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Addison CountyBreast Cancer Awareness

Note from the EditorsOctober is national Breast Cancer Awareness Month

and millions of women and men around the country will unite to share stories and raise money to help

support research and aid to those affected by breast cancer.Here at the Addison Independent, we have joined in with

our Power of Pink column each Thursday this past month. Throughout October we have shared local stories, fundrais-ing efforts, events, and useful resources for those who are struggling with breast cancer or are close to someone who is.

Here we present an entire pink special section dedicated

to breast cancer awareness. Here we hope to “Harvest the Power of Pink,” helping spread awareness and build support for our friends, neighbors and family members fighting the disease.

- the Editors

Addison County

C — A special section of the Addison Independent, Thursday, October 31, 2013

Addison County Breast Cancer Awareness The Power of Pink

By CHRISTY LYNNMIDDLEBURY — Pat Da-

vies credits her life to tennis.Davies, currently a Middle-

bury resident, was first diag-nosed with breast cancer in the fall of 1995 when she was living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. She received the call from her gy-necologist, who let her know that a recent mammogram in-dicated that she had what they call ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, in her left breast.

DCIS is the presence of ab-normal cells inside the milk ducts of the breast and is considered the earliest phase of breast cancer. It is a non-invasive cancer, meaning it has not spread out of the duct to invade other parts of the breast tissue.

Davies and her doctors elected to perform a full mastectomy, removing her left breast. The surgery was completed three days before Christmas, 1995.

Davies is a life-long ath-lete. She came to Middle-bury College in 1956 largely drawn for the ski team, which at the time was one of the few co-ed sports teams. Her athletic interests shifted back to tennis when she moved to California in 1960 and be-gan training with tennis pro Tom Stowe. Davies had been playing tennis since she was young, and had been ranked number six in New England as a junior. She continued to play through college with professors and other friends, but with no women’s team she hadn’t received the for-mal coaching she was look-ing for.

Davies’ skills advanced quickly as she trained and she started competing and coach-ing herself in the late 1960s. Since that time she has been competing regionally, nation-ally and internationally as a senior (30 years old and old-er) and has achieved several international rankings.

When she was diagnosed with breast cancer she was in excellent physical condition

and credits her fast recovery largely to her overall good health.

“I was lucky at the time, with a non-invasive tumor that they were able to remove and send me on my way straight to recovery,” Davies said. She avoided chemotherapy and radiation — that time.

But then, in July of 1999, just a week after Davies won her age bracket at a regional tennis tour-nament in W i l l i a m -s t o w n , Mass., she was diag-nosed again.

By this time she and her second h u s b a n d , Doug, had moved back to Addison County. Da-vies was a patient of Dr. Maja Zimmerman, a family prac-tice doctor out of Addison Family Medicine, who dis-covered what felt like a tumor on Davies’ right breast during a routine visit.

“They took some pictures and nothing showed up,” Da-vies recalled, “but Dr. Zim-merman insisted that they perform an ultrasound and low and behold it was right there — clear as day.”

Doctors performed a fine needle biopsy on the tumor to find that it was indeed a malignant and invasive small tumor.

“Sure, I was scared,” Da-vies said, “everyone is scared, and unsettled. It’s a blow to anyone that is diagnosed with cancer.”

But Davies said she main-tained her focus on her fitness and tennis game, with the mindset that fitness could get her through.

“Throughout the whole process I kept repeating that if I could play a good game of tennis today then I’ll be alive the next.”

Davies sought advice from cancer experts at the Dana-

Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, but elected to have the surgery performed by Dr. Carl Petri, a local surgeon at Porter Medical Center.

The procedure was called a sentinel lymph node biopsy and was a very new procedure for Petri and his team at the time. The goal was to target the sentinel lymph node, re-move it, and identify whether the cancer was spreading to

other lymph nodes or not through a positive/n e g a t i v e s c r e e n i n g test.

In Da-vies’ case, there were 27 posi-tive lymph n o d e s , w h i c h meant a far

more invasive procedure than had been originally expected, and it necessitated a course of chemotherapy followed by radiation.

“But I was still in excellent condition,” Davies said, “and throughout the process I tried to maintain my tennis and keep looking forward to the next day. I was actually able to play tennis right through chemotherapy and radiation. My outlook was to stay ac-tive and fit, so I just focused on that.”

Davies said that when she lost her hair during chemo-therapy she wore a ball cap. “I didn’t really care,” she said, “I was still playing well, so the hair didn’t matter too much to me.”

Davies was also fortunate to be working with Colches-ter-based oncologist Dr. Chris Nunnink, who was an athlete himself and encouraged Da-vies to stay as fit and active as she could.

“I did have two setbacks that caused me to have to be rushed to the hospital, but generally I stayed pretty strong and was able to get myself through,” Davies re-

called. In March of 2000, Pat Da-

vies’ husband was diagnosed with severe liver cancer and told that he had approximate-ly three months to live.

“That was another setback,” Davies said. “We were now both battling a cancer and that was really difficult.”

However, with some life-style and diet changes in addi-tion to other alternative mea-sures to combat cancer, Doug Davies lived three years — long enough for them to en-joy several international trips together.

And Pat Davies also had to cope with her own cancer treatment.

“As I got into the bombard-ment — and it really was a bombardment — of chemo, by being active I was able to focus on something better. It propelled me along,” she said.

Following her exhaustive course of treatment Pat Da-vies was found cancer free.

“I think many of the doc-tors like to count me as one of the recoveries,” Davies said. “The truth was I have been very lucky, but it isn’t all about luck. I worked very, very hard on this recovery.”

Davies has gone on to be-come a volunteer with sev-eral cancer organizations in-cluding Reach to Recovery and Ride to Recovery, both programs sponsored by the American Cancer Society. She has walked in the Relay for Life event at Middlebury College, every year, and has taken part in several Susan G Komen Race for the Cure events.

In November of 2002 Da-vies organized a tennis tour-nament at Middlebury In-door Tennis called “Volley to Victory over Cancer.” The tournament raised more than $4,000, which was donated to the Vermont Cancer Net-work’s emergency funds.

Davies said that in her own road to recovery she was helped along by others who were ahead of her and could advise her along the way. She

was able to build her faith around others’ stories and also advise newly diagnosed patients on how they can also get through.

Other resources, including health and lifestyle guides such as Jane Plant’s “Your Life in Your Hands” and Co-lin Campbell’s “The China Study,” similarly guided Davies’ way, leading her to adopt a vegetarian diet and dairy-free diet.

“Cancer has changed my life completely,” Davies said, and it hasn’t all been easy. But with a pervasive interest in staying healthy and fit, it also isn’t that hard.

“Being a breast cancer sur-vivor is like being a part of a club that you don’t really want to be a part of, but it’s filled with very nice people that do need help,” Davies said. “Overall, I think I’m a better person now. I think I am more

compassionate, more under-standing, and more patient.”

And after all that, she stayed a darn good tennis player.

In 2004 Davies played at the international grass court championships and was the runner up in consultation in the women’s 65-plus division. At the time she was also rated number one in the 65-and-old age bracket in New England and was again rated nation-ally following a hard court tournament in California that same year. She was also still playing regularly as part of the Middlebury Indoor Tennis club.

Now, at 75, Davies com-petes less but is still playing tennis despite multiple hip replacements and revision surgeries. “Tennis has always been a driving source of mo-tivation for me, leading me through cancer as well as the rest of my life,” she said.

“Overall, I think I’m a better person now. I think I am more compassionate, more under-standing, and more patient.”

— Pat Davies

Pat Davies: taking cancer to courtMIDDLEBURY RESIDENT PAT Davies has been a USPTA tennis coach and competitive player since the 1960s. Davies credits her fitness and activity for her ability to fight through a

history of aggressive breast cancer.

PAT DAVIES, NOW 75, still plays and coaches tennis as well as maintains an overall active and healthy lifestyle. “Physical fitness is the key to getting through cancer,” Davies believes.

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“It was tough. There was a lot of anger at having it, then a coming to terms with it.”

— Yvon Pouliot

Breast cancer can strike men too: Just ask Yvon PouliotBy EVAN JOHNSON

MIDDLEBURY — Yvon Pouliot, facilities and opera-tions supervisor for the town of Middlebury, is a busy man with very little time to waste. As indicated by the whiteboard in his office, his schedule is filled every day, year-round. During the winter months, he’s on the move clearing sidewalks and walkways of snow and ice. In the spring he plants the gardens in town, in the summer he manages a park in East Middlebury and main-tains the fountain downtown and the town pool.

“Fall is the busiest,” he said. “With sports and so many other things falling on top of each other.”

With so much to be done, there is no room for breast cancer, not while he’s got so much to do.

And yet, in 2005, Pouliot was d i a g n o s e d with breast cancer.

T h e 5 8 - y e a r -old native Vermonter was born in Derby and grew up in Newport, the son of Canadian parents and the first of his seven siblings to be born in the United States. He moved south to Middlebury in 1975, and he said he immediately fell in love with the town. He was 19 and it was his first time on his own; he enjoyed the excite-ment. He went to sports games and events at the college and frequented the Alibi, a now-closed bar in Frog Hollow. Pouliot worked at the Ames Department store and as a painter until 1996, when the town hired him.

“I love it,” he said, speak-ing of his job. “There’s always different things to do. I’m not one for sitting around and letting time slowly crawl.”

Pouliot wasn’t one for sitting around in April 2005 either, when he found a lump under his right arm. Knowing that his older sister had been diag-nosed and treated for breast cancer two years earlier, he scheduled a doctor’s appoint-ment for the next day.

“I was pretty sure what it was,” he said.

The tumor was determined to be malignant. Within a week, he was set up for a surgery at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington.

The American Cancer Society reports that breast cancer is about 100 times less common among men than among women. For men, the lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is about 1 in 1,000. Doctors at Fletcher Allen

c o n d u c t e d tests to determine if cancer was h e r e d i t a r y in Pouliot’s family. The results were i n c o n c l u -sive. During his years of paint-

ing, he was using lead-based paints, a factor, he said, that may have contributed to his development.

“It was tough,” he said. “There was a lot of anger at having it, then a coming to terms with it.”

Pouliot underwent six weeks of radiation treatment every day, followed by five years of additional drug treat-ment, which caused some hair and memory loss.

“I was amazed at the people and the kids I would run into (who were also battling cancer), which really opened my eyes to the disease,” he said. “The kids were the toughest. I hadn’t seen kids having to go through that. A lot of the adults were accept-ing of it a lot better. It helped

me think more about what my sister had been through.”

Some cancer treatments involve quite aggressive procedures, which can be accompanied by some of the most intense side effects, including anemia, fatigue, hair loss, nausea and more. While undergoing treatment, Pouliot coached girls’ hockey at Middlebury Union High School. He said the team got him through some of the most difficult periods during his treatment.

“Probably the toughest part was the last year coaching the girls,” he said. “It was the year after I decided to go through with (the treatment) and we had a tough season, too, but the girls were very supportive. They knew to pick on me and keep my spirits up.”

Pouliot coached in the off-season as well, going to tour-naments in Lake Placid and competing against teams from around the Northeast as well as Canada. He said the prac-tices, games, and travel kept him motivated and in a posi-tive state of mind. Some of the players still live locally and he sees them occasionally.

Since being pronounced cancer-free in 2010, he has yearly checkups in Middlebury to monitor his status. The tests are uncomfortable and he said he finds the equip-ment uncomfortable, but all reports continue to rule him cancer-free.

GETTING A HOBBYDuring his treatment, he

also tied flies. As a fisher-man who prefers hand-tied flies over live bait and lures, Pouliot continued to tie on his own when his schedule for work and his treatment wouldn’t allow him to head out on the boat with his daughter and son-in-law. He copied flies he saw in books and made up his own.

“I would do most of them at night when it was quiet,” he

said. “And once I got started, I’d get going and think of another one. It was exciting and it’s a good getaway.”

The flies each took anywhere from five to 30 minutes to tie. He tied hundreds of them, so many that he can’t give an accu-rate count, but he estimated

somewhere in the range of 200 to 300.

“It was a good hobby,” he said. “It kept my mind busy, it kept my mind away from what I was going through and I still do it off and on. It’s something that I still enjoy doing.”

This past spring, Pouliot went fishing at a popular

fishing spot in Weybridge with his brother-in-law and nephew and used one of the flies he had tied. While the others caught smaller bass, he pulled in a massive brown trout. When asked how big it was, he held up his hands.

“It was this big,” he said. “Really, it was.”

ALTHOUGH BREAST CANCER is relatively rare in men, Yvon Pouliot was diagnosed with the disease in 2005. After feeling a lump, the Middlebury town facilities supervisory quickly made an appointment to have it diagnosed. After five years of treatment he was pronounced cancer free.

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Castimore of Waltham remem-bers the finish line in Hong Kong. In a stunning upset, the United States Dragon Boat team she was a part of flew over the finish line ahead of the Australians — the world cham-pions and favorites for the race — in the next lane.

“Our boats drifted after we crossed the finish line and everybody stopped,” she said. “The whole Australian boat — all 22 heads just whipped and they stared at us like, ‘Who are they? What’s a Vermont?’”

Who it was was Dragonheart Vermont, a breast cancer survivor and support club that has made a name for itself as the team from a landlocked state that brings some serious competition to dragon boat races on the open water. Dragon boat races pit teams of around

20 racers in long, thin boats that paddle a straight course in competitions with other dragon boats. The Dragonheart Vermont club, which competed so successfully in the International Dragon Boat Federation’s Club Crew World Championships in Hong Kong in 2012, concluded the 2013 season with four national titles and earned the distinction to represent the United States next year in Ravenna, Italy, at the International Dragon Boat Federation Championship.

At the U.S. Dragon Boat Federation Club Crew National Championships held Sept. 13-15 on Lake Mercer in West Windsor, N.J., Dragonheart Vermont took home four gold medals in races of 200, 500, 1,000 and 2,000 meters. Winning teams were the Dragonheart Vermont Sisters in the breast cancer survivor

division; the Dragonheart Green Mountain Girls in the women’s senior B division; Dragonheart Quicksilver in the senior C mixed division and the Dragonheart Senior Warriors in the women’s senior C division.

Linda Dyer, founder of Dragonheart Vermont and spokesperson for the breast cancer survivor team Dragonheart Vermont Sisters, said the four victories were well earned.

“To take six teams was a little exciting,” she said. “We knew our Sisters team was strong and ready to compete, but each of our teams rose to the occasion and gave their very best effort.”

The club, now boasting 175 members on six teams compet-ing in divisions at the recent championship, has been train-ing and competing since 2004. Dyer came to Vermont with her husband, Vermont Technical College basketball coach John Dyer, with the goal of starting a dragon boat racing team for other breast cancer survivors.

The club’s beginnings, John Dyer said, were modest.

“We were hailing people on the side of the bike path, trying to get them to help paddle our boat across to where we wanted to store it,” he said, describing the club’s earliest days, when the Dyers went to Boston to borrow the club’s first boat for the summer in Burlington. “That first year we were hoping just have something to start.”

By the end of that summer, membership increased to 50 and the club raised money to purchase its own boats.

This is the first year the club has had enough interest to organize a premier women’s team. A premier men’s team will begin next year.

Eugenie Doyle of Monkton is a breast cancer survivor and a paddler on the Dragonheart Sisters team. She joined after participating on a community team at the Lake Champlain

Dragon Boat Festival, an annual fundraising and memo-rial race organized by the club. Doyle described her participa-tion in the club and her work as a farmer, as “two different worlds.” The time when the teams practiced the most coin-cided directly with the growing season on the farm she and her husband operate in Monkton,

Vermont.“I’m a farmer,” she said. “So

my involvement was pretty low-key. I couldn’t get away much.”

Doyle said she was able to vmake more of a commit-ment when the club held a fundraising event called “Dragonharvest.” Local food producers donated products to

raise money for transportation to races.

“I felt like I could provide in both,” she said. “That was an occasion where I was able to combine those two worlds.”

She said she also received support from her family and the rest of the workers at the farm.

“Both my husband and my

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WALTHAM RESIDENT MARY ANN Castimore proudly displays the medal she won as part of the Dragonheart Vermont Dragon Boat racing team last month. The team is composed of breast cancer survivors.

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MEMBERS OF THE Dragonheart Vermont team, including Monkton resident Eugenie Doyle, celebrate their victory in the breast cancer survivor division at the U.S. Dragon Boat Federation Club Crew National Championships in New Jersey on Sept. 15.


By JOHN FLOWERS AND JOHN S. McCRIGHT

MIDDLEBURY — Sisters Hannah Zeno and Andrea Hubbell have for years worked at making other people look and feel better. Now they are able to work together at that task — at their new busi-ness, the Studio 7 Beauty Lounge, which opened on Merchants Row in downtown Middlebury earlier this year.

In addition to the traditional services of a beauty salon, Studio 7 is also offering some novel services one wouldn’t usually associate with a conventional beauty lounge or spa.

For example, Studio 7 offers the “Look Good, Feel Better” program that was conceived by the American Cancer Society. This is a program through which they help clients choose cosmetics and head covering options as they go through chemotherapy treatments. It takes about two hours to talk to people about

their skin care concerns, along with advice on scarves and/or wigs.

“It can be very emotional,” Zeno said of the program and the process of working with people battling serious illness.

Hubbell said that since the business opened the “Look Good, Feel Better” program has been running very well. They were happy offering the program at the Lodge at Otter Creek before Studio 7 opened, but Hubbell said that hosting cancer patients in the shop has been “really great.”

“One of the things you loose when you lose your hair is you can’t go to the salon,” she said. “Just being in the salon makes you feel really good.”

Hubbell and Zeno both bring professional back-grounds to their “Look Good, Feel Better” consul-tations. Hubbell earned her cosmetology degree in 1992 and then worked locally for seven years before opening her own salon in her home.

Zeno received her training in esthetics and waxing at The Salon Professional Academy. She continued her education in Boston, studying at the International Dermal Institute and Face Forward, where she received her professional Makeup Artist Certification.

Among the things they can offer are a choice of a few Pantene Beautiful Lengths wigs. These wigs are made from donated hair, like the Locks of Love wigs.

“They’re actually really nice and they’re made from human hair,” Hubbell said.

She pointed out that those going through chemo or radia-tion treatments often see their skin change, so the folks at Studio 7 offer advice and use of cosmetics during this period.

“We help them work on using makeup when you have no eyebrows or eyelashes,” Hubbell said.

The salon is hosting “Look Good, Feel Better” classes

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Fran Boglioli was enveloped by several emotions when she was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago. Along with the under-standable fear and trepi-dation, she felt a sense of isolation.

“Despite all of the people around me who cared and wanted to help, I felt very alone,” Boglioli recalled. “I think that’s a pretty common problem when you’ve been diagnosed with something like (cancer).”

So she began looking for people with similar diagno-ses, kindred spirits “who can relate to where you are and what it is you have to deal with to get better,” the East Middlebury resident said.

Boglioli was able to make contact with a variety of people facing similar health challenges.

“I really found that that helped,” she said. “There’s a sense of relief when you realize you’re not the only person who’s going through this, who’s having the same problems that you’re having, similar reactions to medica-tions or issues with treat-ment. People who haven’t had cancer or been close to someone with cancer, it’s hard for them to realize all the stuff that’s going through your mind.”

Her quest for fellow patients ultimately led her to a cancer survivor program called Kindred Connections, offered by the Vermont Cancer Survivor Network (VCSN), a grassroots nonprofit organization dedi-cated to improving the qual-ity of life for anyone living with, through and beyond cancer.

Kindred Connections consists of survivors who have been through cancer, are living with cancer, or are caregivers. They receive training to become good listeners and are empowered to reach out in their commu-nity to those who may need one-on-one social support. Kindred Connections volun-teers can also offer rides to doctors’ appointments, provide shopping assistance and lend a hand in other ways.

“I think this program can offer people a kind of support that they are not going to get from their friends, or their family, doctor or nurse,” Boglioli said. “It’s not going to be medical support. It’s really just going to be sort of moral support, with a little practical help thrown in when possible.”

Boglioli has had to travel to Chittenden County to participate in Kindred Connections. The program is currently offered in Franklin, Orleans, Washington, Orange, Chittenden and Lamoille counties.

But that is changing as VCSN launches Kindred

Connections in Addison County next week.

Sherry Rhynard, the survivor network’s Kindred Connections coordinator, said the organization spent this past summer recruiting volunteers in anticipation of implementing the program in the county this fall. So far she has six people signed up in Addison County to offer help to local cancer patients and cancer survivors. They will hold their first training meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 5:30 p.m. The venue for the meeting was still up in the air as of press time. To learn

the location call Rhynard toll-free at 1-800-652-5064, or send her an email at [email protected]. Those interested in volunteering may use the same contact information.

Some of the six people are in Middlebury and some are outside,” Rhynard said. “Some are retired, some are not. Some are still dealing with cancer.”

Rhynard, herself a cancer survivor, has seen first-hand the value of Kindred Connections.

“There is so much fear. You’re kind of like a deer in the headlights,” she said of a patient’s initial reaction after a cancer diagnosis. “You just don’t know exactly where to turn … Talking to someone who has been through it is kind of like a breath of fresh air in a certain way, and can be helpful.”

Kindred Connections volunteers who are survivors should be at least six months removed from their cancer treatment, Rhynard said. Volunteers undergo a couple of two-hour training sessions to hone their listening skills. They are encouraged not to emphasize their own cancer stories in their inter-actions with their Kindred Connections partner, accord-ing to Rhynard.

The volunteers are also trained to preserve confi-dentiality, to discern signs of depression, and to recom-mend referrals to other service providers or activi-ties that could be of help to their match.

“This is not a support group,” Rhynard said. “It is training people to be good listeners so they can connect with people.”

Among those helping to get Kindred Connections off the ground in Addison County is Fran Boglioli. She like working with the group in Williston, but she’s happy to bring the help and support Kindred Connections offers to people in Addison County.

“My goal was to offer support other people who are undergoing the trauma of cancer,” Boglioli said. “It’s nice to have a local group.”

More information about the Kindred Connections program can be found at www.vcsn.net.

Program to help out cancer patients launching in county

“There is so much fear. You’re kind of like a deer in the headlights, You just don’t know exactly where to turn. Talking to someone who has been through it is kind of like a breath of fresh air in a certain way, and can be helpful.”

— Sherry Rhynard, Kindred Connections

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ANDREA HUBBELL, LEFT, and Hannah Zeno have been offering “Look Good, Feel Better” classes at their Studio 7 Beauty Lounge to help cancer patients feel better about their appearance during their treatments.

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By CHRISTY LYNNMIDDLEBURY — Looped

ribbons in a variety of colors have become internationally recognized symbols for causes and campaigns beginning in 1979 with the yellow ribbon to represent military support and safety. That was followed in 1991 with red ribbons used to represent AIDS research, and them perhaps most recog-nizably with the pink ribbon representing breast cancer awareness and research, developed largely through the Susan B Komen for the Cure foundation.

The Middlebury company Beau Ties Ltd. is one local company that has embraced an opportunity to support several charitable causes through a cause marketing program

called “Ties for a Cause” that donates 25% of the gross revenue of designated ties to chosen foundations.

“It is a part of our corporate culture to give and makes us feel good as much as it makes our customers feel good,” says Cy Tall, chief marketing coordinator for Beau Ties.

Tall says supporting local as well as national campaigns has always been a part of the program at Beau Ties, since the company’s start under Bill Kenerson in 1993.

The “Ties for a Cause” program was launched with the pink ribbon tie in 2010, featuring a navy bow tie with pink ribbons printed on the fabric.

Throughout October’s National Breast Cancer

Awareness Month, Beau Ties will feature this origi-nal pattern as well as about a dozen other pink bow ties, neck-ties, scarves, and other p r o d u c t s , helping to s u p p o r t the Breast C a n c e r R e s e a r c h Foundation. At an aver-age retail price of $45-$65 per tie, that’s about $13.75 donated from each sale to this charitable cause. Looking back over the past year, Tall says Beau Ties

has been able to donate about $1000 to the Breast Cancer

R e s e a r c h Foundation.

“ T h e hardest part about giving is choos-ing what to s u p p o r t , ” Tall says, “we keep some the same, like the breast cancer ties, and we switch some s m a l l e r

organizations in and out.”“We try to choose one

organization to support for each cause — even though we would love to be able to

give to everyone — so we can make a meaningful contri-bution to the cause,” Tall explained.

Currently, Beau Ties is supporting eight causes with the Ties for a Cause program, choosing one chari-table beneficiary for each cause. Most of the causes are represented with a “ribbon tie”, using a specific colored ribbon to design a fabric for these special ties (light blue ribbons on a navy tie support the Prostate Cancer Foundation, gold ribbons on a navy tie support the Ronald McDonald House, etc).

Beau Ties is largely a mail order and online business, with only about two percent of their sales coming directly out of their onsite retail shop

in Middlebury. However, with 15 employees hand-making the 35,000-45,000 ties they sell annually and another nine employees working at their Middlebury office, Tall says the company is proud to be a strong part of the local community as well as the larger community.

“The sense of community at this small company is very pervasive,” she says, “If we dropped the Ties for a Cause campaign tomorrow I’m not sure it would account for a hugely measurable loss in sales, but I know our employ-ees would complain and I think a lot of customers would too. It’s been something that has connected us more closely to different groups of people, which is important to us.”

‘Ties for a Cause’ program sows good vibes at Beau Ties

“It is a part of our corporate culture to give and makes us feel good as much as it makes our customers feel good”

— Cy Tall, chief marketing coordinator for

Beau Ties

Tie one on for a good cause

DAVID KRAMER, LEFT, and David Mutter, co-owners of Beau Ties Ltd., sport two of the Middlebury company’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month ties. The firm’s “Ties for a Cause” program was launched in 2010 with the pink ribbon tie.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

BEAU TIES LTD. donates 25 percent of the gross revenue generated by its National Breast Cancer Awareness Month pink ribbon ties to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.Independent photo/Trent Campbell


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Addison County Breast Cancer Awareness

The Power of

What you eat has a huge impact on the success of your breast cancer recovery strategy. Here are the best and worst foods you can eat when you are going through breast cancer healing.

(See Page 14C for some delicious cancer fighting recipes)

Best FoodsDark leafy greens – beet greens, spinach, kale, arugula, Swiss chard, collardsLemons – make 3-lemon lemonade with Stevia and drink a batch each dayGarlic – it picks up heavy metals in your blood stream, fights flu, improves immunityCarrots and carrot juice – carrots have direct, anti-cancer propertiesBeets, beet juice and beet greens – beets are powerful cancer fightersBroccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, cauliflower – eat some every dayCelery and celery root – celery cleans your blood and boosts your immune systemSweet potatoes and yams – bright orange beta-carotene is a cancer fighter Blueberries, strawberries, apples, cranberries – eat these fruits unsweetenedBananas – several times a weekSockeye salmon from Alaska (red) – lean, clean protein with antioxidants; canned is fine!Chicken thigh meat, skinless – quality protein and important vitaminsOrganic local eggs – b-vitamins, important fats (boiled best, 1-3 a week)Extra virgin live oil, coconut oil and organic pasture butter Green tea, mint tea, ginger tea, sage tea – each has a healing effect

Worst FoodsSugar – Cancer loves all sugar, but fructose is the worst. So corn syrup and agave

syrup promote cancer faster than table sugar, but all sugar promotes cancer. The hardest to give up is maple syrup, but you must. The sweetener called “pure stevia leaf” will help you through.

Dairy milk – hard to say in Vermont, home of the Holstein and the best cheese in the world, but avoid milk, cheese and all milk products while you are fighting cancer. A small amount of goat or sheep milk or cheese is OK 1-2 times a week.

Bread, baked goods, wheat pasta – wheat causes inflammation, promoting cancer. Substitute rice pasta and make Irish soda bread from millet and buckwheat flours. Keep your overall grain consumption down while recovering from cancer.

Sausages, packaged and deli meats, frozen or prepared foods – cook your own fresh, local meats in the simplest style – roast or make a stew, don’t fry.

Grain alcohol – avoid altogether as it uses up important, limited toxin-processing capacity in your liver and kidneys, which you need for drugs and dying cancer cells

Beer – made from wheat and containing alcohol (sugar) beer is off the list.Wine – while you are in treatment, keep wine to 1-2 glasses a week; it is sugarHydrogenated oils like Crisco or margarine, and processed vegetable oils like Mazola,

Canola and soy oils – they cause inflammation and block cell to cell communications (one reason cancer cells invade other tissue is because they don’t listen!).

Editor’s note: This story was provided by Nancy Elizabeth Shaw, a life-long resident of Vermont who is a research professional, writer and director of the Cancer Alternative Wellness Center (www.thecanceralternative.com).

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son have played competitive sports so my family felt like it was my turn. They made it very easy for me to participate in both,” Doyle said.

Steve Murphy serves on the board of directors for Dragonheart Vermont and also competes on the Quicksilver team. Murphy began compet-ing in 2006 and said the teams have become more competitive every year.

“We’ve come a long way in our abilities,” he said. “The improvement is quite remarkable.”

At Lake Mercer, the Sisters team lost a race by a hair — 0.05 seconds. They then won the next two heats by two boat lengths.

John Dyer, who initially rowed and now coaches the

Dragonheart Vermont teams, said it takes one to two years for members to go from casual participants to serious competitors.

“It usually takes a year or two before the bug bites,” he said. “At first we were just happy to be out in the boats celebrat-ing life, but the ladies started coming forward and saying, ‘We want to start winning.’”

Mary Ann Castimore said that competitive spirit was surprising.

“I never thought I was a competitive person until I put myself in a dragon boat. When I’m in a boat, I’m competitive.”

Castimore first paddled on a community team during the first dragon boat festival in 2006. She joined Dragonheart Vermont the following week and attended “Newbie Camp”

— a one-week intensive course to learn the fundamentals. Even though she was an experienced kayak and canoe paddler, she found the style and pace of the sport to be completely different.

“I was a slow learner,” she said. “They would say, ‘Mary Ann! Twist more! Straighten out your arms! Use your core!’ It was a very humbling experience.”

Now she paddles in the “engine room,” the middle of the 41-foot long fiberglass boat where bigger, more power-ful members of the crew sit. As the boat races forward, the momentum drives the bow out of the water. The “engine room” is responsible for gener-ating much of the power while stabilizing the boat.

After the September races,

the boats have been pulled out and stored for the colder months.

“We’re kind of going through withdrawal now,” Castimore said.

Since then, Dragonheart Vermont team members will continue a regimen of cross training for seven months in the off-season combined with workouts on the water.

During the season, teams routinely paddle 10 to 12 kilometers every practice on Lake Champlain. Castimore said she exercises and attends fitness classes regularly to stay in top condition.

“You get in shape to dragon boat, you don’t dragon boat to get in shape,” she said. “Dragon boating is great exer-cise, but the stronger you are, the better you do.”

And the training and instruc-tion has paid off. Now, John Dyer said, “They breathe fire when they get into that boat.”

In addition to competing at the international level, the Dragonheart Vermont Sisters will also compete at a breast cancer survivor race orga-nized by the International Breast Cancer Paddler’s Commission in October 2014. Over 100 teams from around the world are scheduled to compete in Sarasota, Fla., but Dragonheart Vermont is the only club to send teams from the Green Mountain State.

Despite the thrill of competing (and in their case, winning), members insist the club remains focused on connecting with other cancer survivors and promoting the growth of the sport,

which they point out is the second-most popular sport in the world after soccer.

“When we’re in the boat, our eyes are in the boat and we’re fierce competitors,” Castimore said. “But once we’re out of the boat, we’re going over and we’re talking to them. There’s that competitive edge on the water, but when we’re off the water we know we’re all basi-cally in the same situation.”

Doyle said group provided a kind of support for survivors not found elsewhere.

“It’s been the only kind of support group I wanted to be involved in,” she said. “It’s very active, very focused on living every day, making the most of our health and being compassionate towards others who are literally in the same boat.”

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Hockey heroinesTHE MIDDLEBURY OTTERS and the Middlebury Mystix, two women’s community ice hockey teams, host the annual “Face Off Against Breast Cancer” hockey tournament each

January at the Memorial Sports Center in Middlebury to raise funds for the statewide Cancer Patient Support Program. Below right, Middlebury Mystix player Sally Ober displays her much-autographed Face Off mask.

Over its 14-year history the tournament has raised more than $300,000 for charity. The tournament was established in 2000, when a member of the Middlebury Otters was diagnosed with breast cancer. Fortunately, her survivor story is now a success. The need for support continues, however: One in eight women will face a breast cancer diagnosis in her lifetime. This winter’s Face Off Against Breast Cancer tournament will be held Jan. 25-26, 2014.


Eye catchersSOME LOCAL HIGH school teams raised awareness about breast cancer this month by donning special uniforms. In their Oct. 11 game, the Mount Abraham field hockey squad wore

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Addison County Breast Cancer Awareness The Power of PinkBy CHRISTY LYNN

True philanthropy is at work in Killington as Taylor Glaze offers her home as a site for a new cancer retreat center, Forest Moon.

Glaze is a cancer survivor herself, and was so moved by her experience at her first Forest Moon retreat last August that she decided to join the cause. Glaze, now retired, says everything came together at the right time.

“After (my retreat) was over, I decided I needed to do something to help others have this wonderful experience that I had,” she said, “I want to be here to help and to serve.”

Forest Moon is a nonprofit organization based in Brattleboro that was founded in 2004 by cancer survi-vors Cindy and Phil Blood of Gilford. Its mission is to provide affordable, activity-based support programs to improve the well being of cancer survivors and their

loved ones in New England.Retreat workshops offered

at Forest Moon sites help cancer survivors process emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological traumas associated with their cancer. Glaze explains that work-shops are intended to help cancer survivors readjust after the last chemotherapy session.

“It is such a catharsis and a relief to be in the company of other people who get it,” she says.

Weekend sessions involve art, sculpture, collage and dance, as well as therapeutic time talking and getting to know other participants and their similar struggles. It is designed to offer a support-ive community for individu-als whose lives have changed dramatically, often leav-ing them feeling lonely and unsure of the next step.

Glaze said she decided to turn her home into a retreat center for Forest Moon

because she feels that “this is really the next step we need in this whole cancer issue. You need to help the survivors readjust.”

She recalls the heal-ing process of “being s u r r o u n d e d by absolute strangers, very well trained and profes-sional facilita-tors, in a very calm setting, and things that you would never even want to tell your family or your children — because you don’t want to burden them — you wind up discussing. It is such a catharsis.”

Glaze has not only donated the space, but also her services as a chef and a nutrition expert

for the retreats.The spacious post and beam

home was built for Glaze and her husband in 2007 and can accommodate up to 12 guests comfortably. Glaze designed

the home h e r s e l f , including a lofted paint-ing studio, m a s s a g e room, and small pool used for water exer-cises. The home will be open for Forest Moon p r o g r a m participants to enjoy, free of cost.

Glaze has had a long love with Killington after living in town for 10 years from 1965 to 1975. While she moved to an avocado ranch in California to raise her three boys, she

never forgot Vermont. In 2001, Glaze was lured back to Killington, where she married a long-time friend and life-long Vermonter, Red Glaze. The couple opened a Killington restaurant, Café Toast, which has since become Dominic’s Upscale Pizza Joint and is run by her son and daughter-in-law, Nick and Stephanie Chiarella.

While Glaze’s home will now provide space for lodging and dining during seminars, most of the programs and projects will occur in a build-ing detached from the house. Affectionately called “the Cupola” after its decorative rooftop “hat,” this specially designed building will host the majority of workshops.

The new retreat site is located on Dean Hill Road, just off the Killington access road. The first retreat, this past July, was a craft workshop that provided participants the opportunity to make a unique

plaster cast of their torso and later decorate it. This process was intended to help breast cancer survivors face issues surrounding body image and provide a forum for discussion and sharing.

All Forest Moon retreat seminars are offered to partic-ipants free or at low cost and include lodging, meals, work-shops and programs. Each is run by facilitators who are also cancer survivors and are supported by individual dona-tions and grants from chari-table organizations.

Glaze hopes to gain enough local aid to support each seminar offered at her home. Among those who’ve already taken early action, is social worker Jessica Greco of Foley Cancer Center. Greco will be working to spread word of the new center in the area among her contacts and colleagues at Rutland Regional Medical Center’s Woman to Woman Cancer Support Group.

Glaze transforms her home to accommodate cancer retreats

“This is really the next step we need in this whole cancer issue. You need to help the survivors readjust.”

— Taylor Glaze


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The language that we use is

an important part of good health and healing, so I prefer to think of every month as Breast HEALTH Awareness Month. The well-known herbalist Susun Weed has commented that women avoid doing a breast self-exam because we don’t want to look for what we don’t want to fi nd.

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A special timeRELAY FOR LIFE, an all-night walk staged at the Middlebury College athletic fields,

draws hundreds of participants each April to walk laps all night to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. But the event is about more than just raising money. It is a time for cancer survivors to celebrate their victory over the disease, for families to remember those they have lost to breast cancer, and for cancer patients to feel the support of the community.

The 10th annual event last April 26 and 27 drew 520 people who, as is traditional, set up tents on Friday evening and walked laps until the middle of Saturday morning. There were performances by student bands, a cappella groups, a community children’s tae kwon do demonstration, sharing of food and a full night of building hope.

A high point for many is always lighting the luminaria — a long line of white paper bags that each have a candle in them (left).

“Although it was incredibly emotional, seeing the reasons why people you know, and don’t know, are relaying and who their loved ones are who they are here fighting back for is always one of the best parts of the night,” said Relay for Life Co-chair Marissa Hurwitz. “Knowing you’re not alone in your fight makes everything better.”

This year’s 10th annual walk in Middlebury raised nearly $77,000 for the American Cancer Society. The 11th annual relay is slated for May 2 and 3, 2014.

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The following are excerpt from “Alkaline ABCs, Healing Menus for Cancer and Other Chronic Conditions” and are used with permission by the Addison Independent. The recipes were created by Nancy Elizabeth Shaw. A lifelong resident of Vermont, she is a research professional, writer and director of The Cancer Alternative, which is online at www.thecanceralternative.com.

Shaw created The Cancer Alternative to help others with cancer, after she found alternative ways to stop the progression of her husband Douglas’ cancer.

Serves 4 Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 25 minutes

1 head broccoli, about 1.5

pounds, washed, sliced into

½ inch pieces½ pound small purple or yellow

potatoes, retain peels,

scrubbed and sliced into ½

pieces2 large leeks, heavy greens

removed, split, washed and

sliced – about 2 cups

1-2 large shallot, peeled and

chopped, about 1 cup

4 tablespoons extra virgin olive

oil1-quart organic vegetable or

chicken stock or water

1-teaspoon salt, more to taste

2 grinds / pinch black pepper

Optional: sprinkle of nutmeg,

cracked black pepper and fresh

chopped parsley as garnish

In a large 6-quart stock pot,

saute leeks and shallots in olive

oil over medium heat until soft

but not browned, about 5 minutes

Add stock, potatoes and

broccoli stems and cook until

soft, about 15 minutes

Add broccoli flowers and

leaves, salt and pepper

Simmer until just cooked,

about 5-8 minutesPuree the soup in a food

processor or high-speed blender

(VitaMix) until smooth

Add more water or stock if

needed to achieve preferred

consistencyReturn to the pot, taste and

correct seasoningsServe hot or cold with garnish

as above.Stores well for several days.

Serve with large grated

vegetable salad as a main course.

Creamy Broccoli Soup

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Serves 4 Prep time: 15 minutes.

Salad:1 head escarole or romaine (1 pound/.5 kilo) outer leaves removed end cut½ pound dark greens – spinach, baby kale, small beet greens or combination½ small head red cabbage, sliced fine, about 1 cup2 beets, grated2 carrots, grated

Rinse all the greens as they are prepared and place them in a salad spinner full of water. Wash all the greens thoroughly and spin dry.Refrigerate uncovered except for a damp paper towel to crisp the greens until ready to serveCompose the salad in a large glass bowl or large flat platterFill the bowl or line the plate with mixed chilled greens and red cabbage

Dress the greens with the dressing, as below and lightly tossArrange the grated beets and the grated carrots in small piles,

alternating around the edge of the plate or bowl. Drizzle dressing on each pile of grated vegetablesServe in “stacks” to allow each person both carrots and beets in their portionDressing:

Juice of 1 fresh lemon, about 4 tablespoons 1-teaspoon rough Dijon mustard1 teaspoon cracked black pepper3 large garlic cloves, pressed or chopped2 tablespoons water½ cup extra virgin, unfiltered olive oil, preferably Spanish (it is quite spicy)

Combine lemon juice, mustard, garlic, pepper and water in a 2-cup glass measure.Whisk in the olive oil in a slow streamBlend well with a whisk or fork.Serve immediately or store any remaining in a tightly covered glass jar

Bitter Greens And Root Vegetale Salad

Serves 4 Prep time: 5 minutes.

Preheat oven to 400F Cook time: 35-40 minutes

Garlic is a serious health agent.

We recommend eating as much

garlic as you (and your family)

can stand. Here is one recipe

that allows you to enjoy a full

compliment!

1-pound local boneless chicken

thighs, organic if available

4 – 5 heads of fresh organic

garlic, peeled, yielding about

50 cloves1 onion, sliced into rounds

1 carrot, sliced into rounds

1 to 2 cups chicken stock, white

wine or water, more if needed

Unprocessed high-mineral salt

such as Celtic (gray) Real

(red) or Himalayan (pink)

1 teaspoon dried or chopped

thymeCracked pepper to taste

1-2 tablespoons extra virgin olive

oilJuice of ½ lemon

Place the onion rounds and the

carrot rounds in the bottom of a

glass or ceramic baking dish, just

big enough to hold the chicken

thighs touchingAdd the garlic cloves, then

liquid to coverSprinkle with salt, a little pepper

and ½ the thyme

Arrange the chicken thighs over

the vegetablesAdjust liquid so that the thighs

are just sitting in the liquid but

not covered by itDrizzle the olive oil over the

chicken thighs and sprinkle the

lemon juice over them

Salt the skin, sprinkle with

remaining thymeRoast until chicken is browned

and the liquids are bubbling.

Garlic should be very soft.

Serve the chicken, garlic and

roasted vegetables with a small

baked yellow organic potato,

steamed green beans, roasted

acorn squash and a mixed green

salad. Smash the garlic cloves

into your split baked potato, then

drizzle with olive oil and salt to

taste.

Note the correct portion of dark

chicken for cancer-recovery is not

more than 4 oz. of chicken (raw

weight) skin removed, eaten with

at least 12 ounces of vegetables!

Reheat by placing in a frying

pan with stock or water, simmer

covered for 5 minutes.

Stores well refrigerated for up

to 4 days.

50-Garlic Chicken Thighs

Cancer-fightingTry these Delicious

Recipes

Nancy Elizabeth Shaw©2013 All Rights Reserved


Fun fundraiser2013 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY Relay for Life of Middlebury College Co-chairs

Marissa Hurwitz, left, and Danielle Gladstone prepare for an overnight celebration to fight back against cancer this past April 26.

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The road aheadPARTICIPANTS IN THE Relay for Life at Middlebury College walk laps to raise money and to raise spirits. The event also gives those who take part a chance to meet and get to know

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