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VOLUME LIX NUMBER 22

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017

THE FARM SERIES Meet Whimsy, the newest calf at Windy Corners Farm Trina Bianchi kicks off The News farm series Page 5

• On the inside: • Dinnan-Webster home wins green award, page 1 • Quest for Charlotte’s biggest trees, page 7 • Fields of gold with Chris Falk, page 9

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Malletts Bay debacle raises concerns about Thompson’s Point Keith Morrill STAFF WRITER

The recent legal battles and evictions of leaseholders on Malletts Bay in Colchester have some Charlotte citizens asking if similar events could unfold in their own town. Like the Colchester evictees in question, residents of Thompson’s Point own buildings upon land that they lease.

But how firm is the lease upon which those houses stand, and how does life differ for Bay and Point leaseholders?

The debacle in Malletts Bay has been years in the making, but the trouble essentially started in 2008 when homeowners sued the landowners, the Mongeon family, to gain possession of the land on which their homes were built. The gambit ultimately failed and permanently soured relations between lessor and lessees. When flooding in 2011 compromised a seawall and embankment,

the homeowner’s association failed to satisfactorily address the damages, and in 2012 the Mongeons sued the association to recover damages and to evict the leaseholders for failing to maintain their properties. The Chittenden County Superior Court ruled in the Mongeons’ favor and awarded $135,000 in damages, but said “forfeiture [of the lease] would be especially inequitable, and a sanction entirely out of proportion to the lease violations.” Both sides appealed to Vermont Supreme Court and in 2015 that ruling was overturned and the tenants were evicted.

Though just a few miles down the lake, Thompson’s Point seems to exist a world apart. To start with, the entire Point is owned by the town of Charlotte and has been since the 1830s when it was originally used as a poor farm—a farm

see THOMPSON’S POINT page 16

This Charlotte shoreline photo was submitted by Kathy O’Brien of Four Season’s Sotheby’s Realty.

Charlotte home dubbed greenest in the state Lynn Monty EDITOR IN CHIEF

A Charlotte home built by Ken Ruddy of Fiddlehead Construction for Tai Dinnan and Evan Webster has won 2016’s “Vermont’s Greenest Residential Building” award from Vermont Green Building Network. The only house to measure more efficient in the history of this annual award was another Charlotte house, designed and owned by David Pill and Hillary Maharam.

Rather than buy an existing house Dinnan and Webster decided to create a modest, energy-efficient home using current technology and techniques. “We hope this attention brought by this award will help others realize that efficiency can be affordable and should be part of every new home’s construction,” Dinnan said.

Ruddy has developed a streamlined and cost-effective approach to building this type of high-performance home that incorporates enhanced energy efficiency but also utilizes best building practices and focuses on durable detailing, he said.

The award-winning, single-family residence on the southern slope of Mt. Philo has walls built with air barriers, vented roofs with cathedral ceilings, wastewater heat recovery for both baths and kitchen, and ventilation driven by indoor air quality monitoring, among other special features. It’s an electric home with supplemental solar and a woodstove.

After Dinnan and Webster had been living in the house for a year to prove

State police weigh in on town speeding dilemma Lynn Monty

EDITOR IN CHIEF

This home on the southern slope of Mt. Philo is “Vermont’s greenest.”

Courtesy photo its energy efficiency, Ruddy applied for the award. It makes sense from both a financial and sustainability perspective to build this way, Ruddy said. Not only did investing in this new home reduce Dinnan and Webster’s impact on the environment, they also experienced short-term savings.

“Because we never needed to get infrastructure such as radiators, propane, oil or gas lines and tanks, investing in efficiency didn’t end up costing more money,” Dinnan said.

When you include energy costs along with the mortgage, these homes are less expensive on a monthly basis than a new home built to code standard, Ruddy said. “Tai and Evan sized the home for their current and future needs and no more, so it is smaller, but functional,” he said. “Efficiency Vermont’s High Performance Homes standard, which this home used as a starting point, was not only developed to hit the sweet spot with regard to cost effectiveness to reach

see GREEN page 15

Sports 12-13 • Senior Center 22 • Community Events 23

Speed limit enforcement in town has been an ongoing contentious issue, and Vermont State Police addressed the matter at a recent Selectboard meeting.

Vermont State Police Lt. Garry Scott and Sgt. Matt Daley attended. The town has a traffic enforcement contract with the Vermont State Police.

Mt. Philo Road resident Brian Machanic said there were two multiplecar accidents near his home in recent months, and he lives 150 yards from the town’s speed monitor. His neighbor Brian Slater said he has lived where the road flattens, where cars frequently increase speeds, for more than a decade.

There is an uptick in traffic between 7:30 and 9 a.m., Slater said at the Selectboard meeting. “More than one in 10 are speeding over 70 mph,” he estimated. “Motorists slow down when they see the flashing light of the speed monitor, then they speed up again once past it. If the Vermont State Police can’t prioritize our roads, then is it worth budgeting money for a contract?”

Charlotte’s traffic enforcement contract for the current fiscal year, which

see SPEED page 16

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Editorial The heavier side of solace and solutions

Lynn Monty EDITOR IN CHIEF

Music of all genres makes my soul sing, but I tend to get up and move with harder riffs—and not away either. I get closer to the music—turn it up in more ways than one. The heavy stuff propels me forward, makes me bold. Grammywinning singer, songwriter and guitarist Chris Cornell’s voice has been in my ears all of my adult life. He died May 18 at the age of 52.

Cornell was a multi-platinum artist who sold more than 30 million records worldwide. His sound was exceptional, respected and so loved. His death struck me particularly hard because I am almost 50 years old. He was way too young to go regardless of how he went.

Authorities say, but his family refutes, that it was suicide.

I recently started running again, and Soundgarden and Audioslave are on my playlist to get me up these rural Vermont hills. When I listened to “Cochise” and “I am the Highway” on my run the day of his death, I ran harder. And not only that, hearing his voice made me want to live harder.

Do I have a day or do I have 50 years left on this planet? Am I an autumn moon or am I the night? Nobody knows.

But we all go through this, don’t we? We get existential and think deeply about ourselves. We vow, “I am going to eat

healthier, go to bed earlier …” Yada, yada, yada. It sticks for a week, and we are back to our “bad” habits and kicking ourselves, especially as we approach our fifties.

I ate almost an entire bag of kettlecooked potato chips because I found a misspelled word in the last edition of The News. I must have read it literally 75 times and never saw it. I even lost sleep over the error. When I admitted to my family that I missed a major typo, you know what they did? They collectively shrugged their shoulders! The nerve. And then my daughter casually said, “You’re way too hard on yourself, Mom.” So, I ate the chips that day. Some days I run. It’s the yin and yang of existence.

Up and down. Good habits and bad. It’s all a part of the whole. Most things we undertake in our daily round are not all that important, yet each one of us exemplifies some narcissistic propensity to think otherwise. Some people are worse than others with this, of course, and it certainly doesn’t help to walk around touting, “I am the editor aren’t I? I am a great editor. Ask anybody.

Everyone tells me I am a great editor.”

I happen to err on the side of selfdeprecation actually. Whether or not my family, friends, coworkers or my dog have all been forced to listen to my inane criticism of myself on any particular day, it’s still up to me to find balance. I do this with music. The sound of Chris Cornell in my earbuds has always been just like his song “Like a Stone,” reminding me that I am indeed strong and complete just as I am. Music takes us into solitude, away from our life for a moment and into a place of reflection where solutions can be found. Sometimes the messages I interpret are not what was originally intended, but that’s part of the magic, my songwriter husband tells me.

Much of how we live our lives is structured in a way that’s out of our immediate control. And most of these

“Promise to survive, persevere and thrive. And fill the world with life, as we’ve always done.”

CHRIS CORNELL, “THE PROMISE”

structures were put into place before we were even born. That’s why some of us carry our rebellious natures well into our fifties, way past our teen years. We forge ahead day after day observing, questioning and, right before we make our next bold move, we crank it up and sing along with Chris Cornell, “I’m going to break my rusty cage and run.” I ran a total of 14 miles last week and plan to keep running, exploring, growing, writing and loving this Charlotte community and all of the people who pass through my life a little harder than before. It’s a true gift to be here. Right here. Right now. As is. Imperfections and all.

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Opinion Community initiatives for fun and fixing Ruah Swennerfelt CHARLOTTE

Transition Charlotte is planning to offer a “Repair Café,” co-sponsored by the Charlotte Library and Grange, in the fall. There’s a worldwide movement trying to reform our throwaway approach to rips and tears, broken switches or chords, or just about anything else that could be repaired if we could find the person to fix it.

The cafés invite people to bring their “beloved but broken” possessions to the gatherings, which are hosted in church basements, libraries, town halls and senior centers. The cafés make no guarantees that items will be fixed. “All we can guarantee is that you will have an interesting time,” John Wackman, who founded the Repair Café in New Paltz, New York, said.

Transition initiatives around the country have adopted repair cafés as a way to bring community members together for fun and fixing. Clothes, books, dolls, stuffed animals, bicycles, appliances, chairs, jewelry, electronics— if they are broken, ripped or inoperable and you can carry it in, fixers will try

to fix it or help you fix it yourself. As described in my book, Rising to the Challenge: The Transition Movement and People of Faith: “A Repair Cafe run by the Transition group in Pasadena, California, offers to repair anything for free. The only trade required is that while the repair takes place, you sit in a chair opposite the fixer and tell them a story about your life. What was the repair café really repairing?” Don’t we need to repair our fractured culture, where neighbor doesn’t know neighbor? I know we are more fortunate here in Charlotte, but from my past experience I see how eager Charlotters are to get together.

In a recent New York Times article I learned that the movement began in Amsterdam where Martine Postma came up with the idea to reduce the waste going into landfills. Repair Café started in 2009 and today it has more than 1,100 sites in almost 30 countries!

So I’m calling all fixers! Let me know if you’d be interested in helping out with a repair café in the fall. Once we have a hefty lineup of fixers, we’ll put out the call for things to fix along with a date and place. We’ll have refreshments, share stories and have fun, while also

A Repair Cafe run by theTransition group in Pasadena, Calif., offers to repair anything for free. The only trade required is that while the repair takes place, you sit in a chair opposite the fixer and tell them a story about your life. Photo by Ruah Swennerfelt doing something to save our planet from too much waste. Call me at 425-3377

or email me at ruahswennerfelt@gmail. com.

Two injured in bus accident Staff report

Chittenden South Supervisory Union

Chief Operation Officer Bob Mason said 23 students were involved in a single school bus accident on Route 116, north of Hinesburg, at about 3:30 p.m. on May 18.

Two students required medical attention for minor injuries. Students were transported back to the CVU campus where parents were contacted. Each student was seen by medical personnel before being released.

Mason said the bus was headed from CVU to Williston and the name of the bus driver would not be released by the school.

The school bus driver is reported to have

veered off of the right-hand side of the road to avoid another vehicle and subsequently struck a tree. Initial reports indicate that the bus driver was not distracted. The accident in under investigation by the Hinesburg Police Department.

This follows a February school bus accident where a CSSU bus caused minor damage to a parked car, Mason confirmed.

Mason said he could not comment on how the injured students are recovering or any other details of the May accident. “We are completing an accident investigation with the assistance of the Hinesburg Police Department and the school’s insurance carrier, part of that process will be a policy and procedure review,” he said.

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Two students required medical attention for minor injuries when a CSSU school bus hit a tree after school on May 18.

Photo courtesy of WCAX Channel 3

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Around Town Edd Merritt CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Congratulations:

to Ted Castle, owner of Rhino Foods which was awarded placement by Forbes Magazine on its list of “Forbes Small Giants,” 25 companies that value greatness over growth. Castle was a strong hockey player for UVM in the early 1970s and later assistant UVM hockey coach, but he soon turned from pucks to cookies. He opened a small ice cream shop in the Champlain Mill where he sold Chessters. In 1983 he moved out of the “Mill” and established Rhino Foods, first at Fort Ethan Allen, later on Industrial Parkway in Burlington’s south end. Ted worked with another couple of Vermont entrepreneurs named Cohen and Greenfield to produce cookie-dough for ice cream, and “things really took off.”

Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough was one of their best sellers, and Rhino Foods had to expand to fill orders.

Growth came, but not without limits.

The Forbes award selects “25 companies that have sound business models, strong balance sheets and steady profits.” They are companies that “contribute to their communities.” They have all been around and profitable for 10 years. According to Forbes Senior Editor Loren Feldman, their most important asset is that they “do things that other companies can learn from.” Since ice cream is primarily a seasonal food, Ted wanted to establish ways to retain his workers during the off season. He developed a program to loan them to other businesses such as another Charlotte-connected business, Champlain Chocolates. He pays his employees above the state’s $10 per hour minimum wage and offers performancebased bonuses. Thirty percent of the staff comes from outside the U.S.,

and Castle offers them on-site classes to learn English as their second language. to Stephen Kiernan who published another novel titled The Baker’s Secret.

Set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, it is the story of a baker, Emma, who stretches the use of her wheat ration to feed bread to both her fellow villagers and the “Komandant,” using her food preparation as a basis for description of life in an occupied village just prior to the Normandy invasion. According to a review in the recent Seven Days, it is largely a character novel, and Emma is the glue that binds the village together.

Her traveling to deliver the extra loaves helps her advise others about how they can accomplish what they need or wish to do. This is Stephen Kiernan’s third novel in the last four years. to Susan Ohanian whose letter to the editor appeared on the “Opinion Page” of the May 9 New York Times. In it, Susan explains how her father, president of a Northern California school board, learned that a number of his school’s students came every day with only a raw potato for lunch. He learned that the Army was in the process of disassembling a set of portable barracks used in World War II, and he decided to build a cafeteria from them. He and other board members did that themselves and supported a woman known for her cooking at church suppers to take a course in cooking for large numbers. As a result, all kids ate a hot lunch whether or not they had the money to buy it. Susan says the “ugly barracks served as the cafeteria for decades.”

Her dad gave her a board from the disassembled barracks that she still has as a reminder that ”we have individual and collective responsibility to make sure that kids come first.” to the following students from Charlotte at Champlain College who

earned placement on the Dean’s List for the Spring 2017 semester: Eric Naud, majoring in creative media; Celina Tong, majoring in game art and animation; Andrew Gay, majoring in business administration; Bradley Young, majoring in integrated studies, management. In order to earn placement on the list, students must achieve a semester grade-point average of 3.5 or higher. to Christine Whiteside of Charlotte who graduated cum laude with a B.S. in engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. She is a member of several honorary societies, including Alpha Omega Epsilon, the professional and social sorority of female engineers, and Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineeers. She was awarded her first patent as an intern at IBM where she will return as an employee.

Town Bites:

CCS invites students from the 1970s to a reunion

Friday, July 7, at the Charlotte Town Beach is the date and place for a gathering of people who attended Charlotte Central School in the 1970s and want to reconnect with their classmates. Starting at 6 p.m., it will be a potluck dinner, and the organizers ask everyone to bring food to share. Sarah Soule said it is being billed a reunion because many CCSers from that time have not seen each other for years. She also said that the picnic is not limited to 1970s classes and invites any Charlotte student to attend. Of greater importance is the fact that they remember Mr. Ketcham and Mr. Carter and Ethel Atkins’ to-die-for lunches. Those who wish may stay for the 40th reunion of the CVU class of 1977 that will be held that weekend at the Isham Barn in Williston.

Commercialization of Charlotte! What and where?

Seven Days uses The Old Lantern’s

Birth Announcement: Announcing the birth of Adelaide “Ada” Ruth Segel. She was born at home to Matt and Jennifer Segel on March 12 at 9:23 a.m. weighing 7lb. 6 oz. and measuring 19 inches. history and its relationship with its neighbors to describe issues around commercial activity growth in Charlotte.

The Old Lantern on Greenbush Road has been fighting to maintain its event license (mainly weddings) in light of what several of its neighbors call disturbing noise that disrupts a variety of residential activities for them. The disagreement has been going on for several years. Part of the problem is the great popularity of the Lantern for bridal events. Weekends in particular are booked well in advance, not only by local patrons, but also by people from around the northeast. Charlotte has retained a rural character while maintaining its status as a suburban, Chittenden County town. The Old Lantern is one of the early commercial venues in town and remains under scrutiny by some residents as to what changes additional commercial proposals might bring to the area. Approval from the Zoning Board of Adjustment for turning an older barn into event use was not gained, and

see AROUND TOWN page 15

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Town Windy Corners Farm kicks off The News farm series Introducing Windy Corners Farm, Roel Boumans and Tiny Sikkes

Trina Bianchi CONTRIBUTOR

Editor’s note: In an effort to support local farmers the Charlotte Grange has volunteered to feature a new farm story each month in The Charlotte News. Here is the inaugural piece. Enjoy!

“Renaissance farmer” is what came to mind after talking with Tiny Sikkes, touring Windy Corners Farm and meeting her husband, Roel Boumans. They are truly well versed and skilled in multiple aspects of farming and in life in general, willing and offering to share their knowledge and skills with others, valuing the land and environment, Tiny and Roel are both natives of the Netherlands, embody the true meaning of being “renaissance farmers.”

Growing up in a large family, Tiny, the daughter of a tulip farmer, spent a lot of time gardening with her aunt who had a small dairy farm, so she was introduced, at an early age, to the wonders and joys of working with the earth. Living in Amsterdam as a young adult she met Roel, and they discovered they shared the dream of becoming organic farmers. When he left for Louisiana to pursue a Ph.D. at LSU, Tiny followed him, and they settled in Baton Rouge for what was going to be a seven-year stay in the States. That stay, which began in 1985, has stretched to now well over 30!

After completing his PH.D. program, Roel’s work as an ecologist brought them north, initially to New Hampshire, then to Maryland and finally to Vermont. Through those early years they continued to farm as best they could. Having established credit with their home purchase in Maryland, Roel and Tiny were able, in 2002, to purchase 14 acres including the homestead and barn of the LaBerge Farm on the corner of Greenbush and East Thompson’s Point Roads where they planned to begin to farm

in earnest.

Goats and chickens soon were in residence, and Tiny was back working the soil for a vegetable garden, when, less than a year later, the house, a combination of the original 1795 home and a later addition built in 1835, burned to the ground. Relieved that they and the animals were all okay, they soon came to realize that their dream was not dead. Living in a trailer for six months while they converted the milk house and part of the barn into living quarters, Roel and Tiny then started rebuilding the main house on the original stone and brick foundation. As an ecologist, Roel places high value on the land and environment, thus their house, with the sole exception of the roof, contains no plastic but is instead insulated with straw.

In the years that followed, Windy Corners Farm became home to goats, pigs, sheep and turkeys and currently two adult Jersey cows along with a newborn heifer, Whimsy. Tiny feeds the heifer multiple times a day, drinking milk from Shadow, her mom. Feeding and handling the heifer gives Tiny the opportunity to convince Whimsy who’s “the boss” so that as an adult she will be as easy to handle as her mom, Shadow, and grandma, Cocoa. There are also 20 chickens, including a couple of roosters, and the plan is to add a couple of pigs to the farm. Tiny maintains a large vegetable and flower gardens along with black currant, apple, peach, cherry and pear trees, and raspberry bushes and grapevines, which provide her with fruit for the table and for juice and preserves.

As time went on, Roel and Tiny recognized that to rely on the farm for their entire income, they would need to focus on just one aspect of farming, like strictly growing vegetables, which would require them to use fossil fuels to run tractors. It would also mean they wouldn’t be able to raise animals or grow fruit trees. Their

ON THE COVER: Whimsy, the newborn calf at Windy Corners Farm.

Photo by Cindi Robinson dream needed to be adjusted. They chose instead to become self-sustaining farmers, occasionally selling any “extras” they produce. Tiny’s main job—when she’s not teaching pottery or cheese-making classes, or yoga at the Senior Center or at Yoga Roots—is tending the farm, while Roel works as an ecological economist at the University of Vermont’s Gund Institute.

Thus, Windy Corners became what would have been commonplace in early Vermont, a farm raising a variety of animals to supply the family with milk, cheese, butter, eggs and meat, and growing a variety of vegetables and fruits for the table and for preserving and perhaps a few flowers to bring color into the home.

The barn still contains the living quarters they used for seven years after the fire and includes a living area with a wood stove where Tiny learned to lay brick, a kitchen

and upstairs sleeping area along with a well-furnished wood shop containing the necessary equipment and tools so they could rebuild the house. Two freezers for food storage, a refrigerator for milk and eggs and an ample supply of canning jars take up one area of the dairy barn. One room was her “cheese room,” but that operation was moved into the basement of the house.

Asked how she learned to make cheese, Tiny said, “by a book.” She made chevre when she had goats and now makes a hard cheese from Jersey milk. Twenty chickens and their nesting boxes have one section at the end of the barn, and the Jerseys have sleeping quarters in another. In the house, the basement contains a root cellar, a cheese room and Tiny’s potter’s wheel. Her greenhouse is attached to the kitchen with another hot house outside.

Truly a farm-to-table home, Roel and Tiny know they are protecting their corner of the environment, living in a home they built themselves, which gives them an exquisite view of Mt. Philo and occasionally, when they have a bumper crop of something, affords them a bit of income.

They are totally self-sustaining, growing all their own food and raising all the meat they eat, though sometimes augmented with fish from the lake. They purchase only staples, spices and paper products.

To ensure the art of farming stays alive for future generations, young people come and go at the farm, learning about the various aspects of farming from Tiny.

Roel and Tiny keep their heritage alive in their home, speaking Dutch with each other and occasionally donning the traditional Dutch wooden shoes that hang in the barn. Tiny describes life on the farm as peaceful and serene—and gazing out at Philo from her house, this writer could feel the contentment present at Windy Corners Farm.

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Town

Calling all tree lovers Charlotte’s Tree Tribe needs you One of Larry Hamilton’s enduring contributions to the Charlotte community was his Big Tree Roster, a list of the champion trees of each species in Charlotte, whether on private or public property. Larry last updated the list in July 2016. The Charlotte Tree Tribe, under the leadership of Tree Warden Mark Dillenbeck, would like to invite all Charlotters to participate in the annual updating of that list.

For purposes of the roster, champion status is determined by the tree’s girth, in inches, four and a half feet from the ground. If you believe you have identified a candidate for champion status—a tree that is larger than the current champion of that species or that replaces a deceased champion or that would be a species

new to the roster [see below]—measure the tree at that height. Then send the measurement, along with a photo if possible, to Tree Steward Vince Crockenberg at vince.crockenberg@ gmail.com, with the words “Champion Tree?” in the subject line. A member of the Tree Tribe will then contact you and set up a time to officially confirm the tree’s species and its girth.

The official Big Tree Roster, which includes information on where the current champion trees reside, can be found on the town website: go to charlottevt.org, click on the Tree Warden tab, then on Big Tree List (or go to http:// tinyurl.com/le8vs3m).

Charlotte Big Tree Roster

Species and circumference in inches measured 4.5 feet above ground Native to Charlotte Species White Cedar Red Cedar

Hemlock White Pine Red Pine Tamarack Basswood Black Maple Sugar Maple Red Maple Silver Maple Black Maple Box Elder Red Oak White Oak Bur Oak Swamp White Oak Scarlet Oak Pin Oak White Ash Green Ash Black Willow

Circumference 150 58 110 135 58 64 164 69 197 131 147 87 95 151 179 182 160 137 42 172 90 170 (Deceased)

Beech Shagbark Hickory Bitternut Hickory Butternut American Elm Slippery Elm Hop Hornbeam Cottonwood Trembling Aspen Big Toothed Aspen White Birch Black Birch Black Cherry Sycamore Serviceberry

130 151 130 192 (Died 2016) 138 232 (Died 2016) 75 174 45 57 63 56 89 43 (Planted in 2000) 20

The former champion Slippery Elm.

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Non-native but widely planted or escaped Black Walnut 137 Black Locust 158 Horse Chestnut 134 Weeping Willow 254 Norway Maple 95 July 2016

Champion White Cedar, Barber Hill Cemetery.

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Champion Black Locust at Horsford’s, left, with his little sister, right.

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Town Volunteers help restore historic Charlotte cemetery

Year-round farm market at Philo Ridge Farm Diana McCargo PHILO RIDGE FARM

Pete Demick (with shovel) explains the process of re-setting a tilting grave marker.

Courtesy photo Chris Falk CONTRIBUTOR

A dozen volunteers, members of Vermont Old Cemetery Association (VOCA), attended a graveyard restoration project on Saturday, May 20, at the West Burying Ground on Greenbush Road.

The purpose of the project was to reset or straighten some of the historic headstones that were leaning, sinking or had fallen over.

The project was spearheaded by Diane Leary, a Charlotte resident, VOCA member and longtime Cemetery Commission supporter. A workshop was led by Pete Demick, president of Vermont Walkways & Stone Preservation. Demick showed the group the proper way to reset a tilting grave marker without scratching or breaking the stone.

The cemetery hosted its first burial

in 1785 and is the final resting place for some of Charlotte’s earliest residents.

Centuries of surface runoff and harsh Vermont winters have since taken a toll on the older markers, and much work is needed to preserve this rich historic resource. Victoria Zulkoski, Charlotte Cemetery Commission chair, said it will take time to restore all the stones, but great progress was made this past weekend, with dignity restored to some monuments.

Demick and the VOCA volunteers straightened 27 stones on Saturday, but Zulkoski said there are many more stones in need of re-setting and several dozen in need of more extensive repairs. She asks that anyone interested in making a donation toward gravestone repair or participating in volunteer projects contact the Charlotte Cemetery Commission though Town Hall.

Spring in Vermont means many things, including muddy boots, late snowfalls, budding apple blossoms and the first plantings for farmers and gardeners around the state. It marks the beginning of a new year for growers, and here at Philo Ridge Farm, it also ushers in many exciting changes.

We recently welcomed a new team member, Jane Engelman, to our growing farm staff. Jane is our market garden manager and joins us most recently from running her own organic farm in Maine.

Our farm stand will open in mid-June, and this summer we’ve planted greens, carrots, beets, tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet corn, herbs, cut flowers and much more.

This past fall we completed building a new livestock barn to overwinter our Belted Galloway cattle and our heritage pigs. This new barn will help us grow our livestock operation and keep our animals warm and dry over the winter months.

With the completion of the livestock barn, our focus is now on the renovation of

another farm barn at the corner of Hinesburg Road and Mt. Philo Road. This newly renovated barn will be home to a year-round farm market and small farm processing facility where we will be able to process fresh produce into shelf-stable products so the summer bounty can be enjoyed and available throughout the year. We’re hoping to turn our fruit into jams and shrubs, our beef into charcuterie and bone broth and our vegetables into pickles and preserves.

At the core of this barn renovation project is a 150-year-old pine post-andbeam, braced-frame barn with a mortise and tenon construction, joined with oak pegs.

Crafted in the English hay-barn style, it has pine-plank floors, entrances in the front and the back (originally made for hay wagons) and three bays. It was built for hay storage but more recently was used for sugaring production.

We plan to open the new market with limited hours this fall and fully open next spring. We’re looking forward to opening its doors to our neighbors and friends. Stay tuned for an open house this fall to see what progress we’ve made, share a delicious meal and meet our team.

New Market Garden Manager Jane with fiance Dan.

Belted galloway cattle outside the new livestock barn.

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Town AARP safe driver course offered in town

World War I monument by the Old Brick Store explained Dan Cole

Mary Recchia

CONTRIBUTOR

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The Charlotte Senior Center will host the new AARP smart driver class on Thursday, June 22, at 9:30 a.m. The four-and-a-half-hour refresher course is open to all drivers 50 years and older.

The curriculum addresses the normal physical changes brought on by the aging process and how these changes can affect driving ability, and then offers ways to compensate for those changes.

The course also addresses changes in vehicles, regulations and roads.

Participants will learn how to interact with other road users, including truckers, bikers, pedestrians and distracted drivers. The class will discuss changes to Vermont driving regulations, many of which have changed over the years.

Many insurance companies offer a discount to drivers who have completed the class. Drivers who have qualified for a discount by taking the course must take a refresher course every three years.

There are no tests.

The fee for the course is $15 for AARP members and $20 for nonmembers.

Participants should bring a box lunch as there will be a half-hour lunch break.

To reserve space in the upcoming class please call Mary Recchia at 4256345. Space is limited.

“The Roll of Honor World War I” monument by the Old Brick Store marks three men who died, denoted by the star before the name. All three men were members of the 33rd Company, 9th Battalion, 151st Depot Brigade stationed at Camp Devens in Massachusetts. A depot brigade would receive, process and organize new recruits into the military, as well as process their discharges upon their return after the war. They would issue the uniforms and requisite military equipment, provide rudimentary training and then send them off to France to fight.

Camp Devens (now Fort Devens) was built and opened in 1917 and was struck by the great influenza epidemic in 1918 that devastated the entire world. It ravaged the camp from September through November 1918, and the hospital was poorly equipped to handle the number of soldiers who caught the virus. Nearly half of the base was quickly infected, and, according to one letter, deaths were at the rate of 100 per day, usually resulting from lobar pneumonia— basically suffocation. All three Charlotte men died of pneumonia at the camp after being stricken with the flu.

Julius S. Munnette was born in July 1896 in Shelburne, son of George Albert and Loretta Ann (Shepard) Munnette.

He died September 20, 1918, at age 22, and is buried in Shelburne Village Cemetery with his mother.

Delial W. Magee was born March 6, 1896, in Shelburne, son of William and Eva L. (Busier) Magee. He died September 29, 1918, and is buried in Morningside Cemetery in Charlotte with his parents, sister and brother.

Joseph Harry Hanks was born on April 30, 1897, in North Ferrisburgh, son of Joseph and Ida Sarah (Ash) Hanks. He died November 23, 1918, and is buried at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cemetery in Charlotte with his mother. His mother died from consumption at age 29, only two months after Harry was born. Harry is a relative of mine.

Fields of gold

Looking west from Route 7 in Charlotte.

Photo by Chris Falk

The Roll of Honor World War I monument in Charlotte.

Photo by Lee Krohn

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Education Our Lady of Mount Carmel welcomes refugees

Champlain Valley Union High School seniors volunteer at the Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge

The Charlotte Park and Wildlife Refuge was the beneficiary of the labor of 25 CVU seniors and three teachers on May 17, the school’s Senior Service Day. These enthusiastic workers arrived by the Thorp Barn at the park, met up with seven Charlotte volunteers and set to work. Woodchips donated by Teacher’s Tree Service were placed around each shrub in one of the riparian buffers. Then the volunteers spread wood chips on the Robert’sWay hiking trail and pulled invasive garlic mustard and dug pesky burdock.

Photo by Gregory Smith Andrew Lester, Zach Santos, Bee Eckels, Hadley Stockwell, Ella Beerworth and Grace McNally make welcome cards for incoming refugees to the state at Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Courtesy photo Submitted by Julianna White OF CHARLOTTE

“All are welcome” was the message at Our Lady of Mount Carmel last week when the 6th-grade Sunday school class made cards for refugees

resettling in Vermont this year. The Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program is expecting refugees from Bhutan, Burma, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan in 2017.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church Spear Street, 425-2637 Sister parish: St. Jude’s, Hinesburg Regular schedule of masses: Saturday, 4:30 p.m. at St. Jude’s, Hinesburg Sunday, 8 and 11 a.m

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at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Sunday, 9:30 a.m. at St. Jude’s, Hinesburg

Charlotte Congregational Church, UCC 403 Church Hill Road, 425-3176 Regular Sunday service: 10 a.m.

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Education Charlotte Central School student wins first place award in statewide essay competition Staff report Three Charlotte Central School 8th grade students were honored on May 21 at a luncheon held at Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home in Manchester, to honor the winners of the 11th annual Hildene Lincoln Essay Competition. With their proud teacher, Leslie Williams, on hand to see her young writers receive their awards, Elyse Martin-Smith took firstplace honors and Courtney McDermott and Luisa Louchheim both received honorable mentions.

Essays from 153 Vermont 8th grade students were submitted, answering the following question in 500 words or less: “Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, requiring a myriad of responses. Describe one action the United States could implement to substantially curb greenhouse gas emissions, the key driver of rising global temperatures. Identify the likely positive and negative impacts such an action would have on one or more demographics. Given these impacts, is this something the United States should do? Why or why not?”

While each year’s essay competition question must be both relevant and thought provoking, it must also have a core Lincoln value as its touchstone. Thus, before responding to the 2017 prompt noted above, participating students were reminded that Lincoln, in his First Annual Message to Congress on December 3, 1861, said, “The struggle of today, is not altogether for today—it is for a vast future also.” He, of course, was referring to the Civil War, just erupted.

Elyse received the first place prize of $1,000 for her essay, “Renewable Energy: The Time is Now,” and read her work for the first time publically to those in attendance, including all competition winners and the many teachers, principals, friends and

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families assembled at the luncheon. In her response to how to stop or lessen climate change, Elyse pointed out that, “One essential transition is from fossil fuels to renewable forms of energy.”

She further stated her belief in the need for increasing the use of three renewable energy sources in particular: hydropower, wind power and solar power.

Luisa’s essay topic was “Build Generators and barrages in the ocean to harness tidal energy,” while Courtney’s focus was on “Building more nuclear power plants.”

These two were recognized and awarded $200 each. All three young writers were applauded for their accomplishments.

To learn more about Hildene or to read the first-, second- and third-place Hildene Lincoln Essay Competition essays visit hildene.org.

Congratulations!

Rice Memorial High School recently inducted 65 new students into the Rev. Raymond A. Adams Chapter of the National Honor Society. To be considered, a student, by the end of first semester junior year, must have a 90+ grade point average, served a minimum of 36 community service hours, been involved in school and community activities and demonstrated respect,

responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, caring and citizenship. Sister Laura Della Santa, principal at Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington, proudly announces the following Charlotte students were inducted: Moira Brown, Mahntra Hennessey, Alexa Pughe, Andrew Slauterbeck and Grace Slauterbeck.

An eye in the sky

A beautiful May morning above Pease Mountain viewed from a drone. Charlotte Central School is visible on the left.

Photo by John Miller

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Sports CVU’s Dirty Duchesses and Dukes hit the bike trails Bryan Claussen

CVU 4D MTB CLUB MEMBER

Champlain Valley Union High School’s mountain biking club, called the Dirty Duchesses and Dirty Dukes (CVU 4D MTB), was founded in 2015. Advised by CVU teacher Jessica Barnum and inspired by a student in her advisory, this club started off with just a few riders and has been rapidly expanding over the past year.

Local rides occur weekly, with occasional rides held on weekends. Attend a ride and you will see a range of riders, from those on their first ride to those years into the sport.

This club is a great way for teenagers to be active, away from the stress of teenage-life, and involved in their community. And not to mention that whizzing through trees on a bicycle can be pretty fun.

As the CVU 4D MTB Club has expanded, members have thought beyond weekly rides. The club strives to get involved and help the greater biking community. One way they have achieved this is through working with Matt Lyon at Vermont Bike Tours (VBT) Biking and Walking Vacations and with John Williams and the Richard Tom Foundation (RTF) board members.

Cameron Hood, a club rider as well as an initiator in this partnership, said, “For every mile we go, VBT donates money to RTF. Last fall the miles I tracked on Strava allowed for $1,500 to be donated to RTF. This donation will allow RTF to further their efforts to improve biking in our community.

My goal by riding is to hopefully inspire others to get out to some of the local trail systems and enjoy them as much as the

CVU 4D MTB Club does.”

In addition, last December the club held a raffle, raising enough money to purchase a children’s bike from the Skirack in Burlington and donate it to the Toys for Tots Foundation. Roger Costales, a buyer at Skirack said, “We just love the enthusiasm and what is happening with the mountain bike club and thought it was great for the students to want to give a bike away for the club’s raffle. We were very happy to be a part of it.”

To further contribute to the cycling community, the club has attended Fellowship of the Wheel work days, where volunteers maintain and repair their local trails. Mickey Stone, Fellowship of the Wheel’s trail director and board member, says, “With education, professional builders and long-range plans that incorporate easy beginner loops that are smooth and wide near the beginning trailhead and then branching out to more difficult areas as you get further away allows for a more diverse age and skill group who can bike at a network. So get out there and take a beginner with you.

The more who come the more we have the support to build for.”

Also over this past year, rider Brady Carlson created a club logo, the club had custom shirts and hoodies made by Jim and Vicki Marrier of JV Embroidery, and a club blog was started at cvumountainbiking. blogspot.com.

Last fall the club traveled to trails ranging from Pine Hill Park in Rutland and Cady Hill in Stowe to local Fellowship of the Wheel trail systems like Saxon Hill. The snow and the cold didn’t stop this group

These CVU mountain bikers “Got Dirt!” James Eustace, Sam Clear, Cameron Hood, Nevin Hood, Trent Poitras, Will Bialowoz and Addison Aube at Catamount Outdoor Family Center.

Courtesy photo either, with the club going fat biking at Catamount Outdoor Family Center last winter. Tag Carpenter, the operations manager at Catamount, says, “We got quite a kick out of seeing the CVU riders on their fat bikes in the snow this past winter.

Their teenage smiles show a great escape from school pressure, TV, computers, cell phones, etc. Life doesn’t get any better!”

This upcoming season there will be frequent rides over the summer, possibly an increased number of weekend rides, and there is even talk of taking a camping and mountain biking trip to Kingdom Trails in East Burke. Members are hoping to ride with students from other schools, and there are initiatives to encourage more teen girls to join the club. They also plan to volunteer and participate in Richard’s Ride, Del’s

Ride and other events, as well as create a club video, hold a bike maintenance clinic and explore any new bike-related opportunities that come up. Eventually, the club would like to have a van or trailer to transport bikes.

At the core of this club remains the desire to get out mountain biking. “I love it because I’m outside with the friends I love and care about,” rider Addison Aube explained. The club aims to get all sorts of people onto bikes and enrich the biking community. Dana Hood, father of two club members, sums it up best: “Mountain biking is a lifelong sport, and we just happen to live in one of the best places in North America to take advantage of it.”

For more information contact Jess Barnum at (802) 355-1889.

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Sports Edd’s Sports Report Edd Merritt

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Top story, T and T, (tennis and track)

This year CVU’s Stephanie Joseph continued to overpower all other high school tennis players in the state. Junior captain Joseph brought home the title that her sister Kathy had won for the three previous years. Stephanie did it by defeating Rice’s Claire Parry 6-2, 6-1 after topping her Redhawk teammate, Sophie Dauerman in the semifinals.

The CVU doubles team of Charlotte senior Meara Heininger and her partner Kendall Blank made it to the finals before losing to a South Burlington pair in three sets.

On the men’s side, number one CVU singles player George Lomas lost in a semifinal match. However, a doubles team of David Huber and Charlotter Ethan Leonard made it into the finals before falling to a South Burlington team 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.

Essex Invitational leads to the New Englands in track

Senior Tyler Marshall’s name appeared again on the “winner board” for 800and 1,500- meter races at the Essex Invitational track meet. This meet happens to serve as a qualifier for the New England Championships later this spring. Charlotte’s Kenneth MacKillop pole vaulted to a third place, and the 3,000-meter run saw two CVU athletes finish among the top six.

Calvin McClellan ran second and Jared Leonard fifth.

Several days earlier CVU runners and

jumpers dominated a high school meet at Burlington. The women won seven events, the men nine.

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CVU men hand South Burlington its first lacrosse defeat

Jake Schaefer tallied four goals and assisted on three more as the Redhawks handed South Burlington its first loss of the season, 13-9. Charlotte’s Walter Braun continued to be an offensive force, joining his teammate Zander Miller with two goals each. The saves by both teams’ goalies were nearly even, ten for SB, nine for the Redhawks. Earlier in May, BFA St. Albans had proven to be a tougher opponent, coming back from being behind by three goals at the end of the third quarter to come within a single tally of CVU at the end of the game. Braun again added his scoring punch with two goals. In between, CVU handed visitors from Spaulding a 13-goal defeat, 16-3.

Williston Country Club hosts NVAC golf championship

Thirteen high schools sent golfers to Williston for the Northern Vermont Athletic Conference championships. As a team, CVU placed second, seven strokes behind Essex. Sophomore Ben Gramling’s 79 was only two strokes behind the medallist, and all five of the Redhawk players hit below 90.

CVU baseball finishes its regular season well

Pitcher Hunter Anderson allowed Missisquoi only one hit while pitching a complete game in which he struck out six MVU batters. Hunter also helped his pitching cause at the plate with three hits and two RBIs. Charlotte’s George Davis drove in two runs. The Redhawks stand at 12 wins, four losses going into tournament play.

Kerrie Pughe

CONTRIBUTOR

Thank you

Saturday, May 13, was the 25th annual Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Across the country over 70 million pounds of food have been collected in years past to help restock local foodbanks, pantries and shelters. This year our local letter carriers collected 651 pounds of food for our local food shelf! Thank you to the community for the donations, and thank you to the letter carriers for collecting all the donations. We appreciate our volunteers who helped organize and shelve the items collected.

Thank you for the $25 donation from the anonymous donor. Thank you to Cindy Marshall for the support this month. Thank you to Cindy Bradley and the Girl Scouts for the Girl Scout cookies and the help stacking ours shelves with the recent large purchase from the Foodbank. Ongoing community support is critical and greatly appreciated!

Wish list

We are in need of clean pint- and quart-size jars with lids to be used to distribute shampoo, laundry soap and cleaning supplies. Please no narrowmouth jars (too messy to try to fill).

Donations

We are a volunteer organization so all

donations you make to the Food Shelf go directly for food and assistance to our local neighbors in need. Thank you so much for considering donating today. Checks may be mailed to Charlotte Food Shelf & Assistance, P.O. Box 83, Charlotte, VT 05445.

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.

We request that all fresh foods be dropped off at the Food Shelf before the Wednesday distribution hours or before 7:30 a.m. on the Thursday distribution mornings.

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“Like” us at our new Facebook page, Charlotte Community Food Shelf and Assistance, to see photos and get updates on all the Food Shelf activities.

The Charlotte Food Shelf is located on the lower level of the Charlotte Congregational Church vestry.

Distribution days/times are posted below and on the bulletin board in the Charlotte Congregational Church Hall. You may also call the Food Shelf number (4253252) for a recording of the distribution times.

We are open 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 Cindi at 425-3234.

For more information call Karen at 4253252.

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Arts Artist Ted Montgomery Move that caboose! celebrated

Submitted by Megan Humphrey

In the early 1970s, singer Utah Phillips bought a flanger car to live in (typically a boxcar converted to move snow) while he was recording periodically at Philo Records in North Ferrisburgh. At “The Barn,” Utah recorded three albums: Good Though, El Capitan and The Telling Takes Me Home. Utah’s son Duncan is now moving the 1890s wooden flanger car to the Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture in Weed, Calif., to restore it into a museum and honor his father.

As part of the fundraising effort, there will be a concert on the site of former Philo Records, 126 Covered Bridge Road in North Ferrisburgh, on Saturday, June 17, from 2 to 8 p.m. Now a private residence, owners Stephen Pilcher and Deb Gaynor are offering their lawn so people can sit back and enjoy the music. “Please bring a chair and a picnic, but because we have llamas, please leave your dogs at home,” Stephen suggested. Parking will also be limited so ridesharing is encouraged.

Performers include Paul Asbell, Jon Gailmor, Pete Sutherland, Duncan and Brendan Phillips (Utah’s sons), Dan Schatz, a reunion of Bread and Bones, Rick Ceballos and Lausanne Allen, Phil Henry, New Economistas, Rik Palieri, The Young Traditions and other special guests. Rik Palieri commented that he’s “thrilled to bring together Philo Recording artists, people who played with Utah, and the next generation who can continue the tradition.”

Suggested donation is $20 per person or $35 per family. Rain or shine, the music festival will go on. Bring a picnic

Utah Phillips.

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and chair, no dogs please. For more info, please go to tinyurl.com/ConcertUtah or tinyurl.com/DonateUtah.

More Information What: A Celebration of Utah Phillips and Philo Records, benefit concert raising money to move Utah’s flanger car to Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture Where: 126 Covered Bridge Road (private residence), North Ferrisburgh When: From 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on June 17 Info: Visit generosity.com/ education-fundraising/utahphillips-flanger-railroad-carrestoration

The Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury is hosting its first juried art exhibition and competition, “The Color of Light,” featuring Charlotter Ted Montgomery’s work.

Courtesy photo The Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury is hosting its first juried art exhibition and competition, “The Color of Light.”

The selected works will be on display throughout the month of June.

One of Ted Montgomery’s paintings, “Acceleration Left,” has been chosen from a field of 215 entries for inclusion in the show. Montgomery is a Charlotte

architect and occasional abstract painter who lives in the Ten Stones Community.

A reception to celebrate all of the finalists will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, June 9, and is open to the public. You can view the finalists at edgewatergallery.co/juriedshow2017/.

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continued from page 4 while a similar project in the northern end of town was approved and the barn renovated, neighbors have appealed the decision and the barn has not yet opened.

It could have been worse if, as once proposed, the electric company had erected a nuclear power plant on the Charlotte shores of Lake Champlain.

Regional Bites:

This photo of a dandelion was taken on Route 7 in Charlotte. The wildflower is also known as Taraxacum and is edible.

Photo by Chris Falk

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continued from page 1 net zero, but also incorporates safeguards to ensure the homes are comfortable and durable.”

Net Zero is a term used to describe a building with zero net energy consumption.

Lindsay Jones from Efficiency Vermont was the energy consultant on the project. The house also won Efficiency Vermont’s 2016 “Best of the Best” in

New Residential Construction. “The home was built with insulation levels approximately twice that of Vermont’s baseline residential building code, has exceptionally low air leakage, and energy efficient heating and ventilation systems,” Jones said.

Efficiency Vermont initiatives allowed Dinnan and Webster to save money and receive rebates. “Their work in the state really helps encourage homeowners like us to make choices that are good for the environment,” Dinnan said.

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Vermont Stage steals Broadway play Bolton playwright Alison Bechdel wrote a somewhat autobiographical musical about growing up gay and coming out. The first production was Off-Broadway, and then in 2015 it moved to New York’s Circle in the Square Theatre. Titled Fun Home, it won five Tony Awards, being nominated 12 times. Charlotte’s Oscar Williams acted in the production; he eventually outgrew his character, becoming too tall to play the little brother. The play is scheduled to run here at the Flynn Space October 4–29.

CVU play moves from voices to hands and expressions CVU senior Julia Kitonis’ production of the musical play, Songs for a New World, ran for three performances at the Flynn Space this past weekend. It is unique insofar as it combines words and songs with sign language. For her “Senior Project,” Kitonis directed and

The Charlotte Grange #398 honors our veterans each year by placing new flags at all the veterans’ graves in our local cemeteries. produced the play and used it as a basis for learning sign language. According to an article in Saturday’s Burlington Free Press, she said, “Art forces you to have the empathetic response and witness each other’s humanity.” She also said that part of the reason for her project is to expose hearing audiences to the deaf experience. Charlotte sophomore Rayona Silverman, one of the play’s singers—who happens to be hearing impaired but has cochlear implants—used the production to help her learn sign language.

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maintained at public expense to support and employ persons in need. At the end of the 19th Century, that use evolved, and the town gradually began leasing the land and allowing lessors to build camps on the properties. Over the next few decades this gave rise to Thompson’s Point as it exists today: a tight-knit community of mostly seasonal camps and cottages.

Absent is the rancor and contention that characterized relationships in the Malletts Bay dispute. Leases are renewed every twenty years and updated in accordance with new regulations. A Thompson’s Point lease comes with a fairly strict set of guidelines regarding what lessors can and cannot do with their property without the proper permit, all in an effort to protect the shoreline, the lake, and the quality of life for other leaseholders. Yet, Point residents seem proud of and content with their Point lifestyle. According to Rick Detwiler, who has been a Thompson’s Point lessee since the early ’90s, there has been little to disturb the waters of point life. “The

relationship [with the town] has been great,” says Detwiler. “The town takes care of the road and they don’t bug us.”

Detwiler says the only downside is the rising cost of maintaining a camp on the Point. A 2011 reappraisal of his property led to only a minor increase in the fair-market value of his home, but a significant increase in rent. “We’re basically paying five or six times as much when we bought the place.”

Thompson’s Point is, in fact, a significant cash cow for the town of Charlotte. In 2016, the town collected more than $800,000, in rent or 29 percent of the town’s total revenue for that year. Says Detwiler, “I think there is an argument to be had that this is a good deal for everybody.”

While rising costs have made the Point an increasingly exclusive enclave, it seems likely that the town has a vested interest in maintaining good standing with Point residents. Charlotte Selectboard Chair Lane Morrison corroborates this, saying that he could neither recall instances of eviction at the Point nor see any immediate reason the town would try to evict tenants “as long as they pay the tax bills, like any other property in town.”

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continued from page 1 ends June 30, is $30,210.70. For the coming fiscal year the contract maximum will be $29,711.24.

Lt. Scott said no extra time over the contracted 8.5 hours a week will be added at this time. Patrols will not be increased in Charlotte, since interstate highways are the main priority, he said.

Right now the town receives 80 percent of state police enforcement ticket fees, budgeted at $11,500. Ticket revenue received so far in the current fiscal year is over budget at $19,471.

Charlotter King Milne said he and his neighbors have discussed purchasing one or two flashing signs at a cost of $2,500 to $3,500 each. He suggested installing signs, along with a parked police cruiser, near Greenbush Road and Ferry Road as a speeding deterrent.

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Lt. Scott said flashing radar signs are effective at first, “then motorists get used to it and they go back to ‘normal’ habits.”

Selectboard Chair Lane Morrison said the town would continue to explore resources. As a possible solution Lt. Scott said the Town of Jericho contracts with the Chittenden County Sheriff’s Department for traffic enforcement services and that some towns have added speed bumps and traffic islands as traffic calming devices. Jericho has implemented both on Skunk Hollow Road, Lt. Scott said.

Contracting with the Sheriff’s Department eight hours a week for six months a year is being considered by the Selectboard, as well as utilizing the town constable to address traffic concerns on Greenbush Road, Spear Street and Mt. Philo Road. Decisions to use one or both of these services is likely, Morrison said.

The next meeting for the discussion will be on June 12.

Distribution dates

Wednesdays, June 7 and 21, 5–7 p.m.

Thursdays, June 8 and 22, 7:30–9:30 a.m.

Wednesdays, July 12 and 26, 5–7 p.m.

Thursdays, July 13 and 27, 7:30–9:30 a.m.

Charlotte Girl Scout Troop 30066 volunteer at the food shelf. From left, Maggie Wilson, Kierstan LaClair, Nelly Tilley, Jenny Blanshine and Alexis Pearce. Courtesyphoto

The Charlotte News • May 31, 2017 • 17 and their families on YouTube. If you’d like to lern more, contact Long Trail Canine Rescue at longtraildogs.org.

Mas Masumoto and Nikiko Masumoto.

Book excerpts and video available at the circulation desk.

Tuesday, June 27, at 1 p.m. Summer Reading Kick-Off. Learn how raptors build their habitats in this hands-on session with Vermont Institute of Natural Science. Sign up for Summer Reading Activities and get ready to read!

Upcoming at the Charlotte Library

Margaret Woodruff LIBRARY DIRECTOR

There was lots of puppy love at the library on Wednesday, May 17. Kim and John Frigault of Long Trail Canine Rescue (you may also know them as the state park rangers at Mt. Philo State Park) shared the story of the rescue program.

Most dogs arrive from South Carolina after being pulled from kill shelters there, and some puppies arrive from Costa Rica after rescue from the streets. All of the dogs receive appropriate medical care and lots of love from their foster families upon arrival in Vermont, and most find their “forever family” within a week or two. The Charlotte Library will feature adoption details about the pups on its Facebook page and in a display at the library as well. For a fun look at the program, check out the “Stuck in Vermont” video, featuring Charlotte dogs

Fridays at 10:30 a.m. Friday Free for All. Stories, songs and fun. We’ll explore the great outdoors this month, as the weather permits. For ages 3–5 who are comfortable in a story time setting.

Monday, June 5, 10:30 a.m. Huertas Project Coffee & Conversation. Huertas is a food-security project working in collaboration with Latino farmworkers in the state and part of UVM Extension’s Bridges to Health Program. Teresa Mares, assistant professor of anthropology at UVM and co-director of the Huertas Project, talks about the project goals and how to get involved.

Tuesday, June 6 at 9 a.m. Baby Time @ the Library! Join us to chat, sing songs and read to Baby. Sponsored by Building Bright Futures.

Monday, June 19, Mystery Book Group. This month we read Louise Penny’s first Inspector Gamache novel, Still Life. Join us for coffee and conversation about our introduction to the village of Three Pines and the captivating cast of characters. Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk to check out.

Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m., starting June 20: Reading Fun at Adam’s Berry Farm. Meet us at the farm for a summer of berries, great stories, gardening and

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For more info about upcoming programs check out our summer program flyer at charlottepubliclibrary.org.

Save the date: On Sunday, July 9, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. the Friends of the Library will hold its annual book sale under the tent on the Town Green. Join us for great deals on books along with refreshments from area food trucks.

Kim Frigault of Long Trail Canine Rescue with two of her rescues.

Courtesy photo busy activities. All ages are welcome.

Wednesday, June 21, at 6:30 p.m.: Berry Farm Book Club. Share a sample of food-related reading and discussion while enjoying a potluck of local food and drink at Adam’s Berry Farm. We begin with Changing Season: A Father, a Daughter and a Family Farm by David

Book donations will be gratefully accepted at the library from June 21 to July 6. Appointments can be made to drop off larger donations prior to these dates. Contact Nan Mason (425-2588) or Beth Merritt (425-2191) to make arrangements.

Your donations make this fundraiser possible. Thank you for supporting the library!

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Health Matters

Health Matters

Want to live longer? Take a walk Those who walk regularly, for whatever reason, live longer and have fewer health problems than those who don’t.

Richard “Bunky” Bernstein CONTRIBUTOR

The 12-mile hike over the Tongariro volcano on New Zealand’s North Island has been called one of the 10 best day hikes in the world. The trail climbs up to a broad valley, the volcanic crater, then up to a high ridge. From here, Mt. Nguoruhoe (Mt. Doom to Lord of the Rings fans) occupies the foreground, and cloud-studded sky, shades-of-brown ridges and green valleys recede in all directions. Hikers on the trail below look like so many tiny hobbits.

Emerald lakes lie to the west. The Red Crater, a scarlet-rimmed vertical vent on the side of a nearby mound, could be the nether opening of Mother Earth herself. To the enchanted hiker, puffing up the steep trail to the summit, the wondrous thought occurs: Thank God for legs.

Which is a good lead-in to the subject of this article. Want to live longer? Take a walk.

Walking is perhaps the simplest of exercises, requiring no training and no special facilities or equipment. Exercise and fitness experts recommend comfortable clothing and good, supportive footwear, but, face it, most of the people in the world walk barefoot or with flip flops. And while most don’t do it for recreation or fitness, doctors have long believed that those who walk regularly, for whatever reason, live longer and have fewer health problems than

Bunky walking by Lake Tekapo.Photoby Carol Hanley those who don’t. More than 2,400 years ago, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said, “Walking is a man’s best medicine.”

And a woman’s, too. A long-term study of female graduates of Harvard nursing programs found that walking at least three hours a week was linked to a 35 percent lower risk of heart attack and cardiac death and a 34 percent lower risk of stroke. Among male health professionals, the benefits were more modest but still significant. Worldwide, a large review by an English group that analyzed 18 studies involving nearly 460,000 subjects found that walking as little as 5.5 miles a week at a leisurely pace of 2 mph reduced the risk of heart attack and death.

Walking helps with weight control.

For the average male, walking consumes about 100 calories per mile. This may not seem like much given that a pound

of fat contains about 4,000 calories, but studies have shown that those who walk regularly gain significantly less weight during middle age than those who don’t.

Compared with running, in which both feet are off the ground at some point in the stride, walking is a low-impact form of moderate exercise, much kinder to knees and back. Health professionals recommend at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise five days a week. These sessions may be split up into 10-minute blocks during the day. Like other forms of moderate exercise, walking helps control cardiac risk factors such as cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, vascular stiffness and inflammation, and mental stress. Studies have shown that exercise also protects against dementia, peripheral artery disease, depression, colon cancer and even erectile dysfunction.

Walking can become part of a normal daily routine if we decide to leave the car a little farther from the office or store or take the stairs instead of the elevator.

Housework, particularly in a home with stairs, demands walking. Hobbies such as gardening, hunting, fishing and golf can include opportunities for walking.

Pedometers or Fitbits can show us how much we walk during the day. On average, there are 2,000 steps per mile. A brisk walking pace covers 100 steps per minute.

A fast walk is 120 steps. A 30-minute walk that covers a mile and a half (3,000 steps) is a good goal for the aspiring walker. This is on level ground, of course. The exertion, hence the exercise value, of walking increases significantly with stairs or hills.

Stair-climbing, for example, requires two to three times the caloric expenditure of walking. As for hill-climbing, the benefit to Charlotters from having Mt. Philo in our midst is clearly seen in the number of cars in the lower parking lot on most days.

We complete the circle by returning to New Zealand. Here is a country that takes walking seriously. According to a 2008 survey, more than two-thirds of New Zealanders over age 16 walk for sport or recreation. Fifty-two well-maintained walkways, crossing both public and private lands, are publicly supported, maintained and protected under the Walking Access Act of 2008. In addition, New Zealanders enjoy countless other rural and urban walkways, local bush and coastal tracks, and nature trails. Doctors in New Zealand typically issue green prescriptions specifying exercise to treat a number of conditions. Prescriptions include support staff for help and encouragement. This national commitment to exercise in general and walking in particular may help explain how New Zealand achieves a higher life expectancy than the U.S. at a significantly lower cost.

Dr. Richard “Bunky” Bernstein is retired from the Charlotte Family Health Center and lives in North Ferrisburgh.

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Essential Elements Beth Phillips CONTRIBUTOR

Editor’s note: This column features a diff erent guest writer each month who writes about comical musings, quirky happenings and other essential elements of getting through this thing called life.

Care to share? Email your column ideas to Lynn@TheCharlotteNews.org.

The old pamphlet sits on my desk.

It’s titled Your First Coat, issued by the Extension Service of the University of Massachusetts and dated August, 1948: Extension Leaflet No. 245. It turned up among the sewing supplies, patterns and fabrics my siblings and I cleaned out of my mother’s house in 2014, the year she died.

The leaflet puts me in mind of a story my mother, Shirley Mackey, occasionally told, always with pride. She had attended a sewing class at the Northampton People’s Institute on Conz Street. The time was 1950; I was in kindergarten at Bridge Street School, and my brother was three.

Women in the class—and at that time it would certainly have been only women— learned to make a child’s coat. The method for the class was Learn It, Do It, Teach It. Each student learned how to make a coat by doing it and was then responsible for teach someone else how to make a coat.

The coats were to be made from old garments. In 1950, the U.S. was still getting over the shortages of World War II and struggling with the material demands of the baby boom. Textiles were expensive and still in short supply. The idea was to use a worn adult coat—preferably wool—take it apart at the seams and remove the old lining. The inside of old coats were often in excellent condition: bright, unfaded, no stains. From the old wool, students would make a child’s coat turning the material inside out.

The pamphlet proclaims that savings—payment for your work—can be considerable. “Children’s coats made from the most raddled-looking old garment can be just as attractive as those made from new fabric. They take little material. The cash outlay for a coat you make, can be from 50% to 100% less than the cost of ready-made. So look through your trunks and closets for men’s, women’s, and children’s discarded coats, suits, capes, dresses, and skirts. You may find a GOLD MINE of possibilities.”

The leaflet describes the tools needed: pins, needles, shears, appropriate threads, ironing board, press block, sewing machine, and provides a thorough supply list. There are instructions to launder or dry clean fabrics before use. It even suggests that worn fabric with small holes or tears can be invisibly darned with strands of human hair.

Further instructions include choosing

Learn it, do it, teach it The experience was a lynchpin in her lifelong love affair with sewing, her creative outlet. My mother was always generous helping others to sew. and using a pattern, cutting and hand basting. Also covered are buttonholes, pockets, piping and hemming. It’s clear that this exercise of making a child’s coat contained practically all the skills needed to become an accomplished seamstress.

In that class, my mother made me a coat and leggings with a matching hat from a blue and white herringbone coat that had, she said, belonged to my Grandmother Mackey. There are somewhere, pictures of me wearing the ensemble, completed by a velvet hand muff. The coat it is still, perhaps, in a box or trunk somewhere in my house.

My mother was forever proud of her achievement. She succeeded in making a warm and handsome outfit for me from a worn old garment. She later fulfilled the class commitment and taught a friend to make a child’s coat. The experience was a lynchpin in her life-long love affair with sewing, her creative outlet. My mother

was always generous helping others learn to sew. She taught her daughters to sew and supported our efforts, “Yes, I’ll buy the pattern and fabric if you want a new dress,” she’d say. Down town we’d go to Todd’s Department Store to choose fabric and a pattern from a Vogue, McCall’s or Simplicity pattern book. She’d give advice on laying out the pattern and understanding the instructions. Many times she patiently pulled out my mis-sewn seams, saving me—a neophyte seamstress—that dispiriting job.

For all my growing up years, an ironing board and open sewing machine occupied one side of the dining room. Whoever was in charge of setting the dinner table had to carefully stack the pieces of tissue-papercovered fabric spread across the dining room table onto the ironing board and move scissors, pins, needles and thread to the sewing machine. Only then could the

Courtsey photo table be set.

When her granddaughters were old enough to sew, Shirley was making fewer garments, but she was in love with quilting.

She happily threw herself into helping her granddaughters learn to sew and to make quilts. She told them her story of learning to sew by making the child’s coat from old wool.

My mother enjoyed telling the story for the rest of her life. She was forever proud of that achievement. And certainly, in old age, that distant time of scarcity and the frugal reuse of precious wool represented her youth and her years as a young mother at the end of the Second World War. In the days spent cleaning out her house in 2014, not long before she died, as she pored over photos and china cups and yellowed newspaper clippings, the pamphlet came to light and she told her coat story—an origin myth—once again.

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Out Takes

So have all of your passionate violins Play a tune for the Tennessee kid Who is feeling, like leaving another town, now But with no place to go if he did ‘Cause they’ll catch you wherever you hid “The Brand New Tennessee Waltz” Jesse Winchester

Memorial Day. What do we memorialize?

I’ve probably watched the color guard at too many sporting events to not wonder what games have to do with wars. Unfortunately, games are often designed to be warlike. There are two sides, each in uniform battling the other, and at the end of a time limit one side wins or the war/game winds into overtime. There has to be a winner and a loser. And it doesn’t happen just in our country. As a Stanley Cup devotee, I’ve witnessed the Canadians rise to attention before “O Canada” hits the Ottawa Arena waves as well. It is interesting to catch the expressions on players’ faces as they stand—some heads bowed, some heads raised, some contemplating their early moves on the ice and keeping their legs loose and their skates moving as the flag and rifle bearers march down the carpet.

So as we celebrate Memorial Day (interesting use of the word “celebrate” to commemorate a day of death) and gather around cemeteries with flowers for those who lost their lives in wars and plant flags at grave stones of those who gave their individual lives in a country’s battle, I keep thinking we should also memorialize those who gave up their citizenship for a belief that wars and killing people we had never met were tragic ways of settling political conflicts.

By celebrating our losses, are we

asking for more? Thinkers have put their minds to the meaning of war enough to write treatises on it. Is Joe Haldeman’s description of The Forever War an accurate picture of humanity’s future?

Catch 22’s Yossarian ended swimming into the sunset to who-knows-where in order to release himself from war.

James Dickey headed for The White Sea to escape Japan’s torture during World War II. Tim O’Brien led a march out of Vietnam and ended in Paris, Going After Cacciato.

In that vein, why are worldwide wars such elements for celebration? Yes, allowing dictators such as Hitler to kill at will simply because his victims were of a different culture shows the absurdity and tragedy of human nature. In college I was a theater reader, and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot was, to me, the defining drama of the “theatre of the absurd.” Pozo led Lucky around by a rope as oligarchs do their underlings.

Ironically, Lucky lived up to his name, and, although he was maneuvered by another, he didn’t let that other mar their journey. Memorial Day soldiers were not “Luckys.”

Belief is often what drives countries to war. So, what is “belief?” It is what we have left behind when we have run out of databased analysis. Unfortunately, religions often grow up around “beliefs,” many of them established centuries ago by people who needed something by which to explain their existence. Once developed by mankind and awarded to a god, these religions were practiced through symbolism over time.

Maintaining our beliefs because they place us in a category of humans that we feel is special and above others—things we seldom achieve as individuals—often means we must defend them as well.

In far too many circumstances, killing others results. Is this a universal trait?

Do beings in other galaxies hold beliefs about the reason for their existence?

These questions move my literary interests from theatre of the absurd to science fiction. Galaxies are many and enormous. Are there bonds among them?

We are on the verge of determining

Courtesy photo at least the shown possibility of such bonds as we develop through advanced technology the means to move outside our own galaxy. In his sci-fi novel Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson describes a space ship launched from Saturn to a galaxy around Tau Ceti, a star similar to Earth’s sun. Much of the plot deals with the passengers’ interests in staying in the new galaxy or returning to our solar system and how they will treat those who do stay and those who don’t.

Are those who stay on Ceti memorialized by those who don’t? For all practical purposes, each civilization is dead to the other, although by choice, not by the other’s action. This fact is very different from this country’s memorialization. There have been many among us who have chosen to leave the country rather than fight its wars. The Vietnam era was ripe with draft dodgers who did so with good reason. Others, such as many pilots on my ship, thought they were flying for the sport, and killing people did not cross their minds—that is, until they themselves were shot down, which happened to more than a dozen during my tenure on board. I was a phone talker on an aircraft carrier during

our bombing raids over Hanoi, and I heard some of the pilots’ last words that turned from descriptions of their flights to maudlin concerns about the enemy on the ground below them.

In addition to decorating the graves of dead servicemen, I believe we should memorialize the non-killers as well, those who saw the futility of war and decided to dodge the draft.

Despite the fact that a number of pilots aboard my carrier were ex-jocks who felt flying bombers was similar to carrying the ball against the Texas Longhorns (until the torpedo hits them, that is), war is not a sport. It is a tragic happening. Our president salutes troops because, I think, he feels it is a formality he should follow. He should spend more of his time determining how to prevent wars and random killings from occurring in the first place. If I had had the guts, I would have followed vet and author Tim O’Brien’s lead and marched after Caccioto who turned AWOL in Vietnam and headed for Paris. That is something to memorialize.

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Charlotte Public Safety Log

Charlotte. Caller reported fire alarm activation. Charlotte Fire and Rescue were dispatched. The alarm was determined to be a false alarm.

As submitted by the Shelburne Police Department

Wednesday April 29 - May 12, 2017 Saturday, April 29 18:17 Fire Alarm Dorset St., Charlotte.

Caller reported fire alarm activation.

Charlotte Fire and Rescue were dispatched. The alarm was determined to be a false alarm.

Monday, May 1 05:05 Medical Call Ethan Allen Hwy., Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital.

07:51 Medical Call Museum Rd., Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue and Fire were dispatched. The patient was

transported to the hospital.

11:28 Medical Assist McKnight Ln., Waltham. Charlotte Rescue Paramedic assisted Vergennes Rescue at a medical call. The patient was transported to the hospital by Vergennes Rescue.

Tuesday, May 2 22:11 Medical Call Roscoe Rd., Charlotte. Caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital.

Wednesday, May 3 00:20 Fire Alarm McNeil Cove Rd.,

Saturday, May 6 17SHR0384 17:54 Medical Assist Falls Rd., Shelburne. Charlotte Rescue assisted Shelburne Rescue at a medical call. The patient was transported to the hospital by Shelburne Rescue.

Monday, May 8 17CHR0080 11:39 Medical Call Church Hill Rd., Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency.

Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient refused transport to the hospital.

Tuesday, May 9 17BIR0229 16:59 Medical Assist South St,. New Haven. Charlotte Rescue Paramedic assisted Bristol Rescue at a medical call. The patient was transported to the hospital by

Bristol Rescue.

17CHR0081 17:28 Medical Call Ferry Rd., Charlotte. Caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital.

Wednesday, May 10 17CEF0045 09:33 Accident PI Ethan Allen Hwy.; Horsfords, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a 2-car motor vehicle collision with injuries. Charlotte Fire and Rescue were dispatched and Vermont State Police was notified. The patient was transported to the hospital.

Friday, May 12 17CEF0047 11:44 Accident PI Ethan Allen Hwy., Charlotte. 911 caller reported a 2-car motor vehicle collision with injuries. Charlotte Fire and Rescue were dispatched and Vermont State Police was notified. The patient was transported to the hospital.

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Senior Center News Mary Recchia CONTRIBUTOR

Please look for the new Summer Program as an insert in this issue of The Charlotte News.

Our June Art Show will be works

by Rae Harrell, who uses paint, wood, fabric and other fibers, found objects and anything interesting she comes across to create her art. She focuses on what is occurring in her life at the time. Much of the work is meditative in that she uses mandalas as her primary design surrounded by visions of her interior awareness. Rae does portraiture, abstracts, some representational and many that she makes up on the spot.

Yes, you can learn the true Yang Family style of Tai Chi, famous for its myriad benefits to health and wellbeing. The flowing movements and postures will increase flexibility, improve balance and strengthen core muscles. Practitioners cultivate a deeper sense of relaxation, increased energy level and a real sense of confidence and presence. John Creech invites you to come learn and practice together Thursday mornings from 10– 11. Registration necessary. Fee: $42 per session, $7 per class.

Join Hank as we continue our Birding Expeditions on June 7 at 8 a.m. Please meet at the Center so we can carpool together to the location Hank has scouted for spectacular bird watching. Good views are guaranteed through Hank’s “Oh my God” telescope. Register for this event, and if we have to change the date due to bird migration or weather, we will call you. Registration necessary. No fee.

Getting Ready for an Active Summer? Ginger Lambert will help you achieve that goal on Tuesday mornings from 9:15–10. Using timed intervals and a series of stations this class will incorporate body weight, light weights and other cardio/strength building tools to boost strength, cardiovascular fitness, agility and flexibility. Joint and ligament issues will be taken into account. Every exercise can be modified for any ability or level of fitness. If you have been looking for a class that challenges you but doesn’t leave you in the dust, then this is for you. Registration necessary.

Limit 10. Fee: $10 per class.

There will be an AARP Driver Safety Class with Baird Morgan, AARP volunteer instructor, on Thursday, June 22, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. A classroom refresher course for drivers age 50 and over, this highly effective defensive driving course (which may enable you to receive an auto insurance Spring hike with Marty Morrissey at Underhill State Park on May 9. discount) covers important issues that Photo by Mike Yantachka affect older drivers, such as physical changes and limitations, normal driving The Senior Center Community Art situations and environmental conditions, to outdoor art at their private residence in Shoreham, on Thursday, June 29.

With Show, now in its 11th year, has become safe driving and vehicle information, Frank as our guide, we will meander the a favorite among our community of and the effects of medication on the one and a half mile loop, passing about artists.

The show will be held during motorist. The course provides drivers a dozen large-scale, outdoor artworks, the month of September and is open to the opportunity to fine-tune driving sharing in the beauty of the land and the everyone 50 years or older. All mediums skills and become safer and better sculpture park that has gone from a vision are welcome, and we will have a twodrivers. Upon completion of the course, to reality.

Enjoy the colors, geometry, piece limit so everyone will have a you will receive a certificate valid for spatial relations, movement and energy chance to see their work displayed in the three years, a course workbook, and emitted from these works of art.

Unique Great Room.

Look for registration forms other instructional material.

Please bring a lunch. Registration necessary. and different, these sculptures are with specific details to appear at the Class limit: 25. Fee: $20 ($15 AARP certainly something to behold. Bring Center on Wednesday, June 7. (Deadline members), payable to AARP and water and wear sturdy shoes, as the for submitting forms is Friday, August terrain does have a small hill and some 25). Mark your calendars and join us for collected at the beginning of class. undulations. Head home around noon or a reception for the artists, friends and Frank and Elaine Ittleman invite you stop in nearby Middlebury for a leisurely relatives on Wednesday, September 27, to enjoy a magnificent rural setting, The lunch. Registration necessary. No fee. at 1 p.m.

Lemon Fair Sculpture Park, dedicated Please meet at the Center by 9 a.m.

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Community Events Sale: A Homeward Bound pet supply yard sale will be held on Saturday, June 3, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 236 Boardman Street, Middlebury. Everything for pets!

Leashes, collars, crates, beds, toys, carriers and litter boxes, all at reasonable prices. For more information call (802) 388-1100 ext. 224.

Symposium: The Vermont Suicide Prevention Center will host a Vermont Suicide Prevention Symposium on Monday, June 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Killington Grand Resort Hotel in Killington with nationally celebrated and award-winning speakers and more than 200 Vermont professionals, community members and survivors. For more information contact Nicole Miller at (802) 254-6590 or email nicole@ healthandlearning.org.

Tour: Starting on Thursday, June 15, the Burlington Edible History Tour will once again take participants back in time to connect the history of Burlington’s early migrant groups to their food traditions, when farm to table was a way of life. Tickets must be purchased in advance through FlynnTix via its website at flynntix.org, phone 802-8635966, in person at 153 Main Street in Burlington, or through the tour’s website at burlingtonediblehistory.com.

Concert: A Celebration of Utah Phillips and Philo Records will take place on Saturday, June 17, from 2 to 8 p.m. at 126 Covered Bridge Road in North Ferrisburgh. The benefit concert will raise money to move Utah’s flanger car to Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture.

For more information visit generosity. com/education-fundraising/utah-phillipsflanger-railroad-car-restoration.

Course: The Charlotte Senior Center will host the new AARP Smart Driver class on Thursday, June 22, at 9:30 a.m.

The 4.5-hour refresher course is open to all drivers 50 years and older. The fee for the course is $15 for AARP members and $20 for nonmembers. Participants should bring a box lunch as there will be a halfhour lunch break. To reserve space in the upcoming class, please call Mary Recchia at 425-6345. Space is limited.

Reunion: Champlain Valley Union High

School Class of 1972 will host a reunion on Saturday, July 15, from 3 to 8 p.m. at Cedar Knoll Country Club in Hinesburg.

Light fare. Golf is available. Please RSVP to Gary Shepard at gshep18@yahoo.com

by May 26.

Summer Tai Chi: Open to all adults whether beginners or advanced. Designed to keep you engaged and current in your practice. All programs offer a fallprevention component and are safe for persons with inflammatory joint conditions. These will be held on Mondays from 10 to 11 a.m. from June 5 to Aug. 14 at the Charlotte Congregational Church.

To register please contact Mary West at (802) 922-0498 or email igolflikeagirl@ gmail.com.

SCHIP: This spring as you sort through your clothes please remember SCHIP’s Treasure Resale Shop, which has donated more than $615,000 to other nonprofits in the past decade. Donate, volunteer or shop. SCHIP accepts any season clothing at any time during the year, provided it is gently used. It also accepts home décor, jewelry and other small items. Call the shop at 985-3595 for more information.

Ongoing Basketball: Multi-age pick-up basketball on Mondays at 7 p.m. at Charlotte Central School. For more information call 4256129, ext. 204, or email recreation@ townofcharlotte.com.

Baby playgroup: Building Bright Futures Baby Playgroup, first and third Tuesdays of the month from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Charlotte Library. Ages 0 to 2. For more information email bbfcharlotteplaygroup@gmail.com.

Playgroup: The Charlotte Playgroup meets Wednesdays from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in the multipurpose room at Charlotte Central School. Follows the school calendar—no playgroup when school is not in session. For more information visit buildingbrightfutures.org or contact Colleen at bbfcharlotteplaygroup@gmail. com.

Riding lessons: Steeple Ridge Farm will be hosting weekly afterschool horseback riding lessons. Students will learn the basic care of the horse, including grooming, bathing, feeding and upkeep.

This program will be offered to all grades

on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information call 425-6129, ext. 204, or email recreation@townofcharlotte.com.

Yoga: Mom and baby yoga on Tuesdays at 8:15 a.m. at Charlotte Central School. For more information call 425-6129, ext. 204, or email recreation@townofcharlotte. com.

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