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Breakenridge-Root house on Greenbush Road catches fire Dan Cole CONTRIBUTOR

Editor’s note: The historic BreakenridgeRoot house located at 4206 Greenbush Road caught fire on June 18. Charlotte Fire and Rescue was dispatched after smoke was seen coming from the second floor. Homeowner Mark Maylor and his family were not home at the time.

Mutual aid from Shelburne, Ferrisburgh, Hinesburg and Monkton departments were also on scene. The fire started in a bedroom and was extinguished using compressed air foam and about 10 gallons of water. Damage was contained to just that one room, Charlotte Fire Department Assistant Chief Rob Mullin said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

The story of a house is the story of the people who called it “home” during their lifetimes. It sheltered them in good times and bad, through triumph and tragedy, and an unfortunate fire adds yet another vital chapter to the history of an important early Charlotte home.

Ironically, the original Francis Breakenridge house on the site also

suffered a fire about 1805, but with no fire department in those days, it burned to the ground. According to information from the Chittenden County Historical Society, the current house was built between 1806 and 1813. At that time it was on the southwest corner of an intersection of what is now Greenbush Road and a road that began on Lake Road, crossed Greenbush Road by the house, then intersected with and continued across Route 7 by the old Solomon Williams house and the Peter V. Higbee house where it becomes Higbee Road (before the access was moved south across from the Berry Farm), and connected to the east with Mt. Philo Road.

The first house built on the Greenbush Road property was constructed by Francis Breakenridge, born in 1761 in Bennington, son of Lt. James and Mary Breakenridge.

Francis and his younger brother Jonathan arrived in Charlotte before 1792. Brothers Francis and Jonathan had married sisters Polly and Lorena “Lurene” Newell, daughters of Thomas and Lorena Newell.

Francis Breakenridge began to build his farm holdings with 60 acres of land.

Francis Breakenridge died in his new house on February 23, 1813, during the

Machavern sets track record at INDY

The historic Breakenridge-Root house on Greenbush Road caught fire on June 18.

Photo by Lee Krohn great typhus epidemic that carried off nearly 70 local residents.

Noble Loomis Root, born in June

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 part 2 of the series. Enjoy!

Edd Merritt CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Charlotter and recent High Point University graduate, Dillon Machavern finished on the podium at Indianapolis Motor Speedway during TransAm Series presented by Pirelli Round 5 Muscle Car Challenge on Father’s Day. As is tradition at INDY, podium finishers have champagne showers and drink milk.

The field was set based on current championship point standings after Saturday’s qualifying session was rained out. Machavern, who dropped to second in the standings after an early retirement at Belle Isle – Detroit, started on the outside of Row 1 for Sunday’s race. Dillon and current points leader Gar Robinson went out fast and put some distance between themselves and the balance of the 26-car

see INDY page 16

see FIRE page 15

Farm and family at ShakeyGround, meet the Slabaughs Trina Bianchi

Dillon Machavern at Indianapolis Motor Speedway during TransAm Series.

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1800 in Charlotte, eldest son of Charlotte

What prompts a young couple to pick up stakes, leave their jobs and try a two-month apprenticeship on a farm in Vermont? Brittany Slabaugh said, “The earth spoke to me.” She had found her happy place working in a garden. In their mid-twenties, living in Philadelphia, working at jobs that paid the bills but did not feed their souls, Brittany and Drew Slabaugh knew that this was not the life they wanted. They worked their individual plot in a community garden and discovered the joys of working the soil and working outside. They wondered what they could do for work that would allow them a different lifestyle, one that included being outdoors, spending time together and working in the dirt. They thought about gardening or even farming, but there was a major problem—neither

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of them knew anything about farming and they had no idea where they could learn and/or get experience.

Karma intervened and they learned that farming internships did exist. Using the NOFAVermont website, they started research. Internships were available, but most wanted singles and they were a couple, and to complicate matters, they had a dog. Most farms already had a dog or dogs, they didn’t need interns coming with yet one more. Eventually, luck prevailed and they found New Leaf Organics in Bristol. You are married, no problem, and you have a dog, also no problem. So, Drew and Brittany, along with Remy, their dog, began their quest to learn how to farm and see if this was a path they might want to pursue. Thus began the summer of 2011.

That fall, the apprenticeship over, they decided they wanted to continue on this path for a bit longer as opposed to returning to Philadelphia. As luck would have it, Dave Beckwith was looking for someone to take over the reins at ShakeyGround Farm, which at that point was a small but established homestead

see FARM page 15

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Wet forecast for the days ahead Matt Sutkoski.

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If you’re getting sick of the rain, I’ve got bad news for you. There’s a chance of showers daily for the foreseeable future, pretty much through Friday.

No single day in this damp stretch will be a washout, and I see no signs coming up of enough rain to renew the flood threat. At least that’s how it looks now.

However, it appears weather disturbances will come through just about every day, creating the risk of showers. Despite the rain threat, it will turn less humid this week as a dip in the jet stream sits over us.

It will probably turn somewhat warmer and more humid near the end of the week, but the threat of showers and thunderstorms will continue as a front stalls to our north and other weak weather systems keep zipping in from the west.

Summer is still young, and things could change, but if this summer turns out to be a wet one, that’s following a trend in New England. Last summer was very dry, of course, but that was an exception. Almost every summer since 2001 has been definitely on the wet side here in Vermont.

Flash flooding, always a risk in hilly New England, has gotten more common.

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Courtesy photo The summers of 2011 and 2013 were especially destructive in that regard. The ground now is very wet. If a particularly heavy burst of rain comes through in the next couple weeks at least, we’re in for another flash flood threat. Stay tuned.

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Head-on collision with entrapment on Route 7 in Charlotte Staff report Two cars hit head on in Charlotte on June 16. Both vehicles were severely damaged, and the jaws-of-life were used on scene, Charlotte Fire Department Assistant Chief Rob Mullin said.

There were multiple patients with injuries. Mutual aid from Shelburne,

Vergennes, UVM Rescue and Vermont State Police was requested.

Ethan Allen Highway was shut down, and traffic was diverted at the Church Hill Road and Ferry Road intersections, Mullin said. The road remained closed for several hours due to the investigation and clean-up.

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Legislative Report Veto session addresses statewide budget and education property tax bills

By Vermont House Members Jessica Brumsted, Bill Lippert, Terry Macaig, Jim McCullough, Kate Webb and Mike Yantachka The Legislature met last week in a veto session to address the statewide budget and education property tax bills.

Although these bills are essential to fund state government and our schools, the Governor believed that the Legislature had foregone an opportunity to garner savings resulting from statewide changes in health insurance coverage for school employees and vetoed them.

The veto forced the Legislature to go back into session to avoid a government shutdown.

By the time Senators and Representatives returned to the statehouse on June 21, much negotiating had already taken place with the Speaker of the House Mitzi Johnson, Senate President Pro Tempore Tim Ashe and Governor Scott’s representatives. After negotiations stalled, Governor Scott joined the negotiations on the last day prior to the veto session. An agreement was reached, and a new bill combining the budget and property tax language passed on a voice vote in both the House and the Senate. While no one was particularly happy with the result, no one felt essential values had been compromised.

So what does this mean? First, the statewide property tax rate for residential property tax payers will decrease by 2 cents as passed in May, while the nonresidential rate will remain at last year’s rate of $1.535. Second, a greater share of the statewide sales tax will be used to offset the cost of education.

Only minor technical changes were made to the budget that had originally

passed the House and Senate with a single dissenting vote. This was the easy part.

The challenge came in addressing the issue of health insurance for school employees. Democratic leadership believed that savings were already built into the new plans, and these savings were best accounted for at the local level. In contrast, the Governor believed that more savings could be obtained if these policies were negotiated at the state rather than local level, identifying savings if all schools negotiated an 8020 premium split with teachers paying $400 per person toward out-of-pocket costs.

The compromise reached by Democratic leaders and the Governor retains bargaining for the health insurance contracts at the local level, but withholds $13 million from schools for FY 18, thereby requiring schools to reduce spending accordingly, preferably through negotiations over health insurance benefits. It requires each school district to achieve savings in health insurance in the amount that would have been saved in FY18 if Scott’s 80/20 benefit plan had been implemented. The savings will be measured by comparing the cost of the current insurance plans against the new plans that will start on January 1, 2018. For districts that do not achieve those savings, the difference between the target costs and the actual costs will be deducted from state Education Fund payments to the district. To ease the effect on property taxes, 65% of the deduction will be applied to FY18 payments and 35% to FY19 payments.

At the time of this writing, we do not have information on how the Champlain Valley School district will be affected.

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commission that will study whether the state should implement a statewide teacher health insurance benefit, a provision that was included in the vetoed property tax bill. This panel will “determine whether and how to establish a single statewide health benefit plan for all teachers, administrators, and other employees of supervisory unions and school districts.”

The compromise also mandates that all school contracts, other than those districts that have already settled their school contracts, will expire in 2019 so lawmakers can implement the recommendations of the commission.

Contracts negotiated by July 1, 2017, will remain in effect as negotiated.

Districts currently in impasse on health insurance negotiations are provided an opportunity to reopen negotiations.

Despite the frustration expressed by many legislators that the bill had flaws, we recognized the hard work that went into achieving this compromise. Speaker Johnson, President Pro Tem Ashe and the Governor issued the following joint statement: “We are pleased to announce we have reached an agreement in principle on an education savings proposal that will take an important step to make Vermont more affordable. If passed by the full legislative body, this proposal will help the state achieve significant savings in

the education fund and lower property tax rates. The agreement reached upholds the principles each of us committed to during the legislative session, building on areas of agreement and our shared goal to improve the lives of Vermonters.

Importantly, it ensures that we will have a budget that does not raise taxes and fees, including property tax rates.”

Before adjournment the House and Senate passed nearly identical resolutions strongly opposing the announced U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and recognizing Governor Phil Scott for enrolling Vermont in the US Climate Alliance. We were all pleased to support this timely resolution.

UPCOMING PUBLIC MEETINGS Planning Commission: June 29 at 7 p.m.

(Town Plan work session) July 6 and 20 at 7 p.m.

Selectboard: July 10 and 24 at 7 p.m.

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Around Town Edd Merritt CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

An addition to last issue’s “Congratulations:”

In our last issue we recognized Rhino Foods and Ted Castle for making the Forbes Magazine’s list of “Small Giants.”

We need, however, to add a Castle to the honor roll. Ted’s wife Anne is also an owner of Rhino and, in fact, operated “Chessy’s Frozen Custard” in the Champlain Mill when she and Ted started the business. As their kids came along, Anne decided to stay home and raise Ned and Rooney. She also volunteered a good deal of time at Charlotte Central and CVU schools and said that she felt her most notable contribution was the annual day she spent cleaning Rookie Manning’s office. to Chennah Sharpe who graduated summa cum laude from Providence College in Rhode Island. Channah majored in global studies with minor degrees in French and public community service. She received the Kapstein Family Award and was inducted into the French Honor Society. Chennah will be serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Albuquerue, New Mexico, next year. to Beatrice Woodruff, who completed her sophomore year at Colby College, Waterville, ME and earned placement on the Dean’s List for the 2016-2017 school year. She was among the 23 percent of the Colby student body who qualified for the Dean’s List. Beatrice is a graduate of Champlain Valley Union High School and the daughter of Margaret and Charles Woodruff of Charlotte. At Colby she majors in economics, concentrating in financial markets. She also studies Russian language and culture.

to the following students from Charlotte who earned placement on the St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, Dean’s List for the spring 2017 semester: • Annabella Pugliese, class of 2020 who has yet to declare her major • Alissa Stone, class of 2019, a chemistry major

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Sympathy:

is extended to family and friends of Lawrence (Larry) Weed, M.D. who passed away June 3 at his home in Underhill. Dr. Weed had an extensive and varied medical background and left his mark on the profession through his rigorous scientific research, clinical practice and education of others. He became well recognized for his work in developing standards of data organization in medical records. Part of these standards included problem lists and SOAP notes (Suspect, Observe, Assess, Plan). Another was the POMR (Problem Oriented Medical Record). Mention SOAP notes to virtually any nurse in the country and she/he recognizes the name, knows how they operate and has used them. In 1981 Weed left a position at the University of Vermont College of Medicine to found a company called PKC (Problem Knowledge Couplers). Using the skills of Charlotte computer programmer, Richard Hertzberg, Weed and his firm developed a series of knowledge couplers which took known data about various medical conditions, coupled the problems with potential diagnoses and treatments and provided physicians with a database on which to treat their patient. Weed’s theory was that physicians have a tendency to jump to conclusions before reviewing the total data, and that is a central cause of medical mistakes. The CEO of PKC, Howard Pierce, also became a Charlotte resident. Shortly into its tenure, PKC

Unexpected evening sky after the rainstorms cleared.What wild skies all around on June 19.

Photo by Lee Krohn became a military contractor, testing its products and systems on Naval cadets at Annapolis. An obituary in the June 22 New York Times pointed out that Dr. Weed could become a “prickly ambassador for his ideas.” He proposed restructuring traditional medical schools and went “a few steps beyond tough love in telling doctors about their limitations.” Survivors of Larry’s family included his daughter Dinny Weed Adamson of Charlotte. The family asks that those wishing to make donations in his memory do so to the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties, 1110 Prim Road, Colchester, VT 05446.

Town Bites:

Selectboard searches for lister

Betsy Oliver left the lister’s office while she and her family consider finding a new home. The Selectboard has been reviewing candidates for Betsy’s position.

What’s happening with the Varney Farm?

The owners of The Varney Farm off Route 7 are in the midst of litigations.

They refurbished its barn to operate as an event venue after the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission OK’d it for that purpose. The neighbors, however, were not pleased with what the usage would do to them – introducing even more traffic on Route 7, cars parked dangerously close to the highway, etc. They appealed the decision of the Zoning Board. The owners, in turn, appealed the neighbors’ appeal, and that is where things stand at the moment, according to Town Administrator, Dean Bloch. Apparently, as commercial venues, “event barns” do not stand high on everyone’s list. Two proposals have undergone close scrutiny in recent years.

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Declutter, organize and stress less Meg Berlin CONTRIBUTOR

A few years back there was a distinct rustle of interest among many of my women friends. The excited talk going around was about a new book called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. Kondo surpasses all imaginings about a tidy, neat home or office. Her constant quest for beauty and simplicity are a powerful message to most of us who struggle with the basic maintenance of our lives. Kondo’s escalating international acclaim has had her interviewed by the NewYork Times, Atlantic, Guardian and New Yorker.

This new trend has many people diving through their closets and climbing through mounds of old paperwork and files, clearing family heirlooms from basements and then making multiple trips to Goodwill and making donations to local book sales. The possibilities to “spark joy” are endless!

As many rushed to get the book and read it, others experimented with some of her ideas, sampling and experiencing the idea of decluttering. This caught my attention in a big way.

I’ll confess that in science’s quest to understand the human genome I wonder if they’ll come up with a “neat” and “messy” gene. If genetic predisposition has any play in this, my genes will point to the messy marker. I’m not a slob, but I’m not great at throwing things away and weaker still at the seemingly simple task of organizing areas in my home. I walk into my office and sometimes walk out again immediately before I break into a sweat. ’d much rather be creating something or cultivating other parts of my life—organizing is both boring and detailed in a way I hate.

These days, though, there are people who can help you build systems and organize the various “habitats” in your life so that the hard part is made much easier and simpler.

What feels like a horrendous task for some is not only a breeze to others but an actual talent. One could argue that it’s a skill that one develops over time, but I’m willing to argue that some are automatically much better at organizing than others. They see the possible where others can’t envision anything but a jumble.

I hired Suzanne Lourie to help me out this winter with my home and got to learn both about her talent for clearing and her real gift for helping people work though the emotional process of decluttering. Her new business, right here in Charlotte, is called “Get it Done” (http://getitdonevt.com/).

Suzanne offers covers a remarkable array of skills for hands on support for decluttering and creating systems so you won’t fall back into old bad habits and

“Many people have a vague sense that the clutter and disorganization are impacting other parts of their lives.” offering resources for donating/selling your belongings and discovering options you may not have known on your own.

It’s not just about the tangible stuff, but also time management along with the worries and stress that gets in the way of focusing on our priorities.

Tell me about your previous career in social work and how that affects your work with people in this new capacity.

A social work mantra is to “meet the client wherever they’re at” and the core value of respecting each person I work with absolutely applies in my professional organizing work. When I meet a new client I ask questions to help us get a clearer sense of their goals and what’s holding them back from getting organized. It’s important to articulate how the person will feel when they’re organized. This helps a lot when decision fatigue kicks in and motivation begins to wane.

Over and over I see clients feel a tremendous sense of relief in letting go of stuff that has been weighing them down. The journey may not always be comfortable, but working with clients to manage the discomfort is a skill I feel comfortable with given my many years practicing social work.

It’s very rewarding to see how uplifted and relieved people feel when they are making progress. As they integrate the systems and habits to support their goals, the positive ripple effect it has on other parts of their lives is a great motivator to maintain the organizational systems.

Backsliding certainly can happen, but once there is a structure and system in place it’s much easier to get back on track.

Tell me about the kinds of different people you encounter? How there are different kinds of success with each person?

Some people have struggled throughout their lives with organization, while others have had some good systems in place and then a significant life event occurs.

Many people have a vague sense that the

Courtesy photo clutter and disorganization are impacting other parts of their lives (stress in family relationships, not being able to invite people into their homes or offices, saying no to opportunities because of pressing need to “get organized”), but it can be a real “Aha!” moment to acknowledge the many ways clutter and disorganization impact the different spheres of our lives and our overall wellbeing.

Success means different things to different people. I need to understand how the client defines success and what kinds of changes they think are important.

I don’t make the decisions about what or how much to let go of —the timeline is different for each person. The client always makes the final decisions; I’m the catalyst to keep the process moving and tied to their goals. Over time, most people discover owning less stuff contributes to a positive lifestyle, rather than feeling deprived.

Some people want homework between sessions, some like to have contact to help with accountability, and some are more successful working side by side throughout the process and integrating new habits between sessions. There is not one method that fits everyone.

The skills I bring to work with an

older client may be quite different than those use with someone who has young children or whose children have moved out of the home. Similarly different skills are involved in working with someone who is very creative or someone who struggles with ADHD, depression or loss. The common thread is respecting the client wherever they are in the process and building on their success, keeping them motivated, acknowledging set backs and moving toward their goals.

What I find is most of us feel we should be able to do it on our own when we have more time, but the “right time” never materializes. I suggest people think about what the clutter is getting in the way of in their life (physically and emotionally), and remind them we hire professionals in many areas of life to assist us with projects or maintenance that may be outside of our scope of knowledge, or just too challenging to take on alone. It’s not about having a magazine-perfect home or becoming a minimalist, but rather feeling unencumbered in achieving your goals and being happy in your space.

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Town Chittenden County Historical Society publishes new book The Chittenden County Historical Society is pleased to announce the next in its series of publications on local history and persons, a book about one of our community’s most beloved and admired members. Lilian Baker Carlisle: Vermont Historian, Burlington Treasure, A ‘Scrapbook Memoir’ was introduced at a book launch in the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education at the Shelburne Museum— where Lilian worked as Mrs. Electra Webb’s assistant during its founding days—on Sunday, June 25.

Lilian was one of the society’s most enthusiastic and knowledgeable founders. She was a historian, collector, writer, legislator and silver expert who was active in many local organizations. Her life is a reflection of Burlington and wider Vermont history since the 1940s when she and her family moved here. It is hard to believe it has been ten years since her passing. “I wish we could ask

Lilian” is still heard as past facts and institutional memories are sought.

Fortunately, Lilian was a cataloguer of her own life. Fifty scrapbooks covering the years 1925-2006 contain photos, ephemera, news clippings and souvenirs from her renaissance life. We have gathered samples of the contents of those books into our own “scrapbook memoir” of Lilian’s life. The captivating images are interspersed with quotes, text and tributes that reveal the work and activism of a 94-years-long, very full life. The book was researched, written and designed by Joanna Tebbs Young, with photography by Timothy Clemens, under the direction of the CCHS Publications Committee.

Lilian Baker Carlisle: Vermont Historian, Burlington Treasure, A ‘Scrapbook Memoir’ is now available for purchase at $25 per copy.

NEWS Summer Time At The Charlotte Library!

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS: BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE Kick-Off Party: Tuesday, June 27, 1 p.m. Learn how raptors build their habitats in this hands-on session with Vermont Institute of Natural Science.

For all ages.

STORY TIMES AND PROJECT SESSIONS Reading Fun At Adam’s BerrY Farm Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. starting June 20: Meet us at the farm for a summer of berries, great stories, gardening and busy activities. All ages are welcome.

Preschool StorY Time: Fridays, June 30–July 28, at 10:30 a.m.: Drop in for stories, songs and crafts. For ages 3-5.

Let’s Build a Better World* Mondays, July 10–31, at 10:30 a.m.: Join us to create and investigate all kinds of construction, including robots, marble runs, slime and Lego blocks creations. For ages 9 & up.

Let’s Build a Better World* Wednesdays, July 5 –26, at 10:30 a.m.: The same fun as our Monday group, for the early elementary set. For ages 5–8.

S T E A M ENCOUNTERS FOR ALL AGES Minecraft League* Tuesdays at 10 a.m. starting July 11: Bring your Minecraft mania to the library and help build new worlds each week. Please bring your own device loaded with Minecraft Pocket Edition. For ages 7 & up with basic knowledge of Minecraft.

BioMimicrY*: Viewing Nature’s Patterns & Strategies with Eye Loupes & Microscopes Monday, July 24, at 6 p.m.: Presented

by Jan Schwarz of Project Micro. For ages 7 & up.

DroP-In Coding CluB: Thursdays at 10 a.m., June 29– July 27 (except July 20): Build your own code to animate and create. For ages 9 & up. All levels of coding welcome. Materials provided.

STEAM Challenge Camp* Tuesday-Friday, August 1– 4, 10:30

a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Do you love Science, Math, Art? Discover the possibilities in this fun exploration camp! Sign up for one day or all four. For ages 8–11.

Funded by the TinkerBelles Grant from John & Alice Outwater.

Solar EcliPse CeleBration: Monday, August 21, at 1 p.m.: Lunar activities and viewing of the eclipse. Viewing glasses provided. All ages are welcome.

Summer of NumBers Can doing math in the summer be fun?

Yes, with the Summer of Numbers and a daily math problem. Just pick up a constellation chart and star stickers to track your progress. For all ages.

SUMMER SLATE FOR ADULTS BerrY Farm BooK CluB Wednesdays, July 19 and August 23, 6:30 p.m.: Share a sample of foodrelated reading and discussion while enjoying a potluck of local food and drink at Adam’s Berry Farm. Reading Selection for July 19 from Bringing It to the Table: On Food & Farming by Wendell Berry.

BaKe for Good at Charlotte Senior Center* Thursday, July 20, 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: With sponsorship from King Arthur Flour, seniors and kids bake together, then enjoy and share what they make with the Senior Center and Community Food Shelf.

Lunch provided. Seniors of all ages and children ages 9 & up.

Tech Time @ The LiBrarY : Wednesdays in July, 10 a.m.–12 noon.

Want to download a book or learn a language online? Need a little help with your smartphone? Drop-in and get some personalized help with our Tech Librarian.

HammocK NaPPers BooK CluB: Pick up the selection the first full week of each month and take to your favorite summer reading spot. You can join in on our online discussion...or just enjoy that glass of lemonade as you read. Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai, pick up 7/5–7/12; Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn, pick up 8/7–8/11.

Gardening Gigs: We need help tending the Library garden. If you’ve got horticultural energy to spare, sign up to weed, water and prepare the harvest.

Information and garden tools available at the library. Check the library website to sign up.

Check Out Some Summer Fun! Grand Kits: Take home a bin full of fun to entertain your grand-friend!

Makey Makey Kits: Turn everyday objects like bananas into a touchpad with this kit and your computer!

Museum Passes: ECHO, Shelburne Farms, Birds of Vermont, Maritime Museum, Vermont State Parks and more!

Online Options: Learn a Language. Take an online class.

Go to our website to find out more: CharlottePublicLibrary.org. * Registration required.

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Food Shelf News

Kerrie Pughe

CONTRIBUTOR

Food for the mind as well as the body

An anonymous gift of several hundred books to the Friends of the Charlotte Library for distribution by the Charlotte Food Shelf will bring books for summer reading to the homes of many local children. “The donor wants to be sure that all children have their own new, high-interest books,” said Cindi Robinson, who coordinated the book distribution at the Food Shelf.

Babies get books because babies who are read to acquire language and learn that reading is fun. Older children get books because research shows that when children read for pleasure every measure of reading success improves. They don’t need special coaching; they don’t need to write book reports…they just need to read for pleasure. The Friends of the Library is helping the Food Shelf make sure children have a fun summer and keep learning along the way— food for the mind as well as for the body! The books went home last week with the kids, along with a book bag, book marks and summer library reading information.

Thank you to John and Nancy Calcagni for the support this month.

Wish list

Healthy kid snacks as well as lunch food. Ideas include peanut butter, crackers, raisins and other dried fruit with no sugar added, canned fruit with no added sugar, mac and cheese, unsalted nuts and seeds, popcorn (low salt and butter), canned tuna, canned chicken, oatmeal, low sodium soups, low sodium canned vegetables and granola bars.

Thank you!

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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.

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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Town Invasive Plants: An endpoint?

J. Ethan Tapper

CHITTENDEN COUNTY FORESTER DEPARTMENT OF FORESTS, PARKS & RECREATION

As the Chittenden County forester for the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, my job can be broadly described as negotiating the relationship between humans and the forested ecosystems of Chittenden County. To this end, I serve as a resource for landowners, communities and individuals interested in forests, forest management and land stewardship.

Through my work I have the opportunity to observe the “big picture,” the trends and forces that influence our forested ecosystems over time. One of the most disturbing of these trends is the threat posed by invasive exotic plants, which present a disturbing vision of the future of our forests. In my view, the presence of these species represents a theoretical endpoint in the growth and development of our forested ecosystems.

In the remarkably diverse forested ecosystems of the northeastern United States, we are blessed with a suite of native species that regenerate readily following disturbance events. Our forests utilize a simple scheme to do this: When some trees die, others capitalize on the opportunity to establish and grow.

While this may seem obvious, in many parts of North America the regeneration of native trees is no easy thing, and it is the exceptional diversity and richness of our forested ecosystems that make this possible. We humans benefit from this capacity by having new trees constantly establishing and growing, ready for us to tend, harvest and enjoy.

In the midst of this abundance, it is easy to ignore invasive plants as they establish and slowly spread through the

understory of a forest. We put off their removal, saying that we will address the issue when these species become a problem. However, when trees in the overstory of a woodlot succumb to natural mortality, become mature or start to decline, we are forced to encounter these species head-on. I have seen many cases where the loss of an overstory, which is normally rewarded with a diverse crop of native seedlings, is met only by a sea of invasives. Unless these invasive plants are removed, they will occupy these areas, inhibiting the forest’s natural regeneration process indefinitely. This is the “endpoint” to which I refer, a moment at which the cycle of life in a forested ecosystem is arrested into the indefinite future.

Taken broadly, I see this trend applying to many of our forests, given enough time and inactivity. So, what do we do? The days may be gone when any disturbance will automatically trigger an abundance of native regeneration, but this doesn’t mean that our forests’ days are numbered. These days, when I see a single invasive plant on a landowner’s property, I tell them that they have an invasive-plant problem. The truth is that all of us, even those who have never seen one of these plants, have an invasive-plant problem. My dream is to see concentrated, community-wide efforts in the removal of these species, in recognition of the fact that these species don’t stop at property lines—and neither do our forests. I hope that we can use these actions as a springboard to talk about how to make the forests in our region, and all those reliant on them, healthy into the indefinite future.

For more information email Ethan.

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Burlington Edible History Tour 2017 season begins

The Burlington Edible History Tour was created in 2014 by Elise Guyette and Gail Rosenberg to journey back in time. It’s a two-mile walk where participants discover the local ethnic history and food traditions of Abenaki, African Americans, Chinese, French Canadians, Germans, Greeks, Irish, Italians, Jews, Lebanese andYankees.This tour group is at Juniper Bar & Restaurant.

Courtesy photo Staff report 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.

Over a two-mile walk, participants discover the local ethnic history and food traditions of Abenaki, African Americans, Chinese, French Canadians, Germans, Greeks, Irish, Italians, Jews, Lebanese and Yankees. Participants sample food at five restaurants that serve local foods: Waterside Café at ECHO, Jam Bakery at Maglianero, Honey Road, Penny Cluse and Juniper Bar & Restaurant.

The tour was created in 2014 by Elise Guyette and Gail Rosenberg. Guyette is a historian, teacher and author, most recently of the book, Discovering Black Vermont.

Rosenberg is a fundraising and public relations expert and a freelance writer of articles on flexible work schedules, circus

history and food.

Guyette and Rosenberg are proud of their Trip Advisor 5-star ratings and to have been listed as the only Vermont destination in the tourism blog “Roamin’ the Americas” recent story “How to Support Immigrants and Refugees Through Travel in the United States.”

Tours run Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 1 to 4:15 p.m., through Oct. 14.Tickets must be purchased in advance through FlynnTix at flynntix.org, phone (802) 863-5966, or in-person sales at 153 Main Street in Burlington, or through the Tour’s website burlingtonediblehistory. com.

The tour donates 10 percent of profits to New Farms for New Americans, a Burlington-based program that provides affordable land to refugees so they can stay connected to their own culinary traditions and crops.

For more information email eliseandgail@burlingtonediblehistory.com.

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Be alert. Be patient. Be kind.

That’s the message state officials are sending to Vermont drivers this season, as farmers return to the roads with tractors and heavy equipment.

“Farmers are working hard to grow our economy and keep Vermont beautiful,” said Anson Tebbetts, Vermont’s Secretary of Agriculture. “Sometimes they need a little extra patience and care from fellow drivers—let’s give it to them.”

“Living in Vermont means living among our beautiful farms. Farmers are our neighbors, friends and co-workers,” added Tom Anderson, Commissioner of Public Safety. “We’re asking all motorists to put safety first. Slow down, be patient and courteous, and enjoy the scenery.”

Ryan Carabeau is a farmer from Richmond who worked with the state to produce a public service announcement about sharing the road with farmers and their equipment. He says he understands drivers can feel frustrated and confused

when they encounter tractors on the road.

“I’ve had a few close calls over the years with impatient and distracted drivers,” he says. “It can be scary.”

Here are some specific actions motorists should take when they approach a tractor on the road: 1) Slow down: Remember, the top speed for most tractors is 20 mph. Slow down and give yourself the time and space to assess the situation.

2) Give the road 100 percent of your attention—especially when approaching farm equipment.

3) Give the farmer some space. Do not tailgate—it causes stress and distraction.

4) Be patient and wait for a safe opportunity to pass. When it’s all clear, it’s OK to pass a tractor, as long as you do so safely!

5) Be alert for turns: Farm machinery make wide turns. Looks for turn indicators, like hand signals and blinkers from the drivers. Sometimes tractors will turn directly into fields—no driveway needed. Be especially alert for left-

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09:42 Medical assist SAND RD, Ferrisburgh. Charlotte Rescue assisted Vergennes Rescue at a medical call. The patient was transported to the hospital by Charlotte Rescue.

Monday, June 5 06:02 Medical call MOUNTAINS EDGE, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient was transported to the Hospital.

11:58 Medical call WILDWOOD W, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue was dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital.

Tuesday, June 6

Ryan Carabeau, a farmer from Richmond, says left hand turns are especially dangerous for farmers and motorists.

Photo by VT Agency of Ag hand turns. The left-turn collision is the most common type of farm machinery collision on public roads. It happens

when the farm vehicle is about to make a left turn just as the motorist behind the farm vehicle decides to pass.

13:44 Accident PI HINESBURG RD & BEAN RD, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a 2-car motor vehicle collision with injuries. Charlotte Fire and Rescue were dispatched and Vermont State Police was notified. All patients refused transported to the hospital.

the hospital.

18:29 Medical call GREENBUSH RD, Charlotte. 911 caller reported a medical emergency. Charlotte Rescue and Fire were dispatched. The patient was transported to the hospital.

23:23 Accident PI ETHAN ALLEN HWY & E THOMPSONS POINT RD, Charlotte. Caller reported a 2-car motor vehicle collision with injuries. Charlotte Fire, Rescue and Shelburne Police were dispatched and Vermont State Police was notified. The patient was transported to

Thursday, June 8 10:17 Medical assist SHELBURNE RD, Shelburne. Charlotte Rescue paramedic assisted Shelburne Rescue at a medical call. The patient was transported to the hospital by Shelburne Rescue.

16:33 Medical assist JOCKEY LN, Monkton. Charlotte Rescue paramedic assisted Vergennes Rescue at a medical call. The patient was transported to the Hospital by Vergennes Rescue.

19:42 Medical Assist KELLEYS FIELD RD, Hinesburg. Charlotte Rescue assisted Hinesburg 1st Response at a medical call.

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Education “It’s not a king or a queen or a tsar, it is you” Sen. Sanders delivers sobering speech at CVU graduation

Keith Morrill STAFF WRITER

Thousands filled UVM’s Patrick Gymnasium on Friday, June 16, to celebrate CVU’s graduating class of 2017.

It was a commencement that straddled the line between the traditional and the political, with a lineup comprised of student speakers and a guest appearance

by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. CVU principal, Adam Bunting, initiated the ceremony, asking graduates to give thanks. “I would invite you to stand up and point to someone in the crowd or someone amongst you who helped you get where you are right now.” Graduates jumped to their feet, some standing on chairs, and pointed to family, friends, mentors and teachers in the crowd, some pointing to each other.

The speakers who followed— salutatorian Eva Rocheleau, senior speakers George Davis and Nathan Bamberger and valedictorian Trey Tomasi—reflected on the end of their public-school education with wit, pathos and maturity beyond their years. Each speaker gave the audience a whirlwind tour of their high school careers and discussed their feelings—the exhilaration and the fear—as they stood on the threshold of their post-graduation lives and considered their potential impact on the world.

This sentiment was echoed when Senator Sanders took the podium and delivered a sobering speech that landed somewhere between the campaign trail and the classroom. He praised the speakers for their heartfelt honesty and promised to do the same by providing them with his unvarnished opinions. “I wish from the very, very bottom of my heart that I could tell you that the world that my generation has left your generation is a world with minimal problems, but if I said that I would not be telling you the truth and you know that I would not be telling you the

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“Democracy is a very big deal,” Sanders said. “It is a very radical concept. You know what it says?

It says that you and you and you have the right to determine the future of this state and this nation.”

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truth.”

With that in mind, Sanders implored students not to lose hope. “I do not want you to walk away from these problems,” said Sanders. “It’s very easy to do that.

It’s easy to pick up the paper or look at television and say, my god, it’s all crazy, it’s terrible, I’ve got to worry about other things. But if you turn your backs on the

problems, who’s going to fill that gap?”

At the core of Sanders’s message was one plea: democracy is not a spectator’s sport.

“Democracy is a very big deal,” intones Sanders. “It is a very radical concept. You know what it says? It says that you and you and you have the right to determine the future of this state and this nation.

That’s a pretty new concept in world history. It’s not a king or a queen or a tsar, it is you.”

Ultimately, his message was one of unity, and he urged graduates to listen to others with respect. Sanders went on to highlight a number of serious social, political, humanitarian and environmental issues that graduates would have to tackle as they moved forward into their adult lives and implored students to use their education to revitalize American democracy and to leave the planet a better place than they found it.

Though Sanders’s speech was well received, bookended as it was by standing ovations, attendees stood divided over its content. One woman from Virginia, who wished to remain anonymous, came to watch her niece graduate. She had high praise for the student speakers, but when it came to Sanders, offered only “no comment” when asked if she thought the speech was appropriate for the venue and the audience, even though she identified as a Sanders supporter.

Graduates themselves offered varying opinions. “I thought it was highly politicized,” said Shane Beal, a Charlotte resident who is heading to the University of Toronto in the fall to major in history, with a double minor in economics and philosophy. “I appreciate some of the messages at the beginning and the end, and the inspiration for us to do more, but at the same time I felt a lot of it was just a recounting of his campaign rather than a message of us.”

Another Charlotte graduate, Becca Cottrell, said, “I thought that it was really impactful, and really meaningful,” Cottrell will study comparative literature, theater and French at UMass Amherst in the fall. She said that Bernie’s warnings and call to action were just the message students needed to hear. “Even if you don’t agree with his political beliefs, I think that it’s important to take into account that the world is in a troubled time and we have to take care of it.”

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Education Champlain Valley Union High School Class of 2017 Malcolm A. Achilles Maxwell A. Akey Pasquale Alfano Carly G. Alpert Hunter M. Anderson Nicole H. Anderson Benjamin T. Apfelbaum Elise B. Askew Cody J. Aube Katie L. Aube Caroline C. Averill Jenna M. Baginski Ricky E. Baker Nathan M. Bamberger Kelsie D. Barnes Cole S. Bartlett Shane G. Beal Ella M. Beauchaine Anne M. Bedell Cathryn A. Belanger Leah E. Berger Charlie Bernicke Hannah R. Bernier Damien J. Billado-Dubie Spencer J. Bissonette Joshua D. Bliss Steven N. Blood Jeffrey D. Boliba Sophia G. Bolivar-Adams Gabrielle R. Booth John B. Bose Anna Bosen Avery L. Boucher Jacob H. Bouffard Andrew J. Boutin Joshua F. Bowen Sophie L. Boyer Anna H. Brooks Megan E. Brown Shay K. Brunvand Jason A. Burgess Elora G. Buscher Jesse Campbell Thomas A. Carey Brady C. Carlson Ben T. Carnahan Jack B. Caswell Shelby Chase Colby Chatoff Ashley N. Clark Justin M. Clark Mathew T. Clouse Elliot T. Cockayne Maddie I. Collins Aidan G. Corcoran Ethan J. Cote Benjamin R. Cotton Rebecca D. Cottrell Julia C. Cronan Hadley T. Crow Alexander R. D’Amico Jonathan D. Daggett Jacqueline R. Davies George W. Davis Sienna S. DeVoe-Talluto John F. Delisle Katherine M. Dempsey Alyson M. Detch Kevin G. Devine Adam P. Donegan

Liam R. Drake Tadj Z. DuVernay Garrett J. Duquette Edward G. Eagan Meghan R. Eustace Jackson B. Evans Jacob M. Evans Rosalie M. Farmer Alexander F. Farrington Christina F. Farrington Georgia K. Fewell Earl Fletcher Paden S. Fortier Joshua W. Fortin Cody J. Fournier Peter Fournier Joseph R. Franceschetti Flynn L. Freeman Lansingh W. Freeman Caden R. Frost Emily L. Gagnon Natalie A. Gagnon Corey A. Gaudette Jonathan A. Gay Tomas A. Georgsson Laura H. Gerry Sophia R. Gigliotti Jeffrey A. Giroux Jackson D. Glover Alana E. Golding Patrick C. Gooley Kyle M. Gorman Sophia R. Gorman Tayler Gorton Jayden M. Grant Jacob C. Griggs Megan E. Gumlaw Marlee A. Gunn Justin G. Hameline Dillon C. Hamrell Max J. Hamrell Ellery Harkness Meara A. Heininger Shannon G. Helfman Julia G. Higa Abigail E. Higginbottom E. Wyatt C. Hoechner Marc M. Hoeppner Liam D. Holly Jacob I. Holmberg Cameron L. Howe William J. Hubbard David A. Huber Benjamin R. Hyams

Brandon T. Jaques Nolan J. Jimmo Shianne M. Jimmo Lauren P. Johnson Kimberly D. Jonah Margret C. Joos Jackson M. Kahn Kaitlyn L. Kaplan James T. Keenan Nicholas S. Kinneston Julia M. Kitonis Allison A. Kloeckner John J. Koskinen Ally J. LaCroix Emily S. LaCroix Lydia K. LaShelle Carly A. Labrie Colin Lach Karma Lama Sherpa Jeremy W. Lang Samuel F. Langdon Skylar L. Langford Ashley E. Larrabee Devin L. Lavalette Taya M. LePrevost Jarett P. Legg Ethan P. Leonard Olivia E. Letourneau George J. Lomas Cameron J. Longchamp Zoe E. Louchheim Gabriel S. Lourie-Wisbaum Devan A. Lussier Jack L. Lyman Miami A. MacDougal Kenneth S. MacKillop Emma K. Mahar Drew M. Major Isabella A. Margi Tyler D. Marshall Kyle L. Martin Ryan L. Martin Katherine L. Mathon Kate D. McAllister Justin D. McAuliffe Calvin A. McClellan Harrison B. Mead Julian A. Mele Hadley S. Menk Alexander J. Merrill Alexis E. Meyer Natalie R. Meyer Xander Miller Nicholas J. Mogielnicki

Colin R. Monsey Jamie-Lynn Monty Sheelar Moo Esther N. Moran Courtney P. Morgan Austyn H. Morin Sierra O. Morton Kevin D. Motia Bryce Mullin Hannah J. Munn Kaelan T. Murdock Mercedes K. Murphy Tristan N. Nagiba Eileen G. Needham Anna S. Needler Hannah H. Nguyen Christopher T. O’Brien Kiera M. O’Brien Matthew P. O’Hare Rosanne M. Oates Justin M. Olson Elise N. Osbahr Lila K. Ottinger Quinten E. Oxender Julia L. Parent Robert J. Parento III Tyler Parker Pawloski Jacob N. Parker Allie E. Pashby-Rockwood Jamie L. Pashby-Rockwood William F. Pasley Caroline M. Pastore Reece Pawlaczyk John M. Pellett Abigail C. Perocchi Amelia B. Pflaster Giang N. Pham Victoria E. Poquette Brenden F. Provost Maxwell D. Pudvar William H. Ravell Gabrielle J. Raymond Jack C. Reeves Suzen Regmi Michaela M. Rehak Cole A. Rehkugler Bradley L. Reynolds Hattie J. Roberts Eva M. Rocheleau David N. Roy Kyle T. Roy Anastasia N. Rup Dawson B. Ryan Schyler Ryan

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Education Mater Christi School graduates 53 8th graders

Combining art and language arts

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Charlotte Vincent is in the third row, third from the left, and Walter Biggs is in the top row, second from the right.

Courtesy photo Staff report Charlotte Vincent and Walter Biggs of Charlotte were among 53 Mater Christi students who, on June 8, in a combination Mass and graduation ceremony, were awarded certificates announcing that they had successfully completed the requirements needed to go on to grade nine.

The day before, these same students participated in Recognition Day, where Charlotte received a President’s Award for Educational Excellence as well as a Jhamille Renton Memorial Award, which goes to a student who exemplifies Jhamille’s “love of life, her positive and gentle spirit and in particular her love and care for young children.”

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When Mrs. Jennifer Coulter set out to plan a research unit with her 3rd graders, it occurred to her that this would be a perfect unit to teach in interdisciplinary fashion. She approached Ms. Hannah Robertson, Mater Christi School’s art teacher, and together they came up with a plan that would incorporate researching the life of an artist and creating a still-life painting in the artist’s style.

The students were required to use books rather than the internet to find the required information. This included studying the artist’s use of color and brush strokes and whether the artist expressed his or her topic in an abstract style or realistically. The list of artists from which the students could choose

included Andy Warhol, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keefe, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh and Leonardo DaVinci.

Mrs. Jenny Larkin, an artist and the parent of one of the 3rd graders, generously provided the canvases and much of the acrylic paint that the class used.

The completed paintings were displayed in the school’s library for several weeks, and visitors to the library were high in their praise of the students’ art work.

The two teachers were pleased with the outcome of the unit. The students seemed to enjoy the process, and it was evident that they understood and respected the singular style of each of the seven artists—a very satisfactory way in which to finish the school year.

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Karma Yoga is for the birds Lynn Alpeter YOGA ROOTS

Yoga Roots is excited to announce that it will be partnering with All Souls Interfaith Gathering for the second year of Karma Yoga on Sundays, July 9, July 23, August 6, August 20 and Sept 3, from 8–9 a.m. Yoga Roots instructors will hold an all-levels donation yoga class outside overlooking the mountains and Lake Champlain. All proceeds this year will benefit Audubon Vermont. For more than 100 years, Audubon Vermont has protected birds, wildlife and their habitat through engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, stewardship and action.

Karma Yoga is one of our favorite summer offerings,” said Lynn Alpeter, co-owner of Yoga Roots. “Supporting Audubon Vermont seemed like a

Edd’s Sports Report Machavern sets a track record at Indianapolis

Appropriately, Dillon Machavern, whose father was also a racecar driver, honored his dad by setting a record at the Indianapolis Speedway on Father’s Day during the TransAm Series presented by Pirelli Round Muscle Car Challenge. A native Charlotter and recent High Point University graduate, Dillon followed the INDY tradition of having a champagne shower and drinking milk afterward.

Finishing second overall for the day in his Heritage Ford Mustang, Dillon posted a new track record by covering the 2.5-mile course in just over a minute and one half. He was interviewed by CBS sports and will appear on the CBS Sports Network at noon on July 15. Next month takes him to Watkins Glen, New York, Brainard, Minnesota, Bowmanville, Ontario Canada and Lime Rock, Connecticut.

CVU’s Tyler Marshall named Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year

CVU senior Tyler Marshall joined Rice’s Sonia John as Gatorade Track Athletes of the Year . It is the second year in a row that Tyler has earned this recognition. A middle- and long-distance runner, he swept the state championships in Division I, winning the 800-, 1,500-

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and 3,000-meter races. His times in the latter two races are among the top twenty in the nation. Tyler is also an accomplished Nordic skier who will attend UVM in the fall on a scholarship.

Decathlon calls upon many skills

The Decathlon calls upon athletes to compete in ten different track and field events including 100-meter dashes, long jumps, hurdles, discus throws, pole vaults, mid-range runs, shot puts and more. CVU sent a men’s and women’s contingent to UVM for the fortysecond state decathlon championships.

They finished events in many different places along the way. Nearly 100 high school athletes from around the state participated. Among the CVU men, Cole Casale and Kevin Veronneau were topten finishers at 100 meters and in the high jump respectively. Cole missed out by one place, finishing eleventh at 400 meters. Kenneth MacKillop also finished among the top quarter of the pack in the 100-meter dash. The women did several steps better with Caroline Hill sixth in the 100-meter dash and fifth in the discus and the 400-meter dash. Riley Wells, Lauren Johnson and Carly Alpert also competed.

American Legion Baseball stays in the dugout

Rain and baseball don’t mix, as the CVU-centered S.D. Ireland team has discovered this year. Growing up, this author had Mississippi River fish flies that caused us to slip in the outfield and, thus, cancel games. Here in New England, it’s the rain we’ve experienced this summer.

Hopefully, things will dry out and the

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season can get going in full swing. So far, Ireland stands to win some more games.

In its Punch Out Tournament for Cancer, played on the CVU field, it defeated a team from Brockville, Ontario, before losing to Clinton County, New York and White River Junction.

Twin State Baseball splits with New Hampshire

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the basis of a five-run second inning, the Green Mountain team came back to claim the second in another one-run effort, 6-5.

Ahead 5-3 until CVU first baseman, Chris O’Brien, hit a leadoff double in the bottom of the sixth and scored on a wild pitch was the game cemented for Vermont. New Hampshire tried, scoring two runs in its half of the sixth, but could not make a full comeback. The game was played in Concord, NH on Saturday.

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The Arts Vermont Arts Council partners with Vermont Art Guide on exhibit “Connection: the Art of Coming Together” Staff report

The exhibition, “Connection: the Art of Coming Together,” presents a survey of contemporary Vermont art organized by artist networks rather than aesthetics or media. As an experiment, curator Ric Kasini Kadour, editor and publisher of Vermont Art Guide, asked four artists and art professionals from different corners of the state to submit the name of an artist they feel is part of their community or network.

He then went to those people until he had enough people to fill the exhibition.

The results of this experiment, as well as Kadour’s extensive commentary on the artists’ relationships and artwork, are on view June 5 through October 6 at the Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. A version of the exhibition will appear in print in Vermont Art Guide #5 (forthcoming August 2017).

Participating artists include Jessica Scriver of Charlotte, as well as the following artists: Susan Abbott (Marshfield), George Bouret (West Pawlet), Linda Bryan (Newbury), Keith Chamberlin (St. Johnsbury), Charlie Hunter (Bellows

“In a time when there seems to be so much polarization, we wanted to focus on how art can be a powerful catalyst to bring people together.”

Kira Bacon Vermont Arts Council Communications Manager

Falls), Linda E. Jones (Burlington), Erika Lawlor Schmidt (Pawlet), Mary McKay Lower (Middlebury), Carol MacDonald (Colchester), Gabrielle McDermit (North Chittenden), Matthew Monk (Montpelier), Neil Riley (Marshfield), Joseph Salerno (Johnson), Gail Salzman (Fairfield), Meri Stiles (St. Johnsbury) and Thea Storz (Kirby).

Kadour explained the thinking behind the exhibition. “In my role as editor of the Vermont Art Guide and in my writing about regionalism in a modernist context, I am interested in communities and the

art they produce. ‘Connection: the Art of Coming Together’ is an extension of that work; but where my focus tends to be on works of art, this exhibition is focused on the artist as an individual participating in a network of artists.”

“In old art traditions, artists organized themselves by aesthetic tradition, in workshops and studios. In modernism, every artist is an island. Relationships are not limited to master and apprentice or peer in a rival studio. Two artists may collaborate extensively on projects or exhibitions, share styles and teach each

other, or they may have entirely different approaches to artmaking. Nevertheless, these relationships form an unseen web of connections that bring people together in a spirit of fellowship and support. To know these connections is to know more of the story of contemporary art.”

“In a time when there seems to be so much polarization, we wanted to focus on how art can be a powerful catalyst to bring people together,” said Vermont Arts Council Communications Manager Kira Bacon. “In the expert curation of this show, Ric Kadour has demonstrated exactly that.”

The Arts Council’s gallery is open to the public and located in the corridor and conference room of the offices at 136 State Street in Montpelier. There are times when the conference room is not available, but the corridor exhibit is always open during regular business hours, Monday–Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. An artist reception is planned for Friday, Oct. 6, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., during the Montpelier Art Walk.

This event also serves as a reception for Vermont Art Guide #5 in which the exhibition will appear.

“We’re celebrating our 10th Year Anniversary in Shelburne”

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continued from page 1 Congregational Church Deacon Gad Root and Elizabeth Clemma Root, occupied the home until he died from cancer in the house on June 13, 1872.

He had expanded the property to include the next house north, now owned by Bud Lawrence. Noble Root was married to Mary Ann “Polly” Lowry, who was also born in 1800 in Charlotte, daughter of Nehemiah and Betsey Lowry. They had four children: Jacob Noble, George Lowry, Henry Curtis and Martha Curtis.

Jacob died in the house on February 25, 1843, during a regional epidemic of puerperal fever and erysipelas that also killed a large number of Charlotte residents.

Similar to the Breakenridge brothers, brothers Henry and George Root married sisters Maria and Eleanor Wright, daughters of Daniel and Martha Wright, in 1851 and 1856 respectively. Noble Root divided his estate into a home farm of 107 acres where George remained, while Henry and his wife moved into the second farm of 124 acres where Bud Lawrence now lives.

Martha married David Cooper in 1856, but David died early in 1858, and after her daughter Martha Elizabeth was born on September 30, 1858, Martha herself died on October 23, 1858. The deaths were believed to be from consumption.

George and Eleanor’s firstborn, also named Eleanor, was born September 27, 1857, and died in the house on August 25, 1862, of chronic inflammation at age 5. Their only other child, a son named Charles Wright Root, was born April 15, 1869, although they adopted Eleanor’s niece, Clarissa Moody Doty, following her mother’s death in 1874. Eleanor Root arranged to have her sister’s remains brought to Charlotte for burial in the West Burying Ground (aka Barber Hill Cemetery), where she is buried simply as Clarissa M., daughter of Daniel L. and Martha Wright, but her married name of Doty is not included. Young Clarissa never married but, despite traveling in various jobs, maintained her residence in Charlotte with cousin Charles Root and family.

After Noble’s death in 1872, his widow continued to live at the house with her son until her death on March 1, 1878. George Root was primarily a fruit grower with a small dairy operation, while his brother Henry ran a sheep and horse farm with a small dairy operation.

George died in the house of a stroke on March 31, 1894, and his wife Eleanor died of pneumonia on April 17, 1908.

The

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continued from page 1 operation complete with vegetables, a few sheep, cows and chickens. They applied for the position and agreed to stay two years. The goal was to see if ShakeyGround Farm could grow and become a productive and sustainable farm for a family. They took on the challenge.

Fast forward to 2017. The Slabaughs are still with ShakeyGround Farm.

The 22-acre farm is now a productive, thriving farm with a wide assortment of products; the family has grown from two adults and a dog to include two children and an adopted cat. From meat to vegetables, from eggs to fleece, the farm provides the Slabaugh family with food for their table along with a livable income. This year for the first time, they are offering a CSA membership to folks in addition to selling at their own farm stand and at the Shelburne Farmer’s Market, and also supplying local restaurants and the Shelburne IGA with fresh vegetables. Three new hoop houses, along with raised beds, have provided them with the necessary space for heirloom tomatoes, a wide assortment of greens, onions, garlic, winter squash, carrots and asparagus.

Winter greens and kale are always in demand, and Drew is looking to add yet another hoop house. In order to utilize every inch of available space, he decided to use the land in between the hoop houses for asparagus as he needed to plow there in the winter and that wouldn’t harm the asparagus bed.

Drew estimates that they have about a half-acre just in vegetable production.

The next goal is to become certified as an organic vegetable farm.

They don’t do a lot with fruits, although there are strawberries, and heirloom apple and kiwi trees line the fence lines. The apples are for their own use, but the kiwis, a smaller version of the kiwi we see in the store, are being grown to sell. The size of a grape, these kiwi are totally edible, including the skin ,and if you were to cut one open, it would look like a normal green kiwi with the black seeds.

The original flock of Icelandic sheep, a heritage breed, has grown into a flock of 43. Shorn twice a year, the sheep provide fleece in colors from grays to browns to white, much of which is spun into yarn. Chosen for both meat and fleece production, the Icelandics are a hardy breed, smaller than other breeds, but like all sheep, are plagued with parasites. Using both pasture rotation and savvy breeding, Drew is

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Brittany and Drew Slabaugh with their family on the farm in Charlotte.

Courtesy photo continually improving the flock. The meat from the Icelandics is prized for being both tender and very mild.

Llamas graze with the ewes and lambs, providing protection from predators.

Four Belted Galloway cows are also in residence. Another hardy breed, they were chosen not for milk production, but for meat. Totally grass fed, the meat produced from the two heifers is nicely marbled. Not producing any milk has the Slabaugh’s buying milk from Family Cow Farm in Hinesburg where they also leave vegetables, especially greens, to sell from that farm store.

Meat production doesn’t end with the beef and lamb, as ShakeyGround also raises 200 chickens for meat each year along with caring for 50 laying hens.

Using portable houses, Slabaugh moves the chickens around the property, using them, along with the cows, as part of the parasite control process with the sheep. A few roosters roam amongst the chickens, but they do not raise any of their own chickens, relying instead of being able to purchase chicks when necessary. Meat and eggs are also among the products sold.

Nine beehives grace the property, but they are predominantly Dave’s responsibility—although Drew is learning about bee management. The bees help with the pollination of the plants and reward them with honey that

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Throughout our interview, Arlo, their son, and Remy, the dog, were close by. It was obvious that they had both chosen this path because it affords them a lifestyle they enjoy. As Brittany left for an appointment, she handed the baby monitor to Drew so that he would know when Juniper, their young daughter, woke from her nap. It was clearly apparent in talking with Drew that, although his days might be long and farming is a seven day a week, 52 week a year commitment, he wouldn’t trade it for the world. As he said, “I am here with my family all day; I eat three meals a day with them; I can help put them to bed and if necessary, come back out to finish up a job. Where else could I have this life?” In today’s frenetic world, this family and their world at ShakeyGround Farm was quiet, serene and very content.

You can buy their products at their farm stand at Converse Bay Road or see them on Saturdays at the Shelburne Farmers Market.

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continued from page 1 field. A full-course caution bunched up the field; on the Lap 24 restart, Machavern, in the No. 24 Heritage Motorsports Ford Mustang, overtook Robinson through turn one. The two would continue noseto-tail through lap 34 before Robinson made his move on the back of the Indy course to capturing first position and successfully defending it through the checkered flag.

Machavern would undergo one more battle over the final laps of the race, this time with Robinson’s teammate Shane Lewis, in the No. 72 Pura Vida Tequila/ 74 Ranch Racing Chevrolet Camaro.

Over the final stretches of the race, Machavern and Lewis would go side by side multiple times, including the final lap with Machavern just edging Lewis before entering the front straight and taking the checkered for second position.

The finishes marked the fourth podium of the year for both Machavern and Lewis. Machavern also set a new track record, posting the fast lap of the race, at 1:31.557 around the 2.439-mile Grand Prix course.

The schedule heats up over the next four weeks with four races across two series: July 1 at Watkins Glen—IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Series in No.28 RS-1 Porsche Cayman GT4 MR, July 2 at Brainerd International in the TransAm Series TA2 No. 24 Heritage Ford Mustang, July 8 at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in CTSC, and July 22 at Lime Rock Park in CTSC. The INDY race will be televised on CBS Sports Network on Sunday, July 15, at noon. All IMSA CTSC races are live streamed at IMSA.com and televised on FS-1.

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Vermont’s Ag Secretary and Fish & Wildlife Commissioner praise farmer/hunter partnerships Staff Report

As hunters across Vermont gear up for the 2017 turkey season, Vermont’s Ag Secretary and Fish and Wildlife Commissioner are praising the many farmers and hunters, who work together the steward Vermont’s land.

“There’s a strong tradition of partnership between Vermont’s farming and hunting communities, who share a natural appreciation for the rural beauty of our state, and a strong conservation ethic,” according to Vermont’s Ag Secretary, Anson Tebbetts, who is both a farmer and a sportsman. “We have more than 1.25 million acres of farmland here in Vermont. Many of those acres have been opened to hunters, thanks to the special relationships many hunters and farmers have formed over time.”

“Private landowners play an important role in the hunting community, by fostering habitat and opening their land,” according to Fish & Wildlife Commissioner, Louis Porter. “As some of the largest landowners in the state, farmers are in a unique position to help Vermont’s hunting community thrive.”

When hunters and farmers work together, both benefit, according to Tebbetts. “We often hear farmers say that they appreciate the hunters, who keep an eye on their land for them,” he said. “The deal is even sweeter when the hunters shares some of their bounty.”

“Some of my favorite hunting experiences have taken place on Vermont farmland, from waiting for deer on the edge of a cornfield to calling in a turkey on a back meadow,” added Porter. When asked to elaborate on the exact location of his favorite hunting spot, Commissioner Porter was a bit

Ag Secretary, Anson Tebbetts, and Fish & Wildlife Commissioner, Louis Porter, spend some time outdoors together before the start of turkey season. Commissioner Porter reminds hunters that, despite his blue shirt, turkey hunters should avoid wearing blue, red or white when they are out hunting.

Photo by Tom Rogers

“Private landowners play an important role in the hunting community, by fostering habitat and opening their land.”

Louis Porter.

Fish & Wildlife Commissioner more evasive. “It is indeed a farm, and it is indeed a great spot for hunting

turkeys,” said Porter. “Beyond that, I have no comment.”

Nature’s Lesson

This turtle laid 14 eggs at the Charlotte Children’s Center while the kids all watched.

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Essential Elements Sandi Detwiler CONTRIBUTOR

Editor’s note: This column features a different 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.

A friend wrote a nostalgic piece about her mother’s sewing. Her story gave me pause. Why does the idea of a sewing machine and the words bobbins, needles, thread, pattern books and flimsy tissue make my stomach clench? The inevitable question occurs: Was it nature or nurture that shaped me into a non-seamstress?

I admit to being able to replace a missing button and even stitching a ragged hem every now and again. I’ve also been known to tidy a hem with masking tape, but just as often I put the offending clothing in the Goodwill bag.

It is no surprise that my younger sister, Nancy, was born with a needle and thread in her fingers. Mother made our dresses when we were little girls.

She told us she made the first dress for me and then learned as she went along.

That is why one Easter I had a navy-blue dotted Swiss dress with puffy sleeves, while Nancy’s sleeves were simple caps.

Mother confessed that the puffy sleeves

Sewing: Not for me were very difficult and so Nancy had to be content with the plainer version.

Mother’s creativity and her diligence (“Follow the directions, Sandra!”) enabled her to be a competent seamstress.

Nancy shared Mother’s diligence.

She made doll clothes for both our Muffy dolls while I sat on the couch reading The Five Little Peppers. Using leftover rickrack from one of Mother’s projects, Nancy sewed rickrack on our doll’s dresses while I rolled my eyes.

She talked of finished seams, bias cuts and darts while I devoured the Bobbsey Twins and then went on to Little Women, The Secret Garden and Anne of Green Gables.

She pleaded with our mother for the latest McCall’s flared skirt pattern and was eager to linger over wool plaids and cotton polka dots and ginghams before making her choice for the skirt she wanted. My thrifty mother reminded me that I could have more clothes if I would only learn to sew like Nancy. I remained uninterested and was happy with my plain gray wool jumper and white blouse.

One day Mother and Nancy attempted to teach me to sew. I sat in front of the Singer while the two of them hovered over me. My task was to simply sew a straight seam on a piece of leftover cotton.

They made me start with the basics of threading the needle and inserting the bobbin. Once that was accomplished, I put my foot on the treadle as if I were starting a car, and the needle leapt down the fabric while I grabbed the cotton to keep it straight. Mother and Nancy were shouting, “Slow down. Guide the fabric with your hands.” A scrunched-up ball of cotton with a crooked seam was the

Photo contributed result of my attempt. Nancy and Mother laughed with affection and told me I would improve, but my heart wasn’t in sewing.

Then in 1972 I was a new wife trying to fix up our first home, which was a first floor apartment of an old house on Ocean Drive in Newport, Rhode Island.

The south wall was one large window that demanded curtains for privacy as well as to filter the sunlight. Full of love and with hope to be the homemaker wife that I knew my mother was, we bought a sewing machine. Then we bought yards of green, gold and orange floral print fabric (this was 1972, remember?).

In 1960, I hadn’t had success sewing a seam with a 12-inch piece of cotton. Just imagine my challenge of hemming and folding heavy cotton. My new husband

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and I learned about each other through that curtain-making experience. We learned he has the patience, the dexterity and the precision to wrestle with a sewing machine. We both realized that I am the woman with the big ideas, the dreamy plans, but I just wasn’t ever interested in sewing. Pretending to be interested if only to please others’ expectations of what a 1960s young wife should do, was not me.

Rick finished our curtains and now stitches his own buttons, hems his own pants and even mends sails with dental floss. The sewing machine sold in a yard sale, but our marriage has continued for forty-five years.

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Fly fishing not a competitive pursuit Bradley Carleton CONTRIBUTOR

The garden is in and the first sprouts of radishes have poked their curious green leaves out of the fertile soil. Tonight my wife, Katie, and I will dine on fresh dandelion greens and wild leeks and perhaps, if I am lucky this evening, a plate of fresh buttered brook trout with a dash of lemon. The hay grasses have reached their zenith and are blowing gently in the breeze like verdant waves.

It is late afternoon, with still quite a bit of light left in the day. With permission granted, I say goodbye to my lovely wife to pursue piscatorial pleasure in the mountain streams. I climb into the truck and head toward Hinesburg, passing through the green valley fields.

In Bristol my truck begins the lumbering climb to Lincoln. I downshift and scout the swimming hole known as Bristol Falls. Many cheerful bodies are swimming, jumping and taking in the late sunlight of one of the longest days of the year. Upward the truck winds, paralleling the river as it snakes toward the headwaters. I find an old road that follows the river and pull over on a gravel shoulder that balances precariously against a few well-rooted tamarack cedars.

The fragrance of cedar and honeysuckle encircles me. I stop, climbing out of the truck to breathe deeply the fresh flowery air.

Climbing down the steep embankment, I pick my footholds carefully. Not like I did as a youth, but with the careful precision required for that of a middleaged body.

Stopping to read the water and immerse myself in the mise-en-scene, I take a moment to watch the sunlight streaming

golden pillars through the canopy of trees.

Upstream I spot a dark pool with a small waterfall spilling frothy white foam into the head of the shadowed depths.

I attach a rust-colored thorax elk hair caddis on a piece of 4x tippet. I am aware of my body aging as I use magnifiers to tie the improved clinch knot. Sitting on a well-shaped boulder, I notice my left knee shaking. Am I getting old or is this just a sign of muscle fatigue?

I breathe deeply and say out loud “thank you” for allowing me to reach this age with now 50 years of fly fishing under my belt. I am reminded of a scene from the movie based on Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It. An old man is standing in the river tying on a fly with wrinkled old hands, and the narrative is delivered in dulcet tones, “In the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the river and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.”

For me fly fishing has never been a competitive pursuit but one that allows me to feel an absolute connection to the Universe. In the small streams of our Green Mountain state, I am where I feel I most belong. I pause in reverie.

Focus. In order to hit the sweet spot at the tail out of the riffles I must execute a sidearm four-part cast with a gentle counter cast on the presentation to set the fly in a drift that will match the current.

The first cast misses its mark, and the fly swims frantically toward a swirling rock.

I lift the rod to correct the cast and prepare for another attempt.

But as I lift the tip, a dark shadow bursts out from behind the rock and viciously attacks the caddis imitation.

I raise my rod and bow to this creature

The brookie is not really a trout at all but a member of the salmonid family known as char.

Photo by Bradley Carleton blessed by the Great Spirit to have the most beautiful colors of all fish. The brook trout.

The brookie is not really a trout at all but a member of the salmonid family known as char. These magnificent little beasts have survived all that this world has thrown at them since the glaciers retreated. All they require is clear, cold water and lots of shade.

I play the feisty fish with all my spirit enmeshed with his own. He runs left; I bend my rod to the right. He runs upstream; I lift my rod to keep the tension on. As he tires he begins to swim toward me, and it’s time to strip in my line—fast—before he can shake the hook. After a minute or so he relaxes and lets me bring him to hand.

I gently hoist him up to inspect his regal blue halos surrounding the burnt orange dots. His fins reflect in the sunlight— bright orange with white tips.

I raise him to my lips and kiss his snout.

Without judgment for others, I make the choice to release him back into the pristine waters of the river. He shakes his head and slaps his tail once as he returns to the deep pool.

Tonight, with our salad, we will be eating chicken.

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How does your Green Mountain forest grow?

Mary Van Vleck CONTRIBUTOR

Often when driving along the highways or walking in the woods, I am struck by the species of trees that seem to dominate in one area or another. In the fall when the hillsides are aflame with fall colors, streaks of dark green evergreens stand out on the upper regions, and one might wonder why certain trees grow in some areas and not so well in others. There is a tremendous variety of both evergreen and deciduous trees, and where they grow best is something of a mystery. We can see quickly that evergreens cover the mountain tops with fewer on lower slopes where deciduous trees (maples, birches, beeches) predominate.

We can guess that differences are due to temperature variations and varying amounts of water in the soil. These in turn are influenced by elevation and exposure: south- facing slopes are warmer than north-facing slopes.

Consider too that glaciers once covered the entire northeast with ice nearly a mile thick. This compressed the land beneath the ice, and with rocks and boulders embedded in and carried along by the ice, the ice and rocks together scoured the land, gouging and smoothing over great boulders on the mountain tops, scraping away stones and soils accumulated there; it ground up the bedrock underneath the soils much as sandpaper grinds away at pieces of wood. The southbound glaciers carried the sand and gravel scraped from the bedrock to places miles away, depositing these either along the sides, forming long ridges of moraine, or at the southern end of the glacier, resulting in hills or mountains. Our soils today are the result

of this glacial action. Some soils in the Champlain Valley are primarily sand and gravel, but most soils here are composed of clay, which was carried farther than the sand or gravel; it settled out in the still waters of the ancient lake that covered most of the area as the glacier melted.

The rocks, gravel, silt and sand contained minerals that were in the original boulders, influencing the soil quality. Soils with more minerals such as calcium and phosphorus are considered nutrient-rich, such as the soils of the Champlain and Hudson valleys; by contrast the bedrock of the mountain peaks of the Adirondacks, the Whites and the Greens and the soils that came from them are nutrient-poor, as these rocks lack these minerals or are in short supply.

Soil at these high elevations is so shallow that very few plants can survive there. At the top, only stunted spruce and fir grow low to the ground, in the thin, nutrient-poor soils with colder temperatures, strong winds and plenty of moisture. Where there is less wind, these evergreens are taller, their roots spreading sideways since they cannot penetrate the bedrock. At lower elevations and on rocky slopes with little soil depth, the familiar white pine predominates, its roots anchored in whatever soil or cracks it can cling to.

With more minerals, good soil depth and ample water, deciduous trees flourish. Both evergreens and deciduous trees can grow at the lower elevations, but here the deciduous trees out-compete the evergreens. Higher up the mountain, spruce and fir are more successful. On lower areas, where the land slopes more gently or has leveled off, the glaciers and

Courtesy photo moving waters would have deposited more of the clay, sand or gravel, so the soils accumulated there. Coming down a mountain, one notices that evergreens give way to pine, birches, red maple and beech, and farther down will be the familiar sugar maple and fewer evergreens.

There are other important factors to consider, especially acidity of the soils and solar exposure. Evergreens generally do well and out-compete the deciduous trees in more acidic soils; in

more neutral soils, although all types of trees grow, deciduous trees are the most successful and the most numerous.

So what about those dark green lines of evergreens seen high on a hillside?

With more information, one can hazard a few guesses: water flowing there washes away the small particles, leaving mostly gravel and rock and less soil, and in a ravine-like area there will be more water, all things that enable the spruce or pine to thrive where maples and other deciduous trees cannot.

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Health Matters Carina Cartelli, M.D. CONTRIBUTOR

In the last issue of The Charlotte News, I reviewed some of the causes of our opioid epidemic and promised to discuss some possible remedies in this follow-up article. Such a discussion could examine a number of interventions aimed at the multiple levels of the epidemic. On a societal level we could end the failed War on Drugs and look at a combination of measures to decriminalize, legalize or regulate illicit drugs. We could eliminate the roots of addiction by eradicating poverty and ensure that all citizens are able to meet their basic needs: adequate housing, a livable wage, universal health care, healthy food, extended maternal/paternal leave, affordable quality childcare and adequate leisure time. On a community level, we could ensure adequate funding for substance use and mental health treatment, support at-risk parents and children and provide effective drug prevention for our youth.

On an individual level, we could more directly support those struggling with addiction. This might involve lobbying legislators, mentoring and supporting Vermonters coming out prison, and providing foster care for children of those struggling with addiction.

If you know and love someone struggling with addiction, you could help them access treatment and support them through their recovery. And one of the most powerful things any of us can do is to help reduce stigma surrounding substance use disorders by maintaining a compassionate and open-hearted stance to those in its throes. One cannot overestimate the harm of stigma and shame in impairing one’s recovery from substance use and the isolation it fosters.

Those who suffer with addiction need

When it comes to ending the opioid epidemic there is no magic pill Significant social change is needed to end the opioid crisis.

Until then lifesaving treatment can help those with opioid use disorder achieve recovery compassion not criticism.

While we could explore any of these possible remedies, my particular expertise is medication-assisted treatment (MAT) of opioid use disorder (OUD). One of the first questions I am often asked when I tell others about the work I do is: “Aren’t you just trading out one addiction for another?” It is an entirely reasonable question and worth answering if one wishes to understand the current treatment of OUD. There are 3 FDA-approved medications for the treatment of OUD: methadone, buprenorphine with and without naloxone (trade names are Suboxone, Subutex) and naltrexone (trade name Vivitrol). Both buprenorphine and methadone are opioids, while naltrexone is an opioid blocker. I will focus on the two former medications because they are used more often and have better longterm data to support their use, including decreasing the risks of death, relapse and blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis and HIV. When answering the above question, it is important to understand the difference between addiction and dependence. Dependence simply means that the body has made some adaptations to repeatedly ingesting a substance, and one can function normally only in the presence of that substance. When the substance is withdrawn, a physiologic reaction will occur called withdrawal.

Withdrawal can be mild in the case of caffeine, painful in the case of opioids or life threatening as in the case of alcohol.

When someone has been using opioids regularly for a certain amount of time, they will develop withdrawal symptoms if the drug is stopped abruptly.

Addiction, on the other hand has more to do with behaviors in which a person engages in order to obtain a drug, the

One cannot overestimate the harm of stigma and shame in impairing one’s recovery from substance use and the isolation it fosters. Those who suffer with addiction need compassion not criticism. problems resulting from the drug use (not able to work, maintain relationships, etc.) and the inability to stop despite these harms. One can be dependent on a substance and not be addicted. So if I were answering the question, “Aren’t you just trading out one dependence for another?” I would answer “Yes.” Most people who are prescribed methadone or buprenorphine will become physically dependent and develop withdrawal symptoms if they suddenly stop taking those medications, similar to the withdrawal seen in someone who stops using heroin abruptly or someone being prescribed opioids chronically.

But if asked the question, “Aren’t you just trading out one addiction for another?” I would answer “No.” It helps to understand that most opioids that are abused are short acting— meaning they start acting seconds to

minutes after taking them, peak and then are metabolized by the body within a few hours. Most people who use heroin daily will use it multiple times a day and, if they don’t, will develop crippling withdrawal symptoms. In contrast both methadone and buprenorphine are longacting opioids typically taken once a day and, when dosed appropriately, ward off withdrawal symptoms. Methadone and buprenorphine allow people to get off the all-consuming, hamster wheel of shortacting opioid addiction. Instead, they can focus their energy on rebuilding their lives, including engaging in counseling to address the pain and trauma that lead them to use drugs.

This is extremely hard work and can take a long time. Some people are able to taper off of these medications at some point, and others will take them for the rest of their lives. It really is no different than treating someone’s type2 diabetes with medications until they are able to make changes—like eating healthy, exercising and losing weight— that may allow them to no longer need medications. Sometimes these changes are enough and medication is no longer needed, and sometimes medication is needed for life. The question I often ask myself is why do some people view these two chronic conditions so differently?

As I have explored that question, two books on the topic of substance use disorders have provided me with some answers: Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

by Gabor Mate. I would invite you to read them and begin wrestling with these questions yourself.

Dr. Carina Cartelli is a Charlotte resident and a physician practicing at Howard Center’s Chittenden Clinic in South Burlington.

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Community Events Museum: The Charlotte Museum, on the corner of Church Hill Road and Hinesburg Road, will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. each Sunday from July 2 through Aug. 26. New exhibits this year include a recently acquired portrait of Henry and Elizabeth (Palmer) Thorp, who at one time owned the Thorp Barn in the Charlotte Park & Wildlife Refuge, and information and early photographs of the Prindle family, one of Charlotte’s significant early families. This includes Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, renowned botanist who chose to use the oldfashioned surname spelling. For further information, contact Dan Cole at (802) 425-3105 or email at colelogcabin@ gmavt.net.

Book sale: The Charlotte Library Book Sale is a great time to stock up on yearround reading material. This year’s event takes place on Sunday, July 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. under the usual tent (thanks to Vermont Tent) on the Town Green. Proceeds from the sale help support Charlotte Library programs and expand the library’s collection.

Prayer: The Charlotte Congregational Church is sponsoring the workshop “An Introduction to Centering Prayer” at 8:30 a.m. on July 15. Centering Prayer is a very simple meditation technique rooted in the Christian tradition. There are but two requirements: 1. Be able to sit in a chair for 20 minutes and 2. Have some curiosity about your inner life. That’s it.

Free. Please RSVP to (808) 386-3644.

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

Beach party: Charlotte Community Beach Party and Pot Luck from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on July 15. FREE admission and parking with pot luck dish. Misty Knoll chicken and Fat Cow Farm burgers.

Stony Loam Farm salad and Adam Berry Farm dessert. Live music with the Mystic Party Band. Outdoor Gear Exchange stand-up paddleboards, Suncommon Solar bouncy house and more! For more information email Bill Fraser-Harris at billandeva@gmavt.net.

Free performance: Honor our town’s French-Canadian heritage by joining the Charlotte Historical Society as it present Va-et-Vient, a trio of Vermont women who will be performing traditional FrenchCanadian music at the Charlotte Grange Hall on Spear Street on Tuesday, July 25, at 7 p.m. Refreshments will follow.

This group, highly recommended by Alliance Française, recently performed for American and Canadian dignitaries at the City of Burlington’s French Heritage Festival. Come and enjoy. For further information contact Dan Cole at (802) 425-3105 or email colelogcabin@ gmavt.net.

Reunion: Champlain Valley Union High School Class of 1972 will host a reunion from 3 to 8 p.m. at Cedar Knoll Country Club in Hinesburg on Saturday, July

Concerts: The Vermont Mozart Festival will hold three concerts at Charlotte Town Beach at 7 p.m. on July 20, 27 and August 3. There will be a parking fee. For more information email info@ vermontmozartfestival.org.

Puzzles Down 1. Arnold or Jones 2. Brilliantly colored fish 3. Kashmir clan 4. Shines 5. Test 6. Month before Nisan 7. Net-surfer’s stop 8. Burgoos, e.g.

9. Places to sit 10. Flourished 11. Magical Mr. Clean product?

12. Whining ones 14. Like a rainbow

Across 1. Island nation east of Fiji 6. Stubborn one 9. Aerobic bit 13. Milky gems 14. Mine entrance 15. Drive-___ 16. Justice 18. Viva-voce 19. Needs to tighten a bolt?

21. Use a keyboard 22. Food tray

23. “___ Christianity” (Lewis title) 26. Confer knighthood 29. Facebook members 30. ___ Bowl 33. Try, as a case 35. Pests in the steeple?

41. Bridges of Los Angeles County 42. Woman’s hat 43. Highlanders, e.g.

47. First name?

49. Symbol 50. Breath sweetener

52. Heave 55. In a baseball position?

60. Carbon monoxide’s lack 61. Like Brutus 63. Last call?

64. Microprocessor type 65. Ecru 66. Open, as an envelope 67. Army member 68. Pioneer in Surrealism

Reunion: A Red Balloon Reunion will take place at 4 p.m. at the Red Balloon on 3998 Greenbush Road on Aug. 5. It is a potluck; please pass on the word to Red Balloon students, parents, families and teachers. RSVP to barbara.jean. lawrence@gmail.com or call 425-3068.

Summer tai chi: Open to all adults whether beginning or advanced students. Designed to keep you engaged and current in your practice. All programs offer a falls prevention component and are safe for persons with inflammatory joint conditions. These will be held on Mondays from 10 to 11 a.m. through Aug. 14 at the Charlotte Congregational Church. To register please contact Mary West at (802) 922-0498 or email igolflikeagirl@gmail.com.

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20. Mediterranean evergreen 23. Kind of rule 24. Bygone polit. cause 25. Blackguard 27. “Yeah” 28. Drone, e.g.

31. Guitar brand 32. Compass reading 34. 2, on an ATM 36. Playing marble 37. Laggard 38. TV monitor?

39. Density symbol

40. It’s made in Japan 43. Darts 44. Posterior 45. Marine mollusks 46. Dryness 48. Some nerve 51. The “U” in UHF 53. Astern 54. Weeper of myth 56. Actress Gray 57. Certain protest 58. Beef buy 59. Udders 62. Collector’s goal

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Senior Center News

Mary Recchia CONTRIBUTOR

HAPPY SUMMER! Come enjoy a specially arranged guided tour though The Vermont Marble Museum on Thursday, July 6. Please meet at the Center by 9 a.m. Discover where Vermont marble is used all over the world to highlight significant places and people. Enjoy the new educational room on the current uses of calcium carbonate (marble) in the paper, plastic, food and pharmaceutical industries—for example, chewing gum and … toothpaste! You’ll be surprised! Marvel at the classic statuary carved by the artists of Vermont Marble Company years ago and today’s carved by local sculptors. Meet the resident artist at work in the studio; even participate in the art of carving. Bring a bag lunch and continue to enjoy the museum for the afternoon or head out to nearby Brandon for a leisurely lunch. Registration necessary.

Fee: $7.

“Journeys”—An Art Show Reception with Lynn Cummings will be held on Wednesday, July 12, beginning at 1 p.m.

Petroglyphs, pictographs, ancient carvings and dwellings are some of the inspirations for the “intuitive paintings” in Cummings’ show. The sights, sounds, patterns and color she observes in her travels through Latin America, Europe, the Western US and the South Pacific contribute to her paintings, which she creates through a series of processes and layers. Each time you look at one of these paintings you’ll see something you may not have observed before. Not everything is explained; much is left to the imagination of the viewer. The artist will give a brief talk about her intuitive painting process and what inspired her to create these paintings. Refreshments served. No fee.

Do you enjoy a good laugh and want an entertaining afternoon? Join the Hour Glass Youth Theatre for its production of Shakespeare’s classical, heart-felt play A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Friday, July 14, at 1 p.m. Performed by a small group of local youths, this comedy with explore

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all the colors of the imagination and how imagination itself may break the bonds of reality. Come join Puck as he works his mischief on the pairs of unsuspecting lovers, and witness these magical events as they unfold with unintended disaster and humor. The only question left: what is real?

Please let us know you are coming. No fee.

The next Birding Expedition with Hank Kaestner will be on Wednesday, July 19.

Please meet at the Center at 9 a.m. 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.

Join Phyllis Bartling for Tubing on the White River Tuesday, July 18, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Weather dependent. Affectionately known as the tubing capital of Vermont, “The Stockbridge Yacht Club,” as the locals call it, has the finest tubing on the White River. For $15 you get a tube and a shuttle up the river, and then you are on your own for the three–mile float down the river that takes about two hours—slow enough to just sit back and watch the world go by.

The water is no more than a couple of feet deep, but even in its deeper holes the bottom of the river is crystal clear. Enjoy summer in full swing at one of Vermont’s natural playgrounds! A hat, sunscreen and water shoes are recommended. Pack a bag lunch to enjoy at the end of the trip on the shore with fellow tubers. Reservations necessary.

We will carpool from the Senior Center.

Fee: $15.

Bake for Good with Charlotte Library’s Margaret Woodruff and Susanna Kahn on Thursday, July 20, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Wondering how to make bread? Looking to rekindle your love of baking? Learn, bake and share at this community baking program! The Charlotte Senior Center and the Charlotte Library are teaming up with King Arthur Flour to Bake for Good. Seniors and kids will bake rolls together and donate part of what they make to the Charlotte Senior Center and Charlotte Community Food Shelf. In addition to sampling some of their own baked goods, participants will go home with a recipe booklet, dough scraper and new baking skills. Lunch will be provided and no experience is necessary.

Sign up individually or with your grandfriend! For seniors of all ages and kids age 9 and up. Registration required by July 6.

Max: 20. No fee.

Yellow annual lysimachia or loosestrife .

Photo by Lynn Monty A Kayak Skills Training Workshop with Jane and Dovid Yagoda of True North Kayak Tours will take place on Thursday morning, July 20, from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

The Yagodas, an effective mother/son team, have been paddling for over 12 years each.

Both have kayak experience on the open ocean in areas including the Baja peninsula, Block Island Sound and Puget Sound. Most recently they have been exploring Lake Champlain. This skills-based workshop will work on different ways of entering and exiting boats; forward, reverse, turning and stopping strokes; and safety concerns, equipment suggestions and how to tow properly. They will also demonstrate a rescue. This will be a fun session and a special offer for the Charlotte Senior Center!

You will need to have your own kayak for this workshop, and a “what to bring” list will be provided once you are registered.

Registration necessary. Fee: Please bring $40 on the morning of the training.

New Session Added! Are you ready for an active summer? Join Ginger Lambert for Fitness for Every Body on Tuesday mornings from 9:15 to 10 a.m. Dates: 7/25, 8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22, 8/29. 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.

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Out Takes This time I’m walkin’ to New Orleans I’m walkin’ to New Orleans I’m gonna need two pair of shoes When I get the walkin’-me blues When I get back to New Orleans Walking to New Orleans – Geoff Muldaur Out of time, out of mind?

Is it just me or do others of you question how the local media chooses items for its stories? Let me give a couple of examples. Two omissions of what I consider newsworthy items struck me recently. They had to do with 1) a musical show in the area and 2) a vote at Charlotte Town Meeting. Let me begin with music.

Almost daily, I pick up the Free Press and I find myself flipping through what seem like innumerable pages of announcements of bands and singers coming to town that I have not the slightest desire to hear. OK, it is truly an age thing – and I can relate to it.

Growing up, my father had a cabinet full of Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Doc Evans Dixieland and other jazz records from his era. Frankie Carl played an old upright piano in our basement one night and drew the praise of my dad’s friends that here was music as it should be played, that would last on top of the record charts forever. As it turned out, it didn’t quite make it to American Bandstand.

So, what did happen to these records? I couldn’t let dad know my taste in music was changing. As a result they stayed in the cabinet gathering dust. I would put one on the turntable every now and then as a compulsory exercise. I seldom made it any farther than the second track before I shut it down. On the other hand, my collection of forty-fives (not yet tapes or CDs) grew by leaps and bounds next to our pool table in the basement. I was an early fan of Jack Scott and Chuck Berry, one of them white, the other black, but with similar musical styles, and, of course, Elvis whom we could hear once the local radio station power dropped at night and brought Nashville north to southern Minnesota. We also listened to Muddy Waters sing White Rose petroleum jelly commercials and Fats Domino on WLAC plus “Wolfman Jack” from below the Mexican border.

to vinyl, tape and CD without leaving the room.

So what are my complaints about our local media and what do they have to do with a recent live gig in Hinesburg? The “gigger” was Geoff Muldaur, a singer and guitarist to whom I have listened for 50 years. I have records of him with Jim Kweskin and the Jug band, a group that included, in addition to Kweskin himself, Geoff and his wife to be, Maria, banjo picker Bill Keith, mandolinist Spuds Siegel and various other musicians over the years. I also have a couple of 33 discs of the Muldaurs alone. These are vintage 1960s when “jug band music certainly was a treat to me”—they included some slightly off-color lyrics like, “If you can’t play the jug, then you can’t play with me.”

OK, so my own record history, albeit sketchy by some standards, does go back a ways. But, what did the Free Press, Seven Days and, yes, even The Charlotte News miss reviewing recently? They missed Geoff Muldaur right in our own neighborhood at the Good Times Café. How that happened, I don’t know, although, even I did not think that he was still plucking and singing.

The Good Times in downtown Hinesburg looks like a house more than a music palace. But it has had groups play there on numerous occasions, and it was just such an occasion that brought Muldaur recently. Here was a folk hero in quaint Vermont. Yet, the only thing I saw about his appearance before or after was an announcement in Seven Days; no reviews. Even Donald Trump missed a twitter. (I was out of town; otherwise I’d love to have been there and written something for the News.)

There was a second local item that the Burlington media decided did not deserve attention. That happened here in Charlotte at Town Meeting. We voted to impeach Trump—yes, the Donald himself.

Well, lo and behold, it took the D.C. big guns several months before they decided to follow our small town’s lead.

An article in the June 14 New York Times said nearly 200 Democrats in Congress considered filing a federal lawsuit accusing our president of violating a clause in the U.S. Constitution that “prohibits federal officials from accepting gifts or emoluments from foreign powers without congressional approval.” Do you remember that was just what Susan Ohanian moved as an advisory motion at Charlotte Town Meeting in March? And the townspeople there favored it without a great deal of discussion. If you get your information about our local government from the Free Press, you wouldn’t have known, however, since it did not write about the vote in its reports of Town Meetings around the state (Maybe if it had been a Rebel yell it would have gotten six pages of coverage in every issue over the next two months.).

Perhaps Charlotte was playing jug band music in one ear and impeachment anthems in the other. Would Muldaur have agreed with the voters, and that’s why both events were left out of the paper? Did Trump convince the evil press that it was out of line to mention the possibility of his impeachment?

After all, this isn’t Russia—well, not yet anyway. I wonder if Geoff has a newer piece reflecting directly on the topic.

If so, bring it to Charlotte, and we’ll include it in our town’s bucket of blues.

Mainly though, I want to watch Robert Mack play the washboard and Peter Trono pluck the gutbucket. Carrie Spear, how are you on the banjo? Any fiddlers on the Selectboard? Dean Bloch, can you keep everyone in tune?

OK, here we go. . .

Stealin’! Stealin’!

Pretty mama don’t you tell on me I’m stealin’ back to my same old used to be

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