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By JOHN FLOWERSSALISBURY — Salisbury resi-

dents will have an extra reason to honor their local veterans this Memo-rial Day thanks to a successful effort by the local historical society to install a monument on town-owned land off of Maple Street.The society, led

by Barry Whitney Jr., spent the last sev-en years raising mon-

veterans’ park for honoring all lo-cal servicemen and women who’ve

dating back to the Revolutionary War.Whitney, whose family roots in

Salisbury go back more than 200 years, explained that the town’s trib-utes have consisted of an obelisk across from Maple Meadow Farm honoring local Civil War veterans,

and a stone tablet located near Lake Dunmore off Maple

Street that pays tribute to Salisbury’s World War I soldiers.It just made

sense, Whitney said, to centralize those two monuments while

expanding recognition to locals

well as World War II, Korea, Vietnam

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(See By the way, Page 12A)

Ferrisburgh teacher ready for next step

Bears bolder as their numbers riseContact with homeowners increases

Salisbury to unveil new veterans’ park

Forlenza and Finger joining the Lincoln selectboard

Commencement bringing 5,000 visitors to town

Discarded pianos ready for an encoreArtists help stage THT birthday promotion

Change calls Lilly 30 years after she follows mom’s lead

(See Pianos, Page 20A) (See Memorial, Page 19A)

(See Bears, Page 18A)

By JOHN FLOWERSMIDDLEBURY — It’s often the

comic relief segment in a TV wild-life documentary: Curious, affable bear pokes snout into honeycomb;; long, pink tongue darts out to scarf up some honey;; angry bees send the irrepressible fur ball lumbering back into the woods.But in most cases, it’s not a laugh-

ing matter when a wild, hungry bear strays into civilization.Just ask Middlebury’s Charles

Mraz, who recently experienced the latest in a growing number of local brushes with what Vermont wildlife exerts said is a rapidly growing bear population.“It was a rare thing in the Cham-

plain Valley to have bears in your bees,” said Mraz, whose family has owned and operated Champlain Val-ley Apiaries since 1931.

things have changed dramatically.”Mraz this past Mother’s Day re-

luctantly destroyed a bear that had plowed through the apiary behind his family’s home off Springside Road, a well-populated neighbor-hood on Middlebury’s Chipman Hill that is only a half mile from the town green. Mraz’s 12-year-old daughter had spotted the young male bear that evening as it waited to see if some-one was going to replenish the honey he had devoured earlier that day.“My daughter said, ‘Daddy, are

those eyes?’” Mraz recalled of his daughter spotting two gleaming orbs piercing through the darkness in the back yard.

dots as faraway house lights. But

With permission from state of-

(See Lincoln, Page 18A)

By XIAN CHIANG-WARENLINCOLN — Lincoln’s select-

and Paul Forlenza were elected to the board in a special election last Tuesday, May 14, joining incum-bents Barb Rainville, Elwin Isham and Oakley Smith.Forlenza garnered 169 votes and

Finger received 189. The two bested opponents Joe Martell and Jim Ad-ams, who received 30 and 22 votes, respectively. The May 14 vote followed a spe-

cial town meeting in Burnham Hall on May 7, when around 200 voters

with the selectboard expansion this year instead of waiting until town meeting next March. They also re-

(See Commencement, Page 18A)

MIDDLEBURY — More than 5,000 family and friends of the Mid-dlebury College class of 2013 are ex-pected this weekend for commence-ment. Almost 600 students will get their diplomas in a ceremony on the central lawn of the college that will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.Jonathan Safran Foer, a writer

and author of critical and commer-cial acclaim, will deliver the 2013 Middlebury College commencement

-thing Is Illuminated,” was published (See Lilly, Page 12A)

By ANDY KIRKALDYFERRISBURGH —

Like many teachers, Fer-risburgh Central School’s Alana Lilly grew up with a strong educational role model in her family: Her mother, the late Ferris-burgh resident Dorothy Tracy, taught for 34 years.Lilly, 52, who

in June will step down from her FCS teaching job after 30 years, said she started following her mother’s path early on.“I hear stories

about when I was little play-ing school up in my bedroom, and my mother saying, ‘Oh boy, you’re going to be a good teacher some-day. You’ve kept your students in line when you play school. And you give a lot of home-work,’” Lilly said.As Lilly matured, her

mother helped her to un-derstand the rewards of the profession, and she pursued and earned her teaching degree at Castle-ton State College. Lilly described the

these students who pos-sibly may struggle, and

over the time that you’re with them all of a sud-den it’s not a struggle any more. And I think that is something that I feel very proud (about), that I see the ‘ahas’ in students … (My mother) was very proud of her students, and totally was vested in what

she was doing with them, and I feel like I am following in her footsteps.”While at

Castleton, Lilly student-taught in Ferrisburgh, not far from her Greenbush Road home. By then she had met Craig Lilly, now her husband of 33 years and the

father of their two sons, John and Morgan.Alana and Craig Lilly

settled in Bridport, as now have John and wife Mi-chelle (with Alana Lilly’s 10-month-old grandson Cooper), and Morgan and girlfriend Ann. Seeing more of them all

is part of the plan. “Not having to spend

a lot of my weekends … doing (teaching) plans for the next week and such, I’ll be able to spend a little bit more time with fam-

“She has started traditions that will live on after she has retired.”

— FCS Principal

Joanne Taft-Blakely

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National Honor Society mem-bers at Mount Abraham Union High School reminded us that donating blood really does make a differ-ence. Almost everyone during their life will know someone who needs

FERRISBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL teacher Alana Lilly is retiring after 30 years on the job. She plans on spending more time with her family, including two grown sons who live in Bridport. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

ARTIST YINGLEI ZHANG, above, paints a delicate design on top of an upright piano in her Middlebury studio Monday morning, while Mary Hogan Elementary School sixth-grader Brenna Cook, below, paints her design onto another instrument. The pianos are two of six being painted by local

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

By JOHN FLOWERSMIDDLEBURY — Yinglei Zhang

has earned her well-earned artis-tic reputation by using a thin brush to deftly place ink and watercolor strokes on delicate rice paper.But her latest canvas weighs in

at several hundred pounds and will require some burly football players

to move it from her studio when it is ready.“This is crazy!” she said with a

playful chuckle, as she painted an-other vibrant plum blossom on a panel of an upright piano that along

pianos will be placed in random out-

A — Addison Independent, Thursday, May 23, 2013

Work to beautify the riverfront under wayMarble Works at Otter Creek getting makeover

Editor’s note: This story was pro-vided by the Middlebury College Of-

MIDDLEBURY — The Middle-bury College Board of Trustees has approved a budget of $292.4 million

spend $7.5 million on the renovation

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THIS GRAPHIC BY LandWorks shows the design of the improved riverfront terrace and walkway at the Marble Works. Work on the downtown Middlebury project began Wednesday and should be done in eight to 10 weeks.

MEMBERS OF THE Middlebury Riverfront Committee discuss the be-

pedestrian pathways through the area.Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MATT DEBISSHCOP IN an earth mover begins work on refurbishing and cleaning up the Otter Creek falls waterfront at the Marble Works in downtown Middlebury on Wednesday morning.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

“We’re excited to see the project

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By XIAN CHIANG-WAREN

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vermont lawmakers are taking a lead in draft-ing a new Farm Bill in Washington. Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch, both Democrats, have pledged to make the passage of the critical ag-ricultural bill a priority, particularly after dairy farms in the state were dealt heavy blows last year due to

“Vermont’s agriculture sector is critical to our economy and to the livelihoods of hard working farmers all over the state,” Welch said last week. “It is essential that Congress do its job and pass a Farm Bill to en-sure the viability of our farms and the availability of nutritious food in our schools and to families in need.”Congress adjourned

last year without re-newing the 2008 Farm Bill or writing up new legislation. When that law expired, farmers in Vermont and around the country were left without critical safety nets, and dairy farmers in particu-lar felt the loss. “We’re hoping the

Farm Bill will get passed, and we know our delegation is doing everything it can,” said Bob Foster, of the Foster Bros. Farm in Middle-bury. “There may be four

there may be 700, so it’s still an uncertain situa-tion.”The Farm Bill dic-

tates federal agricultural policy, including federal subsidies programs like the Milk Income Loss Contract, or MILC, pro-gram (which reimburses dairy farmers when milk prices drop below certain levels) and the Supple-mental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (formerly known as food stamps). When House Republicans last summer and fall refused to bring the renewal of the Farm Bill to the

including the extension of MILC, had to be implemented in December to avert a drastic spike in milk prices.“It is not the agreement that I or

any one of us would have written on our own, but it does include several

every Vermonter, our state’s economy and the nation,” Leahy said in a state-ment at the time.Both houses of Congress have

managed to get drafts of the legisla-tion out of committee — a new Farm Bill left the Senate Agriculture Com-mittee last Tuesday, May 14, and the House Agriculture Committee fol-lowed suit with its own version last Thursday, May 16. Both earned broad support from both Republicans and Democrats in committee and would cost about $100 billion annually.

would save $23 billion over the next decade and “accomplish the most far-reaching reform of U.S. agricul-ture policy in decades,” including replacing the MILC program with a federally supported margin insurance program and a “market stabilization” provision that would discourage pro-ducers from over-supplying milk.

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mula where a small overproduction of milk triggers a tenfold drop in milk’s value per hundredweight, mean-ing that farmers may get paid only a fraction of their operating costs. In that situation, many farmers have no choice but to continue to overproduce in order to keep up with falling prices, which aggravates the supply-demand system even more.Foster supports the reforms, known

as the Dairy Securities Act, which he says will take an enormous amount of pressure off of producers.“It just allows us to respond (to

oversupply) like other businesses do,” he said. “If you have too many cars

to sell, you stop making them for awhile.” Many dairy farmers

in Vermont were strong advocates for the Dairy Securities Act last year as well, and their represen-tatives are in agreement.“This new safety net

approach will help us break the harmful cycle of rollercoastering milk prices, when supply and demand get too far out of sync,” Leahy said of this year’s bill.The Senate Farm Bill

at this stage includes several other features that are likely to be of interest to Vermont farm-ers, including a federal cost-sharing program for farms applying for organ-

continued authorization of programs intended to support rural agricultural areas like the state rural development councils, rural broadband deploy-ment and the Rural Eco-nomic Area Partnership program in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.

“This is a good bill for Vermont,” Leahy said.Farmers like Foster sure hope so

— American family farms, once the backbone of rural states, are strug-gling more than ever.

every year it gets more challenging,”

out how the next generation will con-tinue.”The Farm Bill does include some

substantial cuts to food and agricul-tural programs. As of press time on Wednesday, the Senate seemed likely to cut funding to SNAP by more than $4 billion (Leahy offered an amend-ment to lessen the cuts, but it was not adopted). The House version of the bill would cut food stamps even more, by over $20 billion.Welch outlined the priorities that

he would push for on behalf of Ver-mont farmers, including dairy reform, disaster insurance for vegetable farm-ers, promoting organic farms and lo-cal foods programs for schools, and protecting nutrition programs from unreasonable cuts.While the Senate bill enjoys broad

bi-partisan support and was brought -

mediately following its passage from the Senate Agricultural Committee last week, the House bill is unlikely

weeks.

By designDARK STAIRS RISE up from under Atwater Dining Hall after an early evening event last week.


By XIAN CHIANG-WAREN

NEW HAVEN — Voters in New Haven on Tuesday remedied an error in the town’s General Fund budget by approving, in Australian ballot voting, a supplemental spending increase of $218,997, which will be used to pay off owed school taxes to the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union.There were 202 ballots cast;; the

supplemental budget increase passed 136-66. Voters also rejected an article that

would have changed town meeting procedure in upcoming years to vote on town budgets by voice vote, instead of by Australian ballot. That article failed, 164-38.In a voice vote at a special town

meeting on Monday, around 75 voters in attendance voted to move the start time of the annual March town meet-ing to 6:30 p.m. in coming years from 4:30 p.m. The annual fundraising din-ner will be held prior to the meeting.

of March that New Haven owed $218,997 in school taxes to the ANe-SU. “During the budget process, the

treasurer and selectboard questioned the amount of surplus in the General Fund since it was so large and unex-pected,” selectboard chair Kathleen Barrett wrote in a letter to voters. “We could not fully explain the surplus and

over was the amount paid to schools.”Town Clerk Barb Torian checked

the paperwork and in January the se-lectboard double-checked with ANe-

replied that New Haven had paid the full amount, a mistake had been made.

the error and informed New Haven that nearly a quarter of a million dol-lars was owed.

steps to prevent similar mistakes from happening in the future.

United Way Community Celebration set for May 30ADDISON COUNTY — This

year’s United Way of Addison Coun-ty Community Celebration event will be held on Thursday, May 30, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Vergennes Op-era House. The main focus of this free, family-friendly event is to honor and thank those people who help their friends and neighbors achieve better lives by working with the United Way to make its campaign a success.Sponsored by Green Peppers Res-

taurant, the event will be an evening of food and fun to celebrate the end of the campaign and thank those

its mission. From payroll processing to working with community impact funding teams, these people have given their time, energy, life experi-ence, expertise and interest to make life better for the community.Attendees will have the oppor-

tunity to hear from the volunteers about how the work being done as a result of the campaign will impact the community. Some of those on the receiving end will share their stories as well. New this year is the Senior Youth

Service Award for a high school se-nior who has shown initiative and creativity in developing a communi-ty service project and has performed services that have had a positive im-pact on the community. The recipi-ent will receive $100 to donate to the

his or her choice. There is still time to nominate a student;; a nomination form is online at www.unitedwayad-disoncounty.org.In past years all youth awards were

presented at the community celebra-tion event. This year the event will focus more on the campaign. Student activism and volunteering awards will be moved to the Days of Caring event on Sept. 26, a day that is all about volunteering.Many businesses will be recog-

nized for their workplace campaigns, from the payroll departments that work very hard to process paperwork and keep it all on track to the cam-paign “warriors” who educate staff about the work the United Way does and why it matters.This year the United Way has seen

a diverse group of community mem-bers on its community impact fund-ing teams. In addition to a variety of people from all over the Addison County, four current college students from Middlebury College and four

post-grads from Middlebury College and the University of Maine partici-pated.The United Way would like to rec-

ognize anyone in Addison County who has participated as a volunteer in community impact funding (or “allocations,” as it used to be called). Anyone who has served in past years

but has not been contacted is asked to call the United Way and come be recognized at this celebration.This event is free and open to the

public, but space is limited. For more information or to make a reservation, call at 802-388-7189, email [email protected] or visit www.unitedwayaddisoncounty.org.

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Aroundthebend

By Jessie Raymond

Seven years ago, my husband, Mark, and I impulsive-ly bought an old farmhouse, with land and a couple of

tending animals and growing our own food.Yes, we are idiots.We failed to consider a couple of sticking points;; name-

ly, our jobs and our total lack of experience with farm-ing or raising livestock. I was raised on Cap’n Crunch, not granola. My prior exposure to farming was limited to watering my mother’s window boxes when I was little, a chore I did twice until a daddy longlegs crawled on me. After that, I felt compelled to play in-side for the next several years.Mark handles most of the animals,

which leaves me theoretically in

because most of the time I believe the gardens are actually in charge of me). I’m not the greatest gardener. Any success I have is due to sheer luck or to wisdom gained through repeated failures. Last year, for example, we harvested over 250 pounds of potatoes. The year before, the whole crop rotted in the ground. I just never know.

1. Planting stuff is hard — literally, if your land is pure Addison County clay, like ours. We’ve managed to improve our soil to the point that we no longer need a pickaxe to plant seeds, but we still break down in giggles

2. Things die. I started off as an ignorant, lazy gar-dener and have improved to a semi-knowledgeable lazy

gardener. Some things simply won’t grow if you don’t tend them carefully (which seems a bit unfair to those of us who prefer a hands-off, stay-in-the-house approach).

frosts, wind, goats getting into the corn and eating every last ear (2011) or cows getting into the corn and eating every last ear (2012), and you learn to be grateful if your

3. Things grow. Sometimes, to your surprise, you will

healthy potatoes that you then have to dig up, one by one, and haul out of the garden and into the basement, during which process you will dis-cover just how many potatoes are in

4. Gardening is hard work. This is an important point for people like me, who get fooled by magazines showing well-groomed, relaxed,

standing in front of gardens bursting with nature’s boun-ty. I don’t look that good even before I head out to the garden. Afterward, I look like a landslide survivor.At certain times of year — now, for example — the

work is endless. If you have a job, that means plant-ing, watering, weeding and mulching before work as well as after, and spending every daylight hour on the weekends in the garden. Even then you will never be caught up, because your gardening time will always be hampered by the need to eat and sleep and the social pressure to attend certain events, such as your child’s wedding.

Every time I see the newly renovated Pulp Mill Bridge I feel a surge of satisfaction. The bridge looks great, the ride across feels smooth and secure, and it looks as if an important tourist attraction has been preserved for at least another generation. Most important, this work did honor to the people who

years ago.The one discordant note is the

excessive interior lighting in our

and for the next century a couple of centrally located overhead lights

when concerns about energy con-servation are so great, do we need 12 lights blazing day and night (16 after dark)?The inside of the bridge looks

more like a brightly lit shopping mall than an example of iconic 19th-century architecture. This is especially ironic given the fact that both Middlebury and Weybridge are actively engaged in the Vermont

reducing Vermont’s overall energy use.I know the Weybridge selectboard

is concerned about this issue, and I hope the Middlebury board is, as well. Let us know how we can help.

Spencer PutnamWeybridge

Shashock’s ‘no’ vote appreciatedI want to thank Susan Shashok for

her vote against the proposed natu-ral gas pipeline extension through Addison County. The objections she raised are legitimate. I am disap-pointed that the other selectboard members voted to issue a letter of

-formation that would allow a fuller picture to emerge, apparently per-suaded by an economic argument,

estimates provided by the company. Economic issues are strong ones, but perhaps it is time to re-weight other considerations.The oil and gas industry always

claims to have reliable safety pro-cedures in place. And after every major spill, we learn that executives were warned about safety issues and ignored them. That’s the pattern, time and again. (I worked for the American Petroleum Institute during

-stand dodgy answers.) The industry doesn’t change because it doesn’t have to;; its cleanup costs and

lost and livelihoods, property and productive natural systems like the Gulf of Mexico are damaged, some beyond repair.In early May, residents of May-

plan to allow them to return after their homes were contaminated from the pipeline rupture there. The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in 1989;; according to biologists, Prince William Sound has not completely recovered yet — 24 years later. Phase 2 of the Vermont Gas pipeline extension would run beneath Lake Champlain.Vermont Gas is owned by North-

ern New England Energy Corp., which is owned by Gaz Métro of Montreal, which is owned by Noverco Inc., which is owned by Trencap LP and Enbridge. Enbridge was responsible for the costliest oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, when its pipeline over a tributary of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan broke in July 2010, dumping more than a million gallons of dilbit — a heavy Canadian tar sands product made from mixing bitumen with chemi-cals like benzene, a known carcino-gen. As of January 2013, Enbridge was resisting an EPA-proposed order for further cleanup of areas affected by that spill. Last month, another Enbridge pipeline spilled, this time in Minnesota.When spills like these make

headlines, they seem comfortably distant. Yet pipelines are inherently unstable, and Enbridge’s record with pipeline spills is not comforting. Even in small rural communities like Middlebury, decision-makers have the opportunity to take a principled stand for the future over short-term gain. I applaud Ms. Shashok for her thoughtful vote, a courageous lone voice of caution on this important and timely issue.

Barbara ShapiroMiddlebury

When I look back on it, Dad was a gentle teacher. But it wasn’t innate;; it’s a skill to learn. Looking through old photo albums, he appeared some-

what of a brash, cigarette-smoking young editor fresh from the Air Force in WWII, through Northwestern Uni-versity at Chicago on the GI Bill and over to Melbourne, Australia on a Rotary Scholarship.

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homa – and married her in a nighttime candlelight affair in one of the city’s big churches (covered by several of the newspapers) and returned to Kan-sas where they would make their start – he as a night editor of the Wichita Eagle-Beacon;; she as a new wife and mother. Their world was ahead of them and had all the promise

of the country’s rise following its leading role in WWII.The year was 1949-50. They had their second son 11

months later, and me 18 months after that. At 22, Mom had three hellion sons, Dad had purchased a small weekly

in an upstairs downtown apartment over the newspaper of-

my life. As hellions, we climbed on and slid down the 2x6 sup-

ports off the back exit stairs (20 feet off the ground);; ran

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ment stairwell to the Main Street sidewalk on sofa cush-ions for seats;; and visited Mr. Smith at the corner grocery, service station and meat locker. We loved the meat locker. In the 100-degree heat of a

smoldering summer day, we’d run down the block shirt-less, barefoot and in shorts, dart into the store and beg him

to let us dash into the coldest locker

hanging from hooks — and stay there

frostbite and run back out into that hot-box of a little town that was our home

My fondest memories, though, are of long nights driving mail sacks full of the weekly newspaper to the vari-

three boys were in the back seat;; baby sis in the middle up front, and Mom would be turned around leading us in song after song… ballads, fun ones she and Dad knew, and her

“Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, Merry, merry king of the bush is he, Laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburraGay your life mustYou probably have to know the tune to get the sense of

how fun a song it is, but trust me, when you’re a kid just -

er) is fun, and making the song a round was always a hoot!We didn’t have television back then, so Mom and Dad

Gettin’ downMARY

Before talking about next year’s legislative priorities in a 45-minute

credit for proposing and passing a more conservative budget than what

progressive legislation and liberal leanings, while the governor was seen as pro-business and moderate by comparison?

do.

state residents need, and we could have easily gotten the votes the pass a

-cial numbers didn’t look that good at the start of the session… We were

-versy concerning the budget became how the Legislature was proposing to raise revenues, not how much they were spending. The administra-

proposed to raise to meet their expenses, while the governor’s budget message was that Vermonters were already spending enough money for state government but that those funds needed to be reallocated to get better results.

-sage has the more conservative ring.That’s why the buzz around the governor’s proposal to place some

limits on Reach Up, the state’s welfare-to-work program, had traction in

them to be extended uninterrupted for a lifetime, demonstrated to many

let’s just cut some programs and shift money to other programs that do a better job of solving the problem.

far more liberal members of the Progressive party. In the end, it had very

Will some idea along those lines have traction next year? Perhaps, Smith says, though he cautions that the Reach Up program in particular has been touted for years as one of the most successful anti-poverty pro-gram in the state with a high success rate getting Vermonters retrained and back into the work force.

we correctly identifying the forces that are keeping people in poverty,

Asked what his plans were to stimulate economic development and job growth, Smith said his philosophy was that government should lay the foundation for a sound economy — a good transportation system,

money.Would spending more on education be considered laying the founda-

tion for a strong economy? Absolutely, the Speaker said, but added that the state has pretty much maxed out its per-pupil spending for secondary

As for the prospect of raising taxes next year, Smith says that tax re-

push last week to place a cap on tax deductions would be a priority next year, even though the governor says it will not be one of his top 10 priori-ties. Smith says he has been a supporter of the Legislature’s Blue Ribbon Tax Commission report (as is the governor), and that the principle of

-oned by that commission.

-times become the public’s reality and that the current perception of the

Rep. Chris Pearson. Keeping forces like Pearson in check will prove to be a challenge to Smith’s political career if he decides to run for gover-nor once Gov. Peter Shumlin steps down in three or more years and if he faces a popular moderate opponent like Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott.It’s a concern, Smith conceded, but he chose not to speculate on poli-

tics that far removed and brought the conversation back to his original

joked, and let the politics take care of itself.Angelo S. Lynn

Speaker’s beef: Give credit


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So what’s the payoff for a person like me, who still can’t touch a worm without screaming? Well, I guess I like the challenge. And the results. Together, Mark and I raise our own pork, beef, chicken and eggs;; make our own hard cider;; preserve what-ever fruits and vegetables don’t fall victim to nature or wayward livestock;; and even render our own

lard, for Pete’s sake — all while being employed. And at the end of the day, when we crawl exhausted into bed, we lie awake talking not about how we’d like to take a tropi-cal vacation, but how we’d maybe like to get a milk cow someday.Sure, 99 out of 100 people who

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Letters to the Editor

Middlebury should not weigh in on Phase II of pipelineIrresponsible. No single word

better describes the Middlebury selectboard’s recent public statement offering their unconditional support for Phase Two of the Addison Natu-ral Gas Project pipeline.Responsible decision-making

begins and ends with balancing risks against rewards. Phase Two

nor has a route been chosen. The selectboard’s blind support of Phase Two, then, shows that Middlebury is willing to accept the rewards of the project without even considering the risks or possible consequences. There is not enough information on the table to make a judgment, yet in their zeal to bring gas to Middlebury, the board is perfectly happy to let property own-ers along the proposed route or routes of Phase Two know that that they are

Very real questions have yet to be answered. Will the pipeline place the organic status of farms in jeopardy? Will the pipe run through

the Cornwall town green, resulting in the removal of dozens (if not all) of the trees? Will this pipe run in close proximity to the Salisbury school? Will dozens of property owners be threatened with eminent domain and forced to host a pipe that will only provide risk and no reward? The Middlebury selectboard does not know the answer to these and count-less other questions and as a result, they have not made an informed

of irresponsible.In their statement, the Middle-

bury selectboard also makes it clear that they have a positive working relationship with the gas company. Of course they do. Both Middlebury and the gas company stand to reap

That makes it very easy to play nice. Property owners along the proposed route or routes of Phase Two are not so fortunate.These citizens (your neighbors)

will not have access to the gas and

thus they are not viewed by the gas company as potential customers. Instead, concerned landowners are perceived as troublemakers and NIMBYs;; impediments blocking the path to International Paper. These property owners and taxpayers have little or no leverage and thus their relationship with the gas company is very different.By supporting Phase Two before

the facts are on the table, the Middle-bury selectboard is telling its neigh-bors that they are willing to let the gas company do whatever it likes, just as long as their town gets its gas as soon as possible. This is not how responsible decisions are made.Middlebury has no basis to weigh

in on Phase Two until the route has been chosen and the project has

a considered decision be made — to make a statement now is simply ir-responsible.

Jeff NoordsyCornwall

Pampered adults driving us into ruin with ‘progress’Stop the new progress. After

100 years we have plenty of food, housing, clothes, transportation, recreation, gas for automobiles, oil to heat homes, businesses, manufac-turing, stores, etc., with gas replac-ing fuel oil. Cleaner for the environ-ment. Also electricity from nuclear power, which all foreign countries are now going to. Plus foreign coun-tries are now using pipelines for oil, gas and, as we do, water.But this country’s higher edu-

cated not-quite-adults have been fed, housed clothed, pampered and schooled in high fashion and are now against all of the above. Also, our neverending supply of coal to manufacture everything made of tin,

steel and iron.Now what these crazies want is

no electricity. Love to see it happen. Give candlemakers a huge boost and more employed in that profession. Plus, wick makers and wax makers, if we can supply en ough wax. Next, is no oil or gasoline so the end of automobiles, heating homes, businesses, schools, etc., of course, with no oil or gas to operate the road cleaning, maintenance, building crews. No more transportation. Buy a horse, ha ha, feed, water, muck, bed it by candlelight, as the old kerosene lanterns don’t work with-out oil reduced to kerosene.Then there is the matter of horse

food. Cut hay with a sickle, fork

onto a horse-drawn wagon, plow with a horse, etc. If lucky enough to get wood to survive the winter, then no need for modern progress. But 100 million of us have to perish if we set progress back 100 years.So, if we continue to harvest oil,

gas, coal and harness our nukes, we can continue on for maybe 200 years yet with our luxurious lives. If not after a day from no-see to no-see tending animals, cutting hay, working gardens, etc. You can take care of those that can’t: Grandma, Gramps, kids, sick, injured, crippled, and protect yourself from thievery.

Arnold C. GaleSalisbury

Claim that pipeline will better economy is speculativeAt the March 21 Public Service

Board public hearing for Vermont Gas Systems’ Addison Natural Gas Project, many statements were made by representatives of business de-velopment entities that can be sum-marized as follows: Addison and Rutland counties need natural gas service in order to remain competi-tive, retain current businesses, lure new businesses and create new jobs. Is natural gas service the single factor that can provide economic stability and growth?Al Gobeille, owner of three

restaurants in Burlington and chair-man of the Burlington Business Association, stated he could not run his businesses on fuel oil and propane because doing so would

Contrary to that claim, Addison County and Middlebury have several iconic restaurants that have remained in operation for decades and have managed to survive the Great Recession without natural gas service. Noonie’s Deli opened a new location in Essex in March. Bristol Bakery is opening a new location in Hinesburg. I’m not saying it has been easy for Addison County

rising fuel costs. However, lack of natural gas service is not the single factor that causes businesses to fail.Jamie Stewart, executive director

of the Rutland Economic Develop-ment Corp. stated the lack of natural gas service negatively impacts the REDC’s ability to recruit new businesses to the region. He told the board that in the fall of 2009,

REDC hosted a visit by several national site consultants in an effort to market the region’s strengths. One of the consultants representing the specialty food industry informed the REDC that Rutland would be eliminated for consideration due to the lack of natural gas service. Mr. Stewart did not tell the board how many consultants visited, nor did he tell the board how many businesses the consultants represented. There are 165 members statewide in the Vermont Specialty Food Associa-tion, the majority of which will not be provided natural service yet will continue to thrive.Tim Smith, executive director

of Franklin County Development Corp. in St. Albans stated, “Franklin County economy continues to be strong, and actually remained strong during the most recent recession, one of the worst in anyone’s memory.” He continued, “Franklin County’s unemployment rates have been

average — 4.7 percent to 5 percent compared to 7.9 percent. It’s my belief that having access to Vermont Gas has played a key role in Franklin County’s economic strength.”Franklin County isn’t exclusive in

having an unemployment rate lower than the national average. Vermont’s unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, was 4.1 percent in March, third lowest in the nation. Compar-ing average annual unemployment rates from 2008 through March 2013 for the two counties that do not have natural gas service yet are targets for future service, Addison and Rutland,

to the unemployment rates of coun-ties that currently have natural gas service, Chittenden and Franklin, one

counties increased proportionately from 2008 to 2009 when the Great Recession hit, and all four counties are recovering proportionately.Compare unemployment rates for

the four counties, not seasonally ad-justed: Addison County 4.3 percent in 2008, current rate 4.6 percent;; Rutland County 5.3 percent in 2008, current rate 5.1 percent;; Chittenden County 3.9 percent in 2008, current rate 3.5 percent;; Franklin County 4.8 percent in 2008, current rate 4.4 percent. All four counties, regardless of natural gas service, have a healthy unemployment rate between 4 and 6 percent. Compare Vermont’s current unemployment rate to states that have the most dense interstate natural gas transmission lines in the nation: Ohio, 7.1 percent;; Pennsylvania, 7.9 percent;; New York, 8.2 percent;; West Virginia, 7.0 percent;; Texas, 6.4 per-cent;; Louisiana, 6.2 percent;; Okla-homa, 5.4 percent. Clearly, variables other than natural gas infrastructure

a state.We can quantify the past. We can

only predict the future. Any claims that a natural gas transmission line through Vermont will increase business and employment opportu-nities are speculative, and must be considered opinion, not evidence, in the Public Service Board technical hearings.

Renee McGuinnessMonkton

read to us, told us stories, probably had us try to write the alphabet or something similar-aged kids do in pre-school today. I moved to Bowie,

grade in a new town 60 miles north of Dallas in 1958.Dad had bought a bigger weekly

paper;; then made it twice weekly. He won lots of statewide journal-ism awards. Did well. We played football and baseball a lot. Rode bikes. Fished in farm ponds, shot at quail, killed snakes and big, red ants.

-ly got a black and white TV in the early ’60s. I traded baseball cards;; loved Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle;; mowed lawns to save enough money to buy a wooden Mickey Mantle bat. We

a ton, and football. It was Texas, after all. And we went to

church and Sunday school;; a photo showed me at 10 holding a card-board shield in a parade that said “Onward Chris-tian Soldier” and I held a sword at the ready. Odd, now that I think about it, but telling. In those years Dad

taught us how to run fast;; how to box (he did in the Air Force and he’d slap-box us silly), play ping pong and catch a ball. He’d challenge us to push-up contests, regular and ver-tical ones up against the wall. It was a long time before we could ever match the number he could do, but we eventually did. I learned to do a

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roof of the house. Later on I set a school record for push-ups and pull-ups;; brother Emerson was a weight lifter and star defensive safety who hit the other guys really hard, so we heard. Dad never pushed;; just set a challenge early on, made it fun, and let us be.We moved back to Kansas in 1965

when Dad bought the family daily newspaper in Iola. He would have been 41. I was 12. A couple years later it was a time of rebellion and unrest. Dad made a game of reading the morning papers (he got three) and

having current events quizzes at din-ner that night. We always ate dinner as a family;; always. Then we’d all do dishes together after, then home-work. Occasionally we’d gather around his chair and he’d read some-thing special to us. He had a great reading voice. It wasn’t perfect. He made mis-

takes with my middle brother, who had a knack for getting into trouble. I have no doubt Dad had a few re-grets in those years, but it most likely taught him humility. He learned from life and taught us to do the same.He taught us tennis;; debated the

news and the Vietnam War. I went off to KU in 1971, joined several protests, had long hair and went barefoot to class. The war ended in 1973, and I dropped out of college that January and hitchhiked to Cali-fornia via Colorado in winter. Mom refused to give me a ride to the edge of town;; I walked

pounds in a backpack

got up from his type-writer and walked with me outside, gave a hug, told me to be careful and went back to work. I walked to the edge of town and stuck out my

thumb. No ill will, but he wasn’t going

to encourage me. He knew when to push and when to let go.Next January I enrolled at KU

again, and went through journal-ism school in three semesters and a summer to get my degree. After graduation I went west to ski bum in Colorado in winter and rock climb in summer, and spent a summer as a wilderness guide in Alaska. Four years later, Dad called to say there was a paper for sale nearby in Kan-sas and that it was a good opportu-nity. I took it and he mentored me as a newspaper editor and publisher from the time I was 26 and until he died on April 24 this year — a for-tuitous and loving 33-year rite of passage.In those last three months, at 88

and after cancer surgery to remove a large tumor on his spinal column,

all those years, he had rarely gotten

angry with us;; had never tried to be our best friend but was always there for advice and a helping hand if the struggle warranted it. He was a ro-mantic who loved to cuddle and show affection, and by example showed us how to express those emotions and be comfortable with them. He knew how to put the petty squabbles aside and live life with exuberance and joy, and taught us the same. Perhaps the hardest lesson to teach

is to live with grace, but even in those last few days we all learned new and deeper lessons in that as well.And there he was: once the young

strapping man with the world as his oyster, now with loved ones gath-ered around as he held court as the family patriarch from a hospital bed. My sister wrote, “His peace in dy-

ing came from knowing he’ll con-tinue to live in our hearts.” And so it was. In the end, it wasn’t about lessons learned or taught, politics or business, or places seen. It was about love, family, friends and community, and knowing you had done right by them.There is grief, of course, and it

the heart is pained by the loss, yet happy for the memories;; confused because it’s not sure how to process that missing element in life — that steady hand that won’t be there. And you feel small because it shatters the myth of being invincible. Dad passed on a belief we could do al-most anything if we truly wanted it, but not beat this. Death is humbling. We’re but moments of time in its wake. That’s not fear, it’s resigning to the inevitable – the step before the last breath. Still, it’s sad to silence voices that

ring true, and I can’t help but think Dad would have been pleased to hear his colleagues compare him to the legendary Kansas editorialist Wil-liam Allen White, opining at Dad’s service a couple weeks ago that his “editorial voice rang all across the state and region” and that he could write “tough editorials without being boisterous or rude.”“He could really write biting edi-

torials with a calm voice,” a long-time colleague said. “He didn’t have to raise his voice.”His secret? He learned that good

research and facts spoke louder than emotion. He had become, all 5’8” of him in his withered down frame, this gentle giant of a man.

In the end, it wasn’t about lessons learned or taught, politics or business, or places seen. It was about love, family, friends and community, and knowing you had done right by them.

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GRANVILLE — Richard Emery Eaton, 70, of Granville died Friday, May 10, 2013, at Gifford Medical Center.He was born April 17, 1943, in

Randolph, the son of Maurice and Minnie (Boutwell) Eaton of Hancock.He graduated from Rochester High

School in 1962.On Aug. 29, 1970, he married

Gilda Foley in Hancock. They were married for 42 years.He started his own business,

Richard’s Autobody, in Granville in 1971. He also worked at Advanced Illuminations before retiring.He was a member of the Grange,

Granville Fire Department and Valley Rescue Squad.His family says he enjoyed

mowing lawns, racing, and John Deere tractors.Survivors include a daughter, Julie

(Eaton) Leonard of Braintree;; two sons, Willis Eaton of Williamstown and Richard Eaton Jr. of Waterford;;

Rachel (Eaton) Longaway of Brandon and Marge (Eaton) Ross of Hancock;; a brother, Maurice Eaton of Hancock;; and several nieces and nephews.He was predeceased by his father,

Maurice Eaton;; mother, Minnie

Eaton;; and wife, Gilda (Foley) Eaton.A graveside service will be held

Friday, May 24, 2013, at 2 p.m. at the Hancock Cemetery.Memorial contributions may be

made to the American Cancer Society, 55 Day Lane, Williston, VT 05495.Private online condolences can be

left at www.dayfunerals.com.

ObituariesADDISON

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Eleanor Cline, 84, Middlebury

Richard Eaton, 70, Granville

MIDDLEBURY — Thursday, May 9, Eleanor Furney Cline passed away peacefully at Porter Hospital in Middlebury after a brief illness, surrounded by her husband, Ron;; her son, David;; and her great friend and caregiver, Dee Smith, one day before her 85th birthday.Eleanor is survived by her

husband and life partner of 41 years, Ron Cline, who resides at The Lodge at Otter Creek in Middlebury. El and Ron have been residents of Middlebury for 12 years, and together have been active participants in the Congregational Church and various charities since their arrival. Prior to that, Eleanor lived most of her adult life in Old Greenwich, Conn., where for 45 years family, friends, business and

She was born in Monroe, Mich., to Earl L. Sharp and Genevieve Eaton Sharp, on May 10, 1928. She gradu-ated from Monroe High School and received a BA from Miami of Ohio,

with honors. Eleanor’s son, David Furney of Bristol, and her grand-children, Matthew Furney of Victor, Idaho, and Anna Furney of New

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MIDDLEBURY — Patience Norton “Pat” Sisters, 89, a lifelong resident of the Vergennes area, died May 2, 2013, at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury.Born Nov. 18, 1923, in Vergennes,

she was the daughter of Donald H. Norton and Gertrude Piper Flanders.She was valedictorian of her 1941

Vergennes High School class. She attended the University of Chicago and Castleton State College prior to serving in the Army (WAC) during World War II at the Pentagon. She graduated from the University of Vermont and taught in local schools. She was a social worker for the state of Vermont for 20 years, from which she retired at age 55.She owned and ran the Cambridge

Inn;; she also worked as a guide at Shelburne Museum for many years. She was a proud member of The American Legion, D.A.R.

(Daughters of the American

Society. Her relatives say she was an avid bird watcher all her life and she enjoyed spending as much time with her family as she could.Surviving are her children,

Lucinda “Cindy” (Bill) Linney, Collierville, Tenn., Donald H. Sisters of Ferrisburgh, Catherine “Missy” Sisters of Charlotte and Bridget (Bruce) Bushey of Middlebury;; her foster daughter, Wendy (Ken) Baillargeon of Virginia;; her brother, Richard Norton of Lake St. Louis, Mo.;; seven grandchildren;; and eight great-grandchildren.She was predeceased by her

husband, Robert H. Sisters, and her sister, Catherine Norton Buehner.A funeral service will be held

in July at Gage Cemetery in Ferrisburgh.Donations can be made to the

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Edward Ricard, 76, Port Henry, N.Y.PORT HENRY, N.Y. — Edward

J. Ricard, age 76, died Sunday, May 19, 2013, at Fletcher Allen Health Center in Burlington with his daughters at his side. He was born in Middletown Springs, Vt., on Aug. 31, 1936, the son of Manuel and Eleanor (McLaughlin) Ricard.He attended Brandon High

School in Brandon, Vt., and married Phyllis Mosher in 1955. Mr. Ricard was a logger and operated heavy equipment.He was an avid hunter and a

over the state of Vermont and eastern New York with his very close friend, Geraldine Martel. They played at state fairs, nursing homes and other gatherings providing much pleasure to others less fortunate. He was a member of the Champlain Valley Fiddlers, Northeast Fiddlers and the Adirondack Fiddlers. He was a good friend to many and a wonder-ful brother, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.He is survived by two daugh-

ters, Judy (& George) Disorda and Sherry (& Bernard “Chip”)

Humiston, all of Brandon;; four grandchildren, Jesse (& Johanna) Disorda of Leicester, Gary (& Lily Bixby) Benoit of Brandon, Thomas (& LeAnne) Disorda of Salisbury and Chrysty (& Chad) Palmer of Arlington, Wash.;; nine great-grandchildren, Bradley, Dylan, Jared, Cole and Riley Disorda, Stephanie and Lauren Palmer and Colby and Reece Benoit;; a sister,

Lorna Ricard, Hartford, Vt., and a brother, Byron Ricard of Brandon;; and aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces.He was predeceased by his

parents;; two brothers, Donald Ricard and Leslie Ricard;; and a special friend, Frances Cowin.Calling hours were scheduled

from 5-7 p.m., Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at the Harland Funeral Home, 4279 South Main St., Port Henry, N.Y., and on Thursday, May 23, 2013, from 5-7 p.m. at Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home, 26 Franklin St., Brandon. The funeral will be conducted Friday, May 24, 2013, at 11 a.m. in the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home. Reverend John McDonald, pastor of the Forest Dale Wesleyan Church in Forest Dale, will officiate. A graveside burial and committal service will follow in Forest Dale Cemetery in Forest Dale.Memorial contributions in lieu of

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RIPTON — An interment service for Virginia Lazarus, 60, of Ripton, who died Dec. 22, 2012, will be held on May 25, 2013, at noon at Galvin Cemetery, Ripton (2 miles east of the town, just before Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus). Friends and neighbors are invited to

BRISTOL — A graveside service for Mildred Rachel Terry of Burlington, who died Feb. 19,

2013, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 25, in Greenwood Cemetery, Bristol.

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BRISTOL — National Honor Society students at Mount Abraham Union High School will host a blood drive for the American Red Cross on Tuesday, May 28, from noon to 5:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium. Pizza will be served afterward for all donors.Almost everyone during their life

will know someone who needs a blood transfusion. They may be car accident or trauma victims, cancer or trans-plant patients, or people with sickle cell disease or other blood disorders. There is no substitute and still only one source of blood for transfusion — volunteer blood donors. Some facts about blood:

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can only come from volunteer donors.Volunteers can walk in or make

an appointment by visiting redcross-blood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS. Participants must be at least 17 years of age (or 16, with a parental consent form) to donate.This blood drive is sponsored by

Sargent Concrete Construction and Cubbers Restaurant.

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Artist Haas’ paintings

depict lost ships rebornFERRISBURGH — The Lake

Champlain Maritime Museum in Ferrisburgh presents “Vanished Vessels Made Visible: Marine Artist Ernest Haas,” a unique one-time exhibition of nautical-historical paintings by the well-known marine artist from South Burlington.The exhibit opens with an

artist’s reception on Saturday, June 1, from 2-4 p.m. at the Owen

Education Center on the museum grounds at Basin Harbor. It will feature 10 to 15 works on loan from patrons throughout the Northeast and Canada, as well as a selection of Haas’ newest paintings.The exhibit is open daily from 10

a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum members are admitted free.“Vanished Vessels Made

Visible” will be on exhibit through Aug. 18.

ADDISON COUNTY

StudentBRIEFSElizabeth Sabourin of

Shoreham finished up a semester-long internship on the Chicago Semester program, an off-campus program in which students live, learn, and work in Chicago. Sabourin is a 2013 Dordt College graduate with a major in social work. She also has a minor in psychology.Thomas Daniel Dickerson and

Molly Berger Saunders recently graduated from St. Michael’s College.Dickerson, son of Deborah and

Matthew Dickerson of Bristol, graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in computer science, physics and mathematics.Saunders, daughter of Katie

Saunders of Middlebury and Tom Saunders of Middlebury, gradu-ated with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology and anthropology.Sarah Selby of New Haven

received the Digital Arts and Sciences Sophomore Award at a recent Clarkson University Recognition Day ceremony. This award is given annually to an outstanding sophomore majoring in Digital Arts and Sciences.Emily Taryn Davidson-Toman

of Goshen, Racheal S. Liberty of Leicester and Lauren Lindsey Peck of Weybridge were named to the dean’s list for the spring 2013 semester at Keene State College in Keene, N.H.April Mentzer of Ferrisburgh

was inducted into Phi Alpha Honor Society for social work students during ceremonies conducted by the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont earlier this spring.Anna Claire Pierattini of

Bristol, a senior at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., was named to the dean’s list for the spring 2013 semester.


On Mother’s Day, I awoke to hear one of my favorite interview-ers (Krista Tippett) in conversation with one of my favorite American Jewish-Buddhist thinkers — yes, there are actually quite a few of those — Sylvia Boorstein. Af-

immediately texted my mother, “Happy Mother’s Day! And, btw, you should listen to ‘On Being’ right now, Krista is interviewing one of my favorite Jew-Bu’s.” I don’t often text my mother, but in that unique-strange-challenging and thankfully humorous world of “adult middle-aged women and their mothers,” I didn’t really want to talk -ing, I just wanted to pass on Syl-via’s advice.Boorstein, the author of “That’s

Funny, You Don’t Look Bud-dhist,” often describes herself as a “wife, mother, grandmother, au-thor, teacher and psychotherapist,” placing an emphasis on mothering and grandmoth-ering as the ac-complishments of which she is most proud. She speaks wisely and tender-ly about how par-enting involves “mortgaging your heart” the minute you bring a child into your life. She says this not to arouse fear or regret in her lis-teners, but simply to acknowledge “what is” in terms of the profound beauty and loss of control that comes with parenting. When you are pregnant, she mused, “every-one says, ‘Congratulations! Good, good, good”;; no one says, “Brace yourself.” A chief aim of mindfulness-

practice is learning how to nurture equanimity, even when the vicis-situdes of life make you feel like equanimity is impossible, even

absurd. Equanimity is not about sailing through life refusing to be affected by the deep loves, losses and challenges that life inevitably deliv-ers. It’s about recog-nizing what is hap-pening and learning how not to increase your suffering by actively hating, wor-rying about or try-ing to change what is going on (which I am prone to do on a regular basis!). In her own life,

Boorstein has said, “I tell people that I can have the most profound equanimity and be two words away from falling apart completely.” “What are the two words?” her students ask. “Well,” replies Boorstein, “You have to un-

the phone rings … and then the voice on the other end says ‘Hello, Ma?’ and you know it doesn’t sound right?” When Boorstein recount-ed this story before a large audience, the roar of laughter that interrupted her

needn’t say more. Everyone got it. What I loved

the most about Sylvia Boorstein’s

conversation with Krista Tippett, however, was how she made ac-cessible the traditional Buddhist teachings on how we increase our own suffering. Boorstein spoke of being a chronic worrier, in part be-cause she grew up with a mother who had a heart condition. But to see one’s self as “a worrier,” Boor-stein explains, leads one to become trapped in an identity that isn’t

real;; rather, she advises, we should see our emotional tendencies as “a glitch of neurolo-gy.” In saying this, Boorstein is being metaphorical, not

metaphor is help-ful for understand-ing our particular default responses to the things that life throws our way. As Boorstein puts it, “When I am challenged, worry arises in my mind. … It came with the equipment. I’m also short and I

have brown eyes.” For others, she added, the default response might be seeking sensual distraction “like ‘Where’s the donut shop?’” Again, the audience laughed. The point, Boorstein added, is not trying to banish your “peculiar neurological glitch,” but to learn “to work with it wisely.” I don’t know about you, but I

-ing. It tells things like they are, but in ways that release us from the sticky web of self-judgment. For example: “Sometimes when I ought to call my mother, avoidance arises in me.” I know such a feeling is very rare among adult daughters, but is it really so bad? On Mother’s Day morning, by not self-judging, I could notice my mixed feelings as well as my need for the sensual dis-traction of coffee. I could send my mom a text and direct her to some Buddhist advice I really thought she could use (which, I confess, was kind of fun). And then I called her in the afternoon and we had a truly lovely conversation.Rebecca Kneale Gould is associ-

ate professor of religion and envi-ronmental studies at Middlebury College and a “boutique shep-herd” in Monkton.

Ways of SeeingBy Rebecca Kneale Gould

I n her own life, Boorstein has said, “I

tell people that I can have the most profound equanimity and be two words away from falling apart completely.”

Middlebury Fire DepartmentMonday, May 27th, 2013

The Middlebury Fire Department would like to invite the public to the open house

A reflection on Mother’s Day

Lake Champlain Maritime Mu-seum’s schooner Lois McClure is preparing to embark on her 2013 tour. This year’s thematic and inter-pretive message is “1813: The Ship-wrights’ War, and Other Stories.”“The shipbuilding races and na-

val battles of 1813 helped to de-termine the outcome of the War of 1812, and left a legacy of ship-wrecks beneath the waters of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain,” explains Art Cohn, special project director. “Our dynamic outreach program explores history where it hap-pened, on the anniversary of the cross-border war that ushered in 200 years of peace.”The journey begins in June on the

Champlain Canal, and continues west across the Erie Canal to Buffa-lo, N.Y., to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory at the Battle

of Lake Erie — an event of special interest to Senior Capt. Roger Tay-lor, a descendant of the commodore. The schooner will enter Lake Ontar-io via the Oswego Canal, and then travel down the St. Lawrence and Richelieu, returning to Lake Cham-plain in October.“Enthusiasm and demand for the

tour is very high,” reports Erick Tichonuk, LCMM co-director. “We have been invited to visit more than 40 communities in New York, On-tario and Quebec, including many new ports of call, and fundraising efforts are in full gear to make them all possible.”New York State Canal Corp. has

already signed on as a principal 2013 partner. Free admission is of-fered throughout the tour thanks to the generous support of sponsors including the state of Vermont, Parcs Canada, the farm families of Cabot Creamery, Lake Champlain Chocolates, and Shelburne Ship-

yard. “Sponsorship opportunities are still available,” says Ticho-nuk. “Our wonderful partners and sponsors have made possible every journey this boat has taken. You can follow our progress at www.

in the weeks ahead.”LCMM’s authentic replica 1862

canal schooner Lois McClure has no means of propulsion other than sail, so 1964 tugboat C.L. Churchill serves as power. As with all wood-en vessels, constant care and main-tenance is needed to ensure safe and effective operation. LCMM

the Friends of C.L. Churchill, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC), Lake Champlain Basin Program, and LTC for their help and support of tour planning and vessel mainte-nance and operations.For more information visit www.

lcmm.org or call 802-475-2022.

THE SCHOONER LOIS McClure nestles between the dock and the tugboat C.L. Churchill. The Lake Cham-plain Maritime Museum has announced the replica boat’s 2013 tour of waterways across the Northeast.

The Lois McClure to begin it’s tour

Workshop offers college advice to high schoolersMIDDLEBURY — Middlebury

College will offer its free annual Col-lege Counseling Workshop, spon-sored by the college’s admissions

-rdell Bicentennial Hall on Bicenten-nial Way off of College Street (Route 125). The event is open to the public — high school age children of Mid-dlebury alumni, faculty and staff are invited, as are students from Vermont high schools. Preference is given to high school juniors.The program gives an overview of

the general selective college applica-tion process and does not focus on

Middlebury College. The workshop is from 8:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and covers

how to visit a college, how a college -

derstanding the common application.

workshop participants may schedule individual afternoon appointments with Middlebury’s Student Financial

College may join a group information session at 1:30 p.m. Campus tours will take place at 2:30 p.m. Parents are invited to all activities.Registration for the free workshop

is required, and the deadline to reg-ister is Tuesday, May 28. For a com-plete schedule and to register, visit www.middlebury.edu/admissions/start/ccworkshop. Contact the admis-

[email protected] with questions.

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HANCOCK — The Community Church of Hancock and Granville cel-ebrated Pentacost Sunday by welcom-ing two new members into our congre-gation. We continued the celebration with a coffee hour after the church service. At that time we also held the

prizes. We had 31 prizes and winners. You will be contacted by those who sold the tickets if you won a prize. The church would like to thank all the so-licitors, businesses and buyers of tick-ets that participated in our fundraiser;; we greatly appreciate it.Check us out on Facebook, listed as

Community Church of Hancock and Granville.

Erin M. Connor, a student at Middlebury Union High School, will receive a $500 scholarship from the American Legion Department of Vermont. Connor is one of 12 stu-dents selected from more than 400 applicants to receive American Le-gion scholarships from the Depart-ment this year.

Mark Paul and Debra Paul of Starksboro have been selected to participate in summer 2013 global graduate studies as part of Miami

Earth Expeditions Program. They will travel to Kenya to study wildlife and people in integrated landscapes.Mark is a staff member at Essex

High School. Debra is a staff member at F.H. Tuttle Middle School in Essex.

ADDISON COUNTY

School News BriefsCastleton names area graduatesCASTLETON — The following

area residents graduated from Castle-ton State College on May 18:Amber Blodgett of Orwell, BS;;

Amy Chesley of Bristol, BA;; Dani-elle Cummings of Orwell, BA;; Kath-erine Curler of North Ferrisburgh, BSW;; Sarah Ethier of Brandon, BS;; Heather Flavell of Salisbury, AS;; James Gabriel of Bridport, AS;; Meghan Greeno of Brandon, BA;; Kerri Hoag of Bristol, BA;; Shannon Jipner of Bristol, BA;; Robin Kenyon of Ferrisburgh, AS;; Corey Kimball of North Ferrisburgh, BS;; Judd Mackey

of Salisbury, MA;; and Emma Marte-nis-Robiner of Middlebury, AS.Also, Louise Masterson of Middle-

bury, BA;; Molly Miles of Brandon, BS;; Jessa Mondlak of Brandon, BA;; Andrea Quesnel of Whiting, BA;; Brittni Racine of Forest Dale, AS;; Samantha Raymond of East Middle-bury, BS;; Celeste Romano of Bran-don, BA;; Kara Rublee of Starksboro, BA;; Sharon Stearns of Brandon, MS;; David Stone of Brandon, BS;; Patrick West of Bristol, BS;; Moses Whit-comb of Starksboro, BS;; and Marie Winner of Middlebury, AS.

Champlain Collegespring dean’s listBURLINGTON — The following

area residents have been named to the spring 2013 dean’s list at Champlain College:Ashlie Allen of North Ferrisburgh,

accounting;; Monica Birchmore of Ad-dison, accounting;; Ashlie Delphia of Brandon, accounting;; Christina Del-phia of New Haven, marketing;; Joseph Hynson of Cornwall, professional writing;; and Sarah Lucia of Vergennes, professional writing.

Natalie Dayton of Middlebury received a B.S. degree from Keene State College on May 11.

Gwen Fitz-Gerald of Monkton received her M.D. degree from the University of Vermont on May 19. She says she hopes to return to Ver-mont after a residency in Denver, Colo.

Vincent Montello of Orwell grad-uated from the College of St. Joseph in Rutland with a bachelor of arts de-gree in liberal studies.


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THURSDAYMay 23

in Middlebury. Thursday, May 23, 6-7:15 p.m., Ilsley Library. Learn the basics of

income may make sense as part of an investment strategy. Reservations: 877-6559. Refreshments and snacks will be served.

“Much Ado About Nothing” on stage in Middlebury. Thursday, May 23, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Hannaford Career Center. Students in Addison Repertory Theater present the Shakespeare classic. Sellout is likely; reserve tickets soon at 382-1036. Also on May 24.

Comedy for a Cause! in Middlebury. Thursday, May 23, 8-9:30 p.m., American Legion. Standup comedy

standup comedians. Doors open at 7:30. Tickets $15, available at the door or at 388-7153.

FRIDAYMay24 Senior luncheon and bingo in

Middlebury. Friday, May 24, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Russ Sholes Senior Center. CVAA

sponsors bingo, starting at 11 a.m., followed by a lunch of penne pasta, cheese and Canadian bacon,

melon. Suggested donation $4. Bring your own place

634. Free transportation via ACTR: 388-1946. AARP Safe Driver Course in Vergennes. Friday, May 24, 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Armory Lane Senior Housing. A refresher course open to all drivers 50 and older. The curriculum addresses the normal physical changes brought on by the aging process and how to compensate for these changes. Some insurance companies offer discounts to drivers who have completed this class. Fee $12 for AARP members, $14 for non-members. Bring a lunch. Info and regis-tration: 870-7182.

Friday, May 24, 5-7:30 p.m., Walkover Gallery. Celebrating the open-ing of “Connections,” a group showing by Bristol

Friday,

Theater. Celebrating the opening of Fran Bull’s “Sound and Color,” opera portraits on paper inspired

illustrating the duality of performers in their roles. On

Table of Grace free meal in Vergennes. Friday, May 24, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church. Monthly dinner sponsored by the North Ferrisburgh United Methodist, St. Paul’s Episcopal, Vergennes Congregational and St. Peter’s churches. Free, but donations accepted. Menu: meat loaf with potatoes, gravy, corn and dessert.

“Much Ado About Nothing” on stage in Middlebury. Friday, May 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Hannaford Career Center. Students in Addison Repertory Theater present the Shakespeare classic. Sellout is likely; reserve tickets soon at 382-1036.

“Happy Good Time Stand Up Comedy Hour!” in Vergennes. Friday, May 24, 8-10 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Addison County comedian Tony Bates hosts a hilarious night of standup comedy,

Festival. Tickets $10. Cash bar. Tickets available online at http://vtcomedy.ticketleap.com.

Senior Week choral concert at Middlebury College. Friday, May 24, 8-10 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts. The Middlebury College Choir celebrates its graduates with a concert of students’ favorite reper-toire from the past four years. Free. Info: 443-3168 or www.middlebury.edu/arts.

SATURDAYMay25 School tag sale in Weybridge.

Saturday, May 25, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Weybridge Elementary School. Large selec-

tion of clothes, toys, housewares, sports equipment, books and more. Donations can be dropped off at the school after May 21. Info: 545-2113.

Saturday, May 25, 9 a.m.-noon, West Addison General Store (WAGS). The women of the United Methodist Church of West Addison will hold their annual bake sale. Homemade donuts. Fresh homemade pies available: apple, lemon, rhubarb, blueberry and chocolate. Reserve pies by calling 759-2392.

Plant sale in Vergennes. Saturday, May 25, 9 a.m.-

sale with annuals, perennials, herbs and more, plus Memorial Day pinwheels. Preorder Audets’ composted manure, $7 per 30-pound bag, by May

Donations of plants welcome through Friday, May 24. Info: 877-6392.

Plant, book and bake sale in Orwell. Saturday, May 25, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Orwell Free Library. Plants, used

library. Info: 948-2041. School yard sale in Middlebury. Saturday, May 25, 9 a.m.-noon, Quarry Hill School, 1622 Quarry Road.

-wares, adult and kid clothes, games and more.

Two-day town-wide sale in New Haven. Saturday, May 25, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., lawns and garages through-out town. Maps available starting May 20 at the town

Maps and info: 453-5978. Continues on May 26. Annual book, plant and bake sale in Lincoln. Saturday, May 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Lincoln Library. Annual Front Porch Book and Bake Sale and Side Porch Plant Sale, featuring annuals and perennials. Local musician Lausanne Allen will provide back-ground music in the morning. Rain or shine.

Gallery grand opening in Vergennes. Saturday, May 25, 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m., Outerlands Gallery, 37 Green St. Celebrating the opening of a new contemporary

and national artists and craftspeople. Info: www.outerlandsgallery.com.

Spring Fling Carnival and Silent Auction in Lincoln. Saturday, May 25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Burnham Hall.

games, fair-style food, yard sale of children’s items,

$1 for four or $5 for 25. Auction items include gift

Park Hoppers, and more. Vermont Open Studio Weekend. Saturday, May 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., throughout Vermont. A statewide celebration of the visual arts when Vermont artists and craftspeople invite the public to visit their studios. Maps of Brandon-area open studies are available at the Brandon Artists’ Guild. Continues May 26.

Saturday, May 25, 11 a.m.-noon, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum.

Occupations students from the Hannaford Career Center will lead an on-water parade of the pilot gigs they built in LCMM’s Champlain Longboats program

Saturday, May 25, 5-7 p.m., Bristol

Club. Cost: $10 per plate, $5 for child’s hotdog plate.

SUNDAYMay26 Last-Sunday-of-the-month breakfast

in Vergennes. Sunday, May 26, 7:30-10 a.m., Dorchester Lodge, School Street. The

Dorchester Lodge F&AM will serve its regular all-you-can-eat breakfast with pancakes, French toast, bacon, sausage, home fries, scrambled eggs, juice and coffee.

Two-day town-wide sale in New Haven. Sunday, May 26, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., lawns and garages through-out town. Maps available starting May 20 at the town

Maps and info: 453-5978. Vermont Open Studio Weekend. Sunday, May 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., throughout Vermont. A statewide cele-bration of the visual arts when Vermont artists and craftspeople invite the public to visit their studios. Maps of Brandon-area open studies are available at the Brandon Artists’ Guild.

Memorial Day parade in Orwell. Sunday, May 26, 1:30-2:30 p.m., downtown Orwell.

Veterans’ memorial celebration and monument dedication in Salisbury. Sunday, May 26, 2-3 p.m., Veterans Park, intersection of Maple Street and West Shore Road. Speakers at the ceremony will

and students from the Salisbury Community School. Everyone is invited to attend this wonderful tribute to those people who have served our country. Veterans who lived in Salisbury when they joined the service are especially invited to attend. Bring chairs.

MONDAYMay27

Memorial Day parade in Middlebury. Monday, May 27, 9-10 a.m., downtown

Middlebury. Fire station open house in Middlebury. Monday, May 27, 10 a.m.-noon, Middlebury Fire Station No. 1, Seymour Street. The Middlebury Fire Department invites the public to tour the new station after the Memorial Day parade.

Monday, May 27, 10-11 a.m., downtown Brandon.

Memorial Day parade in Hancock. Monday, May 27, 10-11 a.m., downtown Hancock.

Memorial Day parade in Vergennes. Monday, May 27, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., downtown Vergennes.

Monday, May 27, 1-2 p.m., downtown Bristol.

TUESDAYMay28 Reception for Afghan teaching volun-

teers in Middlebury. Tuesday, May 28, 5:30-7 p.m., Ilsley Library. A reception to

honor returning volunteer teachers Loren Mejia and David Hamberlin of School of Leadership, Afghanistan. The program aims to increase educa-tional opportunities for Afghan women.

Milk & Honey Quilters’ Guild meeting in Middlebury. Tuesday, May 28, 7-9 p.m., American Legion. Mary Ellen Francis trunk show, featuring her “Angle Play” method of using rectangles to create triangles with

453-6995. StoryMatters meeting in Middlebury. Tuesday, May 28, 7-8 p.m., Ilsley Library. The local storytelling group gathers to share stories on the topic “1, 2, 3.” Bring up to three pictures to share as part of your

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WEDNESDAYMay29 Spring Into the Arts Festival at

Middlebury College. Wednesday, May 29, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Mahaney Center for the

Arts. Annual event in which students at Addison Central Supervisory Union public schools and local private schools present visual art, performances and workshops. Concert Wednesday evening. This year’s theme: “Art in Motion,” featuring artwork and performances that involve movement and will move people by evoking strong emotions. Student perfor-mances of dance, drums, opera and song. Festival continues May 30.

Wednesday, May 29, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Bristol American Legion. CVAA sponsors this senior meal of roast turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts, white bread, and birthday celebration cake. Suggested dona-tion $4 Bring your own place setting. Reservations

via ACTR: 388-1946. Gallery talk in Middlebury. Wednesday, May 29, noon-1 p.m., Henry Sheldon Museum. Bill Brooks,

on a century of dairy advertising, right up through the “Got Milk?” campaign. Presented in conjunction

Doorstep: Milk Delivery in New England.” Museum admission for nonmembers, free to members. Info: 388-2117 or www.henrysheldonmuseum.org.

Wednesday, May 29, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Middlebury town green.

Historical society annual meeting, potluck and presentation in Addison. Wednesday, May 29, 6-8 p.m., Addison Community Baptist Church. Bring a dish to share and your own place settings. Presentation: “Addison After the War: How Our Veterans Helped Build Our Town.” Info: 759-2380.

Wednesday, May 29, 7-9 p.m., Ilsley Library. “Everything’s Cool.” Shown in cooperation with the Congregational Church of Middlebury.

Spring Into the Arts Festival concert in Middlebury. Wednesday, May 29, 7-8 p.m., Middlebury Union High School auditorium. Part of the two-day Spring Into the Arts Festival.

THURSDAYMay30 Spring Into the Arts Festival at

Middlebury College. Thursday, May 30, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts.

Annual event in which students at Addison Central Supervisory Union public schools and local private

On a rollANTIQUE TRACTORS ROLL down Main Street at a past Memorial Day parade in Orwell. This

year’s parade is on Sunday, May 26, at 1:30 p.m. As usual, several communities are holding parades on Monday; see the calendar listings for details.

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calendarcommunityschools present visual art, performances and work-shops. This year’s theme: “Art in Motion,” featuring artwork and performances that involve movement and will move people by evoking strong emotions. Student performances of dance, drums, opera and song.

Two-day teen clothing swap and shop in Middlebury. Thursday, May 30, 3-6 p.m., Middlebury Union High School front hallway. Addison Central Teens hosts two days of swapping and bargain shopping. Students only until 3 p.m.; open to the public 3-6 p.m. Bring in teen-friendly gently used clothing, accessories, jewelry, knick-knacks, DVDs, CDs and more, and swap for other items based on a point system. Cash also accepted; everything inex-pensively priced. Drop off items for point cards at MUHS, May 22-24, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. or donate items any day at the teen center, 94 Main St., 3-6 p.m. Info: 989-8934 or [email protected]. Continues May 31.

United Way community celebration in Vergennes. Thursday, May 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. UWAC will recognize individuals and businesses for their service to the community. New this year: the Senior Youth Service Award. Free and open to the public. Please RSVP to 388-7189 or [email protected].

FRIDAYMay31 Senior luncheon and bingo in

Middlebury. Friday, May 31, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Russ Sholes Senior Center. CVAA

sponsors bingo, starting at 11 a.m., followed by a lunch of stuffed chicken, gravy, mashed potatoes, winter squash, dinner roll and chocolate cake. Suggested donation $4. Bring your own place setting. Reservations required: 1-800-642-5119, ext. 634. Free transportation via ACTR: 388-1946.

Senior luncheon in Middlebury. Friday, May 31, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Rosie’s Restaurant. CVAA and Rosie’s partner to bring area seniors a monthly luncheon. Ham and cheese quiche, green salad, fresh fruit and cookie. Suggested donation $5. Reservations required: 1-800-642-5119.

Two-day teen clothing swap and shop in Middlebury. Friday, May 31, 3-6 p.m., Middlebury Union High School front hallway. Addison Central Teens hosts two days of swapping and bargain shopping. Students only until 3 p.m.; open to the public 3-6 p.m. Bring in teen-friendly gently used clothing, accessories, jewelry, knick-knacks, DVDs, CDs and more, and swap for other items based on a point system. Cash also accepted; everything inex-pensively priced. Drop off items for point cards at MUHS, May 22-24, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. or donate items any day at the teen center, 94 Main St., 3-6 p.m. Info: 989-8934 or [email protected].

Monthly Drum Gathering in Bristol. Friday, May 31, 6-8 p.m., Recycled Reading of Vermont, 25A Main St. Recycled Reading’s gathering/circle/jam. Bring your own drum or use one of the provided drums or shakers. All ages welcome. Drop in. Info: 453-5982.

Family Bingo Night in Vergennes. Friday, May 31, 6:30-8 p.m., Vergennes Union High School cafete-ria. VUHS Friends of Music host this bingo night, with cards only 25 cents per game. Prizes donated by local businesses. Concessions on sale. Proceeds

Vergennes. Friday, May 31, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Flutist Anne Janson, harp-ist Heidi Soons and organist David Neiweem, along

funds for the opera house. Tickets $18 adults, $15 seniors, those younger than 18 free. Tickets at the VOH or Classic Stitching in Vergennes, or online at www.vergennesoperahouse.org. Info: 877-6737.

“Eugene Onegin” opera on stage in Middlebury. Friday, May 31, 8-10 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Opera Company of Middlebury produces Tchaikovsky’s most famous opera. Suzanne Kantorski-Merrill stars as Tatiana. Info: www.ocmvermont.org. Tickets $50/$55, available at 382-9222, www.townhallthe-

SATURDAYJun1 GMC Young Adventurers’ Club letter-

boxing in Goshen. Saturday, June 1, 9-11 a.m., Silver Lake. Andrea Kane leads

this GMC kids’ event. Info: 877-6597 or [email protected].

World Atlatl Day celebration in Addison. Saturday, June 1, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site. People all around the world will be using the atlatl this day. Be one of them. Try your hand at using this ancient spear throwing device. Info: 759-2412.

Rhubarb festival in Middlebury. Saturday, June 1, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Court. Enjoy all things rhubarb. Lunch; tearoom; rhubarb pies, confections, savo-ries and pastries. Cookbooks, used books, crafts, bling, jewelry, white elephants and plants for sale Children’s activities and music, too. Info: www.cvuus.org or 388-8080.

Summer beach books on sale in Middlebury. Saturday, June 1, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Ilsley Library. As part of the library’s regular book sale, there will be a special table featuring summer beach books. Good selection of art books as well. Proceeds fund library programs. Info: 388-4095.

Fire department open house in Bristol. Saturday, June 1, 1-3 p.m., Bristol Fire Department.

Artist’s reception in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, June 1, 2-4 p.m., Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Celebrating the opening of “Vanished Vessels Made Visible: Marine Artist Ernest Haas.” A one-time exhibit of nautical-historical paintings by South Burlington artist Ernest Haas. Museum admission required except for museum members.

Spring handbell concert in Middlebury. Saturday, June 1, 7-8:30 p.m., Middlebury Congregational Church. The Northern Bronze, a northern Vermont professional English handbell ensemble, will perform their spring concert of syncopated, jazzy rhythms. Tickets at the door: $12 adults, $10 seniors and chil-dren. Refreshments during intermission.

Caitlin Canty and Dietrich Strause in concert in Ripton. Saturday, June 1, 7:30-10 p.m., Ripton Community House. The Ripton Community Coffeehouse presents singer-songwriter Caitlin Canty with Dietrich Strause on electric and acoustic guitars, trumpet and vocals. One-hour open-mike set followed by the performers; call ahead to reserve

Volunteer Services. Admission $9, $6 for seniors and teens, $3 for children. Info: 388-9782.

SUNDAYJun2 “Eugene Onegin” opera on stage in

Middlebury. Sunday, June 2, 2-4 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Opera Company of

Middlebury produces Tchaikovsky’s most famous

opera. Suzanne Kantorski-Merrill stars as Tatiana. Info: www.ocmvermont.org. Tickets $50/$55, avail-able at 382-9222, www.townhalltheater.org, or the

MONDAYJun3 Legislative breakfast in Bridport.

Monday, June 3, 7-8:45 a.m., Bridport Grange Hall. Breakfast at 7 a.m., program

7:30-8:45. “Rights and Responsibilities” workshop in Middlebury. Monday, June 3, 4-6 p.m., Ilsley Library Community Room. Speak Up! Addison County hosts this event, part of a series of self-advocacy workshops for people with disabilities. Register

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Gun Sense Vermont organizational meeting in Middlebury. Monday, June 3, 7-9 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society. Gun Sense Vermont is a coalition of Vermonters who support reasonable gun safety legislation. This meeting is for Addison County residents who would like to help with the organization’s petition to ask the governor and Legislature to pursue such legislation next term. Info: [email protected].

TUESDAYJun4 Talk on Palestine in Middlebury.

Tuesday, June 4, 7-8 p.m., Ilsley Library. Peace maker, organizer, educator and father

Mohammad Sawalha will give an illustrated talk about life under occupation in Palestine, and camps that seek to give respite to children and teens. Info: 388-4095.

THURSDAYJun6 Open house for Sarah Lawton in

Middlebury. Thursday, June 6, 3:30-5 p.m., Ilsley Library. Stop in to say goodbye

to Librarian for Youth Services Sarah Lawton on her last day at the library. Info: 388-4095.

Band concert rehearsal in Vergennes. Thursday, June 6, 7-9 p.m., VUHS band room. Instrumentalists of all ages are welcome to join the Vergennes City Band, which performs every Monday night, June 24-Aug. 19, in the Vergennes City Park. Rehearsals also on June 10 and 17. Info: 877-2938, ext. 218.

Twist O’ Wool Spinning Guild meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, June 6, 7-9 p.m., American Legion. Potluck dinner at 6 followed by a general

are welcome. Info: 453-5960. “Eugene Onegin” opera on stage in Middlebury. Thursday, June 6, 8-10 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Opera Company of Middlebury produces Tchaikovsky’s most famous opera. Suzanne Kantorski-Merrill stars as Tatiana. Info: www.ocmvermont.org. Tickets $50/$55, available at 382-9222, www.townhalltheater.org, or the THT box

FRIDAYJun7 “Edward Hopper in Vermont” illus-

trated lecture at Middlebury College. Friday, June 7, 4-5:30 p.m., Mahaney Center

for the Arts. Presented by Bonnie Tocher Clause, author of “Edward Hopper in Vermont,” the catalyst for one of the Middlebury College Museum of Arts’ summer exhibitions. Free. Info: go.middlebury.edu/arts.

The Luce Trio in concert in Brandon. Friday, June 7, 7-9 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Road. Baroque and early music in a jazz context. Jon De Lucia on alto sax and sruti box, Ryan Ferreira on electric guitar, and Chris Tordini on double bass.

info@brandon-music.net. “Eugene Onegin” opera on stage in Middlebury. Friday, June 7, 8-10 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Opera Company of Middlebury produces Tchaikovsky’s most famous opera. Suzanne Kantorski-Merrill stars as Tatiana. Info: www.ocmvermont.org. Tickets $50/$55, available at 382-9222, www.

through June 8.

L IVEMUSICCooper and LaVoie in Middlebury. Thursday, May 23, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main.

Eight 02 in Middlebury. Friday, May 24, 8-11 p.m., 51 Main.

The Joe Moore Band in Middlebury. Friday, May 24, 10 p.m.-midnight, Two Brothers Tavern.

Bella’s Bartok in Middlebury. Saturday, May 25, 10 p.m.-midnight, Two Brothers Tavern.

Moonschein in Middlebury. Friday, May 31, 7-9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern.

The Ryan Hanson Band in Middlebury. Friday, May 31, 10 p.m.-midnight, Two Brothers Tavern.

ONGOINGEVENTSBy category: Farmers’ Markets, Sports, Clubs & Organizations, Government & Politics, Bingo, Fund-Raising Sales, Dance, Music, Arts & Education, Health & Parenting, Meals, Art Exhibits & Museums, Library Programs.

FARMERS’ MARKETSMiddlebury Farmers’ Market. Saturdays, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., on the green at the Marble Works, starting May 4, as well as on Wednesdays starting June 12. Local produce, meats, cheese and eggs, baked goods, jams, prepared foods and more. EBT and debit cards welcome. Info: www.MiddleburyFarmersMarket.org or on Facebook.

SPORTSCo-ed volleyball in Middlebury. Pick-up games Monday, 7-9 p.m., Middlebury Municipal Gym. Jack Brown, 388-2502; Bruce at Middlebury Recreation Department, 388-8103.

CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS

the school years: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 3-6 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 3-7 p.m. 94 Main St.

Teen drop-in space for kids. Hang out with friends, play pool, watch movies, and eat great food. Baking: every Thursday from 3:30-5 p.m. Info: 388-3910 or www.addisonteens.com.

Addison County Amateur Radio Association. Sunday, 8 p.m. On the air on club repeater 147.36/147.96 MHz, 100 Hz access tone. Nonmembers and visi-tors welcome.

Addison County Emergency Planning Committee. Last Wednesday, 5 p.m. State Police Barracks. Public invited.

Addison County Republican Party. Third Friday, 7 p.m., Ilsley Library, Middlebury. 897-2744.

American Legion Auxiliary Post 27. Fourth Monday, 7 p.m. American Legion, Wilson Road, Middlebury.

Addison County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Fourth Tuesday, noon-1:30 p.m. Addison County Courthouse in Middlebury. 388-9180.

Brandon Lions Club. First and third Tuesday, 7 p.m., Brandon Senior Center.

Brandon Senior Citizen Center. 1591 Forest Dale Road. 247-3121.

The Hub Teen Center and Skatepark. 110 Airport Drive,

5:30-7:30 p.m., free for all ages; reserve a spot at [email protected]. Info: 453-3678 or www.bristols-katepark.com.

Youth support group meets Monday nights, 4-6 p.m., Turningpoint Center, Marble Works, Middlebury. Info: 388-4249.

Middlebury Garden Club. Second Tuesday. Location varies. Barbara: 388-8268.

Fourth Monday, 5-7 p.m. NEAT studio in Bristol. Bruce Duncan, [email protected].

Neshobe Sportsman Club. Second Monday, 6 p.m. potluck; 7 p.m. meeting. 97 Frog Hollow Road in Brandon.

Otter Creek Poets. Open poetry workshop held Thursdays, 1-3 p.m. Ilsley Library in Middlebury. Poets of all ages are invited to share their poetry for feedback, encouragement and optional weekly

Orwell Historical Society. Fourth Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

What goes aroundCHRISTINA KOLLER AND Justin Warren of Spynergy Circus Arts will show off their skills

at a Spring Into the Arts concert at Middlebury Union High School on Wednesday, May 29, at 7 p.m. The Spring Into the Arts festival — showcasing art and performances by area stu-dents as well as demonstrations by professional guest artists — takes place at Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts on May 29 and 30.

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PACT (People of Addison County Together). Third Thursday,

989-8141.

Vergennes Lions Club. First and third Wednesday, 6 p.m.,

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St. Peter’s Closet in Vergennes. Behind St. Peter’s. Open Fridays 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon, and by

Two Brothers Tavern’s Charitable Mondays. First Monday. 10

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Brandon Artists’ Guild. 7 Center St., Brandon. Gallery open 10

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The National Museum of the Morgan Horse. 34 Main St.,

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Thursday, 10:30 a.m.

Friday at 1 p.m. with Deb Lendway. Movies shown every

DVDs. Other items available through interlibrary loan.

Writers’ Club, third Thursday of every month, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

the Children’s Room at 388-4097.

Children’s story time, Mondays, 10:30-11 a.m., Thursdays,

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Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Programs on website: www.plattlib.org.

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His and hersPAT LAFFIN’S MIXED-MEDIA piece “Man/

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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College’s Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (MCA) will come alive with students from preschool through high school on May 29 and 30, when the Addison Central Supervisory Union celebrates the 15th ACSU Spring into the Arts festival. MCA generously hosts this exhibition of student artwork and performances, allowing nearly 2,000 students and adults to enjoy the two-day celebration. Spring into the Arts (SITA) celebrates

the artistic accomplishments of students and their teachers in Addison County schools. Organized by Addison Central Supervisory Union and community volunteers, SITA showcases artwork and performances by students from all ACSU schools as well as St. Mary’s, Aurora and Bridge schools. Student performances will include African

dance and drumming, poetry and song expressed through American Sign Language, dance performances, blue-grass music, jazz and opera. Area busi-nesses and the Ilsley Library support the event with displays of student artwork during the last two weeks of May.SITA also features adult artists who

teach workshops and demonstrate their artistry and craft to Addison Central students, teachers and community members. In an expansion from previ-ous years, students will participate in four different professional work-shops at SITA 2013, each tying into this year’s theme, “Art in Motion.” Christal Brown comes to SITA from Middlebury College, where she is an assistant professor of dance. Brown has an extensive performance and teaching career, and has established a number of programs fusing together dance and

youth development. She will demon-strate her athleticism, creativity, love for people and passion for teaching as she teaches contemporary dance to students in grades 5 to 12.Ann Legunn, founder and executive

director of the PuppeTree, comes from Thetford to teach students how to build their own puppets. Legunn’s years in puppetry include children’s theater workshops, senior and intergenera-tional programs, and performances at schools.Laura King, the ACSU elementary

teacher leader for literacy, performs as Friend-in-Hand Puppetry. King will use her love of puppetry, creative stories and storytelling to engage audience members in a puppet story.Christina Koller and Justin Warren

make up Spynergy Circus Arts, and will promote circus performance as an

art form as they teach students group juggling, poi spinning and diabolo. Koller, a Bridport Central School alum, now attends Vassar College, where she and Warren are juniors and also

The public is invited to view student artwork and performances from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 29 and 30 at the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Student artwork may be viewed until 6 p.m. The public is also invited to an evening performance on Wednesday, May 29, at 7 p.m. at Middlebury Union High School. The evening performance will feature Christal Brown, Spynergy Circus Arts and the ACSU Elementary Student Chorus.For more information or a full

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MIDDLEBURY — With over 200 years of combined experi-ence, 19 Addison County Home Health and Hospice (ACHHH) employees were recognized for their devotion to patients and years of dedicated service. The annual banquet honored employees at the

five-, 10-, 15-, 20- and 30-year benchmarks, along with special award recognition for employees with outstanding service.

chosen by his peers as the recipi-ent of the Jane Gardner Award for Clinical Excellence, the agency’s

highest honor for nurses. The qualities which are valued are integrity, caring and compassion;; creativity in teaching patients and families;; the willingness to perse-vere in challenging situations;; and the belief that each individual has intrinsic value.

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for Care Award for Outstanding Performance, awarded to Mary Bingham.The annual banquet is an oppor-

tunity to recognize and appreci-ate the work and dedication of

Addison County Home Health and Hospice employees. In his message to the staff, Clinical

MPH, said, “Every day, you touch the lives of patients, in person and from behind the scenes. Your work matters every day.”

ADDISON COUNTY HOME Health and Hospice employees recently honored at the agency’s annual award ceremony were, clockwise from top: Alisa Breau, second from left, pictured with award presenter Jennifer Oxford, OT, to her left and, to her right, her family and ACHHH Clinical Director Jim Budis; top center: Barb Gevry, LNA, far left, with her family; top right: Human Resources Specialist Stacey Sherman, right, with presenter Paige Gallo, CFO; bottom left: Mary Bingham, right, with presenter June Glebus, RN; bottom right: John Buonincontro, RN, center, with his family and Oxford.

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ily,” Lilly said.It’s not that she has minded the

many hours outside of the class-room, though. “Don’t get me wrong, this has

been my life. It’s just the nature of the job,” Lilly said. “I’ve always put 110 percent in, and the stu-dents have been a part of me for forever.”FCS Principal Joanne

Taft-Blakely said Lilly will “absolutely be missed” at the school because Lilly is a “solid-across-the-board” teacher who put those stu-

“She’s just a great teach-er,” Taft-Blakely said. “She is really all about the kids and what do we need to do to help them learn.”Taft-Blakely said Lilly is “not

afraid to learn something new” and

respected” at the school. Taft-Blakely also pointed to Lil-

ly’s role in establishing the annual FCS Producers Fair, which high-lights students’ research on local farmers and farmers’ products, and the “Invention Convention,” which requires third-graders to build a me-chanical creation that perform a task. “She has started traditions that

will live on after she has retired,” she said. STEPPING DOWNAnother reason for retiring is that

Lilly does not want to follow her mother’s path fully. Twenty-four years ago, her mother called it quits at the age of 55. Her retirement was sadly short.

“I sort of get emotional about this, my mother … retired in June, and the

massive heart attack,” Lilly said. “So I’ve always said I’m not going to do that. I consider myself healthy and I want to do other things, and that’s in the back of my mind.”

One of those things she wants to do is spend more time with the hobby she shares with Craig, John and Morgan Lilly. They all drive in tractor-pulling competitions throughout Vermont and eastern New York. For the past four years, when Lilly herself has taken the wheel, her tractor has been labeled “Teacher’s Pet.”

“We love it because we do it as a family,” she said.Lilly will not retire from work. In

the past seven years, she has worked part-time during school vacations and summers for the related Bridport businesses Mike’s Fuels and M. Bor-deleau and Sons Trucking LLC.

-tomer relations and dispatched fuel deliveries, and she said owner Mike Bordeleau offered her full-time work

from her home. At the same time, Addison Northwest Supervisory Union was offering incentive pack-ages to veteran teachers who were considering retirement, and Lilly can collect her education pension.

-joyed the second job, and after three decades at FCS she didn’t want to

“It’s completely different than

working with students every day,” Lilly said. “I said, yeah, I think it’s time.”LOOKING BACK

A highlight of those years came when she was hon-ored as Vermont’s Conser-vation Teacher of the Year.“That was such an hon-

or. I went around the state showing the interdisciplin-ary unit I had made,” she said.Fourteen years ago,

Lilly decided she wanted a change, and asked if she could move into a third-grade opening. She has remained in third grade since, and has a slight preference for the younger grade.“They all have the dif-

ferent challenges. I think I like the lower grade just a little bit (better) only because they are just so

said. “They’re like little sponges.”Also, maybe her style is better

suited to the younger students. “If they come in and they’ve had

a bad day or something and they need a hug, (I do),” she said. “Some people say, boy you can’t give your students hugs. But you know what? Sometimes these little guys, they just need a little hug to say it’s going to be OK.”During her third-grade years,

Lilly and former FCS teacher Jane Brace co-wrote a grant that funded visits from local farmers to FCS

farms. That idea grew into the Pro-ducers Fairs, of which about a half-dozen have been held and more are planned, according to Taft-Blakeley. In those, students host booths on school grounds with local farmers,

whose work they have re-searched.The event was not held

this year because instead Lilly helped introduce visits from local busi-nesses to FCS third-grade classrooms, where the

-onstrations. Students will be making promotional posters for the businesses. This week, purple

streaked Lilly’s hair over her right temple, courtesy of one of those visits, from Shear Cuts in Ver-gennes.“Oh, gosh, I’m just the

coolest teacher at the mo-ment because I have purple in my hair,” she said.Lilly won’t miss some of the state,

federal and district mandates that at times she feels pull teachers in too many directions. “Let’s do what we do now and do

it well,” she said. “Let’s not try to do so many new initiatives that you re-ally can’t do one well.”But she will miss her third-grad-

ers. “I think it’s going to be hard the

not having to get my classroom ready,” Lilly said. “It will hit me in August.”Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at

[email protected].

Lilly(Continued from Page 1A)

“(My mother) was very proud of her students, and totally was vested in what she was doing with them, and I feel like I am following in her footsteps.”

— Alana Lilly

“That is something that I feel very proud (about), that I see the ‘ahas’ in students.”

— Alana Lilly

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a blood transfusion. They may be car accident or trauma victims, can-cer or transplant patients, or people with sickle cell disease or other blood disorders. The only source for blood for transfusions is through donations. The public is invited to Mount Abe for an American Red Cross blood drive on Tuesday, May 28, from noon to 5:30 p.m. in the gym. Pizza will be served to all donors. Volunteers can walk in or make an appointment by visiting redcrossblood.org or calling 1-800-RED CROSS. Participants are re-

younger than 17 need a completed parental consent form. Sargent Con-crete Construction and Cubbers Restaurant are sponsoring the drive.

Sodbusters Horseshoe Club, which this year is moving opera-tions from its longtime home in Middlebury to courts in Bristol,

Saturday, May 25. The fundrais-er at the Bristol Recreation Field starts at 5 p.m. The charge will be $10 per plate;; but you can get a kid’s hot dog plate for $5.

The Sheldon Museum has a few spaces available for an evening of wine tasting at Basin Harbor Club on Thursday, May 30. The upscale, Ferrisburgh club’s sommelier, Josh, will host a wine tasting fundraiser

of eight to 10 wines will be fea-tured, accompanied by cheese, fruit

a beautiful lakeside setting with your friends. The event is limited

to 24 guests. The cost per person is $50. An added bonus provided by the Basin Harbor Club is a 10 percent discount coupon for dining at the Red Mill Restaurant during the 2013 season. Call the Sheldon to make a reservation at 388-2117.

Those who remember Monsi-gnor Peter Routhier, who was a priest at St. Mary’s in Middle-bury 30 years ago, would like to know that Father Routhier’s fa-ther, Armand J. Routhier, died last week at age 92. A native of Quebec, Routhier père was a decorated U.S. Army veteran of World War II, and he worked for the Vermont state highway de-partment for years. Msgr. Routh-ier resides in Burlington.

Addison County Transit Re-sources and Chittenden County Transportation Authority are re-minding folks who drive between Middlebury and Burlington for work that they will be able to avoid road construction-related issues on

the bus that the two organizations

serves commuters and residents;; each weekday morning and eve-ning there is one round trip be-tween Middlebury and Burlington, with a second round trip between Hinesburg and Burlington. CCTA and ACTR will do their best to run

and on schedule. However, delays may occur on this route due to the

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For those traveling around Lake Dunmore, a driver told us this week that the speed limit on West Shore Road has dropped to 25 mph. Drive safely.

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thew McConaughey), a fugitive from bounty hunt-ers, who plays fair and square with the boys ex-cept for a spun version of his emotional history. The boys become Mud’s assis-tants in renovating the boat with materials they scavenge from the local junkyard.But director Nichols has much

more on his mind than a simple story of friendship between two boys and

their new friend. He will explore nothing less than the motivating drives in human relationships. Ellis

internalizes Mud’s tale of his lifelong love of Juniper (Reese Witherspoon) and will do anything he can to reunite them — “because you love each other.” It’s not quite that simple, says Tom (Sam Shepard, majestically astride his houseboat), an old friend of Mud’s. Ellis chooses, at 14, a girlfriend of his own who he will protect in the way Mud says he protect-ed Juniper. For Ellis, love and loyalty have become

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and that’s because Tye Sheridan cre-ates Ellis in such a remarkable way that we would leap from our seats to protect him from threat ourselves. This young actor manages to take his character from child to adult in two hours, a remarkable feat for him, a rare experience for us. Matthew Mc-Conaughey plays Mud with an un-accustomed restraint that allows his duet with Tye Sheridan to unfold in unspoiled harmony. Director Nich-ols has set a southern story in a met-

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MIDDLEBURY — The third an-nual Rhubarb Festival is coming to the Champlain Valley Unitarian Uni-versalist Society (CVUUS) on Duane Court in Middlebury on Saturday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Patrons will enjoy a savory feast of

Stonewood turkey cutlets or cripsy tofu with rhubarb chutney, rhubarb salad with Blue Ledge Farm goat cheese, and rhubarb-maple bread pudding with fresh whipped cream, served by a trio of winsome cowboy waiters. Diners will have a choice of four seatings inside or outside under a tent: 11:30 a.m., noon, 12:30 p.m., or 1 p.m. Take-out meals are also available. A lunch ticket costs $7 in advance or $8 at the door for adults, and $4 for children.

There will be face painting, family relays and games for kids, and a silent auction of gently used bling, scarves, toys, puzzles, crafts, Father’s Day gifts, sports equipment and furniture. A variety of home-grown plants — ge-raniums, herbs, tomatoes — will be for sale at the potting table. Also for sale will be strawberry-rhubarb pies, pre-serves, puddings, sweets and savories.

tickets for a full-size hand-made quilt in rhubarb colors, are on sale in ad-vance or at the event for $3 each, or $5 for two. Live music — blues, folk, classic, and a special kids’ band — will soothe the ear throughout the day.Parking is available at or near the

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LINCOLN — If you are interested in helping put out arrows on Friday for the Town-wide Yard Sale, which is scheduled for Saturday, May 25, speak to Nancy Stevens. To sign up or have a sale, call Rhonda Hutchins at 453-7502 or stop in at the Lincoln Store.Donations for the Town-wide Yard

Sale can be brought to the Lincoln Historical Society on Friday, May 24, from 1-5 p.m. Consignments are welcome. For more information, call Eleanor Menzer at 453-2807.The library and Weathervane will

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MIDDLEBURY — To honor returning volunteer teachers Lo-ren Mejia and David Hamberlin, Friends of SOLA (School of Lead-ership, Afghanistan) are sponsoring an Awareness Gathering on Tues-day, May 28, from 5:30-7 p.m. at Middlebury’s Ilsley Library. Aside from recognizing two tal-

ented Middlebury alums, the spon-sors, using personal experiences, brief video clips and fact sheets, will share the incredible story of SOLA’s success in educating young Afghan women in Kabul — young women who are committed to re-turning to Afghanistan to rebuild their war-weary country as teachers, entrepreneurs, doctors and nurses.Since its founding in 2008 by

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exceptional educational opportuni-ties for 25 students from provinces throughout Afghanistan at its small boarding school in Kabul. SOLA has also facilitated enrollment for 29 students at such competitive schools as the Asian University for Women, Bard, Bates, Bennington, King’s Academy Jordan, Middle-bury, Mt. Holyoke, Russell Sage, Smith, Tufts, Williams and Yale. SOLA meaning “peace” in Pash-

organization working toward a pos-itive, peaceful future for Afghani-stan through education, especially for women.

MIDDLEBURY GRAD LOREN MEJIA, left, with her Afghan student Anisgul Stanikzai, spent two months in Kabul as a volunteer teacher at SOLA (School of Leadership, Afghanistan). Mejia and co-volunteer teacher David Hamberlin will be the featured guests at a reception spon-sored by Vermont Friends of SOLA on Tuesday, May 28, at Middlebury’s Ilsley Library from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Young Writers Project

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Project publishes responses to the prompt for general writing.Young Writers Project is an in-

students to write, helps them im-prove and connects them with authentic audiences through the Newspaper Series (and young-writersproject.org) and the Schools Project (ywpschools.net). 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 young-writersproject.org/support, or mail your donation to YWP, 12 North St., Suite 8, Burlington, VT 05401. Special thanks this week to Champlain Investment Partners.YWP NewsYoung Writers Project and

Vermont Public Radio present Millennial Writers on Stage. Send your best poetry or prose for performance at the Burling-ton Book Festival on Sept. 21. Submit as a blog on your young-writersproject.org account (If you don’t have one, it’s easy to sign up);; click Newspaper Series and the prompt, Millennial. Or email your submission to [email protected]. There will be a YWP Per-

formance Night on Thursday, May 30, at the North by North Center, 12 North Street, Burl-ington. Performance poet Lizzy Fox will lead a writing and per-formance workshop, “Rhythm of Change,” from 5-6:30 p.m. Stick around for open mike and pizza from 7-8:30 p.m. More details at youngwritersproject.org or call (802) 324-9538. The event is free and open to all ages

IfsBy SASHA FENTON Grade 8, Otter Valley Union High School People tell you not to dwell on the ifs in life,To move on,That change is good.People are constantly getting pulled out of

what they have,And the people around them tell them not

to think of what they had but to embrace the new.But what happens when everything that you

are, gets taken?

been ripped from your soul?And another one is shoved in its place.Why is it that you must be torn from every-

thing that you loved, you dreamed, you are, or you wanted?

Inside your head, you think,What should I do when I do not feel secure

in this new soul?Should you tell people about going from be-

ing surrounded by people who love you for who you are,To standing behind others, walking through

an empty place, while you don’t know that they care about anything that makes you, you?Should you tell them that you were torn

even from those and thrust into a new place where you know no one cares about you?Should you tell them that this new soul isn’t

the person you once were?The one that you want to be?That you are just an empty shell that keeps

going, never understanding the world around you?Should you tell them that you can’t “keep in

touch”with the old people?The ones with whom you shared many

laughs, many tears, many dreams?What should you do when the precious

dreams that you once had are being ripped to shreds because no one cares to help nurture them?What is it that you are to do with the life

you have,When there is nothing left for you to do?Even when you want to stay, what can you

do to make it better?

Why is it that you tell me to move on?Why it is that I can’t keep those ifs?What would we all be without ifs?Would the greatest minds of our times have

created what they did, had they listened to the people who told them not to think of the ifs?Would we, humans, have gone to space, had

we listened to people tell us not to because it is an if?Would we be here now, had we listened to

those people?Some say lies hold up the world,Some, trust.So why is that any different from those ifs

I have?Why is that different from the thing that

keeps me going?To go back to the place that I miss so much?To return to my own soul.Why is it that you must tell me to let go of

the ifs,When that is the one thing that I now strive

for? Why shouldn’t I wonder about those little

ifs?Why won’t you answer me?

Put on your happy faceBy HANNAH ROQUE Grade 8, Middlebury Union Middle School Spread sunshine, all over the place, just put on a happy face. Put on your happy face in times of great despair, in times of great need. Put on your happy face when you need to cry. Others need you for your sunshine. They need you for your smile. They depend on you to have those two qualities. Spread sunshine to others and worry later. Stop worrying about the negative.

The grey skies are going to clear up. Put on your happy face. Pick out a pleasant outlook, and smile. Stick out your chin, and smile. Wipe off that look of doubt, and put on a happy grin. Just spread sunshine all over the place, and put on your happy face.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Peter Welch hosted the 32nd annual Congressional Art Competition for high school students at The Gallery at Vermont College of Fine Arts in Mont-pelier on May 13.

Alicia Gendreau, who attends Ver-gennes Union High School, received C o n g r e s s m a n Welch’s Choice Award for her piece, titled “What goes up …”.“I am so im-

pressed by the tal-ent and creativity of these young Ver-mont artists,” Welch

said. “Their work continues Vermont’s storied tradition of artistic excellence

rate art programs.”This year’s competition featured art-

work from 172 Vermont high school students from 39 schools throughout the state. The competition was initiated by former Rep. Jim Jeffords in 1981 as a way to celebrate the artistic talent of the nation. The winning artwork from each congressional district throughout the country is displayed in the U.S. Capitol for one year.

“WHAT GOES UP …,” by Vergennes Union High School student Alicia Gendreau, won Congressman Welch’s Choice Award in the 32nd annual Congressional Art Competition.

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“I am so impressed by the talent and creativity of these young Vermont artists.”

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Burt, McLaughlin top MUHS studentsMIDDLEBURY — Middlebury

Union High School has named Da-vid Burt as its 2013 valedictorian and Nora McLaughlin as its 2013 salutatorian. Burt is the son of Lynda and Na-

than Burt of Middlebury. He has achieved high honors throughout high school, earning the Presiden-tial Award for Academic Excellence in grades 9, 10 and 11. He is the vice president of the National Honor So-ciety. He was presented with the Dorey Cup last June, an honor be-stowed on one male and one female student in grade 11, since 1927, for overall athletic ability, leadership, scholarship and moral integrity. He received the American Legion Department Awards for science in grades 9 and 10;; English in grade 10;; world languages in grades 10 and 11;; and physical education and social studies in grade 11. Burt is a National Merit Scholar-

ship Finalist. He was the recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Award for academic excellence and the St. Michael’s College Book Award for achievement, leadership and com-munity service in grade 11. In grade 10, he received the Fred Powell Math Contest Award and was the AMC 10 (American Mathematics Competitions) school winner and scored second in the region on the UVM Math Contest. He received the AP Scholar with Honor Award in grade 11. He was selected to at-tend Green Mountain Boys’ State and the New England Young Writ-ers’ Conference in grade 11. He is a peer leader for grade 9 students and an active member of Model UN.Burt is a three-season athlete,

competing for the Tigers at the var-sity level in soccer, basketball and baseball. He has served as captain of the soccer team for two years. Last year, he was named to the Lake Division First Team and this year to

the Division Two All-Star Team. He is currently the captain of the base-ball team.In grade 11, Burt received the

United Way Youth Service Award. He has tutored in the Learning Lab, volunteered as a math mentor at Mary Hogan School, coached youth

-lief efforts after Tropical Storm Irene.Burt will attend Williams College

in the fall.McLaughlin is the daughter of

Lisa and Devin McLaughlin of Middlebury. She has earned high honors at MUHS and is a mem-ber of the National Honor Society. She received the American Legion Department Awards for English in grade 9 and science in grade 11. She received Honorable Mention for world languages in grade 9, world history in grade 10, and English in grade 11. She has scored in the top 10 percent in the UVM Math Com-petition and in grade 10 received the Latin Book Award. She was awarded the Society of Women En-

gineers Highest Honor in grade 11. Last year, she was also the recipi-ent of the Wellesley College Book Award for her “academic, personal, and co-curricular excellence.” She was selected to attend HOBY (Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Confer-ence) in grade 10. Last summer, she attended the Governor’s Institute on Engineering.McLaughlin has served on the

Student Senate for two years and was a peer leader for grade 9 stu-dents this year. She was a member of the Concert Choir in grades 9, 10 and 11 and selected for the Honors Choir at Castleton State College in grade 10. She performed in the se-nior play, “Bye Bye Birdie.”McLaughlin has played soccer

for the Tigers all four years, serv-ing as captain this year. She has also competed on the ice hockey team since grade 10. She volunteers at the Mary Hogan Elementary School library has helped to coach U-12 ice hockey.McLaughlin will continue her

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BRANDON — It must be Open

Studio Weekend when bright yellow

signs appear along Vermont’s roads

over Memorial Day weekend. The

signs guide visitors to studios of 242

Vermont — including 31 in Addison

County and Brandon — during the

2013 Open Studio Tour on May 25

and 26.

This year’s event features a number

of artists new to the tour, giving long-

time Open Studio visitors some fresh

destinations to explore. There are

also some new clusters of studios in

Lincoln. Many visitors plan to head

to their favorite studios to see what

new art works await them.

Open Studio Weekend is a state-

wide celebration of the visual arts and

creative process, offering a unique

opportunity for visitors to meet a wide

variety of artists and craftspeople in

their studios, some of which are only

open to the public during this event.

The self-guided Open Studio tour

features the work of glassblowers,

jewelers, printmakers, potters, furni-

ture makers, weavers, ironworkers,

painters, sculptors, quilt makers and

wood carvers. Many galleries will

host gallery talks and feature special

exhibits in conjunction with this event.

This May, the Vermont Crafts

Council, which organizes the event,

is honoring four studios that have

reached their 20th year of participat-

ing in Spring Open Studio Weekend:

Pewter in Middlebury.

Compton Pottery near Bristol.

Laberge Cabinetmaker near Dorset.

Pawlet Potter near Pawlet.

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tor of the Vermont Crafts Council,

says the allure of the Open Studio

tour is that “it takes you through the

real Vermont in a safe and controlled

way. The road may go on and on, but

the yellow Open Studio signs along

with the Open Studio map will guide

visitors to every studio.”

The Vermont Crafts Council

publishes a free map booklet with

directions to participating sites. It

is available throughout the state at

Tourist Information Centers, galler-

ies and studios. It is also available

on the VCC website, www.vermont-

crafts.com.

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color paintings of landscapes, prints.

Studio is in the same building as

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39 Quaker St.

Other open studios in the northern

half of the county are:

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graphs, furniture, pottery. 235 Main

St., Vergennes.

Photography, sculpture, painting,

Vergennes.

Vermont landscape oil paintings. 653

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porary furniture. 2886 Mountain

Road, Bristol.

chairs. 3820 Route 116, Starksboro.

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tive pottery. 2662 Route 116 North,

Bristol.

works in many media. 25 Main St.,

Bristol.

landscapes, seascapes, prints. 11

Main St., Bristol.

In the southern half of the county,

look for these open studios:

porcelain pottery for home and

garden. 1409 Lincoln Road, Ripton.

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ware, functional kitchenware,

Middlebury.

Paintings, prints, note cards, real-

Middlebury.

Zhang - Traditional Chinese painting,

calligraphy, landscape, birds and

Store - Watch pewter being made. 52

Seymour St., Middlebury.

Painting, wood sculpture, fabric

paintings, merry-go-round. 727

demonstrations and mini lessons.

4174 Route 30, Cornwall.

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22A, Orwell.

glass-blowing, sculpture, jewelry. 22

Young Road, Orwell.

Brandon, with 10 open studios,

will offer an array of artists any many

different media:

Vermont photography, images, prints,

notecards. 28 Pearl St.

Artist. Unique fabric paintings,

prints, notecards, accessories. 24

Conant Square.

original “clouds,” panels, suncatch-

Cooperative gallery for Vermont

artists and artisans. 7 Center St.

folk art, paintings and sculpture. 40

Park St.

artwork. 10 Union St.

hats, color. 29 Union St.

black and white, large format. The

Railroad Ave.

FRED AND JUDI Danforth stand by the pewter-spinning lathe where Fred creates pewter bowls and lamps. The Danforths will host their 20th Open Studio tour over Memorial Day weekend at their Middlebury studio and store.

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(Continued from Page 1A)and the wars in the Middle East. The Salisbury selectboard agreed to allot around an acre of town-owned land for the new memorial park, located opposite Maple Meadow Farm. It is land bordered by a brook that used to host the town’s sand and salt shed.“It’s going to offer some quiet

recognition,” Whitney said of the -

that will be adorned with sheets of coated aluminum bearing the names of all known war-era, Salisbury-based veterans, including the 32 who have died in service. Perhaps the best-known name on the monument will be that of Civil War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Lester Hack.The veterans’ names will be sorted

onto eight separate wall panels, de-pending on the war during which he or she served. It doesn’t matter if the service man or woman didn’t see ac-tion, said Whitney, who’s spent hun-dreds of hours poring over state and federal veterans’ records to trace the names of the Salisbury honorees.“There was a lot of

double checking and triple checking,” Whit-ney said of the arduous process. Any mistakes in spelling or name addi-tions can easily be made to the monument panels, he said.Those featured had to have en-

listed from Salisbury. There are, of course, other Salisbury natives who

enlisted in other towns and states, and Whitney would like to see those

folks eventually recog-nized as well.Fundraising efforts

during the past seven

approximately $6,000 needed for materials to complete the veterans’ park this year. Whitney gave special thanks to

Salisbury-based Ploof Excavating for performing the site work free of charge. In the near future, Whitney would like to give donors the oppor-

tunity to sponsor some benches and other amenities for the park.Whitney and his Salisbury His-

torical Society colleagues will lead a dedication of the new veterans’ park this Sunday, May 26, at 2 p.m. The program will include such speak-ers as former Gov. Jim Douglas of Middlebury, Pastor John Grivetti from the Salisbury Congregational Church, and re-enactors representing several different wars. Organizers are also involving the local school and have invited many of the town’s veterans, some of whom will unveil the wall panels representing the wars

in which they fought.“It’s going to be a big event,”

Whitney said.Reporter John Flowers is at

[email protected].

BRISTOL — Porter Hospital on June 4 will open a new outpatient re-habilitation clinic at the Bristol Internal Medicine practice in order to provide more convenient access to a range of services for the people of Bristol and sur-rounding community.Known as “PROS”

(Porter Rehabilitation and Orthopedic Services), the new clinic will provide physical therapy services three times per week with

morning and evening. “We are hoping to catch the before- and after-work needs of our patients and make these

services easier to access both geographically and from a scheduling per-spective,” said Doreen S. Kadric, director of Reha-bilitation Services at Por-ter Medical Center.“A very intriguing

idea came from one of our staff members, Ali Zimmer, who will be the physical therapist at the clinic, which is to reach out to athletic directors at the local schools and pro-mote off-season athletic conditioning: strength,

risk of injury or re-injury for student-athletes,” she said.

“We also will be providing ‘driver evaluations’ for those individuals who are referred by their physi-cian,” Kadric added. Driver evalu-ation is performed by occupational therapists and is designed to assess individuals with cognitive impair-ment to assist their physician with

whether driving is a safe option. The new clinic will provide this assess-ment monthly.“It is important for folks to under-

stand they do not have to be a patient of Bristol Internal Medicine to uti-lize our services,” Kadric said. For more information or to sched-

ule an appointment, individuals should call Carol Sweeney at 388-4777.

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“We also will be providing ‘driver evaluations’ for those individuals who are referred by their physician.”

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— BarryWhitney Jr.

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door spots in downtown Middlebury on Memorial Day. There, they will tickle the fancy of passersby, who will in turn get to tickle the ivories of the instruments through July 4 as part of the lead-up to the Town Hall Theater’s 5th birthday bash next month.The piano project is the latest

playful promotion from the Town Hall Theater (THT), which each year surprises folks with a special event

-nancial support for the visual and performing arts center in downtown Middlebury. One year, THT boosters unleashed “King Kong” on the THT tower;; the next year, an alien space-craft hovered onto the scene. But this year, THT Executive Director Doug Anderson wanted to do something even bigger, in order to acknowledge

of the facility’s grand opening.“We like big, bold public events,”

Anderson said.Anderson noted how public piano

displays had been proven hits in places like New York City and Ha-nover, N.H. And there seems to be no current shortage of old upright pia-nos that during the early 1900s were

eventually lost their places to radios, televisions and video systems. An-derson recently read an article stating that thousands of upright pianos are being junked every week — a fact he

piano restorer and tuner Ed Hilbert, a longtime supporter of THT.“(Hilbert) said ‘I have a bunch of

pianos I want to give away,’” said Anderson, who was happy to take a half-dozen and farm them out to lo-

cal artists with instructions to dress them up to their fancy.The local artists involved are Nan-

cie Dunn, Louis Megyesi, Claudia Carl, Zhang, Alice Schermerhorn and students at Mary Hogan School, and Elinor Friml of THT. All have

-ishes to the pianos.Zhang had considered painting an

iconic Chinese landscape featuring a high mountain and running water.

images representing the four sea-sons. So Zhang’s piano is adorned with wonderful paintings of bamboo, mountain orchids, plum blossoms and chrysanthemums, known as the “four gentlemen.” These plants have

become a Chinese cultural symbol for integrity, beauty and strength, Zhang noted.The Middlebury artist has pretty

much completed her piano project and is now waiting for the all-weath-er paint and acrylic to dry. It took her a while to complete the work, which she has sandwiched in between trips to China.“When I say I will do something, I

keep my word,” Zhang said.“It came out pretty good,” she add-

ed. “I am happy with it.”People can catch an early glimpse

of Zhang’s piano at an open house at her studio at 56 High St., from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sun-day — part of the Vermont Open Stu-dio Weekend (See story, Page 17A).DOWNTOWN SCENE

Meanwhile, there will be no mis-taking Megyesi’s piano. Its center-piece, just above the keyboard, is a picture-perfect scene of the Otter Creek Falls and Battell Bridge as viewed from the banks of the Marble Works. The falls spill down the face of the piano, which features an ad-ditional scene of a path leading to an arbor gateway and picket fence with trees, clouds and a restful landscape. The trim is adorned with a leafy, spi-raling vine.“I thought it was a good way to

celebrate the 5th anniversary of the THT,” Megyesi, who is based in East Middlebury, said of the piano project. “I enjoyed it.”Anderson is looking forward to

seeing the pianos suddenly fall into place for their “last hurrah.” While they might not emit the dulcet tones they once did in their heyday, the pianos will be serviceable.“Overnight, downtown Middle-

bury will become a festive sculp-ture garden of fantastical pianos, and simultaneously it will be an outdoor music hall,” Anderson said. “Just driving along Main Street will be a joy as you come across one of these pianos every block or so.”

with the town of Middlebury in placing the instruments in visible but safe locations. Each piano will be assigned a volunteer custodian who will make sure the instrument is locked and covered at night and during inclement weather.

-ments in the sun have lapsed, they

-derson will entertain e-mail offers from anyone wishing to own one of the musical canvases, with proceeds

“If it happens, it happens,” Doug-las said of the pianos’ potential fu-

ture as objets d’art.Reporter John Flowers is at

[email protected].

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