , mail to: alyruby@gmail.com

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Winter Solstice Service in Peru

Rev. Claire North and Pastor Margaret Dawedeit invite you to join us at a Winter Solstice service at the Peru Church on Sunday, December 21st at 4 p.m. An ancient rite that marks the longest day of the year, the Solstice is understood as a spiritual turning point during which we welcome the light back into our lives. The celebration will feature local musicians Karen and Bruce Frank, Harlan Levy, Tim Anchor Hoch, Pamela Johnston, and Rhiannon Stephanie Holzman, storyteller Lesley Nase, singer Patti Smith, and sacred movement led by Mary Andersen. For more information, please call Rev. Claire at 362 – 2346.

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CREATURES Library hosts Raptor Encounter

Thanks to funding from the Kettering Foundation, the South Londonderry Free Library will host a free Vermont Institute of Natural Science presentation – “Raptor Encounter” on Saturday, December 20 at 10:30 a.m. Ages 6 to adult are invited to have a first-hand encounter with a live kestrel, hawk and owl that can no longer live in the wild. These birds reside at the spacious VINS Nature Center in Quechee along with injured eagles and many other different types of falcons and owls. Kristen Rzemien, VINS educator, will also be bringing touchable artifacts and other handson materials. She will talk about the natural history, ecology and adaptations of falcons, hawks and owls and why these adaptations make these birds raptors. This program will take place at the Londonderry Town Assembly Room at 100 Old School Street, just up the short hill past the library. For more information, please call Mary at 824-3371.

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& ENVIRONMENT Wallingford Receives Grants

The Town of Wallingford received two Better Backroads Grants, issued through the Northern Vermont Resource Conservation & Development council in Bermon. This is their 12th year of funding projects on town or private roads to improve water quality and realize savings in maintenance costs. One grant is in the amount of $4,017.60, which is 75% of the estimated cost. Funds will be used on a project along Sugar Hill Road in East Wallingford to improve drainage along the road.

The second grant is in the amount of $924.21. Portions of Seward Hill Road in East Wallingford wash out two to three times per

year and the grant funds will be used to install culverts along the road.

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Sandgate Resident’s New Memoir About Growing Up in the NH Foster Care System

In the Child’s Voice, by Ann (Bunny) Wuerslin – who until June was the Sandgate Town Clerk for the past 13 years – is a compelling memoir of her childhood as a foster child in New Hampshire in the ‘30s and ‘40s. Told in the child’s voice, and from this child’s unique point of view (stubborn, spirited and with a keen sense of what’s fair) the memoir unfolds in a series of vignettes – some comic, many tragic – as Bunny is moved through seven different “homes” before the age of ten and in the course of the moves is separated from her three siblings one by one. We get to know the complexities and powers of each new family from a child’s space, down near the floor and under the adults’ hushed voices. We feel the squishy comfort of Mrs. Gove’s lap. We are terrified of the dark attic Mrs. Schwartz has locked Bunny into. And we feel the bewildering helplessness as the county lady shows up without warning to take her to yet another home. “We would last about a year or so,” she says. “No one ever told you why. And you never saw your foster family again.” In the Child’s Voice will have you laughing, crying, and shaking your head over the antics and traumas of this adventurous, straight-backed, stubborn child. You can purchase In the Child’s Voice at Northshire Books in Manchester.

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Downtown Rutland’s Gift Wrap Depot Opening Soon

Are you all thumbs when it comes to wrapping presents? If you shop in Downtown Rutland then the Downtown Gift Wrap Depot, managed by the Downtown Rutland Partnership, is the answer to your problems. For a nominal fee you can have your downtown purchases wrapped and ready to go under the tree. The Gift Wrap Depot will be located in the Tuttle Building, 11 Center Street. Use of the space is courtesy of the Rutland Herald as the space will be shared with the outstanding display of Aldo Merusi photographs presently on display. The Gift Wrap Depot officially opens Monday, December 15 and will be open for business through Christmas Eve. Depot hours are: December 20 and 21, Noon to 5 p.m.; December 22-23, Noon to 8 p.m.; and December 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Gift Wrap Depot and other downtown HollyDays activities are possible through the support of the following businesses: Citizens Bank, Noble Environmental Power, Fair Point Communications, the Rutland Herald, Price Chopper, Wal-Mart, Key Bank, VELCO, OMYA, Gus’ Tobacco Shop, Casella Waste Management and Best Western, with additional support from Catamount Radio, Desjardins Jewelers, Ladabouche Furniture, Limoges Antiques, Cold River Frameworks, Hawley’s Florist and the Marble Valley Regional Transit District. The full schedule of Downtown HollyDays events is available at www.rutlanddowntown.com. _________________________________________________

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100th Anniversary of Hildene Organ Celebrated During the Holidays Hildene will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln family’s Aeolian pipe organ in the best way possible, by playing it. In 1908, Robert Todd Lincoln gave the magnificent instrument to his wife Mary Harlan Lincoln as a birthday gift. The

Hildene organ is the only player pipe organ currently in working order in Vermont and the oldest residential pipe organ in the country still located in the original place for which it was purchased, the family’s Manchester mansion. The console has always

been located in the home’s center hall and the 1,000 pipes housed in two spindled chambers on the stair landing. The original price tag for the century old instrument was $11,500, while recent appraisals place the current value at approximately $150,000.

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cal wonders, the Aeolians of the day were a source of viable private music making for the enjoyment of orchestral and operatic compositions. While Mary was an accomplished keyboardist in her own rite, Robert did not play, so he had a player attachment installed. Hildene still has the original 242 music rolls. The organ can also be played manually and this is exactly how the instrument’s anniversary will be celebrated during the holiday season. Volunteering their time and talents guest organists will play from 1:00 to 3:00 on the following dates: Saturday, December 20, Randy Krum; Sunday, December 21, Don McMahon; Saturday, December 27, Stephen Morse. Morse has been playing, photographing and recording the histories of the roughly 210 playing pipe organs in Vermont over a span of two and a half years. His original intent was to publish a book, but the project took on such meaning that he currently plans to create a Web site that would make all the information he has amassed accessible to organists and folks with a particular interest in the

instrument in general or in a specific Vermont organ. When asked to play the Lincoln’s Aeolian to honor its 100th anniversary, he responded, “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to play this historical musical instrument on the occasion of its centennial celebration given its significance, as well as its location in the Lincoln family’s Vermont home.” The holiday season is a special one at The Lincoln Family Home with the house beautifully decorated by a dedicated volunteer committee and interior, floral and horticultural designers from across The Shires of Vermont. Dressed in all its holiday finery, the spirit of the season also abounds in Hildene’s Museum Store where shoppers can expect distinctive items including all things Lincoln, Gilded Age, gardens, history, nature and Vermont. Organ music is also available on CD at the store. The Lincoln Family Home is open daily from 9:30 to 4:30. (Closed December 24, 25, and 26 for the holiday.) For more information, visit www.hildene. org. Call 362.1788 or email info@hildene.org.

“Picturing America”

Amy Helmetag, Art Teacher at the Mettawee Community School, is excited to announce that the school has received a beautiful collection of art prints from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Many thanks go to Kelly Ahlfeld, Mettawee’s Librarian and Media/Technology Resource, for all her work on the grant proposal. “Picturing America” is a collection of images representing American History through selected works of American art. There are forty pictures in the collection that show paintings, sculpture, photographs and architecture by American artists. Included, for example, are reproductions of paintings by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and

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Mary Cassatt and photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Chrysler Building and “Falling Water” by Frank Lloyd Wright. “We are looking for school parent volunteers who would like to help our students learn more about these works of art! The NEH has provided a great deal of information to help them.”

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Vermont Jeweler’s Work Installed in Chicago Church

Manchester jeweler Carmel Furtado, owner of Leaves of Gold Gallery has completed a commission for the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago. A sterling silver jewelry box measuring 2.5 inches in height and 4 inches in diameter and set with Lapis, Malachite, Pearl, Opal and Garnet cabochons. The box will be attached to the outstretched hand of a statue of St. Clare in the chapel of “Clare at Water Tower” a new retirement community in Chicago. St. Clare took vows of poverty to follow St. Francis of Assisi. In art, she is always depicted offering her jewel box. This statue is being installed in a chapel and the box, constructed with a lock and key will be used to store communion hosts. “It was a challenge to ‘work larger’ than most jewelry pieces. Two previous models were done before I had the piece looking the way I wanted.” The commission came out of a meeting during Open Studio 2007 with liturgical sculptor Alice Manzi of Saratoga. The formal dedication was held on December 3rd. _______________________________________________

SVAC’s Holiday Hours and Reduced Admission Fee

The Southern Vermont Arts Center will be closed on December 24, 25 and 26 so its staff might spend the holidays with family and friends. Their regular hours will resume on Saturday, December 27. In addition, through May of ‘09, the Arts Center’s Yester House Gallery admission fee will be reduced to $5 per adult nonmember (members and children under 13 enter for free, students for $3) through March of 2008. �� For more information, please �� call 362-1405. The Southern Vermont Arts Center is just off �� West Road in Manchester. Visit �� any time at svac.org. ��

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Join Mark Skinner Library Knitting Group

Knit, mingle and trade yarns with fellow knitters. Join the “Life’s a Stitch” Knitting Group at the Mark Skinner Library. From 1-3 each Thursday, compare patterns, share techniques and trade tips. All levels of knitters are welcome! Limited supplies and several books are available, or bring your own project. For more info, call 362-2607. ________________________________________________

Gloria Vanderbilt’s Art, Others, Online

The Southern Vermont Arts Center would like to remind art lovers everywhere that their online Collectors Gallery, at svac.org, presents the works of a number of SVAC artist members; the Arts Center’s site is also the exclusive online representative of the paintings, collage and statuGloria Vanderbilt inscribes one of her books at ary of the famed artist the opening of her 2007 SVAC exhibition and author, Gloria Vanderbilt. For a limited time, all art purchased online, will be 10% off. In addition, visitors to the Arts Center may purchase unframed archival quality prints by renowned Arts Center members Luigi Lucioni and Ogden Pleissner. SVAC Gift Certificates, also now on sale, are available. The gift certificates have no expiration date and may be redeemed at the Arts Center for any and all offerings, including art workshops, gallery admissions, tickets to author/celebrity presentations and live jazz performances, Broadway excursions, jewelry, books, posters and art-related items from the Museum Shop. SVAC Holiday Gift Certificates are available by phone now by calling Jackie Bell-Sargood at 362-1405 or in person at the Arts Center, just off West Road in Manchester, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 5 p.m., Sunday 12 to 5 p.m. Visit the Arts Center any time at svac.org.

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ENTERTAINMENT Auditions for Next Dorset Player’s Production

Auditions for the Dorset Players’ production of “Crimes of the Heart,” playwright Beth Henley’s tragic comedy about three sisters coping with one crisis after another, will take place on Tuesday, January 6th and on Wednesday, January 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Dorset Playhouse on Cheney Road in Dorset, Vermont. Set in a small Mississippi hamlet in 1978, the play, which was awarded the 1981 Pultizer Prize for Drama, follows the travails of one sister, Babe, who shot her husband because she “didn’t like his looks,” Meg, a would-be country music singer who blossomed early but stumbled late, and Lenny, approaching her advancing age with “a shrunken ovary” and no romantic prospects. The play also features Lloyd, the green lawyer who takes on Babe’s legal defense, and the country physician, Doc Porter. It is Jerry Springer by way of Eudora Welty with a dash of Tennessee Williams. According to Director Angie Merwin, who directed the Players’ 2007 production of “Judevine,” the three principal female roles require actresses ranging from early twenties to mid-thirties. The two male roles require actors in roughly the same age range. As always, volunteers for scenery, lights, costumes, and backstage work are always welcome and needed. “Crimes of the Heart” will open March 6. Additional performances will be on March 7th, 13th, and 14th in the evenings with matinees on March 8th and 15th. For perusal scripts, please contact the Players’ office manager, Sheila Conway at 867-5570 or by e-mail at dpi@vermontel.net. _______________________________________________

Circus Camp Returns to Maple Street this Spring!!

Save the date! Last year's hugely popular Circus Camp will be returning to Maple Street School over the upcoming April break. The camp will be held April 13-17, from 8:30 - 3:30 and is open to all K - 8 students. Circus skills will be taught by Troy Wunderle, Ringmaster of the nationally renowned Circus Smirkus, and will include instruction on a variety of circus equipment. Adrian Sweeney will lead the arts and crafts component of the camp. The art teacher at North Bennington Graded School since 1992 and director of numerous area camps, Adrian will help students create a �� variety of circus-themed art that �� will be used in the performance on the final day of the camp. �� The cost for the camp will be $40 per day, and students may �� sign up for specific days or for the �� entire week. Sibling discounts and �� scholarships are available. Look for �� sign-ups in February or contact Jen �� Samuelson at 362-5843 for more �� information. ��

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WEEKLY ALMANAC AA • AL-ANON • NA • GA

Thursday: AA meeting, Breakfast with Your Higher Power, Northshire Baptist Church, Manchester. 7:30 a.m. AA meeting, Sherburne United Church, Killington, noon AA Big Book meeting, Grace Congregational Church, Rutland, noon AA meeting, St. Paul’s CC, Manchester, noon AA, Scars, Bars, Big Book meeting, Rutland Correctional Ctr, Rutland, 4 p.m. AA Women’s meeting, Zion Episcopal Ch, Manchester, 6:30 p.m. Gamblers Anonymous, 7 p.m. at Turning Point, 141 State St., Rutland,1-800-522-4700. Al-Anon meeting, Memorial Hospital, Brattleboro, 7 p.m. SMART Recovery: Brattleboro Savings & Loan Bldg., downstairs, 7 p.m. 254-5568. AA Step meeting, United Methodist Ch, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. AA Breakfast With Your Higher Power Northshire Baptist Church, Rte. 7A, 7:30 a.m. AA Room to Grow, Steel Square Bldg., Rutland, 7:30 p.m. NA Just for Today, 7:30 p.m., Al Ducci’s Cafe, Manchester AA meeting, Congregational Church Rupert, 8 p.m. AA, meeting, Jamaica Community Ch, 8 p.m. Friday: AA-Breakfast with Your Higher

Power, Step Meeting, Northshire Baptist Church, 7:30 a.m. Al-Anon meeting, St. Paul’s Church, Manchester, 1 p.m. AA meeting, St. Peter’s School, Rutland, 7 p.m. AA meeting (step/disc) East Dorset, Wilson House, 7:30 p.m. AA meeting, St. Luke’s Fair Haven, 7:30 p.m. AA meeting, Pawlet Community Ch, 7:30 p.m. AA New Beginnings (Beginners 6:30), Steel Square Bldg., Rutland, 8 p.m. J.S. Open Discussion meeting, Second Congregational Church, Bennington, 7:30 p.m. Saturday: AA Straight from the Heart Group, Mecham St., Wallingford, 9:30 a.m. Al-Anon ACOA: 10:30-11:30 a.m., St. John the Baptist Church, North Bennington AA meeting (topic/disc) East Dorset, Wilson House, 2 and 7:30 p.m. AA meeting, Beginners’ Group, Christ the King School, Rutland, 7 p.m. NA Back to Basics Group, Second Congregational Ch, Bennington, 7 p.m. AA meeting (speaker/disc) East Dorset, Wilson House 7:30 p.m. AA open discussion group, Sherburne United Church, Killington, 8:15 p.m. H.S. Meeting Book Second Congregational Church, Bennington, noon, Room 6.

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Teen Support Second Congregational Church, Bennington, 7:30 p.m., Room 6 Sunday: AA meeting, “As Bill Sees It,” Wilson House, East Dorset, 8 a.m. Al Anon meeting 8 a.m. Wilson House, East Dorset, Open discussion. Al-Anon meeting, Serenity House, Wallingford, 10 a.m. AA meeting, Weston Priory, Weston, 1:30 p.m. AA Big Book, Green Mountain Group, East Poultney Baptist Church, 7:30 p.m. AA 11-Step Meeting, Sunday, 7 p.m., Telion Holon Retreat, River Rd., Manchester AA Shoulder to Shoulder, HoJo Inn, Rutland, 7 p.m. AA meeting, Federated Church, Castleton, 8 p.m. AA meeting, St. James Episcopal Ch, Arlington, 8 p.m. Al-Anon meeting, Federated Church, Castleton, 8 p.m. Monday: Al-Anon Turning Point Club, Bennington, 7 p.m. AA Sweet Serenity Trinity Episcopal, Rutland, noon. AA Beginners, Wilson House, East Dorset, 6:30 p.m. AA Beginners meeting, Dorset United Church, 6:30 p.m. AA meeting for Gay/Bi/Lesbian/ Transgendered Persons, 7 p.m., Turning Point Club, Bennington AA Start Living Group, St., Peter’s School, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. AA meeting, St. Thomas Episcopal, Brandon, 7:30 p.m. Al-Anon meeting, First

Congregational Ch, Newfane, 7:30 p.m. Al-Anon meeting, Baptist Church, Bennington, 7:30 p.m. AA discussion meeting, United Church, Dorset, 8 p.m. H.S. Meeting Book Second Congregational Church, Bennington, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday: AA meeting, Trinity Episcopal, Rutland, noon. AA Women’s Meeting, Wilson House, East Dorset, 6:30 p.m. Rutland County AA Men’s meeting, Grace Congregational Ch, Rutland, 7 p.m. Al-Anon ACOA meeting, Bennington College, North Bennington, 7 p.m. AA Meeting, Serenity House, Wallingford, 7 p.m. AA Meeting, Wilson House, East Dorset, Big Book Tapes, mens meeting, 6:30 p.m. AA meeting, Chapel of the Snows, Stratton, 8 p.m. Al Anon meeting, 8 p.m. Wilson House, East Dorset, Open discussion AA meeting, St. James Episcopal Ch, Arlington, 8 p.m. SMART Recovery: Brattleboro Retreat Cafeteria, 7 p.m. 254-5568. Wednesday: Al-Anon, Burdett Commons, Arlington, noon. AA Big Book Group, Good Shepherd Lutheran Ch, Rutland, 5:30 p.m. AA Breakfast With Your Higher Power Northshire Baptist Church, Rte. 7A (previously Maple Street School) 7:30 a.m.

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Thursday: GED Class, Tutorial Center, Manchester, 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. GED Class, Mack Molding, Arlington, 6 p.m. Tuesday: GED Class, Tutorial Center, Manchester, 9 a.m., 5:30 & 6 p.m.

ESL Class, Tutorial Center, Manchester, 4:30 p.m. GED Class, Mack Molding, Arlington, 6 p.m. Wednesday: Dept. of Employment & Training, Veterans Memorial Drive, Bennington (first Wednesday), 10 a.m. GED Class, Tutorial Center, Manchester, 3 p.m. A Mustard Seed Group St. Peter’s School, Rutland, 8 p.m. MIND & BODY WELLNESS Thursday: Medicare Assistance, Zion Parrish, Manchester, 10 a.m. Disabled American Veterans Meeting, American Legion Hall, Chester, first Thursday) 7:30 p.m. Friday: Wellness Clinic Smith Haven, South Londonderry, third Friday, 10 a.m. Blood Pressure Clinic, Robert Milbauer Realty, Newfane, third Friday, 10 a.m. Saturday: CoDA, 12-step fellowship to maintain healthy relationships, 9:30 a.m. Wilson House, E. Dorset, 362-5524 Monday: Support group for family members of those suffering from mental

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illness, first Monday at 7 p.m., South Londonderry Library, Clare at 824-3909 Parents in Crisis, SVMC, Bennington, 7 p.m. RSVP Bone Builders: Call RSVP at 447-1545 for info. Free. Arlington, American Legion Hall, Mon and Th, 10:30-11:30; Manchester, Masonic Temple, Mon, Wed, 11 a.m; Manchester Town Hall, Tues 10 a.m. & Thur, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday: LaLeche League Support Meeting, Second Congregational Church, Bennington, third Tuesday, 7 p.m. Marriage Support Group, Northshire Baptist Fellowship, every other Tuesday, 5769 Main St., Route 7A, Manchester. Call Warren 362-1988 Nice & Easy Aerobics - Beginnier, Bennington Firehouse, River St., 8:15 p.m. 447-5693. All Gain, No Pain Senior Strengthening Class - Bennington Firehouse, River St., 10:30 a.m.; N. Bennington Congregational Ch, 10:30 a.m.; Manchester Town Hall, 12:30 p.m., 447-5693. Blood Pressure Clinic, Second Congregational Church, Londonderry, 2nd Tuesday, 11:30 a.m. Support group for family members of those suffering from mental illness, Third Tuesday at 7 p.m., UCS, 316 Dewey St., Bennington. Clare at 824-3909. Overeaters Anonymous, RRMC, Rutland, 7 p.m. Wednesday: Aerobic Indoor Walking - Beginner, Mon, Wed, Fri.,

Bennington Firehouse, River St., 8:15 a.m. 442-6886 Senior Exercise Classes, Hoosick Falls Senior Center, 1 p.m. Bereavement Support Group, Second Congregational Church, Bennington, 1 p.m. Women’s Cancer Support Group, Vermont Country Store, Manchester, First Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. Bereavement/Loss Support Group, SVMC, Bennington, fourth Wednesday, 6 p.m. Caregiver Group, Grace Cottage Hospital, Townshend, 6:30 p.m. Bereavement Support Group, SVMC, Medical Office Bldg., Bennington, 6:30 p.m. Chronic Fatigue Support Group, Red Barn, Rtes 11/30, across from Wessner’s, Manchester, 7 p.m. C.H.A.D.D. Informational Meeting, RRMC, Rutland, first Wednesday, 7 p.m. Thursday: Arthritis Support Group, Second Congregational Church, Bennintgon, fourth Thursday, 1 p.m.

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Thursday: Granville Town Board Meeting, Town Hall, Granville, NY second Thursday, 7 p.m. Weston Volunteer Fire Dept. Drill, Weston Firehouse, second and fourth Thursday, 7 p.m. Sunderland Elementary Planning Commitee. 2nd Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Londonderry Planning Committee, Town Office, Londonderry, second and foruth Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Wallingford Planning Committee, Town Hall, First Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

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Weston Volunteer Fire Dept, Weston Firehouse, first Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Danby Selectman meeting, Town Clerk’s Office, 1st Thursday, 7 p.m. Monday: Poultney Selectmen’s meeting, Town Hall, 2nd & 4th Monday, 6:30 p.m. Castleton Selectmen’s meeting, Town Office, 7 p.m. Grafton Selectmen’s meeting, Town Hall, 7 p.m. Weston Conservation Committee meeting, Town Office, third Monday, 7 p.m. Chester Planning Committee meeting, Town Hall, first and third Mondays, 7:00 p.m. Manchester Village Planning Committee meeting, County Court House, first Monday, 7 p.m. Londonderry Selectmen’s meeting, Town Office, 7:00 p.m. Pawlet Planning Committee

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Thursday: Equinox Valley Toastmasters, Ai Squared, 130 Taconic Business Park Rd, Manchester Ctr., 2nd & 4th Thursdays at 6:30 p.m., info: jshukla@aisquared.com Arlington Lions Club American Legion Room, second and fourth Thursday, 7 p.m. Northshire Teen Center Planning Meeting, Mulligans, Manchester Village, first and third Thursday, 7 p.m. Red Clover Chapter, Embroidery Guild of America, Trinity Church, Rutland, second Thursday, 7 p.m. Friday Success by Six Play Group, Mettowee School, West Pawlet, 9:30 a.m. Dorset Historical Society, open 10 a.m. Ladies Fellowship, Missionary Alliance Church, Bennington, 9:30 a.m. Manchester Rotary meeting, Ye Olde Tavern, Manchester, noon Kiwanis Club of Manchester & the Mountains, first & third Tuesday of each month at Ye Olde Tavern, Manchester, 6 p.m. Manchester Community Foundation meeting, Chittenden Bank, Manchester, First Tuesday, 4 p.m. Unit 69 American Legion Auxiliary, Legion Room, Arlington, second Tuesday, 7 p.m. Cathloic Daughters meeting, St. Paul’s Church, Manchester, second Tuesday, 7 p.m. Mt. Equinox Grange meeting, Grange Hall, Manchester, third Tuesday, 7 p.m. #45 American Legion meeting, Currier Memorial School, Danby, third Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Dorset Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, Dorset Firehouse, third Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday: Manchester VFW Ladies Auxiliary, Harned Fowler Post #6471, second Wednesday, 7 p.m. Wantastiquet Rotary, Swiss Inn, Londonderry, 7 a.m. Red Clover Award Program K-4, Mark Skinner Library, Manchester Village, 3:45 p.m. Southwestern VT Access Television board meeting, SWVT Office, Manchester, first Wednesday, 7 p.m. Manchester Lions Club meeting, VFW, second and fourth Wednesday, 7 p.m. Knights of Columbus Council 6816 meeting, St. Paul’s Church, Manchester, first Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. December 17, 2008

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Monday: Duplicate Bridge, United Church of Dorset, 1p.m., Robert Smith, Director, 362-4224 Tuesday: Open Duplicate Bridge, 1 p.m. at Equinox Village. Call Elizabeth Von Riesenfelder, Director, at 362-5304. Duplicate Bridge, 6:30 p.m. Zion Episcopal Church Annex, Manchester Center, Director John Conova, 325-6384 Friday: Duplicate Bridge, 12:15, Manchester Town Hall, Main Street, Manchester Center, VT, Robert Smith, 362-4224 Summer Sessions, Wednesday & Thursday afternoons, beginning July. TBA

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Thursday: Bingo, MWA Hall, Wells, 7 p.m. Friday: Bingo, Masonic Lodge, Route 30, Jamaica, 7 p.m. Bingo, Knights of Columbus Hall, Granville, NY, 7 p.m. Saturday: Bingo, Granville Hook & Ladder, Granville, NY 7 p.m. Sunday: Bingo, MWA Hall, Wells, noon Monday: Bingo, Middletown Springs Fire House, 7 p.m. Tuesday: Eagles Bingo, Manchester, 6:45 p.m. Wednesday: Bingo, South Wallingford Grange, 7 p.m.

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Thursday: Townshend Senior Meals, Townshend Church, first and third Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. Manchester Senior Meals, Manchester Town Hall, noon Wells Senior Meals, MWA Hall, Wells, noon Senior Meals, East Arlington, Bailey Hall, noon. Senior Meal at Williamsville Community Hall, 4th Thursday at noon. Tuesday: Townshend Senior Meals, Townshend Church, first and third Manchester Senior Meals, Manchester Town Hall, noon Wells Senior Meals, MWA Hall, Wells, noon Senior Meals, East Arlington, Bailey Hall, noon Senior Meal at Williamsville Community Hall, 4th Thursday at noon. Wednesday:

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MANCHESTER Friday: Israel Congregation of Manchester, Shabbat Services, 6:30 p.m., Israel Congregation of Manchester, Rte 7A Saturday: Israel Congregation of Manchester: Shabbat Services, 9:30 a.m., Israel Congregation of Manchester, Rte 7A St. Paul’s Church, Mass, 5:30 p.m., St. Jerome’s Church, E. Dorset, 7 p.m. Sunday: Zion Episcopal Church, Holy Eucharist, 8 & 10 a.m. (childcare at 10 a.m.) Eucharist w/healing Wed. 12:15 p.m. St. Paul’s, Mass, 8 & 10 a.m. First Congregational Church, Sunday Services Chapel, 8:30; Grade 6-Adult Christian Education Classes 9:30 a.m.; Godly Play Program of Sacred Storytelling for children ages 4-11 during 10:30 service; Nursery available for infant-3 years beginning ata 10:30 a.m. Rev. Dr. Steven E. Berry, Pastor, 362-2709; www.firstcongregational manchester.org

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Equinox Terrace, Services for Seniors, 10 a.m. St. Paul, Danby Holy Trinity Church, 11:30 a.m. First Baptist Ch., ABC, Manchester Center, Worship, 10:30 a.m.; Tuesday Prayer Ministry, 9:30 a.m. 802-362-1555. Rev. Dr. Robert Carpenter Northshire Baptist Fellowship, 5769 Main St., 10 a.m. adult & children’s Bible classes, 11 a.m. Worship service and Children’s Church; 6 p.m. Bible study, 3621988. Weekday Mass: St. Paul’s Church: Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri, 8 a.m., Thu, Fri, 5:30, p.m. St. Paul’s Church ARLINGTON Saturday: St. Margaret Mary’s, Mass, 5 p.m. Sunday: St. James Episcopal Church, Holy Eucharist, 8:00 a.m. Rite I and 10 a.m. Rite II. SS 9 a.m. Childcare available at SS and 10 a.m. service. Rev. Scott Neal 375-9952, stjamesarlington. org; stjamesparish@verizon.net St. Margaret Mary’s Church, Mass, 8 and 10 a.m. Federated Church, East Arlington, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, Ice Pond Road, worship service, 10 a.m.; www. earlingtonfedchurch.org; 375-2548, Rev. Kathleen S. Clark, Pastor Chapel on the Green, West Arlington, Services, 7 p.m., last Sunday of the month, 6 p.m. covered dish supper. BENNINGTON Saturday:

Sacred Heart St. Francis de Sales, Vigil, 4 p.m. Sunday: Sacred Heart St. Francis de Sales, Mass, 8 & 10 a.m. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Holy Eucharist, 8 & 10 a.m. (SS 9) First Church of Christ Scientist, Services, 10 a.m. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 108 School Street, Services, 10 a.m., (religious education, child care, 10 a.m.) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 9:30 a.m. Sacrament Service; 10:40 a.m. SS; 11:40 a.m. Relief Society & Priesthood. 4470139; 442-8126 DANBY Sunday: Danby Congregational Church, Morning Services, 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Mt. View Baptist Church, Danby Four Corners, Services, 11a.m. & 7 p.m. Mt. View Baptist Church, Danby Four Corners, Young People’s Group, 6 p.m. DORSET Saturday: St. Jerome’s, East Dorset, Mass, 7 p.m. Sunday: Congregational Church, East Dorset, Services, 9:30 a.m. (SS 9:30 a.m.) The United Church of Dorset and East Rupert, Services, 10 a.m. (SS 9:45 a.m.)

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Margaret, 379-1438. POULTNEY Saturday: St. Raphael Church, Mass, 4 p.m. Sunday: St. Raphael Church, Mass, 10 a.m. Trinity Episcopal Church, Holy Eucharist, 9 a.m. United Methodist Church,Services, 9:30 a.m.; (SS 9:45 a.m.) United Baptist Church, Services, 10 a.m. (SS & Nursery care 9 a.m.) Welsh Presbyterian Church, Services, 10 a.m. RUPERT Sunday: United Methodist, Services, 9 a.m. Congregational Church, Services, 10:30 a.m. Disciples of Christ, West Rupert, Services, 11 a.m. (SS 9:45 a.m.) SANDGATE Sunday: Sandgate United Methodist Church, Services, 9:30 a.m. Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. STRATTON Sunday: Chapel of the Snows, Roman Catholic Mass, 12:30 p.m. SHAFTSBURY Sunday: Redeemer Lutheran Church (ECLA)m Route 67A, 1.5 miles off Route 7A, Shaftsbury. sunday com-

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