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A simple RFP becomes an uproar Selectboard decision on ash tree removal sparks controversy

Chea Waters Evans What started as a routine request for proposals to remove some ash trees along Lake Road has become a controversy surrounding the Charlotte Selectboard.

After receiving five bids to remove trees in anticipation of infestation by the emerald ash borer insect, the Selectboard voted at its April 22 meeting to award the contract to Chris’s Lawn Care and Mini Excavating. A few days later, Greg Ranallo of Teachers Tree Service, who also responded to the RFP, posted on the Front Porch Forum email list a post titled “Town RFPs: Fairness or Favoritism,” alleging that the Selectboard made a biased decision.

In his post, Ranallo pointed out that his bid was lower than Chris’s Lawn Care’s, that his time frame was half that of the winning bid and that his company has extensive, specific tree-related experience, while Chris’s Lawn Care does mainly landscape work. He wrote, “I feel all contracts should now be scrutinized for favoritism. And if a higher bid is accepted over a lower bid a clear explanation should be given. There currently is no such explanation in the minutes.” In his post, Ranallo included a link to the meeting on the VCAM web site.

The meeting Town Administrator Dean Bloch presented the RFP agenda item at the April 22 meeting,

noting that the bids from Teachers and Chris’s Lawn Care were within $25 of each other, and that in its bid Chris’s Lawn Care specified that the removal of smaller, unmarked trees was included in the price. Bloch indicated that he checked with Teachers to make sure that those trees were also included in their bid; Ranallo said they were. Before any discussion of the matter, however, Selectboard member Carrie Spear made a motion to award the contract to Chris’s Lawn Care, and Frank Tenney seconded the motion.

Charlotte Tree Warden Mark Dillenback said he was happy that two bids proposed covered the entire stretch of road and that he was pleased and surprised that both local companies were interested in the project.

“I’m familiar with their work, and they’re an outstanding company, so I think either way it’s going to be okay and good, and I concur with VJ’s assessment toward Teachers because they’re tree specialists and can get the job done quicker,” he said. Dillenback was referring to VJ Comai, a Charlotter who is the City Arborist in Burlington.

During the discussion, Spear said she thought Chris’s Lawn Care would “do just as good a job as any [tree company], if not better.” Selectboard Chair Matt Krasnow said that due to their expertise and the shorter time frame indicated in the bid, he was inclined to choose Teachers. No other Selectboard member indicated a preference during the

remaining short discussion, but when it came to a vote, members Louise McCarren, Frank Tenney, who didn’t participate in the discussion at all, and Spear all voted in favor of Chris’s Lawn Care. Krasnow voted against choosing Chris’s, and Tegatz said he would “abstain or recuse” himself because one of the involved parties was currently doing tree work for him personally. The vote ended up being 3-1-1 in favor of Chris’s Lawn Care.

None of the Selectboard members who voted in favor of Chris’s over Teachers responded to questions regarding why they chose the more expensive bid that proposed a longer work time. The Charlotte News made repeated attempts over several days to contact Tenney about his decision; he did not respond to phone calls or emails. Spear said she would decline to comment until after an upcoming special Selectboard session regarding the RFP, which at press time was scheduled for Wednesday, May 1 at 6 p.m.

In defense of his decision to abstain or recuse himself from the vote—it was not made clear during the meeting which of those options he was exercising—Tegatz referred to the town policy on purchasing and conflict of interest in an email and did not respond to further questions on the matter. The town policy states that a conflict of interest would arise should a Selectboard member stand to benefit financially from a decision and that potential conflicts of interest should be

discussed among board members to ascertain whether a member should recuse himself.

This did not happen at the April 22 meeting; there was no indication that Tegatz would benefit financially from either Teachers or Chris’s being chosen for the job.

McCarren also declined to comment on the reasons for her decision, writing in an email, “Matt speaks for me,” referring to Krasnow and his position as the board’s chair.

In response to a query about McCarren’s vote for Chris’s Lawn Care, Krasnow said, “I can only speak for my decisions. I can’t speak for anyone else’s decisions.”

The aftermath After Ranallo’s post on Front Porch Forum, responses immediately flooded both his personal email and the message board.

Ranallo said that he has received “100 percent support” from people who contacted him, and the posts from Charlotte residents on FPF indicate the same. “A shameful demonstration that the good-old-boy club is alive and well in Charlotte. Good to know,” wrote James Barker. Charlie Proutt of Distinctive Landscapes and Horsford Nursery wrote, “I trust Matt and the Selectboard will rescind the vote last meeting and honor the lowest responsible bid. We can’t be a town that is unprofessional toward our contractors. We see TREE REMOVAL page 21

Spring is here, and so are the speeding complaints Police and Selectboard work to address concerns about fast cars

Chea Waters Evans Buds sprout on trees, and Charlotters complain about speeding in town. The leaves fall, and Charlotters gripe about speeding on the back roads. Snowflakes drift gently to the ground, and Charlotters are concerned about speeding to the ferry.

School lets out, and people complain about speeding on Spear Street.

As predictable and uncontrollable as the change of seasons, so are the worries of townspeople without a police department.

A recent spate of requests for lower speed limits and an increased police presence begs the questions: What is there to be done, will it be effective, and how does this all work in the first place?

The town of Charlotte contracts with the state police for 32 hours a month of guaranteed patrolling, which breaks down to around eight hours a week, which varies somewhat depending on the season and staffing at the Vermont State Police barracks in Williston. This costs the town $30,000.

Vermont State Police Lieutenant Bob Lucas communicates regularly with the Selectboard about the police work in town, as does Charlotter and VSP Sergeant Matt Daley. Lucas said that he and Daley hear from residents regularly, often with a phone call or email, and sometimes even at the grocery store or around town. They both said they welcome input from the public.

Lucas said input from citizens, as well as data analysis of the records they keep regarding police activity, helps them “adjust accordingly. It gives us that flexibility to go ahead and be creative about how to do enforcement,” he said. “In that sense, it’s a very responsive system.”

While the police do listen to citizen input—Lucas said they will even look up specific license plate information if it’s provided—they are limited in the service they can offer Charlotte. Selectboard Chair Matt Krasnow said, “When we first talked with the state police about having a contract, they were very clear that their policy is that towns are really not in a position to dictate how state police should do policing.” VSP trooper activity is limited, Daley said, not only by the season but also by how many people are currently on staff.

Photo courtsey VT State Police Daley said they make an effort to meet Charlotte’s needs as best they can. “We try to time it well,” he said, “But we can’t mandate when they do the hours.” He said he regularly puts out a call to troopers in New Haven and Williston, and if those officers want to pick up more hours, he will send them to Charlotte.

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Daley and Lucas both indicated that they pay attention to input from residents as far as speeding is concerned, and Krasnow said he finds the police to be quite responsive to particular needs. Popular areas for citizen complaints include Ferry Road, Mt. Philo Road, Spear Street, the village and the double-lane corridor on Route 7 north of the Ferry Road intersection.

At the most recent Selectboard meeting, several Charlotte residents attended to make known their desire to lower the speed limit on Ferry Road from 50 to 35. Daley said that though safe speed is a priority, he doesn’t anticipate that happening. “I don’t think we’ll change it,” he said, noting that the process to lower the speed limit is a lot more complicated than just ordering and posting new signs. He said that, in order to lower a speed limit, traffic studies must see SPEEDING page 11

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Commentary Learning Cursive Susan Ohanian Eons ago, we learned Cursive in 1st grade. My teacher, who was an ancient disciplinarian, asked me to stay in at recess and teach Richard how to make a capital I while she went out with the other kids.

Dutifully, I showed Richard how to make an I, and he then picked up chalk and filled every board in the room.

I never understood why Mme. Battleaxe was so upset when she returned and saw that Richard’s I’s put the bottom swirl to the right, not the left. I knew it was an I, she knew it was an I. What was the big deal? Years later, when I transferred from teaching 7th grade to 3rd, my Horror was where kids learned Cursive. Spell that Curse–ive.

Susan is a former teacher who maintains a deep interest and strong links to her educational experiences. New York Times Reporter Emily Rueb said in her column on April 13 that, while due to Common Core standards “cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated.”

More on rear-view mirrors Hans Ohanian

I continue to be puzzled by the

Selectboard’s resistance to the adoption of a bicycle rear-view mirror ordinance.

This inaction is in sharp contrast to the unhesitating immediate approval at the April 22 Selectboard meeting of a permit for yet another bike race on our roads. I find it passing strange that a race (with a potential of mayhem) gets rubberstamped for approval, whereas a rear-view mirror ordinance (with a potential of avoiding mayhem) is set aside for dithering ‘til the cows come home.

Am I experiencing some weird Alicein-Wonderland dream, in which the Selectboard follows the rules of logic of the Queen of Hearts?

An acquaintance offered me an explanation of the Selectboard’s failure to act. He told me that the Selectboard is adamant about not creating a police force of its own and wants to make do with the 8 ½ hours of enforcement per week contracted with the State Police.

Enforcement of additional ordinances doesn’t fit into this framework. But I think that this enforcement issue is a red herring.

Charlotte has many ordinances that operate

by voluntary compliance, without any police enforcement. For instance, the ordinances posted at our Park and Wildlife Refuge (no motorized vehicles, no bicycles, no alcohol, no pets, no hunting, no firearms) are not enforced by the police but by the occasional intervention of good citizens who politely admonish a violator to cease and desist.

Likewise, when we see a violator of a mirror ordinance, we don’t need to call 911. All that’s needed is a little comment: “Don’t you know that Charlotte has a rear-view mirror ordinance?

At the April 27 UVM bike race I talked to several bikers and asked why they don’t have rear-view mirrors. This produced muddled answers: “It’s something racers don’t do… style…weight…I’m always going too fast for anything to be coming up on me from behind…it’s a macho kind of thing.” With some embarrassment, two bikers admitted they once had mirrors on their racing bikes and still have them on their touring bikes. But nobody challenged the assumption implicit in my question, namely that mirrors contribute to safety.

A supply of rear-view mirrors has now arrived at the Charlotte Library. Go and get one. They will be given away free of charge, in honor of our would-be-great President Trump, a man who is in dire need of a tiny little smidgen of honor from somewhere.

Protect a cyclist: Do the Dutch Reach Vince Crockenberg CYCLIST

This was originally published last May. With the opening of cycling season in Vermont—and the increasing numbers of cyclists on Charlotte’s roads—it seems timely to remind drivers and passengers of the dangers they pose to cyclists in opening the doors of their parked cars.

If a driver of a parallel-parked car suddenly opens the driver-side door just as a cyclist is passing alongside, the cyclist either has to suddenly veer into the traffic lane— and perhaps into the path of an oncoming car—or get “doored.” Either option can result in injury or even death to the cyclist, as well as injury to the passengers in the car or damage to the car itself. Enter the Dutch Reach.

Here’s how to do the Reach: When opening the driver’s side doors (from either

the front or back seat) reach across your body with your right hand. This requires you to swivel your upper body toward the door. In doing so you can easily look into your rear-view mirror and then over your shoulder to check oncoming bicycle and car traffic to ensure that it’s safe to open the

door. At the same time you can use your left hand to hold the larger cushioned handle below the window to prevent the wind from suddenly blowing the door open.

In 2017 the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles added a section to its driver’s manual describing the benefits of the Dutch Reach. It also produced a oneminute video showing drivers how to do the maneuver; you can check it out at https:// youtu.be/8A-9RGDFGDE. And in the Netherlands, where the Reach was invented, it is taught in school and is a required part of the driving test.

A tip: The habit of using our left hands to open the driver’s side door is so ingrained in all of us that it is helpful to add some kind of reminder to do the Reach when opening the door. One trick advocated by the Dutch Reach Project (dutchreach.org) is to tie a brightly colored ribbon to the door handle as a reminder to reach for the handle with the far hand.

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Report from the Legislature

Edd Merritt

Congratulations

to Charlotte teenagers Rose Lord and Annika Gruber whose poems appeared in the Burlington Free Press’ Young Writers Projects of April 19 and 26. Rose answered the challenge of writing about the awakening of spring with a poem called “A day in the life of a drop.” The poet’s voice is a water molecule that has been frozen all winter as a snowflake on a tree leaf, waiting to drop, believing it will join the nearby river. But something else happens as it ascends and through condensation joins thousands of its friends to become clouds. Each molecule has its own story to tell. “We aren’t a cloud, we are a community.” But tomorrow will join together as light spring rain.

Annika’s poem is titled “Stay” and is in response to the challenge of general writing.

Her protagonist asks readers to remain a fire, don’t be extinguished too fast. “Don’t be fueled by the world that you live in today— for tomorrow could be a new beginning, just waiting for you to lead the way.” So, stay.

The reader may find, as I did, the connection between morbidity and optimism to be an interesting one and one that does not lean in a single direction through Annika’s verse. It does, however, require readers to choose the tilt of their beliefs around some of the topics she addresses. to the following Charlotte residents and businesses who won landscape awards from the Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association for their accomplishments

in 2018-2019: Miles Weston, Christian D’Andrea, Charlie and Elizabeth Proutt of Distinctive Landscaping. Charlie won an Excellence Award; the others won Merit Awards. Kristin Sprenkle of Horsford’s Nursery won a Young Nursery Professional of the Year Award. to Somer McKillop, a sophomore in UVM’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences who earned the “Rookie of the Year in Athletic Training Award,” given to a student in the first year of clinical experience who has shown exceptional potential as a dedicated and responsible future professional. Somer is the son of Carrie Fenn of Charlotte.

Sympathy

is extended to family and friends of David O. Wade of Phillipston, Mass., who passed away April 16 at the age of 90. David held a number of academic positions over the course of his work, among them science department chair at CVU. His surviving family includes his son Chris and Chris’s wife, Ginny, of Charlotte. is extended to family and friends of Robert F. McGill, a former resident of Charlotte who died in Washington, D.C. on April 12 at the age of 77. With an advanced degree in journalism, he worked in publishing and television, including as part of the team that brought Sesame Street and the muppets to the air. He served as president of the New England cable TV franchise and loved to sail Lake Champlain.

Selectboard approves library addition, ambulance bond applications and more Juliann Phelps The Monday, April 22, Selectboard meeting continued to follow the approach adopted by the board to address financially related items first before dealing with what Chair Matt Krasnow described as “meatier subjects.”

Financial agenda items included approving the library and ambulance bond applications as amended, opening bids for playground reconstruction, approving a grant application for an EV charging station and selecting a contractor in the removal of ash trees.

Town Assistant Treasurer Christina Booher answered questions from the board about the bond applications in Town Treasurer Mary Mead’s absence. Krasnow explained he wanted to move forward with the bond applications by the May 6 submission deadline, saying, “In the interim we will get hard numbers … so that we’d have a better sense of the total cost of the project would be.” Later in the meeting Krasnow briefed the board on the progress made on the memorandum of understanding between the library and town. The committee tasked with drafting the MOU consists of two staff members from the library, one member from the library board and Selectboard members Krasnow and Louise McCarren.

A grant application for an electric vehicle (EV) charging station at Library with a 10 percent town match was approved after discussion about the

estimated construction and ongoing maintenance costs and the designation of EV parking spot. Energy Committee members spoke about the application, citing the Planning Commission’s support and its relationship to proposed updates to the town plan. During the discussion Selectboard Vice Chair Frank Tenney asked whether the designated EV parking slots were exclusively for electric vehicles or whether they could be used by non-EV vehicles as well. The collective response from the library and Energy Committee was that additional logistics would need to be determined.

The board approved Chris’s Lawn Care and Mini Excavating as the contractor to remove hazard ash trees on Lake Road, beginning “as soon as possible,” and approved closing Lake Road from Thompson’s Point Road to Centennial Lane with a 24-hour notice given to local fire and police.

The focus of the public comment part of the meeting was on speeding and road safety. Megan Price of Ferry Road again asked the board to consider lowering the speed limit on Ferry Road.

Representative Mike Yantachka spoke in support of lowering speed limits in throughout Charlotte and provided a copy of the recommendations from a previous Charlotte Community Safety committee “that are still valid today.” He also noted that state money is available for the “Complete Streets efforts” and offered his see SELECTBOARD page 11

Amending Vermont’s constitution While it is unusual for proposals to amend Vermont’s Constitution to be considered by the Legislature, several have been proposed Mike Yantachka since 2010. Five STATE REP. were introduced in the 2011-2012 biennium and six in the 2015-2016 biennium, none of which actually made it to a vote. This year six proposed amendments have been introduced, and two were passed by the Senate. Proposal 2 would amend the Constitution to prohibit slavery and indentured servitude, and Proposal 5 would guarantee personal reproductive liberty. Without going into detail on these proposals that have surmounted the first hurdle in the Senate, here is an explanation of what is required to amend our Vermont Constitution.

All amendments must originate in the Senate and can be proposed only in every other biennium, which explains the lack of proposals in 2013 and 2017.

A proposal must be adopted by both chambers during the biennium in which it is proposed, and then again in the next biennium.

The chamber vote requirements are higher in the proposing biennium than in the subsequent one. In the first biennium the Senate must approve the proposal by a 2/3 vote of all the members, i.e. 20 Senators. If approved, the proposal is sent to the House, where it is referred to the appropriate committee of jurisdiction. If the committee decides to consider the proposal, it must hold a public hearing prior to voting on it. No amendments are allowed. If it is voted out of committee, the proposal must pass in the House by a majority of all the members of the House, i.e. 76 representatives. Then within 90 days of approval by the House, the secretary of state must publish the proposal in at least two newspapers having general circulation in the state.

In the following biennium (2021-2022 for these proposals), the Senate must again approve the proposal, but only by a majority of the members this time, i.e.

16 Senators. If the Senate approves the proposal for a second time, the House committee of jurisdiction is once again required to hold a public hearing before it can vote the proposal out of committee for consideration by the whole House.

Then, at least 76 members of the House must be present to vote on the proposal.

Of those present, a simple majority is required to pass it.

If the proposal passes both chambers in both biennia, the governor provides public notice by proclamation, and the secretary of state must publish the proposal in two major newspapers once a week for three weeks. The proposal is then submitted to the voters of the state in the general election for ratification.

If a majority of the voters approve, the Constitution is amended.

Readers can view Proposals 2 and 5 and track their status by going to legislature.vermont.gov and entering “PR2” or “PR5” in the Search for Bills and Resolutions.

Tobacco 21 I’ve heard the last two weeks of the legislative session described as a logjam of bills just waiting for the dam to burst. While House committees continue to work on bills already passed by the Senate, one significant bill came a step closer to final approval. After years of attempts to raise the legal age to 21 for purchasing tobacco and related products, the House passed the Senate’s “Tobacco 21” bill (S.86) on a vote of 124 to 14.

The only change the House made to the Senate version was to move the effective date from July 1, 2019, to September 1, 2019. The Senate should quickly approve this minor change and send the bill to the governor.

I welcome your emails (myantachka. dfa@gmail.com), phone calls (802-2335238) or in-person contacts. This article and others can be found at my website, MikeYantachka.com.

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Green Up Charlotte May 4 Let’s pick up this town together!

Kim Findlay Did you know that Vermont was the first state to designate a day of the year to clean up litter along the roadsides? And on that day in 1970, participation and results far exceeded expectations. Ninety-five percent of the 2,400 miles of the interstate and state roads, and 75 percent of the 8,300 miles of town roads were cleared of garbage! Thanks to Governor Deane C. Davis and Senator George Aiken, we have a wonderful tradition that inspires Vermonters to get out and de-trash this beautiful state.

In our town, Green Up Day has had a robust turnout every year with tons (yes, tons!) of litter removed from our roadsides.

This year Green Up Day is Saturday, May 4. We will be at the Quonset hut at Charlotte Central School from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. To round out the weekend, there is a compost sale and e-waste recycling at the Quonset hut, and a group cleanup of the Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge.

This year we will be giving out green bags for trash and optional clear bags for redeemable and recyclable plastic containers. Bags will be available at several locations around town including Spear’s Corner Store, the Charlotte Library, the Little Garden market, the Old Brick Store and the Senior Center. They can also be picked up at the Quonset hut on Saturday.

You can carry just a green bag and put

everything in there, or you can carry both green and clear bags and separate trash from recyclable items. Please do not leave filled bags on the roadside—they must be returned to the Quonset hut.

Volunteers are needed! My cocoordinator Ken Spencer and I would love to have helpers at the Quonset and/or sign up for a route to clean up. Our website has all the information you need...and lots more! Visit CharlotteVTGreenUpDay.com or contact me at farafieldfarm@gmail.com with any questions or to sign up to help out.

I don’t know about you, but it warms my heart to see folks out cleaning up our town together. It says so much about how we care for this land and shows how important it is in so many ways to keep trash from piling up. Whether driving, biking or walking around town, isn’t it great to not see that junk? And to share a collective feeling of stewardship? Thank you for helping out on this special day!

49Th Annual Green Up Day In Charlotte, Vt CharlotteVTGreenUpDay.com A day of cleaning up our roadsides Bags available at Old Brick Store, Senior Center, Town Library, Spear’s Corner Store, Little Garden Market Sign up for a route on website, or call 425-2100, or email farafieldfarm@ gmavt.net.

Volunteers will be at the CCS Quonset hut to hand out bags, accept filled bags.

Green bags for trash, optional clear bags for redeemables and recyclables.

When: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 4 Where: The Quonset hut at Charlotte Central School

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E-waste Recycling, CCS Quonset Hut, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Compost Sale, 8 a.m. to noon, CCS Quonset Hut We need volunteers to staff the event!

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Brown up your Green Up Day! International Compost Awareness Week May 4-11 Come buy bulk compost at the CCS COMPOST SALE, Saturday, May 4, in the school’s west Quonset parking lot from 9 a.m. to noon.

Compost is generously donated by Steven Wisbaum of Champlain Valley Compost Co. The proceeds go to the CCS school gardens and community compost efforts.

“First come, first served” until we run out!

Every day and at events, please use:

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Please bring your 5-gallon, 20-gallon or 33-gallon cans to the school, and volunteer shovel labor will be provided. Prices are $3 per 5-gallon can, $12 per 20-gallon can and $18 per 33-gallon can.

Also drop-in short tours of the CCS Compost Shed will be available upon spontaneous request. Learn about thermophilic and backyard composting techniques.

Contact Abby Foulk afoulk@gmavt.net.

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- Borrow from Town Library or School (contact afoulk@gmavt.net)

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Free community food-scrap compost training At the Charlotte Library, 115 Ferry Road, Charlotte, on Saturday, May 11, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and followed by an optional tour of the CCS Community Compost Shed.

Community composting offers a local option for recycling food scraps and garden/yard materials, putting these valuable resources to good use and keeping them out of landfills. You can help build healthy soils, right where you live!

This training is designed to help people and communities determine the composting system that will best meet their goals for collecting and composting food scraps.

Training Overview: • The “what” and “why” of community composting • Community-driven goals • Compost system options, siting, set-up, winter preparation • Composting basics: inputs & outputs, system management • Gathering needed materials: sourcing, quality, community engagement & training • Discussion and Q&A • Hands-on exercises The training is free and open to the public. Please register at https://forms.gle/ XUm8grD7pwnsxFWPA For more information, contact Natasha Duarte, natasha@compostingvermont. org or 802-373-6499 Refreshments will be provided; please bring a brown bag lunch, water bottle and drink mug.

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Clemmons Family Farm 2019 summer series

The Clemmons Family Farm in Charlotte is kicking off its 2019 summer series of African-American and African Diaspora arts and culture community-building and creative place-making programming. The series is supported through the “A Sense of Place” project with major funding by ArtPlace America.

During the months of June and July, locals can travel to Senegal and Guinea, West Africa, without leaving Vermont!

The Clemmons Family Farm is presenting a series of five community-building engagements with West African performing artists for the community to learn, celebrate and commune around West African art and culture through traditional drumming and dance. The artists are among the winners of the Sense of Place project’s 2018 AfricanAmerican and African Diaspora Arts & Culture Community Engagement grants.

Details about the events are below.

Sabar drumming with Mame Assane Coly and Krista Speroni on Sat., June 1 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

To register: sabardrumming.eventbrite.ca.

Sabar is more than just a family of drums, it’s a music style, dance, culture and overall way of life in Senegal, West Africa. From weddings to sporting events, sabar is used in any form of celebration.

In this interactive workshop, the first 20 participants who arrive will be loaned a drum to learn basic strokes, meanings and stories connected to the Sabar drum.

Participants will learn how various accompaniments communicate within traditional rhythms to create a beautiful ensemble of interweaving roles, inspired by spirit of togetherness that is at the core of Senegalese culture. These rhythms hold within powerful and sacred spaces that can unlock the motivations and inspirations present within ourselves, regardless of ethnicity, background, culture or experience.

West African drumming with Ismael Bangoura, Sat., June 8, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., and Sat., July 13, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

To register: https://westafricanjourney. eventbrite.ca.

Master teaching artist Ismael Bangoura will engage participants with the rhythms, patterns and sequences of West African drumming. You will learn cultural songs and will be enveloped in the echo of the djembe and the doundoun right on the Clemmons Family Farm. You’ll also be connected to the music that is a part of celebrating births, death, marriage, the harvest and other rites of passage in West African culture. Nourish your mind, body and soul with these wonderful healing beats!

West African dance with Sidiki Sylla and Ismael Bangoura, Sat., June 22, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., and Sun., July 14, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. To register: https://westafricanjourney. eventbrite.ca.

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This is a participatory dance workshop that brings the movement and sounds of West Africa to the Clemmons Family Farm. In this dance workshop, participants will be transported to West Africa through dance as they learn and duplicate dance moves that are key to the culture. Dance and music are part of daily life, used to celebrate birth, death, marriage, the harvest and other rites of passage in West African culture. You are invited to join this interactive workshop that will be a challenge to the body and nourishing to the mind. This fun community event will be led by master teaching artists Sidiki Boze Sylla and Ismael Bangoura, both originally from Guinea. Participants should wear comfortable clothing for movement

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and bring their water bottles for this high energy adventure!

Admission to the events is free but a donation is greatly appreciated. To ensure the high quality of the interactions, spots are limited to a maximum of 35 people and preregistration is required through Eventbrite. For more information, please call and leave a message at (765) 560-5445 and visit the website at clemmonsfamilyfarm.org.

The A Sense of Place project seeks to improve community mental health, physical health and social well-being in six towns located near the Clemmons Family Farm through African-American and African diaspora arts and culture programming.

Black Fortunes with Shomari Wills at the Clemmons Family Farm

Brooklyn journalist Shomari Wills, a Lynton Book writing fellow of Columbia University, is bringing the stories of African-American slaves-turnedmillionaires to the Clemmons Family Farm in Charlotte on Sat., June 1, 2019, from 4 to 6 p.m. Wills collected these stories in his book Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires and will share his stories followed by a book signing in the historic Barn House. Black Fortunes is also being adapted into a TV series with producer Stephanie Allain, who worked on shows such as Dear White People.

Participants who attend the book reading and signing will have the opportunity to purchase Black Fortunes through The Flying Pig Bookstore, which will be hosting a book sale of Wills’ works at the Clemmons Family Farm. Wills is currently writing three books, including a sequel to Black

Fortunes.

Admission to the event is free, but donations are encouraged. To ensure the high quality of the interactions, spots are limited to a maximum of 40 people, and preregistration is required through Eventbrite.

For more information, please call and leave a message at (765) 560-5445.

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Happenings at the Charlotte Grange

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For years the Charlotte Grange Hall has sat rather stately, but pretty dormant, at 2858 Spear Street in the East Charlotte Village.

Last fall the membership voted to keep the Hall open over the winter and to host at least one event a month throughout the fall and winter. With the enthusiasm and help of Mike Walker, assisted by Ted LeBlanc, the Grange Hall has seen more people over the past eight months than it had seen in years! And the Hall has resounded with music performed by both local folks and by musicians from neighboring towns!

A Mardi Gras celebration heralded in March with music by the Silver Leviathan Band and enough food to feed the myriad of people who attended for at least a week!

An open mic evening in March and again in April brought not only some seasoned performers back to the Hall but also featured some local teens from CCS and CVU. April’s Friday Night at the Grange featured Lausanne Allen and Rick Caballas, followed

by Ted LeBlanc, Patti Shannon and Mike Walker, for an evening filled with food and great listening music.

April also brought the spring rummage sale to the Grange Hall, an annual favorite for both donators and buyers. All the money raised during the rummage sale is used to keep the building open.

May is looking to be very busy at the Grange, starting with the Friday Night at the Grange on May 3, which will feature Paul Rose and Cal Lord during dinner, followed by folk singer Hugh McBride. Potluck dinner and music will start at 6:30 p.m. and run to 8:30. Bring a dish to share; the Hall has an oven for warming dishes!

Charlie Nardozzi will be doing a talk on gardening on May 15 starting at 7 p.m., and May’s open mic will be on May 21, also starting at 7. On May 24, we will be showing the film My Father’s Vietnam, and on May 31 the Hall will again be filled with music as Mike Walker and friends will be performing Northumbrian music and songs.

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Library News Margaret Woodruff DIRECTOR

Walking Each Other Home Book Discussion Group Mondays, April 29-May 20, at 10 a.m.

Meets at Charlotte Senior Center Taken from Ram Dass’ quote, “we are all just walking each other home,” this book shows us “how death gives us an unparalleled opening to cultivate gratitude, compassion, mindfulness, and an abiding joy in the simple beauty of living.” Poet and hospice activist Pam MacPherson facilitates our conversations.

Copies of the book are available at the Charlotte Library. Meets at Charlotte Senior Center. Note: This is a repeat offering of the January book group.

Library Book Discussion: Killers of the Flower Moon Thursday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m.

Join us to discuss the true-crime account of the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI. The story undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

“A Revolutionary Press” at Charlotte Library: Gallery Talk & Demo Wednesday, May 8, at 7 p.m.

John Vincent, founder of this old-school print studio, shares his inspiration and passion for print art and the messages it can share. Join us as Vincent discusses the works on display at the Charlotte Library and shows us how the art is created. Using his portable printing press, we’ll all have a chance to make a print to take home. This program and exhibit are part of a collaboration with the Charlotte Congregational Church and the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh.

Great Decisions: Nuclear Negotiations, Back to the Future?

Tuesday, May 14, at 7 p.m.

Nuclear weapons have not gone away, and the Trump administration has brought a new urgency, if not a new approach, to dealing with them. The president has met with Vladimir Putin as the New Start Treaty with Russia comes up for renewal in 2021, the first presidential summit ever with Kim Jong-un occurred to discuss denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, and President Trump has decertified the Obama nuclear deal with Iran. To what degree should past nuclear talks guide future U.S. nuclear arms control negotiations? Can the art of the deal apply to stabilizing our nuclear future?

Seed Library: Charlie Nardozzi’s Garden Wisdom Wednesday, May 15, at 7 p.m.

How to manage unwanted visitors in your garden! Join Vermont’s garden guru to learn about managing the garden to stay on top of weeds, pests and diseases in an eco-friendly fashion to accommodate a changing climate. This program takes place at the Charlotte Grange, 2898 Spear Street.

Co-sponsored by the Charlotte Grange.

Mystery Book Group: Seneca Falls Inheritance Monday, May 20, at 10 a.m.

In the small town of Seneca Falls, New York, history was in the making. And so was murder.... Amidst the bustle of the Women’s Rights Convention of 1848, the independent, free-thinking town librarian

Glynis Tryon is called on by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to help organize the historic event. But when a body turns up in the canal, Glynis puts her natural curiosity and her talent for sleuthing to work and takes a stand against a murderer.

Copies available at the Charlotte Library.

Memorial Day Film Showing: My Father’s Vietnam Friday, May 24, 7 p.m.

Charlotte Grange, 2898 Spear Street, Charlotte A personal documentary about a public subject, My Father’s Vietnam personifies the connections made and unmade by the Vietnam War. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and 8mm footage of the era, My Father’s Vietnam is the story of three soldiers, only one of whom returned home alive. Interviews with the filmmaker’s Vietnam veteran father and the friends, and family members of two men he served with who were killed there, give voice to individuals who continue to silently carry the psychological burdens of a war that ended over 40 years ago. My Father’s Vietnam carries with it the potential to encourage audiences to broach the subjects of service and sacrifice with the veterans in their lives. Co-sponsored with the Charlotte Grange.

Great Decisions: The Rise of Populism in Europe Tuesday, May 28, at 7 p.m.

Join us for a discussion of this timely topic. Reading materials available at the Charlotte Library circulation desk. Mass migration, and the problems associated

with it, have directly abetted the rise of populist parties in Europe. Opposition to immigration was the prime driver of support for Brexit, it brought a far-right party to the German Bundestag for the first time since the 1950s, and it propelled Marine Le Pen to win a third of the vote in the French presidential election. In addition to calling for stronger borders, however, these parties are invariably illiberal, anti-American, anti-NATO and pro-Kremlin, making their rise a matter of serious concern for the national security interests of the United States.

Library Book Discussion: The Contract Surgeon Thursday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m.

This beautifully written historical novel from one of the West’s most popular writers tells the true story of the friendship between Valentine McGillicuddy, a young doctor plucked from his prestigious medical career and newly married wife to serve in the army during the Great Sioux War, and the great chief Crazy Horse. Copies available at the Charlotte Library.

Charlotte Library Contact Information Margaret Woodruff, director Cheryl Sloan, youth services librarian Susanna Kahn, tech services librarian Hours Mondays & Wednesdays: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Food Shelf News Susan Ohanian Let us sing and dance with the reassuring gift of daffodils. And as you rejoice in these signs of winter losing its grip, also rejoice in a child dancing at the Food Shelf. She came with her family, and a bad cold was making her feel quite blue—to the point of tears. The volunteer hosting the Food Shelf that evening offered this little girl a doll that had been donated along with handmade clothes and bedding.

This girl stopped crying, and, hugging the doll, started dancing.

“Dancing, the hidden language of the soul.”

—Martha Graham Let’s hope that the person who offered this gift learns of this dancing, a gift coming back to the generous giver—and to all of us who now have the image of the dancing child.

We extend a thank you for the gift of financial contributions from Deborah (Raven) Davis and Janet Morrison.

Wish list The next time you go shopping for groceries, think about adding some afterschool snacks for kids. On the Food Shelf wish list: Rice Crispies, Cheerios, pudding cups. We also have a need for vegetable oil and toothpaste.

Important Distribution Dates at the Charlotte Congregational Church Wednesday, May 8, 22: 5–7 p.m.

Thursday, May 9, 23: 7:30–9 a.m.

Financial Assistance As a reminder, the Food Shelf has some funds available for emergency assistance with fuel and electric bills. You may contact Pat Rodar at 425-3083 if you need assistance.

We are available to all community residents. Privacy is very important and respected in our mission of neighbor helping neighbor.

For emergency food call John 425-3130.

For emergency assistance (electricity, fuel) call Pat at 425-3083.

For more information call Karen at 4253252.

Calendar of Events Items needed for benefit lawn sale in East Charlotte. Items are now being accepted at the Spear Corner Store until June 21. You may leave donations on the front porch if the store is closed. Please have clothing, toys etc.be in decent condition. Donations support the 19th Annual East Charlotte Tractor Parade.

Money raised is used to support the many aspects of this wonderful town event. Visit the Spear’s Corner Store Facebook page for acceptable items.

Friday, May 10 Dinner, an online auction and grand

prize raffle at The Old Lantern Inn from 6:30 to 10 p.m. to benefit the Charlotte

Children’s Center. The event promises to be a fun filled evening, and we hope to see you there! Tickets for the event are $75 per person and will include dinner, a drink and live music from our very own Builder teacher Holly Mugford and band.

Raffle tickets for a grand prize will be available at the event. Tickets to the event can be purchased in three ways: On our auction website via credit card: charityauction.bid/ Charlottechildrenscenter; Prior to the event via check made out to the Charlotte Children’s Center; please mail to The Charlotte Children’s Center c/o Meaghan McLaughlin P.O. Box 149 Charlotte, VT 054450; At the door by check; if you plan to do this please send an email

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Join Susan at the book launch party organized by Onion River Press at Phoenix Books, in Burlington, May 7, 7 p.m.

Be there!

Book also available at Flying Pig, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Donations We are a volunteer organization, so all donations you make to the Food Shelf go directly for food or assistance to our local neighbors in need. Should you wish to honor someone with a donation, a special acknowledgement will be sent to that person.

Checks may be mailed to Charlotte Food Shelf & Assistance, P.O. Box 83, Charlotte, VT 05445. Thank you.

Donated food drop-off locations All nonperishable food donations may be dropped off at the Charlotte Library, the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church (main entrance) or at the Food Shelf during the distribution mornings.

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For it is in giving that we receive.

—St. Francis of Assisi The song is to the singer, and comes back most to him...

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him.

—Walt Whitman, “A Song of the Rolling Earth” When daffodils begin to peer…

Why then comes in the sweet o’ the year.

—William Shakespeare, “The Winter’s Tale” I wander’d lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

—William Wordsworth, “Daffodils”

We welcome appropriate community events with a maximum of 100 words. Print fees may apply to community events outside of Charlotte. Email your events to ads@thecharlottenews.org. to meaghan.w.mclaughlin@gmail.com to let us know you plan to attend.

Sunday, May 19 Hinesburg Artist Series Spring Concert Come join us for our SPRING CONCERT at 4:30 p.m. in the Champlain Valley Union High School Auditorium. The concert will feature the Hinesburg Community Band, South County Chorus and In Accord under the direction of Rufus Patrick. All the performing groups will feature selections by George and Ira Gershwin. Special guests include performances by trumpeter Brandon Jones, vocalist Mark Cranmer, and a piano duet performance by Tim Woos and

Sammy Angstman.

The Hinesburg Community Band will present “That Old Time Religion”, “Fanfare For Justice”, “Balkan Seven”, “Jitterbug” and an exceptional arrangement by Warren Barker entitled”The Symphonic Gershwin”.

The South County Chorus will sing “Hark I Hear Those Harps Eternal”, the “Final Chorus from Gondoliers”, “You’ll Be Back from Hamilton”, “Sing Your Way Home”, and a toe-tapping arrangement

by Adam and Matt Podd entitled “I Got Gershwin” that also features Margaret Roddy on Clarinet. The concert is free.

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Property transfers April 1 Cole J. Shea to Thomas G. Bryce Custodial Assets Trust, James W. Bryce, Trustee, 0.5 acre with dwelling, 2996 Greenbush Road, $351,000.

April 1 Arthur L. and Celeste A. Adams to Andre E. Jr and Stephanie Vaine, 2.75 acres with dwelling, 5213 Greenbush Road, $305,000.

April 16 Donald Helgesen to Matthew B. Bonoma, 11.70 acres with dwelling, 96 Deer Point Road, $836,730.

April 22 Elizabeth A. Sieghardt to Peter and Megan Gras, 5.12 acres with dwelling, 78 Carpenter Road, $455,000.

April 23 Christopher Kiley to Gus Kiley 2010 Trust, 79.4 acres 50% interest, 250 Garen Road, $450,000.

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Into The Woods

The New “Old Growth”

Ethan Tapper As many Vermonters know, prior to European settlement Vermont was almost completely forested. In the 1800s about 80 percent of the state was clearcut, largely to create sheep pasture. Many of these pre-settlement forests were what we would now call “old growth”: forests that had developed without extensive disturbance for centuries.

Our modern understanding of how forests naturally grow and change is largely informed by the study of our few remnant old growth forests, and this understanding has led to modern forest management techniques that seek to emulate these natural processes. Using forest management techniques that mimic natural disturbances and create old growthtype conditions helps create forests that provide high-quality timber and maple sap in addition to great wildlife habitat, carbon sequestration and storage, clean air and clean water. The result is healthier forests—though they might not look how you’d expect.

For some reason, many people think of a well-managed forest as an area of evenly spaced trees with a completely bare understory. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Forests are dynamic systems, and death, disturbance and change are natural parts of how they develop over time. Old growth forests are generally what most people would call “messy,” with some large, ancient trees but also trees of all sizes and ages, dead standing trees (“snags”) and a lot of dead wood on the forest floor. These features develop as forests encounter natural disturbance events, from the death of a single tree to larger-scale disturbances like windstorms, wildfires and insect/disease outbreaks.

Through these disturbances forests become more diverse, which makes them healthier; diverse forests are more resilient to future natural and humancaused disturbances and will be better suited to deal with the uncertain effects of climate change. They also generally store more carbon and provide a wider range of wildlife habitat conditions than less diverse forests. As people who own, manage and

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The result is healthier forests—though they might not look how you’d expect.

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appreciate forests it is critical to recognize their dynamic nature and to support the continuation of these natural processes, even if it looks messy.

Today, most of Vermont’s forests are relatively “even-aged”—dominated by a single generation of trees—recovering from being cleared for agriculture in the 1800s. In many cases the oldest trees in a forest date back to when a farmer sold off the herd, headed west, or found an easier way to make a dollar. By contrast, in Vermont’s pre-settlement forest large even-aged forests were probably somewhat rare, originating only from infrequent, large-scale natural disturbances. Because

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While we can’t make old growth appear overnight, we can manage forests for old growth-type conditions. This includes creating “uneven-aged” forests by encouraging the growth of multiple ages of trees and modeling our management on the way that forests naturally grow and develop. “Uneven-aged management” supports irregularity and diversity rather than uniformity in the forest, harvesting individual trees and small “groups” or patches of trees, which simulate smallscale natural disturbances.

In addition, I tell loggers to leave a lot of dead wood on the ground and (even though it looks “messy”) not cut tree tops and limbs down to lay flat. Leave any dead standing or fallen trees alone and consider “girdling” a couple low-quality trees per acre to create additional snags for wildlife.

I also like to leave a few trees per acre as “biological legacies” that are allowed to live out their natural life and are not managed for timber.

To muddy the waters a bit, it is also important to consider forest diversity on a landscape-scale. In addition to old growth there are other forest types, like early successional habitat, which provide unique ecological features and habitat opportunities and which are also underrepresented on Vermont’s current landscape. Our management should seek to create landscapes, not just individual properties or forests, that are diverse and healthy.

Through thoughtful forest management as described here, we can increase the overall health and resilience of our forests, in addition to their utility to wildlife and production of ecosystem services like clean air, clean water and carbon sequestration and storage. We can use management techniques modeled after the way that forests naturally grow and develop, and we can do so while extracting a local, renewable resource. What’s not to love?

Ethan Tapper is the Chittenden County forester. He can be reached at ethan. tapper@vermont.gov, (802)-585-9099, or at 111 West Street, Essex Junction.

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help. Krasnow responded that the topic would be scheduled for 6:15 p.m. on May 13, noting the Vermont State Police will be present “to have a discussion about the town’s contracted additional hours ... and to allow extra time to look at this globally.”

In recreation-related news, the board approved an application for a fundraising bicycle ride on September 21. The 12th annual Tour de Farms will have stops in Charlotte including at Adam’s Berry Farm, Philo Ridge Farm and Charlotte Village Winery. The board approved allowing the Town Beach to be used as a Lake Champlain Paddlers’ Trail site and including it in the trail guidebook.

Moving on, Planning Commission chair Peter Joslin opened discussion on the West Village parking agenda item saying, “It’s time to take another hard look at it.

This came up initially by folks on the Selectboard.” He offered, “We don’t want to compromise the progress being made, we want to augment it.” Krasnow and board members agreed. The Selectboard motioned and approved establishing a ninemember West Charlotte Village Parking committee.

The bulk of the rest of the meeting was devoted to the continuation of the first public hearing for proposed amendments to

SPEEDING continued from page 1 be conducted and that the recommended speed limit is generally the rate at which 85 percent of the traffic on that road travels.

Ferry Road in particular, he said, is straight and lacks hazards that would indicate a lower speed is necessary.

In his opinion, he said, “People aren’t going as fast as you think they are,” adding that to a walker or jogger a car traveling 50 miles per hour might seem fast but is likely obeying the law.

Lucas said that the Williston barracks was short-staffed recently but is now back to regular staffing levels. This means, he said, that there will be more potential for officers to leave their priority patrols on the interstate and come out to surrounding

the Town Plan. Town Administrator Dean Bloch reviewed his proposed changes as well as suggested changes from Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Senior Planner Emily Nosse-Leirer, who was not in attendance. Several members of the Planning Commission and Energy Commission offered up comments and discussion related to some of the “nonbinding” goals set forth in the proposed changes—especially when it came to the percentage of land use designated for alternative energy sources.

Selectboard member McCarren said, “The bottom line is this is ultimately about land use. We, the town of Charlotte, want to have a say in where alternative energy is sited.” Energy Committee John Quinney responded, “If Vermont is to reach its goals by 2050, here’s what Charlotte’s share looks like, and in some cases it’s made very visible with the amount of acreage needed to put into solar. It’s definitely aspirational.” To which McCarren replied, “I have a huge problem with obligations being assigned to the town. I think that it’s very short sighted.” She continued, “But let’s put that aside. I support getting control over the land use piece of this.”

The board then voted to continue the hearing on June 10.

The next Selectboard meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 13.

areas, including Charlotte, and might even be able to double up on hours and strategically place troopers in more than one spot in town.

Daley provides data to the town regarding police activity; in March of this year, four speeding tickets were issued, three miscellaneous motor vehicle violations, two citations were issued for driving with a suspended license, and 12 written warnings were issued. Though the town collects a percentage of the fines paid, Krasnow said the money is a nonissue. “The town doesn’t have an interest in making money; we have an interest in safety,” he said.

Lucas and Daley will be at the May 13 Selectboard meeting to go over police activity data and answer any questions from the community.

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In honor of Mom. Happy s Day HappyMother’ Mother’ s Day The time to care about the future is right now Carrie Fenn Every year Pete and I escape mud season by taking an excursion to a place that is a little bit warmer than northern Vermont. I am currently writing from Berkeley, California, where Pete’s daughter Sophia is a junior in college. We’ve done some tooling around Napa, Point Reyes and Sausalito. There are some beautiful places here, and while we’ve seen signs of the devastating fires of 2017, for the most part it’s green grass and sunny skies.

A few days ago we took a drive to a meadery (a place where mead is made). Mead is mankind’s oldest fermented beverage, or so said our bartender. The meadery was stunningly beautiful. It was also 91 degrees on the veranda where we sipped our sparkling drinks. Ninety-one. In northern California. In April.

Being a mom means looking out for your child’s well-being. Mothering is a here-andnow type of proposition: Is she clothed?

Fed? Safe? Happy? Grandparenting is a little different; as a grandmother I don’t have to concern myself with the day-to-day. When I worry about my grandkids, I think about their future. What will it be like? Will they enjoy the same things my kids did? Will they ski? Will they swim in the lake? Will they pick apples off Vermont trees? Probably. Will they get to do those things with their own children? Maybe.

But if current predictions hold true, quite possibly they won’t. The world we know could look very different in the not-so-distant future. And who will our grandkids blame?

Here in Vermont we are privileged to be able to choose to ignore what’s happening in the rest of the world. We can believe that climate change is somebody else’s problem and there isn’t a lot we can do to make it

better. Solar on our roof tops, electric cars in our driveways, heat pumps in our homes, sure, these have an impact, but how much of a difference do these things ultimately make?

The answer is … a lot. When you make the leap to a more sustainable lifestyle you may provide others who are hesitating to make a change just the push and incentive they need. I recently spoke with a friend who decided against a couple of big-impact moves. He rationalized his decision with lessthan fact-based ideas, but for the most part he isn’t reducing his carbon footprint because he doesn’t have to. He has the privilege of being able to choose. He can say to himself, “It’s just one house, someone else can do it.”

In my mind there’s no longer any choice.

When you think you’ve done all you can do, do more. Even if my actions can’t slow climate change, I want to check as many boxes as possible so when my grandkids ask, “Jama, how did you help save the world from the biggest threat humankind has ever faced?”

I can say I did more than recycle.

Harper’s Magazine recently published an excellent essay by Kevin Baker titled “Where Our New World Begins.” Baker tells us the proposed Green New Deal is the future, “if we’re going to have one.” He explains this radical resolution in the context of Roosevelt’s New Deal and the economic crisis posed by man-made environmental disasters of the 20th century. Parts of the Green New Deal will be compromised, improved, added and subtracted, “but it had better come into being, or we will leave to our future generations a world of natural disasters unlike anything we have seen before,” he says.

Those future generations aren’t years from being born, they are here.

Saving the world isn’t someone else’s problem anymore.

Mothering daughters Melissa O’Brien We went to Maine, my daughter and I, to dip our toes in the sea. We knew it would be cold but it didn’t matter: it’s the ocean; we’re New Englanders.

Traveling with Coco is something I wish every single one of you could experience.

First, there’s the music. I mean, let’s face it, who doesn’t want their own personal DJ with a trip’s worth of music all queued up? I have always loved learning what my kids are listening to.

Sam is the whump thump of rap, though I hate to categorize too broadly. His music is always very fresh and moves through his life at warp speed. What he is listening to today will be gone next week. Much of it is offensive, with lyrics about drugs, drinking and parts of the female anatomy, still I like to stay curious. The music we listen to is a reflection of the condition of our hearts, yes? It tells me something about my kids and who they are today.

Nate is more old-school when it comes to music. I’m often delighted to hear the classic songs I loved at his age when I’m with him in his car. No surprises there.

Sam moves fast and furious through this world; Nate is more measured in his actions—his soul seems to have reached an advanced stage of evolution early in life.

And then we have Coco. I will tell you that you have not truly lived until you are cruising the back roads of New Hampshire with your teenage daughter, singing Lizzo’s “Good as Hell” at the top of your lungs. She also likes Khalid’s thoughtful, broody stuff, and she should, his voice is gorgeous and he seems to be a lovely soul. The big surprise of the trip? She has fallen in love with Kacey

Musgraves, whose voice reminds me of a young Dolly Parton and whose music is often characterized as country, something Helen Cooper Hood Eyre has vehemently disparaged for as long as I’ve known her.

Seems we all have the chance to expand our borders in this life, eh?

Besides, who doesn’t want to believe we all have a rainbow hanging over our head? Who doesn’t get that you can’t fence a cowboy in, even if ‘“cowboy” comes inside air quotes? Indeed, everyone does know someone who kills the buzz every time they open up their mouth.

Musgraves’ lyrics are adorable, her songs are sweet, and I haven’t heard a single line yet about drinking too much whiskey or killing her boyfriend down by the river.

I like her, too.

Not only does Coco make a terrific DJ, it’s just plain fun to be with her.

Everywhere we go someone notices her and usually comments on what she’s wearing: “I used to have style like yours,” said the sweet young woman at JJ Hapgood in Peru where we stopped for egg sandwiches. “I love your belt,” said the girl at the juice counter where we made an attempt at being healthy. I’m not surprised that the rest of the world sees what I see all the time; I am taken by surprise every time someone says something, and the richness of Coco’s impact is revealed to me in the eyes of a stranger.

Fifteen years ago when I found out I was pregnant with a girl, I had a wee bit of anxiety, having been a girl my whole life and knowing just how hard it is and recalling how much trouble I gave my parents— all that was in store for her and for me. But here we are a decade and a half later cruising through the world together, singing, beaching, dreaming,

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“Your hair shone in the sun … I was he lucky one …”

I see her growing, sprouting wings, figuring herself out, blooming, bursting with life, shining from within. She has he body I used to have, the heart of a thousand angels. As I fade into the sunset she emerges from the sunrise, eadying herself for … everything. It is a rue miracle, the bittersweet madness of mothering a daughter.

The fields may be gray, but the daughter s radiant and the music is swell.

Melissa O’Brien is the pastor of the Pawlet Community Church and has loved old-school, community-based journalism since she was the editor of her high school newspaper one hundred million years ago. You can read more of her work at melissaannobrien.com.

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In honor of Mom. Mother’ s Day yaD Happy s’rehtoM yppaH Mothers at The Charlotte News Did you always imagine you would have kids? How many did you think you might have? How many did you end up with (names and ages)?

What was the biggest surprise about motherhood for you?

Looking back now, is there anything you would change about your parenting ways?

(Or perhaps are working to change if you are still in the thick of it)?

What advice do you have for new moms/ women anticipating motherhood?

Genevieve Trono, Writer I always knew I wanted kids, but I didn’t have a specific time frame. I did think I would have only girls! We had two boys! Parker is 8 and a half, and Flynn is 6 and a half.

What a roller coaster ride of emotions one single day can have!

My kids are still young, but I try and soak in each stage of parenting because the saying might be overused but it is true...the days are long but the years are short. This isn’t always easy for me, especially when I was completely sleep-deprived when I had babies. I also wish I took more videos when my kids were little.

No one knows exactly what they are doing, and every stage of parenting is something new. Ask for help and find friends who let you vent and also lift you up. You don’t have to fit in a certain box to be a great parent.

Often, “okay” is just fine!

Melissa O’Brien, Editor

Katherine Arthaud, Writer

I definitely planned to have kids. I don’t think I ever thought I would have three, though it is interesting that I ended up with the same configuration as my nuclear family: two sons and a daughter (I have two brothers and a sister). Sam is 23, Nate is 21 and Coco is 14.

I didn’t imagine I would have kids in a specific way, though I think I assumed that I would not NOT have kids, if that makes any sense.

I guess I figured that sometime, in the distant future, I would have kids (doesn’t everyone?), but I didn’t visualize it. And when I became pregnant VERY early in my (second) marriage, I was TOTALLY surprised. (I thought my new husband and I had some time...)

I was shocked by how hard it was when the kids were babies. I had been babysitting forever and so I thought I was prepared.

What a joke. I was not the least bit prepared for how young motherhood pushes you to the furthest edges of all of your faculties. And too, how it teaches you a whole new kind of love you never imagined you would feel.

I wish I didn’t wish away those hard early days. I would give anything now to have just one day when my kids were little.

Trust your own instincts. Throw out every book, don’t read anything on the www and don’t worry about what other parents are doing. Also, stop buying all that crap; kids do just fine with sticks and rocks.

Stand back and give them lots of breathing room.

Don’t stop them from climbing trees and jumping on trampolines and sitting on the roof. Leave them alone while they explore the world.

Let them figure out for themselves where they end and the world begins. ER docs are terrific at what they do.

The first big surprise was that I was pregnant.

Some of the women in my family have had fertility issues, and I guess I figured it would take more of an EFFORT to get pregnant.

So becoming pregnant with my first child (Dylan) was a very, very big surprise. The second big surprise was that I was good with babies: my babies. I was always kind of scared of babies before I had my own.

I thought they didn’t really like me. But my baby? He loved me. There was no questioning that. And then, so did the other two, as well. And the third surprise was how totally, wholly and completely—with all my heart, soul and mind—I loved, and continue to love, and will always love them. No words can really describe that love.

Yes. I would have restricted screens more. It would have been a nightmare, but I should have.

As a parent now (my kids are 21, 23 and 25), nothing pays off like restraint of pen and tongue.

You are the perfect mother for your child. Be the best you that you can be, but be you. And don’t be afraid to apologize to your child when you make a mistake. I think that is a really powerful thing to do.

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In honor of Mom. Happy s Day HappyMother’ Mother’ s Day

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Katherine Arthaud Though the roads are muddy and the days are more often than not overcast, spring is here and Mother’s Day is around the corner. Mother’s Day: a “celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society,” as Wikipedia describes it. (I googled it not because I didn’t know what Mother’s Day is but to get the actual date on which it falls this year, which if you didn’t know is May 12.)

Coincidentally, I just today finished a novel that touches upon pretty much all the aspects of Mother’s Day described above, which is why it seemed a good idea to quote that brief description. And though the title doesn’t suggest a good Mother’s Day read, I can’t think of a better story than Lucky Boy, a novel by Shanthi Sekaran.

Lucky Boy follows two separate narratives: one, of Soli a young woman who travels from Santa Clara, Popocalco, Mexico (a village named after the patron saint of television and eye disease) to California, in search of a better life for herself; the other, of Kavya, an Indian woman living with her husband in Berkeley, who wants nothing more than to have a child. These are two narratives, two journeys, which never would have, never should have, intersected—if not for Ignacio, a little boy and the unwitting force who links, tangles and drives both women’s stories.

There are so many things that are good about this book. It is very well written and extremely compelling and, in describing Soli’s journey and tribulations, opens one’s eyes to both the thrill and the horror of entering this country illegally and trying to survive here without official papers. It’s not a simple read, not only because what happens is often brutal, violent, tragic and painful, but also because one’s sympathies are pulled by both women’s stories. Both are mothers. Both love beyond reason this son, this Ignacio. Throughout the book runs the powerful heartbeat theme of motherhood. What it means to be a mother. A birth mother. A foster mother.

And how all-encompassing and primary motherhood is.

“When you have just one possession, you guard it with your life. The you that once centered your universe becomes nothing but a keeper of the one precious thing. As the weeks passed and Ignacio proved increasingly that he would live, Soli’s fear shifted to the newly formed knowledge that she was now tied more fiercely to fate and luck than she’d ever been before. Having a child was like turning inside out and exposing to the world the soft pulp of her heart. If something happened to Ignacio—if illness

took him or an accident, she herself would never recover. If the night stole his breath away, as sometimes happened to the very very young, her own breath would never return. At night, thoughts like this sat vigil around her bed. She woke every few hours to look at him, lying next to her in a nest of blankets. She felt for his breath, touched a hand to his forehead, and tried to sleep again.”

I have been telling everyone about this book, and whoever told me about it (I forget who you are), thank you. Excellent.

Another book I have been recommending to anyone and everyone who has expressed any interest in reading is Call Me American, a memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin. Similar to the story of Soli in Lucky Boy, this tells the tale of a Somali man who, from the time he was very young, was obsessed with America. He would dress in American clothes, master American dance moves and managed to pick up some of the English language by listening to Michael Jackson and watching movies about American superheroes.

He became known around Mogadishu as “Abdi American.” But in 2006, when the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab came to power, it was suddenly not cool to be an American-loving Somali, and life became very dangerous for the narrator and many others.

It is unthinkable, the kinds of things this Abdi and others have endured (and are, horribly, still enduring in many areas of this world).

For weeks, we slept on the streets with the dead. Mom would sing the lullaby ‘Huwaaya Huwaa’ in her weak voice, but with our empty bellies the song was not sending us to sleep. With a few hours of napping we continued every morning, only to expect to join the dead. We got used to the corpses, but we could not get used to our painfully empty stomachs. After days of no food or water, I would try to piss and couldn’t, only blood came out.

We ate whatever we could chew—unripe neem tree fruit that tasted like bitter olives, lizards we could catch. Nothing was too disgusting, even dead skin we peeled off our feet….

The passion, determination and resilience of the narrator is breathtaking, and though there is much here about hunger, violence and devastation on so many levels, this memoir is incredibly optimistic. The narrator ends up using his ability to speak English to risk his life to work as an undercover journalist for NPR, and he eventually makes his way (not easy) to his long-beloved America, where he now lives in Maine, working as a translator, hurrah! As messed up as our country is right now, it is amazing to realize and remember that for many it is still a beacon of hope and happiness. (I know, I know, you’ve considered moving

to Canada, but really…)

I keep thinking of the line someone thought up to counter MAGA: “Make America Compassionate Again.” Hey, maybe we have never been compassionate (as someone recently pointed out to me), yet relative to many other places on this planet, we have so much to offer—so much freedom and so much opportunity and so much tolerance. I’ll just say, may we aspire to be as great as the Solis and Abdis of the world believe us to be.

And then…because my son recently took a course at his college on Alice Munro, I reread a couple of her books.

She is a master. She really is. The View from Castle Rock is a collection of stories that begins on Edinburgh’s Castle Rock, where a young boy looks across the ocean to see America. (OMG, that theme again!) The stories materialized, Munro explains in the foreword, out of research she did on her family, who lived in the Ettick Valley of Scotland, “which the Statistical Account of Scotland (1799) describes as having no advantages.”

The author writes that in this book she is doing something “closer to what a memoir does—exploring a life, my own life, but not in an austere or rigorously factual way.

I put myself in the center and wrote about that self, as searchingly as I could. But the figures around this self took on their own life and color and did things they had not done in reality. They joined the Salvation Army, they revealed that they had once lived in Chicago. One of them got himself electrocuted and another fired off a gun in a barn full of horses. In fact, some of these characters have moved so far from their beginnings that I cannot remember who they were to start with.”

I just love stories, love fiction. I do have friends and a real life, really I do, but driving in my car I tend to steep myself in novels (recently two excellent Agatha Christies: Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express), and any other time I am waiting for something or someone, or indoor biking, or falling asleep at night, I am usually reading.

Maybe this is very unusual, maybe not. Let me know. But I did raise three upstanding children in between all these books. You should meet them. They are really quite normal. I even read as long as I could stand it when I was in labor with all three of them, I am remembering now, as I ponder books, and the upcoming Hallmark holiday….

As you see, I am trying to bring things back around to the Mother’s Day theme.

Which I believe I have now successfully accomplished. Happy Mother’s Day, everyone! Love your mother, love your children, and love this planet, mother to us all.

CCS Journalism Club students honor their mothers My mother is a very committed person. In the past she couldn’t afford college, so she spent nine years in the military. She used to be a stay-at-home mom until she recently got a job at a high school. When she was in the military she traveled all over the world, in very dangerous places, too. My mom works hard each day just so we have enough money for our very expensive bills.

Maya Giangregoria My mother is kind and caring. I admire how she is trying to be the best person she can be.

She is constantly putting in the effort to make other people’s lives better. I look up to her and strive to be like her.

Lydia Donahue My mom is a supportive and determined woman. She is the kind of person who will hold your hair back when you throw up.

She is the kind of person who will start a conversation just to make someone smile and learn from their life. She traveled the world, more than once and has a sense of curiosity about other cultures and daily lives. She is independent and has been since she was my age. The person she is and all she has done in her life is very appreciated.

Grace McNally My mom cares about others. She makes people feel good about themselves. She can do anything. She is determined and supportive. My mom loves the earth.

Grace Zappala My mom is inspirational and supports me through everything. She is funny and intelligent and never gives up easily. It’s a guarantee that she will fight for what she believes in. She is strong yet gentle, firm yet flexible and always accepting. She always gives the best advice and knows what to say to brighten someone’s mood. I know I can turn to her whenever I am in need. Ia m so eternally grateful for her and I love her a million times over.

Mircea Hamilton My mom is amazing. She believes in me even when I don’t believe in myself. She is smart, funny, and so talented. She inspires me every day and is always willing to try new things.

She is caring and always goes the extra mile, stopping to help others along the way. She is strong and persistent, but at the same time gentle and flexible. My mom is a wonderful person and I love her to the moon and back.

Hadley Stockwell I love my mom because she supports me all the time. She teaches, not just me but everyone she knows. She is inspiring and loving. My mom is very passionate about the things she loves, like her family, her joy and her friends. She is willing to sacrifice things just to make others happy. She gives helpful advice but she also lets you do what you want.

Natalie D’Amico My mom is the core of my family. She brings out the best in everyone. She is beautiful, loving, warm and generous Every day she does something for me and my family. For example, cooking dinner and cleaning. She has worked so hard to become the person she is now and will always be my idol.

Sage Kehr My mother is one of the most inspirational women I know. She stays strong through Continued onto page 15

The Charlotte News • May 2, 2019 • 15 tough times and she keeps me calm through thick and thin. She inspired me to do good work in this world, and she shows me that people from all walks of life are equal. I am so grateful for her strength in this crazy world and I am so grateful for the amazing work she does to help people. She makes me laugh all the time and she always gets me in a good mood. I love when we jam out in the car! Thank you, Mom, you show me and teach me every day, just how great life is, especially when I am with you.

Coco Eyre This is my mom! My mom is amazing! My mom is funny, friendly and very willing to help others. My mom is dedicated to what she does. My mom is hard-working and perseveres to make things perfect. My mom is making the world a better place.

Shana Mester Dear Mom, I appreciate how much you care. You are always around kids, every day. Whether at my school or with my sister and I. With any person, though, you appreciate their being and their time. I could write much more, but I have a question: What do you call a mom who is amazing, fantastic and beautiful as you? Answer: there are no words to describe how extraordinary you are.

Love, Hannah

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My mom is one of the strongest women I know. She has a passion for gardening and all things outside. For years, she raised hundreds of chickens, all three of her kids, a cow and her calf, as well as two huge gardens and our house. Nowadays, my mom is still a huge inspiration to how I see the world. She does everything possible to make the world around her happy. For 17 years my mom homeschooled me and my siblings, teaching us how to interact with people and the world. She always knows how to go about making everyone feel loved. My mom knows what sort of person she wants to be and strives to become that person every single day. She has planted a love of nature in me that I’m grateful for every single day.

I love you, Mom. Thank you for taking me through all of the hardships I’ve faced so far and continued to be independent as well as physically and mentally beautiful and strong.

Sylvie Miller When I was born, my mom was in residency to become a family doctor. When I was four she traveled to Haiti to help the people in the earthquake. When I was ten, she went to Sierra Leone for the Ebola outbreak for seven weeks, then Greece for the refugee crisis. As hurricanes started to strike in Texas and Puerto Rico, she was there for that too. When the refugees started to flee from Bangladesh she was there, providing her

care. As I have grown up, my mom has been a role model, and independent woman, and most of all my hero.

Caroline Swayze My mom is a very generous and supportive person. She is a musical, inspirational, and thoughtful woman. My mom has taught me so many valuable lessons I will use throughout my life. I love you Mom, thank you for being a wonderful, supportive, and all around amazing person to me the past fourteen years! I hope you have a fantastic Mother’s Day. Ella Beerworth

My mom is passionate, determined, loving, and inspirational. She is strong and knows what she believes in. She is supportive with me and my sister’s choices. She is the kind of person who won’t let you give up on your dream. Even when I act embarrassed about her I still appreciate her everyday. I just hope she knows I love her and that love will never waver. Happy Mother’s Day. Rory McDermott

My mom is very generous and kind, and is always thinking about others. She is very supportive to my whole family, and encourages us to pursue our passions. My mom is opinionated yet accepting, and always gives good advice.

Neika Haire I don’t even know where to begin, there are so many reasons why I appreciate my mom.

One is because she is one of the strongest women I know and also because she’s so kind and considerate. She is inspiring to our family and to the people around her. She inspires me in every way possible, from the way she carries herself, to how generous she is to others. She supports me in everything I do and is there for me whenever I need her.

Thank you, Mom, I couldn’t imagine life without you.

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Town Laughing to learn: Charlotter Rookie Manning on a lifetime of learning, laughing and teaching Sevi Burget-Foster Rookie Manning was not always Rookie Manning. She arrived at Ursuline Academy, an all-girl Catholic high school in Massachusetts, one mischievous Mary O’Rourke. Her friends, perhaps realizing that they could not change her troublemaking habits, changed her name.

“You’re nothing like our Mother Mary statue,” her friends objected. O’Rourke was shortened to Rookie, and the name stuck.

Yet, when the Charlotte News was searching for a town matriarch to profile, Rookie’s name popped up quickly. And rightly so. Retired now, Rookie was a teacher for 28 years. She moved to Thompson’s Point in 1975, and has lived in Charlotte ever since. First teaching at Charlotte Central School, Rookie immediately felt like she “belonged to the community.”

“The school was filled with amazing people,” she says, “And I’m a people person.” That seems quite an understatement.

More Charlotters likely know about Rookie’s time at CCS, where she worked tirelessly, sometimes dealing with the town’s tiny population by teaching one class

comprised of students from kindergarten to third grade. Fewer will know about her five years of working at Northlands Job Corps Center in Vergennes, where she taught reading, writing, and poetry to migrants. She recalls her first poetry class there.

“I thought nobody would show up,” she says. Rookie had a diverse range of experiences in her classroom, with people from Africa and Latino countries to Boston and New York City. Once establishing the classroom as a safe space, the new poets shared “jaw-dropping” stories.

“It’s an existence you can’t imagine,” she reflects.

She must have taught the class well, because her next poetry class was under such high demand that she had to split the class in half and teach it twice.

After 28 years of service, Rookie believes that teaching built her confidence, helping her become more empathetic, and making her “want to reach out more.” She says she loves children, adults, and dogs. Now, likening her to the statue at her high school doesn’t seem too far fetched.

Ursuline Academy was actually where Rookie decided to become a teacher. When she was first asked to teach a Sunday school class, she worked hard to prepare for it, and

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Seeing her instruct, the nuns encouraged her to pursue teaching, and, although she says she was not “an academic” in high school, Rookie got her degree in elementary education.

High school was also where Rookie exercised her “Irish sense of humor” that is part of the reason she is such a successful teacher. She remembers talking her entire English class into hiding on the roof of the building, then sitting in the classroom alone.

Her teacher, (whom she speculates thought, “Why is Rookie here, of all people?”) asked her where her class was. She feigned ignorance. When the nun left to find the rest of the students, Rookie brought the girls back in through the bathroom window, and they all acted as if nothing had happened.

She was duly punished, but Rookie still managed to bring that sense of humor to her own classroom. “If they’re not laughing, they’re not learning,” she says.

“What are you up to now?” I ask.

“No good,” Rookie says, smiling. She has two sons and four granddaughters. Two of those granddaughters attend Charlotte Central School. She plans on taking a trip to

Iceland with another granddaughter over the summer. But what is most striking are the relationships she has kept with her former students.

I talked with Rookie for only an hour, and in that time at Village Wine and Coffee, she recognized two former students. Two other students called her mobile number.

I can truthfully say that I have never seen a teacher so invested in the lives of her students after the school day ends. She has attended students’ weddings. One pupil returned to Vermont from Washington after having not seen Rookie for 25 years. The student wanted her five year old twins to meet the woman she had always told them about. Rookie even traveled to Alabama, reading a poem she wrote for a young man at his college graduation. He had graduated from her class at Northlands, and asked her down. She’ll “step into anything,” and promises to help her family of students, if even only by listening.

Whether you call her Rookie Manning, Mom, Mrs. M, Grandma, or Mary O’Rourke, you can always call her a people person, and surely, a great Charlotter.

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Sports

Kogut finishes Boston Marathon

Christine Kogut was the lone 2019 Boston Marathon finisher from Charlotte, running the course in 4 hours, 3 minutes and 37 seconds.

Three Redhawks receive all-state men’s hockey honorable mention Edd Merritt

The Mets 50 years later

It was disheartening to say the least reading about former New York Mets’ pitcher Tom Seaver facing Alzheimer’s disease. Disheartening for a variety of reasons, medical and otherwise. Not the least of them was what he and the Mets did for the city of New York at a very trying time in that metropolis’s history.

It was also my first full year living as a New Yorker on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I periodically hopped the subway to Shea Stadium in Flushing Meadows, Queens, to watch the Gil Hodges-directed Mets take on the rest of the National League. In their initial years the Mets were so new and so bad that you could buy a seat on the day of the game.

And if you wanted a better vantage point, you could usually find an unoccupied one closer to the field. Early history was not in the Mets’ favor, a fact that may have made their miracle run to the 1969 pennant more meaningful. It did not hurt, however, to have leading throwers like Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Nolan Ryan and Tug McGraw on the mound to head the charge. Other names that have stuck in my memory are Tommy Agee, Don Clendenon, Gary Gentry, Jerry Grote, Cleon Jones, Ed Kranepool, Ron Swoboda and Art Shamsky—I’m sure there are more Mets that my brain won’t process.

I had just been discharged from the Navy on the West Coast when a college friend lured me to the city. He was fresh out of business school and one of Mayor John Lindsay’s “bright young men,” so I learned much about the workings of government and the issues the city faced.

I recently unearthed a column written

by Pete Hamill that had appeared in the New York Post in September of 1969 titled “The News That Counts.” In almost poetic fashion, Hamill sums up the state of the city. “Don’t bother me about the cost of living,” he says. “I really don’t care whether John Lindsay is supporting Democrats, or whether the F train will be air-conditioned….Talk to me about Cleon Jones, and the drinks are on me. Compare Tom Seaver to Robin Roberts and we have something to talk about. Show me a picture of Ron Swoboda hitting a double with the bases loaded and I’ll look….If the Mets aren’t New York itself, I don’t know what is….Last year we got to one knee.

Today, we’re up, and there ain’t anybody gonna put us down again. Get out of the way, and sing us no more sad songs. I’m going drinking. It’s September and the Mets are leading the league.” And that was the news that counted.

Seaver, I hope your Alzheimer’s doesn’t burn out your memory of that portion of your life. And Hamill, your writing still brings meaning to my life. That September in the city continues to resonate emotionally for me. Thank you, Mets.

Senior forwards Charlie Averill and Jake Schaefer and defenseman Nick Lyman earned honorable mention on the Free Press all-state men’s hockey team.

The majority of the top two rosters came from Essex, BFA-St. Albans and Stowe, traditionally strong hockey schools.

couldn’t have helped but notice snow that had been scraped off the court and piled just beyond the fence. Starting this sport in early spring is a tough business.

South Burlington fell to CVU women 4-3 April 17, and the men beat St. Johnsbury the day before by the same single point. The victories required

two singles wins and a couple from the doubles teams. The men’s number four and five singles players did in their St. Jay counterparts, and the women’s two and three singles players won their matches, while both doubles team victories in the two contests carried the Hawks to team wins overall.

Men Athletes of the Week from CVU

Votes from readers of the Burlington Free Press selected Redhawk lacrosse player James Bernicke as an Athlete of the Week for his hat trick against Middlebury followed by another hat trick with two assists against Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Storm Rushford also received the honor.

While he pitches for CVU, his sports accomplishments are subordinate to his medical ones. A cancer survivor who did not play baseball last year and underwent chemotherapy, Storm has started strong as one of the leading players for the Redhawks. He led the undefeated Hawks with two strong mound appearances, striking out seven in a 14-0 opening day victory over Burlington, followed by a five-hitter on April 24, beating Colchester 7-1. Charlotte’s Gus Lunde helped Storm’s cause at the plate against BHS.

Max Gorman picks the ball on the move against Woodstock.

Men’s LAX hits the pitch running

Seven wins without a loss sets up the men’s lacrosse team for another state championship run. Make that a goal, not a given, however. An opening eightgame win streak has made them strong competition in their opponents’ eyes.

Middies and attacks have maintained a strong Redhawk presence in the offensive end of the field, and, as usual in the team’s history, long sticks have not allowed the other team’s offense to stay around the CVU goal for numerous moves on the tender. Charlotters are playing at all positions except goal. Seth Boffa, Ben Wetzell, Max Gorman and co-captain Sam Sturim hold the midfield. Cole Boffa, Thomas Wright and Aidan Trus stand strong and high in the defensive zone, and Sean Gilliam pivots and moves on net as an attack. The Hawks’ closest game was in Maine, an 8-7 squeaker over Cape Elizabeth. Defense was shown to be key in that contest as CVU goalie Bobby Spencer was called upon for only five saves.

Women’s LAX starts slowly but picks up speed After losing their first three games to Rice, South Burlington and Burr and Burton, the women came back with a 17-11 win over Middlebury and a 19-8 victory over Burlington. Thirty-six goals in two games show an offense that is gaining confidence and shooting accurately. Shortage of penalties and strong defense keeps the opponents off guard as well.

Tennis tests wet courts

Watching high school tennis on the nightly TV news not too long ago, one

Rayona Silverman at the plate against Burlington.

Photos by Al Frey

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Books

Meet Libby, and book recommendations from Charlotte librarians Genevieve Trono

Libby is here!

Happy May! Are you excited for summer reading? I love reading on vacation. But I don’t like running out of books, so I always used to end up traveling with a whole stack of books with me, which takes up quite a bit of room. While my love for hard-copy books will never go away, I have become an ebook reader convert in the last couple of years.

And the biggest reason I switched: the Libby app.

Do you know about Libby? Susanna Kahn, Charlotte Library’s tech librarian, taught me about it and now I can’t imagine reading without it. The Libby app provides access to thousands of ebooks and audiobooks—and all you need is your library card. You can read or listen to your ebook directly on the app on your mobile device or read it on a Kindle ebook reader.

You may have three books at a time and five books on hold, which means you will never run out of something to read. There are hundreds of new releases, including a “Charlotte Only” collection, and thousands of books that are available to borrow right now.

Finish a book at 10 p.m. and have a new one ready to read just a few minutes later...it’s amazing.

Libraries really have grown with the times, and while libraries will always have hard-copy books, it is so wonderful that we have this audiobook/ebook option. If you have questions about how Libby works, you are in luck! Susanna is available at the Charlotte library to meet in person to answer any of your Libby questions, and the library is hosting a Libby event at the end of this month. Mark your calendars and join us for Libby on the Porch, Wednesday, May 29, from 3:15 to 4:15.

From our Charlotte librarians, here are some suggestions of books to download or to hold in your hands:

From Jenny Cole, local history curator and interlibrary loan librarian • Around the Mountains: Historical Essays about Charlotte, Ferrisburgh and Monkton,

by William Wallace Higbee, published by the Charlotte Historical Society.

In early spring after the snow melts, the contours of the land are especially visible.

Old roads, stone walls and other evidence of past land uses can be seen. Building foundations, often close to the road, mark locations where earlier Charlotte residents lived and worked. Around the Mountains

will take you on a tour of Charlotte in the 1800s and early 1900s and provide you with a good introduction to the town’s history. The book is loaded with interesting maps, photos, documents and sketches compiled by the Charlotte Historical Society.

• Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, by Kate Moore Radium Girls traces the lives of women working at two dial-making factories in New Jersey and Illinois after World War I. The book tells of the terrible health effects caused by exposure to radium and the years of legal struggle to hold the companies accountable.

The book contains detail that helps you experience the struggle. It serves as a cautionary tale about substances advertised as safe that are not and conditions in the world today that disregard the health and safety of workers.

From Georgia Edwards, cataloging librarian

Any book from the following two series by author, Elly Griffiths: 1) The Ruth Galloway series.

2) The Magic Men series.

Chronologically, The Crossing Places is the first book in the Ruth Galloway mysteries. Ruth is a forensic archaeologist who assists the local Norfolk (England) police—more specifically the police chief!— with sticky crimes. Strong characters and interesting relationships are what make her books so readable.

Griffith’s Magic Men series takes place in the coastal town of Brighton, England, post WW II. Two war buddies, one a detective, the other a magician, get together to solve crimes. The first book in this series is The Zig Zag Girl. The Magic Men stories have humorous moments, at times outrageous, and the relationship between the two former POWs is wonderful.

Any book by Elly Griffiths is a good read, guaranteed to entertain.

From Susanna Kahn, tech librarian • My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.

I love to read books that offer a look into

a different culture, whether in the U.S. or another country. This satirical novel is a quick, creative and quirky read set in Nigeria.

• Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir

by Ruth Reichl I’ve enjoyed many of Ruth Reichl’s books and still regret recycling stacks of Gourmet magazines just before it suddenly folded in 2009. So, her latest memoir recounting her 10 years as editor at Gourmet was a treat to read, offering a look into test kitchens and the (glamorous!) magazine publishing world.

From Cheryl Sloan, youth services librarian • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee I re-read this book at least once a year. I love the voice of Scout and her clear, innocent opinions of right and wrong.

• A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute I discovered several English authors when I was a Peace Corp volunteer in Jamaica in the early 1980s. All of Shute’s books are fantastic, but this story has stayed with me over 35 years.

From Margaret Woodruff, library director • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Taking place in India during the State of Emergency of 1975, this panoramic, detailed story involves residents of an apartment building who are forced to share accommodation when the troubles begin.

The detailed drawing of the characters and the weaving of the story are compelling and captivating.

• Virgil Wander by Leif Enger Seemingly an ordinary story, this novel by the author of Peace Like a River opens up the wonder of one man’s life after surviving an automobile accident. The enchanting descriptions of the Minnesota landscape and small-town life, as well as the engaging portrayal of Virgil, his friends and neighbors create a moving and absorbing tale.

See you all next month. For recommendations and reviews before then, please visit genthebookworm.com.

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Sacred Hunter Bradley Carleton I woke up late, exhausted by another week of slogging through the mire as a slave of commerce. My heart and my mind were already in the woods, but my body required extra rest. I’ve never been one to sleep in when it comes to hunting or fishing, but this time was different. My wife had been out riding her horse the day before and told me of a big turkey that flushed out of the field in front of her and flew up into the trees, spooking her and her equine partner. Rousting out of bed at 9—late for a hunting expedition, since all hunters know that peak encounter times occur most often at dawn and dusk—I lazily dressed myself in camo and headed to the woods.

I clucked every 100 yards to see if I could elicit an answer. Nothing. I hiked back into the swamp and set up my decoys to sit and listen. I crawled under a wild tangle of shrubbery and leaned uncomfortably against the base. I let out a loud series of clucks, and far off in the distance I heard him. He gobbled viciously but must have been about a half mile away. I picked up my decoys and packed them into my turkey vest. I hiked through a wet swamp, my feet getting wetter each time a hummock gave way to the water underneath.

Turkey hunting is a fascinating means of dialoguing with an animal. In nature it is the hen that calls out to the tom, “Where are you?” The tom will gobble back giving away his location, to which she is obligated to pursue him. In hunting turkey, the goal is to get a tom to do exactly the opposite of what nature has taught him. The hunter has to convince the tom that he is a hen ready to breed and is not going to seek him out but begs and pleads with him to come find her.

This makes the whole pursuit quite difficult.

This particular bird was on posted property, across a small stream, up a hill and all the way to the end of a long field. I had to call very convincingly to attract him past these obstacles—which, by the way, is also against their nature.

I found some dry ground on the edge of the swamp and stopped. I looked at my watch.

11:30. I called again and knew I had but a half hour to complete my mission because the closing time each day in May is high noon.

I could feel my heart beating heavily in my chest, blood pulsing through the veins in my arms. For the next half hour, I gave it all I had. I clucked, purred, putted and screamed

The dance of life my romantic desire to the whole forest. Each time, at the end of a monologue, he would vociferously reply that he wanted very badly to meet me. This dance went on for 20 minutes and each time he answered he was a little closer.

I looked at my watch again. 11:55. This game was nearly over. Just like the old Westerns, this drama played out with the deadline approaching quickly. Then suddenly he stopped communicating. This meant one thing. He was seeking visual verification of this hot young hen.

Then, behind a fallen pine, I saw the full fan. This was a big bird – monarch of the woods. He strutted back and forth behind the tree when a hen popped out from behind the root ball. She took three steps forward and turned to the fully fanned tom. He took one step toward her. The hen took three more steps forward, putting inquisitively. Again, she turned to him and he took one more step forward. He was now behind the root ball of the fallen pine. I lowered my head to the stock of my shotgun and took a deep breath.

I cocked my wrist to one side to look at my watch. Being legal is in my nature. This could play out either way. 11:58. I looked back up at the hen as she took three more steps and turned to the tom to give him the okay that the coast was clear.

His bright red and blue head thrust forward from behind the tree and I placed the bead of my shotgun on him. For one moment, we were hopelessly entwined in the dance of life.

He, the monarch, and I, the peasant, in his kingdom. We joined breaths as I pulled the trigger. The echo of the shotgun bounced off the distant hills in the valley and the king lay still on the forest floor. I looked at my watch.

11:59. I walked over to him and kneeled to pray. “Great Spirit, thank you for presenting me with this beautiful being. I promise to honor his life and share his grace and majesty with those deserving of his glory. Thank you, Great Spirit. Thank you, God.” The walk home was a long one, and at one point a tear of remorse and gratitude rolled down my cheek. I let myself feel it track down my cheek to the side of my mouth, where I touched it with my tongue and felt its salty sweetness. This is life and I am a part of all that is.

Bradley Carleton is executive director of Sacred Hunter.org, a nonprofit that seeks to educate the public on the spiritual connection of man to nature.

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Out Takes Journalism could be on the brink of disaster Edd Merritt Ban the bombers are afraid of a fight Peace hurts business and that ain’t right How do I know? I read it in the Daily News Daily News – Tom Paxton Susan Ohanian sent me a commentary from Todd Smith, publisher of the Caledonian Record, a newspaper for the Northeast Kingdom counties of Caledonia, Essex and Orleans. It was something he had sent to Senator Patrick Leahy asking for help in maintaining the paper in light of the “digital duopoly of Google and Facebook.” The Record, having been the daily newspaper for the Kingdom for over 100 years, was seeing its financial resources dwindling, due somewhat to a shortage of revenue in the region as a whole but also to a change in journalistic endeavor from print media to online sources.

As a journalist in another part of the state, I am concerned about this trend because I think it portends a rift in what I feel is important about maintaining “journalism” and not just the “news media.”

Let me try to explain how I see the difference. Journalism is an intellectual endeavor, one that requires human insight

and often academic analysis into content that flows from a collection of data. Smith says that it was “with horror that I read Mark Zuckerberg’s recent editorial calling for government regulation of speech.”

That, Smith feels, would take the process out of the hands of those responsible for putting down the written word, the bedrock of a dying industry and, he says, the substance of one element of democracy. By classifying social media companies such as Facebook as technology firms rather than publishers, it “absolves these companies of any responsibility for the content of their platforms.”

“Content” is the key word here. Merriam Webster says that it is the “collection and editing of news for presentation.” “News media,” on the other hand, is an “umbrella term” for “all sources and presentation of news.” It can be TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, webs, blogs or tweets. So, content is what goes on the page; media is how it is transmitted to readers.

Good journalists delve into the data they uncover to give their written word meaning beyond the numbers themselves. The truth is that journalism incorporates people who put the words on the page and must look closely at their audience, determining that what they write is understandable and makes the point(s) they want. Although objectivity is always a goal, what

remains important as the impact “ofGatekeeping digital media gains in practice. I believe a majority of readers want news to be relevant, i.e. attached to the topic and interesting. Gaining relevance is the job of the gatekeepers.

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comes out can seldom be called totally objective simply because there is a person communicating through chosen language.

Despite that fact, authors should base their writing on facts, be nonpartisan and fair as much as they can.

Journalism has evolved as a communicative practice since the 18th century and could easily die an untimely death with too much government oversight.

This may diverge to some degree from the growing liberal base that is promoting more government assessment of matters affecting our nation.

In the last paragraph of his letter, Smith asks Senator Leahy to introduce legislation that makes the companies themselves “responsible for the content on their platform.” It may also seem ironic that this responsibility might either fit or be at odds with some of our president’s misguided attempts at factuality and his personal slant on the context of what he says. But, we do seem to be in the middle of political anomalies, don’t we?

In 1965 Johan Geltung and Mari Ruge studied what they referred to as the “practice of gatekeeping in a context of reporting.” Although their ideas received somewhat mixed reviews at the time, gatekeeping remains important as the impact of digital media gains in practice.

I believe a majority of readers want news to be relevant, i.e. attached to the topic and interesting. Gaining relevance is the job of the gatekeepers.

I admit that while I find papers like The New York Times more adept at delving

into the information they print, many other papers find it necessary to make themselves tabloids in order to survive. As a result I read the Times articles and commentaries closely, hoping my own brain can understand the bases on which they impart their information.

It reminds me of an excellent practice chronicled in a book by, of all groups, the Harvard Business School faculty, called Education for Judgment. In it they decry the notion of teaching by lecture and suggest that learning on the students’ parts is much better stimulated through “discussion teaching” or dialogue. It makes for a community of learning rather than an individual exercise that may or may not take hold depending on the person.

Community, nation, racial or gender-based collective, service order or any body of people emboldened by a cause (yes, even the NRA) should listen carefully to ideas from others and debate them whenever they wish before making their own decisions.

Apparently, Mark Zuckerberg’s stint at Harvard did not incorporate education for judgment because he does not want to be held responsible for what appears under his company’s aegis. Smith, on the other hand, asks Zuckerberg to do his job and our government to do its.

Then again, REM may capsulate it all in lyrics of a song: “World serves its own needs, but hey, don’t mis-serve your own needs.” Even if it’s the end of the world, “I feel fine.”

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Selectboard TREE REMOVAL continued from page 1 can’t lose the trust in local firms we ask to prepare bids for us. And in light of the tree warden’s recommendation, we can’t simply dismiss the reasoned advice of our hard working and professional volunteers.”

Marty Illick, who is on the Charlotte Planning Commission, wrote “I recommend [the Selectboard] swiftly withdraw their approval of the ash tree bid award and reconsider awarding the bid to Greg Ranallo’s far more qualified firm…Appalling to observe the SB did not more carefully consider the facts and consultation of our two town experts on this project—Mark and VJ. This very poor decision is unfortunate, but there is time to correct if the SB takes charge right now.”

Ranallo said that over the years he’s been in the business and responding to RFPs, this is the only one he lost that bothered him. As a Charlotte resident, he said he feels a responsibility to give back to the town and often will bid lower than his usual rate on local projects because it’s important to contribute to the community.

This decision, he said, has made him reconsider how the Selectboard operates in general. “It makes me wonder about other decisions that are made… Are they working for the interest of the town or themselves? I don’t know the answer, but I think we need to watch more closely.”

Chris Fortin, proprietor of Chris’s Lawn Care and Mini Excavating, said the responses on Front Porch Forum have been difficult for him and his family.

“We have been in business for over 25 years and most of what we do is word of mouth,” he said. “We have tons of qualifications in many areas, including tree cutting and removal both along roads and right next to multi-million dollar houses.”

He also indicated that although he won the bid, he believes the Selectboard’s bid selection process wasn’t fair. Referring to Bloch asking Teachers if they would also include the smaller trees after seeing that it was included in Chris’s Lawn

Care’s bid, Fortin said, “Look back at the opening of the tree removal bid Selectboard meeting. And see whose proposal was the best that night. They then offered Teachers what we put in our bid, and he agreed. Now ask yourself: was that fair? We weren’t offered a chance to change our bid based on what Teachers put in their bid, perhaps that had something to do with who got the bid?”

What happens next The Selectboard has a meeting scheduled for May 1; on the agenda is time for public input and discussion on improving the bidding process, as well as a likely executive session portion to discuss the contractual obligation of the town. Krasnow said that the Selectboard, should it decide to explore rescinding the vote, would be more complicated than just changing their minds. “I believe votes, in general, can be rescinded by holding a subsequent vote to do so that passes with a majority of the Board,” he said. “Although there are many specific reasons that would make rescinding a vote not possible as well. In this specific instance, the vote itself entered the Town into a contractual agreement. Whether or not this specific vote can be rescinded would be something the Selectboard could explore with the Town’s general counsel.”

Beyond the immediate matter at hand is the larger question of how the Selectboard operates in voting circumstances and how its members are fulfilling their obligations to the town. Ranallo said that his trust in the process and the Selectboard has been damaged by the situation and that he thinks the trouble lies deeper than just this one vote. He indicated that the problem is systemic. “People have been sending me stories about other incidents,” he said.

Ranallo said he thinks this decision was based on personal relationships rather than what’s best for the town. “I think we need to watch more closely so people can’t just hand contracts to their friends,” he said.

Though he wouldn’t name the person, Ranallo said he had a conversation with a town employee a full week before the

Ash treees on Lake Road identified for removal.

Selectboard that now has him wondering if the Selectboard vote was a mere formality.

“I ran into someone that works for the town a week before that meeting and he said to me, ‘They should give that bid to you, not Fortin. I don’t know why they’re giving it to Fortin.’ And I just thought he thought that Fortin might get it…so I think they were probably talking about giving it to him way before the meeting.”

Krasnow said that the integrity of the Selectboard and its decision making is important to him and that the special session scheduled for May 1 will allow an opportunity to “deliberate thoughtfully on two issues: What is in the Town’s best interest at this point in time? And how can we improve the bid selection process moving forward?”

Though the issue has grown complicated, all parties involved are looking for a resolution that’s fair. “I have nothing against Chris,” Ranallo said. “I want to be friends with all my neighbors

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and be on good terms with everyone in town…All I want is integrity in the process.”

Fortin said he has been working in the community for many years and that he is interested in moving forward. “We aren’t looking to start confrontation with anyone, just doing the job we were awarded,” he said. McCarren, though she would not explain the reason for her vote, acknowledged, “The decision is unpopular. Any and all ideas to improve our process are welcome.”

Krasnow said he sees the situation as an opportunity for growth. “I’m encouraged so many people have expressed an interest in our local government and its decisionmaking process, and I’m committed to leveraging this windfall of community participation to re-shape and codify a better institutional process for future Selectboards, contractors and residents to rely upon,” he said.

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SENIOR CENTER MENUS Suggested donation for all meals: $5 a theater pro. Parts are assigned, and copies are made available at the Senior Center about a week before the group gathers to read—with refreshments! Many have participated in this group for several years and wouldn’t miss it! Sign up and find out what part you’ll be playing. No fee.

Free Wednesday Afternoon Events at 1 p.m.

5/8: A Photographer Looks at Nature. Join noted nature photographer, musician and raconteur Peter Riley for an hour-long slide show and talk about his images of birds, dragonflies and other natural wonders. He will talk about how each photo was made as well as about the natural history of his subjects. Questions are encouraged.

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We don’t need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.

Donella Meadows As you know, the Senior Center does not sell cars or clothes, but it certainly does embody the other values mentioned in the quote. After having been at the wonderful Annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner last week at the Old Lantern, it is very evident that it takes a veritable village of volunteers to make the Senior Center community possible. We have more than 100 volunteers who contribute in dozens of ways to not only help run the Center but also to help create the atmosphere that makes people want to be there in the first place. The most wonderful thing is that volunteering is, well, 100 percent voluntary; a certain number of hours are not a prerequisite for participation in any part of what the Center offers. If you would like a chance to get involved and make new friends, there are a wide variety of options with many choices of hours. Interested? Contact Volunteer Coordinator Peggy Sharpe at 4256345 to learn more.

New courses and activities

Tuesday, May 7 Spring Road Hike #2 to USFS Rd. #59, Ripton. Join veteran hiker Marty Morrissey and meet at the Center 10 minutes prior to the 9 a.m. departure. Bring water, good hiking or walking shoes, and

a snack or bag lunch. More details of each hike in the sign-up book at the host desk.

Registration required. No fee.

5/7, Tuesday, Pastel Painting with Shirley Reid-Thompson meets afternoons 1–3:30.

Dates: 5/7, 5/14, 5/21 & 5/28. Emphasis will be on pastel painting techniques. Color theory will be explained, and you will work from real life set-ups; one afternoon we will use photographs. All levels of skill are welcome—including beginners. Registration necessary. Limit 10. Fee: $115 for the series.

5/9, Thursday, the Gents Breakfast meets from 7:30-9 a.m., in the Café. Please make a reservation by Tuesday and come for good food, interesting discussion and camaraderie.

Donation of $5 is requested.

5/14, Tuesday, Acrylic Adventures with Lynn Cummings meets 9 a.m. to noon. Dates 5/14, 5/21, 5/28. Students will be guided in steps to produce unique, intuitive art. Fluid acrylics, heavy body paints, pens, stencils, texturizing materials, and found objects will be used to create stunning pieces. Fee: $110 for the series.

5/23, Thursday, Play Reading, 1–3:30 p.m.

Starts 5/23 and continues monthly on fourth Thursdays through November. Want to take part in a rollicking, fun activity with likeminded individuals? No physical exertion, just reading aloud from scripts around a table.

Forget any performance anxiety you may think is involved—there is none. Good short plays or selections are chosen by enthusiastic and supportive leader, Sean Moran, who is

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5/15: Do Community Newspapers Have a Future? With founder Nancy Wood, publisher Vince Crockenberg, and the editors and managers of The Charlotte News.

How and why is a community newspaper important? Is there a place for The Charlotte News, now 60 years old, in the 21st century?

Learn about news operations, financial challenges and the need for new business models to ensure that The News is still around to celebrate its 70th birthday. Bring your own ideas to the discussion.

Art News The May Art Exhibit showcases the stunning photography of Peter Riley, an award-winning local nature photographer.

Riley is known for his methodical approach and for capturing the most interesting moments of animal behavior—be they songbirds, raptors or dragonflies. Most images were taken here in Vermont, while others were taken in nearby states and abroad during his travels as a musician and singer. Please note that this exhibit opens on 5/5.

The Great Room is busier than usual in May, and the best times to see the Art Exhibit are: Wednesdays 9:30-11 a.m., Thursdays after 12:30 (except 5/9) and Fridays after 12:30.

Take a quick peek at noon Mondays.

Please call the Center during the week to check on Sunday availability.

Even if you are not ready to sign up for a class or to volunteer, stop in and say hello—we love to show people around. The Senior Center is located at 212 Ferry Road, Charlotte and is open Monday through Friday from 9-4. Or give us a call us at 4256345. Residents from other communities are always welcome. Our mission is to serve those over 50.

Monday Munch

11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

No reservations required.

May 6

Spring vegetables & chicken soup Sweet and sour slaw Rolls Chocolate coconut macaroons Soup and dessert are courtesy of Philo Ridge.

May 13

Spring chicken with barley soup Green salad Homemade dessert

Wednesday Lunch All diners eat at noon.

Reservations required.

May 1

Mom’s chop suey Homemade birthday cake & ice cream

May 8

Turkey almond casserole Homemade dessert

May 15

Ham & mushroom quiche Greens Homemade dessert

Thursday Gents Breakfast

7:30–9 a.m.

Reservations required.

May 9 Menu: TBA Topic: TBA (Keep up to date on menus with Front Porch Forum, as these sometimes change.)

To learn more about the Senior Center, other courses and our menus for the month, please visit our new website: CharlotteSeniorCenterVT.org.

See you soon! ________________ Charlotte Senior Center (802) 425-6345 CharlotteSeniorCenterVT.org

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Shelburne Bay prepares Charlotte Senior Center lunch

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On April 21, Executive Chef Arnd Sievers from the Residence at Shelburne Bay and his team prepared and served a delicious lunch for the Charlotte Senior Center. We are very grateful for their cooperative spirit and generosity in donating their time and talents. From left to right: Executive Chef Arnd Sievers, Chef Missy Campono, and Sales and Marketing Director Alicia Fleming.

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