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Bingo to benefit legion baseball
The American Legion Posts 39 Poultney, 49 Fair Haven, 50 Castleton and 87 West Rutland will host a super bingo at the Castleton American Legion Post 50 on Friday, April 15. Proceeds will support American Legion baseball in the four areas. Doors will open at 4:30 and bingo will start at 7 p.m. The kitchen will be open for food and beverages. For more information contact Post 50 manager Greg Knapp.
Poultney Earth Fair Tuesday By Linda Ellingsworth
Motorcycle swap meet this Sunday Fat Tom's Annual Motorcycle Swap Meet will be held April 17 from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the Royce Mandigo Arena at the Vermont State Fairgrounds in Rutland. There will be a bike show, tatoo contest and lots of awards presented to top entries. The awards presentation will be held at 4 p.m. For more information contact Tom or Tina at 802-4685877.
Rescue squad hosting breakfast
The Granville Rescue Squad will host a pancake breakfast on Sunday, April 17 from 7 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the squad building at 52 E. Potter Ave. The open house will also allow visitors to tour the facility and learn about the equipment used to benefit the community.
Easter Bunny to dine in Poultney
The Poultney Woman's Club invites everyone to Breakfast with the Easter Bunny on Saturday, April 16 from 8 a.m. 11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall at the United Methodist Church on Main St. Cost is $1.25 and photos with the Easter Bunny will be available for $1.25 each. Call 802-287-9244.
Community rallies to help Dutchie's owners Eric Swanson, left, and Will Kuban greet well-wishers Sunday at Dutchie's Aid, a frundraising event held Sunday in West Pawlet. The couple escaped safely when their store burned down two weeks ago. A local man was killed in a nearby building that was also destroyed. Story and photos, pg. 9.
CSC presents new 'Arcadia Now' exhibit By Linda Ellingsworth The Northshire meets the Lakes Region as the Christine Price Gallery at Castleton State College presents “Arcadia Now” during April and May. Several artists with Northshire ties will exhibit at the Lakes Region gallery at Castleton State College. The exhibit explores the idea of “the country,” our actual and ideal relationship to the natural environment, in harmony (or at odds) with society, said curator and Professor of Art Tom McGlynn.
An opening reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 13, features a talk with three of the artists on art in relation to the rural environment: sculptor and installation artist Alisa Dworsky of Montpelier; photographer Sally Apfelbaum of Bennington and New York City; and sculptor and performance artist Nathaniel Lieb, of upstate New York and Brooklyn. The reception, free and open to the public, welcomes visitors to contribute
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Earth Week will be celebrated in delicious fashion on Tuesday, April 19 as the fourth Annual Poultney Earth Fair’s theme this year is “A Taste of Place.” The celebration of local food takes place at the Poultney High School from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. “The whole Castleton hosting country is now focused on food event Wednesday issues,” said Are you a fan Eleanor Tison, a of Earth? Would member of the you like Earth as event’s planning we know it (lush, committee. diverse, webbed “Vermont has orb, wrapped in been a leader in water and a skin this, and we of life) to continwant to show- ue? Would you case the local like to think about o r g a n i z a t i o n s nourishing our that are produc- g r a n d c h i l d r e n , ing food here.” and brainstorm The Earth local actions Fair provides the toward that goal? opportunity for If so, please join residents to not us for this year’s only learn what Green Life series their local farm- at Castleton Free er is producing, Library, beginbut to sample ning on Wed. April their wares. Free 20th at 7:00 p.m., to offerings include kick off Earth Day maple oatmeal awareness. cookies, maple This series fudge, cheese, builds on the sus apples, black bean burgers See EARTH, pg. 2 and organic s n a c k s . Returning this year are the popular pizzas made by Poultney High School students. The fresh pizzas will be topped with local ingredients, and baked in a wood-fired copper oven provided by the Northeast Organic Farming Association. Seasonal toppings will be donated by the Rutland Area Farm and Food Link.
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In addition to food samples, the Earth Fair will offer more than 50 exhibits showing where our food comes from, nutrition, gardening, composting and more. The local Brownie troop will be handing out free seeds to help people get their garden started, and you’ll learn not only where your food comes from, but how color changes the way you taste food. Music will be provided by Spruce Knob Uprising. “It’s a genuine family event,” said Tison. “We want to make it fun for all ages.” Young children will enjoy playing with musical instruments, while older kids will have the opportunity to tie-dye their own T-shirts with natural dyes. This year’s theme of local food was partly inspired by the
new co-op market that will soon open in Poultney, Tison said. She also noted that Poultney has a new community garden, and Green Mountain College now offers a sustainable agriculture major that is attracting students from around the country. “There are so many things happening here to get excited about,” she said. Attendees are asked to bring a donation of non-perishable food for the Poultney Food Shelf, which will be at the Fair. A true community-wide event, the Poultney Earth Fair is a collaboration of community members, student groups from Poultney Elementary and High School, Green Mountain College, and vendors and organizations from the area. “Attendance goes up every year,” said Tison. “We want everyone to feel welcome as we celebrate our local food.”
Essay, coloring contest seeks entries Heritage Family Credit Union is holding an essay contest and a coloring contest to help Celebrate National Financial Literacy Month in April and National Credit Union Youth Week, April 17-23, 2011. Students seven (7) to 12 years old could win a pizza party for their class by writing an essay, 250 words or less, on the topic: “How can saving at a credit union help you live like a Rock
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tainability reading discussions, place-based programs, and how-to workshops we held last year, through which we shared environmental information and stimulated local action. Those programs led to consciousness-raising, great discussions, a community garden at the library, green initiatives with local youth, localvore habits and other changes in personal practices, skill-sharing through workshops (e.g. vegetable canning), and the formation
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to the discussion on how we “see” the country. Combining photography, painting, sculpture and video, “Arcadia Now” is a collection of works that invokes the idea of the pastoral past and asks the 15 featured artists—each with a unique perspective—to envision what that pastoral idea, or an idyllic place of remove, might look like in the present. The exhibition addresses issues of nature and human consequence on nature, beauty and banality, and the ideal and the real in both abstract and figurative terms. The 15 artists featured in the exhibition are photographer Sally Apfelbaum of Bennington, and New York City; New Jersey-based painter and printmaker Tim Daly; multi-media artist Alisa Dworsky of Montpelier; painter, performance artist and curator Bill Doherty of New York; Japanese sound artist Ken Ikeda of New York City; New York photographer Justine Kurland of New York City; sculptor and performance artist Nathaniel Lieb of upstate New York and Brooklyn; painter Mary McDonnell of upstate New York and Brooklyn; painter Rebecca Purdum of Ripton, sculptor, printmaker and installation artist Kiki Smith of New York City; Swedish sculptor Frederik Strid; Canadian photographer and philosopher Scott Walden, of Newfoundland and New York; black-and-white abstract photographer Tenesh Webber of
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Bid should include demolition and disposal of existing “collapsed shed”. Bid proposal that shall identify all materials to be used. A timeline for project completion. The contractor shall provide liability insurance and workman’s compensation insurance. Sealed proposals, clearly marked “Fair Haven transfer station - replace/repair shed” shall be submitted to the Fair Haven Town Office, 3 North Park Place, Fair Haven, VT 05743. Deadline for submittal is April 29, 2011. Proposals will be reviewed at the Fair Haven Select Board’s regular meeting of May 3, 2011. The Collapsed shed may be viewed at the transfer station during normal hours of operation. This project is governed by the terms and conditions of the Town of Fair Haven Municipal Purchasing Ordinance. The Town reserves the right to reject any and all proposals deemed to be in its best interest. For additional information, please contact Peter Hathaway, Town Manager, at 802-265-3010 x5.
of a library Friends group that works to sustain a great community resource. We hope that past participants will reconvene to share critical environmental updates, and that new people will join the effort. Week 1 (4/20) will feature environmental film clips, a review of some amazing websites to both inspire you and prod you awake, rapid reviews of the library’s collection of recent books and documentaries on environmental issues, a brainstorming session, and reflective discussion. We will encourage you to borrow our resources and review them at a future meeting.
Week 2 (4/27) will feature guest Stephen Chamberlain presenting a “Meet the Farmer” Q & A. Stephen is the owner of Dutchess Farm, a family-owned local CSA using sustainable practices to produce beautiful vegetables (over 45 varieties) for the past 25 years. He will present an overview of his experiences, and then answer any of your questions about growing organic vegetables and herbs. The full schedule of events will be determined by participant interest. Please call Jan or Meg at the library if you have any questions (468-5574).
New York City; photographer James Welling of Los Angeles; and mixed-media artist Aaron Williams of Brooklyn. In creating the exhibition McGlynn said he reflected on his move to Vermont from the New York City metro area in 2007 and the tranquil imagery the state invokes with visitors and residents alike. “In an almost uniquely rural state like Vermont, there has grown a complex web of interrelationships with the landscape—utilitarian, recreational and contemplative—which are most often utilized by the tourist industry so important to the state,” McGlynn said. “There is, however, a deeper ideological relationship to the natural environment in harmony with society, which is a recurring theme in much contemporary art. Many of these artists seem to access a deeper, more complex relationship to the natural world, which might include an ancient longing or a symbolic reality that we may all feel at certain times.” For example the artist Kiki Smith, in her work “Fall/ Winter,” depicts herself as a Madonna/earth mother—cradling a squirrel rather than an infant—in a deeply personal allegory of cyclical, seasonal change that recalls the transcendental poetry of Emily Dickinson, he said. “She is, in a sense, reclaiming a female relation to the earth, which recalls an older social order,” McGlynn said. Justine Kurland’s interpretations create scenarios in nature that recall classic paintings from the past. “Her photographs represent classic allegories of ‘natural humankind’ in
what seem to be either premodern or Luddite communities,” McGlynn said. “Her work comments upon the dream of this type of harmonized human relation to the country with a post-modern awareness that it is just a dream.” “There is a long history of human society projecting idealistic intentions (with mixed results) upon the country landscape that go back to the ‘earthly paradise’ of the Garden of Eden. Do we see a need to return to this origin or do we need to reshape a newer utopia on the ruins of our previous intentions? ‘Arcadia Now’ leaves this as an open question,” McGlynn said. Tom McGlynn is an artist, writer and educator based in the New York City-area and in Vermont, where he is Assistant Professor at Castleton State College. His art is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian. His work has been reproduced for the cover of Artforum magazine and featured in New York Times articles. McGlynn has previously taught as a visiting artist at the Mason Gross School of Fine Arts at Rutgers University, N.J. The Christine Price Gallery at Castleton State College is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. For more information on the artists, visit arcadianow.net/artist-bios. For more exhibit information and directions, visit castleton.edu/soundings/gallery or contact the college at 468-5611.
Gospel singer to perform Sunday Christian Gospel singer Cheri Taylor from Indiana will be in concert, at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 17, at the Granville Baptist Church, 23 Quaker St. The Church is wheel chair accessible. A free-will offering will be received. Taylor, who is a Butler Music Group recording artist, has had over 29 years of experience in Christian Music ministry through concerts and special music. Before being called into a solo ministry, she traveled in a local Gospel Group.
She is a winner of three Gospel Talent Searches. Actively involved, along with her family, in the ministries of her local church, Cheri is a member of the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists. She is married and has 2 children. At 6 p.m., April 17, Faith Chapel Assembly of God in Whitehall on Route 4, will host Taylor as well. A free will offering will be received. For more information, contact Pastor Jim Peterson, 642-2245.
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Chamber Singers presenting event at Castleton The Castleton Chamber Singers will present “Night in New York,” an evening of dinner and entertainment on the Casella Theater stage at Castleton State College April 29. Benefitting the Collegiate Chorales tour of Italy, the night will feature Broadway and jazz, regional Italian cuisine and fine wines. Cocktail hour will begin at 6:30 with a piano bar followed by dinner, catered by East Creek, at 7:15. This event is $55 per person, $100 per couple, and $500 for a table of eight. Please call (802) 468-6033 or register online at www.alumni.castleton/choir. All reservations should be made by April 22.
Members of Boy Scout Troop 13, from left, Andrew Cassidy, Stephen Marcoux, and Josh Stiles gave a $2,000 check to George D. Millerof the American Legion.
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VanBuren named Opus finalist Martin VanBuren has been named a finalist in the student Opus competition, which is part of the Vermont MIDI Project. “For ten years, the Vermont MIDI Project has fostered a community of music educators, professional composer mentors, and pre-service educators who encourage and support music composition for students. Addressing composition in the curriculum for classroom music, theory and composition courses, and instrumental and vocal ensembles is being achieved through a variety of activities.” Using specific instrument guidelines, Martin composed a piece of music in four months. He worked on the piece, and submitted it online to have other teachers, students, and composers give him feedback. He had a choice to accept the suggestions or write back why he did not want to use the advice. Martin submitted the final version on March 30. Out of 65 pieces, Martin was one of the 24 students selected to have his piece performed by professional musicians at a live concert. Martin will be able to work with the professional musicians in a rehearsal giving his thoughts and reflections on how he wants his piece to sound. His piece along with the other 23 student pieces will be performed on Thurs., April 28,
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Oxbow Mountain 4H club hosts annual tukey-calling competition By Derek Liebig Listen carefully and you’ll be able to hear clucking, yelping, purring and kee keeing as you pass through Pawlet this weekend. You’d be mistaken however if you believed the sound was coming from a flock of turkey’s. In fact the sounds are coming from a group of kids participating in a youth turkey calling contest. The sixth Annual Bart Jacobs Memorial Turkey Calling Contest will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 16 at the Pawlet Firehouse on Route 133. The event is sponsored by
the Oxbow Mountain 4H Club and features youths ages 7-15 who vie for the title of best turkey call. “Adult turkey calling contests are kind of common,” said Lisa Wilson, one of the event’s organizers, “but there aren’t a lot of kid’s contests.” Wilson said the event was started by Lars Jacob several years ago in honor of his father who made turkey calls all his life. During the event, contestants are split into three different divisions based on age. The older the participant, the more calls they are required to make. For instance, division 1 (ages 7-9) are required to make their
best cluck and yelp. Division 2 (ages 10-12) are required to add a purr in addition to the other calls and division 3 (ages 13-15) are required to do all three as well as a kee kee run. Wilson said the kids are permitted to use a variety of calls, be it a box call, mouth call or any other type of call. “It’s a mixture of different calls. The really good kids use mouth calls. And for the kee kee run, each has to use a mouth call,” Wilson said. There are three winners in each category. The kids are evaluated by three or four judges who sit behind a curtain listening to the calls to determine whose is the most realistic.
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Turkey-calling competitors included, back row, from left, Ethan McKeighan, Trajan Artt, Payton Artt, Anna Cassidy, Thomas Wilson, and Clayton Fenton. Front row, Hillary Fenton, Justin Cleveland, Patrick Wilson and Jay Wilson.
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Twig Remembers Jimmy Wells In the Fall of 1957 I was a freshman and trying out for the football team. We got a brand new piece of equipment for the non contact part of practice. It was a big white covered balloon, shaped like a heart. It had two handles in back and you held it chest high to ward off oncoming opponents. I was playing on the left side and here comes this big back heading towards me. My plan was to wait ‘til the last second and dodge him. His plan was to
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Happenings Fri 4/15 POULTNEY The Poultney Public Library is accepting entries for its Poetry Writing Contest in honor of the 250th birthday of the Town of Poultney. Entries will not be limited by length or style, but must be the original work of the submitting author. All poems will be included in a commemorative book that’ll be circulated at the library. Register at the library and submit your entry by 1 p.m. Saturday, April 30. Information: 802-287-5556. CASTLETON American Legion Posts 39 Poultney, 49 Fair Haven, 50 Castleton and 87 West Rutland will hold a “Super Bingo” at the Castleton American Legion Post 50 on Friday, April 15 to support American Legion Baseball in the region. Doors open at 4:30 p.m., Bingo starts at 7 p.m. The kitchen will be open for burgers, hot dogs, homemade fries, and beverages. Information: 802-468-8962. BENNINGTON An exhibition of photography by John Willis titled, “Views from the Reservation and Recycled Realities,” will be featured through Monday, May 2, in the Regional Artists Gallery at the Bennington Museum, 75 Main Street, Route 9. John is a teacher at Marlboro College in Vermont, and the photos in this exhibit are from the Pine Ridge Reservation, tribal home of the Oglala Lakota Sioux People. Information: 802447-1571, or www.benningtonmuseum.org. WEST PAWLET The Mettawee Community School on Route 153 in West Pawlet will hold Kindergarten Registration and Screening from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, April 15. Children must be age 5 by Sept. 1, 2011, to register for kindergarten, and parents must bring a birth certificate and immunization records for each child. Information/appointments: 645-9009. WHITEHALL Christ Baptist Church on Queen Street in Whitehall will collect children’s clothing and accessories from 2 to 6 p.m. on Friday, April 15. And the following day, April 16, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the church will offer free shopping for the entire community. Information: Daniel at 812-3351. RUTLAND The College of St. Joseph Human Services Club will host an Easter Egg Hunt from 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 15, around Tuttle Hall at the College of St. Joseph in Rutland. Ages 2 to 12 are encouraged to attend and, in case of inclement weather, this event will be held at the college’s Athletic Center. Treats, a raffle, and other activities will be featured. Information: Lindsey JohnstonBrown at 802-776-5233, or email ljohnston@csj.edu. POULTNEY Green Mountain College graduates who’ve gone into sustainable farming will participate in a panel discussion about their experiences from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 15, in The Gorge at Withey Hall on the campus in Poultney. Leading the panel will be Prof. Philip Ackerman-Leist, author of “Up Tunket Road: The Education of a Modern Homesteader.” Refreshments and appetizers featuring local foods will be served. Free and open to all. GRANVILLE Peter Rose will present a program on the “Influence of the Dutch on the American
Kitchen and Life” at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 15, at the Pember Library, 33 W. Main Street in Granville. Information: 518-6422525. WELLS The Green Mountain Seniors group invites everyone to a Teacup Auction on Friday, April 15, at the Modern Woodmen of America’s annex building off Route 30 in Wells. Viewing will begin at 6 p.m. and the auction at 7 p.m., including household items, jewelry, games, groceries, and homemade baked goods. There’ll be refreshments and door prizes, too. Cost: $1 per envelope of 10 tickets. TINMOUTH Banjo Dan and the Sky Blue Boys will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 15, at the Old Firehouse Stage on Route 140 in Tinmouth. Cost: $9 at the door. Refreshments will be available for sale. Information: Colleen at 802-4140011, or email celibalch@comcast.net, or www.tinmouthvt.org.
Sat 4/16 GRANVILLE Registration is requested by Saturday, April 16, for a Wooden Nature Scrapbook and Journal Workshop that will be offered from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, at the Pember Museum, 33 W. Main Street in Granville. Cost: $5, including all materials. For children of all ages. Information/registration: 642-1515 GRANVILLE The North Granville Hose Co. will hold a Basket Fundraiser and Spaghetti Dinner at the North Granville Firefighter’s Hall on Saturday, April 16. Dinner, which is $8 for adults and $4 for children, will be served at 4 p.m. Drawings begin at 5:30 p.m. Tickets for the drawing are $5 per sheet, with $2 for an additional sheet. Also 50/50, door prizes and raffles. Bring a basket. Information: 642-2869 or 642-9692. POULTNEY The Poultney Woman’s Club invites everyone to Breakfast with Bunny from 8 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 16, in the Fellowship Hall at the Poultney United Methodist Church on Main Street. Cost: $1.25. Photos with Bunny also will be available at $1.25 each. Information: 802-2879244, or www.gfwc.org. PAWLET The Oxbow Mountain 4-H Club invites everyone to the Sixth Annual Bart Jacobs Memorial Turkey Calling Contest at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 16, at the Pawlet Fire House on Route 133, just north of Route 30. Children ages 7 to 15 will compete to win handcrafted slate prizes. Also, there’ll be a shotgun raffle and small teacup auction, and food will be available for purchase. Information/registration form: Ellen at 325-3495, Tom at 394-2445. RUTLAND The Winter Farmers' Market will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 16, at 77 Wales St. in Rutland. The winter market will be open through May on Saturdays. Information: Greg Cox at 802-683-5791, or www. vtfarmersmarket.org. GRANVILLE All children are invited to Learn with Linda at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 16, at the Pember Library, 33 W. Main Street in Granville. Stories, crafts, an egg hunt, and special snacks for Easter will be featured. Information: 518642-2525.
MANCHESTER The Vermont Museum of Natural History will present a live birds of prey program on Owls at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 16, at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester. This family event will focus on adaptations that make owls supreme nighttime hunters. Cost: $5 suggested donation to benefit the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum. Information: 802-3622200. MANCHESTER Alexandra Langstaff of Hullabaloo Danceshop will lead a Super Saturday Family Program at 10:30 a.m. on April 16 at the Mark Skinner Library on Route 7A in Manchester. This special music and movement program will “spark the creativity and imagination of children and their caregivers.” For ages 3 to 6, this event will be free and open to all. Information: 802-362-2607. GRANVILLE The North Granville United Methodist Church on Route 22A invites everyone to a Teacup Auction on Saturday, April 16. Doors will open at 11 a.m. and drawings will start at 1 p.m. Admission: $6, including a card of 25 tickets, door prize ticket, and light snack; $2 each additional card. The church is handicap accessible. POULTNEY Zumba Mania/ Zumba Atomic, with instructor Tabitha Perry, will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 16, in the gymnasium at Poultney High School (wear sneakers). Cost: $10 adults, $5 ages 3 to 12, including a chance to win lots of great prizes. Proceeds will benefit the varsity boys’ baseball program. Information: 802-287-9519. SALEM An Art Party Reception for a new exhibition titled, “Rupert Artists,” will be held from 3 to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 16, at the North Main Gallery, 196 N. Main Street in Salem. Everyone will be welcome. Information: 518-8543406. FAIR HAVEN The Fair Haven United Methodist Church on W. Park Place invites everyone to an all-you-can-eat Roast Pork Dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 16. Takeouts will be available. Cost: $10 adults; $4 younger than 12. POULTNEY The Poultney Public Library is distributing free movie tickets for shows at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 16, and 1 p.m. Sunday, April 17. Tickets must be presented at the door to attend the movies. Pick up your ticket(s) in advance at the library and call 802-287-5556 for more information. MANCHESTER The Shires Press will present “Inertia,” the debut novel by Vermont author Kim Cope Tait, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 16, at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester. Struggling with grief over unimaginable loss and learning to heal is the focus of this book. Information: 802-362-2200. BRANDON Vermont jazz musician Jonathan Lorentz and his trio will perform in concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 16, at Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Road in Brandon. Cost: $15. Reservations are requested at 802-465-4071. SALEM Singer/songwriter Bob Warren will perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 16, at The Cabaret at Fort Salem Theater, 11 E. Broadway in Salem. Cost: $20, including coffee and dessert.
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Sun 4/17 GRANVILLE The Granville Rescue Squad invites everyone to its annual Pancake Breakfast from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 17, at the squad building, 52 E. Potter Avenue. You’ll have an opportunity to tour the building and see the equipment used by squad members to benefit the community. RUTLAND Fat Tom’s Annual Motorcycle Swap Meet will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 17, at the Royce Mandigo Arena at the Vermont State Fairgrounds on Route 7 in Rutland. Sign in for a 3 p.m. bike show from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There’ll be a people’s choice tattoo contest, too, with awards at 4 p.m., and vendor space will be free (call Tom or Tina at 802-468-5877, or e-mail fattom@myfairpoint.net. POULTNEY The Rutland Area Farm and Food Link invites families to a Sunday Sprouting Community Celebration from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 17, in The Gorge at Withey Hall at Green Mountain College in Poultney. Enjoy a huge potluck (bring a dish or snack to share), music, and a silent auction of farminspired textile and ceramic works by GMC student Jason Jansen. BENNINGTON The Bennington Historical Society will meet at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 17, at the Bennington Museum, 75 Main Street, Route 9. George Lerrigo will present a program on the Corkscrew Railroad, the “mystery map” that sheds light on the rail of 1925 that never materialized, and current rail service in Bennington County. Free and open to all. Information: 802-447-1571, or www.benningtonmuseum.org. BENNINGTON The nonprofit World Help organization will present the Children of the World Choir at 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 17, at the Green Mountain Christian Center, 440 Main Street in Bennington. Featured will be a high-energy, inspiring program of songs in English and native dialects. Everyone will be welcome. Information: 802-447-7224.
Tue 4/19 GRANVILLE The Friends of the Pember Library will hold a planning meeting for the summer book sale at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19,
at the Pember Library, 33 W. Main Street in Granville. RUTLAND David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, will be the featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Rutland Regional Health Services Board of Corporations at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19. You’ll find this event at the Holiday Inn on Route 7 South in Rutland. Reservations are requested with Rory House, 802-772-2458, or e-mail RHouse@rrmc.org. RUTLAND The Maple Leaf Quilters Bi-Annual Auction will be held from 6 to 8:50 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19, at the Godnick Adult Center, One Deer Street in Rutland. Information: www.mapleleafquilters.org. PAWLET A Pampered Chef Bingo Fundraiser for the Pawlet Public Library and Dutchie’s General Store in West Pawlet will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19, at the Pawlet Library, 141 School Street. Ten games of bingo and great Pampered Chef prizes will be featured. Admission: $20 for all games, or $10 for five games, and additional cards will be available for purchase. Information: Beth Kashner at 802-325-3123.
Wed 4/20 RUTLAND AREA The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice will offer Blood Pressure and Foot Care Clinics as follows: 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, The Meadows (residents only), Rutland; 3:15 p.m. April 20, The Gables (residents only), Rutland; 9:30 a.m. April 20, Dorset Nursing (by appointment), Dorset; 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, Godnick Adult Center, Rutland; and 9:30 a.m. April 28, Appletree Apartments, Fair Haven. Information: 802-775-0568.
Thu 4/21 GRANVILLE St. Mary’s Church invites everyone to its annual, ecumenical Potluck Supper at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 21, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Granville. Following the supper, the Granville Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists will host a 7 p.m. service at the Granville Methodist Church where everyone will be welcome.
MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS The Rutland County Parent Child Center and Community Partners will host the Second Annual Dr. Seuss Birthday Party from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday April 21, at the Middletown Springs Elementary School, 15 Schoolhouse Road. Meet the Cat in the Hat and enjoy games, food, music, storytelling, movies, door prizes, a raffle, and more. Information: 802-775-9711, or 802-235-2365.
Fri 4/22 TINMOUTH The Long Trail School will host a free Contra Dance at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 22, at the Tinmouth Community Center on Route 140. Wear clean, soft-sole shoes. Refreshments will be provided and everyone will be welcome. Information: 235-2718, or www.longtrailschool.org.
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Sun 4/24 GRANVILLE The Mettowee Valley Ecumencial Council will host an Easter Son-Risen Worship Service at 6:30 a.m. on Easter Sunday, April 24, at Veterans Park on Quaker Street in Granville. Everyone will be welcome. Information: Rev. Jim Peterson at 518-642-2245, or email JCPeterson@roadrunner.com.
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Like the rest of the farms on the 19th annual Washington County Fiber Tour, Quarry Ridge Alpacas will be open next weekend for visitors to come see its herd and learn about fiber arts. But Herb and Faith Perkins have something that few of the other farms can provide. Their farm is up Quarry Hill Road, off Route 22 in Salem, and while it’s a winding trip to their driveway and up to the house and barns, visitors will be rewarded with a beautiful view of the Vermont hills and with a friendly reception. Visitors have been prowling the roads of Washington County, visiting farms that raise various fiber-bearing animals for nearly 20 years and they will be out there again on Saturday, April 23 and Sunday, April 24. Most of the farms on the tour will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., April 28 and 29. While most of the farms on the tour will feature alpacas, there will also be registered
Alpacas are usually the stars of the tour. Romney, Merino and Cheviot sheep flocks at Ensign Brook Farm in Greenwich, fleece and lambskins at Hartshorn Ridge Farm in Greenwich and angora rabbits at Fiber Kingdom in Salem. Another of the alpaca farms, Heritage Manor Suri Alpacas in Hebron, focuses specifically on the Suri breed, which is not common in the northeast. Other farms on the tour include AREA Cria-tions Alpaca Farm in Fort
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Ann, Alpacas of Breezy Hill Ranch in West Hebron and Alpacas of Haven Hill in Greenwich. Moments in Time Creations farm, which shares the same Salem site with Fiber Kingdom, will have spring lambs to visit with. Ryder Road Alpacas in Whitehall and Parkland Alpaca Farm in Granville will also be open, as will Battenkill Fibers Carding & Spinning Mill.
Tea cup auction in Wells, April 15 The Green Mountain Seniors in Wells, will be having a Tea Cup Auction on Friday evening, April 15th, 2011 at the Modern Woodman Annex Building on Main Street, (Route 30) in Wells. The viewing will start at 6 p.m. and the Auction begins at 7 p.m. There will be light refreshments and door prizes. We have a wide variety of goods, from household items, books, jewelry, holiday items, puzzles and games as well as groceries and homemade baked goodies. The cost is $1 per envelope which includes 10 tickets. It is a fun time for all. Please come and join us.
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'An absolute blessing'
West Pawlet rallies around Dutchie's owners By Bill Toscano Nancy Muldoon stopped to regain her composure, tears in her eyes, as she spoke about how West Pawlet, Vt., had come together for her nephew Will Kuban and his partner Eric Swanson. “I live a long way away from here. I’m from Connecticut, and to watch the community rally around them, it’s beautiful,” she said, standing among hundreds of others at the West Pawlet Fire Company on a spring-like Sunday afternoon. “It is an absolute blessing for them to live in this community. I think about it, and I get all choked up. Two weeks before, it had been the morning after for Kuban and Swanson. They had escaped an early-morning fire that destroyed their Dutchie’s General Store and killed local resident Gary Cary, who had been sleeping in a nearby building. The store, built in 1869, along with the post office block on the other side of the town’s intersection, formed the heart and soul of a small community in which newcomers and longtime residents smix with ease. Coming together quickly In the short time since then, Kuban and Swanson’s friends and neighbors had quickly organized “Dutchie’s Aid,” a community event that included a fundraising barbecue of nearly 600 pounds of pork and chicken, a silent auction of more than 100 items, a 200-item bake sale that sprawled over four big tables under the fire company’s festival tent and a raffle for Telescope lawn furniture and a hand-made timber swing set. The crowd, which included visitors from throughout the state – inspired by a touching Vermont Public Radio piece earlier in the week – and from as far away as Albany, Massachusetts and Connecticut, very likely swelled beyond the 1,000 mark as the afternoon coasted past. The smells of the food, the sound of children playing and the down-home music of “Gold Town” burnished the golden day. Vowing to rebuild “This is awe-inspiring,” said Kuban, who spent the day roaming the grounds with Swanson and their families and answering every question posed to him, including the most crucial one for this small hamlet hard by the New York state border. “We do know that we are definitely going to rebuild,” said Kuban, a firm force in his voice. “It will be the ‘next-gener-
Dutchie's owners Eric Swanson, left, and Will Kuban ation’ country store. It won’t look like a fast-food convenience store.” They have a house in Hebron, though they did sometimes stay on the second-floor of the store, as they did the night of the fire. “We have a house in Hebron, yes, but West Pawlet is where our hearts are,” he added, casting a glance over the crowd. “This is our home.” Sunday’s “Yes-it-might-wellbe-Spring” weather added the crowning touch to a day that had really started 24 hours earlier when Mike and Hadley Stock and their barbecue colleagues had placed the pork butts into the smoker. The event was scheduled to start at 2 p.m., but Katrina Farrell, who has been the point-person over the last two weeks, and other organizers arrived before 10 a.m. to join the fire fighters who moved their trucks out of what would become an immaculately clean squad bay, and the members of the auxiliary, who got to work on the cole slaw, potato salad and other fixins’. Quite the afternoon By 1:15 p.m., the first visitors were finding the few prime spots on the village’s winding streets, and by just after 2 p.m., the crowd waiting for the first chicken and pork was 50 deep. That line, at turns orderly and clumpy depending on whether Kuban and Swanson were working their way up and down it, quickly doubled. It snaked around, tripled and extended well out onto the street and did not begin to diminish until it was nearly 4 p.m. Elisabeth Hazelton and Sara Crandell sold the last tickets and took the orders for the last of the sold-out t-shirts. Those shirts, designed by Hadley Stock and created by Judy Coolidge, were simple white with black ink showing a pair of hands forming a heart with the words “That’s So. VT” with the words “Dutchie’s A/D 2011.” Eric Brown, who cooks pro-
Photos by Bill Toscano
Mike Stock checks the hog he was cooking at Sunday at the West Pawlet Fire Department. Below left, his wife Hadley Stock, who designed the benefit t-shirt she is wearing, cuts some of the pork. Below right, Molly, a 10-year-old retriever, one the only one of three dogs to survive the fire.
fessionally at The Chanticleer in Dorset, was manning the chicken grill with help from Philip Marzucco and his son, Philip Marzucco II. “I always used to go to the store all the time,” Brown said, smiling as he flipped a metal bowl of chicken and barbecue sauce. “We all get together to take care of our own. We love these guys.” Joan Kurjiaka, whose family ran the store for 30 years, was at the event, enjoying the meal with her extended family. “We were glad they bought the store, and it’s good they are going to rebuild it.” 'This is awesome' Hadley Stock, organizer, t-shirt designer and barbecue cook, took a second to reflect. “This is awesome,” Stock said. “People kept saying, ‘You’re not going to have that many people.’ I just knew it was
going to be like this.” Dan Brooks was also among the group helping the Stocks tend to the pork. “I am new in town, and I am pretty amazed at how this community has turned out.” The hog in the smoker to Brooks’ left was donated by Brown Boar Farm of Wells, much of the chicken and some of the extra pork came from Green Mountain Market Place of Whitehall and the rest of the chicken was donated by DeAnna Mach and Mach’s Brick Oven Wood Fired Pizza of Pawlet. Maplewood Ice of Whitehall donated the ice for the event, Wilcox Dairy of Manchester donated ice cream, Consider Bardwell, Southwind and Maplebrook Farms all donated cheese, Rupert Rising Bread donated bread and Capital Candy Co. donated other food and beverage items.
Sarah Post, wearing a straw hat, helped oversee the bake sale, when she wasn’t running home to print out more bid sheets for the silent auction. Rhonda Schlangen Park another of the organizers was, well, wherever Farrell, Post and the others weren’t. The rough-hewn swing set was the handiwork of Mike Stock. Hadley Stock created an event logo and Judy Coolidge donated her time to create logo tee-shirts for sale. Stephen Schaub set up a donation link on his website, www.pawletvermont.com, and said Sunday he had received $1,885 there alone. Amid the tumult, Swanson looked around, then spoke in a quiet voice. “We’re overwhelmed with gratitude to the community,” Swanson Swanson finally said “It’s amazing. We don’t know what to do.”
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Local team qualifies for Odyssey world event Service Day is April 16
By Zohara Zarfati Team Coach On March 19th seven kids from Pawlet, Middletown, and Poultney, participated as the Hayes Foundation team in the state wide Odyssey of the Mind competition. These homeschoolers, ranging in ages from 8 to 13, trained for months for this rigorous competition. In spite of a great age difference between our kids and the other groups, and all sorts of uncertainties until the day of the competition, the kids in the team showed great resiliency and a “can do� attitude, and won first place in Division II. We are overwhelmed and grateful for this experience. Odyssey of the Mind encourages kids to engage in creative problem solving by "thinking outside the box" in a cooperative and positive manner. This training will potentially yield the leaders of our future. As a coach I was not allowed to guide them towards any possible solution of this rigorous program. They had to do it all on their own. The group is now invited to participate in the World Final competition in Maryland at the end of May. The participation fees and registrations are way beyond our means as private people and we are looking for community support and ideas how to generate the $10,000.00 we need in order to travel to
A group of home-schooled youth from Pawlet, Middletown and Poultney came together as a group to win their division in the state Odyssey of the Mind competition and have qualified for the world competition. They are seeking donations to make the trip. Maryland and represent our little towns!! This amount has to be generated by the middle of April. We are proud to share this amazing success story with our communities and hope that our neighbors and friends will appreciate and celebrate the talented kids living in their towns.
Vermont does not mandate gifted education, and there is very little incentive out there for kids to dare and face challenges without expecting tangible rewards. Therefore, as an educator who cares what our future will look like, I urge you, in the name of my fantastic team to consider assisting us. For size-
able donations, a tax deductible receipt may be possible, if needed. We would love to represent you and put southern Vermont on the world map. Please help us reach this goal towards a more creative and peaceful world!!
Slate Valley Community Connection is gearing up for its Spring Service Day on Saturday, April 16. Students from Green Mountain College, Castleton State College, and community members from various local organizations will reach out with large scale projects throughout the region to benefit seniors, youth, food projects, and the environment. These projects include painting to Poultney Senior Center, and spring cleanup at Lake St. Catherine, nature trail cleanup at the Kehoe Conservation Camp. Crews will also be constructing easy to water tomato planters for senior citizens, cemetery fence repair for the West Haven Historical Society, spring cleanup at Hubbardton Battlefield, and various beautification projects in the town of Poultney. If you are interested in learning more about the Slate Valley Community Connection or would like to volunteer for the service day, please contact Susan Sutheimer 802 287-8302, or Chrispin White 802 468-1431. Registration for volunteers will be held throughout the week before the event on the campuses of Castleton State College and Green Mountain College, and also at 11 a.m. on the day of the event at each campus.