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“We make quite a bit of pow er in the fall, winter and spring. In the summer, the power production is diminished so we focus on main tenance,” Jason Lisai of Green Mountain Power operations said. Green Mountain Power runs 41 hydropower dams in Vermont. The Essex Hydro Station, as it’s known by the company, has been produc ing power for more than 100 years.
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Compared to other renewable sources — wind and solar — hy dro-power is the most productive resource for the company.
Including Hydro-Quebec, where GMP gets the majority of its hydro-power, the company’s port folio includes about 1.5 million megawatt hours of hydro-power. That is roughly triple what it sourc es from other renewables — solar and wind — combined. Starting next year, GMP will add another 600 megawatt hours of hydro-pow er annually with a new power pur chase agreement with Great River Hydro on the Connecticut River, Carlson said.
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THE FATE OF SINGLESTORY RETAIL Taft Corners Associates, the landowning company that has developed what is commonly called the “big box store” area of Taft Corners — home to WalMart, Home Depot and REI Coop, among other national chains — asked the selectboard to overrule the planning commission’s recom mendation to restrict that type of development from the area. The new regulations would preclude traditional retail by disallowing single-story, single-tenant build ings and moving parking lots to the side or behind buildings. Taft Corners Associates co-owners Jeff Nick and Jeff Davis asked the board to keep some of their land under existing zoning rules by moving the boundary of the new form-based district north to Mar shall“ThereAvenue.are retailers that would like to be in buildings in Williston that, having the parking behind the building, or having a front and rear entrance just doesn’t match what they do,” Planning Direc tor Matt Boulanger said during last week’s selectboard meeting. “They may really like the adver tising that comes from having the parking in front of the building. The customer driving by sees that it would be easy to park there. It is seen as an amenity.
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Traditional car-centric retail centers, where a large parking lot in front is an indispensable ele ment, will continue to have a place in Taft Corners, even as Williston leaders work to create a more walkable downtown in the 1,000acre area south of Interstate 89. That was the decision of the Williston Selectboard last week as it made a few key changes to a planning commission-recom mended draft of new zoning regu lations. The changes were prompt ed by feedback from Taft Corners landowners and residents who re viewed the draft. The planning commission spent the better part of the past two years working with a consul tant and soliciting resident input to create the new “form-based code” — a style of zoning that prescribes the look and aesthet ics of structures, as well as their relationship to streets, parks and sidewalks, rather than regulating building use. The goal of the new regulations is to help Taft Corners evolve into the pedestrian-friend ly downtown center envisioned in Williston’s Comprehensive Town Plan.
“That’s the tension with the town’s desire to gain that walkable downtown feel,” he continued.
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The hydro-power dam on the Winooski River that separates Williston and Essex Junction is receiving what Green Mountain Power calls routine late-summer maintenance, with workers from PC Construction suspended on a temporary bridge on the near-ver tical embankment of the dam, smoothing the concrete surface over which water flows to create renewable power.
The dam is responsible for 40,000 megawatt hours a year, Green Mountain Power Spokes person Kristin Carlson said, enough to power 6,000 homes.
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“These hydro stations have been a part of how we provide power to our customers since the start of the company,” Carlson said. “They are a very cost-effective renewable re source that we can count on as part of our diverse energy supply.”
Page 2 Williston Observer September 1, 2022 Old Stage Rd. 879-5226Williston apple orchard & farm market ADAMSFARMMARKET COM Cider Donuts EVERY WEEKEND! L ik e u s on Facebook! @adam sfar mv t OUR APPLE ORCHARD OPENS SEPT. 3 1972 - 2022 Summer Produce Still Available ❧ Kale ❧ Onions ❧ TomatoesCherry ❧ Corn ❧ Cabbage ❧ Cucumbers ❧ Blueberries Market Open Mon. - Sat. 9-6 Sun. 9-5 Closing 5 p.m. on Labor Day Please No pets/No climbing Celebrating50years!! For Pick-Your-Own • Daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Lots of easy picking • Great photo ops! A biweekly trip down memory lane with members of the Williston Historical Society The murderers’ daughter: Kate Potter (1856-1879), child of Adelia and Charley BY ELIZABETH A. ALLEN Special to the Observer If you’ve been following my coverage of Williston’s criminal duo, Adelia and Charley Potter, you might have forgotten that they had children. A baby girl (com memorated on Adelia’s headstone in El
Kate must have witnessed her mom and dad’s injuries and possibly asked questions; she may also have heard the violent alter cations or her parents discussing the after math. Scared and worried for her parents, she certainly never wanted anything like that to happen again. The next year, 1865, gave Kate, now 9, some cause for joy and relief. She and the rest of the Potters moved in with her mater nal grandparents Ephraim and Sally Gris wold. Her parents were going to help her grandparents run their Williston farm. Kate found her grandparents’ house en joyable. Her grandmother doted on her. Ac cording to Ephraim, “Mrs. Griswold always thought the world of Delia and the children (Charles Jr. and Kate)” (Burlington Daily Times, April 11, 1866). Furthermore, the Griswold house was peaceful compared to the Cook’s Corner hotel. Unfortunately, Kate’s hopes were dashed when Sally was murdered on the night of Aug. 27, 1865. Shock, fear, wor ry and grief overtook the 9-year-old. Her grandmother’s funeral, held in the Griswold mansion literally drove home for Kate that her grandmother’s death would change ev erything for the worse. Then Kate’s own dad was arrested, along with John Ward, and charged with killing her grandmother. Kate had taken on from her parents a belief that they were per secuted by an unfair world. But her grand mother’s death and Charley’s arrest forced Kate to consider that maybe her parents were the bad Compelledguys.totestify at the murder trial in April, 1866, Kate, who was only 10, must have felt intense pressure. Her dad’s free dom and life were at stake. She didn’t want to lose another family member. Kate presented testimony that helped her dad out. First, Kate said that she did not recognize John Ward, weakening the prosecution’s argument that John’s frequent presence around the Griswold house before the murder pointed to him as the killer. Sec ond, she denied that her dad once offered $500 to have her grandma killed. Her testimony weakened the theevidencecontainedsaid,fortoSallyCharley’scontentionprosecution’sthatdislikeofmotivatedhimmurderSally.AsthelawyertheprosecutionKate’s“storyinherentthatitwasdeviceofsome one shrewder than she” (Burlington Times, April 14, 1866). In other words, someone, probably Adelia, coached Kate to present testimony favorable to her dad. Kate likely felt relieved when her dad was acquitted of murder, but that relief didn’t endure. Everyone in town disliked and condemned Adelia and Charley. Some of this opprobrium may have extended to the Potter kids as well. In June, 1868, Kate’s parents gave Wil listonians more reason to dislike them when they robbed the general store of respected businessman Smith Wright. Adelia and Charley were both arrested and jailed. With her parents out of the picture, Kate presum ably lived with Ephraim, who still resided in the same house where his wife had been foundKate,dead.now 12, was again made to testi fy in her dad’s trial. Here Kate’s worries and sense of responsibility for her parents’ fate must have returned. With her mom also jailed, Kate lacked someone to coach and support her. Even though she still had her granddad, she must have felt alone and aban doned.Awful things continued to happen. In 1869, when Kate was 13, John Ward’s con fession appeared in the local paper. He
dredge Cemetery, South Burlington) and a son Charles Jr. (1851-1859) did not survive childhood. Only Willis (1864-1935) lived close to a normal lifespan. Daughter Kath erine “Kate” (1856-1879), who barely made it out of her teens, is the focus of this article. Kate was born on Jan. 14, 1856, in Wil liston. The Potter family was already un stable. Her parents fled mounting debts by moving to Dunham, Quebec, near the end of 1857. Kate spent her childhood in a state that we would today call “housing inse cure.”Charles Jr. and Kate were probably not closely supervised. Adelia’s petition for divorce discussed her monetary assets at more length than custody of her kids, suggesting that Charles Jr. and Kate were not her primary focus. Charley, accused by Adelia of adultery and “unfitness” for fatherhood, was absent for significant por tions of Charles Jr. and Kate’s childhood. Adelia and Charley were mediocre parents at best, more preoccupied with themselves than with their dependents. When Kate was 3, her older brother Charles Jr. died, on May 26, 1859, at the age of 8. She probably struggled to understand his death, while also feeling sad and maybe wondering if she was going to die soon as Kate,well. whose brother Willis was born in 1864 when she was 7, saw the effects of her parents’ danger ous lives the same year. The family was in Cook’s Corner, Quebec, for a moment. A brawl started one night at the hotel that Adelia and Charley ran. Kate’s parents were both injured, and one man was murdered. Kate’s parents gave statements in the mur dered man’s inquest, but they were never charged, according to the Montreal Gazette (Sept. 17, 1864).
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Compelled to testify at the murder trial in April, 1866, Kate, who was only 10, must have felt intense pres sure. Her dad’s freedom and life were at stake. She didn’t want to lose another family member.
claimed that Kate’s father had orchestrated her grandmother’s murder and that her mother had known about the plans. The confession must have brought back Kate’s grief over her grandmother’s murder, fear for her parents, and a renewed belief that there was no place in the world safe from violence and misery. Kate’s parents were found guilty and sentenced to the state prison in Windsor. Kate most likely con tinued to live in Williston with Ephraim. She probably had few chances to see her parents, and then, in 1872, Adelia died suddenly in prison at the age of 45. Kate was 16. Remembering her grandmother’s death (and per haps Charles Jr.’s), Kate was prob ably overwhelmed with emotions, ranging from shock to sadness and perhaps anger and relief. When she was 21, Kate made a fresh start. On April 7, 1877, she married John Johnston in his home town of Northfield. Born to a railroad-working family, John was 26 and holding employ ment as a firefighter when they mar ried.Information is sparse about Kate’s husband and his family, but we do know that they differed from the volatile Potters in one important way. John’s parents were born in Washington County, Vermont, and lived in Northfield until their deaths. The Johnstons were much less mo bile than the Potters, and they also had no criminal back ground.
John must have represented an appealing stability to Kate.Now Kate John ston, Kate probably hoped that her new name inaugurated a new, happier life. Kate’s dad’s pardon and release from prison shortly after her marriage might have added to her confidence.
Kate gave birth to Katherine Jr. in April, 1879. Perhaps Kate Sr. considered her daughter’s birth, which occurred in the Part of Kate Potter’s testimony at her father Charley’s trial, reprinted in the Burlington Free Press, April 12, 1866. It was used to refute the prosecution’s argument that Charley murdered her grandmother because he hated her.
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BY PETER D’AURIA VTDigger Walgreens is defending itself against allegations that the compa ny threatened Vermonters’ health and safety during the Covid-19 pandemic, writing in a legal filing last week that the pharmacy giant had “provided reasonable care to its patients while grappling with contingencies that impacted phar macists nationwide.”
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Some customers who were un able to receive their medication at Walgreens simply went to another pharmacy, the company noted. Regulators had also overcount ed how many days the chain’s stores were shut, Walgreens ar gued, noting that internal data showed that some alleged closures had not taken place.
The company also alleged that state regulators were violating its right to due process, and argued that a Vermont statute stating that “discipline against any one drug outlet in a chain may be imposed against all drug outlets in a chain” violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause.
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The dispute stems from charges filed in June by the Vermont Of fice of Professional Regulation that the company put customers at risk with staffing shortages, un planned closures and dangerous and unprofessional conduct at its 32 Vermont locations. Jericho resident Bob Devost said the Williston Wallgreens had been limited to filling prescrip tions only on certain weekdays, and has transferred pickups to stores in Essex. “This could easily confuse customers and be a concern if pre scription refills are needed more sooner than later,” Devost wrote in an email to the Observer. In a 40-page document of charges, state regulators alleged that Walgreens locations closed unexpectedly on more than 325 days, “leaving thousands of pa tients without access to prescrip tionInmedications.”additiontounexpected store closures, the allegations include stores losing track of controlled substances as well as medication and vaccination errors. In October 2021, according to the charging document, a patient at the Pearl Street Walgreens in Essex Junc tion was given a Pfizer Covid booster instead of the flu shot they requested.Somelocations also gave cus tomers the wrong medication or administered it incorrectly, state regulators alleged. State officials also alleged that the company did not respond appropriately to com plaints about staffing shortages and unsafe conditions at stores.
State: Walgreens put Vermonters at risk during pandemic Company questions validity of regulations
The office asked the Vermont Board of Pharmacy to “revoke, suspend, reprimand, condition or otherwise discipline the licenses” of Walgreens.ButWalgreens argued in an Aug. 18 filing that the chain was be ing held to an unfair standard and asked a judge to dismiss the claims. The pharmacy had no inten tion to close the locations, attor neys for the company argued, but was forced to due to the pandemic, as well as other factors — such as a computer malfunction and fire — that were outside its control.
“This statute is discriminatory against chain pharmacies, giving (the Office of Professional Regu lation) latitude to disproportion ately impose discipline against individual locations in a chain whose conduct does not meet the thresholds” for discipline, Wal greens attorneys argued. Walgreens, “like the rest of the nation, could not fully anticipate the impact of the extremely con tagious pandemic, and thus, while its operations were admittedly not perfect, they were not in violation of the Vermont statutes,” attor neys said in the filing. “Indeed, (the company) continued to resil iently operate during the pandem ic to help, not harm, the communi ty’sS.health.”Lauren Hibbert, director of the Office of Professional Regu lation, previously told VTDigger that the charges stem from 70 complaints filed by Walgreens employees and customers, as well as employees of other Vermont pharmacies.Hibbert declined to comment on Walgreens’ response, saying officials were waiting for a ruling on the filings. George Belcher, a retired Washington County probate judge, has been assigned as the presiding officer for the Pharmacy Board in the case.
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The Vermont Office of Professional Regulation has filed charges against Walgreens alleging that the company put customers at risk with staffing shortages, unplanned closures and dangerous and unprofessional conduct.
Officials have not yet deter mined the cause of the blaze.
“We had a fire reported in a single shipping container situat ed across the parking lot from our headquarters in South Burlington,” Goldman said in an email Monday. “The fire was quickly extinguished with no injuries and no damage to our facilities or aircraft and the sit uation was contained in under 30 minutes.”Arriving units found “an active fire in one of the containers used to store the batteries,” according to South Burlington Fire Chief Steven Locke.The Vermont Air National Guard, which has its own fire de partment and often assists surround ing communities, also responded. According to the Guard’s report, fire officials responded to the Beta Technologies headquarters at 1150 Airport Drive at about 12:24 a.m. for an activated fire alarm. They “ob served a heavy fire condition” and “determined a facility containing their batteries was fully engulfed.”
Goldman said the response plans and safety precautions Beta has in place “worked effectively” and the company is “working with local au thorities to investigate the root cause of the“Theincident.”safety and health of the community is paramount and we have employees who live and work in South Burlington alongside oth er local residents. We are always concerned about safety and actively work to take every possible precau tion to minimize impacts and miti gate risks,” he said.
“Due to the nature of lithium battery fires, extensive cooling was performed to ensure hazards were mitigated and (to) stop thermal run away,” the Guard stated in its report.
Responding fire units left by 3:30 a.m. and Beta employees took over to “set up an irrigation system to continually cool contents” and proceeded with cleanup procedures, according to the Guard. No injuries, other damage or equipment failure were reported.
“We have set up our business to take the appropriate precautions not only for ourselves but the commu nity. This includes storing batteries in isolated containers, limiting the quantity in each climate-controlled container and much more,” Gold manAskedsaid. if there was any spill or emissions that could have adverse effects, he said, “Based on our un derstanding of the incident, the concentrations of HF (hydrogen fluoride) emitted would not pose a danger to the community.”
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Firefighters from the South Burlington department provided additional support and the fire was doused within 30 minutes. Williston Fire provided station coverage for South Burlington during that time.
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We are a state full of commit ted citizens who care about the fu ture of our planet and the preser vation of our natural world. Every day, we make individual decisions that, when taken collectively, re ally make a difference, especially when it comes to recycling. While recycling is second na ture to many of us, there is a lot more that happens once your blue bin is picked up or taken to a dropoff center. All that material — up wards of 50,000 tons per year — is taken to the Materials Recovery Facility, or MRF (pronounced “murf”) in Williston, where your blue bin materials are sorted and prepared for market. Vermonters make individual decisions to re cycle, and the MRF captures these recycled items to create a collec tive system that diverts tons of materials from the landfill.
As I enter my second year as chair of the CSWD Board of Commissioners representing Un derhill, I’ve been able to peek behind the curtain and learn a lot about how recycling works in Ver mont, and how impactful it really is. I’ve also been well acquainted with the issues that our current MRF is facing. This facility is nearly 30 years old and suffers many of the ineffi ciencies that come with something that age. Believe it or not, much of the material is sorted by hand — hardly necessary in today’s world where much more efficient technology exists. Plus, the MRF is at maximum capacity, bursting at the seams with materials you so carefully divert from the landfill. Bales that should be stored under cover are left outside in all kinds of weather, degrading their value while waiting to be sold to com panies that turn the material into new products. And the lack of innovation at the current MRF limits the type of materials that see
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BY PAUL RUESS Special to the Observer
First: farmers aren’t just busi ness owners. Farmers — particu larly organic farmers — are eco system stewards. Organic dairy farms keep land open (organic regulations require cows to be on pasture), sequestering carbon, protecting biodiversity and filter ing Whatwater. happens if an un-con served farm goes out of business? Look no further than the mini storage units recently plunked down in what had previously been a farm field up in Fairfax. Then think about that pattern repeated across the state: the ripples of box stores slapped onto any field that a farmer can’t afford to keep in pro duction. Consider what this does to Vermont’s identity as a pasto ral, beautiful place people wish to come visit and live in, what it does to the rural community that the farm helped to sustain. Think also of the environmen tal difference of a store versus a farm field. What happens to the rain that falls on that imperme able concrete parking pad and the soil underneath it. Consider the pollinators that used to find food for their journey in the hedgerows and the wildlife that came to the pond to Whiledrink.onthe surface this looks like an outcome of an economic crisis, it morphs into yet anoth er small piece of kindling tossed onto the climate fire that grows hotter by the year. Or in the hope ful alternative: Each small, organ ic farm that can remain viable pro tects a bucket of water for dousing climateSecond:chaos.farmers grow food, which, at the risk of stating the obvious, we all need to stay alive. Currently, you can go to a box store and buy food brought in from away. But we must not quickly forget the lessons we learned at the start of the pandem ic about how utterly brittle mas sive food supply chains are, how it doesn’t take much to disrupt that food showing up stocked on our shelf. What will we eat when the next disruption happens if there is no local farmer who has been able to keep producing? We cannot let short-term economic crises exacerbate lon ger-term climate chaos and food insecurity. Vermont’s small and organic farmers feed us, help Ver mont thrive and feed our chances of a habitable planet. Every way we as individuals (if we are in the fortunate economic group who can) or we as a collective (through state policy and investment) can support organic, small farms in thriving is a step toward a livable future for us all.
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Grace Oedel is executive director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont. We must not quick ly forget the lessons we learned at the start of the pan demic about how utterly brittle mas sive food supply chains are, how it doesn’t take much to disrupt that food showing up stocked on our shelf. What will we eat when the next disruption happens if there is no local farmer who has been able to keep producing?
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I belong to a local CSA that supplies my weekly milk from a small herd of 15 or so cows. Across Charlotte’s gentle hills the small herd grazes, (one of the farming practices known for se questering carbon out of the air and growing healthy soil, while creating wildlife corridors, polli nator habitat and filtering water). Truly exemplary people tend this land. They regularly host pasture walks to share with other farmers how they have restored so much ecosystem health to their land and soil. They also offer incredible generosity and build community within their pricing model, offer ing milk at a sliding scale range so that all Vermonters have equal access to this nourishing product. They exemplify the best of the best in small-scale farming. Then, two weeks ago, an acci dent: tractor flipped, broken leg. It was a harsh moment of reality. The family had a brief debate, and quickly made the call that, after being in dairy for almost 20 years, they would sell the cows. This ac cident wasn’t the main reason, but it was the last straw; dairy farming has become simply too taxing, too costly and, despite caring deeply and being the best managers and community members — dairy simply isn’t tenable. Why is this? Why are Ver mont’s postcard-perfect farmers one broken leg away from having to sell their cows? Factors surely vary farm to farm, but the big pic ture remains the same at present: economic crisis (inflation, fuel, feed all up enormously, while the price of milk is not) and climate crisis (ever drier and hotter years, making hay more costly and scarce, cows harder to keep cool and healthy, new infrastructure demands to beat the heat) — both layered onto a federal policy back ground that values giant corporate profit above all else. And dairy isn’t unique. Farms of all types are having a rough season — wells running dry, transport costs up to get to mar ket, consumers who themselves have less in their wallets to spend on food.Corporate consolidation — that is, a few major companies gobbling up all they can of food production and distribution — is a pattern that repeats across the whole food system. I’ve painted this picture to some non-farmer friends who have replied with some form of, ‘yeah, true. But it’s hard for all small businesses.’ Which is ab solutely correct, and we should investigate why being small in any sector is impossible right now. (You don’t have to dig too deep — corporate consolidation is ubiqui tous.) But also, for two major rea sons farming is different, and we all need to care.
Farming at the intersection of economic and climate crises
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The new MRF will be able to pro cess up to 70,000 tons (140 million pounds) of recyclables every year. That’s huge. It is equivalent to re moving 52,500 passenger vehicles from the road. Recycling all these materials saves 634,000 trees from being cut down every year. Every day we’re faced with choices that impact our state and our world. Vermont is community minded. We think carefully about how our actions affect the greater good. Now is the time to build a new MRF that can process more and more recyclable materials and keep them out of the rapidly-fill ing landfill in Coventry. You can make a real, tangible difference in our state and for our planet. This November, please vote Yes on the bond issue for the new MRF. Paul Ruess is the chair of the Chittenden Solid Waste District Board of Commissioners.
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September 1, 2022 Williston Observer Page 7 Squashing the competition Produce judges at the Champlain Valley Fair made the weighty decision to award Williston gardener Terry Keim’s gigantic pumpkin, weighing in at 517 pounds, third place. Despite his pride in the porky pumpkin, in the past he has grown ones that weigh over 1,000 pounds. OBSERVER PHOTO BY SUSAN COTE VOLUNTEER Ø Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Alternate Member Ø Community Center Scoping/Library Assessment Steering Committee Member - New committee w/4 open positions Ø Conservation Commission Member Ø Development Review Board Member Ø Energy Committee Member Ø Historic & Architectural Advisory Committee Member Ø Lake Iroquois Recreation District Representative Ø Old Brick Church Trustee Ø Town Health Officer
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The current lack of space that leaves bales piling up outside will not only be solved with a 40 per cent increase in capacity, the new MRF will allow for growth over the next 30 years. The state-ofthe-art technology will not only do a better job with the materials and packaging that are recycled now, but it will also allow Ver monters to recycle more and allow the MRF to adapt and recycle new materials and types of packaging that don’t even exist yet. This is truly forward thinking and neces sary if we are to keep up with what Vermonters expect when they put recyclables in their blue bins. Efficiency, innovation and flex ibility are all critical components in the fight against climate change.
Ruess continued from page 6 CSWD can accept. Vermonters want to recycle, and they want to recycle as much as possible. They would be able to do more with a newThisfacility.November, the voters of Chittenden County can solve the capacity issues and the lack of innovation at the MRF. CSWD is requesting a bond of no more than $22 million to build a new, innova tive MRF that will have the tech nology and space to handle our recyclables for decades to come. And while CSWD is a municipali ty and the MRF is publicly owned, the cost of the new MRF will be paid back through CSWD opera tional revenue — with no charge to taxpayers. Let me repeat: There will be no property tax increase to build the new MRF. A new and improved MRF will be more efficient and equipped with the kind of modern technolo gy that not only separates recycla bles more effectively but expands the list of materials we can accept for recycling. And it will also pave the way for better, highly skilled jobs for CSWD’s employees.
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Constitution was the first in the country to gener ally prohibit slavery, its Article 1 included language carving out an exception: that no person serve any other “as a servant, slave or apprentice” unless “bound by the per son’s own consent, after arriving to such age, or bound by law for the payment of debts, damages, fines, costs or the like.”
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“Most of them have historical roots that quite often are lost on us. Instead, Vermont has taken the unique approach of unearth ing something that was previously lost.” As the afternoon sun pierced clouds over Burlington, visitors to the free event relaxed to the music of Adrian B. King, Baptist Gospel Choice and Rajnii Eddins. Friends and neighbors picnicked while oth ers examined the 1619 Traveling Exhibit,
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The resilience and contributions of the descendants of enslaved people who first sailed to North America more than 400 years ago were celebrated with music, po etry, prayer and community at Burlington’s Intervale Center on Saturday. Initiated by the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance, the fourth annual Vermont First African Landing Day drew a couple hun dred people to a grassy field flanked by a traveling exhibit, music, speeches and ca tered barbecue. It also featured discussion of and information about Proposal 2 — a constitutional amendment that would re move references to slavery from the Ver montTheConstitution.Legislature has twice passed the measure. It would take effect if voters ap prove it this November during Vermont’s general
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“We must say to the country that there should be no exception to slavery because it is immoral,” said Savannah Eldridge of Texas, an organizer for the Abolish Slavery NationalRhodeNetwork.Islandwas the only state to have fully abolished slavery prior to the adop tion of the 13th Amendment in 1865. In the last four years, three states have abolished slavery from their state constitutions: Utah, Colorado and Nebraska. This year, Vermont is a part of “the Freedom Five,” along with Alabama, Loui siana, Oregon and Tennessee. All have ad vanced ballot initiatives to abolish slavery from their state constitutions, promoting them with the hashtag #endtheexception, according to Max Parthas of South Caro lina, co-director of state operations for the Abolish Slavery National Network. The network’s goal is to remove the ex ception clause and repeal and replace the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude “except as a pun ishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted.” A joint resolution to that effect (H.J.Res.53) has been submitted to the U.S.“IHouse.believe that we will see in this genera tion the final legal end of slavery,” Parthas said.
The Vermont Constitution, adopted in 1777, became the first to include exclusion ary provisions, which other states and the U.S. Constitution’s 13th Amendment later emulated.“There was no other constitution that ever contained any language that permitted slavery in any manner before the Vermont state constitution,” Hughes said. According to national advocates who have been organizing to delete slavery and indentured servitude exceptional clauses throughout the country, Vermont’s amend ment is consequential.
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The amendment would remove that lan guage and replace it with: “therefore slav ery and indentured servitude in any form are Saidprohibited.”Hughes,
In 2019, a year after the U.S. Congress es tablished the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act, Gov. Phil Scott took a step towards reconciliation by proclaiming the fourth Saturday of August to be “recognized and Commemorated as First African Landing Day in ThisVermont.”year’scelebration was themed “We’ve come this far by faith.” It led to dis cussions of faith in religion, in resilience, in community and harbored the hope for a better, more just future for black people in the “Therecountry.are many well-known events in the summer and throughout the year that we as Americans look forward to celebrating,” Christine Hughes, director of the Richard Kemp Center, wrote ahead of the event.
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“You have to wonder, if it only takes 20 seconds to find in the Consti tution because it’s the first Article, why is it that our elected officials that take an oath to it didn’t notice it for 245 years.”
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“Faith is an art form, it doesn’t come easy and that’s what makes it precious,” she said. “With all the time and the waiting and the faith we have had and the cre ativity that we possess, the only option we have is to demand that place where we bring our fallen chair to the table and say, ‘Look, the solutions you have we have seen before and we remain unim pressed.’ But we come with faith and creativity to create some thingKeynoteamazing.”speaker Bishop Dwayne Royster, senior pastor of Faith United Church of Christ, from Washington, D.C., outlined the struggles of black people in America from the first Africans who against their will arrived in Jamestown, Va., some 403 years ago to the generational trauma of enslavement. He called for a new day and a new country following the killings of George Floyd and Trayvon“PerhapsMartin.in this moment, if we are faithful enough to be lieve, what we see falling down around us is not falling down in a bad way but is collapsing so that we can build something new,” he said. “We can create something far more beautiful than we have everThoughseen.” doing the work while looking to the future takes cour age and tenacity, sometimes it takes something more, some thing bigger than ourselves, said Hughes in his closing statement. “In order to be able to walk in that consistently, we have got to believe stuff that we don’t see sometimes.”
“So I think we have to have ownership of what we’re doing today, informed by what we came from or what we’ve been doing to ultimately have clear direction on how we move forward,” he said. Vermont’s executive director of racial equity, Xusana Davis, gave a shoutout to black artists and their capacity for creativity despite decades of subjugation, bigotry and genocide.
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Young people attend the Vermont First African Landing Day commemoration in Burlington on Saturday. PHOTO BY GLENN RUSSELL/VTDIGGER which tells the story of Africans from Angola to Virginia. First-time attendee Cortney Smith of Burlington said she came to see black people come together, to be with her community and to meet new people. Lanae Buford, 12, of Georgia, who also attended the past three annual events, said she came to see her people and was enjoying this year’s event. Her father, Joe Buford, was among the panelists. Her mother, Wynea Bu ford, who heard about the event through her church, said she came to spread the message of the First African Landing Day and to hear Adrian B. King. The speaking program includ ed faith and justice leaders outlin ing history, the perils of systemic racism to the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement with messages of hope. Panelist Emiliano Void, found er of the nuwave Equity Corpo ration, quoted George Orwell in saying, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
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Redhawk becomes a Catamount UVM’s Natalie Durieux, a Williston native, challenges a South Carolina player for possession during the Catamounts’ game vs. the Gamecocks on Sunday afternoon at Virtue Field. PHOTO BY AL FREY
CLOCKWISE from top left: CVU’s Jack Bryan hits the practice green on the last day of boys golf tryouts last Wednesday at Rocky Ridge; Travis Stroh hits his tee shot on the first hole; Emerson Ayer hits his tee shot on the second hole; Ari Diamond hits a short iron to the second green; Luke Mencar putts on the first green; and Jake Strobeck hits his approach shot to the first green. BY AL FREY
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A pickup truck sideswiped a Williston Police officer’s ve hicle on Interstate 89 about 2 a.m. Saturday, and the driver was later charged with driv ing under the influence. The officer was on a traffic stop on the side of the road, working up paperwork in her vehicle when the truck hit the side of her car. The truck con tinued southbound until it was stopped by another officer. No one was injured in the collision.Thedriver was cited with DUI, leaving the scene of an accident and negligent oper ation.
Aug. 19 at 1:12 p.m. — Police pro vided a case number for proper ty damage on Cypress Street. Aug. 19 at 1:34 p.m. — Police pro vided a case number for proper ty damage on Marshall Avenue. Aug. 19 at 1:43 p.m. — Police re sponded to Cottonwood Drive to assist Williston Fire Depart ment with a medical call. Aug. 19 at 1:51 p.m. — Police assisted Williston Fire Depart ment with a medical call at Fal con Manor. Aug. 19 at 2:02 p.m. — Police assisted Williston Fire Depart ment with a medical call at Ea gle Crest. Aug. 19 at 4:14 p.m. — Police re sponded to a report of retail theft on Harvest Lane. The individual was cited accordingly. Aug. 19 at 4:36 p.m. — Police re sponded to a vehicle collision on Marshall Avenue. Upon arrival, there were no injuries reported on the scene. Aug. 19 at 5:01 p.m. — Police as sisted a motorist on Merchants Row. Aug. 19 at 5:23 p.m. — Police re sponded to a report of suspicious behavior on Trader Lane. Upon arrival, the officer contacted Wil liston Fire Department for medi cal services. Aug. 19 at 5:39 p.m. — Police pro vided a case number for property damage on Boxwood Street. Aug. 19 at 7:34 p.m. — Police com pleted a requested welfare check on Porterwood Drive. Aug. 20 at 2:00 a.m. — Police con ducted a motor vehicle stop on Stillwater Lane for multiple driv ing violations. Upon investiga tion, the operator was issued a ci tation under suspicion of driving while under the influence. Aug. 20 at 3:05 p.m. — Police as sisted Vermont State Police on In terstate 89 with an arrest. Aug. 20 at 3:09 a.m. — Police assisted a motorist on Interstate 89. Aug. 20 at 6:26 a.m. — Police re sponded to an alarm activation on Central School Drive. Upon arrival, the alarm was confirmed to be false. Aug. 20 at 9:08 a.m. — K9 Duke attended a community event on Trinity Drive. Aug. 20 at 1:48 p.m. — Police re sponded to a vehicle collision on Boxwood Street. Williston Fire Department responded to provide medical care to the citizens. Aug. 20 at 4:04 p.m. — Police re sponded to a report of suspicious behavior on Essex Road. The offi cer was unable to locate the refer enced individual in the area. Aug. 20 at 4:27 p.m. — Police took a report of lost property on Forest Run Road. Aug. 20 at 8:14 p.m. — Police con ducted a motor vehicle stop for driving violations on Interstate 89. Upon investigation, the op erator was cited for suspicion of driving while under the influence and being under civil suspension. The incidents above are not a full recount of police activity, rather a highlight of some of the events that occurred. Charges filed by police are subject to review by the Chittenden County State’s Attorney Office and can be amended or dropped.
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Aug. 18 at 3:22 a.m. — Police re sponded to assist Williston Fire Department with a fire alarm acti vation on Harvest Lane. Aug. 18 at 10:05 a.m. — Police served court documents on Por terwood Drive. Aug. 18 at 10:15 a.m. — Police re sponded to assist Williston Fire Department with a medical call on South Brownell Road. Aug. 18 at 1:05 p.m. — Police re sponded to a report of suspicious activity on St. George Road. The officer offered outreach services to the individual upon arrival, which they denied. Aug. 18 at 2:04 p.m. — Police re sponded to a report of suspicious behavior on St. George Road. Upon arrival, the officer issued a trespass notice at the request of the business. Aug. 18 at 2:13 p.m. — Police pro vided a case number for property damage on Maple Tree Place. Aug. 18 at 3:44 p.m. — Police as sisted a motorist that had a dis abled vehicle on Essex Road. Aug. 18 at 6:04 p.m. — Police re sponded to a report of a distur bance on Fiddlehead Lane. Upon arrival, the officer did not observe or hear any disturbances in the area. Aug. 18 at 6:10 p.m. — Police took an individual into custody for vi olating their conditions of release on Porterwood Drive. Aug. 18 at 11:57 p.m. — Police con ducted a motor vehicle stop for not appropriately driving vehicles in the marked lanes. Upon investi gation, the officers took the oper ator into custody on suspicion of driving while under the influence.
Aug. 19 at 8:20 a.m. — Police re sponded to a report of suspicious behavior on Blair Park Road. Upon arrival, the officer did not observe an emergency. Aug. 19 at 9:09 a.m. — K9 Duke assisted a citizen on Hurricane Lane. Aug. 19 at 9:31 a.m. — Police pro vided an escort to employees on Market Street.
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The Great Vermont Barn Dance Show came to the Isham Family Farm last Saturday. With a format similar to the dance radio shows of the 1940’s, Rik Palieri, shown at the mic, was the host for the evening. Other performers included Jon Gailmor, Clare Innes, Bill Schubart, Donna Thunder and more. PHOTO BY FRED KENNEY
Snyder Homes has submitted a subdi vision application for the first phase of a 341-home neighborhood on the north end of Taft Corners, along Route 2A, on the former Essex Alliance Church property. The submission — which encompasses about 75 percent of the total development plan — is under review under existing zoning regulations. Snyder asked the board to exempt the entire 55-acre prop erty from the form-based code so that fu ture phases of the neighborhood can be reviewed under the same rules. Earlier this year, the planning com mission denied Snyder’s request to ex empt the property. “I’m inclined to trust the planning commission’s decision,” D’Agostino said, “and keep the property in the formbasedThecode.”majority of the board, however — Macaig, Fehrs and Kenney — voted to take the property out, noting that, otherwise, only 25 percent of the devel opment would be subject to the new reg ulations.Theselectboard plans to hold a new public hearing on the form-based code in October.
The in a 3-1 vote with mem ber Gordon St. Hilaire absent, agreed to move the boundary of the new code to the north, but not as far as Nick and Davis had asked. The new boundary would stop just south of Marshall Avenue, leaving both sides of Marshall Avenue (home to Beyond, Town Faire Tire and Gardener’s Supply) under formbased regulations, while leaving Retail Way (the REI building and PetSmart) de velopable under the existing rules. “There is a reason for (traditional retail development),” said board mem ber Jeff Fehrs. “There is a need. There is a function being met. It would still be well-managed to a certain part of Taft Corners.”Arguing in favor of keeping the plan ning commission’s recommendation of including Retail Way in the new code, board member Greta D’Agostino said: “I would love to see this (section of town) become a source of pride for our town and a place where we don’t just say ‘That’s where Wal-Mart is.’” HOW HIGH IS TOO HIGH?
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Fehrs noted the difficulty of envision ing how a 100-foot-plus building would look in Taft Corners.
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“It sounds like a lot, but I don’t know if it is a lot if it’s done in the right way — if the buildings fit together,” he said.
“Consolidated growth is what most folks in Williston we’ve heard from are advocating for,” D’Agostino said, refer encing the public input that underpinned the original crafting of the new regula tions.The board was hung last week on whether to reduce the maximum allowed height. D’Agostino and Fehrs voted to keep heights maxing out over 100 feet; Ted Kenney and Terry Macaig voted to cap heights at 81 feet. With the 2-2 tie, a new vote that includes St. Hilaire is planned for an upcoming meeting.
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When the draft of the new regulations first appeared on a selectboard agenda in the spring, several residents were alarmed at the building heights that would be al lowed. In the heart of Taft Corners, the area around the intersection of Routes 2 and 2A, buildings of up to 110 feet (six stories with sloped roofs) would be permitted. Planners prioritized vertical development to increase density, walk ability and affordability. The heights are about double what is currently allowed.
STORYWALK On the Town Green: “King of Kindergarten” by Derrick Barnes.
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 4-5:30 p.m. Call to register for a time slot to help Roswell the Dash Robot es cape tricky mazes and complete obstacle courses. Suggested ages 7-plus.
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Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2-3 p.m. Stop by after school to try an ex citing science experiment.
STORYTIME ON THE GREEN Tuesdays, Sept. 6 and 13, 10:30-11 a.m. Join Danielle for outdoor stories and fun.
AFTER SCHOOL MOVIE Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2-4 p.m. Cheer on bumbling circus insects and daring ants in this rated-G movie.
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Through Sept. 3, surprise your family with a grab bag to enjoy over the long weekend. Includes movies relating to a theme, pop corn and treats.
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AUTUMN SELF-CARE BINGO CHALLENGE Sept. 1 – Oct. 15. Pick up a Bingo card filled with self-care ideas. Complete a row, then re turn the card to the library to be entered into a gift basket drawing.
Children in 4th grade and younger must be supervised by someone over 16 years of age.
FRENCH CONVERSATION FOR ALL Saturday, Sept. 10, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Join an informal conversa tion group. All abilities welcome.
Wednesday, Sept. 14, 5-6 p.m. Ages 12-plus. Read any dystopian novel and come discuss it.
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TEEN NIGHT: FOOD FOR THOUGHT Friday, Sept. 2, 5-6 p.m. Ages 12-plus. Meet with teens at the library to plan for library oppor tunities during the school year. Register online.
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READ TO A ROBOT Thursday, Sept. 8, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Call to register to read to Roswell the Dash Robot. MOVIE ON THE GREEN Friday Sept. 9, 7:15-9:15 p.m. A novelist and a hapless hero look for buried treasure. PG13.
Monday, Sept. 12, 5-6 p.m. Ages 12-plus. Build your D&D character at the library and get ready for our first campaign this October. Online or in-per son.
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PRESCHOOL MUSIC AND PLAYTIME ON THE GREEN Thursdays, Sept. 8 and 15, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Up to age 5. En joy music with Linda Bassick, then stay to play. Indoors in case of rain.
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LEGO TIME Thursday, Sept. 15, 3-4 p.m. Enjoy the library’s LEGO collec tion.
SKYPE A SCIENTIST: JACK HESTER Monday, Sept. 12, 6-7 p.m. Meet at the library to connect virtually with Jack Hester — ask questions about robots and health. All ages.
To join a program or for Zoom link, email programs@damlvt. org.
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Wednesday, Sept. 14, 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Drop by for a discussion of newsworthy top ics.
AFTER HOURS BOOK CLUB Wednesday, Sept. 14, 6:30-7:30 p.m. “The Improbability of Love” by Hannah Rothschild. Belle’s Memorial Library Fairfield
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September 1, 2022 Williston Observer Page 15 September marks the 10th anniversary of our Habitat ReStore in Williston, and since 2012, the funds generated have helped build 39 homes in Northwest Vermont! We're Turning Ten! Much to celebrate. More to build. 10th Anniversary Event September 10th & 11th 10:00am-6:00pm 528 Essex Rd, Williston 528 Essex Rd, Williston | 414 Rt. 7, Milton | 104 Robin Hood Dr, Swanton vermonthabitat.org Stop in on September 10th and 11th to enjoy 10% off your purchase, birthday treats, and giveaways! 104 Cornerstone Drive • Williston 878-2020 • vtmeatandseafood.com Mon.-Sat. 9am-7pm • Sun. 11am-6pm VERMONT MARKET Meat&Seafood Order Online! Vermont Meat and Seafood Market is now offering seamless online ordering for select meats, seafood, sides and sandwiches. Simply order from home and come pick up your prepaid items! While you’re at it, be sure to order your Labor Day essentials like steak, burgers, salmon and more!
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The U.S. Congress returns to the Capitol on Sept. 6 after a summer break. This week, The Mini Page learns more about our legislative branch of government and the building they work in. Branches of government
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September 1, 2022 Williston Observer Page 17 Congress is made up of two houses, or groups, of lawmakers: the Senate and the House of Representatives. Words that remind us of the legislative branch are hidden in this puzzle. Some words are hidden backward, and some letters are used twice. See if you can find: For later: Look in your newspaper for articles about the two houses of Congress and what they’re working on. Mini Jokes Luis: What do you call a dinosaur who is elected to Congress? Lara: Rep. Tile! Try ’n’ Find Mini Spy Classics Cheetahs will soon roam the forests of central India for the first time in 70 years. The country’s indigenous cats were declared extinct in 1952 after decades of hunting, habitat loss and food shortages led to their disappearance. But a long-awaited agreement with Namibia will see the world’s fastest land animals transported from Africa to “cheetah-friendly” areas of Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh state. Eco Note The Mini Page® © 2022 Andrews McMeel Syndication SyndicationMcMeelAndrews2022©Page®MiniThe courtesyphoto ProgramPagematerials andwithmembers,tohelpingrollcallvotesdoingothertasks for members. ARTICLE, SENATE,MIDTERM,LEGISLATIVE,HOUSE,ELECTION,CONSTITUTION,CONGRESS,CHAMBER,BRANCH,CITIZEN,EXECUTIVE,JUDICIAL,LAWS,MEMBER,PAGE,RUN,SESSION,STATE. adapted with permission from Earthweek.com • “The Congress: A Look at the Legislative Branch” by Robin Nelson and Sandy Donovan Y S L A I C I D U J B L A W S N E Z I T I C H C N A R B X M X S C C L E G I S L A T I V E G S E P A R T I C L E M H X M E I E G A P M R E T D I M R B S O E X E C U T I V E K Y U E U N C O N G R E S S W P V N R O L Z R E B M A H C E T A T S H C O N S T I T U T I O N B I S E N A T E W E L E C T I O N Based on materials originally produced and/or created by Betty Debnam. month.eachofissuefirsttheinappearClassicsSpyMini Mini Spy and her friends are visiting the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. See if you can find the hidden pictures. Then color the picture. • caterpillar • sailboat • man’s head • dog’s head • number 3 • man in the moon • muffin • letter A • umbrella • book • word MINI • question mark • letter W • ear of corn • ladder • toothbrush • canoe • banana 48with3)and21,(VolumesBookletsSpyMiniyourOrderFans!SpyMiniHey to844-426-1256callorMiniPageBooks.com,Visitpuzzles!favoriteyourof shipping.$1plus$4Justorder. Teachers: Follow and interact with The Mini Page on Facebook! Brevity BY DAN THOMPSON
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Check-in app: If your mom uses a smartphone, a great solu tion to help ensure her safety is Snug (www.SnugSafe.com), a free app that can check in on her every day to confirm she’s OK. This app is used by thou sands of elderly seniors who live alone and want to make sure that, if something happens to them, their loved ones will be notified quickly so they can receive help in minutes, rather thanHere’sdays. how it works. Af ter downloading the app, your mom will choose what time(s) throughout the day she’d like for Snug to check in. Snug will send a push notification at those times asking your mom to check in by tapping the big green check button on her smartphone screen. If she doesn’t check in within 10 minutes or respond after multiple pings, Snug will notify her emergency contacts and share her last known loca tion so that she can receive fast help.For extra peace of mind, your mom can purchase Snug’s premium plan ($10/month) where, in addition to notify ing her emergency contacts, Snug will request an in-person wellness check by a police offi cer who will visit her house to confirm she’s OK and provide assistance as needed. The app works with iPhone and Android smartphones. Check-in calls: If your mom doesn’t use a smartphone, another option to help ensure her safety is a daily check-in call service program. These are telephone reassurance pro grams usually run by police or sheriff’s departments in hun dreds of counties across the country and are usually provid ed free of charge. Here’s how they work. A computer automated phone sys tem would call your mom at a designated time each day to check in. If she answers, the system will assume everything is OK. But if she doesn’t pick up or if the call goes to voice mail after repeated tries, you (or whoever her designee is) would get a notification call. If you are not reachable, calls are then made to backup people who’ve also agreed to check on your mom if necessary. The fallback is, if no one can be reached, the police or other emergency services personnel will be dispatched to her home.
Technology devices: You may also want to invest in some simple technology aids to keep your mom safe. One of the most commonly used devices for this is a medical alert system that costs about $1 per day. These systems come with a wearable “help button” that would allow her to call for help 24/7. Another option that’s be coming increasingly popular is smart speakers, like Amazon Alexa or Google Home. These devices work with third-party applications — www.AskMy Buddy.net and www.MySOSFa mily.com — that would let your mom to call multiple emergen cy contacts with a simple verbal command.Andbe sure to check out Amazon’s Alexa abledliveonfamiliessubscriptiongether),(www.Amazon.com/AlexaToTogetheranew$20monthlyservicethathelpssupportandkeeptabstheirolderlovedoneswhoalonethroughanAlexa-endevice.
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TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1897, the first section of Boston’s subway system -- the first underground public transportation in the United States -- opened. In 1939, Germany invaded Poland, marking the beginning of World War II. In 1985, American and French researchers discovered the wreckage of the luxury liner Titanic on the ocean floor near Newfoundland. In 2004, Chechen militants took more than 1,100 people hostage at a school in Beslan, Russia.
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William S. Burnett, 92, of Albany, NY and Williston, VT passed away peacefully July 19th 2022 after a short illness. Dr. Burnett led a long and full life though the events of his early childhood forged a path far from what he might have imag ined. Born in Burlington, VT, Bill moved with his parents and sister to Liverpool, U.K. where his fa ther was starting an Osteopathic Practice. He spent his youngest years in Liverpool happily living above his Father’s practice where his thirst for knowledge and love of research was fostered at home and at the Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School. In 1940, with Germany ad vancing on England, he sailed home to the United States with his mother and sister, leaving his father behind. The span of time between the decision to leave and departure was less than 36 hours. From 1940 through 1946 he lived in West Dennis, MA though his vision was always to return to England. In 1946, they did return for a brief time, but too much had changed, and the decision was made that his parents would di vorce and his mother return to Vermont. Given the choice to stay and continue his education in En gland, or return with his mother and sister, he chose the role he felt obliged to, and returned as well to work on the family farm in Willis ton and enrolled at the University of Vermont.Billgraduated from UVM with a B.A. in German in 1952 and with an M.D. (Public Health) from the Larner College of Medicine at UVM in 1956. After graduation he served as a Doctor in the Air Force, stationed in Saudi Arabia. This fur thered his love of travel and wan derlust. Always wanting to absorb as much knowledge as possible, he applied to and was accepted into a residency program at what was one of the busiest hospitals at the time, in Los Angeles. It was there that he realized that research and public health were where he could make the greatest impact. He went on to Ann Arbor, MI where he graduated first in 1961 with an M.P.H (Epidemiology) and in 1963 with a Dr. P.H. (Ep idemiology) from the University of Michigan. Dr. Burnett spent the rest of his career working for the State of New York Department of Health, retiring as the Assistant Director, Cancer Control Bureau. He later shared that one of the many reasons he loved his work was the opportunity to travel the world to learn, explore and to in crease visibility into patterns of disease to identify public epidem ics by sharing research at interna
tional conferences. In retirement he traveled fre quently, often with his father and his father’s wife throughout Eu rope. Other times he would trav el solo … to see a certain type of architecture, to purchase a certain type of cookware, to listen to a certain orchestra or to simply see someplace new. In his later years he traveled with wonderful friends on guided trips to countries such as Russia, Poland, Turkey, Morocco, Greece, Tunisia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Pan ama, Guatemala, and others. As much as he loved the adventure of travel and found solace in explora tion, when a fellow traveler need ed assistance, he quietly stepped in to assist, whether it be to act as interpreter in a faraway hospital, or once to go as far as escorting a friend and fellow traveler back to the U.S. to seek medical attention and then turning right around to return to the rest of the group to continue with the tour.
In Vermont, Bill’s focus was on the family farm. Much had changed since he had first moved to Chery Hill Farm in the 1940’s when the farm was used in part to test to see what might grow in Vermont soil. Bill expanded into cattle, maintaining a small herd of Black Angus in the 70’s and 80’s. Even as the neighboring farms were being developed, and he was approached about selling the land, his interest was in working to maintain the land for its intended purpose, farming, and conserva tion. Ultimately, he made the de cision to place the farmland into conservation, in perpetuity, with the Vermont Land Trust. Through the craftsmanship of a skilled contractor, who became a trust ed friend, Bill took great pride in the renovation of the barns on the property.Billwas preceded in death by his mother, Harriet S. Burnett; his father, Delbert M. Burnett; and his sister, Elizabeth B. Carroll. Uncle Bill is survived by his nephew Ian M. Carroll of Hartford, CT and his niece and grandnephew and grandniece, Gweneth C., Alex and Acadia Farrell of Uxbridge, MA. A memorial service will be held at 10:00 am on Friday Sep tember 16th at the Williston Fed erated Church followed by a pri vate burial in Williston, VT. In his memory, donations may be made to the Vermont Land Trust. Dona tions may be made online at www. vlt.org. Checks should be payable to “Vermont Land Trust” and in the memo portion of the check note “Memory of William S. Bur nett,” and mail to: Vermont Land Trust; 8 Bailey Avenue; Montpe lier, VT 06602.
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Doreen Plantier of Richmond, VT, passed away on August 21, 2022 at the age of 91. She leaves behind her seven children Steven and Rosie Plantier, David and Kar en Plantier, Julie Plantier, Josephine Dalton and Tom Lajoy, Thomas (Beep) Plantier, Patricia Germain and Louie Ducharme, and Sue and Joe Charonneau; her sister Betty McDevitt; 20 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren and great-great-grand children.She was preceded by her husband Thomas Plantier, brother Sonny Anoe and grandson Jay Dalton. A graveside service was held on Tues day, Aug. 30, 2022, at at Holy Rosary Cem etery, Tilden Avenue, Richmond, VT. Ar rangements are in care of Gifford Funeral Home, 22 Depot Street, Richmond, VT. Champlain Community Services, Inc. Join our dedicated team and together we’ll build a community where everyone participates and belongs. Positions include a $500 sign on bonus, a strong benefits package and the opportunity to work at one of the “Best Places to Work in Vermont”. Why not have a job you love?
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The Alzheimer’s Associa tion Vermont Chapter is inviting Champlain Valley residents to join the fight to end Alzheimer’s by participating in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s at the Shelburne Museum on Sunday, Sept. 18.
The Alzheimer’s Associa tion Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzhei mer’s care, support and research. Last year, more than 500 par ticipants joined the Champlain Valley Walk to End Alzheimer’s, raising over $183,000 towards the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. This year, the Champlain Valley Walk aims to raise $225,000. To register and receive the lat est updates on this year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s, visit act.alz. org/Vermont.
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Please take notice that a Class IV Groundwater Reclassification petition and draft decision document have been prepared by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VTDEC) for the Commerce Street Plume Superfund Site in Williston, Vermont. This petition proposes that groundwater be reclassified from Class III (potable) to Class IV (non-potable) in areas where trichloroethylene (TCE) is present above Vermont Groundwater Enforcement Standards and at properties within a 200 ft buffer of contaminated areas. Class IV groundwater is not suitable as a source of drinking water. To view the draft Class IV Groundwater Reclassification petition and draft decision documents, please visit the Environmental Notice Bulletin (ENB) at ENB.VERMONT. GOV, and enter the site number: 770120 in the “Permit #” space. A copy of the petition and draft decision documents can also be viewed at the Town Clerk’s Office located at 7900 Williston Rd, Williston, Vermont. A public meeting is scheduled as part of the Selectboard meeting on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7:00pm at the Williston Town Hall. Comments may be submitted in writing by October 3, 2022 on ENB or directly to Kimberly Caldwell, VTDEC Project Manager, at kimberly.caldwell@vermont. gov. Comments may also be submitted by mail to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management Division, 1 National Life Drive – Davis 1, Montpelier, VT 05620; attention: Kimberly Caldwell.
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The 2022 General Election will mark the first universal gen eral election ballot mailing under Act 60, which received tri-parti san support by the Legislature.
“I want to thank the Vermont legislators who worked with us to create a universal ballot mailing process that works for Vermont,” said Condos, who oversaw the mailing of ballots to all Vermont voters for the 2020 General Election in response to Covid-19. “Vermont is proof that when you remove barriers to vot ing for eligible voters, they do.”
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The week-long bait drop is a coopera tive effort between Vermont and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services to stop the spread of the potentially fatal disease.Rabies is a deadly viral disease of the brain that infects mammals. It is most often seen in raccoons, skunks, foxes, and bats, but unvaccinated pets and livestock can also get rabies. The virus is spread through the bite of an infected animal or contact with its continued from page 2 ways fatal in humans and animals. However, treatment with the rabies vaccine is nearly 100 percent effective when given soon after a person is bitten by a rabid animal. So far this year, 23 animals in Vermont have tested positive for rabies, and 14 of those have been raccoons. According to wildlife officials, rabid animals often show a change in their nor mal behavior, but you cannot tell whether an animal has rabies simply by looking at it. People should not touch or pick up wild animals or strays – even baby animals.
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COURTESY PHOTO BY PETER SEARLE same month as her two-year wedding anni versary, as an extra special present. She must have promised Kate Jr. a peaceful childhood, the kind that she never got. Kate Sr. had very little time with her daughter. Only 21, she died on April 23, 1879. She succumbed to puerperal fever — a fever lasting more than 24 hours within 10 days af ter giving birth, usually caused by an infection from unsanitary instruments. She died quick ly and in Historianspain. know the Potters’ most famous victims: Sally Griswold and Smith Wright. But Adelia and Charley also ruined the lives of three others: their children Charles Sr., Kate and Willis. Kate in particular suffered a vio lent, insecure childhood. Kate recovered from her horrific early years with a marriage and a child of her own, but she died young. Her parents neglected her; history has forgotten about her; and she had very little life on her own terms. As difficult as it has been to cover the relentless misery that Kate suffered, I write about her to give her the memorial and dignity that she deserves. continued from page 3 As difficult as it has been to cover the relentless misery that Kate suffered, I write about her to give her the memorial and dignity that she deserves.
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A strong thunderstorm that rolled through Williston with lightning and hail on Friday afternoon split a large oak tree at the home at the corner of Route 2A and Mountain View Road. A portion of Mountain View Road was closed as public works crews cleared debris from the road. “The tree was presenting some problems as it was very big so it took longer then expected to get it cleared up,” said police dispatcher Ashley Lizotte.
