The Mountain Times - June 26 - July 2, 2019

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Volume 48, Number 26

June 26-July 2, 2019

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By Paul Holmes

An angler takes advantage of the nice weather by fly fishing on the island of Kent Pond, just off the boat ramp on Route 100, June 10.

Courtesy GM Railroad

ALL ABOARD? The $71 million Middlebury Railroad Tunnel project will impact Rutland, officials say. Routes will be re-routed for passenger and freight trains.

Residents worry about safety.

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By Jean Francois Meler

HEARD 37 YEARS The Killington Music Festival, now in its 37th season, is kicking off Saturday, June 29.

The internationally acclaimed musicians of the Killington Music Festival will perform at Ramshead Lodge at the Killington Resort at 7 p.m.The season opens with “Simon Ghraichy at the Piano.”

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By Brian Tortora, Daniela Goncalves @ericjleone

RIDE ON The ninth annual Vermont Adaptive Charity Ride has raised $265,000 so far this year for adaptive equipment.

See photos Page 38

Green Mountain College for sale with no price tag

By Katy Savage

The shuttered Green Mountain College has hit the market with no sales price.

The private liberal arts college in Poultney, which was founded in 1834, is listed for sale by Colliers International in Boston.

V/T Commercial owner Tony Blake, who is representing the property locally, is looking for bidders. There is no sales price and no minimum bid requirement.

“We’ll entertain anything,” Blake said. “Right now, it’s a shotgun approach.”

The sale includes the dormitory buildings with 654 beds, all the furniture, fixtures and equipment, along with administrative offices, lecture halls, a 400-seat theater/auditorium and a working farm.

“It’s completely, 100 percent turn key and really in pristine shape,” Blake said.

There’s already been some interest, Blake said. About 50 organizations have inquired about the facility.

“There’s some interest internationally to open it up and bring students to the campus to learn more about reusable energy,” Blake said.

The 155-acre facility, with 23 buildings totaling approximately 450,000 square feet, held its final com-

Courtesy Colliers International

The Green Mountain College campus in Poultney is for sale..

GMC for sale, page 12

Woodstock organization wants moderate incomes in pricey town

By Katy Savage

A Woodstock organization is trying to get more residents in the expensive town by helping people buy homes.

With an anonymous $500,000 grant, the Woodstock Community Trust is buying homes, fixing them and selling them at a reduced rate.

Jill Davies, a Woodstock Select Board member who spearheaded the idea in December 2018, said she wants to buy and sell two homes a year to families with moderate income levels.

She hopes the effort will support people who live and work in Woodstock.

“You see how far teachers are having to drive to work,” Davies said. “You find out that the police you employ can’t afford to live in town. The local businesses can’t find anybody to work for them.”

A report called “Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing,” found Vermont has the sixth largest affordability gap for renters in the nation (see related story, page 6). In order to afford a two-bedroom apartment in the state, renters need to earn $47,000 annually, the report found.

Meanwhile, U.S. Census data shows about 52 percent of Woodstock homes are owned by second homeowners.

“Woodstock is one of those communities where getting to be a first-time home buyer is really difficult given the high cost of housing there,” said Twin Pines Housing Trust Executive Director Andrew Winter. “I think the Woodstock Community Trust recognized that issue.”

Twin Pines is partnering with the Woodstock Community Trust to oversee the application process for homebuyers. The Woodstock trust purchased its first home for $385,000 in March.

The three-bedroom, two bathroom home on Maple Street dates back to 1903 and is assessed at $399,000 after the trust put about $15,000 of renovations into it. The Woodstock trust is listing the home at a 35 percent discount, for $259,000.

Davies, who moved to Vermont from Connecticut about 10 years ago, is a board member of the Ottauquechee Health Foundation and Sustainable Woodstock in addition to being a member of the Select Board.

Woodstock homes, page 14

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Killington Recreation Director Cathy Foutch, Janina Curtis and Theresa Toole hike the trails at Mission Farm church in Killington. Foutch is being forced to reapply to her job as the Select Board creates a new position.

Town looks for new rec/ after school director

By Katy Savage

KILLINGTON–Killington Recreation Director Cathy Foutch could be forced to out of her job as the Select Board merges two positions.

The board is creating a new position and merging the parks and recreation director position with the after school program director position to create better efficiencies.

New Rec Director, page 5

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The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

Ascutney to install new T-bar lift by winter

By Curt Peterson

The T-bar will give riders access the The most expensive part was West Windsor’s Ascutney Outlower 1,700 feet. Steve Batson, an Asgetting the lift across the internadoors, which has been providing cutney Outdoors volunteer said the tional border,” Seward said. “And the access to groomed slope and backUpper Valley Land Trust helped fiimport duty was high.” country skiing via rope tow, will be nance the land purchase in exchange Canadian Immigration Officers sporting a modern T-bar lift startfor a conservation easement for the stopped him in his truck with the ing with the first skiable snow next upper ridge. tools for disassembling the Le Relais winter.

“There are very few undeveloped T-bar. Canadians are sensitive about “The slope is so popular we ran peaks with Ascutney’s elevation incomers taking jobs and require a out of lift capacity,” said Ascutney left in Vermont,” Batson said, “and “work permit.” Seward was deOutdoors board member Glenn this was a way to Seward. “With the T-Bar, “THERE ARE VERY FEW UNDEVELOPED preserve it.” two skiers can go up at the Seward said same time.”

PEAKS WITH ASCUTNEY’S ELEVATION Asuctney OutThe lift was purchased doors can mainfor $85,000 and came LEFT IN VERMONT.” tain the existing from Le Relais Ski Area ski trails above the T-bar, but access tained for three hours and grilled by near Quebec City. A deal was struck, will require back-country skiing.

Customs officers while his truck was and Seward headed to Canada last “It’s very popular,” Seward said. emptied and inspected.

October to dismantle Le Relais’s “When I arrive at 6:30 in the morn“I explained I was a volunteer hand-me-down. ing, there may be as many as 50 cars board member, that I was not being Installation requires blasting for in the parking lot – mostly skiers who paid, and not, therefore, taking a the lift’s towers. Concrete pads will were walking up the entire mountain job a Canadian citizen might have be poured, towers set, and the cable to ski down.” to which the T-Bars will attach will be been paid to do,” Seward said. “They Rope tow use has been free, or “by finally checked our website, decided installed. donation,” Seward said Ascutney I was telling the truth and let me go Off-season mountain bikers Outdoors has not set a ski pass price on.” use lifts to access higher trails, and for the new T-Bar, but he thinks it will Seward said the dismantled lift Seward hopes that might be posbe about $10-$15 per day. system filled five or six trucks. U.S. sible here too. That will be up to the Ascutney will probably never Customs officials required they all Vermont Tramway Board, which make their own snow, as it is very cross the border together within oversees and inspects ski lifts. expensive, and Mill Brook could not a specified time, which was not as Seward didn’t reveal the price for simple as it sounds. the lift but called it “a very attractive supply enough water, according to Mt. Ascutney is 3,500 feet high. deal.”

Seward.

By Curt Peterson

A new T-bar lift at Ascutney will replace a rope tow this winter. The lift costs $85,000.

Rutland will feel effect of $71 million Middlebury rail project

By Curt Peterson

RUTLAND—Local residents are concerned that rail cars filled with fuel will be stored near their homes as two dangerously deteriorated downtown bridges in Middlebury will be replaced by a tunnel during the summer of 2020 for a cost close to $71 million.

At a June 20 meeting on Hickory Street in Rutland, residents were concerned that children, homeless people and drug dealers frequent the rail yards, and they wanted to know how dangerous rail cars filled with gasoline are.

The project, called the Middlebury Bridge & Rail Project, will necessitate closing both Main Street and Merchants Row in Middlebury for about 10 weeks. Train passage between Burlington and Rutland will also be interrupted.

Rutland’s “wye,” a small spur on Hickory Street, used to turn around the Amtrak train, is an important intersection for incoming trains. Trains bringing freight into Vermont from Albany and Quebec arrive at the junction and either turn north toward Burlington through Middlebury or southeast toward Bellows Falls.

During Middlebury construction work, trains will not be able to travel north— a detour southeast over the Green Mountains, to Bellows Falls, then to Burlington will be necessary. This will mean trains re-arranging freight cars, backing up, unhooking and reconnecting, and sometimes being stored, at the Rutland wye intersection.

The railroad right-of-way is owned by the state, and rail service is operated by Vermont Rail System, a conglomeration of small regional rail companies.

There are two main reasons this project has priority – the tracks and bridges in Middlebury are in serious need of replacement in order to safely handle increased rail traffic, and there are plans to extend Amtrak passenger service

between Rutland and Burlington with a Middlebury stop.

On July 20 Martineau and Aaron Guyette, rail project manager for VHB Engineering, presented a slideshow to an audience of about a dozen at the Hickory Street Community Center, explaining the project and its implications for Rutland. Most attendees were residents in apartments very near the rail yards.

Fuel, Guyette said, is a significant portion of freight that passes through Rutland, most of it destined for storage and distribution points in the Burlington area. Neither Guyette nor Martineau could provide a quantity or a percentage that fuel, mostly gasoline, represents.

The fact that all fuel is considered hazardous material, exacerbated by recent rail accidents in the news—the 2013 Lac Megantic disaster involving a crude oil shipment that derailed and exploded in Quebec killing more than 50 people and a 2013 derailment of a gasoline shipment near Middlebury that fortunately did not ignite—has people nervous about increased train activity.

Guyette and Martineau were short on specifics regarding security and said predicting the quantity and duration of fuel car storage is difficult.

“Storage would logically be minimal,” Martineau said, “because the stored cars would be in the way when trains are maneuvering their re-arrangement.”

Mayor Allaire assured the concerned residents he would meet with the chief of police and make sure regular patrols kept the yards safe for nearby residents.

“I’m going to speak with Chief Kilcullen tomorrow,” Allaire said, “and make sure we are coordinating with the railroad so we are constantly aware of the risks and providing for your safety during the project.”

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

LOCAL NEWS • 3

OBITUARY

John Ditcheos, 88

John Ditcheos died at his home in Woodstock, in his favorite easy chair, on June 18 at age 88.

He was born on Sept. 12, 1930, in Hightstown, New Jersey and was the son of Nicholas and Alexandria Ditcheos, and younger brother to George.

Ditcheos spent his early life with his family in his father’s homeland of Greece until the German occupation when they fled the country in an old wooden boat with no possessions other than the clothes they were wearing.

After going through the Ellis Island immigration process (Ditcheos, George and Alexandria were U.S. Citizens but Nicholas and the other family members were not) they all eventually settled in Hightstown, New Jersey where Ditcheos went to Hightstown Grade School, and John Ditcheos Peddie Prep School where he met the love of his life and future wife, Janet Catherine Underhill. After graduating from Peddie Prep School (in 2004 he was inducted into the Peddie School Sports Hall of Fame for soccer) he went on to attend Cornell, graduating with a degree in Hotel Management.

Ditcheos loved playing soccer; his college team was second team All American and after college he played semi-pro soccer for the New York Cosmos. Ditcheos went into the army and served as an officer and then went on to help his brother and mother run the family restaurant in Hightstown, New Jersey.

The family sold the business in the early 1960s so Ditcheos moved on to become the restaurant manager of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Not adoring the long hours and midnight train commutes into the city, he was offered a position managing the food and beverage department of a new ski area in Vermont called Killington where he was employed until his retirement at the age of 83 in 2013. Ditcheos was instrumental in developing the food and beverage business into a major revenue generator, and later served as Killington’s banquet and conference manager. Along the way, Ditcheos was honored with many achievement awards from organizations such as the New England Culinary Institute (where he served on the board for many years) the American Culinary Federation, Naval Base Philadelphia (Commander’s Certificate of Appreciation), the Vermont Lodging and Restaurant Association and the Taste of Vermont. His long-time goal was to see a Killington tourist sign along Interstate 89 and was instrumental in getting that approved by the Vermont Department of Tourism. After his retirement from Killington, Ditcheos spent time travelling and being with his family. He was a loving father of three children (Jo Ann Stanyon, Jackie Lynn Fenner and Ditcheos Nicholas Ditcheos), grandfather of seven (Robert Flower and Timothy Stanyon, Alexander, Nicholas and Jasmine Ditcheos, and Warren and Catherine (Ditcheosson) Fenner; and a great grandfather to six children (Christian and Charlotte Ditcheos, Natalie Olsen and Kai Ditcheos, Callister Ditcheos and Rhys Fenner) with three more on the way. Ditcheos will be remembered by many as “the man, the myth and the legend.”

There will be a memorial visitation on Saturday, June 22 at the Cabot Funeral Home on 32 Rose Hill in Woodstock from 3-6 p.m. and a private graveside service on Sunday morning where he will be laid to rest next to Janet and his granddaughter Elizabeth.

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the St. James Episcopal Church at 2 St. James Place, Woodstock, Vermont 05091. An online guestbook is available at cabotfh.com.

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LOCAL NEWS

Downtown Rutland property owners may see reduction in tax district assessment

By Ed Larson

that is flat to last year’s, district.

The Rutland Redevelat $252,000. The budget A public hearing was opment Authority, adis for salaries, benefits, scheduled for 8 a.m. ministrator of the downevents, marketing/ on June 25, to approve town Special Benefits advertising and related the continuation of the Tax District Assessment, items.

SBTD. is about to approve a Also, to be discussed This is required every reduction in the assessat the RRA’s meeting will three years. ment which is levied on be the dispodowntown sition of two property THE PARTNERSHIP IS properties in owners over the Stone Ridge and above the REQUESTING A BUDGET Development. municipal tax THAT IS FLAT TO LAST Both properties property tax became under rate, accordYEAR’S, AT $252,000.

Rutland City ing to multiple ownership for sources.

There does not appear tax and unpaid utility Barbara Spaulding, billings. to be objection to the grant administrator for The RRA and the city District Tax continuathe RRA, said Monday, Planning Office will work tion.

June 24, that there will to find new ownership The Rutland Down“most likely” be a reducfor property currently town Partnership aption when the RRA holds pears to “be okay with it,” held by the City of Rutits monthly meeting on land. too, Spaulding said.

Tuesday, June 25.

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By Julia Purdy

Sarah and Justin McKeighan pose with son Henry and Sarah’s 17-year-old Palomino horse Ace at their new Trinity Stable & Arena in Florence.

For new owners, equestrian facility is a dream come true

By Julia Purdy Those familiar with the West Creek Road in Florence will notice new activity at the former Silver Birch Equestrian Center location, formerly operated by Cheryl Hathaway. New owners Sarah Maseroni McKeighan and Justin McKeighan purchased 11 acres including buildings and riding ring May 30. The McKeighans have a lease-purchase agreement on another 150 acres, with the purchase to close in January 2020.

Renamed Trinity Stable & Arena, the property includes a boarding barn, attached indoor arena and outdoor ring.

A rainy day found Sarah McKeighan and a helper working with four of McKeighan’s own horses.

Trinity Stable & Arena is Sarah McKeighan’s lifelong dream. She had already lived the dream of many “horse crazy” young girls, learning to ride at her parents’ farm, Outback Acres, the old Davenport Farm on Furnace Road in Pittsford.

She studied dental hygiene at Vermont Technical College and worked at Heaton & Fisch for five years. Then this property became available.

“I went, ‘That would be awesome.’ I’d known Cheryl for five years,” McKeighan said.

Justin and Sarah had attended Lothrop School together and were high school sweethearts. They had been married and living in Pittsford for three years when the opportunity popped up. Their own house had been in Justin’s family for three generations. They sold it for more than they put into it even though they had made major improvements. They had not even listed it when friends from childhood snapped it up McKeighan told the Mountain Times.

McKeighan quit her job to focus on developing the new business. She said she could continue to work as a fill-in, but for now there is too much to do with maintenance and repairs and “a facelift to make it our own.”

Justin is a carpenter, working for a local builder. He does most of the work on the property: siding, roof work, dealing with deferred maintenance in the 25-year-old

facility. His boss’s niece boards a horse with the McKeighans, so “it’s a nice small circle of local friends,” McKeighan said.

The couple had considered various names. “Silver Birch Equestrian Center sounded a little too formal for me, I’m not a Western pleasure rider, I’m a barrel racer,” McKeighan explained. “In barrel racing there are three barrels: it’s my husband, my son and I, we’ve been married and in our house for three years, it’s all been building blocks to get here, so Trinity is like completeness.

McKeighan offers western seat only but can bring in English seat instructors.

McKeighan hastened to add. She plans to offer lessons, boarding, training and summer camps. There is plenty of property to develop into trails. Currently riders use the spacious oval outdoor ring.

“Eventually it would be great to host our own jackpot barrel races or gymkhana,” McKeighan said. “I grew up doing gymkhana.”

The facility currently keeps 20 horses, including warmblood and draft crosses, Morgans, and Sarah’s four quarter horses.

There are six stalls in the indoor arena that need repair, and 15 well-designed stalls in the main barn. Hers and two of the boarders are “rough-boarded” and stay outdoors with a shed for shelter.

Trinity Stable & Arena is a sprawling complex, painted pale yellow with white trim and green metal roofs, two miles north on West Creek Road from Kendall Hill Road, the Omya truck route. The view looks west over lush green wetland toward High Pond Road and the Taconic Ridge.

The “horse thing” is Sarah’s dream come true, and the Florence location works for Justin as a good place for hunting and fishing and being outdoors.

McKeighan said she didn’t ever think it would happen, and she credits the family’s help and encouragement. The couple are planning a barbecue soon to bring family and supporters together.

“Horses are a good way to get people together,” she said.

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

Staff report

LOCAL NEWS

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Initial bids for public safety building $500K over budget

million. The 14,000 square-foot build- to do pre- and post-site construction KILLINGTON—Lack of raw mawork for $1.02 million, which is over ing will house the police department, terials has put some bids for Killingsearch and rescue equipment and fire budget by about $100,000. ton’s new public safety building over A bid from Jeffords Steel and equipment in addition to adminisbudget.

Engineering was approved for trative offices. The building will also The Killington Select Board ap$204,000, which is slightly over the feature a 900 square-foot community proved six bids for initial work on $200,000 budget. the new 14,000 square foot CretePavers, Inc was apbuilding. In total, the bids are proved to pour the concrete about a half million dollars at $353,000, over budget by over budget. $86,000.

Dew Construction, which Southern Vermont Sprinwas hired to manage the projkler Services, Inc. will do fire ect, put bid packages together protection work for $96,000, with a budget for each piece which is over budget by of the work. $15,000.

Dew Vice President Jay The board entered execuLabare said lack of raw matetive session and then voted rials, stemming from tarrifs in China, has made some Courtesy Northeast Collaborative Architects to wait to approve a bid for the electrical work. Three materials more expensive.

An illustrated concept of the front of the proposed companies had submitted “It’s the marketplace—the Killington Public Safety building.Initial bids for the bids, ranging from $321,000 to amount of work available for project have come in overbudget. $548,000. subcontractors to commit to A bid from Rob Stubbins Electriroom, with seating for 50-60 people. and some of the raw materials have cal was later approved at a June The Select Board approved a bid escalated the prices,” Labare told the 25 meeting for $321,000—about from Merrill Mechanical for $575,000 board at a meeting Thursday, June 20. $70,000 over budget. to do the mechanical work, which is Voters approved the construction The board will next seek bids for about $155,000 over Dew’s budget. of the new public safety building last framing and interior work.

Mosher Excavating was selected March with a total budget up to $4.7

New rec director: Merged roles force Foutch to reapply

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Killington Elementary School. Candidates are required Foutch will be out unless she reapplies and is hired to have or obtain a master’s degree, a teaching certificate back. and certifications to teach after school programs.

Several people spoke in support of Foutch at a June 18 “I just think if they have someone doing a good job, Select Board meeting. why would they tell somebody ‘you can reapply for your “We’re concerned for a town employee and the deal own position.’ That seems wrong,” Ramos said after the she seems to be getting,” said Sherburne Memorial Limeeting. brary Director Jane Ramos. “It seems like an awful thing This is the third time in four years the town has hired a to do to a town employee.” recreation director.

Ramos, who has worked with Foutch on several proThe need for the merged grams, urged the board to post the position rose after an incident position internally before opening THIS IS THE THIRD TIME after school at the library. the job to external candidates.

IN FOUR YEARS THE TOWN Ramos said students as Foutch has been part of the young as 8 years old can take community for 10 years. She startHAS HIRED A RECREATION the bus to the library after ed her position in February 2018. school and wait there until Foutch started a cross country DIRECTOR. their parents pick them up. skiing program and brought back Ramos said the children basketball and baseball programs are unsupervised. This spring, a 13-year-old boy used to the recreation department this year. profanity at the library, Ramos said. A rumor later spread Foutch said it “makes sense” for the board to merge that the boy “exposed himself” to other children, Ramos the positions together. said in an interview after the meeting.

“I do a lot of work with the school,” Foutch said in an Ramos said the rumor wasn’t true. Ramos thought interview after the meeting. “I think it is more approprithe incident was one reason the board created the new ate and more fair to hire in house first.” position.

Foutch said despite it being “awkward,” she plans to “Because of that incident we have all this,” Ramos reapply. said.

“It’s my job right now, I’m going to reapply for it,” she Town Clerk Lucrecia Wonsor urged the board to said. post internally as did said Sherburne Memorial Library The recreation director is responsible for promoting Trustee Nan Salmon. year-round activities, organizing summer camp and ap“We’re a small town and it’s a big job. I hope they go plying for grants while the after-school program director is responsible for developing programs for 3-12 year olds, slow and do it right,” Salmon said after the meeting.

Despite the pleas from community members to post supervising staff and ensuring the safety of children. the job internally, the board voted at a later June 20 The combined position comes with a salary up to meeting to open the job to all candidates. $60,000, which is a significant increase from the rec Select Board member Jim Haff explained the lack of director’s current budgeted salary of $43,000. Thirty percent of funds for the new position are coming from internal candidates as one reason to open the job up.

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STATE NEWS

State hires first racial equity director the director of health and housing ment, and inventory systems in Vermont has a new executive strategic initiatives for the New York place that engender racial disdirector of racial equity. Gov. Phil City Department of Health and parities. Additional responsibilities Scott announced the appointment Mental Hygiene. In that role, she include reviewing and making recof Xusana Davis to the newly-creatcoordinated the agency’s housingommendations regarding fairness ed position on Friday, June 21. related programs through a health and diversity policies; reporting, Davis will work with state government agencies and departments gathering and analyzing race-based equity lens. Previously, Davis served as the director of the to identify and adNew York City Coundress systemic racial “THIS IS AN IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD cil’s Black, Latino and disparities and supAsian Caucus. port the state’s efforts IN OUR EFFORTS TO IMPROVE ...

Candidates for the to expand and bring BOTH SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY, position were recomdiversity to Vermont’s mended to Scott by a overall population.

THROUGH REAL EQUALITY THAT VALUES five-member Racial “Xusana’s leaderEquity Advisory Panel ship and experience DIVERSITY,” SAID SCOTT. consisting of appoinare a perfect fit for this tees by the Senate Committee on data to determine the nature and position, and she will be a valuable Committees, the House speaker, scope of racial discrimination addition to our team,” said Scott. the chief justice of the Supreme within systems of government; de“In this role, she will be critical to Court, the governor and the Human veloping and conducting training our work to ensure state governRights Commission. to improve systems for inclusion ment is demonstrating a full comDavis has a Juris Doctor with a in state government; and working mitment to equal opportunity and concentration in international huwith the chief performance officer treatment for all Vermonters, our man rights law from New York Law to develop performance measures. visitors and our employees. This is School, where she also directed a “I am honored to be a part of an important step forward in our civil liberties education program for efforts to improve state government Vermont’s commitment to improve low-income and minority youth. equity within state government,” and strengthen our communities, She studied at Fordham University, Davis said.“I look forward to the both socially and economically, opportunity to work collaboratively earning the Rev. J. Franklin Ewthrough real equality that values ing, S.J. Award for writing on the with all branches of government to diversity.” relationship between global human make Vermont more accessible to Davis will oversee a comprerights violations and HIV/AIDS. all, regardless of ethnicity or place hensive organizational review to Davis will start in her new posiof origin.” identify systemic racism in each of tion on July 29.

Davis served most recently as the three branches of state govern-

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Affordable housing still out of reach At Vermont’s current minimum wage of $10.78, a wage In order to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment at earner must have 2.1 full-time jobs or work 85 hours a week the fair market rent in Vermont, renters need to earn $22.78 to afford a two-bedroom apartment and have 1.7 full-time an hour, or $47,375 annually, according to the report, “Out jobs or work 67 hours per week to afford a modest oneof Reach: The High Cost of Housing.” bedroom apartment.

The report was jointly released by the National Low InIn no state can a minimum wage renter working a come Housing Coalition (NLIHC), a research and advocacy 40-hour week afford organization dedicatTHE AVERAGE RENTER IN VERMONT EARNS a modest two-beded solely to achieving room rental home, affordable and decent $13.40 AN HOUR, WHICH IS according to the homes for the lowest report. income people, and $9.38 LESS THAN THE HOURLY WAGE NEEDED. “Far too many the Vermont AffordAmericans are working long hours at low wages and can’t able Housing Coalition (VAHC). afford a decent, safe place to live. Here in Vermont, we see Every year, “Out of Reach” reports on the housing wage, renters paying 50, 60 and even 70 percent of their income the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a for their housing, leaving little for other basic necessities,” modest, safe rental home without spending more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs. The report covers said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “We need to reorder our national all states, counties, metropolitan areas, and zip codes in the priorities to make investments that strengthen working families and help them thrive, which includes investing in country, highlighting the gap between what renters earn more decent, safe and affordable housing.” and what it costs to rent.

The struggle to afford modest apartments is not limited The average renter in Vermont earns $13.40 an hour, to minimum wage workers. Of the 10 most common jobs in which is $9.38 less than the hourly wage needed to afford Vermont according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only a safe, decent place to live. They can afford just $697 a registered nurses and bookkeepers/accountants/auditing month for their housing costs, while the average statewide clerks have average wages higher than the one-bedroom fair market rent for a two-bedroom apartment is $1,184 a housing wage. Seniors and others living on fixed incomes month and $945 a month for a one-bedroom. Vermont’s can’t afford housing anywhere in the state without a subone-bedroom housing wage is $18.18 an hour. sidy.

With over 76,214 renter households, Vermont has the “One of the biggest challenges facing working Vermontsixth largest affordability gap for renters in the U.S. ers is a lack of affordable housing. This important report “Each year the NLIHC Out of Reach report reminds us makes it clear that we have our work cut out for us,” said that we must remain sharply focused on increasing the Rep. Peter Welch.. “As a nation, we have the resources affordability of housing in Vermont. A single mother with a needed to close this affordability gap and the resources minimum wage job should not have to work 85 hours each needed to ensure every American has access to safe and week to afford a home for herself and her children,” said affordable housing.”

Sen. Patrick Leahy.

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

STATE NEWS

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Study: Older forests less vulnerable to climate change

By Elizabeth Gribkoff/VTDigger

A new study finds that older forests may be better positioned to handle the impacts of climate change than newer growth forests.

Researchers from the University of Vermont analyzed data from 18,507 forest plots across the eastern U.S. and Canada to see how changing temperature and precipitation would impact key forest functions.

They found that as forests age, their capacity to store carbon, produce timber, and provide habitat for a range of species increases, said Dominik Thom, a UVM postdoctoral researcher who was the lead author of a [study] published in Global Change Biology last Wednesday, June 12. And the older forests are, the less vulnerable those functions are to climate change, he said.

Older forests don’t just have older trees – they’re also more complex than younger forests. They have trees of different ages and sizes, canopy gaps that allow light to filter through for a wider array of species and dead trees strewn across the forest floor.

“Anything that has integrity, that has all its parts and processes intact, it’s going to be more stable, more resilient,” said Mike Snyder, commissioner of the Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation. “And that’s true for forests and climate change.”

The researchers recommend managing forests so that a portion mimics older conditions as a tool to make the overall landscape more resilient to climate change.

Climate change is already happening in Vermont. Since 1960, average annual temperatures have gone up by 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit and average annual precipita-

By Glenn Russell/VTDigger

The Cambridge Natural Area is home to a stand of old white pine and hemlock, like this one seen on Saturday, June 15, 2019. tion has gone up by 5.9 inches, according to the 2014 Vermont Climate Assessment.

Snyder said that while forests are dynamic – and trees genetically diverse – climate change “outpaces their natural abilities” to react to change.

Bill Keeton, one of the study authors and director of UVM’s carbon dynamics lab, said that the “general scientific consensus is that climate change will create stress for forests.” Climate change increases the spread of invasive species, changes forest productivity and affects species distribution, Keeton said.

Vermont’s forests have made a come-

back in the past century. Reduced by logging, sheep grazing and other agricultural practices in the late 1800s to 30 percent of the state’s land area, forests overtook dormant fields in the late 20th century.

Less than 1 percent of forests in the eastern United States and Canada are older than 200 years, Thom said.

Researchers, including at Keeton’s lab in Vermont, have been spearheading efforts to push forests toward older growth conditions. Those management techniques include allowing dead trees to stand, clearing room for larger trees, and pulling down trees to create tip-up mounds – the mass of

decaying roots and soil left at the base of a fallen tree.

“Basically, what we’re trying to do is find the forestry techniques that promote the development of that structural complexity,” said Keeton. “And we’ve shown that it can be done.”

He stressed that in the new study, researchers were not saying older forests are inherently better.

“They don’t provide all (ecosystem) services, but…the mix of services and biodiversity that they do provide will be more resistant to climate change than younger forests,” he said.

Snyder said the state has “a whole new approach” to forest management – both on state lands and in advice to private landowners – because of climate change. Also, the state’s accepted forestry management practices were revised last year to reduce water quality impacts of, say, erosion from skid trails.

“One of the more obvious effects of climate change on our forests right now is the strange, whacky hydraulics and the… increased frequency of high intensity storms,” said Snyder.

This session, the Legislature passed an agricultural development bill, S.160, that included the creation of a working group to look at how to enroll more state and privately owned forests in so-called “carbon markets.”

Both voluntary and mandated markets – such as California’s cap and trade program – exist that can pay forest landowners for pollution offset credits. Many of the techniques that produce “old forest characteristics” align with measures that increase carbon storage, said Keeton.

State’s land conservation skews north

By Eesha Williams The U.S. is losing 6,000 acres of open space to development every day, according to the Trust for Public Land (tpl.org/OurLand). The Vermont Land Trust (VLT) is working to protect open space, which is one of the best ways to stop climate change.

In the past 10 years, VLT has permanently protected about 134,000 acres. Since 1977, VLT has conserved more than 1,900 pieces of land covering 570,000+ acres; or about 10 percent of the state, according to its website vlt.org.

However, conservation is not equally or proportionally distributed throughout the state. A Mountain Times investigation reveals that, over the past decade, VLT – which gets most of its funding from taxpayers all over Vermont – has focused its efforts much more heavily in the northern part of the state, versus the four southern counties of Vermont (Rutland, Windsor, Bennington and Windham).

VLT president Nick Richardson told the Mountain Times that, in the past decade, the four counties of southern Vermont got 20 percent of the land protection despite making up 35 percent of the state’s land area.

Richardson, referring to the south-north disparity, told the Mountain Times, “It’s not an analysis I’d done before. I will work to find out

why that problem exists and how to fix it. We are working to recruit more board members from southern Vermont. We have two offices in southern Vermont.”

VLT’s main office is in Montpelier.

None of the 14 people on VLT’s board live in the state’s two southernmost counties, Windham and Bennington and just three of the 14 board members live in the other two southern Vermont counties. Those board members are: Pieter Bohen of Woodstock, Heidi G. Chamberlain of Manchester and David Middleton of Danby.

State Senator Cheryl Hooker, who represents Rutland County, said, “There are a lot of reasons why Vermont Land Trust has been more active in northern Vermont. One is that their work depends on the willingness of landowners to protect their land. But we need equitable shares of this funding throughout the state.”

State Senator Dick McCormack represents Windsor County. He told the Mountain Times he contacted VLT and, “I find the land trust’s explanation convincing. There are more farms to conserve in the north. There is more national forest acreage in the south. A big part of the north’s portion is two big tracts that are exceptional and are of benefit to the whole

state. That said, the southern counties’ delegations will be watchful to be sure our part of the state gets its share.”

Robin Chesnut-Tangerman, a state Representatives from Middletown Springs, told the Mountain Times, “Rutland County has the second most farmland of any county in Vermont. Addison has the most. The lion’s share of VLT’s activity is in the north. Almost all the money the state gives VLT – $6.3 million last fiscal year – is for farmland protection, not woodlands. But Windham and Windsor counties have a lot of farmland along the Connecticut river that should be protected.”

Abigail Mnookin lives in Brattleboro and works for 350 Vermont, a group that fights climate change. She told the Mountain Times, “I love what the Vermont Land Trust does. It would be great to see their work equalized between southern and northern Vermont,” she said, adding: “I’m speaking for myself, not necessarily for 350 Vermont.”

Mary Ellen Copeland runs an all-volunteer land protection group in the southern Vermont town of Dummerston. “After years of work we are close to protecting 933 acres,” she said. “VLT has been a huge help. But I would love to see them spend more money down here. We shouldn’t get short-changed.”

Acres conserved by county in the past 10 years With the exception of tiny Grand Isle, all of Vermont’s counties are roughly the same size geographically. Here is the breakdown by county of land protected by the Vermont Land Trust in the past decade: Lamoille: 24,200 acres Orleans: 20,100 acres Franklin: 17,000 acres Addison: 13,300 acres Washington: 9,550 acres Chittenden: 8,600 acres Windham: 8,400 acres Rutland: 8,400 acres Bennington: 6,600 acre Orange: 6,350 acress Caledonia: 5,400 acres Windsor: 3,970 acres Essex: 1,300 acres Grand Isle: 465 acres

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Opinion

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

OP-ED

Here’s how to create a viable economic development strategy

By Bill Schubart Vermont’s economic development strategy needs coordination — and perhaps centralization.

Vermont has no long-term, well-articulated economic development strategy, nor the funding capacity to execute one.

It’s not that we don’t spend money on economic development. There are many earnest people working hard to generate economic activity in Vermont, although we often confuse economic and community development; a Greensboro Pride Parade or town green replanting is not “economic development.”

The modest state budget we do have for economic development is doled out and jealously guarded by small fiefdoms operating regionally and, to some extent, statewide. Each time there is an executive or legislative attempt to implement a broad, strategic, statewide economic development plan — one that acknowledges regional, and international realities — it’s opposed by existing beneficiaries that assail the legislature to protect their mission. What’s left is inadequate to fund a statewide strategic initiative.

Complicating the lack of funds to develop and implement such a strategy are several negative socioeconomic indicators that inhibit our growth: • Demographics. Vermont’s annual birth rate in the Economy, page 11

Trump wants poor people to vanish

By Sue Minter The Trump administration has a uniquely cruel solution for our many neighbors who struggle with poverty: just declare that they are not poor and strip them of essential services.

This is the likely result of a proposal now under consideration to lower the federal poverty line-- the income threshold that determines what it means to be “poor” in America. The artificial maneuver to move millions of people out of poverty will terminate critical assistance for food, heat, housing and childcare, to name a few, for many of our most vulnerable community members.

As the executive director of Capstone Community Action, an organization that provides essential services to build ladders out of poverty, I see daily the low-income Vermonters who will be directly impacted by this change.

So do you. You may not know it, but the person serving your meal or working the checkout line at your grocery store could be homeless. Or the person operating the chairlift or cutting your hair who is struggling to put food on their table, and whose kids depend on free healthy meals at school. When these people are not helping you, Capstone is helping them.

Consider the story of one local family. In April, I received an all-staff email requesting camping equipment. It was not for someone going on vacation, but for a family that spent much of the winter living out of a storage container or in their car. Even though employed, the family couldn’t afford the cost of rent in their community. With warmer weather, they were relieved to be moving into a campground for the summer. This family has two children under the age of six who attend our Head Start program—where one in four families experienced homelessness this past year. At our early learning center kids access preschool education, two healthy meals per day, physical activity, as well as dental check-ups with the “Tooth Fairy” and critical social and Trump, page 9

OP-ED

By John Cole, ncpolicywatch.com

We need to strengthen the Older Americans Act

By Bernie Sanders

mand for these programs will only grow. Today, there It is no secret that many seniors in Vermont and are more than 70 million Americans aged 60 years throughout the United States are having trouble makand older, and the U.S. Census estimates that number ing ends meet. will increase to 100 million by 2040. Here in our state, It should go without saying, but no senior citizen more than one in every four Vermonters will be over in the richest country in history should ever have to the age of 65 by 2030. decide between buying groceries or the medications That is why I pushed so hard to increase funding for they need to stay healthy. No senior should worry senior nutrition programs by more than $60 million about keeping a roof over their head. Unfortunately, over that past two years. While this modest increase this is the reality today for far too many older Ameriwas a much-needed step in the right direction, we cans – and it is both unacceptable and immoral. clearly must do more to make sure no senior ever goes Which is why it is particularly unconscionable that hungry. And the last thing we should do is cut these President Trump and his allies in Congress have proprograms. posed huge tax breaks for bilMORE THAN ONE IN EVERY Congress is now discusslionaires while trying to make ing the reauthorization of the deep cuts to – or completely FOUR VERMONTERS WILL Older Americans Act. As the do away with – the programs ranking member of the Senate that help seniors stay healthy BE OVER THE AGE subcommittee on retirement and secure. This includes the OF 65 BY 2030. security and the co-chair of the essential programs funded Expand Social Security Caucus, under the Older Americans I am committed to expanding and strengthening the Act (OAA), the major federal vehicle for the delivery of programs funded under this critically important law. social and nutrition services for more than 11 million In the meantime, I will continue my efforts, now enolder Americans. dorsed by 39 of my Senate colleagues, to significantly I cannot overstate the importance of the Older increase funding for existing OAA programs.

Americans Act, especially for our state of Vermont I have often said that a great nation is judged not which has the second oldest population in the nation.

The OAA funds congregate meal sites, home-delivered by the tax breaks it gives to the very wealthy, but by how it cares for its families, children, seniors, veterans, meals like Meals on Wheels, exercise and wellness the poor and the sick. With the reauthorization of the activities, transportation services, employment and Older Americans Act, we can take a significant step community service programs, vulnerable elder rights to protect and support seniors in Vermont and every protection, the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Procorner of the country. Let’s get it done. gram, family caregiver support and more.

Bernie Sanders is a Vermont senator. He was a 2016 At a time when seniors’ cost of living continues to and is a 2020 presidential candidate. rise and as our population continues to age, the de-

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

CAPITOL QUOTES On improving the state’s economy…

“We must continue to act on good ideas and try new approaches because every new worker, new job and new business moves us in the right direction,” Said Gov. Phil Scott.

“The remote worker program garnered significant attention for Vermont and highlighted the draw that Vermont has as a location to live, work and play,” These new incentive and recruitment strategies are the next step in attracting talented workers and families to Vermont, while continuing to support and train current Vermonters as the needs of employers evolve,” Said Commerce and Community Development Secretary Michael Schirling.

“Throughout the state, employers are struggling to meet their workforce needs. This bill builds on the important work of integrating our adult career and technical education programs into our postsecondary education system so we can more effectively respond to local and regional workforce demand.”

Said Labor Commissioner Lindsay Kurrle on legislation that appropriates funds to help unemployed youth, new Americans and former offenders.

CAPITOL QUOTES

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Medical leave is a win-win for workers, employers

By Robin Scheu

When the Vermont House passed H.107, an act relating to paid family and medical leave insurance, this past April, 92 people voted to support the bill with an additional five people absent who would likely have voted in favor. It was a strong bill for many reasons. In this piece, I want to focus on one key component: medical leave, also known as temporary disability insurance or TDI. Why is TDI so important? Paid medical leave protects workers with serious health needs for whom limited sick time is not enough. It provides extended time off to deal with acute conditions such as cancer or major surgery, chronic conditions like diabetes, or to recover from a serious accident or injury.

Many workers—especially low-income workers—currently do not have access to adequate paid leave to deal with their own serious illness.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nationwide, about three in five private sector workers do not have access to TDI through their employers, leaving them vulnerable when they need to take time off to take care of their own serious health

Trump:

needs.

Moreover, an overwhelming majority of low-income workers cannot take paid leave to address their serious health needs: nationally, over 80 percent of those in the bottom quarter of earners and nearly 90 percent of those in the bottom tenth of earners lack access to short term disability insurance through their employers. Further, 85 percent of part-time workers lack access to TDI and 75 percent of part-time workers lack access to any paid time off for their own health.

So the people who suffer most by not having access to TDI are those at the lower income levels who can least afford to take unpaid leave. People shouldn’t have to choose between their health and getting a paycheck. It is regressive to not offer TDI to our workers.

TDI is a benefit to employers too. Keeping quality workers on the job saves employers money by reducing turnover. The Center for American Progress reports that the cost to replace a worker is about an additional one-fifth of that employee’s annual wages. TDI is also another tool for employee recruitment and retention.

TDI has been a mandated program in several states since the 1940s.

Rhode Island was first, requiring TDI in 1942.

California, New Jersey, and New York followed later that same decade.

In fact, in all four of these states, TDI was the foundation upon which was built a paid family leave program. TDI came first.

Closer to home, New York requires both TDI and family leave. In Massachusetts, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker last year signed a comprehensive economic development package of legislation that included both family care and TDI. Vermont, which we already know has a huge need for more workers, should be jumping on this bandwagon now.

A strong, statewide paid leave insurance program that includes TDI will help level the playing field for small businesses and help foster a strong workforce and healthy economy. It is important for the health, vibrancy and economic security not just for all of us, but also for future generations.

Robin Scheu is a state representative for the Addison-1 District and the lead sponsor of H.107.

The war on poverty becomes a war on the people

continued from page 8 emotional development, including mental health supports.

When the federal poverty line was established during President Johnson’s War on Poverty in 1960s it was tied to “livable wage” at that time and is adjusted annually for inflation. In 2018, the federal poverty line for a family of four was $25,100. The problem is that the cost of living for essentials like food, housing, heat and childcare has increased exponentially since the 1960s, but the definition of living in poverty does not take these costs into account.

Trump wants to make poor people simply vanish. The reality is that the ranks of the poor are growing: As of 2016, 135,000 Vermonters—that’s 1 in 9 of our neighbors—live below the federal poverty line in extreme poverty. For children, the situation is far more dire. Statewide, 1 out of 7 children under age 5 live in extreme poverty, and in central Vermont, the region

Capstone Community Action serves, it’s 1 in 5 kids who live in extreme poverty.

If this family,and thousands more like them, become ineligible for federal child care benefits, who will educate and feed them? Where are they to find hope? And what does our future look like if we turn our back on these children?

Poverty is not permanent. Critical services such as early education, food, job training and housing assistance that have a proven track record of success. A child in Head Start can break generational cycles of poverty. The greatest measure of a society is the way it treats the most vulnerable. We can end poverty.

We must stop this insidious proposal by the Trump Administration to “shrink” poverty and abandon those in need. We don’t end poverty by pretending it doesn’t exist.

Sue Minter is the executive director of Capstone Community Action.

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RUTLAND REGION City DPW ‘makes hay while the sun shines’

It will soon be possible to travel down Park Street and Dorr Drive without detours and crunching across coarse gravel sections. The water main extension that has blocked off sections of Park Street is expected to be “substantially complete by the end of July,” city engineer Jim Rotondo told the Mountain Times. About 9,300 feet of 12-inch water main was installed from the railroad crossing by the fairgrounds, passing underneath Mussey Brook and Otter Creek, and connecting to the dead end water main on Dorr Drive. Undersized mains at Dorr Drive and Campbell Road have been replaced along with new hydrants. The project will improve water pressure for homes and fire protection, a need highlighted by the Rutland Plywood fire.

Library to move into the 21st Century Angela French aims to put Wells on the map through her new position as head librarian at the Wells Village Library. Coming from her position as assistant librarian at the Gilbert Hart Library in Wallingford, French is pursuing the Certificate of Public Librarianship, available through the state for directors of small Vermont public libraries. French has an open, collaborative philosophy that welcomes mutual support and partnering with other small libraries such as participating in the Vermont Fairy Tale Festival at Killington’s Sherburne Memorial Library and hosting the Rutland County librarians’ meeting in September. She also plans to create an electronic catalog of the library’s holdings – a Herculean task but one which will broaden the library’s reach. “She will be a real asset to Wells,” said Wells Village Library trustee Ron Dreher.

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

By Julia Purdy

Lake association permitted to remove milfoil Following a 30-day comment period the Dept. of Environmental Conservation issued a permit June 11 to the Lake Saint Catherine Association to control invasive Eurasian watermilfoil and promote native plants, improve fish and wildlife habitat, and enhance recreation on the lake. The association proposes a three-pronged approach utilizing herbicide, suction harvesting and hand harvesting. The appeal period ends July 11.

11 Poultney properties to hit auction

Route 4 to undergo big changes

Poultney published a lengthy list of delinquent property and water taxpayers to be offered at a tax sale Aug. 14, unless the taxpayers bring themselves current. All are residential properties. In all, 11 properties are on the auction block.

The West Rutland Select Board has been mulling VTrans proposals for changes to the West Rutland stretch of Business 4, the latest of which were announced at the regular Select Board meeting June 10. The changes include posting speed limits on the connector road between the traffic light and the on-off ramps for the new Route 4 and reconfiguring the intersection at the traffic light. The intersection currently features a “jug handle” that diverts traffic heading for the on-off ramps to the light rather than attempt a left turn on Business 4. VTrans proposes to replace the jug handle with a center turn lane and also eliminate the right-turn “slip lane” coming from the ramps that bypasses the traffic light.

There has also been discussion about creating a crosswalk at the shopping plaza. The VTrans plan would remove the three pedestrian islands in front of Westway Mall and move the crosswalk west with a new pedestrian island. But an island in the middle turning lane presents problems for delivery trucks and pedestrian safety. The town was asked to comment by June 15.

Solar developer woos West Rutland At its June 10 meeting, the West Rutland Select Board considered a revised proposal by Triland Partners for net metering on the Thomas Dairy solar array in Rutland Town. As one of the 16 towns in the proposed net meter group, West Rutland would qualify to purchase up to 540,000 kilowatt hours. The proposal is similar to that received by other towns.

West Rutland’s savings would be at a fixed rate of 12 percent for 20 years, compared to GMP’s yearly rate increases and there would be no up-front costs. The Select Board voted to take the agreement to the town attorney before deciding on it.

Poultney proactively looks ahead The Poultney community came together May 10 with the Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD) and the state and developed five “priority initiatives” to ensure the town not only survives but thrives in the wake of Green Mountain College’s departure. VCRD recently published an appeal for residents to join task forces and/or pledge support.

The initiatives are: develop a bank, expand recreation resources as an economic driver, improve broadband access, establish a business incubator and boost the downtown, and invite newcomers to settle in Poultney. Those interested may contact jenna@vtrural.org or call 802-225-6091, or stop in at the town office and talk with Town Manager Paul Donaldson.

Tedesco, Gilmond selected for Green Mountain Girls State

Katie Gilmond

Rutland Unit No. 31 of the American Legion Auxiliary selected Sophia Tedesco and Katie Gilmond as delegates to American Legion Auxiliary Green Mountain Girls State. The 2019 session was held at Vermont Technical College June 15-20.

Both girls will be entering their senior year of high school at Rutland in the fall. Each year Rutland Auxiliary Unit No. 31 circulates applications for Girls State to local schools in order to select and sponsor delegates.

Girls State is a youth citizenship program whose purpose is to provide an outstanding, unique, and coveted educational opportunity for the young women of our nation that instills the basic ideals and principles of American government. The American Legion Auxiliary’s marquee Girls State program, first presented in 1937, is one of the most respected and coveted experiential learning programs presented in the United States.

Each summer, approximately 16,000 young women participate in weeklong ALA Girls State programs across the nation. Every American Legion Auxiliary Girls State program operates with the same patriotic values through a nonpartisan curriculum where students assume the roles of government leaders, campaigning in mock parties (often called “Federalists” and “Nationalists”) to become mayors and county and state officials of their ALA Girls State. The program is a weeklong immersive learning experience, often held on a college campus.

Sophia Tedesco

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

NEWS BRIEFS • 11

Economy:

Vermont needs a new strategy

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Bonny Willett accepts the best in show award from arina O. Brajnikova-Aronson the Best in Show Award.

Winners named in Chandler art show Many artists from the region participated in the Chandler Gallery’s annual group show, called Eye Catching. A few artists received special recognition at the end of the exhibition.

A team of judges –,Dartmouth College Ceramic Studio Director Jenny Swanson and Ted Deneger, photographer and RAWVISION Magazine contribution editor—named Bonny Willett as Best in Show Artist. She received a $100 Chandler Gift certificate.

The judges also chose two artists to receive Honorable Mention Awards and $25 Chandler gift certificates. Catherine M. Palmer and Tamara Wight were the lucky winners. Valerie Daniel won the People’s Choice: Best ArtistAward (most overall votes) and she received a $50 Chandler gift certificate. Joan Curtis won People’s Choice Best Art Piece (most votes for one piece) for her sculpture “Seaborn Bouquet” and she received a $50 Chandler gift certificate.

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Killington’s Child Care Center is located at Ramshead Base Lodge and offers full and half-day options for parents. Whether you’re looking for a few kid-free hours or long-term, daily child care for your little ones, Killington’s Child Care Center has availability and is here to provide indoor care with age-appropriate toys and games and optional outdoor activities year round.

Summer childcare rates are $55 per day ($209 weekly) for town of Killington residents and $99 per day for non-residents ($449 per week) with discounts available, including half-day visit discounts.

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Lunch is provided for full and half-day daycare and the center is open for children ages 12 weeks to 12 years.

For more information, including detailed schedules and pricing options call 802-422-6222 or visit killington. com.

last 20 years has dropped from 7,000 to some 5,400.

Our median age is five years older than the national average. Our workforce, markets, and population are shrinking. Urbanization is propelling our once thriving rural communities into our few urban centers for employment. There are more jobs than qualified people to take them.

• Broadband deployment. A modern economy requires ubiquitous and affordable broadband access.

In the past, the federal government took the lead on rural electrification and universal phone service but has punted on broadband access, leaving it to the impoverished states and municipalities. Vermont is a patchwork.

• Affordable housing. Vermonters cannot afford to live where they work and there’s not enough public transportation buildout to allow them to easily commute.

• Childcare. One clearly documented problem for workers — and therefore employers — is the lack of affordable, quality childcare statewide.

The business community itself, when recently polled, has a dominantly negative view of near-term business prospects.

Because we have no overall strategy, our priorities for business growth and our message to potential partners is unclear. I attended a recent Grafton Conference on the Arts and Humanities, which focused on their ability to tell a story, bring to life the human impacts our challenges pose, and dream large about solutions.

A big take-away for me was about our traditional definition of a “Vermonter,” to which — not being one — I had always subscribed...a white man or woman probably with agrarian roots whose family dates back at least several generations. Wow! — there’s an exclusionary definition. Imagine if our vision of a “real Vermonter” were someone of any age or color who chose Vermont for its opportunities, lifestyle, and values.

A feasible strategy must start with an in-depth assessment of all of Vermont’s businesses, from convenience stores to major employers. It would include the non-profits, which account for 20 percent of jobs. (Of the four largest Vermont employers, three are nonprofits: UVM Medical Center, the State of Vermont, Global Foundries, and UVM.) This database would include a core business descriptor, the number of em-

ployees, and gross sales. It would also accommodate employer-option inputs for enterprise goals, challenges, and sought partnerships. It would be open to research by businesses or nonprofits seeking partners, products, acquisition, or new markets.

Productive economic policy would also maintain a similar network of significant regional research entities and colleges that could partner with existing businesses to solve challenges or entrepreneurialism intellectual property assets. A business is a practical laboratory. By way of example: a grass-fed beef farmer might find the answer to a specific challenge in research being done by a soil scientist at Cornell, UVM or Sterling College.

How do we rise above “business as usual” and develop a statewide strategy and communications plan for economic development? It will necessitate some reallocation of current resources which will, no doubt, trigger a defensive response from legacy recipients.

What if, instead of just annually allocating money across a dozen entities, a central economic development authority were to use its resources to fund development projects based on their intrinsic worth, measurable outcomes, and their consistency with a Vermont strategic plan?

There’s a model for this. Some years back, the thenChittenden County United Way recognized it couldn’t continue to fund all of the non-profits requesting money. It laid out a county-wide list of challenges and invited nonprofits to apply for grants that would remediate the outlined challenges and then held them accountable for outcomes. It was radical at the time but it reallocated scarce resources with much greater efficiency and effect. We must do the same in economic development if we are to ever make a dent in our economic well-being.

Some have suggested we move economic development out of the government sector. I struggle with this. Our socio-economic challenges usually end up being solved cooperatively between the business, non-profit, and government sectors. To simply abandon a manifest government function and toss it to the non-profit sector or privatize it is no solution.

Good news is...a growing economy will address many of the socio-economic problems that bedevil us.

Rutland Regional launches anti-vaping campaign Rutland Regional Medical Center. “The chemicals E-cigarettes or vapes are highly addictive, cause and the nicotine delivered through vaping are negaserious lung disease, can harm adolescent brain development, and are linked to alcohol use and other tively affecting the developing brains of our youth as well as compromising their respiratory health and substance use such as marijuana. overall well-being. In the absence of treatment plans, Rutland Regional has produced an animation series, “Be Smart. Don’t Start.,” which premiered June our current plan of attack is to educate everyone and encourage everyone to avoid 21 at the Rutland Flagship Cinema as one of the pre-roll videos these products.”

IN 2018, 3.6 MILLION before screenings. Additionally, The campaign is also being this campaign will be delivered released as a public service anTEENS AND MIDDLE in a targeted way to youth via nouncement to area television SCHOOL CHILDREN social media platforms such as stations as well as to all the hospiSnapchat and Instagram. tal marketing departments in the REPORTED According to the Centers for state for their own anti-vaping Disease Control and Prevenefforts. As health advocates and E-CIGARETTE USE. tion, the number of middle professionals, Rutland Regional’s and high school students using goal is to raise awareness about e-cigarettes is expected to rise the dangers of vaping and proexponentially in the coming year. In 2018, 3.6 million vide information and resources to help those who are teens and middle school children reported e-cigavaping and to stop those who are curious. Though this rette use. animated campaign (using stop motion technology) is “Vaping or use of e-cigarettes is the youth epimostly targeted to the 8-to-12-year-old demographic, it demic of our time,” said Sarah Cosgrove, the educais hoped that it will resonate for all viewers and educate tion coordinator for the Community Health Team at about the dangers of vaping.

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The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

GMC for sale: College hopes to get $21.5 million from sale continued from page 1

mencement in May. Trustees voted in January to close the college due to declining enrollment at a time when the school was facing $21.5 million in debt.

“We didn’t have much choice,” said President Bob Allen of the sale.

About 200 residents attended a meeting in Poultney in the spring to discuss the future of the campus in the 1,600-person town. Some wanted GMC to operate as a satellite for other colleges.

“Of course the challenge in higher education is finding institutions that want to expand and create another campus,” Blake said.

In recent years, GMC has consistently been ranked first in the nation for sustainability. The school’s HVAC heating system was replaced in 2010 with a wood-fueled heating biomass system that covers all of the buildings.

In 2011, GMC became a climate-neutral campus.

Green Mountain College is one of three colleges that closed this year in

the state. The College of St. Joseph in Rutland closed this spring, too, along with Southern Vermont College in Bennington.

“It’s an industry that’s strained,” Allen said. “The demographics are working against all these colleges. There just aren’t as many high school graduates and some are not going on to a four-year education.”

Allen, who is staying in his position through July, said 80 percent of the faculty at Green Mountain College have found other jobs. Allen himself hopes to find another job working in education on a consulting basis.

Until a new buyer is found, the GMC grounds are being maintained with 24/7 security on campus.

Allen said he hopes to have tours with prospective buyers this week. Allen has previously said the campus is worth about $20 million.

“We’d like to get more than $21.5 million but we won’t know until people start to visit and offers start to come in,” Allen said.

Submitted

A Woodstock home on Maple Street has hit the market for $259,000—35 percent below the assessed market value—in effort to attract moderate income families to town.

Woodstock homes: Affordability hard to find continued from page 1

“I started to realize what was happening in our community,” Davies said.

Davies modeled Woodstock’s housing program on a similar program in Martha’s Vineyard.

“I talked to various people who were doing housing projects,” Davies said. “In this country, low income people have a number of different ways of getting (help).

I couldn’t find any programs at all that help moderate income people.”

This isn’t the first time a group from Woodstock has sought income diversity in town.Safford Commons, the controversial affordable housing facility, was built in Woodstock in 2015, after about a decade of court battles from concerned abutters.

Winter, who manages Safford Commons as well, said he’s received two applications for the Woodstock home so far. Applications are due June 28 and ask about family size and income. Applicants are required to be prequalified for a mortgage and a family of four must have an income at or under $130,000.

“This is an expansion of our efforts to provide home ownership opportunities,” Winter said. “Ideally (we’re looking for) somebody who’s excited to be living in Woodstock – somebody who is able to work in Woodstock and raise a family in Woodstock.”

Davies is looking for fundraising opportunities before the organization purchases its next home.

Submitted

Local artist David Cooper drew a picture of a barn in Hartford.

Local artist finds his calling

By Curt Peterson

non—if someone shows up at Mt. David Cooper possesses two artistic Ascutney Hospital, for example, assets—remarkable talent for depicting and they call DHMC to find a spethe character and perspective of struccialist required, Cooper connects them tures, and seemingly endless patience to the necessary individual and arranges required as he records the bricks and transport to Lebanon for treatment. gingerbread woodwork of buildings he He tried making 50 sets of 10 note draws with pen and ink. cards depicting his sketches, but they More than a dozen of his detailed recreations are on exhibit at the Hartland didn’t sell very well.

“No one writes anything anymore,” Library until July 24. he said.

Cooper, of Hartland, wasn’t born to be And the sketches in the exhibit are not an artist— growing up in a sleepy town for sale— but Cooper will make a drawin New Jersey with his parents, both ing on commission for customers who musicians, his calling as a disc jockey provide a photograph and want a sketch and program director for various radio of their home or another favorite strucstations took him up and down the east ture. He also does some diploma work – coast until 1997. He and his wife Reggie sketching college buildings, for example, have lived in Hartland since 1991. to be printed on He’s had no formal or framed with art training since the educational cereighth grade. tificates. If desired, “In 2002 I was at a friend’s 40th birthday he will color those party in Norwich,” drawings using Cooper said, “and tinted pencils. the subject of Nova Some of CooScotia came up. Our per’s more intrifamily had spent cate drawings take vacation time there him 15 – 20 hours over the years, so it to complete, getcaught my interest.” ting each brick Cooper said he and stone placed picked up some kids’ in the right spot, drawing materials in perspective and and sketched out a shaped properly.

Nova Scotia harbor DHMC has scene from memory, invited him to which drew praise exhibit his work from his friends.

Submitted on two occasions, “That was the beand this current Cooper, who lives in Hartland, drew ginning of my artistic Bentley’s in Woodstock. exhibition is his relationship with second at the buildings,” Cooper Hartland Library. said.

Asked if he considers drawing a way “I realized I like the definite lines and to forget the vagaries of everyday life, definite patterns, and bricks and stoneCooper said no, that he finds it therawork,” he said. peutic in a way, but he listens to music He’s not a “frustrated architect,” he and thinks about regular things while says, and doesn’t draw for the money. he draws.

His full-time profession since 2011 is as “I just wish I had discovered my transfer administrator at Dartmouthinterest in doing these sketches earlier Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebain my life,” he said.

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

Dorset Theatre Festival

Calendar

2 p.m.

Dorset Theatre Festival opens summer season with Noel Coward’s “Private Lives.”

Today, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. shows. Get tickets or season pass at dorsettheaterfestival.org. 104 Cheney Road, Dorset. Preview tonight.

Lego Club

3 p.m.

Lego club at Sherburne Memorial Library, River Road, Killington, Wednesdays 3-4 p.m. during the school year.

Ages 6+.

Vermont Farmers’ Market (Rutland)

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Children’s Revolutionary Morning Camp

9:30 a.m.

Mount Independence State Historic Site offers camp for kids, June 2628, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Learn about revolutionary times, archaeology, take walks, activities, and more. Ages 6-11. Limited space: 802-9482000. $75. 497 Mount Independence Road, Orwell.

Serenity Gentle Yoga

10 a.m.

Gentle yoga class helps strengthen, stretch, and lengthen the body gradually, while bringing mindful awareness to breath. Culminates with healing vibrations of Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Bath. Great for beginners and practiced yogis. Sol Luna Farm, 329 Old Farm Road, Shrewsbury. sollunafarm.com.

Summer Reading Program

10 a.m.

Pawlet Library Summer Reading Program, Wednesdays through July 24, 10-11:30 a.m. Grades 1-6, advance registration encouraged, space is limited.Free. pawletpubliclibrary.wordpress.com. 141 School St., Pawlet.

Free Mindful Meditation

11:30 a.m.

Sol Luna Farm offers free class, Mindful Meditation Wednesdays June 19 & 26, 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Brief discourse and relaxation, then guided and silent meditation. Culminates with Singing Bowl Sound Bath. No experience needed, great for beginners. 329 Old Farm Road, Shrewsbury. sollunafarm.com

Active Seniors Lunch

12 p.m.

Killington Active Seniors meet for a meal Wednesdays at the Lookout Bar & Grille. Town sponsored. Come have lunch with this well-traveled group of men and women. $5/ person. 908-783-1050. 2910 Killington Road, Killington.

KMBC Bike Bum Race Series

1 p.m.

Killington Mountain Bike Club holds races in Killington Bike Park, Wednesdays, 1-5 p.m. for all ages. Individuals or teams. Held on Middle Step It Up to Wiggle. After party at JAX Food & Games, 5:30-7 p.m. killington.com.

Hovercrafting

2 p.m.

Maclure Library hosts hovercrafting program - make your own DIY hovercraft. All supplies provided. 840 Arch St., Pittsford. maclurelibrary. org. 802-483-2972.

3 p.m.

The outdoor summer market is held every Wednesday, 3-6 p.m. in Depot Park (in front of WalMart), Rutland. 75+ vendors selling farm fresh veggies and fruits, flowers, specialty foods, hot foods, eggs, artisan cheeses, handcrafted breads, maple syrup, Vermont crafts, jars of every type, and more; plus hard goods and services. vtfarmersmarket.org.

Brandon Book Sale

4 p.m.

Brandon Free Public Library holds used book sale, through October. Wednesdays, 4-6 p.m. Fridays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Amazing selection for all ages, fiction and non-fiction. For May, BOGO. 4 Franklin St., Brandon.

Playgroup

10 a.m.

Maclure Library offers playgroup, Thursdays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Birth to 5 years old. Stories, crafts, snacks, singing, dancing. 802-483-2792.

840 Arch St., Pittsford.

Story Time

10 a.m.

Story time at West Rutland Public Library. Thursdays,10 a.m. Bring young children to enjoy stories, crafts, and playtime. 802-438-2964.

Killington Bone Builders

10 a.m.

Bone builders meets at Sherburne Memorial Library, 2998 River Rd., Killington, 10-11 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays. Free, weights supplied. 802-422-3368.

Mendon Bone Builders

10 a.m.

Mendon bone builders meets Thursdays at Roadside Chapel, 1680 Townline Rd, Rutland Town. 802-773-2694.

Restorative Yoga

11 a.m.

Restorative Yoga at Sol Luna Farm, Thursdays, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. All levels, no experience needed. Surrender into rest and relaxation, with supported postures on bolsters and blankets. Crystal Singing Bowl Bath culminates session. 329 Old Farm Road, Shrewsbury. sollunafarm.com.

Vt Law School Summer Lectures

12 p.m.

Vermont Law School faculty, scholars, media, and others will deliver “Hot Topics” lectures on current issues in environmental law and policy. Free, open to public. VLS campus, Oakes Hall Room 012. Vt Bar Assn. Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit available. Today, “The Trump EPA and the Toxic Chemical in All of Us” with Annie Snider, Politico.

Tobacco Cessation Group

Killington Farmers’ Market

Mission Monarch

Balance Workshop

5 p.m.

Castleton Community Center, 2108 Main St., Castleton. Wednesdays, 5-6 p.m. Free nicotine replacement therapy and other resources and supports. 802-747-3768.

5 p.m.

A Working Woodlands Workshop at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock: State of the Butterfly. Learn how to participate in International Monarch Monitoring Blitz; learn of conservation status and actions to help them thrive, then hike in park to survey milkweed plants and assess the population. Meet at Carriage Barn Visitor Center at MBRNH. Park at Billings Farm, Old River Road.

Free, but please RSVP to 802-457-3368 ext. 222.

Rotary Meeting

6 p.m.

The Killington-Pico Rotary club cordially invites visiting Rotarians, friends and guests to attend weekly meeting. Meets Wednesdays at Clear River Tavern in Pittsfield, 6-8 p.m. for full dinner and fellowship.

802-773-0600 to make a reservation. Dinner fee $21. KillingtonPicoRotary.org

3:30 p.m.

The Killington Farmers’ Market returns to Church of Our Saviour on Mission Farm Road, off Route 4. Nine vendors, and more to come.

Weekly market, Thursdays, 3:30-6:30 p.m.

4 p.m.

Rutland Regional Medical Center hosts Gaining Traction: Improve your Walking, Balance, and Stabililty workshop on Thursdays, May 23-June 20, 4-5:30 p.m. in CVPS/Leahy Community Health Ed Center. 160 Allen St., Rutland. Registration required at rrmc.org; 802-772-2400. $15.

Tobacco Cessation Group

4:30 p.m.

Old Brandon Town Hall, Brandon. Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free nicotine replacement therapy and other resources and supports. 802747-3768.

Meditation Circle

6:15 p.m.

Maclure Library offers meditation circle Wednesdays, 6:15-7:15 p.m. 802-483-2792. 840 Arch St., Pittsford.

Free Knitting Class

6:30 p.m.

Free knitting classes at Plymouth Community Center, by Barbara Wanamaker. Bring yarn and needles, U.S. size 7 or 8 bamboo needles recommended, one skein of medium weight yarn in light or medium color. RSVP to bewanamaker@gmail.com, 802-3960130. 35 School Drive, Plymouth.

THURSDAY JUNE 27

Open Swim **

8 a.m.

Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: 8-9 a.m.; 5-7 p.m. 802-773-7187.

Thursday Hikers

KMF SEASON OPENER: SIMON GHRAICHY SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 7 P.M.

9 a.m.

Climb past Rocky and Muddy ponds in Rutland’s Pine Hill Park on new trail to Proctor. Moderate. Meet at Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland, to car pool. Bring lunch. No dogs. 802-353-3025.

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FRIDAY JUNE 28

Golf For a Cause

15th annual Castleton Community Center golf outing at Lake St. Catherine Country Club to benefit elderly and disabled transportation program. $90 registration includes green fee, cart, dinner, player gifts, raffles, prizes, and more. Register: 802-468-3093, castletoncsi.org.

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Ukulele Lessons

5 p.m.

Chaffee Art Center offers ukulele lessons weekly on Thursdays, 5-6 p.m. $20. RSVP requested: info@chaffeeartcenter.org. 16 South Main St., Rutland. Bring your own ukulele!

All Levels Yoga

5:30 p.m.

All levels flow at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com, 802-770-4101.

Thursday Night Ride Series

5:30 p.m.

Weekly mountain bike ride at various locations throughout Slate Valley Trails and beyond. slatevalleytrails.org for details and locations weekly.

Rides 1.5-2 hours, friendly, no drop pace. info@slatevalleytrails.org.

Poultney.

Medicare Program

Level 1 Yoga

Serenity Gentle Yoga

8:30 a.m.

Level 1 Hatha Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com.

Story Time

10:30 a.m.

Sherburne Memorial Library holds story time Fridays, 10:30-11 a.m.

Stories, songs, activities. All ages welcome! 802-422-9765.

Brandon Book Sale

11 a.m.

Brandon Free Public Library holds used book sale, through October.

Wednesdays, 4-6 p.m. Fridays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Amazing selection for all ages, fiction and non-fiction. For May, BOGO. 4 Franklin St., Brandon.

Knitting Group

12 p.m.

Maclure Library offers knitting group, Fridays, 12-2 p.m. 802-483-2792.

840 Arch St., Pittsford.

Ludlow Farmers’ Market

4 p.m.

Every Friday, Memorial Day to Columbus Day, 4-7 p.m. on the front lawn of Okemo Mountain School, 53 Main St., Ludlow. 30+ local vendors. Rain or shine.

Opening Reception

5 p.m.

Brandon Artists Guild holds opening reception for Earth-themed exhibit “The Art of Water” 5-7 p.m. All member, all media show. 7 Center St., Brandon. brandonartistsguild.org.

Police Car Show

Bridge Club

Kabbalat Shabbat

Youth Mountain Bike Group

6 p.m.

Rutland Rec youth mountain bike club group - open to all grade 3-12 kids, from any town. Need: mountain bike with gears, helmet, closed toe shoes, appropriate attire. Mondays and Thursdays, 6 p.m. at Giorgetti/Pine Hill Park, Oak St. Ext., Rutland. Through July 25. Register at pinehillpark.org.

Okemo Valley TV Open House

6 p.m.

Plus, annual meeting. Award ceremony for volunteers, producers; annual re-cap; elections for Board of Directors; meeting at 7 p.m. Open to community members. Light refreshments. RSVP to pcody@okemovalley.tv, 802-228-8808. 37C Main St, Ludlow.

Dorset Theatre Festival

6:30 p.m.

Dorset Theatre Festival opens summer season with Noel Coward’s “Private Lives.” Tonight, Community Partner Night. Get tickets or season pass at dorsettheaterfestival.org. 104 Cheney Road, Dorset.

Preview tonight.

International Folk Dancing

6:30 p.m.

Simple Israeli and European dances taught by Judy. Free. All welcome.

Bring friends and BYOB. Dress comfortable, wear solid shoes with non-skid soles. at Rutland Jewish Center. Rutland Jewish Center, 96 Grove St., Rutland. 802-773-3455, rutlandjewishcenter.org.

Fair Haven Concerts in the Park

7 p.m.

Fair Haven Summer Concert Series! Free concerts Thursdays throughout the summer. This week: Wyld Nightz Band. Bring a chair, picnic, blanket, and enjoy the music. Drawing at intermission for door prizes.

Concession available. On the Park, Park Place, Fair Haven.

Habitat Management for Landowners

8 a.m.

Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: 8-9 a.m.; 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 802-773-7187.

5:30 p.m.

Rochester Public Library holds Medicare and You program with Health Insurance Program Coordinator with CV Council on Aging. Questions/ answers about plans, options, and more. Pre-registration required (free program): 802-479-0531. 22 Main St., Rochester.

6 p.m.

Marble Valley Duplicate Bridge Club meets at Godnick Center Thursdays, 6 p.m. Sanctioned duplicate bridge games. 1 Deer St., Rutland.

802-228-6276.

9 a.m.

The outdoor summer market is held every Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in Depot Park (in front of WalMart), Rutland. 75+ vendors selling farm fresh veggies and fruits, flowers, specialty foods, hot foods, eggs, artisan cheeses, handcrafted breads, maple syrup, Vermont crafts, jars of every type, and more; plus hard goods and services.

9 a.m.

A Working Woodlands Workshop at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock: Learn what you can do to improve your land for wildlife and promote native tree species. With VTF&WD leader.

Indoor presentation, then hike around the park. Meet at Carriage Barn Visitor Center at MBRNH. Park at Billings Farm, Old River Road. Free, but please RSVP to 802-457-3368 ext. 222.

Open Swim **

SUP YOGA WITH KAREN DALURY

Vermont Farmers’ Market (Rutland)

5 p.m.

Fair Haven summer Friday night event: Police car show in the park.

Meet Fair Haven’s K9 unit, have a hot dog, play 50/50. North Park Place, Fair Haven.

6:30 p.m.

An evening to honor Rabba Kaya. Kabbalat Shabbat Service and dairy-veggie potluck. Rutland Jewish Center, 96 Grove St., Rutland.

802-773-3455. 6:30-8:45 p.m.

Waiting for Godot

6:45 p.m.

BarnArts presents “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett, outdoors at Feast & Field, up on the knob. 1544 Royalton Turnpike, Barnard.

Tickets $20 adults, $15 students - at the door or barnarts.org.

Bethel Youth Singers

7 p.m.

From Lancaster, Penn., group presents “Behold Our God,” a cappella singing program. Pittsfield Federated Church, 3885 Route 100, Pittsfield.

Dorset Theatre Festival

7:30 p.m.

Dorset Theatre Festival opens summer season with Noel Coward’s “Private Lives.” Get tickets or season pass at dorsettheaterfestival.org.

104 Cheney Road, Dorset. Opening night!

SATURDAY, JUNE 29

Killington Section GMC

8 a.m.

Killington Section Green Mountain Club outing: Stratton Mountain/ Stratton Pond Loop. A long hike with fire tower views and a beautiful pond. Moderate, 10.6 miles. Meet Rutland’s Main St. Park, near fire station, to carpool. Leader: 802-779-4404.

Brandon Book Sale

9 a.m.

Brandon Free Public Library holds used book sale, through October.

Wednesdays, 4-6 p.m. Fridays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Amazing selection for all ages, fiction and non-fiction. For May, BOGO. 4 Franklin St., Brandon.

10 a.m.

Gentle yoga class helps strengthen, stretch, and lengthen the body gradually, while bringing mindful awareness to breath. Culminates with healing vibrations of Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Bath. Great for beginners and practiced yogis. Sol Luna Farm, 329 Old Farm Road, Shrewsbury. sollunafarm.com.

Parent Literacy Program

10 a.m.

Pawlet Public Library hosts program for parents/grandparents/caregivers to help better foster reading skills for kids ages 4-8. Free, with literacy coach. This week’s talk: Supporting Young Readers. Pre-register at 802-325-3123. 141 School St., Pawlet.

Open Gym

11 a.m.

Saturday morning open gym at Head Over Heels, 152 North Main St., Rutland. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. All ages welcome. Practice current skills, create gymnastic routines, learn new tricks, socialize with friends. $5/ hour members; $8/ hour non-members. Discount punch cards available.

802-773-1404.

Kids’ Saturday Classes

11 a.m.

Chaffee Art Center offers different activity for kids each week - painting, cooking, craft making and more. $10. Pre-register at 802-775-0036. chaffeeartcenter.org.

Music in the Meadow

11:30 a.m.

17th annual Music in the Meadow, a benefit for Susan G Komen New England. Music starts at noon: Mark Shelton, Ben Fuller, The Illusion, The Imperfectionists, The John Sullivan Band, Lucky Soul Band, Floyd Lawrence/Intercept, Heartfire. 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. BBQ, raffle, silent auction, food, games, horseshoe tournament. $5 suggested donation.

Motel in the Meadow, Route 11 West, Chester.

Bridge Club

12 p.m.

Marble Valley Duplicate Bridge Club meets at Godnick Center Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. Sanctioned duplicate bridge games. 1 Deer St., Rutland. 802-228-6276.

Saturday Gravel Rides

4:30 p.m.

Analog Cycles leads weekly 20-35-mile gravel rides from Baptist Church Parking lot on East Poultney Green. Mix of road/dirt road/ double track and easy single track. Gravel bike approved. Hard terrain, slacker pace. No drop rides. Rain or shine, unless lighting. Bring legit bright light lights, a tube, and water. 301-456-5471.

Open Swim

5 p.m.

Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: Tues., Thurs., Saturday 5-7 p.m.

802-773-7187.

Opening Reception

5 p.m.

Chandler Gallery opens exhibit “Rendering: Cause to Become” with reception, 5-7 p.m. Artists: Chris Wilson, Joan Feierabend, Stephanie Suter, and Nick DeFriez. 71 Main St., Randolph. Exhibit through Sept.

1. chandler-arts.org.

Bingo

5:30 p.m.

Bridgewater Grange Bingo, Saturday nights, doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Games start 6:30 p.m. Route 100A, Bridgewater Corners. Just across bridge from Junction Country Store. All welcome. Refreshments available.

Open Gym

6 p.m.

Friday night open gym at Head Over Heels, 152 North Main St., Rutland. 6-8 p.m. Ages 6+. Practice current skills, create gymnastic routines, learn new tricks, socialize with friends! $5/ hour members; $8/ hour non-members. Discount punch cards available. 802-773-1404.

Waiting for Godot

6:45 p.m.

BarnArts presents “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett, outdoors at Feast & Field, up on the knob. 1544 Royalton Turnpike, Barnard.

Tickets $20 adults, $15 students - at the door or barnarts.org.

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019 7 p.m.

Killington Music Festival’s 37th season of Music in the Mountains, classical music concerts at Ramshead Lodge, Killington Resort. Season opener: Simon Ghraichy at the Piano, performing his most recent releases from CDs “Heritage” and “33.” $25 tickets available at 6 p.m. day of show; or 800-621-6867.

Caroline Cotter

7:30 p.m.

Singer-songwriter Caroline Cotter performs folk songs at Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Road, Brandon. $20 tickets, BYOB venue. brandon-music.net.

Dorset Theatre Festival

7:30 p.m.

Dorset Theatre Festival opens summer season with Noel Coward’s “Private Lives.” Get tickets or season pass at dorsettheaterfestival.org.

104 Cheney Road, Dorset.

SUNDAY JUNE 30

Heartfulness Meditation

7:45 a.m.

Free group meditation Sundays, Rochester Town Office, School St. Dane, 802-767-6010. heartfulness.org.

All Levels Yoga

9 a.m.

All levels flow at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com, 802-770-4101.

Playgroup

11 a.m.

Maclure Library offers playgroup, Mondays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Birth to 5 years old. Stories, crafts, snacks, singing, dancing. 802-4832792. 840 Arch St., Pittsford.

Better Breathers

VSO SUMMER TOUR AT MOUNTAIN TOP INN MONDAY, JULY 1, 5:30 P.M.

11 a.m.

Better breathers support group. Have difficult time breathing?

Join the American Lung Association support group led by a respiratory therapist, first Monday of each month. 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland.

Monday Meals

12 p.m.

Every Monday meals at Chittenden Town Hall at 12 noon.

Open to public, RSVP call by Friday prior, 483-6244. Gene Sargent. Bring your own place settings. Seniors $3.50 for 60+. Under 60, $5. No holidays. 337 Holden Rd., Chittenden.

Rutland Rotary

12:15 p.m.

Rotary Club of Rutland meets Mondays for lunch at The Palms Restaurant. Learn more or become a member, journal@ sover.net.

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Tobacco Cessation Group

5 p.m.

Free tobacco cessation group. Mondays, 5-6 p.m. at CVPS/Leahy Community Health Ed Center at RRMC, 160 Allen St., Rutland. Free nicotine replacement therapy and other resources and supports. 802747-3768.

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Live Music at Lawson’s

10:30 a.m.

Yoga with Dawn resumes at Plymouth Community Center, 35 School Drive, Plymouth. All levels welcome, bring your own mat. $10/ class.

5 p.m.

Lawson’s Finest Liquids has live music in the taproom, 5-7 p.m. with Fiddle Witch; plus specialty cask of Scrag Mountain Pils with lime and salt. 155 Carroll Road, Waitsfield.

Mendon Bone Builders

Dorset Theatre Festival

SUP Yoga

Tobacco Cessation Group

Tobacco Cessation

Tobacco Cessation

Yoga Class

2 p.m.

Dorset Theatre Festival opens summer season with Noel Coward’s “Private Lives.” Get tickets or season pass at dorsettheaterfestival.org.

104 Cheney Road, Dorset. Today, post-show talk back.

350Vermont Rutland County Meeting

3 p.m.

Public welcome to join in discussing campaign to reduce food waste and plans to march in/table at the Castleton July 4 parade. 3-5 p.m., Grace Church, 8 Court St., Rutland.

RCMS Concert

4 p.m.

Rochester Chamber Music Society welcomes Heliand Consort for classical concert at Federated Church of Rochester, 15 Main St. Admission by donation. rcmsvt.org.

Waiting for Godot

5 p.m.

BarnArts presents “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett, outdoors at Feast & Field, up on the knob. 1544 Royalton Turnpike, Barnard.

Tickets $20 adults, $15 students - at the door or barnarts.org.

Grace Church Cabaret

7 p.m.

Join Grace Church choirs for season-finale cabaret, featuring solos and duets and culminating in medley from “Phantom of the Opera.” Free will offering to support music ministry at Grace Church. 8 Court St., Rutland.

MONDAY JULY 1

AJGA at GMNGC

AJGA Killington Junior Golf Championships at Green Mountain National Golf Course, July 1-4. Open tournament, boys and girls ages 12-19. Today, qualifier and practice round. Course closed to public. ajga.org; gmngc.com. Barrows Towne Road, Killington.

Killington Yoga

8:30 a.m.

All Level Flow Yoga, 8:30 a.m. at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com, 802-770-4101.

Community Work Day

9:30 a.m.

Help maintain and build trails at Giorgetti Park/Pine Hill Park, Rutland.

Combined with Youth Works Plan. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. All welcome to join! Bring food, water bug spray. Tools/gloves provided. Oak St. Ext., Rutland.

Killington Bone Builders

10 a.m.

Bone builders meets at Sherburne Memorial Library, 2998 River Rd., Killington, 10-11 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays. Free, weights supplied.

802-422-3368.

5 p.m.

Killington Yoga begins SUP (stand-up paddleboard) yoga. Bring your own board. $15. Details at killingtonyoga.com.

5 p.m.

Quit smoking, e-cigs, and JUUL - free help! Want to quit smoking/ vaping, but nothing seems to help? Join a group and get free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges. Group/replacement therapy doubles your chances of staying quit for good! Free. 802-747-3768. Mondays, 5-6 p.m., RRMC CVPS Leahy Center, 160 Allen St., Rutland.

VSO Summer Festival Tour

5:30 p.m.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra summer festival tour “Strike Up the Orchestra!” kicks off at Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden. Includes “Liberty Bell March,” “Stars and Stripes Forever,” compositions from “Captain Marvel,” “Superman Returns,” and “Jurassic Park.” Fireworks close the evening. Grounds open 5:30 p.m. for picnicking. Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. vso.org for tickets and info.

Youth Mountain Bike Group

6 p.m.

Rutland Rec youth mountain bike club group - open to all grade 3-12 kids, from any town. Need: mountain bike with gears, helmet, closed toe shoes, appropriate attire. Mondays and Thursdays, 6 p.m. at Giorgetti/Pine Hill Park, Oak St. Ext., Rutland. Through July 25. Register at pinehillpark.org.

Family Support Group

6 p.m.

NAMI Vermont’s family support group at RRMC Leahy Conference Room D, 160 Allen St., Rutland. First Monday of each month. For families and friends of those living with mental illness. Free, confidential, share ideas and suggestions.

TUESDAY JULY 2

AJGA at GMNGC

AJGA Killington Junior Golf Championships at Green Mountain National Golf Course, July 1-4. Open tournament, boys and girls ages 12-19.

Today, Round 1 - come watch the best junior players in the country!

Tomorrow, Round 2. Free admission for spectating. Course closed for other play. ajga.org; gmngc.com. Barrows Towne Road, Killington.

Community Work Day

9:30 a.m.

Help maintain and build trails at Giorgetti Park/Pine Hill Park, Rutland.

Combined with Youth Works Plan. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. All welcome to join! Bring food, water bug spray. Tools/gloves provided. Oak St. Ext., Rutland.

10 a.m.

Mendon bone builders meets Tuesdays at Roadside Chapel, 1680 Townline Rd, Rutland Town. 802-773-2694.

11 a.m.

Free tobacco cessation group. Free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges.

Every Tuesday, 11-12 p.m. at Heart Center, 12 Commons St., Rutland.

802-747-3768.

11 a.m.

Quit smoking, e-cigs, and JUUL - free help! Want to quit smoking/ vaping, but nothing seems to help? Join a group and get free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges. Group/replacement therapy doubles your chances of staying quit for good! Free. 802-747-3768. Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. at Heart Center, 12 Commons St., Rutland.

League Night at Killington Golf

5 p.m.

Killington Golf Course holds League Nights, Tuesdays, 5 p.m. shotgun start. 9-hole scramble tournament, themed weekly. Tonight, Red, White and Blue Night. $25 members, $30 non-members. Sign up at 4226700 by 3 p.m. day of.

Level 1 Yoga

5:30 p.m.

Level 1 Hatha Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500.

3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com, 802-770-4101.

Heartfulness Meditation

5:45 p.m.

Free group meditation Tuesdays, Mountain Yoga, 135 N Main St #8, Rutland. Margery, 802-775-1795. heartfulness.org.

Tunesdays on the Farm

6 p.m.

Village Farm presents social gathering with live, local music. This week, Krishna Guthrie. Come share dinner, music and games, 6-8 p.m. Bring blanket and picnic dinner, or visit food vendors. Free, $5 suggested donation per family. 42 Elm St., Pittsford. pittsfordvillagefarm.org.

Rutland Area Toastmasters

6 p.m.

Develop public speaking, listening and leadership skills. Meets first and third Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. in Courcelle Building, 16 North St Ext., Rutland. toastmasters.org, 802-775-6929. Guests welcome.

Studio Two Concert

7 p.m.

Castleton Summer Concert at the Pavilion series: this week, Studio Two, New England’s best Beatles tribute band. Free, open to public.

Rain or shine, concessions available. Collecting non-perishables for Castleton food shelf. castleton.edu/summerconcerts.

Village Harmony

7:30 p.m.

Led by Larry Gordon, at Rutland Unitarian Church. Traditional songs from Bosnia, Georgia, Galicia Spain, Corsica Ghana South Africa, American shape note and gospel and French Brouque Work by Charpentier. 802-672-1797. Suggested donation: $5-$15. 117 West St, Rutland.

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The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

[MUSIC Scene]

WED.

BOMOSEEN

BOMOSEEN

6 p.m. Iron Lantern

6 p.m. Iron Lantern

KILLINGTON

6 p.m. The Lake House

BRANDON

8 p.m. Sushi Yoshi

BRANDON

PAWLET

5 p.m. Red Cover Ale Co.

KILLINGTON

KILLINGTON

Duane Carleton

JUNE 26

Michelob Ultra Softball Party Courtesy Pittsford Village Farm

Krishna Guthrie

7 p.m. The Barn Pickin’ in Pawlet

RANDOLPH 6:30 p.m. One Main Tap and Grill Open Mic with Silas McPrior

DE MA E E L M HO A F F ES W ON C

WOODSTOCK 6:30 p.m. 506 Bistro and Bar Live Jazz Pianist

THUR.

JUNE 27

BARNARD

5:30 p.m. Feast & Field Music on the Farm with Flynn

BOMOSEEN

Fiddle Witch

7 p.m. The Foundry Sammy B

7:30 p.m. McGrath’s Irish Pub Extra Stout

9 p.m. Jax Food & Games Tony Lee Thomas

LUDLOW 6 p.m. Okemo’s Jackson Gore Summer Music Series with Studio Two

PAWLET 7 p.m. The Barn Restaurant and Tavern

7 p.m. Brandon Music Caroline Cotter

4 p.m. Snowshed Umbrella Bar 7 p.m. Ramshead Base Lodge Killington Music Festival: Simon Ghraichy at the Piano

7 p.m. The Foundry Ryan Fuller

7:30 p.m. McGrath’s Irish Pub Extra Stout

9 p.m. Jax Food & Games Adams

Open Mic Jam with Fiddle Witch

POULTNEY 7 p.m. Taps Tavern James Kaleb Trio

QUECHEE 7 p.m. Public House Sammy B

RUTLAND 9:30 p.m. The Venue Krishna Guthrie

FRI.

JUNE 28

BARNARD

6:30 p.m. Feast and Field Waiting for Godot

Sammy B

Northern Homespun

RUTLAND

RUTLAND

9 p.m. Center Street Alley

9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern Karaoke Contest

10 p.m. Center Street Alley DJ Dirty D

WOODSTOCK 7 p.m. North Chapel Back Lawn

Music by the River Summer Series with Barika

SAT.

JUNE 29

BARNARD

6:30 p.m. Feast and Field Waiting for Godot

Event of Talent and Phantom of the Opera

7 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern King Arthur

STOCKBRIDGE 12 p.m. Wild Fern

Cigar Box Brunch w/ Rick Redington

1 p.m. Wild Fern The People’s Jam

MON.

JULY 1

Open Mic with King Arthur Junior

John Lackard Blues Band

7 p.m. Taps Tavern

Duane Carleton

7 p.m. Grace Congregational UCC

9:30 p.m. The Killarney

KILLINGTON

8 p.m. Clear River Tavern

RUTLAND

5 p.m. Otto’s Cones Point General Store

5 p.m. Neal’s Restaurant

7 p.m. Draught Room in Diamond Run Mall

Jenny Porter

POULTNEY

POULTNEY

PITTSFIELD

9 p.m. Jax Food & Games

LUDLOW

Aaron Audet

Open Mic with T-boneicus Jones

(weather permitting)

Ryan Fuller

Charlie Woods

PROCTORSVILLE

6 p.m. Liquid Art

& SATURDAY

Gerry Grimo

Lara Hope

6 p.m. The Lake House

Movie Night EVERY FRIDAY

By DJ Dave Hoffenberg

DJ Mega

9 p.m. Holiday Inn Whisper

9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern

Karaoke 101 with Tenacious T

SUN.

JUNE 30

BARNARD

TUES.

JULY 2

CASTLETON

6 p.m. Third Place Pizzeria Josh Jakab

7 p.m. Castleton Pavilion Summer Concert Series with Studio Two

LUDLOW 7 p.m. Du Jour VT

Open Jam Session with Sammy B and King Arthur Junior

POULTNEY 7 p.m. Taps Tavern

Open Bluegrass Jam with Fiddle Witch

5 p.m. Feast and Field

RUTLAND

KILLINGTON

9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern

Waiting for Godot

12 p.m. Summit Lodge Duane Carleton

5 p.m. The Foundry

Jazz Night with the Summit Pond Quartet

Open Mic with Krishna Guthrie

9:30 p.m. The Venue Karaoke with Jess

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Studio Two

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Rockin’ the region with Studio Two If you’re a fan of The Beatles, make sure you go see Studio Two at Okemo’s Jackson Gore on Friday, June 28 at 6 p.m. and Tuesday, July 2 at 7 p.m. in the Castleton Pavilion. They’ll be back Sept. 28 at the Brandon Town Hall. They were voted “Best Beatles Tribute Band in New England.”

Studio Two, from Boston, is comprised of Stephen Murray as John Lennon (rhythm guitar/ vocals), Al Francis as Paul McRockin’ the Cartney (bass guitar/vocals), Rob Murray as George Harrison (lead Region guitar/vocals) and Rich Rampino

By DJ Dave as Ringo Starr (drums/vocals).

Hoffenburg I spoke with Stephen Murray to learn about the band and find that he and his brother are twins, age 33. Since Lennon and Harrison are not twins, they do what they can to look different on stage.

Seeing Studio Two is like seeing an early Beatles concert in Europe. You’ll hear a lot of rock ‘n’ roll music that The Beatles helped popularize, like Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Buck Owens and Elvis, along with all the early hits from the pre-“Sgt. Pepper” era. Murray said, “We have the same backline, same guitars, same drum kit and the same early period suits. We don’t come out of character throughout the whole show.”

The band started in 2012 when both Murray and his brother were in original bands. Murray said, “We met with this guy who plays drums, then he became our bass player because he learned bass left handed like Paul McCartney. We thought if we’re going to have him play left handed bass, we’re going to do this for real. We’ve always imagined a Beatles tribute band.”

On their birthday, Sept. 8, Rob got a call that his band was breaking up and they were going to cancel the show.

Rob told them he had a band to fill the spot. Murray added, “We brought our newly formed band to the gig for our first show. We’ve never looked back.” That show was at the Somerville Theatre in Massachusetts. Murray said it was rough. “In the moment I thought to myself, ‘This is great.’ We took video and recorded audio, in case we were never going to do it again. We look back on that now, and it was not our best, but everyone has to start somewhere, right? For a first show, it wasn’t bad for a day’s notice.”

They mainly play in New England, but have branched out to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.

They also just got some inquiries from Washington D.C. Murray said, “We want to go as far as we can. There’s been talks about going to Liverpool. I never gave this band a limitation. We can always get this thing to be worldwide.

The end goal is this band touring everywhere. We’re busy, but it’s not a busy that we dread. Every time we turn on the truck and get on the road, it’s always a thrill because we’re going to do what we love to do. We love performing – and we love The Beatles.”

The brothers both started playing guitar in middle school. Their mother had a guitar in the basement that she used to play as a teen. She gave them permission to play it. They were hooked so they sought out guitar lessons. Murray said, “It started to spiral out of control after we started listening to The Beatles. They were that one big band, but I remember also being interested in Garth Brooks, and Nirvana ‘Unplugged’ was a huge thing for me.”

They both owe a lot to their grandfather who was in The Majestics – a doo-wop group – when he was a teenager. He played music his whole life and was also a DJ until he was 65. He bought their first electric guitar and paid for all their lessons until they went to Berklee College of Music, where they graduated in 2010. He’s a huge supporter. They just visited him to show their new Gibson J-160E, like Lennon played. He likes to see the new musical items they buy for the show.

Studio Two has a large collection of old videos and recordings. Murray said, “Because we focus on that early rock ‘n’ roll era, we’re always trying to find recordings of them playing live. Even just as a fan of The Beatles, we’re obsessed with that stuff and already had it. We’re always practicing.” The band nitpicks every little thing The Beatles did. Being at Berklee, they would use their ears to figure out music. Murray uses that now to figure out exactly what Lennon is playing. He breaks every part down and tries to replicate it on stage.

Murray loves the crowd’s reaction every time they play. He said, “When I know they’re really enjoying themselves, it gives me chills. Whether they’re clapping along or getting up to dance to ‘Twist and Shout,’ it really drives me and the band. It makes us all feel good and that is the true pleasure of it all – people’s happiness. We just met a father and his 9-year-old daughter. It was her first-ever concert. She loves The Beatles and said it was like seeing them on the ‘Ed Sullivan Show.’ The father said she’ll remember this for the rest of her life. She seemed genuinely happy and excited with a big smile on her face. That felt good.”

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The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

18 •

Living ADE

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

This weeks living Arts, Dining and Entertainment!

Killington Music Festival celebrates 37 years Saturday, June 29, 7 p.m.—KILLINGTON—Now in its 37th season of presenting fine chamber music, the Killington Music Festival takes pride and pleasure in announcing its concert schedule for 2019. On Saturday evenings from June 29-July 27, the internationally acclaimed musicians of the Killington Music Festival will perform at Ramshead Lodge at the Killington Resort at 7 p.m. During the Music in the Mountains Classical Concert Series they will also teach, guide and mentor the young aspiring musicians from around the country and abroad.

On June 29, the season opens with Simon Ghraichy at the piano. Ghraichy is an acclaimed French pianist and a festival favorite. He is renowned for his unique personal style defined with rich, diverse cultural influences. An exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon, Ghraichy will perform repertoire listed in his most recent releases from CD entitled “Heritages” and “33.”

Third Time’s a Charm will be the program on July 6 – a diverse program including Dvorak’s celebrated “Terzetto,” Mendelssohn’s epic Piano Trio in D minor and Schoenfield’s vibrant and high energy “Café Music.”

On July 13, the program is Winds Through Green Mountains. KMF’s wind faculty will soar over the Green Moun-

tains with a vast repertoire to feature composers new to Killington by Kokai and Moeran while still offering the ones we’ve come to love, including Saint-Saens and Chopin.

July 20 is Remembrance, a performance focused on the memory of those who inspired some of the most influential compositions today. Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7 was written in memory of his wife Nina, who died suddenly of cancer, and wrote the work in F sharp minor, traditionally associated with pain and suffering. The program will close with Glinka’s Grand Sextet.

On July 27, the Grand Finale will take place at Ramshead Lodge. This festival favorite will feature a string quartet made up of KMF Faculty with an additional exciting feature by newfound violin guest artist soloist, Virgil Boutellis-Taft. He will perform Vitali’s virtuosic “Chaconne,” Piazzolla’s beloved “Oblivion,” and Bach’s time-less Double Violin Concerto with KMF Artistic Director, Dr. Daniel Andai.

Ticket prices are $25. Advance tickets are available by calling 800-621-6867; or the day of the performance beginning at 6 p.m. at Ramshead Lodge.

Friday night performances of the Young Artists Series are held at the Ramshead Lodge at 7 p.m. and admission is free. Visit killingtonmusicfestival.org.

By By Jean-Francois Meler

Simon Ghraichy opens the 37th season of Killington Music Festival’s Music in the Mountains, this Saturday, June 29.

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LIVING ADE • 19

Fair Haven to welcome Wyld Nightz to summer concert series, Thursday Thursday, June 27, 7 p.m.—FAIR HAVEN—Wyld Nightz Band will be making its first appearance in the Fair Haven park on Thursday, June 27, as part of the Fair Haven Concerts in the Park summer concert series.

Wyld Nightz Band was formed over 10 years ago in Brattleboro.

THE BAND Founding members MiPROMISES A NIGHT chael McKinney, (guitar, trumpet OF MOVIN’ AND and vocals) and GROOVIN’.

Jeff Brewer, (guitar and vocals), have worked with various members to emphasize dance music with exciting ensemble playing. Fred “Freight Train” Epstein plays drums, and Matt Martyn plays bass guitar, anchoring the rhythm section. Keyboard duties and vocals are covered by Tony Speranza of Simon’s Rock. Anthony Speranza Jr. appears regularly on alto and tenor saxophones. With over 150 years of combined performing experience, Wyld Nightz Band has entertained at a wide variety of memorable events including weddings, parties, and the Jaffrey Fireworks, performing for over 20,000 people.

Wyld Nightz Band has won the Brattleboro Reformers Best Local Band Award three years in row beginning in 2015. The band’s “Artist A La Mode” video won BCTV’s Peoples Choice Award for 2017.

The band promises a night of movin’ and groovin’ to songs to which everyone will know all the words and can sing along.

Courtesy FH Concert Series

Wyld Nightz Band Concerts start promptly at 7 p.m., but organizers recommend arriving early for parking. Door prize drawings are held during a short intermission and 50/50 tickets are available. Hot dogs, soda, water and popcorn will be available for purchase. The concerts are family friendly and fun for all ages.

There will be no concert on Thursday, July 4; the

next concert will be Thursday, July 11.

The concerts go on rain or shine. Rain location is the Congregational Church at the north end of the park.

For more information or to find out if the concert is inside, call 802-265-3010 ext. 301 after 4 p.m. on the day of the concert.

Private school education within reach, info session held in Chester Thursday, June 27, 5:30 p.m.—CHESTER—The New England Classical Academy will hold an informational session on Thursday, June 27 at 5:30 p.m. at the Whiting Library in Chester.

“We want parents and students to know that there are choices when it comes to a quality education, said Elizabeth Wilber, executive director.” The New England Classical Academy provides a strong academic curriculum for grades K-12 in nearby Claremont, New Hampshire. Bus transportation is available, as well as financial aid programs.

The New England classical Academy is an independent, coeducational day school offering a Classical education which seeks to educate and form young people according to the ancient and traditional understanding of education as the pursuit of wisdom. For more information, call 603-543-3400. RSVP is appreciated but not required. All are welcome.

Okemo Valley TV holds open house, annual meeting Thursday, June 27, 6 p.m.—LUDLOW— Okemo Valley TV, the Ludlow-based community access TV station and media education center, is holding its annual organizational and membership meeting on Thursday, June 27 at 6 p.m. Activities will include an awards ceremony for volunteers and producers, a brief annual re-cap, and elections for the board of directors, followed by the organizational meeting at 7 p.m.

Okemo Valley TV is the designated community access station for the Towns of Ludlow, Plymouth, Cavendish, Mount Holly, Andover, and Reading. It operates two cable TV channels on Comcast ch. 8 and 10 in Ludlow, Plymouth, and Cavendish;Comcast ch. 20 and 21 in Mount Holly; and on VTel channels 166

and 167 (system-wide). In addition, Okemo Valley TV provides media production equipment and training to community members and organizations, for the purposes of creating shows of its own.

The annual meeting is open to all community members. Light refreshments will be served. RSVPs are requested and can be made via email, to pcody@okemovalley. tv or by calling 802-228-8808.

Voting is now open for the board of directors election, for those unable to attend the annual meeting. Anyone 14plus who resides in one of the town’s in Okemo Valley TV’s service area is eligible to vote. Ballots, voting instructions, and more information about the open house and annual meeting can be found online: okemovalley.tv.

Courtesy Chandler Center for the Arts

Works by Joan Feierabend, Stephanie Suter, Nick DeFriez and Chris Wilson will display as part of “Rendering: Cause to Become” at Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

‘Rendering’ exhibit opens at Chandler

Saturday, June 29, 5 p.m.—RANDOLPH— Chandler Gallery is pleased to announce this summer’s invitational show, “Rendering: Cause to Become.”

This unique group exhibition showcases the art of creating realistic images and brings together Chris Wilson’s portrait sculptures, Joan Feierabend’s paint-

ings, and Nick DeFriez and Stephanie Suter’s drawings.

This Chandler Gallery group show invites all to explore the fascinating renderings of these artists.

An opening reception will be held Saturday, June 29, from 5-7 p.m. An artist open house with Chris Wilson will be held Saturday, July 27, 12-6 p.m.

The exhibit will run through Sept. 1. Chandler Gallery is located at 71 N. Main St., Randolph. It is open Thursday through Sunday, during performances and by appointment. Chandler is wheelchair accessible.

For information visit chandler-arts.org or call 802728-9878 ext. 3.

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Friday, June 28, 6 p.m.—WOODSTOCK—The 9th annual juried exhibit of book art by artists working in New England or New York opens in tandem with Bookstock, the Green Mountain Festival of Words, on Friday, July 26 at 5:30 p.m. Visitors will have an opportunity to examine curious folios, recent grimoires, tomes turned to sculpture and some works having a relation to “books” in concept only. The theme of the show is simple: art using books as a material or a format. Art lovers and

bibliophiles alike can expect to be intrigued, and maybe inspired, by the work found on exhibit this summer in Unbound, Vol. IX. Presented at ArtisTree Gallery in partnership with Bookstock.

This call for submissions is open to all New England and New York residents who are 18 years of age or older. This is a juried exhibition for artists working in all traditional and non-traditional 2D (wall mounted) and 3D media, installation, video, and assemblage. All artwork must be

Workshop offered to help landowners manage habitat Saturday, June 29, 9 a.m.—WOODSTOCK—Vermont Coverts and the Vermont Woodlands Association are hosting a Working Woodlands workshop, Habitat Management for Landowners, Sat., June 29 from 9-11:30 a.m. Landowners will learn what they can do to improve habitat for wildlife and promote native tree species in their woods.

The workshop, led by Travis Hart, Vermont Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, will provide participants with the basics to get started on creating a habitat management plan to promote desirable species and minimize habitat for invasive species. Hart will also provide an overview of programs that provide funding for landowners to implement habitat projects in their woods.

The free indoor presentation will be followed by a hike around the park to learn about habitat requirements for different species.

Meet at the Forest Center, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park Rte 12 N, Woodstock.

Parking is available in the Billings Farm & Museum overflow lot, located on Old River Road.

Reservations are requested as space is limited. Call 802- 457-3368 x 222, or email ana_mejia@partner. nps.gov. Please be sure to mention how many will be attending.

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original in concept, design and execution. Note: reproductions, if used as mixed media, will be considered.

Installations are welcome at the discretion of ArtisTree, but must meet all other specifications and be delivered, installed and removed by the artist. Deadline for submissions – emailed or dropped off to Artis Tree Gallery – is Friday, June 28 at 6 p.m. The gallery is located at 2095 Pomfret Road, So. Pomfret.

For more information, visit artistreevt.org.

Pawlet Public Library begins summer reading program Wednesday, June 26, 10 a.m.—PAWLET—Educator Hunter Bassett returns this summer to introduce a new series of activities that explore outer space as part of the library’s summer reading program, Wednesdays, June 26, July 3, 10, 17, and 24, 10-11:30 a.m. These free programs are designed for children grades 1-6, and advanced registration is encouraged because space is limited. New this year, parents accompanying children can join literacy coach Catherine Hunter to learn ways to extend their child’s interest in non-fiction.

The library follows the statewide summer reading theme, A Universe of Stories, which coincides with 60 years of NASA’s space exploration and the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. Children earn prizes as they advance in reading during the five sessions.

Hunter Bassett is a graduate of SUNY Oneonta with a B.S. degree in biology. For the past three summers she has served as counselor and director of the Granville summer recreation program. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Sage College.

Literacy coach Catherine Hunter has been a primary educator for kindergarten through second grade in both private and public schools. With a double master’s degree in early childhood education, her expertise is in the area of literacy. She has been an active literacy workshop presenter throughout New England.

For more information, visit pawletpubliclibrary.wordpress.com. The library is located at 141 School St., Pawlet.

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Rochester library invites public to Medicare discussion Thursday, June 27, 5:30 p.m.—ROCHESTER—On Thursday, June 27, Ellen Gershun, health insurance program coordinator with the Central Vermont Council On Aging, will be at the Rochester Public Library to present a workshop on Medicare and You, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

This is an opportunity to consult with a Medicare expert not affiliated with one of the companies competing for business, so it’s a great time to ask questions. Gershun will walk participants through the ins and outs of Medicare plans and options, including Parts A, B, D, supplement and Advantage plans.

“There are over two dozen different Medicare Part D plans available in Vermont, each with a different monthly premium, different deductibles, and different copays for each different tier of drug. How can I possibly decide which to buy,” said Jeannette Bair. “Should I go with a Supplement Plan or an Advantage Plan? Blue Cross alone has five different plans and if I change my mind later there are huge financial penalties later on,” she continued.

“Most people don’t realize just how many irrevocable decisions you have to make and how overwhelming turning 65 can be. I wish I had known years ahead of time what the costs would be,” she said.

Pre-registration is required for this free program. To register call 802-479-0531 or email medicareworkshops@cvcoa.org. The library is located at 22 S. Main St., Rochester.

17th annual Music in the Meadow sings for breast cancer cure Saturday, June 29, 12 p.m.—CHESTER—The 17th annual Music in the Meadow fundraising concert for the Vermont-New Hampshire Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure will be held on Saturday, June 29, at the Motel in the Meadow, Rte. 11, Chester. The event runs 12-8 p.m. Gates open at 11:30 a.m.

Organizers are hoping to surpass highest record for donations of $13,000 which would take the grand total raised in 16 years to nearly $73,000. All proceeds collected go to the Komen Race for the Cure to hopefully find a cure for breast cancer. There are no deductions taken out for expenses.

Back for 2019 will be the popular raffle, silent auction, and entertainment performed by local musicians including, but not limited to, Mark Shelton, Ben Fuller, The Illusion, The Imperfectionists, The John Sullivan Band, Lucky Soul Band, Intercept, and Heartfire – all of whom donate their time and talent. Also returning will be the horseshoe tournament. Food, beverages and ice cream, will be available for purchase.

Pat Budnick, owner of the Motel in the Meadow, is excited to announce that Jillian Fisher, the newly crowned Miss Vermont 2019; and Danielle Trottier, the newly crowned Miss Vermont’s Outstanding Teen 2019, will be making an appearance at the event. Ms. Fisher is scheduled to share a song with the audience.

Both Miss Vermont and Miss Vermont’s Outstanding Teen will be greeting attendees during their visit, and lending a hand.

For more information, call 802-875-2626 or email musicinthemeadowvt@gmail.com.

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After lunch campers will be transported to White Memorial Park for swimming, tennis, basketball and other structured outdoor activities! Skateboarding and BMX Camps will remain at Flip Side and Giorgetti Park for the rest of their day to participate in other camp activities!

ART AND THEATRE CAMPS! Musical Theatre Dance Camp Create your own Play Character Building in Broadway Robert Patterson Workshop Pencils, Pastels and Paints!

Clay Works Inspired by Nature Recycled Robots Preschool Art Camp Sensory Sensations!

DAY CAMPS ARE GROWING! To fill the need of the community our Day Camp is growing! We will now be offering Camp Green Mountain (Entering Grades 3-6), Camp Maple Leaf (Entering Grades K-2) and our Full Day Preschool Camp (Ages 3-5).

Drop Off and Pick up will be at White Memorial Park!

Camp Green Mountain and Maple Leaf Weekly Rate $170R/$181NR Children entering grades K-6 Note: Camper must turn 5 before 6/10/2019 Swim lessons are included in camp fee 10 week package fee $1209R/$1309NR Sibling discount available for 10 week package purchase $1109R/$1209NR Camp runs from 9AM-4PM Early Drop Off: 7:45AM-9AM Late Pick Up: 4PM-5:30PM

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White Memorial Park Pool Pass Family $85R/$106NR

Senior (60+) $30R/$41NR

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Register NOW! 16 North Street Ext. or Call 802-773-1822 Monday - Friday 8:30-5pm or www.rutlandrec.com

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Serving locals and visitors alike since 1998, dinner at the Birch Ridge Inn is a delicious way to complete your day in Killington. Featuring Vermont inspired New American cuisine in the inns dining room and Great Room Lounge, you will also find a nicely stocked bar, hand crafted cocktails, fine wines, seafood and vegetarian options, and wonderful house made desserts. birchridge.com, 802-422-4293.

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Chef-owned, Choices Restaurant and Rotisserie was named 2012 ski magazines favorite restaurant. Choices may be the name of the restaurant but it is also what you get. Soup of the day, shrimp cockatil, steak, hamburgers, pan seared chicken, a variety of salads and pastas, scallops, sole, lamb and more await you. An extensive wine list and in house made desserts are also available. choices-restaurant.com (802) 422-4030.

Enjoy an intimate dining menu or tavern specials at Killington’s only waterside dining that also has live entertainment every Friday and Saturday. Appetizers include crab cakes, buffalo drumsticks and a cheese plate while the entrees include chicken Marsala, meat loaf, steamed lobster and more. The tavern menu features nachos, fried fish sandwich, teriyaki steak sandwich and others. www.foundrykillington.com (802) 422-5335

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Headed north from Killington on Route 100? Stop in to the Clear River Tavern to sample chef Tim Galvin’s handcrafted tavern menu featuring burgers, pizza, salads, steak and more. We’re in Pittsfield, 8 miles from Killington. Our live music schedule featuring regional acts will keep you entertained, and our friendly service will leave you with a smile. We’re sure you’ll agree that “When You’re Here, You’re in the Clear.” clearrivertavern.com (802) 746-8999.

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A local tradition in Killington for over 43 years, Charity’s has something for everyone on the menu. Soups, salads, tacos, burgers, sandwiches and more, it’s all mouth-watering. A children’s menu is available and large

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At Killington’s hometown bar, you’re bound to have a good time with good food. Starters, burgers, sandwiches, wraps and salads are all available.

With live entertainment seven days a week, they’re always serving food until last call. www.supportinglocalmusic.com (802) 422-5334

Jones’ Donuts

Offering donuts and a bakery, with a community reputation as being the best!

Closed Monday and Tuesday. 23 West Street, Rutland. See what’s on special at Facebook.com/JonesDonuts/. Call (802) 773-7810

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The Taproom at Lake Bomoseen Lodge, Vermont’s newest lakeside resort & restaurant.

Delicious Chef prepared, family friendly, pub fare; appetizers, salads, burgers, pizzas, entrees, kid’s menu, a great craft brew selection & more. Newly renovated restaurant, lodge & condos. lakebomoseenlodge.com, 802-468-5251.

Liquid Art

Forget about the polar vortex for a while and relax in the warm atmosphere at Liquid Art. Look for artfully served lattes from their La Marzocco espresso machine, or if you want something stronger, try their signature cocktails. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, they focus on healthy fare and provide you with a delicious meal different than anything else on the mountain.

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Mountain Top Inn

Whether staying overnight or visiting for the day, Mountain Top’s Dining Room & Tavern serve delicious cuisine amidst one of Vermont’s best views. A mix of locally inspired and International cuisine – including salads, seafood, poultry and a new steakhouse menu - your taste buds are sure to be satisfied. Choose from 12 Vermont craft brews on tap.Warm up by the terrace fire pit after dinner! A short drive from Killington. mountaintopinn.com, 802483-2311.

Red Clover Inn

Farm to Table Vermont Food and Drinks. Thursday night Live Jazz.

Monday night Chef Specials. Open Thursday to Monday, 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. 7 Woodward Road, Mendon, VT. 802-775-2290, redcloverinn.com

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Sugar and Spice

Stop on by to Sugar and Spice for a home style breakfast or lunch served up right.

Try six different kinds of pancakes and/or waffles or order up some eggs and home fries. For lunch they offer a Filmore salad, grilled roast beef, burgers and sandwiches.

Take away and deck dining available. www.vtsugarandspice.com (802) 773-7832.

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Sushi Yoshi

Sushi Yoshi is Killington’s true culinary adventure. With Hibachi, Sushi, Chinese and Japanese, we have something for every age and palate. Private Tatame rooms and large party seating available. We boast a full bar with 20 craft beers on draft. Lunch and dinner available seven days a week. We are chef-owned and operated. Delivery or take away option available. Now open year round. www. vermontsushi.com (802) 422-4241

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Take breakfast, lunch or dinner on the go at Killington Market, Killington’s on-mountain grocery store for the last 30 years. Choose from breakfast sandwiches, hand carved dinners, pizza, daily fresh hot panini, roast chicken, salad and specialty sandwiches. Vermont products, maple syrup, fresh meat and produce along with wine and beer are also for sale. killingtonmarket.com (802) 422-7736 or (802) 422-7594.

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June 17-August 23 Ages 4-13 Pricing options range from $39 to $1899 with options to come play for all 10 weeks, weekly, or daily.

For more information go to killingtontown.com or call Cathy Foutch, (802)422-3932.

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Golf for a Cause at Lake St. Catherine Friday, June 28—CASTLETON—The 15th annual Castleton Community Center Golf Outing, Friday, June 28 at Lake St. Catherine Country Club, will benefit the center’s elderly and disabled transportation program. Over 2,800 rides were provided last year for essential travel to doctor’s appointments, nursing home visits, therapy, adult day care and senior meals.

The CCS transportation program provides seniors and the disabled the flexibility and independence that allows them to remain in their homes and improve their quality of life.

The event features 18 holes (captain and crew format), a $10,000 hole-in-one-contest and $500 Price Chopper Gift Card hole-in-one, plus prizes for low gross, low net, longest drive and closet to pin for both men and women. The $90 registration fee includes greens fee, golf cart, dinner, player gifts, raffles and prizes, great day of fun, friendship, and golf “for a cause.”

To register call 802-468-3093 or visit the website castletoncsi.org.

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JUNE 29-JULY 27 Saturdays at 7pm Killington Resort, Ramshead Lodge

Season opener this Saturday!

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“Water #11” by Jeannie Podolak, collagraph, is part of the new exhibit at Brandon Artists Guild, “The Art of Water.”

Friday, June 28, 5 p.m.—BRANDON—There’s something in the water at the Brandon Artists Guild as the gallery continues its Earth-themed 20th anniversary celebration with a new exhibit. The Art of Water will run from June 28-Aug. 27. The public is invited to the free opening reception Friday, June 28 from 5-7 p.m.

The all-member, all-media show features pieces linked by the common theme of water, and includes ceramics, collage, watercolor, oil, photography, glass and more.

“We’re drawing from a deep well of creativity for this exhibit,” said photographer and BAG member Lowell Klock. “The water theme lets our imaginations flow. Like the previous shows in the series, there’s a lot of diversity and energy.”

The Art of Water is the third in a series of four themed shows honoring our planet. This 20th-anniversary year for the BAG is also the Chinese Year of the Pig, which recognizes nature’s elements – Earth, Wood, Water, and Fire. The BAG is devoting four exhibits to these elements.

The Art of Water exhibit closes in late August and will be followed by The Art of Fire, the final exhibit in the series.

The Brandon Artists Guild is an artist-run gallery with approximately 40 exhibiting artists and additional supporting members. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural organization, the BAG supports the visual arts through exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations and educational programs.

The Brandon Artists Guild is located at 7 Center St., Brandon. It is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and is open to the public.

For more information, call 802 247-4956 or visit brandonartistsguild.org.

Federated Church of Rochester welcomes Heliand Consort with chamber music Sunday, June 30, 4 p.m.—ROCHESTER—The Rochester Chamber Music Society summer series continues on Sunday, June 30, at 4 p.m. in the Federated Church of Rochester, with the Heliand Consort. The afternoon program will include Schumann, Nancy Galbraith, Lily Boulanger, and Newsom.

Now in its 12th season, Heliand Consort is a virtuoso woodwind and

piano chamber music ensemble whose dynamic performances – from the Baroque era through contemporary music and folk songs – have been charming audiences throughout Vermont and beyond.

Rachael Elliott is founding member of Heliand Consort. She teaches at the Longy School of Music. A versatile chamber musician, she has performed extensively

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Simon Ghraichy, acclaimed French pianist and festival favorite, performs repertoire from his most recent CD.

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throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia.

A native of St. Albans, Katie Oprea studied oboe with her father and later joined the Vermont Youth Orchestra, where she performed as a youth soloist with the VYO and VSO. She is currently principal oboist of the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, Opera Company of Middlebury, Middlebury Bach Festival and frequently performs with the VSO. Pianist Cynthia Huard has appeared as a featured soloist at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Aston Magna Early Festival, and in recital as a pianist and harpsichordist throughout the U.S. and in Europe. Huard has been artistic director of the Rochester Chamber Music Society’s summer series for 25 years.

Concert admission is by donation. The Federated Church is located at 15 N. Main St., Rochester.

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Caroline Cotter to captivate audience in Brandon Saturday, June 29, 7:30 p.m.—BRANDON—Brandon Music welcomes the return of Caroline Cotter, June 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Caroline Cotter grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and attended college in Maine before setting off on what has become a global quest for adventure and education set to music and she’s not slowing down anytime soon. With a captivating honeyed soprano voice Cotter’s travel-inspired folk songs take her listeners all over the world and into the depths of the human heart.

Since her debut album, “Dreaming as I Do,” rwhich reached No. 5 on the Folk DJ Charts in 2015, Cotter has performed over 700 shows in 45 states and 13 countries. She is currently touring to support her second major release, “Home on the River.”

According to Cotter, “The real thread [of ‘Home on the River’] is the peace with being on a journey and carrying my home with me, rather than finding comfort from home in the traditional sense.”

Cotter returns to Brandon Music after completing another successful European tour throughout France, Germany and Belgium.

Concert tickets are $20. Venue is BYOB. Call 802247-4295 or email info@brandon-music.net for reservations or for more information. Brandon Music is located at 62 Country Club Road, Brandon.

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TUBING on the White River NOW OPEN FOR THE SUMMER!

VSO annual Summer Festival Tour begins July 1, visits seven towns Monday, July 1, 5:30 p.m.—CHITTENDEN—The Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s (VSO) annual TD Bank Summer Festival Tour presented by Northstar Fireworks returns for 2019 with an exciting program of both traditional favorites and surprising blockbuster hits. Touring seven Vermont communities from July 1 through July 7 – Chittenden (July 1), Manchester (July 2), Grafton (July 3), Shelburne (July 4), So. Pomfret (July 5), Randolph (July 6) and Stowe (July 7) – “Strike Up The Orchestra!” will delight listeners of all ages during the summer evenings.

Making her VSO debut, guest conductor Sharon Lavery will guide attendees through her hand-crafted program showcasing composers who set America to music: Gershwin, Joplin, Bernstein, Copland, and one of the most prominent film composers of this generation, John Williams. Lavery has served as music director of the Downey Symphony Orchestra since 2007, and maintains an impressive career that includes multiple instances of conducting at Carnegie Hall.

Performing in a jazzy concerto by Artie Shaw, the VSO’s own principal clarinet Kelli O’Connor is the tour’s featured soloist. O’Connor is a founding member of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston and Radiance Woodwind Quintet. As a former member of the United States Coast Guard Band, she also performed at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton.

“Strike Up The Orchestra!” will also include the patriotic “Liberty Bell March” and “Stars and Stripes Forever” in a timely celebration of Independence Day; compositions from popular films like “Captain Marvel,” “Superman Returns” and “Jurassic Park”; and many more selections to form an ideal outdoor concert experience – complete with closing fireworks at each location.

Tickets are available at vso.org/events/, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. for picnicking and the concert beginning at 7:30 p.m at each location. The July 1 show will be performed at Mountain Top Inn & Resort, 95 Mountain Top Road, Chittenden.

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Fireworks close the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s concerts, as part of the Summer Festival Tour.

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The meaning behind the Solstice This week’s horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Pisces Moon. At 10:38 p.m. on Monday, June 24, the moon shifted into Aries and the week kicked off with a series of changes that stand a good chance of rocking our personal and collective boats.

I say this because there are aspects that came into play on the Summer Solstice that are too intense to overlook.

Because the Solstice horoscope is akin to the writing on the wall for the next three months, it might do us good to review those aspects, in a little more depth. Why? Because whatever is written in the stars will come to pass or not, depending on the extent to which the free will of the populace is conscious enough to take the high road between now and the Fall equinox.

The North and South nodes of the moon represent the spindle around which the evolutionary path of human consciousness spins. They connect the past to the future. At the moment the nodes rest on the Cancer/Capricorn axis, at the 18th degree. This axis governs a lot of things. At rock bottom it defines the connection between Mother Earth Mother of the Skye, page 31

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ou’d just as soon skip this part of the program. You’ve been here and done it so many times you really don’t need a repeat performance. Find someone to play your part and disappear, or you’ll get stuck with the whole thing if you’re not careful.

Your personal life has taken an interesting turn and that’s part of the reason you need a break. Having done a 180 in the love department, all of a sudden the one who looked like they could walk on water has turned into a human being. Now that the coach has morphed into a pumpkin the question is: can you handle it?

Taurus

on’t get too worked up over what only appears to be a big deal. You’ve been through the gauntlet enough times to know how to get through this one. If you’re worried about the fact that you haven’t got the energy for what feels like a huge responsibility, I’m here to tell you, you can do it in your sleep. Give yourself a break and go out for recess until it’s time to buckle down and grab it by the horns. At that point, take one thing at a time, don’t get ahead of yourself, and know that you’re in control. The smoother you operate the easier it will be to turn this mountain into a molehill.

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ou’ve jumped through enough hoops to feel pretty sure about where you’re heading. Those of you who have sold out along the way are less clear about things, but those of you who have remained true to yourselves are off on a whole new track.

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t times you feel as if there’s nothing to worry about; at other points you’re convinced that everything’s about to go to Hell. Going back and forth between doubt and faith, you wish that you could be clear about things. Too much is about to change for you to assume that certainty is even relevant at this point. It would be to your advantage to tie yourself to the mast and rearrange your sense of what it will take to keep life from rocking your boat. Whatever holding steady has meant to you in the past, these days it has more to do with remaining fluid enough to handle anything.

hat an amazing time. Believe it or not things might be as good as they look.

Not having that much experience with this much perfection, you’re confused about what to do next. That’s OK. There isn’t any template for things like this. Underneath all of the stuff that is totally blowing your mind, you are just beginning to accept the fact that life will never be the same again.

Surrender to this and feel safe knowing that you’re being called to start living your dream instead of searching for it. Get with the program, open your heart, start riding this wave and get into it.

Capricorn

D

December 21 - January 20

R

January 21 - February 20

on’t even try to figure out how things got this crazy. While you’re at it, take comfort in knowing that even those who appear to have the world on a string are living through their own brand of insanity. You’ll do more for yourself if, instead of trying to correct everyone’s behavior and attempting to resuscitate what was never there to begin with, you go with the flow and let everything be what it is. It might also be good to lower your expectations and learn how to love people in spite of themselves because underneath all the madness everyone’s doing the best they can.

Libra

hat goes around is coming around.

If you’ve paid your dues, you’re in good shape. Those of you who are dealing with people who have yet to pay theirs, could feel a little shaky. As the next six months unwind, the business of freeing yourself from the BS that gets created when we go into alignment with all the wrong people will keep your head spinning; don’t let it scare you. What’s happening right now is the tail end of issues that were over complicated by choices you made long ago. That was then and this is now. Hold steady. Soon enough you will be free and clear.

Cancer

June 21 - July 20

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Virgo

Gemini

here is a conflict of interests that has you wishing you weren’t stuck in the middle. You can’t do much but remain wedged between two or more sets of issues. As uncomfortable as you feel, there is a way out. Other things have called you to see that you don’t even need to be involved in this. Believe it or not, you could slip out of the situation and force everyone to deal with themselves; what a concept! It may be time to take a powder, or a hike, or leave town for a few days. In your absence others will become crystal clear about the fact that this is their mess.

Sagittarius

Aquarius

ecent events have underscored feelings of intensity that bear a whiff of grief.

Old stories have called up the past and put your mind on things that you’d rather not think about. Sooner or later, life has a way of making us face the music. If this rings a bell, don’t make the mistake of trying to brush it off. In the midst of your usual routine, make room for whatever these feelings involve. Outside of this, you’ve got it made right now. In many ways you are having the time of your life, and now acutely aware of how the good stuff and the hard stuff always seem to walk, side by side.

Scorpio

ou’ve been through enough to see that it’s time to turn the trials of the last few years into something you can live with. Part of you would be OK with staying in the same groove if you weren’t so clear about the fact that you really don’t want to get stuck here. With nothing to go back to, your best choice would appear to be the one that is calling you to leap into the Void.

Whether or not you are ready to take that step is the question. These things take an enormous amount of faith. There will be no certainty until you summon up the guts to drop everything and go for it.

November 21 - December 20

Pisces

T

February 21 - March 20

his would be easier if your history wasn’t checkered with memories that keep reminding you how nuts you are to keep falling into the same old trap. You used to do this unconsciously but at this point the whole routine is so familiar you just keep pressing the repeat button. Believe it or not observing our mistakes gives us a chance to see how fate and free will intertwine. And what you see now is showing you that none of this would have turned out the way it did if you could just figure out how to stop the madness and be a little more particular about who you decide to trust.

Mother of the Skye Mother of the Skye has 40 years of experience as an astrologer and tarot consultant. She may be reached by email to cal.garrison@gmail.com

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

The humble hornpout name hornpout probably comes from Consider for a second a fish that can a combination of the fish’s “horns,” or live in turbid, low-oxygen water. Can spines, and the Middle English pout, a breathe through its skin. Eats almost word applied to several species of botanything. Has a tom-dwelling fish with broad heads that wickedly effective inhabit the oceans off of Western Europe. defense mechaViar also noted that, when they’re pulled nism. And is a really focused par- from the water, the fish make a pouting sound with their swim bladders. ent. Plus, it’s good These days, the hornpout doesn’t to eat. have the angling allure of trout or bass We’re talking The Outside about the humble or salmon. But that hasn’t always been so; they were so popular with anglers hornpout. Or Story decades ago that New Hampshire Fish “horned pout,”

by Joe Rankin and Game “even transplanted them if you prefer. Or into the few waters that did not contain “mud cat.” Taxothem, or to bolster existing populations,” nomically, Ameisaid Viar. urus nebulosus. The brown bullhead.

For many of the French Canadian Unlike imported rainbow trout, landworkers in New Hampshire’s mills, “the locked salmon, and largemouth bass, only fishing they knew (or cared for) was the hornpout is “a true New Hampshire Friday and Saturday night ‘butt butt,’ native and one of the most common also local slang for the species,” said Viar. and widespread fish in the state,” said “It was both a social and literal foodJohn Viar, a fisheries biologist with New gathering event.”

Hampshire Fish and Game and a fan of That’s probably how hornpout hornpout – especially when they’re fried. became a verb: “hornpoutin’.” This The hornpout is a catfish that ranges involved groups of friends and anglers from near the Hudson Bay in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in “THOSE THAT HAVE PAN-FRIED the south and from the Atlantic coast westward SKINNED ’POUT OFTEN NOTE IT IS into the nation’s midsection. The fish can THE BEST FRESHWATER FISH THEY be found in even more HAVE EVER TASTED,” SAID VIAR. places thanks to stocking.

It lives on the bottoms of gathering in the dark on the banks of lakes, ponds, and slow-moving streams. a pond or stream, using simple fishIt comes out at night to feed, vacuuming ing poles baited with night crawlers or up worms, fish and fish eggs, insects, chicken liver or secret-recipe dough bait. leeches, plants, crustaceans, frogs – you “Kind of like a mini-campfire-slashname it. Hornpouts find prey by tastecamping adventure, except with the adsmell using their hypersensitive barbels, ditional fun of fishing and an excellentor “whiskers.”

Tiny hornpouts are food for other fish. eating fish harvest. Adult beverages may also be involved,” said Viar, who, like his But adults have few predators thanks dad, has fond childhood memories of to the three venomous spines on their pectoral and dorsal fins. When deployed, hornpoutin’.

It’s hard to say why the hornpout fell the spines can do some serious damage, from grace. Maybe it’s a general aversion as any angler who treats the hornpout to “bottom feeders.” Or maybe it’s becavalierly can tell you.

Hornpouts are survivors – “the tough- cause hornpoutin’ is a nighttime activity.

Or because they don’t get very big: seven est of the tough,” in Viar’s words. They to eleven inches is about average – the can live in warm, low-oxygen waters where other species would turn belly up, Hornpout, page 30 and they “can even take oxygen through the skin when necessary,” Viar said.

Some Vermont towns experimented with using them in wastewater-treatment lagoons to reduce sludge levels.

It worked, but when the sludge burped ammonia in the spring warmup, the fish usually didn’t make it through.

The nick-

Columns

• 29

By Gary Salmon

Pollarding trees has historic roots in French villages. The practice continues today.

Two forms, same function

Tree Talk

By Gary Salmon

At the end of May I had the pleasure of exploring very rural France in an area occupied but not fought in during World War II. Blanot, like countless small towns in this region, still maintains its links to early French history complete with stone buildings and walls, narrow streets, communal clothes washing area (lavoir) oven and water supply, common green space, a church, and a statue honoring those fallen in WWI or in this area, a memorial to honor those resistance fighters who lost their lives in WWII. The rolling green hillsides are complete with hedges (not fences), Charolais cattle, sheep, and narrow roads connecting these towns and framing the occasional château, castle or larger village.

Two observations stand out from this view of France. First, Pollarding trees, page 37

The investment risk no one’s heard of Knowledgeable investors are aware that investing in the capital markets presents any number of risks—interest-rate risk, company risk, and market risk. Risk is an inseparable companion to the potential for long-term growth.

Some of the investment risks we face can be mitigated through diversification.

As an investor, you face another, less-known risk for Money which the market Matters does not compenBy Kevin Theissen sate you, nor can it be easily reduced through diversification. Yet it may be the biggest challenge to the sustainability of your retirement income.

This risk is called the “sequence of returns risk.”

The sequence of returns risk refers to the uncertainty of the order of returns an investor will receive over an extended period of time. As Milton Friedman once observed, you should, “Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.”

Freidman’s point was that averages may hide dangerous possibilities. This is especially true with the stock market. You

may be comfortable that the market will deliver its historical average return over the long-term, but you can never know when you will be receiving the varying positive and negative returns that comprise the average. The order in which you receive these returns can make a big difference.

For instance, a hypothetical market decline of 30 percent is not to be unexpected.

However, would you rather experience this decline when you have relatively small retirement savings, or at the moment you are ready to retire — when your savings may never be more valuable? Without a doubt, the former scenario is preferable, but the timing of that large potential decline is out of your control.

The sequence of returns risk is especially problematic while you are in retirement. Down years, in combination with portfolio withdrawals taken to provide retirement income, have the potential to seriously damage the ability of your savings to recover sufficiently, even as the markets fully rebound.

If you are nearing retirement, or already in retirement, it’s time to give serious consideration to the “sequence of returns risk” and ask questions about how you can better manage your portfolio.

Kevin Theissen is the principal and financial advisor, of HWC Financial in Ludlow.

30 • COLUMNS

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

Expand your horizons, mix up your workout routine Have you been feeling stuck? Have you been working through the same workout or cardio program for years and are not sure why you don’t see the same results you once did? These are common questions and can be a common frustration when people are trying to stay healthy and lose Healthy weight. When we are first moHabits tivated to get healthy and start

By Kyle Finneron exercising more we will find a routine that works for us. But over time we will start to see diminishing returns on our exercise investment.

When we first start that new workout routine, we are throwing our body out of our comfort zone. This is what we want. At first, we aren’t sure if we can finish the workout and sometimes we won’t be able to. If you

haven’t run for years and all of a sudden try to run a mile, you might not be able to run the whole time. But as you continue, you may notice that your runs are becoming easier. You can run a little further each time until one day, you cross that mile mark in stride. This is great! That is your body adapting to stress.

Unfortunately, your body will eventually fully adapt to the stress of running a mile. At that point, a mile run will no longer stress the body. Here’s another way to think about it that I bet a lot of people can relate to this week.

Why is weight loss like tanning?

Let’s say it’s been a long and cold winter, you can imagine that, right? Finally, after what feels like years of cold and cloudy weather, the sun starts to poke its head through the clouds and the weather starts to warm. It’s a nice sunny day and you can’t wait to get outside. You put on your favorite summer outfit and head outside to soak up as much sun as possible. Well, after the first day, you may have overdone it.

There you are the next day, afraid to get into the shower because your skin feels like a piece of extra crispy chicken. Luckily, over time your burn slowly turns into a bit of a tan and you start to feel better. Then we head outside again. This time we don’t get quite as burnt as that first time. Your body has adapted to that initial stress and is better able to handle your time outside.

If you decided at the beginning of the summer that you were going to sit in the sun for one hour each day, eventually your skin will adapt to that hour of sunlight.

There will come a day when you will not get any darker, even if you keep spending that hour in the sun. Your body has fully adapted to the stress of one hour in the sun. If you wanted to continue to get darker, you will need to increase your sun exposure, or increase the stress on your skin.

What does this have to do you getting in shape? When we first start a new workout, we are exposing our body to a new type or level of stress. After that first workout, you probably feel sore in places you didn’t know you could Mixing it up, page 39

Hornpout: Fishing for an old (and tasty) favorite continued from page 29

Viar finds many things about the speNew Hampshire state record is just shy of cies fascinating – among them, the fact 18 inches. Or maybe it’s that you have to that “they are the most devoted parents be careful when handling them. in the fish world.” Both mom and pop Anglers say hornpouts are scrappy hornpout guard their eggs and the fry little fighters: they can be crafty, taking their time closing down on a baited hook. after they hatch. “Watching two adult bullheads ‘herd’ the ‘charcoal’ fry school Gastronomes rave about the succulence along is a sight I have of the flesh, parbeen lucky enough ticularly that of fish IT’S HARD TO SAY WHY to encounter many pulled from clean, THE HORNPOUT FELL times in early sumclear waters. Viar is mer.” one of them. “FanFROM GRACE. Joe Rankin writes tastic eating,” he on forestry and nature. The illustration said. “In fact, those that have pan-fried for this column was drawn by Adelaide skinned ’pout often note it is the best Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and freshwater fish they have ever tasted.” edited by Northern Woodlands magazine And you can catch a lot of them. Most (northernwoodlands.org) and sponsored states have generous limits: in New by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire, the limit is 25 fish per 24Hampshire Charitable Foundation (wellhour period. No weight or length limits; born@nhcf.org). no closed season.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

CLUES ACROSS 1. Stores 6. Worthless entertainment 9. Where scientists work 13. Pretty flower 14. A way to act 15. Double-reed instrument 16. Type of acid 17. Famed astronomer 18. Smooth, shiny fabric 19. Profited from 21. Secret clique 22. Infections 23. Crony 24. Teens go here every day (abbr.)

25. Suitable 28. Fresh Price of __ Air 29. Ancient city of Egypt 31. Basketball move 33. Polished 36. There’s a north and a south 38. Egg of a louse 39. Once-ubiquitous department store 41. Portray precisely 44. Thick piece of something 45. Period between eclipses 46. Indicates near 48. Investment account 49. England, Scotland, N. Ireland, and Wales (abbr.)

51. Beak 52. Void of skill 54. Walked back and forth 56. A display of passion 60. Geological times 61. Type of restaurant

62. Spacious 63. Edible seaweed 64. Utah city 65. Tropical tree 66. Nervous tissue compound 67. Body part 68. Muscles and tendons CLUES DOWN 1. Draw out wool 2. Give someone a job 3. Chemical and ammo manufacturer 4. Footsteps 5. The Palmetto State 6. Books have lots of them 7. Diverse Israeli city 8. It’s mightier than the sword 9. Confines 10. First month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year 11. Idaho’s highest peak 12. Prevents from seeing 14. Determine time 17. Father children 20. Tab on a key ring 21. Dog genus 23. Peter’s last name 25. Request 26. Walk heavily 27. Allowances 29. English football squad 30. Fish-eating aquatic mammals 32. South Pacific island region 34. Unaccounted for 35. Small taste of whiskey 37. Ventilated 40. Helps little firms

Don’t be frustrated by the bunker Question: Terry and Jim are playing in a tournament. On the 5th hole, Terry’s tee shot ends up in the sand bunker in front of the green. As he approaches the green, and somewhat frustrated, he kicks a stone into the bunker. The stone hits his ball and the ball moves. Terry says his reaction was normal and he should be allowed to replace his ball without penalty. Jim says Terry should not be allowed to replace the ball without penalty. Is Jim correct?

Answer: Kicking the ball into the bunker was an unreasonable action and therefore, Jim is correct. See Rule 9.4b/5,Exception 4 in the Official Guide to the Rules of Golf effective January 2019.

Golf clinics continue Saturday morning, 10:30 a.m. to noon. I continue to work on individual concerns. Remember, the swing’s the thing and continuous improvement is what it’s all about.

Solutions on page 36

42. One of means 43. Fencing swords 47. Inches per minute (abbr.)

49. Turn upside down 50. S. African semi desert 52. Dutch names of Ypres 53. Instruct

55. Oily freshwater fish 56. Italian river 57. Sneaker giant 58. The men who man a ship 59. Some need glasses 61. Body part 65. Indicates position

SUDOKU

Solutions on page 36

Each block is divided by its own matrix of nine cells. The rule for solving Sudoku puzzles are very simple. Each row, column and block, must contain one of the numbers from “1” to “9”. No number may appear more than once in any row, column, or block. When you’ve filled the entire grid the puzzle is solved.

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COLUMNS • 31

A story worth telling Many years ago, not long after my wife and I were first married, we made the decision to move to Colorado. My wife was convinced that we needed to experience someplace new before truly settling down so we packed up our belongings and drove across the country with no jobs and no place to live.

Ultimately, it was an ill-fated idea since we found the city of Denver too urban and too far from home for our tastes. However, one small decision while we were there could have completely altered the course of our lives.

While we were trying to The Movie find our place in Denver, I went to work at a Boulder Diary newspaper in the graphic

By Dom Cioffi design department. One day I was asked to design an ad for Platt College, a nearby school that was looking to entice new students. I had already graduated college and had plenty of debt so I wasn’t looking to go back, but something in this ad caught my eye.

Platt College was looking to head in a new direction so they were developing a curriculum for students interested in a degree in 3-D design and modeling. The idea was to become a feeder school for ad agencies and studios like Disney who they believed would need 3-D artists to fulfill future positions.

I was already a graphic artist by trade and intensely interested in what was being developed in the world of 3-D design. Computers had just become powerful enough to render realistic settings so several animated film shorts were being released that highlighted what was possible. Those in the know understood that it would only be a matter of time before this medium made a massive impact on the world of films and popular media.

I went home and told my wife what I had seen and how I was curious what it was all about. She knew I was intrigued with this industry so she suggested I visit Platt College to get more info (remember, this was the early ’90s so going online to check things out wasn’t an option yet).

I made a phone call soon after and set up a time to talk to an admissions counselor. I wasn’t seriously thinking about attending the program, but I was interested enough to want to find out what they were up to.

A week or so later I drove to the campus and met a middle-aged woman who sat me down and proceeded to outline my future. She told me that 3-D animation was going to be huge and there would simply not be enough people to fill the jobs needed. She also told me that the salary for someone skilled in this arena would be astronomical.

She virtually guaranteed that if I completed their program I would be scooped up by a major studio because they were all in the process of developing departments dedicated to this craft.

By the time I was done talking to her, I was convinced that everything in my life had led up to that moment and that if I followed through with their program, I would not only be rich, but also spend the rest of my life doing something I truly loved.

I went back and told my wife the good news. She was supportive, but concerned. By that point, she was over Colorado and desperate to get back East. If I entered this program, we would be making the decision to remain in Colorado for a couple more years and then likely head to California where these studio jobs

would be manifesting.

She returned to Platt College with me and together we reviewed all the financial requirements necessary to enter the program. It would be a stretch, but we could theoretically pull it off. I remember the woman at the college pressuring me to commit during that

TOY STORY 4 meeting, but I said I needed to think about it more.

I went home that night and did some epic soul searching before finally concluding that I simply couldn’t put us in further debt or see my wife forced into an environment she wasn’t happy with. I opted to turn my back on the program and that dream. Within a few weeks we were driving back to Vermont.

I have never regretted the decision, but I often wonder if the timing would have been perfect for me to become a player in the world of animated films. Ironically, everything the woman at Platt College told me turned out to be true so I’m certain there are graduates from their program working at Pixar today.

And that means, had I stayed, I quite possibly could have been one of the artists working on the Toy Story franchise, arguably one of the most consistent and creative franchises in film history.

“Toy Story 4” is yet another beautifully animated film ripe with interesting and humorous characters.

But what truly sets this film apart is the absolutely mesmerizing scenery that is the backdrop to most of the action.

Whether you’re 10 years old or 110 years old, there’s no doubt you’ll think this is a great film. Put it on your must-see list ASAP. A playful “A-” for “Toy Story 4.”

Got a question or comment for Dom? You can email him at moviediary@att.net.

Mother of the Skye:

continued from page 28 and Father Sky and the balance between the male and the female. Saturn is sitting smack dab on the South node in Capricorn; Pluto is there too. Positioned on the point that symbolizes the weight of the past, and the power of the patriarchy, the two planets are screaming at us to embrace a totally new way of being, one which brings the male polarity into harmony with the female polarity.

With Mars, Mercury, Niobe, and Nemesis on the North node, opposing Saturn and Pluto on the South node, it’s clear that this transition will be fraught with tension, fanaticism, control issues and insurmountable difficulties. The asteroid Atlantis squares this collection of opposing forces from the 22nd degree of Aries. This implies that these conditions hark back to the Atlantean cataclysm, and whether we redeem ourselves or not depends entirely upon whether the heart of humanity is conscious enough to transcend the patterns of the past.

All of the above could be translated in a number of different ways. Whenever it feels like I am too subjective to read things accurately, I use the Sabian Symbols to help me beam in on how things will pan out. This time I decided to use Atlantis, and the Sabian Symbol of the Solstice Moon for my astrological litmus test. Atlantis is the root point for everything that’s going on right now. The Sabian Symbol for Atlantis at the 22nd degree of Aries is called “The gate to the garden of fulfilled desires: Abundance made possible by human togetherness and cooperation.”

The moon is the weathervane that reads the pulse of the moment in any question, or situation. It happened to be at the 20th degree of Aquarius on the Summer Solstice.

The Sabian Symbol for that degree of the zodiac is called “A large white dove bearing a message:The answer of spiritual agencies to thorough, sustained, and victorious individual efforts.” The imagery gives us plenty of room to look on the bright side. What will play out over the next few months will meet a tipping point at the Fall Equinox of 2019. By that time we will face a new set of conditions and what got set in motion at the Midsummer Cross Quarter will continue to unravel from January 2020, right through until November 2020. In other words, it will take that long for us to know for sure where we are heading.

Nothing is written in stone: Astrology is a mixture of fate and free will. At this point what needs to be kept in mind is that our personal choices, along with the ability to face our demons and walk our talk through “sustained and victorious individual efforts,” hold the key that will open “the gate to the garden of all fulfilled desires.” Let me leave you with that, beg you to recognize what is sacred in your lives, and invite you to take what you can from this week’s ‘scopes.

Please call or check us out online for this week’s movie offerings.

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32 • PET PERSONALS

The Mountain Times • June 26-July 2, 2019

Rutland County Humane Society

JENNY Jenny is a calm, sweet and lovable girl! She is 8 years young and enjoys pets, being held and of course lots of treats! Jenny gives sweet kisses and will be a delight for some lucky person for many years to come.

If you would like to be her lucky new owner stop by Wednesday through Saturday from 12-4:30 p.m. or call 802-885-3997 .

CLAUDETTE - 14-year-old.

Spayed female. Domestic short hair. I am a bit demanding and vocal when I want attention but deep down inside, I just want to be held and loved on.

SADIE - 5-month-old. female. Lab mix. I am as cute as can be! I’m sweet and fun and I have lots of energy!

BEAR - 7-year-old. Neutered male. Domestic long hair. Black. I will sit on your lap and knead myself into a comfortable position.

LOLA - 3-year-old. Spayed female. Chihuahua mix.

I’m an active, on the go gal who will get you off the couch and onto the trails this spring!

This pet is available for adoption at

Springfield Humane Society 401 Skitchewaug Trail, Springfield, VT• (802) 885-3997 Wed. - Sat. 12-4p.m. Closed Sun. Mon. Tues •spfldhumane.org

SCOUT - 5-month-old. male. Cattle Dog mix. I love to run and play and dig holes and do all of those fun puppy things!

LILITH Hi! My name’s Lilith and I’m a 2-year-old spayed female that came to Lucy Mackenzie as a stray. I live with my kitty-friends here at the shelter and can often be found playing with them. When you come in to look for me, if I’m not wrestling with one of my kittyfriends (all in a very good way!) be sure to look up on the catwalk and you’ll probably see me peering down at you. If you have room in your home and heart for a sweet, deserving cat (and maybe her besties!), stop in and meet me today! I hope to see you soon!

This pet is available for adoption at

Lucy Mackenzie Humane Society 4832 VT-44, Windsor, VT • (802) 484-5829 Tues. - Sat. 12-4p.m. Closed Sun. & Mon. • lucymac.org

ELSA 12-year-old.

Spayed female. Domestic short hair. Black. It will be best if I can find a nice quiet home where I could get spoiled!

BURNS 10-year-old. Neutered male. Irish Wolfhound mix. I’m a big fella so I’ll need lots of room to relax and spread out. Give an old, big fella a chance to spend my golden years with you!

ROCKY - 5-year-old. Neutered male. Domestic short hair. Brown and white tiger.

I am quite shy but I warm up nicely, especially if you give me a neck massage!

ZEVA - 8-year-old. Spayed female. Domestic short hair. Tortoiseshell. I dream of an abundance of cat treats, snuggles and a soft bed.

All of these pets are available for adoption at

Rutland County Humane Society 765 Stevens Road, Pittsford, VT • (802) 483-6700 Tues. - Sat. 12-5p.m. Closed Sun. & Mon. • www.rchsvt.org

HENNESSY - 3-year-old.

Spayed female. Domestic short hair. Dilute torbie. I love playing with toys and having my ears scratched.

CERI - 7-year-old. Spayed female. Domestic short hair. Dilute tortoiseshell. I am a lovely looking lady with my pastel colors and I know you won’t be able to take your eyes off of me.

BEAR - 6-month-old. male.

Hound mix. I am as cute as can be! I’m sweet and fun and I have lots of energy!

PRESTON - 4-year-old.

Neutered male. Domestic short hair. Black and white.

I am an observant fella and I like to relax and see what is going on.

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Great acoustics, singers will make for unforgettable evening of song in Pittsfield Friday, June 28, 7 p.m.—PITTSFIELD—Bethel Youth Singers, hailing from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will grace the Pittsfield Federated Church with the a cappella singing program, “Behold Our God,” on Friday, June 28 at 7 p.m.

Pittsfield is one stop on the group’s five-location, week-long tour of the Northeast.

Known for its amazing acoustics, the Federated Church is sought out as a concert location by many church and youth singing groups. Come join the community for a pitch-perfect concert not to be missed. Said organizer Bruce Shaw of the youth singers, “They are amazing.”

The church is located at 3885 Route 100, Pittsfield. Donation is by free will, with all of the proceeds donated to defray travel costs of the singers.

For more information about the Bethel Youth Singers, call 717-286-8356.

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Mixing it up: How to avoid the fitness plateau continued from page 30 be sore. Think of that as your “workout sunburn.”

Once our body recovers and feels better, we work out again. This time we don’t feel quite as sore.

Then after a few weeks or months, we don’t feel sore from that workout anymore. Just as your body will adapt to the stress of extended sun exposure, your body will eventually adapt to your workout. This is when people say they have hit a plateau.

While it sounds cliché, “hitting a plateau” can absolutely happen.

If you stay with the same workout month after month, you will eventually reach a point where your body will not change anymore.

That could be in the form of stalled weight loss or muscle gain.

But how do we avoid the dreaded plateau? We need to change our routine.

Shaking things up Luckily for everyone, changing things up doesn’t mean just working out longer. In many cases, that may actually put you further from your goals.

A better course of action is to change your workouts. If you are used to an hour on the elliptical three times per week, why not try a new piece of cardio equipment?

If you enjoy moving heavy objects but have been stuck in the “three sets of eight” world, why not try a 5x5 workout?

Here are a few other suggestions: • Add a yoga or mobility class.

• Change the time of day you exercise.

• Move from low-intensity steady state cardio to HIIT cardio.

• Increase resistance or incline on a bike or treadmill.

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Try a new class, or a class you haven’t been to in a while.

• Consult with a certified trainer.

Your challenge This week, I challenge you to change your routine. Step outside your comfort zone. Even if you don’t feel like you’re stuck, having a change of pace can be good.

We love to repeat things that we’re good at. I challenge you to try something that you know you are not good at. Take a step outside

your comfort zone.

In all honesty, you probably won’t enjoy it at first. But forcing yourself into a new routine can help you break through to a new level of fitness or weight loss.

If you have any questions about how to best shake up your workouts our exercise routines feel free to email me at kyle@studiofitnessvt.com. I’ll be happy to help in any way I can.

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Chinese Gourmet hits winning streak

By Dave Hoffenberg The hottest team in the league is not even in first place, but they’re close.

The Chinese Gourmet turned a three-game losing streak into a three-game winning streak.

Chinese Gourmet took on First Chair First Stop Moshers Base Camp, hoping to even the series after an earlier 7-6 loss. They didn’t start good, going down 1-2-3. First Chair hit the board first, picking up two runs after Mike “Bouff” Bouffard drove in Tyler Mello with a triple and scored on an overthrow. Chinese Gourmet then tied it but saw Jimmy Mee end the inning with a “Cold Milk K”. First Chair regained the lead 3-2 after Sam “Ladies Honey” Budusky scored. Chinese Gourmet scored four in the third, with three coming with two outs. Nothing doing until the sixth when Max Rowe scored to bring First Chair within two, 6-4. In that three inning drought, Bouff suffered a “Cold Beer K.” Chinese Gour dmet went back up three after John Gatto scored in the seventh. That would be your final, a 7-4 Chinese Gourmet win since First Chair could only manage one single at the end.

McGrath’s Sushi and Karrtel were involved in the highest scoring game this season with the least amount of players. McGrath’s had nine players which is bad enough but Karrtel only had eight. McGrath’s welcomed back Owen Murphy, fresh off the little league circuit and he put them on the board first 1-0. Unfortunately their pitcher Jeremy Prior could not find the plate, walking three, which led to a 4-1 Karrtel lead. Prior shrugged that off, hit a single and eventually scored to cut the deficit to two. The Karrtel batted through their short order again, scoring two to stretch their lead 6-2. They had a chance for more with the bases loaded but Forrest Baker flew out to end the inning. McGrath’s scored two in the third with two outs and then shut Karrtel down for a 6-4 deficit. McGrath’s kept manufacturing runs with two outs. This time scoring four of their five run fourth to regain the lead, 9-6. This was a see-saw affair and the Karrtel took the lead back, 10-9 in the bottom. Matty Thayer scored another with a nice looking sac and then two walks by Prior hurt McGrath’s because Nick Davis cleared the bases with a big homer.

Murphy tied it in the fifth 10-10. McGrath’s does their best damage with two outs and this time it was three runs in the sixth. One of those outs was a “CBK” by Coach Jamie Rameau. The Karrtel was a base hitting machine in their sixth with six singles leading to seven runs and a 17-13 lead. McGrath’s flipped the script in the seventh, scoring six runs with no outs and then five with one out. It’s mind boggling how bad the Karrtel collapsed. McGrath’s hit through their order twice with every player getting at least one hit and half their players scoring twice. This Karrtel debacle led to a record 13 run seventh for a 26-17 McGrath’s lead. The wind was out of the sails for the Karrtel who only managed three runs and a Luke Carey “CBK” to suffer the 26-20 loss.

First Chair rebounded in their next game but that put the Karrtel on a two game losing streak. Johnny Sharpe started the scoring in the first and Bouff started the “CBK’s.” The Karrtel started strong with a lead-off double

by Colin “Dizz” Clark which he scored on from an overthrow to tie it 1-1. Mike Smith gave the Karrtel a second inning lead, 2-1 and then Chris Major tied it in the third, 2-2. It was a four run fourth for First Chair with two coming off an Evan Anderson dinger. The Karrtel got two of those back in the bottom but that was it for their scoring.

They did add a “CBK” by Evan “The Other” Anderson but First Chair added three in the last two innings for a 7-4 victory.

McGrath’s Sushi and the Clear renewed their long time rivalry. Brett “Mr. Pink” Regimbald started the Clear’s scoring with a two run blast. McGrath’s got those back and two more in the bottom to take a 4-2 lead.

Brando Remick scored and the Clear had a chance for more but EzFro Lemieux turned an inning ending double play on Hunter Pike. Tucker Zink tied it in the

third on a two out homer but DJ Dave suffered a “CBK”.

Pike turned a double play of his own to keep the score the same. Judd Washburn broke the tie with a big bomb to right and then Lemieux turned another inning ending double play. McGrath’s did nothing the next two innings except see Ira Zane dive for a web gem catch and E.J. Cully suffer a “CBK.” The Clear had a colorful sixth after Josh “Purple Guy” Souza and Mr. Pink scored but Zane ended the inning with a “CBK”. McGrath’s struck again with two outs after Ronzoni Hacker gave up a two run homer to Big Josh Tarleton to cut the deficit to one, 7-6. Zane scored in the seventh but Taylor Zink suffered a “CBK” and Ronzoni hit into an inning ending double play. Down two with one out, McGrath’s put runners on the corners but you live by the sword and you die by the sword. It was the latter for McGrath’s as they ended the game with Zane, Pike and Jackie Blue Livesey contributing on a double play.

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JOB OPENING DIRECTOR OF PARKS & RECREATION/ KES AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM The Town of Killington is seeking to fill the position of Director of Parks & Recreation/KES Afterschool Program. The Recreation Director Portion is responsible for organizing and promoting yearround recreation activities for town residents, second homeowners, and visitors of all ages; is responsible for the administration, management and maintenance of the Recreation Center, pool, fields, parks, hiking/biking trails and other recreation facilities within the community; and works closely with the Parks & Recreation Commission to establish philosophy, policies and long range planning for the Department. The Afterschool Director portion is responsible for developing the after-school program activities; assuring the safety and accountability of students; monitoring and management of daily operations of the afterschool program, registration and assignment of students; managing site budget and purchase materials needed for program; communication; discipline; and other duties assigned by the principal.

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Pollarding trees: Pruning created distinct shapes continued from page 29 every square inch of land has a purpose and appears “kept” whether growing forests, grapes, or crop. Second, every community tree it seems has had a haircut. The term “poll” was originally a word for the top of the head and “to poll” meant to crop the hair. Since medieval times to the present it is a common practice throughout Europe to pollard trees, giving them a much different appearance than is common here.

The practice of leaving a trunk and four or five large branch stubs while periodically removing the rest of the crown is steeped in history and created out of necessity.

The population got used to this distinctive shape when it became necessary to periodically remove tree crowns as fuelwood for heat and cooking and/or fodder for domestic animals. It was applied later to keep trees small within walled cities. Depending on the intent pollarding was done every eight to15 years for fuelwood; two to six years for fodder; and today every year or two to

keep the crown small enough to occupy a limited space and large enough to keep the tree alive.

To be eligible a tree has to have the capacity to grow new leaves out of a cut off branch and create a dense mass of crown on a regular basis. Traditional trees used and still used in France are the oaks, beech, plane trees (sycamores), limes (basswoods), Norway maple and horse chestnuts.

Our streets often have the same species growing on them but our population encountered virgin forests of large, straight, tall trees which, as our nation expanded, did not require treetops for firewood or animal fodder on any grand scale. This gave us a different view of what a tree should look like. While the need is long gone for fodder and fuelwood the practice of pollarding continues to reinforce the European view of what their community trees are expected to look like. Beauty, shape, form, and function seem to be in the eye of the beholder.

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Charity ride raises over $265K So far, this year’s Vermont Adaptive Charity Ride on June 22 raised about $265,000 to support Vermont Adaptive’s programs and expensive adaptive equipment.

Vermont Adaptive has hit 89 percent of its $300,000 fundraising goal.

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Cutting summer energy costs? Here’s how Summer officially began June 21. With warmer days on the horizon Efficiency Vermont offers tips to stay cool while spending less on energy: Block the heat. Caulk around window and exterior door frames and use weather stripping on exterior doors. When it’s hotter outside than inside, close your windows and draw window coverings against direct sunlight.

Is the house hotter than the outdoors?

Open your windows and use a window fan – blowing out. That will push out hot air and pull in cool air through other, nearby open windows.

Control moisture. Use your bath fan to remove shower heat and moisture.

Don’t have a bath fan? Install a quiet, lowenergy bath fan with the ENERGY STAR® label. Be sure to duct it to the outdoors to avoid creating moisture and mold problems. And if your kitchen fan exhausts to the outdoors, use it while cooking or baking.

Adjust your schedule. When possible, use cooler evening hours for tasks that produce heat and/or moisture, like dishwashing, baking, laundry, shower and baths.

Make your lights cool and smart.

Ninety percent of an incandescent light bulb’s energy is lost as heat. Replace those hot bulbs with ENERGY STAR labeled LEDs, which stay cooler and use about 80 percent less energy. With “smart” lighting, turn off lights remotely, set automated timers, and make it look like you’re home when you’re not – great for peace of mind during your summer vacation.

Dry clothes for free. Hang laundry outside to dry. You’ll save the cost of running the clothes dryer while reducing moisture in the house.

Using A/C? Keep heat out by seeing that there are no gaps along the sides of your window air conditioner or between

window sashes. Clean your air conditioner filters regularly and keep the front and back of air conditioners unobstructed. · Buying an air conditioner? Check out Efficiency Vermont’s new $200 rebate for innovative ENERGY STAR Emerging Technology Award window units.

Efficient Variable Output technology varies the speed of the internal compressor motor to continuously control the temperature, which means regulating the temperature more quietly and saving energy.

Time for a heat pump? A ductless heat pump unit is a tremendous energy saver for both cooling and heating. Numerous incentives are available right now – up to $500 point-of-purchase discounts from Efficiency Vermont plus additional $250$575 incentives from various partners.

Button up your home. An insulated, air-sealed house stays warmer in winter AND cooler in summer. Rebates and financing are available, whether you’re a do-it-yourselfer or hiring an Efficiency Excellence Network contractor to do a whole-house assessment and make improvements.

Considering efficient windows?

Beware that the purchase price is rarely paid back by energy savings. This investment usually makes the most sense when you’re replacing a non-functional window or if you’re putting a window in a space for the first time. You can make your windows perform nearly as well as new ones but at a fraction of the cost.

Replace cracked panes and glazing, run a bead of caulk around window frames, and use easily installed Low-E storm windows.

Contact Efficiency Vermont’s Customer Support team with any questions about your energy use and to get tips to help you take control of your energy bills.

Call 888-921-5990 or send an email to info@efficiencyvermont.com.

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