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ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENTVol. 67 No. 14 Middlebury, Vermont ! Thursday, April 4, 2013 ! 38 Pages 75¢

A health care veteran has taken

the reins at the county’s Open

Door Clinic. See Page 3A.

Panther men’s lacrosse had a

tough 2012, but 2013 is off to a

promising start. See B.

Read about ways to keep your ride

running longer in our car care

section on Pages 5B-10B.

Bytheway

AddisonCounty

IndexObituaries ................................ 6A

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Service Directory .......... 12B-13B

Entertainment ........................ 13A

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Sports ................................ 1B-4B

(See By the way, Page 20A)

Studentsraise money with ‘mounts’Use beetles to make keepsakes from skulls

Lawmakers get an earful from citizens on shoreline bill, taxes

Addison County ranks 2nd healthiest in Vt.National study shows that education, jobs, access to doctors all help

State plans to test residentsin three area towns for EEE

Residents: Slow down on pipelineMiddlebury-area landowners ask for more time to react to Vermont Gas plan

Methane gas project places some Salisbury folks on edge

DIVERSIFIED OCCUPATIONS STUDENT Clifford Bell holds up a deer skull he and fellow students turned

Independent photo/Trent Campbell(See Beetles, Page 20A)

(See Healthy, Page 19A)

(See EEE testing, Page 20A)

(See Property, Page 16A)

(See Bio-methane, Page 20A)

(See VGS, Page 7A)

LEGISLATIVE LUNCH MODERATOR Bill Scott holds the microphone Monday afternoon for Bridport

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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If you want to see the Middle-bury Union High School Schol-ars’ Bowl team compete in in this

Scholars’ Bowl but can’t get to Burlington to watch in person,

A — Addison Independent, Thursday, April 4, 2013

CORNWALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Principal Denise Goodnow, pictured with the school’s sixth-grade class, is stepping down after seven years to become a co-leader of the Thatcher Brook Primary School in Waterbury.


Cornwall principal leaving after seven yearsGoodnow accepts new job in VermontBy JOHN FLOWERSBRIDPORT — Denise Good-

now recalled taking over the prin-cipalship of Cornwall’s Bingham Memorial School during the fall of 2006 and feeling a special kin-ship with the dozen-or-so freshly minted kindergartners who walked with her through the doors for this

those kindergartners and Good-now should matriculate at the same

Those erstwhile kindergartners have become sixth-graders who this fall will graduate to Middle-

Goodnow will be leaving to be-come a co-principal of the Thatcher Brook Primary School in Water-

“We all had work to do during the past seven years and we did it,” Goodnow said on Monday of her-self and the Bingham School class

middle school and I am moving on

has found her time at the Bingham School educational, fun and re-

She recalled coming to Cornwall as a veteran teacher who was short

had been an instructor at the North-ville (grades 1-4) School in New

-ship experience here thanks to a lot of good guidance from Cornwall

“This is a highly functioning, hard working staff,” Goodnow said, then quipped, “They have support-

Goodnow has greatly enjoyed her time at the helm of the Bingham School, but she is now ready for a new chal-

the Thatcher Brook Pri-mary School, she will help lead a K-4 student body of more than 430 children from the com-munities of Waterbury

recently launched a full-

-cant change for Good-now, who has presided over a much smaller number of students at the

schools have been dealing with de-clining enrollment during the past decade;; Cornwall has been holding

“We are seeing that people mov--

visit the Bingham School usually like what they see, which has helped

enrollees are from families with an employment connection to Middle-bury College, according to Good-

The Cornwall School Board last year endorsed a tuition policy, which has paved the way for families in other communities to pick the Bingham

“Word of mouth has served us well,” Good-

Having a smaller stu-dent body has helped Goodnow establish a connection with each Cornwall student she

“Not only do I know each child’s name, I get

to know the siblings, the parents

Indeed, Goodnow believes the Cornwall community is truly in-vested in its school — and not only

She noted how the school’s multi-purpose room is routinely packed

interest in the Bingham School’s 2011 winter concert was so intense that it was shifted to Middlebury’s

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tators had to be turned away be-

house with 225 audience members, that really speaks to our music pro-gram and the support we receive,”

-tends to the annual budget, which usually sails through at town meet-

Cornwall school directors are ten-

11 to discuss the search for a new

30, and she vowed to keep her foot on the educational pedal until that

“There is still work to be done be-tween now and the end of the year,” she wrote in her resignation letter to

-ted to assisting teachers with the new challenges of the Common Core state standards, sustaining Best Practices in Teaching Math-ematics, and continuing to provide a positive school climate for all members of the Cornwall School

School board member Cindy Peet said Goodnow will be a tough act

“She did a wonderful job;; I’m

Reporter John Flowers is at [email protected].

Ferrisburgh places town-owned land back on marketBy ANDY KIRKALDYFERRISBURGH — The Fer-

risburgh selectboard on Tuesday reached a marketing agreement with Burlington commercial brokerage

Redstone will the market the land

asking price for which Pomerleau Real Estate had tried to sell the prop-erty since September 2010 until last

Pomerleau attracted one purchas-

er for that price, but the deal fell through when the buyer could not meet contingencies after the select-

by a tangle of conservation ease-

-tation’s commuter lot and the recent-ly moved former Vergennes train

The land boasts an open site with permitted wastewater capacity, level

easy access to rail transportation, and frontage on or near two of the

for light industry, with retail uses

With the real estate market appar-ently gradually improving, Chair-woman Loretta Lawrence said the board was happy to get the property listed again after leaving it off the

“We’re anxious to get going,”

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placement for resigned planning

town ethics policy by reviewing a model policy provided by the Ver-

Lawrence said such a policy, when adopted, would cover town board

Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at [email protected].

“This is a highly functioning, hard working staff. They have supported every crazy idea I brought.”

— Principal Denise Goodnow

higher than expectedPartial estimate surprises selectboardBy JOHN FLOWERSMIDDLEBURY — Middlebury

selectboard members got somewhat of a jolt at their meeting last Tues-day when they received an esti-mate that it would cost $525,000 to bring the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems of the municipal gym up to modern working standards, an amount that is just $50,000 short of the

making the well-used build-

The “Gym Task Force” has been working for sev-eral months to size up re-pairs to the building, erected

into some disrepair over the

whittling away at repairs to the structure during the past decade, including install-ing a new membrane roof,

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mapped out a list of what they say are some additional necessary re-pairs, including:

maintenance models that replicate as closely as possible the design and di-

other windows in the structure would also be replaced with more energy-

double doors at the west entrance of the building that have been closed since 2010, when the related outdoor stairs were removed to al-

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control system with two main en-

women’s changing rooms, showers and toilets in what is now the girls’

and installing new, code-compliant bleachers on one side of the gym

Those upgrades would, of course, add to the $525,000 that Engineer-ing Services of Vermont has now

mechanical, electrical and plumbing

The next step in the evaluation of the gym will involve hiring someone to ballpark the costs of bringing the other essential components of the structure up to a contemporary stan-

dard, according to Town

Selectboard members have been proceeding with the assumption that the gym will be upgraded and pre-served, while the adjacent municipal building will be razed and replaced with a

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In other recent action, the Middlebury selectboard:

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dison County Community Trust and Housing Ver-mont’s application to the

Vermont Community Develop-ment Program for funding to re-develop the affordable housing at

project consists of the rehab and

buildings, and the demolition and redevelopment of eight new apart-ment units in two buildings, which has been approved by the Middle-

The grant application will be for $460,000 in Community Develop-ment Block Grant funding, which will be passed through the town and loaned to the project at no in-

New Haven for the maintenance of Cobble Road, which is located be-tween Route 116 and Munger Street

-bury cheese plant’s local wastewa-ter discharge permit from 350,000 gallons per day to 450,000 gallons

currently bumping up against the 350,000 limit set more than 20 years

retirement of Public Works Secre-tary Verna Watson after 33 years of

Reporter John Flowers is at [email protected].

ANeSU sets preschool screeningNortheast Supervisory Union

-gram will hold a developmen-tal screening for preschoolers at Bristol Elementary School

screening is for children in The

four years old but have not previ-

Children will have the oppor-tunity to play using a variety of

-formation about their child and learn more about child develop-

To schedule an appointment or to get more information, call

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Middlebury Garden Club to gatherMIDDLEBURY — The Mid-

dlebury Garden Club will meet

The meeting will begin with a demonstration of a simple spring

Maggie Nocca, a MGC member and professional photographer, will present a tour of the gardens of Wales through her wonderful

Newsbriefs

The “Gym Task Force” has been working for several months to size up repairs to the building, erected in 1939.

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Free clinic gets new leaderFormer Open Door volunteer, board member takes charge

HEIDI SULIS, RIGHT, pictured with nurse case manager Jody Brakeley, is the new executive director of the Open Door Clinic in Middlebury.


By JOHN FLOWERSMIDDLEBURY — The Open

Door Clinic has opened its doors to a new executive director — Heidi Sulis, who takes the helm of the county’s free medical center during a period of unprecedented growth.Sulis takes over for former Di-

rector Julie Arel, who recently stepped down to become direc-tor of New England Rural Health

-searches and advocates for rural health issues.“I’m glad I made the decision

and took the risk,” Sulis said of the 30-hour-per-week job, which

“It really feels right.”And it’s a job that Sulis was

able to step into seamlessly, for a variety of reasons. She had spent

an Open Door Clinic volunteer and board member, so she already knew the many health care workers, helpers and patients that have been the lifeblood of the service, located at 100 Porter Drive.It also didn’t hurt

that she came to the job with more than two decades of experience working in various roles with Porter Medical Center. Most of that experience (21 years) was

as manager of Porter’s Community Health Outreach programs, deliv-ering pre-natal classes, smoking

cessation classes, Life-line and other services to the public. She most recently provided ad-ministrative support for Bristol Internal Medi-cine.

up her work with the clinic, she encouraged Sulis to apply for the job. Sulis was intrigued,

but was unsure whether her skill-set was a good match for the post. But she saw some of the applicants’

resumes and determined her own

threw her hat into the ring, scored an interview and landed the job, which she has quickly embraced. Her desk on Thursday was topped with a vol-ume of paperwork to which she must attend, including grant writing. The Open Door Clinic is heavily depen-dent on grants, donations and state/federal funds to cobble together its roughly $255,000 annual budget.“It’s such an easy mission to em-

brace,” Sulis said of her work at the clinic. “Helping an organization serve the underinsured and uninsured felt very much like my makeup. I do feel that everyone should be covered for health care.”The Open Door Clinic is one of 10

free clinics in Vermont, Sulis noted. Eligible patients cannot earn more than 300 percent of the federal pov-erty guideline ($70,650 for a house-hold of four). Patients must make an appointment (388-0137) to come in for services that include acute and chronic care, routine physical exams, mental health counseling, physical therapy, prescription assistance, lab and blood work, anonymous HIV testing and counseling, and help in enrolling in a variety of state health

needs.Care is extended for free, though

donations are appreciated. Deliver-

full- and part-time health care pro-fessionals who work with a network of more than 130 volunteers, in-

cluding 16 physicians, four nurse practitioners, 15 registered nurs-

emergency medical technicians, a dietician and a pharmacist. Other volunteers staff the clinic’s intake desk, assist patients with insurance applications, provide translator services and help with transporta-tion.Demand continues to grow for

the clinic’s services, Sulis noted.The Open Door Clinic received

1,133 visits for service in 2012, up almost 21 percent from the 937 vis-its recorded in 2011, according to

Sulis.Approximately 75 percent of

those requesting service are work-ing people, and around 30 percent are migrant farm workers — many of whom speak Spanish and need translation help.“We are seeing more and more

-ciency,” Sulis said.The Open Door Clinic is open in

Middlebury on Tuesday evenings -

day per month, from 9 a.m. to noon. A clinic operating out of the Little

St. in Vergennes is open two Thurs-day evenings a month. Additionally the organization conducts outreach clinics at various churches, farms and other community settings throughout the year. More informa-tion about the Middlebury clinic, as well as the one in Vergennes, can be found at www.opendoormidd.org.

great care, according to Sulis.“The staff is wonderful, dedicat-

ed and committed, as are the volun-teers,” Sulis said.Reporter John Flowers is at

[email protected].

HEIDI SULIS

High schools collaborate on substance-abuse programSpeaker moves students at VUHS

CONTACT GOV. SHUMLIN

Governor Peter Shumlin

109 State Street, PavillionMontpelier, Vermont 05609-0101

www.vermont.gov/governor

“We are

seeing more

and more

patients

with limited

English

— Heidi Sulis

KEVIN BROOKS, A Canadian snowboarder who was paralyzed while driving drunk, speaks to students from Vergennes and Mount Abraham union high schools about substance abuse and good decision making at a joint assembly at VUHS last Friday.

STUDENTS FROM VERGENNES and Mount Abraham union high schools break into student-led discussion groups about substance abuse, following a presentation by motivational speaker Kevin Brooks.

Photos by Kim Lunna

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Vergennes

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senior

Amanda

By XIAN CHIANG-WARENVERGENNES — It’s rare that

the bleachers of the Vergennes Union High School gym for something other than a basketball game.

from both high schools sat in the same set of bleachers in the VUHS gym to hear a presentation on substance abuse by motivational speaker Kevin Brooks, followed by student-led dis-cussion forums. Meanwhile back in Bristol, students from the Vergennes and Mount Abraham middle schools gathered for workshops on bullying.“It was really cool to be with the

Vergennes students, because we are such rivals,” said MAUHS senior Amanda Vincent.Brooks travels across the United

States and Canada and gives frank presentations on the consequences of substance abuse. Once a snowboarder, the Canadian Brooks lost the use of his legs — and his best friend Bran-don — after crashing his car while in-

toxicated. Brooks, who is wheelchair bound, played a slideshow of himself and his friends snowboarding before

presentation.After the rousing talk

many students gathered around Brooks to talk per-sonally with him until they were ushered out of the gym to classrooms.“He was quite a dynamic

speaker, and had an impact on the students,” said Peter Reynolds, co-principal of VUHS. “At one point he asked the kids to wiggle their toes, to think about what they could be giving up if they make bad deci-sions, like he did.”

-agers to wiggle their toes when con-

life-changing decision, and to let that little act prompt them to ask if they were willing to give up the ability to wiggle their.After Brooks’ talk, VUHS morning

meeting groups and MAUHS advisory groups were paired up for student-led

discussions on the drug and alcohol is-sues and potential solutions. Some of the solutions discussed ranged from the legalization and control of mari-juana distribution to educational initia-

tives and community sup-port groups.Vincent, one of the stu-

dent leaders selected to -

sion and continue student leadership on the issues in the future, welcomed the chance to get to know her peers at VUHS better.“We just worked together

to come up with a solution,” she said.At VUHS, student facili-

tators were culled from the leadership ranks of student

organizations. At MAUHS, students were asked to anonymously submit the name of a peer that they would go to in a time of crisis.“You saw the same names emerg-

ing,” said MAUHS Principal Andy Kepes.With drug and alcohol abuse widely

perceived to be on the rise in Addison

community leaders and police have sought strategies to help area students make informed decisions about drug and alcohol consumption.Vergennes Police Chief George

Merkel also spoke to the high school students gathered at VUHS. The Ver-gennes Police Department put $1,000

substance abuse issues.“The big focus in the community

right now is taking a hard stance about substance abuse,” Merkel said. “We want to have a consistent message in both the Bristol and Vergennes areas that we do not support those kinds of things … I was very happy to see great collaboration between the students.”Community forums have been held

in Vergennes and Bristol to address the growing drug problem, which Kepes

said disproportionately affects young people aged 19-30.“It’s not our (high school) kids, but

they’re the ones who will soon be faced with those choices,” Kepes said.In fact, the 5-Town Area Drug and

Safety Community Conversation will continue next Wednesday, April 10, with a meeting in Mount Abe’s large cafeteria from 6:30-8 p.m. The public is invited to get updates from Bristol Police Chief Kevin Gibbs and Addi-son Northeast Superintendent David Adams, as well as work with other community members on ways to im-prove school safety.While the high schoolers were at

-dents from both school districts were attending a presentation on bullying by local radio personality Bruce Zeman

and his canine companion, Hobbes, who was a victim of abuse before be-ing adopted by Zeman. Hobbes is the focus of a book on bullying that Ze-man recently completed.“Bullying is an issue in every

school,” Reynolds said. “It always has been and probably always will be. The only question is how schools re-spond, and the best response is to have kids and bystanders speaking up … It builds a safety net.”Encouraging a student-led safety net

presentations for the students, school

“We’re trying to build the student voice,” Kepes said. “We’re realizing that we’re doing all of this work and not asking the prime players what they think about what we’re doing.”


I have a favorite moment at Middlebury College basket-ball games. It’s when François Clemmons begins to sing the National Anthem. I dreaded the Anthem when I was an athlete. I was ready

to play the game. Starters had been announced and were out on the playing surface, tense, excited, full of adrena-line. Let’s go!Then we had to wait, often for a scratchy recording,

sometimes for a live singer, who sang at a funereal pace.So I identify with the players on the

players, but their opponents, who are standing on the foul line, facing the

wall of the gym. François stands behind them at the

scorer’s table. Their demeanor is respectfully so-

ber, but it says at the same time, “Let’s

foot, then the other, stretch their necks.Then François begins to sing in his rich tenor, and you

and they do this look: They subtly glance over their shoul-ders, in surprise and admiration. They peek. It’s a little gesture but unmistakable. By the time François sings out the “Land of the

freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,” they know they have been treat-ed to something special. They have heard the best rendition of the Star Spangled

Banner since the late Robert Merrill held forth in Yankee Stadium.For the past 15 years, François has been the Alexander

Twilight Artist-in-Residence at Middlebury College and -

nity.

With a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin College, a Mas-ter of Fine Arts from Carnegie-Mellon University, an Hon-orary Doctor of Arts from Middlebury College, a perfor-mance career with various opera companies, 20 years as the founder and director of the Harlem Spiritual Ensemble, over 100 performances as “Sportin’ Life” in Gershwin’s

Rogers’ Neighborhood, and innumerable other honors and

sing the National Anthem at Middle-bury College basketball games. “I love singing the Star Spangled

Banner, and always have,” François

“I’m patriotic. When I travel abroad, I am grateful to have an American pass-port. Singing the Anthem allows me to pay tribute to this great country where I can be myself.”

It started with the swim team. He became friends with

at home swim meets. He was then asked by Coach Jeff Brown to open basketball games and has done so on a regular basis. From time to time, he has also ensured that

got off to a rousing start.“I think more people know me from the Anthem than

from my concerts,” he said with a laugh. He loves sports. “When I was growing up in Youngstown

(Ohio), I was constantly out in the streets, playing baseball and football mostly. My nickname was ‘tenderfoot.’ I was fast and had no fear. My brother Willie played basketball.“I played the clarinet in the marching band in high

school at big football games. We (the Rayen School) were pretty good, but we couldn’t ever beat Steuben-

EditorialsADDISON INDEPENDENT

Lettersto the Editor

Politically

Thinking

By Eric L. Davis

(See Davis, Page 5A)

(See Clippings, Page 5A)

(See Letter, Page 5A)

They peek when François sings

The right to dieis a civil right

Leahy, Ginsburg face big decisions

Clippings

By KarlLindholm

Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., recently announced that he would not run for re-election in 2014. Johnson’s an-nouncement could impact the career of Vermont Sen.

plan to retire next year. Four of these senators — John-son himself, along with Sander Levin of Michigan, Tom Harkin of Iowa, and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia — represent states where Republican candidates would be considered competitive in open-seat Senate races. There are also four Senate Demo-cratic incumbents — Mark Begich

Mary Landrieu in Louisiana, and Kay Hagan in North Carolina — who will

year in states where Democratic can-didates have struggled in recent elec-tion cycles.

seat majority in the Senate. Johnson’s retirement announcement, coupled with the vulnerable incumbents, marginally increases the chances that Republican candidates could gain the six seats needed to organize the Senate in January 2015.Leahy is up for re-election in 2016, at which time he

will be 76 years old and will have served in the Senate for 42 years. As the most senior Senate Democrat, Lea-hy is the president pro tem. He also chairs the Judiciary Committee. Democrats have held the Senate majority for approximately half the 38 years that Leahy has been in Washington. Leahy clearly enjoys being in the majority party much more than being in the minority.

I have believed for some time that a major consider-ation in Leahy’s decision whether to run for an eighth term in 2016, or to retire, will be whether the Democrats or the Republicans are the majority party in the Senate after the 2014 elections. If the Democrats can retain their majority next year, Leahy is more likely to run for re-election in 2016. However, if the Republicans were to win a narrow Senate majority, Leahy might well an-nounce in the spring of 2015 that, after a long career in Washington, he has decided to return to his farm in Mid-

dlesex rather than seek another term. A Leahy retirement would mark one of the biggest shake-ups in Vermont politics in years.Another person who might be

looking at the 2014 Senate elections is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court. Justice Ginsburg, who turned 80 last month, is the old-est member of the Court, and the se-nior member of the Court’s liberal wing. Supreme Court Justices some-

times plan their retirements so that their successors can

who hold views broadly sympathetic to those of the retir-ing justice.If Justice Ginsburg were to announce her retirement

at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term in June,

person’s nomination could be considered by a Senate with a Democratic majority. If Ginsburg were to stay on the court past the 2014 election, there is the possi-

I am writing to support the End of Life Choices bill in its original form (S.77) now before the Vermont Legislature. After much thought over many years I have concluded the most decisive element to this complicated issue is that it provides individual Vermonters with the most basic civil right: the right to deter-mine, based on stringent medical and legal criteria, that their quality of life and predictable circumstanc-es does not merit, in their opinion, continuation.The bill provides safeguards to

ensure that the terminally ill patient is aware of their situation and elects this option with a clear understand-ing of the consequences. At that point it should be solely the patient’s decision and their basic human right to choose when to end their suffer-ing, make peace with their family, say their goodbyes and select the time of their next journey.

and strengthened by my recent experiences as a community and hospital chaplain. I respectfully ask the Vermont Legislature to enact legislation that will permit Vermont-ers to elect to exercise this humane and personal option in their own

Art CohnFerrisburgh

Vermont spring inspires poem

Full Sap Moon rising.Sweet steam billows ember stars.Earthworms feed and breed.

Peter Szymkowicz

Shoreham

Gas project will hurt some peopleI am a property owner in Monk-

ton. There is a story going around that we are going to receive $1 mil-lion from Vermont Gas for permis-sion to cross our land. That is false.I have not had any contact with

anyone from Vermont Gas. I had thought they would be knocking down the door to get permission to cross the property.Have any of you property owners

seen the easement agreement? If not, you better get your hands on it. Read the second paragraph real good. Vermont Gas will take over any other land that is convenient for their purpose of reaching their line, regardless of what crop you have on your own property that does not have an easement on it. I tell you this easement scares me to death. Any farmer and others are going to be affected by this whether this generation or future ones. It’s going to be like cancer.I’m 82 years old and may be

considered living in the dark ages, but I’m against fracking because of what it does to the earth and the whole ecosystem. It destroys so many of the living things. The same example with a different system has happened in South American jungles.When will man wake up? In so

many cases money and greed have destroyed our wonderful world, for what a few say is for better good.Have any of you ever seen a fuse

light to a stick of dynamite? How -

sive slowly? I have and if we don’t get a backbone and protect our-selves and this world, man is going to destroy it for “better good.”This natural gas is going to hurt

more families than it helps. Right for your rights.

Beverly LatreilleNorth Ferrisburgh

too generousarticle “Welfare time limits don’t work,” I felt compelled to share a few of my experiences that I have had over the last few decades.As a landlord, for the last 35

years, I have had easily more than a hundred tenants on welfare over the years. Most became friends but most also took advantage of what I feel should be a road to a more productive life, not a permanent life-style. Let me be clear that I believe everyone should be given a hand up if they need it — the key word being need.First, I think it is important to

correct the professor’s last sentence

GraftTOMATO

in the Woods Market Garden greenhouse in Brandon recently.Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Vermont Gas: Time to learn from past bobblesIf Vermont Gas has le

gas pipeline from Colchester to Middlebury, it should have been that it’s

means slowing down, making sure the public is thoroughly involved and on board as much as possible, and putting the landowners whose properties are

By the sounds of the concerns expressed at a public hearing on proposed

on to Ticonderoga, N.Y., the company hasn’t taken those fairly obvious les-sons to heart. That’s a shame. It does seem possible to avoid potential battles with Shoreham, Cornwall and Middlebury that they’ve already seen with Monkton and New Haven.

-ings in energy costs that the natural gas pipeline can bring to Middlebury and

what is in the public good. Compared to spending a little more time choosing the most appropriate route through these towns and making everyone feel they had a voice, that’s time well spent if they can avoid legal battles on any of those three issues. Similarly, even though the pipeline will cost $1.5 to $2 million per mile, making an appropriate zig or zag along the way to avoid be-ing too close to sensitive structures or personal property is money well spent.

pipeline. Before the public and Vermont Gas engage in more discussions

-dents of Middlebury, Cornwall and Shoreham should know:

-mont Gas and at what monthly savings over their current fuel source (we know rough numbers are around 40 percent over fuel oil, but let’s put it in dollars and cents for the average resident).

to job growth at plants like Cabot-AgriMark, Woodchuck Cider, Middlebury College, Hannaford, Shaws or the Middlebury Natural Foods Coop, Connor Homes or large car dealerships like Sheas, G. Stone Motors and Foster Mo-tors? What other energy-intensive businesses might be served and at what cost? What limitations, if any, are there and should businesses be planning on different heating systems in the future to take advantage of the cheaper fuel and at what cost? Who will be able to sell and service those units? In short, let’s discuss and understand the larger business impact of what the pipeline could mean. Similar questions should be asked in Vergennes.

privy to:

natural gas is used.-

The reason the latter is important is to understand how quickly both com-panies will be able to pay off the substantial debt that is required to install the

or individual landowners to respond in negotiations if they don’t know the

Armed with such information, towns (and the state) might be more in-

and individuals would know better how to respond to private property ease-ments.Citizens should also be briefed on one other aspect of the proposed pipe-

upon themselves to present the pros and cons of such an argument as a pre-

These suggestions will add a few months to the timeline, but that’s prob-ably essential, too — and, in the end, better for all concerned.

Angelo S. Lynn

In an editorial last Thursday headlined “Two battles on the horizon,” I wrote about looming battles between the Legislature and administration on increas-ing taxes on the rich and the changing face of state welfare. On the latter, I mistakenly referred to the Reach-Up program when I meant to refer to the work-related programs funded under the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Vermonters, not Reach Up, which serves about 6,500. The state’s subsidy to the federal EITC program is $24 million, one of the most generous on a per capita basis in the nation, and one which has grown 48 percent in the past eight years. The EITC serves people already in the work force and is meant, as House Speaker Shap Smith says, “to make it worthwhile for them to stay there.”Reach Up is a welfare-to-work program that helps the unemployed get a

job and live on state support while getting there. The program is slated to cost

years. Readers should not get the impression that the subsidies have recipients living in luxury. On the contrary, the maximum grants (based on a per-month

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We are surrounded by marble and granite, so much so that we rarely give it a thought. Much of the state is made of the stuff, our mountains and courthouses and old inns. Marble and granite are among

our most famous exports. When we see TV images of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, we are looking at pieces of Vermont.What happens, though,

when we see the stone it-self as art?That’s one of the ques-

tions posed by the com-pact, compelling exhibit of Edward Burtynsky photographs of Vermont quarries, on display until April 22 at the Middle-bury College Museum of Art.Burtynsky is a Cana-

dian photographer best known for his scenes of environmental destruc-tion, such as arsenic and cyanide waste pouring from mining sites. But in this exhibit we see work

from when he was on the verge of exploding onto the art scene — a time, according to co-curator Pieter Broucke, that was pivotal to his de-velopment as an artist.Burtynsky (pronounced burr-TIN-

ski) began photographing Vermont quarries in the early 1990s. He was transitioning from a semi-documen-tary style — which depicted the

the planet — to something darker. What followed was what Broucke

and others have called “the toxic sub-lime” — studies of tangled, forebod-ing piles of discarded tires, compact-

on the beaches of Bangladesh.In this Vermont exhibit of semi-gi-

beauty than beast.Burtynsky takes us to stare down

deeply into a green-marble quarry in Rochester that glows like an inverted skyscraper.In another photo the cables and

machinery of mining — even the miner’s Porta-Potties — are dwarfed

Barre granite as big as bank build-ings.We see an abandoned marble site

in Rutland, where nature’s greens and browns have all but absorbed the mining scars. What’s left are gently

undulating walls that recall the Ana-sazi ruins of the American Southwest.Why should we care about photos

like these? It’s partly because they remind us

that quarries have shaped what we see today, such as the Middlebury Marble Works. Following Eben

Judd’s 1802 discovery

marble, the invention of a machine to cut the stone with water-pow-ered saws was adopted both in North America and Europe. By inviting us to see

the stone anew, Bur-tynsky also reminds us that quarries are not just charming remnants of old Vermont, gone to secret swimming holes and fenced-off No Man’s Lands: They are woven into the geology we drive over, our natu-ral environment, even our ethnic culture.

Quarries carry the scars of monu-mental human activity, but they are also part of our workaday world. They are as contemporary as the granulate marble being hauled, at this very moment, out of the enormous hole in the ground that is the Omya quarry in Middlebury.When Burtynsky was in Vermont,

a quarry administrator pointed him to the quarries of Carrara, Italy, which have for 2,000 years supplied marble including the stone worked by Mi-chelangelo.The museum exhibit includes sev-

eral views of these Tuscan mines. But a more interesting piece of the Italian connection is found in the historical photographs of Italian quarry work-ers who immigrated to Vermont for work beginning in the 1880s. The most revelatory part of the

exhibit catalog, in fact, comes in the form of an essay by Ilaria Brancoli Busdraghi, a Swiss-Italian social his-torian who teaches at the college.Brancoli Busdraghi recounts the

journeys of skilled Italian artisans to Proctor and Barre. They came there to work the marble and granite into gravestones, mausoleums and scores of architectural details that were shipped across America.Her essay reminds us that, inevita-

bly, these workers brought with them their families, food, culture and po-litical leanings.In sharp contrast to today’s world

where “liberal” has become a dirty word, the Italian immigrants of Barre were divided between the more main-stream Socialists and a solid corps of Anarchists.

the Socialist Hall in Barre. That building is now on the National Reg-ister of Historic Sites and is one of the few structures so honored for its ties to the labor movement that shaped 19th- and 20th-century America.It was a different story down in

Proctor, which is named for mining

company town where political activ-ity among the Italian immigrants was rigorously suppressed.I wonder how many of today’s

progressive Middlebury College stu-dents know that the Proctor dining hall and ski trail were named after a notoriously conservative man who, writes Brancoli Busdraghi, “not only made money but also controlled the lives of his employees.”Proctor’s loss, though, was Barre’s

gain. The more political of the skilled Italian stoneworkers migrated there and made a name for the self-pro-claimed Granite Center of the World.Burtynsky’s photos don’t show

us these resonances. But they have served as the occasion for a marvel-ous exhibit and accompanying cata-log, which surveys the history, art and geology of our quarried landscape.Ultimately, of course, it all comes

back to the photos.My favorite is an abandoned sec-

tion of the E.L. Smith Quarry, in Barre. Unlike so many of the other scenes, this one doesn’t show a breathtaking earth hole or a pool of limpid green water that’s begging for a swim.This photo is pretty much all about

the horizontal rock — white slabs of it streaked in plunging vertical black lines by water and time. It’s more an abstract painting than a photograph.The only context is provided at the

very top. A line of autumn-colored trees squiggles along the top right-hand corner. And there’s a slice, too, of cerulean blue sky at the top left.If you squint your eyes and use a

bit of imagination, you can see that the blue sky is shaped a bit like the state of Vermont.Gregory Dennis’s column on life

in Vermont appears here every other Thursday and is archived on his blog at www.gregdennis.wordpress.com. Email him at [email protected]. Twitter: @greengregdennis.

BetweenThe Linesby Gregory Dennis

In quarry photos, Vermont rediscovered

bility that the nomination of her re-

defeated by a Republican-controlled Senate.If the Senate does consider a Su-

preme Court nomination later this year, Leahy, as chair of the Judiciary

Committee, would have the primary responsibility of seeing that Presi-

by the Senate. Leahy considers one -

ments of his current term shep-herding Obama’s Supreme Court nominees — Sonia Sotomayor and

Elena Kagan — through the Sen-ate. If Ginsburg were to retire later this year, Leahy would have a third

justice.Eric L. Davis is professor emeritus

of political science at Middlebury College.

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that “limits for lifetime welfare

failure.” Welfare reform, passed in 1996, was a huge success all across the country. That is why Gov. Shumlin now, over 16 years later, wants to get on board.Vermont avoided welfare reform

in 1996 because states were allowed to come up with their own plan if it was approved by the fed. Howard Dean came up with his own plan, which he never intended to enforce, so Vermont continued to be not a welfare state but THE welfare state this side of Mississippi.Not only should we have time

should be reduced. Three years is time enough to train for a new

limit you can retrain once. Heart-less? Before you come to that conclusion let me share a few of the dozens of stories that I could share.One of the problems with welfare

is that it is way too attractive a lifestyle. Welfare recipients not only have a higher standard of living than Vermont’s low-income working, but also the middle class. This creates an animosity when a couple work-ing 40 to 50 hours each per week can’t afford the food they see ahead of them in the checkout line being purchased with welfare money. I

see it all the time. These feelings are still strong today although 35 and

becoming a lifestyle, it was worse.Some 20 to 25 years ago, I

worked closely with a young couple with one child that was living in one of my apartments. He had experi-ence as a carpenter and a mechanic, she was the daughter of a Boston attorney. They came to Vermont be-cause it had the best welfare. They

job paying $19 per hour. That was great pay for that time period. Since

Another time I was invited to dinner by one of my tenants. The menu included lobster, shrimp and crab. There was plenty for the two of us plus her four children and two of the neighbor kids. I was shocked. I asked her how often she ate like this. She said only one or two times per month. I then asked her if she ran out of food dollars before the end of the month. Her answer was, “That depends on how many other people I buy food for.”I heard recently about someone

who received $8,000 back in taxes, didn’t pay their $1,000 overdue electric bill, blew the $8,000 and was preparing to go into BROC (community action group) to get

money for her electric bill. She knew from experience that this would not be a problem because there is plenty of money available for that. Every time you pay your electric bill they charge you extra for people who make irresponsible choices with their money. In many cases these choices include drugs and alcohol. This is another thing that infuriates working Vermonters. I strongly advocate for drug testing recipients and those living with them.I guess it is all based on your

perspective. These may be “meager

I believe most Vermonters who live close enough to see it think that

My wife and I work on average 100 hours a week. We live a frugal lifestyle but most months we have bills we can’t pay. In my chosen profession over 70 percent of my income goes to taxes. When I think about how those tax dollars are spent it gets pretty hard to swallow.

Bryan JonesSalisbury

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Real Estate and Youby Ingrid

Punderson Jackson

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CAN I GOOGLE IT?

Implementing the Internetand Social Media

Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, blogs—how do you keep on top of trends and utilize these tools to your best advantage? Real estate today is more reliant than ever on the internet and social media. Used correctly, these are useful tools that help clear up the “information overload” of the web. Recommendations, referrals, testimonials and feedback are what consumers are looking for, and social media offers an easy way for real estate professionals to quickly and

Whether you’re buying or selling, ask your Realtor® what their marketing strategy is for using the internet and social media. If they use Facebook or Twitter, check to see how often the pages are updated—remember, the internet moves fast, so posts from a month ago aren’t going to be of much use when the market is hot. Ask how large their social media presence is. A Twitter following of 10,000 means 10,000 sets of eyes on your property! A highly engaged following of 200 industry professionals could create the social media “domino effect” that can bring your transaction to a swift, successful closing.

FRANÇOIS CLEMMONS, SHOWN at last year’s Martin Luther King Day

been appreciated not just in the concert hall and chapel but also at Pan-ther athletic events. He will retire this year.

ville,” he said.Alas, we may have heard François

sing the Anthem for the last time. He is retiring. At the end of this academic year, he

will become the Emeritus Artist-in-Residence at Middlebury, and take a sabbatical year. He will undergo knee

June, and then the other later in the summer. His health is a high priority. “The past couple of years have been a real challenge, physically,” he said.After he recovers from his knee

surgeries, he hopes to travel. He has formed especially close relationships in his 15 years at Middlebury with international students, and he would like to see their home countries. “I’d love to go to India, Nepal, Bangla-desh, China, various countries in Af-rica,” he said. “I will do Graduation and Convocation, but other than that I’m not obligated to do anything. I can say ‘no.’“I want to be active politically.

I’m very interested in social justice, women’s issues, sexual assault,” he said. “I have been a counselor for gay students and others who have been challenged at Middlebury.” His permanent base will be right

here in Middlebury. “I’m not going anywhere. It was never a question about leaving Middlebury. When I was in New York, I worked all the time, hustling, networking. I draw tremendous satisfaction from my ca-reer, even at Middlebury. I reached my ‘peak’ here.“I will continue to have some role

with the Music Department, and I

know I will keep doing the Martin Luther King Choir. I have about 50 kids in the choir, along with towns-people and faculty. Many have never sung in a choir before and in the MLK Choir they have an active musical ex-perience.”So it seems to me that retirement

for François does not mean hanging

up the vocal chords. Here’s one bas-ketball fan who hopes to hear Fran-çois sing the Anthem again in Pepin Gym — and watch the opposing play-ers peek in admiration. Karl Lindholm is a retired Middle-

bury College professor and dean, and he writes a monthly sports column for the Independent.

Letters to the Editor

Additional shoreline regulations are sorely neededSomething about a wooded

lakeshore invites exploration. Poking along in a canoe beneath the low-hung boughs of a cedar or birch tree you never know what you

shorelines offer. Yet, undeveloped shorelines have become increasingly rare.Naturally vegetated shorelines

protect water quality and ecological health. The deep roots of trees and shrubs provide bank stability. During

vegetated shorelines resisted erosion better than grassy shores or even areas with retaining walls. The over-hanging branches shade the water. That shade, plus wood that falls into the lake from the shoreline, provides

falling from the trees create habitat

Vegetated shorelines help treat storm water pollution. A 100-foot vegetated buffer absorbs 73 percent of storm water runoff;; a bare grass lawn absorbs only 18 percent. Cleared shorelines contribute 18 times more

seven times more phosphorus to the lake than those where the shore-line is wooded. Steven Carpenter, a Wisconsin limnologist and 2011 Stockholm Water Prize laureate, the

world’s most prominent award for outstanding achievements in water-related activities, described riparian vegetation as the “number one way to build resilience to climate change for lakes.” Since naturally vegetated shore-

lines protect water quality they also

homeowners and the community. For the landowner, properties on clearer lakes are worth more. One study found for every one-meter increase in water clarity a property’s value increased by $200 per foot of front-age. For the community, clean lakes bring not only added tax revenue from higher property values, but also tourist dollars. A study from the University of Vermont compared the average annual total visitor expen-ditures for a state park located on a lake or pond to the average for those without waterfront. The difference was stark;; parks on lakes generated nearly three times the revenue of non-lake based state parks.Given the great value of vegetated

shorelines, the minimal effort that so-ciety makes to protect this resource is depressing. Vermont lacks any state-wide regulations to limit shoreline clearing, leaving shoreline regulation to towns. However, only 20 per-cent of towns have such standards. As a result, shoreline condition for

Vermont lakes is worse than in other Northeastern states, and even worse than the national average. Only 17 percent of Vermont lakeshores are in good condition as measured by the extent of disturbance and lawns along the shore, compared to 42 percent regionally and 35 percent nationally. This session, the Legisla-ture has taken strides to address this problem with House Bill 526. Governing bodies have empha-

sized voluntary programs and edu-cational materials on how to better manage shorelines, but voluntary approaches have failed. While some individual landowners have invested in shoreline protection the overall pace and severity of clearing in this vulnerable area has accelerated. We have seen unchecked clearing of shorelines to show off massive prop-erties or give private citizens a view.

public water resources. It is time for the states and municipalities to enact better regulations to protect shore-lines. By protecting the lake and the water quality we all depend on, such actions also protect the investments of landowners and the interests of the community.

Mike WinslowLake Champlain Committee

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Good thinkingTHE MONKTON CENTRAL School Odyssey of the Mind third-grade team — Elena Bronson, Carter

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LINCOLN — Herbert M. Parker, 84, of Lincoln passed away Sunday, March 24, 2013, at Porter Hospital in Middlebury.He was born Feb. 24, 1929, in

Saranac Lake, N.Y., the son of Howard and Rena York Parker.He was a retired farmer and had

lived most of his life in Lincoln. He also drove school bus for many years. During his early years, he served on the Mount Abraham school board and was lister for the town of Lincoln. He was a devoted family man whose main enjoyment in life was spending time with his family and especially his grand-children and great-grandchildren.Herbert is survived by his wife,

Lois, of 62 years, his soul mate and more recently caregiver;; his four children, Linda Parker, Robert Parker and Mary Emmons, all of Lincoln, and Hilda Vincent and her companion Timothy Sawyer

-dren;; 10 great-grandchildren;; his half-brother, Bill James of Bristol;; his sister-in-law, Evelyn Parker, of Maryland;; two brothers-in-law, Rupert Billings and Richard Billings and his wife Joyce, all of Orange City, Fla;; and several nieces and nephews.He was predeceased by his two

brothers, Marshall Parker of New Haven and Clarence Parker of Maryland, and a half-brother, Harry James of Saranac Lake, N.Y.A special thanks to Addison

County Home Health who provided care and support during the past few years. Also special thanks to the nurses at Porter Hospital who provided comfort and support during his last hours.

can be made to Addison County Home Health & Hospice, PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT, or Hospice

Volunteer Services, PO Box 772,

SALISBURY — Donald “Chief” Goodrich, 84, of Salisbury died Saturday morning, March 30, 2013, at his home after a brief illness with his family at his side.He was born June 10, 1928, in

Salisbury, the son of the late Wilbur and Irma (Douglas) Goodrich.He married Mildred (Phelps)

Goodrich on Sept. 3, 1949, in Chittenden. Together they operated the Goodrich Farm in Salisbury since 1955.His family says he enjoyed family

gatherings and especially his trips hunting and working on his prop-erty in Illinois with family and close friends.He is survived by his son, Ernie

Goodrich and his wife, Leeann, of Salisbury;; his three daughters, Donna Lawton and her husband,

Henry, of Bridport, Debbie Goodrich of Salisbury and Penny Supernaw and her husband, Scott, of Salisbury;; 10 grandchildren and his eight great-grandchildren.He was predeceased by his wife,

Mildred, on April 5, 2009;; a daugh-ter, Roxanne;; and an infant.A memorial service will be held

on Friday, April 5, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. at the Salisbury Congregational Church. The Rev. John Grivetti,

follow in West Side Cemetery in Salisbury.Memorial contribution

may be made to the Salisbury Congregational Church, Main Street, Salisbury, VT 05769, or to Addison County Home Health & Hospice, P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753.

EAST HARDWICK — Canaan Scott Howard, 5, of East Hardwick died unexpectedly on Friday, March 15, 2013, at Fletcher Allen Medical Center in Burlington.He was born Nov. 1, 2007, in

Berlin, the loving son of Kelly and Sarah (Buckleybradley) Howard. He attended preschool at Four Seasons of Early Learning in Greensboro Bend.His family says he was a wonder-

ful little boy who charmed everyone he met with his winning smile, vast knowledge and amazing sense of humor. He loved Thomas the Tank Engine, snowmobiles, ponies and the outdoors. He was a kind and helpful son, an affectionate and loving grandson, and a generous, caring older brother.

Survivors include his parents, Kelly and Sarah Howard, and his younger brother, Ezra Howard, all of East Hardwick;; great-grand-mothers Louise Howard of East Hardwick and Betty Luther of Hyde Park;; grandparents Judith Falk and Douglas Bradley of Lincoln, Rebecca Foster of Inverness, Fla., and Robert Howard Jr. of East Hardwick;; and many aunts, uncles and cousins including Hannah Buckleybradley of Lincoln.A memorial service will be held

Saturday, April 27, at 11 a.m. at the United Church of Hardwick.

be made to the Canaan Scott Howard Memorial Fund by visit-ing www.indiegogo.com/projects/canaan-scott-howard-memorial-fund

BRANDON — Scott Alan Clark, 48, died Friday, March 29, 2013, at his home in Brandon, following a courageous battle with cancer.He was born in Proctor on Jan.

15, 1965. He was the son of Herbert E. and Patricia (Shortsleeves) Clark Jr. He grew up in Brandon where he received his early education and attended Otter Valley Union High School.In his earlier years he worked in

the family business, Herb Clark’s Sawmill. He afterwards farmed and was a woodsman logging various parts of Vermont. His family says he enjoyed hunting, trapping and camp-

loved the great outdoors.Surviving are his mother, Patricia

Clark of Brandon;; two sons, Scott H. Clark and Nathan R. Clark, both of Goshen;; his sister, Judy Pomainville of Pittsford;; and his brother, Greg Clark of Brandon. Two grandchildren and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins also survive him.He was predeceased by his father

on Jan. 22, 2009.A memorial service “In Celebration

of His Life” will be held at a later date and time to be announced.There are no public calling hours.Memorial gifts may be made to

the Brandon Area Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 232, Brandon, VT 05733, or to Rutland Area Visiting Nurse & Hospice, 7 Albert Cree Drive, Rutland, VT 05701.

BRANDON — Scott (Svend) Gonge, 82, died peacefully Tuesday late afternoon, March 26, 2013, at Cedar Hill Farm in Brandon with his wife, Lisbeth, at his side.He was born on Dec. 23, 1930, in

Copenhagen, Denmark, the only child of Svend Gonge and Kirstine Birgitte (Petersen) Gonge. He received his education in Denmark.After college he joined the East

Asiatic Company (EAC) and had a lifelong career in Canada, the Far East and the United States of America. During his tenure as chief

from 1964-1971 he also served as the Danish Consul General. He was

knighted, Ridder af Dannebrog (R.) in 1965. He left EAC in 1979 and bought — in partnership with friends — Troy Chemical Corp. Inc. in New Jersey. He retired in 1987 and served as president emeritus for a number of years. He established the Scott Gonge

Virginia Fellowship Fund in order to provide opportunities for Danish students and scholars to participate in the graduate or doctoral programs of the University of Virginia’s College of English Language & Literature, and Darden School of Business.From 2000 to his death, his family

forester in

Chittenden and later as a gentleman farmer in Brandon.He is survived by his wife, Lisbeth

Larsen, and his two daughters, Susanne Bashkin and Mary Jane D’Ambrosio and her family.A celebration of his life will take

place at a memorial reception at his home, 290 Kimball Road in Brandon, on Tuesday, April 9, from 3 to 5 p.m. His ashes will be buried in Denmark at a later date followed by a memorial service at the 1,000-year-old church in the hamlet of Engum, by Vejle.The family requests that memorial

contributions in Scott’s memory be made to the Brandon Free Library, 4 Franklin St., Brandon, VT 05733.

SUMMERFIELD, Fla. — Melvin G. Merrill, 87, formerly of Shelburne, Vt., died March 17, 2013. He was a retired materials manager at Simmonds Precision in Vergennes, Vt., and a yacht broker for Bruce Hill Yacht Sales at Shelburne Shipyard.Born Aug. 3, 1925, in Waltham,

N.Y., he was the son of Eric and Blanche (Evarts) Merrill. He attended high school in Port Henry, N.Y. He also played saxophone and clarinet for the popular band the Vermonters from 1945 to 1962.He loved “his” Lake Champlain

and shared it with family and friends on many boating excursions. His gentle heart, quiet generosity and determined spirit will be our

fondest memories of Mel. His smile will live on in our hearts. We will miss you, Mel!He is survived by his wife,

Fla., daughter Anne (Merrill) Patch of Venice, Fla., and son John M. Merrill of Burlington, Vt.Also surviving are three step-

children, Carole Cleland-Everett of Oklahoma, Roxanne (Cleland) Walczak of Minnesota and William “Bim” Cleland of California, along with numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.A memorial service was held

March 30, 2013, in Lady Lake, Fla. For those wishing to send a message to the family, please email www.

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Rokeby guides, greeters neededFERRISBURGH — Rokeby

Museum in Ferrisburgh needs volunteer guides for house tours and greeters for its new Underground Railroad Education Center, which will open in May. Anyone interested is invited to the museum on Saturday, April 20, at 10 a.m. for an introduction to the museum and orientation to volunteering.There’s never been a more

exciting time at Rokeby, with the education center as well as a new exhibit, “Free and Safe:

The Underground Railroad in Vermont,” about to open. The exhibit fills the center’s second floor and invites visitors to follow in the footsteps of Simon and Jesse, two fugitives from slavery who were sheltered at Rokeby in the 1830s. The exhibit will educate, engage and challenge young and old alike.Tour guides lead guided tours

of the house, offered Friday through Monday. New guides will complete a short training course, studying photographs, documents,

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Even though I am retired from full-time work, I’m still pretty attached to my to-do lists. They give structure to my days and purpose to my life. I’m far too well trained in the school of Amounting to Something to go into list-less free fall just because I don’t get a regular paycheck any more. One day last week

most of my to-dos involved outdoor chores, and I duti-fully dug in. But sometime in mid-afternoon I real-ized I had ditched the list a couple of hours ago, and that I was simply putter-ing. Or pottering, or putzing. Or dubbin’ around. Whatever you

call it, it’s stream-of-conscious-ness activity, moving around not exactly aimlessly, but spontane-ously, allowing each task to lead you to another related or unrelated task, which may or may not be

of any consequence. And on that afternoon I suddenly realized that I felt totally relaxed and that I was breathing very deeply and having a wonderful time.My American Heritage

Dictionary takes a dim view of puttering: “to occupy oneself in an aimless or ineffec-tive manner;; to waste time in idling.” The C a m b r i d g e ( U n i t e d K i n g d o m ) online diction-ary, however, gives a more positive spin: “to move about

without hurry-

ing and in a

relaxed and

pleasant way.”

Obviously there’s a clash in

cultural attitudes toward putter-

ing — an ineffective waste of time

or moving in a relaxed and pleas-

ant way? I fear most Americans

going with the Brits on

this one!

I want more putter-ing time in my life, and I want it guilt free, without worrying about Amounting to Something. So I have developed a strategy. I’ve decided I will simply rename tasks as puttering, and there-fore when I do them I will move about with-out hurrying and in a relaxed and pleasant way! And I will breathe deeply and I will be having a wonderful time, while at the same time accomplishing tasks that are important to me. I tried it last night. Before going

to bed I got up off the couch and folded a mountain of laundry and vacuumed the downstairs, two chores I’d put off for a week. “Just puttering, Dear, I’ll be right up.” Hey, it worked. It didn’t feel like chores at all. This has possibilities!Cooking dinner for a party of

eight: “I think I’ll just putz around the kitchen for a while this after-noon. Would you mind putter-ing a bit in the living room so that the guests will be able to sit down and enjoy themselves?”Weeding the

vegetable garden: “Let’s go out and potter about with the plants this weekend.” Stacking two

“Just dubbin’ around in the

woodshed for a couple of hours.”I think I’m on to something.

relaxed and pleasant way while still Amounting to Something. One more way to Have It All.Abi Sessions is a retired educa-

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The pressures of life might be relieved by putteringthen extend natural gas service to other areas of Middlebury and Vergennes by 2015.Once the Phase 1 project is

complete, Vermont Gas wants to build the separate, Phase II pipeline segment from Middlebury to I.P. That $50 million project, to be subsidized by the paper mill, would take fuel oil out of I.P.’s fuel stream and replace it with cheaper and more environmen-tally friendly natural gas. It would also get the pipeline closer to Rutland County — a long-term VGS goal.But some Middlebury, Cornwall

and Shoreham residents are arguing that I.P.’s fuel cost savings could cause considerable headaches. Along with construction disruption and the prospect of having a volatile gas

noted limitations on vegetation that can be grown on the 50-foot right-of-way under which the 12-inch natural

Some residents located within potential Phase II pipeline routes being scouted by Vermont Gas are already reporting some concerns about the manner in which their property is being surveyed.Middlebury resi-

dent Chris Zeoli noted the remnants of survey markers on his South Street Extension property several days after Vermont Gas crews left.“How are we

supposed to trust you on more impor-tant things?” Zeoli asked. “It’s some-thing as simple as picking up after yourselves, and you haven’t done that yet.”Wark acknowl-

edged some early hitches in Vermont Gas’ outreach efforts, but pledged a smoother process going forward. He unveiled two possible “Phase II” lateral pipeline extension options from Middlebury. Both depart from an area near the intersection of Foote Street and Route 7 South, then head directly west until hitting Middle Road North. Form there, one of the potential routes zigzags in a south-westerly direction before passing into Cornwall in the vicinity of Morse Road. The other potential route proceeds in a straighter, slightly southwesterly direction across Creek Road, South Street Extension and into Cornwall near Route 30. Vermont Gas engineers said direc-tional borings will allow the pipeline to go under waterways, including Lake Champlain.Wark said if the project is approved,

it will need to be routed in consider-ation of topography, wetlands, ledge, rock, settlement patterns, utilities and alignment.“Straighter is better,” he said,

noting costs of around $1.5 to $2 million per mile of pipeline, which would be placed into trenches around 5 feet deep.

LANDOWNER CONTACTSPlans call for affected landowners

a phone call or personal visit with a formal request for property access. In cases where access is denied, the company will have to chart the possi-ble course of the pipeline using maps, according to Wark. It will be up to Vermont Gas to negotiate easements for property along the route. Failing that, the company could resort to exercising eminent domain, which would allow the company to take property if it successfully agues that the project is in the public’s interests. Wark has said the pipeline infrastruc-ture will be subject to property taxes, and that Vermont Gas will consider extending service to the more densely populated village centers of Cornwall and Shoreham.Vermont Gas, according to Wark,

Phase II pipeline. The company will hold a second informational meeting in Middlebury on April 15 (7-9 p.m. at the municipal gym) and will hold similar gatherings in Cornwall and Shoreham.Several residents said they believe

more outreach will be needed.“A couple of meetings doesn’t

seem like enough,” said Middlebury resident Alice Eckles, who suggested

to door within the pipeline corridor to explain the project and get feed-back. Wark said the company would consider that request.Cornwall resident Stan Grzyb said

many in his town oppose the proposed pipeline. Concerns, he said, include the prospect of the transmission line causing disruption to deer yards as well as orchards, sugarbushes and

other rural enterprises. And Grzyb said he did not relish the prospect of have a natural gas transmission

works.“All of these things add into why

a lot of us don’t want anything to do with it,” Grzyb said.While Vermont Gas is a state-

regulated utility, Grzyb pointed to a corporate ownership structure that includes the much larger Canadian companies of Gaz Métro and Enbridge Inc. He noted Enbridge is involved in projects to develop and transport tar sands fuel.“I think all of us need to be aware

of these manifestations of large companies trying to ram this down our throat,” Grzyb said.Wark said the company will do

its best to work with neighbors, but added, “At the end of the day, we have to pick a line, and we are hoping to do that with good feedback from residents.”One participant at Monday’s meet-

ing suggested that some additional strings be attached to I.P.’s bid to get

he said the paper company should be required to purchase and install more

sophisticated pollu-tion control devices at its plant before it is given access to the pipeline. He noted I.P., around a decade ago, proposed adding shredded tires to its fuel mix.“I look at this

as an opportunity for this area,” he said. “I.P. … has

industrial toilet into

with dioxins and PCPs. You can’t

sent, primarily with prevailing winds, its pollutants to

England. They have made sure that you and your children have had an adequate dose of mercury every day. This may be a time for Vermont Gas to rescue us, to say to I.P., ‘Those people in Vermont will let you build that line and will become partners in that effort, if you clean up your air.’ So part of the money they save on energy costs goes to installing the very latest technologies in air cleaning.”Rep. Paul Ralston, D-Middlebury,

is a member of the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee, as well as owner of Middlebury-based Vermont Coffee Co. He said he believes natural gas would be an asset in providing some

also to area homeowners and busi-ness owners. He added that because natural gas is currently 44 percent cheaper than fuel oil, it could stretch the state’s heating assistance subsidy that much further for low-income Vermonters.“Let’s remember that there are

from this project,” Ralston said.Reporter John Flowers is at

[email protected].

VGS(Continued from Page 1A)

“How are we

supposed to trust

you on more

important things?

It’s something

as simple as

picking up after

yourselves, and

you haven’t done

that yet.”

— Middlebury resident

Chris Zeoli to VGS

VERGENNES — The Bixby Library’s annual Bixby Gala, hosted by the Basin Harbor Club, is scheduled for Friday, May 17. Gala co-chairs Julie Adams and Shanon Atkins, along with Bixby board members and Basin Harbor staff are planning a hugely festive event with some notable changes. This year Gala tickets will come complete with a four-course sit-down dinner with dinner music, live and silent auctions,

The evening will begin with a cocktail hour at 6 p.m., and master of ceremonies Bill Carmichael will welcome guests to the event. The silent auction will be open during that time;; items up for bid include fun and interesting items includ-ing authentic Bixby Library maple syrup made from trees on the Bixby grounds, to artwork, vacations, gift

will be served at 7 p.m., followed by a dessert buffet and short live auction

waiting with great tunes spanning eras from the ’40s, to Elvis Presley to the Beatles to Jay-Z and Madonna. Ask for a tune and most likely The Grift can play it.

Tickets for the full evening are $50 and proceeds go toward the library’s operating expenses. Groups of eight or more can reserve a table, while individuals, couples and smaller groups will be seated for dinner by Basin Harbor staff. Dessert and danc-ing tickets can be purchased for $25 each. Tickets are available online through the Bixby Library website or at www.BixbyGala.eventbrite.com. They can also be purchased at Linda’s Apparel on Main Street in Vergennes and at the library. For more informa-tion call 877-2211, check the website at www.BixbyLibrary.org or visit Facebook.

SHANON ATKINS, LEFT, AND JULIE ADAMS

Bixby Gala set for May 17

MIDDLEBURY — Junebug’s second

Dinner will be held at Town Hall Theater on Tuesday, April 16, from 5 to 7 p.m.Junebug is more than a funky retail

store, specializing in gently used mater-nity and children’s clothing. Located in downtown Middlebury since 2009, Junebug has also become a place for Addison County families to seek infor-mation, connect with each other in the playroom, or just relax and recharge in a welcoming, family-friendly environment.As a charitable organization,

Junebug’s proceeds are donated to other

services and support to young children. This year’s Community2Community dinner will highlight Junebug’s involve-ment in the local community.The event will feature a delicious

family-friendly dinner buffet catered by Almost Home, special children’s activi-ties including henna, face painting and crafts, and a silent auction featuring a fun and eclectic group of items. Funds raised will help Junebug continue its support of the local community.Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the

door, and kids age 3-17 are $5. Tickets may be purchased in advance at Junebug, 5 Park St., Middlebury. Call 388-1055 for more information.


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THURSDAYApr 4 Twist O’ Wool Spinning Guild meet-

ing in Middlebury. Thursday, April 4, 7-9 p.m., American Legion. Guest speaker

Judy Comfort will give a presentation on the website Ravelry. Participants should bring or borrow a

All are welcome. Info: 453-5960. Exhibit opening reception in Middlebury. Thursday, April 4, 8-9 p.m., 51 Main. Celebrating the opening of “Progress Will Kill Us,” an exhibit of charcoals, soft pastels and ink portraits by Levi Westerveld depict-ing the faces of French farmers from the Dordogne region. Portraits are accompanied by short biogra-phies of the farmers. The artist will be on hand to discuss his project. Refreshments served.

FRIDAYApr5 Senior luncheon in Middlebury. Friday,

April 5, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Middlebury VFW. CVAA’s monthly First Friday luncheon,

with glazed ham, mashed potatoes with cheddar and chives, baby carrots, green salad, dinner roll and apple pie with cream. Suggested donation $4. Reservations required by April 3: 1-800-642-5119. Free transportation by ACTR: 388-1946.

Prom dress sale in Bristol. Friday, April 5, 3-7 p.m., Mount Abraham Union High School cafeteria. The Mount Abe PTO is selling prom dresses for $25 each. Many styles, sizes and colors to choose from. Men’s formal wear also available. Men’s Warehouse will donate $5 back to the PTO for every tux rental. All tux rentals $40

Community health center open house in Bristol. Friday, April 5, 5-7 p.m., Mountain Health Center, Bristol Works, 74 Munsill Ave. Come celebrate the opening of the

town area’s new community health center. Refreshments provided by the center’s neighbors, Aqua Vitea Kombucha and the Bristol Bakery and Café.

Art exhibit reception in Bristol. Friday, April 5, 5:30-7 p.m., Art on Main. Celebrating the annual Community Art Show, featuring works by local artists of all ages:

jewelry, photography and more. On exhibit April 2-May 16. For info or to submit your work, visit www.arton-main.net or call 453-4032.

Middlebury. Friday, April 5, 6-8 p.m., Middlebury Inn. Help raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes. Tickets, $25, include a Caribbean buffet dinner and admission. Tickets available at 877-6344 or at Everywear for Everybody in Vergennes.

Friday, April 5, 6-8 p.m., Middlebury Inn. The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes will hold a “Spring Into Summer Auction” to support the club’s after-school program-ming. More than 75 items, many with a summer theme, have been donated. Event includes a silent auction, live auction with Charlie Barsalow, a Caribbean-themed buffet and a no-host bar. Info: [email protected] or on Facebook.

“Fractured Fairy Tales” on stage in Vergennes. Friday, April 5, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Little City Players present this collection of classic stories, with a twist. Tickets $12 adults, $10 seniors and students, available at the VOH, Classic Stitching in Vergennes or www.vergennesopera-house.org. Also on April 6 and 7.

“Great Expectations” broadcast in Middlebury. Friday, April 5, 7:30-9:45 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The critically acclaimed London production of Dickens’ classic will be broadcast on the big screen at the THT. Tickets $17/$10 students, available at

-ater.org, or at the door.

Violinist Mary Rowell in concert at Middlebury College. Friday, April 5, 8-10 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts. Rowell, with special guest Eve Beglarian, presents “Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been,” a concert of music for violin, viola and electronics. Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

SATURDAYApr6 Green Mountain Club hike in Bridport/

Addison. Saturday, April 6, time and meeting place TBA. Hike up Snake

Mountain. Easy. Email [email protected] or call 475-2848 for meeting time and place.

Trinkets and Treasures Rummage Sale in Vergennes. Saturday, April 6, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., VUHS middle-school gym. Annual fundraiser hosted by the Commodore Parents Teacher Group. Household

sporting gear, adult and children’s clothing, toys,

VUHS students through enrichment programs and opportunities.

GMC Young Adventurers’ Club labyrinths and mazes in Ripton. Saturday, April 6, 9-11 a.m., Spirit in Nature trails. Andrea Kane leads this Green Mountain Club event for kids. Info: 877-6597 or [email protected].

Spring Fling Flea Market in Bristol. Saturday, April 6, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Bristol American Legion. Food and beverages, bake sale items, and lots of treasures. To

Spring rummage sale in Bristol. Saturday, April 6, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., First Baptist Church of Bristol. Shop for spring clothing and linens. Cost $5 per bag. Bags supplied.

Basketball tournament in Shoreham. Saturday, April 6, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Shoreham Elementary School. The Platt Memorial Library presents a co-ed, inter-generational, 3-on-3, lightning round tournament,

team assignments and warm-up 9:30; tournament starts at 10 a.m. Ages 10 and up, $5 per player, free to watch. Coffee, fresh donuts, fruit and water.

Large-print book sale in Middlebury. Saturday, April 6, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Ilsley Library. As part of the library’s regular book sale, there will be a special table featuring over 200 large-print books. Proceeds fund library programs. Info: 388-4095.

Solar open house in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April 6, 1-3 p.m., 1096 Route 7. Come see how the Co-op Solar hot-water heating program works, get the details and learn about incentives. Program ends April 30. Sign up online at www.co-opsolar.net.

“Fractured Fairy Tales” on stage in Vergennes. Saturday, April 6, 2-4 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Little City Players present this collection of classic stories, with a twist. Tickets $12 adults, $10 seniors and students, available at the VOH, Classic Stitching in Vergennes or www.vergennesoperahouse.org.

Also on April 7. “In Darkness” screening at Middlebury College. Saturday, April 6, 3-5 p.m., Dana Auditorium. In German-occupied Ukraine, a blunt, opportunis-tic sewer worker takes bribes to help Jews evade capture through underground tunnels, but eventually grows committed to saving their lives. Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts.

Jon Gailmor in concert in Middlebury. Saturday, April 6, 3-5 p.m., Middlebury Municipal Gym. Gailmor, a beloved Vermont singer, songwriter,

the Mary Johnson Children’s Center and College Street Children’s Center. Homemade “Take Home Meals” will also be available for sale. Meal to serve four people: $12, including side salad. Admission $8 adults, $5 children 8 and older, $2 for children under 8. Tickets available at the door or at Mary Johnson or College Street children’s centers.

Spring Fling Pasta Dinner & Dance in Middlebury. Saturday, April 6, 6-11 p.m., American Legion Post 27. Eighth annual fundraiser to support the Vermont National Guard Charitable Foundation and other causes. Social hour 6 p.m., spaghetti and meatball dinner at 7 p.m., music and dancing 8 p.m. Music by

and dance, $8 dance only (after 8 p.m.), available at the Legion in advance or at the door. Info: 388-9931 or 352-1027.

King Pede party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Community Center and Town Hall. Sandwich supper followed by an evening of fun and card games. Come planning to play King Pede or bring your own favorite card game. Requested donation: $2.50.

Chris Dorman and His PBRs in concert in Ripton. Saturday, April 6, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Ripton Community House. The Ripton Community Coffee House welcomes singer-songwriter Chris Dorman and his PBRs: Philip Halteman, Brett Hughes and Ryan Hayes. One-hour open mike at 7:30 p.m. followed

the Friends of the Ripton Church. Adults $9, seniors and teens $6, children $3. Info: 388-9782.

“In Darkness” screening at Middlebury College. Saturday, April 6, 8-10 p.m., Dana Auditorium. In German-occupied Ukraine, a blunt, opportunis-tic sewer worker takes bribes to help Jews evade capture through underground tunnels, but eventually grows committed to saving their lives. Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts.

Contradance in Bristol. Saturday, April 6, 8-11 p.m., Holley Hall. Alison James calling, with music by Toss the Feathers. All dances will be taught; no experi-ence necessary. Beginners workshop at 7:30 p.m.

improvements to the hall. Info: 453-4613. Sophie Shao and Friends in concert at Middlebury College. Saturday, April 6, 8-10 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts. Cellist Shao and friends return as a quartet to perform Brahms’ Piano Quartet in A Major and a Beethoven piano trio. Reserved seating. Tickets $25/20/6. Info: 443-3168 or www.middlebury.edu/arts.

SUNDAYApr7 Pancake breakfast in Starksboro.

Sunday, April 7, 7-10:30 a.m., Robinson Elementary School. Thirteenth annual

all-you-can-eat breakfast: homemade buttermilk pancakes, scrambled eggs, McKenzie of Vermont bacon and sausage, local cider, home fries, toast, juice, coffee, tea and Starksboro maple syrup. Adults $8, seniors and kids $5. Mini silent auction

sports program. Info, or to help out: 453-4074. All-you-can-eat breakfast in MIddlebury. Sunday, April 7, 8-10 a.m., VFW Post 7823, Exchange St. Eggs, bacon, pancakes, coffee, juice and more. Cost $9 per person.

“Fractured Fairy Tales” on stage in Vergennes. Sunday, April 7, 2-4 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Little City Players present this collection of classic stories, with a twist. Tickets $12 adults, $10 seniors and students, available at the VOH, Classic Stitching in Vergennes or www.vergennesoperahouse.org.

Tracy Silverman in concert with the CPO in Middlebury. Sunday, April 7, 4-6 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Electric violin virtuoso Tracy Silverman joins the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra for

a unique concert, and the premier of “Embrace,” a piece for electric violin and orchestra by Kenji

and includes elements of Afrobeat, Indian music and gospel. Tickets $15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 students, fee for kids younger than 12. Tickets avail-

-halltheater.org, or at the door.

MONDAYApr8 Legislative breakfast in Shoreham.

Monday, April 8, 7-8:45 a.m., Shoreham Congregational Church. Breakfast at 7 a.m.,

program 7:30-8:45. Kindergarten registration and orientation in Salisbury. Monday, April 8, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Salisbury Community School. Choose one of three sessions: 9-10 a.m., 10-11 a.m., or 1-2 p.m. Kindergartners can explore the classroom and meet the teachers and staff. Children who are 5 by Sept. 1 are eligible to attend kindergarten. Please bring the child’s birth

352-4291 to let her know which session you will attend.

TUESDAYApr9 Senior luncheon and baseball history

presentation in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 9, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Russ Sholes Senior

Center. Rudi Haerle presents “Spring Is Almost Here, It’s Time for Baseball: History and Collecting,” followed at noon by a lunch of top round of beef with gravy, mashed potatoes, peas and mushrooms, oatmeal bread and carrot cake. Suggested donation

$4. Bring your own place setting. Reservations required by April 5: 1-800-642-5119, ext. 634. Free transportation via ACTR: 388-1946. Behind-the-Scenes Lunch and Discussion at Middlebury College. Tuesday, April 9, 12:30-2:30 p.m., Wright Memorial Theater. Hear a discussion with cast, crew members and the audience about the upcoming production of “Undressing Cinderella: A Festival of New Plays.” Lunch is free to college ID holders; community donations are accepted. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168. Culinary herbs presentation in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 9, 1-2 p.m., Ilsley Library. The Middlebury Garden Club welcomes past presi-

dent Shari Johnson, who will discuss culinary herbs. Free. Refreshments served. Info: 388-4095.

Garden club meeting in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 9, 1-2 p.m., Ilsley Library. The Middlebury Garden

who will demonstrate how to create a simple spring arrangement. Then club member and professional photographer Maggie Nocca will give a photographic tour of the Gardens of Wales. Free. Refreshments served. Info: 388-4095.

College. Tuesday, April 9, 4:30-6 p.m., Franklin Environmental Center, Orchard 103. Libby Jewett,

With Oysters?” The talk discusses how the rise in atmospheric CO2 is already causing harm to marine ecosystems.

The Harlem Superstars comedy basketball team in Bristol. Tuesday, April 9, 6:30-9 p.m., Mount Abraham Union High School gymnasium. The Harlem Superstars play against the Bristol Dream Team, made up of the Mount Abe coaching staff and

trick shots, dunks, music, dancing and an interac-tive halftime show. Advance tickets $8, available at

the door $10. Buy tickets early; this will be a sellout.

WEDNESDAYApr10 “Maple Sugaring Memories” program

in Lincoln. Wednesday, April 10, 10 a.m.-noon, Lincoln Library. Linda Barnard

leads this “Walk Down Memory Lane” presentation of the Lincoln Library Senior Program. Corresponds with the library’s current display on maple sugaring. Refreshments served. Info: 4530-2665.

Gallery talk in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 10, noon-1 p.m., Henry Sheldon Museum. Bill Brooks, executive director of the Sheldon, will lead a talk on items from the museum’s current exhibit, “Treasures from the Sheldon.” Info: 388-2117 or www.henryshel-donmuseum.org.

Rural Vermont annual celebration in Vergennes. Wednesday, April 10, 6:30-9 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Rural Vermont supporters from around the state gather for a special evening featuring keynote speaker Philip Ackerman-Leist of Green Mountain College. Finger food potluck, wine and beer cash

Vermont. Info and RSVP: (802) 223-7222 or [email protected].

School safety community conversation in Bristol. Wednesday, April 10, 6:30-8 p.m., Mount Abraham Union High School large cafeteria. Five-town resi-dents are invited to come get updates from Bristol

Tales with a twistLITTLE CITY PLAYERS actors rehearse for the upcoming production of “Fractured Fairy

Tales,” April 5-7 at the Vergennes Opera House. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL – Children’s: Home School

Pottery Apr. 5, Mon. & Weds. after School Wheel, Thurs. Hand Building, Vacation Wheel and Hand Building, Vacation Nature Art Adult: Color Workshop for Oils Apr. 13, Digital Photography April 20, Mon. Night Oils April 29-May 20. Contact Barb 247-3702, email [email protected], check out:

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Police Chief Kevin Gibbs and ANeSu Superintendent David Adams on the school safety conversation. Small- and large-group discussions on the current sense of student safety, options that contribute to student safety and what we envision for enhanced student safety in school and in the community.

“Wyeth’s Space” poetry reading and presenta-tion in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 10, 7-9 p.m., Ilsley Library. Cornwall poet Gary Margolis will read poems from his latest collection, a book that responds to paintings by Andrew Wyeth in Maine and Pennsylvania. Slides of the paintings will be shown. Info: 388-4095.

Book discussion group in Lincoln. Wednesday, April 10, 7-9 p.m., Lincoln Library. This month’s book: “The Language of Flowers” by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Info: 453-2665.

Historical society presentation in Ferrisburgh. Wednesday, April 10, 7-8:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Historical Society, Route 7. Silas Towler will review the discoveries buried within an 1842-1843 credit account book for the general store that once stood on the Ferrisburgh town green. Free. All are welcome.

Mount Abe Family Swim in Bristol. Wednesday, April 10, 7:30-9 p.m., MAUHS pool. Cost: $5 per family, $2 per individual. Info: 363-5877.

“Undressing Cinderella: A Festival of New Plays” on stage at Middlebury College. Wednesday, April 10, 8-10 p.m., Wright Memorial Theater. Kicking off Middlebury’s inaugural New Play Festival, play-wrights from around the nation have turned the Cinderella tale upside down, writing short plays using any character other than Cinderella as the main focus. Two different play selections: Program A to be presented April 10 and 12; program B to be presented April 11 and 13. Tickets $12/10/6. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

THURSDAYApr11 Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 11, 8-10 a.m., Otter View Park and Hurd Grassland. A monthly OCAS-

MALT event, inviting community members to help survey birds and other wildlife. Meet at Otter View Park parking area, corner of Weybridge Street and Pulp Mill Bridge Road. Shorter and longer routes possible. Leader: Ron Payne. Come for all or part of the walk. Beginning birders welcome. Info: 388-1007 or 388-6829.

Church rummage sale in North Ferrisburgh. Thursday, April 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church. Continues April 12 and 13.

Senior luncheon in Bristol. Thursday, April 11, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Bristol Masonic Hall. CVAA spon-sors this favorite meal. Menu: shepherd’s pie, soup and salad, and dessert. Suggested donation $3. Reservations required: 453-4877. Transportation via ACTR: 388-1946.

Lecture on BPA/plastics and research at Middlebury College. Thursday, April 11, 4:30-6 p.m., Bicentennial Hall, Room 216. The Biology Department welcomes guest speaker Patricia Hunt of Washington State University with a talk titled “Plastics, Bisphenol A (BPA) and Research Credibility: When a Scientist Collides With Industry and the Media.” Info: www.middlebury.edu/academ-ics/bio/news. Free.

“Armchair Visit to China” presentation in Middlebury. Thursday, April 11, 5:30-7 p.m., Ilsley Library. Addison County resident Mike Norris will share stories and photos of his recent trip to China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou. Info: 388-4095.

Community Crime Forum in Addison. Thursday, April 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Addison Central School. Addison residents are invited to an open discussion about crime in the town of Addison. The group will brainstorm ideas on how to help law enforcement and themselves to be more aware, and determine if there is potential to start a neighborhood watch program.

Visiting architect lecture at Middlebury College. Thursday, April 11, 7-9 p.m., Johnson Memorial Building, Room 304. Carl Fredrik Svenstedt, a Swedish-born, Yale-trained architect now based in Paris, presents “Built/Unbuilt.” Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

Northeast Tenor Sax Summit in concert in Brandon. Thursday, April 11, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Brandon Music. A unique band comprised of several of New England’s professional tenor saxophonists backed by a premium rhythm section. Part of Brandon Music’s monthly jazz series. General admission $15; reser-vations encouraged. Info: (802) 465-4071.

“Undressing Cinderella: A Festival of New Plays” on stage at Middlebury College. Thursday, April 11, 8-10 p.m., Wright Memorial Theater. Kicking off Middlebury’s inaugural New Play Festival, play-wrights from around the nation have turned the Cinderella tale upside down, writing short plays using any character other than Cinderella as the main focus. Two different play selections: Program A to be presented April 10 and 12; program B to be presented April 11 and 13. Tickets $12/10/6. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

FRIDAYApr12 “Off the Wall: Informal Discussions

About Art” at Middlebury College. Friday, April 12, 12:15-1 p.m., Museum of

Art. Middlebury College Museum of Art intern Adrian

Kerester ’15, presents “Fabergé,” exploring Russia’s social history at the turn of the last century through an examination of Russian decorative arts and the culture of the ruling aristocracy. Followed by a light lunch in the lobby. Free to college ID card holders; community donations accepted. Info: www.middle-bury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

Church rummage sale in North Ferrisburgh. Friday, April 12, 1-6 p.m., North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church. Continues April 13.

Open dance class and lecture/demonstration at Middlebury College. Friday, April 12, 3-5 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts. “What Is This Thing Called Improvisation?” Student dancers and musi-cians invite you to witness the process as they prepare for performances in early May. Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

Spaghetti dinner in Bristol. Friday, April 12, 5-7 p.m., St. Ambrose Church.

Brain Injury Association support group meeting in Middlebury. Friday, April 12, 6-8 p.m., Hannaford Career Center, Charles Ave., Room A214. Offering survivors and family members, caregivers, friends and the community a place to access valuable resources and information about brain injury. Safe,

of the month. Info: 877-856-1772. Ballroom dance in Orwell. Friday, April 12, 7-10 p.m., Orwell Town Hall. The GFWC Fortnightly Club spon-sors this event; $10 per person. DJ is John Danyew. Light refreshments will be served.

“Undressing Cinderella: A Festival of New Plays” on stage at Middlebury College. Friday, April 12, 8-10 p.m., Wright Memorial Theater. Kicking off Middlebury’s inaugural New Play Festival, play-wrights from around the nation have turned the Cinderella tale upside down, writing short plays using any character other than Cinderella as the main focus. Two different play selections: Program A to be presented April 10 and 12; program B to be presented April 11 and 13. Tickets $12/10/6. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

Senior piano recital at Middlebury College. Friday, April 12, 8-10 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts. Kaveh Waddell shares a program of Haydn, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy. Free. Info: 443-3168 or www.middlebury.edu/arts.

SATURDAYApr13 Green Mountain Club bike ride in

Addison County. Saturday, April 13, time and meeting place TBA. Cycle on mostly

required. Contact Ave Haviland at (802) 496-6677 or [email protected] for meeting time and place.

Addison County. Saturday, April 13, 5 a.m.-3:45 p.m., on four local waterbodies. Fifth annual opening day tournament. Catch-and-release “paper” tourna-ment to celebrate the opening day of trout season, hosted on the Middlebury, New Haven and Neshobe rivers and Otter Creek. Rules, registration and info:

Anglers Association. Church rummage sale in North Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April 13, 8-11 a.m., North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church. Bag day.

Trail closure workshop in Bristol. Saturday, April 13, 9 a.m.-noon, New Leaf Organics Farm, 4818 Bristol-Monkton Road. Free workshop titled “Forwarding Path and Skid Trail Closure.” Co-sponsored by Vermont Family Forests and Lewis Creek Association. Rain or shine. No pre-registration necessary. No pets. Info: 453-7728 or www.family-forests.org.

Prize Bingo in Leicester. Saturday, April 13, 1-3 p.m., Leicester Senior Center. Refreshments will be served. All are invited.

Grange meeting in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April 13, 2-4 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community Center. Art Cohn of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum will give a presentation on the War of 1812.

“I Wish” screening at Middlebury College. Saturday, April 13, 3-5 p.m., Dana Auditorium. Two young brothers separated by divorce embark on an odys-sey to reunite their family by wishing on the energy of a new bullet-train line. In Japanese with English subtitles. Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

Free community supper in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April 13, 5-7 p.m., Crossroads Chapel, Route 7. All are welcome.

Roast turkey supper in Vergennes. Saturday, April 13, 5-6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church. A buffet of roast turkey, mashed potatoes,

beverage. Cost $8 adults, $4 children. Takeout avail-able. Info: 877-3150.

Contra dance in Cornwall. Saturday, April 13, 7-9:30 p.m., Cornwall Town Hall. Lausanne Allen call-ing, with live music by Red Dog Riley. Cost $5 per person, $20 maximum per family. Info: 462-3722.

The Court Jesters comedy basketball team at Middlebury College. Saturday, April 13, 7-8 p.m., Pepin Gymnasium. A lively show with lots of audi-ence participation. A fundraiser for the Middlebury Police Explorers. Tickets: $10 suggested donation. Info: [email protected].

“The Summer of Walter Hacks” screening in Starksboro. Saturday, April 13, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Starksboro Town Hall, 2827 Route 116. A screen-

the Starksboro Village Meeting House belfry

replacement project. Suggested donation $6 at the door, but any and all donations are appreciated. Refreshments for sale. Info: 453-3755 or 877-2262. Film is appropriate for ages 10 and older, or with parental guidance.

The Grift in concert in Lincoln. Saturday, April 13, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Burnham Hall. Part of the Burnham Music Series.

“I Wish” screening at Middlebury College. Saturday, April 13, 8-10 p.m., Dana Auditorium. Two young brothers separated by divorce embark on an odys-sey to reunite their family by wishing on the energy of a new bullet-train line. In Japanese with English subtitles. Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

“Undressing Cinderella: A Festival of New Plays” on stage at Middlebury College. Saturday, April 13, 8-10 p.m., Wright Memorial Theater. Kicking off Middlebury’s inaugural New Play Festival, play-wrights from around the nation have turned the Cinderella tale upside down, writing short plays using any character other than Cinderella as the main focus. Two different play selections: Program A to be presented April 10 and 12; program B to be presented April 11 and 13. Tickets $12/10/6. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

SUNDAYApr14 Breakfast buffet in Bristol. Sunday,

April 14, 7:30-10:30 a.m., Bristol American Legion. All-you-can-eat breakfast

buffet offered by the Bristol American Legion Ladies Auxiliary. Cost $8 per person. Third Sunday of the month.

Pancake breakfast in Salisbury. Sunday, April 14, 8-11 a.m., Salisbury Community School. Tickets $8 adults, $4 children 12 and under, available at the

Department.

Middlebury College. Sunday, April 14, 4-6 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts. Natasha Koval Paden shows the many ways that the sonata form is given life and expression.

MONDAYApr15 Legislative breakfast in Weybridge.

Monday, April 15, 7-8:45 a.m., Weybridge Congregational Church. Breakfast at 7 a.m.,

program 7:30-8:45. Senior luncheon in Bristol. Monday, April 15, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Cubbers Restaurant. CVAA spon-sors this monthly event for down-home cooking and friendly service. Menu TBA. Suggested donation $5. Reservations required: 1-800-642-5119.

Salisbury. Monday, April 15, 7-8:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. Helene Lang will pres-ent a one-woman show about Fisher, who wrote many books on child development and education and several about living in Vermont. Offered by the Salisbury Public Library.

TUESDAYApr16 Senior luncheon and “Pondering

Patagonia” presentation in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 16, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Russ

Sholes Senior Center. Middlebury residents Max and Lois Kraus share tales and photos of their trip. The presentation is followed at noon by a lunch of fried turkey breast, baked potato, California blend vege-tables, wheat bread and peaches. Suggested dona-tion $4. Bring your own place setting. Reservations required by April 12: 1-800-642-5119, ext. 634. Free transportation via ACTR: 388-1946.

“Photographing Quarries” presentation at Middlebury College. Tuesday, April 16, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125. Brandon photographer Don Ross has been photo-graphing quarries for over two decades. This talk is in conjunction with the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s current exhibition, “Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky’s Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context.” Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

Pajama story time in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 16, 6-7 p.m., Ilsley Library. Kids are invited to drop in and enjoy a special evening story time complete with games and crafts. Hosted by the Middlebury College Page One Literacy program. Pajamas encouraged. Info: 388-4097.

WEDNESDAYApr17 ANwSU Arts Festival in Vergennes.

Wednesday, April 17, 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m., Vergennes Union High School gym. A bian-

nual exhibit featuring the work of all K-12 students in the district. This year’s theme: “A World of Pattern:

-sans will demonstrate their work throughout the day. A concert of choral and instrumental music by students in grades 5-8 will take place at 6:30 p.m. Exhibit continues April 18.

Senior luncheon in Bristol. Wednesday, April 17, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Bristol American Legion. CVAA sponsors this senior meal of baked stuffed chicken breast with rice and broccoli, mashed pota-toes, baby carrots, dinner roll and apple crisp with cream. Suggested donation $4 Bring your own place setting. Reservations required: 1-800-642-5119, ext. 610. Transportation via ACTR: 388-1946.

Mount Abe Family Swim in Bristol. Wednesday, April 17, 7:30-9 p.m., MAUHS pool. Cost: $5 per family, $2 per individual. Info: 363-5877.

Blues jam in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 17, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main. Dennis Willmott from Left Eye Jump will provide lead guitar, bass and drums if you need backup or take a break and let you play. Bring your instrument and get ready to jam. Info: www.go51main.com.

THURSDAYApr18 ANwSU Arts Festival in Vergennes.

Thursday, April 18, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Vergennes Union High School gym. A bian-

nual exhibit featuring the work of all K-12 students in the district. This year’s theme: “A World of Pattern:

Senior luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, April 18, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., St. Peter’s Parish Hall. CVAA spon-sors this special senior meal of roast pork tortel-lini Alfredo, green salad, and dinner roll. Dessert social sponsored by Lang, McLaughry and Spera. Entertainment provided from 11:15-11:45 a.m.. Bring your own place setting. Reservations required: 1-800-642-5119, ext. 615. Free transportation through ACTR: 388-1946.

“Manet: Portraying Life” exhibit broadcast in Middlebury. Thursday, April 18, 11 a.m.-noon, Town Hall Theater. A close-up look at the recent sold-out

The more things change“MIDDLEBURY FALLS,” A ca. 1850-1859 oil on canvas by James Hope, shows an early but

still familiar view of the town. Henry Sheldon Museum Executive Director Bill Brooks will give a gallery talk on this painting and other items in the museum’s collection on Wednes-day, April 10, at noon.

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calendarcommunityManet exhibit at the Royal Academy, London, with work

spanning the artist’s entire career. Tickets $10, $6 students,

theater.org, or at the door.

“Black Farmers and White Racists in Vermont: 1790s to 1890s” presentation in Middlebury. Thursday, April

details three generations of a black farming community

in Hinesburg and Huntington, including family home life,

church membership, military service in three wars, voting

practices and Underground Railroad activities. Free, but

museum.org.

“Manet: Portraying Life” exhibit broadcast in Middlebury.

Academy, London, with work spanning the artist’s entire

career. Tickets $10, $6 students, available at the THT box

NER Vermont Reading Series in Middlebury. Thursday,

who will read from their work.

L IVEMUSICFred Barnes in New Haven.Tourterelle Restaurant.

Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble in Middlebury. Friday,

3 Sheets 2 the Wind in Middlebury.midnight, Two Brothers Tavern.

Soule Monde in Middlebury.Main.

The Wheelers in Middlebury.midnight, Two Brothers Tavern.

Dayve Huckett in Middlebury.51 Main.

Snake Mountain Bluegrass and the Connor Sisters in Middlebury.

Zack duPont Trio in Middlebury.Two Brothers Tavern.

The Engines in Middlebury.Main.

Casio Bastard in Middlebury.midnight, Two Brothers Tavern.

Longford Row in Middlebury.Two Brothers Tavern.

Justin Levinson Trio in Middlebury.p.m., 51 Main.

Hot Neon Magic in Middlebury.midnight, Two Brothers Tavern.

Zephyr in Bristol.

Nick Marshall in Middlebury.51 Main.

Brent Thomas Quartet in Middlebury.p.m., 51 Main.

Japhy Ryder in Middlebury.midnight, Two Brothers Tavern.

ONGOINGEVENTS

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SPORTS

Bruce at Middlebury Recreation

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rights.

p.m. Bristol green. All welcome to speak out for

world peace.

Middlebury. The van offers written exams,

BINGOAmerican Legion Hall, Middlebury. Wednesday.

scholarships and community programs.

third Mondays. 6 p.m. Refreshments sold.

able, complimentary hot tea and coffee. Info:

open 5 p.m., quickies 6:15 p.m., regular bingo

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support the purchase of materials for the circu

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late fall. Food, antiques, quilts, books and

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percent of entire day’s proceeds go to designated charity.

Taps and bucketsMAPLE SUGARING MEMORABILIA is on display at the Lincoln Library during

the month of April. Linda Barnard will give a timely presentation, titled “Walk Down Memory Lane: Maple Sugaring Memories,” at the library on Wednesday, April 10, at 10 a.m.

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A granddaughter is alleged to be involved in a Wey-bridge home invasion, and a neighbor assaults two others

in Leicester, among other charges. See Page 2A.

The Vergennes softball teamriding a wave of early-season success. See Sports, Page 1B.

offer free, public Wi-Fi. But others are close behind. See Page 2A.

Whiskey distillery pitched for Middlebury locationWider city park policy to preserve créche

Senate passes health care

exchange bill;; Ayer pleased

At the Legislature:

over merger of GMP, CVPS

GMO bill passes committee,

Bristol boardquestionsrevised draft of town planSelectboard app

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By ANDY KIRKALDYVERGENNES — What began

as an emotional issue for many citizens of the Vergennes area, who perceived a threat to the popular and longstanding Christian nativity display on the city’s central green, is now a technical exercise for Vergennes aldermen.

At their Tuesday meeting, aldermen continued to work on a policy that will not only allow the roughly 60-year-old crèche to remain on the green, but also permit other religious and secular displays there — as long as they have signs that identify their sponsors.

Aldermen also now plan to put up one large sign on the park’s information booth stating the city does not endorse or support any displays, a key element, according to their research, in allowing such displays on public property. Aldermen had previously

planned to put up four signs at the

entrances to the downtown park, but as Mayor Michael Daniels said on Tuesday, they are taking their time, making sure they are getting the policy right, and making changes as they go along. “We’re biting off little bits and

pieces,” Daniels said. “We’re

By JOHN FLOWERSMONTPELIER — The state

Senate on Tuesday passed a

the requirements of the federal Affordable Care Act, while setting stage for more substantial reforms in the future to help those who are uninsured or underinsured.Two Addison County lawmakers

the bill, H.559, through both legislative chambers. Rep. Michael Fisher, D-Lincoln, is chairman of the House Health Care Committee,

while Sen. Claire Ayer, D-Addison, is chairwoman of the Senate health and Welfare Committee.The House passed the health care

by an 88-38 tally. On Tuesday, the Senate followed suit, endorsing it by a 20-7 margin.

that would, among other things:

plans would provide the essential

By ANDREA SUOZZOMONTPELIER — A bill that

would require labeling of genetically

to start from the very beginning next year.But the committee has taken

extensive testimony on the topic

By ANDREW STEBRISTOL — In prep

the Bristol selectboarpublic hearing on the nthe town plan, the boartown’s planning coMonday meeting. Selectwoman C

of former plannChair Tom Wells, tookplan’s lack of clakey component: resource eLanguage in the plan

commercial extractioare to be prohibited itown Village PlConservation Planning aWells pointed out this currently written, extrahibition isn’t listed underPolicy statements, tained, hold the greatestfuture Act 250 plegal hearings that determer large commercial delike extraction operatmitted. Such policy statbe found at the end of the draft und“Policies.” Under the article withi

titled “Interprestates: “In certain settinduring Board of Adjustmor Act 250 proceedingments should sedetermining a pwith the plan. W

By JOHN FLOWERSADDISON COUNTY —

Local lawmakers on Tuesday

amendments related to the proposed combining of the state’s two largest utilities, much of it related to a $21 million payback that some believe is owed to electricity ratepayers as a condition of the merger.The $21 million in question

represents additional money that electricity ratepayers were assessed

strapped Central Vermont Public Service Corp. (CVPS) back in 2001.CVPS, the state’s largest utility, is

now on the verge of being acquired by, and merged with, Green Mountain Power (GMP) — which is owned by Montreal-based Gaz Metro.The Public Service Board, in

okaying the rate hike 10 years ago, stipulated that the ratepayers would be entitled to $21 million in value

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CORNWALL’S SUE RECORD, with her 7-year-old granddaughter Gillian Lavign, presents her Maple Sugar Pound Cake with brown sugar maple glaze, which won the Sugarhouse Dessert Contest at the Vermont Trade Winds Farm during Maple Open House Weekend.

Cornwall baker is maple recipe winner

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Drug meeting to be held in Bristol

Down the rabbit-holeVERGENNES UNION ELEMENTARY School students rehearse for their March 28-30 production of Walt

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ADDISON COUNTY — Ver-mont State Police last Friday were called to investigate a burglary at a Starksboro home in which a neigh-bor interrupted the thieves appar-ently in the act of stealing guns.According to Senior Trooper

Justin Busby, Shane Manning and Kenneth Lemieux, both 23 and both from Starksboro, were sur-prised by a neighbor while they were inside a Shaker Hill Road home without permission at a little before 2 p.m. on March 29. The two men ran from the residence

-tion and attempted to hide down an embankment, Busby reported.

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from the scene.Troopers — with the assistance

of a K9, Addison County Sheriff’s deputies and neighbors — identi-

and Lemieux. The men were sched-uled to be arraigned this week.In other recent activity, VSP

troopers:-

port from a Monkton man of a theft from his automobile. The man told police that while he was out back-country skiing on the Battell Trail off Elder Hill Road in Lin-coln, between 11:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m., someone broke a window of his 2001 silver Volkswagen Jetta. The assailant stole approximately $150-200 worth of tools, as well as a pair of sneakers. VSP increased patrols of area trailhead park-ing lots. Anyone with information concerning this incident is asked contact VSP New Haven at 802-388-4919. Information can also be submitted online at www.vtips.info

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ceived a report that two cars side-swiped, causing moderate damage to both. The trooper reported that both cars were southbound on Route 7 in New Haven going up-

hill, one in the climbing lane and the other in the slow-moving-vehi-cle lane. There were no injuries.

-served a vehicle fail to stop at the stop sign and blinking red light at the intersection of Routes 73 and 22A in Orwell. When troopers at-tempted to stop the vehicle, the driver quickly accelerated attempt-ing to elude police, Senior Troop-er Joseph Szarejko reported. The

old Glen Tenzer of Orwell, sped away down Mount Independence Road, and eventually traveled off the pavement on Bascom Road, where his vehicle became disabled. Police cited Tenzer for driving un-

grossly careless and negligent driv-ing, excessive speed, attempting to

-sion of marijuana.

-sponded to a two-car crash on Route 7 in New Haven. Police reported that William Mount, 47, of Bristol was driving a 2001 Pontiac Grand Am southbound in a passing lane, and he was passing a 1992 Volvo 240 driven by Benjamin Hubbard, 20, of Vergennes. According to a report from Sgt. James Hogan, the right lane was ending and Hubbard merged into the left lane before Mount’s Grand Am was complete-ly past him and the left front end of Hubbard’s Volvo collided with the right rear end of the Grand Am. Neither vehicle needed to be towed from the scene and there were no injuries.

of vandalism of mailboxes along Sand Road in Ferrisburgh that re-portedly occurred during the eve-ning hours between March 22 and 24. Anyone with information is asked to contact VSP.

stopped on Interstate 91 near Exit

motor vehicle. While speaking with

Azer Avdagic of Middlebury, the trooper saw signs of impairment

-ety exercises. The trooper cited Avdagic for driving under the in-

Trooper Eric Jollymore reported that 21-year-old Kyle Gingras of Middlebury, an occupant of the car, provided VSP with informa-tion regarding the operation of the vehicle. Jollymore said that further investigation revealed that the in-formation Gingras provided was false, and he cited Gingras for giv-ing false information to a law en-

stopped a motor vehicle for speed-ing on Route 22A in Shoreham. Police cited the driver, 40-year-old Todd Norris of Bridport, for pos-session of marijuana.

Huestis, 38, of Burlington for pos-session of marijuana as a result of a car stop on March 28. Other charg-

the same incident were resisting ar-rest and violation of conditions of release.

-sponded to a complaint of a bur-glary and theft from a Maple Street home in Waltham. Anyone with in-formation is asked to contact VSP.

were told of the theft of sneakers and glasses from a motor vehicle on Elder Hill Road in Lincoln. It is estimated the theft occurred be-tween 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. that day. Anyone with information is asked to contact VSP.

the theft of two game cameras tak-en from the woods behind a Lake Street home in Addison sometime in the past three or four weeks. Anyone with information is asked to contact VSP.

report of the theft of sugaring equipment from Quaker Street in Lincoln. The victim reported his vacuum pump system was stolen sometime after 2 a.m. on Monday. Anyone with information is asked to contact VSP.

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LINCOLN — At the Lincoln His-torical Society Museum, the cupola previously donated by the Parker family is enclosed and the old church bell previously in the Baptist church (which was where the present church

road at the museum. Thanks to Pete Mikkelsen and Jeremy Perfect, these projects have been completed.Work is still in progress on dis-

playing artifacts in the barn. Hope-fully, work on the south side of the barn will be done this summer and work on the north side of the barn

The museum will be open from noon-4 p.m. the second and fourth Sundays in June through the second Sunday of October.Saturday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. at

Burnham Hall, the Grift will play an acoustic pop/rock show. It is part of the 2012-2013 Burnham Music Se-ries.The Lincoln Library holds a pro-

gram on the second Wednesday of each month at 10 a.m. for anyone who considers themself a senior citizen. Refreshments are served

talk. Folks of all ages are welcome. We hope to see you there. You may

out what the April talk is to be about.The Lincoln Library has two

monthly subscriptions to magazines on woodworking: Wood and Wood-working. Both are donated and circu-late, just like a book, for three weeks. We also have many books on do-it-yourself projects.The Addison County Young Life

dessert banquet will be held Monday, April 8, at 7 p.m. at the Vergennes Opera House. For more information, call the Rev. Wood at 453-7071.There is a spaghetti dinner at St.

Ambrose Church in Bristol on Fri-day, April 12, from 5-7 p.m.

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LEICESTER — The Leicester se-lectboard is looking for a resident to act as a lister until next March. Du-

training and assisting with clerical duties. The bulk of the work is done

by a professional appraiser. Pay is $12 per hour. For more information,

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Broadcast from the Royal AcademyMANET: PAINTING LIFE

A video tour of the block-buster sold-out exhibition now on view in London, with

commentary from art historians. The first of three broadcasts from major exhibits

around the world.

Friday 4/19 8pm $17/$10 students

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ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

Vol. 2 No. 53

Middlebury, Vermont Thursday, January 13, 2011 34 Pages

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ADDISON COUNTYINDEPENDENT Vol. 22 No. 50 Middlebury, Vermont Monday, January 17, 2011 32 Pages 75¢

MONDAY EDITION

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Senior sews for charity

How to pay for energy upgrades

Rink cycle: Local teams host games

Film assassin is calibrated for cool Picturing ups and downsAt-risk youths, outreach groups, artist collaborate on exhibit

Aldermencool to new commission2009 city plan requires a conservation board

Students get crash course in business

(See Crash course, Page 25)

(See Exhibit, Page 7)

(See Vergennes, Page 20)

By ANDY KIRKALDYVERGENNES — Members of the

Vergennes City Council at their Jan.

11 meeting said they were skeptical of

the possible creation of a Vergennes

conservation commission, which

some said might create an unwanted

layer of bureaucracy. However, the municipal plan

aldermen adopted in September

2009 calls for one to be established.Aldermen took up the discussion

at their meeting last week at the

request of planning commission

chairwoman Alex McGuire. She

did not have a hand in creating the

plan or adopting its conservation

commission language, but said she

backed the concept.Aldermen were facing a deadline.

Per Vermont law, only town voters

can establish a conservation

commission — although aldermen

would appoint its volunteer members Vergennes warning for March’s city

meeting is approaching quickly. City Manager Mel Hawley ac-

By J.P. ALLENMIDDLEBURY — Everyone’s

life has ups and downs: moments

of triumph or defeat, of hope or

despair.Twelve Vermont youths (including

some from Addison County) with

opportunity to transform heightened

moments from their own lives into

works of art. The result is the HighLow Project,

an exhibit of pairs of photographs

— created in collaboration with

professional photographer Ned

Castle — accompanied by audio

narrations that re-enact “high”

and “low” points in the lives of

young adults who have received

services from the Vermont Coalition

of Runaway & Homeless Youth

Programs (VCRHYP).In one pair of photos, for example,

By ANDREA SUOZZOMIDDLEBURY — For 16

Middlebury College students, the

average weekday this January

includes studying neuroscience,

selling books, learning to haggle,

doing market research for a local

dairy farm and meeting an ex-CIA

spy.Their MiddCORE course isn’t

targeted for those students who are

hoping to get out on the ski slopes

often during the one-class J-term

semester. Instead, they spend at least

eight hours each weekday learning

about business and entrepreneurship

through guest speakers and

competitive challenges.CORE stands for creativity,

opportunity, risk and entrepreneurship

— skills important for the business

world that are not often taught in other

Middlebury College classrooms.

PHOTOGRAPHER NED CASTLE holds a portrait from a new exhibit, the HighLow Project, that depicts Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Reduce, Reuse&Recycle

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Dining

‘Ginger and Rosa’ has first-rate acting

MovieReviewBy Joan Ellis

Ginger and Rosa;; Run-ning time: 1:30;; Rating: PG-13“Ginger and Rosa” is a

serious movie that is al-most, though not quite,

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EDOUARD MANET’S “LE Chemin de Fer” (“The Railroad”) is among more than 50 of the artist’s paintings recently exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. A screening of the exhibit, titled “Manet: Portray-ing Life,” will be broadcast at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on Thurs-day, April 18, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Get up close

to Manet art

exhibit at

Midd’s THT

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EDDY FARM SUMMERHORSEBACK RIDINGPROGRAM

At Eddy Farm every experience

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ence. Throughout the week camp-

ers learn the importance of safety,

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able staff. When not in the saddle,

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Summer Camps NEWS

SalisburyHave a news tip?

Call Mary Burchard

at 352-4541

SALISBURY — The Salisbury Congregational Church has changed the dates for the spring rummage sale;; it will now be held on Friday, May 3, and Saturday, May 4, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. People wishing to make donations of items may call Nancy at 352-4375 or Gloria at 388-6260 to arrange drop-off.Everyone is invited to see Helene

Lang’s portrayal of Dorothy Can-

7 p.m. in the church. Dorothea, who called herself Dorothy when she en-tered college, was born in Kansas and spent summers in Arlington, Vt. Following her college education, she married John Fisher and they made Arlington their home. Dorothy wrote many books during her lifetime in-cluding novels, children’s books and

education and served on both the Vermont Board of Education and the American Youth Commission. This program, sponsored by the Salisbury Free Public Library, is one of many programs available through the Ver-mont Humanities Council.Residents are reminded that the

again this year by April 15. The form is included in the Vermont state tax booklet or can be downloaded from the computer.On Sunday, April 14, the Salis-

bury Volunteer Fire Department will hold a pancake breakfast at the community school from 8 to 11 a.m. Tickets are available from members of the department or at the door.

while enjoying great food.The Salisbury school is collecting

gently used or new children’s books for use in the summer reading pro-gram. Books for children through grade 8 may be brought to the school anytime during the month of April.

NEWS

W. AddisonHave a news tip? Call

Elizabeth Armstrong

at 759-2392

WEST ADDISON — Please re-member the Addison Crime Watch meeting is set for April 11 at 6:30 p.m. It is at the Addison Community School. There has been continuing activity around town with criminal activity. To avoid break-ins every-one is asked to “call if you see it.” Our community has seen increased patrols by the Addison County Sher-iff’s Department and the Vermont State Police, and arrests have been made.

ADDISON COUNTY

School BriefsAshley Meacham of New Haven, a

freshman at Mt. Ida College, has quali-

Zone 1, Region 4, Regional Champi-onships in the Over Fences and Equita-tion divisions. She is a member of the Mt. Ida equestrian team.A graduate of Middlebury Union

High School, Meacham is pursuing a business degree with a specialization in equine management.

Andrew Myhre, the son of Ste-phen and Cindy Myhre of Middle-bury, has been named to the honor roll for the fall 2012 semester at Til-ton School in Tilton, N.H.

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port has seven miles of Lake Cham-

plain shoreline.

“That 250-foot setback takes in my

driveway,” said Bridport resident Bill

Keyes. “So I guess I’m gonna break

some laws. I’m going to mow my

lawn and cut down a tree if need be

… and at 84 years old you won’t con-

vince me otherwise. It’s my property

yet. It’s old family property.”

Several people also expressed con-

cern about a clause in the bill that pro-

tected the shoreline according to “the

greatest public good,” which some

considered vague language.

“It seems to me the state is overstep-

ping its bounds,” said Adam Brough-

ton, also of Bridport. “We know how

to take care of the shoreline better than

you do.”

Rep. Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes,

reiterated that all lawmakers at the

meeting broadly support measures

designed to protect the lake and clean

water, though she heard and under-

stood those concerns.

“There’s also an economic impact,”

Lanpher said, citing a week last sum-

mer when pollution from phosphorous

runoff caused many Lake Champlain

beaches to be shut down for a week,

putting homeowners who rely on sum-

mer rentals in a perilous situation in

years to come.

Rep. Harvey Smith,

R-New Haven, encour-

aged those concerned to

put pressure on their state

senators, who will likely

make adjustments to the

bill that cleared the House

hits the governor’s desk.

Still, Keyes and others

seemed less than reassured

by the prospect of relying

on other lawmakers.

“I don’t know who

dreamed up that law,”

Keyes said. “Probably someone who

lives atop a mountain and never sees

Lake Champlain. But I think we ought

to have a course, probably a six-week

course, for legislators and the presi-

dent and everyone on common sense.

It’d take that much time to sink in.”

Corey Pratt, whose family owns

Pratt’s Store in Bridport, expressed

concern about the tax package that

passed in the House last week. It

would charge sales tax on items pre-

viously exempt like candy, soda and

bottled water.

Aside from expressing concern that

the new taxes would drive business

across the lake to New York, Pratt said

the new measures would be confusing

to his employees. He also saw the bill

as symptomatic of larger issues.

“My concern is that there’s a greater

obesity in this state than people who

partake in candy, or any sugar items,”

Pratt told those gathered at

the meeting. “And that is

the budget. I think there’s

a lot more places that in-

stead of taxing us more,

responsible — to curb

what money we’re spend-

ing before we try to take

it off the backs of (all the

items) that we’re taxing.”

Rep. Dave Sharpe, D-

bill did not increase taxes

but rather removed an ex-

isting tax exemption.

Joe Gleason of Bridport brought up

the issue of wheat, which he believed

had more adverse health impacts than

sugar products.

At the close of the robust luncheon,

Addison County Sen. Chris Bray, a

Democrat, said that while legislators

often found themselves in the “hot

seat” at meetings like this, he encour-

aged all citizens to be actively in touch

with their representatives on the issues

that matter to them.

“(It’s these) stories from home …

that help shape legislation,” Bray said. legislative lunch in Bridport.

BILL KEYES, LEFT, of Bridport listens to a response from Rep.

legislative lunch in Bridport.Independent photos/Trent Campbell

“It seems to me the state is overstepping its bounds. We know how to take care of the shoreline better than you do.”

— Adam Broughton

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VERGENNES — Between March 25 and 31, Vergennes police dealt with several drug incidents, the al-leged theft of a large sum of cash from a Northlands Job Corps locker, and a domestic assault case at the John Graham Emergency Shelter. In that seven-day time frame, city

police:

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a civilly suspended license, ticketed her for possessing drug parapherna-

to investigate whether it was stolen property.

parked on and leaking oil onto North Street to be towed.

dog on Monkton Road and took it to

two-car accident on School Street.

man to the Counseling Service of

cited Mason Burroughs of Crown Point, N.Y., for possession of alleg-

-ing the theft of about $1,800 from a Northlands student’s locker.

Pendleton, 45, of Middlebury for

driving with a civilly suspended li-cense after responding to a report of a suspicious car on First Street.

domestic assault in front of a child and lodged him at the Chittenden County Correctional Center;; police allege Welch punched his girlfriend with her 2-year-old child present.

to a Middlebury resident;; as of Mon-day police were still searching for the individual.

State Police at a drunk-driving checkpoint in Shoreham.

-cident on Main Street near the Small City Market in which an empty car rolled across the street and struck a parked car.

-ter receiving a report that a woman was performing a sex act on a man in public. Police talked to the two

Northlands students involved and re-turned them to the campus.

30 empty heroin bags, syringes and spoons found on School Street.

-bag found on School Street to its owner.

failed to show up for a class;; police found the student heading home and took the student there.

about illegal drug activity in the Ver-gennes area.

-ment Drug Recognition Expert to help Middlebury police;; city police said the DRE determined a driver

-dison County Sheriff’s Department at a Panton Road, Panton, vehicle search;; police said heroin was found.

that two people were dealing drugs on the city green, but found no one upon arrival.

for violating the restrictions on his

must have someone in the car with him when he drives, and that on the 31st and on an earlier occasion he did not.

Police LogVergennes

City police busy with drug incidents

Police LogMiddlebury

THIS BARRED OWL has been seen often by Linda Dempsey at her home in Lincoln off and on this win-

Police LogBristol

Police investigate embezzlement caseweek cited an employee of Cham-plain Farms for embezzlement from

Street business.-

activity related to sales transactions

on March 22 handed the results to the Bristol Police Department. Po-lice Chief Kevin Gibbs said it was

worth more than $5,000 was unac-counted for.

-ing using closed circuit surveillance video footage from the store, Bristol police cited Jeffrey Keith Wallace, 42, of Essex Junction for embezzle-ment.Gibbs said he has additional leads

and suspects, and his investigation

is asked to contact Bristol police at 453-2533.In other recent activity, Bristol po-

lice:

School to serve a truancy notice to a police district resident whose child was still failing to attend school reg-

with a parent.

Upon approach police observed a

toward the old high school building. Investigation revealed at least two of

case remains open.

called to a Main Street apartment to

performing a search, police cited Debra Elizabeth Foley, 42, for pos-

conditions of release. Foley has two prior charges pending for posses-sion.

-vestigated a report that someone had

$20 in gasoline. The driver reported that it was accidental.

-sponded to a two-vehicle crash

from Middlebury and the other from

crash resulted when the Starksboro woman failed to notice the Middle-bury woman making a turn onto

towed due to damage. The Middle-bury woman was transported to

checked at the scene by the Bris-

court action is planned.

by at a Bristol residence while await-ing counseling help for a local per-son.

Man cited for domestic assaultpolice cited Dennis Bonnin, 32, of Middlebury for domestic assault, following an incident at a John Gra-ham Court residence on March 31. Police said that Bonnin is alleged to have struck a woman in the head.

Marble Valley Correctional Center, according to police.In other action last week, Middle-

bury police:-

bance at a Seminary Street residence on March 25.

March 25 on a person not wanted at a North Pleasant Street residence.

-one had stolen some clothing from

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workers with an intoxicated patron

-plaints at a South Pleasant Street residence on March 28.

simple assault in connection with an incident at Middlebury Union Mid-dle School on March 28.

two Foster Circle neighbors on March 28.

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ing order on a person who was not

-ence, following a stop at McDon-ald’s Restaurant on Court Street on

break-in on Mill Street on March

deal in the Seminary Street area

had left when police arrived on the scene.

-one had written some obscene

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-one had slashed tires on two ve-hicles parked at the John Graham Court complex on March 30.

Correctional Center, a very drunk -

pin Road on March 30.

woman who had driven onto the sidewalk off Washington Street on

March 30. Police said the woman had ingested three sleeping pills.

March 31. Police said no shots had

made the report was referred to mental health counseling.

-ant Street on March 31. Police said the man left prior to their arrival.

-ing for a Cross Street residence on March 31.

-picious person in the Court Street Extension area on March 31.

-perwork to a drunken, underage Middlebury College student who allegedly ran away from college

-non Street area on March 31.

-lence complaint at a Case Street residence on March 31. Police said two people allegedly involved in the three-person dispute were taken to a motel for the night.

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LUCY GROVES

This Week: Writer of the

Month for March

Each month, Young Writers Proj-ect selects a Writer of the Month for Addison County. This week, we present the Writer of the Month for

contest sponsor, The Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St., Middlebury. Congratulations, Lucy!

In Lucy’s words: “I’m in seventh grade at Middlebury Union Middle School. I get my inspiration from my friends who like to write as well. The thing that got

was reading books by some of my favor-ite writers, including Mark Twain, J.K. Rowling and Eoin Colfer. I have always enjoyed reading and writing my own po-etry and short stories. Besides writing, I also enjoy playing guitar and spending time with my friends.”About the Project

Young Writers Project is an indepen-

and connects them with authentic audiences through the Newspaper Series (and youngwritersproject.org) and the Schools Project (yw-pschools.net). Support: YWP is supported by this newspaper and foundations, businesses and individuals who recognize the power and value of writing. If you would like to contribute, please go to youngwritersproject.org/support, or mail your donation to YWP, 12 North St., Suite 8, Burlington, VT 05401. Special thanks this week to Main Street LandingNews

YWP announces a new writing challenge: The Farm Project. Win-

of their choice. See the contest details and writing prompts at young-writersproject.org. Due Friday, April 12. Sponsored by the Vermont Community Foundation’s Food and Farm Initiative.Next prompt

Dislike. Write about something that disgusts you, no matter how wrong, distasteful or awkward it is. Alternate: One thousand peas. Write a fairy tale that includes the phrase, “one thousand peas.” Due April 12.

The Streets Are Full of ElephantsBy LUCY GROVES

Grade 7, Middlebury Union Middle School

The streets are full of elephantsOh, what a sight to seeThe streets are full of elephantsBut there isn’t one for meThere’s a pink one and a green oneAnd one that’s striped and blueThere’s even one with polka dots But there isn’t one for you

What We Leave BehindBy LUCY GROVES

Grade 7, Middlebury Union Middle School

I suppose it happens to all of us. We are born, we live, we die.A few generations later, nothing is left besides our life’s

creations, whatever they may be.A book, a piece of art, or even just a few pieces of paper.No one left to care. UnlessYou can be rememberedFor the lives you touched,For those you helped,And for the smiles you left on others’ faces.

County students make RPI dean’s listTROY, N.Y. — The

following area students have been named to the dean’s list at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for the fall 2012 semester:Christine Artim of Middlebury,

James Buchwald of New Haven,

Gavin Greenewalt of Shoreham, Jessie May-nard of Orwell, Adam Peterson of Middle-bury, Andrew Schumer

of Middlebury, and John Swanson of North Ferrisburgh.

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ly few residents who are uninsured

or reporting poor health, obesity or

physical inactivity;; relatively fewer

children living in poverty;; and better

than average access to primary care

physicians and recreation facilities.

The county is notably out of the

top 10 percent in excessive drinking,

access to dentists, and percentage of

fast-food restaurants.

Full data and an ex-

planation of the study’s

design may be found at

www.countyhealthrank-

ings.org/rankings/data.

According to the web-

site, “The rankings il-

lustrate what we know

when it comes to making

people sick or healthy.

The County Health

critical role that factors

such as education, jobs,

income and the environ-

ment play in how healthy

people are and how long

we live.”

The study comes in

conjunction with what

RWJF and UWPHI call

“County Health Road-

maps,” which the web-

site states, “show what

we can do to create

healthier places to live,

learn, work and play”

and offer grants and

“guidance on develop-

ing strategies and advo-

cacy efforts to advance

pro!health policies, op-portunities for ongoing

learning, and a search-

able database of evidence!informed policies and programs focused on

health improvement.”

Although the RWJF and UWPHI

rankings do not attempt to compare

individual counties on a national

basis except to that benchmark stan-

dard, another study released in De-

cember claimed Vermont overall

was the nation’s healthiest state.

United Health Foundation, which

has conducted health rankings for

the last 23 years, made that claim

late last year and said that Vermont

has stood atop its rankings for four

found at www.americashealthrank-

ings.org/Rankings.

According to the foundation’s

website, the state scores well for a

high rate of high school graduation,

a low violent crime rate, a low in-

cidence of infectious disease, a low

prevalence of low birth-

weights, high per capita

public health funding,

a low rate of uninsured

residents, and ready

availability of primary

care physicians.

But that study also

notes some weak points:

Vermont has “a high

prevalence of binge

drinking at 18.5 percent

of the adult population,

a moderate occupa-

tional fatalities rate at

3.9 deaths per 100,000

workers, and a moder-

ately high cancer death

rate at 185.0 deaths per

100,000 population.”

COUNTY STUDY

DETAILS

The RWJF/UWPHI

rankings are based on

what the study calls

“health outcomes” and

“health factors.”

Addison County leads

Vermont in health out-

comes according to the

report, in which “mor-

tality” (life span) and

“morbidity” (general

illness) are weighted

equally.

The study measures mortality by

it by years lost per 100,000 people

for those who perish before the age

of 75. Addison County’s number is

below both the state average and na-

tional benchmark.

Morbidity is measured by a sur-

vey of those who report poor or fair

health (10 percent in Addison Coun-

ty), poor physical health days (2.9

per month on average) and mental

health days (3.2 per month), and low

birthweight (5.4 percent of county

infants).

Those percentages are lower than

the state average and national bench-

mark, while the physical and mental

health day numbers are better than

the state average, but a little higher

than the 10 percent or better national

benchmark.

The county is third in the state in

“Health Factors,” and within that

category is second in “Health Behav-

iors,” sixth in “Clinical Care,” third

in “Social & Economic Factors” and

12th in “Physical Environment.”

Notable within “Health Behav-

iors” are:

-

cent) that is about the same as the

state average (17 percent), but short

of the national 10 percent or bet-

ter benchmark (13 percent smoking

rate).

percent) that equals the state rate and

betters the national benchmark (21

percent).

percent) that roughly equals the state

rate (19) but more than doubles the

benchmark (7 percent).

compared to 19 per 1,000 in Ver-

mont and the national benchmark of

21 per 1,000.

In “Clinical Care,” the county

scores well in the numbers of un-

insured residents (10 percent), of

Medicare patients who receive

health screenings in two categories,

and of primary care doctors (944-1,

compared to 931-1 statewide and

But Addison County scores less

well in preventable hospital stays

(55 per 1,000 Medicare patients)

compared to the state average (51)

and the national benchmark (47),

and in a high ratio of dentists to

state (1,727) and the benchmark

In “Social & Economic Factors,”

Addison:

-

ployment percentage (5 percent) and

beats the state number in that catego-

-

dren living in poverty (14 percent)

and beats the benchmark in that cat-

percent) and benchmark (14 percent)

in the “inadequate social support”

category (15 percent), which mea-

sures seniors living without family

support.

County results are mixed in the

“children in single parent house-

holds” category, which the study

says it measures because statisti-

cally both parents and children in

such homes face more health issues.

Addison’s rate is 27 percent, better

than the state’s percentage (30), but

higher than the benchmark (20).

In “Physical Environment,” where

Addison is 12th out of 14 counties,

the county gets high marks for ac-

cess to healthy foods and recreation

facilities and its air quality.

But the county gets demerits for

“drinking water safety,” apparently

because of testing problems for mu-

nicipal water systems, and for the

percentage of its restaurants that

serve fast food (41 percent, per the

study), compared to 31 percent state-

wide and a 27 percent benchmark.

Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at [email protected].

Healthy(Continued from Page 1A)

Leicester schedules re-voteon school spending planLEICESTER — Residents here will

return to the polls on Tuesday, April 9,

to vote on a revised spending plan for

the Leicester School District.

The school board is proposing a re-

year 2013-14. That represents a spend-

current year.

-

jected by voters on Town Meeting Day

spending plan would have raised the

The Leicester School Board has cut

just under $10,000 from the original

budget in administrative salaries and

costs associated with the vacant school

the future at a lower salary.

The revised proposal would raise

the residential tax rate from $1.32 to

$1.39, or about a penny less than the

prior proposed budget.

An informational meeting will be

held at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 8, in

the Leicester Meeting House. Resi-

dents will vote on April 9 from 10 a.m.

MIDDLEBURY — Why do we

associate breasts with women and

muscled forearms with men? Why

do we think six-pack abs are mas-

culine and carefully manicured nails

are feminine? Are we the sum of our

body parts? Who decides what our

body parts mean? These and other

questions about our bodies guide the

2013 Gensler Family Symposium on

Feminism in a Global Context to be

held at Middlebury College during

the week of April 8-12.

Through an array of events —

screening, formal presentations

— this year’s symposium, titled

“Body Parts,” explores how some

body parts come to stand in for our

sexed and gendered identities. We

will be exploring these questions

from a variety of disciplinary per-

spectives such as biology, literature

and theology. The formal presenta-

tions include renowned scholars

from the University of Michigan,

Johns Hopkins University, Uni-

versity of Massachusetts-Amherst

and other schools. The events are

spread out over the week of April

8-12 and include student perspec-

tives.

Feminism symposium starts April 8

According to the foundation’s website, the state scores well for a high rate of high school graduation, a low violent crime rate, a low incidence of infectious disease, a low prevalence of low birthweights, high per capita public health funding, a low rate of uninsured residents, and ready availability of primary care physicians.


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that trip.It’s a fundraiser that grew from

a longstanding DO sci-ence project, Olsen ex-plained. The class had been studying barn owls and what they like to eat. The program acquired a starter colony of tiny der-mestid beetles to clean

carcasses of rodents and other typical owl prey and compare those skeletons to the bones regurgitated by owls, to ascertain the birds’ typical diet.Zack Saxe, an avid hunter and

teaching assistant with the DO pro-gram, saw the revenue potential in

the insatiable insects.“I pretty much knew that if we

could get the word out, guys would pay less than they would to have it done by the pro-fessional (taxidermists), and get it done right here by the local high school,”

product is quite durable and can double as a hat rack, he added. European mounts are also popular among youth hunters, who can get a lower-cost

deer that might not have a huge rack.

“It’s an instant memory of them harvesting that deer,” Saxe said.So the group tried a few European

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Beetles(Continued from Page 1A) mounts on a trial basis, and they

turned out well, according to Olsen. And since they already had a grow-ing colony of beetles, they decided to take on more mount work. With permission, members of the DO pro-gram posted a sign at Vermont Field Sports saying, “Vermont Skulls — Fund Raiser.”Greg Boglioli, manager of Ver-

mont Field Sports, told his hunter clients that the service was good quality and would help out local special education programming.The interest was immediate and

has been building, Olsen noted. The DO class has completed around a dozen European mounts during the past year, up from eight the year be-fore. And at around $100 per mount, the class has been able to almost completely underwrite its Roches-

mount program. The students also make birdhouses to raise additional revenues.“I think we are getting better and

better at it,” Olsen said.The beetles do their eating in a

shed at Olsen’s home. He said the colony is large enough that it can

in around a week. The students do the bleaching on campus. Students paint the bleaching solution onto the skulls then bake them for around two hours. They then wash the skulls and reattach, with glue, any teeth or small bones that might have become loose or disengaged.Hunters have submitted bear,

moose and wild boar as well as deer for the mount service.“It’s quite a bit of work,” Olsen

said.Clearly, the work is paying off.

product) knows they’re getting a good product,” Boglioli said.He explained the work being done

by Olsen and his students is better than the hunters could do themselves and considerably cheaper than what most professionals charge for the European mount.“And I think guys will pay (for the

students to do it) because it’s a good cause,” Boglioli said. “It’s a win-win for everybody.”Clifford Bell, 18, is one of the DO

students who is helping make the European mounts.“I think it’s interesting,” he said.

“I think it looks cool.”

“And I think

guys will

pay (for the

students

to do it)

because

it’s a good

cause. It’s a

win-win for

everybody.”

— Greg Boglioli

Bio-methane (Continued from Page 1A)

gas as well as important agricultural byproducts. The three methane di-gesters would separate the manure into solids that could be used as low-cost cow bedding, while the liquid residue would be stripped of much of its phosphorous and the unpleasant odor and used as fertilizer.

-sitive disposal option for food waste for businesses, such as potentially the Agri-Mark/Cabot cheese plant in Mid-dlebury.“There is a net ben-

farm community,” said

Dan Smith. “We’re hope-ful that everything will come together.”But the plan — which

will require multiple permits — is generating concerns from some area neighbors, particularly those on Shard Villa and Creek roads. That’s because plans call for EIS to contract with oth-er area farms for additional manure to meet the biogas demand, something neighbors fear will add a lot of large vehicles with smelly cargoes to roads they say are quite narrow and cur-rently actively used by pedestrians and bikers.“No matter what road they use, it’s

going to take a beating,” said Salis-bury resident Barrie Baily, who lives on Leland Road, a southern extension of Shard Villa Road.They’re also concerned about a

4-inch pipeline that EIS would hire Vermont Gas Systems to install from the Goodrich Farm and within the public rights-of-way along Shard Villa Road, Three Mile Bridge Road and Creek Road to ultimately connect

in Middlebury. Vermont Gas hopes to bring the pipeline to Middlebury’s Exchange Street area by next year and then fan out into other sections of

1A).Salisbury residents were scheduled

to meet at their local school Wednes-day evening, after the deadline for the Addison Independent, to discuss the EIS/Goodrich Farm proposal, which has been on the drawing board for around six years. A previous incarna-tion of the plan called for the biogas to be shipped by tanker trucks to a central receiving station near the Mid-dlebury College campus. But Smith ultimately reasoned that the Addi-

logical conduit to get the biogas to the college. He will seek approval from

hire Vermont Gas to install the 4-inch line from the Goodrich Farm to its tie-in with the new pipeline.Vermont Gas spokesman Steve

the route of the 4-inch line will be able to tap into it at no cost, provided they are within 100 feet. The compa-ny would be willing to negotiate with homeowners located more than 100 feet away.

Smith said the three methane di-gesters will be above-ground, stain-less steel tanks imported from Europe. He said each will be around 100 feet in diameter and approximately 20 feet high. He said he is prepared to paint the tanks any neutral color the town and neighbors want in order to make them as unobtrusive as possible.Once the methane is separated

from the manure and food waste, it would be sent through a “gas upgrade plant,” en-dowed with a 40-foot-tall stack, to strip out car-bon dioxide and impuri-ties. The resulting biogas would be sent through the 4-inch pipeline and would eventually be commingled

-ing through the Addison

Middlebury College has tentatively agreed to a 10-year contract with EIS to receive the biogas.“It will go to our central heating

plant to make steam that heats the campus and generates electricity,” said Jack Byrne, director of the col-

-gration. “It will make the steam and electricity produced here even green-er.”Added Byrne: “It will be a net ben-

-munity.”NEIGHBOR CONCERNSNeighbors, however,

are apprehensive about the project for several reasons. Their concerns include the appearance of the facility, and the prospect of seeing

manure- and food-waste-bearing trucks streaming back and forth within the rural neighborhood.Bailey said Shard Villa

Road already sees a lot of truck trips associated with crop, dairy and feed opera-tions at the Goodrich Farm and its other nearby prop-erties. Then there is the

joggers and bike tours that cling to the scant shoulders of the road.“It’s intense,” she said of the traf-

evening.She and other neighbors argued

that the facility would be best suited for Middlebury’s industrial park, or perhaps more toward the northern end of Shard Villa Road.Smith estimates an additional four

to six additional trucks in the neigh-borhood each day as a result of the project. These would be manure tank-ers and regular dump trucks, he said. They would be equipped with regular road tires and not the wider, noisier

-ated with manure trucks, according to Smith.“They will be less intrusive,” he

said of the trucks.He said he is prepared to talk to

delivery trucks could take on local roads. Smith has lined up around four farms thus far as potential providers of manure for the digesters.Bailey wonders what the town of

Middlebury’s reaction would be if some of the manure trucks started making trips through the downtown en route to the Goodrich Farm. Smith said he does not anticipate trucks will travel through downtown Middle-bury.Salisbury resident Brennan Mi-

chaels and her family travel Shard Villa Road just about every day and have lived in the neighborhood for years. She said she is one of around 15 neighbors with concerns and ques-tions about the project, questions she hoped to see answered at Wednesday night’s meeting.She stressed that she doesn’t know

anyone who is opposed to the meth-ane digesters. Rather, people are con-cerned about where those devices would be placed, according to Mi-chaels.Shard Villa Road is already a chal-

lenge for bikers when trying to share

Michaels said. Add more trucks and it could result in bikers and pedestri-ans being pushed onto road shoulders containing ledge and rocks, according to Michaels, who also voiced con-

cerns about potential odor and noise from the large vehicles.She and other neighbors

are also concerned that the biogas operation might expand if it proves suc-cessful, thus potentially

bio-methane digester-re-lated infrastructure.Heidi Willis lives on

Shard Villa Road. She, too, is concerned about

and odor, but added she is willing to put up with some inconvenience in or-der to further the cause of renewable energy devel-opment in the county.“I think we need to do

what we can to get off fossil fuels;; we don’t have a lot of time,” Willis said. “We have to balance out our (energy) choices, and those choices are nar-rowing.”Willis likes the fact that the EIS

plan would keep the Goodrich Farm and other farms in agriculture, help the college reduce its carbon foot-print, reduce the phosphorous content of manure that might otherwise get into the state’s waterways, and pro-duce cow bedding and fertilizer by-products.The operation will have to secure

Board and a local zoning permit in order to proceed, according to Smith.“I’m very sensitive to the concerns

that have been raised,” Smith said.

By the way(Continued from Page 1A)

you might be able to see the Tigers on the Internet. The bowl’s spon-sors announced this week that Northeast Sports Network will broadcast at least eight matches

on www.nesnsports.net. MUHS, which beat out 48 other squads from four New England states in a Scholars’ Bowl competition last

teams on Saturday. The action will

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When millions of fans are riveted to the NCAA Final Four basketball games, viewers will also catch the remarkable story of a Vermont ski racer who rebounded from tragedy to start a foundation for paralyzed athletes. The story of Middlebury College skier Kelly Brush Davis-son and the Kelly Brush Founda-tion, which she started after becom-ing paralyzed in a ski racing crash, will be featured on CBS during the NCAA Division I men’s basketball

air at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 6. Brush Davisson, 26, who grew up in Charlotte, is one of six former

of the NCAA/Buick Human High-

September the foundation holds a 100-mile bike ride starting in Mid-dlebury to raise money to help those with spinal cord injuries.

Congratulations to Vergennes resident Matteo Palmer who won the Grand Prize at the Vermont Has Talent competition last Sat-urday. Palmer, who played an original acoustic guitar piece, was one of 36 acts appearing at St. Michael’s College for the fourth annual competition. The VUHS

scholarship to the John Robert Powers Talent School in Boston, and will appear as a featured per-former in the Miss Vermont Schol-

Bixby Memorial Library Execu-tive Director Jane Spencer is remind-ing fans of the Vergennes library to save the evening of May 17 for the

recently set the date for the dinner, auction and fun, which will be held at the Basin Harbor Club. Find out more at www.BixbyGala.eventbrite.com.

-ment Section about scheduling energy audits with the Neighbor-Works HEAT Squad and wanted to follow up, you’ll want to know that we published the wrong phone number. The correct number is

as audits typically cost between

Edna Nahshon, a professor from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, will be in Middlebury Monday, April 8, to discuss the in-tersection of Jewishness and theater. She will deliver a lecture titled “The

Stage” at 7:30 p.m. at the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest, 531 College St. The public is wel-come.

study at any time.Residents of Brandon, Whiting

and Sudbury will be mailed a recruit-ment form from the Department of Health with information about the

only one clinic to attend.Blood samples will be sent to the

federal Centers for Disease Control for testing and results will come back to Vermont for data analysis.

available in eight to 12 months from the last clinic.The clinics are scheduled as fol-

lows:April 23, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Bran-

don Senior Center, 1591 Forest Dale

Road (Route 73).May 14, noon-7 p.m., Sudbury

Town Hall, 36 Blacksmith Lane.May 29, noon-7 p.m., Whit-

ing Town Hall, 29 South Main St. (Route 30).For more information, contact

Matthew Thomas at the Department of Health, 802-863-7240.

EEE testing(Continued from Page 1A)

“No matter

what road

they use, it’s

going to take

a beating.”

— Salisbury

resident

Barrie Baily

“I think we

need to do

what we

can to get off

fossil fuels;

we don’t

have a lot

of time …

We have to

balance out

our (energy)

choices,

and those

choices are

narrowing.”

— Neighbor

Heidi Willis

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